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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 9. �
OAKLAND. CALIFORNIA, FIFTH—DAY, OCTOBER 18, 1883. �
NUMBER 39. 
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SONG- OF PRAISE]. 
BY MRS. J. L. COLEGROVE. 
" Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised." Ps 145: 3. 
I THANK thee, Lord, for eyes to see 
The beauteous things of earth; 
For ears to hear melodious sounds, 
And words that speak thy worth. 
Such sweet, bright views of woods and sky, 
Of glen and water-fall, 
Of fragrant flowers, 0 Lord my God, 
Thou mad'st and lov'st them all. 
And fruits that grow so rich and ripe, 
And home, and rest, and fire; 
And guardian watch, and truest peace, 
My gratitude inspire. 
So many hopes, so many joys, 
So many years of grace, 
So many gleams of truth and light, 
The shining of thy face. 
Forgiving love-0 precious boon 1 
A father's pitying care; 
And promises that I may claim, 
A kingdom I may share ! 
Accept, ere life is gone, 0 Lord, 
urVy highest meed of praise; 
And still more rill my grateful heart 
In my remaining days. 
Prescott, Ark. 
6.entrat g(rtirit5. 
The Reformation During Luther's Impris- 
onment. 
BY MRS. E. G. WHITE. 
WHILE Luther was safely hidden in the fortress 
of Wartburg, how did his strange absence affect 
the world ? All Germany was thrown into con-
sternation. Inquiries concerning him were heard 
everywhere. Even his enemies were more agi-
tated by his absence than they could have been 
by his presence. The wildest rumors were cir-
culated. Many believed that he had been mur-
dered. There was great lamentation, not only 
by his avowed friends, but by thousands who 
had not openly taken their stand with the Ref-
ormation. Said the people, "Never more shall 
we behold him. Never again shall we hear that 
bold man whose voice stirred the depths of our 
hearts." Many bound themselves by a solemn 
oath to avenge his death. 
The Romanists saw with terror to what a pitch 
had risen the feeling against them. Though at 
first exultant at the supposed death of Luther, 
they now desired to hide from the wrath of the 
people. Those who were enraged against him 
when he was at large, were filled with fear now 
that he was in captivity. " The only way of 
extricating ourselves," said a Roman Catholic, 
" is to light our torches, and go searching through 
the earth for Luther, till we can restore him to 
a nation that wi / have him." 
The edict of the emperor seemed to fall pow-
erless. The papal legates were filled with in-
dignation as they saw that it commanded far 
less attention than did the fate of Luther. "The 
ink of the signature," said they, " has scarcely 
had time to dry, when, behold, on all sides the 
imperial decree is torn to pieces." 
The Reformation was constantly gaining in 
strength. Increasing numbers joined the cause 
of the heroic man who had, at such fearful odds, 
defended the word of God. The people said, 
"Has he not offered to retract if refuted ? and 
no one has had the hardihood to undertake to 
refute him. Does not that show that he has 
spoken the truth ?" 
The seed which he had sown was springing 
up everywhere. Luther's absence accomplished 
a work which his presence would have failed to 
do. �
Other laborers felt a new responsibility, now 
that their great leader was removed. With new 
faith and earnestness they pressed forward to do 
all in their power, that the work so nobly begun 
might not be hindered. 
But while the Reformation was progressing 
steadily and surely, Satan was not idle. Baffled 
in all his previous efforts to destroy the work, he 
adopted another plan of operation. He now at-
tempted what he has attempted in every other 
reformatory movement,—to deceive and destroy 
the people by palming off upon them a coun-
terfeit in place of the true work. As there were 
false christs in the first century of the Christian 
Church, so there arose false prophets in the six-
teenth century. 
A few men, deeply affected by the excitement 
in the religious world, imagined themselves to 
have received special revelations from Heaven. 
Refusing to be guided by the word of God, they 
gave themselves up to be controlled by feelings 
and impressions. Instead of heeding the apos-
tle's injunction to walk by the same rule, and 
mind the same things, seeking to be in harmony 
with those whom God was leading, they deter-
mined to move out independently. They claimed 
to have been divinely commissioned to carry for-
ward to its completion the Reformation but feebly 
begun by Luther. In truth, they were undoing 
the very work which he had accomplished. 
Luther had presented to the people the word of 
God as the rule by which their character and 
faith should be tested. These men substituted 
for that unerring guide the changeable and un-
certain standard of their own feelings and im-
pressions. 
" What is the use," asked they, "of such close 
application to the Scriptures? Nothing is heard 
of but the Bible. Can the Bible preach to us ? 
Can it suffice for our instruction ? If God had 
intended to instruct us by a book, would he not 
have sent us a Bible direct from Heaven ? It is 
by the Spirit only that we can be enlightened. 
God himself speaks to us, and shows us what to 
do and what to say." Thus did these men seek 
to overthrow the fundamental principle on which 
the Reformation was based,—the word of God 
as an all-sufficient standard of faith and practice. 
By this act of setting aside the great detester of 
error and falsehood, the way was opened for 
Satan to control minds as best pleased himself. 
In the town of Zwickan arose one claiming 
to have been visited by the angel Gabriel, and 
instructed concerning matters which he was for-
bidden to reveal. A former student of Witten-
berg joined this fanatic, and at once abandoned 
his studies, declaring that he had received from 
God himself the ability to explain the Scriptures. 
Several other persons who were naturally in-
clined to fanaticism, united with these men; and 
as their adherents increased, the leaders effected 
an organization, being desirous, they said, to 
follow the example of Christ, and claiming that 
in them prophets and apostles were restored to 
the church. 
The proceedings of these enthusiasts created 
no little excitement. The preaching of Luther 
had aroused the people every where to feel the 
necessity of reform, and now some really honest 
persons were misled by the pretensions of the 
new prophets. Those especially who had a love 
for the marvelous, united with the fanatical party 
But the heresy was promptly met by workers iir 
the cause of the Reformation. The pastor of,-the 
church of Zwickan was a man who exempUed 
in his own life the truths preached by Luther. 
He tested all things by the word of God, and 
therefore was not deceived by these pretenders. 
He resolutely resisted the delusions which they 
were seeking to introduce, and his deacons (,up-
ported him in the work. 
The fanatics, opposed by the officers of the 
church, set themselves against all the established 
forms of order and organization. Their pas-
sionate appeals aroused and excited the people, 
who, in their zeal against the Romanists, pro-
ceeded to violence. A priest bearing the ost 
was pelted with stones, and the civil author' les, 
being called upon to interfere, committed the 
assailants to prison. 
Intent upon justifying their course, and ob-
taining redress, the leaders of the movement 
proceeded to Wittenberg, and presented ;their 
case before the professors of the University. 
Said they, " We are sent by God to teacii the 
people. We have received special revelttions 
from God himself, and therefore know what is 
coming to pass. We are apostles and prophets, 
and appeal to Dr. Luther as to the truth of what 
we 
we say." 
The professors were astonished and perplexed. 
This was such an element as they had never 
before encountered, and they knew not what 
course to pursue. Said Melancthon, "Tlre are 
indeed spirits of no ordinary kind in these men; 
but what spirits? None but Luther can decide. 
On the one hand, let us beware of quenching 
the Spirit of God, and on the other, of being 
seduced by the spirit of Satan." 
Doctrines that were in direct opposition to the 
Reformation were put forth by these men, and 
the fruit of the new teaching soon became ap-
parent. The minds of the people were diverted 
from the words of God, or decidedly prejudiced 
against it. Both the University and the lower 
schools were thrown into confusion. The stu-
dents, spurning all restraint, abandoned their 
studies, and the States of Germany recalled all 
that belonged to their jurisdiction. Thus the 
men who thought themselves competent to re-
vive and control the work of the Reformation, 
succeeded only in bringing it to the very brink 
of ruin. 
Luther at the Wartburg, hearing of what had 
transpired, said with deep concern. "1 alw:trs 
expected that Satan would send us this pla,uo." 
The Romanists now regained their ce)1:fidetice, 
and exclaimed exultantly, "One more ( Mort, and 
all will be ours." A prompt and determined 
effort to check the fanaticism was the only hope 
of the Reformation. 
And now there rose throughout all Wittenberg 
a cry for Luther. Never were his sound judg-
ment and inflexible firmness more greatly needed. 
Neither the mild and peace-loving elector nor 
the timid and youthful M lancthon were prepared 
to cope with such an enemy. Professors and 
citizens alike felt that Luther alone could gui:le 
them safely at this important crisis. Even the 
fanatics appealed to his decision. 
Luther received numberless letters describing 
the different phases of this new evil, and its bale-
ful results, and earnestly entreating his presence. 
He perceived the true character of t hose pretended 
prophets, and saw the da,:ger that threatened the 
church. All that he had ndured from the oppo-
sition of both the pope and the em:,eror had not 
caused him such perplexity, of rnif,d or anguish 
of sou as did this deceptive work now linking 
itself with the Reformation. From the cause 
itself had arisen its worst enemies. Pretended 
friends were teari: g down what 1 e had labored 
at tremendous odds to build up. The very truths 
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which had brought peace to his troubled heart 
had been made the cause of dissension in the 
church. 
In the work of reform, Luther had been urged 
forward by the Spirit of God, and had been 
carried beyond himself. •He had not purposed 
to take such positions as he did, or to inake so 
radical changes. He had been but the instru-
ment in the hands of infinite power. Yet he 
often trembled for the result of his work. He 
had once said, " If I knew that my doctrine had 
injured .one human being, however poor and un-
known,—which it could not, for it is the very 
gospel,— I would rather face death ten times 
over than not retract it." 
 
And now a whole city, and that city Witten-
'berg itself, is fast sinking into confusion. The 
doctrine taught by Luther had not caused this 
evil; but throughout Germany his enemies were 
eagerly charging it upon him. In bitterness of 
soul he sometimes asked, "415 this to be the re-
sult of the great work of the Reformation ? " 
ALtoin, as he wrestled with God in prayer, peace 
flowed into his mind. " The work is not mine, 
bus thine own,," he said; " thou wilt not suffer it 
to I,)e c-)rrapted by superstition or fanaticism." 
But the thought of remaining longer from the 
conflict in such a crisis, became insupportab'e. 
He determined to go forth and meet the disturb-
in element that threatened so great damage to 
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th cause of truth and righteousness. 
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The Sabbath Message. 
 
 
BY J. D. PEGG. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Working for Jesus. 
THE honesty which is necessary' in every-day 
buying and selling appears discarded, and lotter-
ies, grab-bags, and other auxiliaries are employed 
in churches, to the dishonor of the Christian cause, 
and oftentimes to the encouragement of the 
young to subsequent evil courses. And yet not 
sinful! God help his people, who are becoming 
entirely blind. 
The world sees differently, and the New York 
Times gives us a key to their knowledge concern-
ing them, and proves them sinful. It says: " The 
Texas Siftings defends the crowds who thronged 
to the late prize fight between Wilson and Sullivan . 
Church fairs encourage grab-bags, lotteries, and 
various other gambling devices. At a church 
fair in this State not so long ago, the young ladies • 
sold kisses to the highest bidder for cash, and 
that variety actors assist in making church fairs 
successful, is getting to be a very common occur-
rence, in some of our larger cities. Under these 
circumstances, may not the time come when a 
soft-glove matinee between two bruisers will be 
one of the chief attractions of an entertainment to 
lift a mortgage off the church ?" The world in 
this makes them sinful, and looks to an increase 
in that direction. Brethren, does the work of 
Jesus ever bring real, deserved reproach? 
But, says one: " That church entertainments 
have been overdone and mismanaged, no reason-
able person can doubt; but whether their existence 
should be called in question, is another point." 
Churches have now reached a point in their ex-
perience in this matter where they are inclined 
to stop and reflect. After such deliberation, some, 
no doubt, will cast all overboard. Others will 
go on as heretofore, and still others of us are in-
clined to weigh the subject with candor, " and 
then blow away the chaff and retain the wheat 
only." Thank God for this much. But that 
was the cry in the North New Jersey Association, 
about six years ago, when our beloved Judson 
and Lodge drew a resolution condemning these 
non-scriptural practices from beginning to end. 
They were asked to reconsider; and how some of 
our hearts beat as they left the main audience 
room to do so, and wondered whether they would 
falter. They returned with no compromise. They 
could not make it less strong. What they had 
written must remain. How we thanked God for 
the unfaltering purpose, as far as they were con-
cerned. But there were some warm speeches, sad 
to say, against it; and it was proposed that they be 
carried on in halls instead of the meeting-houses. 
But the resolution said nowhere. It was not 
adopted.. Since then it has grown worse; and a 
grain of " wheat" is not yet to be found, but all 
" chaff." Well may devoted ministers and laymen 
pray " that God will defend his cause." Away 
with your entertainments where you get a re-
ward for your money, and pray for a willing, 
loving, self-denying offering unto your God! 
Away with your " kitchens," full of pots and 
kettles, before you soil your heavenly dress! 
Away with your oysters, cakes, and.dainties, lest 
you make your belly your god! Away with 
church parlors and comfortable trappings before 
you become at ease in Zion! Away with stiff necks 
and unbended knees, and let "my house be a house 
of prayer"! Away with spurious books which fill 
our libraries, and give the children the bread of 
heaven! Away with the impression that a meet-
ing-house filled with hypocrites, worldlings, is the 
church! Away with speculative preaching and 
universal salvation, and give us the simple truth. 
— Watch Tower. 
SOMETHING is the matter with Maine. While 
the average expenditure per capita for tobacco, 
in the entire Union, is one dollar, in Maine it 
averages but seventeen cents. And yet they tell 
us that wherever men are prohibited from strong 
drink they fly to other excesses. 
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house of the Lord"— for which a curse rested obey, keeping the true God in mind and honor-
upon them. See 2 Kings 21 : 1-9. This form of ing him by observing his holy day; and it is said, 
idolatry was very prevalent at the time of Christ " Here are they that keep .the commandments of 
among the heathen, as it bad been during all the God and the faith of Jesus." Rev. 14 : 12. 
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centuries from before Moses' time, as sh'own by �
The matter of the observance of one day in 
the scriptures referred to. �
preference to another may seem to the reader to 
That many forms now so common in the Born- be a small matter; yet if in this small matter you 
ish church can be traced back through Pagan are found to reject the true God and to do homage 
Rome, Grecia,. Medo-Persia, and Babylon, is not to a false one, it then becomes important. Have 
questioned; and, indeed, it is a matter of note that you heard the message ? then look well to your 
the Revelator, in describing the papal beast, gives ways, for a bitter curse rests upon the disobedient. 
him the characteristics of all the above nations, by 
saying he had the mouth of a lion (Babylon, see 
Dan. 7), the feet of a bear (Medo-Persia, Dan. 7), 
and the body of the leopard (Grecia, �
That 
the papacy is now, or was during the Dark Ages. 
only baptized paganism, is admitted as a fact. See 
" Wharey's Church History," page 24. 
The dragon of Rev. 12, it is admitted, repre-
sents pagan Rome; the mongrel beast of Rev. 
13, papal Rome. In Rev. 13 : 4 it is stated that 
full-fledged Romanism " worshiped the dragon," 
or drew forms of her worship from the heathen, 
which, as we have said, came through many 
heathen nations whose lives were prolonged 
but their dominion taken away. One form of 
heathen origin was sun worship, or perhaps the 
observance of the day dedicated to the sun. This 
form early crept into the church, but, as of old, 
the Sabbath was first forgotten. And it is a sad 
fact that among the first departures of the church 
from the purity of its worship was the neglect 
of the Sabbath. The earliest writers we have 
after the days of the apostles fully declare as 
much. This opened the way for the introduction 
of the old rival of the Sabbath-day Sunday. 
