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"Heholtl I come quickly, anti my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be." Uev. 22: 12. 
VOLUME 12. 
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, FIFTH-DAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1886. 
NUMBER 36. 
PUBLISHED WEEKLY, FOR THE 
International Tract and Missionary Society. 
(For terms, etc., see last page.) 
Entered at the Post-Office in. Oakland. 
TRUST. 
WHEN 9-ark and drear the way has grown, 
And somber clouds my soul bedim, 
My soul shall trust in God alone, 
"My expectation is from him." 
When on the Lord "my mind is staid," 
He keeps my heart in " perfect peace; '' 
And nought can make me feel afraid, 
For " everlasting strength " is his. 
It matters not what may betide, 
Though earth and hell my soul pursue; 
With God, my Saviour, on my side, 
"I will not fear what man ean do." 
When dark forebodings fill thy soul, 
And doubts and fei:trs disturb thy breast, 
Upon the Lord thy burden roll, 
And he will give thy spirit rest. 
"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; " 
Nor to thine understanding lean; 
Thy doubts and fear shall soon depart, 
And leave thee tranquil and serene. 
"Wait on the Lord," where'er thou art; 
"Good courage" take, nor doubt his word; 
" And he shall strengthen " well " thine heart." 
Again I say, "Wait on the Lord." 
-E. A. Boynton. 
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W01nen as Christian Laborers. 
BY MRS. E. G. WHITE. 
HE vvho died to redeem man from death, 
loves with a divine love; and he says to his fol-
lowers: "'This is my commandment that ye 
Jove one another as I have loved you." 
Christ 
showed his love for tho fallen race by his ac-
tions. 'rhe true child of God will be Christlike; 
and as he grows in the knowledge of the truth, 
and is sanctified through the truth, he will be 
more and more like Cluist, and mot·e desirous 
to save souls, the purchase of his blood. 
Some can do more than others; but all can 
do something. Women should not feel that they 
are excused because of their domestic cares. 
They should become intelligent as to how they 
can work most succm;sfully and methodically in 
br·inging souls to Christ. If all would realize 
the importance of doing to the utmost of their 
ability in the work of God, having a deep love 
for souls, feeling .the burden of the work upon 
them, hundreds would be engaged as active 
workers who have hitherto been dull and unin-
terested, ac~omplishing nothing, or at most but 
very little. 
In many cases the rubbish of the world has 
clogged the channels of the soul. 
Selfishness 
controls the mind and warps the character. 
\Vere the life hid with Christ in God, his serv-
ice would be no drudgery. If the whole heart 
were consecrated to God, all would find some-
thing to do, and would covet a part in the work. 
They would sow beside all waters, praying and 
believing that the fruit would appear. 
The 
practical, God-fearing workers will be growing 
upward, praying in f:tith for grace and heavenly 
wisdom that th~y may do the work devolving 
npon them with cheel'fulness and a willing mind. 
'fhey will seek the divino rays of light that they 
may brighten the paths of others. 
'l'hose who are co-laboret·s with God will have 
no dil'lposition to engage in the various expedi-
ents for amusement; they will not be seeking 
after happiness and enjoyment. Jn taking up 
their work in the fear of God, and doing serv-
ice to the Master, they will secure the most 
substantial happiness. 
Connected ~ita Jesus 
Christ, they wilt be wise unto salvation. They 
will be fi·uit-bearing trees. They will develop 
a blameless life, a beauteous character. The 
great work of redemption will be their fit·st 
consideration. 
.Eating and dt·inking and dt·ess-
ing, houses and lands, will be secondary mat-
ters. The peace of God within will force off 
the withered or gnarled branches of selfishness, 
vanity, pride, and indolence. It is faith and 
practice that make up the Christian's life. 
We 
do not meet the standard of Christianity in 
merely professing Christ and having our names 
upon the church book. 
We should be individ-
ual workers for Ch t·ist. 
By personal effort we 
can show that we are connected with him. 
Christian women are called for. 
There is a 
wide field in which they may do good service 
for the Master. 'There are noble women who 
have had moral courage to decide in favor of the 
truth from the weight of evidence. They have 
tact, perception, and good ability, and could 
make successful Christian worket·s. 
':Phore is 
work neglected or done imperfectly that could 
be thol'oughly aecomplished through the help 
that they are able to give. 
']'hey could reach 
a class that ministers can not reach. There al'e 
offices in the church that they could fill accept-
ably, and many beanches of the church work 
that they could attend to if pt'operly instructed. 
Women can do good work in the missionary 
field, by writing to friends, and learning their 
true feelings in relation to the cause of God. 
Very valmibte items are brought to light through 
this means. The wot·kers should not seek for 
self-exaltation, but to present the truth in its 
simplicity wbet·ever they sha11 have an oppor-
tunity. 
The money that has been spent for 
needless trimmings and useless ornaments should 
be devoted to the cause of God, and used to 
bring the light of truth to those who :ne in the 
darkness of error. The souls saved through 
thcit· efforts will be more precious to them than 
costly and fashionable dress. 
The white robes 
and jeweled crown. given them by Christ as the 
reward for their unselfish efforts in the salvation 
of souls, will be more valuable than needless 
adornments. 
The stars in their crowns will 
shine forever and ever, and will a thousand 
times repay them for the self-denial and self-
sacrifice they have exercised in the cause of God. 
Women of firm principle and decided charac-
ter are needed, worn en who belieV(} that we are 
indeed living in the last days, and that we have 
the last solemn message of war.ning to be given 
to the world. 
They should feel that they are 
engaged in an important work in spreading the 
rays of light which Heaven has shed upon them. 
When the love of God and his truth is an abid-
ing principle, they will let nothing deter them 
from duty, or discourage them in their work. 
They will fear God, and will not be diverted 
from their labors in his cause by the temptation 
of luetative situations and attractive prospects. 
They will preserve their integl'it.y at any cost 
to themselves. 
'fhese are the ones who will 
correctly represent the religion of Christ, wl1ose 
words wilt be fitly spoken, like apples of gold 
in pictures of silver. 
Such penwns can in many 
wayE~ do a precious work for God. He calls 
upon them to go out into the harvest field, and 
help gather in the sheaves. 
Intelligent Christian women may use their 
talents to the very highest account. 
rrbey can 
show by their life of self-denial, nnd by their 
willingness to work to the best of their ability, 
that they believe. tbe truth, and are being sanc-
tified through it. Many need a w01·k of this 
kind to develop the powers they possess. Wives 
and mothers should in no case neglect their 
husbands and theit· children; but they can do 
much \Vithout neglecting home duties, and all 
have not these responRibilities. 
Who can have so deep a love for the souls of 
men and women for whom Christ died, as those 
who are partakers of his grace? 
Who can bet-
ter represent the religion of Christ than Chris-
tian women, women who are earnestly laboring 
to bring souls to the light of truth? 
Who else 
is so well adapted to the wol'l( of tho Sabbath-
school? Tho tme mother is t.he trne teacher 
of children. If with a heart; imbned with the 
love of Christ, she teaciJes the ehildeen of her 
class, praying with them and for them, she may 
see souls converted, and gathered into the fold 
of Christ. 
I do not recommend that woman 
should seek to become a voter or office-holder; 
but as a missionary, teaching the truth by epis-
tolal'y correspondence, distributing reading mat-
tet·, conversing with families and pntying with 
the mother and children, she may do much, and 
be a blessing. 
The Lord of the vineyard is saying to many 
women who are now doing nothing, "Wby 
stand ye here a11 the day idle?" They may be 
instruments of righteousness, rendering holy 
service. It was Mary who first preached a 
risen Jesus; and the refining. softening influ-
ence of Christian women is needed in the great 
work of ·preaching the tmth now. If thel'e 
were twenty women where now there is one 
who would make the saving of souls their cher-
ished work, we should see many more converted 
to the truth. Zealous and continued diligence 
in the cauRe of God would be wholly successful, 
and would astonish them with its results. 
':rhe 
work must be accom!)lished through patience 
and perseverance, and in this is manifested the 
real devotion to God. He calls for deeds, and 
not words on Iy. 
'fhe work of God is worthy of our best effoi'ts. 
In fulfillment of the divine plan, the Son of man 
came to seek and to save that which was lost. 
He taught the erring and sinful ones whom he 
came to save, and wrestled in earnest prayer 
to his Father in their behalf; and we should en-
gage in the same work. If it was not beneath 
the dignity of the Son of God, the Creatot· of 
worlds, shonld it be considered too humiliat-
ing or too self-sacrificing for his followers?-
No, indeed. 
However aspiring we may be, 
there is no calling that is higher, holier, and 
more ennobling than to be a co-laborer with 
the Son of God. 
Often we are so wrapped up in our selfish in-
terests that our hearts are not allowed to take 
in the needs and wants of huma.nity; we are 
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THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
VoL. 12, No. 36. 
lacking in dDeds of sympathy and benevolence, 
i11 sacred and social ministering to the needy, 
the oppressed, and the suffering. 
Women are 
11eeded who are not self-important, but gentle 
in manners and lowly of heart, who will work 
with the meekness of Christ wherever they can 
tinu anything to do for the salvation of souls. 
All wbo have been made partakers of the heav-
enly benefits, should be earnest and anxious 
that others, who do not have the privileges 
which they have enjoyed, should have the evi-
deuces ofthe truth presented before them. And 
they will not merely desi1·e that others should 
lwve this benefit, but will see that they do have 
it, and will do their part toward the accom-
plishment of this object. 
'fhose who become co-laborers with God will 
iucrease in moral and spiritual power, while 
those who devote their time and energies to 
serving themselves will d wad', and wither, and 
die. 
Christian women, the youth, the middle-
ag-ed, and those of advanced years, may have a 
part in the work of God for this time; and in 
engaging in this work as t.bey have opportunity, 
they will obtain an experience of the highest 
value to themselves. ln forgetfulness of self. 
they will grow in grace. By training the mind 
in this directicn, they will learn how to bear 
burdens for J csus, and will realize the blessed-
nes~ of the service. ·And soon the time will 
come when" they that sow in tears shall reap 
in joy." 
Salvation Not by Works. 
I 
champions of orthodoxy as Dr. A. A. Hodge of i such :teachings the apostle said: "I marvel that 
Phnceton, and Dr. Chambers of this city, and j ye are so soon removed from him that called 
Dr. Curry, as well as other eminent theologians,! you into the grace of Christ unto ::mother gos-
to ackno-vvledgo recently that_ such a noble and/ pel; which is not another; but there ·be some 
true-hearted philanthropist as Sir Moses Monte-I that trouble you, and would pervert tho gospel 
fiore, although rejecting the historic Cbrit::lt, of Christ. 
Hut though we, or an angel from 
might be saved; because he had, as appeared i Heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than 
from his spirit and good deeds, accepted the: that which we have preached unto you, lot 
essential Christ." 
him be accursed." 
Gal. 1 : 6-8. 
That is to say that by a proper use of money 
True, character" counts for more than creed;" 
a man may pu'rchase eterncl bfe! 
But if one. but how only can any individual obtain a really 
cn.n be saved without Christ, why may not all? righteous character? Who alone is the Cbrit.-
lf the proper use of great riches entitles a man tian's righteousness? 
Says the apostle: "I 
to the favor of God and to eternal life, would count all things but loss for the excellency of 
not a lik,e use of smalL means perform a like the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord; for 
work? Or, about how much wealth must a whom I have suffered the loss of all things, 
man possess in order that be may purchase the and do count them but dung, that I may win 
gift of God with money? See Acts 8: 20, 21. Christ, and be found in him, not having rnine 
The Saviour said of tbe poor woman who ow~ rig_hteousness, which is of the law, but that 
cast in her two mites, that she had cast in ·whiCh lS through the faith of Ch1·ist, the riyht-
more than the rich who had only cast in of their eousne~s which is of God by faith." Phil. 3: 8, 9. 
abundance, while she bad given "all her liv-
Agam: in writing to the Corinthians, Paul 
iug." 
There is far more true philanthropy says: "~nt of him are ye in Christ Jesns, who 
among "the poor of this world rich in faith" of God lS made unto us wisdom, and 'righteous-
than a"QlOng the rich in this world's goodR; and ness, and sanctification, and 1·edernption. 
rrhat, 
yet, with the prophet, every follower of Christ: according as it is vvritten, He that glorietb, let 
is ready to say: "But we are all as an unclean hirn glory 'tn the Lo1·d." 1 Cor. 1 : 30, 31. 
But 
thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy why should the Christian glory only in Christ? 
rags." 
Isa. 64: 6. 
Because all his good works are wrought in 
The apostle Paul taught that" by the works ?1m. 
Said the Saviour to his disciples: "Abide 
of the law shall no flesh be justified." And m me, and I in you. As the branch can110t 
ag:tin be says: "I am crucified with Christ; bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; 
neverLheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 
I am 
in me; and the life which I now live in the the vine! ye are the branches. He that abidoth 
flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, in me, and I in him, the same bringetb forth 
'l1HE Bible teaches salvation only through who lOY8d me, and gave himself for me. 
I do much fruit; for without 1ne ye can do nothing. 
faith in the Lord J osus Christ. Said the apostle not frustrate the graue of God; for if 1·i,ghteous-If a man abide not in me, be is cast forth as a 
Peter: "Neither is thoro salvation in any oLh0r; ness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." branch, and is withered; and men gather them, 
for there is none other name under Leavt;n rrhat is to say, that if salvation were possible and cast them into the fire, and they are 
given am.ong men, whereby we muRt be sa	ed." by any othet· mear1s, then the death of Christ burned." 
And the testimony of the Saviour himself was: was unnecessary. 
And Paul elsewhere says: 
Good works are a Christian duty; and he 
"He that believeth al'ld is baptized shall be "If there had been a law given which could who has true faith will abound in them. 
8~1ys 
saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned." have given life, verily righteousness should James: ''Faith, if it bath not works, is dead, 
This truth has been tho keynote of the gos-
have been by the law." But because a law being alone." 
And Paul testifies that we are 
pel in all ages of the vyorld. "Even as Abra-once broken cannot justify the transgressor, "created in Uhrist Jesus unto good works, 
bam believed God, and it was accounted to him therefore justification cannot be by works and which God bath before ordained that we should 
for righteousness." 
Gal. 3:6. Again, in the mnst be by fa.ith in Chril:'lt. 
walk in them." But it is nevertheless true that 
same chapter we read that Christ was made a 
The Scriptures declare that" all have sinned." "by grace ar·e ye saved throu,,qh faith;" for it is 
curse for us "that the blessing of Abraham The eminent statesman, the J:>rave soldier, or '".rntten: "When ye shall have done all those 
might come on the Gentiles through Jesus the ''true-hearted philanthropist" is no excep-things which are commanded you, say, We are 
Christ; that we might receive the promise of tion; and if it could be shown that a single unprofitable servants; we have done that which 
the Spirit th,rough fa?:th." 
Verse 14. And not individual can by any means atone for his own was our duty to do." 
Truly "the just shall 
only so, but the Lord by tbe mouth of Habak-sins and render himself meet for eternal life, live by faith." 
C. P. HoLLMAN. 
kuk bad long before deelared that "the just then it could be shown that every one might 
shall live by faith." 
Hab. 2: 4. 
be saved in the same way. 
But if the gospel 
But the divine declar:.ttion that "God so be true, then the idea of sulvation outside of 
Walldng with God. 
loved the wol'ld, that be gave his only begotten Christ is not true. 
WE read in Gen. 5: 24: "Enoch walked with 
Son, that whosoever believeth in him ,should 
But it may be said, This salvation is not out-God; and he was not; for God took him." 
not perish, but have everlasting life," is ignored s'ide of Christ, for it is only the" historic Christ" This was a great honor for God to bestow upon 
and ve-ry many claim for themselves and others thn.t is rejected, while the" essential Christ" is a man, and we think there must have been 
the boon of eternal life because of some noble accepted. 
But w.fi.D is this "essential Christ?" something special in the character of the man 
traits of character,-
because of wealth, posi-Said the Saviour: "He that believeth on the upon whom it was conferred. 
Walking witb 
tion, learning, or philanthropy. How many Son hn.th everlasting life; and he that believeth God implies more than a mere professio11 of 
there are who say, "If I do as I would be not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath godliness. It implies a degree of holiness that 
done by, I shall be saved!" They quite forget of God abidetb on him." 
Then whatever else will justify God in accepting our companion-
the words of the aposLle: "By g1·ace are ye may be non-essential, if we receive the Saviour's ship; for we read distinctly of those who are 
saved th?·o-ughfc~ith; and that not of yourselves; testimony we must hold that belief in the Son sanctified, that "He is not ashamed to call 
it is the g1jt of God,· not of works, least any is absolutely essential, for he says: "He that them brethren." Heb. 2: 11. This justifies the 
man should boast," and expect eternal life believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the conclusion that be would be ashamed of those 
upon their own merits! 
Either such persons wrath of God abidetb on l:iirn." 
But who is who are not sanctified. 
are terribly mistaken or else an inspired aposlle the Son? 
Let the Scriptures answer: "When 
We read in Amos 3: 3: "Can two walk to-
mis-stated the case when he made the state-Jesus came into the coasts of Cesare~ Philippi, gether, except they be agreed?" Acquaintance 
ment recorded in Acts 4: 12. But notwith-
1 be asked his disciples, saying, vVbom ... say with human nature will make it easy for us to 
standing such plain Bible declarations, if a ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and determine that they cannot. 
Agreement must 
noted statesman, or a brave soldier, or a noble said, rrhou art the Christ, the Son of the living ever form the basis of companionship, and it is 
phil an tbropist dies, forthwith, instead of leav-
God. And Jesus a.nswered a?d said unto him, the lack of this that makes enemies. 
Then it 
ing him with God, the pulpit, and the press Blessed art thou, S1mon Bar-Jona; for flesh and will be necessary, in the first place, that the 
(both secular and religious) unite in explaining blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my man who walks with God, be in agreement 
how such a person can be saved without faith Father which is in _Heaven." 
.M:att. 16:13-17. with God. 
To be in agreement with earthly 
in Christ! 
Do the Christian at Worlc and its" champions powers, it is imperative Lhat we observe their 
Perhaps no better illustration of this can be of orthodoxy" mean to say that Jesus the Son of laws. 
There is no monarch who would think 
found than in the case of a noted J ewisb phi-God is not the" essential Christ?" Dare they of honoring with distinction a man who had 
lantbropist who died n.bout a year since. In say plainly that his rejection is not a bar to set at naught his decrees; nnd our ideas of jus-
regard to his case the Christian at Worlc says:-salvation? Do they mean to teach that" true-tice '''onld lead us to suppose that God would, nt 
"Character nO'.vndnys counts for more than· hearLed" philanthropy obviates the necessity len.st, require the same degree of submission as 
creed. It was this idea which constrained such of becoming a new creature in Christ? Of that demanded by an earthly potentate. It 
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THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
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would be altoa-etber contrary to reason to sup-
pose that Goci'?would honor a man who lived in 
violation of bis law. 
In Lev. 26 : 3, 12, we read: "If ye \;valle in 
my statutes, and keep my commandments, m~~ 
do them·" ''I will walk among you, and will 
' 
1 " 
be your God, and ye sbal~ be my peop e. 
It is quite evideJJt from this that we cannot 
wnlk with God, except be consents to '~alk 
with us; and this caunot be unless we fo1Jo.vv 
the injunction given to Israel: "If ye walk m 
my statutes, nncl keep my commandme~ts, ~nd 
do them." 
