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"Behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be." Rev. 22 : 12. 
VOLUME 8. �
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, FIFTH-DAY, MARCH 23, 1882. �
NUMBER 12. 
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THE REDEEMER'S TEARS. 
HOSANNAS filled the air, 
Ascending Olivet; 
But as they near the city drew 
Jesus beheld and wept. 
He wept o'er sinners lost,—
The loving 4on of God. 
Amazing grief ! He shed his tears 
For those who shed his blood. 
Gethsemane was near, 
The trial and the cross; 
But all forgotten was his woe, 
In pity for the lost. 
He knew their crimson guilt, 
He knew their righteous doom; 
Yet did his heart in pity melt, 
O'er judgment woes to come. 
O suffering Son of God„ 
Let me thy spirit share: 
Who shed thy tears and precious blood, 
To save us from despair. 
Oh, may my life redeemed, 
Now consecrated be, 
To save the perishing from death, 
And bring them home to thee! 
—Rev. E. P. Marvin, in ,Me..aiah's Herald. 
(Sewall I Article s. 
The Mother's Duty--Christ Her Strength. 
BY MRS. E. G. WHITE. 
HE who said, " Suffer little children to come 
unto me, and forbid them not," still invites moth-
ers to bring their little ones to be blessed of him. 
Even the babe in its mother's arms may dwell as 
under the shadow of the Almighty, through the 
earnest faith of that praying mother. The first 
and most urgent duty which the mother owes to 
her Creator is to train for him the children that 
he has given her. "Even a child is known by his 
doings, whether his work be pure and whether it 
be right." 
Infant children, are a mirror for the mother, in 
which she may see reflected her own habits and 
deportment. How careful, then, should be her 
language and behaviour in the presence of these 
little learners. Whatever traits of character she 
wishes to see developed in them, she must culti-
vate in herself. 
When children repose confidence in their mother 
and love and obey her, they have learned the 
first lessons in becoming Christians. They must 
love and trust and obey Jesus, as they love and 
trust and obey their parents. The love which 
the parent manifests for the child, in faithful care 
and right training, faintly mirrors the love of 
Jesus for his children. 
In view of the individual responsibility of 
mothers, every woman should develop a well-
balanced mind and a pure character, reflecting 
only the true, the good, and the beautiful. The 
wife and mother may bind her husband and chil-
dren to her heart by unvarying love, shown in 
gentle words and courteous deportment. Polite-
ness is cheap, but it has power to soften natures 
which would grow hard and rough without it. 
Christian politeness should reign in every house-
hold. The cultivation of a uniform courtesy, a 
willingness to do by others as we would like them 
to do by us, would banish half the ills of life. 
The principle inculcated in the injunction, "Be ye 
kindly affectioned one to another," lies at the 
very foundation of domestic happiness. 
God designed that persons of varied tempera-
ment should associate together, that by mutual 
consideration and forbearance, prejudices might 
be softened, and rough points of character 
smoothed. Marked diversities of disposition and 
character frequently exist in the same family; 
when this is the case. each member of the house-
hold should sacredly regard the feelings, and re-
spect the rights of all. Thus harmony may be 
secured, and the blending of the varied tempera-
ments may be a benefit to each. Christian court-
esy is the golden clasp uniting the members of 
the family in bonds of love that become closer 
and stronger every day. 
Many a home is made unhappy by the useless 
repining of its mistress, who turns with distaste 
from the simple, homely tasks of her domestic 
life. She looks upon the cares and duties of her 
lot as hardships, and that which might be made 
not only pleasant and interesting but profitable, 
becomes the merest drudgery. 
Many who do well under favorable circum-
stances seem to undergo a transformation of char-
acter under adversity and trial; they deteriorate 
in proportion to their troubles. God never de-
signed that we should thus be the sport of cir-
cumstances. We are not responsible for circum-
stances over which we have no control, and it is 
useless to deny that these often affect .our life 
work; but we commit sin when we permit cir-
cumstances to subvert principles; when we are 
unfaithful to our high trust, and neglect our 
known duty. 
The wife and mother is frequently so occupied 
with her household cares that she becomes 
thoughtless of the little courtesies which make 
home pleasant to the husband and children. 
While she is absorbed in preparing something to 
eat or to wear, the husband and sons come in and 
go out as strangers. Very many who find noth-
ing attractive at home, who, perchance, are con-
tinually greeted with scolding and murmuring, 
seek comfort and amusement in the dram-shop 
or in other forbidden places of indulgence. 
The mistress of the household may perform her 
outward duties with exactness, while at the same 
time she is comparing her lot with what she styles 
the higher life of woman, and cherishing unsanc-
tified longings for an easier portion, free from the 
petty cares and exactions that vex her spirit. 
She little dreams that in that widely different 
sphere of action to which she aspires, trials fully 
as vexatious, though perhaps of a different nature, 
would certainly beset her. While she is fruit-
lessly yearning for a different life, she is by her 
sinful discontent casting from her the blessings 
which a kind Providence has already granted. 
The true wife and mother will pursue an en-
tirely different course. She will perform her du-
ties with dignity and cheerfulness, not consider-
ing it degrading to do with her own hands what-
ever it is necessary for her to do in a well-ordered 
household. If she looks to God for strength and 
comfort, and in his fear seeks to perform her daily 
duties, she will bind her husband to her heart, 
and see her children coming to maturity honor-
able men and women, having moral stamina to 
follow the example of their mother. 
There is no chance-work in this life; the har-
vest will be determined by the character of the 
seed sown. Mothers may neglect present oppor-
tunities, and let their duties and burdens fall 
upon others; but their responsibility remains the 
same, and they will reap in bitterness what they 
have sown in carelessness and neglect. 
Mothers, your influence and example are affect-
ing the characters of your children. Your com-
passionate Redeemer is watching you with love 
and sympathy, ready to hear your prayers, and 
to render you the assistance which you need in 
your life-work. Joy, peace, long-suffering, gen-
tleness, faith, and charity are the elements of 
the Christian character. These precious graces 
are the fruit of the Spirit. They are the Chris-
tian's crown and shield. The most exalted aspi-
rations can aim at nothing higher. Nothing can 
give more perfect content and satisfaction. These 
heavenly attainments are not dependent upon 
circumstances, nor the will or imperfect judgment 
of man. Our Saviour, who understands our 
heart-struggles and the we; kness of our natures, 
pities our infirmities, forgives our errors, and be-
stows upon us the graces which we earnestly de-
sire. 
Jesus knows the burdens of every mother's 
heart. He is her best friend in every emergency. 
His everlasting arms support the God-fearing, 
faithful mother. That Saviour, who, when upon 
earth, had a mother that struggled with poverty, 
having many anxious cares and perplexities, in 
rearing her children. sympathizes with every 
Christian mother in her labors. That Saviour 
who went a long journey for the purpoPe of re-
lieving the anxious heart of a Canaanite woman 
whose daughter was possessed by a devil, will 
hear the prayers of the afflicted mother of to-day 
and will bless her children. 
He who gave back to the widow her only son, 
as be was carried to the burial, is touched to-day 
by the woe of the bereaved mother. He who 
wept tears of sympathy at the grave of Lazarus, 
who gave back to Mary and Martha their buried 
brother, who pardoned Mary Magdalene, who re-
membered his mother when he was hanging in 
agony upon the cross, who appeared to the weep-
ing women after his resurrection, and made them 
his messengers first to spread the glad tidings of 
a risen Saviour,—,he is woman's best friend to-
day, and is ready to aid her in her need if she 
will but trust in him. 
If Jesus is woman's friend and helper, surely 
the husband, the father of her children should 
not feel it beneath his dignity to sympathize with 
the mother in her cares, and assist in bearing her 
burdens. He should feel the sin and littleness of 
adding to her trials by bitter words. He should 
manifest a noble generosity of spirit toward her, 
not watching with a critic's eye every little neg-
lect on her part, every failure to meet his pecul-
iar ideas. 
Christ respected and honored woman. There 
is not an instance in his entire life wherein by 
word or act he gave the least encouragement to• 
speak or think disparagingly of woman, or 'gave 
the impression that she was not to be respected 
and honored equally with man. 
In order to be a good wife and mother, it is not 
necessary that woman's nature should be utterly-
merged into that of her husband. Every indi-
vidual being has a life distinct from all others, 
an experience differing essentially from theirs. 
God does not want our individuality lost in an-
other's; be desires that we shall possess our own 
characters, softened and sanctified by his sweet 
grace. 
He wants to hear our words fresh from our 
own hearts, and not another's. He wants our 
yearning desires and earnest cries to ascend to 
him, marked by our own individuality. All do 
not pass through the same exercises of mind, and 
God calls for no second-hand experience. Our 
compassionate Redeemer reaches his helping hand 
to us just where we are. Though Jesus has as- 
cended to Heaven, he has not lost his sympathy 
for you, mothers; he looks with tender love upon 
those whom he came to redeem. 
THE infidel man who boasts that he is not con-
fined by the narrow faith of the Bible, is like the 
man on the bleak wintry moor, who boasts that 
he is not hampered by the petty limitations of a 
house to shelter him. 
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THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. �VoL. 8, No. 12. 
Constitutional Amendment. 
BY ELD. W. H. LITTLEJOHN. 
NOR is this matter at all relieved by the state. 
ment found in John 20 : 26, that after eight days, 
Thomas being present, he appeared unto them a 
second time under similar circumstances. For 
even should we grant that this was on the next 
Sunday evening—a matter in which there is, at 
least, room for a difference of opinion—the subject 
is merely complicated the more, so far as the view 
of our friends is concerned, since here a second 
opportunity, and that a most excellent one, for 
calling the attention of the disciples to the new 
character which a once secular day had assumed, 
was entirely neglected. In this also, as in the first 
instance, the conversation was of a nature to show 
that the object of the interview was to give ad-
ditional evidence (because of the presence of 
Thomas) of the re-animation of the body of 
Christ, without any reference to its effect upon 
the character of the day upon which it oc-
curred. 
But such silence, under such circumstances, 
in regard to so important a matter, is, in itself, 
conclusive evidence that the change claimed had 
not really taken place. Furthermore, it will not 
be urged that more than two out of the five first-
days which occurred between the resurrection and 
the ascension were days of assembly. Had they 
been, as it had been decided, according to the view 
of those urging the transition, that the Sunday 
should not be hallowed by positive declaration, 
but simply inaugurated by quiet precedent, then 
the presumption is, that this precedent, instead of 
being left upon the insufficient support of two 
Sabbaths out of five, would have been carefully 
placed upon the whole number. Nor would the 
precaution have ended here. In a matter vital in 
its nature, certain it is that the honest seeker after 
truth would not be left to grope his way through 
a metaphysical labyrinth of philosophic specula-
tion in regard to the effect of certain transactions 
upon the character of the time upon which they 
occurred ; or the bearing of certain meetings of 
Christ and the apostles upon the question as to 
whether Sunday had assumed a sacred character, 
when at the same time his perplexity was ren-
dered insupportable by the fact, that the historian 
states, that like meetings occurred on days for 
which no one will claim any particular honor. 
Take, for instance, the meeting of Jesus with 
the apostles at the sea of Galilee (John 21), while 
they were engaged in a fishing excursion. As-
suredly, this did not take place on Sunday ; else, 
according to the view of our friends, they would 
not have been engaged in such an employment. 
Just what day it was no one is able to decide ; but 
all agree that its character was in no way affected 
by the profoundly interesting interview which oc-
curred upon it between the Master and his dis-
ciples. If it were, then there is at least one holy 
day in the week which we cannot place in the 
calendar, since no one can decide whether it was 
the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, or sixth. 
If, however, you would have a still more forcible 
illustration of the fact that religicus meetings, 
were they never so solemn, can in nowise alter the 
nature of the hours on which they occur, let me 
call your attention to the day of the ascension (Acts 
4). �
Here is an occasion of transcendent glory. If 
the statements in the sacred narrative of events, 
which transpired during its hours, could only be 
predicated of either one or the other of the first-
day meetings of Christ with his disciples, it would 
-at least be with an increased show of reason that 
they could be woven' into the tissue of a Sabbatic 
argument. Here are found many of the elements 
essential to the idea of religious services, of which 
the instances in question are so remarkably des 
titute. 
In the first place, those who followed our Lord 
to the place of meeting were intelligent believers 
in the fact of his resurrection. 
In the second place, the assembly was not con-
fined to a mere handful of individuals, seeking for 
retiracy within an upper room where they were 
in the habit of eating, drinking and sleeping ; but 
it transpired in the open air, where Jesus was in 
the habit of meeting with his followers. 
In the third place, the congregation was made 
up of persons whom the Holy Spirit had thus 
brought together for the purpose of becoming the 
honored witnesses of the resurrection and ascen-
sion of Christ. 
In the fourth place it was graced by the visible 
forms of holy angels in glistering white, who 
participated in the services. 
In the fifth place, Jesus himself addressed them 
at length, lifted up his hands to heaven, and 
brought down its benediction upon them, and in 
the sight of the assembled multitude, steadily and 
majestically rising above them, he floated upward 
until a cloud received him out of their sight. 
In the sixth place, it is said, in so many words, 
that the "people worshiped him there." 
Now suppose, for the sake of the argument, 
that some modern sect should endeavor to trans-
form our unpretending Thursday, which was 
really the day of the ascension, since it was the 
fortieth after the resurrection, into one of peculiar 
dignity, claiming in defense of their position, the 
example of Christ, and urging that the course 
which he pursued could only be satisfactorily ex-
plained on the ground that he was laying the 
foundation for its future Sabbatic observance, how 
would our friends meet them in such an emer-
gency ? Deny the facts, they could not, for the 
record is ample. There would, therefore, be but 
one alternative left. 
If transactons of this character are of such a na-
ture that they necessarily exalt the days upon which 
they occur, to the rank of holy days, then Thurs-
day is one, and should be treated as such. No 
line of argument, however ingenious, could evade 
this conclusion, so long as the premises in question 
were adhered to. Planting himself squarely upon 
them, with the consent of modern Christendom, 
the advocate of the newly-discovered holy day, 
finding the record perfectly free from embarrass-
ments in the nature of transactions which would 
appear to be incompatible with the notion that 
everything which Christ and his apostles did was 
in harmony with his view, if possessed of that 
skill and ability which has marked the efforts of 
some modern theologians in such discussions, 
could weave a web of inference and conjecture al-
most interminable in its length. 
All the facts connected with the meeting could 
be expanded, and turned over and over, and ex-
hibited, from innumerable stand-points, so as to 
yield the largest amount of evidence possible. 
Having dwelt at large upon everything which was 
said and done at Bethany, he might return with 
the solemn procession to the great city. Having 
done this, he would not fail to call our attention 
to the fact, that they did not conduct themselves 
in a manner such as men might have been ex-
pected to do under the circumstances on a com-
mon day, but that on the contrary, impressed with 
the sacredness of the hours which had witnessed 
the glorious ascension of the Son of God, they im-
mediately repaired to a place of assembly, man-
ifestly for the purpose of continued worship. 
Again, scrutinizing wi th polemic eye every syl-
lable of the history, in order to extract from it all 
the hidden testimony which it might contain, his 
attention would be arrested by these words, " A 
Sabbath-day's journey." Immediately he in-
quires, Why employ such an expression as this—
one which occurs nowhere else in the sacred 
volume ? Certainly it cannot be the result of ac-
cident. The Holy Spirit must have designed to 
signify something by such a use of the term in the 
connection under consideration. A Sabbath-day's 
journey I What importance could be attached to 
the fact that the particular point from which 
Christ ascended was no more than a Sabbath-day's 
journey from Jerusalem. The expression is not 
sufficiently definite to designate the precise spot, 
and must, therefore, have been employed to ex-
press some other idea. What was it? Un-
deniably, it was introduced into this connection 
because of the nature of the time on which the 
journey occurred. It was a Sabbath-day, and, as 
such, it was important that succeeding generations 
should not be left to infer from the account given, 
that it was a matter of indifference to the Lord 
how far travel should be carried on such an occa-
sion ; but, on the contrary, that he was jealous on 
this point, and that the expression in question was 
employed to show that the procession of Christ's 
followers, and Christ himself, bowed reverently to 
the national regulation respecting the distance to 
which it was proper for one to depart from his 
home during the continuance of holy time. 