The first edict in favor of Sunday observance 
was passed by one who was, at the time of its pas- 
Revk 14 : 7. �
sage, very strongly tinctured with the.heathen cus- 
Thus ends a solemn message which was to go torn, if not an open devotee to sun worship. " But 
to "every nation, kindred, tongue, and people." the devotion of Constantine was more peculiarly 
In tins message it is stated that the " hour of the directed to the genius of the, sun, the Apollo of 
jud4nent of this God is come. The thought is Greek and Roman mythology, and he was pleased 
suggested that a false god—a rival of the true to be represented by the symbols of the god of 
God—existed, and that it required a proclamation light and poetry. . . . The sun was univer-
from the true God to warn his subjects of the sally celebrated as the invincible guide and pro-
danger of unintentionally rendering homage to tector of Constantine." See " Gibbon's Rome," 
the q.ee one. The proclamation goes as far as vol. 2, page 251. This law, says MOsheim, 
the danger exists. The jurisdiction of the true made the Christian people more careful to regard 
God is pointed out, and the basis of his authority it. By edicts and anathemas, the Sunday soon 
made known, by the statement that he " made crowded the Sabbath into obscurity, where it has 
the heavens and the earth, the sea, and the• fount- remained until to-day.. 
ains of waters ; " hence his right to rule and �
Daniel saw in vision that this power should 
judge. To worship anything upon which the eye " think to change times and laws," and they 
can rest is to " worship the creature rather than should be given into his hands for 1260 years. 
the creator," for the true God made everything, See Dan. 7 : 25. After the expiration of the time 
" visible and invisible:" The Sabbath was given in which they were to remain in his hands, a proc-
to keep this fact prominently in the minds of all, lamation was due to the world, which would 
and as long as this sacred day was kept as corn- bring the danger of worshiping a rival god to 
manded, rival gods found no worshipers. " Ver- the minds of the loyal servants of the true God. 
ily my Sabbaths ye shall keep, for it is a sign be- And this proclamation is given in the words of 
tween me and you [Ex. 31 : 13-17; also, Eze. our text and onward. It points out the true God 
20 : 20], that ye may know that I am the Lord by giving, as the basis of his authority, his crea-
your God." Thus God would erect a barrier be- tive power, which the Sabbath commemorates, and 
tween his people and false gods. �
pronouncing a curse upon those who worship the 
Moses understood the many temptations that " beast." 
would come to his people, and, just before his death, �
To worship the beast would be, to acknowledge 
he places them on their guard against idolatry, his authority as being superior to that of the true 
telling them that when God gave them the ten God. The true God says " the seventh day is 
commandments he did not appear visibly before the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou 
them, that they saw no form, and that to render shalt not do any work," &c. The papal beast 
worship to any visible object would be to " cor- says: " How prove you that the church hath 
rupt" themselves; and especially does he warn power to command feasts and holy days ? Ans. 
them against lifting up •their eyes to the sun, By the very act of changing the Sabbath into 
moon, and stars in homage and worship. Deut. Sunday, which Protestants allow of," &c. See 
4 : 14-19. Sun worship was practiced even before " Abridgement of Christian Doctrine," page 58. 
the time of Moses by the heathen. Job knew of " The observance of Sunday by the Protestants 
the sun worship, which, if indulged in, would be a is an homage they pay in spite of themselves to 
denial of the " God that is above." Job 31 : 26-29. the authority of the church." See " Plain Talk," 
Jeremiah promised Israel a permanent continua- page 213. In Rev. 13 : 12 we read that the two-
tion of their nation if they kept the Sabbath horned beast " causeth the earth and them that 
(Jer. 17 : 22-27); but warned them that if they dwell therein to worship the first beast." And 
kept it not, the city should be devoured. But (verse 16) that he causeth all to receive a 
the people refused to heed his warning, and said: mark in the right hand or forehead, that no man 
"As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us might buy or sell save he that had the mark of 
in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken unto the beast. 
thee. But we will certainly do whatsoever thing Now is it not a fact that, when the true Sab-
goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense bath comes, God is not honored by a cessation from 
unto the queen of heaven" [the sun]. And, in re- labor on his holy day; but when the day comes 
ply, Jeremiah tells them that for this their land is a which has so long been a rival of the Sab-
desolation. Jer. 44 :15-23. So that through for- bath, even the earth is made to do homage by 
getting God by disregarding his Sabbath, and resting from the hand of the laborer. And the 
by going into a form of sun worship, Jerusalem right hand, which on the seventh day disregards 
was once destroyed. �
the true God and his Sabbath, and toils on, stops 
Manasseh once introduced the same form of to do homage on the day of the rival god, thus 
idolatry into the temple—" And he built altars receiving a mark of a false god. The message 
for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the goes to the earth; the truly loyal heed it and 
'LAND worship Him that made heaven, and 
earth; and the sea, and the fountains of waters. " 
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Losing Time. 
THE patriarch Job, as an example of suffering, 
affliction, and of patience, is perhaps without a 
parallel. Speaking- of that affliction the apostle-
says, " Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and 
have seen the end [or purpose] of the Lord, that 
the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy." 
At.first thought we would hardly choose this ex-
perience as an example of pity and mercy. But 
we cannot always judge of the character of an 
affliction by the affliction itself, but by its intended 
purpose. The infliction of pain or loss for idle or 
vindictive reasons is cruelty. And if God's pur- 
pose in afflicting Job was simply to gratify Satan, 
or show him how much a man could stand, it 
would be more difficult to reconcile this treatment 
with the idea of pity and mercy. If these kind 
qualities were the object they must have been 
contained in the purpose rather than the ;nfliction. 
An illustration of this may be had in the case of 
the surgeon who, in order to save life, imposes 
pain and loss upon his patient. Hie motive can- 
not be discerned in the use of the knife and saw. 
If these only were considered, we would rank the 
operator with the assassin. The merits of a sur-
geon are always estimated by his skill and his 
purpose. So with the Lord in the case of Job, 
and in all our cases. 
A difficulty in this case may still present itself, 
as the Lord said that Job was a " perfect and an 
upright man, one that feareth God and escheweth 
evil," before these afflictions were brought upon 
him. What, then, was their use ? By studying 
his character as it is afterward brought out, we 
discover that Job's heart was clean and his in-
tentions were right. He earnestly endeavored 
to make his life right. So well did he succeed, 
in his own estimation, that he was willing to, be 
" weighed in an even balance." But there existed 
a fatal flaw in his character, which was pointed 
out by Elihu and confirmed by the Lord as the 
sin of self-righteousness and self-sufficiency. God 
would have Job feel his depende;Ice upon him 
who alone can save. 
It was a difficult lesson. He suffered the rend-
ing of affection's strongest ties, the loss of all his 
wealth. His earthly honor and friendship were 
sacrificed. His wife turned her influence against 
him; and when no more could be done, affliction 
laid its hand upon his body till he cursed in bitter 
anguish his day. Human sympathy sat seven 
days in silent astonishment at his grief His 
heart maintained its integrity to God, and from 
the depth of his suffering, come those grandest of 
words, " Though .t"e slay me, yet will 1 trust in 
him." Still he adds to this saying, " but I will 
maintain [argue] mire own ways before him." 
He evidently realized that God had an object for 
his good, as he says, " I shall come forth as gold." 
And he OW. At last, from his deep humility, he 
cried out, " I have heard of hee by the hearing 
of the ear, but now mine eye seeth thee; where- 
fore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes." 
0 what a blessed result. God always loved 
him, but the increase of his love is only faintly 
expressed in the increase of his blessings over 
those of former years. Christ says, " Ye are the 
branches," and " my father is the husbandman." 
" Every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth, it, 
that it may bring forth more fruit." The hus-
bandman uses his knife on the fruitful vine. We 
may be sincere in our purposes and endeavors to 
glorify God, and be unconscious of our faults till 
the pruning-knife reveals them to us. " The 
word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper 
than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the di-
viding asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints 
and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts' 
and intents of the heart." God does not wil-
lingly afflict nor grieve his children. He chastens 
us " for our profit that we might be partakers of 
his holiness. Every affliction may be sanctified 
to a good purpose, and produce a good result. It 
is while in a humble position that we best learn 
what God's will and our duty are. W e should 
not receive our afflictions, crosses, and trials as a 
matter of fact; but should try to learn what are 
the faults they reveal, and then by repentance to 
put them away. �
G. C. TENNEY. 
WE saw a specimen of modern politeness, the 
other day. Two gentlemen were going up in an 
elevator. A lady came aboard, and both men 
took off their hats, but continued to puff the 
smoke of their vile cigars into her face.—Lever. 
BY S. J. G. THAYER. 
ALONE ! yet not alone, my God, thy hand is leading me; 
Let me not murmur at the rod that brings me nearer thee. 
Let me behold thy smiling face, though all the world may 
frown, 
For when I share thy saving grace, 1 cannot be cast down. 
0 Father, comfort thou my heart; life's ills have rent it sore, 
And time no healing does impart; it rankles more and more. 
Oh, lift me up above these snares, oh, fix my thoughts on high; 
I would forget these small affairs, and let them all pass by; 
I would forget what others do, whenever they do wrong, 
And have my heart attuned anew,—filled with a new, sweet 
song. 
My Tower of Strength, 0 be thou still my comfort and my 
stay.; 
Submissive to thy righteous will, let mine be day by day; 
And when the clouds are lowering down, and sun forgets to 
shine, 
And evil seems to wear the crown, and all its force combine, 
Oh, then how sweet it is to know there is a calm retreat, 
Where foaming bilb.ws cannot go,--beneath the mercy-seat! 
There let my longing heart abide, there let it ever rest,—
Above earth's ceaseless, surging tide, above the billowy crest; 
And let me hear above the roar, and din, and clash of will, 
That voice,--aye, hear it o'er and o'er,—still speaking "Peace 
be still." 
Alone ! ah, did I say alone ? A mighty host is here ! 
Shall I the loss of friends bemoan when Israel's God is near ? 
The sea divides at his command, the haughty are made low; 
In him the weakest child can stand against the mightiest 
foe: 
Ah ! 'tis the sweetest joy to know,—I feel it o'er and o'er.—
That wheresoe'er we're called to go, he goeth on before; 
The pillar moves by night, by day; it stands when we should 
rest; 
And we may follow in this way, and be forever blest. 
It is not best the path should wind beside the cooling stream; 
It is not best that we should find things ever what they seem; 
So. prone are we to take our ease, so prone to glide along, 
We need the mountains, and the seas, the host of Egypt 
strong. 
'Tis only when we're thus shut in, we test the power above, 
And learn to trust through thick and thin, and, trusting, 
learn to love. 
Sometimes the furnace glows with heat,--there seems no 
draft of air; 
With burning coals beneath our feet, we sink in deep de-
spair,— 
We sink, and then there comes to mind a furnace once before, 
Where three were cast in, but to find not only three, but four. 
And oh, the fourth! my heart be still ! let every murmur 
cease; 
To-day as then he will fulfill his promises of peace. 
Then let me trust, then let me wait, yes trust and wait on 
Thee, 
And if the storm that comes be great, great will the rescue be. 
When I recall thy wondrous love, 0 Father all divine, 
In the great gift sent from above,—a Saviour to be mine,—
Then my weak heart grows strong and brave, my faith takes 
hold on thee; 
For since thou gav'st thy Son to save, what wilt thou keep 
from me? 
When I compare my crosses all, with dark Gethsemane's 
woes, 
Ashamed am I, they look so small; each bitter tear that flows 
Is witness that self is not dead, though painful is the thought, 
And Christ is not my living head, th mgh with his blood 
I'm bought. 
0 let me lose myself in thee, my Saviour and my friend, 
Then calm, or troubled be the sea, thou'rt with me to the 
end; 
And, having thee, all will be right, unmoved my heart will rest 
Above the storms, above the blight, peaceful, serene, and blest. 
Injuries. 
A MAN, wishing to pass through a pasture, tore 
off a picket to get into the inclosure and another 
picket to get out. What commandment did he 
violate ? He violated the spirit of the second 
table of the law, Honor parents, Do not kill, etc. 
For the intent of this table is, do not injure others, 
but try to benefit them. "Thou shalt love thy 
neighbor as thyself." 
But did not Christ give the two great command-
ments to supercede the ten ? No; the two great 
commandments were given long before the Chris-
tian dispensation. Dent. 6 : 5 reads : " And thou 
shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, 
and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." 
Lev. 19 : 18 reads : " Thou shalt not avenge nor 
bear any grudge against the children of thy peo-
ple, but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself ; 
I am the Lord." Many precepts are given in 
Lev. 19. These two great laws give the spirit 
of the two tables of the ten commandments. If 
they do away with the ten commandments now, 
they did the same in the Jewish dispensation. 
That the law of the Levitical- priesthood is abol-
ished, no Bible reader doubts ; but to abolish the 
ten commandments would be to abolish stn. It 
would puzzle any one to tell how to keep the spirit 
of a law and violate its letter. As Paul says, We 
should serve in newness of spirit and not in old-
ness of letter. But it is a great mistake to sup-
pose that the spirit of the law leads us to violate 
the letter. �
EPSILON. 
TIME 15 too precious to be lost. Tbis has ever 
been the case; but as we near the close of our 
probation, the value of the few fleeting moments 
that remain seems to be greatly enhanced. A 
great work is to be done; and the time is short 
in which it may be done. Evil tempers are to 
be subdued, and a perfect victory over selfishness, 
self-will, and sin is to be gained, and a work of 
benevolence and philanthrophy to be done. 
Are we improving our time ? Are we doing 
the work necessary to be done, to make our call-
ing and election sure? That brother or that 
sister that is filled with the spirit of fault-finding, 
murmuring, grudging, and rebellion, is losing 
time—precious time, that cannot be recalled. 
This bitterness must be got out of your heart, or 
you are lost. The time you spend in nursing 
your own evil disposition, by magnifying the 
faults of others, real or supposed, is worse than 
lost; instead of advancing, you are drawing back 
to perdition. The doubts of the truth and work 
of God which you cherish, while you murmur 
against his chosen instrumentalities, are sinking 
you down, and disqualifying you to do the work 
so necessary to be done for, your own salvation. 
You are drawing off your sympathy from the 
cause and work of God. Satan is pleased; for 
you are giving yourself over to his influence and 
becoming his willing servant. 
Oh, that I might 
arouse you before it is too late to retrace your 
steps and make your peace with God. While you 
remain in your present condition, the chances 
against you are increasing. You are losing timel 
Be entreated to at once set about the work of 
redeeming the time. Humble yourself. "Have 
faith in God," Have faith in his work. Gather 
with Christ, and not scatter abroad. God will 
do his work right; and he is the judge of all. 
Bring yourself into harmony with the work of 
God; rejoice in its increase and extension in all 
the earth; and make a determined and persever-
ing effort to do the work God has given you to 
do, now, while it is called to-day. 
R. F. COTTRELL. 
The Post of Duty the Place of Safety. 
ONE'S safety often depends on one's location. 
But to decide as to the place where safety may 
be found requires more than a surface judging; it 
is not to be settled by outside appearances. A 
fresh illustration of this is given in the fact that 
several refugees from Alexandria were engulfed 
in the recent earthquake at Casamicciola, on the 
island of Ischia, in the Bay of Naples. They had 
fled for their lives from an imminent danger. 
They lost their lives in a place of fancied security. 
It is not for us to say that they were wrong in 
leaving Alexandria and in seeking a refuge at 
Casamicciola. But it is for us to learn anew that 
we cannot always be sure of safety by a change 
of location. An old army commander was accus-
tomed to say, as he saw a younger officer dodge 
his head at the whistle of a bullet, " You foolish 
fellow, you'll dodge right into the way of a 
bullet." And there was a suggestion of a great 
truth in that pungent comment. If you have a 
duty to do, stand fast to it or push ahead in it, 
without fear or flinching. There is no safer place 
in the world than the place of duty. Alexandria 
in the hour of the massacre, or in the days of 
cholera, is a better place, a safer place, for the 
man whose plain duty is there at that time than 
Casamicciola could be for him. Any place 
where duty is, is a safe place for one to stand—
or to fall. Any place outside of the path of duty 
is a place of danger in the safest time.—S. S. 
Times. 
THOUGHT AND DEED.--You cannot reason your 
heart into purity. A single day's work in such a 
task would make more progress than a century's 
words. If thinking is not followed by doing it 
is like a plant that promises well, but never comes 
to fruitfulness. It is a very easy matter to think 
of doing great things, of making great sacrifices 
for others' good, of being charitable and helpful 
to your fellow-men, but to have this thinking 
blossom out in noble deeds is quite another thing. 
Many think of doing good, while few set out to 
frame their thoughts in living deeds. 
THE words, " Done unto me," would lighten all 
burdens, if they were remembered. 
The Case of Job. 
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The Divine Government. 
(Concluded.) 
PAUL'S relation of his own conversion, in Rom. 
7, is highly instructive on this point. He says: 
"I had not .known sin, but by the law." And in 
no other manner can any one know it. " For I 
was alive without the law once." His conscience 
was at ease while he was in the way of sin. So 
little was he aware of the true nature of his own 
actions that he theught he was doing God service 
in persecuting the church of Christ. "But when 
the commandment came, sin revived." In the 
absence of the law, or of his understanding or 
receiving the law, sin did not appear. " I had 
not known sin, but by the law." And when sin 
revived, or he knew sin, then, says he, " I died." 
It will be noticed that he speaks of the life and 
death of sin, and the life and death of himself, 
but never of the life and death of the law. The 
contrary has been inferred from verse 6, which 
says, in the text, " But now we are delivered from 
the law, that being dead wherein we were held." 
But the margin gives the correct reading: " Being 
dead to that wherein we were held." This is 
certain, for, 1. It agrees with all the context; 
see verse 4, and others. 2. Every other version, 
and all authorities, give this construction. 3. The 
original for "being dead" (apothanontes) is plural, 
and therefore cannot refer to the law, which is 
singular, but must refer to the brethren. 
