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As I e'er, through good and ill, 
Footsore, struggle up life's hill, 
Looking upward to the blue, 
Ever yearning for the true,—
Strong or frail, howe'er I be, 
He leadeth me. 
What though the tear-drops sometimes start; 
"Blessed are the pure in heart," 
Are ever to me, words of peace, 
Bidding every tumult cease; 
With doubts or hopes—howe'er I be, 
He leadeth me. 
Or traveling in the perfect day, 
Keeping in the narrow way, 
To the mount where joys abound, 
The holy place where peace is found; 
Full of trust, where'er I be, 
He leadeth me. 
Beyond this vale of tears, I know 
A land where stilly waters flow; 
The pastures there are living green, 
And ever-blooming flowers are seen. 
That I may reach that glorious lea, 
He leadeth me. 
Clarenden, A rk. 
Grntrat Ar 
Home Training—Its Importance and 
Results. 
BY MRS. E. G. WHITE. 
" THAT our sons may be as plants grown up in 
their youth; that our daughters may be as cor-
ner-stones, polished after the similitude of a pal-
ace." It should be the object of every parent to 
secure to his children a well-balanced, symmet-
rical character. This is a work of no small mag-
nitude and importance. It will require earnest 
thought and prayer, no less than patient, perse-
vering effort. A right foundation must be laid, 
a framework, strong and firm, erected, and then 
day by day the work of building, polishing, per-
fecting, must go forward. 
Upon the mother rests, to a great degree, the 
responsibility of the early training of her chil-
dren. Did mothers but realize the importance of 
their mission, they would be much in secret 
prayer, presenting their children to Jesus, implor-
ing his blessing upon them, and pleading for wis-
dom to discharge aright their sacred duties. Let 
the mother improve every opportunity to mold 
and fashion the disposition and habits of her 
children. Let her watch carefully the develop-
ment of character, repressing traits that are too 
prominent, encouraging those that are deficient. 
Let her make her own life a pure and n:)ble ex-
ample to her precious charge. 
The mother should enter upon her work with 
courage and energy, relying constantly upon di-
vine aid in all her efforts. She should never rest 
satisfied until she sees in her children a gradual 
elevation of character, until they have a higher 
object in life than merely to seek their own pleas-
ure. Children should be taught at home to exert 
every faculty of mind or body. Thus they gain 
an understanding of .their own capabilities-, and 
at the same time strengthen and develop every 
power by calling it into action. 
Parents, your own home is the first field in 
which you are called to labor. The precious 
"Behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be." Rev. 22 : 12. 
VOLUME 8. 
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, FIFTH-DAY, MAY 25, 1882. �
NUMBER 20. 
Zite *gns of the 'Times. 
plants in the home garden demand your first care. It should be often read in the family circle, and 
To you it is appointed to watch for souls as they its precious teachings exemplified in the daily life. 
that must give account. Carefully consider your The golden rule, " Whatsoever ye would that 
work, its nature, its bearing, and its results. men should do to you, do ye even so to them," as 
Line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little well as the apostolic injunction, "In honor pre-
and there a little, you must instruct, warn, and ferring one another," should be made the law of 
counsel, ever remembering that your looks, words, the family. Those who cherish the spirit of 
and actions, have a direct bearing upon the fut- Christ, will manifest politeness at home, a spirit 
are course of your dear ones. Your work is of benevolence, even in little things. They will 
not to paint a form of beauty upon canvas, or to be constantly seeking to make all around them 
chisel it from marble; but to impress upon a hu- happy, forgetting self in their kind attentions to 
man soul the image of the Divine. �
others. This is the fruit which grows upon the 
Mothers, will you not dispense with useless, Christian tree. 
unimportant labor for that which must perish �
Few realize the influence of the little things 
with the using ? Will you not seek to draw near of life, upon the development of character. 
to God, that his wisdom may guide and his grace Mothers, cease to spend your time and strength 
assist you, in a work which will be as enduring for that which is merely attractive to the eye, 
as eternity? Aim to make your children perfect but which does not minister to comfort or real 
in character. Remember that such only can see happiness, and you will cut off a large share of 
God. �
the cares and worries that make you nervous and 
I speak the more freely'and earnestly, because irritable, impolite and unchristian. The precious 
I know that many parents are neglecting their moments heretofore given to needless labor should 
God-given work. They are themselves far from be devoted to beautifying the souls of your child-
purity and holiness. They do not see the defects ren, teaching them how they may obtain the 
of their children as they would if their own eyes inward adorning, that meek and quiet spirit 
were beholding and admiring the perfection of which God accounts of great price. 
Christ's character. 
If real politeness were practiced by all the 
For Christ's 
Christ's sake, for the sake of your children, 
rule 
seek to conform your own life to the divine stand- lowers of Christ, if obedience to the golden 
were made one of the corner-stones of Christian 
ard. Let nothing come in between you and your 
God. Be earnest, be patient and persevering, in- character, we would see fewer church-trials, less 
stant in season, out of season. Give your chil- hardness and animosity between brethren. There 
dren intellectual culture, and moral training. would be no harsh, thoughtless words, no strife 
for the highest place. God's people will be tested. 
Let their young hearts be fortified with firm, pure 
principles. While you have the opportunity, lay Every one will be exposed to the fierce fire of 
 t 
the foundation for a noble manhood and woman- trial and temptation. If we would not be con- 
slimed as dross, we must have the love of God— 
fold. �
the gold that has been tried—abiding in us. Now 
You must make the Bible your guide, if you is the time to soften and subdue our rough, harsh 
would bring up your children in the nurture and traits of character. We must cherish kindness, 
 
admonition of the Lord. Let the life and char- forbearance, Christian integrity. Ungenerous 
acter of Christ be presented as the pattern for criticism, hard speeches, questioning the motives 
them to copy. If they err, read to them what of another, or magnifying his faults, open the 
the Lord has said concerning similar sins. There door to Satan's temptations, and lead many away 
 
is need of constant care and diligence in this from God. The Holy Scriptures give us a safe 
 
work. One wrong trait tolerated by parents, and profitable rule for thought and conversation. 
" Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things 
uncorrected by teachers, may cause the whole 
character to become deformed and unbalanced. are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever 
Teach the children that they must have a new things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, 
heart; that new tastes must be created, new mo- whatsoever things are of good report; if there be 
tives inspired. They must have help from Christ; any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on 
they must become acquainted with the character these things." If we would have our children 
of God as revealed in his word. 
practice kindness, courtesy, and love, we our-
Family prayer receives too little interest and selves must set them the example. 
attention. In many cases, the morning and even- �
" Charity suffereth long, and is kind." It 
ing worship is little more than a mere form, a " thinketh no evil,"—another fruit borne on the 
dull, monotonous repetition of set phrases in tree of love. Our souls must be stayed upon God, 
which the spirit of gratitude or the sense of need imbued with his Spirit, if we learn these sacred 
finds no expression. The Lord accepts not such lessons. Said the apostle, " Gird up the loins of 
service. But the petitions of a humble heart and your mind." If the thoughts are rightly disci-
contrite spirit he will not despise. The opening plined, it will be a far less difficult task to control 
of our hearts to our Heavenly Father, the ac- the feelings. Looking unto Jesus, the author and 
knowledgment of our entire dependence, the finisher of our faith, will give us courage, hope, 
expression of our wants, the homage of grateful and constancy. Shall we not obey the teachings 
love,—this is true prayer. When we come plead- of God's word? Shall we not make it our guide 
ing the merits of Christ's blood, and trusting with and counselor? Shall we not devote time and 
implicit faith his promises, we shall secure the thought to its perusal ? How can Christians neg- 
blessing of the Lord. �
lect the book in which God has revealed his will 
Redeem the precious hours worse than wasted to men ? Our children need help to understand 
in talking of your troubles, or gossiping over the the Scriptures. They should become acquainted 
faults of others. Seek earnestly to God for help, with the life and character of Jesus, that they 
and you will become strong in his strength. You may love him, and choose to obey him. 
may have Christ as a guest in your home. Be Parents and guardians must themselves main-
not satisfied merely to bear the name of Chris- taro purity of heart and life, if they would have 
tians. Be in truth followers of Jesus. Let your their children pure. They must give the needed 
hearts be warmed with his love. Make him your instruction, an' in addition to this, they must 
friend, your helper, your counselor. �
exercise unceasing watchfulness. Every day new 
The most valuable rules for social and family thoughts are awakened in the minds of the young, 
intercourse, are to be found in the Bible. There new impressions made upon their hearts. The as-
is not only the best and purest standard of mor- sociations they form, the books they read, the 
ality, but the most valuable code of politeness. habits they cherish—all must be guarded. The 
Our Saviour's sermon on the mount contains in- interests of your children, for this life and the next. 
struction of priceless worth to old and young. are at stake. 
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THE SIGNS C7 THE TIMES. �VoL. 8, No. 20. 
" What now you do, you know not, �
dom come." Whoever understandingly prays this dom, and possess the kingdom forever, even for- 
But shall hereafter know, �
prayer virtually says, The kingdom has not yet ever and ever." Dan. 7 : 17, 18. Again, " And 
When the seeds your hands are sowing, 
To a ripened harvest grow." �
come, but, Lord, let the kingdom come, and " thy the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of 
will be done on earth as it is done in Heaven;" the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be 
When you stand before the great white throne, and thus it will be done when the kingdom of given to the people of the saints of the Most 
then your work will appear as it is. The books Christ is fully established. Then " violence shall High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, 
are opened, the record of every life made known. no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruc- and all dominions shall serve and obey him." 
