"nehold I come quickly, and my reward is with me, to g·ive every man according as his work shall be." Rev. 22:12. 
VOLUME 12. 
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, FIFTH-DAY, JUNE 17,. 1886. 
NUMBER 23. 
OCQe £ligns nf tQe [it es. 
PUBLISHED WEEKLY, FOR THE 
whom God endowed with giant minds, and to do until the Master shall bid us ln.y our 
whom the world called great men, rallied un-armor n.t his feet; and we must wait and ,,·ntch, 
der the banner of Sntan, and used the gifts of submissi•·e to God's will, ready and willing to 
God fortbe perversion of truth and the dcstruc-respond to every call of duty. 
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tion of the 1:>ouls of men. Nero was acknowl-
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A 
PILGRIM SONG. 
OuR God is faithful! Time moves on, to find us 
Still singing of the mercies left behind us-
Still taking, as we sing, of some fresh store, 
And looking trustfully for those before. 
How can we doubt, with memories to cheer us? 
How can we sorrow. with his love w near us?. 
How can we faint, while he has ~trength to give, 
And we, by faith, his proffered grace receive? 
Like as a father, pitying, he leads us, 
And daily with some heavenly morsel feeds us; 
Sees to our ailings, hushes our alarms, 
And bears us, weary, in his loving arms. 
He who has led thus far will never leave U3,, 
Until heat his heavenly home receive us. 
There we shall see his face, and. there adore, 
And tune our harps to praise him evermore. 
There sorrows shall be lost in joy forever, 
'Vhere trouble, sin, and want can never enter; 
Where, in a day that knows no coming night, 
We'll bless the faithfulness that kept us right. 
-London Christian. 
~rth:I~z. 
The ~rue Standard of Christian 
Excel1ence. 
re(!ard him as sueh? 
No! be was not con-cordance with the plan of salvation. Man is 
nected by living faith to the great heart of hu-required to love ,God supremely, that is, with 
manity. 
He and others like him in the world all his might, mind, and strength, and his neigh-
ate, and drank, and slept, as men of tho world; bor as himself. 
This he cnnnot possibly do 
but they were Satanic in their cruelt.y. 
\Vher-unless ne shall deny himself. 
Said Christ. "If 
ever went these monsters in human form, blood-any man will come after me, let him deny him-
shed and destruction marked their pathway. self, a.nd take up his cross, and follow me.'' 
They were lauded while living, bnt when. they 
To deny self means to rule the spirit when 
were buried, the world rejoiced. 
In contr:lst passion is seeking for the mastery; to resist the 
with the lives of such men, is that of Martin Lu-temptation to censure and to speak fault-finding 
ther. He was not born a prince. 
He wore no words; to have patience with the child that is 
royal crown. From a cloistered eell his voice dull, and whose conduct is grievous and trying; 
was heard, and hi::; influence felt. 
He bad a no-to stand at the post of duty when others may 
ble, generous heart, as well as a vigorous intel-fail; to lift responsibilities wherever and wben-
lect, and all his powers were exercised for the ever duty requires it, not for applause, not for 
good of humanity.· He stood bravely for truth policy, but for the sake of the Master, who has 
and right, and breasted the world's opposition given each of his followers a work to be done 
to be'nefit his fellow-men. 
with unvvavering fidelity; when one might 
That which will bless humanity is spiritual praise himself, to keep silent and let other lips 
life. If the man is in barmolly -,vith God, be praise him. 
Self-denial is to do good to others 
will depend continually upon him for strength. when inclination would lead us to serve and 
"Be ye therefore perfect, even as yout· Fatbet· plonse ourselves. 
Although our fellow-men 
whic:h is in Heaven is perfect." It should be mny never npprociat~ our efforts, we are to 
our lifo-work to press forwnrd continually to-work on. 
ward tbe perfection of Christinn cbaraeter, ever 
Fellow-Christians, se~reh carefully, and ~ee 
striving for conformity to the·will of God, re-whether the work of God is indeed the rnle of 
membering that the effortR begnn upon earth your life. Do you take Christ with you when 
will continue throughout eternity. 
God has set you leave tLe closet of prayer? Does your re-
before the b uman f<.tmily an Alevated standard, ligion stand guard at the door of your Jips? Is. 
and he who is true to his God-given manhood, your heart drawn out in sympathy and love for 
will not only promote the happiness of his others outside of your own family? Are you 
fellow-creatures in this life, but will aid them diligently seeking a clearer understanding of 
to secure an eternal rewa.rd in .the life to come. Scripture truth, that you may let your light 
Nor sbould ~ny duty be regarded as small shine forth to others? These questions you 
and unimportant. It is diffieult for human be-may answer to your own souls. Let your 
"As He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in in!rS to give attention to lesser mntters while SJ)eecb be seasoned with grace, and your do-
all manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye 
'--' 
BY MRS. E. G. WHITE. 
holy; for ram holy." 
the mind is engaged in business of greater im-meanor show Christian elevation. "Blessed is 
"Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is portnnce. 
But should not this union exist? the man that enduretb temptation; for when 
in Heaven is perfect." 
:an formed in the imnge of his Maker should he is tried, be shall receive tbe crown of life, 
IT is the design of God that improvement unite the largerresponsi,bilities with the smaller. which the Lord hath promised to them that 
shall be the life-work of all his people, nnd that He mny be engrossed with occupations of over-love him." 
Ever remember that the moral 
i11 nil their aims they shall be guided and con-whelming importance, and neglect the instruc-nature needs to be braced -vvith constant watch-
trolled by Christinn principle and correct ex-tion which his children need. 
These duties fulness and prayer. As long as you look to 
perience. But many fail to understand the true may be looked upon as the lesser duties of Jife, Christ, you nre safe; but the moment you trust 
object of life; and under the i11fiuenee of cber-
when in realiLy they lie at the very foundation to yourself, you lose your bold upon God: and 
iRhed errors, they sacrifice all there is of life of society. 
.Happiness of families and churches are in gront peril. 
that is really valuable. 
':(1be true man is one depends upon horne injluencr>s. 
_Eternal interests 
Many limit Lhe divine Providence, and di-
who is willing to sacrifice bis own interest for depend npon the proper discbargb of the duties vorcc merey nnd love from his character. They 
the good of others, and who forgets himself in of this life. Tho world is not so much in need urge that tho g1·entncss and majesty of God 
mi11istering to their happiness. Intelloet is a of great minds, as of good men who will be a would forbid him to interest himself in the con-
mightier force than \Vealth or physical povver. blessiug in their homes. 
cerns of the weakest of his creatures. But 
If t'>::tnctificd and controlled by the Spirit of God, 
Tho members of the bnman family t~re en-from the lips of Jesus we bttve the assurance: 
it can exert a powerful influence for good. 
Yet titled to the nnme of men and women only "Are not two spal'l'ows sold for a farthing? 
intellect nlone docs not make the mnn, aecord-
when they employ their taleJJts, in every possi-
nnd one of them shnJI not fall on the ground 
ing to tho divine Rtandard. 
When made a min-
ble way, for the good of others. 'rhe lifo of .without your Father. But the very hairs of 
ister of vice, great intellect is a curse to the pos-Christ is before us as a pattem, anct it is when your bend are all numbered. Fear ye not there-
scssor and to all within its influence. 
mini:;;tcring, ]ilro angels of mercy, to the wnnts fore, yo are of more value thau many sparrows." 
One's cl~1im to a true manhood must be deter-of others that mnn is closely allied to God. It 
mined by the use of the powers which God hns is tbe nnture or· Christianity to make happy 
A HOLY life has a voice. It speaks when the 
given him. 
Lord Byron had rare intellectual families and happy members of society. Dis-tongue is silent, and is either a constant attrac-
gifts; but he vvas not a mnn, according to God's cord, selfishness, and strife will be put away tion or a continual reproof.-Hinton. 
standard. He was an agent of Satan. His from every one who possesses the Spirit of 
pnssions were fierce and uncontrollable. He Christ. 
"THERE is no work so mean. no corner of the 
was sowing seed through his life whieh ripened 
Those who are partakers of Christ's love have enrtb so obscure, no worker' so bumble, but 
into a harvest of corruption. His life-work no right to think that there is a limit to their that God's eye notes what is done." 
lowered the standard of virtue. 
This man was influence and work in trying to benefit human-
one of tl1e world's distinguished men; still the ity. 
Christ did not become weary in his efforts 
NOTHING short of n, life of love is permanently 
Lord aek11owledgod him Ollly as one wl1o had Ito save fallon men; and one wodc is tn be con-worth living, or will be recognized as perma-
abusoJ 
his God-given talents. 
:Many others tinuous and persevering. 
We shall ti11d work· nently possible.-PTesident Bascom. 
354 [2) 
'l-,riE SIGNS OF TI~E TIMES. 
VoL. 12, No. 23. 
No Corrupt Connnnnication. 
"Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your 
mout.h, but tl:a~ which is good to the use of edifying, 
that 1t may mm1ster grace unto the hearers. 
And grieve 
not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto 
the rlay of redemption." Eph. 4: 29, 30. 
I CANNOT help wondering 1::\ometimes if some 
who prof'e8s to love God and represent the lil'e 
of Chrif::lt, know that there are such words as 
tue8e in the Bible . .And it seems to me it midbt 
be ,,veil if those words of holy admonitio11 co~tld 
be placed in illuminated text in everr home 
thereby if possible to e:heck the retailer ·of new~ 
so corrupt that it .can never minister (rrace to 
the bearers in even the smallest mea~ure. lt 
would be better, I grant, could .we n.ll have Litem 
graven upon our hearts and illuminated by God's 
Holy Spirit. 
Not long since I met a stranger. 
She vras 
earnest and zealous for the cause of Christ, bnt 
we bad not continued in conversation ten min-
utes when my heart was ~Sickened by a recital 
of news whie:h n1ade me wish I could have 
guessed the horrid repast ·which was to be 
placed bef~re me, guessed at it just enough to 
baYe remamed a stranger. 1 could but think 
of the words of Paul, "For it is a shame even 
to spe:t k of those things which are done of 
them i11 secret." 
bit any less a shame tJOW to speak of the cor-
rupt actions of wicked men than it waf:\ in Paui'R 
day'? 
The cheek js ma.de to burn ''vitu the 
blu~h of shnme in some places at the tbingt< 
. wht'c;h are done openly in public. 
Tbm1, ob, for 
pit.(E; f:lake·do not serve up to yonr li::;tenerf:\ a 
di~:~h of the carrion of some sie:ke11iug, see:ret 
hol'rOr! 
If yon love to feast on such thi 11gH because 
they are evidences of tbc world's :tillin12: up its 
measure of iniquity, thc~1 take your feast alone, 
I beg of you. There is evidenr~e enough in 
JHl blic wi tbout the details of somethin o· of'"' h ic;b 
Pnul would tell you it is n shame eve; to speak. 
Besides~ do not you remember that by'' behold-
ing we become changed'"? 
This is just as true 
. one way as the other. If we would become 
like Chnst, let the mind dwell upon his life. If 
we wish God's righteous character to become 
onr::;, we must study to know what that charac-
ter is. 
I;et the mind feast on purity, and it 'viii be-
c?me pure. Let it feed npon scenes of im pu-
rity and, although at first they sicke11 it, if these 
Rcenes are tolerated, the mind will become 
cba11ged. 
The poison will be absorbed, a11d 
this is why Pa.ul says again," If there be anv 
virLue, and if there be any praise, tbi11k on thesve 
tbiugR." 
And Peter exbot·ts thu~:~:-
" Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be 
sobnr, and hope to tbe end for the grace that is 
to be brought unto you at tbe revelation of 
Jesus Christ; as obedient children, not fasuion-
ing yourselves according to the former lusts in 
your i~norance; but as he which bath e:allod 
you is holy, 1:10 be ye holy in all manner of con-
vel·sation." 
1 Peter 1 : 13-15. 
Do not let the mind rnn loose upon any and 
every subject tbat mrry be presented. 
And if 
circumstances are such that you cannot avoid a 
knowledge of the existence of some soul-bar-
rowing crime, do not, please do not, defile yout·-
self by be<;:oming a cha1tncl Lbrough whieh i 
shall be conveyed to others. 
Put away its 
memory as quickly as possible by a vigorous 
effort of the will, and say to youeself, I will 
not be a medium to transmit to others a knowl-
edge of thillgs of w bich "it is a shame even to 
speak." 
Ob, wou1d that we could realize the foul influ-
ence of this by far too prevalent habit! 
I have 
only touched upon its vvorst feature. It broad-
ens and branches, and sends its poisonous mi-
asma everywhere. 
"By beholding 
we become cl1angod "-
changed like unto that we behold. 
Alas! c;ould 
we know the cause of the fin'lt deviations from 
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right in the lives of hundreds around us, we wonder be" vexed his righteous soui," a!Jd was 
~hould find that it wal:l in beholding sin-look-saved from that place of sin and compromise 
wg Llpon it instead of turning away. 
only "so as by fire." 
lf you ~ro a moral vulture and love to feast 
MoseR sav;r the impossibility crf holding a l'en.st 
upon ~utnd cbn.~·acte1:s and loathsome acts, do to the l;ord i11 E.~ypt; for to do so wonld he to 
not br1ng yonr RIC:kemng carcasses to my door. sacrifice to the abomination of' the Egyp\ i:tns; 
Do 
11?~ take .them t? any on~. Feed. upon f:\O he insisted on an en Lire .·opamtion, a11d went 
tbem.J~ you will, but feast 1n sohtude ~nt!l you out of the land of Egypt, not leaving a boof be-
nrc JOllied by others wbo may relu:;b yonr bind. 
chosen food and join you of their ?Wn will. 
Baham, on the other hn,nd, is a perfect illns-
MRs. M. J. BAHLER. 
tration of the doublo-mindeu man, 1-vho tried to 
Two Masters. 
"No l.AN," says our l;ord, " can serve two 
masters." 
And yet bow to do this is the prob-
lem that multitudes are attempting to solve. 
'l,ho effort in 'this direction ltns, in all a,ges, 
culminated in a false spiritun,lity which 'has 
been a curse to those attempting it, to the 
church in whie:h it is developed, ~wd to the 
world ·at largo. 
The word of the J.1ord is that 
there shall be an a.b~:~oluto brenk with the o·od 
of this world, who rules tb I'Otwh the fte~:~h ~nd 
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:tn entire and utter consecration to him who 
rules through tho spirit. "lf the J.Jord be God, 
f(>llow him." 
There can be no middle ground. 
God will accept no comprornise on this point. 
By this, we do not mean that God aceepts no 
one in wbom there is any sin, 110 one who is not 
perfectly and utterly separated from the lust:;; 
of the flesh; for that would cut every man off 
who is trying to servo bim. 
There is a vast 
difference betv,rcen imperfect servic·e and a de-
liberate vnrl)O;.\e to serve t-vvo masters,-a, delib-
erate compl'omiso wiLb tho world, the fluHb, and 
the devil. 
'l'hit-> double-milldcdlless in tho serv-
ice of God, this spirit of compromise, this false 
spirituality~ has been the objec;t of God's wmtb 
in all age::;,. and under every dispem;ation. 
Mot·om·ee, it. is the way of death to all who 
walk ill it. It del11deR ami deceives in life, and 
the em! I hereof is de~tLh. 
The attempt to combine and harmonize the 
worship :tlld service of God wit.h our own nntu-
ral desires and worldly plans is characteristic 
of a false Rpiritualit.y. 
Mou who are but ba,lf-
heartod :d w:tys attempt to please two masters. 
They de~:~i L'e to sec:ure the favor of God, and at 
the samo time to save and p.TaLify tbe flesh. 
The Bible affords abu11dant ilJu..;trations of this 
principle. 
Cain was the fir;;.;t example of tbose 
who t1·y to c·ombine natural and spiritual wor-
F:lhip,-
to f'l\l''C God nnd yet to protect and 
grati(y the flesh. 
He brongbt of the fl'uit of the 
ground i11sLead of the fl.oc;k. 
He did not refuse 
to sacrifice, bnt be did 110t see the necessity of 
offering up a. life. It seomed to him that fl'uit 
waR as good as life. 
Tbus he acted aceorclillo· 
to his own thought and desire rather than i~ 
accordance with God's word. It is this intru-
sion of ou.r own ideas and thoughts into the rev-
elation of (iod, or rath0r ltlO st.tbf:ltitution of onr 
thonghts for God's word, that lies at the bottom 
of all false spirituality. 
\Vhen the .earth was well peopled., and there 
was a clear lme between the worshq•et·s of the 
true God and the unbclievi1Jg cln.Rs, tbe sons of 
God began to intermarry with the dnugh tors of 
men. 
Thus they tried to grati(y their ctesires 
among those who were fair to sec, and at the 
same Litne continue in the serviee of God. 
The 
result was the \VOrsL apostn.sy the world ever 
knew. 
God found it neceRRat·y to call Ab1·abam 
out of his country and away fl·om his people in 
order to train him and his descendant::; in a 
separated and spiritual lifo, in whic-h he shou1d 
be seen and worshiped as the one supreme .M~tRter 
of all. 
J;ot failed in maintaining a purely spir-
ituullife by first pitchiug hiR tellt toward Sodom, 
and finally going into the city to live. 
No 
doubt he thought he would be nble to maintain 
~loyal service to God even while he was profit-
mg after the fletib by a partnership in <,h(' well-
wntcred plains round and about the commcrcinl 
advantages and worldly honors of Sodom. 
No 
preserve standi11g with God, and at the s~tme 
time accommodate .Balak and fill his own cof-
fers wi 
the gold of God's eno~1y. Feae of God 
and covetous desiee after tbif:l vvorld C:OIJ!ended 
for the mastery, and he tried to al'l'altg·n a <:om-
promise. 
He desired the favor of C·Jod, and yet 
was unwilli1tp; to forego the aclvanLa.ges and 
pleasures of this world. He snw tbe advan-
tages of righ too us ness, but did not b:we I he 
e:oUl·age to go over entirely to tho Lord's Hide. 
He desieerl to live like a sitlllOI', and yet die like 
a sai11t. 
'1
1hi~ was an effort to solve the pn>b-
lem of ho•v to serve two masters. 
We k110W 
how be fared. 
Moses, on the other band, saw thnt if he was 
to serve God at a,ll, he must fo1·ego 110t. o11ly 
Egypt, but the pleasures of sin and tho ri<.;ltcs 
of his ~gypLii'\lt illhcriuwce. He did not heHi-
tate to make t.he choice as soon n.s he Rn.vv lite 
i::;sue. 
J oR It ua dealt with t!Jis Rfl me 
q11e:~l ion 
i11 his farewell address to the children of hmel. 
"Choo~e ye this day whom ye will Rerve." 
rrh is was the gl'Olllld of Elij:tll':-1 COli t.rO'Cl'S.Y 
with Ahab on .Monnt Ca.rmel. 
Baal a1td God 
could ·llut bot b share the throne of J . ..,mel's 
!teart. If the Lord was God, then he must be 
served and Baal cast off; if Bnal was God, then 
serve him and cast off Jehovah alto.u;elltee. 
Si nee the days of J erobortm, the son of i-.1 ebat, 
israel bad t1·ied to worship God, ~utd yut, serve 
Baal. 
It was this p~rsi;-stent tendellG.)' i11 Israel 
to compromise the pure service of J e!toY:th with 
the worship of Baal that, aftc:t· long ami pal ietl\:, 
effort to recover them, led God to o·i,·e them 
over to cnptivity. 
Wa do not read of' Lltoir re-
turn to idols after the captivity, but the prilt<.;i-
ple of douLlo-mi11ded Rorvice a11d mamlllon wor-
F:lhip appeared in the Pll:tl'iSI)Cism and forrn:tli:-;m 
which our J;ord found in Jerusalem whe11 
l1e 
c~:1n1e, and whie:h he so unspari11gly dcltOllltCud. 
There was a grent pretense ot' Rerving God; but 
underneath it and along with it was the "evil 
eye," tlto covetous and carnal ambition afLet· 
the wealth, the pleasures, and power of tl.tis 
world. 
Dare we say that this false spiritna1ity, this 
attempt to serve t'vvo m:1sters, l1.1 · heen or:tdi-
cated fro_n the purer :111d more spiritun,l consti-
tution of the Christian church'? hit not this 
double-mindedness as to God and mantmon that 
is our curse :u1d pnralysis to-clay? 