Turning back to chap. 6 : 1-8, he speaks of our 
being both dead and buried. Dead with Christ; 
dead to sin, or transgression; dead to the law as 
far as it has a claim on our lives on account of 
sin, for "the wages of sin is death." It was be-
cause Paul was a sinner that he found the law 
to be death unto him. It was " ordained unto 
life." This is confirmed by many scriptures. 
The Lord repeatedly said of his commandments 
that they who did them should live. Lev. 18 : 5; 
Neh. 9 : 29; Eze. 20 : 11; Gal. 3 : 12. Life and 
death were set before them in the commandments. 
Deut. 30 : 15-20; Matt. 19 : 17, 18, etc. 
Some have become confused over the expres-
sions, " dead to sin," " dead to the law," thinking, 
perhaps, there was identity in the two; but Paul 
directly contradicts that idea, in verse 7: "Is 
the law sin ? God forbid." The law is against 
sin and the sinner. By the commandment sin 
becomes exceeding sinful. Verse 13. The con-
clusion to which the apostle comes is the point 
of great interest to us. Did conversion to Christ 
turn him away from the law, and lead him to 
speak of it in terms of disrespect ? By no means. 
After the commandment came, convincing him 
of sin, and thereby leading him to Christ, he said: 
" Wherefore the law is holy, and the command-
ment holy, and just, and good." And again: 
" For we know that the law is spiritual." And 
of his own feelings—the feelings of a divinely 
renewed man—toward the law, he said: " For I 
delight in the law of God after the inward man." 
And of the relation of mankind in general to 
the law, he said: "The carnal mind is enmity 
against God; for it is not subject to the law of 
God, neither indeed can be." Conversion to Christ 
takes away the carnal mind, and removes the 
insubordination to; or rebellion against, the law 
of God. 
If it be yet claimed that the law of God is 
abolished, we would say, there can be but two 
reasons urged wby it should be abolished. 1. 
Because it was faulty in itself, and not worthy 
of being perpetuated. But this is a grave re-
flection on the wisdom of the Lawgiver; for if 
that law were not perfect, then he gave only a 
faulty law, not worthy of the respect of his 
creatures. This is, in effect, the position which 
some take. But we wonder they are not shocked 
at their own irreverence. And this reason also 
contradicts all the scriptures which have been 
quoted which speak of the law as holy, just, good, 
perfect, spiritual, and containing the whole duty 
of man. 2. It may be urged that the circum-
stances of the transgressors made it necessary. 
On this we refer to the remarks before made on 
the conditions of pardon. It is certainly not 
consistent with good government, with justice, 
to abolish a perfect, holy law because rebellious 
men have violated it. Nor can even that neces-
sity be urged, since a system of pardon has been 
instituted which is sufficient to fully meet the 
wants of the transgressor. But in harmony with 
every principle of justice and right, it avails only 
for those who penitently turn away from their 
transgressions. 
As this law is holy, just, good, and perfect, it 
must be so in all its parts. No one part of a holy 
law can be impure, or, of a perfect law be im 
perfect. But the man of sin, the papal power, 
despite its professions, has sought to corrupt and 
pervert or change the holy covenant. Dan. 7 : 25. 
To establish the worship of images, it has decided 
that the second commandment is ceremonial, and 
therefore not proper to be associated with moral 
laws. To introduce a festival day, the Roman 
Sun-day, it has decided that the fourth command-
ment is ceremonial, so far as it relates to the ob-
servance of a particular day, notwithstanding God 
blessed and sanctified the particular day on which 
he rested, to wit: the seventh day.* 
None can deny that the Sabbath was instituted 
or made at creation; for then God rested on the 
seventh day. This day was not, therefore, a 
Jewish Sabbath, as it is so much claimed, but 
the Sabbath (rest) of the Lord, as the Bible al-
ways represents it to be. Space will not here admit 
of an argument on this point of the law, but we 
will notice two prominent objections urged against 
it, namely, that its observance was not required 
from the date of its institution • and that it is not 
moral as the other parts of the decalogue. In 
regard to the first, the Saviour says it " was made 
for man;" and we well know in what period of 
man's history it was made. The following re-
marks seem decisive on this point:— 
" The Hebrew verb kadash, here rendered sanc-
tified, and in the fourth commandment rendered 
hallowed, is defined by Gesenius, to pronounce 
holy, to sanctify; to institute an holy thing, to 
appoint.' It is repeatedly used in the Old Tes-
tament for a public appointment or proclamation. 
Thus when the cities of refuge were set apart in 
Israel, it is written: ' They appointed [margin, 
Heb. sanctified] Kadesh in Galilee in Mount 
Naphtali, and Shechem in Mount Ephraim,' &c. 
This sanctification or appointment of the cities 
of refuge, was by a public announcement to Israel 
that these cities were set apart for that purpose. 
This verb is also used for the appointment of a 
public fast, and for the gathering of a solemn 
assembly. Thus it is written: Sanctify [i. e., 
appoint] ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather 
the elders and all the inhabitants of the land 
into the house of the Lord your God.' Blow 
ye the trumpet in Zion, sanctify [i. e., appoint] 
a fast, call a solemn assembly.' And Jehu said, 
Proclaim [margin, Heb. sanctify] a solemn as-
sembly for Baal.' Josh. 20 : 7; Joel 1 : 14; 2 : 15; 
2 Kings 10 : 20, 21; Zeph. 1 : 7, margin. This 
appointment for Baal was so public that all the 
worshipers of Baal in all Israel were gathered 
together. These fasts and solemn assemblies 
were sanctified or set apart by a public appoint-
ment or proclamation of the fact. When, there-
fore, God set apart the seventh day to a holy use, 
it was necessary he should state that fact to those 
who had the days of the week to use. Without 
such announcement, the day could not be set 
apart from the others. 
" But the most striking illustration of the mean-
ing of this word may be found in the record of 
the sanctification of Mount Sinai. Ex. 19 :12, 23. 
When God was about to speak the ten command-
ments in the hearing of all Israel, he sent Moses 
down from the top of Mount Sinai to restrain the 
people from touching the mount. 'And Moses 
said unto the Lord, The people cannot come up 
to Mount Sinai; for thou chargedst us, saying, 
Set bounds about the mount and sanctify it.' 
Turning back to the verse where God gave this 
charge to Moses, we read: 'And thou shalt set 
bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take 
heed to yourselves that ye go not up into the 
mount or touch the border of it.' Hence, to 
sanctify the mount was to command the people 
not to touch even the border of it, for God was 
about to descend in majesty upon it. In other 
words, to sanctify or set apart to a holy use Mount 
Sinai, was to tell the people that God would have 
them treat the mountain as sacred to himself; 
and thus also to sanctify the rest-day of the Lord 
was to tell Adam that he should treat the day as 
holy to the Lord. 
"The declaration, ' God blessed the seventh day 
and sanctified it,' is not indeed a commandment 
for . the observance of that day; but it is the 
record that such a precept was given to Adam. 
For how could the Creator ' set apart to a holy 
*Alexander Campbell, in his debate with Bishop Purcell, charges upon 
the Catholic Church, that it has made a change in the ten command-
ments, which, he says, are "a synopsis of all religion and. lorality." 
This declaration, warranted by the Scriptures, places those who teach 
the abolition of the ten commandments, or any one of them, in a very 
unenviable position. 
use' the day of his rest, when those who were 
to use the day knew nothing of his will in the 
case ? Let those answer who are able."—J. N. 
Andrews' History of the Sabbath, pp. 16-18. 
in regard to the morality of this commandment, 
we may compare it with any of the others, as-
sured that it will be sustained by any argument 
that will prove their morality. Take the eighth 
for example. No one can be proved guilty by 
merely proving that he took and used a certain 
piece of property; beyond this it must be proved 
that the property was another's, to which he had 
no right. Thus this commandment rests upon 
the right of property; and if this were not rec-
ognized, it would be a nullity. But surely no 
one can prove a clearer right, or put forth a more 
positive claim to any property, than has the Lord 
to the seventh day. Many times in his immu-
table word has he told us it is his; that he has 
hallowed it; and he warns us against desecrating 
it, or appropriating it to our own use. If it be 
an immorality to take without license what our 
neighbor claims as his, how much more so to take 
against God's positive prohibition what he claims 
as his own. 
A little reflection or examination will be suf-
ficient to convince every one that the position 
here taken in reference to the maintenance and 
perpetuity of the law of God is in strict harmony 
with the immutable principles of justice and good 
government. While every argument presented 
in favor of its abolition, is contrary to those prin-
ciples, and subversive of government. No one 
who has regard for the honor of God and for 
the integrity of his Government, should hesitate 
for a moment to decide where the truth lies on 
this important subject. �
EDITOR. 
"1'11 Turn over a New Leaf." 
IT is all very well for you to say that you will 
" turn over a new leaf." But let me ask, what 
about the past black leaves of guilt ? The school 
boy, after spilling the ink on the page of his copy 
book, turns over a new leaf, resolving that in the 
future he will be more careful; but " turning over 
new leaf" does not remove the blotted one, and 
soon the teacher's eye detects the blot; and pun-
ishes him for his carelessness. 
It may be, dear reader, at one time you were 
addicted to drinking or swearing or other bad 
habits; but of laid you have " turned over a new 
leaf," and are becoming what the world calls a 
" reformed '' person. This is right and proper, 
but don't forget that future good conduct can never 
blot out past disobedience. 
A merchant finds that he is in difficulties. He 
takes his cash-book, and begins a " new leaf," 
forgetting that there is a " carried over " and a 
" brought forward " column. New figures on the 
" new leaf" won't pay the old debts. Every page 
of our life account is headed with a " brought for-
ward." 
Reader "turning over a new leaf" won't do 
for you. You must become a new creature in 
Christ Jesus.—The Watchman. 
Is God Particular ? 
" TEEN Elisha said, Go borrow thee vessels 
abroad of all thy neighbors, empty vessels; not a 
few. And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut 
the door upon thee and thy sons, and shalt pour out 
into all the vessels, and thou shalt set aside that 
which is full." 2 Kings 4 : 3, 4. Some one will 
say, " Why all this bother about shutting the 
door, and gathering vessels, and pouring out oil; 
could he not have helped the woman without all 
this detail ? " But so it was; and if she had failed 
in aught she would have lost the blessing. I 
remind you of Israel's first king. Saul was told 
to go and slay the Amalekites; and he returned 
saying he had fulfilled God's command. " What 
mean the bleating of those sheep and the lowing 
of those oxen in mine ears ? " "Ohl" said Saul, 
"I forgot for the moment; yes, to be sure, I did 
spare a few sheep and oxen, but it was for the 
purpose of sacrificing to the Lord." This was an 
oblivousness with a consequence; he lost the king-
dom through it. Just so, my friend, when you be-
gin to question what God commands,—" What is 
the use of this appointment ?" " Where is the 
good of that injunction ? "—you are lost.—Dr. 
Parker. 
TIME once lost is lost forever. 
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Lesson for Pacific Coast.—October 27. 
1 TRESS. CHAPTERS 4, 5. 
LESSON NOTES. 
" WE beseech you, brethren'
. . . . to do your 
own business, and to work with your own hands, 
as we commanded you," &c. The Thessalonians 
had imbibed the idea that the Lord was coming 
in their day, and therefore some of them at least 
deemed it unnecessary to labor, and were leading 
dilatory and negligent lives. The apostle cautions 
them against this gross error, and gives as a rea-
son "that ye may walk honestly toward them 
that are without, and that ye may have lack of 
nothing." This advice is specially applicable to 
believers in the Lord's soon coming at the present 
time. The time has now indeed come for us to 
look for him in this generation ; but instead of 
slacking our diligence in business or our efforts 
for the truth, the reasons for greater 'energy are 
apparent. Presumptive acts to show faith in the 
near advent of the Lon' only show a fanaticism 
which is readily detected by the world. We want 
now to show our faith by our 'works, and not by 
our indolence. We have not yet passed the time 
of needing food and clothing, and we have need 
to work with our own hands for this purpose, be-
sides supplying the urgent demand for means to 
send the last message of warning to the world. 
We have not only a duty to " walk honestly to-
ward them that are without," but an honest con-
version will lead to an earnest regard for the wel-
fare of our fellow-beings. This was the example 
of our Lord and his followers. 
" THE day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in 
the night" (chap. 5 : 2), is a text much abused by 
the opponents of the advent doctrine. They 
overlook the fact that this manner of coming is 
only upon a certain class—those who shall be 
suddenly destroyed, and for whom there will be 
no escape. Were the same attention paid to 
verse 4—" But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, 
that that day should overtake you as a thief "—
all would be plain; and there would be a more 
general application of verse 6—" Therefore, let us 
not sleep, as do others, but let us watch and be 
sober." In Amos 3 :7 we find this comforting 
assurance: " Surely the Lord God will do nothing 
but he revealeth his secret to his servants the 
prophets. 
" REJOICE alway." If more heed were given 
to this injunction, much long-faced Christianity 
might be dispensed with. Emphasis is laid upon 
this idea in Phil. 4 : 4 : " Rejoice in the Lord 
alway; and again I say, rejoice." When the 
Christian, �
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has come to the point where he �
after 
cruel scourging and imprisonment, rejoice in being 
counted worthy to suffer shame for the name of 
Christ, he will find little to murmur or complain 
about, and causes for rejoicing will be ever rising be-
fore him. Acts 5 : 41. Paul not only rejoiced " in 
hope of the glory of God," but he says, in Rom. 
5 : 3, " we glory in tribulations also, knowing that 
tribulation worketh patience." Brethren, how is 
it with you ? Do your trials work patience, or 
do they beget murmurings. 
DESPISE not prophesyings. This is an inspired 
warning that applies to us as well as to the Thes-
salonians. But prophesyings are despised in the 
church to-day. And why ? Because it is alleged 
that we are liable to be imposed upon by false 
prophets. But there have been false prophets 
ever since there were true ones, but this was 
never a reason for despising prophesyings. The 
duty to " prove all things, hold fast that which 
is ,good," did not originate, nor end with Paul's 
letter to the Thessalonian church. It was al-
ways a duty, and there was always the means 
of testing whether the teaching was of God. 
Every judgment, as well as all the darkness that 
has ever befallen the human race, has resulted 
from the despising of prophesyings or teachings 
of God's servants. If we "quench not the spirit," 
there will be little danger of our despising proph- 
esyings. �
W. N G.. 
THE brethren were evidently looking for the 
coming of Christ, and their own translation, but 
did not understand the hope for those who had 
fallen asleep. Paul would remove their ignorance, 
and give them the true ground of hope. " Which 
have no hope." Not that others were not hope-
ful of something, but, as he wrote to the Ephesians, 
" There is one hope," and they who have not that 
hope have no hope at all. Verse 13. 
" Them that sleep in Jesus will God bring with 
him." Not bring them with him from Heaven 
when he comes. There are no saints sleeping in 
Heaven. But as he rose from the dead,- they will 
be brought with him from the dead. The expres-
sion, " with him," denotes manner, not time. In 
Rom. 6 we are said to be buried with Christ," 
not at the time when he was buried, but " in the 
likeness " of his death and burial. There are 
two resurrections. They who are brought from 
the dead (cf. Heb. 13 : 20) " with him," are raised 
" in the likeness of his resurrection." 
WHAT he taught concerning the hope for the 
sleeping saints, and their salvation at the second 
advent, he said " by the word of the Lord." 
This is not a matter of conjecture or mere infer-
ence. Other theories of meeting the Lord and 
being with him may be more pleasing to those 
who live by theories and personal sympathy, but 
they who love the truth, and wish to abide by 
the word of the Lord, will accept this saying of 
Paul, who also said to the Colossians, " when 
Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye 
also appear with him in glory." Col. 3 : 4. 
" SHALL not prevent." Shall not precede, or go 
before. We which are alive at Christ's coming 
shall have no precedence over those who are then 
sleeping. At the sounding of the last trump 
they will be raised incorruptible, in a moment, in 
the twinkling of an eye. First: that is; before 
we are translated; this has no reference to the 
first of the two resurrections. And as we shall 
not go before them, neither shall they precede us. 
Of the ancient faithful ones Paul wrote: " And 
all, having received a good report through faith, 
received not the promise; God having provided 
some better thing for us, that they without us 
should not be made perfect. Heb. 11 : 39, 40. 
We shall not go before them, and they will not 
receive the promise or be perfected before us. 
All the faithful shall be glorified together when 
"our life shall appear." So, in this manner, shall 
we ever be with the Lord. The Scriptures give 
no other time or manner of being grorified, per-
fected, or being with the Lord. These are words 
of comfort, because they are truth; they are 
the word of the Lord. They shut out all doubt; 
remove ignorance, and give the true ground of 
hope. 