But this line of argument, though plausible in 
itself, and superior in fact to that which is many 
times used to support the tottering fabric of first-
day observance, would not, we fancy, persuade an 
intelligent public to introduce a new Sabbath into 
their calendar. The verdict which even those with 
whom we differ would be compelled to render 
would be that which both reason and piety would 
dictate ; namely, that the fatal defect in the logic 
was the want of a " Thus saith the Lord." 
Passing now from the first six of the eight texts 
which relate to the first day of the week, let us 
give to 1 Cor. 16 : 2, and Acts 20 : 7, a considera-
tion of sufficient length only to enable us to assign 
to them the proper place which they should oc-
cupy in this controversy. While it will be ob-
served that they present the only mention of the 
first day of the week after leaving the gospels, 
and while it is remembered that they are separa-
ted from the occurrences there narrated by the 
space of twenty-six years, it is a remarkable fact 
that the first of them, if not in itself clearly against 
the conception of Sunday sanctity, at least affords 
no strength for the argument in its favor. It reads 
as follows : " Upon the first day of the week let 
every one of you lay by him in store, as God bath 
prospered him, that there be no gatherings when 
I come." 1 Cor. 16 : 2. 
Now, bear in mind that the inference here is, 
that the gatherings spoken of were to be made in 
the assemblies of the Corinthians, the presumption 
following that, as they must have been in the 
habit of convening on the first day of the week, 
the apostle took advantage of this fact in order to 
secure the desired collections for the saints at 
Jerusalem. You will observe consequently, that 
the postulate, or assumed point in the discussion, 
is that the Corinthians were at the church, or place 
of meeting when the " laying by," which was 
ordered above, took place. If, therefore, this be 
not true, the whole logical superstructure which 
rests upon it necessarily falls to the ground. 
Let us inquire after the facts. Does the apostle 
say, Let every one of you lay by himself at the 
the church ? or does he command that his pro-
rata donation should be placed in the contribution 
box of the assembly ? We answer : There is not 
a word to this effect. Nor is this all ; the very 
idea of the text is diametrically opposed to this 
notion. Before the contrary can be shown to be 
true, it will be necessary to demonstrate that 
which is absurd in itself ; namely the proposition 
that what an individual has voluntarily placed 
beyond his own reach and control by putting it in 
a common fund, can at the same time, be said to 
be " laid by him in store." 
Furthermore, Mr. J. W. Morton, a gentleman 
who has given the subject mature reflection and 
careful investigation, by a comparison of the dif-
ferent versions and the original, has demonstrated 
the fact that, if properly translated, the idea of the 
passage is simply that, for the purpose of uniform-
ity of action, and to prevent confusion from secular 
matters when the apostle himself should arrive, 
each person should lay by himself at home the 
amount of his charities according to his ability. 
W e give the following from his pen : " The whole 
question turns upon the meaning of the expression, 
by him ; ' and I marvel greatly how you can 
imagine that it means ' in the collection box of the 
congregation.' Greenfield, in his lexicon, trans-
lates the Greek term, by one's self ; i. e., at home.' 
Two Latin versions—the Vulgate, and that of 
Castellio—render it, 'spud se,' with one's self, at 
home. Three French translations, those of Martin, 
Osterwald, and De Sacy, chez soi,' at his own 
house, at home. The German, of Luther, bei sich 
selbst,' by himself, at home. The Dutch, by hem-
selven,' same as German. The Italian of Diodati, 
oppress° di se,' in his own presence, at home. The 
Spanish of Felipe Scio, ' en su casa,' in his own house. 
The Portuguese of Ferrara, par a isso,' with himself. 
The Swedish, neer sig self,' near himself. 1 know 
not how much this list of authorities might be 
swelled, for I have not examined one translation 
that differs from those quoted above."—Vindica-
tion of the True Sabbath, p. 61. 
The simple fact is, therefore, that while the 
text in question yields no proof that Sunday was 
then regarded as a day of convocation, it was one 
which might be encumbered with matters which 
would necessarily call attention to the pecuniary 
affairs of individual Christians, and so avoid the 
necessity of their giving thought to such things 
when Paul himself should arrive ; thereby prevent-
ing delay on his part, and leaving them free to 
devote their whole time to the consideration of 
religious themes. Thus much for 1 Cor. 16 : 2. 
LAZINESS grows on people. It begins in cob-
webs and ends in iron chains. The more work a 
man has to do the more he is able to accomplish, 
for he learns to economize time, and adds to his 
strength by exercise. 
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135 
Reward of Blasphemy. �
On the other hand it is quite true that times of themselves which they and their children hold 
trouble and trial are especially times for prayer. quiet possession of, until this day. Later on a 
BY MRS. I. J. HANKINS. �
It was out of the depths, and, as it were, out of king named Nebuchadnezzar entered upon the up- 
the belly of hell, that Jonah cried for salvation : setting business. He did not succeed either. He 
BECAUSE sentence against an evil work is not " When my soul fainted within me, I re- spent seven years chained to a stump ; and when 
executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons membered the Lord; and my prayers came in he had changed his mind, was a sadder and wiser 
of men is fully set in them to do evil. The follow- unto thee into thy holy temple." It was in the man. His successor met with still greater disaster 
ing incident shows that God's judgments are not anguish of his troubled spirit that the publican in a similar attempt. Since that time there have 
always deferred until some distant day :— 
smote upon his breast and prayed, " God, be been no end of persons who have tried to upset 
" In Union County, Arkansas, on the fourth of merciful to me a sinner." It was when sinking in Moses. Some ancient heathen, Celsus and Por-
November, last, three young men were discussing the waves that Peter cried, " Lord, save, or I phyry, and Julian the Apostate ; and latterly these 
the probabilities of rain from a cloud in the west. perish !" Whether literally or figuratively, a German critics, and these scientists, so called, are 
The youngest one of the group, John Freeman, storm is the time for setting men to cry on at the same thing. 
referred to the drought, and remarked that a God the Lord for deliverance. " He commandeth Years ago, when I was in Boston, I heard of a 
and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the meeting of Freethinkers at a place called Chap-
who would allow his people to suffer thus could 
not amount to much. Instantly a bolt of lightning waves. They mount up to the heavens, they go man Hall. I could not resist the temptation to go 
flashed from a cloud overhead, and the young man down again to the depths ; their soul is melted be- just once and hear what they said. I found about 
fell dead. Nearly every bone in his body was cause of trouble. They reel to and fro and twenty persons there. Three or four of them 
mashed into jelly while his boots were torn from stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' were women ; all the rest were men. And what 
_ end. Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, do you think they were doing ? They were en-
his feet, and his clothing from his lower extrem 
ities. �
and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He gaged in the old enterprise of upsetting Moses. 
"The body presented a horrible appearance, maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof And yet Moses hath to-day, in the synagogues of 
being a blackened and mangled mass of humanity. are still. Then are they glad because they be Boston, more persons that preach him than he 
His companions were stunned and thrown on the quiet ; so he bringeth them to the desired haven. ever had before. 
ground, but not seriously injured. The funeral of Oh ! that men would praise the Lord for his good- �
It is astonishing how much upsetting it takes to 
the unfortunate young man occurred next day ness, and for his wonderful works to the children upset Moses. It is like upsetting a granite cube. 
of men !" �
Turn it on which face you will, there it stands as 
and attracted a large crowd, the larger portion of 
It is never too late to pray. While there is life solid as ever. The cube is used to being upset, 
whom were drawn thither by the rumor of the 
strange events preceding the death of the deceased. there is hope. It was in his old age, after a long and does not mind it. It always amuses me when 
When the body was deposited in the grave and life of wickedness, and of making others to sin, I hear a fresh cry from some new quarter, aver-
the loose earth had been thrown in until the aper- that Manasseh prayed and was pardoned. It was ring that some man whom nobody has ever before 
ture was filled, and while the friends of the dead on the cross that the penitent thief sought and heard of, has found out a sure way of doing what 
yet lingered in the cemetery, a bolt of lightning fbund mercy. And Jesus is able to save to the all others have failed in. And now here comes 
descended from a cloud directly over the burial uttermost all that come unto God through him. �
Jim Manley ; and Moses has to be upset again. 
place and struck the grave, throwing the dirt as �
Still the lesson is good, " Say your prayers in Ah, well—" and the deacon sighed. 
if a plow had passed through it. No on© was in- fair weather." It is a desperate venture to delay �
There was a roar of laughter which made the 
jured, but those present scattered, almost para- till a death-bed the cry for mercy. Some cases of rafters of the saw-mill ring, and all joined in it ex- 
salvation at the eleventh hour are on record, to cept Jim.—Christian Observer. 
lyzed with terror." 
 
Do not say that a freak of nature caused the save men from despair ; but they are few, not to 
young man's death. There is a God, and the day encourage men to presumption. It is rare that 
The Religion Needed. 
of judgment hastens on. Soon it will dawn upon men who have not sought God in life find him at 
our vision. Do we realize it? Can we know the death. Sickness is seldom a time for attending to 
WE want a religion that bears heavily on the 
misery and suffering that will be brought to the matters of importance ; and no matter is to be "exceeding sinfulness of sin," and on the exceed- 
wicked? Oh, could we once realize these things compared in importance with the safety of the ing rascality of lying and stealing—that banishes 
as we will when they burst upon us, how different soul. The senses may be dulled and the brain op small measures from the counter, small baskets 
would be our lives ! How careful would we be of pressed ; and if the mind be clear, there is rarely from stalls, pebbles from cotton bags, clay from 
our words and actions, and how hard we would time for all the thoughts that press into the short the paper, sand from sugar, chicory from coffee, 
try to walk in the narrow path. Probation still interval of remaining life. Besides, the Spirit of alum from bread, and water from the milk cans. 
is lengthened out to us, and let us improve it as God does not always strive with men. Very sol- 
The religion to save the world will not put all 
we will wish we had when the dear Saviour comes emn are these words of warning : " Because I the big strawberries at the top and the little ones 
to gather his jewels. �
have called, and ye refused ; I have stretched out at the bottom, nor make one half a pair of shoes 
my hand, and no man regarded ; but ye have set of good leather and the other half of poor leather; 
at naught all my counsel, and would none of my 
Say Your Prayers In Fair Weather. �
it will not put Jouvin's stamp on Jenkin's kid 
reproof : I also will laugh at your calamity ; I will gloves, nor make Paris bonnets in the back room 
mock when your fear cometh. When your fear 
A SHIP was overtaken by a storm. The tumult �
of a Boston milliner shop ; nor let a piece of vel- 
cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh 
of the wind and the waves was rendered more 
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vet professing to measure twelve yards come to an 
fearful by the flashes of lightning and the roar of as a whirlwind ; when distress and anguish untimely end in the tenth, nor a spool of silk at 
cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, 
thunder. One of the sailors, overcome with terror, 
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twenty yards be nipped in the bud at fourteen 
but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, 
fell down upon his knees upon the deck, and
and a half; nor all wool delaines and all linen 
prayed for mercy and deliverance. At that mo- but they shall not find me." 
handkerchiefs be amalgamated with clandestine 
ment the captain shouted an order for which all �
They that know God in prosperity have not to cotton; nor coats made of rags pressed together 
hands were wanted. Seeing the man on his knees, seek him in adversity. He is near to them that be sold for legal broadcloth. 
call on him. The best preparation' for trial is 
he ran at him and shook him by the collar crying: 
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It does not put bricks at five dollars into chim- 
habitual prayer. The forlorn and too often hope-
" Say your prayers in fair weather !"
net's it contracts to build of seven dollar material; 
less cry for mercy in the stormy time of peril does 
The captain was, in on© sense, right, and his �
nor smuggle white pine into floors that have paid 
not come from those who have been accustomed 
words carry a useful lesson for all times and places. 
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for hard pine ; nor leave yawning cracks in clos- 
to " say their prayers in fair weather."—The Word, 
There is never a time when true prayer—the lift- �
ets where boards ought to join ; nor daub the 
ing up of the heart to God—is not seasonable. The Work, and The World. 
ceilings that ought to be smoothly plastered ; nor 
But there are times when prayer must not inter- �
make window blinds of slats that cannot stand 
fere with the work of hands and limbs. The duty �
Upsetting Moses. �
the wind, and paint that cannot stand the sun, and 
of this sailor was instant obedience to the captain's �
fastenings that may be looked at, but are on no 
order, and he deserved the rope's end with which �
ONE of the wits of the ,National Baptist has account to be touched. 
he was threatened, for being on his knees on deck written a " Saw-mill Dissertation " on the subject �
The religion that is going to sanctify the world 
instead of up the rigging along with his comrades. of " Upsetting Moses," from which we take an pays its debts. It does not consider that forty 
Two Scottish ministers were once crossing a extract : Jim Manley began the talk. "I say, cents returned for one hundred cents given is ac-
loch in the Highlands. It was a ferry, and the deacon, Darwin's theory of evolution is a little cording to the gospel, though it may be according 
boat was full of passengers. A sudden storm arose, bard on Genesis. Of course we don't know yet to law. It looks on a man who has failed in trade 
as often happens in these mountain waters. It how it will turn out ; but it looks a little as and who continues to live in luxury, as a thief.— 
seemed a time of peril. One of the passengers ex- though they were going to upset Moses." �Sel. 
claimed, " Let the ministers pray, or we'll a' be �
The deacon made no answer. He surely must 
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drooned." " N a, na," said the head boatman ; have heard Jim's remark. Presently he was ob- �
To a minister of religion such a love of the 
" the little ane may pray, but the big ane maun served to be counting his fingers slowly, and with world as dancing displays, would be utter ruin. 
tak' an oar and pull while he prays." �
pauses for thought, between each enumeration. No position, ability, or character could uphold 
The boatsman's advice was sensible like that of After awhile Jim ventured to ask, " Counting your him. What is inconsistent in the minister, is 
the captain who told the sailor to say his prayers saw-logs, deacon, aren't you ?" �
inconsistent in professors of religion. That which 
in fair weather. It was wise advice also, in re- �
"No," said the deacon ; "I'll tell you. Your casts suspicion upon his piety, casts suspicion 
cognizing the fact that prayer—the praying of the remark set me to thinking. I was just counting upon theirs. How would impenitent men regard 
heart, which alone God regards—is possible when up how many times in the course of human history, an invitation to repent of sin and turn to God, if 
the hands are engaged in work and duty. Abra- somebody has upset Moses. First of all, two old it came from one with whom they had danced 
ham's pious servant prayed while he was waiting jugglers, named Jannes and Jambres, undertook the evening before? It would have the same 
with the camels at the well near the city of Nahor. this ; but they failed. Then a certain king named effect with a similar exhortation from a dancing 
Nehemiah " prayed to the God of Heaven," while Pharaoh went at the work of upsetting. He must preacher.—Censer. 
he was standing in the presence of Artaxerxes, have found it more of a work than he anticipated, 
before he answered the king's question. " Men for he has not reached home yet. Then, three 
ought always to pray." Every work and every leaders of liberal thought, Korah, Dathan, and IT will not always do to say what you think, 
occupation of daily life is to be sanctified by the Abiram, went at the job. They failed in the up- but you would better be careful always to think 
word of God and by prayer. �
setting part ; but they secured a bit of ranch for what you say. 
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THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. �
VoL. 8, No. 12. 
Prophecy of Great Use. 
BY C. A. OSGOOD. 
FOR the most part the events of the future are 
hidden from mortals. Yet it has pleased God at 
certain times to reveal to mankind through " his 
servants the prophets," things which were to come 
to pass. Although many in the present age re- 
gard the prophetic scriptures as nearly or quite 
useless, yet facts abundantly show that rich 
blessings are connected with understanding and 
taking heed to what God has revealed through 
this means. So Peter said, " We have a more sure 
word of prophecy, whereunto ye do well that ye 
take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark 
place." 2 Peter 1 : 19. If we have nothing to do 
with studying the prophecies, then a large part of 
the Bible is unprofitable to us, but Paul informs 
us that " all Scripture is profitable." 2 Tim. 3 : 16. 