"'l'he light 
of the body is the eye; if Lherefore thine eye 
be single, thy whole body shall be full of lignt. 
Bnt if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall 
be full of darkness. 
No man can serve 
two master'!; for eit.l1er he will hate the one, and 
love Lhe otbeJ·; or el~:~e ho will hold to the one, 
and despise the other. 
Ye cannot serve God 
and mam1non." 
What shall we say to those things? 
Mam-
mon enriches his thou::'!ands, and damns his toll 
tbonRands. Far be it from any servant of bim 
who came "·to destroy the works of the devil" 
to attempt to compromi:-;o with the devil for 
any portion of the world.-lndependent. 
IT depends upon fathers and mothers to brincr 
childreu up in an atmosphere of reverence f~~· 
God's autuority and of obedience t0 Jaw, :111d 
ti1is from the first. 
The mother's work beo·inl:l 
. 
b 
b 
wtth t e babe m her arms.-il£1·s. Mw·ga1·et E. 
Sangste1·. 
. Fol'ru N E lost, nothing lost; courage lost, much 
lost; honor lost, more lost; soul lost, alllost.-Sel. 
JUNE 17, 1886. 
TI-IE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
[S] 355 
'l'lle Moral Leprosy of Our 'l'imes. 
Is IT not noticeable that there is a growing 
dissatisfaction with a sturdy simplicity of lii'c-
n, dissatisfaction which 
i~ tempting rnen to 
sock success by extraordinary :tnd hazardous 
methods? 
They cannot seemingly be made to 
IJelieve ~at the straight road is the shortest 
and best whereby to rench tho gonl of prosper-
ity, and that every deflection from i11togrity 
and plain dealing is not only a crime but a 
se11Reless blunder. 
Hence we read and hear so 
much of the shattered reputations of those who 
stood high in our comrnunity, but who could 
110t resist the burning demand of the itchi11g 
palm of corruption in offices of trust; of moll 
placed in authority 011 whom public respo11si-
uiliLies rested who buve basely yielded up 
i11legrity and pri11ciple; of men 
'lvho staud 
eharged before tho world that they "contami-
nate their fingers ·with base bribes and sell the 
mighty sp~ce of their largo honors for so much 
t I':l~h as might be grasped thus." 
You ask why so many have trespassed. 
Look below the surface :wd find tho rea::;on. 
lt is because there 
hn,~ grown up 'lvith tho 
grovvth of our cou11try a mn.I1in. for riotous ex-
travagance, a ditlposi Li011 to dazzle tho eye with 
lavish expenditure, a Jove for meretricious dis-
play to be maintained at uny and every cost. 
This is the corroding leprosy 'vhi~h is destroy-
illg principle n.nd honesty. 
'l'he public trust 
i:-; tl1 Lts made to minister to private greed, tmd 
office becomes a thing of personal traffic.-
Rabbi Jacobs, New Y01·lc. 
What Is Relig·ion? 
I·r is tbe growth of piety in the soul; the 
working of tbe love of God shed abroad in the 
heart; or, as ! ho aposLle says, "Seeing: that 
ye have put off the old man with his deeds; 
and have put on the new mau, -vvbicL is renewed 
in knowledge after the 
irn.~tge of Lim that 
created him." 
Alollg vvbat liues is this new 
ma.n developed? "Add to your hit h virtue; 
and to virtue, knowledge; alld to knowledge, 
temperance." 
H.ere is the line of development. 
A11d by" virtue" is meant those large qualities 
of mi11d and heart which go to make a hero; 
jor that is the iden, ·which lies at the t·oot of 
this vvord-n, hero in largeuess of' soul and 
greatness of cndcnv01·, free hom dcbnsing faults 
and petty weak11essos-above all, prejudice :111d 
11arrowness of mind-
but in all tho struggle of' 
life bearing himself mn,nfully, Leroically, nnd at 
all points a victor in tho name of tbe fJord. 
Such is the Pauline virtue, which k11ows bovv 
to be brougi1L low and how to abound; how to 
be filii and to be bu11gry; to Lave plenty ~wd to 
be iu want; ! b rough Christ, equal to all triab 
and emerge11Cies. 
Such is the type of a full-
orbed manhood, in whicb greatness and little-
ness, snfficiency and groat deficiency, do 110t go 
hand i11 band, but t.bo weak11CSS is gone, and 
only tho strength remai tiS. 
'l'o virtue, kuowledge. 
This ne"v man is a 
being of intelligmJco; and there is a wondrous 
uniou between those qualities, virtue and knowl-
edge, and they muLually SLlpport each other. 
The practice of virtue surely leads to knowl-
edge, and knowlcclgo, in time, will broadc11 and 
refine the virtue. 
lt is painful to think that so 
much of the knowledge for hiuh t.he wo1·IJ is 
eager, is really of little account in its bearing 
upon human character. 
But there is a 
knowledge of one's self, of the univen;c as a 
revelation of God to men, and of the wn,y of 
life: which endures, which makes the wise man 
wiser and the strong man stronger, and lies at 
t.ho foundation of tbn,t knowledge that the oOIIl 
\'ill acquire in the ages to come. 
And truth is 
011e. Error is ever changing, many-hued, mani-
fold in form, and always shifting her ground. 
TntLh, ever tho same, drops her anchor ill tbe 
soui, and there :~bides. 
'l'o knowledge, temperance. 
Atld by tbis is 
meant the largest and fhlleBt solf-controi,--
master of one'::; self and' of the sitnati011; no 
yielding to any weak indnlgcn<.:e, no hungering 
of t.he soul for that w h ieh is not broad; no \Vild, 
imperious lnst or appetite allowed to forge its 
fetters n.ud hold tile mn,n cn,pti-.;c; but be is 
God'::; freeman, in a world of evil, bnt above it, 
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lemptod :wd tried, bnt at all points a victor 
by Yirtne of hiH own self-restraint. 
'l'his is 
something q ni to clifl'ercilt from that special form 
of temperance which lvgis!ator:-; 
~~ re importuned 
to 1orce upon man with bit a11d curb, and tho 
strong arm of the law. 
Tbe man it> tnught to 
rise above the temptation, and master it. 
'l'l1e 
ontward forms or evil are not annihilated to 
keep men from it; but the new ma11, with a 
self-poise ncYer disturbed, :tnd an understand-
ing noyer dimmed, puts tho evil from him a11d 
tramples it under foot. 
Tho song of the old prophet was: " 'When 
thou pa::;sest throu~h tho waters, 1 will be with 
thee; and through the river8, they shall not 
overflmv thee; when thon walkcst through the 
fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the 
flame kindle npon thee." That is, the flood shall 
not be dried up or turned bn,ck for your relief, 
but you ehall be strengthened lo boar up ugainst 
it. Let tbe waveR rise nnd the floods come 
and beat agn,illst you, a.s they did against the 
Master-your bead shall be kept above the 
waterR; ami the fires which burn and crackle 
shall not kindle upon you nor your good works. 
"Fear not." 
Bore is n. victory, grand in its 
proportions, in which the man triumphs over 
these deadly foes which threaten him. 
"I asked them whence their victory came; 
They, with united breath, 
Ascrihed their conquest to the Lamb, 
Their triumph to his death." 
It is right along these lines, thus drawn by 
the apostle, that Christian lifo is to grow and 
be developed till" tho fullnesti of the stature of 
a perfect man in Chrit>t Jesus" is reacbcd.-
P?"of. .E. S. Gall~"P· 
The Trne Test of Love. 
THE real hope of the Christian is a far more 
attractive thing than the indefiuite future that 
many w bo profess Christianity set before them. 
There are many ·whose idea of the world to 
come is a simple hope of freedom from evil; 
others have the idea of a consti-1nt joi11ing in a 
magnificent chorus of prniso to God. But some-
thing more attractive to a human being than 
that is revealed to us'. It is a c:ondi tion of 
things precisely snitod to exercise all the healthy 
faculties of body, mind, and spil'it. 
Only let 
this be realized, and from Lbe inmost depths of 
your heart you may plead '"'ith God, "thy 
kingdom come. 
Thy vvill be done in earth, as 
it is in heaven." 
But let us recollect that if onr studv of the 
future thus produces such an inte11sity Jof long-
ing worthy of the nnme, it will be a longing 
that will improve our· daily character now. 
All 
truth sanctifiet>, but tl:icre is no portion oftrnth 
tbat is more thoroughly suited to sanctify than 
t.bn,t which suggests to men what tho borne of 
the perfect may be, and that their perfection 
';viii be in the midst of that home. It ill be a 
perfect population, ruled by a perfect Kin~. 
Just in proportion at> tbe sa11ctifying po.,vcr 
of the Spirit is felt II OW, there is, indeed, a trttu 
and genuine affection toward Him, who will 
then be the glorious King, adorned and praised 
by all, so that the crowns that be has won for 
them shall be east at his feet, with the ever-
lasting song, " Worthy is the Lnmb that was 
slain to receive power, and richeH, and wisdom, 
:1nd .~trength, and honor, and glory, and bless-
ttl g. 
How do we know we are ready for the Lord's 
appearing but by having experience of present 
nfl'e.:;tion towards b i m? 
"If a man love mo, be 
will keep my words." 
Just in proportion as 
we find that; out of love to Christ, and drawing 
out of the power of his grace from day to day, 
we have our lampt~ trimmed and· burning, and 
our loins girt, like mcu waiting for their Master, 
and are striving to be found diligent in doing 
his work wheu be comes; just in that propor-
tion we have the proof that we are amongst 
those who retdly love his appearing.-
London 
Ckristian. 
Origin of a Barbarous Fashion. 
SoME seven yen,rs ago there appeared in Paris, 
nt a ball of t.bo demi-rnonde, a woman wearing 
on hee hen,d-clress a dead bird. 
'rhe bird had 
artificial eyes, and its wings and tail were 
Rpread out so as to give it a life-like appearance. 
lt. was :1 small, stuffed bird, not a bird's t:>kin 
stretched on wires. 
Its introduction as an or-
nament in fashionable bad society was not re-
ceived with much favor n,t first, although the 
wearer succeeded in ·attracting attention t.o 
herself by the Ringularity of her adornment. 
This was all t.bnt she desired or intended t.o ac-
complish by fustclling a bird's corpse to her 
bead-gear. 
She had not tho slightest expecta-
tion that she would be imitn,ted even by her im-
mediate companions, still less thn,t the whole 
world of fn,r:;h ion able good society in France, En-
gland, and Americ:1 wonld "fall into line" at her 
heels. Probably her 01ily thought was that the 
oddity of' her coi'ltnme wonld serve as a striking 
advertisement, like" S. T., 1860, X.," and cause 
her to be tn,lkod of among the mn,ies and fe-
males of her kiud. 
Strange, indeed, are the caprices of fashion. 
Seven years have passed by; and we find the 
eccentricity of a ,.l'o:nan of the tovm becomes 
the craze of millinery,-so great and deadly a 
craze that Stn,te legislatures are collside1·ii1g 
bills to pre'Cnt tho extinction of our Bong birds 
and of all birds 11ot too large to be worn 011 the 
bonnets of women and children. 
Nothing 
more revolti11g to good taste can be imagi11eJ 
than the "rernains" of an animal frosil from 
the dissection of a taxide·nnist as an adornment 
for a lady's forehead. 
'rhe very suggestion 
ought to excite horror and disgust, as well as 
pity for the slaugh tercel songsters of the gro :e. 
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.Nation. 
Teach Us to PraJ. 
"LoRD, teae:b us to pray, as John also taught 
his disciples," was the request 'l·vbich one of 
Christ's disciples presented to him on a certain 
occasio11. 
'vVe do not kJJow wb,~ther the re-
quest referred to the form, 01· to the spirit of 
prayer, or to both. 
There is certainly nothi11g 
improper in tho request., in whiehever of tbe~e 
senses we may understand it. 
We should ad-
dress God in a becoming manner, as well as in 
a proper spirit. 
Prayer should contain thanks-
giving for blessings received, e:onfession for si11s 
committed, and supplication for blessings de-
sired. 
'l'his is about alL that is necessary and 
all that is proper in addressing our heavenly 
Father. 
In attempting to address God we should 
never address the people. 
Our business in 
prayer is not with the people, but with our 
.. Father in HeaYen. 
We should forget the peo-
ple in our approaches to God, except so far as 
we make them tho subjects of our supplication. 
Preaching, and exhortation, and tho repetition 
of the same thing in various forms, nre out of 
place in prayer, and if these were excluded, 
most prayers would be shortened at least OliO-
half. It is not necessary to toll God in oul' 
prayers what be knows far bettor than we do. 
After thanking him for his mercies, and eon-
fessing our sins, which we cannot do in detail, 
we should present to God the desire of our 
hearts in simplieity and godly sincerity. 
\Vilb-
out any circumlocution, we should a::;k him for 
w bat we wan t.-Metlwdist Reconle1·. 
"I WILL be glad and rejoice in thee; I will sing 
praise to thy name, 0 thou Most High." Ps. 9:2. 
356 
r 4] 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIME·S. 
VoL. 12, No. 23. 
The Alemanni. 
OF all the barbarian nations that divided the 
Roman ·Empire, the Alemanni "wore the first 
who removed the veil that covered the feeble 
mnjm<Ly of Italy." But as their progress be-
JOild the Rhine is so intimately connected with 
that of the Franks, we Lave reserved to this 
place the history of this people. 
"'rhey are first mentioned by Dion Cassius, 
who relates that the Emperor Caracalla gained, 
in 203 A. D., a victory over them on the banks 
of the Mctine, and thence nssumod the surname 
Alemannicus. The origin of this tribe, and the 
country from which tbey came, are unknown; 
but \Ve have a distinct statement, which is ap-
pa1'<:nt.ly confirmed by the very name of the 
people, that they Lad flocked together from all 
pnrtf', nnd were a mixed-race. 
':Cbey prov.ed 
most fonnirlable enemies to the Romnns as well 
as to the Ganls, their western neighbor8, wbo 
to this day apply the name Alomanni (Alle-
mands) to all the Germans indiscriminately, 
though the Alemanni, properly so called, occu-
pied only the country betvveen the Maino and 
the Danube. ln the reign of Al1l·olian, 270 
A. D., they attempted to invade Italy, but were 
repulsed. 
After the death of that em poror, 
however, they renewed tbeit· attacks by invad-
ing Gaul, and ravaging the country at different 
times. 
Several undertakings against them 
were of little avail, until in 357 A. D. the Em-
peror Julian completely defeated them in the 
neighborhood of Strasburg, w hero all their 
forces '..vere assembled undet· seven chiefs. 
This anC: other defon,ts, however, did not break 
tho power of the Alemanni, who, being pressed 
on by other barbarin.ns in the North, wet·e 
forced to n,dvance south ward and westward to 
conquer new rountries fol' themselves. Hence, 
after the middle of tbe fifth century, we find 
them established not only in tho coulltry now 
called Snabia, but also in a part of Switzerland 
and in Alsnce. In tbeee countries the Alemanni 
have maintained themselves ever since, and 
the greater part of the modern Suabians and 
the northern SwiRs aTe descelldnnts of that 
ancient race."-Encyclopedia B1·itannica, art. 
Alema.nni. 
"In the reign oftbe emperor Carn,calla [A. D. 
211-217], an innumerable swarm of Suevi ap-
peared on the banks of the Mein, and in the 
neighborhood of the Roman provinces, in quest 
either of food, of plunder, or of glory. The 
hasty army of volunteers gradually coalesced 
into a great and pennanent nation, and, as it 
was eomposed from so many different tribes, 
assumed the name of Alemanni or Altmen, to 
denote at once their various lineage and their 
common bravery. 'rbe latter was soon felt by 
the Romans in many a hostile inroad. 
The 
Alemanni fougb t chiefly on horseback; but 
their cavalry was rendered .still more formida-
ble by a mixture of light infantry, selected 
fron1 the bravest and most active of the yo11tb, 
whom frequent exercise bad i Imred to accom-
pnlly Lbe horsemen in tbe longest n:a.rch, the 
most rapid c·barge, or the most pre01p1 tate re-
treat. 
"rrhis warlike people of Germans bad been 
astonisbed by the immonRe propat·n,tions of 
Alexander Severns [A. D. 234 J; they were dis-
mayed by the n,rms of his su_ccossor [M:nx_imin, 
A. D. 235], a barbarian equal 111 valor alld fierce-
nesR to t.homsclves. But still hovering on the 
frontiers of tho empire, they increased the 
general disorder that ensued a~'ter. tho death of 
Decins [A. 
D. 250]. 
They mflwted severe 
wounds on the rich provinces of Gaul; they 
we1·e the fint who removed the ve-il that cove1·ed 
the .feeble rnajesty of Italy. 
A numerous body 
of the Alemanni penetrated across the Dnn nbe 
and throuo·h the R.luct,in,n Alps into the plains 
of Lomba1~y, n.d v:1 need as far as Ravenna, n.nd 
diRpl:lyed the victorious banners of barbarians 
almo~t in sight of Rome [cir. A. D. 260]. 
"The insult and the danger rekindled in the 
senate some sparks of their ancient virtue. 
Both the emperors wore engaged in far distant 
wars, Valerian in the East, and Gallienus on 
the Rhine. 
All the hopes and resources of the 
R.omans were in themselves. In this emer-
gency, the senators re8nmed the defense of the 
republic, drew out the Prretorian guards, who 
bad been Jolt to gn,rrison the capital, and filled 
up thoi t' 11umbers by enlisting in to the pub! ic 
service the stoutest and most willing of the 
Plebeians. The Alemanni, astonished with the 
sudden appearance of an army more numerous 
thnn their own, retired into Germany, laden 
with spoil; and their retreat was esteemed as 
a victory by the unwarlike Romans. 
"\Vhen Gallienus received the intelligence 
that his capital was delivered from the ·barba-
rians, be was much less delighted than alarmed 
with the courage of the senate, since it might 
one day prompt them to rescue the public from 
domestic tyranny as well as from foreign inva-
sion. 
His timid ingratitude was published to 
his subjects, in an edict which prohibited the 
senntors from exercising any military employ-
mnnt, and even from approaching the camps of 
the legions. 
But his fears were groundless. 
The rich and luxurious nobles: FJinking into 
their natural character, accepted, as a favor, 
this disgraceful exemption from military serv-
ice; and as long as they were indulged in the 
enjoyment of their baths, their theaters, and 
their viilas, they cheerfully resigned tho more 
dnngorous cn,res of empire to the rough hands 
of peasants und soldiers. 
"Another invasion of the Alemanni, of a 
more formidable aspect, but more glorious 
event, is mentioned by a writer of the lower 
en1pire. 
Three hundred thousand of that war-
like people are said to have been vanquished 
in a battle near Milan, by Gallienus in person, 
at the head of only ten thousand Romans. 
vVe 
may, however, with great probability, ascribe 
this incredible victory either to the credulity 
of the historian, or to some exnggorn,tod ex-
ploits of one of the emperor's lieutenants. It 
was by arms of a very different natnre that 
Gallienus endeavored to protect Italy from the 
fury of the Germans. 
He eHpousod Pipa, the 
daughter of a king of the Marcornnnni, a Sue-
vic tl'ibe, which was often confounded \Vith the 
Alcmanlli in their wars and conquests. 
To the 
faLber, as the price of his alliance, be granted 
an ample settlement in Pannonia. 
The native 
charms of unpoli"hed be:wty seem to have fixed 
the dn,ughter in the affe.ctions of the inconstant 
emperor, and the bands of policy were more 
firmly connected by those of love. But the 
hn,ughty prejudice of Rome still refused the 
name of marrin,ge to the profane mixture of a 
citizen and a barbarian, and has stigmatized 
the German princess with the opprobrious title 
of concubine of Gallionus." 
"While the victorious and moderate conduct 
of Aurelinn restored the Illyrian frontier, the 
nation of the Alemanlli violated the conditions 
of peace, which either Ga!Jienus bad ptll'cbased, 
o1· Claudius had imposed, n,nd, inflamed by their 
impatient youth, suddenly flew to arms. 
Forty 
thousand horse appeared in the field, and the 
nnmbers of the infantry doubled those of the 
cavalry. 
':l_1he first objects of their avarice wore 
a few cities of tho Rhretian frontier; but their 
hopes soon rising wi tb success, the rapid march 
of Lbe Alemanni trn,ced n, line of devastation 
from the Dannbo to the Po. 