Cautions for Sabbath-Schools. 
OUR efforts have been unceasing to impress 
upon the officers and teachers of Sabbath-schools, 
that the object of the school is not the acquisi-
tion of a certain amount of Bible knowledge, but 
the receiving of spiritual benefit. The school 
ought to be, what it is often called, "the nursery 
of the church." But a wail is coming up all over 
the land that the Sunday-schools are not the 
nursery of the church, but the rival of the church; 
that as the interest in the Sunday-school increases, 
the interest in the church and in its worship de-
creases. We have seen the same tendency, some-
times, in some of our Sabbath-schools. 
We find an article in the S. F. Chronicle on 
" The Sunday-school System," from which we 
gather some interesting facts. 
The Churchman, commenting on Dr. Hunting-
ton's attack on the evils of the Sunday-school 
system, says: " There is no nobler work than the 
religious education of children. There are no 
greater evils- than those which have grown up in 
connection with that educationin Sunday-schools." 
Thel Christian Intelligencer complains of the 
Sunday-school as the successful rival of public 
worship, saying: " The pews are not filled, so as 
to show that church-going is made a family mat-
ter and a Medo-Persian law of the home. The 
children, like the angels, are few and far between. 
They go to Sunday-school !" 
In a recent convention address, a bishop de-
clared: " There is a great deal to cause anxiety 
in the condition of many of our Sunday-schools, 
or, rather, 'in the wholly inadequate provision 
made in them for the only task that warrants 
their existence—the religious training of chil-
dren." 
Commenting on the late discussion of Sunday-
schools by the Central Council of the Diocesan 
Conference in England, the Church Standard says: 
" We hope that it will be long before the Church 
in England sets aside, ignores altogether, and at- 
tempts to supersede the responsibility which rests 
upon parents, guardians, sponsors, or other suit- 
able persons to train those whom God has placed 
in their charge. No Sunday-school system, no 
matter how admirably devised and how thor-
oughly carried out, can undertake this duty and 
relieve those to whom God has committed a trust." 
At this Conference Canon Elwyn related some 
amusing incidents to show that, while the classes 
were instructed in a routine work, they were es-
sentially lacking in correct ideas of the object of 
the Sunday-school and of worship. 
The Guardian gives much space to a review of 
a recent pamphlet entitled, " Sunday-Schools, 
Measured by Acknowledged Christian Principles 
and Proved Unwarranted and Destructive." The 
letters on Sunday-schools, the author says, were 
" accepted by the Episcopal Register and printed 
as far as Letter No. 3, when the Sunday-school 
Association of Philadelphia interfered with the 
publisher of the Register against printing any 
further letters, and the fourth and last letter, 
though in type, was suppressed." The Guardian 
says of them: "We are glad to see this pamphlet, 
for we know of no subject which better deserves, 
and none which more imperatively needs,. the 
attention of churchmen to-day;" and though it 
is of opinion that the writer has stated the case 
too strongly, it thinks " there are evils in con-
nection with Sunday-schools as conducted in some 
places which demand to be corrected, and which 
well deserve his strong language of rebuke." 
The Christian Advocate has published a series 
of articles under the title, " The Church or the 
Sunday-School, which?" The conference of the 
Second Moravian District of Pennsylvania de-
clared itself pressed by the question, and among 
the conclusions reached and formulated, this 
seemed to be the most largely accepted, viz.: 
" The Sunday-schools must be revolutionized 
from the very bottom if it is hoped to make the 
children Christians." At a quarterly meeting of 
the Presbytery of Philadelphia Central, a Com-
mittee on Sunday-schools reported: " Cases are 
before us in which the Sessions are represented 
as having no influence whatever in the schools, 
so that a continual friction, if not an irrepressible 
conflict, is engendered between the Sessions and 
the schools." 
And the unavoidable tendency of such a state 
of things is to make the Sunday-school scholar 
look with contempt upon the church; to lose all 
reverence, and all regard for worship. It is not 
a wonder that the question is asked, "The church 
or the Sunday-school, which ?" 
We once saw a school of a Seventh-day Ad-
ventist Church close, when th3 superintendent, 
a number of the teachers, and most of the schol-
ars, deliberately took their books and marched 
to their homes, leaving the minister, who was to 
conduct the services, 'with half a congregation; 
smarting under the indignity offered to the wor-
ship of which he had to take charge. Fortu-
nately, he so forcibly denounced the unseemly 
proceeding that the school was turned into a dif-
ferent channel, and its influence for evil imme-
diately checked. This was an extreme case, but 
it shows the necessity for watchfulness, lest the 
object of the school be lost sight of, and it prove 
a stumbling-block to those who ought to be only 
benefited by it. 
We append a few rules which we consider es-
sential to the efficiency of Sabbath-schools. 
The parents must take an interest in the 
school, and assist their children to learn and un-
derstand their lessons. And this should be a sub-
ject of prayer with them. The children should 
not be sent to school to learn their lessons., 
The teacher should strive above all else to 
make, what our fathers used to call, an "improve-
ment" of the lesson. The great central ideas of 
the Scriptures are obedience to God, and a Saviour • 
from sin. A personal Saviour should be the ever-
present thought with the teacher. Every lesson 
should be made to tend to that point. 
The teacher should make personal appeals to 
the scholars, and, by kind inquiry, know the state 
of their feelings in regard to salvation. 
The teachers must pray for their classes. Let 
them know that you do pray for them. 
Make the scholars feel at home with you. 
Give each a kind greeting at the opening of the 
exercises. Cultivate familiarity, but not irrever- 
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tCORRESPONDING EDITORS. 
OAKLAND, CAL., FIFTH-DAY, OCTOBER 18, 1883. 
"Yom Hakkippurim." 
THIS is the Hebrew form used in Lev. 23 : 27 for " day 
of atonement." It is the plural of yom kippur, from 
the verbal root kah-phar, to cover. Why the plural is 
used we are not able to say, unless it be taken to repre-
sent the aggregate, the sum of the work for all the peo-
ple. This year the day fell on Thursday, Oct. 11, it be-
ing always on the tenth day of the seventh month in 
the Hebrew calendar. 
This is the great day of Judaism. It is, as a Rabbi 
once said to us, the day of Judgment. We have no 
doubt that this is the correct Scriptural idea of the day, 
it being a type of the period of the closing work of the 
priest, the antitype of Melchisedek, being the actual 
work of the Judgment for the people of God, for their 
full acquittal and final justification, preparatory to their 
translation. 
We find an interesting article on this subject in the-
Jewish Times, of San Francisco, of Oct. 5, which we 
feel strongly inclined to reproduce in our columns. But 
our present object is to call attention to one idea con-
tained therein, presented in the following words:— 
"No one will deny that among the various festivals 
and holidays consecrated to religious worship among 
men, none are found comparable with our Day of Atone-
ment. The idea That individual transgressions should 
be expiated and removed by contrition, abstentation 
from food, and sincere penance, has never taken root 
outside of Israel." 
On this day the business houses of the Jews, of which 
there are many on Broadway in Oakland, are scrupu-
lously closed, and that people entirely abstain from 
food during the whole day. 
The Jews are not the only people who believe in 
fasting, but the Times is doubtless correct in its state-
ment that they alone believe in remission of sin through 
this means. And with them the idea is comparatively 
modern. They never derived it from their Scriptures. 
It cannot be drawn from the writings of Moses and 
the prophets. It has grown up among them under 
their peculiar circumstances. Since the destruction of 
their temple in Jerusalem, by Titus, they have had no 
kodesh or sanctuary in which to present an offering 
before the Lord. 
The Scriptures are always reasonable, whatever in- 
fidels may say to the contrary. When the Lord gave 
his commandments to Israel, he suspended the issue of 
life and death upon their obedience. " See, I have set 
before thee this day life and good, death and evil; in 
that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy 
God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his command-
ments and his statutes and his judgments." Deut. 
30 : 15, 16. "Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and 
my judgments; which if a man do, he shall live in 
them." Lev. 18 :5. And so it was said through the 
prophet, " The soul that sinneth, it shall die." Eze. 
18 : 4. God is the author of life, and man is his creature; 
the right both to order and to dispose of life rests with 
him alone. The penalty for the violation of the law 
of God is the death penalty. " The wages of sin is 
death." 
What, then, would reason teach us is necessary to 
save the sinner from death, without impairing the in- 
tegrity of the law and the Government ? The idea 
presented in the law of Moses is that of sacrifice. And 
the idea underlying the sacrifice is that of substitution. 
" If any man of you bring an offering unto the Lord, 
ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, of the h‘ rd, 
and of the flock. . . . And he shall put his hand 
upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be 
accepted for him to make atonement for him. And he 
shall kill the bullock before the Lord; and the priests, 
Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the 
blood round about upon the altar," &c. Lev. 1 :2, 4, 5. 
And upon yom, kippur, the day of atonement for all 
the people, the high priest was to take a goat for a sin 
offering, as follows: " Then shall he kill thq goat of the 
sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood 
within the wail, and do with that blood as he did with 
the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the 
mercy-seat, and before the mercy-seat; and he shall 
make atonement for the sanctuary [hak-ko-desh], be-
cause of the uncleanness of the children of Israel," 
&c. Lev. 16 :15, 16. 
In these instances, as also in all others, the atone-
ment was made with blood. And the reason of this 
is given in the same book. We have noticed that it 
was appointed unto the sinner to die. By sinning man 
forfeits his life. How was this forfeiture to be met ? 
The Lord revealed by Moses as follows: "For the life 
of the flesji is in the blood; and I have given it to you 
upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls; 
for it is the blood that maketh atonement for the soul." 
Lev. 17 : 11. Life is the forfeit, and the life being in 
the blood, the blood represents the life, the forfeit. It 
is literally life for life. As is said in Lev. 1 :4; the 
offering is accepted for the sinner; its blood (or life) for 
his life. 
The word atonement is used in a limited sense, in 
the Old Testament, in one or two instances, as the word 
forgiveness or pardon is used in a limited sense in the 
New Testament. Matt. 18. But this does not at all 
militate against the truth stated in the Old Testament, 
that " it is the blood that maketh atonement for the 
soul," or the statement of the same truth in the New, 
as follows: " Without shedding of blood is no remission." 
Heb. 9 : 22. 
In Lev. 16 :31, the Lord said of the tenth day of 
the seventh month: " It shall be a sabbath of rest unto 
you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute forever." 
And of the same in Lev. 23 :32, " It shall be unto you 
a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls." This 
was necessary in order that the work of the high priest 
in the sanctuary might avail for them. But the afflic-
tion of soul, fasting and prayer, did not make the atone-. 
ment. It did not remove any past guilt. That was 
the work of the priest; and the efficacy of his work 
depended solely on the blood which was sprinkled upon 
and before the mercy-seat. It was the blood which 
made atonement for the soul; it was the blood which 
cleansed and hallowed the sanctuary from the unclean-
ness, the sins of the children of Israel. It was through 
the work of the priest that Israel was accepted of the 
Lord; and it was solely by virtue of the blood of the 
sin offering that the priest was accepted as the repre-
sentative of the people. 
The same truth was taught in the festival of the 
passover. A number of things were enjoined upon the 
children of Israel in their preparations for leaving 
Egypt, one of which was that they should put the blood 
of the lamb of the pa-sach upon the lintel and posts 
of the door. " For the Lord will pass through to smite 
the Egyptians, and when he seeth the blood upon the 
lintel, and upon the two side-posts, the Lord will pass 
over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come 
in unto your houses to smite you." Ex. 12 : 23. Though 
everything else were done as it was ordered, if the blood 
had not been seen upon the lintel and posts of the door, 
the angel of destruction would have visited them as he 
did the Egyptians. 
The idea of atonement by blood, because if is the 
life, and of substitution to vindicate the honor of the 
broken law in the sinner's behalf, is as reasonable as it 
is apparent in the Mosaic law. But it only reaches its 
logical or reasonable conclusion in the Christian system. 
This speaks as follows: " It is impossible that the blood 
of bulls and goats should take away sins." Heb. 10 :4. 
This is according to the just principle that, though the 
greater may be accepted for the less, the less cannot 
reasonably be accepted for the greater. On yom kippur 
the high priest offered the blood of a bull for himself 
and for his house, and the blood of a goat for the whole 
house of Israel. This was an offering to the Lord for 
the sins of all the people. By sin all the people had 
forfeited their lives, a,s it was said by the prophet, t‘ The 
soul that sinneth it shall die." But a goat is not as val-
uable as a man. Its blood or life is not as precious as 
the blood or life of a man. How much less could a 
goat answer as the true and just equivalent of a whole 
nation. So reasonable is the declaration that the blood 
of a goat cannot take away sins, that a man who was 
condemned to death would feel that he was dishonored 
if the Government should offer to accept the life of a 
goat in his stead. " Am I," he might inquire, " of so 
little worth that I can be ransomed by a goat? " But he 
would feel highly honored if a " prince of the blood " 
should offer to die in his stead. This would humble 
him, and cause him to feel the great demerit of his sin. 
He would by this be led to turn away from sin,-which 
was so offensive to the Government, and required so 
great a sacrifice. 
But it may be asked, " Is not this a reflection on the 
revelation which God made to Israel ?" It is not; as 
we before said,. it is the logical result of that system, 
and is the true teaching of the law and the prophets. 
The insufficiency of those sacrifices was clearly taught 
in such scriptures as Psalm 50, and the first chapter V 
Isaiah. It is only as types that they were useful and 
instructive. It was plainly revealed that a priest should 
arise after the order of Melchisedek; and as clearly 
revealed that the anointed—the Mashiah— should " be 
cut off (but not for himself)," Dan. 9 : 24-26. The proph-
ecy of Isaiah, especially chapters 52 and 53, clearly 
sets forth all that the Christians claim on this subject. 
The " servant " of the Lord who was to be exalted very 
high, before whom kings should shut their mouths, was 
prophesied of as one "wounded for our transgressions, and 
bruised for our iniquities." His soul was made an of-
fering for sin. How impressive are the words of the 
prophet: " Therefore will I divide him a portion with 
the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; 
because he has poured out his soul unto death; and he 
was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the 
sin of many, and made intercession for the transgress-
ors." 
We admire, we reverence, and we love Judaism and 
the Hebrew Scriptures. They are the only foundation 
of the Christian system. But Israel has nearly lost the 
spirit of the law and the prophets." The Scriptures 
have not changed, but the people have changed. They 
have been so long without a sanctuary and a priest and an 
offering that they do not deem these things essential to 
the system of Judaism. But in truth they are the 
heart and life of Judaism. And the glory which has 
departed from the sons of Abraham would return if 
they would fully accept the teachings of their own 
prophets concerning the Lord's Anointed, the Messiah, 
and of the true nature and use of sacrifice for sin. We 
make our plea before Israel to-day as Paul made his 
defense before Agrippa, " Saying none other things 
than the prophets and Moses did say should come: 
that the Anointed should suffer, and that he should 
be the first that should rise from the dead, and should 
show light unto the people, and to the nations." Acts 
26 :22, 23. 
The Coming of Christ: 
THE DOCTRINE OF HIS COMING IN THE CLOUDS OF 
HEAVEN WAS KNOWN DURING THE PERIOD FROM 
DAVID TO JOHN THE BAPTIST. 
WE have shown that the doctrine of the revelation 
of Christ in the clouds of heaven to judge the world was 
known to the antediluvians, to the patriarchs, and dur-
ing the entire period from the patriarchs to the reign of 
David. We will now trace this doctrine from the time of 
David to the first advent of Christ. 
Thus Psalms 45 : 3-6 speaks of the second advent of 
Christ, as may be seen by comparing the passage with 
Rev. 19 :11-16: " Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, 0 most 
mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. And in thy 
majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness 
and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee 
terrible things. Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of 
the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under 
thee. Thy throne, 0 God, is forever and ever; the 
scepter of thy kingdom is a right scepter." This proph-
ecy relates to Christ (compare verses 6, 7 with Heb. 1: 
8, 9 ), and it relates not to his first advent but to his 
second. 
The second advent must be intended in Ps. 68 :1., 2, 3: 
"Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered; let them 
also that hate him flee before him. As smoke is driven 
away, so drive them away; as wax melteth before the fire, 
so let the wicked perish at the presence of God. But let 
the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God; yea, 
let them exceedingly rejoice." Compare these verses 
with 2 Thess. 1 : 6-10. In verses 20-22 this psalm speaks 
of the resurrection: " He that is our God is the God of 
salvation; and unto God the Lord belong the issues from 
death. . . . The Lord said, I will bring again from 
Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths 
of the sea." Compare with this Rev. 20 :13. 