This is the only course of act1on 
that can ever Recuro for us t.he exalted dignity 
of walking with God. 
God in speakino· of Levi declares: "He 
walked with me i~ peace and equity." 
1al. 
2: 6. 
A ud in the preceding part of the ve~·se 
we filld tbe reason why he thus walked With 
God in peace: "The Jaw of truth _wa~ i~ hi,~ 
mouth, and iniquity wns not found I_n b1s llp~. 
Tb ns we fi11d that thoro was somethmg special 
in connoctivn with those characters witb ,.vhom 
God consollted to walk, and this consisted in 
having the law of trtiLb in their mouth, and 
iniquity fit.r from their lips. 
We sometimes pray and sing of a closer wal~-: 
with God. 
Tbis can only be secured now as 1t 
was then-by wal ki 11g in b is statutes, and 
keeping his comm~udmentR to ?o them. 
·when 
the Son of man IS revealed 111 the clouds of 
heaven, and the angels are sent forth to gather 
bis elect from the four winds, all those v,rill be 
left behind ""hose cb:tracLers are not in harmony 
with the law of God. 
As Enoch walked with 
God, and was not; for God took him, so His 
remnant chnrch ·walki11g in tbe commandments 
of God and the 'raiLh or' Jesus, will not be; for 
God shall take them. 
How is it wit.h us? 
Are vve aspiring to the 
. hio-hest dio·uitv that lies within the range of 
bt~nan tb~ugbt-that of walking with God? 
Are our names numbered with those who arc 
being accounted worthy to walk with him in 
white? 
RoBERT HARE. 
The Real Fact. 
MANY people are led to believe that the Sab-
bath was changed immediately after the resur-
rection of Cb l'ist, either by his instmction ·or 
that of b is apostles; but such is not the fa.ct. 
Had such instruction ever been givu11. we 
should find it recorded in the New Testatllellt. 
We know also, tha.t the Christians of alL the 
woTld, with few ex<.:.eptions, coutinued for a long 
time after the resnl'l'euLion to obt:lervc the sev-
enth dav of the week, by meeting for worship, 
and the' celebra.tion of' the I;ord's Supper on 
that dav. 
Socrates Scholasticus, an eminent 
church ~historian, who wrote about A. D. 450, 
says:-
" Almost all the ehurches throughout the 
whole world celebrate the sacred mysteries on 
the Sabbath of every week, yet the Christians 
of Alexandria and Rome, on account of some 
ancient tradition, refuse to do this."-Ecclesi-
astical History of Socr·'htes. 
Balm's Edit'ion, p. 
289. 
All students of church history know that the 
"sacred mysteries" of the early church were 
the communion or Lord's Suppee, and that by 
the term Sabbath, early writers never mean 
other than the seventh day of the weok.-Light 
of Home. 
You cannot make people moral or virtuout~ 
by act of Parliament Ol' State cont_rol, at least 
when the nation bas outgrown patrtarchal gov-
ernment.· The family is the true w~it of politi-
cal as well as moral life, from which real and 
permanent imnrovement must be sought. Im-
prove the State and you do not neco~sar}l;r im-
prove the individual. 
Improve the md1v1dual 
and you necessarily improve the State.-Gon-
tempor·a'ry Rev·iew. 
The Theory of EvolUltion. 
doing God service (John 16: 2). 
And there 
have been millions of honest persecnton~, who 
THE scientific theory of evolution, from which have subjected Christians to every ki11d of 
certain persons have been lookin~ for help ~o shame and torture. 
Will their Lo11osty sh1<.:ld 
trace the religious development ?f tbe race, IS them from divine retribution? If b011esly is 
becoming a trumpet of uncertain sound. At to be the cure-all for all the bickous oulrage8 
first we were told that the development from the that have been committed in it:::; name, we 
primordial germ was a const_a11t an<l Ulli~or_m must obliterate all other disti11ctions botweo11 
process. It was found that tb19 statement ISm right 
~tnd wrong, ai:d recognize evc_rythi11g 
ma11ifest contradictio11 of facts, and'' S[t]tatory as virtuous and prmsewortb:r to vvhiCh the 
evolution" was then brought forward to adjust stamp of honesty can b~ affi~ed. 
. 
the theory to the facts; tb~t, is,. evolution by_ 
'l'bere is another considernt1011 whiCh ren-
sudden leaps. And then, smce m the cnse of ders sueh teaching altogether pernicious. 
.Men 
certn.in species of animals there was n~ advance, have false 
ideas~ of bone;:;ty itself, and many 
these bad to constitute a gl'eat exceptton to the will be apt to derive from such teaching _a 
supposed Ullivcrsallaw. And :1ow tbeye comes sense of security to which they ar-e not entt-
anotber discovery that some thmgs evolve back-
tied. 
What people call honesty, may be, in 
ward, that is, degenerate. What will come next many cases a guilty thing. 
'l'bose who put 
we cannot predict. 
We do have some sympathy, to death the Lord Jesus were honest as the 
however, for those men who have labored so world goes. 
Of the wisdom of God, Paul snys: 
dilio-ontlv to fit into their systems of theology "vVbic1 none of the princes of this world 
a p~·oces~s of evolution that will onab_le t~1em ~o know; for h~d they _known. it, the;r would 
keep abreast with t_ho ~dvanc~ of sment1fic dts-not have cructfied the Lord of glory. 
1 Cor. 
covery, or ratbel' sCientific conJeCture, b~t must 2: 8. 
Peter says: "'rhrougb ip.;nor[tnce ye 
no do their ·work over again or fall beb1nd the did it, as did als? your rnler~." Acts 3: 17. 
progl'ess or the ago. 
How thos~ Biblical c_ri~ics They were therefore bonest-JgllO_t'ailtly boll-
who have slowly evolved, to thou· own saLtsfac-est-in condem11ing and cruci(ying Jesus. 
B11t 
tion, the :M.osaic ritual from a few rude _sugg~s-was not their ignora.nce culpable? 
·what 
tions of a priest code thtLt :M.oses made, wdl wrtg-merit, therefore, can be pleaded tor ::-~n .hon-
gle out oft~eir posi~ion, _n?w th~t they are called 1 esty based on an ignorance wiJICb 
Is 
1tsel,~ 
upon to adjust tbeu· cntteal dtscussions to the a crime? "If I had not done among them, 
latest utterances of E.1cience, w_e shall not yen-said J osus, "the works which none other 
ture to guess. 
Per~taps the.f wt~l be ?ot_lstrat~e_cl man did, they bad not bad sin; but now have 
to confess that tbe1r evolution 111 B1bi_Jcal cntl-they both seen and bated both me and my 
cism is of a backward or dogeneratt11g type, ·Father." 
John 15: 24. 
and will be satisfied to let us hold_ fast to t?e 
And there are many to-day who willingly 
faith once for all delivered to the S[unts.-,.Rehg-and willfully remain i~norant of the go::q;el, 
ious lfer·ald. 
and who teach for doctrwes the commandments 
The Conflict First. 
'l'HE Christian should ever bear in mind that 
he has been called into the service of Chl'ist to 
suffer, and not to reign, in this life. 
Hence the 
apostle exhorts us n~t to tbin~c it strange con-
cerning the fiery tnal that IS Lo try us, as 
though some strange thing happened unto us, 
but to rejoice, inasmuch as we ~re partakers of 
Christ's sufferings; that, when h1s _glory shnl,l be 
revealed we mav be dad also w1tb excee(. 
:~ 
joy. The conflict must precede the vietory; 
the cross must come before the crow-n. 
The 
trials here may be severe, but exceeding great 
will be the joy hereafter. 
Let us remember, 
then that if we suffer with Christ, we shall also 
reig~ with bim.-Sel. 
Is Honesty All? 
'IN nature honestv counts for something, but 
not for eYe~·ything: The child that honestly 
puts its hand in the fi1:e will r~evertbeless be 
burned. While there IS not, m such a case, 
the same moral obliquity as in the case of the 
one who knowing the natnre of fire, deliber-
ately tbr~ws himself into it with .suici~al intent, 
it is nevertheless true that the fire will equally 
burn the suicide and him who iuuocently falls 
in to its embrace. 
A man may drink poison, 
of men and make the word of God void uy 
their t;aditions, who plead honesty as a justifi-
cation of their false teaching and tbeit· rejec-
tion of the truth,-when their so-called boll-
esty is simply a result of their ignorance, 
and their irrnorance is itself a sin. 
'rhe cry 
of honesty is simply a cry of self-deception. 
-Christian Standa1·d. 
Principles. 
IT is not unusual to see men rest their opin-
ions upon foundations that have no_ ~11ore c~r­
tainty nor solidity than the propos1ttons built 
on them, and embraced for tbeit· sake. 
Such 
foundations are these and tbe like, viz.: The 
founders or leaders of my party are good men, 
and therefore their tenets are true; it hatb 
been long received in the wol'ld, therefore it is 
true· or, it is new, and therefore false. 
These, and many the like, which arc by no 
means the measure of truth a11d blsohood, the 
generality of men make the standard~:> by which 
they accustom their understanding to judge. 
And thus fallinrr into a habit of determiu-
ing of tr~th or f~Jscbood by sunh wrong mca:-~­
ures it is no wonder they should embrace error 
for ~ertainty, and. be very po::;itive in things 
for which they have no ground.-John Locke. 
bonestlv believino-it to be a harmlest~ medici lie 
A:-.lONG the faculties of tho human mind is one 
-but i't will as 
5
surely kill him as if be had 
1 1 
, 
f' 1 
l 
H 
which impels us to " oo <: up, . to 
~e a respec ., 
swallowed it on purpose to destroy lit'e. 
on-reverence, awe, for that whiCh IS above us. 
esty is not all._ Illustrations of tbit~ may be It is this quality which inspires a feeling of rev-
made almost endless. 
erence for those older, wiser, or better than our-
And in spiritual things, is honesty the pan-selves. It awakens a true love of learning, wis-
acea for all error and sin? Was not Saul bon-
1 
· 
1 
· 
· 
dom, beauty, and for everyt nng tInt m JLS 
est in persecuting ChristiallS, and in blasphem-essence is true and good. It inspires us to 
in<r the name of Jesus? He declared that be create and to Jove pure and noble ideals; leads 
bad lived before God in all good conscience us to strive to reach their perfections; and holds 
(~cts 23: 1), ~nd tbba1~ ;~,ba(\ ~~ di~ .';'~
8)_do_u~ us loyal to the higher possibilities of the higher 
"Ignorantly m un e Ie. 
Im.. 
· 
. , ' 3'.0 ! natul'e. 
Reverence is the cl'own of the moral 
he never ceased . mour_mng ovel' bts ~teat stn,' the very breath of spiritual life.-Sel. 
or rejoicin<)' in his deliverance fl'om 1t. 
\Vby 
could not Saul Lave been leL alone in his bon-
est persecution of the saints? 
Jesus said the time would come when they 
who killed his disciples would think they were 
MANY people think of the petition, "Thy will 
be done," as coming into their prayers and lives 
only when they have troubles or losses.-.Sel. 
564 (4] 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
VoL. 12, No. 36. 
The Herulian Kingdom of Italy. 
thousands" of their former comrades in the 
service of A ttila. 
'THE HERULI were a Vandalic tribe of ancient 
"Majori:w, like the weakest of his predeces-
Gcrmany. The first historic mention of them sors, was reduced to the disgraceful expedient 
is about the beginning of the third century. of substituting barbarian auxiliaries in the 
In the great m.ovement of the Goths from the place of his unwarlike subjects; and his supe-
Bal tic to the Black Sea, the Hel'Uli and the rior abilities could only be displayed in the 
Burgundians are particularly mentioned. 
(See vigor and dext.erity with which he wielded a 
Decline and Fall, cbap. 10, par. 10, note.) They dangerous instrument, so apt to recoil on the 
fixed tbei e habitation on "the man;hy-lands baud th:::.t used it. Bes1:des the corifeclerates, who 
near the Lake. Mreotis [Sea of Azov]; weee wer·e ab·eacly engaged in the service of the 
renowned for their strength and agility; and empire, the fame of his libeeality and valor 
the asl-:listance of their light inf"antry was eagerly attracted the nations of the Danube, the Eo-
solicited, and highly esteemed, in all the wars rysthenes, and perhaps of the TanniR. 
Mauy 
of the barbarians."---Id., chap. 25, par. 31. 
thousands of the bravest subjects of Attila, the 
In the t.h.ird naval expedition of the Goths, 
Gepidre~ the Ostrogotbs, the Rugians, the Bur-
about A. D. 260, when Cyzicus was ruined; gundians, the Suevi, and the Alani, assembled 
when Athens was sacl\:ed; when Greece was in the plains of l.1iguria; and their· formidable 
desolated; and when the temple of Diana at strength was balanced by their mutual animos-
Ephcsus was destroyed; the Heruli bore a most ities."-Icl., chap. 36, pctr·. 12. 
prominent paet. 
Indeed it is stated by one 
In the negotiations between Attila and r:rhe-
histor.ian-Syncellus-that this expedition" was odosius the younger, A. D. 446-448, Attila sent 
undertaken by the Hcruli" (Id., cbap. 10, par. five or six successive embassies to the court of 
37, note). And when the barbarian host bad Constantinople, and the last two ambnssadors 
spread" the rnge of war, both by land and by were the fathers of the two men wbo were, 
sea, from the enstem point of t:lunium to tbe respectively, tho last Roman emperor of the 
western coast of Epi rus," and had "advanced West, and the first barbarian king of ltaly. 
witltin sight of Italy;" and when the Emperor 
''The two lnst ambassadors of the Huns, 
Gallien us" appeared in arms and checked tbe Orestes, a noble subject of the Pannonian prov-
ardot· of tho enemy;" "Naulobatm<, a chief of ince, and Edecon, a valiant chieftain of the 
the Heruli, accepted an honorable ca.pitulation; tribe of the Scyrri, returned at tbo same time [A. 
entered with a 
larg~ body of his countL"ymen D. L148] from Constantinople to the royal camp. 
into the service of Rome; was invested w itb ':rheir obscure names were aftel'wards illustrated 
the ornaments of the consular dignity;" and so by the extraordinary fortune and tho contrast 
was the firl-:lt barbarian that ever held the office of their sonR; the two serv:;tnts of Attila be-
of Roman consul.-! d., cl~ap. 10, pctr. 38. 
came the fathers of the last Roman omperoe of 
When tbe great Herman ric-A. D. 331-361-the vV est, [ Augustulus] and of the first barba-
subj·ected all the nations from the Black Sea to rian king of ltaly [Odoacer]."-Id., chap. 34., 
the Baltic, "the active spirit of the Herul i was par·. 12. 
Rubdned by the slow and steady perseverance 
.Following lbe example of the "confedel'ntes" 
of the GothR; and after a bloody action, in Orestes also went to Italy, but not lill A. D. 475. 
whiel1 the king was slain, the remains of tuat 
"The example of these warriors was imit.ated 
warlike tribe became a useful accession to the by Orestes, the son of Tatullus, and the f:Ltber 
camp of Ilermanric."-Icl., clwp. 25, par·. 31. of the last Roman emperor of the West. 0l'es-
When in A. D. 375-6, the nation of the Huns tes, who has been alrondy mentioned in this 
overran the Alani, subdued the Ostrogoths) history, bad neYer deserted his country. His 
and forced the Visi!-(oths over the Danube, the birth and fortunes rendered him one of the 
Heruli retired fi"om the coast of the Sea of most illustrious subjects of Pannonia. 
When 
Azov, into tbe forests of central Germany that province was coded to the Huns, he en-
where we find them under the dominion of tered into the service of ALtila, his lawful sov-
Attila; and when" tbo nations from the Volga ereign, obtained the office of his secretary, and 
to the Atlantic were assembled on the plain of was repeatedly sent ambassador to Constanti-
ChalonH," the IIeruli, nndel' the standard of nople, to represent the person, fLnd signify the 
Attila, bore no inl"erior part in that memorable commandR, .of the imperious monarch. 
The 
con:flict.-Icl., chap. 35, par·. 9. 
death of that conqneror restored him to his 
After the death of Attila, when the battle of freedom; and Orestes might honorably refuse 
the Netad bad reRtored to their independence either to follow the sons of Attila into the 
the subject nations, a multitude of the youth Scythian desert, or to obey the Ostrogotbs, 
ot' those nations enlisted in the service of the who had usurped the dominion of Pannonia. 
empire, and became ''the defense and the tor-He preferred the service of the Italian princes, 
ror of Italy," and finally subverted the West-the successors of Valentinian; and as he pos-
ern Empire. 
Gibbon says:-
sessed the qualifications of courage, industry, 
''The nations who had asserted their inde-and experience, be advanced with rapid steps 
pendenoe after the doatb of Attila, were estab-in the military profeRsion, till be was elevated, 
lished, by the right of pot~session or conqueflt, in by the favoi' of [the Emperor] Nepos hitm;elf, 
tho boundless countries to the north of the to the dignities of patrician, and master-general 
Danube; or in the Roman provinces between the of the troops. 
These troops had been long 
river and tho Alps. But the bravest of their accm;tomed to reverence the character and 
youth en listed in the army of confederates, who authority of Orestes, who affected their man-
formed the defense and the terror of Italy; and ners, conversed with them in their own Ian-
in this promiscuous multitude, the names of gunge, and was intimately connected with their 
the Heruli, the Scyrri, the Alani, the 'rurcilingi, national chieftains, by long habits of familiarity 
and the Rugians, appear to have predominated." and friendship. 
At his solicitation they rose in 
-Chap. 36, par. 28. 
arms against the obscure Greek, who presumed 
In this" promiscuous multitude" the Heruli to claim their obedience; and when Orestes, 
predominated, even above those tribes which from some secret motive, declined the pnrple, 
were predominant, and being so eonspicuous they consented, with the snme facility, to ac-
both in numbers and in valor, their name was knowledge his son Augustulus, as the em}Jeror 
given to the whole body of "confederates," of the West. By the abdication of Nepos, 
and the power which they soon established in Orestes had now attained the summit of his 
Italy was called the kingdom of the Heruli. ambitious hopes; but be soon discovered before 
These confederates seem to have gone to Italy the end of the first yeae, that the lessons of 
A. D. 454--156, for we find them already there perjury and ingratitude, which a rebel mnfjt in-
in 457, when the Emperor Majorian, in prepar-culcatc, will be retorted against himself; and 
ing an expedition against tbe Vandals, was that the prec~rious sovereign of Italy '-.vas only 
compelled to hire, in addition to them, "many 1 permitted to choose, whether he would be the 
(To be contin-ued.) 
rrRUE learning does not cause a man to talk 
mysteriously about unknown things, but to 
make that which to common minds is mvsteri-
ons 01' obscure, plain and easy of comprehension. 
Mystery or obscurity is no evidence that a thing 
is incomprehensible, but simply that it is no~t 
comprehended, and affords evidence of igno-
rance. 
'rhe ambition of learned men, if they 
would be recognized by sensible people as men 
of knowledge, should be to present plainly that 
which is actually known, rather than exhibit 
their ignorance in floundering among mysteries 
which they do not comprehend. 
Much that 
passea for learning is nothing but a display of 
pretentious ignorance.-Sel. 
GoD is no respecter of persons, neither should 
those be who go forth in his name to offer sal-
vation to the people. 
The Master was poor, 
and one of the evidences of his divine mif'sion 
was that the "poor bad the gospel preached 
unto them." 
Who needs the gospel, and the 
sympathy and counsel or-ministers of the gos-
pel, more than the poor? But if the man of 
Nazareth were on the earth now, be would re-
ceive but little attention and few pastoral visits 
from many of his professed ministers. 
