/ / American Antiqu,'tdnn Soc· ' .·l'l;j~ 86· "Behold I come quickly, and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be." Rev. 22:12. VOLUME 11. OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, FIFTH-DAY, JUNE 11, 1885. NUMBER 23. PUBLISHED WEEKLY, FOR THE International Tract and Missionary Society. (For terms, etc., see last page.) Entered at the Post-Office in Oakland. 'W'HAT SHALL I ASK? "Ask, and ye shall receive." SHALL I ask health, with pulses mu!lical, Keeping glad time and tune the whole year round? Shall troops of friends, responsive to my call, · With welcome footsteps make it holy ground? Shall wealth and fame with choicest gifts draw near, And pleasure yield her sparkling joys for me, All wreathed in smiles, forgetful that a tear In such a worlu as this might ever be? 'What shall I ask? What is that gift supreme That lifts the soul on wings of joy and peace, More th .. n the worldling's joys that come to him In the glad time when corn and wine increase? What shall I ask? 'Tis for thy grace, my God; For daily grace as well as daily bread. Feed me, 0 Christ, according to thy word, Till this soul-hunger is forever fled ! And still, dear grace of God, abide with me, And lead me safely, kindly, all the way, That when life's day beam sinks beneath the sea. The hill-tops gleam with glory's morning ray. -Mrs. M.A. W. Cooke. ~tntral $rticltz. The Church at Ephesus. BY l\IRS. E. G. WHITE. (Concluded.) AT length Paul decided to leave Ephesus, and again visit the churches in Macedonia and Achaia. After spending some time at Corinth, and visiting Jerusalem, he hoped to preach the gospel at Rome. An event occurred about this time which hastened his departure. The month . of May was specially devoted to the worship of the goddess of Ephesus. 'fhe universal honor in whieh this deity was held, the magnificence of her temple and her worship, attracted an immense concourse of people from all parts of the province of Asia. Throughout the entire month the festivities were conducted with the utmost pomp and splendor. The gods were represented by persons chosen for the purpose, who were regarded as objects of worship, and were honored by processions, sacrifices, and li- bations. Musical contests, the feats of athletes, and the fierce combats of men and beasts, drew admiring crowds to the vast theaters. 'l'he of- ficers chosen to oonduct this grand celebration were the men of highest distinction in the chief cities of Asia. They were also persons of vast wealth, for in return for the honor of their posi- tion, they were expected to defray the entire expense of the occasion. The whole city was a scene of brilliant display and wild revelry. Im- posing processions swept to the grand temple. The air rung with sounds of joy. The people gave themselves up to feasting, drunkenness, and the vilest debauchery. By the labors of Paul at Ephesus, the heathen worship had received a telling blow. There the leading men of Asia was no mean tribute to was a perceptible falling-off in attendance at the sterling integrity of his character. the national festival, and in the enthusiasm of Gaius and Aristarchus were not the prey the worshipers. The influence of his teachings that the people sought; no serious harm to extended far beyond the actual converts to the them was apprehended. But should the apos- faith. Many who had not openly accepted the tle's pale, care-worn face be seen, it would arouse ~ew doctrines, became so far enlightened as to at once the worst passions of the mob, and there lose all confidence in heathen gods. 'l'he pres-would not be the least human possibility ofsav- ence of Paul in the city called special attention ing his life. to this fact, and curses loud and deep were ut- The tumult at the theater was continually tered against him. . increasing. "Some cried one thing, and some. Another cause of dissatisfaction existed. It another; and the more part knew not wherefore bad long been customary among heathen na-they bad come together." From the fact that tions to make use of small images or shrines to Paul and some of his companions were of Hebrew represent their favorite objects of worship. extraction, the Jews felt that odium was cast Portable statues were modeled after the great upon them, and that their own safety might be image of Diana, and were widely circulated in endangered. Wishing it to be understood that the countries along the shores of the M editer-they had no sympathy with the Christians, they ranean. Models of the temple which enshrined thrust forvvard one of their own number to set the idol were also eagerly sought. Both were the matter before the people. But the crowd regarded as objects of worship, and were car-were in no mood to make nice distinctions. ried at the head of processions, and on journeys Seeing that Alexander was a Jew, they thrust and military expeditions. An extensive and him aside, the uproar continually increasing as profitable business had grown up at Ephesns all with one voice cried out, "Great is Diana of from the manufa<..:ture and sale of these shrines the Ephesians I" This cry continued for two and images. hours. Those who were interested in this branch of I At last there came a momentary silence, from industry found their gains diminishing. All sheer exhau:;tion. Then the recorder of the united in attributing the unwelcome change to .city arrested the attention of the crowd, and by Paul's labors. Demetrius, a manufacturer of virtue of his office obtained a hearing. By his silver shrines: called together the workmen of prudence and good judgment he soon succeeded his craft, and by a violent appeal endeavored to in quieting the excitement. stir up their indignation against Paul. He rep- He met the people on their ow~ ground, and resented that their traffic was endangered, and showed that there was no cause for the present pointed ouL the great loss which they would tumult. H.e appealed to their reason to decide sustain if the apostle were allowed to turn the whether the stra.nger8 who had come among people away from their ancient worship. He them could change the opinions of the whole then appealed to the ruling superstition, saying: world regardiug their ruling goddess. He bade "Moreover ye see and bear, that not alone at them cousider that Paul aud his companions Ephesus, but almost thro'l.lgbout all Asia, this had not profaned the temple of Di~tna, nor out- Paul bath persuaded and turned away much raged the feelings of any by reviling the god- people, saying that they be no gods which are dess. He then skillfully tnmed the subject, and made with hands; so that not only this our craft reproved the course of Demett·ius. is in danger to be set at naught, but also that the He closed by warning them that such an up- temple of the great goddess Diana should be roar, raised without apparent cause, might sub- despised, and her magnificence should be de-ject the city of EpheRus to the censure of the stroyed, whom all Asia and the world worRhip-Romans, thus causing a restriction of her pres- eth." This speech acted as fire to the stubble. ent liberty, and intimating that there must not The excited passions of the people were roused, be a repetition of the seen e. Having by this and burst forth in the cry, "Great is Diana of speech completely tra.nqnili:r.ecl the disturbed the Ephesians!" elements, the recorder dismissed the assembly. A report of the speech of Demetrius was The deuision of the reeorder and of others hold- rapidly circulated. The uproar was terrific. ing honorable offiues in the city, had set Paul The whole city seemed in commotion. An im-before the people as one innocent of any mdaw- mense crowd soon collected, and a rush was ful act. This was another triumph of Chris- made to tbe workshop of Aquila, in the Jewish tianity over error and ~upcr~tition. quarters, with the object of securing Paul. In The words of Demetrius reveal the real cause their insane rage they were ready to tear him of the tumnlt at .Epbosus, and also the cause of in pieces. But the apostle was not to be found. much of the persecution which followed the His brethren, receiving an intimation of the apostles in their work of promulgating the danger, had hurried him from the place. Angels truth. "'l'bis, our craft, is in danger." With of God were sent to guard the faithful apostle. Demetrius and his fellows, the profitable busi- His time to die a martyr's death had not yet ness of image-making was endangered. by the come. - teaehing and spread of the gospel. The income Failing to· find the object of their wrath, the of pagan priests and artisans was at stake; and mob seized two of his companions, Gaius and for this reason they instituted the most bitter Aristarchus, and with them hurried on to the opposition to the apostle, and refused to receive theater. Forgetful of his own safety, Paul de-or investigate the new religion, which would sired to go at once to the theater, to address have made them wise unto salvation. the rioters. But his friends refused to permit For nearly three years, Ephesus was the cen- him thus to sacrifice himself. Several of the ter of Paul's work. A flourishing church was most honorable and influential among the mag-raised up here, and from this city the gospel istrates also sent him an earnest request not to spread throughout the province of Asia, among venture into a situation of so great peril. This both Jews and Gentiles. But now his labors in proof of the regard in which Paul was held by this place were concluded. Ha felt that the ex- 354 THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. VoL. 11, No. 23. citement which prevailed was unfavorable to 1 If, then, through faith such excellence is I gigantic trees, roams with me through the the preaching of the gospe~. He accor?ingly given in e:ery department . of life, in .every an~~al kingdo~ and points out t? me the ex- bade his children in the fa1th an affectiOnate stage of so01ety, why should It not besom the qmsite adaptatiOns of every part of nature, and farewell and set out on his journey to Mace-realms of mo .. nls and religion? Why should not I learn it all with joy from her lips; passes with donia. ' faith join us to the good and the pure of past me through society, explains its customs, its Paul's ministry in Ephesus bad been a season ages? Why should we not listen to the pre-history, teaches me its languages, and I learn of incessant l·abor and of nny trials. He cepts of virtue and religion as well as to the them all. She digs into the earth and reveals taught the people 'in public and ±:rom _bouse to songs.of ~h~ poet or the strains of the or~tor? to me the roc~{:S in their order of superposition, bouse, instructing and warning them with many ~an, m his 1_nner nat~1re, feels that the ~t::nns of what the f~ss1ls teach of old c~tastrop?es, and tears. He was continually opposed by the un-sm are on hm1. He IS captured oftent1mes by of wonderful ages; mounts With me mto the believing Jews, who lost no opportunity .to stir passion; he is led wber~ he k~ows his feet heav_ens, opens tom~ the solar system S? bar- up the popular feeling against him. Agam and ~::~bould not go; he bas s~ud to himself a thou-momousty and beautifully arranged; carr;es me again be was attacked by the mob, and sub-san? times he would do better, and yet sins beyond that system to numberless other sys- jected to insult and abuse. By e:ery means aga1~. What shall b~ do? Whe~e sba1l he go? terns w.hose suns are but the fixed stars I see; which they could employ, the enemies of truth Carr.Ied away by the fo~·ce. of passwn, drawn by I go with her to the nebulre and look at the souO'bt to destroy the effects of his labor for the the mfluences of assomatwn, governed by the vast worlds that compose them; away to the sal~~tion of men. · · maxims of the evil world, be ever slides down-fleecy cloud where light just trembles on the Amid the constant storm of opposition, the ard; but be looks into the past, stands at the verge of shade; away to the suburbs of the clamor of enemies and the desertion of friends, foot of the mountain and bears the law of God, universe, and when I have reached the last star the intrepid apostle at timeR almost lost heart. draw.s near to Calvary and beholds ~ne dying and bav~ set me down, _I still P.ant for more. I But be looked back to CaiYary, and with new for him, stands where the prophet Isa1ah stood, look up mto the fnce of my gmde, and say, "Is ardor pressed on to spread the knowledge of the and ami~st the. darkness whicb sh.rouds the this all?" And she as~{S: "Is not this enough.?" Crucified. He was but treading the blood-·cross be 1s able to s;~y, "The chast1senvmt of "Are there not beautws of earth and beautws stained path which Christ hnd t~:oclden before our peace was ,upon him, and with his stripes of heaven enou~h to satisfy the longing ?oul? ,him. He souo·h t no discharge from the war-we are healed. And there comes from Jesus Is there not Wisdom and power and skill so fare till he sbobuld lay off his armor at the feet a peace that cheers and strengthens, and the manifold, so conspicuous, everywhere as to oc- of his Redeemer. stain of his sin and the dominion of his passions cupy the thought and fill the heart?" Yet Eighteen centurie8 have passed since the fade awa~. . . . . still, someh_ow, t?~re is ~void within. apostle rested from hiR lnbors· yet the bistorv And tb1s v1ew of the d1stant restrams pass10n Tbe gemm:> of mfidehty leaves me and the of his toils and sacrifices for 'o'hrist's sake a1:~ and overcomeR fear. The young man "hu has genius of Christianity comes to my side. She among the mo~t precious treasures of the left his f:ather's bouse .on the farn!, a1:d bas ~one too takes me by the band, and I go with her church. rrhat history was recorded by the to th~ ctty to make his fortune, IS oft en enticed through tho same earth, past the .same flowers, Holy Spirit, that the followers of Christ in every to eviL The theater cbarmA, the bouse that the same rocks and forest.s and h1lls; takes me age might thereby be incited to greater zeal leads to the gates of death_ allures; but as ~e over the seats of the nations of the earth and and faithfulness in the cause of their Master. passes along the street a11d listens to the m usJc, teaches me the same languages; takes me The Victory of Faith. THE old men of this country were often called to pass swollen streams before· bridges were built; mounted on the backs of strong horses, they plunged fearlessly in. If they looked upon the rapid flow of the waters, their brains grew unsteady; they seemed to be carried against the current, and were in danger of fall- ing and being drowned; but if they raised their eyes and looked at some tree or bill-top beyond, or on some ro.ck that jutted from the shore, they pnss~d quietly and safely over. It was the view of the distant that steadied them against the whirl of the present. The sailor boy is sent, in a storm, up the mast, and amidst the swinging cordage, to perform some task; if he looks be- low upon the rolling deck or the furious waves, his bead swims, he is dashed down, and is lost. How shall he be safe? The old sailor cries to him, "Look aloft, look aloft;" and if be can but see a star shining in the heavens, or the clouds, which are less unstable than the waters and the vessel, be grows steady and performs his work as calmly as the c·hild upon its mother's nursery floor. It is the view of the distant that steadies against the whirl of the present. Is a man distinguished abov~ his fellows for clearness of thought and comprehension of view, do we not say, he is a far-seeing man? The man who bas a limited trade is engaged with those immediately about him, and the gos- sip and little rivalries and excitements of the town in which he lives powerfully affect him. The commercial trader sits at his desk, but be is arranging a cargo for China, though be never saw it, or is purchasing sugar from distant isl- ands, or spices from the other side of the globe; the little circle of trade immediately about him scarcely disturbs him at all. His plans are far- reaching; be is looking for the return of his profits, not to-morrow, or next month, but next year or in a succession of :rears; and his wealth has accumulated through investmentR made with lands be never saw, and through the bands of men with whom be was never ac- quainted. It is faith that gives to him the knowledge and the confidence. The same les- ~:clnS are tanght. us if we look at thoRe who at- ti:-tin eminence in the variouR walks of life. the memory of his sainted mother comes to through the domain of the sciences and adds him, and then thai other thought of responsi-one more, the science of salvation; teaches me bility to God so fills his heart that be turns the langnages of earth, and adds one more, the away from the enticements of sin. The thought language of Heaven. She mounts with me to of the distant delivers him f·t'om the power of the skies; I drink in light from the same sun, passion. Js the soul in trouble? Does he de- pass to tbe same fixed stars, resolve the same spair of life? DoeB he give up all thought of nebulro, and away ont again unto the last star friends on earth? Is be ready for suicide ·r It where my former guide left me. And I gaze seems dark about him. But, when the distant into the face of the get~ins