But let us "search the Scriptures " and see what 
good has resulted in times past from understand-
ing and taking heed to what God revealed con-
cerning events then future. 
Noah and his family knew nothing of the com-
ing flood till God made it known to them. God 
revealed the fact that his Spirit would cease to 
strive with men when the one hundred and twenty 
years of his long-suffering should end. He com- 
manded Noah to build an ark for the saving of his 
house. He believed God's word, and obeyed, and 
so, when the billows of death overwhelmed the 
ungodly, unbelieving world, he was saved with his 
household. It was well that angels were sent to 
Sodom to tell Lot of the destruction that was 
to come upon that, and the neighboring cities. 
These were overthrown by a storm of fire and 
brimstone, but Lot, having taken heed to the 
friendly warning, made his escape before the 
wrath of God was poured out. 
By a dream which the king of Egypt had, and 
which Joseph interpreted, the Lord made known 
to mankind that there would be seven years of 
great plenty in Egypt, and following them seven 
years of great scarcity. Well was it for the in- 
habitants of Egypt, Canaan, and all lands, that 
these things were revealed beforehand. So in the 
years of plenty, provision was made for the years 
of famine which followed, and multitudes were 
saved from starvation. 
Our Saviour foretold the judgments that were 
to come upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem in con- 
sequence of their rejection of Christ, and the 
truths he taught. He told his disciples how they 
might know when its desolation would be near 
and what to do then. Said he, " When ye shall 
see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know 
that the desolation thereof is nigh ; then let them 
that are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let 
them that are in the midst thereof depart out ; 
and let not them that are in the countries enter 
thereinto." Luke 21 : 20, 21. Thus our Lord 
told his disciples how they might know when 
those things would take place and what they 
should then do. They took notice of the sign 
Jesus had given them, and when they saw it they 
fled to the mountains, and it is not known that a 
single Christian perished at that time. Here we 
see again how prophecy shone " as a light in a 
dark place." And how well it was for those who 
walked in its light. 
In many other cases prophecy has been to the 
children of God what a lantern is to a traveler in 
a dark night. But it is in the latest period of 
probationary time, just before the Saviour's second 
coming that the greatest benefit is to be gained 
from the prophetic word. True, many suppose 
that that day will come upon the saint and the 
sinner alike unexpectedly. But is this in harmony 
with God's dealings with his people in the past ? 
We know it is not. In former ages when God was 
about to pour out his judgments upon guilty 
nations they were warned through the prophets. 
And will events far more fearful than any that 
have ever occurred, come to pass without any 
warning ? It is indeed said of the wicked in 
Noah's day that they " knew not until the flood 
came and took them all away." And so it is said 
of the unbelieving world when the Lord shall ap-
pear, " W hen they shall say peace and safety then 
sudden destruction shall come upon THEM, and they 
shall not escape." 1 Thess. 5 : 3. But what is 
said to the children of God. " But ye brethren 
are not in darkness that that day should overtake 
you as a thief." 
God is sending warnings to the people by the 
three messages of Revelation 14. He has also 
given signs in the heavens and upon the earth. 
The darkening of the sun and moon in 1780, and 
the falling of the stars in 1833, were some of the 
things that the Saviour said would show that his 
coming was near. Matt. 24 : 29. Then there 
were to be, upon the earth, blood and fire and 
vapor of smoke. Acts 2 : 19; distress of nations 
with perplexity ; the sea and the waves roaring, 
etc. Luke 21 : 25. The Saviour said, " When 
ye see all these things come to pass, know that he 
is nigh, even at the doors." Although we are 
gravely told by many that it is of no consequence 
to know anything about the period of Christ's 
coming, he has commanded his people to know 
it when these signs appear. What he has com-
manded is highly important to obey. In Heb. 9 : 
28, it is said : Christ " was once offered to bear the 
sins of many, and to them that look for him shall 
he appear the second time, without sin unto sal-
vation." He comes then to save them that look 
for him, but what will become of those that do not 
look for him ? To that servant who shall say, 
" My Lord delayeth his coming," his " Lord will 
come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in 
an hour that he is not aware of, and shall cut him 
asunder and appoint his portion with the hypo-
crites." Matt. 24 :.48. This will be the fearful 
result of not watching and knowing the time. 
Again, in Luke 21 : 34, 36, Christ said, " Take 
heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be 
overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, 
and cares of this life, and so that day come upon 
you unawares." " Watch ye therefore and pray al-
ways, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape 
all these things that shall come to pass, and to 
stand before the Son of man." Just before this he 
had pointed out the signs which would show his 
coming near, and now he tells them what to do, 
and what not to do, in order that that event might 
be a joyful one to them, and not an awful disaster. 
Thus we may see the great goodness of God in 
erecting light-houses in different ages for the safety 
of his people, that they might escape impending 
dangers. Never were the dangers so numerous and 
so great as now, and never did the light of 
prophecy shine more brightly than now. Reader, 
will you study " the sure word of prophecy," 
walk in its light, and secure eternal salvation ? 
HOPE BEYOND. 
STILL will we trust, though earth seems dark and dreary, 
And the heart faint beneath His chastening rod; 
Though rough and steep our pathway, worn and weary, 
Still will we trust in God ! 
Our eyes see dimly till by faith anointed, 
And our blind choosing brings us grief and pain; 
Through Him alone who hath our way appointed 
We find our peace again. 
Choose for us, God! nor let our weak preferring 
Cheat our poor souls of good thou halt designed; 
Choose for us, God ! thy wisdom is unerring; 
And we are fools and blind. 
No from our sky the Night shall furl her shadows, 
And Day pour gladness through his golden gates; 
Our rough path leads to flower-enameled meadows, 
Where joy our coming waits. 
Let us press on in patient self-denial, 
Accept the hardship, shrink not from the loss; 
Our guerdon lies beyond the power of trial 
Our crown beyond the cross. 
—William Henry Burleigh. 
The American Bible Society and the 
Baptists. 
IN the early years of the American Bible So-
ciety the Baptists, as well as others, contributed 
their money to its support. In 1835 a by-law 
was passed by the Society discriminating against 
certain versions made by Baptist missionaries; 
and the Baptists, all but a very few, considering 
themselves unjustly excluded from common rights 
in the Society, withdrew from its support. We 
remember how earnestly Dr. Leavitt and others 
not Baptists, opposed this action of the Society. 
Four years ago, in a revision of the rules, this 
by-law was omitted. This action was regarded 
by many as an abandonment by the Society of 
its previous position, and a circular was issued by 
certain prominent Baptists declaring that, in their 
view, no reason existed why Baptists should not 
resume their former position in support of the 
Society; but, to test the matter, an application 
was made for aid to circulate the Burmese trans-
lation of the Bible by Dr. Judson. After some 
delay, this application has been directly refused, 
the Society adhering to the principle of the by- 
law of 1835. The anticipated reunion is, there-
fore, broken off; Dr. Howard Osgood, the Baptist 
member of the Society's Committee on Versions, 
resigns his position; and the alienation of the 
Baptists from co-operation with the Society may 
now be considered permanent. We are glad to 
say that again a strong and able minority was 
opposed to the decision. 
The Burmese version of Dr. Judson, who was a 
man of scholarship as well as Christian zeal, is 
admitted by the English Bishop of Rangoon to 
be "a model of idiomatic rendering and of faith-
ful and painstaking labor." The Society con-
demns it merely on the ground that it translates 
the Greek word for baptizo by a Burmese word 
meaning immerse. 
That this is a mistranslation the Society does 
not declare. That it is not a legitimate render-
ing no true scholar would assert. When the late 
Dean Stanley declared "on philological grounds 
it is quite correct to translate John the Baptist 
by John the Immerser," he gave the opinion of 
the real scholars of all sects. The latest stand-
ard lexicons—as Cremer's, Wilke's, and that of 
Sophocles—define baptism as immersion and they 
give it no other meaning. The same thing will 
be seen in the later editions of Liddell & Scott. 
Martin Luther had some skill at Bible-translat-
ing; but he says that the Greek word baptism 
" Latine potest verti mersio," and old John Calvin, 
who would compare very well with most of the 
Bible Society's officials, says "Ipsum baptizandi 
verbum mergere significat." No one will say that, 
in rendering into Burmese the passage from the 
Septuagint which says that Naaman baptized 
himself seven times in the Jordan, it would be 
unscholarly to translate baptizo by a word which 
means immerse. No more can it be called un-
scholarly if, in the account of John's baptizing, 
the same Greek word is rendered by the same 
word in Burmese. When we say that the Greek 
baptizo can be legitimately translated by immerse 
we do not imply that it follows that all baptism 
must be by immersion, any more than, in trans-
lating presbuteros by elder, we assert that no young 
man can be elected to the presbyterial office. At 
worst, the translation immerse might be infelic-
itous, as it might be infelicitous to translate de-
narius by " fifteen cents." 
The officials of the Society do not charge that 
Dr. Judson's translation is unscholarly; they con-
demn it simply because it is a translation. They 
declare that the Greek word shall not be rendered 
into the vernacular; but must be transferred from 
the one language to the other, simply transliter-
ated into the Burmese sentence. They do not 
say that there is no word in the Burmese to ex-
press the act of Naaman and of John, an act so 
common that one can hardly conceive a language 
so meager as not to have a word of its own there-
for; they do not say that some other Burmese 
word would present the Greek idea better than 
the word Dr. Judson has chosen; they say that 
the Greek word must not be rendered into Bur-
mese at all, but simply transferred, so that its 
original meaning shall not be expressed. To be 
consistent, they should forbid anything to be 
made known of John's place of baptizing at 
}Enon, near to Salim, except that "there was hu-
data polla there," and of Philip and the Eunuch 
it should be reticently divulged merely that " they 
katebased eis the water " • and " anebased ek the 
water." If it be wrong to give the exact mean-
ing of the word denoting a certain act, we ought 
to becloud the mention of the attending circum-
stances, lest they disclose the nature of the act. 
When a translator like Judson claims, and no 
better scholar stands forth to deny, that a certain 
Greek word is adequately rendered by a certain 
Burmese word; for the Society to say that the 
vernacular term shall not be used, but that the 
Greek word, which, of course, to the native will 
be utterly meaningless, must be transferred to the 
Burmese page is to say that the New Testament 
shall not be placed before the Burman as clearly 
as it lay before the eyes of the Greek peasant. 
The Society is guilty of the most outrageous ob-
scurantism. It binds its vast powers to the work 
of suppressing a complete knowledge of the 
meaning of Holy Writ. It plants itself squarely 
on the position of the Church of Rome—the po-
sition that the common people shall not be allowed 
every word of the Scripture's page, to read it 
with their own eyes and draw from it what con-
clusions they think reasonable; but that a portion, 
at least, of the sacred oracles shall merely be 
doled out to them by their spiritual guides. The 
MARCH 23, 1882. 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. �
137 
thoroughly and teach so much better than he 
did the previous year that the lessons will have 
new interest to the class. 
Those classes using books Number Two and 
Three should be examined in the same way. 
Book Number Four is now being printed, and will 
be ready in a few weeks. 
We have been pained while visiting some 
schools to see youth and even children in the 
senior classes. They could trace the history 
and memorize scripture, but were not prepared 
to comprehend the more difficult lessons which 
the senior classes are now studying. 
The first lesson in the Instructor, headed 
" Scenes in the Life of Christ," is written espe-
cially for them, and is exactly suited to their wants. 
Therefore those who but partially comprehend 
the lessons of the senior class, should be united 
to or formed into an intermediate division. We 
are procuring some helpful class maps especially 
suited to the wants of this division which we 
shall mention in a few weeks. 
W. C. WHITE, 
Pres. of State S. S. Association. 
abbath—*ch.nol. 
To the Sabbath-Schools in California. 
SINCE our last annual meeting I have written 
but little about the Sabbath-school work in our 
State, because other branches of our work have 
demanded my entire time and strength. I desire 
to give more attention to this work hereafter, 
and as we are now near the close of the Lesson 
Year it seems best to make some suggestions 
about future work. 
Very soon our Primary Classes which began 
with new books last April, will have completed 
them, and it must be decided what each scholar 
shall study the coming year. 
In some schools the Record Books are nearly 
filled, and new ones should be provided, and 
various changes and improvements should be 
planned to make the next year as successful as 
possible. 
In many of our schools the classification is 
quite imperfect, especially of the younger schol-
ars, from the fact that there are so few of the 
same ability and advancement, that those of 
very different qualifications are associated in one 
class, and also because removals and additions 
frequently disarrange a good classification. 
Where there are persons qualified and willing 
to teach, the scholars should be grouped accord-
ing to their ability, if it requires the formation of 
quite small classes. We regard six as a desirable 
number for a primary class, and eight for adult 
classes. But in most cases it would be better to 
have less rather than more. 
Between this time and April 8th, from which 
date the next quarter should be reckoned, all 
necessary changes should be planned. Those 
scholars now completing the study of Book Num-
ber One, should be examined carefully as to their 
knowledge of the history it covers, and as to 
their ability to comprehend the more difficult 
lessons of Number Two; this of course will require 
a careful examination of Number Two, before 
any are promoted to its study. Only those who 
have mastered the first book, and are able to 
comprehend the second, should be promoted. 
The others should study the first book another 
year. Hunt up some new ones to join the class, 
and give them their old teacher if possible. Let 
that teacher study the subject so much more 
Teaching to Profit. 
IN the first place, teachers should endeavor 
to convince their scholars that religion is a prac-
tical thing; so that they must be doers as well as 
hearers of the word. A child will very soon learn 
to be content with a form of religion. Formal-
ism is the religion of human nature, and is easily 
taught. To drive it from the minds of our classes 
must, therefore, be one of our great duties. Let 
us teach them that reading the Bible, or learning 
lessons, or attending school and church, or say-
ing prayers, is not religion, but only guides or 
helps to religion; that religion is of the heart, and 
manifests itself in a holy life; that it is like life 
in a tree, showing itself in leaves, and blossoms, 
and fruit; that it is not of such a nature as to be 
able to be taken apart, so that we can say, this is 
religion, or, that is religion; but that like fire it 
warms whatever it approaches, and makes a per-
son in everything, in public and private, do all to 
the glory of God. 
For this purpose we must map out, as it were, 
a child's daily life, and show him how he will act 
if he obeys the Scriptures. Our text, for exam-
ple, is the parable of the leaven. Were we to 
describe the' sanctifying influence of the gospel, 
how it has abolished slavery, mitigated the hor-
rors of war, established just laws, and diffused a 
knowledge of God and salvation to millions un-
told, we should not have shown the children how 
the gospel was leaven to them. We must deal 
more closely with them, and show how, if they 
have this leaven in their hearts, it will make them 
honest, truthful, obliging, amiable, prayerful, and 
obedient. When we teach the fourth command-
ment, let us not only say, Remember the Sabbath-
day to keep it holy; but, Remember this Sabbath-
day: not only, Thou shalt not steal; but,Thou 
shalt not steal from your mother, your brother, 
your companions: not only, Render to no man evil 
for evil; but, Do not give blow for blow, bad words 
for bad words. See how our Lord sets us an ex-
ample. " Ye have heard that it was said by them 
of old time, Thou shalt not kill. But I say unto 
you, that whosoever is angry with his brother 
without a cause shall be in danger of the judg-
ment." 
Seek to convince the scholars that they are 
themselves guilty. Aim at conviction by direct 
addresses to the conscience. All teachers must 
have experienced the difficulty of convincing a 
child that he is a sinner, and of making him un-
derstand the difference between doing good as 
the means of salvation, and doing good from love 
to God, and as the fruits of faith—between being 
saved by works, and working because we are 
saved. Though we tell them ever so plainly that 
they cannot be saved by their own doings, the 
persuasion remains very deep-seated, that if they 
are good boys and girls, all must be well. It is 
one powerful means of counteracting this delusion 
to hold up before them the perfect standard of 
God's word, and show how miserably they have 
fallen short of its requirements. We may tell 
them that God said they were to love their neigh-
bors as themselves, and then enumerate various 
instances of �
envy, hatred, and revenge, of 
which we know children are usually guilty; or 
we may set before them the commandment, 
" Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy 
heart," and then show how, in going prayerless 
to bed, in forgetting to thank Him for a quiet 
night's repose, and in living whole days without 
one thought of Jesus Christ the Saviour of sin-
ners, they manifested that they did not love God 
with all their heart. In short, let us make the 
law a mirror in which they may see their faces 
all disfigured with sin, and in this way awaken 
the voice of conscience, God's vicegerent in the 
soul. 