Many in that vast company are unprepared for tion within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy Verse 27. A kingdom under the whole heaven 
the revelations made. Upon the ears of some, walls salvation, and thy gates praise. The sun must be a kingdom that shall fill the whole of 
the words will fall with startling distinctness, shall be no more thy light by day; neither for the earth. It is evident from these statements 
"Weighed in the balance, and found wanting." brightness shall the moon give light unto thee; that the Lord is at last to have a kingdom estab-
To many parents the Judge will say in that day, but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting lished over the whole earth, and indeed this is 
" You had my word, plainly setting forth your light and thy God thy glory. Thy sun shall no confirmed by the prediction of the prophet Zecha-
duty. Why have you not obeyed its teachings ? more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw riah, " And the Lord shall be king over all the 
Knew ye not that it was the voice of God ? Did itself; for the Lord shall be thine everlasting earth; in that day shall there be one Lord, and 
I not bid you search the Scriptures, that you light [as is said concerning the new Jerusalem, his name one." Zech. 14 : 9. 
might not go astray ? You have not only ruined Rev. 22 : 5], and the days of thy mourning shall If a kingdom of which there shall be no end 
your own souls, but by your pretensions to godli- be ended. Thy people also shall be all righteous; is finally to fill the whole of the earth, it must 
ness you have misled many others. You have no they shall inherit the land forever, the branch of be that the Lord has a purpose concerning our 
part with me. Depart, depart!" �
my planting, the work of my hands, that I may world, and concerning the race of beings which 
Another class stand pale and trembling, trust- be glorified. A little one shall become a thousand, be placed in the world, reaching farther than 
ing in Christ, and yet oppressed with a sense of and a small one a strong nation; I the Lord will what we see manifest in the present life. The 
their own unworthiness. They hear with tears hasten it in his time." Isaiah 60 : 18-22. To Lord has indped been pleased to state plainly his 
of joy and gratitude the M.aster's commendation. make our Lord's prayer suit the idea that his purpose, not only in respect to the formation of 
The days of incessant toil, of burden-bearing, and kingdom is now established, some have rendered the earth, but also in regard to the creation of 
of fear and anguish, are forgotten, as that voice, it thus, " Let thy kingdom be extended;" but it man. The prophet Isaiah declares, " Thus saith 
sweeter than the music of angel harps, pronounces does not so read. �
the Lord that created the heavens; God himself 
the words, " Well done, good and faithful servants, �
The ordinances which our Lord gave to his that formed the earth and made it; he hath 
enter ye into the joy of your Lord." There stand church are fitted to this state, and anticipate the established it, he created it not in vain, he formed 
the host of the redeemed, the palm branch of kingdom in the future. We instance the Lord's it to be inhabited." Isaiah 45 : 18. Concerning 
victory in their hand, the crown upon their head. supper. In instituting this, he said, " I will not who was, and who is, to inhabit the earth, we 
These are the ones who by faithful, earnest labor, drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until read, " The heaven, even the heavens are the 
have obtained a fitness for Heaven. The life- that day when I drink it new with you in my Lord's; but the earth hath he given to the chil-
work performed on earth is acknowledged in the Father's kingdom." Matt. 26 : 29. As Luke re- dren of men." Ps. 115 : 16. To the inquiry, What 
heavenly courts as a work well done. �
cords, " I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, must be man's condition in order to be a possessor 
With joy unutterable, parents see the crown, until the kingdom of God shall come." Luke of the earth ? we may gain an answer by refer-
the robe, the harp, given to their children. The 22 : 18. The final fulfillment of the ordinance enca to what he was when God gave him the 
days of hope and fear are ended. The seed sown must be when all who have by faith availed them- earth. The wise man says, " This only have I 
with tears and prayers may have seemed to be selves of the virtue of Christ's blood (represented found, that God hath made man upright, but they 
sown in vain, but their harvest is reaped with joy by the wine in the sacrament), are saved and in have sought out many inventions." Eccl. 7 : 29. 
at last. Their children have been redeemed. the kingdom of God with our adorable Redeemer. God formed the earth and gave it to man while 
Fathers, mothers, shall the voices of your chil- That the ordinance looks to that time for its ac- he was in an upright state, before his inventions 
dren swell the song of gladness in that day? �
complishment is further evident from the follow- of sin, by means of which he has departed so far 
ing statement of Paul: " For as often as ye eat from that uprightness. Of the final possession 
Now and Then. 
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this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show [mar- of the earth by man, Solomon says, " The upright 
gin, show ye] the Lord's death till he come." 1 shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall re- 
BY J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, OF SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND. 
OM 11 : 26. �
main in it. But the wicked shall be cut off from 
In the visions of Daniel relative to earthly the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted 
ST. PAUL, when contrasting the present with kingdoms and the setting up of God's everlasting out of it." Prov. 2 : 21, 22. 
the future state, says, "Now we see through a kingdom, we find the kingdom is represented by �
Of the Lord's purpose concerning the forma- 
glass, darkly; but then face to face; now I know " A stone cut out of the mountain without hands, tion of man we read, " And God said, Let us make 
in part; but then shall I know even as also I am which smote the image upon his feet that were man in our image, after our likeness; and let them 
known." 1 Cor. 13 : 12. The now relates to this of iron and clay, and break them to pieces. Then have dominion over, the fish of the sea, and over 
state of " adoption," " trial," " patience," and was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over 
" hope," when " it doth not yet appear what we the gold broken to pieces together, and became all the earth, and over every creeping thing that 
shall be;" the then is that time " when he shall like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors; creepeth upon the earth. Gen. 1 : 26. St. Paul, 
appear, and we shall be like him; for we shall see and the wind carried them away, that no place in writing to the Hebrews says, " One in a certain 
him as he is." 1 John 3 : 2. �
was found for them; and the stone that smote place testified, saying, What is man that thou art 
Now " the whole creation groaneth and tray- the image became a great mountain and filled the mindful of him ? or the son of man that thou 
aileth in pain together . . . waiting for the whole earth." Dan. 2 : 34, 35. While the metals visitest him? Thou madest him a little lower 
adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body." and clay of the image are called kingdoms that than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory 
Now we are only " saved by hope; but hope that should rule the world, the stone cut out without and honor, and didst set him over the works of 
is seen is not hope; for what a man seeth why band is called the kingdom that God shall set up, thy hands." Heb. 2 : 6, 7. The certain one who 
doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that " without hand," .i e., not by aid of human hands spake thus was David. He says, " Thou madest 
we see not, then do we with patience wait for it." as the kingdoms of earth are now maintained, him to have dominion over the works of thy 
Now we are " heirs of God, and joint-heirs with but by divine power and judgment. �
hands; thou bast put all things under his feet; 
Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that �
If, as some claim, the stone kingdom is the all sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the 
we may be also glorified together." Rom. 8 : 17, church, where and when has it smitten the image? field; and the fowl of the air, and the fish of 
22-25. " When the Son of man shall come in his Instead of this stone smiting the image, the image the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the 
glory, and all the holy angels with him, he shall has all the way along been smiting the stone; paths of the seas." Ps. 8 : 6-8. 
. . �
. say to them on his right hand, Come, ye especially is this true in the fourth or Roman �
We see, then, that God formed the earth to be 
blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom pre- kingdom with its divisions. In proof of this look inhabited, and then formed man as king over all 
pared for you from the foundation of the world." at the Christian blood shed under Pagan and Pa- the living harmless creatures then existing on 
Matt. 25 : 31-34. �
pal persecutions for a large part of the last eigh- earth, or in the sea or air. But sin has marred 
Now is the preparatory state for the future teen hundred years. The stone is to smite the this dominion, for Paul says, " We see not yet all 
kingdom of glory, but when that kingdom comes image before the kingdom is established on this things put under him. But we see Jesus, who 
it will be said, " Open ye the gates, that the right- earth. When the stone smites the image it is all was made a little lower than the angels for the 
eons nation which keepeth the truth may enter broken to pieces and passes away with no place suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; 
in." Isaiah 26 : 2. St. James says, " Hath not found for it; then it is that the kingdom is set up. that he by the grace of God should taste death 
God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, The kingdom of this book of Daniel is not the for every man." Heb. 2 :8, 9. That dominion 
and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised church. The church exists while these kingdoms is to be restored by Christ. But as death was 
to them that love him." James 2 : 5. If we are exist, but the kingdom of God is .to be set up the penalty for sin, he who is to destroy sin and 
now heirs of that kingdom the future is the time after these earthly kingdoms have all passed away. sinners and affect the restitution of the earth to 
when its realities will be enjoyed. �
This is represented in the word of the Lord by that state which would have been had man never 
St. Paul says, " Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Psalmist, " Ask of me, and I shall give thee sinned, must defeat death. That Christ has power 
the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption the heathen for thine inheritance, and the utter- thus to do is clearly manifest in that, having died, 
inherit incorruption. Behold, I show you a mys- most parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou he rose again from the dead a victorious con-
tery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt queror, exclaiming, " I am he that liveth, and was 
changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel." Ps. dead; and behold I am alive for evermore, Amen; 
at the last trump; for the trumpet shall sound, and 2 : 8, 9. �
and have the keys of hell [hades] and death." 
the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we �
In the seventh chapter of Daniel the establish- Rev. 1 :18. 
shall be changed." 1 Cor. 15 : 50-52. This lan- ment of God's kingdom is placed after the over- �
Of what Christ has at last to do with this 
guage shows most clearly that the inheritance of throw of the powers represented by the beasts, original dominion we may read in the prediction 
the kingdom is not in the present state, but after and not as existing at the same time with them. of the prophet Micah, " And thou, 0 tower of 
the resurrection of the dead. �
" These great beasts, which are four, are four the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of 
The words of our Lord's prayer are also clear kings, which shall arise out of the earth. But Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first do-
proof that his kingdom is still future, " Thy king- the saints of the Most High shall take the king- minion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter 
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of Jerusalem." Micah 4 : 8. Christ is the tower 
of the flock, and the strong hold of God's people. 