"The emperor was almost at the same time 
[A. D. 270, f::;ept.] informed of' the irruption, and 
of the l'Otroat, of the barbarians. Collecting 
an activo body of troops, be marched with 
silence and celerity along Lbe skirts of tbo 
Hercynian forest; and the Alcmanni, laden 
with Lhe spoils of Italy, arrived at the Danube 
without suspecting that on the opposite bank, 
and in an ndvantagcous post, n, Romall army 
lay concealed and propnl'ed to intercept their 
rctum. 
Aurolian indulged tho fatal security 
of the barbariaus, and permitted about half 
their forces to pass the river withont disturb-
ance and without l'rocaution. Their situation 
and aRtonishment gave him an easy victory; 
bis skillful conduct improved the advantage. 
Disposing the legions in a semicirculn,r form, be 
advanced the two horns of tho crescent acrose 
the Danube, and wheeling them on a sudden 
towards the center, inclo:::;od the rear of tho 
German host. 
The dismayed barbnrians, on 
whatf->oover side they cast their eyes, beheld, 
with despair, a wasted country, a deep and 
rapid stream, a victorious and implacable enemy. 
"Reduced to this distressed conditioll, the 
Alemanni no longer disdained to sue for peace. 
Aurolian received their ambassadors at the 
bead of his camp, and with every circumstn,nce 
of mn,rtial pomp that could display the great-
ness and discipline of Rome. The legions stood 
to their armR, in well-ordered ranks and awful 
silence. 
The principal commanders, distin-
guished by the ensigns of their rank~ appeared 
on horseback on oilher 
l:lide of the Imperial 
throne. 13obind the throne the consecrated 
images of the emperor n nd his predocet-sors, 
the golden eagles, and the various ti tics of the 
legions, engraved in letters of gold, were ex-
alted in tho air on lofty pikes covered with 
silver. ·when A nrelian n,Rsnmed his seat, his 
manly grace and majost ie figdre taught the 
barbarians to revere tho person as well as the 
pnrple of their conqueror. 
'rbe ambn,ssndors 
fell prostrate on the ground in silence. 
They 
were commanded to rise, and permitted to 
speak. By the assistn,nce 0f interpreters they 
extenuated their perfidy, magnified their ex-
ploits, expatiated on the vicissitudes of fortune 
and the advantages of peace, and, with an ill-
timed confidence, demanded a large subsidy, as 
the price of the alliance which they offered to 
the Romans. 
The answer of the emperor was 
stern and imperious. He treated their offer 
with contempt, and their demand with indigna-
tion, reproached tho bnrbnrians, that they were 
as ignorant of tho arts of vvar as of the laws 
of pence, and finally dismissed them with the 
choice only of submitting to his unconditioned 
mercy, or awaiti11g the utrnost severity of his 
resentment. Aurelian bad resigned a distant 
province [Dacia] to the Goths; but it was dan-
gerons to trust or to pnrdon these perfidious 
barbarians, whose jo1·midable powe1· kept Italy 
itself ·in perpet'ual ala1·ms. 
"Immediately after this conference, it should 
seem that some unexpected eTnergency required 
the emperor'R presence in Pannonia. He de-
volved on his Jioutennnts the care of finishing 
the destrucLion of tLe Alemanni, either by the 
sword, or by the surer operation of famine. 
But an act1ve despair has often triumphed over 
the indolent assurance of success. 
The bar-
barians~ finding it impossible to traverse the 
Danube and the Roman camp, broke through 
the post.s in their rear, which were more feebly 
or less carefully guflrded; and with incredible 
diligence, but by a difT'erent road, returned 
towards the mountains of Italy. Anrelian, 
who considered the war as totally extinguished, 
received the mortifying intelligence of the es-
cape of the Alemanni, and of the ravage which 
they n,lrendy committed in the territory of 
Milan. The legions were commanded to follow, 
with as much expedition as those heavy bodies 
were capable of exerting, the rn,pid fligb t of an 
enemy, whose inff~ntry and cavalry moved with 
almost equal S\Viftness. A few days afterwards, 
the emperor bim"olf marched to the relief of 
Italy, at the bead of a chosen body of auxilia-
ries (nmong whom were the hostages and cav-
alry of the Vandals), and of all the Prretorian 
guards who had served in the wars on the 
Danube. 
"As the light troops of the Alemanni had 
spread themselves from the Alps to the Appen-
ninc, tho incessant vigilance of Aurelian and 
his officers waf:! exercised in the discovery, the 
attack, and the pursuit of the numerous de-
tach men Ls. 
Notwithstanding this. desultory 
JUNE 17, 1886. 
THE BIG NS OF THE TIMES. 
l6J 357 
war, three considerable battles are mentioned, 
Christian Trials. 
and simple, was less called for than in our own 
in wltic.:h the pt·incipnl force of both armies was 
". o· 
• , -, -. -.-, • r 
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times. Joseph in prison for years; David hnnted 
ousLinatoly engaged. The success was various. im T~E. ~veut:'e lo,tdel 
1~. 'e1·\ ap~. t~ gam an like a wild boast; Elijah fleeing for his life; 
ln the first, fought llear Placentia, the Romans j . Y 
.ei'\sio~. hom tho. stones of. m~~.a~.ul~ns de-Isaiah sawll asunder; Jeremiah thrown into a 
received so severe a blow that nccordincr to ln eiances m prophetic and [tposLoii? times, ~hat pit; John the Baptist in prison and then be-
the expression of a writer extre~ely parLi~ to godly men ~hen ,w.ere. alway.~ delivered fro~ headed; John the evangelist in exile; Paul 
Aurelian the immediate dissolution of the em-temporal evil .. ~hts ImpressiOn, though pel-sLoned, whipped, imprisoned, beheaded; James 
piro was' apprehended. 
The crafty barbarians, hapsl rwtur~l, .1.s mc?rrect. 
w.e lea~·.n, for ex-beheaded; Stephen stoned,-surely all these in-
who bad lined tho woods suddenly attacked an!p e, th.~t El.IJab ~vttbholds ram; EliJah grants stances (aDd there are many more) show that 
the leo·ions iu the dusk of' tbe evening and it ra~?; .EJIIpb. 
1~ mtracui~usly fed by raven.s; the narrow way was thorny iu early times. 
is most probable, after the fatigue and,_disorder ~~~~ah .~lultipli~s t~e .wJdow's. m~t~l .~nd .011; 
\Vhat, then, may be the helpful lesson to dis-
of a long mar<.: b. 
'fhe fury of their charge E'lt~ab c<tlls ~~~~ n~ ~:.e ft~n~ h":a' en' ~h~a~ calls ciple.s from all this? 
Why, simply that as men 
was irrusi:-;Lible; but at length. after a dreadful ~L e lc~eadEJt~ I~fe, Eltph ~vtdel:j t~e Joid,w,. and,. and women, and ubildrcn too, .stood steadfast 
slnugh tor the patient firm nes~ of the emperor 
na y, -
1 hJa. goes to 
eaven :n a charlO~. ot amid all these troubles, without any especial 
rallied hi~ troops and rc~tored in some degree fire. 
Tb~n follows the <:oncl~lSI?u that EliJah divine interposition, so may we. 
Thus tbeit· 
the honor of his ~rms. The s~cond battle wa~ htd 
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su~h as m~dern d~sct~les have, and examples, instead of disheartening us, will 
fought near Fano in Umbria, on the spot t,Jat, ?. 
e pe . me1,1 t 1.e1: as )e . oe,s not now. stimulate us to lm·gee endeavor and more heroic 
which, five hundred years before, had been 'Ibus, hom t~)e bi~~r,tphte~ of .Abiah,un, Moses, suffering. 
We shall no longer feel that they 
fatal 'o the brotllel' of t.:{.-.L rlni.b!ll. 
'I,Itus ... ar the Joshua, Dt-wld,. EliJah, an,d E.IIsba, people draw h d 
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a 
help whic is not granted to us .. In fact, 
wrong cone ustons, an 
ee Inwar Y t at t e we in Christian lands will feel that of the t'\-YO 
early saints had far easier times tbnn we~ and 
succosRful German!:3 bad advanced along the 
JEmilian and li'laminian way, vvitb a design of 
s~wking the defenseless mistress of the wodd. 
But Aurelian, who, watchful for the safety of 
Rome, sLill bung on their rear, found in this 
place the decisive moment of giving them a 
total and irretrievable defeat. 
rrbe flying rem-
nant of their host was exterminated itt a third 
and lm~t battle near Pavia; anJ Italy was de-
livered from the inroads of the Alomnmli."-
Gib6on, Decline and Fall, chap. 10, par. 26-30,-
that the religious conflict then was child's play, we are by far the more favored, and that high 
compared with wbat we now have to endure. 
Christian living is easier for us than for those 
Th. 
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old-time saints. 
IS Is 1 u::;trate 
Y 
e case 0 
.lC1 IS a. 
What was the secret of all their fortiLude? 
There he lies on his pallet, old, worn, feeble, 
and stl'icken with a fatal disease. Probably he It lay in tboir faith. 
They "endured, as ~eoing 
suffered much pain. 
As we stand and look at Him who is invisible." 
'.rhat spiritual "\ii:-;ion 
him, we ask, "Is this not the same man who took them through all the deep waters of affiic-
healed Naaman?, 
Certainly. 
"Why, then, tio , and bore them safely through pain, and 
can he not heal himself?" 
Because God bas even death. 
There lay tlwir power, and there 
withheld from him this power. 
"Why does must ours lie. So long as we see him '<vho is 
God not deliver his trusted servant from pain invisible, we shall triumph over the seen. When 
in his old age?" 
We cannot say; for we do we lose sight of h.i in, ~n.d th,e visible gains power, 
not know enough of God's plans to answer this we c:~n. bilL cry With ·l~IIsh~,s servant," Al~ts, m~ 
question wisely. 
'rhe faeL, however, remains, m[lst~l ! ho~ ~ball we do? -Rev. A. JJ'. f)chauj-
that a prophet lies on a dying bed, and no re-fler, tn S. S. Ttmes. 
chap. 11, par. 18-22. 
J. 
(To be Continued.) 
Two lrincls of Care. 
ST. PETER says: "Casting all your care [me-lief comes until death closes the scene. 
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rimna] upon him; for be caretb [meli] for you." 
If the faith of Christian children is some-
The first ca1·e signifies anxiety; burden, some-times put to the test, as they stand helpless by 
thing that divides thought and barasl:les the tho bedside of an aged father ot· mother, attd 
soul. 
The second ca1·e, that which God has for won~er why God allows the dear old saints to 
us, signifieR regard, keeping us upon his heart, suffer so, wad !lOt the faith of Elisha's friends 
re. Lraining us from evil, following us day by tested in the same way'! 
vVc1s it not as bard 
da.y to succor us in our ignorance and weakness. for them to believe in God's goodness, when no 
How tot:.tlly unlike are these two kinds of help was sent from above, as it is for us under 
care! One is altogether unneeessary and de-like circumstances? In fact, it is possible that, 
structive. 
On the other band, God's care for just bec:tul:le Elisha had been miraculously cte·-
UR iR a regard that his nature must bear for us livered before, it was no1v all the harder to be 
so long as be is God, and is essentially saving reconciled to his sufferings and denth. Is it 
and life-giving to the whole universe. 
Ours is not true that, if we bad stood hy Elisha's bed-
the result of a diseased 11ature. 
His <.:are is the· side dtll'ing his last dayl'l, we should have seen 
brightness of itlfiflito purity, the outgu::;bing o( that ~are faith in God's dealings was as much 
tender pity, the expollont of his great love, the called for, and as bard to exercise, as it is to-day? 
object-lesson by which bo instructs us in right-
But the case of Elisha is not an exceptional 
eousness. 
case. 
l1oOk at the eleventh cbantet· of He-
How blessed it is that we can rest our weary brew8, and, putting aside the ca~os of those 
souls on him! 
vVe need not wait for prepara-who were delivered by mi1·aculous power, fasten 
tions if we arc Ollly sincere and earnest. 
Let attention on those who bad to sufl'er: "And 
us come to ~im, eve.n whi.le ?i.strac~ed and op-others bad trial of cruel mockings and scourg-
pressed. 
His care ior us 1s, 1f pos8Ible, greater 1 ings, yea, moreover of bonds an<.l imprisonment; 
at such times. If we wait and suffet· alone, our they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, 
distresses will beeomo increasingly grievous. 
we{·e tempted, were slain with the sword; they 
Nor are we to lay at his feet a port,ion of our ·wandered about in sbeop-skins and goat-skins; 
be:wy burden only. His care extends to every-being destitute, a:ftlicted, tormented; of whom 
thing, whether of temporal or spiritual interests. the world was not ·worthy; they wandered in 
How many CIT just here! They seem to think deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and 
that God does not wish to know about the in-caves of the earth." 
Heb. 11 : 36-38. 
numerable little perplexities of their lives, and 
Surely this does not look like continual mi-
so, in failing to embrace theit· full privilege, raculous deliverances. 
Really, it seems as 
confidence in him is weak when the deeper tri-tbongh some ancient disciples had harder, and 
als are brought to his notice. 
not easier, times than many modern believers. 
"Thy Will Be Done." 
SELFISHNESS and self-will are very nearly re-
lated to each other; all sin is of the same family. 
Selfishness covets that which is not its own, and 
leads to theft and murder and almost every va-
riety of crime. 
Self-will seeks to have its o·wn 
way, and its natural fruit is injustice and hatred. 
It exalts itself and will not yield; and if it can-
not rule, it will seek to ruin. 
Christ <:arne from Heaven to earth to savo 
men from their sins. 
He set an example for 
us to follow. 
He laid aside his glory, and took 
the form of a servant. 
He was with his dis<:i-
plos as one that served. He came 110t to do lJis 
own ~ill, but the will of him that senL him; 
and in his deepest trial and sorest temptation, 
when his soul was exceedingly sorrowful, oven 
unto death, he could say, "'l'by will be done;" 
"Not as I will. but as thou wilt." 
The great le.sson for the disciples of Christ to 
le:nn is to follow him. 
"Learn of me," be ~ays, 
';for I am meek and lowly in heart." 
He gave himself for us. 
vVe owe our all to 
him, and we should willingly give him all. 
He 
was a servant to us; we should ehecrfnllv serve 
him. 
And to serve h!m is to servo tbvose for 
whom he died. He bids us work in his vine-
yard. He yielded his will, and dt·ank the bit-
ter cup. It is those who renounce and subdue 
::;elf-will that will have a part in his inheritance. 
When we say, I will, and I wilt not, we do not 
follow Christ, nor exemplify his meekness and 
gentleness. 
Tbe apostle Paul followed Christ. 
Snid be, "I Paul myself beseech you by the 
meekness and gentleness of Christ." ·' l bo!'leech 
Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, th[\,t they be of 
the same mind in the Lord." 
When we have 
the same spirit, we shall be able to follow such 
advice. Let all be of this mind. 
R. F. CoTTRELL. 
To SIMPLY work h; nothing; we must do it 
for Jesus's sake. 
Many of the busiest people 
in the world forget to consecrate tboi1· labor, 
and then wonder at the absence of expected 
frui t.-Sel. 
One thing, ·however, must never be forgotten, I believe that, taking the life even of ::;uch men 
namely, God's care for his c:bildrcn does notal-as Abraham, Moses, Joseph, Samuel, Elijah, 
ways deliver them from trial. 
That very care Elisha, Paul, Peter, and John, we should find, 
proposes to secure their perfection of cbnrncter. on careful examination, that they bad more of 
'rltis is the first and suprenw object in his view. earthly trial than of earthly ease. Moses's forty 
Wbon this divine purpose can be best attained, years of wilderness life were doubtless hard, 
in the wisdom of God, through trials, his blessed and all the harder because of his forty years of 
c:we over us not only sanctions, bu L even sends court luxury. From courtier to shepherd was 
the sharp ''thorn," or prepares the'' fiery fur-
a sudden and tremendous leap. From palace 
nace." "Casting all your care upon him" is to tent, from silk to sheep-skin, from being 
not, therefore, to insure exemption fi·om trying waited on by servants to the position of sbep-
circumstnnces. Rather, it is to feel the over-herd, was a transition full of self-denial and 
lnsting arms about us, to hear his words of com-renl pain. 
The fact is, the closer we look at 
fort and promise, and to know that in this way tho experiences of God's children in olden time, 
the power of Christ is tho fiouit of our earthly the more completely will the impression vaT}isb 
"THE carnal mind is enmity against God; fo:r 
trial.--Jlfes~iah's lle1·ald. 
that they had easy times, and that faith, pure it is not subject to the law of God." 
Rom. 8: 7. 
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THE SIGNS OF THE T'IMES. 
VoL. 12, No. 23. 
r/l"h ~ ~ 
x· NU (1 rrf tQ ~ wrx· m.e 
(1 + I may enter in through the gates into the city~" I 
recognize the obligation of a divine requirement is 
Vj_; 
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!) ,v 
~ VJ.; 
!) 
Rev. 22 : 14. 
. 
not service to God. It is verily wil1-worsl1 ip, and 
All these speak of them, not as mere abstractions, as such strongly and justly condemned in the 
"Can ye not discern the signs of the times?" 
E. J .. WAGGONER,} 
EDITORS. 
ALONZO '1'. JONES, 
CoRRESPONDING EDITORS. 
J. H. wAGGONER, 
s. N. HASKELL, 
URIAH SMITH, 
GEo. I. BuTLER. 
OAKLAND, CAL., FIFTH-DAY, JUNE 17, 1886. 
Correct Motives in Relig-ion. 
THIS is a subject of greater practical importance 
than may appear to those who do not carefully ex-
amine its bearings. It is generally supposed that if 
the action itself be right there is little or no need 
of further consideration; or if there is honesty of 
purpose it does not so much matter what the course 
of action may be. But there is danger that i ndi-
viduals may be lulled into carnal security and·ruiued 
by self-deception. 
Paul said: "And if a man also strive for mas-
teries. yet is he not crowned, except he strive law-
fully." 
2 Tim. 2 :5. 
A man may worship in hlind-
nc"'s; he may be very devoted, and "bow clown to 
w od and stone;" very self-sacrificing, and volnn-
Lirily periRh under the wheels of the car of Jugger-
n:wt. He may even worship the true Gorl, yet not 
at all to divine accepLance. · John 4:23, 24. 
He 
may worship Christ, and still worship him in vain. 
Matt. 15 : 9. 
He may, with great earnestness, call 
upon Jesus as his Lord, and yet be h:mished as a 
wotker of iniquity. Matt. 7:22. 23. 
Worldliness 
or selfishness may be so intermixed in our religion 
ns to make it even abom;nable in the sight of God. 
Prov. 28:9. 
Wllile almost every one acknowledges the utility 
and necessity of nine of the ten commandments, the 
remnrk is frequently. mnde that they are not to be 
obeyed as com?nandments; that is, men do not 
kef'p the things contained tllerein because they are 
commanded, but because they love to do them. To 
obey a commandment, is, in the estimation of some, 
too low for a Christian; it is inconsistent with the 
freedom of the gospel. 
Christian service, they say, 
sl1~uld be that of Jove only. Every act should be 
voluntary,-a free-will offering,-and not by any 
feeling of compulsion. 
This position is sometimes avowed by those whom 
we 'ery highly esteem. and whose zeal and serv 
ice in the cause of Christ are assurance to all 
of the honesty of their intentions. 
Yet we con-
sider the position so deeply erroneous that we 
fear. the religion of many is greatly vitiated by this 
motive, which is really a SC'lEsh one. Let us examine 
a few passagrs of Scripture bearing on this subject. 
"For this is the love of Gocl, that we keep his 
commandments." 1 John 5:3. 
"If ye love me, keep my commandtnents." John 
14:15. 
"If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in 
my Jove." John 15:10. 
"Why do ye also transgress the commandment of 
God by your tradition'(" Matt. 15 : 3. 
"If thou wilt enter into life, keep the command-
ments." Matt. 19:17. 
"'Vhosoever therefore sH.all break one of these 
least commandments, and shall teach men so, he 
sh:ill be called the least in the kingdom of Heaven; 
but wl1o.;;oever shall do and teach them, the same 
shall be called great in the kingdom of Heaven." 
Matt. 5:19. 
"And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the 
things which I say?" Luke 6:46. 
"Here are they that keep the commandments of 
God, and the faith of Jesus." 
H,ev. 14:12. 