Care must be taken not to mistake an appeal 
to the feelings for an appeal to the conscience. 
The more earnest teachers are in danger of fall-
ing into this error, and thus to mistake the im-
pressions which their address has made. A child 
may take great pleasure in his religious lessons, 
never absent himself from the school, and listen 
with eagerness to every word the teacher utters, 
and yet be indifferent to true religion. He may 
be deeply moved even to sobbing and tears, yet 
have no sorrow for his own sins.—Bible Teaching, 
by Inglis. 
The Teacher's Praying. 
WHEN the apostles described the special work 
to which they had been set apart, they spoke of it 
under two aspects—prayer and the ministry of the 
word. The one was as essential as the other, and 
both were necessary to the right fulfillment of 
their mission. These exercises are correlative 
means of usefulness, and must go hand in hand. 
The most devotional teacher is the most faithful 
in his labors. Prayer and effort are the secret of 
his success : but the latter is the public, and the 
former the private exercise. There is, therefore, 
more danger of neglecting the closet than the 
school. Except where there is a deep conscien-
tiousness and much of the Spirit of God in a 
teacher's soul, public duties are likely to get ad-
vantage of the private, and effort to be greater 
than prayer. In this matter it is specially im-
portant to stir up the pure minds of Sabbath-
school teachers by way of remembrance, and to 
urge upon our readers the necessity, privilege, and 
advantage of prayer. It is good to prepare at 
home to teach a class in the school, to visit the 
scholars at their residences, to attend meetings of 
teachers ; but private prayer must not be neglec-
ted. The blessing of God is promised in answer 
to earnest supplication. The efficacy of the Spirit, 
which is so essential to spiritual instruction, is not 
obtained by faithful labor, except when that is con-
joined with believing prayer. As the seed is not 
fruitful unless it is refreshed with rain from heaven, 
so the word of life is profitable to the conversion 
of souls only when the Holy Spirit, in answer to 
prayer, descends on the heart where it is planted. 
The Sabbath-school teacher ought to be much 
in prayer for himself and for his class. 
Be needs to be prayerful for himself. Personal 
religion is necessary to his efficient teaching, and 
this is got by communion with God. The teacher 
who is engaged in teaching a class ought to be 
himself religious, experimentally acquainted with 
the truth of God, and with saving faith in Jesus 
Christ. " For any one," says an old Puritan, 
Antony Burgess, " to speak of regeneration, of 
faith, when a man has no spiritual understanding 
of these things, is to talk of the sweetness of honey 
when we have never tasted it ; or of the excellence 
of such a country, which we were never in, but 
know by maps only. If thou knowest the truth 
of God but by books, by authors only, and thy 
own heart feeleth not the power of these things ; 
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Society says that the meaning of this Greek word 
shall not be given the Burman through an equiv- 
alent word of the vernacular. It must be im- 
parted to him only through the explanations of 
the missionary. This is not the Protestant but 
only the Roman Catholic system of Bible trans- 
lation. There may be weighty reasons in the 
case of this Greek word for transferring it to the 
Burmese, as there may be for preferring the 
transferred denarius and presbyter to fifteen cents 
and elder; but none are evident except sectarian 
ones, and our objection is that the Society should 
stringently forbid a legitimate translation and re-
quire a transfer: 
The officials of the Bible Society are guilty of 
real sectarianism. It is vain to deny that the 
only objection they have to Judson's translation 
is that it may have a certain effect in certain con-
troversies. But what has the Bible Society to do 
with sectarian controversies ? If a certain trans-
lation is incorrect, let them condemn it. But 
what have they to do with the question how it will 
affect this or that dispute? If a certain transla-
tion seems to be scholarly, they should publish it, 
no matter what effect it may have on ecclesias-
tical conflicts. The officials of the Society aban-
don the majestic neutrality of scholarship and 
the love of truth which asks merely whether a 
given version is correct. They stoop to inquire 
how it will affect the interests of contending sects. 
Gentlemen of the big brick house, it is not a right 
thing to do! The only question you have a right 
to ask is whether the translation of Dr. Judson is 
faithful to the Greek. If it is not, condemn it; 
if it is, then publish it, no matter what parties of 
controversialists be helped or hindered thereby. 
You were not appointed, gentlemen. to watch the 
interests of contending sects, but to circulate cor-
rect translations of the Scriptures; and for you 
to refuse to circulate a given version, not because 
it is incorrect, but because it may have a certain 
effecton certain controversies, is a violation of the 
solemn trusts committed to your charge.—The 
N. Y. Independent. 
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regard to the Sabbath of the Most High that the 
prophet is instructed to say, " Cry aloud, spare not, lift 
up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their 
transgression." Isa. 58 :1; see verses 13, 14. 
" Do not be so positive," say our opposers; " we, also, 
are the people of the Lord—the servants of the Most 
High." We do not dispute it; but it is the Lord's 
people whose transgression must be exposed and re-
buked. It is the Lord's servant who says: " My Lord 
delayeth his coming." The Lord also acknowledged 
Israel in Egypt as his, even his first-born; yet they fell 
in the desert for their presumption and transgression. 
And a day more terrible than that is coming. Jesus 
will not always plead for the violators of the divine law. 
He will come " taking vengeance; " the great day " of 
" the wrath of the Lamb " will come, and in that day 
who shall be able to stand ?" 2 Thess. 1 : 7, 8; Rev. 6 : 
12-17. 
Brethren, friends, we dare not hold our peace; that 
day is surely hastening; as in old time, they who are 
called to be the people of the Lord are fulfilling the 
prophecy against themselves. If we fail to give the 
warning, then " deliverance will arise from another 
place," but we shall be put to shame. We love the ap 
probation of our fellow-men—we cannot deny it; but 
we love the favor of God far more. Seeing these things 
approaching,—having " a dispensation of the gospel com-
mitted to us," we dare not risk the consequences of with-
holding our testimony. We dare not apologize for pro-
claiming the Third Angel's Message (Rev. 14 : 9-12), 
even though it may sound unpleasant in the ears of 
those who choose not to heed it. It is the word of the 
Lord, and we dare neither to withhold it nor modify it. 
We would that the Message might be heeded more 
generally than it is, or is like to be. But the conse-
quences are not ours. The Lord commands to sound 
the alarm " whether they will hear, or whether they 
will forbear." May God help those who are appointed 
to proclaim it, and have mercy upon those who hear it. 
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"Can ye not discern the signs of the times ?" 
J. H. WAGGONER, �
 EDITOR. 
 
J. N. ANDREWS, 
CORRESPONDING EDITORS. 
URIAH SMITH, 
OAKLAND, CAL., FIFTH-DAY, MARCH 23, 1882. 
Scripture Lesson.—Esther. 
of that people whose " laws are diverse from all people." 
This diversity was owing to their holding to the com-
mandments of God, from which " all people " beside 
them had departed. 
Mordecai's instruction to Esther was impressive as 
bearing on her responsibility. Who knoweth whether 
thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this ? 
It is even so. In every time of danger to his people 
God provides a means of deliverance—some person or 
persons to stand in the breach, through whom He can 
give a needed warning, or a call to duty, such as may 
be necessary to provide a way of escape for the righteous, 
and leave the rebellious without excuse. 
Neglect of duty on the part of such will not frus-
trate the purposes of God's grace. Said Mordecai to 
Esther: "If thou altogether holdest thy peace at this 
time, then shall enlargement and deliverance arise to 
the Jews from another place." Had Noah refused to 
give the warning or to build the ark, his refusal would 
not have prevented the work, or stayed the flood from 
coming. Both the work and the event were certain; 
their accomplishment did not depend upon the individ-
ual called to the work. Moses might have continued 
to make excuses and finally refused to meet the wrath 
of the king; but the time for deliverance had come; 
God's word was pledged to Abraham that it should be 
accomplished, and he would have provided the means 
necessary to its final success. God's purposes are not at 
all dependent on man's acquiescence. 
But a refusal to do the work will prove disastrous 
to the person or persons called to it. In case of Esther's 
refusal, Mordecai said deliverance should come other-
wise, "but thou and thy father's house shall be de-
stroyed." 
Esther's position was both crossing and dangerous. 
She believed the warning of her pious uncle, and was 
resolved to do her duty. But, it might be death to go 
in before the king uninvited, as she was obliged to do. 
She had not been called to appear in the king's presence 
for thirty days, and the. enemy of her people was busy, 
having received favor of the king, preparing for the 
utter destruction of her people. In this extremity she 
spent a time in fasting and prayer, and went forward, 
and God gave her favor with the king, and through her, 
deliverance to herself and her people. 
In the eyes of those who had no part in the work, 
or no special faith in its accomplishment, the course of 
Esther might have appeared to be presumptuous. Wait, 
they would say, until the king invites you into his pres-
ence; let Providence prepare a favorable opening, and 
then improve it. Wait; the time is not a propitious one. 
The mind of the king is poisoned against your people. 
Haman is busy, and the people are just now excited by 
an order which the king has made at his instigation. 
Under her circumstances it would have been a great 
relief to Esther if she could have received, and been 
permitted to follow, such advice. But it would have 
been fatal to her, and perhaps to many of her people. 
Deliverance must come then. The crisis was upon them; 
the enemy was doing his work successfully, and it was 
time that the work of the Lord in behalf of his people 
should also be done. 
The " sure word of prophecy " indicates that a 
greater crisis than this world has ever seen is approach-
ing. It comes with full and sufficient warning. Christ 
and all the prophets have spoken of it, warned in refer-
ence to it, and threatened for neglect of it. Jesus gave 
signs whereby we may know when it is near. Daniel 
traced the course of events in their succession so that we 
can to a certainty mark its approach. John took up 
this line of events, amplified upon the approaching close 
of the dispensation, and put on record three messages to 
the world which are to be followed by the appearing of 
the Son of man to reap the harvest of the earth. The 
third and last of these messages is now being given. It 
is contained in Rev. 14 : 9-12, and is couched in terms 
the most terrible found in all the word of God. It is 
a warning against the worship of the beast--the papacy; 
and his image—Church and State in this (professedly) 
Protestant land; and his mark—the counterfeit Sabbath, 
Sunday, erected by the Papacy, and maintained by its 
professedly Protestant followers. We have no hesitancy 
in openly declaring these facts. " The Scriptures can-
not be broken." If we are in error, let " the wise, the 
reverend heads" rise up and correct us. We must know 
what these things mean, for we cannot affbrd to let that 
day come upon us unawares. Jesus commands us to 
know when it is near, even at the doors. It is in refer-
ence to this very time, and the reform now called.for in 
Excellent Advice Concerning Giving. 
THE following is from the Apocrypha: " If thou hast 
abundance, give alms accordingly; if thou nave 1 
little, be not afraid to give according to that little; for 
thou layest up a good treasure for thyself against the 
day of necessity." Tobit 4 :8, 9. 
This seems to me to be admirable instruction. If you 
have abundance, give according to that abundance. 
But how often do we hear men who have much means 
at their command excuse themselves for giving a trifling 
sum, by saying that this time, only the widow's mite 
must be expected from them. They forget that small 
as was the sum which the widow gave, it was her earthly 
all. The widow's mite is the greatest offering of earthly 
substance that can be made. Perhaps there has not 
been since the days of Christ, on an average, one rich 
man in a hundred years who has come up to the poor 
widow's standard of giving. We cannot insist that they 
should; but we do say that if they have abundance, they 
should give abundantly, and we enter solemn protest 
when such persons give in the cause of Christ some 
trifling amount, and call it the widow's mite. 
There is sound advice also to the poor. Be not afraid 
to give of thy little. Many think that poverty excuses 
them from giving at all. Give something. Keep the 
spirit of sacrifice alive. God measures the gift accord-
ing to the ability and the heart. 2 Cor. 8 :12. The 
poor may lay up treasure in Heaven, as well as the rich. 
Do what you can. The day of God will show what 
every one could have done, and what they have done. 
J. N. A. 
Healdsburg Academy. 
THE outlook for a successful school at Healdsburg is 
excellent. A week's visit in Healdsburg and vicinity 
in company with Bro. White, during the past two weeks, 
has enabled me to judge more definitely of the prospects. 
The school building is in the center of the beautiful 
village of Healdsburg, and its capacity is ample to ac- 
commodate an attendance of 200 students. �
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It is in excellent condition and needs only equipment 
of students and teachers to commence the work. 
Healdsburg is a quiet town in the fertile valley of the 
Russian River, and surrounded by a rich and well-settled 
agricultural country. The healthfulness of the climate, 
the beauty and sublimity of the scenery, and all the sur-
roundings, combine to render this locality one of the 
finest in the State for an educational institution. 
PETER speaks of being " established in the present 
truth." 2 Peter 1 : 12. Every age which has been 
marked by a special work of God, has had its present 
truth relating to that special work. It was so in the 
days of Noah. The most terrible judgment that has 
ever fallen upon the wicked race of man, came in the 
days of Noah; the most terrible, because it was univer-
sal. It reached the whole race, Noah and his family 
alone excepted. And he escaped only by paying heed 
to the special message given for that time, and doing 
the special work which that message required. To 
Noah it must have been a work of crosses and trials. It 
is not pleasant to human nature to stand alone against 
the multitude—against the whole world,—and to take 
a position which assumes, if it is not distinctly so stated, 
that all the world is wrong and he alone is right. Noah 
did thus condemn the world; and this condemnation 
must have affected both their consciences and their feel- 
ings. But somebody had to act the part assigned to 
Noah, and it was fortunate for him that he accepted 
the position, and did not shrink from the heavy cross 
which it involved. And most unfortunate for those who 
stood in the strength of the maiority, and refused to 
accept his warning and to join in his work. There was 
condemnation on both sides; the whole world condemned 
Noah during the progress of his work, and the whole 
world was condemned by his work when the providence 
of God fulfilled the threatening which he had proclaimed. 
There was this important difference; the condemnation 
which was put upon him was only crossing; it ended in 
no serious results; while the condemnation which he 
threw upon them ended in their final ruin. It was one 
versus millions, and the one obtained the victory, be-
cause the truth of God was with him. Let those who 
delight in statistics, and point to majorities, take 
warning. 
And this is the exact truth in the case of Lot, except 
that the judgment which came in his day was not of the 
same extent. He, as Noah, had a present truth to pro-
claim, and life and death depended upon the issue. In 
both cases—yes, in all such cases—it belongs to the time 
in which it was or is to be given, and will not apply to 
any other age. 
Moses hada present truth to proclaim and to carry 
out, and his case stands before us as both an example 
and a warning. Moses—he who developed into the bold 
and intrepid Moses—was a meek man, as the Scripture 
says, and so far shrank from the very thought of meet-
ing the face of his fellow man that he lost part of the 
honor which primarily belonged to his position and his 
work, and came dangerously near to losing his position 
entirely. But the meek—the naturally meek—are not 
out of the reach of temptation and of danger when the 
responsibility of position is assumed. When Moses filled 
the office from which he shrank with so much timidity, 
he took a glory to himself which belonged to God alone, 
and thereby lost somewhat of the glory which belonged 
to the position which he occupied. The experience of 
Moses is full of lessons for the people of God in these 
days. 
It is not necessary to specify further cases, as the 
remarks here made apply alike to all. Luther occupied 
a position not to be envied, as viewed from any worldly 
stand-point. It was not alone on the occasion of his 
entering Worms that prudence and policy would have 
indicated the propriety of a retreat, or, at least, the tak-
ing of more conciliatory ground than that which seemed 
to be in the line of duty, and which God in his provi-
dence honored with success. 
The case of Esther, though not often considered as one 
intimately connected with this subject, is of great inter-
est, and presents important lessons for our times. 