He is to have the first dominion. The first do-
minion named in the Scriptures is the dominion 
of the whole earth and over all upon it, which 
God gave to man at his creation. 
Christ's future kingdom will indeed fill all the 
earth. Then, after the ungodly are cut off, "Thine 
eyes shall see the King in his beauty; they shall 
behold the land that is very far off. . . . Look 
upon Zion, the city of our solemnities; thine eyes 
shall see Jerusalem [the new Jerusalem. Rev. 
21] a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall 
not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof 
shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the 
cords thereof be broken. . . . And the inhab-
itants shall not say, I am sick." Isaiah 33 : 17-24. 
This kingdom of Christ, when his glory shall 
fill all the earth is the then of our article. Now 
we are passing over the stormy sea; then we shall 
be safely anchored in the city of God. Now it is 
sadness, sorrow, weeping, pain, and death; then 
all tears will be wiped away. There shall be no 
more sorrow nor pain nor death in that blissful 
abode. Looking by faith through the mists of 
the mortal state to the then of Christ's kingdom, 
we may with earnestness say:— 
"How bright the vision, Oh, how long 
Shall this glad hour delay ? 
Fly swifter round, ye wheels of time, 
And bring the welcome day." 
Separation from the World. 
SALVATION is all of grace. Yet these things are 
required: " Let him that nameth the name of 
Christ depart from all iniquity. " �
Whosoever 
would be my disciple, let him take up his cross, 
deny himself daily, and follow me." "Ye cannot," 
says our Lord, " serve God and Mammon." Shrink 
not from the pain these sacrifices must cost. It 
is not so great as many fancy. The joy of the 
Lord is his people's strength. Love has so swal-
lowed up all sense of pain, and sorrow been so lost 
in ravishment, that men of old took joyfully the 
spoiling of their goods, and martyrs went to the 
burning stake with beaming countenances, and 
sang high death-songs amid the roaring flames. 
Let us by faith rise above the world, and it will 
shrink into littleness and insignificance, compared 
with Christ. Some time ago two aeronauts, hang-
ing in mid-air, looked down to the earth from their 
balloon, and wondered to see how small great 
things had grown—ample fields were contracted 
into little patches; the lake was no larger than a 
looking-glass; the broad river, with ships floating 
on its bosom, seemed like a silver thread; the wide-
spread city was reduced to the dimensions of a 
village; the long, rapid, flying train appeared but 
a black caterpillar slowly creeping over the sur-
face of the ground. And such changes the world 
undergoes to the eyes of him who, rising to hold 
communion with God, and anticipating the joys 
of Heaven, lives above it and looks beyond it. 
This makes it easy, and even joyful to part with 
all for Christ—" this is the victory that overcometh 
the world, even our faith."—T. Guthrie, D. D. 
Hunting a Text. 
IF the following " Tale of the Fashionable 
Clergyman of To-day" is strictly true, it will be 
seen that his position is not an enviable one 
Judging from the style of many popular sermons, 
it might have happened if it did not:— 
The good pastor was known among his perhaps 
envious brethren as a "sensational" preacher. 
One day while he was sitting in his study, im-
mersed in thought, with a heap of crumpled 
newspapers on the floor beside him, Deacon Bullit 
came in. After a few preliminary remarks, the 
pastor said:— 
" Bullit, I want a subject for my next Sunday's 
sermon, and I can't think of a thing. Can you 
suggest a theme? " 
" I don't know," said the deacon, reflecting. 
" I've been through the whole of that pile of 
newspapers, telegraph columns, police columns, 
even the advertising columns, and there is nothing 
striking among them." 
" Let's see; you preached against the Mormons 
three weeks ago ? That was the Sunday I was 
away." 
"There's nothing in that. I've 'gone for' the �
TRUE friends visit us in prosperity only when 
Mormons twice since last fall. Then, you know, invited, but in adversity they come without in-
I preached last Sunday about the big railroad vitation. 
Perfection. 
"1 have seen an end of all perfection; but thy command-
ment is exceeding broad."--Ps. 119 : 96. 
ON this passage the Rev. Albert Barnes remarks: 
" To all claims to perfection made by man, he had 
seen an end or limit. He had examined all which 
claimed to be perfect; he had found it defective. 
All claim to perfection on the part of man must 
be abandoned forever. . . . All claims to per-
fection had arisen from the fact that the law was 
not properly understood, that its true nature was 
not seen. . . . Men set up an imperfect stand-
ard; and when they became conformed to that 
standard, as they might do, they imagined them-
selves to be perfect; but when their conduct was 
compared with a higher and more just standard—
the law of God—it could not but be seen that 
they were imperfect men. That law had claims 
which they had not met, and never would meet 
in this life. It is very easy to flatter ourselves 
that we are perfect, if we make our own standard 
of character; it is not possible for man to set up a 
claim to perfection, if he measures himself by the 
standard of God's word; and all the claims to 
perfection are made simply because they do not 
properly understand what the law of God re-
quires." 
 
Who Are Wanted? 
A GENTLEMAN in a responsible government 
office, when complimented on his long and well-
appreciated service, replied, " There's nothing like 
making yourself indispensable." 
This is worth thinking of. If you have a good 
place and wish to keep it, try to make yourself so 
useful that your employer cannot do without you. 
The other day a gentleman was making inquiry 
for the purpose of finding a man to fill a responsible 
position in a large mercantile house. He came to 
a person whom he thought would be likely to give 
him accurate and honest information concerning 
several men whose names he had. One was dis-
cussed, and another, and another. Then the name 
of Mr. — was mentioned. 
"The very man for the place; competent and 
worthy in every respect; but he cannot possibly 
be spared from the position he now holds." 
" Sir," said the gentleman, " we do not want a 
man who can be spared ? " 
There was a big volume in that remark. " We 
do not want a man who can be spared ! " W hat 
a multitude of men who can be spared cumber 
every avenue to promotion. 
The barnacles, the sharks, the make-shifts, 
somebody's nephews, somebody's proteges, some-
body's good-for-nothings. Young man, remember, 
please, that these are not the ones who are called 
for when responsible positions are to be filled. 
TRUE SIGHT.—Let us hesitate before we condole 
with a brother who is under the chastisement of 
our loving Father in Heaven. Be careful how 
you condole with a man who has lost his money 
and saved his good name—or congratulate the 
man who has made a million at the expense 
of his piety. When a Christian is toppled over 
from a dizzy and dangerous height, and " brought 
down to hard-pan," he is brought down to the 
solid rock, at the same time; in the Valley of 
Humiliation he has more of the joy of God's coun-
tenance, and wears more of the herb called 
"heart's-ease" in his bosom, than he ever did in 
the days of his giddy prosperity. Sickness has 
often brought to a man spiritual recovery; suffer-
ing has often wrought out for him an exceeding 
weight of glory. The writer of this paragraph 
has lately been led through a very shadowy path-
way of trial; but it has never been so dark that 
he could not see to read some precious promises 
that glowed like diamonds. The adversary tries 
hard to break our lamp, and to steal our diamonds, 
in those dark passage-ways of trial. We need 
good eyesight in such times of trouble, so as not 
to stumble, or to lose sight of the Comforter, or of 
the bright light which shines at the end of the 
way.—Dr. Cuyler. 
IF every person would be half as good as he 
expects his neighbor to be, some one has said, 
what a heaven this world would be. That is true, 
yet in that case every person would be but half 
as good as he ought in all fairness to be. It is a 
good rule to expect no more of others than we 
exact of ourselves. 
accident at Dunkard's Creek, and in the afternoon 
I had a discourse about the snow-storm." 
" Nothing more in the Guiteau case, is there ?" 
" No, the people are tired of it. Three sermons 
on that subject are as much as they can stand. 
Do you think I could stir things up with another 
discourse pitching into City Councils, or, say, the 
management of the water-works ? " 
"I don't know. Maybe you might. The last 
time you went for Councils the church was crowd-
ed; all the Councilmen came, and the collection 
was the largest since New Year's." 
" But I couldn't repeat that story about the 
colored man and the mule, could I? That was 
the best thing in the sermon, I think." 
" It brought down the house, that's certain." 
"Laughed, didn't they ? But I couldn't tell it 
again, and so I guess I won't take up Councils. 
I have half a notion to discuss the Panama Canal 
question. Do you think the people would feel an 
interest in that? I might preach about the 
Panama Canal in the morning, and about the 
small-pox epidemic in the evening. The spread 
of the small-pox interests everybody." 