"Blessed are they that do his commandments, 
that they may have rigllt to the tree of life, and 
but as commandments, and the duties contained Scriptures. 
therein are enjoined because they are commanded. 
Melancthon said that those things which are 
But if the decalogne is not now binding as com-
called virtues among the heathen, and nmong those 
mandments, lt is because the Lord has, in some who reject the autl1ority of God, are of the nature 
manner, released us from the obligation. 
H so, why of vices because they have a vicious origin; because 
do the things, or any of the things contained they spring from self and not in respect to God's 
therein r We have a case exactly in point. There authority. 
The indictment st;lnds good against 
is a prophecy in Isn. 1:10-15, which, when com-the religion of those who do only the things which 
pared with chap. 66:1-4, and Hosea 2:11, and they love to do, without regard to what God has 
other:-3, teaches the abrogation of certain duties once commanded. If tlJi::; be not true, it is because the 
enjoined. The question there proposed applies to word of God is not a standard of" faith and practice." 
all !'al,;e worship, or will-worship: "Who hath re-That word iurrdshes the test for all human actions: 
qui red tllis at your hands'(" 
iL informs us on what ground we shall appear in the 
The truth is that there are no optional duties in Judgment. It sums up" the ,vbole matter" in these 
the service of God. 
"A-ll good works" are marked words:-
in the holy Scriptures. "To the law and to the 
"Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this 
testimony," is the COIJStant and only appeal in the is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring ev-
Christian life. 
That which is done, not as a mat-ery work into Judgment, with every secret thing, 
ter of comnumclmcnt, but as a matter of choice, whether it be good, or whether it be evil." Eccl. 
may be omitted without sin. This is a fact which 12: 13, 14. 
no one can contradict. And then comes the ques-
Then if we wish to know how we shall appear in 
tion: Can a Christian omit the duLies e11joined in the sight of the Judge i11 that clay, let u::; look to his 
nine of the ten commanuments and not be guilty'? commandments, ~lllcl diseover how we stand related 
Every one will say that he cannot. nncl yet it is true to them. If we are 110t in harmony with them here 
that'' by the law is the knowledge of sin." 
in our probation, they will be ngains.t us w.hen our 
But one fact, worthy of remark, may always be probation ends 
~tnd we st<111d wl1ere the secrets of 
noticed i 11 these case:'\, namely. with all their love to the heart are made manifest. 
And let us never 
do these things, they never love to do what is en-
trust to our own hearts, or to our feelings, to guide 
joined in the fourth commandment! So uniformly us in our religion, for this is the height of folly. Jer. 
is this the case that we have been driven Lo this 17: 9; Prov. 28:26. 
J. H. w. 
conelusion that tl1e position i::; not tak~n bee a use of 
any speeial love to Gorl, but because of a special 
aversion to the Sabbath. Now let us further ask 
Religion and Happiness. 
such an one: Why do you love to do the things con-
"FoR a person to live a!lCl die happy, he must be-
tained it~ nine of tl1e commandments? 
We cannot lieve in tile Lord Jesus Christ." These words we 
imagine what answer can be given but this: Be-lately saw in a religious journal, and have very 
cause we love to do that which is pleasing to God.' often heard similar expressions. The ntternnce of 
But how do you know it is pleasing to God? Where such a sentiment give:; evidence of a very crude idea 
may we learn that.God will be pleased to have his of religion and its object. We think that SllCh a 
servants do thvse things? This can only be an-
view of religion is injurious, for the following rea-
swered in one way: Vve know it because we find it sons:--
in his word. He hns spoken it and left it 011 teeord. 
1. It fosters selfishness, which is directly opposed 
And so, after all, we must come to the command-to true religion. To make happiness the sole or Lhe 
ment to learn that it is duty, and that God will principal incentive for gaining religion, is to direct 
accept it as service to himself. And this destroys the attention of the iudividual to himself rather 
the position completely. 
than to God. Love should be the mainspring of 
And uow we will ask another question: Why do every act of the Christian. The reward of the 
you not also Jove to keep the Sabbath? What is righteotls, and the punishment of the ungodly are 
the ground of your being t.hus "partial iu the law "r both set before us, to stimulate us both by,hope and 
Mal. 2:9. God spake this as well ns the other nine. by fear; yet these are not the main incentives. ''Per-
It is left on the same record. The Saviour gave it fpct love casteth out fear." It is certain that wl1en 
the same sanction in his life and teachings. Are one is imbued with the Spirit of Christ, who said, 
you sure that your motive is pure,--that it is not •· My nwat is to do the will of Him that sent me, 
alloyed with worldly or selfish consideratious'r 
aud to finish His work," he will not do his work 
Wc.think it unnecessary to pursue these questions through fear of the consequences if he should neglect 
further. The truly conscientious may easily de-it. At the birth of Christ the angels saug, "Glory 
terrnine this matter for himself by careful self-
to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will 
examination. But we must say, and we think we toward men." Luke 2: 14. And the first command-
shall be sustained by every considerate, God-fearing ment is, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with 
person, that the whole position is inexcusably faulty; all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all 
so much so that it vitiates ~he religion of the per-thy minci," while the second is, "'l'hou shalt love 
son who takes it, and must endanger his acceptance thy neighbor as thyself." In true religion thdre is 
with "the Judge of all," in the great day. If it is no place for thoughts of self; the glory of God, and 
true that they do the great moral duties of life be-
the welfare of our fellow-men comprise our whole 
cause they choose to do them-they love to do them duty. 
A II the thought the Christian has to take of 
-and not because God requires them, then it is true self is to keep himself unspoLted from the world. 
that their service is not that of obedience, for that 
2. The idea Is injurious because it tends to the 
is not, and cannot be, obedience which does not discouragement of those who hold it. If a man 
recognize the obligation of a commandment. Long thinks that happiness is the sure and invariable 
ago an Eng;lish reformer asked this questio1J, "Can result of belief in Christ, he will surely be discour-
that be obedience for which there is no command-aged when trouble comes, as it certainly will. 
When 
mentr" vVe hazard nothiug in saying that such the Thessalonians were in distres::;, Paul wrote to 
religion is faulty,-that it has no true founda-them" that no man should be moved by these afflic-
tion on which to rest,-is not service done to God. tions; for yourselves know that we are ap]lOi 11 ted 
For, if it is done of choice and not by virtue of thereunto." 
1 '!'hess. 3:3. It is enough for the dis-
God's commandment, then the service cente1·s in ciple if he be as his Lorcl1 and he was" a man of 
self and not in God. And that which does not sorrow, and acquainted with grief." 
Bo he says to 
JUNE 17, 1886. 
THE BIG NS OF TE--IE TIMES. 
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his followers: "If they have persecuted me, they tient explanation," they had finally made it clear 
will also persecute you." "Yea, the time cometh, that no excavation was intended, and at last letters 
that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth were given him directing the goyernors to give the 
God service." ''In the world ye shall have tribula-party "all necessary help," but "expressly stating 
tion." 
True, the Christian will be" joyful in trib-that no excavations were to be allowed." Anything 
ulation," yet it will be tribulation still. 
· 
at all that will abate this 'unconscionable nuisance 
3. The idea that happiness is a constant accom-1 is an event to be most gladly welcomed. 
pa nimen t of belief in Christ, is injurious, because 
. 
• 
it tends to produce false hope::;. The careless sinner 
Brief Conuneuts on Romans 7. 
and the professor who is" at ease in Zion," having 
this idea, may fancy that they are in good case. 
They have no trouble, therefore they think the Lord 
must he pleased with them. 
They forget that 
"whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth 
every sotJ ·whom he receiveth." 
Pions Job was 
affiieted almost beyond conception, while the wicked 
whom Davi.cl saw were not in trouble as other men, 
neither were they plagued like other mAn. 
They 
were in prosperity, and had more than heart could 
wish. 
And this was just because they were wicked. 
l'he devil can well afford to let his servants dwell 
in peace, Lut "all tltat will live godly in Christ 
Jesus shall suffer persecutioi1." 
A lwppy death is not in itself any evidenc~ of a 
person's pit·ty, nor an assurance that he is sure of 
final happiness. The psalmist says of the wicked, 
"There are no bands in their death; but their 
streugth is firm." 
Ps. 73:4. 
On the other hand, a 
good man may, like Hezekinh, be in sore <,listress at 
the thought that he is near death. 
In a word, the houor and glory of God should be 
placed before our own ltappi tiess. Iudeed, happiuess 
should never be sought. If we seek for happiness, 
it will be sure to escape us, although we may be 
satisfied with a spurious article. If we glorify God, 
that is of itself true happiness or blessedness, for 
Cln·ist declares that they that moum m·e happy. 
And this should Rhow the folly of trnsti ng to feeling 
in any case. The basis of the Christian's l1ope and 
trust is not feeling, but knowledge. In the midst 
of terrible trial he C<lll Ray, "I know that my Re-
deemer liveth;" and although he may feel that 
because of poverty and low station, he is despised by 
men, if he keeps" the commandments of GoJ and 
the faith of Jesus," he may have, not the feeling, 
but the assur·ance that he pleases God. 
w. 
That Turldsh Nuisance. 
WE have no disposition to interfere with the reg-
ular course of the fulfillment of prophecy, but we 
should really like to see an earthquake, a political 
rf'volution, or some other equally potent f::~ctor that 
would sweep away the power of the" unspeakable 
Turk," at least as it is now exerted over the couutries 
of Palestine, ancient Phenicia, Mesopotamia, Chal-
dea, [tnd Assyria. There on mon urn en ts,slabs, bricks, 
cylinders, aud seals, a few exposed, but mostly 
buried in ruius, are the record::; of the Hittites, 
Assyrians, Chaldeans, Babylonians, and other peo-
ples named in the Bible-priceless treasures to the 
world-and there it seem~:! they must remain. The 
Sublime Porte apparently considers it his special 
mission in the world to guard these records, and 
prevent them from ever being brought to the kuowl-
edge of man. By State intercession, he can be per-
suaded to graciously condescend to grant a safe-
conduct to scholars to travel through the country 
aud look at the ruins; but not a pick can be struck 
into the ground, not an inch of gravel can be dis-
turbed, to bring to light any of these hidden records. 
THE seventh chapter of Romans may be said to be 
Rom. 6: 14 expanded. It is a masterly argurnent 
for the holiness and perpetuity of the law, .and is all 
the stronger because the nature or the perpetuity 
of the law is not the snbject under discussion. The 
apostle is showing, in the sixth and sevr.nth chap-
ters, what true Christian life is, and how one is 
brought to be a Christian. The references to the 
law are, we may say, incidental, and show how im-
possible it is to ignore the law when speaking of 
Christian experience. We shall give this chapter 
a brief exposition, dwelling only on the por.tions 
that are often misunderstood by the casual reader. 
We have already shown from Rom. 6: 14; Gal. 5: 
18-23; 4:4, 5; and 4:21-31, that "under the Jaw" 
indicates a condition of condemuaLion on account 
of sin; and that persons are freed from the law, or 
redeemed from under the law, only through faith in 
Christ, by which they are thenceforth enabled to 
comply with its just demands. In this chapter the 
apostle carries out the figure of life and death, in-
troduced in the sixth chapter, representing the one 
still under the condemnation of the law as alive, 
and the justified one as being dead. The relations 
of the man to his sins, to the law. and to Christ, are 
first indicated by au illustration, which we quote:-
" Know ye not, brethren (for I speak to them that 
know the law), how that the law. hath domi:lion 
over a man as long as .he liveth r For the woman 
which hath a husband is bound by the law to her 
husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be 
dead, she is loosed from the Jaw of her husbaud. So 
then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to 
another man, she shall be called au adulteress; but 
if her husband .be dead, she is free from that Jaw; 
so that she is no adulteress, though she be married 
to auother man." Rom. 7: 1-3. 
In thi-s illustration we have font· terms, namely, 
a woman, her first husbaiicl, her second husbanrl, 
and the law. The law says, "Thou sha1 t not com-
mit adultery," and thus defines marriage as the 
union of one woman and one man. Such a union 
the law sanctions. Not only does the law sanction 
s ,ch a union, but it bind::; the parties during life. 
·while her husband lives, the law binds the woman 
to him; but when the husband dies, then of course 
the union is at an end. 
Now, says the apostle, she 
may be married to another man, and she will be no 
ad{llteress, because she is freed from the law that 
bound her to her first husband. 
How was she freed 
fwm that law( By the death of her husband, 
which rendered further union impossible. But did 
the Jaw itself change in any particular( Not in 
the least; it perform::; the same office that it did be-
fore. The law binds the woman to the second hus-
band just the same as it did to the first.; and if 
while her second husband Jives she should be n;ar-
ried to a third, the law will condemn her as J.n adul-
teress just the same as it would if she had married 
her second husband while her first husband was 
living. Thus we see that the law is the one thing 
that remains unchanged. Now ·read the applica-
tion:-
" vVherefore, my brethren, ye also are become 
dead to the law by the body of Chri::>t; that ye 
should be married to another, even to Him who is 
raised from the dead, that we should bring forth 
fruit unto God. For when we were in the flesh, the 
now we are delivered from the law, that being dead 
[or, "being dead to that"] wherein we were held; 
that we should serve in newness of spirit, rrnd not in 
the old ness of the Jetter." 
Rom. 7 : 4-G. 
Here, as in the illustration, we have four parties, 
namely, the man, his sins, Christ, and the law. In 
the first place, the man is united to his sius. That 
is when he is "in the flesh," under the law (Gal. 5: 
17, 18), and unable to please God. Rom. 8:7. Here 
is a union in which Lhe law llolds him fast. ••For 
when we were i 11 the flesh, the motions of sin~. 
whiciJ were by the Jaw, did work in our members to 
bring forth fruit unto death." The apostle says 
that the sius were " by the law." This is the same 
as "where no law is there is no transgression." If 
no Jaw existed, there could be no such thing as sin, 
and therefore Paul says the motions of sins were by 
the law. "The streugth of sin is the law." Now .} 
we say that the law holds the man fast in this union 
with sin. That does not mean that the law delights 
to have the man a sinner; nothing of the kind. The 
law has no choice in the matter. 
By his own volun-
tary action the man has transgressed the law and 
thereby become a sinner, and now the Jaw can do 
nothing ell:le than declare him to be such. If the 
man, through fear of the consequences of his sins, 
or for any other reason, wishes to escape from this 
union, he cannot. The law still reiterates, "You 
are a ::;inner." If the law could die, or could be 
made void, then the nan would at once be free; but 
that can not be. 
There is, however, a way by which the man may 
be freed from tire galling bondage to sin, if he feels 
it to be a galling bondage, and that is through faith 
in the death :tnd resurrection of Christ. He may be 
"justified freely by His grace through the redemp-
tion that is i u Christ J esu::;; whom God hath set 
forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, 
to declare His righteousness for the remission or sins 
that are past, through the forbearance of God." 
Rom. 3:24, 25. 
vVhen "the righteousnes~ of God 
which is by faith of Jesus Christ," has been imputed 
to the man, the law no longer calls him a sinner. 
He is justified, freed from the body of sin. 
But this freedom from sin, and consequent deliv-
erance from the condemnation of the law, has been 
accomplished only through Christ. "If any man be 
iu Chri::;t, he is a new creature; old things are passed 
away; behold, all things have become new. Ai:td 
all things are of God." 2 Cor. 5:17, 18. Now the 
mau is united to Christ, and by the same law which 
before held him to be a sinner. vVhiJe he was in 
the flesh, the Jaw would not for a moment allow that 
he was righteous; now that he is in Christ, the same 
Jaw witnesses to his righteousness. The law remains 
the same; the man only has changed. 
Notice the parallel between the illustration and 
the application. The law binds the woman to her 
husba1id. She cannot escape from that union, even 
though it be disagreeable· to her. 
But. the husband 
dies, and she is a free woman, and may legally be 
married to another man. So a man is united to sin, 
and the Jaw, true to itself, holds him to that account. 
But by Christ the body of sin is destroyed; and 
now the man, being free from sin, is united to 
Christ, and the law sanctions the union. As the 
woman cannot legally be united to two husbands 
at the same time, so no person can be united at the 
same time both to his sins and to Christ. "Ye can-
not serve God and mammon." 
~1att. 6:24. Union 
with Christ while we are in sin is impossible; 
and if, while professing Christianity, a person still 
clings to sin, he is guilty of spiritual adultery. 
"Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that 
the friendship of the world is enmity with God r" 
James 4:4. The law sanctions no such union as 
that. 
Dr. vVilliam Hayes Ward, in his late report' of the 
vVolfe expedition to those countries, says that great 
difficulty was experienced in obtaining the necessary 
permit to travel through these lands; and the diffi-
culty was increased by the interpreter attached to 
the Porte translating the word "exploration" by a 
.term that implied "excavation" as well, and" that 
being a thing strictly· forbidden, the firman was 
ouce and again forbidden." 
But by "long and pa-
motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in 
The reader may, however, think that he detects 
our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But a flaw in our reasoning, because in the applicatiott 
360 [S] 
r_rr~E SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
VoL. 12, No. 23. 
the apostle tells us that we II a vc to die in order to 
become united to Christ. 
This, he will say, is not 
au exact parallel to the case of the wom:u1 whose 
husbn.nd dies tl1at she may be joined to another. 
The clitriculty is only apparent, not real. The par-
allel is as close ns it is possible for any parallel to 
be. In the illustration the husband dies, and thus 
the woman may be united to another. Now if you 
should suppm>e a case in which the woman died 
with her first husband, and then had a resurrection, 
and was thus u11ited to another, we have an exact 
parallel to the case of the sinner being freed f'rom 
sin nnd united to Christ. The case is of sufii.cient 
importance to warrant a more detailed inves~iga­
tion. The following verses contain the whole argu-
ment:-
" What shall we say then? 
Shall we continue in 
sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How ::;ball 
we, that are den.d to sin, live any longer therein? 
Know ye not, that so many of us as were bap-
tized into Jesus Chri3t were baptized into his death r 
Therefore we are buried wHh him by baptism into 
death; that like as Christ was raised up from the 
dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also 
should walk in newness of life. For if we have 
been planted together in the likeness of his death, 
we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection; 
knowing this, that our old mnu is crucili.ed with 
him, thn.t the body of sin might be destroyed, that 
henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is 
dead is freed from sin." Rom. 6:1-7. 
"The .wages of si 11 is death." Rom. 6: 23. 
The 
law dernn.ncs the death of every sinner. But "God 
so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten 
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should 110t 
perish, but hn.ve everlasting life." Jollll 3:16. 
Cllrist "bore our sins in his own body on the tree, 
that Wf', being den.d to sins, should live unto right-
eousness." 1 Peter 2:24. 
By bnptism we show our 
belief in the death and resurrection of Christ, n.nd 
our acceptance of him as a propitiation for our sins. 
Indeed, by baptism we are joined to Christ: "as 
many of you as have been baptized into Christ have 
put on Christ." Gal. 3:27. But we are baptized 
into Christ, by being "baptized into his death." 
"We are buried with him by baptism into rleath." 
And thus it is that we receive the penalty of the 
law; not in person, but in figure. Christ has st:f-
fered for sin; and if we are "in him," we n.lso are 
accounted as having received the penalty. And 
si nee it is by baptism that we become united to him, 
we become <!ead to the law and united to Christ at 
the same time. 
•• Dead to the law." 
WI: at does the apostle mean 
by that expression? Simply thn.t we have (in 
Christ) received the penalty of the ln.w, and that it 
n~w regards us as dead. To illustrate: A man 
guilty of stealing is by the law senteneed to a term 
of years in tbep<:nitentiary. Heserveshissentence, 
and then is set at liberty. Now he has 110 fear of 
the law. 
He may go boldly into thecourt-room, and 
eveD into the prison; for he knows that, having re-
ceived the penalty for his crime, the kw will 110t 
molest him. Now carry the illustration a little 
furtl1er: A man commits murder and is sentenced 
to death. When he has been executed, the law is 
satisfied. 
Suppose now that it were possible for the 
man to come to life again. 
Having reeeived the 
full penalty of the law, he is, so far as his past 
<Jffense is concerned, thenceforth considered by the 
Ia w as a dead man. 
So with the sinner's relation to 
the ln.w of God. It condemned him to den.th. In 
Cldst he received the den.th penalty, and now thn.t 
lte is raised to walk in newness or life, Lhe law con-
siders him to be a dead mn.n. 