of Christ-ianity and is brought to his view, the star of Bethlehem ask, "Is this all?" What a look of pity and breaks on his vision, the thought comes to him love Rbe casts upon me as she says: "Is this as to Hagar of old, "'l'hou God seest me." I all? This is but the porLico; it is bnt the have often felt that the ordinary manner of threshold; it is the entrance to the .Father's quoting this verse, "Thou God seest me," does bouse." And she puts the glass of fait.b in my not present it as Hagar said it. She knew that band, and I look through it, and away beyond God sa~ Abraham and Sarah; she knew the the stars, away beyond the multiplied sy8tems, divine care and protection were given to them; I see the great center, the throne of God, about but when, in the wilderness and in danger of which all things move-the great central point death, God's providence was manifested to her, of the universe. And as 1 look there is One it affected her heart, and she cried out, "Thou upon the throne; be is my brother; and I look God seest me;" me, the poor, the unworthy, the again, and my name is written on his hands; un'rega'rded. It was the sense of divine com-and I cry out with ecstasy:- passion condescending so much as to look at · "Before the throne my Surety stands, her that soot.bed her heart. And when sick- My name is written on his hands." ness comes, when strength declines, when death It is my title to a place in Heaven; and there, is near, when lm·ed ones are carried away, how when earth shall have passed and its events- faith comes to our aid ! We shall see our friends shall have closed, I shall have a home forever. again. We can lay them in the grave; we know What can infidelity do for me that Christian- they are safe with God. ity does not do? The same great scenes, the It is faith in the distant, inspires, cheers, same great facts, the same great creation, all strengthens. And yet there are those who tell its parts; bnt Christianity whispers," Your Fa- ns that the religion of Christ is fitted only for tber made them all, and made tbem for vou." the poor, the aged, the weak; that it may do And a new light invests the world, and a" new for women; it may do for ignorant men; but joy thrills through my heart. Oh, let others for man-strong, vigorous, educated man-wrap themselves, if they may, in the chilly there is something grander and higher. We garb of doubt; let them, if they will, lose them- are told that this religion is one of the things selves in the mists of skepticism; but give me of the past, and that it is to fade away before the faith that recognizes a duty, that shows me the light of the present age. May I ask my a Father, that points me to an elder Brother skeptical friend what be will offer me in its who cries out: "I am the resurrection and the place? What can be give me instead of my life."-Bishop Simpson. faith? I am willing to accord to him all be can ---------- desire, all he can clHim. I give full credit to whatever unaided reason may prove, or scien- tific investigation may find. I delight in the refinements of literature, in the inventions of art; but what will be the substitute for faith? Tht: genius of infidelity comes near me and offers me her hand. I cheerfully take it. She leads me through this earth, shows me its blooming flowf'rs, and calls them by J1ame, t~tk~s me through the forests and shows me the THE Lord went away that he might come again to receive us to himself, and that we may be together to all eternity. But we must first be moulded to his image by the lessons of his absence. He who will not share the yearn- ing of the Lord's absence, will ha-ve little fitness to share in the joy of his presence. He who has not been moulded by the influences of the ab- Hent Lord, ean have little share in the present Lord-when h~ conws l-S, S. Times, JUNE 11, 1885. THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 355 What Made the Prayer-Meeting. Two THINGS are to be premised. It ":'ill be unde1~stood that the traveler was earned to Europe by ship-sail or s~eam-:-even if he do~s say that his money carr1ed h1m the_re. It IS always likewise to be understood ~hat 1t was the Holy Spirit who blessed the ?leetmg. But tb~ difference between one meetmg and another IS not because the Spirit is a guest at one and not at another. He is always present, even at the dullest service, waiting to bless. Over every such ll)ight be written, "There ,?tandeth One . among you, whom ye know not. It was be- cause some one recognized and welcomed the ·ever-present, but often grieved guest; and that made the prayer-meeting. Here are a batch of notes from the pastor's note-book:- 1. In the background a long series of cold, formal meetings. What made this one throb and glow with spiritual warmth? Siml?ly because a heavy-hearted woman rose, and With broken utteraucc said, ''Pray for me." Only three wordR made that meeting. 2. The meetitw opens just as all other meet- ings. Up to a c~·tain point ~be ordinary pro- gramme is carried out to a mmute and second. Deacon Ford doesn't usually take part; but to- night he docs. That is, he t~ies to speak of the preciousness of God's grac~ m 11 r~cent sorrow. But even the first sentence IS unfimsbed; for the heart is too big. And across the billows of that sea all in the room saw Christ come. Don't you think that was " a goo~ meetiJ?g" ? 3. A new voice blessed this meetmg. Young Charles Dale was converted a month ago. He has never taken part, but to-night before se~v­ ice he wrestles with God. From that Pemel he comes to the service. The words he says are few, and perhaps do n.o~ amount t~ much, humanly speaking; but, d1vmel:z ~peakmg, all in that service knew that the Spint was there. 4. People said, "What ails our minis~er and our deacons to-niO'ht?" Never before, this year, had they . spok~n so briefly and earnestly. Fifteen minutes of prayer by the deacons at ~he pastor's study did it; at the close of whwh Deacon French said, "Brethren, suppose we go over to the meeting, and each give· a brief, earnest testimony for Christ." Somehow. or other everything went well that evenmg. Surely never was there such singing and such attention. 5. At the afternoon sewing circle, one young lady said to her fifteen compa;nions, "Let us each look up a verse on the subJect, and repeat it to-night at the meet~ng." You would be surprised to know how It freshened up that meeting. 6. Five minutes before the close of the meet- ing, the pastor said, "Now let us have fifteen short ejaculatory prayers, each not more than twenty words long. Do not rise.". What prayers those were! . The note-book contams a good deal more, of ·which these are samples.-Rev. S. W. Adriance, in the Cong1·egat1'onalist. Cain's Wife. A CORRESPONDENT wrote US, a few weeks ago asking us who was Cain's. wife; n_ot getting an immediate answer, he writes agam to hurry u,~ up· and we make haste to "report progress, lest he take to the telegraph in his ~nxiety to have this important question ans~ored._ .The delav has been inevitable. The partsh munster who"' performed the cei'emony is believed to be dead· and we are not able to get on the track of the parish records, which are thought by some well informed in such matters to have been washed away in the deluge. We have ransacked without success the records of her- aldry that are accessible in this country. Dr. Warren, of BoRton, bas recently written a book to prove that the Garden of Eden was at the north pole· and if this is correct, it may be hoped that' some future Arctic expl.oring expe- dition will discover the losli marnage record, and so get a final answer to this perennial ques- tion. Our anxious correspondent may rest as- sured that the Christian Union will spare no pains or expense in ascertaining the truth on this momentous subject, and that we shall m~ke baste to report as soon as we ?a~e any_thmg worthy of being reported.-Ch,nstwn Unwn. THE ANVIL OF GOD'S "WORD. LAST eve I paused beside a blacksmith's door And heard the anvil ring its vesper chime; Then looking in I saw upon the_ floor . Old hammers worn with beatmg years of t1me. "How many anvils have you had," said I, "To wear and batter all these hammers so?" "Just one," he answered; then with twinkling ey~~ "The anvil wears the hammers out, you know. And so, I thought, the anvil of God's Word For ages skeptic blows have bettt upon; Yet, though the noise of Paine, Voltaire was heard, The anvil is unworn-the hammers gone. -L. B. Cake, in the Ou1·rent. A Better Way. Persecutions. "Blessed are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake." Luke 6 : 22. THESE words, from the lips of our Master as he was teaching his disciples, ~e~m to h~v~ a special significance in some locahties; and It IS a source of comfort to note the fact that while our Saviour ever improved every opportunity to impart the instruction that be foresaw would be necessary to enable them to cont_end suc- cessfully with an oppo:.;;iug w?rld, tellmg them plainly of the many per1-;ecutwns that they as bis disciples would have. to ~nc~u~ter, he. al- ways accompanied this wtth h1s divme blessing upon those who would have to meet them. In verse 23 of the same chapter, be say8: "Rejoice ye in that cby, and _leap for joy~ fo_r, behold, your reward is great m HeaYen; form the like manner did tbeir fathers unto the prophets." vVbilc those who . participate in these persecutions are only beapmg unto them- selve!:! wrath ao·ainst the "day of '1-vrath," they are lending ln:ter and bril]jaucy to the crowns of those who suffer persecutions if they but continue faithful unto the end. In referring to the persecutions of the proph- WHEN Dan Mace, the famous horse jockey ets, he taught his disciples ,Ybat t_hey were to and driver of racers, was informed by his phy-expect, and he says still further, m J ~bn 15 : sicians a short time previous to his death that 18-21, in speaking of his own persecutiOns, by all earthly hope was gone, be imm_cdiat~ly se~t way of illustration, that, "If the wo~ld bate for a clergyman, and add_resse~ bim.~el! to his you, ye know that it bated me before It hated spiritual and eternal relatiOnships. I his under you. If ye were of the world, the world the circumstances was, of course, the reason-would Jove his own; but because ye are not of able and proper thing to do. . Nobody will the world, but I have chosen you out of the criticise the jockey for endeavormg even at the world, therefore the world bateth you. Re- eleventh hour to take advantage of the last member the word I said unto you, The servant opportunity to rerent an~ obey, but everybody is not greater than b~s lord. lf they have will commend him for It. Better late than persecuted me, they will also perseeute you; never. And yet, there is a wiser, more manly if they have kept my saying, they will keep and safer course which all men ought to pur-yours also. But all these things will they do sue and that is to, acknowledge God's claims unto you for my name's sake, because they and to seek the assurance of infinite pardon know not bim that sent me." and peace while they are in the flush of health, It ever has been and ever will be an obsti- and capable of rendering s_ome act~al and grate-nate fact that the t1·ue church of God will suf- ful services to the gracwus Bemg and Re-fer persecutions. They are to ,be ~a·" peculiar deemer from whom they expect the unspeak-people, zealous of good wor]n~. Titus 2 : 14. able gift of life eternal. But what is the tendency of the churches at The old colored woman, who thought it a the present day? Wherein a~e they p~rse­ mean thing to burn up the entire candle of life cuted? Alas! instead of suffermg the disap- in honor of the devil, and then to offer the probation of the world, they, w~th a persist- smoking wick just ready to be snuffed ou~, :1t ency worthy a better end,. court Its favo:·, and God'.s altar, certainly had the correct v1ew. deliberately join hands with whateve~ It ap- It is the quintessence of selfishness, of presump-proves, introducing into it~ sacred precmcts all tion, of cowardly baseness, to ~neak _th~ough the fascinating and allurmg pkasures of the life denying our Cre~tor a~1d Sav_10ur h1s r~ghts, dav and ever lowering the standard of truth. and indulging all evil pass1~ns With the h~dden Our Lord bas told us, in terms that cannot mental reservation that JUSt before disease be misapprehended, that for his name's _sake sweeps us into the grave we will come in like we should be hated of all men. How drtfer- the thief on the cross with a petition for all the ent is their asso('iation with the world from benefits and supernal joys of paradise. Besides that which our Saviour predicted for his dis- the meanness of such conduct it is exceedingly ciples! A Chrislian is_ not allow~d the same perilous. The case of the dying thief is often latitude as are the children of this world. If perverted. It is altogether. probable that he he manifests any degree of ent~usia_sm and never heard of the gospel until he wat:~ stretched ardor he is at once branded as fanatical and upon the cross in the_ presence of hi~ suffering bigot~d, and a sure target for the _cruel taunts Master. This was his first opportumty, and he of a cold and pitiless world. It IS when the embraced it with a will-instantly, unreserv-heart is smarting and bleediug from these cruel edly. Whether other _hardened ~retches after wounds that the Christian can find sweetest rejecting Christ and his truth dehberat~ly _and comfort in the precious word of God; when willfully a11 their E:yes, can g_et as easily mto be can often feel his Saviour nearest as in se- the kingdom when I_n the. article_ of death has cret be pours out his soul to God in prayer and always been a questiOn with serwus and cau-tears. tious minds. rl'here is assuredly little chance Then let afflictions and persecutions come, of their showing whether the al~eged repent-. they only draw us nearer to uur precious Sav- ance is sincere and worth anythmg, or me~e · iour if only we trust him who hath said: "My make-shift and an expression Of fear w_ben one IS grace is sufficient for thee." ];et. US welcome caught in the death-trap. The onl~r r~ght, bon-them then as the tie that shall bmd us closer orable, just, manly, and sare way IS_ for a man to our blessed Lord. Let us be faithful to that to give himself in the prime of his ~trengtb committed to our trust; trusting much and and the full c:ap~citi~s o.f his soul to righteous praying often, and soon a starry crow_n will be actions and to faith m him who alone can save. awarded to the faithful few vvbo patiently en- -Christian at Work. dure unto the end. LIZZIE I1. PIERCE. "REM:EM:BER now thy Creator in the days of thy yauth." Eccl. 12 : 1. " WE glory in tribulations also." Rom. 5:3. 