The resurrectiwn of the just at the coming of Christ was 
distinctly understood by the psalmist. ".Thou, which 
hast showed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken 
J. H. WAGGONER, 
E. J. WAGGONER, 
J. N. ANDREWS, 
URIAH SMITH, 
------ EDITOR. 
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 ASSISTANT EDITOR. 
OCTOBER 18, 1883. �THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. �
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the pure wool; _his thione was like the fiery flame, and 
his wheels as burning fire. A fiery stream issued and 
came forth from before him; thousand thousands min-
istered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand 
stood before him; the Judgment was set, and the books 
were opened. I saw in the night visions, and, behold, 
one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, 
and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him 
near before him. And there was given him dominion, 
and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and 
languages, should serve him; his dominion is an ever-
lasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his 
kingdom that which shall not be destroyed." Dan. 
7 :9, 10, 13, 14. See also what Daniel says of the res-
urrection. Dan. 12 :1, 2. 
Hosea speaks of the resurrection of the just, which 
takes place at the second advent: " I will ransom them 
from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from 
death; 0, death, I will be thy plagues; 0, grave, I will 
be thy destruction; repentance shall be hid from mine 
eyes." Hosea 1.3 : 14. 
Joel predicts the events of the last day: "The sun 
and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall 
withdraw their shining. The Lord also shall roar out 
of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the 
heavens and the earth shall shake; but the Lord will 
be the hope of his people, and the strength of the chil-
dren of Israel. Joel 3 : 15, 16. 
The prophet Micah predicts the second advent in 
these words: " For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out 
Of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the 
high places of the earth. And the mountains shall be 
molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft as wax 
before the fire, and as the waters that are poured out." 
Micah 1 : 3, 4. 
And Nahum describes the last day thus: " He rebuk-
eth the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the 
rivers; Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower 
of Lebanon languisheth. The mountains quake at him, 
and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his 
presence, yea, the world and all that dwell therein." 
Nahum 1 :4, 5. 
The prophet Zephaniah testifies: " The great day of 
the Lord is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even 
the voice of the day of the Lord; the mighty man 
shall cry there bitterly. Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek 
of the earth, which' have wrought his judgment; seek 
righteousness, seek meekness; it may be ye shall be hid 
in the day of the Lord's anger. Zeph 1 :14; 2 :3. 
Zechariah describes the events of the great day of 
God, in which he says: " The Lord my God shall come, 
and all the saints with thee." Zech. 14 : 5. 
And Malachi says of' that day: " For, behold, the day 
cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, 
yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and 
the day that, cometh shall burn them up, saith the 
Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor 
branch. But unto you that fear my name shall the 
Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings." 
Mal. 4 : 1, 2. We have no further testimony to consult 
till John the Baptist came to act as the herald of Christ. 
It is certain that John understood the prophecies con-
cerning the coming of Christ in the clouds of heaven 
at .the last day, for he announced the " wrath to come," 
and almost in the words of Malachi declares that the 
chaff should be burned up with " unquenchable fire." 
Matt. 3 :7, 12. Thus we have traced the doctrine of the 
advent of the Lord in the clouds of heaven, and of the 
Judgment of the great day, through the entire period of 
more than four thousand years, which intervened be-
tween the creation and the first advent. In our next 
article, if God permit, we will trace this doctrine 
through the New Testament. �
J. N. A. 
me_again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of 
the earth." Ps. 71: 20. Compare this with Ps. 17 : 15. 
The second advent of Christ to judge the world is thus 
predicted: " Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be 
glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof. Let the 
field be joyful, and all that is therein; then shall all the 
trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord; for he cometh, 
for he cometh to judge the earth; he shall judge the 
world with righteousness, and the people with his 
truth." Ps. 96 :11-13; 98 : 7-9. 
The second advent is also predicted in Ps. 97 :3-5: 
" A fire goeth before him, and burneth up' his enemies 
round about. His lightnings enlightened the world; 
the earth saw, and trembled. The hills melted like 
wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the 
Lord of the whole earth." The second advent of Christ 
and the great day of Judgment is predicted in Ps. 76 : 8, 
9, though the past tense is used for the future, as is fre- 
quent in the prophets: " Thou didst cause judgment to 
be heard from Heaven; the earth feared, and was still, 
when God arose to judgment to save all the meek of the 
earth." Solomon believed in this great day of Judgment, 
for he said: " For God shall bring every work into 
judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, 
or whether it be evil." Eccl. 12 : 14. 
Isaiah predicted the second advent of Christ when he 
said: " And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, 
and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and 
for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake 
terribly the earth. In that day a man shall cast his 
idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made 
each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the 
bats; to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops 
of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the 
glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly 
the earth." Isa. 2 : 19-21. Compare this with Rev. 
6 : 12-17. 
Isaiah thus predicts the second advent of Christ, and 
the resurrection of the just: " He will swallow up death 
in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from 
off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take 
away from off all the earth; for the Lord hath spoken 
it. �
And it shall be said in that day, Lo this is our God; 
we have waited for him, and he will save us; this is the 
Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and re-
joice in his salvation." Isa. 25 : 8, 9. " Thy dead men 
shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. 
Awake and sing. ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is 
as the dew of herbo, and the earth shall cast out the 
dead. Come my people, enter thou into thy chambers, 
and shut thy doors about thee; hide thyself as it were 
for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. 
For behold the Lord cometh out of his place to punish 
the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; the earth 
also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her 
slain." Isa. 26 : 19-21. And again he says: " For, behold, 
the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a 
whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his re-
buke with flames of fire. For by fire and by his sword 
will the Lord plead with all flesh; and the slain of the 
Lord shall be many." Isa. 66 : 15 ,16. 
Jeremiah predicts the battle of the great day of God, 
which is connected with the second advent of Christ: 
" The Lord shall roar from on high, and utter his voice 
from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon 
his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread 
the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth. A 
noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the 
Lard hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead 
with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the 
sword, saith the Lord � And the slain of the 
Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth even 
unto the other end of the earth; they shall not be la-
mented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung 
upon the ground." Jer. 25 :30, 31, 33. Compare this 
with. Rev. 19 : 11-21. 
The resurrection of the just is at the sound of the 
last trumpet (1 Cor. 15 : 51-54), when the Lord descends 
from Heaven. Matt. 24 :29-31; 1 Thess. 4 : 15-17, 
This resurrection is thus described by Ezekiel: " Behold, 
0 my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to 
come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land 
of Israel. And ye shall know that I am the Lord, 
when I have opened your graves, 0 my people, and 
brought you up out of your graves." Eze. 37 :12, 13. 
The events of the Judgment are thus described by 
the prophet Daniel: " I beheld till the thrones were 
cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose gar-
ment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like 
practical benefits, so far as they affect our present cir-
cumstances, are at best but indirect. The trouble we 
have with these foes is now; and the questicm with us is, 
is there any way in which they are conquered for us in 
the present tense ? 
Yes, there is a sense in which Christ proposes to con- 
quer these foes for us even now. He does not do this 
independently of any action on our part, but he con-
quers them by giving us the strength we need to over-
come them. So while it is true that our inward foes are 
not conquered for us absolutely without our co-opera-
tion, while we cannot stand idly by and have them 
brought and thrown lifeless at our feet, it is nevertheless 
true that we are not required to prosecute this warfare 
at our own charges, nor to depend for final victory on 
our own strength. 
Our Lord has made provision for every emergency. 
He has arranged to supply every want, and told us to 
whom to apply in every time of need. Yet with all 
this we find some at times giving away to discourage-
ment, and saying that they might as well give up the 
struggle; for they cannot accomplish the labor they 
have to perform, nor successfully prosecute the warfare 
in which they are engaged. 
If we had to depend on our own resources, we might 
well feel and talk and act thus; but when we consider 
that all needed help is promised us from on high, this 
puts altogether a different complexion on the matter. 
With this fact in view, those who yield to discourage-
ment, and propose thereupon to cease their efforts to 
run the Christian race, do one of three things: They 
disbelieve the Lord's promise to give them help wheh 
needed, or they insult his majesty by acting on the sup-
position that all the help he can impart is insufficient to 
meet the necessities of the case, or they despise their 
birthright by proclaiming that they care nothing for 
the object to be gained nor for the means by which to 
gain it. How is this treating the Lord ? 
Take an illustration: A person of wealth and ability 
takes another person into his employ. He assigns him 
a certain piece of work to perform. He gives him at 
the outset minute instructions, and informs him that at 
certain stagespf the work it will be necessary for him to 
incur considerable expense, and at other times it will be 
necessary to bring to bear great power in order to ac-
complish certain operations. But he tells him to come 
right to him whenever any expense is incurred. for he 
has ample funds, and will supply all that may be 
needed; and when power is demanded he has all the 
mechanical contrivances and other means necessary to 
furnish it, and will produce them as occasion requires. 
With matters thus arranged the man commences the 
work. Soon he incurs some expense, and thrusts his 
hand into his own pockets, and finds nothing to meet it. 
He comes to a hard place in the job, takes hold to ex-
ert what little strength he can, personally, and finds he 
can move nothing. Then he sits down and says, " T am 
discouraged. Here is expense that I cannot meet, and 
work to do that I am not able to perform. It's no use 
trying. I will give it all up." 
What would his employer think of such service ? 
Would he not say to him somewhat sharply, " What do 
you mean? Did I not tell you to come to me whenever 
funds were required and I would furnish them ? And 
did I not tell you that for all the hard places, I had 
the means to produce the necessary power, and would 
furnish them at call ? Do you doubt my word ? Do 
you distrust my ability to meet my pledges ? If so, I 
prefer some other person in your place who will show 
me more confidence and respect." 
Just in this way does every discouraged Christian 
treat the Lord. What right had the man in the illus-
tration to become discouraged and treat his employer as 
he did ? What right has the Christian to act exactly 
thus toward the Lord of glory ? Our short-comings and 
failures are owing to the fact that we try to meet the 
expense out of our own pocket, and carry on the work 
in our own strength. The fault is not with the Lord. 
nor with his plan. The plan is marked throughout 
with infinite wisdom, and the armory of Heaven is full 
of weapons, all placed at our disposal through the key 
of faith and the channel of prayer. 
Let there be no talk of discouragement nor of giv-
ing up the struggle. But let there be a going to the 
Fountain for life and vigor; let there be appeals to the 
Wise for wisdom, to the Strong for strength. The Lord 
has the means we need, even the gold tried in the fire; 
he has the clothing we must procure, the white raiment; 
he has the wisdom, the eye-salve with which he counsels 
us to anoint our eyes that we may see. With the Lord 
Jehovah is everlasting strength; and if we are his chil-
dren, and work in the way he directs, that strength is 
ours. �
U. S. 
Are You Discouraged? Why? 
IN one of the familiar hymns which we so often sing, 
occur these words:— 
" Yet let nothing spoil your peace; 
Christ shall also conquer these." 
This language is spoken of those " foes within " which 
so often " betray us into sin." How will Christ conquer 
these ? He will in the end, by an exertion of his own 
almighty power, destroy them, by destroying death and 
him that hath the power of death, that is the devil, the 
author of all those evil propensities by which men are 
drawn away and enticed. 
While it is a great source of encouragement to know 
that this will be so in the future, and the promise is 
one which is most precious and very full of comfort, its 
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to listen to the bleating of the flocks on the hills, 
the lowing of the herds in the meadows, the song 
�
 of the reaper and grape-gatherer, and the merry 
voices of children at play around the hamlets 
and villages. For about 200 years these colo-
nies continued to flourish." Historians say that 
it was a curious circumstance, but one to be 
looked upon as especially providential, that they 
found this southern home, and that they flourished 
as they did unmolested for two centuries. But 
the secret of their being left to themselves no 
doubt was partly owing to the fact that they 
strictly paid their tithes to the priests; and, as 
they prospered, the tithes so much increased above 
others that the priests could rest with satisfac-
tion by receiving the wealth from the colonies. 
It is stated that Petrarch first acquired a knowl-
edge of the Greek tongue from Barlaan a monk 
of Calabra. Learning revived in their midst. 
Their souls thirsted for knowledge. They estab-
lished schools, and the Bible still was to them 
the source of knowledge, and sciences were 
brought in, the study of which was carried to a 
greater extent than it was in the valleys. There 
were but a few towns in southern Italy where the 
Vaudois were not found, and there were not less 
than 6,000 of that nation in some of theiricities. 
The Waldenses ceased their missionaryspirit in 
thrusting their opinions upon the notice:of their 
neighbors. In process of time they were watched 
more narrowly. They noticed that it was foreign 
teachers who taught their children; that they had 
neither images nor lighted tapers in their churches; 
that they never went on pilgrimages; and they 
buried their dead without the aid of the priests. 
They also noticed that they never brought a can-
dle to the Virgin's shrine, or purchased mass for 
their dead relatives; and the reason that they 
were so quietly let alone was the punctuality and 
fidelity with which they paid their tithes. They 
were visited by ministers from the valleys; . but 
the time finally came that they called for minis-
ters to labor with them, which would revive that 
missionary spirit which existed in the valleys. 
For, since locating in southern Italy, the salu-
brious climate, the temporal prosperity that at-
tended them, had proved ruinous to the mission-
ary spirit. The spirit of giving the word of God 
to others, that had ever been a characteristic of 
that people, was left, in a great measure, to 
those who inh
abited the valleys. 
The missionary spirit was revived, and with it 
came persecution. While Satan could lull them 
to sleep in temporal prosperity, he let them re-
main quiet. As soon as they began to stir them-
selves to give the light to others, one would think 
that all hell had broken loose upon them. 
To repeat the sufferings which came upon them 
would only be to present the most terrible perse-
cutions that ever fell upon any martyrs during 
the papal persecution. A large army was raised, 
and they fell upon them while ue.prepared, and 
they were driven from their lands and tracked to 
their hiding-places in thickets and caves, an;; 
slaughtered as sheep. Powerful blood-hounds 
were set upon their track. Some of the fugitives 
climbed the craggy summits of the Apennines 
and hurled stones back upon the soldiers who at-
tempted to follow them. This resistance was 
only for a short period. The Waldenses offered 
to migrate and leave the country, but nothing 
would answer but return to the pale of the church. 
While they were tortured in every possible way, 
there ould not be extorted any confession that 
would lead them to renounce their faith. In or-
der that the zeal of those.who were endeavoring 
to torment them might be quickened, it is said 
that Marquis di Buccianici had the promise of a 
cardinal's hat if he would clear Calabria of heresy. 
We will not _recite the , persecutions that came 
upon this people, but we will give a copy of a 
letter written by a Roman Catholic, as recorded 
by McCrie about one circumstance, where eighty 
were butchered:— 
Most illustrious sir: I have now to inform you 
of the dreadful justice which began to be exe-
cuted on these Lutherans early this morn ing, begin-
ning the 11th of June. And to tell you the truth, 
I can compare it to nothing but the slaughter of 
so many sheep. They were all shut up in one 
house as in a sheep-fold. The executioner went, 
and bringing out one of them, covered his face 
with a napkin, or beuda, as we call it, led him out 
to a field near the house, and causing him to kneel 
down, cut his throat with a knife. Then taking 
off the bloody napkin, he went and brought out 
another, whom he put to death after the same 
gkecoiniunauf 
The Waldenses in Southern Italy. 
THESE valleys had their numbers largely in-
creased by the Albigensian refugees, who escaped 
from the massacre of Innocent III. in the south 
of France. This caused them to feel that their 
valleys were somewhat overcrowded; and the 
young among the Waldenses, feeling a spirit of 
enterprise, sought some other point where they 
could settle in seclusion. They did not desire 
to go into any other parts of Europe unless they 
could find some place where they could colonize 
by themselves, and worship God as they had in 
the mountains: One day, about the year 1340, 
two youths were at Turin, and became quite 
earnest in conversation upon this point. A stran-
ger stepped up to them, and said, " Come with me, 
and I will give you fertile fields for your barren 
rocks." He described Calabria, which was the 
southern extremity of the Italian peninsula. He 
set forth this country in a manner that created 
a great interest in the Waldensian youths. They 
reported back to the elders of the Vaudois peo-
ple, and they listened with interest. Finally a 
committee was appointed to visit this country. 
The explorers returned with a flattering account 
of the country they had been invited to occupy. 
There was a great contrast in the country of 
southern Italy and the country that the Walden-
ses inhabited. There the summit of the mount-
ains were covered all the year with snow.. In 
the gorges furious gusts swept down, which at 
times would strip their sides of corn and 'vines; 
but Calabria to them was a land of promise. 