" Yes; but why not devote the sermon chiefly 
to the history and value of vaccination ? " 
"It might answer. Nobody knows how hard 
it is to find fresh and interesting subjects. Things 
happen so inconveniently. Just as likely as not 
there will be a big fire in the city late Saturday 
night, after my two sermons are written; and 
when it will be too late to write another with the 
fire as a theme." 
"You could extemporize about it." 
"But not so well; not so well. By the way, 
Bullit, have you heard the rumors that Cashier 
Smith, of the Tenth National Bank, is a defaulter ?" 
" I believe there are reports of that kind afloat." 
" That would be a lively theme ! Suppose I 
take it up in a general sort of a way, and make it 
sensational ? That might do for the morning, and 
then I could give a blast at the variety theaters 
in the evening. Or I could devote my evening 
sermon to the tariff, and the morning one, to the 
balloon expedition to the North Pole. You would 
be surprised how little help I get now from the 
newspapers. A man may skim over fifty without 
finding a single theme that will draw a full house 
and excite the curiosity of the congregation." 
"Have you looked anywhere but in the news-
papers? " 
"N-n-no ! Excepting in the Report of the Board 
of Trade and in a couple of the Reviews. 
" Didn't refer to the Bible, of course ?" 
" Well, I'll tell you, deacon, the people are tired 
of Scriptural subjects. They want something 
novel and exciting. Of course, it seems a little 
queer to throw the Bible over; but a man has to 
meet popular expectation, and my theory is, to 
reach sinners one way, if you can't reach them 
the other. That's sound, isn't it ? " 
Before the deacon left, the pastor had it arranged 
to preach one sermon on the boiler explosion at 
Hackensack, and another upon cultivation of the 
carp as a food fish. 
People Who Whine. 
THERE is a class of persons in this world, by no 
means small, whose prominent peculiarity is whin- 
ing. They whine because they are poor, or, if 
rich, because they have not health to enjoy their 
riches; they whine because they have no luck, 
and others' property exceeds theirs; they whine 
because some friends have died and they are still 
living; they whine because they have aches and 
pains, and they have aches and pains because they 
whine; they whine no one knows why. 
Now, a word to thee whining persons: First, 
stop whining—it is of no use complaining, fretting, 
fault finding, and whining. Why, you are the 
most deluded set of creatures who ever lived ! 
Do you know that it is a well settled principle of 
physiology and common sense that these habits 
are more exhausting to nervous vitality than 
almost any other violation of physiological law ? 
And do you know that life is pretty much as you 
make it? You can make it bright and sunshiny, 
or you can make it dark and shadowy. This life 
is meant only to discipline us—to fit us for a 
higher and purer state of being. Then stop 
whining and fretting, and go on your way rejoic-
ing.—Sel. 
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VoL. 8, No. 20. 
to the religion of Justinian and the pope. It was 
VERSE 35. And some of them of understanding shall fall, 
therefore evident that the Ostrogoths must be to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to 
A LITERAL PROPHECY. 
rooted out of Rome before the pope could exer- the time of the end; because it is yet for a time appointed. 
WHEN Justinian was about to commence the cise the power with which he had been clothed. �
Though restrained, the spirit of persecution 
Vandal war, A. D. 533, an enterprise of no small To accomplish this object, the Italian war was was not destroyed. It broke out wherever there 
magnitude and difficulty, he wished to secure the commenced in 534. The management of the was opportunity. Especially was this the case 
influence of the bishop of Rome, who had then campaign was intrusted to Belisarius. On his in England. The religious state of that kingdom 
attained a position in which his opinion bad great approach toward Rome, several cities forsook was fluctuating, it being sometimes under Prot-
weight throughout a large portion of Christen- Vitijes, their Gothic and heretical sovereign, and estant, and sometimes under papal, jurisdiction, 
dom. Justinian therefore took it upon himself joined the armies of the Catholic emperor. The according to the religion of the ruling house. 
to decide the contest which had long existed be- Goths, deciding to delay offensive operations till The bloody queen Mary was a mortal enemy to 
tween the Sees of Rome and Constantinople, as spring, allowed Belisarius to enter Rome without the Protestant cause, and multitudes fell victims 
to which should have the precedency, by giving opposition. "The deputies of the pope and clergy, to her relentless persecutions. And this condition 
the preference to Rome, and declaring, in the full- of the senate and people, invited the lieutenant of of affairs was to last more or less to the time of 
est and most unequivocal terms, that the bishop Justinian to accept their voluntary allegiance." �
the end. The natural conclusion would be that 
of that city should be chief of the whole ecclesi- �
Belisarius entered Rome Dec. 10, 536. But when the time of the end should come, this power 
astical body of the empire. A work on the Apoc- this was not an end of the struggle; for the Goths, which the church of Rome had possessed to pun-
alypse, by Rev. George Croly, of England, pub- rallying their forces, resolved to dispute his pos- ish heretics, which had been the cause of so much 
lished in 1827, gives a detailed account of the session of the city by a regular siege. They persecution, and which had for a time been re-
events by which the supremacy of the pope of commenced in March, 537. Belisarius feared de- strained, would now be taken entirely away; and 
Rome was secured. He gives the following as the spair and treachery on the part of the people. the conclusion would be equally evident that this 
terms in which the decree of Justinian was ex- Several senators, and Pope Sylverius, on proof or taking away of the papal supremacy would mark 
pressed:— �
suspicion of treason, were sent into exile. The the commencement of the period here called the 
"Justinian, pious, fortunate, renowned, triumphant, em- emperor commanded the clergy to elect a new time of the end. If this application is correct, 
peror, consul, etc., to John, the most holy archbishop of our bishop. After solemnly invoking the Holy Ghost, the time of the end commenced in 1798; for there, 
city of Rome, patriarch. �
says Gibbon, they elected the deacon Vigilius, as already noticed, the papacy was overthrown 
ness, as has been always, and is, our wish, and honoring who, by' a 
the honor. �
wield the power it before possessed. 
y' a bribe of two hundred pounds of gold, by the French, and has never since been able to 
"Rendering honor to the apostolic chair and to your holi- 
your blessedness as a father; we have hastened to bring to had p 
the knowledge of your h@liness all matters relating to the �
The whole nation of the Ostrogoths had been 
36. 
state of the churches; it having been at all times our great assembled for the siege of Rome; but success did 
VERSE �
And the king shall do according to his will; 
desire to preserve the unity of your apostolic chair, and the �
and he shallexalt himself, and magnify himself ablve every 
constitution of the holy churches of God, which has obtained not attend their efforts. Their hosts melted away god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of 
hitherto, and still obtains. �
in frequent and bloody combats under the walls gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished; 
"Therefore we have made no delay in subjecting and unit- of the city; and the year and nine days, during for that that is determined shall be done. 
ing to your ,holiness all the priests of the whole East. . . . �
which the siege lasted, witnessed almost the en- �
The king here introduced cannot denote the 
We cannot suffer that anything which relates to the state of tire consumption of the whole nation. In the same power which was last noticed, namely, the 
the church, however manifest and unquestionable, should be 
moved without the knowledge of your holiness, who is THE month of March, 538, dangers beginning to papal power] for the specifications will not hold 
HEAD OF ALL THE HOLY CHURCHES; for in all things, as threaten them from other quarters, they raised good, if applied to that power. Take a declara-
we have already declared, we are anxious to increase the the siege, burned their tents; and retired in tu- tion in the next verse: "Nor regard any god." 
honor and authority of your apostolic chair."—Croly, pp. 
114, 115. 
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molt and confusion from the city, with numbers This has never been true of the papacy. God 
scarcely sufficient to preserve their existence as a and Christ, though often placed in a false position, 
" The emperor's letter," continues Mr. Croly, nation, or their identity as a people. �
have never been set aside and rejected from that 
" must have been sent before the 25th of March, �
Thus the Gothic horn, the last of the three, system of religion. The only difficulty in apply- 
533. For in his letter of that date to Epipha- was plucked up before the little horn of Dan. 7. ing it to a new power, lies in the definite article 
nius, he speaks of its having been already dis- Nothina
b 
 now stood in the way of the pope to "the;" 
 
for, it is urged, the expression "the king" 
patched, and repeats his decision, that all affairs prevent his exercising the power conferred upon would identify this as the one last spoken of. If 
Justinian, five years before. The saints, it could be properly translated a king, there would 
touching the church shall be referred to the pope, him by 
' head of all bishops and the true and effective times, and laws, were now in his hands, not in be no difficulty; and it is said that some of the 
, 
purpose only, but in fact. And this must there-
corrector of heretics."'
best Biblical critics give it this rendering, Mede, 
The pope, in his answer, returned the same fore be taken as the year when this abomination Wintle, Boothroyd, and others, translating the 
month of the following year, 534, observes thatwas placed, or set up, and as the point from which passage, " A certain king shall do according to 
among the virtues of Justinian, " one shines as to date the predicted 1260 years of its supremacy. his will," thus clearly introducing a new power 
a star, his reverence for the apostolic chair, to 
which he has subjected and united all the churches, 
VERSE 32. And such as do wickedly against the covenant upon the stage of action. 