356 THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. VoL. 11, No. 23. "Evolution" and Evolution. IN view of the fact that not only Henry Ward Beecher and Dr. McCosh but almost all of the acknowledged scientific teachers, not only in the United States, but in Europe, are avowed evolutionists, it may be of interest, and perhaps of value, for us to notice briefly what evolution really is, and what is its manifest tendency. Some time ago the Independent pre- sented the following list of evolutionists:- " Of all the younger brood of working nat- uralists whom Agassiz educated, every one- Morse, Shaler, Verrill, Niles, Hyatt, Scudder, Putnam, even his own son-has accepted evo- lution. Every one of the Harvard professors whose d£>partments have to do with biology- Gray, Whitney, A. Agassiz, Hagen, Goodale, Shaler, James, Farlow, and .Faxon-is un evo- lutionist, and man's physical structure they re- gard as no real exception to the law. rrhey are all theists, we believe; all conservative men. They do not all believe that Darwinism-that is, natural selection-is a sufficient theory of evolution; they may incline to \-Vallace's view, but they accept evolution. It is not much taught; it is rather taken for granted. At Johns Hopkins University, which aim<:~ to be the most advanced in the country, nothing but evolution is held or taught [italics ours]. In the excel- lent University of Pennsylvania all the bio- logical profeRsors are evolutionists,-Professors Leidy and Allen in Comparative .Anatomy, Pro- fessor Rathrock in Botany, and Professor Les- ley in Geology. We might mention Michigan University, Cornell, Dartmouth, or Bowdoin; but what is theuseof going farther? It would only be the same story. There can scarcely an exception be found. Wherever there is a work- ing naturalist, he is sure to be an evolutionist. We made an inquiry of two ex-presidents of the American Association for the Advancement of Science~ One wrote us, in reply: 'My im- pression is that there is no biologist of repute nowadays who does not accept, in some form or other, the doctrine of derivation in time, what- ever be the precise iorm in which they suppose the evolution to have occurred.' His successor replied, 'Almost without exception, the work- ing naturalists in this country believe in evolu- tion. ln England and Germany the belief in evolution is almost universal among the active workers in biology. In France the belief is less general, but is rapidly gaining ground. l should regard a teacher of science who denied the truth of evolution, as being as incompetent as one who doubted the Copernican theory.' \-Ve challenge the Observer to find three working naturalists of repute in the United States, or two (it can find one in Canada) that are not evolutionists. And where a man believes in evolution, it goes with- out saying that the law holds as to man's phys- ical structure." In this article, however, we do not propose a complete analysis of evolution, but only an ex- amination of the leading phase, and of its man- ifest tendency; and that is, as stated by Mr. James Sully, joint author with Prof. T. H. Huxley, of the Article Evolution in" Encyclo- pedia Britannica/' D;inth edition, this:- " It is clear that the doctrine of evolution is di- rectly antagonistic to that of c'reation. Just as the biological doctrine of the transmutation of species is opposed to that of special creations, so the idea of evolution, as applied to the for- mation of the world as a whole, is opposed to that of a direct creative volition." In view of thi8 statement of the highest au- thority on the subject of evolution, is it not equally clear that these professors of Harvard, and Yale, and Brown, and Bowdoin, and Am- herst, and Princeton, and Cornell, and J obns Hopkins, and Michigan, and Pennsylvania Uni- versities: and the teachers of science in England, Germany, France, and the United States, and those who accept their teaching, are all in di- rect antaKonism to the Bible? For whatever else the Bible might be held to teach, it assur- edly does teach this one thing, that God created all things. And it is purposely that we write "Bible," instead of "Genesis" alone; for it is not alone the testimony of Genesis, but of the whole Book, that "God created all things." "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And God created great whales, and ev- ery living creatu're that moveth." Gen. 1 : 1, 21. "So God created man." Gen. 1: 27. "And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created." Gen. 6: 7. "God created man upon the earth.'' Deut. 4: 32. "Thus saith God the Lord, he that c'reated the heavens," etc. Isa. 42 : 5. "I have made the earth and created man upon it." Isa. 45 : 12. "Hath not one God c·reated us?" Mal. 2: 10. Now the words of Christ (Mark 13: 19), "For in those days shall be atlriction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time.': Of man he says (Mark 10 : 6), "But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female." God " created all things by Jesus Christ." Eph. 3: 9. "By him were all things created that are in heaven and that are in earth, 'llisible and invisible.'' Col. 1 : 16. "Thou hast created all th-ings." Rev. 4: 11; also Rev. 10 : 6; 14: 7. So just as surely as evolution is "directly antagonistic to the doctrine of creation," so surely are those who hold to evolution placed "directly antagonistic" to the Bible. And this will plainly appear from their own words as we proceed. Because the disciples of Darwin have pressed his theo1·ies into service as facts, evolution has come to be considered (and not improperly) as almost, if not entirely, synonymous with Dar- winism. Yet there is a distinction claimed, and this claimed distinction it is which has given rise to the two kinds of evolution suggested in our heading. It is stated as follows by the In- dependent of January 8, 1880:- " In the first place let it be clearly understood that evolution, or development, is not synony- mous with Darwinism. A man may be an evo- lutionist and not be a Darwinian. Let us ex- plain. "The doctrine of evolution is this: That all the existing forms of animal and vegetable life have been produced through the process of success- ive birth and generation from original vital germs. This is all. The doctrine of evolution does not assert how the first germs came, whether by God's special creation, or by the un- aided action of law out of inanimate matter. Nor does the doctrine of evolution assert how or wh)', whether rapidly or gradually, under what laws or what providence, the evolution has proceeded as it has. These are theories of evolution, which are brought forward to ac- count for its operation; but they are not the doctrine of evolution itself. The doctrine of evo- lution is opposed to the doct1·ine of creationism; and it teaches simply that living and extinct species of animals and plants were not directly created out of dead matter by the fiat of God, but were produced by birth out of plants and animals previously existing. "Now, Darwinism-properly so ca1led-is not evolution, but a theory or hypothesis of evolu- tion. It has become confused in the unschol- arly popular mind with evolution, because it was the way in which Charles Darwin first ex- plained evolution. Darwinism is the theory that evolution is explained by the law of Nat- ural Selection; i.e., a law of variation by which the young of any animal vary slightly from their parents. Those of the young whose va- riations help them in the struggle for existence are more likely to live and propagate their kind. Thus, by slow gradations, and by the retention of favorable minute changes, all present life was evolved. This is one the- ory of evolution, and is called by Darwin's name, 'Natural Selection,' or by Spencer's mtme, 'Survival of the .Fittest.' This Darwin- ism is not necessarily atheistic. Darwin him- self allowed that life may have been started by a few created germs. But, once started, on Darwin's theory, there is no further need of God. Law produces e-verything, fl·om the di- atom to the oak, from the amceba to the man. According to him, even mind, heart, conscience. are just as much the product of physical evo~ lution as is the physical structure itself. Given two or three germs at the beginning perb~1ps -or perhaps not--and given the laws which we find, then there is no more use for God, and all things have come out as we find them with none of his supervision. There may have been a God once, but law and not God is the great Ureator." Apparently, there is a great deal said here, but in reality there is very little. Let us ana- lyze this statement, and see wherein lies the actual difl'erence, if any, between these two statements of evolution and Darwinism. 1. Evolution sa,ys all forms of life come in successive births and generation from original germs. Darwinism says the same. 2. Evolution does not say how the first germs came. Neither does Darwinism. 3 . .Evolution says that livino-and extinct specieB of animals and plants WG~e not directly created out of qead matter by the fiat of God. Darwinism says exactly the same. 4. Evolution says these were produced by birth, out of plants and animals previously ex- isting. Darwinism is identical with it here also. .5. Darwinism holds that this birth and gener- atiOn of plants and animals in succession, is ac- coi:ding to established law. Evolution being "dtrectly antagonistic" to creationism, bow else can successive birth and generation pro- ceed but in accord with the law universal of birth and generation? So in this also they are identical. 6. Darwinism says that the process of evo- lution bas been very slow. Th~ foregoing statement of evolntion says that it does not as- sert whether the process has been rapid or gradual, but we have abundance of evidence to show that this is not correct. And we need go no farther than the editorial columns of the Independent to prove its incorrectness. In an editorial entitled "Deliver Us from Our Friends," in December (?) 1879, appears a quo- tation from Wallace's "Natural Selection," as follows:- "' We can with tolerable certainty affirm that man must have inhabited the earth a thousand centuries ago, but we cannot assert . . . that there is any good evidence that he positively did not exist for a period of ten thousand centuries.'" And the whole tenor of the article, which is a defense of evolution, is that the evolution of man is a pr~cess of ages upon ages; and it says that the evtdence that man was pre glacial, i. e., that he existed scores or hundreds of thou- sands of years ago, and that be was fashioned out of apes, "is so strong that it is ver·y unsafe to deny" it. (Italics his.) Again, what room has evolution to show its successions of ''birth and generation" if the earth be only six thousand years old? The very language in which evolution is defined and explained, asserts that the process has been gradual. And further, if evidence were produc~d tha~ the process had been rapid, it would 1mmed1ately turn the scale in favor of creationism, and evolution would be destroyed. Admitting, however, that evolution makes no assertion either way, does it not make very loud demands for "hundreds," or "thousands," or even " tens of thousands of centuries "? If not, to say nothing of Darwin, why do Wal- lace, and LeConte, and A. S. Packard, and De Quatrefages, Hughes, .Evans, and all the rest, JUNE 11, 1885. THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES .. 357 speak and write of it in no other language than such as the above? And these demands are nothing short of an asse1·tion of the abso- lute poverty of evolution with less than "thou- sands and tens of thousands of centuries," and therein aeserts its "gradual" process, and fully agrees with Darwinism where it says: "The high antiquity of man . . ~ is the in- dispensable basis for understanding his origin." -Descent of Man, .1, p. 3. 7. The process "once started on Darwin's theory there is no further need of God." Evo- lution says the same, as the following from Professor Huxlev shows:- " If all living beings have been evolved from pre-existing forms of life, it is enough that a single particle of living protoplaRm should once have appeared on the globe as the result of no- matter-what agency. In the eyes of a consist- ent evolutionist any further independent forma- tion of protoplasm would be sheer waste." Again:- " But living matter once originated, there is no necessity for another origination, since the hypothesis postulates the unlimited ... mod- ifiability of such matter."-Encyclopedia Bri- tannica, A1·ticle ''Biology." So again we see that consistent evolution and Darwinism are identical. It is unnecessary to pursue this line·further, as everything that might be brought to bear upon the subject would simply confirm the points alrearly made, that consistent evolution and Darwinism are essentially synonymous. The simple fact is, anti is plainly shown by Mr. Sully, that to Darwin, first of all, belongs the honor of first reducing the theory of evo- lution to "a substantial basis of fact." And whether in England, Germany, or the United States, evolution without Darwin is, as the phrase goes, the play of Hamlet with Hamlet left out. A. T. J. (To be continued.) Emptying Self. 'l'HE Saviour "emptied himself, taking the form of a servant." Almost every one is ready to empty himself of that which keeps him down in the eyes of the world, in order that he may accept a higher place in forgetfulness of the lower. A newsboy is willing to empty him- self of the duties and the difficulties of his un- attmctive sphere, in order to accept an honor- able position in the publishing office, or in the editorial rooms, of a metropolitan daily. A railroad brakeman would empty himself of all that marks his present place, if he could accept in its stead the superintendency of the road on which he vwrks. A successful brewer or to- bacconist might even empty himself of his long-time occupation for the prospect of a seat in congress or a foreign diplomatic mission. But it is not common for a man to empty him- Relf of the honors of a higher place, in order to do the duties of a lower one. The com- mander is not likely to surrender his commission, in order to serve in the ranks. The millionaire does not empty his coffers, so that be can de- pend on his day's work for a living. The head of the house does not put himself on a par with the servants in the kitchen. Yet He who is our pattern "emptied himself" from the high- est honors of Heaven, "taking the form of a servant," in order that he might sympathize with and rescue the least ·and the lowest. And unless we are ready to empty ourselves of all pride of wealth, or intellect, or social position, or preferences of taste, in order to the reaching of those who are beneath ·the plane, or the sta- tion which God has assignE>d to us, we are so far without the mind which was in Christ J~ sus, and which we are commanded to bave.- Sel. "OFFER unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the Most High." Ps: 50: 14. The Sleep of Death. "Consider and hear me, 0 Lord my God; lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death." Ps. 13: 3. THE "sleep of death" as here brought to view by the psalmist, is repeatedly referred to in the word of God. It is aRked, What is it to sleep the sleep of death? What is it to cease to live, to close our eyes and have our mortal bodies laid away in the cold and silent grave? How like a sleep! For, though they in the graves do lie, \Vhen Jesus comes with trumpet sound, The saints arise; then they shall say, "0 death, where is thy sting, 0 grave, where is thy victory"! "But man dieth, and wasteth away; yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood de- cayeth and drieth up; so man lietb down, and riseth not; till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised nut of their sleRp. If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. Thou shalt cali, and I will answer thee; thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands." Job 14: 10-12, 14, 15. Job brings three points clearly to view in this text: (1) He will die or sleep; (2) He is to wait an appointed time till his change come, and (3) He is to awake at the call of God. That it is "appointed unto men once to die" all will admit (Heb. 9 : 27); but what is the "appointed time" of which Job speaks in verse 14? In verse 12 be says, "till the heavens be no more." We find that the heavens pass away at the coming of Christ. Rev. 6 : 14-17 says that the heavens depart as a scroll when it is rolled together. That at this time the Lord calls we find stated in several places in unmistakable lan- guage. The following are a few instances:- " For the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout. with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ [asleep in Jesus, verse 14] shall rise first." 1 Thess. 4: 16. "We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; for the trumpet shHll E~ound, and the dead shall be raised incorrupti- ble, and we shall be changed." 1 Cor. 15: 51, 52. See also Ps. 50 : 4. 'rhus we see that even the oldest inspired writing that we have teaches the resurrection, or awaking from the sleep of death, at the ap- pointed time, i. e., at the second coming of Christ. (See also Jude 14.) ,Now that we have found from positive scriptures that the term "sleep" is used to rep- resent death, let us examine the nature of the sleep. Man is mortal. Job 14: 17; 1 Cor. 15 : 53, 54. He shall die. Heb. l:) : 27. "His breath goeth forth, be returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish." Ps. 146: 4. 'rhey sleep in the dust. Dan. 12: 2; Job 7: 21. "Whatsoever thy band findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest." "l~or the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun." Eccl. 9 : 10, 5, 6. The psalmist says, "The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence." Ps. 115 : 17. "Por in death there is no remem- brance of thee; in the grave who shall give thee thanks?" Ps. 6 : 5. In the light of these texts, what is the only conclusion to which we can come? It certainly is, that the word of God teaches that deatb is like a sound sleep. The sleeper is uncon- scious of all around him. He knows not any- thing. Eccl. 9 : 5. He cannot aRcribe praises to the J.Jord, nor does he know aught of what is transpiring in regard to his dearest friends. 'l'his is plainly said of those in death. "His sons come to honor, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them." Job 14: 21. ''But I wonld not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them whioh are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him [Jesus]." 1 'l'hess. 4: 13, 14. This will be brought to pass when the Lord descends from heaven. Verses 15-17. "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our I;ord." Rom. 6 : 23. Then it is only th1·o1tgh Christ, and by patient continuanee in well doing, that we can obtain immortality (Rom. 2 : 7; 1 Tim. 6: 12), and it is 1estowed at the resur- rection, when Christ who is our life shall appear. 1 Cor. 15 : 52-54; Col. 3 : 4. The Bible teaches that it is the appointed lot of all to die; they go to the grave; they sleep in the dust; they are unconscious of every- thing, waiting their appointed time to be raised, which is at the second coming of Christ, when the heavens depart as a scroll when it is rolled together; Christ awakens the sleeping saints with a shout; they then arise with all the health and beauty of immortality, evermore to be with the I.