He is now a new man; 
the man who sinned is dead, and the man who 
takes his place shuns those things which the former 
man did, and therefore the law declares him to be 
righteous. In harmony with the abGve quotation 
and explanation are the following words:-
"If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those 
things which are :tl1ove, where Christ sitteth on the 
right hand of God. Set your affection on things 
above, not on things on the earth. 
Fo1· ye are dead, 
and your life is hid with Christ in God." 
Col. 3: 
1-3. 
. 
Read also the following ~tatement by the sn.me 
n.postle: "I mn crucified with Cl:rist; uevertheless 
I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the 
life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith 
of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself 
for me." 
Gn.l. 2 :20. 
Now wl1y wns it necessary for us to go through 
this proce~·s of dying n.11d being raised to new lifer 
Because we .had upon us n. burden of sin from which 
we could not otherwise be free. 
Did we get rid of 
this body of siu by that means? 
YeR; hen.r the 
apostle: "Knowing this, that our old mn.n is cruci-
Jiecl with him, thn.t Lhe body of sin might be de-
stroyed, tltat henceforth we 5hould not serve sin. 
For he that is dead is freed from sin." The body of 
sin _was the first llUsband. We became disgusted 
with that union, and desired to become united to 
Christ, but eould 110t as long as the first ltusband 
was living; and in order for tlwt husband to die, 
we ourselves had to die. For tl1e moment, both are 
dead; then we are raised to be henceforth joined to 
Christ in a new life, because the first husband, tl1e 
old man, the body of sin, remains den.cl. So long as 
that body of sin remains dead, we, allhottgh nlive 
in Christ, are dead in theeyesofthelaw. 
But if:tt 
nny time the old mn.n should come to life by our 
going back to our old sins, that moment the law 
would condemn us as n.dul terers. 
w. 
(To be continued.) 
The Authority of the Olcl Testament. 
THE Disciple-s not long since issued a pamphlet 
entitled," Our Position." One part of their position 
is stated as follows:-
" We accept the Old Testament n.s true; 
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but n.s a book of autho1·ity to teach us what we are 
t.o do, the New 'l'est:tment alone, as embodying the 
teachings of Christ and his apostles, is our staudard." 
Upon this the Ch?"istian Intelligencer makes the 
following excellent comment:-
" But they forget th:tt in thus denying the au-
thority of the Hebrew Scriptures they fly directly 
in the face of the t_faching of Christ and his apos-
tles. When the Saviour repelled the tempter in 
the wilderness it wns by quoting the Old Testament. 
He said ngain and again, '1t is written;' but il 
the words written had no n.utltority, why were they 
cited? In the Sermon on the Mount our Lord sn.id 
that he came not to destroy (abrogate) the law and 
tl1v prophets, but to fulfill them. But if the law 
:111rl the prophets were not n.brogn.ted by him, then 
.1.vy are of hindi ng authority still. ·when he was 
asked what was the great command, he answered, 
quoting the words of the Pentateuch which enjoin 
supreme love to God n.nd to love our ·neighbo:t; ns 
ourselves, words which are unlimited either in tirrll> 
or pln.ce, and therefore are authoritative now and 
evermore. 
\Vhen he was asked about marriage, he 
quoted from Genesis the pu::;::;age which settles tl1P 
question for all time. When he was asked about 
the resurrection, he referred to the Old Testament 
as deciding the point not for Jews only but for all 
men. 
\Vhen he was nsked about the way to eternn.l 
lift', he gave the most explicit sanction to the clec<t-
logue, saying, 'If thou wilt enter into life, keep 
the commandments.' It follows, then, that to deu' 
the autbority of the Old Testament is to deny th.t· 
authority of the Lord Jesus Christ. 
"The apostle Paul throughout his epistles cites 
the old scriptures, not si1r.ply as illustration, but 
as confirmation of his utterances. Not only so, but 
he affirms that 'wlwtsoever things were writteu 
aforetime were written for our learuiug, that \VV 
through pn.tience and comfort of the Scripture::; 
might have hope,' n.ud n.gain, that 'they are writ-
ten for our adrnoni tion, upon whom the ends of the 
world are come.' He also said that 'every Rcripture 
i 11spired of God is also profitable for Leaehing, for re-
proof, for correction, fori nstrudiou which is in right-
eousues::>' [Revised Version]; Lut how coult! it be thi;, 
unless it were authoritalive? In the conference at 
Jerusalem the apostle James quoted !rom the 
prophets as a means of settling the question which 
caused the assembling of the council, and in his 
epistle he refers to' the royal law according to the 
Scripture' as a decisive rule of action. The apos-
tle Peter not only quotes Lhe Old Testament as 
authority, but tells his brethren that they do well 
to take heed unto it as unto a lamp sl1ining in a 
dark place, since they knew that its authors 'spake 
from God, being moved by the Holy Gho::;t.' 
"It is clear, then, thn.t they who restrict authority 
to the teachings of Christ and l1 is apostles run 
counter to those very teachings. And they eut 
themselves off from three-fourths of the rule of faith 
which God has given. They also greatly dispamge 
the divine wisdom. It pleased the Most High to 
make his revelation of ltimsel f gradual. 
Through 
a long course of years the disclosures were made, 
the late never superseding but supplementiug the 
earlier, and the whole. together constituting the 
divine directory for men. The Bible, the whole 
Bible, is one book, and it is needful in order to ac-
complish its purposes; but to deny authority to the 
greater part of it is sadly to mutilate the inspired 
rule of faith and prac.tice. If the Old 'l'estan1en t 
has and was designed to have no grip upon the con· 
science of Christians, its use and advn.ntage to them 
is wofully abridged. In fact, it is reduced to Lhe 
level of uninspired productions. It may contain 
many excellent things, but the reader is to sit in 
judgment upon their value to him just as he would 
in the case of any human production. 
Wli:1 Lever 
it be, narrn.tive, proverb, psalm, statute, or proph-
ecy, he is to accept it if jt commends itself to l1is 
rni nd, otherwise not. To all w Ito hold sueh views 
one may well rrpeat the incisive words of our Lord, 
' Ye do en·, not knowing the 8cr-iptu1·es."' 
Yet as plain as all this is, tile Chdstian Standm·d 
seriously sets about to controvert it, n.nd begins by 
asking the ever mistaken question of that denomi-
nation, namely:-
" \Vho is now the Lawgiver in the s1-iritnal uni-
verse~ 
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. 
That is the question. 
Moses or 
Christ-which ( 
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Those scriptures were a 
stn.ndarcl to those who li,vecl unde1· the autho1·'ity oj 
Moses,-
but they cannot, in the naturt> of tllings, 
be a standard of authority to those who live under 
the auth01·ity of Ohr-i~:>t." 
We would ask the Standw·d, who, but God, hn.s 
ever been the Lawgiver in the spiritual universe( 
Where was Mose::; ever a lawgiver in the spiritual, 
or in any other, universe? We challenge the.Stand~ 
a1·d to show, from the hour that Moses sn.w the 
burning bush to the hour of his death, that he ever 
did anything upon his own authority, unless it be 
at the rock of l
eribah, when he said, '' lust we 
fetch you water out of this rock?" 
N urn. 20 : 8-12. 
But as this forfeited his entrance into the promised 
land, we think that even tlJe Standard would 
hardly present that as proof thn.t Moses n.cted on 
his own authority. 'l'lte calamity Lhat came upon 
Korah, Dn.than, and A biram, and all their company, 
w".; to demonstrate that the autbority by which 
Moses acted was the :tuthority of God. 
"Moses 
said, HereLy ye sl1n.ll know that the Lord hath sent 
?ne to do all these works; for I have not done them 
of mine own mind." Num. 16:28. 
Then by what right is it that the Standard 
speaks of the "authority of Moses"? None what-
ever but an n.ssumed right. It is directly against the 
word of Moses, to speak of what he did as being 
the aut110rity of Moses. 
From Exodus 3:4 to 
Deuteronomy 34: 4, from the burning bush to 
Pisgah, always the word is, "The Lord spake unto 
Moses, saying," "And the Lord said unto Moses," 
L·tc. So it is all through the Old Testament. The 
Lord spoke to Joshua, to the Judges, to Samuel, to 
David, to Nathan, to Isaiah, to Jeremiah, to Ezekiel, 
Lo Daniel, and to all the prophets. None of these 
:;poke on their own authority, nor upon the author-
ity o(Moses, but ever by tl1e authority of the Lord. 
None of these things ever purported to be the au-
Lhority of Moses. 
Nobody ever obeyed them as of 
the authority of Moses, but always as of the au-
Lhority of God. And this authority is the autho1·ity 
uf Christ. It was the Spirit of Christ thn.t was in 
all the prophets from Moses-yes, from Abraham, 
I rom Enoch-to Malachi. It wns the Spirit of 
Christ that testified in all their writings, "search-
JUNE 17, 1886. 
TI~E SIGNS OF TJ:-IE TIMES. 
lgl 361 
ing what, or what manner of time the Spi?"it of 
Clu·ist, which was in them did signify, when it tes-
tified," etc. 1 Peter 1:11. The Old Testament, then, 
is the testimony of Christ, and the test.irnony of 
Christ is the testimony of God. There{'ore, to deny 
the authority of the Old Testament is to deny the 
authority of Cltrist and of God. 
But this will not suit the Standa1·d at all; for 
.'tccording to it the authority of Christ did not begin 
t iII ajte1· his reSU?Tection. It says:-
"It was afte1· his resurrection that Jesus claimed 
the possession of 'all authority in He.~ven and on 
earth,' 
. and from that time rne11 are under 
the authority of the Lord Jesus." 
It is tnHl that it was after his resurrection-in 
fact, on the day of his ascension-that Jesus said 
this; but-to claim that he had not this authority 
till that time is more than the record will justify. 
Nearly the beginning of his ministry, before the 
imprisonment of John the Bnptist, the record is, 
"The Father loveth the Son, and hrdh git·en all 
thingsintohishand." John 3:35. And before the 
death of John the Baptist, Jesus said, "All thing.;; 
m·e clclive1·ed unto me of my Father." Matt. 11 :27. 
"By him were all things created, that are in l1en ven, 
and that are in earth, visible and invisiblE', whether 
they be thrones, or dominion~, or principalities, or 
powers; all things were created by him, and for him; 
and he is b0f'ore all things, and by him all things 
consist." 
Col. 1:16, 17. "Without him W<l.S not 
anything made that was made." John 1 : 3. Be-
fore he came into the world, he uph0ld "all things 
by the wo1·d of his power." Heb. 1:1-3. Now if 
the Clt1'iSti-((n Standard can conceive how Christ 
could have all tldngs delivered to ]Jim, how 
he could create all things, how he could uphold all 
things by the word of his power, and yet have no 
authority t.ill after his resurrection, it has a power 
of conception that is truly phenomenal. 
Besides 
this, if the Standm·d's position were true, it would 
follow that no pnrt of the New Testament even 
would be of authority except that which was spoken · 
after the resurrection of Christ. For it was not till 
then that Christ "claimed the poseession of au-
thority." 
In reply to the Intelligencer's instance of Jesus 
tellin~ the young man, "If thou wilt enter into 
life, keep the commandments," the Standard again 
lets itself out after this fashion:-
"Let the reader carefully observe that this was 
the question of a Jew, propounded to one whom the 
questioner regarded as an expounder· of the law; 
n.nd therefore JE>sus answers him out of the law. 
This certainly proves that the law of Moses was 
then authoritative. ·But does the I'Y/,telligencer 
mean to say that this is the way of life tau ..!:ht in 
the gospel 'I and that to deny this is 'to de;ly the 
authority of the Lord Jesus Christ'? We have not 
so learned Christ." 
Then we say that the Standar-d has not properly 
learned Christ. This was not all that Jesus said to 
the young man. 
He said also to him, "Sell t.hat 
thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have 
treasure in Heaven; and come and follow me." Was 
it as "a Jew," "an expounder of the law" to a Jew, 
that this was said by the Lord Jesusr No; it was 
said by the Saviour of the world, the One by whom 
comes eternal life, to one who honestly asked the 
way to eternal life, and one whom Jesus wanted to 
follow him. It was said to one whom Jesus wanted 
to be his disciple. Therefore, what Jesus told this 
young man to do is what his disciple.q must do that 
they may have eternal life. 
Had the young man 
done it, he would assuredly have been a disciple of 
Christ; therefore, to deny the commandments of God, 
of the Old Testament, is to deny an essential part of 
the duty of a disciple of Christ. The Stand1.wd, and 
the "Dh;ciples" whom it represents, need to learn 
more thoroughly what constitutes a true disciple of 
the Lord Jesus Christ. The Standard needs to so 
learn Christ. 
But aside from L1is special pleading, the Stanclar·d' 
ca11not make its own system work. In answer to 
the statement that "Jesus repelled the tempter by 
quoting the Old Testament," it says:-
" Those Scriptures had authority. Jesus was· a 
Jew, 'born under the law,' and it was his office to 
'magnify the law and make it honorable.' Not one 
jot or tittle of the law was to pass until all was ful-
filled; and Jesus was then engaged in fulfilling it. 
What has that to do with the question concerni1ig the 
p1·esentLawgiver, whose authority we are to honor?" 
And yet in an editorial on the same page, iu reply 
to a Catholic on the worship of Mary, it says:-
" There are no hymns of praise, there is no wor-
Hhip, mldressed to Mary in the Scriptures. 
''Thou 
shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt 
thou serve,' is what the Son of Mary uttered as 
true doctrine.'' 
But hold, Mr. Standard. Why may not the 
Uatltolic answer you in your own words, that it 
was as "a Jew 'born under the law,'" and "as an 
expoundE'r of the law," and while he was ''engaged 
in fulfillingit," that Jesus uttered these words? He 
was spenking to one who regarded him "as an ex-
pouuder or the law, therefore Jesus answered h irn 
out of the law. This certainly proves that the law 
or Moses was then authoritative." But ''what has 
that to do with the question concerning the p1·esent 
Lawgiver whose authority Catholics are to follow r" 
Now why is not that argument as sound in behalf 
of the Catholics as the foregoing is in behalf of the 
Disciples r Or is it true that argument against the 
authority uf the Old Testament is good for the Dis-
ciples :don~, and is not to be used by other people? 
"It is a poor rule that will Hot work both ways.'' 
And as the Standa1·d·s rule, by its own applicatiou, 
will not work both ways, we set it down that the 
argument against the authority of the Old Testa-
ment is a poor, miserablE' shift to e::;cape the obliga-
tion of the Law of God. 
J. 
North Pacific T. and M. Society. 
'rHE first meeting of the North Pacific Tract 
and Mist'lionary Soeiety was held on the cnmp-
ground at East Portland on r:ruesday, May 18, 
1886, at 9:30 A.M. After the usual opening 
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report, the chairman appointed committees as 
follows:-
On Nominations, 
Brother 0. Dickenson, 
and Sisters ~"". KingRbury and A. B. Starbuck. 
On Resolutions, T. H. Starbuck, S. Browns-
berger, and Chas. Holt. 
Auditor, H. W. Rood. 
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Society officers. 
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. . . . . . . . . . 
353.50 
Total .......................... $3,662.28 
EXPENSES. 
Cash paid SIGNS Office .................... $853.60 
" 
" 
Review 
" 
.. . .. .. .. .. .. .. . . .. . 465.03 
" 
Good HeaWL Publishers .......... 100.00 
" International Society . . . . . . . . . . . . 
5.15 
'· · " 
Foreign Missions ................ 353.50 
" 
on New Tents .................. 149.00 
" 
Per order of Camp Meeting Com ... 255.31 
" 
for Labor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577.40 
" 
for Store Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
30.35 
" 
for Sundries at Reading Room . . . . 
17.55 
" Books, Stationery, etc ........ 127.56 
to Healdsburg College .......... 609.00 
" 
on General Expenses ............ ll8.84 
Total ......................... $3~ 
REPORT OF LABOR FOR YEAR ENDING MARCH 31' 1886. 
No. of members.............................. 
190 
reports returned........................ 
553 
members added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
32 
dismissed ............ , . . . . . . . . 
3 
letters written . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
I, 174: 
visits made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
2,497 
pp. of tracts and pamphlets distributed. 172,540 
periodicals distributed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,961 
periodicals taken in clubs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
540 
new subscribers obtained . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
292 
AUDITOR'S REPORT. 
I have thoroughly examined the books, and found. them 
correctly kept. 
H. W. Reed. 
Shortly after the close of the meeting, 
Brotber Reed resigned his position as Secretary 
in favor of Brother J. A. Burden, whose health 
is such that it wns thought not expedient for 
him to enter the field with a tent. 
All business 
of the Society should be addressed to J. A. Bur-
den, Box 18, East Portland, Oregon. 
CHAS. L. BoYD, President .. 
MRs. C. L. BoYD, Secretary. 
"IF any man worship tB.e beast and his image, 
and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his 
hand, the. same shall drink of the wine of the 
wrath of God, which is poured out without 
mixture into the cnp of his indignation; and 
be shall be torrnen ted wiLh fire and brim-
stone in the presenc:e of the holy angels, and 
in the presence of the Lamb.'' 
Rev. 14 : 9, 10. 
362 !lO] 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
VoL. 12, No. 23. 
Report of North Pacific S. S. Association. 
'l'HE eighth annnal session oftbe North Pacific 
Stl.bbath-school Association was held in connec-
tion with the camp-meeting at East Portlaud, 
Oregon, May 19-25. 
The first meeting was called May 19. 
Prayer 
by Brother Colo. 
The report of the last sessi?n 
was then <.:ailed for and read; also the fimwc1al 
report; afte1· which remarks were made by 
Brother J. A. Burden on the importance of Lhu 
Sabbath-school work. 
show the obsel'Vttnce of the firi3t day to be of\ -vvas plain that other wuapons must be forged, 
human origin, ami the snbstitution to have been I and other arn~ies n.lllstered, than those whi<.:h 
Lhe work of'' tho m:w ol' si11." 
'We hope t.Lat Charles nnd liranc1s had been accustomed to 
the ftO'i(:Ltion will ·uollLilllle till tbe honest in· lead into tho field. It was now that the Jesuit 
heart ~eo tho Ioree ot' 2 'l'im. 3: 5: and follo'vv corps was embodied. 
And it must be confessed 
Pan]'::; i11jlln<.:lion therein; for the end of all tbnt. the~e new soldier's d.id more tban a.ll the, 
thiii!.!S is at band. 
anme:-; or Fntnce and Spa111 to stem tho t.1de ot 
Tb.roe weeln ago I visited the island of Protestnnt suc<.:e~s, and uind victory once more 
Kauni, said to be in all respects tbc most to the banners of Rome. 
. 
. 
lovely of tho group. 
The clima to, j nclging from 
. 'vV e have soon P~·otostan t1sm rene'': Its ener-
rny short stay, is jndoed delightful, and much g1.us; .Rome: too, WJ_II sbo~v what she JS cnpable 
of the scenery grand. 
The soil is rich, and rice 
~)f do1ng .. 
A~ the t.r1bes of Ist:nel were appr~aeh­
and fHt·rnr ca11e arc quite extensively cultivated. 1ng the fronL1er of the pro.mised ln.nd, a WJZat·d 
l went to nearly ot· qnite all of the sugar prophet was snmm~no
 :ron: tbo Enst t? bar 
plantations, fimling some at all but one who the1r entrance by h~.· dn·.11_1:1.L1ons all? ell(;lllllll-
wero willing to read on1· publications, buying me1.1ts.. 
.As .the :u·m1es of Prote::-;tmlt.tsm 11oare.d 
books and subscribing for the periodicals. 'l'bet·e then· fi1.1al v1ctory, there. started up tl1e J es~11t 
are but few BIJglish-sp<:':tking people on the iRl-
~1ost.' w1lh :L ::;ubtler c~Rulstr~r and. a ~l:trker d!v-
and. 1 obtained, in all, tl1irty-o11e subscriptions, 1:1atwn tlL:Ii Balaall'_l s, to ~!Bpu~o With theRe-
mostlv for tho SraNs· took orders for about formed the possesswn of Chnste11dom. 
We 
tbirt3~-five dollar.·· w~rlh of books, a11d held shall c~I!siu~n· _th.~lt h_ot>t i_n. it~ rise, its. equip-
three Bible-readings. 
'l'be past quarter Brolher ments, 1L::> dJS<.:lpllne, Its ddfu::-10n, and 1ts sue-
'l'be following committees were then ap-
poi11ted: On Nom.i11ations, H. W. R:ed, F. C. 