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shall he corrupt by flatteries; but the people that do know �
Three particulars must be shown in the power 
it being truly the head of all." �
their God shall be strong, and do exploits. �
which fulfills this prophecy: 1. It must assume 
The " N ovellce" of the Justinian code �
title. 
 
give un- �
T 
answerable proof of the authenticity of the
hose that forsake the covenant, the Holy the character here delineated near the commence-
Scriptures, and think more of the decrees of popes ment of the time of the end, to which we were 
The preamble of the 9th states that " as the and the decisions of councils, than they do of the brought down in the preceding verse. 2. it 
elder Rome was the founder of the laws, so was word of God,—these shall he, the pope, corrupt must be a willful power. 3. It must be an athe- 
it not to be questioned that in her was the su- by flatteries; that is, lead them on in their par- istical power. Or perhaps the two latter might 
premacy of the Pontificate." The 131st, on the tisan zeal for himself, by the bestow.ment of be united, by saying that its willfulness would be 
ecclesiastical titles and privileges, chapter 2,
manifested in the direction of atheism. A revo-
states: " We therefore decree that the most holy wealth, position, and honors. 
 
At the same time, a people shall exist who lution exactly answering to this description did 
pope of the elder Rome is the first of all the know their God; and these shall be strong, and take place in France at the time indicated in the 
priesthood, and that the most blessed archbishop do exploits. These were those who kept pure prophecy. Voltaire had sown the seeds which 
of Constantinople, the new Rom©, shall hold the religion alive in the earth during the dark ages bore their legitimate and baleful fruit. That 
second rank after the holy apostolic chair of the of papal rule, and performed marvelous acts of godless infidel in his impious but impotent self- 
elder Rome." �
self-sacrifice and religious heroism in behalf of conceit had said: "I am weary of hearing people 
Toward the close of the sixth century, John of their faith. Prominent among these, stand the repeat that twelve men established the Christian 
Constantinople denied the Roman supremacy, and �
religion. I will prove that one man may suffice 
assumed for himself the title of universal bishop; Waldenses, Albigenses, Huguenots, etc. 
to overthrow it." Associating with himself such 
whereupon, Gregory the Great, indignant at the 
VERSE 33. And they that understand among the people men as Rousseau, De Alembert, Diderot, and 
usurpation, denounced john, and declared, with shall instruct many; yet they shall fall by the sword, and others, he undertook the work. They sowed to 
unconscious truth, that he who would assume the by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days. 
the wind and reaped the whirlwind. Their ef- 
title of universal bishop was Antichrist. Phocas, �
The long period of papal persecution against forts culminated in the revolution of 1793, when 
in 606, suppressed the claim of the bishop of Con- those who were struggling to maintain the truth the Bible was discarded, and the existence of the 
stantinople, and vindicated that of the bishop of and instruct their fellow-men in ways of right- Deity denied, as the voice of the nation. 
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Rome. But Phocas was not the founder of papal eousness, is here brought to view. The number 
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supremacy. Says Croly, "That Phocas repressed of the days during which they were thus to fall, �
ABOVE THE FOG.—Sometimes a fog will settle 
the claim of the bishop of Constantinople is be- is given in Dan. 7 : 25; 12 : 7; Rev. 12 : 6, 14; 13: 5. over a vessel's deck, and yet leave the topmast 
yond a doubt. But the highest authorities among. 
VEESE 34. Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen clear. Then a sailor goes up aloft, and gets a 
the civilians and annalists of Rome, spurn the with a little help; but many shall cleave to them with flat- lookout which the helmsman on the deck cannot 
idea that Phocas was the founder of' the suprem- teries. �
get. So prayer sends the soul aloft; lifts it above 
acy of Rome; they ascend to Justinian as the �
In Rev. 12, where this same papal persecution the clouds in which our selfishness and egotism 
only legitimate source, and rightly date the title is brought to view, we read that the earth helped befog us, and gives us a chance to see which way 
from the memorable year 533." Again ho says: the woman by opening her mouth and swallow- to steer.—Spurgeon. 
" On reference to Baronius, the established au- ing up the flood which the dragon cast out after 
thority among the Roman Catholic annalists, 1 her. The great Reformation by Luther and his �
OF all great souls, of all steadfast and heroic 
found the whole detail of Justinian's grants of co-workers furnished the help here foretold. The lives, the ultimate basis is simple trust in God, and 
supremacy to the pope formally given. The en- German States espoused the Protestant cause,. a profound sense of the divine significance and 
tire transaction was of the most authentic and protected the reformers, and restrained the work relations of our being here.—James Martineau, 
regular kind, and suitable to the importance of of persecution so furiously carried on by the pa- 
the transfer." �
pal church. But when they should be helped, �
How often do we look upon God as our last 
Such were the circumstances attending the de- and the cause begin to become popular, many and feeblest resource. We go to him because we 
ersae of Justinian. But the provisions of this de- should cleave unto them with flatteries, or em- have nowhere else to go.--George Macdonald. 
Thoughts on Daniel--Chapter XI. �
cree could not at once be carried into effect; for brace the cause from unworthy motives, be in- 
Rome and Italy were held by the Ostrogoths, sincere, hollow-hearted, and speak smooth and 
BY ELDER U. SMITH. �
who were Arians in faith, and strongly opposed friendly words through a policy of self-interest. 
MAY 25, 1882. �THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. �
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Parable of the Talents. 
THIS parable was given, as we are told by Luke, 
" because they thought that the kingdom of God 
should immediately appear." Under the figure 
of a nobleman going "into a far country to receive 
for himself a kingdom, and to return," Christ con-
veyed the information that he was to go to the 
Father and receive his kingdom, which would be 
set up at his second coming. The disciples did 
not at once grasp the full meaning of this and 
similar parables. They still continued to look for 
a temporal kingdom. They thought that Christ 
was going to help the Jews to throw off the 
Roman yoke, and give to them the sovereignty 
of the world. On the day of the resurrection, we 
hear two of the disciples saying, in their despond-
ency, " But we trusted that it had been he which 
should have redeemed Israel;" and at the ascen-
sion they asked, " Lord, wilt thou at this time 
restore again the kingdom to Israel ?" Christ 
did not expect them to fully comprehend at once 
all that he taught them, but he knew that it 
would afterward be brought to their minds by 
the Holy Spirit, and they would understand it. 
See John 14 : 26. 
"And unto one he gave five talents, to another 
two, and to another one•' 
 to every one according 
to his several ability." A different amount was 
given to each one; no two have the same degree 
of talent. But no one can complain, for what he 
receives is not his by right—not as wages earned 
—but as a gift. The master delivered unto them 
his goods. He had a right to do as he pleased 
with his own. Moreover, one has no right to 
boast over another, for it was not through their 
own exertion that they received their talents. 
Paul says, " That no one of you be puffed up for 
one against another. For who maketh thee to 
differ from another? and what hast thou that 
thou didst not receive ? now if thou didst receive 
it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not re-
ceived it ?" 1 Cor. 4 : 6, 7. 
Here also is a reproof for those who wish that 
they were in another's position. Some think that 
if they had another's wealth, they would do a 
great amount of good. Others wish that they 
could speak or write as some other one can, or 
that they had his influence. Now the probability 
is that if they had these greater talents that they 
wish for, they would misuse them. Not willfully, 
perhaps, but from inability to handle them prop-
erly. There are men in an army, who make 
excellent officers as captains, but who would fail 
utterly as division commanders. They can serve 
their country in a low position better than in a 
higher one; and if they fill that low position well, 
they are entitled to their full measure of credit. 
Let no one complain, then, of the lowliness of 
his station, for the as
ter knows exactly what 
we are able to do, and has given "to every man 
according to his several ability." 
After a long time the lord of those servants 
cometh, and reckoneth with them." A day of 
reckoning will surely come. God has " appointed 
a day in the which he will judge the world." 
Because it is put off for a " long time," many 
flatter themselves that it will never come. See 
Eccl. 8 : 11.' This is a fatal mistake. " Every 
man's work shall be made manifest; for the day 
shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by 
fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of 
what sort it is." 1 Cor. 3 : 13. 
Notice the impartiality of the commendation. 
The one to whom five talents had been given had 
gained five talents beside them. The one who 
had received two talents had also doubled them. 
To each the lord said: " Well done, thou good and 
faithful servant." The reward does not depend 
on the absolute amount accomplished, but on the 
faithfulness. The first had done more than the 
second, but only because he had been given more 
to work with. If the man with the one talent 
has been as faithful, he would have received the 
same commendation. 
In the fate of the unfaithful servant, lies the 
great lesson of the parable. After telling him 
that he ought to have put his talent to the ex-
changer's, that it might have increased, the lord 
said : " Take, therefore, the talent from him, and 
give it unto him which bath ten talents. For 
unto every one that hath shall be given, and he 
shall have abundance ; but from him that bath 
not, shall be taken away even that which he hath." 
The servant was not accused of robbing his mas-
ter. He gave back all that was entrusted to him. 
But this was not enough; he should have added 
to his store. The lesson is that God .requires 
every individual to add to the talents that have 
been given to him. These talents are of various 
kinds, and may be very small, yet the require-
ment is the same. Some people do not under-
stand how it can be that, " from him that bath 
not shall be taken away even that which he bath." 