Too 
many of them prefer the drawing-rooms of the 
rich to the bumble homes of the poor.-
Metho-
d-is~ Recor·der. 
HAVE you ever thought of the positive char-
acter of Christ's teachings? He does not argue, 
nor speculate,_ nor notice the arguments of op-
ponents, bnt he speaks with authority. 
His 
words are truths-primary, faultless, eternal 
truths. 
Would it not be well to preach his 
word as he did, and let the people see and 
know the truth? Is it really necessary that we 
should answer all the lieJ that are invented?~ 
&~ 
.... 
SEPTEMBER 16, 1886. 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
[S] 565 
A Fulfilling Prophecy. 
THERE is nothing surer than the predictions 
of God's word. 
What God has spoken will 
come to pass without fail. 
'l'his fact bas been 
verified over and over again, yet bow lor.th men 
at·o to believe it! 
They rush ahead contrary 
to the evidence God bas given us, even though 
they must know, if they stop to consider, that 
they at·e going headlong into sure destruction. 
We a!:l a people have long held the position 
that the two-horned beast of Rev. 13 : 11-17 
was a ~ymbol of these United SLates. 
11'rom 
this prophecy we have taught that our Govern-
ment would become an instrumcn t i 11 Lho hands 
of religious zealots with which to wage religious 
persecutions. 
FurLbermot·o, we 
have main-
tailled that these persecution~ will be caused 
mainly by trying to enforce by civil law the 
obsel'vanee of Sunday as tho Sabbath, npon 
those who contwien tiously believe tho Hi ble 
teaching, that the "seventh day is the~. 
1.1LI1 
of the Lord." 
'l'be idea that such persecutions would ever be 
bt·ought about bas been ridiculed and mocked 
at on every hand by many who have heard 
us express our faith. 
But ridicnle does not 
answel' argument. 
'fhere are none of the doc~ 
trines of the Bible but tltat have been severelv 
ridiculed. 
So regardleR:-< of all ridicule, we irl'-
quire, What are the indications thr .. t this pt·oph-
ecy will be fulfilled? 
vVhen we first began to 
teach that out· country would finally persecute 
some of its citizens on acconnt of their consc:ien-
tiously observing the seventb-day Sabbath tbol'e 
was but little evidence, aside from the propllecy, 
that it would ever take place. But it is vastly 
different to-day. 
In 1863, in Xenia, Ohio, an association was 
fol'med with the avowed objcet in view of so 
amending the Constitution of the U nitod States 
as to ac:knowled,e;e the " Lol'd Jesus Ch ri::~t as 
the ruler of nations, 
::wd the revealed will 
of God of supt·eme ani hol'iLy in civil 
affair~::~." 
If we were under theocratic rule as were the 
IRraelitos in the early part of theie hit!Lot·y, and 
the Lord would speak directly to us and tell us 
just how his law sbould be interpl'eted, there 
'vVOnld be no danger in having it stand as tbo 
"fundamental law of the land." 
Althongh the 
prime instigators of tbis movement may not 
uavo COtl!emplated a union of Church and State, 
yet should they t!UCceed in getting tlncb an 
amendment into tue Constitution, it would be 
jm;t the track upon which the car of Chnrch 
and State could run with but little trouble. 
A 11d I hoRe .,.,·!Jo know f'rom hiHI ory the IJotTiule 
resnl L::; of sud1 a uuiou may well dread to see 
it come. 
Tbe movement did not stop when they bad 
formed an association tot· the purpose above 
described. 
'l'he ones wlto firRt entered upon 
this work of" National Reform," as they choose 
to call it, pusbod tbe matter as::;iduously in 
every direction, gathering into their ranks 
httndl'eds of the most influential men, of both 
civil and ecclesiastical fame, in tho land. 
Quite recently 
they have inangurated a 
method of increasing their forces that bids 
fair to give the movement a big boom. 
'l'bis is 
by forming alliances with various other organi-
zations and working together for the cherished 
notion of" God in the Constitution, and the law 
of God of supreme authority in civil affairs." 
The moRt prominent point, too, that they make, 
in trying to get all this brought about, is to 
have a stringent law for Sunday. 
This is just 
what the prophet saw would be done, and now 
their conventions to suppot·t the Sunday cause. 
The Ch1·ist·ian Statesman of June 3 speaks in a 
confident manner of a recent effort to get the 
K11igh ts of I1abor to join the ranks of the "N:l-
tional Reformers." In the Statesman of J u11c 
17, an account is given of the action of tbe 
Reformed Peosbytet·ians in a recent sy11od in 
New York, who sent a statement to Congress, 
signed by all the adult members of the cburch, 
declaring that they will have nothing to do 
with tho Government till it will gra11t an ac-
knowlod.~mont of God in the Constitution of 
the U11itod States.and his Jaw to be the rule of 
the land. 
In a convention at Mattoon, 111., May 
26, for the purpoRe of adopti11g plans to bring 
about the strict observance of Sunday, all the 
do11ominations were requested to partici p:lte, 
and the nec:essity of using the civil power to 
compel men to keep Sunday was strongly ad-
vocated. 
One minister said he believed in 
putting men in office that would give them the 
kind of laws they wanted npo11 this question. 
He said he could control 7 00 votes, and that 
two other ministers in tho stand with him 
could control 300 each, making 1,300 in all that 
these three men could cast in favor of a strict 
Sunday law. 
Snch are the forces that are organizing .to 
bring about a mattel' that was so long ago 
predic:tod by tho prophet. 
God bas said he 
"will finish the wot·k and c:ut it shot·t in right-
eousness." 
And wben we come Lo consider 
tl1at t.bis propltec:y in regard. to tho United 
f::ltate:-:~ is tho laf:lt link in the chain, and then 
::;oe how the forces at·e orga11izing to fulfill it, 
we are led to ·believe that tbe great day is 
ncar. 
Should the combined power of the Natiot1al 
Reform Association, the 
Woman't> 
Christian 
'fompornnce Union, the Young Men's Cbris-
tian Association, the growing organization of 
Knights of Labor, and all the chul'chos arise in 
solid phalapx to put:>h the Sunday movement 
and the so-called crowning of" Christ as king 
of nations," it would b:·ing in the fulfillment of 
Rev. 13: 11-17 in an increclibly shoet time. 
That religious persecutions will f<)llow the 
success of this movement, there is no longet· 
any room for doubt. 
We have only to refer to 
the rocen t a nests in Arkansas and Tennessee 
to show what is just before UR. 
Of course many 
who are now a:-;sisting this work do not realize 
what they are doing; and our prayer to God is 
that the eyes of rdl -mny be opened to see where 
they are standing, and that those who really 
deRire to do a good work for the Master will 
110t briug bi~ wraLlt .upon them by thus engag-
ing in that which his word forbids. 
A. 0. TAIT. 
MoRE important than the physical ftnd politi-
cal status of the world is the social condition of 
its inhabitants,-tbeir religion and education, 
and the ideas which rule them. 
~rho human 
race is estimated to n nmber auout 1,440,000.000 
souls, divided into five familio~: Caucasian 624,-
000,000; Mongolian 560,000,000; African 17G,-
OOO,OOO; Malay 72,000,000; A tnel'ican 8,000,000. 
These are classed by rei igions as Christians 
436,000,000 (i.ncluding 202,000,000 Roman Cath-
olics, 150,000,000 Protestants, and 80,000,000 
Eastern or Greek Church); Mohammedans 170,-
000,000; Jews 7,000,000; BncldhiRts (Asia) 400,-
000,000; Bl'ahmins (J ndia) 145,000,000; Confu-
cians (China) 80,000,000; and Shintoists (Japan) 
15,000,000.-Cltautauquan. 
we see it being accomplished right before our 
You cannot stay the shell in its flight. 
After 
eyeR. 
it bas left the mortar it goes on to its mark and 
'rhis association bas formed an alliance with there explodes, dealing destruction ~	 around. 
the Woman's Christian Temp·erance Union. Just as little can you stay the consequences of 
'fuo Young Men's Christian Association has a sin after it bas been committed. 
You may 
wbeeled into line and is becoming a channel repent of it, you may even be forgiven for it, 
through which the stream of "National Re-1 but still it goes on its deadly and desolating 
form" literature is :flowing to a considerable way. It has passed entirely beyond your reach; 
extent. The Prohibitionist;:~ are declaring in once lone it cannot be undone.-
Wm. M. Taylor. 
Some Cavils Considered. 
THE opposiLion "':hich the truth h~s to meet, 
is illustrated by the following examples which 
n0t long since came under my notice:-
A family who had bcr.ome much interested 
in some Biblo-readiDgs, were exprestling them-
selves as having received great light from thorn, 
when a minister said: "Yes; but otbers could 
come along and prove ROmething else from the 
same sct·iptures." 
Another minister made the 
statement in public, that "You can prove any-
thing fi·om the Bible by taking a text here, a.nd 
another there." 
These statements have suggested two ques-
tions: 1. Are men hm10st who rai~e such cap-
tious objections? 
2. Have we divine warrant 
for our method of Bible study? The latter 
qncstion can, l think, be safely answered in the 
affirmative. 
ln out· Bible-eeadings we seek to group to-
gether all, or at least a goodly number, of the 
texts bearing upon the Sllujoct to be considered, 
and it seems to me that thi8 is jnst what the 
Saviour did when, after bis resurrection, he 
''drew near and went with" the two disciples 
who wel'e on their way to Emmaus: "And 
be~int1ing at Moses and all the prophets, he 
expounded unto t.bom in all the Scriptnres the 
tlli11gs concerning l1itnsolf." 
Luke 24: 27. 
Tho distance from Jerusalem to Bmmans was 
about seven and one-half miles, and the whole 
time spent 011 tbo road must have been about 
two bom·s and a half, some part of w h icb hnd 
bowevol' elapsed before tho Saviottt• joinocl these 
disciples. 
This being true, it eannot be that he 
referred in manv instances lo tbe contexts of 
tho scriptures th~tt he nsed; and he must have 
qnoted just tho words wbic:h apph"ed di1·ectly to 
the su~ject 'unde1· considerctt'ion. He m uRt have 
"tlkipped around" a good deal, and taken only 
"a verso here, and anothel' there," or he could 
nt>t in so short a time have "expounded unto 
them in all the Scriptures the things concerning 
himself." 
Another example of the Saviour's use of the 
Scriptures is fout1d in Luke 4: 16-21:-
"And 
he went into the synagogue 
on tho Sabbath day, and Rtood up for to t·ead. 
And there was delivered unto him the book of 
the prophet Et:>aias. 
And 
be found 
tho place where it was written, The Spirit 
of tho I1ord is upon me, boc:ause he hath 
anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; 
be hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to 
preac:b dolivomnce to the captives, and recover-
ing of sight to tbo blind, to set at liberty them 
that are bruit->ed, to preach the acceptable year 
of the Lord. 
And he cloRed the book, and he 
gave it again to tLe minister, and sat down. 
And the eyes of all them that were in the 
synagogue were fastened on him. 
And he be-
gan to say unto them, 'l'his day is this scl'ipt-
uro fulfilled in yout· ears." 
By reference to lsa. 61 : 1, 2, it will be seen 
tLat Jesus stopped not only in tho middle ofa 
verse, but even left tho sentence 
ntlfini~bed. 
And why? 
Simply because "the day of ven-
geance of our God" had not yet come, neithet· 
was that the burden of tho Saviour's preaching. 
The latter part of the verse was not then appli-
cable, and so tbe Great Teacher did not road it; 
and it is propet· that they who teach the word 
should, like their divine Master, rightly divide 
"the word of trnth." If they are teaching in 
regard to the Sabbath, they sbonld be guided 
by what the Bible says, and not by what some 
mnn or set of men have said abo~1t it. 
I thank God that we have truths that we 
can maintain from the Scriptures witbout re-
sol'ting to doubtful expedients or questionable 
methods; and I appreciate more and more these 
truths as I see honest, intelligent persons feed 
upon them with ever-inc~reasing pleasure, and 
thus grow in grace and in the knowledge of 
God; 
vV. H. SAXBY. 
Washinfjton, D. C. 
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ing the extent of the law's jurisdiction. 
Note 
ence as a sinner, that he might successfully labor 
for those who felt the condemnation of God's law 
upon them in consequence of their sins. The sev-
enth chapter of Romans is an instance of this. If 
Paul had not felt the terrible anguish which comes 
from· the knowledge of an offended God, and the 
sense of impending doom, and the wondrous peace 
which comes from believing in Jesus, he could never 
have written a chapter so full of encouragement to 
the convicted sinner. 
"Can ye not discern the signs of the times?" 
E. J. wAGGONER,} 
ALO~ZO 1'. JONES, 
CoRRESPONDING EDITORS. 
EDITORS. 
J. H. wAGGONER, 
s. N. HASKELL, 
URIAH SMITH, 
GEo. I. BuTLER. 
these points: The law speaks only to those who are 
within its sphere; if any such have violated it, it 
condemns them, and it can condemn no others. The 
law has no power to condemn any who do not owe 
allegiance to it, or who are outside its pale. Now 
Paul has shown (I-tom. 3 : 9-18) that there is not a 
person on earth who has not sinned, and he there-
OAKLAND, CAL., FIFTH-DAY, SEPTEMBF.R 16, 1886. fore emphatically declares that the law, speaking 
To them that were without law, that is, to the' 
Gentiles who had not the written law, and the 
full knowledge of God, he became as without law, 
that he might gain them that were without the law. 
An instance of this is given in his dealing with the 
Athenians, Acts 17:22-31. Ile took them on their 
own ground, and from their own heathen worship, 
and their own heathen literature; he demonstrated 
to them the existence of a great Creator, and the 
certainty of a future general Judgment. 
In the J-'aw. 
THE expression, "under the law,'' occurs twelve 
times in King James's version of the New Testa-
ment, in the following verses: Rom. 3: 19; 6:14, 15; 
1 Cor. 9:20 (three times), 21; Ga.1. 3:23 (the equiv-
alent expression "under a schoolmaster,'' is found 
also ir1 verse 24); 4:4, 5, 21; 5:18. In previous 
articles we have considered all these instances of 
the use of the term, except Rom. 3 : 19, and1 Cor. 
9:20,21. In every case thus far we have found 
that it indicates a state of sin, and consequently of 
condemnation by the law. 
The one who has vio-
lated the law is under sentence of death, and so the 
law is represented as being upon him, holding him 
down to death. 
Now in Rom. 3:19, a different thought is pre.-
sented to one who reads the text carefully. 
We 
will read it: "Now we know that what things ~'<oever 
the law saith, it saith to them that are under the 
law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the 
world may become guilty before God." On reading 
this some 0110 will say, "Your idea that ' under the 
law' means condemned by the law certainly cannot 
hold here, for that wo tld make the text of no force; 
it would be the same as saying, '·what things soever 
the la"v saith, it saith to them who are condemned 
by the law, in order that every one may be con-
demned,' and that would be nonsense." The point 
is well taken, and we should have to conclude that 
the term "under the law" does not always indicate 
a state of sin and condemnation, if it were not for 
the fact that the expres3ion does not really occur in 
Rom. 3:19 at all. In all the texts which we have 
heretofore considered, the Greek words which are 
rendered "under the Jaw" are, hupo nomon, which 
should be rendered, as they invariably are, by the 
phrase "under the law." 
But in Rom. 3:19 the 
Greek words wbich in Ki'l,g James's version are 
rendered "under the law" are, en to noma, which 
cannot properly be translated in any other Wfl:Y than 
"in the law." The same expression is found in the 
Greek of Rom. 2:12, whAre the tram;lators have 
correctly rendered it" in the law." 
The text under consideration should therefore 
read thus: "Now we know that what things soever 
the ]a w sai th, it sai th to them who are in the law; 
that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world 
may become guilty before [margin, subject to the 
judgment of] God." That is, the law speaks to those 
who are within its jurisdiction, or, as Professor Boise 
renders it, "within its sphere," and as a conse-
quence it declares that all the world are subject to 
the judgment of God, because it shows that all are 
sinners. 
The expression, " that every mouth may be 
stopp.ed," is very forcible. 
\Vhen a man is brought 
in to court, aud charged with any crime, he begins, 
through his counsel, to plead his own cause, and to 
try to establish his innocence. 
But sometimes the 
evidence of a man's guilt is so overwhelmingly 
clear that he has no defense to make; his mouth is 
stoppeg, and he is forced to acknowledge the justness 
of the charge against him. So the law of God speaks 
to those over whom it has jurisdiction, and charges 
them with sin; and the evidence is so cleat· that no 
one can speak a ·word in self-defense, but all the 
world stand condemned before God. 
only to those within its jurisdiction, stops eve1·y 
mouth, and condemns the whole world. There could 
be no more forcible way of saying that every indi-
vidual in the woTld is amenable to the law of God. 
Jews and Gentiles are all in the same condemnation, 
beca:use they are all within the pale of the law, and 
have all violated it. 
Perhaps some may think that this makes a contra-
diction between Rom. 3:19 and Rom. 2: 12, but 
there is none. It is true that Rom. 2 : 12 speaks of 
those "without law" as distinct from those "in the 
law;" but those who are spoken of as without law, 
are also spoken of as having sinned, and we have 
already learned (1) That "sin is the transgression 
of the law," and that "where no law is there is no 
t ansgression," and (2) that Paul, in verses 14, 15, 
shows that these same ones who are in· one sense 
without law, "show the work of the law written in 
their l;earts," and that they therefore do have the 
law. Some sin in the face of the full light of the 
law, while others sin against only that kuowledge of 
the law which they have by nature; but all are 
counted as sinners in God's sigh£, and they could 
not be so reckoned if they were not amenable to the 
law; hence he declares that all are in reality "in 
the law." 
Let us now read 1 Cor. 9:20, 21: "And unto the 
Jews I became as a Jew. that I might gain the 
Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the 
law, that I might gain them that are u.oder the law; 
to. them that are without law, as without law, (being 
not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) 
that I might gain the.m that are without Jaw." In 
this text the term,." under the law," occurs four 
times. In the first three instances, reference to the 
But while he became to them as without law, he 
says that he was in reality "not without law to 
God, but in the law to Chdst." That is, he all the 
time recoo-nized his obliO'ation to keep the whole law 
of G0d, a~Id that Chris; was to him the end of that 
law for righteousness,-he did all things only by the 
aid of Christ. 
This closes up the consideration of the expression 
"under the law." Taking out 1 Cor. 9:21 and 
Rom. 3:19, in which texts, as we have seen, the 
term does not really occur, we can arrive at this 
positive conclusion, that in every instance of its 
occurrence, "under the law" indicates a state of 
sin and condemnation. 
And since it is everywhere 
stated that only those who are in Christ are free 
from the condemnation of the law, and that all who 
are not in Christ and have not his Spirit, are under 
the law, the fact that the law is still in active oper-
ation is everywhere demonstrated. 
w. 
The End Near. 
"How DO you explain the many passages in the 
New Testament that speak as if the end was close 
at hand r If the translators got the hang of those 
passages, those who first read them must have un-
derstood that the day of the Lord was at hand. 