Gilles, in describing the country, says: "There 
are beautiful hills clothed with all kinds of fruit-
trees, spontaneously springing up according to 
their situation; in the plains, vines and chestnuts; 
on the rising ground, walnuts and every fruit-
tree. Everywhere were seen rich arable land, 
and few laborers." Quite a colony emigrated to 
this new country. The young men took partners 
with them, and they carried with them their 
Bibles, " that holy ark of the new covenant, and 
of everlasting peace." Their prospect was an 
undisturbed exercise of their worship. Muston 
says: " By a convention with the local seigneurs, 
ratified later by the king of Naples, Ferdinand 
of Aragon, they were permitted to govern their 
own affairs, civil and spiritual, by their own mag-
istrates
' 
 and 
 their own pastors." They settled 
near the town of Montalto. About fifty years 
later there arose the city of San Sexto, which 
afterwards became the capital of the colony. 
They were greatly prospered. Towns and vil-
lages sprung up in the country which before was 
thinly inhabited and but poorly cultivated. The 
land became a smiling garden. Swelling hills 
were clothed with fruit-trees and the plains 
waved with luxuriant crops. Lands
l �
were offered 
them, that they might build cities and plant vine-
yards. Not only were they privileged to sur-
round their cities with walls, but they were 
especially authorized to do so. Toward the close 
of this century another body migrated to the 
south of Italy. These new corners settled in 
Apulia, not far from their brethren. They, too, 
were prosperous. In a short time villages and 
towns arose, and a new face was placed on the 
country by the improved arts and husbandry of 
the colonists. Nothing seemed more enjoyable. 
Their lands were covered with the olive and the 
vine; and their prosperity was a marvel, and be-
came the envy of their neighbors. About the 
year 1500 another emigration from the valleys 
went to what seemed to them like a land of 
promise. 
The third body of colonists established them-
selves on the Volturata, a river which flows from 
the Apennines into the Bay of Tarento. With 
their increase of numbers came an increase of pros-
perity. Their neighbors knew not the secret of 
it, and were lost in wonder and admiration. It 
seemed that the very touching of the soil by the 
plow of the Vaudois created a charm that made 
it open its bosom and yield a ten-fold increase. 
The vines which came under the hands of the 
Vaudois bore richer clusters; and the fig and the 
olive seemed to try to outdo all cultivation by 
other individuals, in their richness and produc-
tion. Says Wylie: " How delightful the quiet 
and order of their towns, and the air of happi-
ness on the faces of the people! And how sweet 
manner. In this way the whole number, amount-
ing to eighty-eight men, were butchered. I leave 
you to figure to yourself the lamer.table specta-
cle, for I can scarcely refrain from tears while I 
write; nor was there any person, after witne-s-
ing the execution of one, could stand to look on 
a second. The meekness and patience with which 
they went to martyrdom and death are incred-
ible. Some of them at their death professed 
themselves of the same faith with us, hut the 
greater part died in their cursed obstinancy. All 
the old met their death with cheerfulness, but the 
young exhibited symptoms of fear. I still shud-
der while I think of the executioner with the 
bloody knife in his teeth, the dripping napkin 
in his hand, and his arms besmeared with gore, go-
ing to the house, and taking out one victim after 
another, just as a butcher does the sheep which 
he means. to kill." 
This persecution continued until the few sur-
viving Vaudois returned to their native land to 
find their brethren in a distressed condition from 
persecutions by the same 'power. But their 
brethren received them with open arms. They 
were welcomed to all the blessings which they 
enjoyed, however meager they were. Thus did 
that prosperous colony become extinct. 
S. N. HASKELL. 
The Michigan Camp-Meeting. 
WE arrived at the Michigan camp-ground 
Thursday, Sept. 27. The meeting had been in 
progress a number of days. It was one of un-
usual interest. There was probably as large a 
gathering of Sabbath-keepers as has assembled 
for hundreds of years. It was estimated that 
upon Sabbath-day there were upwards of fifteen-
hundred of those who keep the Lord's Sabbath 
present. Sister White spoke, and the blessing 
of God rested upon the people in a large measure. 
Over two hundred came forward for prayers. 
There was a general move through the camp, 
and a desire manifested to seek God in a manner 
which showed that hearts had been touched by 
his Holy Spirit. 
On Monday the subject of the foreign missions 
was presented by Eld. Butler and others. The 
brethren felt the necessity of doing something in 
advance of what they had done in the past. About 
$8,000 was pledged. This is more than twice as 
much as had ever been pledged for foreign missions 
at any one camp-meeting this side of the Rocky 
Mountains, with the exception of Iowa. It is 
evident the missionary spirit is deepening, and 
our faithful brethren are becoming convinced 
that the time has come for an advance move 
throughout the entire ranks of our people. The 
cause is rising, and many are trying to seek God 
for that preparation of heart that will enable 
them to bear some humble pant in the advance 
moves that are being made. 
Another move was made Monday forenoon to 
call forward those that were backslidden in heart 
and separated from God, and those who never had 
commenced to serve him. A general breaking 
down before God was manifested. Some who had 
long been wandering from the right path made 
humble confessions. Some that had given up all 
hope desired to make one more start to serve 
God. The Spirit of God came in to convert hearts, 
and many were especially blessed. The subject 
of Bible-readings was introduced at this meeting, 
and the brethren manifested as deep an interest. 
as we have seen in 'any place. At an informal 
meeting of the ministers and leading brethren, 
the morning the meeting broke up, the following 
resolution was unanimously adopted:— 
WHEREAS, The holding of Bible-readings in connec-
tion with other colporteur work has been recommended 
to precede and accompany the preaching of the truth; 
and, 
WHEREAS, Those who think of engaging in this work 
feel the necessity of a special preparation; therefore, 
Resolved, That we hold a ten-days' institute imme-
diately preceding the General Conference for improve-
ment in this direction, and that we request Eld. Haskell 
to conduct this institute. 
Several of the brethren spoke with much feeling 
of the importance of this institute, and expressed 
thankfulness at the prospect of sharing its advan-
tages, after which the resolution was passed by 
a rising vote. It was also voted to invite all the 
delegates to the General Conference to attend the 
institute, and all others whom the Conference 
Committee shall recommend. 
Accordingly, the appointment has been made 
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for a meeting of the leading tract and mission-
ary workers and officers, and also the ministers 
and licentiates of the Michigan Conference, to 
hold a meeting commencing Oct. 30, and continu-
ing till Nov. 7, when special instruction will be 
given upon the subject of Bible-readings; also in 
canvassing for the SIGNS, and " Thoughts on Dan-
iel," and the colporteur work. 
It is evident that our brethren are waking up 
to the necessity of preparing themselves to enter 
the work of God in a manner that they never 
have before. Hundreds of men and women are 
wanted to labor in the harvest-field. We want 
men of judgment; men of good, sound moral 
character; those who are not moulded by influence 
brought to bear upon them; individuals of sterling 
moral worth, that will sway and not be swayed; 
those who can mould minds, and interest men and 
women in the solemn truths which we profess. 
The department of special instruction to be 
given in the Bible, at Healdsburg, Cal., has 
commenced none too soon. in fact, we are at 
least one year behind. It may not be necessary 
that some individuals remain a full term before 
they go out to labor; but correct ideas should be 
entertained how to properly relate ourselves to 
the work of God. Not only young men and 
women are wanted, but men of mature years; 
even if their heads are sprinkled with gray hairs, 
they are none too old to visit families and tell 
what God has done for them, and read the Script-
ures. 
At this camp-meeting there were between 130 
and 140 tents on the ground. Everything consid-
ered, it was thought that the results of the meet-
ing were as good as any meeting ever held in the 
State. We look forward to great good and ad-
vance moves in this State, if the resolutions are 
carried out that were made on this camp-ground. 
Our friends will be pleased to hear that Sister 
White has been specially sustained of God, and 
her testimony was never clearer and more power-
ful than upon this trip East,. For all of these 
blessings we can only say, praise the Lord for 
his goodness manifested to his people. 
S. N. HASKELL. 
Colorado Camp-Meeting. 
THIS meeting was held in Denver. Park, just 
outside the city limits. The ground was pleas-
ant, and the weather very fine during the entire 
meeting. 
There was not as large an attendance.of our 
people as we had hoped to see. Fifteen tents, in-
cluding the large one, were pitched on the ground 
with about fifty campers. There were but few who 
attended from the outside. In this we were not 
disappointed, for three years' experience has 
taught us not to look for large congregations of 
unbelievers in Colorado. We firmly believe 
deep and lasting impressions were made on- the 
minds of the most of those who did attend, and 
that the results will be seen in the kingdom of 
God. 
At the very opening of the meeting I was taken 
quite severely sick, which utterly unfitted me for 
any active part during the entire week's services. 
Early on Thursday, Bro. Farnsworth came upon 
the ground in excellent health, and immediately 
took the burden of the work. His preaching 
was with force and convincing power. But little 
burden was felt for doctrinal discourses, but nearly 
all the sermons given were of a close, practical 
nature, and all the people felt that they were in-
dited by the spirit of God, and were meat in due 
season. 
The Sabbath-school on Sabbath morning was 
a profitable occasion, and gave those who have 
newly come to the faith a good idea how this 
branch of the work is to be carried on. All were 
deeply impressed with what a power for good our 
Sabbath-schools may be if rightly conducted. 
The business of the Conference was attended 
to. �
Fifteen delegates, representing four churches 
and two classes, took into consideration the wants 
of the cause in this State. In looking over the 
work it appeared that more had been accom-
plished the past ten months in bringing souls to 
the truth than in any previous year. Two breth-
ren received licenses and Bro. A. J. Stower was 
ordained to the gospel ministry. On Monday 
morning seven were baptized.. 
Early Tuesday morning was our last meeting, 
when many feeling testimonies were given. 
Hardly a soul had left the ground previous to 
this service, and when it closed the camp soon 
disappeared. Thus ended our first camp-meeting 
in Colorado. The people returned to their hordes 
with their faith and confidence strengthened in 
God and his cause and in one another. 
E. R. JONES. 
Ztnititrante, 
The Liquor Question. 
WHY should the liquor question be so hard to 
deal with? In every one of our States it is engross-
ing a large share of public attention. In several 
of them at this moment political discussion turns 
largely upon it. "While in value the manufacture 
of distilled spirits stands to all other manufactures 
in proportion of only one to seventy, in influence 
it surpasses them all. Such is the relation of this 
manufacture to the Government that one-half the 
entire internal revenue receipts are paid by it, and 
it has been known to corrupt revenue officers with 
a lavish hand. It elects aldermen and legislators, 
and corrupts members of Congress. It stands in 
the way of good government and good order at 
every corner. These are plain facts, which no in-
telligent person can ignore." 
Thus speaks a paper of Chicago, the Herald, 
which, with the other respectable journals of that 
city, upholds the $500 license law recently en-
acted by the Legislature of Illinois. The Herald 
proceeds to consider why it is that this one in-
terest should reappear so persistently at every 
turn of the political highway. The answer it finds 
in the nature of the commodity and in the enor-
mous profit of the trade in it. Whisky, it ob-
serves, is an article which can be consumed to 
an unlimited extent, and furnishes an enormous 
margin of profit between the producer and the 
consumer. It is worth at wholesale to-day $1.16 
a gallon. The total amount consumed last year 
was upwards of 76,000,000 gallons, of which less 
than 2 per cent. was used in the arts and for me-
chanical purposes, leaving upwards of 74,000,000 
gallons to be drunk. All of this reached the con-
sumer at prices varying between $8 a gallon and 
$19, the latter being the current rate over first-
class bars. Taking the average at $12, we have 
a total of $812,000,000 as the price paid in a single 
year for intoxicants. Taking away from this the 
cost and the tax, say, $1.16 a gallon, we have left 
$733,840,000 as the gross profits of the traffic in 
a single year. 
Now the entire revenue of the general Govern-
ment for 1882 was $403,525,250, and the entire 
sum raised by State taxation was $61,612,681. 
The statistics of municipal expenses are not at 
hand, but they can scarcely have more than quad-
rupled the State taxation. In that case the milk 
in the whisky cocoa-nut is about equal to the 
entire sums expended for all kinds of Govern-
mental purposes, including interest on all the 
pub.lic bonds and securities. And that is reason 
enough why the whisky men desire to control 
legislation, arid why, above all things, they strive 
against anything that bids fair to cut them off 
from the soft thing they have in their practice 
at the bar.—Oregonian. 
THE following story from a foreign journal (Ga-
lignani) gives an impressive view of the compo-
nents of some of the mixtures sold as wine. Stuff 
like this, and even viler, is what some churches 
innocently persist in buying for the celebration of 
the Lord's Supper " In our last issue we gave 
an account of a meeting of the Paris retailers of 
wine, in which they endeavored to show that they 
were the victims of intolerable oppression. They 
would have the public believe that they are more 
' sinned against than sinning. ' The following 
story, however, told by M. Scholl in the Evens-
ment, goes far to prove the contrary: _break-
fasting at home recently,' he says, I ate a certain 
rognon saute, which I shall not soon forget. At 
the third mouthful I stopped. My palate and 
lips were on fire. ' What have you put into this 
sauce ? ' I asked my modest cordon bleu. 'Sir, 
as I had not the key of the cellar, I bought a 
bottle of Chablis at the grocer's for fifty cents.' 
Is there any left ?' ' Yes, about half.' �
Bring 
me that Chablis.' I poured a spoonful into my 
glass to taste this new sort of wine. It had no 
taste. There was no trace even of raisins, nor 
of brandy. But I burned my tongue with it, and 
that horribly. I had the stuff analyzed by a 
chemist. It was merely water mixed with sul-
phuric acid. The maker had not even gone to 
the expense of a bunch of raisins or a few drops 
of alcohol. This composition is sold openly at 
fifty cents a bottle, under the name of Chablis Su-
perieur. 
What must inferior Chablis be ?' "—Set. 
DR. G. DECAISNE has had in his charge thirty-
eight youths, from nine to fifteen years of age, 
who were addicted to smoking, and has made 
known some interesting results concerning the 
effects of tobacco upon these boys. The extent 
to which tobacco was used varied; and the effects 
were unequal, but were very decided in twenty-
seven cases. With twenty-two of the boys there 
was disturbance of the circulation, palpitation of 
the heart, imperfect digestion, sluggishness of 
intellect, and to some extent a craving for alco-
holic stimulants. Twelve patients suffered from 
bleeding at the nose; ten had constant nightmare; 
four had ulcerated mouths ; and one became 
a victim of consumption. The symptoms were 
most marked in the youngest children, but among 
those of equal age the best fed were the least 
affected. Eleven boys stopped smoking and were 
cured within a year.— Woodland Democrat. 
ACCORDING to the Rev. Dr. Crosby of New York, 
ProtestaLt Christianity is in a bad way. He says, 
in a recently published lecture, that " the great • 
bulk of the Protestant Church is identified with 
the world. It has a name to live while it is dead. 
It has turned its doctrine into naturalism or ra-
tionalism, and its life into selfishness. The old 
land-marks are gone. Family prayer is given up. 
Sunday newspapers are read, prayer-meetings are 
ignored, worldly partnerships are formed, social 
sins are connived at, even excused, the pulpit is 
made a stage on which to strut and pose before a 
gaping world, and religion is made one of the in-
struments of fashion. We may not cure this 
dreadful evil, but we may ourselves avoid it and 
its doom. We may look to ourselves and to our 
own families, that we go not with the multitude of 
Christians to evil and to perish in the hour when 
Christ shall come as a thief to their dismay." 
W HO SUPPORT THE GROG-SHOPS ?-.111 a recent 
address at a temperance meeting in Brooklyn, a 
speaker said what it would be well for Christians 
to think about: " It is Christian people who sup-
port the grog-shops. Eighty-seven per cent. of 
all the liquor-holes in Brooklyn are owned by 
people who profess to love God and to believe the 
gospel. I will also say that eighty-seven per 
cent. of the property in New York City used for 
the sale of rum and other abominations is owned 
by professing Christians and church-members. 
It is all well enough to blame the politicians for the 
success of the rum traffic, but the politicians are 
what the people make them, and rum will never 
be put down so long as Christian people vote with 
the rum-seller."—Ex. 
THE Hon. J. G. Blaine gives this testimony 
as to prohibition in Maine: " Intemperance has 
steadily decreased in this State since the first en-
actment of the prohibitory law, until now it can 
be said with truth that there is no equal number 
of people in the Anglo-Saxon world among whom 
so small an amount of intoxicating liquor is con-
sumed as among the six hundred and fifty thou-
sand inhabitants of Maine." 
IT may be true that millions of revenue may be 
raised from the liquor traffic, but what good does 
it accomplish ? Every cent of it goes for whisky. 
If the tax were doubled or trebled it would in no 
case pay the drink bill. The whisky bill of the 
State is represented by the expense caused by the 
liquor traffic. It takes not only the tax on the 
traffic, but millions of revenue derived from other 
sources to pay it. Get rid of the traffic.—Lever. 