~ord. It is thus Christ fulfills his prom- ise: "I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." John 14:2,3. "'irV. A. BLAKELY, A True Friend. THERE is nothing more desirable than a true friend, une in whose wisdom, fidelity, and devo- tion we can confide. We often feel the need of such a friend, and we may congratulate our- selves when we have found him. Mueh of the friendship of the world is hollow and selfish. There is no heart in it. It is a mere matter of convenience. There is nothing in it that, is en- during. It is easily broken off, and sometimes the professed friend becomes an enemy. We cannot always tell who our friends are. There are many vvho pretend friendship, but it is only a pretense. They do it to serve a p1'1rpose, and when that purpose is accomplished, the mask is thrown off, and they are revealed in their true character. How the heart saddens at such rev- elations! and, sma.rting under the disappoint- ment, we are sometimes almost tempted to doubt the reality of human friendship. But to yield to such a temptation would be improper; for, after all the deception that may be practiced upon us, there are true hearts in whom we may confide, and whose friendship, instead of being a pre- tense, is sincere and genuine. But sometimes the best of earthly friends are unable to oom- fort us in our sorrow, or to afford us the aid we need. They tender us their sympathy, but that is all they can do. '\Vhile this is the case what a consolation to know that there is On~ whose friendship we may enjoy, v,rbo is able to comfort them who are in any trouble, and who can aid us in every time of need! He is a true friend, a friend who will never forsake us, a friend that "sticketh closer than a brother." It matters not how many earthly .friends we may have, or how sinoere and true they may be, still we need a friend in Jesus, who will be more to us than all besides, and who, when. earthly friends must leave us, will abide with us forever. He can increase our joys, sweeten the bitter cup of our a:ffiiction, sustain us amid the conflicts of life, and comfort and cheer us in the hour of death. Can you claim this precious friend as yours? Do you feel that your heart beats in unison with his great heart of love?- Methodist Reco1·der. 358 . THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. VoL. 11, No. 23. {Qtht ~nhbath-~chnnl. "The stone which the builders refused is be- come the bead stone of the corner. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvclOllS in our eyes. This is the day which the J.Jord bath made; we LESSON FOR THE PACIFIC COAST-JULY 11. will rejoice and be glad in it." Ps. 118: 22-24. Inheritance of the Saints. (Continued.) 1'HE PROMISED LAND. 12. What day was it of which David spoke? "(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored thee; behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)" 2 1. When the l;ord brought the children of Cor. 6 : 2. Israel out of Egypt, what promi~e did he make 13. Since another day was spoken of, what them? docs Paul conclude? "And Moses went up unto God, and the l;ord "'rhere remaineth therefore a rest to the ~~J.lled unto him out of the mountain, saying, people of God." Hob. 4 : 9. I hus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and 14. Who is it that leads the people into the tell the children of ll:'lrael; ye have seen what true rest? I did unto t~e Egyptia11S, and bow I bare you "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are on eagles' wmg~, and ~rought you u~to ~yself. heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take Now therefore, 1f ye wdl obey my voiCe mdeed, my yoke upon you, and learn of me; fO!' I am an~ keep my covenant, then ye shall be a pe-meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest cuhar treasu~e u~to me above all people; for unto your souls." Matt. 11 : 28, 29. all ~be earth .1s ~me; and ye shall ~e unto me 15. And who arc they who arc Christ's? a kmgdom of pnc~ts, and an holy natwn. These "And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abra- are the words wb10h thou shalt speak unto the ham's seed and heirs according to the prom- children of Israel.'' Ex. 19 : 3-6. ise." Gal. 3 : 29. 2. Of what promise was this a continuation? 16. Then through whom is the promise to "For thou art a holy people unto the Lord Abraham and his seed fulfilled? E. J. w. thy God; the I;ord thy God hath chosen thee NOTES ON THE INTERNATIONAL LESSON. JuNE 21-2 Pet. I : I-ll. to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all Christian ProgTess. people; but because the Lord loved you, and " . , . . . because be would keep the oath which be had Pr:Ecrou.s fa1th. , It IS of pe.cuhar mterest sworn unto ypur fatberR, hath the Lord bl'onght t? no~!ce}h1s apostles use of tlns .word "pr~­ you out with a rnig.·bty band, a11d redeemed I mons.. Ye :vere not redeemed With corrn]~ti­ you out of the bouRe of bondmen, from the ble thm~s as Silver and g~ld,, . . . but with band of .Pharaoh king; of Egypt." Dent. 7: the precwus blood of Christ. 1 Pet. 1 : 18, 19. 6-8. .__ " To whom coming, as unto a living stone, dis- allowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and p1·ec·ious. Wherefore also it is con- tained in the Scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, rrecious j . . . Unto you therefore which believe he is precious." 1 Pet. 2 : 4-7. "'rhe trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be fonnd unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ." 1 Pet. 1:7. And b('re he writes this letter to those who have "obtained like p1·eciou,s faith . . . through the righteous- ness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ." 3. Into what land were they to be brought? "And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stran- ger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlaRting possession; and I will be their God." Gen. 17:8. 4. Who led them into this land? Read Josh 1 : 1-6, 11. 5. rro whom did the Lord say he had sworn to give the land which Joshua was to divide a.mong the people? "Be strong and of a good courage; for unto this people ~halt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them." Josh. 1 : 6. 6. Cite the passages in ·which the promise was made to the fathers. Gen. 12: 1-3; 13: 14-17; 15: 1-16; 17: 1-8; 22: 15-18; 26: 1-5; 2 : 10-15. 7. Since the promise was made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in person, could the posses- sion of the land by their descendants be a ful- fillment of that promise? It evidently could not. 8. In making the promise to Abraham, what had the I1ord said his seed sboL1ld possess? "'rhat in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies." Gen. 22: 17. 9. Was this fulfilled when Joshua led the Is- raelites into Canaan? "Yet the ebildren of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those eities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land. Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen strong, that they put the Canaan- ites to tribute; but did not utterly drive them out." Josh. 17 : 12, 13. 10. What is Paul's testimony on this point? "For if Jesus [margin, that is, Joshua] had given them rest, then would be not afterward have spoken of another day." Hob. 4: 8. 11. ·where do we find that "other day" mentioned? THus we have presented to us the precious Son of God, given to be a proe:ions Saviour, >vbo redeemed u.· by his precious blood. Our faith iu him is a precious faith, and the trial of our faith itself is precious: all more precious than gold that perisbetb. Surely upon us, wbo believe. in Christ, has come the fullness of the blessing pronounced of old upon Joseph. "Blessed of the Lord be his land, ior the pre- cious things of Heaven, for the dew, and fm~ the deep that coucheth beneath, and for the pre- cious fruitA brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon, and for the chief tbingR of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills: and for the precious things of tbe earth and fullness thereof, and for the good will of Him that dwelt in the bush." Dent. 33 : 13-19. And added to all this" are given unto us exceed- ing great and precious promises." Precious, precious indeed, are the gift!:! and promises of God. "AND beside this, giving all diligence, add." Now begins ou1· part of the work. Through faith in Christ we httve received, by the mercy of God, the forgiveness of sins, have been made partakers of the divine nature, and now we must begin to "wm·k out" our "own salvation with fear and trembling." Phil. 2: 12. God gives it to us to '·add;'' and while we "add," be "multiplies" (verse 2) "grace and peace." ·while we "add," in our obedience, each Chris- tian grace to our lives, he multiplies grace by which we may add the next. So that as before, sin reigned unto death, even so now grace reigns, through righteousness, unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.· Rom. 5: 21. "Ann to your faith." Justification is entirely by faith without works. David "deae:ribeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God im- puteth righteousness without works." Rom. 4: 6. This righteousness is imputed because of faith, and that alone. Abraham" wa.s strong in faith, . . . and therefore it was imputed to h'imfor righteousness. Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; but for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead." Rom. 4: 20-24. But if we must be justified by faith without works, then what is the use of works? \Vhat use? Why to show the virtue of our faith, to be sure, and to maintain our justification, that is, to keep from sin, for if we sin we ueod justification again, and must again be justified by faith. "My little children, tbel"e things write I unto you, that ye sin not. A 11d if any man sin, we haye an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." 1 John 2:1. Good works therefore are to maintain a righteous character before God, and because we t;}ust work out our salvation: Tbe justification that has been ob- tained by faith must be retained by works. It is .gotten without works, but it cannot be kept Without works. Without works all faith will avail nothing. It is dead. James 2: 14-26. So PETER says, "Add to your faith virtue." Is your faith of any account? Is there any virtue in it? Show it by a consistent Christian ?ourse of conduct in all things. Your faith is In God, and you are to add to it the virtues of God. This is what you are called for. This is that for which he bas chosen ·you, according as his divine power bath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue. Ann to virtue knowledge. "Being fruitful in every good w01·k and inc1·easing in the knowledge of God.'' Col. 1 : 10. "And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all sense [margin]." Phil. 1: 9. "Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ." 2 Peter 3 : 18. It is in his word that God bas given us a knowl- edge of himself and of his dear Son, our Lord and Saviour. And to grow in knowledge we must study that word. There is nothing in this w~rld that feodR, strengthens, enlarges, and enhgbtcns the mind as does diligent study of the word of God. This is just what is com- manded, Giving all dil-igence, add to your faith virtue and to virtue knowledge. Ann to knowledge tempm·ance. Temperance cannot be known, much less practiced, with- out the knowledge of God as revealed in his word. 'remperance does not consist of absti- nence from t-1trong drink alone. A person mav be grossly intemperate and never touch a drop of strong drink. A person may be intemperate in drinking cold water, or in eating good food. How often it happens that persons will exert themselves till they get very hot and thirsty, th~n drink too much cold water; it may be only a httle, yet too much; and so make themselves sick, or kill themselves outright; and all be- cause of a lack of self-control-intemperance. Temperance is self-control. True temperance is "temperance in all. things "-self-control in all things--:-because there is nothing that may not be carrted to excess and so made an injury. "Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth." Rom. 14:22. Ann to temperance patience. James says: "Let patience l;lave her perfect work, that ye JUNE 1], 1885. THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 359 may be perfect and entire." Chap. 1 : 4. But it is absolutely impossible for a person bo is in- temperate in anything, to be patieut in all things. These grace~ are put, by inspiration, in their proper order, and not one of them can be added out of its place. We cannot add temperance to virtue, neither can we add patienc:e to knowl- edge; we cannot add godliness to faith, nor char- ity to godliness, leaving the other out. Each one must be added just as God has placed it. \Vhen we have added temperance (that means control your temper as well as your appetite), then we can add patience, and not till then. THEN to patience ·we can add godliness, and we cannot add it to anything but patience, and as long as we are impatient we are ungodly. Godliness is god-like-nesR. It is doing as G-od would do. And hovv would be do if be were here? He would do just as he did when be was here. His name was called Immanuel, that is, (~od with us. ''He that hath seen me, bath seen the Father," said Jesus. J obn 14: 9. "In him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily." Col. 2 : 9. "And ye are complete in him." Verse 10. A godly life is a Christ life in the world; we are in his stead here; and we can reach godliness only through faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, and patience. Ann to godliness, brothe1·ly kindness. When a person bas reached this place be can fulfill the commandment, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," and not before. Christ did this, and God commanded us to do it. And when we have added the graces that precede it, it will be a good deal easier for us all to do, because we shall tb~"n not think so much of ourselves as to render it impossible for us to love our neigh- bor as we do ourselves. That is the trouble with thousands of people, they cannot love their neighbor as they love themselves, because they love themselves too much. But when we fol- low the course mapped out by Peter here, by the time we reach brotherly kindness, we shall see so little in ourselves that is lovable that we shall have no difficulty in loving our neighbor as the commandment directs. We shall have no trouble in finding in him just as much good as is in ourselves. Ann to brotherly kindness charity. "And charity is the bond of perfectness." Col. 3: 14. "Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity en- vieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seek- eth not her own, is not easily provoked, tltink- eth no evil.': Charitv loves God with all the heart and its neighbor as itself. ''And above all things have fervent charity among your- selves." 1 Pet. 4: 8. "FoR if these things [these things that must b-e added] be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and can- not see afar off, and hath fo'rgotten tl~at he was purged from his old sins." There is the whole secret of backsliding set forth in a single sen- tence. He that lacks these additions of the Christian virtues, will he barren and unfruitful, and will forget that he was purged from .his old sins. He adds nothing: and bow can God mul- tiply to him? " WHEREFORE the rather, brethren, give dili- gence to make your calling and election sure; for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall." There is God's surety against our falling from grace. If we do these tbings, we shall never fall. But if we do not do these things, how can we stand in the great day when the towers fall? opened, there is no other means provided by w hicb that abundant entrance can be minis- tered unto us. Here is our work set before us each day as it comes. We live but a day at a time, and the Lord wants us to live in to-day. "To-day if ye will bear his voice harden not your hearts." Each morning as we arise set our faith anew upon Christ as our Saviour; then show the virtue, the worth of our faith by confessing him before men, both in our words and our lives; then study the words of God for knowledge'o guide us during the day; then practice the temperance-the self-control- that is enjoined everywhere and in all things in the word of God; then add patience in all the affairs of the day; add godliness by exemplify- ing the life of Christ among men by doing good; add brotherly kindness in all our associations with our neighbor; and all crowned by adding 8Weet charity, the bond of perfectness; the love of God shed abroad in the heart,_ loving him with all the heart, and loving our neighbor as ourselves, thus completing the day with a well-rouuded Christian eharacter. Can it not be done one day'? Can it not be done to-dtty? That is all the JJord asks of us. Do "these things" to-day "while it is called to-day," and so to-day each day as God gives us opportnnity to do. And ·we Rhall then never fall, but unto all such an abundant entrance will be ministered into the kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. A. T. J. Sowing· for Reaping. ONE wrote of a great general's plan, "It was a bold one, full of danger in case of defeat, but be intended to conq ucr.'' Doubtless the expectation of success is a great element in securiug it. The great Master, wishing his workers to have every helpful mo- tive to patient, persevering work, bas given them abundant encouragement in the promises of his word. St. Paul's words are, "Be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the