1. It was a time of great earthly danger to God's 
people. Their enemies had all the power of the kingdom 
in their favor, and appeared to have the victory just 
within their reach. They had fortified themselves with 
reasons which were considered sufficiently strong and 
urgent to justify their course, even to the extermination 
MARCH 23, 1882. �THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. �
139 
Our brethren and sisters at this post appear to be 
awake to the responsibilities that they must bear in the 
care of the youth that shall come among them. They 
stand ready to labor and to make sacrifices for the suc-
cess of the school. Certainly God has great blessings in 
store for that church if its members prove faithful to the 
sacred trust that he has committed to their charge. 
RANGE OF STUDIES. 
These must be suited to our circumstances and neces-
sities on the Pacific Coast. Separated as we are, over 
2,000 miles, from Eastern schools by a long stretch of 
desert and mountain country, it is not expected that 
many of our youth, not even those most advanced iu their 
studies, can possibly attend Battle Creek College. The 
large majority would attend the public schools and col-
leges on this coast. 
We feel warranted, therefore, in promising as wide a 
range of studies as is usually pursued in any first-class 
academy. Some are beginners ; others already some-
what advanced in the elements of the common branches. 
There are still others who are still further advanced in 
the common branches, and are desirous of completing 
them. 
A much smaller number, having completed the com-
mon branches, are prepared to study the natural 
sciences, advanced mathemathics, and languages. 
Some of our older brethren and sisters, who expect to 
labor in the cause, wish to pursue special branches, 
best adapted to the wants of the minister. 
The interests of our children and young people demand 
that the scope of instruction in the proposed academy be 
such as to meet the educational wants of all these classes. 
This is just what the trustees are designing to provide in 
the Healdsburg school. 
But while these young people and youth are pursuing 
the various branches of secular studies according to their 
attainments, they will devote a part of each day to the 
study of the Bible. 
From this great text-book of morality and religion, 
these youth should receive such nourishment daily, as 
will, by the blessing of God, sanctify their lives, and make 
them fit subjects for the coming kingdom. This is of far 
more value to them than the knowledge of all science, 
philosophy, and language. The Bible must be assigned 
the place in our school which its importance renders it 
worthy. 
There is, moreover, a wonderful expanding power in 
the influence of the Bible upon the intellect which is ex-
perienced in its fullness only by those who love and 
practice its precepts. 
What can be better calculated to elevate the mind and 
give breadth and loftiness of thought than the beauty, 
sublimity, and grandeur of the truths of the Bible ? 
Many a man has become distinguished for learning as 
well as for piety by devoting himself to the study of the 
Bible and giving its truths their full force upon his life. 
In view, then, of the shortness of time, our youth 
ought to have the benefits of daily Bible study in acquir-
ing an education, to develop their minds in the channel 
of religious truth. There may be many somewhat ad-
vanced in years, but of limited attainments in education, 
whose circumstances would admit of their spending some 
time in self-culture. These imagine it would be em-
barrassing for them to attend the school on account of 
their age. This objection would, however, soon dis-
appear after entering their classes, in finding that there 
are associated with them others in like circumstances. 
In Battle Creek College there were quite a number 
who were over thirty-five and a few over forty-five years 
of age. In two or three instances father and children 
were in the same classes. In other instances husbands 
and wives were attending at the same time. There 
is no good reason why false pride should debar any 
person from the advantages of the school. If the friends 
of this enterprise who are in the field, and the parents of 
those who might attend, will properly appreciate the 
value and importance of the school, and will interest 
themselves to encourage those with whom they have an 
influence, to attend, we are assured that we shall have a 
successful opening. �
S. BROWNSBERGER. 
The Coming Fight. 
THE following article, headed as above, is an editorial 
in the Oakland Evening Tribune. It is an excellent 
presentation of the case. A correspondent of that paper 
goes into statistics to show that the denomination re-
garding the seventh day as the Sabbath is not large 
compared with the membership of the other churches. 
In this he is excelled by a writer in another paper who 
shows that those who regard the Sunday as the Christian 
Sabbath are but a small number compared with those 
who have no regard for it in that light. But ours is a 
religious interest, and may not be regulated by count-
ing majorities, seeing that, on religious matters, maior-
ities are always wrong. But see Eccl. 4 :1 :— 
FROM present appearances the election of members of 
the next legislature will turn principally upon the ques-
tion of repeal of the Sunday Law. This will bring into 
the fight on the one side all the believers in the observ-
ance of the first day of the week as the Sabbath to sus 
tain the present law and prevent its repeal; while on 
the other hand there will be marshalled, first, the 
League of Freedom, composed of men who do not observe 
any day as sacred, and secondly, all those who keep the 
seventh day as Sabbath. While it is admitted by all 
reasonable, thinking men that the law of nature demands 
that one day in seven should be set apart as a day of 
rest, a large portion of the people of this State hold that 
there is nothing in the first day of the week of a more 
sacred nature than that which pertains to any other day 
of the week. While the majority of the Christian 
churches have adopted the first day of the week as a 
Sabbath of rest, it was held by others that this does not 
give the day a sacredness over any other day of the 
week; while a large sect of Christian believers hold that 
the first day of the week is not the Sabbath, but that 
the seventh day is, and, therefore, they keep the seventh 
day as the Sabbath of the Lord, according to the deca-
logue, and on that day do no manner of work; but the 
first day of the week, Sunday, they follow their usual 
avocations in life. With this class of Christians may be 
added the orthodox Jews, who keep the seventh day as 
the Sabbath of the Lord, and, as the Sabbath of their 
fathers, and follow their usual avocations upon Sunday. 
Now, the question arises, is it right that one class of 
citizens should, by statute law, control the religious 
principles of another class of citizens ? Shall the State 
Legislature prescribe how Sunday shall be observed by 
the people ? If so, is it not so far legislating upon con-
science and religious belief? These are questions which 
will enter into the next contest for members of the Leg-
islature of this State, and aspirants for legislative posi-
tion may as well prepare themselves for the discussion 
which is sure to come. There ought to be some uniform 
day upon which there should be a cessation of business. 
But if a man religiously believes that the seventh day is 
the Sabbath, holy unto the Lord, on which day it would 
be a violation of the commandment to do any work, can 
the State, by penal laws, force him to observe the first 
day of the week as the Sabbath, without violating his 
religious freedom ? On the other hand, should not the 
Christian churches, who believe in the first day of the 
week, have some protection against disturbance of their 
worship on what is termed the Christian Sabbath? And 
if they are entitled to such protection, are not those who 
worship on the seventh day entitled to the same protec-
tion ? We see at once the complications which will arise 
in the discussion of this question, and it will be a smart 
politician who can sail between this Charybdis on the 
one hand and Scylla on the other, without foundering 
upon the rocks or being engulfed in the whirlpool. 
The Pattern. 
BY ELD. R. F. COTTRELL. 
CHRIST is the Christian's pattern. He says, "Learn 
of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart." "As I 
have loved you, that ye also should love one another." 
" I have given you an example, that ye should do as I 
have done." 
The apostles teach the same: "Let this mind be in 
you, which was also in Christ Jesus." "He that saith 
he abideth in him, ought himself also so to walk, even 
as he walked." "And every man that hath this hope 
in him, purifieth himself, even as he is pure." "Christ 
also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that we 
should follow in his steps; who did no sin, neither was 
guile found in his mouth; who, when he was reviled, 
reviled not again." 
If those who profess faith in Christ would conform 
to the pattern, and fashion themselves by it, in spirit, 
in life, in labor, and in suffering, all would be well. 
But instead of this; the professed followers of Christ 
have been, and are, in the habit of " measuring them-
selves by themselves, and comparing themselves among 
themselves," and those who do so, an apostle has said, 
" are not wise." This is the germ of apostasy from 
the faith and purity of the gospel. Following the ex-
ample and teachings of men, instead of Christ and the 
inspired word, is the cause of confusion and corruption 
in faith and practice now existing among professed 
Christians. Hegesippus, of the second century, writes:— 
" When the apostles were dead, then the church was 
gradually spotted and corrupted, as in her doctrine, 
so also in her worship, an infinity of ceremonies by 
degrees insensibly sliding in, very many of which were 
introduced within my limited time." (B. 3, chap. 32). 
"Some came in through custom and tradition; one 
eminent man invented and practised a certain action, 
which he used himself, as judging it fit and proper to 
stir up his devotion and affection; others, being led by 
example, performed the same; and others, again, imi-
tated them; and so one followed another, till at length 
the action became tradition and a custom."—Tertullian, 
in Lord King's Inquiry into the Constitution, Disci-
pline, Unity, and Worship, of the Primitive Church• 
printed 1791. 
If instead of following such *a course, patterning 
after men, they had kept to the only true Pattern, 
truth and righteousness would have been the result, 
instead of error and iniquity. 
To illustrate this, suppose a person is employed to 
make a great number of garments of the same size and 
shape, and an accurate pattern is put into his hands 
by which to cut them all. Now if he cuts every gar-
ment by that pattern, there will be great uniformity in 
the garments. But suppose he cuts one by the given 
pattern, then lays the pattern aside, and cuts the sec-
ond by the first, the third by the second, and so on; 
what will be the result ? There will be a gradual vary-
ing from the pattern, though almost imperceptible at 
first, and after a few thousands have been made up 
they will be almost as far from the original pattern, as 
professed Christians of our times are from Christ. 
A few days since, a seemingly very humble and pious 
minister, on returning the Sermons on the Sabbath and 
the Law, which I had lent him, remarked that he must 
fall back upon such men as Wesley, and Whitefield; that 
they were evidently very good men, and thousands 
were converted under their ministry, and they kept 
Sunday for the Sabbath. This was all the argument 
brought against the Bible truth contained in the Ser-
mons. Now if we go back to the time of the Wesleys, 
and other pious men of their times, and ask them why 
they kept Sunday, they would doubtless tell us that 
Luther, and Melancthon, and the other reformers of 
the sixteenth century kept Sunday, and they certainly 
were good men, and did a noble work for God in their 
times. Then if we could go back to Luther and others 
of his day, and ask them the same question, they could 
tell you that the governors of the Romish Church, and 
the popish councils were agreed in that practice, and 
still go back with them to the early fathers, who lived 
during the centuries preceding the full development of 
the Man of Sin, and find some of them calling the first 
day of the week, Lord's day. Instead of appealing to 
Christ and the apostles, and their inspired words, they 
refer to the pious fathers who lived in the days of the 
development of the Man of Sin. Why not go to the 
true Pattern ? Why cut our garments by those of men 
that have never thought of looking up the original one, 
but have measured by their predecessors, and they by 
theirs, and so on, so long that scarcely a semblance of 
what a garment ought to be is seen remaining? 
Let us look to the Pattern, and purify ourselves as 
he is pure, walk as he walked; and live up to the 
gracious teachings which he has given by the Holy 
Spirit. Let us not be so unwise as to measure ourselves 
by ourselves, and compare ourselves among ourselves; 
but let us exalt the great Pattern, and hasten to con-
form ourselves in all things to his lovely image. 
THE Southern Baptist contains the obituary of a 
minister who, in a ministry of fifteen years, served as 
pastor of eight churches, for which he received $1,903.25. 
In addition to this he acted as Missionary for an Asso-
ciation for which he received $276.50, making his entire 
pay for the fifteen years, $2,179.75—an average of 
$145.31 per year. He was pastor of one church two 
years, receiving $25.20. Yet the paper gives him high 
praise for untiring devotion to his ministry. Such a 
record is a shame to any church. 
"THE Portland (Or.) Christian Advocate regards with 
great apprehension the drift toward the esthetic which 
is displayed in many Christian churches and pulpits at 
the present day, where the minister competes with the 
actor' and the choir with the opera,' and 'where the 
'people of taste' in the church affect the silliness of the 
esthetic,' and publicly prate of the too utterly nice' 
music of the theater. * * * We hasten to say—for 
fear we may not long have the privilege of saying it—
that no minister has yet appeared in the pulpit with a 
big sunflower in his hand nor a lily in his buttonhole." 
" THERE is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but 
the end thereof aregthe ways of death." 
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litizzionar p. 
THE STARLESS CROWN, 
" THEY that turn many to righteousness shall shine as 
the stars, for ever and ever." Daniel 12 : 3. 
Wearied and worn with earthly cares, I yielded to repose, 
And soon before my raptured sight a glorious vision rose:—
I thought, whilst slumbering on my couch, in midnight's 
solemn gloom, 
I heard an angel's silveiy voice, and radiance filled my room. 
A gentle touch awakened me;—a gentle whisper said, 
"Arise, 0 sleeper, follow me;" and through the air we fled 
We left the earth so far away that like a speck it seemed, 
And heavenly glory, calm and pure, across our pathway 
streamed. 
Still on we went,—my soul was wrapped in silent ecstasy; 
I wondered what the end would be,—what next should meet 
mine eye. 
I knew not how we journeyed through the pathless fields of 
light, 
When suddenly a change was wrought, and I was clothed in 
white. 
We stood before a city's walls most glorious to behold; 
We passed through gates of glistening pearl, o'er streets of 
purest gold; 
It needed not the sun by day, the silver moon by night.; 
The glory of the Lord was there, the Lamb Himself its light. 
Bright angels paced the shining streets, sweet music filled 
the air, 
And white-robed saints, with glittering crowns, from every 
clime, were there; 
And some that I had loved on earth, stood with them 'round 
the throne, 
"All worthy is the Lamb," they sang, "the glory his alone." 
But fairer yet than all beside, I saw my Saviour's face; 
And as I gazed he smiled on me with wondrous love and 
grace. 
Lowly I bowed before his throne, o'erjoyed that I at last 
Had gained the object of my hopes: that earth at length 
was past. 
And then in solemn tones he said, " Where is the diadem 
That ought to sparkle on thy brow—adorned with many a 
gem ? 
I know thou hast believed on me, and life through me is 
thine, 
But where are all those radiant stars that in thy crown 
should shine ? 
Yonder thou see'st a glorious throng, and stars on every 
brow; 
For every soul they led to me, they wear a jewel now ! 
And such thy bright reward had been, if such had been thy 
deed, 
If thou hadst sought some wand'ring feet in paths of peace 
to lead. 
I did not mean that thou should'st tread the way of life 
alone, 
But that the clear and shining light, which 'round thy foot-
steps shone, 
Should guide some other weary feet to my bright home of 
rest. 
And thus, in blessing those around, thou had'st thyself been 
blest." 
* * * * * �* * * * * 
The vision faded from my sight, the voice no longer spake, 
A spell seemed brooding o'er my soul, which long I feared 
to break. 
And when at last I gazed around in morning's glimmering 
light, 
My spirit fell o'erwhelmed beneath that vision's awful might. 
I rose and wept with chastened joy, that yet I dwelt below. 
That yet another hour was mine my faith by works to show; 
That yet some sinner I might tell of Jesus' dying love, 
And help to lead some weary soul to seek a home above. 
And now, while on the earth I stay, my motto this shall be, 
" To live no longer to myself, but him who died for me! " 
And graven on my inmost soul this word of truth divine, 
" They that turn many to the Lord, bright as the stars shall 
shine! " �
—S. S. Treasury. 
Good News from a Far Country. 
IN a letter just received from Eld. Loughbor-
ough, the following encouraging words are con-
tained; they will be of interest to our California 
brethren, therefore we forward them. 
S. N. HASKELL. 
" I have just returned from Grimsby, Lincoln-
shire, where I have been making some arrange-
ments for Elder John to hold meetings, and for 
Bro. Drew to enter upon ship work at Grimsby 
and Hull. Bro. Drew is now in London. Has 
sold several pounds' worth of our books there. 
"Our business through the mails is becoming 
more and more encouraging. One sea captain 
who had obtained one copy of the SIGNS from 
a San Francisco ship, sent for our catalogue, and 
then sent a postal order for one pound and seven 
shillings' worth of books and tracts. He sails 
to-day for Valparaiso, South America." 
Appeal—District No. 1. 
EVERY duty, however small, left undone by any 
one, is a discouragement to the people of God. 
It is a fact, too little regarded, that the little 
duties of life are those that form character. The 
Christian cannot gather strength without exer-
cise, and this must be in the line of little duties. 