Can it be that they spoke only of the persecutions 
shortly to come'? or did they think the interval 
between the persecutions and the advent shorter 
than it proved t;o her 
"1 Cor. 7 : 29 seems to many to teach that the end 
was near; yet from verse 26, and from Dean Alford's 
are without law, [I becamej as without law, (being translation, I understand him [Paul] to mean that 
not without law to God, but in the law to Christ,) the time of trouble wns near, and that he is not 
that I might gain them that.are without law." 
speaking of the end; but many text~, such as Rom. 
same thing is made in each case. In the fourth in-
stance, however, in verse 21, the Greek is en to noma, 
as in Rom. 3: 19, and should be rendered "in the 
law." Then the verse would read, "To them that 
In order to get the full force of this text, we must 13: 14; 1 Cor. 1: 6-8; 1 Thess. 1: 10; 1 Tim. 6: 14; 
Heb. 10:34. 36, 37; 1 Peter 4: 17; Rev. 1:1, 3, seem 
note the verse immediately preceding, and the two to teach those to whom they were written that the 
following: "For though I be free from all men, yet end would be in their day." 
w. D. c. 
have I made myself servant unto all, that I might 
1. As to the passages that speak of the coming of 
gain the more." "To the we~k become I ns weak, the Lord and the end of the world, we don't explain 
that I might gain the weak; I am made all things them; we simply take them just as they read, and 
to all men, that I might by all means save some. believe them. And we do not doubt but that tlie 
And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be translators got the "hang" of those passages; in 
partaker thereof with you." These verses, taken in fact, we are glad to know that they got the correct 
connection with the 20th anrl 21st, show Paul's idea of them, because we love the Lord and rejoice 
meaning to be that in his ministerial work he sought in the assurance that be is coming .. vVe should be 
to adapt himself, as far as possible, to the condition in a deplorable condition, indeed, if there were no 
of those for whom he labored. He did not app~oach passages in the Bible assuring us that the Lord is 
all men in the same manner, but adapted his teach-coming. 
ing to the different classes of people whom he taught. 
2. We cannot allow that the New Testament 
He took every one upon his own ground. 
writers were deceived as to the coming of the Lord. 
To the Jews, he became as a Jew. This he could If we could think that they were to the slightest 
easily do, for he was himself a Jew, and knew all degree mistaken on this point, we eould not be sure 
th~ir habits and customs. The book of Hebrews i::l that they were not mistaken on every point. 
We 
an instan~e of ho'~ he beca~e as a. Jew to the Jew~.~ believe that the whole Bible was wt:itte~I by inspira-
From their own history, their Scnptures, and their tion of God, that it is all equally Inspued, and all 
religion, he demonstrated the Messiahship of our equally true. Jf a text seems to us doubtful, or 
Saviour, and also his whole work in connection with difficult to be understood, we lay it to our own ig-
the 'plan of ~alvation. 
norance, and not to the ignorance' of the holy men 
To them that were under the law, he became as of God who wrote as they were moved by the Holy 
under the law, that he might gain them that were Ghost. 
under the law. That is, he drew on his own experi-
3. It is a fact that some of those to whom Paul 
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wrote got the idea that the coming of the Lord was 
going to take place in their day. But they did not 
get it from Paul's sermons or letters. There were 
some who were attempting to deceive the brethren 
by a pretended epistle from Paul (See 2 Thess. 2: 
1-3), and this led Paul to repeat what he had told 
them while he was with them,-that Christ would 
not come until after the Papacy lrad arisen, and had 
run its course of persecution and blasphemy. Cer-
tainly, then, we have no chance to be deceived, and 
to suppose that the immediate coming of the Lord 
was preached in the first century; for although 
there are some passnges which, taken alone, might 
seem to indicate that such was the case, we have the 
whole Bible, and are not obliged to take any one 
passage by itself. The Bible is one harmonious 
book. It was written by many men, but they all 
had the same Spirit, and so in every part it bears 
uniform testimony. 
4. 1 Cor. 7 : 29 does not say th~t the Lord's com-
ing i8 at hand, and therefore we do not need to go 
to any commentary to find out that Paul was writ-
ing of the then "present distress." So that passage, 
with other similar ones, doubtless refers to impending 
persecutions, and all were so understood by those to 
whom they were addressed. The instruction, how-
ever, which they contain is directly applicable to 
those who live when the coming of the Lord is close 
at haud. 
5. When the New Testament writers speak di-
rectly of the coming of the Lord, as in 1 Thess.1: 9, 
10; Rev. 1:1, 3, we luwe no right to suppose that 
they had reference to persecutions, or to anything but 
the coming of the Lord. The two texts to which we 
have just referred may be taken a~ a sample of all. 
The first one reads thus: "For they thernsel ves 
show of us what manner of entering in we had unto 
you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve 
the living and true God; and to wait for his Son 
from Heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even 
Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come." 
This brings to view the coming of the Lord as the 
Christian's hope. Death is nowhere set forth as the 
object of the Christian's solicitude. The coming of 
the Lord is the blessed hope, the consummation of all 
things, and nothing else could be set before Chris-
tians of all ages to stimulate their energies. 
As to such texts as Rev. 1:1, 3: "The Revelation 
of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto· him, to show 
unto his servants things which must shortly come 
to pass; . . . blessed is he that readeth, and 
they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep 
those things which are written therein, for the 
time is at hand;" or Rev. 22:20: "He which test.i-
fieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly;" 
they were literally true when written. The things 
which John wrote did begin shortly to come to pass. 
More than that, it could truly be said that the 
Lord's coming was at hand. We must acknowledge 
this when we remember that the day of pentecost 
was in "the last days" (See Acts 2 : 16-21), and 
that Paul wrote in the last days. Reb. 1: 1, 2. It 
was true then that the coming of the Lord was "at 
Land," although not immediately at hand; it is a 
thousand fold more true now. 
6. Everything in theN ew Testament was spoken 
or written to individuals then living, and was ap-
plicable to them; but it is also applicable to us. 
Comprehensiveness is a characteristic of the word-s 
of inspiration. Yet many things have a more direct 
application to us than to them. Suppose that the 
Bible had been only partly written centuries ago, 
and that all reference to the near coming of the 
Lord hnd been left to be written at the present 
time; what evidence would we have that it was a 
divine revelation? If reference weld made to cer-
tain signs already fulfilled, everybody would say 
that it was conjecture. But the Saviour gave us 
ground for the firmest assurance of faith, when cent-
uries ago he foretold his coming, and the signs 
which would indicate its nearness. The fact that likewise he sa1d, "·withal praying also for us, that 
those signs were then foretold, made it impossible God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak 
that any one who accepted the words of inspiration the myster·.v of Ch~·ist, for which I am also in bonds.'' 
just as they are recor·ded, should be deceiveJ. Let Col. 4:3. And to the Romans, "Now to him that 
us, then, not spend time in "doubtful disputations," is of power to stablish you accor·ding to my gas-
but let us believe that "yet a:little while, and he pel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, accord-
that shall come will come, and will not tarry;" and ing to the r·evelation of the mystery which was 
"let us hold fast the profession of our faith without kept secret sir~ce the world began, but now is made 
wavering; for He is faithful that promised." 
manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, ac-
w. 
cording to the commandment of the everlasting God, 
made known to all nations for the obedience of 
The Time of the Third Angel's Message. 
SAID the angel, "In the days of the voice of the 
seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the 
mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared 
to his servants the prophets." Rev. 10:7. This re-
fers to the last of the seven trumpet angels, and the 
third woe, and, as shown last week, was to come 
"quickly" after the ending of the sixth trumpet, and 
the second woe. Rev.ll: 14. These being prophetic 
days-each day for a year-the expression means, 
In the-years of the voice of the seventh angel; when 
he shall begin to sound. 
As will be seen further on• 
the seventh trumpet, and third woe, covers all ,the 
woe that will ever be on this earth from the time 
when this trumpet begins to sound. But the mys-
tery of God is to be finished in the years when it 
begins-not at the latter part, nor at the end, but in 
the beginning. ·whenever, therefore, the seventh an-
gel begins to sound the finishing of the mystery of 
God is close at hand. 
But what is the mystery of God? The mystery 
of God is the gospel. Proof: in Eph. 3:3, Paul says, 
"By revelation he made· known unto me the mys-
tery." And in Gal. 1: 11, 12 he says, "The gospel 
which was preached of me is not after man. For I 
neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, 
but by revelation of Jesus Christ.'' 
Here we have 
the statement that the gospel was given him by ?'ev-
elation, and also that by revelation there was made 
known to him "the mystery, which in other ages was 
not made known unto the sous of men, as it is now 
revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the 
Spirit; that the Gentiles should be fellow-hei?·s, and 
of the ~arne body, and partakers of his promise in 
Christ by the gospel .... Unto me, who am less 
than the least. of all saints, is this grace ginn, that I 
should preach a~10ng the Gentiles the unsea1·chable 
riches of Christ,-and to make all men see what is the 
fellowship of the myster·y, which from the beginning 
of the world hath been hid in God, who created all 
things by Jesus Christ: to the intent that now . 
might be known by the church the manifold wisdom 
of God, according to the eternal purpose which he 
purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord. . . 
. That 
Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, 
being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to 
comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and 
length, and depth, and height; and to kno the love 
of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might 
be filled with all the fullness of God." 
"For in Him 
dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.'' 
Eph. 3:3-11, 17-19; Col. 2: 9. 
From these texts it is evident that the eternal pur-
pose of God, which he purposed in Christ for us; that 
the unsearchable riches of Christ which are brought 
to the children of men; that the immeasureable love 
of Christ and of God for men; that the love of Christ 
and of God which pas8eth knowledge; is the mystery 
of God. But this is nothing else than the gospel. 
The preaching of the gospel is only the effort of God 
to reveal this mystery, and to bring its depths to the 
comprehension of men. 
Again: in Eph. 6: 19, Paul calls preaching the 
making known the mystery of the gospel, saying: 
"Praying 
. . . 
for me, that utL'"rance may be 
given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, 
to make known thP. mystery of the gospel, for which 
I am an ambassador in bonds.'' To the Colossians 
faith." 
Rom. 16:25. 26. 
There can be no question 
that the mystery of God is the gospel of God, that 
the mystery of Christ is the gospel o.f Christ; for it 
is ca1led the "gospel ot' God" as well as the "gospel 
of Christ," 1 Pet. 4: 17; 1 Thess. 2:2, 9; 1 Tim. 1: 
11, and properly enough so, for Christ is "God with 
us," Matt. 1 :23, and "God was in Christ, reconcil-
ing the world unto himself," 2 Cor. 5 : 19. 
The mystery of God being the gospel, when the 
angel said that the mystery of God should be fiu ished, 
it was but saying, according to these scriptures, that 
the gospel should be finished. 
Paul said that the 
gospel "is the power of God unto salvation;" there-
fore to say that the mystery of God-the gospel-
should be finished is but to say that the power of 
God for the salvation of men will cease to be exer-
cised. 
So then, according to the explanation given 
in these scriptures, the angel of Rev.lO: 7 says, In 
the days-the years-of the voice of the seventh an-
gel, when he shall begin to sound, the gospel should 
be finished, the power of God for the salvation of 
men shall cease to be exercised, as he hath declared 
to his servants the prophets. 
The sanctuary of the Levitical law was a figure 
of the sanctuary of the gospel. 
He b. 9 : 9, 11, 23. 
That was on earth, this is in Rea Yell; that was made 
with hands and pitched by man, this was made with-
out hands and pitched by the Lord. He b. 9:9,23, 24; 
8: 2; 9:11. The service of that sancLuary wa-> by Lhe 
me~ of-the Levitical priesthood, and with the blood 
of beasts; the service of this sanctuary is hy Christ 
the Lord, of the Melchizedic prie:sLhood, and with 
the blood of Christ. He b. 7; 9 :6. 9, 12-14, 22-26; 
8:1. The service of that sanctuary was completeJ 
once a year; the service of this when completed is 
once for all. He b. 9 : 25, 26; 10 : 3, 10. The last 
work of the annual service in that sanctuary was 
upon what was called the day of atouement, and the 
service was called the cleansing of the s:mctuary 
-the taking away of all the sins that had been con-
veyed in to the sanctuary by the service of t,he priests 
at the confessions and sacrifices of the people during 
the year that then ended. 
Lev. 23: 27-32: 16:2-
34. 
The last work of the once-for-all service of the 
heavenly sanctuary will be the great clay of ever-
lasting atonement, and the service will be to take 
away forever all the sins which have been borne by 
our High-priest, at our confession and the offering 
of Him by faith as our sacrifice, as he offers himself 
in fact in our behalf. This also is called the cleans-
ing of, not the earthly, but the heavenly sanctu-
ary. As the cleansing of the earthly sanctuary was 
the last work for that year in behalf of that people, 
80 the cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary will be 
the last work forever in behalf of any people. As 
the cleansing of the earthly sanctuary was the very 
last clay of that annual round of service, so when-
ever the world shall have reaehed the time of the· 
cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary, the world will 
then have entered upon the very last days of the 
work of the gospel, and when the sanctuary shall 
have been cleansed, the gospel-the mystery of God 
-will "be finished as He hath declared to his serv-
ants the prophets.'' 
Now when, according to the Scriptures, should the 
cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary begin ( 
In 
Daniel 8 : 14, from a certain time, it is said, "Unto 
two thousand and three hundred clays; then shall the 
sanctuary be cleansed." This also being prophetic 
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time each day stands for a year, and is, therefore, two 
thousand fl,nd three hundred years. 
From what 
timer "From the going forth of the commandment 
to restore and to Guild Jerusalem." Dan. 9:25. Sev-
enty weeks-four hundred and ninety years-were 
cut off from the two thousand three hundred, and 
appropriated to Daniel's people, the Jews, and the 
beginning of the four huudred and ninety years is 
the beginning of the two thousand and three hun-
dred. This beginning, as quoted above, was at the 
going forth of the commandment to restore and to 
build Jerusalem, which was in the year 457 B. c. 
Ezra 7. 
Although Ezra with the decree, started 
from Babylon in the first month, it was not till the 
fifth month that he reached Jerusalem; and as the 
decree was to the treasurers "beyond the river" 
Euphrates and in Palestine, it was of no force till he 
reached that conn try, so about half the year was 
gone before the decree could be said to go forth to 
restore and to build the city, which would make it 
about the middle of the year 457, or really 456~ 
years before Christ. Two thousand and three hun-
dred years from 456%: B. c. briugs us' to 2300-456%: 
=1843~ after Christ. Eighteen hundred and forty-
three and n half years after Christ carries us into 
the year 1844 A. D. Then it was, the angel said to 
Daniel, that the time of the cleansing of the sanct-
Wtry should be: "Unto two thousand and three hun-
dred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed." 
That this cannot be applied to the earthly sanct-
uary is made cerLain by the statemeut in Dan. 9:26, 
that after the cutting off of the Messiah, the people 
of the prince that should come (the Romans) "should 
destroy the city and the sanctum·y," and Christ said 
t!Jat when iL should be destroyed Jerusalem should 
be trodden under foot of the Gentiles, until the times 
of the Gentiles be fulfilled. Luke 21 :24. 
As that 
city and that sancLuary were to be destroyed, and 
were destroyed but a few years after the expiration 
of the four hundred :md ninety years, it is impossible 
that that should be the sanctuary that was to be 
cleaused at the expiration of the two thousand and 
three hundred years. Consequently the sanctuary 
that was to be cleansed at the end of the two thous-
rtnd and three hunrh·ed years was the heavenly 
sanctuary, because it is the only one that was then 
in existence. 
Therefore it is certain that the cleans-
ing of the heavenly sanctuary began in A. D. 1844. 
(For an extended and thorough treatment of the 
subject of the sanctuary and connected dates, see 
''The Sanctuary and its Cleansing," for sale a& this 
office.) 
The cleansing of the sanctuary, the work of the 
atonement under the Levitical law, was a work of 
judgment. 
For said the scripture, "Whatsoever 
soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same 
day, he shall be cut off from among his people." 
Lev. 23: 29. 
Whoever did not make confession of 
sin that day could have no part in the atonement 
that was made that day; and when the sanctuary 
had been cleanf.:ed, and atonement made, he was to 
be cut off without mercy, he had no oLher chance, 
his probation was gone. 
So, likewise, in the cleans-
ing of the heavenly sanctuary, in the atonement 
made once for all, whosoever shall not confess his 
sins, and be partakers of the intercession of Christ, 
can have no part in the atonement of Christ, and 
when that sanctuary shall have been cleansed, and 
that atonement made, he will be cut off without 
mercy, he will have no other opportunity, his proba-
tion will be ended. Of such it will be said, "He 
that is unjust, let him be unjust still; and he which 
is filthy, let him be filthy Htill." No longer will the 
precious cleansing blood be applied. 
'l'hese are 
they who shall wring out and drink the dregs of the 
cup that is in the hand of the Lord (Ps. 75: 8); these 
are they who "shall drink of the wine of the wrath 
of God, which is poured out without mixture into 
the cup of hi::. indignation." Rev. 14:10. 
. 
This cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary began 
in A. D. 1844, and in the very nature of the case closed her speech to the Assembly with these words:-
must soon close. We are now living in the great 
"Thus would the National Woman's Christian 
day of atonement. Now is the time when it is Temperance Union join hands with the Knights of 
urgent upon every soul to confess his sins, to put Labor in placing this· Government upon the sboul-
away all his tran~gressions, to be partaker of the ders of Him who is Wonderful, Cotinselor, the 
Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of 
intercession of Christ, to wash his robes and make Peaee,' and in crowning Christ, our Lord, as the 
them white in the blood of the Lamb. For soon the Ruler of nations." 
mystery of God will be finished, the work of the 
go~pel will be closed, and the unmixed wrath of God 
and the Lamb will be poured upon all the wicked 
of the earth. 
Next week, if the Lord wil1, we shall gather to-
gether in one the evidences that now is the time of 
the Third Angel's Message. The point~ which we 
have shown in this article and the one before it, 
were necessary to a clear understanding of the one 
which is to fol1ow. 
J. 
Sign ificaut Facts. 
THE Ch1'istian State.<~man reports that the Church 
of the United Brethren has put a National Reform 
preacher into the field, Rev. R. Rock by name, and 
wil1 support him; and that a preacher, Rev. J. P. 
Mills by name, from the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
will enter upon the National Reform work, on the 
same terms, about September 1, 1886. 
The late General Assembly of the United Presby-
terian Church, by its committee on National Reform, 
expressed its gratification "to learn that the presen-
tation of the Christian theory of civil government 
by the advocates of National Reform, is educating 
the people to recognize that civil government is an 
ordinance of God; • • • that Jesus Christ, the 
Head of the Church, is . . . the Ruler of nations, 
and has laid down in his word the fundamental en-
actments by whieh the enactments of our civil code 
are to be tested; and that this word ought to be 1·ec-
ognized as the fundamental law of the Nation, and 
be incorporated into its very Constitution." It re-
gards" the continued advocacy of this Reform as im-
peratively necessary;" and by resolution commends 
"to the generous financial support of our people the 
secretaries and advocates of this movement." 
The Ocean Grove Assembly set apart Wednesday, 
July 21, as National Reform Day, which, says the 
Statesman, " will afford a fine audience of the best 
people, without effort or cost on the part of t.he 
friends of the cause." Likewise the Chautauqua 
Assembly management granted the m0ming and 
afternoon ses'3ions of Friday, July 23, to National 
Reform. This the Statesman correctly called "an-
other magnificient oppor·tunity for the presentation· 
of the principles of the National Ref'orm Association." 
Nor is this all. For more than a year the Na-
tional Reform party has been specially and assidu-
ously courting the National Woman's Christian 
Temperance Union, and it has succeeded in so far 
rhyming itself into .these ladies' favor that we are 
quite certain it will never reason itself out again. 