lJord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord." Thus too he says earlier in the same epistle, "He that plowetb ought to plow in hope, and he that thresbeth to thresh in hope of partaking." (Revised version.) It is to be feared, however, that many workers are not thus hopeful; they expect scarcely any results to flow from their labors, at all events, not for a long time to come. They sow, but seem to have no thoughts of reaping. Perhaps it was not so when they first took up their work. Maybe they then rushed forward to it eagerly, expecting at once to grasp th~ prize, but hope deferred soon made the heart sick. They are tempted to give up the work in despair or disgust, .because there- sults they expected are not apparent at once. The one hundred and twenty-sixth psalm seems to refer to a similar case. When the children of the captivity heard of the promised return to their sacred land, the idea was at first so overwhelming in its joyousness that it seemed like a dream-" Our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing." But soon they realized that the desired end was yet remote and the way difficult. Great bard- ships and grievous toils had first to be encount- ered. There were to be bitter tears be!ore abiding joys. When they were losing heart, God seems to say, "Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people." "They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goetb forth and weepetb, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him." . This is God's rule in nature as in grace. Present seif-sacrifice leads to future benefits. God would also thus encourage the Christian workers who are seeking to bring pilgrims to the promised "FoR so [in this way, by this means] an en-land. They must not lose heart, for their efforts trance shall be ministered unto you abundantly. would be paralyzed. God would have their into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and hearts steeped in hope. They must be "look- Saviour Jesus Chri~t." There is no other way ing unto Jesus who, for the joy that was set be- fore him, endured the cross, despising the shame." ''It is the way the Master went; Should not the serYant tread it still?" The promise is, c: In due season we shall reap, if we faint not." It is for the Master, not for us, to judge when the season is due. When the disciples could not cure the lad with the unclean spirit, they came to Jesus apart, and said, ''Why could not we cast him out?'' If workers who bemoan the lack of success did so, they would soon hear the reply, "Because of your little faith;'' little faith being a road to failure as well as no faith. Wflich had so long been lost to view. He abundantly proves that the kingdom of Christ was set up on the day of Pente- cost, after his resurrection, as, indeed, most denomi- nations acknowledge, and that there is no propriety in our using the Lord's prayer. It was quite suita- ble to be used before the kingdom of Christ had come, but not since that time.'' He triumphantly looked round upon the company, with the remark that he would debate the question with any one who denied his proposition. No one dissented. It is now the infidel's opportunity. "Gentlemen," says he, "your remarks are indeed 'timely' for me. They appear to be 'cogent,' 'clear, 'forcible,' and I accept them with great pleasure. I was, indeed, stag- gered before the accusation of having .opposed the ten commandments and the Lord's prayer. I know that all classes have recognized these as both funda- mental and faultless. And in truth I was never able to discover anything assailable in them. But now that you have so satisfactorily disposed of them, I continues:- " But right here is where I think the mistake is. The Bible does not say that Terah died before Abram left Haran, but, on ihe other hand, conveys the idea very strongly that he did not. It is true that the lllst verse of chapter 11 gives an account of the death of Terah, and the first verse of chapter 12 gives an account of what the Lord told Abram about leaving his country, but it does not say that it was after his father's death that be told him this, or that he did not leave before his father's death." And right here is where we would place severa1 exclamation marks. It is strange that the brother should have forgotten or overlooked Acts 7 :2-4, which was referred to in the same lesson, and which reads thus:- "Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken: The God of ~lory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran rHaran], and said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee. Then came he out of the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charran/ and from thence, when his father was dead, he re- moved him into this land wherein ye now dwell.'' The question, then, is reduced to this simple prop- osition: Since Abram left Haran when his father died (Acts 7 : 2-4), and he was seventy-five years old when he left Haran (Gen. 12: 4), how old was he when his father died? No great mathematical skill is required to solve this problem. This was about the order in which it was stated in the Sabbath-school lesson, if we remember correctly. We apprehend that the question concerning Abram's age at the death of his father, was raised in order to see if those studying the lessons were in the habit of com- paring scripture with scripture, and noting the bear- ing of one upon the other. It seems that in this case many did not do so. What has thrown so many off the track is this: They read in Gen. 11 : 26, " And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran." And in Gen. 11:32 they read: "And the days of Terah were two h.undred and five years; and Tenlh died in Haran.'' Putting these two together, they say, "Why, of course Abram was 135 years old when his father died. Thus they ignore the plain and posi- tive statements of Gen. 12:4 and Acts 7 :4, by which we must be guided. The record does not say that Abram was born when his father as seventy years old. There are two statements in Gen. 11 : 26; one is that Terah lived seventy years without chil- dren, and the other is that he begat Abram, N ahor, and Haran. We are not to suppose that these three sons were all born at the same time, any more than we are to suppose when we read (Gen. 5: 7), "And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters,'' that all his sons and daughters were burn at one time. Neither is it necessary to suppose that Abram was the first-born. The youngest son, if he was the most noted, is very often named first. Thus," Ephraim and Manasseh ,; is the order in which Juseph's sons are usually named, although Ephraim was the younger. See Gen. 41:51, 52; 48:17-20. For another illustration, see Gen. 5:32: "And Noah was five hundred years old; and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and .Tapheth.'' The casual reader might suppose that these sons were all born to Noah at one time, and he would certainly suppose that Shem was the eldest, and Japheth the youngest. But by comparing Gen. 9:22-24 with Gen. 10:21, we learn that J apbeth was the eldest son, and Ham the young- est, and that therefore Shem was Noah's second son. He is mentioned first, because he is most worthy of note, as being the ancestor of Abraham. So it is in Gen. 11 :26. Terah was seventy years old when the first of his sons was born; but this was not Abram, since he was not born until his father was 135 years old. (Compare the age of Abram at his father's death, with Gen. 11: 32.) He is, however, named first, because he was the only one of note among the sons of 'l'erah. vVe have not devoted so much space to this ques- tion because we thought it a matter of great im- portance that all should know just how old Abraham was at his father's death, but to show the necessity of careful thought in studying the Scriptures. All the facts of any case do not always appear in a sin- gle passage, and different ones must be compared. One thing must always be borne in mind: When- ever a thing is plainly stated in any text. or must necessarily be concluded from a comparison of two or more positive statements, no seeming contradic- tion based on an inference, can be entertained. In- complete statements, or inferences, must always be interpreted in harmony with positive declarations. By so doing we shall find perfect harmony in the Bible. E. J, W. Political "Christian Ideals." THE Chu1·chman in urging the need of" Christian ideals "in politics, says: "The law of sacrifice, which lies at the basis of Christianity, is the eternal law in politics also, and the truth announced by Christ is indelible, that he who would be chief must make himself a servant.'' Oh, yes! And when· the time comes that, to hold office in this Government, a man. must accept the "Christian ideal" of the church, what masterly exemplars there will be of the law of sacrifice in politics! And how actively they will obey the truth, and make themselves servants that they may be chiefs! That is done in politics now and how much more then, when, by it, they can ex- emplify a "Christian ideal" ! But when the law of sacrifice is followed for the sole purpose of get- ting into offiee, and when a man makes himself a servant for the express purpose of becoming chief, we have serious doubts of both the sacrifice and the servitude. A. T.J. 362 THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. VoL. 11, No. 23. "W"ORK ON. DREAM. not of ease; care not for age; Fill up life's yet unwritten page With manly purposes and deeds. He liveth best, who most succeeds In doing his Creator's will,- In following the Master still. He giveth his beloved rest: This is the portion of the blest. How soon or late that rest may be Is not revealed to you or me; Nor doth it matter, if at even It only is the rest of Heaven. -Hem·y S. Washburn. Huss at Constance. (Continued.) Russ was not inactive during his imprison- ment and trial. His letters, whic~h were numer- ous, written at this time, breathed the same spirit of those of Paul when a prisoner at Rome. He writes to John de Cblum, "The lJord de- livered Jonah from the whale's belly, Daniel from the lions' den, the three men from the fiery furnace, and be can deliver me too if it please him, for the glory of his name and the preach- ing of his word; but if the death comes which is precious in the eyes of the Lord, then let the name of the Lord be praisL·d." To another he writes, "And by the grace of God my return to Prague is a thing not impos~::~ible still I have no desire for it unless it be according to the will of God in Heaven." Huss was ever cheered and sustained by a kind of prophetic consciousness that whatever might. happen to himself, truth wonld go on revealing itself ever more gloriously and mightily, and eventually triumph. He writes, "I hope that what I have spoken in secret will be proclaimed on the house-tops." One night he dreamed that the enemies had destroyed all the pictures of Christ on the walls of Bethlehem chapel. The next day be beheld many painters who were busy drawing more numerous and more beautiful pictures than those which had been defaced. As be gazed with rapture, the painters seemed to say, "Now let the bishops and priests come and destroy these pictures;" and as the multitude of the people rejoiced over it, he rejoiced with them: and amidst the laugh- ter be awoke. He wrote to his friends the dream and waR invited in return to interpret it. Some suggeHt\ d to him that he should not put too much str, ss upon dreams; but Huss in reply said, "Though the goose is now brought down by sickness, and may next be laid as a sacrifice on the altar, yet will she hereafter laugh, and bold them in derision who are de- stroyers of Christ's image." Huss returns a cheery answer to his friend whom be styles the dottor of Biberacb. He says," I have the hope that the life of Chri::>t will be better transcribed by a greater number of better preachers than I am, to the joy of the people who love the life of Christ." For many years after the removal of Hm;s, preachers of like faith and spirit oc- cupied the pulpit of Bethlehem chapel. Two centuries later, Bethlehem chapel was still standing with the very pulpit in which Russ bad preached. On the right band of the pulpit was the picture of Jerome bound to the stake. In the center appeared Huss: the flames kin- dling around him, while his bed, books, etc., are cast into the fire. On the left is another picture of Russ, with the executioner pouring blazing oil upon his h( ad. The chapel is not now in existenee. No effort was spared by Russ to secure his coveted audience ·before the whole council, with freedom to make a full statement and defense of his .position. But this he never had the privilege of doing. His ( nemies feared the in- flne11Ce of his eloquence. And it is probable that with tbe class of bearers that was before him, could he have bad the privilege of defend- ing himself, the council would not have con- demned him. There were ten noblemen of Bo- hemia, and the principal nobles of M.oravia, who wrote to the· emperor protesting against the execution of Russ. But Sigismund bad not even the moral courage of Pilate when be openly declared the innocence of the Saviour. The influence thus brought to bear upon the emperor, although it bad an effect, was not suf- ficient to enable him to publicly make an effort to rescue the reformer. It is evident that Huss never fully embraced the doctrine of justification by faith as Luther did. He writes to his church at Prague, at this time, "I commend you to the merciful Lord J e- sus Christ, our true God, and to the Son of the immaculate virgin .Mary, who has redeemed us by his most bitter death, without all our merits, from eternal pains, ii·om tbe thralldom of the devil, and from sin." The members of the coun- cil instinctively felt that 11 uss was not one of them; that although claiming to belong to the church which they constituted, be bad in fact abandoned it, and renounced its authority. The two leading principles which be bad em- braced were subversive of their whole jurisdic- tion in both its branches, spiritual and temporal. The first and great authority with him was the Holy Scriptures; this struck at the foundation of the hierarchy; and as regards their temporal power, he undermined it by his doctrine touch· ing ecclesiastical revenues and possessions. .B.,rom these two positions neither sophistry nor threats could make him swerve. In the judgment of the council be was in re- bellion. He had transferred his allegiance from the church to God, speaking through his word. This was his great crime. It mattered little in the eyes of the assembled Fathers that be still shared in some of their common belief~::~; he had broken the great bond of submission; be bad become the worst of aU heretics; he had rent from his conscience the shackles of infallibility; and be must needs, in process of time, become a more avowed and dangerous heretic than he was at that moment, and accordingly the mind of the council was made up, John Russ must meet the doom of the heretic. When the coun- cil arose, H uss was led out by his armed escort, and condneted back to prison. His trusty friend, John de Chlum, followed him, and, em- bracing him, bade him be of good cheer. "Oh, what a consolation to me, in the midst of my trials," said Huss in one of his letters, "to see that excellent nobleman, John de Cblum, stretch out the hand to me, miserable heretic, languish- ing in chains, and already condemned by every one." Finally the crisis of the reformer's career was reached. This was between the second and third, or last time, be appeared before the coun- cil. No effort was spared on the part of the emperor and others to get him to abjure his faith. At last the matter was broup;ht to this point, would be submit himself to the council? "If the council should tell you that you have but one eye, yon would be obliged to agree with the coullcil." "But aR long as God keeps me in my senses I would not say such a thing, even though the whole world should reqmre it; be- cause I could not say it without wounding my conscience," was H uss's reply. This was as if the Fathers bad said, '' We shall say nothing of heresy~ we specify no errors, only submit your- self implicitly to our authority as an infallible council. Burn this grain of incense on the altar in testimony of our corporate divinity. That is asking no great matter, surely." How many would have yielded? How many have yiefded under similar circumstances and been lost! Had Russ bowed his head before that body of infallibility, he could never have lifted it up again before his own conscience, be- fore his own countrymen, before his own Sav- iour. Like Samson, he would have been shorn of his strength. He would have escaped the stake w bich gave momentary suffering, but he would have missed the immortal crown that awaits the faithful. From that momeht Russ had peace, deeper than he bad ever before ex- perienced. He writes to a friend, "I write this letter in prison, with my fettered band, expect- ing my sentence of death to-morrow. When with the assistance of Jesus Christ we shall meet again in the delicious peace of the future life, you will learn how mercifully God has shown himself towards me, bow effectually be bas supported me in my temptations and. trials." s. N. H. · Save Your Old Papers for Ship Missions. THE importance of our ship work bas never been over-estimated. 