Our heavenly Father takes notice of little things. 
He knows when a sparrow falls. He numbers the 
hairs of our heads. " His eye is upon his children, 
and his ear is open unto their cry." He knows 
every pulsation of the heart and is well acquainted 
with its structure. He knows every intention of 
man, and is he not, therefore, pleased with the 
performance of every little duty that tends to de-
velope the character of his children and encourage 
his cause? 
It is the duty of every one to make a quarterly 
report. It is a duty because God's servants have 
so ordered. " Obey them that have the rule over 
you, and submit yourselves ; for they watch for 
your souls as they that must give an account, 
that they may do it with joy and not with grief." 
Heb. 13 : 17. 
It is a duty because it tends to awaken a mis-
sionary interest. It is a duty because it tends to 
encourage our brother, and make the work move 
on in order. �
Every one [not a few], said to his 
brother, Be of good courage." Then let every one 
who would encourage this work, and move in har-
mony with it, not omit this duty. Brethren and 
sisters of District No. 1, let us each report at the 
next meeting if nothing more than to sign the 
blank and return it. This would show respect to 
the cause of truth, and might awaken some 
thought, or desire that would lead to a life of 
greater usefulness. It is written, " Woe to them 
that are at ease in Zion." 
R. A. MORTON, Sec. Dist. No. 1. 
" How Much Owest Thou unto My Lord?'' 
SHOULD we take all things into consideration, it 
would be impossible for us to set the bounds of 
our indebtedness to God; and yet were we called 
to give an account of our stewardship, I am 
afraid that some of us would be found wanting. 
As a general thing, we are apt to be very delin-
quent in discharging this great debt. Reason 
teaches us that we owe everything to God, and 
inspiration tells us that " we are not our own," 
we " are bought with a price," and that price is 
the blood of Christ. Thereore glorify God in 
your body and in your spirit, which are God's. 
" For ye are not your own.' 
What weighty words 
are these! With what power they go home to 
our hearts! God help us that we may fully re-
alize them. It is a great thing to make a full 
consecration, to lay all upon the altar, to be in 
the world, and yet not be of the world, and to 
dedicate ourselves, our time, and talents, and all 
that we have and are, to God and to his service. 
And why should we not do this ? Where could 
we make a more profitable investment ? It is an 
old and trite saying, concerning the pleasures of 
this world, and it is none the less true because 
trite, that " you cannot pluck a rose, and not be 
pricked by the thorn imbedded in its leaves." 
But here is a blessing from the Lord "which 
maketh rich and addeth no sorrow therewith," 
and that blessing is peace and joy in the Holy 
Ghost. 
Perhaps of all the sacrifices that God claims at 
our hands, money is given by some the most 
grudgingly. " Will a man rob God ? Yet ye 
have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we 
robbed thee ? In tithes and offerings." " Bring 
ye all the tithes into the store-house that there 
may be meat in mine house, and prove me now 
herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not 
open you the windows of heaven, and pour you 
out a blessing that there shall not be room enough 
to receive it." " Is not this the fast that I have 
chosen ? " " Is it not to deal thy bread to the 
hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are 
cast out to thy house ? When thou seest the 
naked that thou cover him ? " " Then shall thy 
light break forth as the morning, and thine health 
shall spring forth speedily; and thy righteousness 
shall go before thee; and the glory of the Lord 
shall be thy rereward." " Then shalt thou call, 
and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and 
he shall say, Here am I." 
How very near is God to those who willingly 
divide their substance, and how severe his denun-
ciations against those who are hoarding their 
gold. " Go to now, ye rich men; weep and howl 
for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your 
riches are corrupted, and your garments are 
moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; 
and the rust of them shall be a witness against 
you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye 
have heaped treasures together for the last days." 
How many of us are laying up treasures in 
Heaven, and making sacrifices here for that price-
less boon that shall be ours hereafter ? In gen-
erations past when parents felt it to be a sacred 
duty to lay up for their children, it was more ex-
cusable; but what a lame apology have we to 
offer, "on whom the ends of the world are come." 
There will be no lots in the celestial city that we 
can buy to speculate on; no mill-power on that 
stream of water that floweth clear as crystal, 
from the throne of God. And when we are called 
to give up our account, it will not be asked 
whether we are rich or poor, but, Is the world 
any better for our having lived in it ? 
EMILY L. CANRIGHT. 
Pay What Thou Owest. 
UNTIL the tenth part is separated and set apart 
for a sacred use, we have no right to touch any 
part of our substance for our own private use. I 
do not say that the benefactions of a Christian are 
to be absolutely limited to one-tenth part of his 
income. That was the measure prescribed by the 
Mosaic law. The children of Israel had not seen 
what we have seen—the eternal Son of God be-
coming man, and suffering on the cross for our 
redemption ; " He who was rich making himself 
poor, that we might be eternally rich." No 
wonder that that ever blessed Saviour said to his 
hearers before he went forth to suffer for us, " If 
ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mam-
mon [the perishable riches], who will commit to 
your trust the true riches ?" I do not pretend—
I do not dare to suggest what ought to be the ex-
tent of a Christian's benefactions ; but this I do 
say, under all the responsibilities of my sacred 
office, that we have no purely personal rights over 
the substance which God's gracious providence has 
cast into our lap until we have first separated and 
set apart at least one-tenth part for sacred uses. 
Surely it is not a hard or severe apportionment : 
one-tenth for God the Giver, his poor, and his 
church ; nine-tenths for our own personal use !—
Bishop Potter. 
Unprofitable Bequests. 
THERE lately died in New Haven, Conn., a man 
whose benefactions cheered his last years and 
will keep his memory green through many gen-
erations. This was Mr. Sheffield, who did more 
than any other man to make scientific education 
a practical success at Yale College. He gave the 
movement toward the new education a powerful 
impulse long before it had gained any general 
recognition, and for nearly forty years he fur-
nished a large part of the means to carry on the 
work. To this college and to other institutions 
the amount of his gifts was over $650,000. He 
enjoyed, in common with Peter Cooper and a 
small number of our practical philanthropists, 
the spectacle of the good results of his liberality. 
The great trouble with most of the wealthy men 
in this country is that they cling to their coin 
until death comes. Then they leave provisions 
in their wills for many charitable purposes. The 
result generally is that the larger the fund the 
smaller the amount of actual benefit derived from 
it. It passes into the hands of a board of trus-
tees, who draw fat salaries and seem to be mainly 
exercised about prolonging their term of office. 
Stephen Girard left a great estate, with very 
minute instructions for its disposition; but there 
is no question that had he begun the construc-
tion of his college while still alive he would have 
seen the absurdity of attempting to adapt clas-
sical architecture to a modern educational institu-
tion in as inclement a latitude as Philadelphia. 
Ezra Cornell founded a college at his home in 
Ithica, N. Y., looked after the carrying out of 
his plans, and lived to see the institution recog-
nized as the equal of those which had been started 
a half-century before. It may be that his design 
would have been executed as well by other hands; 
but he believed in personal influence, and the re-
sult showed the wisdom of his choice. 
Many Girards have lived in our day, and a con-
spicuous example flourished on this coast. His 
will revealed many noble bequests to education 
and charity, but not one-half of its provisions 
have yet been carried out, and he has been in his 
grave nearly ten years. It may be that the dead 
man would have approved of the manner in 
MARCH 23, 1882. 
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I 
which his bequests have been allowed to remain 
unapplied, but the chances are that a little per-
sonal supervision would have had a stimulating 
effect. Every year that a bequest languishes in 
the meshes of the law is a dead loss to the public, 
although profitable to those who have it in charge. 
--S. F. Chronicle. 
(LT empentittc. 
Prohibition in Kansas.. 
 
A WORKER in Michigan wrote to Gov. St. John, 
of Kansas, concerning the report that the prohib-
itory law of that State was ineffectual to prevent 
the traffic in liquors and drunkenness. We find 
a report of the Governor's reply in The Lever, of 
Detroit, from which we take the following ex-
tracts:— 
" If Gov. Robinson, before stating that drink-
ing is more common now in Kansas than ever 
before' had examined the records of the police 
courts in the city of Lawrence, near which he 
resides, he would have found that the last five 
months under the old license system furnished 
214 cases to that tribunal, against only 109 the 
first five months under prohibition. The city of 
Newton, in Harvey County, containing about 3,-
000 population, had not a single case of drunken-
ness in the police court from the first of May 
(being the date that the prohibitory law took ef-
fect) until the first day of October; and the dis-
trict court that convened there about that time, 
for the first time in the history of the county, 
found not a single criminal case upon the docket. 
* �
* I have before me a statement signed by 
all the city officers of the city of Platte in John-
son County, setting forth that under prohibition 
(which has really been in force there since Janu-
ary 1, 1878) the financial and moral condition of 
the city has greatly improved; the streets and 
sidewalks are in much better condition; trade 
has greatly increased, and that, with a population 
of at least 2,500, the city has no policemen and 
needs none; the city marshall alone performing 
all the police duty, which does not require half 
his time; that there is rarely a case in the police 
court, and that the calaboose is without inmates. 
Any proposition looking to a return to the old 
system of licensing dram-shops would be defeated 
by a vote of at least two to one. This statement 
of the city officers is endorsed by all the ministers 
and a large majority of the business men of this 
city, and the county attorney adds that 'What is 
said of the success of prohibition in the city of 
Platte holds good throughout the county of John-
son.' At Salina a rum-seller was convicted in the 
district court on thirty-three charges, the fines 
amounting in the aggregate to $3,500 and costs, 
and thirty days' imprisonment in the county jail. 
Do you think that man considers prohibition a 
failure? He says they are receiving an excel-
lent immigration and the State was never more 
prosperous than it is to-day. For every saloon-
keeper that has left Kansas on account of prohi-
bition, we have received a sufficient number of 
sober, industrious, law-abiding citizens to build a 
school-house, and Kansas can afford to exchange 
saloons for school-houses." 
City of Hell. 
MAJOR FRANK BAIRD delivered his famous lec-
ture " The City of Hell " in Whitney's opera house 
on Sunday last, at 3 P. M. The speaker said by 
way of introduction, " It is impossible to appre-
ciate the greatness of an army by seeing it in 
detail, a company here, a regiment there, and a 
battalion yonder. The same is true of the liquor-
traffic. We cannot judge it by seeing it in detail." 
The speaker then proceeded to take his audience 
to an imaginary height and show them this traffic 
concentrated. He first showed them a vast coun-
try devoted to the growing of grain and fruit 
which is rotted in the production of strong drink. 
He then pictured " The . City of Hell " in the 
center of this vast country with its long streets 
lined with distilleries, breweries, and grog-shops, 
a city which is emphatically a manufacturing 
city. He pictured the army of moderate drinkers, 
closely followed through the streets of the city by 
the army of confirmed, drunkards; also the army 
of tramps made so by strong drink; the army of 
75,000 fallen women, the legitimate outgrowth of 
the liquor traffic; and the army of 200,000 starv- 
ing and almost naked children made so by the 
traffic. He described a Sunday morning with no 
church bell or churches but with 10,000 beer 
gardens all in full blast; a court-house ten stories 
high, with 500 court rooms in which cases grow-
ing out of the liquor traffic are constantly being 
tried, a poor-house containing 150,000 inmates all 
of whom were comfortable and happy until strong 
drink had made them otherwise; an insane asylum 
with 80,000 insane and idiots, made so through 
this same traffic; a hospital with 160,000 sick and 
maimed, a penitentiary twenty stories high, near 
which were 200 raised platforms for the execution 
of rum criminals. He conducted his hearers 
through the valley of suicide; showed them a 
great cave two miles long where innumerable 
victims were suffering with delirium tremens, and 
took them down by the river of death where 60,-
000 of the victims of the cup die every year. We 
are sure that we do no injustice to the facts in the 
case when we say that Major Baird's address was 
one of the very best of the course. It was com-
pact, forcible, well delivered and well received.—
The Lever. 
Liquor is No Excuse. 
THE following is part of an argument said to 
have been made in a mining camp, in a trial in a 
court before " Judge Lynch," against a man who 
shot another, and plead in defence that he was in 
liquor when the crime was committed. The 
argument is good—much better than most of 
those made in real " courts of justice," so-called:— 
" Now, I'll allow that Billy, the deceased, 
hadn't no cause to speak as he did, an' I'll allow 
that what he said was calculated to make Jim 
mad, 'specially as Jim was drunk at the time. 
Still, it seems to me that nobody but Jim made 
Jim drunk. Suppose he had gone out while 
drunk, an' fell into a shaft and broke his leg ? 
Do you s'pose the company would have paid him 
anything for his leg ? Not a cent. Why ? Be-
cause he would not have fallen into the shaft if 
sober, for Jim has got too much sense to do any-
thing of the sort. Similarly, if he shoots a man 
when he's drunk, he aint going to get off. His 
drunk don't excuse him in one case any more'n in 
another. An' you've got to take the drink Jim 
put into himself, as being in its effects a part of 
Jim. If Billy, the deceased, had made Jim drunk, 
then Billy would have had to stand the racket 
an' get shot. But being as it's different, it's 
different. I ain't got anything to say against 
Jim personally, but I think men ought to see that 
they can't get drunk in this camp, and plead 
licker as an excuse for what they do. 'Cause it 
aint no excuse." 
Don't Taste. 
SAM came out of the corner grocery looking 
very unlike his usual self. He generally held up 
his head straight and walked along with a firm 
lively step, probably whistling as he went. 
Just now he looked around as if he was afraid 
of any one seeing him—as if he was ashamed of 
himself—in short, he wore, in face and figure, 
what you might call a decidedly sneaky look. 
He felt sneaky. He wanted to get out of the 
w ay. 
He began walking faster and faster, not towards 
his home, where he knew his mother would have 
a warm welcome for him, with perhaps something 
else warm in the oven ; and his little sisters would 
be glad to have him play croquet with them. 
Neither did he go to see the Carter boys, al-
though he knew they would be looking for him 
to play a good game of ball. He went by the 
quietest road towards the woods. 
Most boys like to have company when they go 
to the woods, but Sam seemed to prefer his own 
company. He struck into the deepest shade he 
could find—where the yellow sunshine of the 
bright October afternoon could hardly manage to 
get in a few long rays to touch up the dark green. 
At last he came to a place where a great wild 
grape vine drooped, a tough branch from the 
boughs of a tree far above him, and, climbing to 
the trunk below, formed a sort of half-swing, half-
seat. 
Sam threw himself on this branch and took 
something out of his pocket. 
What was it? What could this boy have come 
out here all alone for. 
He held in his hand and looked at—a dirty-
looking, bad-smelling piece of plug tobacco I 
He had made up his mind to try it, but he did 
not want any one to see him. It did not look very 
nice, and he began to wonder why he had wanted 
it. 
In the quiet shade and pure air about him it 
seemed to grow uglier and uglier. 
A great many good reasons he had heard 
against the use of tobacco crowded themselves 
upon his mind, but he could not recall one in its 
favor. 
Some of the boys thought it very smart to chew 
or smoke, but he could not help remembering that 
these were boys he cared least for. 
He was cutting off a piece of the stuff when he 
heard a voice somewhere near quietly asking,—
" Chew ? Chew ? Chew-w-w ?" 
He stared around in great wonder. No one 
was to be seen ; could anybody have followed 
him ? There was a rustling in the branches above 
him ; he had heard it ever since he had shaken 
them to the very top as he threw himself on the 
grape stem. 
" Chew ! Chew ! Chew !" came again, and he 
peered anxiously into the foliage above his head. 
There was a face looking out at him, sure 
enough, a face—more grave and solemn than a 
preacher's. 
Sam laughed aloud as the old hoot-owl again 
croaked at him. It sounded differently now that 
his own imagination did not help to turn the 
sound into an accusing word. 
But just then there broke on the quiet so sharp 
a twitter close beside him that he fairly jumped 
from his seat. 
" Quit it ! Quit it ! Quit-Quit-Quit !" 
" Why, I haven't begun yet !" cried Sam, half 
startled, half in fun. 
" Quit it ! Quit it ! Quit it !" 