THE National Baptist, referring to the notices 
in the papers of the "rare wines " at the White 
House, makes the capital point: " But the wines 
were much more rare in the days of President 
Hayes and President Garfield." 
THE seal of suffering impressed upon our des-
tiny announces in clear characters our high call-
ing. 
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the Louie jute. 
AT HOME ON THE FARM. 
COME, boys, I have something to tell you, 
Come near, I would whisper it low; 
You are thinking of leaving the homestead; 
Don't be in a hurry to go. 
The city has many attractions, 
But think of the vices and sins; 
When once in the vortex of fashion, 
How soon the course downward begins ? 
You talk of the mines of Australia; 
They've wealth in red golden, no doubt, 
But, ah! there is gold on the farm, boys, 
If only you'll shovel it out. 
The mercantile life is a hazard, 
The goods are first high and then low; 
Better risk the old farm a while longer; 
Don't be in a hurry to go! 
The great, busy West has inducements, 
And so has the busiest mart! 
But wealth is not made in a day, boys; 
Don't be in a hurry to start! 
The bankers and brokers are wealthy; 
They take in their thousands or so; 
Ah! think of the frauds and deceptions— 
Don't be in a hurry to go! 
The farm is the safest and surest; 
The orchards are loaded to-day; 
You are free as the air on the mountains, 
And monarch of all you survey; 
Better stay on the farm a while longer, 
Though profit comes in rather slow; 
Remember you have nothing to risk, boys— 
Don't be in a hurry to go! 
Selfish John Clark. 
THE meeting was a good one in spite of the 
intense heat, and there was more singing done 
by mosquitoes than by,the human species. 
John Clark sae by an open window, where 
what breeze there was came in and kept him 
comparatively comfortable, and then he had on a 
clean linen suit which his wife had washed and 
ironed that day, notwithstanding the mercury 
mounted high in the nineties, and its freshness 
was an additional comfort. 
His first crop of hay, much larger than usual, 
had that day been put in his spacious barns, with-
out damage by so much as a drop of rain. He 
was well, strong, prosperous, therefore happy. 
The ride home was charming, and as the new 
horse took them through Cairnley woods with 
sure, fleet feet, he felt that life was very bright; 
and, as he thought of Brother White's remarks 
about " weary burdens," " feet tired with the 
march of life," he concluded that the aforesaid 
brother was not in the enjoyment of religion. 
John's wife sat back in' the carriage resting her 
tired body and turning over in her mind the re-
marks her John had made at the meeting. " Bear 
ye one another's burdens," had been the subject 
of the evening's talk, and John's speech had been 
listened to with evident relish. 
" Your husband has the root of the matter in 
him," said the pastor. " I hope we shall all take 
heed to his well-timed words." 
 
I think of hiring Tom Birch as a sort of spare 
hand and call-boy generally. I find this hot 
weather takes the starch out of me," John said, 
as the horse trotted through the cool pine grove 
and flickers of moonlight. 
" Will you board him ? " asked Mary Clark, 
in a constrained voice, with the memory of her 
husband's exhortations still in mind. 
" Of course. I want him evenings to take the 
horse when we come home from meetings, or if 
I have taken a friend out. It is rather hard to 
have to go to work directly after one gets home." 
" You are to hire him to bear some of your 
burdens," said Mary, in the same hard voice. 
" Just so, wife. It stands me in hand to prac-
tice, if I preach; don't you say so ? " 
" I do. I am glad you are to have help; as 
you say, it is hard to go to work the minute you 
get home. I. have been foolish enough to have 
this ride spoiled by thinking of bread to mix, 
two baskets of clothes to fold before I sleep, for 
the ironing to-morrow, and dinner to get for four 
hungry men, and baby to care for." 
" Don't crowd to-morrow's burdens into this 
pleasant ride. And it seems to me that it would 
be better to get all your housework done before 
meeting-time." 
" If I could, but that is impossible; milk to 
strain, dishes to wash, Benny and baby to put to 
bed—all these duties come together, and then I 
a,m tired enough to go to bed myself." 
" Take it easy, Mary; keep cool, and avoid all 
the hot work you can." 
" I wish I could have a girl, John ! " 
" Mother used to say that girls were more hin-
drance than help; I guess you would find them 
so, and then they waste and break more than 
their wages. I don't see how I can afford a girl. 
Do what you can, and leave some things undone; 
that's the way to work it," and John sat back 
with a satisfied air, and Mary thought of her hus-
band's glowing words in the prayer-meeting. 
" I will do all I can," said Mary, in a weary 
voice. " What I am obliged to do is much be 
yond my strength. The three meals come near 
together, washing and ironing must be done, baby 
shall not be neglected, and, of course, I must keep 
the clothes well mended." 
" One thing at a time is the way to think of 
your duties. Pick up all the comfort you can as 
you go along. I have made up my mind to do so 
in the future." 
" So I see by your thinking of having an extra 
hand." 
" Yes. I feel that I must take care of my 
health for your sake and the children's." 
" Certainly," Mary answered in a sarcastic 
tone•' 
 how thoughtful you are for us ! " _ 
John made no further comment, but inwardly 
wished that prayer-meetings did Mary the good 
they had done once, and wondered why his wife 
had so changed. 
" I am going with Squire Towne to see a new 
reaper; he says he hardly wants to buy without 
my opinion." This ,was next day. 
John left his wife ironing, with the half-sick 
baby sitting by the table in the company of an 
army of flies, and, in spite of the home scene, en-
joyed his ride along the pleasant, shaded road, 
well pleased to be seen so much with the great 
man of the town. At supper time he came home 
with a new reaper behind the wagon. 
" By taking two we made a handsome saving; 
and, as I intended to buy one, I thought I might 
as well take it now," he remarked, by way of ex-
planation. " It wil save time and strength, and 
will pay foritself in a year." 
Mary made no comment, but set her teeth 
tighter together when she remembered that she 
had asked in vain for something to make her 
work easier. A sewing-machine had been pro-
nounced " hurtful;" " better have fewer changes of 
clothing than run a machine," John had decided 
when the subject was discussed; a " clothes-wringer 
would be constantly out of order." " To bring 
the water into the house would be just to spoil 
the water. Nothing, after all, like the good old 
bucket. Mother would never have a pump in 
her day ! " 
" My mother used to say all men are selfish, 
and I begin to think she was right," Mary mut-
tered, -as she went to the kitchen for the plate of 
hot biscuit John was so fond of for his tea. 
Her husband's appetite was good, but from 
fatigue and overheating herself; Mary could not 
eat. His ride and the society of the genial Squire 
had acted like a tonic, but there is no tonic in the 
air of a hot kitchen. 
"A commonplace life," she said, and she cleared 
away the tea-dishes, while John tilted back in his 
arm-chair on the cool, draughty porch and talked 
over things with neighbor Jones. 
" Why don't you buy widow Patch's cranberry 
medder?" asked Mr. Jones; "it's going dirt cheap, 
and you can afford it." The sum was named, 
figures that astonished Mary, and she was more 
surprised when she heard her husband say:— 
" I've half a mind to do it. I've just had an 
old debt paid in, and, to tell the truth, affairs in 
the money market are so equal, I don't know 
just where to salt it down." 
No tears came to Mary's tired eyes, but her 
heart went out in one mighty Rob as she stood 
dish-pan in hand, before the disordered table, and 
thought how cheaply she had sold herself, really 
for two dollars a week and her board, to the man who 
had promised to love and cherish her until death. 
The beautiful piano she had brought to the farm 
was never opened, but looked like a gloomy 
casket, wherein was buried all the poetry of her 
life. The closed " best parlor" had long since 
assumed the grimness and mustiness of country 
best parlors, of which in her girlhood she had 
made such fun. John was a rich man, and, in 
spite of his marriage vows and his prayer-meeting 
talk, was allowing burdens grievous to be borne 
to press on her slender shoulders, in order to 
" salt down " his dollars. 
Had she not a duty to perform ? Ought she 
allow him to preach and never to practice ? Had 
she not rights to be respected, which were not by 
her husband ? for she reasoned, if he allowed 
her to do, what could be done by any ignorant 
woman for two dollars a week, then he rated her 
at that price. 
"Widder Patch has had a rough time on't," 
said neighbor Jones; "she is going to the west-
w'rd to Tom, if she sells the medder, and Jane 
is going out to work. She's tried sewing, but it 
don't agree with her, and Dr. Snow recommends 
housework as healthy business." 
" 'Tis healthy business ! " chimed in John. 
" Now, my wife is a good deal better than when 
I married her. Why, she never did a washing in 
her life until she came to the farm. I think 
washing and general housework is much better 
than piano-playing and reading." 
" So I say to the girls, who pester me to buy 
an organ. Better play on the wash-board enough 
sight," was the elegant response. 
" Are you going to buy the cranberry meadow, 
John ?" Mary asked, as she saw her husband 
making preparations to go from home. 
" Yes—why?" 
"Can you afford it?" 
"We shall have to figure a little closer in order 
to do it, but it is going cheap." 
"You will have to give up Tom Birch, won't 
you, and do the chores yourself?" 
"I have thought of it, but Tom is poor, and to 
give him a good home is a deed of charity. No, 
we will save some other way." 
"How much do you pay Tom?" 
" Three dollars and his board. And; by the 
way, he says you didn't wash his clothes. Wash-
ing and mending was in the bargain." 
"I think Tom will have to go, for I have hired 
Jane Patch. She will be here to-night. Two 
dollars a week I am to give her. You want to 
practice 'Bear ye another's burdens' as well as 
preach from the text, so I will give you a chance. 
I will take my turn at sitting on the cool piazza 
after tea with a neighbor, while you do the chores. 
I think the time has come for some of my bur-
dens to be lifted. By exchanging Tom for Jane 
you will have one dollar a week for the cranberry 
meadow. You say strong, active Tom is in need 
of a home; he can make one for himself anywhere. 
It is a deed of charity to give Jane a home, and 
an act of mercy to give your wife a little rest." 
Before John could recover from his astonish-
ment, Mary walked out of his sight, and, taking 
the children, went to the shut-up parlor. Throw-
ing open the windows to let in the soft summer 
air, with baby in her lap, she sat down at her 
piano, and began to play a " song without words," 
a piece John had loved to hear when he used to 
visit her in her home, where she was a petted 
girl. The song crept out through the open win-
dow, and around to John as he sat on the porch, 
and memory compelled him to give the song 
words. Not musical poetry, but rather somber 
prose, wherein washing, ironing, hard days at 
the churn, hours of cooking for hungry men, 
stood out before his mind's eye in contrast to the 
fair promises he had made the pretty girl he had 
won for his bride. 
Jane Patch came that evening, and at once 
took upon herself many of Mrs. Clark's cares, 
and no one greeted her more cordially than the 
master of the house. Nothing was ever said 
about ,her coming, and Tom Birch did not go 
away; so Mary knew the husband could well 
afford the expense. 
She told me how she hoped to make one man 
thoughtful and unselfish, as we sat on her cool 
piazza, one hot August night; and I was glad 
that one woman had grit enough to demand her 
rights. If John Clark had been poor, his wife 
would have borne helliburdens in patience, but she 
had no right to help make him selfish and indif-
ferent as to her health and comfort.—Boston 
Watchman. 
DID you ever see a counterfeit ten-dollar bill? 
Yes. Why was it counterfeited ? Because it was 
worth counterfeiting. Was the ten-dollar bill to 
blame ? No. Did you ever see a scrap of brown 
paper counterfeited? No. Why ? Because it 
was not worth counterfeiting. Did you ever see a 
counterfeit Christian ? Yes, lots of them. Why 
'was he counterfeited ? Because he was worth 
counterfeiting. Was he to blame? No. Did 
you ever see a counterfeit infidel ? No; never. 
Why ?—Christian Statesman. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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OCTOBER 18, 1883. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
—Iowa has gone Republican by a large majority. 
The election of Governor Sherman is a victory for the 
temperance cause, as well as for the Republicans. 
—The mother of Joaquin Miller, the poet of the 
Sierras, over sixty years of age, married last week in 
Eugene City, Or., a young chap just above his majority. 
The advertising columns of the London papers 
furnish abundant evidence that there are proportion-
ately many more unemployed persons there than with 
us. Servants continually advertise for places where 
no " remuneration is expected," and it is the usual thing 
for men to pay premiums to get their sons a situation. 
Mrs. Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, granddaughter 
of Captain Truckee, delivered an address in New York 
on the 10th inst. She talked of her p.'ople and told the 
story of their wrongs. She was overcome with emotion, 
and there was not a dry eye in the audience Mrs. 
Hopkins advocated the appointment of women as Indian 
Agents instead of men. 
--Miss Clara Davenport, who forty years ago was one 
of the most brilliant and accomplished young artist in 
New York, counting among her patrons many of the 
then prominent men, has been lost to the world for some 
time. She married a young man named Thornton, son 
of a Vermont Judge. He lived a fast life and became 
insane. Recently Mrs. Thornton has been discovered 
living in New Jersey in squalid poverty. She was liv-
ing in one room, with no windows, and the floor littered 
with dirt, the poor woman lying sick on a miserable 
bed. 
Religious Notes. 
—The First Congregational Church of Hartford, 
Conn., celebrated its 250th anniversary October 11. 
—Apostle Taylor, President of the Mormon Church, 
expresses the opinion that none will pass the gates of 
the celestial kingdom who do not abide by the celestial 
law of polygamy. 
A Neufchatel, Switzerland, dispatch says: " The 
State Council has issued a decree expelling all for-
eigners suspected of an intention to. organize Salvation 
Army meetings. 
—The Catholic diocese of Portland, Me., and New 
Hampshire will be divided, because of the increased 
Catholic population, and New Hampshire will be called 
the diocese of Manchester. 
The number of members of Baptist Churches in the 
Indian Territory, according to a statement prepared 
by the Rev. Daniel Rodgers, General Missionary, is 
6,419, distributed as follows: Cherokees, 1,800; Creeks, 
2,500; Choctaws and Chickasaws, 1,600; Seminoles, 365; 
Wichita Agency, 65; Ottawas, 45; Sacs and Foxes, 19; 
Peorias, 25. 
Mrs. Amanda Smith, who was once a slave in Del-
aware, and who is well knovin in many churches in 
Boston and Brooklyn, has reached Monrovia, Liberia, 
after three years of successful evangelistic work in 
Great Britain and the East Indies. She is working 
diligently among the Liberian colonists, but she finds 
herself hampered by a lack of temperance and other 
religious publications. 
—Moody and Sankey began operations in the Royal 
Theater, at Limerick, Ireland, on the 10th inst., the 
building being crowded to its utmost capacity, But a 
determined opposition to the services was manifested on 
the outside. A crowd of men and boys assembled in 
front of the building, and endeavored to interrupt the 
proceedings. They were dispersed by the police, but 
threats were made that force would be used to break up 
the meetings. 
—The Swedenborgians recently celebrated their cen-
tennial at London. There were representatives from 
this country and different parts of Europe. At the 
meeting it was said with particular emphasis that 
followers of Swedenborg did not profess to have inter-
course with spirits. Speaking of the occurrence, the 
London Times took occasion to say that " Swedenborg 
was out of his mind for the last thirty years of his life. 
In every country there are a large number of persons 
on the verge of insanity. To such persons Swedenborg's 
fantastic absurdities commend themselves." 
News and Notes. 
—There were made in the United States last year 
17,000,000 barrels of beer. 
—Rev. Solomon Parzons has been nominated for Gov-
ernor of New Jersey on the prohibition platform. 
—The Mormon Church Constitutional Convention is 
in session, taking steps for the admission of Utah as a 
State. 
—Upward of 1,100 Chinamen left San Francisco for 
Hongkong on the steamer Coptic, which sailed on the 
11th inst. 
—Two negroes who boasted of killing Dick Wirlock, 
a white man, at Russelville, Ky., were hanged by a mob 
last week. 
—A negro was lynched at Huntsville, Ala., last week, 
for killing a Constable. He refused to give his name. 
A large reward is offered for his accomplice in the deed. 
—The Lady Superior and seven ladies attached to the 
Maria Institute, at Warsaw, under the direct patronage 
of the Czarina, have been arrested on the charge of ni-
hilism. 
—A letter, upon which a Confederate two-cent stamp 
was affixed, passed through the mails at Richmond a 
few 'days ago without being detected by the post-office 
authorities. 
—The prisoners in jail at Fort Madison, Iowa, escaped 
the other day by throwing pepper in the eyes of Deputy 
Marshal Young and knocking him senseless with a 
stick of wood. 
—One hundred and eight applications for divorce are 
to be heard at the October term of the Divorce Court for 
Suffolk County, Mass., in Boston. The list for the last 
April term contained 210 cases. 
—The Prohibition State Committee of Massachusetts 
has issued an address, in which it claims that the suc-
cess of either the Republicans or Democrats will not 
effect the prosperity of the rum interest. 