Joint conventions are now being held by the two 
bodies, and we see their vital union virtu:dly eon-
summated. Already in their joint convention held 
at Canonsburg, Pa., May 19, an address of welcome 
was delivered "by Mrs. Rev. J. F. Hill, in which 
the oneness of the two organizations was very ably 
set forth." Miss Willard, Mrs. \Voodbridge, Mrs. 
Bateham, Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, Mrs. West, and Mt·s. 
Hoffman, are all Vice-Presidents of the National 
Reform Association. 
Mrs. Woodbridge made a 
straight-out Nat.ional Ref'orm speech both at Ocean 
Grove and at Chautauqua, on the occasions referred 
to above. 
Besides this Mrs. Woodbridge was appointed by 
the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, to carry 
to the Cleveland Convention of the Knights of La-
bor, last May," t.he E!:tlutations of the Union, and a 
brief argument in behalf of the cause of temperance;" 
but the lady allowed her National Reform zeal to 
carry her· beyond her appointed mission and she 
This the Christ'ian Statesman pronounces a" cause 
for rejoicing,'' and" an especial gratification to the 
friends of National Reform."-See Statesman, June 
3, 1886. 
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union has 
done noble work, in whieh we have rejoiced and 
should ever rejoice, while she kept in the line of her 
legitimate and chartered work. But just as soon as 
she proposes to sell herself to work the iniquity of 
lifting the National Reform party into power in its 
uuion of Church and State, and the establishment 
of its hierarchy in this couutry, then we are pre-
pared to write of her, "The glory is departed." 
The Prohibition Party also is coming up to the 
work. The New Jersey Prohibition Convention, and 
that of Washington County, Pa., adopted resolutions 
which the Statesman says read like the resolutions 
of a National Reform Convention. 
'l'he Maine 
Prohibitionists declare that" we aim, in a~word, at 
the application of Christian principles Lo political 
life. . . The application of Christian principles 
to politics would secure an equal voice, without re-
gard to sex, in making laws which all must alike 
obey." The Illinois platform declares that, ".We 
reverently recognize the supreme authority of Al-
mighty God ... We regard the Christian Sab-
bath as a boon so valuable to humanity, that the 
State cannot be true to its trusts which neglects to 
guard it from desecmtion." 
The Reformed Presbyterian Church, which from 
the beginning has borne the Natioual Reform party 
upon her sides and dandled it upon her knees, con-
tributed to the work last. year "almost $7,000;" 
and at its late Synod, held at Rochester, New York, 
it recommended "that the sum of $10,000 be raised 
for the treasury of the National Ref'orm Asiiociation, 
by the churches under the care of this Synod," the 
corning year. 
Besides these distinct organizations, the churches, 
as such, almost all favor it; and the National Re-
formers are willing, if not anxious, to make ad-
vances even to the Catholic Church to gain her 
favor-and they will get it. Now we say: With 
the general breaking up of parties, and the casting 
about for new issues upon which to catch the vot.es 
of the multitude, let this movement be agitated for 
but a very few years at mo.,;t, and then brought to a 
vote upon some one leading question under whit:h 
can be veiled the real issue, atld we should like to 
see the one who cau show what is to hinder the 
success of the National Rel'orm movement, and in 
that the union of Church and State with all that 
that involves as the ultimate rP ·ult. 
In view of these facts, which simply show the 
fast-growing power, and the wide-spreading influ-
ence of the National Reform movement, we submit 
to any candid mind whether the Ame1·ican Sr:nti-
nel has not a mission, in its determined opposition 
to that movement. Do we not well to expose the 
fallacies, to lay bare the sophistries, and to uncover 
t"he insidious iniquity of this scheme of Church and 
State? Do we not well to call the attention of the 
American people to this menace to human liberty 
and to human right I We know precisely what it 
is about which we are talking. We know exactly 
what we are doing. But we very much fear that 
the American people will not realize, till it is too 
late, the danger that lies in the National Reform 
movement. "Eternal vigilance is the price of lib-
erty,'' but Americans have forgotten it. May God 
help the people to awake and be vigilant.-Ameri-
can Sent,lnel. 
SEPTEMBER 16, 1886. 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
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Is True Piety Increasing ? 
VERY frequently the religious papers make men-
tion of the rapid spread of Christianity, and the 
growth of religious sentiment in this Nation. So 
confident are they of the correctness of thei1· data 
and of the conclusions drawn therefrom that they 
predict the speedy evangelization of the world. 
Almost all that is now required to make this truly 
"a Christian nation" is an amendment to our Na-
tional Constitution which shall enable the relio-ious 
element to control legislation, and so to enforce 
(what the majority believe to be) the institutions 
and laws of Chri::~tianiLy. 
With the large majority against us, we are still 
skeptieal in. regard to their predictions. We have 
the most unbounded confidence in the Bible, and 
"the sure word of prophecy" which it contains. 
\Ve read therein that "the age of gold" for this 
world is far, far in the past. The history of this 
world hns brought us down from the gold, through 
the silver and brass, even through the iron, and into 
the mixture or mingling of ir~n and clay. See Dan. 
2. 
And the setting up of God's "everlasting king-
dom" is not the con version of the kingdoms or 
nations, either as cause or consequence, but their 
entire overthrow and utter destruction. And with 
this prediction in Dan. 2 agree many prophecies to 
which we might refer, even Ps. 2, which is so often 
and so inappropriately appealed to as proof of the 
world's conversion. See Ps. 2 :8, 9. 
Then the question may be asked, What mean 
these statistics of the large increase of believers, of 
the wide-spread acceptance of the Christian faith'( 
Our answer is, They who produce them are deceived 
by appearances. The judgment which they form ou 
the increHse of religious sentiment is as superficial 
as the religious sen tim en t upon which it is based. 
The religious sentiment of the age is not deep; it is 
not a religion of self-denial, of cross-bearing. It is 
a religion that seeks popular applause; that goes 
hand in hand with the world and worldlings; a 
religion of sociables and festivals; of excursions and 
hilarity; of fairs and ra:ffies; of immense church 
edifices, and small prayer-meetings: 
In a number of the Ame'rican Christian Review 
in 1882, is an interesting article which contains the 
following words from Professor \V. H. Green, LL.D. 
All who are acquainted with the condition of the 
religious world will cert.ify that he drew the picture 
faithfully, and that he did not magnify the diJficulty 
and the dangers, which are even greater now than 
they were then:-
. "All the signs of the times indicate that the 
American churches, and, in fact, the whole of En-
glish-speaking CltriRtendom, are upon the eve of an 
a~itati.on t~por~ the vit~tl an? !undamental question 
ot the 1nsp1ratJOn and mfal!Jb:l1ty of the Bible such 
as it }!as never kno'Yn before. The divinity and 
authonty of the Scnptures have heretofore been 
defended against the outside world of uubelievers-
a.gai~st pagan.s, infidels, and skeptic::;; but the ques-
t!o~ IS now ra1sed, and ~he. supreme authority of the 
Scnptures contested Wltl11n the·church itself. In 
the controversies which have :witated the churches 
of Great Britain and of this co~ntry heretofore the 
infallible authority of Scripture has been adm{tted 
as the ultimate test of doct.rine, by all contending 
parties. 
All made their appeal to this standard. 
~he settle~ent of every question de~~nded upon its 
mterpretat10n, or upon 111ferences ta1rly deducible 
from ~t. But now the sta~dar~ is itself brought into 
q.uest10n. Utterances winch fill the air on every 
side, and are borne to us from every quarter-from 
professors' chairs, from pulpits, from the religious 
press, not to speak of what is incidentally woven 
mto general literature and promiscuous conversa-
tion, show abundantly that the burning question of 
the age is not, \That does the Bible teach? It is 
one yet more radical and fundamental: What is the 
Bible? ln what sense is it the word of God'( Is it 
a revelation from him, and divinely authoritative? 
Or, is it to be left to the interpreter to say what in 
it is from God and worthy of our faith, and what is 
the. fallibl~ h~man element that may be rejected~ 
Th1s quest1on 1s approached from all sides, and the 
most diverse and conflicting answers given." 
If it be true that the question of the authenticity Catholic tradition, "science falsely so-called," with 
and reliability of the Bible is yet to be settled in the barely suffieient respect for the Bible t,p give the air 
English-speaking churches, to what purpose is the of a Christian body-where these already exist, the 
increase of their numbers? To what purpose is this coming of all the rest is only a question of time. 
boast of increasing strength, this array of statistics, And the end is hurried on by the churches making 
if there is a virus at the heart, a moral infection their dependence the civil power, by which to en-
diffused through the body, which is not destroying 
for~e their dogmas upon the world, which they 
it, but turning it into a diseased and corrupted despair of moving by arguments. The millennium 
ma~s? So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd for which they are now working is a millennium of 
which grew up over him, but he did not mark the Church-and-State authority, instead of one of a 
worm which was eating away its life. 
church of deep, earne"t piety, hungering and thirst-
The English-speaking churches have boasted very iug after righteousness, only "leaning on the arm of 
much of late years of the increase of light and her beloved." 
knowledge in their midst, of the higher general 
The way to eternal life is still narrow, and few 
education of their ministry. If their education there are who find it. The Bible is sti]] God's word 
were sanctified to the service of God, then their of truth, and the words of the Saviour about the 
knowledge would be something over which they ways to life and destruction are still true. 
Well 
might well rejoice. But, unfortunately, this is not would it be for the cause of religion and the well-
the case. It has come to be a mark of wisdom to being of the world, which needs the sanctifying 
doubt; a sign of "advanced thought" to look upon power of the truth, if the churches would be con-
the disobedien~e of the first human pair as the vinced that the narrow way to life cannot be 
means of great blessings to the race, if, indeed, the widened by appeals to "Religious Amendments," 
whole story be not an allegory. He who respects to National Constitutions, to "Civil" or "Penal 
the testimony of Moses, who does not look upon him Codes," or to "Legislative Enactments." 
as a pitiable specimen of an arbitrary bigot of the 
J.H.W. 
Dark Ages, is considered but a sorry graduate in 
many "higher" Christian circles, while he who 
professes to be scientifically wiser than the Bible is 
most highly esteemed, even in many of our theologi-
cal schools. The theology of the German schools 
-"German Neology "-is flourishing throughout 
Christendom. According to it, the Bible must sub-
mit to be placed in the crucible of science, and be 
content to emerge therefrom in whatever slwpe the 
scientific world may see fit to mould it; that every-
thing in the Bible must be determined by scientific 
data, or explaine.d according to the laws of science 
and philosophy. In such a 1'\chool miracles can have 
no place, and thus we find professors of science and 
religion (p1·ojesso1·s truly) denying that a miracle 
was ever performed,-:dfirming that the Bible was 
written in terms just suited to the ignorance of the 
Jews to whom it was given; that it pres en ted 
things as they appeared to the uneducated, and not 
as they really were. 
It may be replied that, while this is true to a large 
extent, it is not universally so; that very many still 
adhere to the "old paths," and to the old methods 
of thought. True; but they are comiug to be looked 
upon as "fogies," as relics of an age of blind adher-
ence to "authority." The statement of Professor 
Green cannot be gainsaid. 
The most popular 
pulpits, the chairs of theology in the colleges, are 
fast moulding the popular sentiment in this direc-
tion. "The whole head is sick, and the whole heart 
faint." 
And to this agree the words of inspiration. God, 
who sees tl:e end from the beginning, has pointed out 
this very state of things in the religious world. 
H.ead the following:-
" This know also, that in the last days perilous 
times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their 
own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, 
disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without 
natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, in_ 
continent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 
traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more 
than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but 
denying the power thereof; from such turn away.'' 
2 Tim. 3:1-5. 
Is this description too bold to be applied to Chris-
tian churches within whose pale the question of the 
reliability of the Bible has yet to be settled? We 
will not assume that all these characteristics are 
prominently displayed in the churches of this day. 
But where love of self, covetousness, boastfulness, 
pride, and inordinate lo.ve of pleasure already exist, 
and some of the other traits are becoming painfully 
prominent, and the whole resting on a foundation 
composed of a mixture of Platonic philosophy, 
The New Eng-land Camp-1'\ieeting. 
THE camp-meeting held at New Bedford, Mass., 
for the New England Conference was, in some re-
spects, tile most interesting, and we trust the most 
profitable, ever held in this Conference. Owing to 
the shortnesR of the notice, there were not as many 
present at the commencement of the meeting as 
would otherwise have been, but they continued to 
come through the second week, until at the close, 
the Conference was well represented. A tent was 
pitched in New Bedford last summer, and quite an 
interest awakened among the people. 
New Bedford is settled largely by men of wealth, 
such as sea captains and retired merchants. It was 
formerly a great whaling port, known all over 
the world. The citizens pride themselves in the 
morality of their city. There is a strong temper-
arice element there. Whether the common vices of 
sea-port cities exist or not, it is true that they do 
not appear upon the surface as in other similar 
cities. It contains about thirty-five thouRand inhab-
itants. Fairhaven, just across the river, was the 
home of Elder Joseph Bates, the first active preacher 
and publisher of present truth. He also had been 
a sea captain for many years, and expended a fort-
une thus acquired in the First Angel's Message; 
so when he embraced the Sabbath, he was iu pov-
erty. Still he wrote and published. 
He was a man 
of faith, and so firmly believed the truth which he 
advocated, that not unfrequently he would be re-
duced to almost a penniless condition; but his stronrr 
faith in God was such that he never became discour~ 
aged. So it may be said that this section of the 
country was the birthplace of the Sabbath reform of 
the Third Angel's :Message. 
The outside interest in the camp-meeting was 
excellent, and it was the very best class of citizens 
that attended. Quite a number embraced the Sab-
bath, bow many we cannot tell. Over one hundred 
dollars' worth of books was sold. 
Having seen no. 
tices of the meeting in the Boston papers, individuals 
came from distant cities for the purpose of inquiring 
respecting our faith. Some of these took their stand 
upon the truth, and were baptized. There were 
sixteen baptized at the close of the meeting. Most 
of them were converted during the meeting. 
'l'he claims of the one-hundred-thousand-dollar 
fund for our foreign missions were presented Monday 
morning, and over two thousand dollars was pledged 
in a few moments, after which between one and two 
thousand dollars was pledged for home-mission 
work. The interests of the South Lancaster Acad-
emy were also presented, and steps taken concern• 
570 [lO] 
THE BIG NS OF THE TIMES. 
VoL.· 12, No. 36. 
ing the enlargement of the Home building. This knowing that it is but a little while before He that 
met the hearty approval of our friends, who pledged shall come, will come and will not tarry (though he 
themselves to stand by whatever move the directors has seemed to tarry), and that now the just are to 
thought it advisable to make~ The Conference live by faith; but if any man draws back, he will lose 
report showed an increase of over one hundred the favor of God, and receive perdition as his doom. 
members during the past year. Two new churches 
"But we," continues tile apostle," are not of them 
were received into the Conference, and other com-who draw back unto perdition; but of them that be-
pnies have been raised up during the year. The lieve to the saving of the soul." Who compose this 
interest in New Bedford was such that Elder E. Vv. blessed we? Reader, are you one of the number? 
Farnsworth, with other workers, remains for two May it be so. 
u.s. 
weeks, hoping to organize a church in that time. 
The speakers from abroad were Elders Butler, 
Smith, and Farnsworth. Elder Goodrich was also 
present. During the past year he has been laboring 
iu this Conference. As far as growth in numbers is 
concerned, our brethren feel that they have much 
:for which to thank God. It was decided by the 
Conference that a mis::;ion should be opened in Lynn 
the coming year, that the one in Boston be reopened, 
and that the Providence mis::;ion be continued. 
These are expensive missions, but the brethren 
manifested a willingness to do all in their power to 
carry them forward. 
One feature of interest that characterized the 
meeting was that those who came remained to the 
close of the meeting, Tuesday mOl'ning, August 31. 
The 
~rounds and also the large pavilion were 
lighted by an eleetric light. The meeting was held 
in the City, near the sea-coast. The weather was 
fine, with the exception of it being a little rainy. 
At times the Spirit of God rested clown upon the 
encampment in a most marked manner. Ou the 
Sabbath about one hundred came forward for 
prayers, and nearly the same number on the Mon-
day morning following. 
All felt encouraged. 
The 
expression that "This is the best camp-meeting 
I ever attended," was often heard. 
There were daily reports of the meetings pub-
lished in the leading Boston and New Bedford 
papers. 
S.N. H. 
''My Lord Delayeth His Coming.'' 
IF, says Christ, the evil servant shall say in his 
heart, My Lord delayeth his coming, the Lord of that 
servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for 
him, and cut him asunder. Matt. 24:48-51. 
According to this language, the evil servant is de-
veloped among those who are believers in the second 
coming of Christ. They believe, or profess to believe, 
that the Lord is coming; but his coming is delayed; 
we have been mistaken, they say, in supposing he 
would come so soon; it may be a long time yet be-
fore he appears; let us calculate a little more for this 
world, and secure some of the good things, the eata-
bles and drinkables of this life. Thus the person 
seems to reason with himself who is falling into this 
snare of the enemy. 
We may, moreover, look for this class of persons to 
appear in the very concluding period of the church's 
history. This follows inevitably from the fact that 
the Lord is to come upon that servant when he is 
nQt looking for him. Thus, up to the very point of 
the coming here brought to view, some will be look-
ing for that event to a period much later than that 
of its actual occurrence, and so will be found unpre-
pared. And are we not even now near enough to 
the coming of Christ to look for this class to appear? 
So we think. Beware, then, of this delusion. Do 
not put off the coming of that day. Because the Lord 
has not come so soon as was expected-this, instead 
of lending us to feel that it is still farther away, 
sl1ould rather deepen in our minds the impression 
that the day must be now at hand. Paul says that 
it is now "high time to awake out of sleep; for now 
is our sai vation nearer than when we believed.'' 
The position for the church to occupy in this mo-
mentous hour is that set forth by the apostle in Heb. 
10: 35-39; namely, not to cnst away their confidence 
but to b.ave patience till the promise is received, 
The Third Invasion of Bohemia. 
AFTER th.e battle of Aussig, Sigismund wished 
to desist from any further efforts to bring the 
Bohemians into subjection by force of arms; 
but the Roman Pontiff did not feel like giving 
up the struggle, and this last tempest had 
scarcely subsided when a moro terrible one 
was seen rolling up against the _Hussites. 
The 
Pope laid another plan which he thought would 
be successful, and soliciting Henry Beaufort, 
Bishop of Winchestee, the son of the celebrated 
John of Gaunt, and brother of Henry IV., as a 
suitable person on whom to bestow a mark of 
special confidence, he first created him cardinal, 
and next made him bis legate a late1·e, and placed 
him at the head of the new Bohemian crusade, 
which be bad called into existence by a bull 
given at Rome, February 16, 1427. 
After making a general proclamation in En-
gland, and throughout Europe, the bishop ex-
pected to see thousands of warriors pressing 
forward to fight under his banner. But he 
was mortified to find that only a few English-
men were anxious to take part in an en tcrprise 
which, beyond all doubt was very holy; but 
which, with aR little doubt, would be very 
bloody. In Belgium he met with better success. 
The whole of this vast region from the Rhine 
to the Elbe. and from the shores of the Baltic 
to the summits of the Alps seemed to rise up at 
the voice of this new Peter. His army was com-
posed of shepherds of the mountains, and arti-
sans and traders of the towns, of the peas-
ants who tilled the fields, and the lords and 
princes who owned the land. It is estimated 
that the army consisted of at least one hundred 
and eighty thousand men, ninety thousand in-
fantry, and an equal number of cavalry. It 
was certainly much the largest army that bad 
ever gone forth againBt the heretics of Bohemia. 