" I will !" He flung the nasty brown lump as 
far as he could into the bushes. A chipmunk gave 
a frightened chirp and ran up a tree. 
" There, I'll leave it to you," said Sam, as he 
turned homeward. " If even the birds won't give 
a fellow any peace with his tobacco, I think he'd 
better ' quit it' and stay quit." 
" I am glad enough, though," he said in a softer 
voice, as he neared home, and saw his mother 
looking out for him, " that I don't know the taste 
of it yet." 
Boys, how many of you don't know it ? Keep 
on saying it, and be proud of being able to.—
Youth's Companion. 
A REVOLTING discovery was made in Leeds 
three weeks ago. The people occupying houses 
around a dwelling at Briggate, had for several 
days noticed an overpowering odor, which threat-
ened, if not abated, to spread fever. The sani-
tary authorities made the necessary investigation, 
and soon discovered its cause. In an attic they 
found an elderly man in a state of delirium tre-
mens, and totally unconscious of his surroundings. 
The room contained not a particle of food or fur-
niture, but huddled up in one corner was the dead 
body of the drunkard's wife. At the inquest it 
was learned that the deceased had been confined 
a week previous, and her husband had failed to 
pay the necessary attention to the poor woman, 
who died two days after in the presence of her 
seven-year-old daughter. The occurrence has 
caused considerable comment in the London pa-
pers. It is an awful temperance lecture, and 
Dickens in his most graphic description of the 
squalor, crime, and misery of the lower classes in 
England, never painted a more awful picture. 
The Government is not doing its duty towards 
these unfortunates. 
" You can't make temperance by law," cries the 
rum-seller. 
Well, you can't set broken legs by law; but you 
pass laws requiring streets and sidewalks to be 
passable without danger, in order that no legs 
may be broken, and by throwing this protection 
around her citizens the State does a better service 
than she could by erecting a hospital in which to 
mend broken bones. The prohibitory law makes 
the streets safe. Whether the State will license 
or prohibit temptation is the question which has 
been carried into politics. That question can 
only be settled at the ballot box, because laws are 
made by men elected by votes.— Wisconsin Tem-
perance Journal. 
WE cannot get more out of human life than 
we put into it. 
mask by cutting holes in the paper, and how to 
cut a whole family of dolls, and how to make 
pretty things for Willie out of the paper. Then 
he got the tea-tray and showed her how to roll a 
marble around it. 
And so she found many a pleasant amusement, 
and when bed-time came she kissed Uncle Jack, 
and said:— 
Good-night, dear Uncle Jack." 
" Good-night, little sunshine-maker," said Uncle 
Jack. 
And she dreamed that night that Uncle Jack 
had built a great house, and put a sign over the 
door, which read:— 
SUNSHINE FACTORY. 
UNCLE JACK AND LITTLE JENNIE. 
She made Uncle Jack laugh when she told her 
dream; but she never forgot what you must 
remember: A cheerful heart makes its own sun-
shine.—The Little Folks. 
A Good. Plan. 
A CORRESPONDENT from Connecticut to the Man-
chester Mirror says : When I moved from New 
York to my small farm, everything was new to 
the children. It was away from noise and bustle, 
and I thought they would soon get tired of farm 
life. I purchased a flock of hens, and as most of 
my time was occupied away from home, I wanted 
the children to take care of them. They did well 
for a time, but soon grew weary. The thought 
came to me that I could get them interested by 
giving them a part of the profits. We made a 
stock company of it. I became President, and 
my wife Vice-President, my son the Treasurer, 
and my daughter the Secretary. The book was 
kept in a regular business form. The meetings of 
the company were called to order by the President 
and reports submitted, and important questions 
discussed, such as " How to break up settii 
hens," and " Would the company be able to p 
quarterly dividends ?" We all became very mu 
interested in our company, and it was very si 
cessful. The children purchased all the stock 
myself and wife and ran the company themselv • 
they taking the whole management of the he 
and disposing of the eggs. It occupied th 
leisure hours when not at school, it gave then 
start for a business education, and now that t 
children are grown up and away from our hor 
I look back and feel a satisfaction in the 
trouble we were to, and the amount of pleasure it 
conferred on our household. And this leads me 
to say that it is our first duty as parents to make 
our homes so pleasant that our children will not 
want to go away until they start for themselves 
in the battle of life.—Republican. 
Being Alone. 
SECURE for yourself some regular privacy of life. 
As George Herbert says : " By all means use some 
time to be alone. God has put each soul into a 
separate body. We should follow the divine hint 
and see to it that we do not lapse again into the 
general flood of being. Many people cannot en-
dure being alone ; they are lost if there is not a 
clatter of tongues in their ears. It is not only 
weak, but it fosters weakness. The gregarious 
instinct is animal, the sheep and deer living on in 
us ; to be alone is spiritual. We can have no clear, 
personal judgment of things until we are separate 
from them. Mr. Webster used. to say of difficult 
questions, " Let me sleep on it." It was not 
merely for morning vigor, but to get the matter at 
a distance where he could measure its proportions 
and see its relations. So it is well at times to get 
away from our world—companions, actions, work 
—in order to measure it and ascertain our 
relations to it. The moral use of the night is in 
the isolation it brings, shutting out the world 
from its scenes, that it may be realized in thought. 
It is very simple advice, but worth heeding. Get 
some moments each day to yourself ; take now 
and then a solitary walk; get into the silence of 
the thick woods, or some other isolation as deep, 
and suffer the mysterious sense of selfhood to steal 
upon you, as it surely will. Pythagoras insisted 
upon an hour of solitude every day to meet his 
own mind and learn what oracle it had to impart. 
—T. H. Munger, in Christian Preacher. 
To enjoy the pleasures of wealth, thou shouldst 
first experience the fatigue of labor.—Chinese 
Maxim. 
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VoL. 8, No. 12. 
TEht bonte (Cirelt. 
CLOCK-TICKS AND HEART-BEATS. 
THREESCORE years and ten 
Man draweth his mortal breath; 
As the flower of the grass doth he fade and pass, 
In the blight of the blast of death. 
The moments come, and the moments part, 
With silent pinions spread; 
Each tick of the clock, and each throb of the heart 
Is the knell of a moment dead. 
Hark to the clock's light tick ! 
Time flies. 
Hark to the heart-beats quick ! 
Man dies ! 
Threescore years and ten, 
That slip like grasped sands— 
Too brief, too brief for selfish grief, 
Too brief for folded hands ! 
Go forth in the might of a love sublime, 
And ere thou fall as a leaf, 
Thou shalt reap from the fading fields of time 
A deathless harvest sheaf. 
Hark to the clock's light tick ! 
Time flies. 
Hark to the heart-beats quick ! 
Man dies ! �—From the Quiver. 
" Luck." 
"JUST like his luck !" half of the boys said, when 
Charlie Foster won the State Scholarship. 
They had made the same remark when his name 
bad been sent in by the principal of the school to 
the superintendent as his best scholar. In all 
likelihood these same old school-fellows will keep 
on saying, " Just like his luck !" if Charlie ever 
becomes a Judge, or a Senator, or if he marries 
happily, or makes a fortune. Every step upward 
is attributed by some men and boys to that un-
known quantity called " luck." And curiously 
enough, just as " Like his luck " is used to account 
for the success of one's friends, so " Just like my 
luck" is used to explain our own failures. 
" It is just my luck ? There was not a single 
question about anything I knew. I had crammed 
up the capitals of the States, square root, and the 
conjugations, and I was asked about mountain 
ranges, compound interest, and the fifth declension. 
I always was unlucky !" 
In all this talk about " luck " is there not a good 
deal of inconsistency ? We never employ the 
word to account for our own successes or some-
body else's failures. When the said Charlie Foster 
misses a catch at base-ball, or catches a crab in a 
race, we do not cry, " How unlucky he is ?" but, 
" What a muff that Charlie Foster is !" and when 
we ourselves manage to get on the roll of honor, 
we resent with virtuous indignation any con-
gratulation on our luck. " Luck, indeed !" we 
growl ; "there was no luck at all. It was just hard 
work and nothing else." 
Moreover this talk about luck is, in the first 
place, somewhat unmanly, not to say cowardly. 
To trust to luck is a confession that one cannot do 
anything by one's own labor or one's own intellect. 
It is really, my boy, an acknowledgment that you 
have no independence of character, no strength 
of will, no patience, and no perseverance. 
Trusting in luck is a very different thing from 
trusting in Providence. Providence aids those 
who aid themselves, and just in proportion as they 
do their work honestly and conscientiously. Luck 
is a kind of capricious spirit which is expected to 
set at naught all the laws of nature for our ad-
vantage, or to our disadvantage, without the 
slightest apparent reason why it should intervene 
at all. If there is such a thing, that can either 
make or mar us, our first duty is not to be its 
slave, but to make ourselves its master. 
We must not stand like beggars at a street 
corner until luck drops a few coppers into our hats. 
We must be a law unto ourselves, and not mere 
playthings of chance. Let us be honest enough 
to acknowledge our own mistakes. The grumbler 
who laments, 
" I never had a slice of bread, 
Cut nice and smooth and long and wide, 
But it fell upon the sanded floor, 
And always on the buttered side," 
Fancies himself unlucky. If he were honest, he 
would blame himself for not keeping good hold of 
his bread and butter, and if he thought about it, 
he would see that falling on the buttered side was 
a natural result of the way in which he was hold-
ing it. 
This notion of luck very often arises from a mix-
ture of conceit and jealousy. We do not like to 
allow that another has more talent than we have, 
and has used his faculties better. He has, however 
if we examine his career, been more studious, more 
careful, more observant. It would be much more 
noble of us, instead of repeating like parrots the 
word " luck," meaning thereby that he has got a 
reward which he does not deserve, to candidly 
say, " He has deserved all he has won ; he is the 
better fellow." 
Another evil arising from this talk about luck 
is that at last we actually believe in it. Once 
under the influence of this notion, we exercise no 
caution or foresight. " Luck," we say, " will 
bring us through." Fortunately for our future 
and permanent success, luck does nothing of the 
sort. In the long run luck is nowhere. You may 
have heard of games of chance—gambling games, 
as they are styled—and of lotteries, and the like. 
You have heard of people being lucky at them. 
The professional gambler and lottery-keeper know 
better than that ; they know that even in throw-
ing dice there is very little luck. The man who 
is lucky to-day is unlucky to-morrow ; it is in real-
ity skill or trickery, and not luck, that enables the 
professional gambler to pursue his career. 
Lucky people, in fact, are people who have 
thoroughly trained themselves for the battle of 
life. They have eyes open. to perceive a coming 
danger, and have learned how to avoid it ; they 
recognize a difficulty, and know how to overcome 
it ; they see an opportunity, and know how to 
make use of it ; and they are ready with all their 
faculties alert, to seize it before it has gone for-
ever. Their success is visible to every eye, and 
arrests our attention at once. What we do not 
see, very often what we will not see, but deliber-
ately shut our eyes to, is the foresight they exer-
cise, the careful training they have undergone, 
the long practice which has made them perfect. 
There is nothing brillant or showy about this 
practice and training, and therefore we have not 
noticed them. But they are there, nevertheless. 
To all of us, every day of our lives, opportunities 
present themselves which pass without our heed- 
ing them, or if we see them, without our having 
the courage and skill to avail ourselves of them. 
We let them fly, never to return, because we are 
not ready, and then we cry, " Just like our luck 1" 
As Shakespeare says, 
" The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, 
But in ourselves that we are underlings." 
Away with your notions of luck. Be manly and 
trust to work. Do your duty and let luck do its 
worst.—Harper's Young People. 
Make Your Own Sunshine. 
" OH, dear, it always does rain when I want to 
go! " cried little Jennie Moore, "It's too bad; 
now I've got to stay indoors all day, and I know 
I shall have a wretched day." 
" Perhaps so," said Uncle Jack; " but you need 
not have a bad day unless you choose." 
"How can I help it ? I wanted to go to the 
Park and hear the band, and take Fido and play 
on the grass and have a good time, and pull wild 
flowers, and eat sandwiches under the trees; and 
now there ain't goin' to be any sunshine at all; 
and I'll just have to stand here and see it rain, 
and see the water run off the duck's back all day." 
" Well, let's make a little sunshine," said Uncle 
Jack. 
" Make sunshine! " said Jennie, " why how you 
do talk! " and she smiled through her tears. 
" You haven't got a sunshine factory, have you!" 
" Well, I'm going to start one, right off, if 
you'll be my partner," replied Uncle Jack. "Now 
let me give you three rules for making sunshine: 
first don't think of what might have been, if the 
day had been better. Second, see how many 
pleasant things there are left to enjoy; and, lastly, 
do all you can to make others happy." 
" Well, I'll try the last first," and she went to 
work to amuse her little brother Willie, who was 
crying. By the time she had him riding a chair 
and laughing, she was laughing too. 
" W ell," said Uncle Jack, " I see you are a good 
sunshine-maker, for you have got about all you 
or Willie can hold just now. But let's try what 
we can do with the second rule." 
" But I haven't anything to enjoy, because all 
my dolls are old, and my picture books are all 
torn, and—" 
" �
old," said Uncle Jack, " here's an old news- 
paper. Now, let's get some fun out of it." 
" Fun out of a newspaper! why, how you do 
talk! " 
But Uncle Jack showed her how to make a 
MARCH 23. 1882. �
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News and Notes. 
A Danish polar expedition has been arranged to 
start in July. 
—A mail of about 2,000 letters was burned at Madison, 
Wis., March 17. 
—The prohibitory liquor bill passed the Massachusetts 
House by a vote of 15 to 8. 
—The accounts of the loss by the earthquake in Costa 
Rica were greatly exaggerated. 
—A snow slide at Genoa, Nevada, covered twenty-two 
persons, eighteen of whom were killed. 
Santa Ana and Orange, Los Angeles, Co., have 
shipped nearly 15,000 boxes of oranges this year. 
—It is reported that the Union Pacific Railroad will 
discharge 150 conductors for alleged misconduct in office. 
A bill to establish capital punishment was defeated 
by a close vote in the Legislature of Wisconsin, March 16. 
—Three thousand miners in the coal regions of the 
Cumberland, iii Maryland, went on a strike March 15. 
—The fishing schooner Bellerophon and her crew, 
fourteen men, were lost off Gloucester, Mass., March 16. 
Very heavy floods are reported in Brazil. News to 
March 2 state that the rain had been falling in torrents 
for six weeks. 
—A theater in Marseilles, France, burned recently 
involving a loss of 1,000,000 francs. The actors escaped 
with difficulty. 
—Postmaster-General Howe intends to shorten the 
mail service between New York and San Francisco by 
one day and a half. 
—Dr. N. N. Gibson preached in San Francisco in 
favor of Sunday, taking for his text Isa. 58 : 13, 14. 
Rather inappropriate. 
—The Anti-Chinese bill is not receiving that ready 
favor in the House of Representatives which it was sup-
posed it would receive. 
—The Alta says the Savings Banks of San Francisco 
contain $443,000,000. The deposits have increased 
$18,000,000 in one year. 
The " Pond's Extract " (patent medicine) Com-
pany's works, at Williamsburg, N. Y., burned March 17. 
Loss reported at $150,000. 
—By a strike of the women and girls in the Pacific 
Mills, Lawrence, Mass., in consequence of a reduction of 
wages, 64,000 spindles were stopped. 
—The Young Men's Hebrew Union of San Francisco 
has before it for discussion this question: Resolved, That 
the Sunday Law should be enforced. 
The Channel Tunnel has progressed 1,000 yards 
from the English shore, and the boring proceeds at the 
rate of nearly one hundred yards per week. 
—Two men were recently lynched in Wasco Co., 
Oregon; one for the murder of two men, and the other 
for expressing satisfaction that it was done! 
Subscriptions are being taken for the support of the 
family of Sergeant Mason. He says he does not want 
pardon from one who was made President by Guiteau ! 
—Senator Edmunds having continued to decline a 
position in the Supreme Court, Judge Blotchford of New 
York has been nominated and will doubtless be con-
firmed. 