Kelley, and B'. S. Bu11ch. 
On EcsolutlOJJS~ Joh11 
A. Burden, S. Brow11Sberger, and J. M. Cole. 
The second meet i1w was called at 6:45P.M., 
Elder C. L. Boyd i11 ~l1e chair. 
Report ot' the 
last meeting read and accepted. 
'l'he Commit-
teo on Re'olutions then preseuted the following 
report:-
WHEREAS, We recognize the i rnportance of united 
and well-directed efforts in the Sabbath-school work, 
therefore, 
Resolved, That we recommend that the teachers 
nnd officers of each organized school hold a teachers' 
meeting at le:1st once a mon tb, and oftener if prncti-
cable, to COlhmlt in regard to the best interests of 
the Sabbath-school. 
'vVHEREAS, Many of our people are so situated 
that they canuot attend our church Sabbath-schools, 
therefore, 
Resolved, Th~t we recommend and urge such to 
hold family schools at a stated hour, puLti ng forth 
earnest efforts to make them interesting and profit-
able, and that they report quarterly to the State 
Secretary. 
Resolved, That we adopt the class contribution 
plan throughout our schools. 
These resolutions were c:arefully considered 
and unanimously adopted. 
.. The Committee on Nominations presented 
the following names for officers: l'.,or President, 
Elder C. L. Boyd; Secretary, Carrie L. Brooln~; 
Executive Committee, John A. Burden and 
John l\L Cole. 
'fhe nominees were elected. 
Adjourned sine die. 
C. L. BOYD, President. 
CARRIE L. BROOKS, Sec1·eta1·y. 
Hawaiian Islauds. 
SINCE tbe close of the tent-meetings, and 
Elder Healey's departure for California, we 
have endeavored to follow up the work here 
by visiting, and by the distribution of such 
reading matter as would tend to awaken n 
deeper in tere::>t in the near coming of the Lord, 
and the preparation of heart uecessary to meet 
him with joy. 
A well-known busineRs man of this place bas 
lately taken his stand for ti..Je truth as it is in 
JeRus; a,nd has, through the press, informed 
the public of his e;onvictions. 
He thanked his 
customer:s for past favors, at:\ked for a continu-
ation of theil' patronage, and notified all that, 
in fuLure, his place of busineRs would be closed 
011 the Sabbath (Saturday). 
His course in the 
matter eommands, at least, the respect of the 
rigb t-mi11ded portion of the community, and we 
trust that his manly action will give conrnge 
to others who are also convinced that God still 
requil'es obedience to all the precept::> of Lis 
perl'ect, holy, just, and good law. 
'rhe Sabbath question is still ngitating the 
minds oft>orne in tbe chnrebes here, as evidenced 
by the fact that one of tho pastors of the lead-
ing denomination has felt called upon to speud 
two Sunday evenings in trying to show how 
the change was made fi:om the seventh dny, 
and that God now requires the observance of 
Lhe firRt day of the week. 
His argument, how-
ever, did not prove tbe requirement, nor show 
t bat Christ or the apostles i. .I anything to do 
with the change. 
The weak11ess of the Sunday 
cause is never quite so apparent as when its 
devotees undertake to defend it. 
T'be admis-
l:iions which they are forced to make invariably 
LaRue has takon tbirty-tivo subscriptions for cesses. 
. 
. 
our ditt'ereut periodicfds, visited seYenteen for-
Don ln.lg.o J.Jopoz de R~calde, th~ lgnat1us 
eign f-:'hips :\lid a 1illmber of local schooners, L?yola of b1story, w~~s the f~un~or of the Order 
,·elling qnit.u a qnalltity of books to tlw officers of Jesus, or the Jo.su1ts. 
H1~ bu·Lh was nearly 
and men, and supplyi11g each yessel with more cotemporaneous w1~h that. of Lu.ther. 
~e -v:as 
or Joss free reading m:tlter. 
Lhe youllgest son of one _of t~e h1ghe,st Span18h. 
We are both of !rOOd eourno·e in tl1e l;ord grandees, a11d was uorn m h1::> fathers Castle of 
and rejoie;e to Lave._.,a part in the work of ou;. L~yola, in the provine;o of Guipuz~oa, in 1491. 
soon-e;oming :Mastur. 
L.A. ScO'l''l'. 
l-~1s youth wa~ p;tsse.d at the spl_~nd1d .and lux~l-
Honol'ul'u May 24-. 
l'IOUS court ot .b erdlllaJid the Uatholtc. 
Spa111 
' 
at that time was fighti11g to expel the _M.:oot·::;, 
BENEA'I'H THF. CROSS. 
whose preSCIICe On bur soil, he aC:COllllled at OIICe 
an iiJSult to her indepe11denco :wd au nff:'rollt to 
her faith. 
She was ending tbe confli<.:t in Spain, 
but continuing it in Afric~l. 
TLe naturally ar-
dent soul of Ignatius was f-:'Ot 011 fire by the 
religious fervor around him. 
He grow vvenry 
of the gaieties and frivolities of the e;ourt; uor 
could even the dalliances and adventures of 
lmight-ermntry satisfy him. 
He thin>tcd to 
earn renown 011 the field of arm:-.>. 
Embnrkin~ 
in the war w hie:h at that time engaged tho r~~ 
ligious enthu::-iaBm and military <.:uivalry of his 
countrymen, he soon distingui:::d..Jed himself by 
his feats of dr~,ring. Ignatius was biddi11g fair 
to take a high place amo11g warriors, and trans-
mit to posteriLy a name encompassed with the 
h~do of military glory-but with that halo o11ly. 
At thit> stage of bis career an ineident befell 
him which cut short bis exploits on the battle-
field, and transferred his enthusiasm anu chiv-
alry to another sphere. 
BENEATH the cross of Jesus 
I bo•N with contrite heart, 
While in his work most precious 
I glu.dly take a part. 
Beneath the cross of Jesus 
I come for his command, 
And lay upon his altar 
My head, my heart, my hand. 
Beneath the cross of Jesus 
I march to do his will; 
His promises, they cheer me 
While I his laws fulfill. 
0 sacred cross of Jesus, 
May I thy burdens lo\u00b7e 
Till Christ shall come in glory 
To carry me above. 
-Oh1istian Secretary. 
Ignatius Loyola. 
PRoTESTAN'riSM had marshaled its spiritual 
It was the year 1521. Luther was uttering 
forecs a second time, and plne;ing itself at the his famous "No l" before the emperor and hit~ 
heart of Christendom-at a point where three princes, and summoning, as witb trumpet peal, 
great empires met___:it was laboring with rodoub-Christendom to arms. 
l tis at this mome11 t the 
led vigor to propagate itself on all ~ides. 
H young Ignatius, tbe intrepid soldier of Spain, 
was expelling from the ait· of the world tbat an-and about to beeome the yet more iutrepid sol-
cient superstition, born of pag:mism and Juda-dier of Rome, appears before us. 
He js sl1nt 
ism, which, like an ppaque veil, had darkened up in the town o:f Pampeluna, which the :B'ren<.:h 
tbe human mind; a new light was breaking on are besieging. 
TLe garrison are bard pressed; 
the eyes, and a new life stining in the souls of and after some wbii->pered consultations they 
men; schools of learning, pure cburcheH, and ope11ly propose to surrender. 
Ignatius deems 
free nations were springi11g up in different the very thought of such a thing di::dJOnor; be 
parts of Europe; while hundreds of thousand8 denouuces the proposed act of his e;omrndes as 
of disciples were ready, by their Loly lives Ol' CO\'ardiee, nr•d, re-entering the citadel with a 
horoie deaths, to serve that great cause which, few uompallions as courageous a8 himself, 
having broken their ancient fetters, had made swears to defend it to the last drop of his blood. 
them the heirs of a new libel'ty and the citir,ens By and by farnine leaves him 110 alternative 
of a new world. It was eloar that if let alone, save to die within the walls, or to cut his way, 
for only a few years. 
Proto~lanLism would sword in band, through the host of the be~iegors. 
achieve a victory t'O complete that it would be He goes forth and joins battle 'vilh Lho Fre11eh. 
vain for any opposing power to t!Jinh: of renew-As he is fighting desperately he is Btruck by a 
ing the contest. 
H that power whi<.:h was musket-ball, Vi7oundod dangerously in both le~s, 
seated in Geneva was to be withstood, and the and laid senselest~ on tbe field. 
Ignatius had 
tide of victory which was bearing it to domin-en dod the last campn.ign be was ever to fight 
ion rolled baek, there must be no longer delay witb the sword; his valor he was yet to display 
in the measures necessary for achieving such a on other fieldH, but be would mingle no more on 
result. 
those which resound with the ela::;h of arms and 
It waR further clear that armies would never the roar of artillery. 
effect the overthrow of Protestantism. 
The 
The bravery of the fallen warrior bad won 
serried strength of popi8h Europe had been put the respect of the foe. 
Raising him from tl1o 
forth to crush it, but all in vain; Proto::>tantism 1 ground, where he was fast bleeding to death, 
had risen only the stronger from the blow8 j lhey <.:arried Lim to the hospital of .Pampeluna, 
which, it was hoped, would overwhelm it. 
It and tended him with care till he was able to be 
JUNE 17, 1886. 
TF-IE SIGNS OF THE TIJY£ES. 
[11] 363 
conveved in a litter to his father'R castle. 
Thric~ had be to llltJ(
go the agony of haYing 
his wounds opened. 
Cloitching his toot b rutd 
closing his fi:::~ts, he bade defiance to pain. 
Not 
a groan escaped him w bile under the lortnro of 
surgeon's knife. Bnt the tardy pas:::;age of the 
weeks and months during which be waited the 
slow healing of his wounds, inflicted on his ar-
dent spirit a keener pain thnn hncl the probing-
knife on his quivering limbs. Fettered to his 
couch, he chafed at the inactivity to which he 
w:1s doomed. 
Roma.nces of chivalry and tales 
ot' wal' were brought him to beguile the hours. 
Tbese exhausted, other books >vere produced, 
but of a somewhat diffurent character. 
This 
time it was tho legends of the sai11ls that were 
brought the bod-rid knight. 
The tragedy of 
the early CbriRtian martyrs pasRed before him 
as he read. 
Next en me the monkR and hermits 
of the Thebaic deserts and tbe Sinaitic mount-
ains. 
With an imagination on fire, be perused 
t.lte story of the huuger and cold they had 
lmt,-ed, of the self-conquests they had achieved, 
oft l1e battles they had waged with evil spirits, 
of the glcrions visions that bad been Youch-
safcd them, and the brilliant rewards they had 
gained in tbe lasting reverence of earth and the 
felicities and dignities of Heaven. 
He panted 
to rival these heroes, whose glory was oorf a kind 
so bright and pure, that, compared with it, the 
renow11 of the battle-field \Vas dim and sordid. 
His enthusiai'im and ambition were as boundless 
as ever, but now t.hey were directed into a uew 
channel. 
He11ceforward the current of his life 
wa::~ cLnngl'd. 
He had lain clown "n knight of 
tho burning sword "-to use the words of bis 
biographer, Vieyra-he rose up from it" a saint 
of tho burning torch." 
lated. 
He wrestled with the evil spirit, talked 
to voices nndiblo to no ear bnt his own, fasted 
for days on end, till his weakneRs was snch that 
he fell into a s'voon, and one day was found at 
the entrance of his cave, lying on the gmund, 
half dead.-Wylie's '' llisto1·y of P1·otestumtism." 
(Concl'uded next week.) 
Delayed Resnlts. 
THE want of immediate or apparent success 
is among the severe trinls which Christian 
workers are called to endure. 
rro toil long 
without any obvious results is painfully trying; 
but it is a test of faith to which the faithful 
servants of God are often subjected. 
He that 
!:lOws is not always be that quickly gathers the 
ripened grain with rejoicing that be bas not 
labored in vain. 
Tbo bri11gin·~· in of the sheaves 
from the field where tearl1 I ~owing is done, is 
often delayed. 
Succc:::;s, at first, is dealt out but 
sparingly, in a multitude of cases. The sower 
is not so soon a reaper as be longs to be, in 
what seems to him a godly impatience. 
It bas always been thus. 
God tries tho faith 
of his servants by keeping them in suspense. 
J eremiab says, "It is good that a man should 
both hope and quietly wait." 
rrhe most excel-
lent and faithl'ul have thus been tried. 
~ehat 
for which they anxiously looked did not appon.r 
according to their de:::;ires or their expectatin11S 
as to either t Ito time or the way of appeara11ce, 
if, indeed, aught on earth was ever to be seen. 
The preaclting of ~oah produced but li~tle ef-
fect, from first to last, so far as gaining converts 
was concemecl. 
He waited long before b is 
words were confirmed and before the end of 
his ministry was aucomplished. 
Very weari-
some must have been that one hundred and 
twenty yenra of waiting. 
.Ma11y a time he 
must have felt that be was laboring in vain; 
and never, at all: did he see the world converted 
and saved. 
Without doubt, however, he was 
permitted to feel that the true end of the '\ nl'k 
given him to do, was accomplished; so that be 
was by no means to be consid Jred an unsuccess-
ful preacher.-Watchman. 
~h£ atnntnt~ntar~. 
THE LAW OF GOD. 
Under the Law. 
rl'bo change was a sudden and violent one, 
and drew after it vast conseqnences, not to Ig-
ltatius o11ly, and the men of his own age, but to 
millions of the human race in all countries of 
tho world, and in all the ages that l1ave elapsed 
sinee. 
He who lay down on his bod the fiery 
soldier of the emperor, rose from it the yet 
more fiery Roldier of the Pope. 
rl'he weal..:ness 
occasioned by loss of blood, the morbidity pro-
dncecl by long seclusion, the irl'itation of acute 
and protracted suffering, joined to a tempera-
ment highly excitable, and a mind that bad fed 
on miracles and visions till its ent.husi:1sm bad 
grown into fanaticisrn, accounts in part for the 
transformation which Ignatius had undergone. 
Though tbe balance of his intellect was now 
sadly disturbed, his sltt·ewdnoss, his tenacity, 
an_d his daring remni11ed. 
Sot free from the 
fetters of calm reason, those qualities bad freer 
(Lesson n.-Sabbath, July 8.) 
scope than ever. 
The wing of his earthly am-. 
1. \VHAT exhortation does Paul give in Ro-
bition waR k·oken, but he could take his fligltt mans 6 : 12? 
heavenward. If earth was forbidden bim. the 
"J;et not sin therefore ·reign in your mortal 
celestial domains stood open, and there wor-body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof." 
thier exploits and more brilliant revvards nwaitod 
2. What is sin? 
his prowess. 
""'Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth 
The heart of a soldier plucked out, and that also the law; fol' sin is the transgression of the 
of a monk given him, Ignatius vowed, before law." 
1 Jobn 3:4. 
leaving his sick chamber, to be the slave, the 
3. Then whn t does the apostle really ·warn 
champion, the knight-errant of' Mary. 
She was us not to do? 
the lady of his soul, and after the manner of 
"Sin iR the transgression of the law," therefore 
dutiful knightr; he immediately repaired to her when Paul warns us against letting sin reign 
shrine at Montserrat, bung up his arms before over ns, be warns us against transgressing the 
her image, and spent the night in watching law. 
them. But, reflecting that he was a soldier of 
4. Where is this exhortation repented 'l 
Christ, that great Monarch who had gone forth 
"Neither yield ye your members as instru-
to subjugate all the earth, he resolved to oat no monts of uurighteousness unto sin." 
Rom. 
other food, weal' no other raiment, than his 6 : 13, first part. 
King bad done, and endure the same hardships 
5. If people heed this exhortation, what will 
and vigils. Laying aside his plume, his coat of have no dominion over them? 
mail, his shield and sword, be donned the cloak of 
"For sin shall have no dominion over you." 
the mendicant. "Wrapped in sordid rags," says Rom. 6 : 14, first parL. 
. 
Dnller, "an iron chain and prielcly girdle press-
6. If a person sins, what does he transgress? 
ing on his naked body, covered with :filth, with He transgresses the law. 
uncombed hair, and untrimmed nails," he retired 
7. Then if sin has no dominion over him, 
to a dark mountain in the vicinity of Manressa, what does he keep? Since when a person sins 
where was a gloomy C<tve, in which he made be transgresses the law, it follows that when 
his abode for some time. 
There be subjected sin bas no dominion over him be obeys the law. 
himself to all the penances and mortifications 
8. What does Paul say to those who tb us re-
of the early anchorites whose holiness he emu-fbtin from sinning? 
"For ye are not under the law, but under 
grace." 
Rom. 6 : 14, last part. 
· 
9. Will those sin who aro not under the law 
but under grnco? 
"\Vhat {hen? shall we sin, because we are 
not under the law, bnt under gl'ace 't 
God for-
bid." 
Hom. 6 : lb. 
10. Speaking to those who are not under the 
law, to what does Paul say they t1ad formerly 
been subjcuL? 
c; But God be thanked, that yo were the serv-
ants of sin, bnt ye have obeyed ft·om the heart 
that form of doctrine which was delivered unto 
you." 
Rom. 6: 17. 
11. But now, being not under the law, fl'om 
what are they free? 
"Being then made free from sin, ye became 
the servants of righteousness.'' 
Rom. 6: 18. 
12. Then wlmt must be meant by "being 
under the law"? 
ln speakillg to those ·who arc not under the 
Jaw, Paul says that they had formerly been the 
servants of sin (Rom. 6: 18), but tbat now they 
are ;c made free from sin.'' Now if when they are 
not under the lrLw they are free from sin, it 
necossariiy follows that when tbey were under 
tbe law thev were servants of sin. "Under tbe 
law," therefore, is equivalent to being in a state 
of sin. 
13. vVbat do those do who are free from sin, 
or who, in other words, arc not under the law? 
"Ye became the servants of rigbteonsness." 
Rom. 6 : 18, last part._ 
14. And what is righteousness? 
"All thy commandments are righteousness." 
PR. 119: 172. 
15. ~rhen if people nre not under the law, 
what do tbey do? 
It bas been shown thnt tho ·;o who are "under 
tbe law" are those who are breaking the law; 
then it necessarily follows that they 1vlto are 
not "under the law," arc those who keep the 
commandments. 
16. Under what must they then necoRsarily 
be'? 
"Ye are not undet· the law, but under gmce." 
Rom. 6 : 14, last part. 
17. Why? 
"Abide in me, and 1 in you. 
As the branch 
cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in 
the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in 
me. 
I am the vine, ve n t'u the branches. He 
that abiclotb in me, u and I in him, tho Rame 
bi·ioo·eth forth much f'ruit· for without me ye 
can do nothing." JoiJll 15 ~ 4, 5. "Seeing then 
that we have a great I-ligh Priest, t !tat is passed 
into tho Heavens, Jesu::; Lllo 8011 ot' G-od, let us 
bold fast om· profes~ion. 
For we bave not a 
high priest which cannot be toue;hed with the 
feeling of out· infirmities; but wn:-:; in all points 
tempted like as we are, yet without sin. 
Let 
us therefore come boldly unto tho throne of 
grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find 
grace to bel p in time of need." 
Hob. 4: 14-16. 
The commandments can be kept only by the 
help of Christ, and this help is given by tbe 
grace of God (H eb. 4: 16'); tb erefore those 
who are not undiW the Jaw are under grace. 
WHEN faith fails, the hope of the Christian 
declines, and he becomes powerless like other 
men. 
l'"''aith is the only world-subduin~ power 
lodged in the soul of every true disciple. That 
faith may not fail, keep the eyes steadfastly 
fixed. on the .Lord Jesus Christ; keep the heart 
close to the Cl'oss; keep the promises of God in 
mind; keep in the heart a love for precious 
souls; keep in view the tremendous realities of 
eternity; keep in 1 ively exercise all present 
faith; keep soul and body on the altar of con-
secration; a.nd, above all, keep the whole being 
filled with the Holy Gbost.-Sel. 
"THE mercy of the Lord is from everlasting 
to everlasting upon them that fear him, and 
his righteousness unto children's children." 
Ps. 103: 17. 
364 112) 
TI-3::E BIG NS OF THE TIMES. 
VoL. 12, No. 23. 
P A TIENOE "W"ITH 'l"'H:E~ LOVE. 
THEY are such tiny feet! 
They have gone such a little way to meet 
The year' which are required to break 
Their steps to evenness, and make 
Them go 
More sure and slow! 