—The new Board of State Prison Commissioners con-
sists of John Boggs of Colusa County, W. C, Hendricks 
of Butte, W. C. Van Fleet of Sacramento, D. W. Gel-
wicks and Chas. F. Robbins of Alameda. 
A couple of men lately made an important strike 
in an old mine in Cerro .Gordo District, Inyo. The 
vein is twelve or fourteen inches wide, and consists of 
silver and lead assaying $1,000 to the ton. 
—Under the auspices of the Women's Memorial As-
sociation, of North Carolina, the work of removing the 
remains of 107 Confederate soldiers from the Arlington 
Cemetery to Raleigh, commenced October 1. 
Hunters in Panther Creek Swamp, in Mississippi, 
recently shot a deer that had a human skull impaled on 
one of the prongs of its right horn. The prong had en-
tered the eye and grown up around the skull bone. 
—The stockholders of ti e Northern Pacific Railroad 
complain bitterly of the heavy expense—$250,000--of 
the late Villard excursion celebrating the completion 
of the road, while the company was already so heavily 
in debt. 
—An epidemic has broken out among the children 
of Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, which the doctors can neither de-
fine nor control. It resembles scarlet fever, but baffles 
all remedies. Children take it and die within forty-
eight hours. 
Rebel bands entered the city of Port-au-Prince, 
Hayti, last week, and pillaged the stores; set fire to 
houses, and murdered all those who resisted them. 
Among the killed were two Generals. The troops 
finally dispersed the rebels. 
The Democrats of Ohio have gained a decided vic-
tory, defeating both the Republican party and the 
temperance movements. Judge Hoadly is elected Gov-
ernor, and a majority in both houses of the Legislature 
has been secured for the Democracy. 
—During the night of the 9th inst., two distinct shocks 
of earthquake were felt in this city, San Francisco, and 
other places adjacent to the bay. About the same time, 
Algeria, Africa, was the scene of a like visitation, only a 
little more severe, some buildings being injured on that 
side of the globe. 
A rose farm is a new Georgia industry. Two gar-
deners in the vicinity of Savannah planted three acres 
in rose trees. This year they sold 22,000 trees to per-
sons in the North, and had orders for 50,000 which they 
could not fill. The trees met with a ready sale at from 
$10 to $20 per hundred. 
—Eight men of a threshing crew, near North Ruff, 
Minn.' while sleeping near a granary, were suddenly 
covered with a large quantity of oats. Four were taken 
out dead, and the other four were with much difficulty 
restored to consciousness. The disaster was caused by 
the bursting of the granary. 
—The Spanish Government is not satisfied with the 
French apology for the rabble insult offered to her king 
in Paris, although said apology was published in the 
President's official journal. The German Government 
is backing Alfonso in demands for reparation, and the 
much-talked-of European war is again hinted at. 
—A number of cases of arsenical poisoning have re-
cently appeared among the women who count the new 
greenbacks in the Treasury Department at Washington. 
The fingers are mcisened by a sponge to facilitate count-
ing, and the moisture brings out the arsenic in the green 
dye. The poisoning in some instances has been accom-
panied by quite serious results. 
—A murderer named Ellis Craft was hanged at Gray-
son, Ky.,on the 12th inst. Before the execution he was 
immersd by a Baptist minister. On the gallows he 
sang, " Did Christ O'er Sinners Weep," and then offered 
prayer. There was a large crowd present, and one lady 
gave him a bouquet. His near relatives would not go to 
see the execution, but his brother wrote him a letter 
urging him to confess his crime if guilty. However he 
asserted his innocence to the last. 
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other book of twice the size, and yet it is so simplified as to be easily 
comprehended. The author quotes the opinions of many learned men 
concerning the Sabbath, and their conflicting theories are strongly con-
trasted with the clear, straight:orward teaching of the Bible. 
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OUR COUNTRY'S FUTURE FORETOLD. 
THE UNITED STATES IN PROPHECY. 
BY ELD. U. SMITH. 
THIS is a full exposition of a portion of prophecy which applies to our 
own Government, showing the position the United States holds in proph-
ecy, and the part it has to act in the closing scenes of time. 
THE SUNDAY MOVEMENT, 
Which is now attracting such general attention, is thoroughly canvassed, 
and abundant testimony is given to prove that it is fast coming to be the 
ALL-IMPORTANT QUESTION in this country. Facts and statistics are 
largely presented, showing in the most conclusive manner that this Gov-
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—Near Ligonier, Pa., last week, six children were 
poisoned by eating weeds while playing in the woods, 
two of them fatally. 
All persons implicated in the Egyptian rebellion 
have been granted amnesty, excepting those convicted 
of murder and outrage. 
—Ex-Postmaster-General James comes back from 
Europe believing that our postal system, as a whole, 
is the best in the world. 
—Hon. James G. Blaine is writing a history of " From 
Lincoln to Garfield," and the publishers have advance 
orders for 100,000 copies. 
—A jealous husband named Walker, a constable of 
Prescott, Arizona, shot and killed a young assayer, 
named Ralph, on the 10th inst. 
Prominent men of the various departments of trade 
in San Francisco are making a determined move for a 
world's fair in that city in 1887. 
A wounderful mineral is said to be found only in 
Missouri. It is called Adam's cobite, and is so hard that 
it will cut steel without losing its edge.. 
At the Louisville .Exposition A suit of clothes was 
presented to Governor Berry of Arkansas, made from cot-
ton picked only forty-eight hours before. 
The Martin Luther Society of New York has com-
pleted its arrangements for the celebration of the four 
hundredth anniversary of Luther's birth. 
—A man named Weitna recently attempted to as-
sassinate the President of San Domingo at Neyba, Hayti, 
when the President shot his assailant dead. 
—An election fight between a party of thirty negroes 
and as many whites occurred at Cumminsville, Ohio, on 
the 10th inst. Four persons were wounded. 
A letter-carrier in San Francisco, named W. L. 
Turner, has been detected in robbing letters and pack-
ages; His bail is fixed at $1,000, pending trial. 
—WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—InqUiries from many per-
sons as to whether they could be compelled to pay for 
newspapers sent to their address without authority, have 
called forth the following ruling from the Post-office De-
partment: The liability of a party to pay for newspa-
pers must be determined by the rules applicable to 
other contracts. When a publisher, without request 
from the party, either expressed or implied, shall send a 
paper, the mere fact that the party addressed takes the 
paper from the post-office does not of itself create an im-
plied consent. 
—Leroy has been convicted of the murder of Skerrett, 
in San Francisco, last August. The conviction was 
brought about by exhuming the body of deceased, when 
an examination of the throat convinced three physi-
cians that death was caused by strangulation. The 
body of Skerrett, it will be remembered, was found in a 
vacant building, the Coroner's inquest at the time fi iled 
to find the cause of death, and the matter was wrapped 
in mystery, although circumstances pointed to foul play 
on the part of Leroy. The theory of strangulation was 
suggested by a detective, and the case was followed up 
on that idea; which has proven correct. 
—The Chicago Board of Health has instituted a vig-
orous surveillance of the meat markets, to prevent the 
selling of diseased meat. Health Commissioner De-
Wolfe states that it is impossible to estimate the ill 
effects upon the people of Chicago caused by the num-
ber of cancerous beeves. " The effect of eating this 
beef," he says, "is septic fever, being a degree of blood-
poisoning, very similar to fever from other causes, hence 
the inability of physicians to trace the cancerous meat." 
DeWolfe has no doubt but that a number of deaths 
have resulted from the consumption of this meat, sold 
without the knowledge of the health authorities. 
—Henry M. Stanley is still at work exploring central 
Africa. A recent letter says: " Since I arrived on the 
Congo, last December, I have been up as far as the 
equator, and have established two more stations, besides 
discovering another lake, Mantaniba. I am really struck 
with the dense population of the equatorial part of the 
Congo basin, which, if it were uniform throughout, 
would give 99,000,000. The number of products and. 
character of the people are also remarkable. Rubber, 
ivory, camphor wood, and hosts of other things wouldre-
pay transportation, even by the very expensive mode 
at present in use. The people are born traders and are, 
for Africans, very enterprising and industrious." 
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" The Seventh-day Adventists are arranging to move 
A REPORT from Eld. Haskell of the Indiana Camp- their publishing house from Battle Creek. Michigan, 
meeting came a little too late for this paper. �
to Healdsburg, Cal. They have bought the Collegiate 
Institute of that place, and have established a college. 
THE permanent post-office address of Elder I. D. and They have, I presume, the largest number at that point 
Mrs A. P. Van Horn is Charlotte, Eaton Co., Michigan of any place in the State. Don't know whether they 
, have given up their old battle-ground on the east side 
PRIVATE letters give even more cheering reports of of the Rockies or not, or whether they have given up 
the Michigan Camp-meeting than the report sent for the States to hardness of heart." 
the paper. We have for months been looking for a re- �
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vival of the work, and we think we shall not be disap- any means the largest S. D. A. Church in this State. 
pointed. 
2. The Adventists have never had the remotest idea of 
WE have received a cheering and encouraging letter establishing a publishing house in Healdsburg. They 
from Sister White, concerning her labors and her health: have a large one in successful operation in Oakland, 
She has had strength, even beyond her expectation, in and they want no other in this State. 3. Our publish-
the meetings East. Her visit to the East was evidently ing house in Battle Creek, being the most extensive 
timely. Her labor was never more needed and better printing establishment in the State of Michigan, was 
appreciated than at the present time. �
never more prosperous than at present. The last year 
AT 1:30, on the morning of the 10th inst. we were has been a very encouraging year in. our work there. 
awakened by the vibratory motions of our cot, and the The idea has not been hinted to move it. 4. Our camp-
rattling of the windows. The sharpest shock of earth- meetings in the East, the present year, have been fruit-
quake was then felt that has visited us in some time. ful of much good, and our cause is prosperous " all along 
No damage was done. �
the line." 
*igns of the Chits+ 200 a year. 
the part of the editor." This is an increase of about 
The SIGNS OF THE TIMES, the only religious paper 
on the Pacific Coast which does not advertise, has in-
creased its circulation about 10,000 the present year. 
The Advocate will have to hurry up its " Check on 
Adventism," or it may be left behind. 
Virginia Homes. 
AT the General Conference last year we became ac-
quainted with Bro. Reuben Wright, who wishes to aid 
the cause of present truth, and to this end is desirous 
of selling a plantation of 770 acres of land in Fairfax 
Co., Va.; one and one-half miles from Clifton Station, 
two and one-half miles from Fairfax Station, on the 
Virginia Midland R. R.; twenty miles from Alexandria, 
by railroad or pike, and twenty miles from Washington 
City by wagon road. Between 500 and 600 acres of 
wood land—oak, pine, cedar, and othei woods. It is 
fitted up with mill, and other buildings, with stock, and 
implements to carry it on as a single plantation, or 
would make homes for settlers; springs and permanent 
water on the place. Location healthy. Good market 
in Washington City or Alexandria. 
We may make a further enumeration of its advan-
tages at another time. Those who wish to locate in 
Virginia, and would be glad to see their purchase money 
for a home go into the cause, will do well to look to 
this chance. Information may be obtained of Bro. 
Wright, Clifton, Fairfax Co., or of Eld. George I. Butler. 
We are led to wonder if this very reliable Christian 
did not so strongly wish we would give up our work, 
that he came to imagine it was so. 
$25,000 Wanted. 
So Very Reliable! 
WE must give the standing excuse, " a multitude of 
business," for our failure to answer letters from esteemed 
friends. In several cases we have sent cards where we 
would be pleased to send letters; but our friends under-
stand our present circumstances and will be indulgent. 
IT is seldom that we call attention to the contents of 
our paper. The articles recommend themselves. But 
we cannot refrain from making mention of the poetry on 
the third page of this paper, entitled, " Alone." It is a 
pleasure to read it. 
THE Healdsburg College year has commenced with 
goad prospects, though a larger number of advanced 
students is to.be desired. We suppose the number will 
be increased as winter approaches. Many people, young 
and old, are needed to be fitting themselves for work in 
the cause of truth. We hope to be able to give more 
definite information soon of the working of the school. 
WITH feelings of much gratitude we are able to say 
that our health is much improved during the past two 
or three weeks. The Lord is better to us than our fears, 
We would very much like a vacation for rest and recre-
ation, but we cheerfully submit to every providence 
which bids fair to benefit the precious cause to which 
our life has been devoted. 
IT is regretted by all our citizens of Oakland that the 
Post-office here has been lowered in its grade, because 
of the small sales of stamps, and the allowance for 
service has been reduced accordingly. Oakland has 
grown much within a few years past, and greatly needs 
increased service. But the P. 0. Department is guided 
only by the sales, which is manifestly a most unrea-
sonable basis. We belkve that Postmaster Dargie has 
done his best to have the citizens well served. But 
now they must wait. 
THE last quarterly meeting in Oakland was a good 
one. Over one hundred communicants were present at 
the celebration of the ordinances in the afternoon. 
Our efforts to have our resident members be faithful in 
this respect, are meeting with success, as well as our 
efforts to have all Sabbath-keepers in the city unite 
with the church, and all non-residents take letters to 
other churches. It is our desire to have an efficient 
working membership, all within the knowledge of the 
church officers. A good report comes also from the 
San Francisco quarterly meeting. 
A Comparison. 
THE Committee of the M. E. Conference on Book De-
pository and California Christian Advocate, reports as 
follows: " The circulation of the Advocate was on May 
1, 1880. 2.280, since which it has increased to 2,904, 
which speaks unquestioned fidelity and efficiency on 
International 'Tract and Missionary 
Society. 
THE International Tract and Missionary Society was organized Aug. 
13, 1874. It has furnished health and religious publications to co-oper-
ative missions and individuals in every State and Territory in the United 
States, and to every civilized nation on the globe. During 1883 it placed 
in free public libraries in this country over 6,000 volumes of standard 
religious books at a cost of over $6,000, two-thirds of which was donated 
by other funds and the publishers. It has also placed valuable books in 
many libraries in England, and supplied reading-rooms with health and 
religious periodicals. 
It has a free reading-room, No. 371, Third Avenue, New York City, 
where it will keep constantly on hand Health and Temperance publica-
tions to furnish co-operating mission.: and branch offices on the At. 
lantic Coast and in Europe. William J. Boynton, 200 East 27th Street, 
manager and city missionary. 
It has also a free reading-room 316 Fremont Street, San Francisco, 
Cal., from which place all ships are visited which enter that harbor. 
Andrew Brorsen and H. C. Palmer, city missionaries. 
Free reading-room at H Street, between Sixth and Seventh, East Port-
land, Oregon. Boston, Mass., J. R. Israel, residence Rowly, Mass. New 
Bedford, Mass., Mrs. Anna H. Bradford, residence Acushnet, Mass. The 
ship work at Liverpool, England, is under the charge of Geo. R. Drew, 
40 Price Street, Erkenhead, Cheshire, Eng. Eld. A. A. John, 161 Wil-
lingham Street, Great Grimbsy, Eng. At the above-mentioned places 
the public are cordially invited. 
The society is sustained by the liberalities of friends of missions. Do-
nations by draft or otherwise will be thankfully received and gratefully 
acknowledged by any of the above-mentioned agents, or Miss M. L. 
Huntly, Secretary South Lancaster, Mass., U. S. A. 
S. N. HASKELL, President. 
A MINE OF INFORMATION. 
HISTORY OF THE SABBATH AND FIRST 
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BY ELD. J. N. ANDREWS. 
THE Bible record of the Sabbath ; the secular history concerning it ; the 
successive steps by which the change to the first day was made, and the 
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EVERY TEXT OF SCRIPTURE concerning the Sabbath is commented 
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the seventh and the first-day Sabbaths are fully shown. A copious index 
enables the reader to find any text, or the statement of any historian. 
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Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. 
THOUGHTS ON BAPTISM. 
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OAKLAND, CAL., FIFTH-DAY, OCTOBER 18, 1883. 
THE NATURE AND TENDENCY OF 
MODERN SPIRITUALISM. 
BY ELD. J. H. WAGGONER. 
Tim is a thorough expose of the system of spiritualism. The author 
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from a large library of spiritualist publications, as to fully condemn them 
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Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. 
WE, the undersigned, hereby give the sums set to our 
names, to raise the sum of $25,000 to be placed under the 
control of trustees chosen at the annual session of the Cali-
fornia Conference. Said sum to be loaned to some of our 
Institutions at 5 per cent., the proceeds of which shall be 
used to assist those who are seeking an education at the 
Healdsburg College, to fill positions in the cause of God. 
Said individuals must be recommended by the Conference 
Committee and the College Faculty. 
William Butcher. 
�$5,000 
Joseph Leininger �
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John Morrison. �
 
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500 
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