—The immigration into Oregon and Washington Ter-
ritory by water is estimated at 20,000 per month, and 
the overland immigration into Eastern Oregon at 1,000 
per month. 
From Lawrence, Mass., March 20 : One thousand 
looms in the Upper Pacific Mill, and the entire Worsted 
Department were closed to-night, throwing 3000 persons 
out of employment. 
—The small-pox is said to amount to a " terrible epi-
demic "in South Bethlehem, Northampton Co., Pa. Over 
one hundred cases were developed in a few days, and all 
business is suspended. 
—The Olympia (W. T.) Transcript says that the lower 
Columbia will be the scene of great industry during the 
coming season. There are now thirty-nine salmon 
canneries on the river. 
It is now believed that De Long and his party died 
of starvation in Siberia. The North Pole will never 
prove of much practical benefit to people of this lati-
tude. Better give up the search. 
—It is useless to attempt to give any idea of the des-
titution and suffering and destruction of property by the 
floods in the lower Mississippi country. Nothing even 
approaching it in horrors has ever occurred before. 
News from Ogden, March 17, says: Nine polygam-
ists of the eleven members composing the City Council 
of this city have resigned and it is said that the vacan-
cies have been filled by others, who are not polygamists 
in practice. 
Fred Newburgh, late Clerk of the Board of Public 
Works in Ohio, who forged checks on the State Treasury 
to the amount of $20,000, with 52 indictments against 
him was convicted on one charge and sentenced to three 
years in the penitentary. 
—Dr. R. H. McDonald resigned the presidency of the 
Home Protection Association because the officers refused 
to circulate his (excellent) tracts against the " twin 
evils," whisky and tobacco. " Cause why ? " The 
officers use tobacco. We side with the doctor. 
The stables at Fort Leavenworth, Kas., containing 
thirty-five horses of troops of Company G. Seventh Cav- 
alry, and Company F. Second Battery, were burned 
March 15. All the horses perished in the flames, to-
gether with their saddles, harness, etc. Loss $8000. 
One hundred and thirty complaints against viola-
tors of the Sunday Law were made in Sacramento 
March 20. A jury trial will in all cases be demanded. 
Thirty-one complaints in San Jose. Eleven arrests in 
Los Angeles. In some places the law was not regarded 
at all. 
—The late storm was attended with more thunder 
and lightning than we have known before in a residence 
of several years in California. All along the Coast 
Range, the thunder was in sharp explosive reports, fol-
lowed with reverberations after the fashion of eastern 
storms. 
—Accounts from Bodie, Cal., say that the late severe 
storm has occasioned many snow slides in that section. 
Several men were buried March 15, in Lake Canyon, 
Three bodies were recovered on Friday night, and left 
lying on the snow, when another slide buried them 
forty-five feet deep. 
—The mail of four days came through on Sabbath, 
March 18; but the storm on the Sierras increased in 
violence, and the road was immediately blocked again. 
So far as eastern mail is concerned, California is not 
benefited by the construction of the Southern road, by 
which the through mail should come in the winter. 
--The Fourteenth Street railroad stables, corner of 
Fourteenth and Peralta Streets, Oakland, were burned 
on the night of March 15. Twenty-seven horses were 
burned. The building was lost, with seventy-five 
tons of hay and feed, thirty-one sets of harness, and one 
car. Two men sleeping in the loft, narrowly escaped. 
Archbishop Alemany has purchased a lot on the cor-
ner of O'Farrell Street and Van Ness Avenue, San Fran-
cisco, 384 by 120 feet, at a cost of $71,250, for the erection 
of a new Catholic Cathedral. The location of the pres-
ent Cathedral on California Street is no longer desirable 
because of the rapid encroachments of Chinatown, and 
the extension of the city west and south. 
—Dr. Beckwith of the Third Congregational Church 
in San Francisco, on Sunday, March 19, in a sermon on 
the Sabbath, said: �
inherited the Sabbath from 
God, we have a right to it just as God made it. No 
man has a right to change its original character and 
restrict the use of it." Who has a right to change the 
Sabbath day from that which the Lord sanctified ? 
—588 complaints were entered against violators of the 
Sunday Law in San Francisco, on Monday, March 20. 
There are said to be about 4,000 places of business open 
on that day—perhaps over-rated. The Chief of Police, 
whose order was published last week, has expressed the 
opinion that, with the known difficulty of obtaining a 
jury, they may dispose of two cases a month in Court! 
—The enemies of the Anti-Polygamy bill tried to de-
feat it, practically, by means of amendments. This 
caused the friends of the measure to push it through with 
all possible dispatch—too much,'perhaps, as it is found 
to be defective, and further legislation will be needed. 
It is a good point gained, however, that our National 
Legislature has recorded its disapprobation of this dis-
grace to our country. 
—A prominent broker in New York, a Spiritualist, 
was recently married by a spirit clergyman to a spirit 
bride, the woman having died some time before. The 
marriage was performed in order to legitimatize their 
children. But whether such " materializations " would 
be recognized in a court is a question. We suggest for 
the benefit of Spiritualists that it would be better to 
marry sometime before death, and save that disgrace to 
their children. 
—A dispatch from Truckee, March 20, says: " The 
great storm is over, and now a better opportunity is 
given to see its effects. The town of Truckee is literally 
buried in the snow, the smaller buildings being out of 
sight, so that a person can walk from the street directly 
on to the roofs of the houses, and the drifts are piled up 
almost even with the balconies of the buildings on Front 
street." On the western slope of the mountains it was 
still storming heavily at that date. The railroad offi-
cials say this is the severest storm they have ever had to 
contend with. 
—The American ship Gatherer arrived at San Fran-
cisco on the night of March 14, and the captain was im-
mediately arrested for cruel treatment of his men. Ac-
cording to the accounts the conduct of the captain and 
officers was brutal in the extreme. One of the sailors 
was driven to suicide to escape the harsh treatment. 
As several of the abused men were foreigners, the foreign 
Consuls are taking steps to secure the punishment of the 
accused. If one-half of the accounts are true they de-
serve as severe a punishment as the law will accord to 
them. Tyranny on the seas is too common, and offenders 
need to be taught that the law reaches them. 
—A boiler in Goodwin Bros.' shoe factory in Lynn, 
Mass., exploded March 15, leveling the building and kill-
ing several men. The Fire Department was quickly 
called out and immediately went to work to remove the 
debris. From the end of the building near Exchange 
Street one poor fellow, badly mangled, was taken out. 
His first words were : " There are more in there." Soon 
after the dead body of John Moore, an engineer, terribly 
crushed, was recovered. Half an hour after, another 
body was found. Four men who usually came to work 
at six o'clock every morning are missing. Almost every 
house within 500 feet of the place was damaged. 
—A terrific tornado passed over San Mateo, Cal., 
March 15, 8.30 A. M. The course of the tornado was 
from south to north. It first struck the residence of 
John Parrott, moving his hothouse about two feet on its 
foundation. It next struck the Episcopal Church, tak-
ing off about one-fourth of its roof. It took in its course 
trees and fences for the space of about 100 yards wide, 
crushing and twisting them in a fearful manner. No 
lives were lost. Fifty feet of the roof of St. Matthew's 
Episcopal Church at San Mateo were blown off. A 
furious gale prevailed for several hours throughout this 
county, accompanied with 'loud thunder and heavy rain. 
Several buildings were blown down at the residence of 
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OAKLAND, CAL., FIFTH-DAY, MARCH 23, 1882. 
From Eld. Loughborough. 
A note from Eld. Loughborough says:— 
" We arrived safely in Southampton January 25th, 
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Results of Ship Labor. 
BRO. PALMER has handed to us a letter which he 
received from the sail-maker of the ship Morayshire, 
now lying at Vallejo, Cal., which we regret our inability 
to publish this week; it came a little too late. Those 
who read it will not wonder that Bro. P. is encouraged 
in his work. Many lovers of the good cause will rejoice 
with him. 
Baptize—Immerse. 
THE N. Y. Independent has done as valiant work as 
any paper with which we are acquainted, to prove that 
immersion was not the practice of the early church' 
and that immersion is not at all necessary to the act of 
gospel baptism. But in an article on the action of the 
American Bible Society, which may be found on the 
fourth page of this paper (page 136), it effectually 
demolishes all its former work, so far as the meaning of 
baptizo is concerned. Except a few expressions, no 
thorough-going Baptist could do better. Indeed, the 
article may do better service than if it came from a 
Baptist author. We hope every reader of the SIGNS 
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this, then, be known as the date of opening, unless some- 
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ready to mail in a few days. It contains full information 
in regard to courses of study, charges for tuition and 
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and many other items of special interest. We shall send 
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church clerk to supply all the families of Sabbath 
keepers in his vicinity. We would ask every one re-
ceiving blanks to give the matter earnest thought. 
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which they must meet in our public schools. It is evi-
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way of escape for their children and at the same time 
secure to them the advantages of an education. How 
many, in view of the shortness of time and the perils of 
these last days will now deny them these advantages so 
providentially within their reach ? How much better to 
arm them with the spirit of truth against the coming 
conflict. We give such items of information below as 
seem most necessary to those who are making prepara-
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The Grammar Course may be entered upon by those 
who have a thorough knowledge of the elements of the 
common branches as represented in the course j 1st 
described. It is designed to give those who pursue it a 
thorough knowledge of the common branches, and will 
qualify them to teach these branches successfully. 
The Biblical Course is arranged for the benefit of those 
who are preparing for the ministry. It gives two years 
in Greek, the second of which is reading the Greek 
Testament. 
Other studies which have more or less bearing upon 
the Bible, and very useful to the minister, are in this 
course. 
It extends over a period of three years, and may be 
entered by. those having a good knowledge of the com-
mon branches. 
The Academic-Scientific and Academic-Classical may 
both be entered by those who have pursued the Grammar 
Course, or its equivalent, successfully. The former em-
braces some of the natural sciences, and mathematics 
through plane trigonometry, with one year of general 
history. It contains neither Latin nor Greek. The 
latter has both Latin and Greek and extends over a 
period of four years. It also contains natural philosophy, 
botany, physiology, rhetoric, and English and American 
literature, algebra and geometry. 
This arrangement of courses is made on the supposition 
that there are now among our young people such varied 
educational attainments as to demand instruction in all 
of these various branches. 
We are by no means certain that there is time left our 
youth who are just entering upon any one of these 
courses to complete it. 
But while the opportunity is offered let us make the 
most of it. 
BOARDING. 
Though the Academy is not to be strictly a boarding 
school, there will be a boarding house near the school 
building under the management of the Principal. 
Those who wish to place their children under his im-
mediate care in this boarding house will be charged for 
board and furnished room $3.25 per week. When a 
student occupies a room alone at his own request, the 
charge will be $3.75 per week. 
Table board alone $2.50 per week. 
Board with furnished room can be obtained in private 
families at $3.00 to $4.00 per week. 
Furnished rooms in private families will cost 75 cts. 
to $1.50 per week. 
When two occupy such rooms, the expense to each is 
50 to 75 cents. Unfurnished rooms are considered worth 
about half as much as if furnished complete. 
Students who may prefer to do their own cooking can 
find furnished or unfurnished rooms in private families 
where they can board themselves at much less expense 
than to board in an y other way. 
Though this method may be a saving of money, the 
time lost and the danger to health from a careless diet, 
which frequently results from this manner of boarding, 
renders it quite objectionable. Self-boarding among 
ladies, however, is more common and is attended with 
less serious consequences. 
Those living a short distance from Healdsburg, could, 
perhaps, supply their children with cooked food every 
few days, thus relieving self-boarding of some of its ob-
jectionable features. 
EXPENSE OF BOOKS. 
The cost of text-books and stationery in the education 
of children, is no small item of expense to parents. To 
lessen the expense for those who expect to attend but a 
term or two, text-books may be rented at a slight cost if 
kept in good condition. If seriously injured or lost, the 
damage will be assessed accordingly. 
Stationery, text-books, and all other materials with 
which the student usually furnishes himself, will be kept 
also for sale at the school building at current prices. 
Books used by the students will be re-purchased by the 
Principal, when offered for sale, at reasonable prices. 
Let all interested in the success of our school do all 
they can to help at this time. Send for circular if you 
do not receive one. All possible information will be 
gladly given upon inquiry in person or by letter. Ad-
dress, Healdsburg Academy, Healdsburg, Cal. 
S. BROWNSBERGER. 
" WITH all thy getting, get understanding." 
A BOOK FOR THE TIMES. 
The Religious Amendment to the Constitution: 
OR 
THE SABBATH, THE SUNDAY, THE CHANGE 
AND THE RESTITUTION. 
T
HE object of the proposed Constitutional Amendment, 
together with the authority for it, is fully canvassed. 
The views of the leaders of the parties both for and against 
the Amendment are fairly given in this book. 
itgr The present agitation of the Sunday Law makes this 
book especially interesting and instructive at this time. 
Bound in cloth, 380 pp. �
Price, $1.00. 
Address, �
PACIFIC PRESS, Oakland, Cal. 
REVISED EDITION—JUST 155 UED. 
BY ELD. J. II. WAGGONER. 
Being an examination of its 
ACTIONS, SUBJECTS A..‘ D RELATI ON& 
Also, a brief consideration of the 
Historical Evidences of Trine Immersion. 
Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 
Price, postpaid, Paper Covers, 25c.; Flex• hie Cloth, 35c. 
Andress, �
F..C1FIC PRESS, Oakland, Cal. 
A MINE OF INFORMATION. 
History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week 
BY ELD. J. N. ANDREWS. 
T
HE Bible record of the Sabbath; the secular history con-
cerning it; the successive steps by which the change to 
the first day was made ; and the work of restoration, are 
given in detail. 
EVERY TEXT OF SCRIPTURE 
Concerning the Sabbath is commented on at length; and the 
COMPLETE TESTIMONY OF THE FATHERS 
In regard to the Sabbath and first day is given. ma 
parative merits of the seventh and the first day Sab 
fully shown. A copious int:ex enables the reader tc 
comments on any text, or the statement of any hist( 
SM. Should be read by everybody. 528 pp. Pric 
Address, . �
PACIFIC PRESS, Oaklan, 
Appointmentz. 
Oakland and San Francisco. 
OAKLAND.—Church N. E. corner Clay and 13th 
Meeting every Sabbath (Saturday) at 11 A. M. I-reaching 
every second and fourth Sunday evening of each Month. 
Prayer-meeting every Tuesday evening. Eld. J. H. Wag-
goner, Pastor. Sabbath-school at 9:30 A. M. W. C. White, 
Superintendent. Seats always free. 
SAN FRANCISCO.—Church on Laguna Street, between Mc-
Allister and Tyler Streets. Meeting every Sabbath (Satur-
day) at 11 A. M. Prayer-meeting Wednesday evening. M. 
C. Israel, Elder. No regular preaching. Sabbath-school at 
9:45 A. M. E. A. Stockton, Superintendent. Street-cars of 
the Hayes Valley Line, and Central and Lone Mountain Line, 
pass close to the meeting-house. 
Quarterly Meeting. 
THE quarterly meeting of the Red Bluff District will 
be held at Vina, April 1 and 2. Bro. Briggs will be with 
us. Vina is the most accessible point for all our mem- 
bers. �
D. S. HEMSTREET. 
Every one in this region who is interested in the 
Advent work ought to attend this meeting, as we antic-
ipate an important and interesting meeting. The 
ordinances of the Lord's supper, and probably baptism, 
are to be administered. To begin with preaching at 11 
A. M., Sabbath morning, at the school-house. 
E. A. BRIGGS. 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES, 
PUBLISHED WEEKLY, Al OAKLAND, CAL, FOR THE 
Missionary Society of Seventh-day Adventists. 
A twelve-page Religious Family Paper, devoted to a discussion of the 
Prophecies, Signs of the Times, Second Coming of Christ, Harmony of the 
Law and Gospel, with Departments devoted to Temperance, The Home 
Circle, The Missionary Work, and the Sabbath-schooL 
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Office may be obtained of Eld. J. N. Loughborough, Ravens-
wood, Shirley Road, Southampton, England, who will fur-
nish Catalogues, and give prices in English money. He will 
also receive subscriptions for our periodicals. 
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