In Luke 8 : 18, the passage reads, " And whoso-
ever hath not, from him shall be taken even that 
which he seemeth to have." The talents did not 
belong to the servants. They were their capital 
in business, and were loaned to them. They had 
them, but they were not theirs in fact. They 
only seemed to be their own. The unfaithful 
servant acknowledged this when he said, " Lo, 
there thou bast that is thine." When, he had 
given back that which had been originally given 
to him, he had absolutely nothing. 
A great responsibility, then, rests upon every 
one of us. We are not at liberty to do as we 
please with our talents, whether they are money, 
education, or influence. Let us so use them, that, 
instead of having them taken from us at the last, 
more may be given to us. " Hold that fast which 
thou hast, that no man take thy crown." 
E. J. W. 
The Anointing of Jesus. 
A HASTY council of the priests and Pharisees 
was called to determine how to proceed with 
regard to Jesus, in view of the excitement and 
enthusiasm of the people on his account. They 
decided that it would be dangerous to seize upon 
him openly on any pretext, for since the raising 
of Lazarus, the sympathies of the people were 
greatly in favor of Jesus. So they determined to 
use craft and take him secretly, avoiding all uproar 
or interference, carry on the mockery of a trial as 
quietly as possible, and trust to the fickle tide or 
public opinion to set in their favor when it was 
known that Jesus was condemned to death. 
But another consideration came up: If they 
should execute Jesus, and Lazarus should remain 
as a witness of his miraculous power to raise from 
the dead, the very fact that a man existed who 
had been four days in the grave, and whose body 
had begun to decay, yet had ee
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called to life 
and health by a word from Jesus, would sooner or 
later create a reaction and bring disaster upon 
themselves for sacrificing the life of Him who 
could perform such a miracle for the benefit of 
humanity. They therefore decided that Lazarus 
must also die. They felt that if the people were 
to lose confidence in their rulers, the national 
power would be destroyed. 
To such lengths do envy and bitter prejudice 
lead their slaves. In rejecting Christ, the Phar-
isees placed themselves where darkness and super-
stition clos9d around them, until, continually in-
creasing in hatred and unbelief, they were ready 
to imbrue their hands in blood, to accomplish 
their unholy ends, and would even take the life 
of one whom Infinite power had rescued from the 
grave. They placed themselves where no power, 
human or divine, could reach them; they sinned 
against the Holy Spirit, and God had no reserve 
power to meet their case. Their rebellion against 
Christ was settled and determined; he was a 
stumbling-block and a rock of offense to them; 
they would not have this man Jesus to reign over 
them. While all this plotting was going on at 
Jerusalem, Jesus was quietly resting from his 
labors at the house of Lazarus. ' Simon of 
Bethany, whom Jesus had healed of leprosy, 
wishing to show his Master special honor, made 
a supper and invited him and his friends as guests. 
The Saviour sat at the table, with Simon, whom 
he had cured of a loathsome disease, on one side, 
and Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead, 
on the other. Martha served at the table, but 
Mary was earnestly listening to every word that 
fell from the lips of Jesus. She saw that he was 
sad; she knew that immediately after raising her 
brother from the dead, he was obliged to seclude 
himself in order to escape the persecution of the 
leading Jews. As she looked upon her brother 
in the strength of perfect health, her heart went 
out in gratitude to Jesus who had restored him to 
her from the grave. 
At great personal sacrifice Mary had purchased 
an alabaster box of precious ointment with which 
to anoint the body of Jesus at his death. But she 
now heard many express an opinionsthat he would 
be elevated to kingly authority when he wont to 
Jerusalem, and she was only too ready to believe 
that it would be so. She rejoiced that her Saviour 
would no longer be despised and rejected, and 
obliged to flee for his life. In her love and grati-
tude she wished to be the first to do him honor, 
and, seeking to avoid observation, anointed his 
head and feet with the precious ointment, and 
then wiped his feet with her long, flowing hair. 
Her movements had been unobserved by the 
others, but the odor filled the house with its 
fragrance and published her act to all present. 
Some of the disciples manifested displeasure at 
this act, and Judas boldly expressed his disappro-
bation at such a wasteful extravagance. He was 
a stranger to the deep devotion and homage 
which actuated Mary to her deed of love. Ho 
had been appointed treasurer of the united funds 
of the disciples, and had dishonestly appropriated 
to himself the means which were designed for the 
service of God. 
He had indulged a spirit of avarice until it had 
overpowered every good trait in his character. 
This act of Mary was in such marked contrast 
with his selfishness that he was ashamed of his 
avarice, and sought to attribute his objection to 
her gift, to a worthier motive. Turning to the 
disciples he asked, " Why was not this ointment 
sold for three hundred pence, and given to the 
poor ? " Thus he sought to hide his covetousness 
under apparent sympathy for the poor, when, in 
reality, Jhe cared nothing for them. 
He longed to have the avails of the expensive 
ointment in his own hands to apply to his own 
selfish purposes. By his professed sympathy for 
the poor he deceived his fellow-disciples, and by 
his artful insinuations caused them to look dis-
trustfully upon the devoted Mary. Whispered 
hints of prodigality passed round the table: "To 
what purpose is this waste ? for this ointment 
might have been sold for much, and given to the 
poor." . . . . 
Mary had offered her gift in the grateful hom-
age of her heart, and Jesus explained her motive 
and vindicated her deed. "Let her alone," he 
said. " Why," he asked, "trouble ye the woman ? 
for she hath wrought a good work upon me." He 
justified her work to all present, as evincing her 
gratitude to him for lifting her from a life of shame 
to one of purity, and teaching her to believe in 
him. Said he, "Against the day of my burying 
hath she kept this." The ointment so sacredly 
kept to anoint the dead body of her Lord she had 
poured upon his head in the belief that he was 
about to be lifted to a throne in Jerusalem. 
Had the disciples rightly appreciated the ex-
alted character of their Master, they would have 
considered no sacrifice too costly to offer to the 
Son of God. The wise men of the East under-
stood more definitely his true position, and the 
honor due him, than his own followers, who had 
received his instruction and beheld his mighty 
miracles. They brought precious gifts to the 
Saviour, and bent in homage before him, while he 
was but a babe, and cradled in a manger. 
The look which Jesus cast upon the selfish 
Judas convinced him that the Master penetrated 
his hypocrisy and read his base, contemptible 
character. He was stirred with resentment. 
His heart burned with envy that Jesus should 
be the recipient of an offering suitable to the 
monarchs of earth. He went directly from that 
supper to the chief priests, and agreed to betray 
him into their hands. 
In the case of Judas we see the fearful result 
of covetousness and unholy anger. He begrudged 
the offering made to Jesus, and although not per-
sonally rebuked, he was irritated to combine re-
venge with his avarice, and sell his Lord for a 
few pieces of silver. Mary showed how highly 
she prized the Saviour when she accounted the 
most precious gift none too costly for him; but 
Judas valued Jesus at the price for which he sold 
him; his niggardly soul balanced the life of the 
Son of God against a paltry sum of money. The 
same cold, calculating spirit is manifested by 
many who profess Christ to-day. Their offer-
ings to his cause are grudgingly bestowed or 
withheld altogether under various plausible ex-
cuses. A pretense of wide philanthropy, unlim-
ited by church or creed, is not unfrequently one 
of them, and they plead,, like Judas, It is better 
to give it to the poor. But the true Christian 
shows his faith by investing in the cause of truth; 
he is known by his works, tor " faith without 
works is dead."—Life of Christ, by Mrs. �
G, 
White. 
Practical Thoughts on Scripture Subjects. 
THE FINAL SEPARATION. 
WE have to experience much pain in this life in part-
ing with our dearest friends, yet duty plainly demands 
the sacrifice, and we must cheerfully make it for Christ's 
sake. But all these seasons of separation are of no ac-
count, when we consider the events before us. We sep_ 
arate now, hoping to meet again in this life; or if not in 
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THE SIGNS OF TH �
H] TIMES. �
Vol,. 8, No. 20. 
TEht i.gns of tilt Zimrs. 
"Can ye not discern the signs of the times ?" 
J. H. WAGGONER, �
 EDITOR. 
 
J. N. ANDREWS, 
CORRESPONDING EDITORS. 
URIAH SMITH, 
OAKLAND, CAL., FIFTH-DAY, MAY 25, 1882. 
Sunday in the Fourth Commandment. 
the seventh day of rest, cover the first week of time, 
and here only is the origin of the week of seven days. 
Yet Mr. Baird gravely asserts that the fact that the 
seventh day rest was not the seventh day of Adam's 
life is sufficient to entirely disprove the position of Sev- 
enth-day Adventists ! Every Bible reader knows, or 
may know, that the day of Adam's creation has nothing 
whatever to do with the time selected and consecrated 
as the Sabbath. 
The word Sabbath means rest. 
And we inquire, 
Whose rest-day,.was man to observe ? It was God's 
rest-day. " The seventh day is the Sabbath [rest-day 
of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work." 