It was supposed that this movement would awe 
the small Bohemian nation, and rouse the Bo-
hemian Catholics to oppose their Protestant 
countrymen, so that a victory over the latter 
would be easily achieved. But in this they 
were sadly mistaken. Instead of arousing the 
Catholic party, it stirred the patriotism of all 
ranks in that country from the magnates to the 
peasants, and many Roman Catholics, who until 
now had opposed the reform party, joined the 
standard of the great Procopius. 
At this time Procopius took an entirely new 
tack. 
He feared doubtless that the large num-
bers of his enemies might intimidate at least some 
who had recently joined the army and had not 
had an experience in their former victories. 
He formed his men in nearly a semi-circle, plac-
ing in front of them, as before, thousand::; ofwag-
ons chained together. As the enemy approached 
the army in the center of the sem i-circie began 
to retreat, and Procopius caused a report to 
be circulated that they bad trouble among 
themselves, and were retreating before the en-
emy. 
This continued until vast numbers of the 
German army were nearly surrounded by the 
Bohemians. They then saw that this was a 
stratagem, and beginning with the officers, the 
entire army :fled panic striuken from the field 
of battle. 
God put within them a spirit of fear, 
and they left tbeir wagons, their ammunition, 
and all they bad taken with them, and fled the 
country. 
Tho booty taken by the Bohemians 
was so immense that there was scarcely a per-
• 
son in all the conn try that did not receive some-
thing of what was left by their enemies. The 
legate found that if the doctrines of the HnRRites 
were false, their swords were sharp, and be 
bad no desire to meddle farther in their affairs. 
But the emperor, although be did not wish to 
cope with them on the battle field, was still n.ux-
ious to gain the Bohemian crown, and he re-
solved to sec what diplomacy could effect. 
S. N.H. 
Condition of Inclia. 
INDIA is intellectually the strongest .nation of 
Asia. It possesses an ancient' literature sur-
passing in variety and extent tbat ,possessed by 
any other nation before the adoption of print-
ing-a literature extending to between ton and 
eleven thousand works. 
In arcbitecLure it is 
one of the foremost nations of the world. Its 
highest castes are renowned for their keenness 
of intellect. Probably none to \Vhom Lhe En-
glish language is not tbe mother-tongue a(~q uire 
and use it so perfectly as educated Hindus. 
The dignity of their past history and their 
natural force make them a more conservative 
people thnn the Japanese, and these conserva-
tive qualities guarantee that their progress will 
have a solidity wbiub could not be found in a 
less conservative people. 
Yet their progress is 
swift as well as solid. 
India iR rapidly cutting 
loose from the old and taki ug long strides to-
ward someLhing new. 
The edueated classes 
are leaving the religion of their fathers~ and 
for want of snfficient and proper Christian in-
fluence are, alas! tending to accept the infidelity 
of the WeRtern world. 
The lower classes are 
beginning to .long for Jigb t and are open to 
Christian influences.-_1l,.fiss'ionary HeTald. 
Oclin, Illinois. 
WE came to this place July 20, pitched our 
tent and commenced meetings July 22. 
'l1be 
interest ha.s been good from the beginning. 
our tent bemg as full as it would hold a number 
of evenings. 
An opposition discourse was 
preached, which we reviewed before a large 
audience. 
This only served to increase the 
intereBt and to settle conviction more deeply 
upor~ those who bad been hearing us from night 
to mgbt. 
We presented the covenant yester-
day and twelve have subscTibed to keep all the 
commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. 
We start Lo-day to our workers' meeting at 
Clinton. 
\Vill return after our yearly meeting 
to finish up here and hope then to see others, 
who a.re deeply interested, take h._old of the 
truth. 
A. 0. TAIT. 
Odin, Ill., August 30. 
P. D. STARR. 
ELIJAH would be called a crank and John the 
Baptist a lunatic,. if they should appear now and 
denounce popular vices as they did in thiet· own 
times. it is so in eYery age. 
The true proobet 
is never a universal favoriLe, and the tempt~tion 
to fai tb lessnesB is, therefore: very great. 
And 
yet no worse woe can befall the human race 
than a false prophet. 
A sneaking pulpit is an 
offense in the sighL of God, and a curse to man-
kind.-
Western Christian Advocate. 
You might just as well take away the lumin-
ous ether from the atmosphere and call the. re-
siduum air, and expect to have its original life-
sustaining power, as really to remove the doctrine 
of Christ's divinity from theology without the 
actual and complete overthrow of Christianity 
itself as a consistent and energizing system.-
Chr·istian Evidences. 
HE that hath my commandments, and keep-
eth them, he it is that loveth me. 
John 14: 21. 
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SEPTEMBER 
] 6, 1886. 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
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T H E ·P A R A B L E S 0 F J E S U S. 
Lesson 1.-The Sower. 
(Sabbath, October 2.) 
1. WHEN did Jesus begin his public teach-
ing ?-Immediately .after his baptism (Acts 20: 
37, 38), 'vhich was when he was thirty years 
age. 
As this was the age at which the Jews 
entered public life, John the Baptist was un-
doubtedly thirty years of age when he began to 
baptize, in the fifteen·th year of Tiberius Cresar. 
'rhis was in A. D. 26, and Jesus, being six 
months younger than John, was therefore bap-
tized in A. D. 27. 
2. Relate the circumstances of his baptism. 
Matt. 3: 13-17. 
3. What experience next followed? 
Matt. 4. 
4. After choosing some of his disciples, where 
did Jesus go? 
5. What place wns the scene of h'is first mira-
cle? John 2 : 1-11. 
6. Where did Jesus then take up his abode? 
Verse 12. 
7. How long was it from the baptism of Jesus 
to the time when he gave his memorable ser-
mon on the mount ?-Probably two years. 
8. What notable miracles did he perform soon 
after giving this discourse 1 
.Matt. 8 : 5-13; 
Luke 7: 1-17. 
9. Where was Jesus when be spoke the para-
ble concerning the sower? 
Mark 4: 1; Matt. 
13: 1. 
. 
10. Under what circumstances was the para-
ble given? Matt. 13: 2; Luke 8: 4. 
11. 'To what extent did Jesus employ this 
method of instruction? Mark 4 : 2, 33, 34. 
12. In the parable of the sower, where is the 
seed represented as falling? 
Matt. 13 : 4, 5, 
7, 8. 
13. Under which of these cireumstances does 
the seed produce fruit? 
Verse 8. 
14. Which seed does not grow at all? Verse 4. 
15. Why does it not germinate? 
16. Which seed attains a rapid but unreliable 
growth? \Vby? 
Verse 5. 
17. Which seed attains growth but is unable 
to produce grain? Verse 7. 
18. What is the cause of this unfruitfL~lness? 
19. Describe the prodnctiveness of that which 
falls on good ground. 
Verse 8. 
20. vVhy were some not able to understand 
this parable? Verse_15. 
21. How does Jesus congratulate his disci-
ples? 
Verse 16. 
22. What does be say of the ndvantage they 
enjoy'? Verse 17. 
23. When the multitude bad retired, what 
favor did the disciples ask? Mark 4: 10; Luke 
8: 9. 
24. How did the Saviour show some surprise 
at this request? Mark 4: 13. 
25. What did be afterward say? Matt. 13: 18. 
26. In our Saviour's expbnation of the para-
ble, what is the seed said to represent? Luke 
8:11. 
27. Who are they that receive the seed by 
the wayside? Matt. 13 : 19. 
28. \Vbo are they that receive it in stony 
places? 
Verses 20, 21. 
29. Who are they that receive it among the 
thorns? 
Verse 22; Mark 4: 18, 19; Luke 8: 14. 
30. Describe the class that receive the seed 
into good ground. 
Matt. 13: 23; Imke 8: 15. 
31. What inference may we draw from the 
fact that the seed is sown in all places, even by 
the wayside? 
32. What, in every case, is the cause of un-
fruitfulness ? 
33. How may those find help who do nvt 
understand the word? 
J nmes 1 : 5. 
34. What encouragement ma:y those receive 
who find lt bard to endure trials? 
Jan1es 1: 2-
4; MaLt. 5:11, 12; Acts 5:40, 41; 1 Peter 4: 
13, 14; 1 : 3-9. 
35. vVhat iuRtrnction may help those who 
'are worldly mi nclcd? Prov. 23 : 4, 5; 1 Tim. 6: 
9, 10; 1 John 2: 15, 16; James 4:4. 
THE S~ED SowN EvERYWHERE.-Tbe seed is 
sown in all places, even by the wayside. From 
this we may infer that salvation is offured to 
all men, whatever may be their class or condi-
tion. 
CAUSE OF UNFRUITFULNESS.-The seed is all 
_good. In every instance it iR the pure word of 
God. 
The canso of unfruitfulness lies wholly in 
the way in which the. good seed is received, 
cherished, and obeyed . 
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THORNS SrRANG Ur.-At the time of sow-
ing, the thorns may be so snbdned as to give 
promise of success to the sower, but unless they 
arc rooted out, they will spring up and so 
choke the good seed that no fruit can come to 
1;erfection. 
SoME A HuNDRE.DFOLD, ETc.-From this ex-
pres:-;ion it would appear 
tb~tt there will be 
difi'eren t degrees of fruitf'ulness even on what 
may be termed good ground; for while in some 
i nsLances the seed brings forth a hundredfold, 
in others it yields but sixty or thirty. 
"THE SEED rs THE -WoRD OF GoD."-An entire 
lesson migb t be given with profit on this one 
statement, but we notice only a few points. It 
is well k110Wn, as stated in the parable, thnt 
seed must fall illto good ground, and must take 
root, in order that it may boar fruit. 
The 
ground must first be prepared, or else the seed 
wilt be like tbat sown by the wayside. 
To this 
import arc the words of Paul in 1 Cor. 2: 14: 
".But tl1e natural man roceivcth not the things 
of tl1e Spirit, of God; for they nre foolishness 
unLu him; ncilber can he know tbem: because 
they are spiritually dit;Cel'lled." 
Tbe Spirit of 
God rnusL prepare LLe ground .for the good 
seed: and for t!Jis Lo be done, the individual 
must be ·willing to receive the word. 
David 
prayed: "Incline my Lerrrt unto thy testimonies, 
and not to covetousness." Ps. 119 : 36. 
BuT even though the seed be sown on good 
gron11d, it must genni11aLe before it can bring 
forth J'ruit. 
Tile tendrils mnst work their way 
inLo the soil, so that they ean draw from it 
sLrengt.b nnd moi:-::Lure. 
ln harmony with this 
idea are the words of James: " Wherefore lay 
apart all filthiness ancl superfluity of naughti· 
ness, and receive with meekness the engrafted 
vvoi·d, which is able to save your souls." 
James 
1 : 21. It is not simply the 'vord that is able to 
save our souls, but the eng1·ajted word. 
All 
know bow grafti11g is performed: the branch 
is cleft, and the cion is placed within it, and 
bound in, so that it becomes a part of the 
bra11ch. 
Now when the word of God is fas-
tened in the heart, so that it becomes a part of 
the being, J:,hen it is able to save the sonl. 
Then 
a person's thoughts are God's Lhoughts, a!ld 
his ways are Gocl's ways. 
So David says, "Thy 
word have I hid in mine henrt, that 1 might 
not sin agai11st thee." Ps. 119: 11. 
THIS seed, the word of God, being grafted in 
the heart, w01·ks contrary to nature, in that it 
makes the ground in which it was sown become 
of tbe natu-re of the seed. 
Sec the illustration 
which Paul uses in Hom. 11: 17-24. 
The seed 
springing up in the hearL that bas been properly 
prepared to receive it: mak:es the individuu,l a 
new person, as is indicated in the preceding 
paragraph. 
To this end the apostle Peter 
says: "Seeing ye have purified your souls in 
obeying the truth through the Spirit unto uri-
feigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one 
another with a pure heart fervently; being bom 
again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorrupt-
ible, by the ·word of God, which liveth and 
nbideth forever." 1 Peter 1 : 22, 23. 
Our souls 
are purified, or sanctified, in obeying the truth; 
but this is done only "through tho Spirit." 
And thus, by means of this incorruptible seed, 
the •vord. of God, the man becomes a new man; 
no longer is be the natural man, a child of 
wrath, -but a partaker of the divine nature, a 
child of God. 
MoREOVER, although seed may be sown in 
good ground, and may have taken root, yet if 
it be plucked up before it matures fruit, all will 
have been in vain. 
So if we would be over-
comers at last, the good seed must remain fixed 
in our benrts. :::lays John: "I have written unto 
you, young men, because ye are strong, and the 
word of God abideth in you, and ye have over-
come the wicked one." 1 John 2: 14. The con-
dition of strength, and ofovercorning the wicked 
one, is that the word of God ab,ides in us. 
Com-
pare 'vitb this the words of Cb1·ist: "If ye 
abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye 
shall ask what ye wi1l, and it shall be done unto 
you." 
John 15 : 7. "lf any man be in Christ, 
he is a. new creature." 2 Cor. 5: 17. Now if be 
abides in Christ, and the incorruptible seed, the 
word of life, abides in him, be has the promise 
that v;rhatever he shalt ask shall be done for 
him. 
vVhat a boundless promise! And since 
sncb an one would be sure to ask for deliver-
ance from the wicked one, we readily see that 
he must necessarily overcome the world. 
Now note one more text: "Whosoever is 
born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed 
rcmaineth in. him; and be cannot sin, because 
he is born of God." 
1 John 3: 9. 
vVbat seed 
is it, which, remaining in the one wbo is born 
of God,· prevents him from sinning? vVhy, the 
seed by which be was born again, even "the 
word of God, which liveth and abidet.b fol'ever." 
Compare this with John 15:7, just quoted. 
'rhen read further: "We know that whr1soevct· 
is born o.f God sinnetb not; but he that is be-
gotten of God keepeth himself, and that, wicked 
one toucheth hirn not." 
1 John 5: 18. 
How is 
it that" that wicked one toucheth him not?" 
Because he abides" in CL rist," and the tern pta-
tion is resisted the same as though it were 
directed against Christ. 
IF we would know bov;r to keep ourselves, so 
that the wicked one cannot touch us, let us 
read the account of the temptation of Christ. 
He did not parley with the tempter, but to 
every temptation retumed the same answer: 
"It is written." 
rrhe word of God was within 
his heart, and therefore he bad an unf'ailing 
weapon of defense. Just as in anci1~n t times 
the warrior would catch the darts of the enemv 
upon hia brazen shield, so that tiley cuuld no't 
touch him, so the Christian, following the ex-
ample of Christ, and abiding in him, is to re-
ceive the assanlts of the enemy upon the shield 
of faith in the unfailing word of God, and thus 
they will not touch him. 
"Resist the devil, and 
he will flee from you/' says James; but he is to be 
resisted "steadfastintbefaith." 
1 Peter5 :8,9. 
FROM these texts we may learn the impor-
tance of having the word of God stored up in 
our hearts. "These words, which I command 
thee this day, shall be in thine heart." 
Dent. 
6 : 6. 
The "vord is the sword of the Spirit, and 
if the word abideR in our hearts, we may by it, 
through the Spirit, purify our souls. 
If we are 
well instmcted in the word, we have an armory 
from which to draw in time of temptation; the 
Spirit will bring the special truth to our remem-
brance, which is applicable to the case in hand; 
but let us not think that the Spirit can "bring to 
our remembrance" that which we never knew. 
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572 [l2] 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES.-
·voL. 12, No. 36. 
GATHER 'I'HE SUNLIGH'I'. 
OH, the sunbeam's magic power! 
It brightens all the earth, 
Fillin~ all hearts with gladness, 
Givmg all beauty birth. 
Yet the same bright beams are falling 
Through the void without our air, 
Their golden gleams diffusing 
No warmth or brightness there. 
And wherefore those outer regions 
So dreary ::-.nd dark alway? 
No power to stay the sunbeams 
On its shining path have they. 
Is it thus we are wrapped in shadow 
While the light of a Saviour's love 
Is falling freely, gladly, 
Our gloomy path above? 
In vain are the rays from Heaven, 
The message of holy cheer, 
If the soul stay not the sunbeams 
That would scatter its doubt and fear. 
The grasp of a living faith-
This must the promise claim, 
This gather the heavenly radiance 
In a risen Saviour's name. 
Away with the doubts we cherish! 
Will he not faithful prove 
Who hath sealed with his precious life-blood 
The message of his love? 
Who treasure the beams of blessing, 
Great shall be their reward,-
Life's desert wastes shall blossom, 
A garden of the Lord. 
Source of the Mississippi. 
M.D. 
_ MosT of our geographers and map-makel's 
now assert, and publish the fact to the world, 
that Lake Itasca is not the source of the Mis-
sissippi, and in proof of their belief have assigned 
that distinction to another smaller body of wa-
ter to the south of Itasca, and named Lake 
Glazier, in honor of Capt. Willard Glazier, the 
discoverer. 
This enterprising soldier and popu-
lar writer, in July, 1881, organized and led an 
expedition to the head-waters of the Missis-
sippi, traversing the rough and almost impassable 
country of the Chippewas to the west of Leech 
Luke, a wild seetion of Minnesota, whic.:h, it is 
believed, bad never before been trodden by tLe 
white man. 'rhe membvrs of the expedition 
were furr;ished with eanoes and commissariat 
at the expense of the leader, whose ultimate 
object was the de::;cent of the great river fi·om 
its source to the Gulf of Mexico. 
This feat was 
finally accomplished, but we have now to do only 
with the important discovery made by the in-
trepid voyagers after their arrival at Lake Itasca. 
'l'his lake, as is well known to every school-
boy, was discovered by Seboolcntft in 1832, 
and bas always been held to be the source of 
the Mississippi. But Captain Glazier, from mueh 
study of the matter, had an inkling that the 
source lay further to the south, and his In-
dian guide, Che-r1o-way-ge-sic, whose hunting-
ground is in the immediate vicinity, confirmed 
this conjecture by emphatically assuring him 
that another lake did exist to the south of Itasca, 
and was connected therewith by a respectable 
stream, which was, in fact, the infant Missis-
sippi falling into that lake. 
Hence it followed 
that Itasca could not be the source of the Mis-
sissippi. 
rrhis confirmation determined Glazier to ex-
tend his explorations. 
He ascended the stream, 
and, with the assistance of his guides, pushed 
his canoe through the reeds and rushes and 
other obstructions, into a beautiful and placid 
lake nestling among the umbrageous pines, and 
never, until now, known to exist. 
This lake be 
discovered to be the final fountain head of the 
Father of Waters, and the name of the dis-
coverer was at once fixed upon by uis compan-
ionl:l as its appropriate designation. 
Lake Glazier, now recognized as the true 
source of the Mississippi, is about two miles in 
diameter and nearly circular in shape. 
Hs 
soutbem shore is roeky aud the water as clear 
as ct·ystal. 
So lonely is the region around the 
lake that for fourteen d:Lys not even an Indian 
was seen, wi tb tho exception of the guides. The 
latitude of Lake Glazier was found to be 47° 13' 
25", and its height abo~o the Atlantic Ocean 
1,576 feet. 
The n~ason why the precise local-
ity of the fountain bead of the river has been 
sv long enveloped in obscurity, may be found 
in the fact that it is in a remote and unfre-
quented region of country, and entirely out of 
the usual route of the fur-traders. 
The party, on leaving the newly-discovered 
lake, descended Lhe river and finally, as before 
bin ted, after a voyage of 3,184-miles-the lotlg-
est canoe voyage on record-paddled out into 
the Gulf of Mexico, having occupied 138 days 
in the journey.-San Francisco B'ulletin. 