'The forcible .figure that Inspiration uses to show that the angel's proc- lamation was to go by land and by sea, is found in the following words: ·'And be set his right foot on the sea, and his left foot on the earth." This message does not cease until the warn- ing of Rev. 14: 9-12 closes. God's providence brought before the mariners in the days of the apostles a knowledge of the gospel in various ways by the agencies he then used. There are many more traveling ~y sea at the present time than there .were then. These men and women are to be warned of the approaching judgment, and of the day of God. Many who have be- come interested in present truth are instru- mental in carrying the truth to many nations, and tongues, and people, where we bav.e no other means whatever of reaching them. Some of these individuals are stewards of vessels, and those who do not feel that they can at present keep the Sabbath because of their situation, but believe it is truth. Believers who are ob- serving the Sabbath are found in the interior of Africa, South America, British Guiana, and many other places that might be mentioned, where we cannot tell how they first obtained the reading matter. There is no nation but what bas interested readers, who have received the publications that bad been sent to some port by those who are interested in their distribu- tion. Said one steward sailing from Boston, Mass., who bas taken old periodicals by the half barrel to the WeHt India Islands and other points: "I have taken my publications and dis- tributed them among the people, until they would plead with tears in their eyes for more." At some of these islands they would come to the ship and wait for publications. Having re- ceived them from the Rame vessel before, they eagerly expcctt d it would bring them reading matter again. Shall we withhold our efforts in furthering the cause in this respect, as though it were a waste of means and labor? We know that such is not the feeling of any of our brethren and sisters throughout the country, but that with one universal testimony they would say, ''Go forward." Now if you do not use your own papers in the missionary work, which is far the better way, then we earnestly appeal to you to save all your old periodicals, and if you have no other use for them, send them to those parts of the country where there is a living tract society bordering upon the sea coast. They can use them in the ship mission- ary work. In this respect, New York City, the New England and the Pacific Conferences, have the advantage. Chicago and New Orleans fur- nish opportunities for sending the truth by sea. Every steamer on tb·e Mississippi and M.issouri Rivers should carry our periodicals, books, tracts, etc., for those interested to read. Now is the time to work. There will never be a more favorabl.e opportunity than the present. Many publications can be sold to the officers and sailors; and there is scarcely a vessel that sails the ocean but would take an interest in placing our publications in different ports, if the matter were properly set before them. ~rhey JUNE 11, 1885. THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 363 should have an opportunity of doing this wher- ever the disposition is manifested. M,'lny have embraced the Sabbath, some on the islands of the Pacific Ocean, and others in the Atlantic Ocean, by this means alone. welcome everywhere. lf some of our dear California friends would send us some of Elder E. J. Waggoner's "Bible-readings," we could use them to double advantage,-we could sell them, and with the proceeds buy tracts for dis- tribution. I always find that what people pay for they think more of than if it be given to them in a casual way. May the I1ord bless the cause throughout the wide world. The Waldensian Valleys. I HAVE been asked to give a short account of a visit to these fhmous valleys. The history of the \Valdensian Church is well known, so~ will confine my remarks to what I saw and heard duriug my two-days' visit to this inter- esting land, tbat bnR been COJlt-iOC:rated by the hlood of martyrs, and has brought 1orth so much fruit to the praise and glory of God. To-day there is a company in British Guiana observing the Sabbath. The light was carried to them by a colporter from the West India Islands, who received the Sabbath by reading an old volume of the Review which was placed on board the ship at New Bedford, Mass., many years ago. It is the overruling p1·ovidence of God that controls the work of sending the truth by liwd and sea. The truth and the work is God's, and he has said that "it shall go to every nation, and tongue, and people." The honest in heart everywhere will be reached by the rays of light of present truth; and whjle God has in his providence brought into existence this means of carrving the truth to the most distant lands, and ;ais~d friends to assist in this work who are· not of our faith. it would be a sin for us to neglect such openings as present themselves. s. N. H. Liverpool, Eng·Iand. ALTHOUGH I have not reported lately, it is not because we have done nothing. During January, February, and March, we sold $300 worth (163,000 pages) of books, etc., to ships going to various parts of the world, and lately we have learned that some of these publica- tions have fa.llen into the hands of missiollaries in the places where the Bhips have go11c. We receive many letters expressing gratitude for the truth. Lately a Russian-Finland officer bas so far embraced the truth as to make up his mind to give his time to the work as soon as be reaches Finland, which, it is expected, will be in about two and a half mon t.bs. He is a noble soul and ~good· Bible Cbri:-:tian. He bas visited us five times at our bouse, and I feel confident that the I1ord will use him. The mission work is very interesting. and our publieations in a Yery short time ellcirele the world. Persons who have bought books in San Francisco, have come to us and bought more. l would mention particularly the case of the captain and chief officer of the ship Gil R(Jy, of Dundee. The captain bought "Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation,·' at San Francisco, and some other reading matter was given him; be bad carefully read it all, and was hunger- ing for more. He said be was eonvinced on the Sabbath question and wanted to know more how the change as effected. v.,r e sold him the "Sanctuary," "llian 's Nature and Destiny," "Life of Paul," Vol. 4-"Great Con- troversy," "History of the Sabbath," and five pamphlets. We also sold to his chief officer, "'l'hougbts on Daniel and the Revelation," "Sanctuary," and "The Way of Life." I have been to the most important ports in the world, but never have 1 seen one equal to Liverpool. Three men could be employed here on ships alone, and our publications are highly respected. During the first three months of the present year we put, on board ships, 9,000 copies of SIGNs, Review, and Jnstructo1·, .besides a large supply of Good .Health, and have ob- tained several subscribers for Good Health and Present Truth. A sister from ~witzerland is working in the city, from bouse to bouse. Our hearts are filled with gratitude to God that war has been averted, and that peace is assured for a little while longer. We know that it cannot be long, but we pray that the angels may indeed hold the winds till the serv- ants of God are sealed, and may the Lord's people be aroused to the importance of doing the work while there is .peace. "Work while it is called to-day, for the night cometh when no man can work." We are much pleased with the SIGNS every week. It is universally liked.here, and :findR a GEO . .R. DREW. May 12, 1885. --------~-------- New Orleans Mission. THE idea of our leading brethren in starting this mission at the time they did, was to im- prove the advantage to be gained at the World's Exposition, of giving our literature a world- wide circulation. In this I think I can report that their plans have been fully met. .lUany persons fi·om the Old World have receiYed read- ing matter, even a prince of Poland. But it bas been much more extensively circulated over the Southern States, the result of which the J udg- ment day will reveal. As a result of Bible-readings, there are twenty-three rejoicing in the truth, and several others interested. .M.ay the Lord continue to bless these dear souls and the work in this city, is my prayer. The .Exposition is now numbered with the things of the past; but not so with this mission. It is to be sustained, and I believe it will be, until all things earthly are no more. As we now return to Ohio, to assi~-r, but dt·unk." ''And be was always steady?" "Perfectly so, since l met him. He came well recommended, and gave good satisfaction; so good that we were thinking of raising his salary." "How old a man is be?" "Any-where between thirty and forty." "Manied?" - "I don't know-yes, come to think of it, he is, for he lost a child awhile ago." .M:rs. Archer bad her own notions of the rela- tions between employers and employed, but her husband, when she hinted at them, always told her they were most un business-like. "Never let buRiness and charity interfere," he would say, "I am always g-lad to aid any good cause, to help any struggling man or woman, but it must be outside of business. My clerks are mere machines to me; if they run well, I re- tain them; if not, they go." Yet, being a warm-hearted man, Mr. A1·cher was not quite consistent, and it grieved him deeply to turn away a clerk in disgrace. "A quick fellow. Such a good correspondent! Isn't one in the office writes a hand like he!" he kept muttering, as he sat sipping his coffee and peeling fruit for his wife. The front door-bell rang just as Mr. Archer was refusing a second cup of coffee, and John announced, "A lady on business, sir." "Ask her name, John; I am tired, and unless it is something important, I shall see no one." "Mrs. Clark, and she dislikes troubling you, but the matter is important." "His wife!" exclaimed Mrs. Archer, while her husband frowned almost angrily. "}_;et her come in bore, dear. She may not haYe come to tease you, only to explain. Don't send her off without a hearing. Do you mind my being in the next room ·while you see her?" "No, indeed; and if you were not so soft- hearted, I would engage you to come in at the right moment to send her off. I can't stand a woman's tears." Then stepping to the door, Mr. Archer added, "Show the lady in here, John." A moment more, and a young woman came in. Her dress was most severely simple, but it was such as only a lady would have devised, and her manner, though nervous, was of one accustomed to move among cultivated people. "I beg pardon, Mr. Archer, for calling at this hour, but I could not wait through a long night." The voice was so sweet and low, and the eyes that were raised to his so full of patient endur- ance and quiet determination, that Mr. Archer said to himself, "Confound the fellow! How could he do it with such a wife?" But he was not a man of ready speech, and, though feeling more kindly to his guest, did not say a word to help her on. "My husband will not explain matters to you; he thinks you might fancy he was excusing him- self, and he and I both know that no man has any real excuse, though "-her voice broke a little, but she recovered herself, and began again. "I will tell you the exact truth-the story of our married life, tbongh I hardly hope that it will make any diffvrenee to us, it may be the means of your saving others; at least, I have felt impelled to come and tell it. We were very happy the first year or two; but my husband, through the failure of the-firm be was with, lost his position. He was oft'ored another clerln,bip, but a relntive of mine was willing to take him into business as a partner, and it was tempting-he accepted. This relative was un- married; and after six months, tir-ing of the business, he sold out; and as affairs had been carelessly arranged with my husband, he was again cast loose without any means of support. 1 believe that he then brgan to drink-not much, but 1 never suspected it; only enough to 'give him courage,' as be said afterward. "I will not weary you with an account of the next three years. It was in the panic times, and better men than be bad nothing to do. He was often from morning to night without food, and when a friend would ask him to step in and take a drink, I cannot wonder that he, little susvecting danger, would aecept. As be has said since, many a friend will offer a man a glass, but not one in ten will ask him to lunch. The habit of drinking grew upon him, till when be did get a position he could not keep it. He sank very low. Not that be drank bard, but liquor made him unfit for business, and affected him very quickly. He had been out of business six months when a friend of ours told him that he could get him a position in your office if he would solemnly swear not to touch liquor. He had been so steady for some months that I felt sure, with encouragement, he would be a changed man. "He was accepted by the firm just about a year ago. I remember so well my anxiety that night; for our friend had told us that the last correspondent had eighteen hundred a year, and I felt that if he could be raised above real anxiety, he would be so much safer. He came home very happy, for he was accepted. His salary was one thousand dollars; but he felt sure, if he did his best, he would soon have it increased. He was very happy and hopeful, and though l knew that we had debts that must be paid at once, and that we could no longer live with our relatives, I tried to keep up a brave heart." "I am sure you did," Mr. Archer said, invol- untarily: and his kind tones encouraged the wife to go on with her story. "You see my husband was always so gener- ous when he had money-so hopeful that he would have more-that though he brought me all his salary, only paying for hismonthly commuta- tion ticket, and reserving ten cents a day for his lunch, I found it a very hard matter to pay rent and keep the house on his salary, besides trying to pay the debts that now began to trouble him. We had four children "-the mother's voice would break in spite of her strong will, but she keep the tears back-" per- haps you know tbat we buried our little six- year-old a year ago? The eldest had to be sent to a good school, for our children will have a better position by and by, and must be fitted for it. Still, even though we had great anxiety and struggles, if we had been fortunate in choosing our home in a healthy place, I think all might have been well. Unfortunately, we were tempted by the cheap rents' to hire in a little village in Jersey. 'l'bey assured us chills were unknown there, but at the end of three monthR we were all ill. The doctor's bills and the quinine crushed us, Mr. Archer. "My husband wont to business, time and again, sick with malarial fever .. He gave en- tire satisfaction, for more work was piled upon him-he wrote such a good band; but no hint was given him of raising his salar.y. He says it is a mere matter of business-that the fi I'm never knows how many children a man ht1s, nor whether he can live on his salary. Jf he can't, they can get one who can. "At last the fever got such a bold of our lit- tle Robbie that he died. I had lost all fear of my husband's drinking, for he had gone again and again to business, distressed and half sick, and had not tasted a drop; so I thought him cured. But be told me to-day that ever sinoe Robbie went he has been tempted. He bas felt so discouraged, so hopeless. This morning an old comrade met him. He was weak and depressed-he had given up hope of getting out of debt anJ educ:tting his children properly, and he took the offered drink!" Here the poor tired wife bnrst into tears. In a moment Mrs. Archer was by her side, sooth- ing her with loving words. and p1;omising a hundred possible things, talking between whiles to her husband, who sat conscience stricken, unable to defend himself against her indigna- tion. "This is what comes of keeping business and benevolence apart. 