They are such little hands! 
Be kind. 
Things are so new, and life but stands 
A step beyond the doorway. 
All around 
New day has found 
Such telllptmg things to shine upon, and so 
The hands are tempted hard you know. 
They are such new, young lives, 
Surely their newness shrives 
Them well of many sins. They see so much 
That,. being mortal, they would touch, 
That if they reach 
'V e must not chide, but teach. 
They are such fond, clear eyes 
That widen to surprise 
At every turn; they are so often held 
To sun or showers-showers soon dispelled 
By looking in our face. 
Love asks for such, much grace. 
They are such fair, frail gifts; 
Uncertain as the rifts 
Of light that lie along the sky-
They may not be here by and by-
Give them not love, but n'iore-above 
And harder-patience with the love. 
-George Klingle. 
Wooing His Wife. 
ALTHOUGH Farmer Tucker had long dreamed 
of a visit to Chautauqua, when he found him-
self at that M_ecca of devout excursionists, 
the brawny man was tempted to doubt his 
own identity. The holiday sm-rotmdings were 
wholly unlike anything to which be was accus-
tomed in his prosy New England home; the 
rich, crowded programme offered was in strik-
ing contrast to the dull monotony of farm life. 
W ben this son of toil first entered the audi-
torium and saw the rustic amphitheater erowded 
with thousands of people listening breathlessly 
to the full, sweet (one of the grand organ, his 
cramped, selfish heart was strangely toacbed 
and expanded. For an instant the wish crept 
in that he had asked Jane if she would not 
like to come too. 
But there was not much time 
for his own tbonghtr=<, for, as tho music ceased, 
a ·white-haired gentleman arose, and announced 
the name of an orator who is well known from 
Maine to California.. 
"Well, now, it beats all to think I'm going 
to hear the man l've wn.nted to hear for more'n 
twenty years," Farmer Tucker whispered to 
himself. 
The lecturer commenced his brief 
address wi tb one of his inimitable dc~scriptions. 
The story was of a man who applied for a 
divorce, and vms advised by his eminent lawyer 
to try the effe.ct of making love to his wife as 
be had done before marrying her, instead of 
resorting to the measure be bad proposed. _It 
included, also, an account of a late visit, when 
the happy husband withdrew his application, 
and, fairly dancing with glee, assured the law-
yer that his experiment had worked like a 
charm; that" Sally ba,d become as amia,ble and 
affectio11ate a wife as a man could t\Sk to have." 
His representation of the scene drew forth long 
applause, but Samuel Tucker's interest was of 
too serious a nature to permit him joining in the 
laughter. 
As if unconscious for a moment of 
the multitude about him, be said in an under-
tone: "I'd be willing to take my oath that 
wouldn't work with Jane. 
All I have to say 
is, that man's wife is different from mine; I'd as 
soon think of feeding serrnp to a mummy as 
to begin sparking again with her.'' 
At length be quieted his conscience with the 
determination to prove that his estimate of his 
wife was correct. "When I go home," he said 
to himself, "I'll just show the woman some 
little attentions, and I'll see they '~ron 't have any 
more effeet on her than they would on the old 
horse. 
Jane's bound to be sullell and obstinate, 
a,nd I suppose I may as well make up my mind 
to it." 
On reaehing home the resolution was not eas-
ily caniod out. 
When Mr. 'rucker planned 
some gallantry toward his wife, the very thought 
made him feel so unnatural and foolish that 
poRtpo;Jement resulted; but Sunday offered an 
opportunity that be improved. 
The farm was nearly a mile from church, yet 
Samuel Tucker bad for years been in tho habit 
of driving home alone, leaving his wife to 
attend tho Sunday-school, and then walk home, 
as best she could, through mud or dust. 
Great 
was Mrs. Tucker's astonishment, therefore, on 
Sunday afte-r her husband's return, to find him 
waiting for her at the close of the Bible-service. 
Tile faintest suspicion that he bad driven back 
to church for her did not cross the good wom-
an's mind; she supposed he bad business with 
some of the brethren, and hesitated whether to 
walk on as usual or to suggest waiting for 
him, when the farmer called out," It's just as 
ehoap to ride as to walk." Silently the woman 
took her seat in the buggy, and silently they 
drove home, mueh to the husband's satisfaction, 
for it seemed to him a proof of the woman's 
dull, inappreciaLivo naLure. 
"She didn't act 
pleased, bnt was only dazed like, as I knew 
:::;he wonld be," he muttered, as he went about 
his midday" chores." 
At the same time .M.r. Tucker as conscious 
of having performed a most praiseworthy act, 
and felt so comfortable that he resolved to 
repeat the experiment. So, on the following 
Sunday, Jane found her husband again waiting, 
HIJd, as she mounted the high buggy, ventured 
to ntter a half audible," Thank you," and to 
ask Samuel if he bad been waiting long, to 
which Mr. Tucker replied that be had just 
reached the cbureh, and didn't know but what 
be might find she bad started on foot. 
This 
reply seemed to Jane a positive assuranr.e that 
her husband had really returned for the sole 
purpose of tal<ing her home, and her chilled 
heart glowed with warmth unknown for years. 
She longed to toll her husband bow much she 
appreciated his trouble, bnt imagined that it 
would sound "so foolish" that she kept her 
pleasure to herself. 
The third Sunday was rainy, and, as she 
washed the breakfast dishes, :M:rs. Tucker kept 
thinking, "l wonder if Samuel means to come 
for me this noon. It would be such a help in 
the rain. I'm half a mind to ask him!" 
This 
resolution was soon stilled with the reasoning 
which had stifled manv similar resolves in tho 
past ten years: "No; f won.'t ask no favors; if 
be don't think enough of me to come, why 
be needn't." Although proudly unwilling to 
seek any attentions, Jane longed for some dem-
onstration of her husband's love and care. She 
had walked home in the rain too often to 
greatly dreaq such exposure. 
But a week 
before the wife bad tasted the joy of being con-
sidered, and longed for further proof of her 
companion's affection . 
.M:i·s. Tucker's heart leaped for joy when at 
noon she saw the old mare's bead from tho 
lecture-room window. 
Indeed, her hungering 
heart became qui~e unmanageable, and, enter-
ing the carriage door, melted, Jane sobbed 
out:-
" I'm sure it's very good of you, Samuel, to 
come for me this rainy day." And then the 
tears flowed so fast that further words were 
impossible. 
Completely tn,ken by surprise, Mr. Tucker 
excla,imod, "l declare, I hadn't no idea you'd 
care so mncb about it." 
"I wouldn't mind the walk," responded the 
wife, "but-Samuol-l'm so happy to have you 
-come." 
The strong man was brushing away a tear 
from his own cheek; now his tenderer, better 
nature was mastering the hard, selfish spirit 
which bad long po::<sossed him, and, with cough-
ing and choking, be said: "Jane, I see I've 
mnde an awful botch of our married life; if 
you've a mind Lo forgive me, I'll seo if I can't 
treat you from day to day as a woman ought 
to be treated." 
This confession was too much for the weep-
ing wife, and she answered, quickly:-
" You're not a bit more to blnme than I am; 
I've been proud nnd obstinate; IJu t I tell you 
vvbat it is, we will begin all over agnin." 
'l'he ice was now thoroughly .broken and that 
afternoon Farmer Tucker and Lis wife had a 
long talk over the past and fnture. 
And in tbe 
evening, when they were nbout to start for the 
prayer-meeting to be held in the neigh boring 
se!J ool-house, the renewed husband stooped and 
kissed his wife, saying:-
"J ane, I've been a-thinking that married life 
ain't so different from fanning or any other 
occupation. 
Now, I ain't such a fool as to think 
a field will keep a-yielding if I only enrich it 
once and plant it once. 
I have to go over the 
same grouml every season; a,nd here I supposed 
you was a-going to do as you always did ·when 
we were a-courting, without my doing my part 
nt all." 
"If I hadn't changed any may be you would 
always have been as tender as you used to be," 
pleaded his wife. 
''Perhaps so and perhaps not; but I don't 
mean to leave you to try no such plan. 
I tell 
you what it is, Jane, I feel as if we hadn't really 
never been married till to-day. It most seems 
as we ought to take a weddi11g tower." 
"I'm afraid we'll ba,'e to wait until next 
summer for that," was the smiling response. 
"I suppose we shall, but we'll take it then, 
certain; and I'll tell you where we'll go, wife--
that's to Cbautauqu~ty."-Sel. 
A Talk with Tom. 
You want to know, Tom, what is the first 
quality of manhood? 
Well, listen. 
I am going to tell you in one 
little word of five letters. And I am going to 
write that word in very loud letters as tbough 
you were deaf, so that you may never forget it. 
That word is "trnlh." 
Now then, remember, truth is the only foun-
dation on which can be erected a manhood that 
is worthy of being so called. 
Now, mark vvbat I say, truth must be tho 
foundation on which the whole character is to 
be erected, for otherwise, no matter how beau-
tiful the upper stories may be, and no matter 
of how good material they may be bnilt, the 
edifice, the character, the manhood, will be 
but a sham, which offers no sure refnge and 
protection to those who seek it, for it will 
tumble dowu when trial comes. 
Alas, my boy, the world is very full of such 
shams of manhood, in every profession and 
occupation. 
~rhore are lawyers in this town 
who know that they bave never had any tra.i.n-
ing to fit them for their work, who yet impose 
upon the people and take their money for giv-
ing them advice wbieh they know they are 
unfiLt.ed to give. 
I heard of one lately who 
advised his partner "never to have anything 
to do with law books, for they would confuse 
his mind." 
There are ignorant physicians who know 
that they are ignorant, and who can and do 
impose upon people more ignorant than them-
selves. 
There are preachers without number 
pretending to know what they have never 
learned. Don't you see that their manhood is 
at best but a beautiful deceit? 
Now, I want you to be a man, and that you 
may be that, I want you first and foremost to 
be true, thoroughly true. 
I hope you would 
scorn to tell a lie, but that is only the begin-
ning to thoughtfulness. 
I vvant you to despise 
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JUNE 17, 1886. 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
[lS) 365 
all sham, all pretense, all effort to seem other-
wise than yon are. 
When we have laid that foundation then we 
can ~o on to build up n man hood, glorious and 
godlike, after the perfect imn.ge of Him, the 
perfect Man, who said that be was bom that 
he might bear witness to the truth.-B~:shop 
JJu.dley. 
The Wife. 
ONLY let a woman be snre she is precious to 
her bnsbnnd-not useftil, not valuable, not con-
ve11ient simply, but lovely and beloved; let her 
b.e the recipient of his polite and hearty atten-
twns; let her feel that her cnres and love are 
noticed, appreciated, and returned; let her 
opinion be asked, her approval sought, and her 
judgment respected in mrttters of which she is 
cognizant; in short, let her only be loved, hon-
ored, an~ cherished, in fulfillment of the mar-
riage vow, and she will be to her husband, her 
children, and society a well-spring of happiness. 
She will bear pain, and toil, and anxiety; for 
her buRbnncl's love to her is a tower and for-
tress. 
Shielded and sheltered therein, adver-
sity will bave ·lost its sting. Sbe may suffer, 
but Rympn,t.hy will dull the edge of sonow. 
A bouse vvith love in it--and by love I mean 
love expressed in words, nnd looks, and deeds, 
for I have not one spark of faith in love that 
never crops out-is to a. house 'vithout love as 
a per on to a mnC'hine; one is life, the other is 
mechanism. The unloved woman may have 
bread just aR light, a house just as tidy as the 
other; but the latter bas a spring of beauty 
about ber, a .ioyousness, r~ penetrating and per-
vading brightnesR to which the former is an en-
tiro stranger. 'rbe deep hnppi11ess of ber heart 
shines ont in bet· face. 
Her home is ever airy 
and graceful, and ·-wnrm, and welcoming with 
her presence. 
Sbe is full of devices, and plots, 
and sweet surprises for bor busband and fam-
ily. 
She baR never done with tho romances 
andyoetry of life. 
She herself' iR n, l.>·1·ic poem, 
setLill![ herself to a11 pure ancl p;r:1eious rnelodies. 
Humble household wayH and duties have for 
her a golden significance.-Wo1·k at Home. 
A Bt·ave Little Girl. 
'fnE following incident, rebtod of a little 
heathen J3en!2'alee girl, shows what children 
in those far-off countries sometimes suffer for 
tbe sake of their religion. 
A little girl came to school a few days ao·o 
with a severe brnise on her forebertd, and ~n 
b~ing asked by M:rs. M.. what caused it, would 
g1ve no answer, but looked ready to burst out 
crying. 
But another liLtle child; a relative, 
was not so reticent, and said her father hav-
ing observed that sbe had not done her" i)uja" 
for a. ~rent many days, asked her why sbe had 
so Jteglected her devotions, to which :3he replied: 
" F:tt.her, 1 have not neglected mv devotions· l 
ha~e prayed every cby to J esns. "I do not pr~y 
to 1do·ls, because 1 do not believe in them." 
This 
so enraged tbe fai.her that be seized her by 
the b~tck _of the neck, took her before the idol, 
a~td, havmg. first l1o"' eel reverently before it 
hinH;elf, forc1bly bout the child's bead several 
times,. striking i.t so violently on the ground 
that 1t blo? profusely, tbe c?ild bitterly crying 
tho who!~ time. But sb~ smiled happily enough 
wbon th1s was related In school, and said that 
s.be did not much mind; adding," I cannot be-
heve that trees and wood and stone will save 
me."-lieathen Woman's F1·iend. 
THERE is said to be at least 150 manufactories 
of bogns butter in tbe United States. In 1885 
they exported 38,000,000 pounds of the stuff, 
an increase of 18,000,000 pounds over 1880. 
I~ 1Bt ~here was exported 21,638,000 pounds 
of genume butter, a decrease of 18 000 000 
pounds from 1880. Comments are unne~ess~ry. 
~ o wonder the dairymen complain of hard 
t1mes.-Sel. 
~enlth nnil 
Mother's Whisky Bottle. 
THE years rolled on, and the once thrifty 
farm was neglected. Everything was going to 
ruin, Nat and Jud included. There was no 
conecaling, no smoothing over the fnct any 
longer, they were drunkards. 
Perhaps it was 
well that tbe deacon bad passed beyond earthly 
sin and ROITOW, but the mother was left alone. 
She sndly tiUW her boyn sink lower and lower 
in sin, nnd she was powerless to save them. 
She wondered that Providence could allo\' her 
to be afflicted! It was a mystery why her boys 
should be drunkards, when sbe bad always been 
a temperance woman. 
'l'o be sure, she hnd not 
gone to extremes; but sbe bad never fniled to ex-
pre.ss her temperance principles, and bad tried 
to instill them into the chnracters of her boys. 
She had failed to bel p them, and one day she 
leamed tbe rea::;on. 
Tbe minister was in the sitting-room talkirw 
. h N 
~ 
b 
wtt 
nthan; he bad vainly tried to help bim. 
'' Nnthan," he said, desperately, "l wonder 
what could have brought you to this-with the 
best of parents and advantages. What was it?" 
The mother in the kitchen paused to hear 
the answer. 
Nnthan tumed almost fiercely, and sr.id:-
,, You want to know, do ye? 
Well I can tell 
you in a few word8; but I wish you wouldn't 
be· trying any more to snve me. I'm past help. 
I must have liquor as long as I breathe. 
What 
bl'ougltt me to this? 
Well, sir, nothing more 
or less thwn rn,othM·' s whislcy bottle I" 
A piteous, trembling crv cnme tbrouo·b tbe 
kitchen. It wns too Rudd~n-that foari~l rev-
elation. 
Had she ruined Lhe boys sbe loved bet-
ter thr,n life? 
'rhoy took her t;p frorn the bare 
:floor where sbe bad fallen, and laid her on tbe 
bod, tenderly, reverently. 
They bad never 
blamed her, those boys, nnd they had never 
meant tbnt she should know that bor medicinal 
whisky had formed their terrible appetite. It 
was not long nrter that that tbey laid her down 
by tho deacon's side. 
She "vas et·usbod under 
the snd truth which bad come to her with its 
weight of sonow and remorse, a·nd sbe could 
not rally. 
.often throngb the village streets Rt:1gger the 
IJ1ndley boys, now drunken sots~ witb no homo, 
and no one to c;are for them. 
..Evet·y one won-
ders what brought them to sncb depths; but 
only the minister knO\oVS that it was "mother's 
·whisky bottle."-Lanta W. Smith. 
A 'V o r·d to the Boys. 
WHAT do you think, young friends, of the 
hundreds of thousands who are trying to cheat 
themselves and others into the belief that 
alcohol!c. drinks are good for them? Arc they 
to be ptLICd and not blamed? 
Do you waut to 
be one of these wretc.bed men? If we are to 
have drunknrds in the future, some of tbem are 
to come from tbe boys to. whom I nm writing; 
and I nsk you again if yon want Lo be one of 
them? No ! of course you don't ! 
Well, I 
bnvo a plan for you that is just as sure to save 
you from such a fate as the sun is to rise to-
morrow morning. It never failed; it never 
will fail; and 1 think it worth knowino-. 
Never 
toucl~ l.iquor in any form. That is Lbe plan, 
and 1t IS not only worth knowing, but it is 
worth putting in practice. 
I know you don't drink now, and it seems to 
Y_OU as _if you never w~uld. But your tempta-
twu will come, and w1ll probablv come in this 
way. 
You will find yourself 
f:>Ot~etime with a 
number of companions, and they will have a 
bottle of wine on the table. They will drink 
and offer it to you. 
They will regard it as a 
manly practice, and very likely th~y will look 
upon you as a milksop if yon don't indulge with 
them. 
':then what will you do? ch, what will 
you do? 
Will yon say, "No, no ! none of t't'lat 
stuff for me ! I know a triuk worth half a 
dozen of that ! " or will you take a glass with 
your .O'''n com n;on seuse protesting, and your 
conscienc~ makmg the whole draught bitter, 
ancl a feol1ng thnt. yon hnve damaged yours If, 
and then go off With a hot bead and a skulking 
~oul that _at o.nce begins to make ap.ologies for 
Itself, ana wtll keep doing so all this life? 
Boys, do not become drunh:ards.-J. G. ·Holland. 
Bathing· in 'Varm Water. 
---
.. 
CLEANLI~E~s is not only essential to good 
health, but It IS a mark of good breeding. The 
labot~er;by the clinging of dust to his perspiring 
pors6n, becomes a fit subject for 'tbe bathtttb 
ve~·y frequently. Too fregttent bathing is weak-
en mg. It may not be advisable to take a bath 
mo1:ning and evening, as. som.c medical journals 
adviSe, bu L a good wasbmg frequently, enough 
to keep the person clean. 
Warm baths will 
often prevent tbe most virulent diseases. A 
person who may bo in fear of bavino· received 
infection of any kind should tnke a w~rm batb 
snffor porspirntion to ensue, and then rub dry: 
Dress warmly to avoid taking cold. If the 
system has imbibed any infections matter it 
will be removed bv resorting to this proces~ if 
done before the infection hasbnd time to spr~ad 
over tbe system; and even if some time bas 
elapsocl, the drenching perspiration tbat may 
be Induced by hot water will be very certain to 
remove it. 
1n case of congestion, bilions colic, inflnmmn-
tion, etc., there is no remedy more certai11 to 
give relief. In caRe of obsti11nto conRtipnt.ion 
also, wouderful cures bavo been wrongbt. 
Fot· 
sore throat, and inflammntion of tbe 
lung~, a. 
hot com press is one of the most potent remt~dic.:s. 
-SanitaTy Wo?'ld. 
DrnuJreuH('~S in Fraucc. 
. THE drink problem takeR on a different aRpect 
m Franco from tbnt which it wears in tbis 
:onntr~. 
Wine of tbe country bas long been 
msuffic1ent for tho appetites of the people, and 
Lllere have come i11Lo geueml use among tbe 
lower classes vile alcoholic\ distilled from grains, 
potaloes, beets, and other vegetableR, which are 
sol~ at a very l?w price and are very clangorous 
tox!Cs, produc1ng alcoholism to an enormous 
extent. 
\VbeLbor those debnsed alcohols are 
any "':or
·~ tb~n-tbe nclultered strong lignors of 
Amenca ( wh1cll are not cbonp) is a question 
perhaps worth investigating; bnt the results of 
tb.eir us: .n.re so serio.us that. tlJe Paris Academy 
of M:ed1c1ne bas mar.le a deliverance 
ao·aint:~t 
tbem. 