The Rnss:an Peasant. 
THE life of the Russian peasant is full of mis-
ery and wretebedness. 
'Jlh~ constant care an'd 
hard struggle for his daily existe11ce, the heavy 
taxes that be is burdened with and which he is 
hound to pay under any circumstances, all this 
is sufficient to deprive him of all the enterprise 
and ambition that are peculiar to the more civ-
ilized, and consequently more happy, nations. 
Total dnrkness and blind superstition are the 
main features of his character. The belief in 
the evil spirit as a mighty power, having a 
great deal to d9 with the fate of every individual, 
bas taken deep root in his mind, and no reason 
seems able to extricate it. 
Any tale of the su-
pernatural is taken as a matter of fact, and any 
matter of fact is looked upon rather skeptically. 
I can recall facts of shocking superstition 
that will, to a certain extent, illustrate the char-
acter of the peasant. 
On one dark, rainy au-
tumn night a poverty-stricken old man threw 
an infa11t into the river, or, as he said, handed 
it oYer to the devil in exchange for a purse of 
gold thn t. he-supposed was Liduen in a certain 
secluded place, and that could not be found un-
less some innocent human being be saCI·ificed! 
ln another villngo, a sick woman was choked 
to death by her kind neighbors in their desper-
ate efforts to squeeze the devil out of her throat! 
Furthermore, an old woman, a supposed witch, 
was beaten to death by the villagers for bring-
ing a pestilence upon the cattle through the a1d 
and influence of I be evil one! These are a few 
of the incidents that occur daily in the pensaut's 
life. 
'rhe American reader can hardly imagine 
anything more miserable, more wretched, than 
the little but in which a family, averaging six 
or seven ~embers, is often found living. Imag-
ine a little clark and gloomy eave, half of whieb 
is cut off by a large primitive stove, and that 
will be the "sweet home" of the Russian peas-
ant. 
Every inch of space is inhabited, so tbat, 
as a matter of course, the air is made poisonous 
and intole-rable, and this explains the frequent 
fatal diseases prevailing among the Russian 
peasantry. 
• 
'fhe daily habits and methods of life are of 
the simplest character. 
Five o'clock in the 
morning, in all seasons, is generally the hour at 
which a family rises. 
The woman immediately 
begins to prepare breakfast, which generally 
consists of a mixture of sour-krout, beets and 
potatoes, called "borshtch," and ·coarse rye 
bread. 
A large trunk, the only piece of furni-
ture to be seen in a neasant's but, which at the 
same time serves as~ a table, is spread with a 
coarse cover, and after saying prayer the head 
of the family, followed by the rest of the mem-
bers, occupieR his seat. After the" borsbtch" pot 
is emptied, every one goes out to b is work. If 
it is winter time, the men are engaged in feed-
ing the cattle, and the women in spinning their 
flax. 
Every one has his hands f~1ll. 
At 12 
o'clock attmer is announced-again ''borshtch," 
on the trunk table, fQilowed by a potful of boiled 
potatoes and plo11 ty of coarse rye bread. Sup-
per consists of the remnants of the dinner. 
On Sundays, however, or days of festival, an 
epicurean piece of snit pork or mutton and fresh 
rye bread-of wltich the peasant, and still 
more his better balf, is very fond-adorn the 
table. 
White bread is looked upon as a luxury 
beyond the reach of the peasantry. It is only 
on very rare occasions that such a luxury finds 
place in the peasant's home. 
After a day's work is over, the peasant goes 
out ior recreation . .__ The tavern,· which is tho 
only place of attraction for him, is generally 
crowded in the eveni11gs. 
The most burning 
topics of the day are discussed there. 
What 
strikes a stranger who is present at one of these 
meetings, is the absolute confusion which char-
acterizes its proceedings. 
All speak at once, no 
one listens, and tLe debates are scenes of wild 
di::;order. 
But there is no rule without an ex-
ception; an oratol' may sometimes command 
general atteution. In such cases utter silence 
prevails, and those who interrupt are ordered 
to "shut up." 
As a general thing, however, 
everybody is argning at the top of his voice, a 
wild uproar goes on, which oftentimes ends in 
a fight. 
Balloting is unknown in the Russian village 
assemblies. Every q nesi ion, of ·whatever char-
acter, must be settled unanimously. The settle-
ment of a question mostly depends on the pro-
pol:lal of tlte starosta (village o:ffi.cial), or any 
other important person of the village, whose 
influence conciliates all interests alld wins the 
suffrage of the entire community. 'l'o reach 
this consummn.tion, however, thorough debates 
and a good tbro_shing of the subject discu::;sed 
are indispensable. 
Every one must fi·eely ex-
press his opinion and shout out· at the top of 
his voice his arguments before any concessions 
are made.-Sel. 
Pyramid Lake. 
PYRAMID LAKE, Nevada, which has no outlet, 
is nearly forty miles long by from fifteen to 
twenty miles in width. It has an elevation of 
4,000 feet above the level of the sea, and is 
2,247 feet ]ower than Lake Tahoe, the principal 
source of its main feeder. 
Great Salt Lake, on 
the eastern side of the Great Basin, is the only 
larger lake on tbe whole plateau. 
1t is seventy 
miles long-by about thirty wiue. 
The elevation 
of the Great ~alt Lake is also abollt 200 feet 
greater, which shows, as do many other things, 
that the grand interior p1ateau has a slight in-
clination or dip to tho westward, and also to 
the southward toward the Colorado River. 
Lake Tahoe is smaller than Pvramid I.~ake. It 
is only thirty miles long by ·f.rom eight to fif-
teen miles in width. Pyramid Lake is larger 
than the Dead Sea, which, according to the sur-
veys of Lieutenant Lynch, is a trifle over forty 
miles long, with an average breadth of only 
eight or nine miles. It is much larger than the 
Sea of Galilee, which is only sixteen miles long 
and five or six miles wide.-Sel. 
FATE OF ~1.oNAROHs.-Of the 2,550 kings and 
emperors reported in history, 300 were over-
thrown, 64 forced to abdicate, 28 committed 
suieide, 23 became insane or imbecile, 100 were 
killed in battle, 123 were captured by the en-
emy, 25 were tnrtured to death, 151 were assas-
sinated, and 108 executed. 
HE who never changed any of his op1n1ons 
never corrected any ofbis mistakes; and he vvho 
was never wise enough to find out a.ny mistakes 
in bimRelf will not be charitable enough to ex-
cuse w:hat he reckons mir:;takes in others.-Sel. 
SEPTEMBER 16, 1886. 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMJ~S. 
[lS] 573 
The Seventeen-Year Locust. 
THE se~enteen-year locust, so-called, is not a 
locust at all, and belongs to an entirely differ-
ent family. 
Its proper name is the seventeen-
year cicada. 
The first part of the name is 
given them from the fact that they make their 
appearance in considerable numbers only once 
in Rev en teen years. 
The lifetime of the cicada is seventeen years, 
and all but a few·weeks of this is spent in the 
earth. Its life is thus deRcribed in St. Nicholas: 
''Just faney spending the best part of your 
life prowling about in the darkness under-
ground and then coming up into the Runlight 
with a gorgeous pair of wings, only to die in a 
short time! This is what the seventeen-year 
cicada does. In the first place, it is an egg 
which its mother deposits in a tiny bole in a 
twig. In a few \Veeks it makes its way out of 
the egg.and drops to the ground, into which it 
burrows, and in which it remains fo1· nearly 
seventeen years before it is prepared for life 
above gronnd. 
When, at last, it is ready for 
the bright sunlight, it may be one foot from the 
surface, or it may be ten feet deep in the 
gronnd. In either case it begins to dig upward 
until it finds its way out, when it e:lim bs up the 
nearest tree and fastens itself by its sharp 
claws to a leaf or twig. There it remains until 
its baek splits open, aud behold! it immediately 
crawls out of itt:lelf, so to speak. 
"The new insect is a soft, dull fellow at first, 
but be grows as if be had been storing up 
energy for seventeen years for just that one 
purpose. Within an honr two pairs of most 
beautiful wings have grown, and in a few hours 
more it becomes bard and active. 
The female 
cicadce are quiet enough, but the males are as 
noisy as so many little boys with new drums. 
Indeed, they do have drnms themselves. 
Just 
under their wings are drums made of shiny 
membrane, as beautiful as \u00b7vhite silk, and theRe 
are kept rattling almost all the time. 
One 
cicadn ean make noise enough; but imagine the 
din of millions of them all going at the same 
time. lt sounds as if all the frogs in the coun-
try bad come together to try to drown the 
noise of a saw-mill." 
The c·icadce are often very numerous. 
The 
writer has seen many thous:mds of them, and 
can readily credit another who says: "I have 
conn ted over a tbow"and cn.Nt-off ~bells on one 
small tree, and on one birch leaf I have seen 
twelve shells. 
And the eal'th in some places is 
like a sieve from the holes made by the cicuclce." 
But notwithstanding there are so many, in a 
few weeks from theit· first appearance they 
have all died, and no wonder; for so far as any 
one can see, the cicadce never eat ar1ything 
after they emerge from the ground. 
Some 
people think that they suck the juice from the 
leaves of trees and shrubs; but from careful 
personal obRervation, the writer is of the opin-
ion that such is not the case. 
The female cicada does, however, injure trees, 
especially young frnit trees, by stinging tbe 
twigs to make the "tiny" holes in which her 
eggs are deposited. 
The twigR thus injured 
soon die, and sometimes the whole tree dies. 
The female is armed with a very strong 
"sting," which is about half an inch in length, 
and has the appearance of blued ste~l; and it is 
with this that she does so mueh damage to trees. 
When these insects first make their appear-
ance they are plump and full, and when opened 
or crushed present much the same appearance 
as a grasshopper or a well-fed beetle; but while 
~ealth an.d 
Simply Appalling! 
THE following which we copy from the Oak-
land Daily Tr·ibune of August 26, is not only 
suggestive of the downward tendency of the 
age, but the figures given are Rimply appalling. 
.And while we help to sound the alarm, we be-
lieve that nothing but the coming of the day of 
the Lord will effectually stay the rapidly-rising 
tide of iniquity:-
" .EDITOR TRIBUNE: The Boston Advertiser is 
a coru;orvn.tivc Republican paper, and its author-
ity is unqnestionn.blo. Jf the following edito.rial, 
\u00b7vhich I fi'nd in a late number·, bad been m a 
temperance or prohibition paper, some would 
have regarded it as of doubtful accuracy. But 
in the Adve1·tiser it must command the credence 
of all. And when we consider the awful aggre-
gate of evils that constantly accompa~y or ~ro~ 
out of what tbnt papet· calls' our mmor v1ces, 
should we not give heed? 
. 
. 
. If we .l?ok 
at it as only a quoRtion of finance, or of poht1.cal 
economy, we must clearly see that as a nat1?n 
''ve are steadily and rapidly hunying on to ru.1~. 
To prevent it all, pn.triotic and benevolent Citi-
zens should combine their philanthropic efforts. 
But read the testimony of :the Adve?·tiser:-
"' rrho increase in the amount of whisky 
distilled and drunk during the year now ended, 
was 1,600,000 gallons over the amount for 1885, 
the total consumption of this liquor being 7,700-
000 !!allons. 
Estimating the population of the 
conn
y at 60,000,000, this gives a?ont ?ne 
o-allon and a pint for each one of us, wclud1ng 
~omen and children. 
"' Tbe consumption ofbeermounts up to some 
264,000.000 gallons, an inc-rease of more tl:an 
1,500,000 gallons from the preceding yea1·, wb1ch 
admits of an allowance of eleven gallons to eaeb 
inhabit.ant, or counting out the children and one 
ha.Jr the adult population as total abRtainers: tbe 
rest are to be credited with the imbibition of one-
half pint daily. 
. 
. . 
. 
"'The use of tobacco is also constantly mc1·eas-
ing, except in the form of snuff, t~1e falling .off 
in the consumption of that article reachmg 
nearly 20,000 pounds.. 
. 
. 
"'In the compnrat1vely novel practiCe of Cig-
arette-smoking, whieb has, in fact, come into 
vorrue within less than· fifteen years, there bas 
be~n an increaRe of 25 per cont., the total num-
ber burned being 1,310,000,000, or about 22 
apiece all around. 
. 
. 
"'Of manufactured tobaceo for smolnng and 
cbewin o-there '''ere 191,000,000 pounds used 
averao·i~ cr about 3t pounds each, and of cigars 
3 500 'ood:>ooo, an increase of 152,000,000-from 
l~st year,' or about 59 for every inhabitant. 
"'If, now, a calculation is made of what these 
large aggregates have cost tb.e consumers, sup-
po::;ing them to ba,~e made th~n· pur~hase~ at :e-
tail, we may r<.:lacb an approxnnate 1magmat10n 
of the tax which O\il.r minor vices lay upon the 
collective purse of the average man. Taking 
the lowest pr;ces as 4 cent.s for a cigar and 10 
cents for a gill of wb i:;ky, the total will be 
found to amount to more than $1,200,000,000-
not so very much less than our national debt-
or $20 each for all who Jive in our prosperous 
land.'" 
Inflammation in Eggs. 
they remain unchanged outv,rardly, before they 
THERE is a condition of the. egg, H~t.le known' 
die they are all dried up till they are little whieh considerably im~)airs 1.ts s~mtary value 
more than a mere shell. It is no doubt the ex-I as an article of food. 
Soon atter It became the 
haustion of the juices stored in his body that is· practice to transport eggH ~n large .qua~tities 
the immediate cause of the death of the cicada and to long distances by railway trams, It was 
who has escaped his natural enemies, birds and found on their arrival that adhesion had taken 
chickens, and who finally succumbs to what in place between the membranes of the yelk aud 
the higher orders of animal life is called old age. those of the she11, so that the yelk could not be 
. 
Q~ f: f3o~LMA~, 
~urppd p~t of the sh~ll'!lnbroken, On exam~n!+-
tion by experienced pat.holo~ists, ~his was found 
to be the result of true nrflamrnatwn; the ma.te-
rial of the adhe::;ion was found to be precisely 
the same as that of the plastic exudation in in-
flammation of the lungs or bowels. It will at 
first seem absurd to speak ofin:flam mation in such 
an unformed ma!'ls as an egg; but this arises 
from our forgetting that, structnreless and un-
organized as it scemR, the egg, even when !·resb-
laid is a livincr being, and capable of d1sease 
fro~ external c~uses. The cause of this inflam-
mation is undoubtedly the shaking and friction 
from the motion of the carf3, and it cannot but 
render the egg more or less unhealthy, as the 
products of inflammation can never be as salu-
tary in food as those of healthy growth.-Bulle-
t-in of the 1'ennessee B oa1·d of H eatth. 
Some Effects of Tobacco. 
Q.-How DOES tobn.cco injure dige::;tion? 
A.-The saliva which is needed to soften the 
food is either spit out or poisoned ""i th to-
bacco, and this weakens the action of the stom-
ach. 
Q.-Wbat other effect has tobacco upon the 
stomach? 
A.-lt relaxes the lining of the stomach and 
bowels, often causing hemorrhage and other 
stomach and bowel affections. 
Q.-Does tobacco poison the blood? 
A.-Yes; and every other portion of the sys-
tem. 
Q.-How do we know it poisons t.be blood? 
A.-Because when leec·bes are nsed to suck 
out an inveteeate smoker's 9lood, tltey are m-
stantly killed by it. 
Q.-
What part of the body does tobacco ef-
fect the most? 
A.-Tbe heart. It weakens. its action and 
makes it irregular, so that it does not send a full 
supply of blood throngb the body, and the 
muscles become weak and :flabby. 
. 
Q.-Does tobn.cco cause heart disease? 
A.-.Medical stati::>tics show that abont one 
out of every four tobacco users has palpitation 
or some trouble of the heart. 
Q.-
Wbat effect doeR it, have on the nerves? 
A.-Those who use tobaceo are more or less 
afflicted with Aleeplessness, irritability of tem-
per, and trembling of bands. 
Q.-What effect does tobac.co have on the 
mind? 
A.-It enfeebles the memory, parn.lyzes the 
will, diseases the imagination, and deadens the 
moral sensibilities. 
Q.-Does tobn.cco bring on paralysis? 
A.-'rbe 1:>urgeon of St. Thomas's Hospital 
sn.ys, "Smoking is one of the chief causes of 
pamly:-;is." 
This fact is vouehed for by other 
noted pbysicians.-Silver Star Catechism. 
DuRING the first :flush after drinking wine a 
sense of warmth is fel-t, but this is due to the 
tides of warm blood that are being sent to the 
surface of the body. There is, however, no 
fresh beat developed. 
On the contrary the 
forcing of the blood to the surface causes it to 
coo] more rapidly ar~d a cbillines::; is afterwards 
experienced. 
In extremely cold climates the 
inhabitants are enabled to live comfortably by 
consuming vast quantities of animal food alone. 
Will alcobol act in a similar way to assist in 
maintaining beat? Observation and experience 
say, No.-Sel. ----------------
SCIENCE bas proved that alcohol is not a food 
and cannot be converted into blood. It never 
added anything to the permanent forces of life 
and never can. It could never have beeu in-
tended by nature as the food of man. It is 
never produced spontaneously in nature. The 
vegeta!lle world yields in abt.mdance the prin-
ciples that form the flesh and keep up the beat 
of the body, bllt the healthy plant never pro-
qllc~s ~loplH?l~~St:t. 
57 4 [l4] 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
VoL. 12, No. 36. 
RELIGIOUS. 
-Mrs. Goodell, widow of the late Dr. C. L. Good-
ell, of St. Louis, has been engaged as an assistant in 
the work of the parish, at a salary of $1,200 per year. 
-Some two years ago the temperance people of 
Russia petitioned the emperor for permission to hold 
meetings and have only recently received his permit. 
-The trial of Professor Woodrow before the Pres-
bytery of Augusta, Ga., for teaching heretical doc-
trine in connection with the theory of evolution in 
the creation of man, has been concluded. On the fi-
nal vote thirteen members voted "not gnilty," and 
nine voted" guilty," on the first count of the indict-
ment. This may doubtless be accepted as the stand-
ing of the Augusta Presbytery on the subject of ev-
olution. 
-The Christian at Work says: "If all mission-
aries were terribly in earnest over the salvation of 
souls, there would be very little time for speculation, 
and less for discoursing over a possible Ralvation in 
another world. And with this condition of affairs 
prevailing, one cause of useless disturbance would 
be removed from mission work. Strange that mis-
sionaries should put obstacles in their own paths. 
Some do, though." 
-A correspondent of the Advance says: "The old-
fashioned Methodist camp-meeting has blossomed out 
into the seaside summer resort; a big hotel, a lot of 
cottages, a few tents, and a combination of religious 
services and out-door sports, make a rare opportunity 
for both pleasnre and profit. Some spiritual good is 
undoubtedly derived, but to most who attend it seems 
to be a sort of picnic." We are glad to know that 
there are camp-mee.tings that do not follow this 
pattern. 
-The New York Independent says: "We know 
of a prominent trustee in oue of the largest churches 
in New England, who opposed an invitation to an 
evangelist, and prevented the occupancy of their 
large church building on the ground that a meeting 
'for everybody and in all weathers,' would destroy 
their new carpets; and besides, '·what do we want 
with a revival? We are out of debt; our pews are 
all rented; our house is full, and a revival would 
only disturb the quiet and orderly development of 
the church.'" Comment is unnecessary. 