How came the seventh day to be God's rest-day ? " In 
six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and 
all that in them is, and rested the seventh day." These 
are the words of Jehovah himself. And they show, in- 
asmuch as Sabbath means rest, and the Lord's Sabbath 
day is the Lord's rest-day, that no day can be the Lord's 
Sabbath, or rest, but that day on which the Lord sab- 
batized or rested. The Lord said, "Verily my Sabbaths 
ye shall keep," not our own, nor any one that we may 
choose. The following points should be carefully con-
sidered, as they are beyond dispute, and cover the 
whole question : 1. The resting of God on the seventh 
day is the only reason given in the Bible for the in-
stitution of the Sabbath. And, 2. The day on which 
God rested is the only day which, in the Bible, is re-
quired to be kept as the Sabbath. Thus the record 
in Gen. 2 : 3, reads: " And God blessed the seventh 
day, and sanctified it; because that in it he had rested 
from all his work." The fourth commandment literally 
translated reads: "Remember the rest-day to keep 
it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy 
work. But the seventh day is the rest of the Lord 
thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work." From 
" the beginning " God ordained that " the seventh day " 
—his own rest—should be set apart to a sacred use; 
and this, not to make it a rest-day, but because it was 
his rest-day; not dependent at all on our action, as 
Mr. Baird says, but to make our action conform to 
his example, both in his work and his rest. 
The fourth commandment of the decalogue is the 
only precept of Sabbath obligation in the Bible. Let 
this be borne in mind. This precept is based expressly 
on the events of the first week of time; and it covers 
the entire week. When God created the heavens and 
earth, just six days were employed. But in establish-
ing the week, another day was added to the six days 
of his work, and thus the week became seven days in 
length; and so it has continued to this present time. 
But as his work was finished in six days, the remain-
ing day was God's rest-day of the week. Because he 
rested upon it, he blessed it; that is, he put honor 
upon it. And he sanctified it; that is, he separated 
it from the other days, and set it apart to sacred ob-
servance. Because it was his rest-day he blessed it; 
and because it bore the divine benediction he com-
manded man to keep it holy. 
Now we appeal to every reader if it is not contrary 
to both reason and Scripture to apply these facts, or 
any of them, to any day but the seventh day. Why 
did God number off just seven days, if not to estab-
lish a week of seven days ? All know that the cycle 
of seven days, or the week, had no other origin. And 
God's providence and his word has preserved, always 
and everywhere, this reckoning of seven days to the 
week. He said that in the first day he created the 
elements of which all things were formed, and caused 
the light to shine upon them. But he did not, there-
fore, set apart the first day to a sacred use. For that' 
he chose the seventh day, because that, and that only, 
would be a memorial of all his work. A rest supposes 
a work performed. Inasmuch as each of the first six 
days was employed in work, and a different work was 
done in each, no one of them could possibly be a me-
morial of " all his work, which God created and made." 
The cycle of seven days to the week was plainly 
pointed out at creation, and no one can point to any 
thing else as its origin. And we have seen that no 
fact recorded in connection with the institution of the 
Sabbath will apply to any day but to the seventh day 
of that first week of time. Therefore, to assert, as Mr. 
Baird repeatedly does, that the commandment does 
not refer to the seventh day of the week, is an evasion 
and a perversion of the law of God. It is only folly 
to assert that the phrase, " the seventh day," means a 
seventh day, or any seventh day after any six days. 
If that is the meaning of the language, then the phrase, 
" the sixth day," in Ex. 16, would mean any sixth 
day after an interval of five days. That is, if " the 
seventh day" is a term of proportion, and marks in- 
definitely a seventh of a cycle of seven, then also " the 
sixth day " marks merely a sixth part of a cycle of six. 
From this, it is easy to see that the order to gather 
manna on the sixth day, that is, on a day of a cycle 
of six, would soon come in conflict with the order to 
gather none on the seventh day; for the end of the 
sixth cycle of seven would coincide with the end of the 
seventh cycle of six. So absurd is this indefinite sev-
enth-day theory. 
Dr. Edwards leads the way in which Mr. Baird has 
followed, saying, in his (so-called) Sabbath Manual, 
that the words six and seven in the commandment 
denote proportion, and not order. But the falsity of 
this assertion is too evident to require much argument 
for its refutation. For the word " seven " is not in 
the commandment, but the word " seventh," which is 
an ordinal number. Order, and not proportion, is the 
idea of the law. To justify this perversion, Mr. Baird 
says the commandment does not say the seventh day 
of the week. This is a very weak evasion. It refers 
to no seventh day but that of the week. When God 
rested, and blessed the seventh day, only one week had 
elapsed; hence it was of necessity the seventh day of 
that week. No other computation but that of the 
week was, at that time, possible. At the falling of 
the manna the seventh-day Sabbath immediately suc-
ceeded "the sixth day." Now this sixth day was 
either the sixth day of the week, or it was a sixth part 
of a cycle of six, after Mr. Baird's favorite method of 
computing cycles. But it could not have been a part 
of a cycle of six, for in seven such cycles it would 
coincide with the seventh day of a cycle of seven; and 
therefore the requirement to gather a double portion 
of manna, and that not to gather any, would have 
fallen on the same day. Hence it was the sixth day 
of the week and the seventh day following it was the 
seventh day of the week. Again, while the Saviour 
lay in the grave, his disciples " rested the Sabbath day 
according to the commandment." And the day fol-
lowing was " the first day of the week." As every 
week has seven days and no more, the seventh day of 
one week must immediately precede the first day of 
the next week. Therefore it was the seventh day of 
the week which was then kept " according to the com-
mandment." Nor could they have kept any other day 
of the week and kept the commandment. For the 
commandment is based entirely on the fact that God 
wrought six days and rested the seventh day of the 
first week of time. No other cycle but that of the 
week then existed, and the weekly cycle originated 
there, and there only. 
We will illustrate the folly of Mr. Baird's method 
of identifying the seventh day. Say a man has seven 
sons; the first-born is named John; the youngest, 
Robert. The father makes a will, bequeathing to each 
of his sons one thousand dollars, but having a cus-
tomary fondness for his youngest, bequeathes to his 
seventh son ten thousand dollars. John determines 
to gain the ten thousand dollars for himself; there-
fore he calls the family together, and places them in 
a circle; commencing just next to himself he counts 
around, and of course reckons himself the seventh, 
and on that enumeration claims the ten thousand 
dollars. Now John has thoroughly instructed them 
that " the seventh son " means one son after six others, 
no matter where you begin to count! And while 
Robert fully believes in the correctness of this method 
in regard to the claims of God and of his command-
ments, he is • not so ready to admit it when his own 
rights are involved; and therefore he throws the 
matter into court where John's method of determin-
ing " the seventh son " is condemned on short hearing. 
And so, when God shall bring every work into judg-
ment in the light of his own commandments, will be 
condemned all the petty evasions by which men seek 
to escape God's requirement' to keep the seventh day. 
LOYALTY to the law of God we highly respect, 
wherever we find it. Of all the dangerous isms of 
the age, antinomianism holds the lowest place in our 
estimation. And we think deservedly so, because the 
law of God is fundamental; it is of the very first im-
portance. All other relations in life grow out of our 
relation to the law of our Creator and Supreme Gov-
ernor. Therefore disloyalty to that law is the strongest 
evidence of treasonable feelings against the divine gov-
ernment. 
With regret we have noticed, during the last quarter 
of a century, a growing disregard for the claims of the 
decalogue as a code of morals, even among those whose 
professions would lead us to expect better things. One 
of the most distinctive features of Methodism, in its 
early rise, was its repudiation of antinomianism. Wesley 
and Fletcher battled manfully against this heresy which 
was largely prevailing in the established church. But 
how is it with their successors ? Dr. Benson, late editor 
of the California Christian Advocate, published a 
pamphlet which was indorsed by denominational 
action, which, in its method of argument, and in its 
treatment of the fourth commandment, struck at the 
very life of the decalogue as a moral and perpetual rule 
of life. And Mr. Armstrong, of one of the eastern Con-
ferences, wrote a pamphlet which, with an introduction 
by a Methodist D.D., was published by the Methodist 
Publishing Concern, which directly undermines the 
fourth commandment. But the wise men of that great 
and influential denomination surely know that it is im-
possible to destroy reverence and respect for that com-
mandment and still maintain reverence for the other 
nine of the code. When they repudiate that, calling 
the seventh day, which is the only subject of the com-
mandment, " the Jewish Sabbath," they are strength-
ening the hands of those who repudiate the decalogue 
as a rule of Christian life, or the basis of Christianity. 
The gospel system is remedial—it is for "the remission 
of sins." But " sin is the transgression of the law." 
And he who invalidates the law nullifies the gospel as a 
means of remission. 
The commandment says, " the seventh day is the Sab-
bath of the Lord thy God," not the Sabbath of the Jews. 
Why will Methodists and Presbyterians perpetuate and 
spread the error of calling the seventh day the Jewish 
Sabbath, against the plain terms of the commandment ? 
We have tried, and tried in vain, to get the authorities 
of the Methodist church, to defend Mr. Armstrong's 
position in regard to the Sabbath, especially his argu-
ment on Ex. 16 and 20. We are forced to the conclu-
sion that they will not repudiate his argument, and that 
they cannot defend it. We are willing to stand cor-
rected in any and every point wherein we erred, if we 
did err, in our review of Armstrong's argument. And 
if we did err, why do they not point it out, on our re-
peatedly requesting it ? If we did not err, if Mr. Arm-
strong perverted the testimony of the Scriptures, why 
do they continue to indorse and to circulate the perver-
sion ? These are serious matters. On the authority of 
his commandments "God shall bring every work into 
judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, 
or whether it be evil." Eccl. 12 : 13, 14. 