Alcoholism was scarcely 
kno"'~n to 
French pbysiciar)s thirty to thirty-five years 
ago, but now it is frightf;ully common, and tbe 
hospitals are full.of sufferers from strange dis-
enRes-demngements of the circulation, curious 
forms of paralysis, hallucinations, idiocy, etc. 
Drinking places multiply to an alarming de-
gree; nearly 100,000 have been opened within 
ten years. 
The Acndemy of M:edicino now 
proposes to call upon the Government for sur-
veillance of tho mnn ufacture of "bard" liquors 
(as wo call them), for heavy taxes upon all 
brandies and strong liquors in commerce, nnd 
heavy licenses imposed or1 a11 ·who sell them; 
and tLat every possible measure be tnken to 
limit their sale. 
rrbe cider region of Nor-
!llandy, however, is ~ne of tbe most intemperate 
m tbe whole repubhc.-Sp1·ing.field Rep-ublican. 
'rHE proportion of crime traceable to this 
gren.t vice, intemperance, must be set down, as 
heretofore, at not less than four-fi.ftbs.-8tate 
Boa1·d of Charities) Mass., 1869. 
IT is said tbat Mr. Cyrus W. Field became a 
total abstainer Lbrougb the iufhtellCe of Arch-
deacon Farrar, who vras bis guest while in New 
York.-Sel. 
[14] 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
·VoL. 12, No. 23. 
The Word Boycottin&". 
THE word bas lately been coined, IJut Ly 
whom it is difficnl t to trace. 
That it will find 
i tR 'vay in to the dictionaries of the future as a 
legitimate word we have little doubt. 
The 
expression "boycotting" has 
nl~·eudy become 
histor:c. Its origin wns aR follows: A Cap-
tain Boycott -vvas the ngent of a land ovmer in 
Ireland. 
His policy proved to be distasteful 
and offensive to the tenants, ::tnd such v\:\s their 
feelings in the matter that they asked the land-
lord to remove him. 
rrhis the landed proprietor 
declined to do, and in return the tenants and 
their friends refused to work for or under Bov-
cott. 'l'hey would not lntn"est his crops, and 
they made an agreement among themselves 
that none of them or tlteirs should assist or 
work: for him in the halTest. 
His crops were 
endangered, wl)en relief arrived in the persons 
of certain Ulster men, who, under the protec-
tion of the troops, harvested the crops of 
Boycott. 
The defensive league of the tenantry was 
much more powerful and effective than might 
be guessed by the single instance of combination 
referred to above. 
rrbe ramifications of their 
compact were very n nmerous and extensive. 
.For example, it vvas decided that if any one 
bad nny dealing with Boycott, or those who 
represented him, then no one was to have any 
dealing with that person. If a man \Yorked 
for .Boycott be 'vvas to be· looked on by his old 
neighbors and friends as a total stranger; no 
one was to sell or buy of him; no one was to 
know him. 
The effect of this agreement, when 
carried to its extreme limits, was just what its 
author propoRed. 
And :; boycotting" bas be-
come a very forcible phrase. 
The system bas 
been songht to be introduced into the United 
States, but witb partial success only. 
rl'o say 
the le~tst, it is anything bnt an honorable means 
of gaining redress for alleged wrongs.-Sd. 
Rule of Action. 
THE true rule of action, which every man 
shonld ndopt, is to do the best he can in the 
circnmstitiJecs in which be is placed. 
But when 
his circumstances improve, he should improve 
tho opportliility thns nfforded, nnd, still doing 
his best, better l'CSUILS 'viii be Hecurod. 
rrhere 
is no greater folly than for a man to refuse to 
do what be can, bec.::tnRo under the circum-
stances he cannot do bettor. 
Some meu who 
could earn a dollar a day refuse to work, be-
ea.uRe they cannot enrn t\VO. 
Some men v;rbo 
could be useful in a limited sphere, will do 
notl1ing, becanse they e:wnot occupy a more 
enlarged field. 
Earn a dollar, if yon camiot 
earn two~ but ar; soon ns nn opportunity to en,rn 
t\VO oc:cnrR, om bmce it. 
] m prove your present 
limited sphere of useftdnoss, bnt when a, wider 
field presents itself, faitb1'ull}' oceupy it. 
Never 
be iJie. 
AI ways do tho best yon can; and as 
circumstances irnprove, embrace tbe opportu-
nity to better your condition, or to enlarge 
your field of usefulness.-.ilfet/wd·ist Recorder. 
IT costs, on an average, a little more than 
twenty cents a mile to run a locomotive. Nearly 
eight cents of this is for fuel, seven and a qnnr-
ter cents for pay of engineer and fireman, a 
Lalf cent for oil and waste, und more than four 
and a half cents for ronairs. A ton of coal will 
run a locomotive twel{ty-four miles; a pint of 
oil will run eleven miles, and a pon d of waste: 
one buJJdrod ailcl twenty-three miles. 
No MAN is fit for God's service who is not 
willing to do little things. 
The people who are 
always waiting for an opportu11ity to do Bome 
greutthingnevor accomplish anytbing.-~1foody. 
IT can never be beneath the dignity of the 
pulpit to answer any inquiries touching relig-
ious faith vvhicb an honeut and sensible people 
may bo moved to ask.. 
RELIGIOUS. 
-A Jewish theological seminary will be opened 
in New York next fall. 
-It is said that a Methodist missionary has been 
appoiuted chief physician of the Chinese army. 
-In the theological seminary at Richmond, Va., 
sixty-two colored men are studying for the ministry. 
-TheN ew York Obse1·ver, speaking of the court 
which religious teachers are paying to evolution, 
says: "Vve make ourselve~ ridiculous by Lrying to 
accommodate our religious views to every wind of 
scientific doctrine." 
-There are 2,623 Baptist Churches in Georgia, 
according to the Year Book. The same authority 
also states that of these "sOJne seventy-five have 
supported weekly services." It does not say how 
many of the seventy-five have weekly prayer-meet-
ings. 
-The Papal Consistory has created four other 
c:ndinals besides Arch-bishops Gibbous of Baltimore, 
and Taschereau of Quebec, and has nominated three 
bishops in Ireland, twelve iu Spain, six in France, 
three in Germany, six in America. and seven in 
other nations. 
-Says Dr. Parkl1urst: "'Vhy not revert Lo the 
Old Testament, and be contented simply to found a 
sermon upon Sunday-keeping on the basis of the 
fourth commandment? 
Because that would get us 
into more difficulties than it would get us out of." 
Quite true; and if they go outside the fourth com-
mandment for authority for Sunday-keeping, they 
will get into more difii.culties than they will g-et out 
of. Trouble ahead for Sunday-keepers, whatever 
way they fix it. 
-The Ch1·istian Union says: "New England, 
which has been a source of missionary strength, is 
becoming a field for missionary labor. The same 
thing is happening, on a large geographical scale 
here, which, in a smaller are:t of territory, if not of 
population, has happened in our great commercial 
centers. Protestant pqpul:-ttion is moving away, 
self-supporting churches are falling into decay, and 
regions once Protestant and Puritan are becominx 
ei Lher Roman Catholic or unreligious, or a comuina-
tion of the two." 
-An exchange states that "at Lucknow, Inrli:1. 
there is a native press employing nine hundred 
workmen, which issues largely the sacred writings 
of the Hindoos and Mohnrnrned:tll::>. 
A uative pub-
lishing firm at Lahore translate::> European infidel 
publications ::ts fnst ns they appear and disseminates 
them in the various l:tngua~es of India." 
The devil 
is a:o; active in his missi<llrary operations as C!Jrb-
tiaus are, and the seed which be sows finds the 
more congenial soil, and matures the more quickly. 
And yet some people imagine that they see pros-
pects of the speedy evangelization of the world. 
-This, from the Cynosure (Chicago) is good: 
"The pastor of a Congregationnl Church in this 
vicinity, who is represented as being 'fond of a 
cio·ar, a joke, and a good time,' has been requested, 
by a letter signed by seven out of eight of his 
church commiLtee, to resign his pastorate because of 
alleged inefficiency. This he perem ptori ally declines. 
They have proffererl him the payment of his salary 
Lo the end of the year, but he does not propose to 
accept the bread of idleness. He evidently thinks 
he is persecuted, but he seems to forget the admoni-
tion ?f the ~aster, 'Wh;~ they persecute you in 
oue c1ty fieo mto another. 
SECULAR. 
-Bread riot'! are threatened at Conception Bay. 
-Jnne 7, eight persons lost their lives in a burn-
irJg building in Chicago. 
-King Lucl wig, of Bavaria, has been declareu 
insane, and a regency has been established. 
-The evangelists, Jones and Small, are said to 
have received over $1,000 for their work in Balti-
more. 
-Oscar Neebe, one of the Chicago Anarchists, 
who has not yet been indicted, is to be relPased on 
$20,000 bail. 
-New Jersey was visited by an earthquake June 
12. The shock was light, probably about like those 
which are so common in California. 
-The House Committee on Territories Juts ngreed 
to report the bill extending the operatio11s of the 
ge11eral homestead Jaws over Alaska. 
-There has been but one fall of rain in the 
vicinity of Galveston, Texas, for some months, and 
water sells in that city at fifty cents per barrel. 
-Richard M. Hoe, the noted inventor and mr~nu­
facturer, died in Florence, Italy, June 7. 
Mr. Hoe 
was the inventor of the famous nriuting-presses 
which bear his name. 
• 
-The infantry regiments at Frankfort-on-Lite-
Main are being drilled to the use of bicycles and 
tricycles for military purposes. The men ride the 
machines in marching order. 
-Since the recent tornado in Ohio, a deed and 
memorandum book have been returned to their 
owner, from whose premises they had been blown a 
distance of forty-eight miles. 
-The French bark lriichnel Emile was run down 
and sunk by the Newcastle bark· Canova in latitude 
46° 8' N., longitude 53° 501 \V. Seven of her crew 
are missing, and are thought to have been. drowned. 
-At Milwaukee, June 8, forty-nine men were ar-
raigned in the Municipal Court for rioting and con-
spiracy. They all pleaded not guilty, and were 
held for trial with bail from $1,000 to $2,000 each. 
-The Canadian Mi 11 ister of Marine and Fisheries 
reports that the total value of the catch for 1885 
was $17,722,000, of which Nova Scotia produced 
over $8,000,000 worth. The total investments in the 
fisheries is $6,697,000. 
' 
-On the 7th inst. local-option elections were 
l1eld at many points in North Carolina. The Pro-
hibitionists carried the day iu llaleigh and at 
eleven other places. The liqu0r men were success-
ful in eleven towns. 
-The San Francisco Bulletin says that "there 
are now in this countrv more than 400,000 Swedes 
and Norwegians, the g~·eat majority of them being 
residents of Minnesota, Dakota, Wisconsin, Iowa, 
Illinois, Nebraska, and Kansas." 
-A bill is now pending in Congress which pro-
poses to place a tax of five cents per pound on oleo-
margarine and other butter substitutes. It also 
provides that all such compounds must be plainly 
labeled and sold for what they really are. 
-The French Government proposes to expel from 
that country all members of the royal families, and 
Prince Jerome Napoleon has published a protest 
against the propo;:;ed expulsion. He predicts that 
the Chamber of Deputies by such conduct will drive 
the republic into civil war. 
-The fisheries question is still attracting consid-
erable attention Loth in this country and Canada; 
and while the general opi niou is that the matter 
will be amicably settled, some of the leading papers 
recognize the fact that serious complications may 
grow out of the present trouble. 
-June 9, a mule in Avignon, France, was seized 
with rabies and caused a panic in the city. The 
infuriated beast broke loose from its stable and 
after nearly killing its owner, charged through the 
streets, attacking and biting every living thing 
it met. A number of persons were bitten. 
-The Orange riots in Ulster, Irelaud, have 
proved to be more serious than at first reported, 
and continued ti 11 June 11, \Vhen the terrorized 
districts were placed under martial law. A number 
of taverns were destroved, and all their stocks of 
wine, whbky, and beer "thrown out to the crowd in 
the streets, who drank it rave11ouslv or carried it 
away in jugs and bucket::>. 
In the latter work 
scores of women and children were engaged all the 
time the rioting lasted. Several persons have been 
killed and a large number wouuded. The police 
were compelled to fire upon the mob repeatedly 
with buchhot. 
-Gladstone's Horne Rule bill came up for its 
second rending in the House of Commons on the 7th 
inst., and was defeated by a majority of thirty votes. 
The defeat of the bill was t.he occasion of in tense 
excitement throughout both England and Ireland. 
At se\u00b7eral points in the latter country the Orange-
men indulged in riot. In Belfast, an Ornnge mob 
wrecked a number of Catholic houses, and wns fired 
upon by the police; the fire wa::> returned, and many 
on both sides were injured. 
The mob was finally 
dispersed, but the situation is very grave, not only 
in Belfast, but throughout Ireland. The Govern-
ment has decided to dissolve Parliament, and 
thus appeal to the country at large. It is impossi-
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learned the first principles of Christianity? Isn't 
the term "Christian" used a little indiscriminately 
nowadays? Vv e think so. 
What 1\iay We Do? 
IN a private letter to a friend, a young lady asks 
the following question, which we are requested to 
answer:-
" Is it right that the young people of our church 
s~1ould have parties of candy pulling and playing 
s1mple games, and staying out until midnight?" 
"\V"e say unhesitatingly, No; not for the young 
people of "our church" or any other church. If 
any one wants to know why we give so emphatic a 
negative,we reply as foll0ws:-
1. An unlimited amount of candy, even of the 
most healthful kind, eaten at a late hour of the 
night, is certainly injurious. But allowing that it 
is harmless, why assemble in crowds to manufacture 
and eat it? Simply for the "fun" that is enjoyed. 
This word, which would be the one employed in 
nine cases out of ten, should of itself condemn the 
proceeding, for 
2. The "simple gamf'"" indulged in are, so far 
as our observation and experience go, decidedly 
"simple," even silly, flnd often even worse. It is a 
false idea of modern times that young people must 
be" amused," a~ though that were the chief end of 
life. Healthful recreation is necessary for all, but 
there is no healthful recreation in an entertainment 
which unfits one for the duties of the next day, or 
for quiet meditation. 
3. In this last lies the point of the whole thing. 
Such frolics leave the soul Jean and barren. A so-
called "recreation" upon which one cannot ask 
God's blessing, or which leaves the individual with 
less inclination for his religious duties than he had 
before, is unquestionably wrong. It is useless and 
impossible to specify the amusements in which 
Christians ought not to indulge; but this principle 
will settle every case: Any place where you would 
hesitate to invite the Lord Jesus, if he were on 
earth, or any performance which you would feel 
like omitting if the Saviour were present in person, 
should be shunned. "Whether therefore ye eat, or 
clrink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of 
God." Leli all things be tested by this rule. 
'vYe 
do not know of any excPption to it, and it will 
allow all necessary recreation. If one is indeed a 
Christian, he will find his highest pleasure in fol-
lowing out this rule. 
THE Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst, of New York, 
recently preacl1ed a sermon on "tlle Lord's day," 
which is given in full in the Christian [T-nion of 
May 20. The following brief extract is worth pre-
serving:-
" 'V"e do not keep the fourth co·nmandment by 
hallowing one day in seven, unless it is the seventh 
day that we hallow. The seventh day is specified, 
and the reason for specifyiug it is specified, and 
every child ''vho intelligently knows the command-
ment can tell why it is that it was the seventh 
rather than the sixth day that was ordained and 
consecrated to boly uses." 
After such a declaration, the Doctor's allegiance 
to Sunday can be regarded as nothing but a delib-
erate ignoring of the fourth commandment. He 
virtually says, "I don'li propose to keep the fourth 
commandment." If he should make a similar dec-
laration concerning the sixth or the seventh com-
mandment, there would be a cry of indignation 
from all the religious journals of the country; but 
as it is only the fourrh commandment that is re-
pudiated, they have no conc"rn. Will somebody 
tell us why the fourth commandment is not of 
equal importance with the third, the sixth, or the 
seventh? 
Home Rule or Not. 
Ho:M:E RULE for Ireland is, and has been for some 
time, the leading topic throughout Great Britain 
and Ireland. Gladstone's Home Rule bill has been 
defeated, and a new Parliament is to be chosen 
solely upon this question. Ireland itself is seriously 
dividt>c1 upon the question. The Catholics are in 
the vast majority in Ireland, yet there are, especially 
in the northern part, a great many Protestants. 
These Protestants are Orangemen and Presbyterians. 
While the Home Rule bill was pending in Parlia-
ment, these Protestants threatened that if it passed 
they would resort to arms, and it was reported tl1at 
they were actually arming. This, of course, was all 
to be in self-defense, as it was argued, if the bill 
should pass, Ireland would be governed by the ma-
jority, and as the majority are Catholics, Protestants 
would not be safe, and therefore they must be pre-
pared to defend themse) vcs. 
But the bill did not pass. And so the Protestants 
who thought themselves devoted are yet safe. Yes, 
the Protestants are safe, but the Catholics a1·e not. 
Ever since the defeat of the bill, now nearly a week, 
the Protestants in that part of Ireland have been 
mobbing the Catholics, chasing them from their 
houses, destroying tl1eir property, burning their 
houses, and bunting them for their lives. So, then, 
it appears that in the event of the success of the 
Home Rule bill the Protestants were going to de-
fend thernsel ves; but as the bill was defeated they 
propose to kill the Oathol'ics! 
Now we should li~e 
to know what these poor, gentle Protestants would 
have done had the bill passed? If they thus ex-
press their gratification at the defeat of the bill, 
how would they have expressed their displeasure at 
its success? If such is the effect of their joy, what 
would have been the effect of their anger? As the 
matter stands now, we cannot see where the Prot-
estants would have been in any greater danger with 
Home Rule than the Catholics are without it. 
Is God Particular? 
IN a letter which we recently heard read, the fol-
lowing sentence occurred: "I do not think God is 
particular about what day we keep." We thought, 
What reason has that man for thinking so? How 
does he know what will please God, and what will 
not? Has he access to sources of in formation which 
are denied to the rest of us? Evidently he has no 
means of knowing God's will, except the Bible. 
That says: "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the 
Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work." 
It also says that we should honor God by turning 
away our feet from the Sabbath, from doing our 
pleasure on God's holy day; and to show the im-
portance of honoring God, we read: "Them that 
honor me I will honor, and they that despise me 
shall be lightly esteemed." Still further, as a prac-
tical illustration of the above, we find tl1at the 
Lord allowed the Israelites to be carried into cap-
tivity, and their city destroyed, simply because 
they did not remember the Sabbath day to keep 
it holy. Read Jer. 17: 21-27; 2 Chron. 36: 14-21; 
Neh. 13:15-18. Our conclusion, then, is this: No 
man has any right to "think" that God is any 
diffe~·ent from what he is represented in the Bible; 
and our reading of the Bible convinces us, as it 
must any one who takes the Bible alone, that God is 
particular whether or not men keep his Sabbath. 
And "the seventh day is the ,Sabbath." 
Can1p-Meetings in California Conference. 
THE following dates have been decided upon for 
our camp-meetings this year. Particulars as to 
places, etc., will be given in due time. 
Humboldt Co., Wednesday, Aug. 4, to Thursday, 
Aug. 12; Nevada, Tuesday, Aug. 31, to Wednes-
day, Sept. 8; Woodland, Yolo Co., general camp-
meeting and Conference, Wednesday, Sept. 22, to 
Tuesday, Oct. 5; Los Angeles Co., 'l'h ursday, Oct. 14, 
to Monday, Oct. 25; Santa Barbara Co., Thursday 
Nov. 4, to Thursday, Nov. 11. 
' 
CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE COMMITTEE. 
PERSONS who con template coming to California 
for the purpose of securing public land should first 
ponder well the following truthful item from the 
San Francisco Ch1·onicle:-
"A colonization society has been started in Chi-
cago· to locate on Government land in Southern 
California. It would be interesting to know where 
the society proposes to get a body of Government 
land sufficient for its needs. There are few counties 
in Southern California which can show any consid-
erable amount of Government land, and most of this 
land is in the mountains, remote from settlements. 
At least this has been the report of those who have 
prospected for such land. The trail of the land-
grabber is over all these counties, and if this society 
wishes to get good land, it will have to buy from 
him and not from Uncle Sam." 
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