'l'bis comes of looking upon your employees as mere machines. If tbe poor follow had been in one or the institutions yon uphold, his family would have been helped, and he would have been carefully guarded and guided. But here is a man who tries to retrieve himself; who, run down, and living in an un- healthy atmosphere, needed for his salvation an adequate income, and you hardly knew he was a married man! Henry, Henry! who was it asked God scornfully, 'Am I my brother's keeper?'" By this time Mrs. Clark had grown composed,· and was listening in undisguised astonishment, and even horror, to her new champion. She bad had the same thoughts, but such things could not be said. "0 Mrs. Archer," she said hurriedly, "my husband has said again and agnin there is not a firm in the city that is more noted for its large clonations-" - "Donations!'' put in Mrs. Arcller impatiently. "And if a clerk is ill, his place is kept for him, and his salary goes on." "To be sure it does; that is mere decent treatment. Every well-to-do bouse docs tlwt, my dear Mrs. Clark. What I complain of is that so many men and women who are good and kind and generous, like Mr. Archer, yet employ men nnd women without tnking any in- terest in their lin~s, without feeling that, as children of a common Father, as fellow-pilgrims to a better home: we must take a warm per::W11al interest in those whom we employ. "How many ladies know the private history oftheir servants, take an interest in the mother in the old conntrv, or the brother who bas been a little wild, but \~ho is trying to mend, and ought to be invited to Mnry's warm kitchen, eveni11gs, JUNE 11, 1885. THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 365 and so kept from bad companions? And with gentlemen it is even worse; for their clerks are edueated gentlemen like themselves, sometimes better educated than themselves; and yet the heads of a firm seldom or ever care ·whether their clerks are able to edueate their children, or can afford to save a delicate wife by giving her change of air and rest from anxiety.'' "It is very true," said Mr. Archer, slowly; "and. for my part, whatever Ames or Hancock may think of it. things must be looked after down at the office. I will see your husband myself, to-morrow/' be added, taking Mrs. Clark's band in his, "and 1 ask you to forgive a fellow-sinner-a fellow-Christian. Let Clark be at his desk as usual, and now that we do know one of our clerk's wives, we mean to keep up the acquaintance, don't we, wife?" "Indeed we do! But Mrs. Clark bas come all the way from Jersey, and I don't believe she's dined!'' There was a ringing of bells and hurried orders, and soon Mrs. Clark was seated between her new friends, who bad to play at eating a second dinner to keep her in countenance. Then Mr. Archer, tired as he was, decided be would go out to the little Jersey home that very night, and have a talk with Mr. Clark. Mrs. Archer could see by the happy look in the wife's eyes that that was just what she most wanted. So the carriage was ordered, and soon the brave woman who had mounted those steps two hours before with such fear, was running li§2:htly down, sure that she was carrying a true friend to her husband, who would help him to lead a new life. What passed between the wealthy merchant and his wife that r1ight is only known to them; but there were mutual confessions; both felt humbled and penitent, and the morrow began a new life with each. We need not follow them further. Would that thi.s story, founded on fact, might arouse other noble men to a sense of their duty-to an acknowledgment that they are their brothers' keepers, under God.-Ch1·istian Weekly. Fame Purely Local. FAME is only local. There is no such thing as universal celebrity. When the hostler begged the bishop to shake ha11ds with the bruiser in the stable-yard (" he'lllet yer") the worthy man simply gave expression to the relative opinions regarding prelates and prize-fighters held in his circle. When Victor Hugo wit- nessed a marriage at a mai1·ie recently the registrar nearly brought on an apoplectic fit by mildly asking the "maitre" whether he spelled his name with or without a "t." He was unconscious of the existence of the poet. A couple of pious pilgrims fi·om New England once visited the bouse of Cullen Bryant, rever- entia1ly examining every hole and corner, greatly to the delight of the poet, but went away very wrathful when they discovered that they had mistaken the place. They wanted to see the home of "Billy Bryant, the negro min- strel." None of the farmers close to Tenny- son's house could tell an American tourist any- thing more about him than that they "heerd as 'ow he wrote poetry-books for the queen." When the pedestrian asked the rustic for Shakespeare's house be was asked who be was; and so little do the Norwich innkeepers appre- ciate the fame of Sir Thomas Browne that when a recent visitor inquired for the house said to be his he was referred to the local directory which "contains the names of all the resident gentry."-London World. IF men were as ready to commend what they approve as they are to condemn what they disapprove, }jfe would be rendered much more pleasant, and many thorns that now pierce men's hearts would never enter them.-Sel, · ~ JJ J 9;'r own control. They are simply mysterious dis- ~ ea f t ltlt1 wtffip-trltll(£. pensations of Providence, and intemperance part of the general perversity of mankind, never to be accounted for by any natural cause. Food and Intemperance. In the limits assip:ned it is impossible to go into the history of food or of national dietaries IN the conflicting theories of temperance and their effects. Yet it is certain that national agitators, and the hot disputes of prohibitionists tood has created national tendencies ever since and non-prohibitionists, essential facts at times the story of food began. The E~peculative and slip out of sight. 'Vith an evil so enormous mystical tendenc~ies of all East lndian races are there seems to be no remedy save in striking the direct result of an abstinence which leaves at the root-the root being taken to be always the brain unclouded by any fumes of food. In the existence of facilities for obtaining the fact, there is not substance eno~h in the favor- stimulant. 'l'he desire for such stimulant is ite food to give full body either to life or regarded by a large proportion of workers in thought, for as the dietary enlarges, thought this field as onlv another manifestation of that grows with it, a varied diet proving itself es- total depravity~ of mankind which can find no sential to complex and sustained thought. But salvation sa...-e in, first: the grace of God, and, whenever the food is too strongly stimulating- second, the abolition of the saloon. and this occurs whenever meat is used too For some of more ardent faith, the man who freely-there is felt at once, as the inevitable swears off, if honest and believing, is proof consequence, an abnormal and craving thirst. against even the saloon, conversion having 'l'he ambition of the day-laborer in our cities rendered temptation innocuous; and now and is to have plenty of meat, and this is preferred then a case occurs which seems to bear out this as steak fried to a crisp, and swimming in fat. theory. But for the most part it is understood For the South, and much of the West, :c bog that indulgence has created a craving, excited and hominy" rule; the former as bacon, used often to madness by the sight or smell of liquor~ three times a day~ and also swimming in fat; and that one of the first essentials in common-the latter as pone, rank with saleratus. In sense work is to remove temptation, and thus each case there is far more heat-food than can prevent the possibility of relapse. possibly be assimilated. The result is an irri- This, and much more in the same line of tated stomach, overheated blood, and thus a thought, is all true, but it seems seldom to dl'ying of every tissue over which it paRses, occur to even the most ardent worker that, thirst being the natural consequence. True though cure of an existing appetite is now the nourishment has not been given. The tissues prime consideration, prevention might have are stimulated, but not fed. The stomac·h does taken its place. The appetite is there, and its work as it can, sending on the half-digested apparently an instinct; and for many this is mass: and ending, an hour after food bas been the fact. Inheritance has given generation taken, in a "goneness" and craving that only after generation the craving, and made perpet-stimulant can satisfy. ual battle the only safeguard against it. And Nothing appears to soothe and quiet such so, in every home where the curse has found cravings so well as alcohol in some form. For resting place, women are weeping and praying the Southern or Western man it is likely to be and planning-now indignant a·t the weakness whisky, made from the corn that has already and shameful fall of those for whom they pray; proved his enemy in one form, and now turns now melting into pity, and gathering all forces to a still more deadly one in another. For the for a fresh fight and perhaps a fresh defeat. city laborer there are many forms, lager beer The proportion of drinkers increases, and with appearing always the most innocent, because so it the ever-increasing percentage of paupers, much is required to bring about any effect, the criminals, idiots, lunatics, made so by this liquor amount of alcohol in each glass being too small fiend which threatens every home, and, directly to afford much sense of stimul9.tion. But the or indirectly, has power in every home. No blue quantity taken must alw~::~.ys increase. All nat- ribbon bars the way so completely that admit-ural craving for food ceases, a glass of some- tance cannot be had; no prayer has power thing to whip up the stomach and incline it to enough to stay the fall that may at any mo-work being the first thought of the morning. ment be the fate of the most earnest struggler. So the miserable course goes on, till constant For one who looks for other than surface thirst, impossible to quench or satie.fy, is the reasons it soon becomes apparent that there is self-induced state of every drinking man. some cause not yet reached, nor likely to be Whatever may be thought of stimulating the reached, by present methods. A little investi-appetite of the exhausted brain-worker, tor in- gation shows that the drinker of the more stance, by the use of a glass or so of light wine, common stimulants,-whisky, gin, or beer,-in which there is but the smallest proportion of is usually in the class fed on coarse food, alcohol, it is certain that any cruder torm in improperly prepared. Exactly what connec-time destroys all susceptibility, and at last all tion this food has with a morbid thirst is not power to work in natural ways. The effect of asked. 'l'here is a general feeling that the alcohol is shown in a passage from Dr. "William poor man in large cities must have better lodg-Robert's lecture on "Digestion," in which he ing, better air, and better food, before he can mentions certain facts in connection with the tight his propensity successfully; but better eating of raw oysters, a method preferable to food is taken to mean, generally, not greater any other, for reasons which pe states as f0llows: variety, but meat in ooe form or another, in "The fawn-colored mass, which is the deli- larger amount, and at every meal. What the cious portion of the fish, is its liver, and is sim- direct effect of a preponderance of animal food ply a mass of glycogen. Associated with the may be is never asked, and the one question of glycogen, but withheld from actual contact with diet is considered only in Inebriate Homes or it during life, is its appropriate digestive fer- under special treatment. It is known that the ment-the hepatic diastase. The mere crushing stomach of the confirmed drinker is weakened, of the oyster between the teeth brings these and rendered almost incapable of digestion, but two bodies together, and the glycogen is at the restoration of power is supposed to come once digested without any other help than the with signing the pledge; and that long waiting diastase. The ·raw, or merely warmed, oyster and utmost care are necessary never occurs. is self-digestive. But the advantage of this For the masses who must deal with intemper-provi8ion is wholly lost by cooking; for the heat ance there is but the smallest understanding, immediately destroys the associated ferment, often none at all, of what part food plays in and a cooked oyster has to be digested, like repressing or creating the dreaded appetite. any other food, by the eater's own digestive And even the most ardent student of laws, has powers. small faith in any laws that govern the body. "'My dear sir, do you want to ruin your di- Unaccountable tendencies must be beyond ou:c gestion?' asked Professor Houghton, of Trinity 366 THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. VoL. 11, No. 23. College, one day, of a friend who bad ordered brandy and water with his oysters in a Dublin restaurant. "'fhen he sent for a glass of brandy and a glass of Guinness's XX, and put an oyster in each. In a very short time there lay in the bottom of the glass of brandy a tough, leathery substance resembling the finger of a kid glove, while in the porter there was hardly a trace of the oyster to be found." This "kid-glove" condition covers also the stomach steeped in alcohol: which responds more and more feebly to any demand upon its powers. l1nrger and larger doses become a necessity, and thus the evil effects are cumula- tive, and each glass a stront:er reason for an- other. Is the pledge any sufficient guarantee against the inevitable working out of natural lav, s? and can any ribbon hold power enough to quiet a craving increased at eveU-y meal, and which, unless there be a struggle horrible to all who must witness it, proves master in the end? Yet it is certain that in right food is the solution of the difficulty, and that for those in whom there is inherited tendency this is tb~ only method of suppressing the insistent desire.-lfelen Camp- bell, in Clwistian Union. Physiolog-ical Happiness. WAYLAND defined happiness as "pleasurable consciousnep,s.'' The well-fed horse, the brows- ing cow, thle gamboling colt, the playful kitten and its mother-cat fondly watching it, are filled with pleasurable consciousness. 'rhis is pro- vided for on the normal action of the physical sy:-:;tem. The capering ehild is happy for the same reason. Ancient sages thought that the spheres were so arranged that their various motions made entrancing music. Happiness is the music of the physical system in its proper working. It is most perfect where the vitality is fullest and most vigorous. This is quite different from the enjoyment of the appetites. 'l'lle latter may be legitimate, but it is brief at best. He who lives for it de- stroys at length his power to enjoy. That eminent scientist, B. W, Richardson, F. R. S., has gone a little further, and given us the particular seat of this pleasurable conscious- ness. He says, " The center is not in the brain; it is in the vital nervous system-in the great ganglia of the sympathetic, lying not in the cerebro-spinal r~avities, but in tbe cavities of the body itself, near the stomach and in the heart. We know where the glow whieh indicates fe- licity is felt, and our poets have ever described it with perfect truthfulness as in the breast. It comes as a :fire kindling there." The London Lancet declares this to be a sci- entific truth, demonr:;trated by a man of genius. It adds, ''In other words, felicity is a physical result of a brisk and healthy circulation of blood through the vesRels supplying the ganglia of the great sympathetic system of nerves; and whatever quicke11S, and at the same tia:e frees, the flow of blood .in these vessels particularly, engenders the feeling we call happiness. This is the fact, and we believe it explains the action of many articles of food and medicine and rnedical appliaooes. Everything in life and nature acts and reacts in a circle. Be happy, and your sympathetic ganglia will have the blood coursing through them with the bound of health; and this quickening of the pulse, if it be produced by good cheer, whether at the table or the mountain-side, will produce hapviness." Even intellectual enjoyment connects with the normal activity of the cerebral centers, and thns quickens the arterial :flow through the sympathetic nervous system. lt will be seen that, other things being equal, that man will be happiest whoso physical sys- tem is kept in Lhe best working orqer.