-The President of the \V"esleyan Conference of 
England recently gave the following good advice to 
his brethren in the ministry: "Do not waste your 
time or degrade your office by attempts to link the 
pastimes of the world to your religion and church. 
'Music, mirth and mimicry' is the programme which 
the world ofLen flaunts on blazing placards to allure 
the youth of our age into doubtful and corrupting 
pleasures. You must not expect to allure them from 
sin and hell into holiness and Heaven by a similar 
programme. Let your I ure be the music of the Sav-
iour's name and of his saving gospel." 
SECULAR. 
-Cholera is raging throughout Corea. 
At Seoul 
the deaths average over one hundred per day. 
-The feeling of hostility toward France is in-
creasing in Germany, and both nations seem to be 
preparing for war. 
-The total number of paupers in London relieved 
during the first week of August was 86,549, of whom 
51,768 were indoor and 34,781 outdoor paupers. 
-Excepting Harvard, \V"illiam and Mary, ii:t Vir-
ginia, founded in 1693, is the oldest college in Amer-
ica. It can boast of not a siJJgle student, and the 
last dollar of its endowment will soon have been spent. 
-September 10, the Universe (Paris) publishes a 
telegram from the Bishop of Tonquin saying that 
700 Christians have been maf'tsacrecl, and forty vil-
lages burned in the province of Manhoa, and that 
9,000 Christians are perishing of hunger. 
-It is said that the State of New York has ac-
quired title to 800,000 acres of land in the Adiron-
dack region and 50,000 acres in the Catskill region, 
to be kept forever in fort::sts. The object is to prevent 
the further diminution of important streams. 
-It is stated that notwithstanding the release of 
Cutting, Secretary Bayard will insist upon the abro-
gation of the article of the Mexican Penal Code 
'"hich confers upon Mexican courts jurisdiction 
over foreigners for certain offenses committed out-
side of Mexican terri tory. 
-Nine hundred persons died of small-pox in San-
tiago, Chili, in July. 
-Germany has abandoned her rig-ht to establish 
a naval station at the Caroline I::;lancb. 
-Ve:mvius is again in a stnte of' eruption and 
people are fleeing from Naples and Bari. 
'-It is said that the late forest fires i 11 ·wisconsin 
destroyed $200,000 worth of cranberry mar::;ltes. 
-A death from yellow fever haf:. occurred in Ne\' 
York. The disease was probably cott tr<~cted in a 
West Indian port. 
The Unitec1 States is said to consume one-fourth 
of all the pig-iron aud one-third of all the steel that 
the w~rld produces. 
-Mexican bandits, or as these are sometimes 
called, revolutionist.", are still making considerable 
trouble in Northern Mexico. 
-At Port Costa, Cal., September 7, an engine and 
one car ran off the ferry-boat, Solano, and plunged 
into Carquinez Strait. One life was lost. 
-The collapse of an old building that was being 
razed at Indianapolis, Ind., a few days si nee, se-
riously, if not fatally, injured several of the work-
men. 
-Snake bites caused the death of 103,000 persons 
in India between 1875 and 1880. 
During the same 
period 1,073,546 poisonous reptiles were killed for 
the Government reward. 
-The officers at. West Point Millitary Academy 
are trying to break up the barbarous practice of 
hazing, and a few days since thirty-four settior cadets 
were placed under arrest for violation of the order. 
-It is said that the present condition of tlte ship-
ping trade at Glasgow is the worst on record. Tltirty-
f'our steamers and twenty-three sailing vessels are 
rotLing at their docks, having been idte some two 
years. 
-A late report from Northeastern India says that 
a number of Indian princes are exhorting the people 
to throw off the "hated English yoke." 
The Jour-
nal des Debats says that great events are imminent 
in Central Asia. 
-Five outoffiftv Mormons who were detained at 
Castle Gardeu, Ne;v York, are to be returned to the 
place whence they came. The others were released 
on the 6th inst. and permitted to resume their jour-
ney to Salt Lake. 
-Notwithstanding 
the announcement by the 
Oh?·istian Statesman some week::; si nee, thn t the 
great Pennsylvania Company would henceforth ruu 
no more trains on Sunday, except stock tr·aius, traffic 
is carried on as u::;ual upon that clay. 
-A boy of fifteen was arrested a few days si nee 
at St. Louis for setting fire to a brge pork-packing 
establishment. Alter his arrest he confe.:;sed that 
himself and two companions had set some half dozen 
mysterious fires in the past _few months. They did 
it "just for fun." 
-The September Century argues editorially in 
favor of securing an amendment to the ConstiluLion, 
giving to Congress the power to regulate marriage 
and divorce by general laws throughout the Ut1ion, 
and to the federal courts the power to punish for 
violation of such laws. 
-An Eastern paper states that the object glass of 
the Lick Telescope is now substantially finished, a:1d 
the few astronomers who as yet have had the privi-
lege of looking through it speak of it in the highest 
terms. Its defining power is such that it most easily 
splits the most difficult double stars. 
; 
-An eight-page paper has been started in Atlanta, 
Ga., the sole mi::;sion of which is to show that prohi-
bition is destroying the business of the city. It has 
alwn ys been claimed by everybody except liquor 
men that prohibition has a very depressing effect 
upon;some kinds of business; i. e., the business of 
making drunkards and prostitutes. 
-Several slight shocks of earthquake have been 
felt at Charleston and vicinity within the pnst 
week, but no additional damage has been dolle. 
There have been, however, heavy rains, owing to 
which some shattered walls have fallen, at1d of 
course considerable suff'eri ng has been caused to 
those who were not provided with adequate she1 ter. 
-Sunday, September 5, John G. Cannon, son of 
George Q., was cut off from the Mormon Church on 
his self-confessed guilt of adultery!! It is tltought 
that this is not the real reason. 
Very likely not. 
And now we would like to have some one tell us 
what constitutes adultery in Mormondom. 
How 
polygamists can condemn one of their members for 
adultery, and not condemn the whole lot, is more 
than we can understand. 
-An attempt was made at Chicago, September 10, 
to blow up the signal tower of the Lake Shore Rail-
road Company. The plan of the perpetrators evi-
dently was to wreck a passenger train which was 
due Ehortly after the explosion took place. Another 
and mure successful attempt at train wrecking was 
made the same night, and fifteen cars were derailed. 
-The drought stricken district in Texas comprises 
about 600 square miles and includes thirty-five 
couu ties. This region has some of the richest farm-
ing land in the State and until the present dry 
season never lacked sufficient rain. Copious rains 
have at last fallen but it will be months before crops 
can be raised and many of the farmers are without 
seed. 
-Dr. T. McLagan, physician to Prin.ce Christian, 
and in ordinary to the royal family of England, now 
in San Francisco, was one of the physicians selected 
by the English Government to report upon Pasteur's 
method for the prevention of hydrophobia. 
He 
says: "In Europe, we all believe that Pasteur has 
solved the problem of the prevention of rabies, and 
that in a few years the disease will be extinct, not 
only in man, but in the dog." 
~p p ninfnt~ntz. 
0AKLAND.-House of worship, northeast corner of 
Clay a11d Thirteenth Streets. 8abbath-school every Sab-
bath at 9: 30 A. M. 
Preachillg at 11. 
Prayer and 
missionary meeting every Tuesday evening at 7 : 30. 
Seats free. 
SAN FRANCISCo.-House of worship, 914 Laguna Street, 
between McAllister and Tyler. 
Sauuath-:,;chool every 
Sabbath at 9 : 45, and preaching at 11 A. llf.; also preach-
ing every Sunday evening at 7 : ~10. Classes in the En-
glish, German, and Scandinavian languages. 
Prayer and 
missionary meeting every 'vVecL .. esday evening at 7 : 45. 
Mission Reading-rooms at the church. 
EAS'l' PORTLAND (Or. )-House of worship on G Street, 
between Tenth and Eleventh. Sabbath-school every i:)ab-
bath (Saturday), followed by services. !'reaching or Hi-
ble-teading Sundax evening. Prayer-meeting W ednesclay 
evening. The puBlic is cordially invited. 
Free public 
reading-room, corner of Land Fifth Streets. 
California Conference. 
THE fifteenth annual session of the California. 
Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held 
in connection with tl1e ~tate camp-meeting, to be 
held in Woodland, Oc~oher 6-19, 1886. 
Delegates should be elected in good season, accord-
ing to tl1e fo1Iowing ratio: Every church is en ti tied 
to one delegate without regard to the number of 
members, and oi1e additional delegate for every ten 
members. Ministers holding credentials are dele-
gates at large without tdection, and are the proper r<.>p-
resentatives of unorganized companies. 
CiJurcltes 
::;hould elect as delegates good, reliable persons, and, 
as far as possible, those who will be present during 
the entire meeting. All delegates will please report 
to the secretary, E. A. Cl1apman, immediately after 
their arrival upon the camp-ground. 
Church clerks are requested to bring their church 
books with them to the meeting. 
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE. 
California State Sabbath-School 
Association. 
THE ninth annual session of the California State 
Sabbath-school Association, for the election of officers 
and the transaction of other business, will he held 
in connection with the camp-meeting, at Woodland, 
October 6-19, 1886. 
Aside from the regular rou-
.tine business, special instruction will be g;iven in the 
different branches of S. S. work, and we hope that 
e\u00b7ery school in the Conference will be represented. 
Come prepared to take an active part, a1'ld not only 
to get good but to do good. Advanee steps ought to 
be taken and we trust that at this meeting plans 
may be devised which will make this branch of the 
work much more efficient and profitable. 
If you are in doubt or perplexity in regard to any 
point in the lessous or iu the management of your 
sclJool, bring your questions and help will be given. 
Specialles,;ons have been prepared for those study-
ing books Nos. 1 to 7, and they will be giYen out 
Ott the camp-ground. Those studying the lesc;;ons 
fonnd in the Instructor will recite the regular les-
son for October 9 and 16. 
Copies can be obtained 
on the ground. 
The 8tate Secretary will be present from tbe be-
giuning to the close of the meeting, and will be 
SEPTEMBER 16, 1886. 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
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RECEIVED ON AccoUNT.-New York T & M Society 
$150. 
AUSTRALIAN ~ISSION.-S A Martin $13.50. 
CAJ.IFORNrA 1' AND M SocrETY.-Mrs R E Sheckler $5, 
G P S:mford $10. 
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THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
-VoL. 12, No. 36. 
(;11 r 
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t/ii' + 
modern "science," falsely so-called, is little else but 
\!lJJl'£ ~trrns Dt 
£ ~tnt.eS. imagination, and this is virtually admitted by even 
0 
2) 
the" scientists" themselves. A few facts are woven 
OAKLAND, CAL., FIFTH-DAY, SEPTEM:BF:R 16, 1886. into the fabric in order to catch minds that are not 
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Camp-Meeting·s for 1886. 
KANSAS, Chanute .................... Sept. 16-26 
MICHIGAN, Grand Rapids, ........... _. 
" 20-28 
MINNESOTA, Sauk Center, ........ Sept. 29 to Oct. 4 
MISSOURI, Harrisonville, Cass Co.,. 
" 
" 
5 
INDIANA, Wabash................ 
5 
KANSAS, Wichita, ...................... Oct. 7-17 
KENTUCKY, Bowling Green, ...... _...... 
" 6-12 
CALIFORNIA, Woodland, State meeting,... 
" 6-19 
TENNESSEE, Paris, Henry Co., ... _____ ._. 
"13-19 
CALIFORNIA, Santa Ana, .......... Oct. 28 to Nov. 8 
Wn,L each church, as soon as it has elected its 
delegates to the Conference, please send a list of 
them to this office·~ 
THOSE who wish tents for the Woodland camp-
meeting ·will please send their orders at once to 
Elder J. N. Loughborough, Pacific Press, Oakland, 
Cal. Those also who have tents of their own which 
they design to bring will please notify Elder Lough-
borough of the fact. 
ELDER McCLURE, who remained in Humboldt 
County for two weeks after the camp-meeting, in-
forms us that he baptized eleven persons at Eureka• 
the Sabbath following the meeting. He organized 
a church of twenty-four members at Eureka, and 
one of thirteen members at Dow's Prairie. 
IN compliance with the request of the brethren in 
the southern part of the State, the time of the Santa 
Ana camp-meeting is lengthened, so that the meet-
ing will continue over two Sabbaths. The date of 
the meeting as changed is October 28 to November 
8. Let all come prepared to remain through the 
ei1tire meeting. 
SEVERAL queries have been sent in concerning 
the first question of the Sabbath-school lesson for 
August 28, printed in the SIGNS of August 12, page 
491. We can answer all these queries simply by 
stating that the question as printed is a mistake. 
Instead of forty-five, read thirty. The children of 
Israel left Egypt on the fifteenth day of the first 
month; just two months later they reached the 
wilderness of Sinai (Ex. 19: 1), three days before 
the giving of the law; and thirty-three days before 
the giving of the law, thirty days after they left 
Egypt, they came to the wilderness of Sin. Al-
though the question is incorrectly worded, that did 
not destroy its object, which was to f?how that we 
have a record of Sabbath observance before the 
giving of the law from Sinai. 
FROM: what it indorses as" an excellent statement 
of doctrine by A. P. Foster," a Disciple, the Chris-
tian Standw·d (Disciple) of June 26, quotes the fol-
lowing:-
" The Christian is under law just as much as the' 
unconverted. The great principles of the moral law 
as codified in the Ten Commandments are univer-
sa11y and forever obligatory." 
This, among other extracts, the Standard Rays 
"may prove interesting." Coming from the source 
that it does, an receiving the indorsement that it 
has, we can only say that it is indeed interesting. 
We are happy to see in the leading expositor of the 
Disciple faith such splendid tokens of approach to 
sound doctrine. That the Standard's indorsement 
may be indorsed by the whole denomination which 
it represents is a consummation devoutly to be 
wished. 
Not Well Informed. 
WHEN the subject of education was before the 
M. E. Conference at its recent session, Mr. LaRher, 
of Napa College, spoke as follows concerning that 
institution: "The trustees at their last annual meet-
ing voted not to permit any one to enter as a student 
who will not pledge himself not to use liquor or to-
bacco duriug the course." After stating that this 
provision is effective, he continued: "We believe 
that we are the first institution on the Coast to take 
this course." 
If the speaker had been thoroughly posteu in 
educational matters, he could not have made his 
last statement. 
Healdsburg Colle~e has been in op-
eration four years, and in that time no liquor or to-
bacco-user has had anything whatever to do with the 
insti tntion; from the first, the use of these has been 
strictly prohibited. 
We are glad that Napa College 
is following this example. 
Preparing War. 
IT would seem as though modern invention could 
not go much farther in the production of weapons 
of destruction. A young French naval officer has 
made experiments which. show that in warfare 
forts and vessels may be blown up by means of 
torpedoes dropped from balloons. 
Against weapons 
from such a source no walls-nor armor cau guard. 
A torpedo falling on the deck of the strongest iron-
clad would blow it to pieces as quickly as one ex-
ploded under her keel; and a few of them dropped 
within a fort would annillilate it. On this subject 
the S. F. Chronicle says:-
" These discoveries are useful. The more dead] y 
war is made, the less likely it is to occur. If every 
army that went into battle ran a risk of total anni-
hilation, nobody would go to battle. And if every 
fort and every ship of war was reasonably certain 
of total destru.ction with all its contents, whenever 
it was attackeJ, there would be no more forts and 
no more ships of war." 
THE Ch1·istian at Wo1·k indignantly denies the 
But that is a mistake. So long as the war spirit 
statement of the London Lancet to the effect that exists, .so long will there be war, and these death-
Dr. Holmes is almost a solitary example of a scien-dealing inventions show an increase in the war 
tist who possesses the imagination of the poet and spirit. A nation will refuse to fight only when it 
the novelist. It says: "Unquestionably, weakness knows that its armament is inferior to that of its 
comes from too gn~at versatility; but science and the enemy; but all nations have an equal chance to 
imagination go hand in hand, instead of being secuFe the latest improved artillery, and, standing 
sworn enemies, as is often asserted." We side with on an equal footing, they would be relatively in the 
the Christian at Wm·k. 
Some of the greatest of same position as they are n0w. Instead of there 
modern "scientists" have been men of unbounded being no more forts and no more ships of war, as the 
imagination, and, we might add, of credulity, too. Chronicle imagines, all the difference would be that 
The evolutionists, Dar·.vin, Huxley, and Tyndall each army would try to bring its weapons to bear 
could never have fabricated their airy structures on its adversaries' forts and ships before its own 
without the aid of a vivid ima~in~tiqrh Jnqeed, . w~re ~Hacked, 
Excursion Cars to the Woodland 
Camp-Meeting. 
WE have made arrangements with the C.P.R. R. 
whereby special excursion cars will be run from San 
Francisco and Oakland to Woodland on Tuesday, 
October 5. 
These cars will be attached to the regu-
lar trains which leave San Francisco at 7:30 o'clock, 
A.M. and 4 P. M:., and wi11 run through to Woodland 
without change. Fare for the 1·ound trip from San 
Francisco and Oakland, $3.45; children half price. 
These tickets will be good to return at any t'ime up 
to October 22. Call for excursion tickets to the Sev-
enth-day Adventist camp-meeting at '.Yoodland. 
These tickets will be on sale at the office of the 
Pacific Press, Cor. 12th and Castro Sts., Oakland, 
any time after October 1, and we request all who 
can to procure their tickets at tl1is place. They 
will also be on sale at the ticket office, foot of 
Market St., San Francisco, on the day the trains 
leave-Tuesday, October 5. Only cars containing 
fifty or more persons holding tbese tickets will be 
run through without change, so it will be necessary 
for our brethren and sisters to keep together as Jnt:ch 
as possible. 'l'he tickets, however, are good in any 
of the cars on the train. 
All who can not go on these excnndon cars on the 
5th will pay >the regular fare to Woodland, taking a 
rece'ipt for the same from the ticket agent. These 
receipts, after being signed by the secretary of the 
Conference, will en title the holder to a retw·n 
ticket at one-third the regular fare. 
This will 
apply to those coming from any point on the line of 
the Central or Southern Pacific Railroad. These 
tickets will be good to return at any time up to Oc-
tober 22. 
C. H. JONES. 
"HoWBEIT when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, 
he will guide you into all truth." John 16:13. 
We have known people grievously to misapply this 
text; aud use it as an exeuse for not doing known 
duty. Acknowledging that all the commandments 
of God are still binding on mankind, they will say, 
"If it were my duty to keep the Sabbath, the pirit 
would reveal it to me, for the Spirit is to leaJ us 
into all truth." But how does the Spirit lead us 
into truth? In this way: "He shall teach you all 
things, and bring all things to your remembrance, 
whatsoever I have said unto you." 
John 14:26. 
The Spirit brings truth to our knowledge, but its 
office is not to push us into it. When truth is 
brought to our knowledge, the Spirit can do no more 
unless we are willing to receive it. 
Now those who 
say, "I will keep· the Sabbath when I am led into 
it," really mean that they will keep. the Sabbath if 
the Lord forces them in to it. And this posi tiou, freely 
rendered, means, "I will not keep the Sabbath if I 
can keep from doing so." The sad fact is, that the 
Spirit, instead of leading, or pushing such people 
into the truth, leaves them alone. 
· 
"BY this we know that we love the children of 
God, when we love God and keep his command-
ments. For this is the love of God, tl1at we keep 
his eornmandments; and his commandments are not 
grievous." 
1 John 5:2, 3. 
Reader, do you love 
God r If you are in doubt, test yourself by the 
apostle's inspired rule. 
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