-f!J~fth's Co'rnpanion. ~twz anti ~ntez. RELIGIOUS. -Over 100,000 copies of the Revised Old Testa- ment were sold in New York City the day of its first issue. -The Indr>pendent says: "The '"'Westminster Confession' teaches ns plainly as words could declare it, thnt some infants are left to perdition." -In the Revised Old Testament, the psalms are divided into five books, the last four beginning re- spectively with the 42d, 73d, 90th, and 107th. -The churches in Toronto have once a year nn Inter-denominational Exchange Day, when Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians exchange pulpits. -Tlte American Tract Society issued 68,862,904 pages of publications lnst year. The rect>ipts amounted to $353,818.29, and expenditures $352,- 141.76. -Three new Quaker missionaries are reported to have arrived safely at the capital of Madagascar, and a second doctor hns been appointed to nssist Dr. Fox in the medical mission there. -No less than 33 distinct missionary agencies are at work in Africa at the present time. In South Africa there are 450 Protestant missionaries, 95 na- tive ministers, 40,000 eommunicants, 250,000 under instrndion, and probably 1,000,000, more or less, under the influence of Christianity. -Rev. A. J. Gordon, D. D., Rev. H. L. Hastings, and others, were arrested and fined ten dollars each for conducting religious services on Boston Common on Sunday, May 17, without a license. Upon which one of the secretaries of the Americnn Missionary Board remarked that there is not a heathen city on the globe where such preaching would not be allowed. But then, Boston is "cultured," you know. Yes, it is. -The Christian at Wo?'li; says: "The conviction is deepening that there will have to be a revision of the New Testament Revision, unless the work is to be limited to students and scholars. Its use has been cli::;continued in many pulpits which first adopted it, and it certainly is making very slow head- way into popular favor, its stiff literalism and un- idiomatic English militating against its adaptabil- ity to populnr use." -The Index argued lately that Washington was a deist. The Congregationalist answered by quota- tions of Washington's words and acts in respect to Christ and his religion. The Index rejoined, that as, in our day, professors at Andover subscribe to creeds which they can accept, only by an inter- pretation of the language never designed by those who wrote the creeds,' so Washington "in times less enlightened than these,' may have said what he did about 'the divine Author of our blessed religion' without meaning anything in particular by it." To this the Congregationalist replies: "But, then, Wash- ington seems to have bad an exceptionally high standard of honor and right." That is all right so far as Washington is concerned, but it sets the An- dover Professors in not a very enviable light as re- gards "honor and right." SECULAR. -Philadelphia has no public library. -Cholera bas broken out at Valencia, Spain. -The prosecution of polygamists goes steadily on. -The decrease of the public debt for May was $4,225,000. . -The Indians in Alaska are causing the miners some trouble. -The net debt of the United States has now gone below $1,500,000,000. -The Apaches of New Mexico and Arizona are still on the war-path. -San Francisco, Cal., boasts of an increase of 5,000 school children in one year. -During a storm at Chicago, June 2, three per- sons were killed by lightning. -England's acceding to Russia's demands seems to be taken as a sign of weakness. -Hay in Mason Valley, Nev., is reported to be selling at $1.00 per ton in stack. -The Hessian fly is doing a great deal of dam- age to the wheat crop in some parts of Kansas. -Dr. Jamie Ferran, who has brought to Ught inoc- ~latiou for cholera, is but thirty-three years of a~e. -Millions of grasshoppers are coming out of the sandy soil on the south side of the Arkansas River. -At Pittsburg, Pa., several of the iron mills are stopped because of a strike among the workmen. -It is estimated that the best beet lands will yield from 3,000 to 6,000 pounds of beet sugar per acre. -England is likely to have trouble with Germany on nccount of German trnders in Zanzibar, east Africa. -Wnshington Territory farmers are now seWng thrir last year's wheat at fifty-three cents per bushel. -It is Rtated that Spnin and Cuba have alrendy spent $700,000,000 in trying to put down the natives of Cuba. -'Vashington, D. C., is now the eleventh city in size in the United States. In 1880 she was the fourteenth. -Grasshoppers have appeared in Spanish Valley near St. Helena, Cal., and nearly destroyed every green thing. -The ship Sherwood, when off the const of New Zealand, March 14, experienced a terrific hurricane, which lasted eight hours. -The New York Times says: "It now seems very clear that the wheat crop of 1885 will fall at least 125,000,000 bushels short of 1884." -The mayor of Chicago has issued an order for the closing of all gambling rooms, and the police are to see that it is continually enforced. -Talmage comes out in favor of cremation. He says: "I really think that resurrection is easier after incineration than after inhumation." -Beecher's second sermon on evolution filled Plymouth Church. He accepts as an bypotht>sis that man came from the great family of apes. -Beckford Mackay, United States Consul at Rio Grande do Sul, has gotten himself into trouble by shooting an editor. His trial will take place this week. -The return of 129 Nez Perces Indians to Lewis- ton, I. 'I'., is reported. The men were gaily appar- eled in broadcloth, and the women and children bad silk handkerchiefs and gold jewelry. -Mutilated silver coin is to be purchased at the United States Mints at Philadelphia, Snn Francisco and New Orleans, in sums of three dollars and up~ wards. The price paid is the same as for bullion. -A new bill for hastening the abolition of slav- ery in Brazil bas been brought before the senate. The slaves have decreased in number since 1871, un- der the law passed then, from 1,547,660 to 1,346,648. -The school board in Lewiston, Me., having voted to pay the teachers of the St. Joseph Catholic parochial school, are now called on to do the same for the teachers of the Freuch Catholic parish school. -A fire broke out in the colliery at Durham, En- gland, June 3, shutting in 350 miners. The later dispatches state that all have been rescued but t~enty-two persons who were killed by the explo- sion. -The United States steamer Corwin, which sailed for a cruise in the Arctic, last April, returned to San Francisco for repairs. The Co1·win reports that the whaling bark Rainbow was crushed in the ice. No lives lost. -Over 4.700 persons have been inoculated with cholera microbes by Dr. Ferran in the province of Valencia, Spain, as a preyentive of the disease. The new system is said to be entirely successful and the epidemic is disappearing. , -Another tenement house, this time in Jersev City, ~· J., .has collapsed, killing four persons and wound1.ng mne othe~s, more or Jess seriously. How long Will our Amencan people allow this kind of criminal carelessness to go unpunished? -At Astoria, Or., six of seven fishermen con- victed of rioting, asked that the seventh rna~ who was a married man, be allowed to go free, t~ care for his family, asserting their willinO'ness to suffer his penalty for him if divided among 0them. -Beaver Park reservoir, in South Sturain Canon Nevada, bursted its banks, and a column of wate1: 120 feet high came rushing down the canon at a fearful rate, carrying away houses, barns, bridges, and destroying much property. No lives lost. -In the fall of "Professor" Odlum, as he jumped from Brooklyn bridge, the tremendous force with which his groin struck the water tore the skin, ~arted the spleen, ~ore off one kidney, ruptured the liver, broke five nbs, and almost every importa:p.t internal or~an wa::; injured b;y-the shock, · JUNE 11, 1885. THE BIG NS OF THE TIMES. 367 Q9hituar~. CuSHMAN.-Died. of consumption, at St. Clair, Nev., May 24, 1885; Mary E. Cushman, aged 41 years, and 11 months. Sister Cushman was born in Ohio, came West in her youth, and resided almost twenty years in the neighborhood where she died. Her disease dated back more than fifteen years before her decease. She embraced the present truth in the winter of 1877-78. Her sufferings at times were intense, but she told her friends to be anxiom; for themselves, and not for her. Her husband and two sons, with other relatives and friends, are bowed wit.h grief; nevertheless they expect immortality to be given soon. Sermon by the writer from Num. 23:10. G. w. COLCORD. ~p p nintm~nts. OAKLAND. -House of worship, northeast corner of Clay and Thirteenth Streets. Sabbath-school every Sab- bath at 9:30 A. M. Preaching at 11 A. M. Prayer and missionary meeting every Tuesday evening at 7:00. Seats free. SAN FRANCISCo.-House of worship, 912 Laguna Street, between McAllister and Tyler Streets. 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A TEI.EGRAM: from Sydney says: "We have ar- rived and are all well. We had a very pleasant voyage. Address us at Melbourne." Many prayers went with them, for their safe journey. And many prayers will follow them in the beginning of their work. Ps. 118:25. For the in f'ormatiou of all we state that the Aus- tralian mail left San Francisco June 6, and leaves every jour weeks. To England. BY the Review just received as we prepare for the press, we learn that the company who went to En- gland had a pleasant and profitable trip. They scattered the publications, held Bible-readings and preaching services, and fnrmerl a number of pleasing acquaintances. \Ve hope soon to receive tidings of their work in the Old \Vorld. Zealous, but Ignorant. A :MAN in Oshawa, Canada, writes a long communi- cation to the Weekly Globe and Canada Fm·mer, giving an account of the work and "the death of Millerism." Somebody has kindly sent us a copy of the paper. A couple of points are suffi- cient to show the extent of his knowledge of the subject of which he writes. He rehearses as a fact the long-ago and oft-exploded story that the believ- ers in Mr. Miller's theory prepared "ascension robes," declaring that the story is true; and we know it is not true. The other point which we will no- tice will show to the satisfaction of every one that he is entirely ignorant of the matters of which he. speaks. He says that Millerism flourished un- til Apri115, 1843, when it died; and that the proc- lamation of the coming end of the world was greatly aided by "the grandest meteoric shower Canada aud the Northern States ever saw." And this he locates "on the 13th day of November, 1842." This date with him is not an error of the pen, or a mistake of the printer; he states it deliber- ately, and describes the hard winter of 1842, fol- lowing the falling of the stars. Now the winter of 1842-43 was a hard winter, just as he describes it, similar to last winter, but the stars fell in 1833 nine years before! We advise him to inquire of somt>body wl10 knows the truth about these things before he attempts to write their history again. Proud of Perjury. THE prevalence of pe1jury in our courts is alarm- ing, and makes it impossible to administer justice with any certainty. The ·• Sharon Divorce Case" developed an unusual amount, and the noted wit- ness, Nellie Brackett, now cor_nes into court, and without a blush or sign of regret, swears that all her evidence in the case was false. She was com- plimented by a lawyer on her powers as a liar, and coolly replied: ''Well, I toTd a good many lies, and told them well; I am a Ruccess at it." A fifteen years' sentence to San Quentin might coo] her ardor, and take away from h('r silly head the romance of false swearing. But there is so much of it done that it loses its vile character in the eyes of the world. We would cheerfully make one suggestion, if it would do any good. Our public prosecutors ought to add perjury to the indictments of "defaulters," alias thieves, and others who serve themselves in of- fices at the public expense. Why administer an oath, making a man swear that he will faithfully discharge the duties of an o1fice, and never take note of the perjury when he violates his trust? Nothing serves more to make the oath a farce than this practice. But we fear the current is set in too strong; it will scarcely be checked. The Bad Boy. WHEN we ride on the cars a volume is thrust into our faces, and we are inYited to buy "Peck's Bad Boy." Walking the street, a card is handed to us with an ihvitation to go to tl1e theater, to see the "Bad Boy" performed by a comedy company. We do not suppose our protest will do any good, but we do protest against this raid upon the public by "Peck's Bad Boy." To tell the naked truth, bad boys are no novelty in California. We do not have to read a book nor go to the theater to become ac- quainted with their ways. We only wish that Peck lived in San Francisco, and that he were obliged to walk a nightly round on "Tar Flat," or the" Barbary Coast," or" Bryant Street," and we feel assured that he would be glad to forget that bad boys have an existence. And we believe that it would be to the interest of juvenile morality if Peck's bad book were entirely suppressed. There are plenty of boys, not only in San Francisco and Mil waukee, but all through the country, who think.that it is funny and smart to be- come notorious as bad boys, and this demoralizing bad book of Peck's is not only strengthening them in their belief, but the patronage given to the book by those who ought to know better, is leading scores of tolerably good boys to believe that they have been losing youth's best opportunities in not developing into bad boys. In their efforts to be good they have entirely failed to become as popular as the bad boy; and most children love to be popular-they love to be admired, and what so pleasing to human nature as to be a bad boy if thereby one can be praised and admired? We hope that parents will cuusider well before they let copies of this pernicious book fall into the hands of their children. Religious papers·ought to warn them against it. All children should be taught that "practical jokes" are both cruel and wicked. We must be excused; we shall not buy the book, nor shall we go to the theater to see the pranks of any bad boy. We have no admiration for bad boys nor their ways. We see them on the streets only too frequently. College Literature. THE following from the Chu1·chman we would commend to the consideration of the authors of a college production not a thousand miles from Oak- laud, as well as everywhere else. We are happy to state in this connection that the college papers of the Seventh-day Adventists are faithful exponents of the plan recommended. In proof of which we would call attention to the Students' lVorkshop of the Healdsburg College, Healdsburg, Cal. "We notice with pleasure that the students in at least one of our great colleges are comino-to be a little ashamed of the periodical literature ~hich has heretofore been the chief literary exponent of col- legiate life. They are beginning to see what their elders have seen with some impatience, that the triv- iality of college papers is of a dissipHting character. No one objects to college fun, especially if it be the healthful outburst of animal life in momentary ex- pression; but to print, week after week, the idle, foolish chatter of the college room. is to set before our fellows a very mean sort of literature. 'Ve do not expect collegians to be weighty in their wisdom, but they do themselves a wrong when they use the noble art of literature to give currency to twaddle, or, worse still, to feeble Ratire upon colJege officers Why should not the thought of collegians try for a more honorable expression r Let them make their' papers e);ponents of their best thought, not of their idlest. The practice in literature which a college paper affords is not to be despised. It is only the m~dpractice which rigl1t-minded people condemn. Make your papers as light as you will, we say to these literary youngsters, if lightness is your best, but remember that the most genuine light literature is that which gives light." Short Musical Notes. THERE are two ideas of time in the execution of tunes: the first respects the relative length of sounds in the same tune; the second has respect to manner of executing the tune as a whole-whether slowly or rapidly. It is generally conceded that time is an important factor in all music, either vocal or instrumental, where a number of perfor~ers are required. There is really no music made by a choir or a congregation where time is not observed; there is only a medley of discordant sounds. This is one method of murde1·ing (instead of executing) a tune. The object of church music beiug to give expres- sion to words, there must not only be a correspond- ence between the words and the music, but the time must be suitable to both. It is a great mistake to suppose that a tune sung slowly is necessarily "dragged," and it is a mistake to suppose that church music sung rapidly is necessarily "artistic." 'Ve remember hearing a piece of Sabbath-school music begun in quick time, and the leader cried "faster!" and he led the way in a gallop. so rapidly that it was not possible for the singers to distinctly articulate the words. Such singing is as far as can be from giving proper expression to the words. If there was any devotional feeling at the outset, it was dissipated before many lines were sung. And it is an error to suppose that in order to be artistic a tune must be sung in staccato style. There is comparatively littlP-church music that re- quires that style in a marked degree; while there is much that must be sung in a smooth, flowing style, to do it justice. No mere musician-that is, one who has studied music alone-is fit to lead in church music; he must be a student in language, in expres_ sion, to do justice to sacred verse. Even the differ- ent parts of a verse may require different styles as to time; but here another error must be guarded agains.t: changes from fast to slow or slow to fast must not be too violently made. · And yet one more error we will notice. It is that of supposing that the same tune or the snme words have a fixed time from which they cannot be varied. A quartette, or a company of six to ten singers, may sing a piece more rapidly than sixty or a hundred could sing the same piece. It would be quite proper for a few performers to sing a piece in the time which would utterly spoil that piece if sung by a large congregation. A leader must po:;:sess judg- ment. and understand the material he bas to handle. Speaking of tunes, we would remark that there are "few tunes as useful-as capable of varied execu- tion-as Arlington. A judicious leader with a sen- sible company of singers can make of it just what he pleases. He can suit it to a funeral or a jubilee. But this requires skill and taste. THE SIGNS OF THE TilES, PUBLISIIKD WEEKLY, AT OAKLAND, CAL., FOR TUI!i International Tract and Missionary Society. 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