We observe that the recent State Sunday-school Con-
vention at Stockton, upheld the authority of the fourth 
commandment. We are glad of it; only we wish they 
were consistent, and would not try to throw the author-
ity of the commandment over the first day of the week. 
Some years ago a Mr. Baird, a Congregationalist min-
ister, made this application of the law in a labored 
argument. By request we reviewed the argument at 
the time; and as the same position is taken almost 
every day by some religionists, we copy the following 
paragraphs from that review:— 
In presenting the reason of Sabbath obligation God 
never refers to Adam, nor to the day of his creation, 
but to the creation of the world in six days and to 
his own rest on the seventh day. The work of crea-
tion in six days, dating from " the beginning," and 
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• 
this life, then in the kingdom of God. But when the 
final decision of the Judgment is rendered, then there 
will be a separation so terrible that no words can express 
it: some to everlasting life, and some to the pains of the 
second death. Parents and children and friend#inust 
separate to meet no more. How will it be with us in 
that day ? 
CONFESSION OF SINS. 
We must confess our sins. Our own good demands 
this. The honor of God and the interests of his cause do 
also demand it. But when we confess our sins, we must 
not mix with it the justification of ourselves. Nor 
should we be so general and indefinite that there shall 
be no humiliation on our part. We must make clean 
work of putting away our sins. If we confess our sins, 
he is faithful and just to forgive us. We must never be 
satisfied till the Spirit of God witnesses with our spirits. 
It is better to humble ourselves with genuine repentance 
than to go on unhumbled to the Judgment. There 
every knee will bow, but it will be too late. Let us 
attend to this work while it will be possible for us to 
put away our sins. �
J. N. A. 
Self-deception. 
BY ELD. IL F. COTTRELL. 
IT is an easy thing to deceive ourselves. Self-esteem 
and self-love lead to self-deception. It is easy to per-
suade ourselves that we are right, and that those who do 
not agree with us are wrong. A person may imagine 
that he has attained to a state of perfect humility, when 
in fact it is only the perfection of self-complacency and 
pride. And he may become so extremely selfish as to 
think himself perfectly free from selfishness. 
These conditions are hard to cure. The persons thus 
afflicted imagine that they are so completely given up 
to the will of God, and have no will of their own, that 
the thought of renouncing their fancies would horrify 
them, as it would seem to them to be a renunciation of 
the work that God had wrought in their soul by the 
Holy Spirit. They think they have yielded up all to 
God; but what God has wrought in them they cannot 
yield—they cannot deny him ! And so their perfect 
submissiveness to God, results in perfect stubbornness 
against all attempts to correct their errors. They are 
ready now for martyrdom. The genuine martyrs to 
the truth seem stubborn, of course, to their persecutors; 
but it was only their fidelity and submissiveness to God 
How shall the case be reached ? Humility on stilts, 
proud of its perfection of beauty, self-renunciation 
clothed in supreme selfishness, and submissiveness steel-
clad in stubbornness, are hard things to meet. It was 
commendable for the martyrs to stand stiffly for the 
truth. What, then, can be done in the cases of self-
deception ? I can see but one chance of hope; and that 
is, by some argument or motive, to cause the subject to 
call in question his or her infallibility. If this can be 
done, we may report progress. The martyrs did right to 
stand for the truth at the expense of their lives; but are 
you absolutely certain that it is the truth that you are 
ready to die for ? Is there not a bare possibility that what 
you esteem sacred truth may be the mere fancies of a 
disordered imagination ? Let us make a distinction 
between clearly revealed truth, and our own imagina-
tions and feelings. Let us get a humility that is teach-
able, an unselfishness that prefers others' judgment to 
our own, and a submissiveness that yields to the instruc-
tions of others, whom God has b:essed with an experience 
possibly quite equal to our own. When an individual 
stands against the whole church, as well as the whole 
world, there is the greatest reason to believe that he is 
laboring under self-deception. 
At the Southern Camp-Meeting. 
ACCOMPANIED by W. C. White and Sister Mary A. 
Davis, I reached the grounds, Thursday, May 4, at 
10 P. M. We found a neat, commodious tent, conven-
iently fitted up for us during our stay on the ground. 
At the 9 o'clock meeting on Friday morning, I tried 
to present before our people the importance of the 
occasion. This holy convocation affords a precious 
opportunity to draw near to God. We should improve 
this privilege to search our own hearts, to compare our 
life and character with the divine law, and see what 
would hinder the Spirit of God from abiding with us. 
We should begin the meeting aright, that God may 
impart to us his blessing. We must carefully shun 
any violation of the Sabbath, making all needful prep- 
aration on Friday. We are not to consult our own 
pleasure or convenience, but to consider how we can 
best honor our Creator. 
One day in the week God claims as his own; he has 
set it apart for religious worship, and has commanded 
man, " In it thou shalt not do any work." He will 
not grant his blessing to those who willfully trample 
upon his holy day. " If thou turn away thy foot from 
the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; 
and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, 
honorable; and shalt honor him, not doing thine own 
ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking 
thine own words, then shalt thou delight thyself in 
the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high 
places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of 
Jacob thy father; for the mouth of the Lord hath 
spoken it." 
The Lord gave the children of Israel explicit in-
structions prohibiting unnecessary labor upon the Sab- 
bath. " To-morrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath 
unto the Lord. Bake that which ye will bake to-day, 
and seethe that which ye will seethe." Carelessness 
in the observance of the Sabbath has crept in among 
us as a people. Many have sought to please themselves 
rather than to honor God. If we would enjoy the 
blessing of the Lord, the Sabbath-day must be kept 
holy. All cooking should be done on Friday. On the 
camp-ground, when the mornings are cool, hot water 
or hot gruel should be provided. In winter, at our 
homes, the food previously cooked should be warmed 
before it is eaten. In warm weather this is unnec-
essary. Divine mercy has directed that the sick and 
suffering should be cared for; the labor required to do 
this is a work of necessity, and no violation of the Sab-
bath. 
At our annual gatherings we assemble to seek the 
Lord, to humble ourselves before him, to search dili-
gently our own hearts, and to learn whether we are 
in the faith. How inconsistent for us, on such an 
occasion, to make eating and drinking our chief busi-
ness. The one day in seven, which God has sanctified, 
should be observed in accordance with the command-
ment. 
If we would preserve health and clearness of mind, 
we should eat temperately of plain, wholesome food. 
Those who have been accustomed to eat three meals 
would experience benefit from taking only two meals 
of simple food, prepared in a simple manner. If we 
had bread and water only, we should receive it with 
thankfulness; but we are not yet compelled to confine 
ourselves to this restricted diet. I am convinced, how-
ever, that very many would find it a great advantage 
to partake of a much plainer diet on the Sabbath than 
on the working days of the week. 
The violation of the fourth commandment is not 
confined to the preparation of food. Many carelessly 
put off blacking their boots, and shaving, until after 
the beginning of the Sabbath. This should not be. 
If any neglect to do such work on a working day, they 
should have respect enough for God's holy time to let 
their beards remain unshaven, their boots rough and 
brown, until the Sabbath is past. This might help 
their memory, and make them more careful to do their 
own work on the six working days. 
At every camp-meeting, instruction should be given 
on all these points. How can we expect the special 
blessing of God, unless we shun with abhorrence the 
smallest sin. We should choose to suffer inconvenience, 
loss, or privation, rather than disregard the instructions 
of the Lord. Our lack of spirituality has been caused 
by our own course. We have gradually and insensibly 
chosen to please ourselves instead of seeking to honor 
God. Christian perfection consists in the complete 
harmony of our will with the will of our Creator. The 
inhabitants of Heaven find, in obeying the will of God, 
their joy and blessedness. 
Let every family of Seventh-day Adventists honor 
God by a strict regard for his law. The children should 
be taught to respect the Sabbath. On the day of 
preparation, clothing should be put in proper repair, 
shoes polished, baths taken. Then around the family 
altar all should wait to welcome God's holy day, as 
they would watch for the coming of a dear friend. 
To the praise of God, I would say that my words 
upon this point met a response in the hearts of the 
people. Our restaurant table was well furnished, yet 
free from extravagance. On Friday, all needful prep-
aration was made, so that the least work was performed 
on the Sabbath that I have seen at camp-meeting for 
many years. The plain, wholesome food was eaten 
with a relish. Only two meals a day were prepared 
at the restaurant, and those in charge had an oppor-
tunity to attend nearly all, if not all, the meetings. 
For two mornings I observed that while the five 
o'clock meetings were in session, our sisters were busily 
engaged in preparing breakfast, but after this I was 
gratified to see that nearly all were present in the tent. 
These meetings were intensely interesting. There was 
no great excitement, but a steady advance in spiritual 
strength. The people were hungry for the bread of life. 
I have never attended a meeting where there seemed 
to be a stronger desire to learn, and to profit by the 
instruction received, than at this meeting. Oh, how 
much easier to labor where the people put forth earnest 
efforts to _help themselves! Most encouraging testi-
monies were borne. I received precious blessings as 
I sought to present some practical points of truth in a 
few minutes' talk. And it was encouraging to learn 
from the testimonies borne, that our brethren and 
sisters gathered up these gleams of light, and purposed 
to make the best use of them. 
Our meetings were a great blessing to myself as well 
as to the people. So deep was the affliction experienced 
in the loss of my husband, that I have felt I had re-
ceived my death-wound. And as I saw our people 
drifting away from God, into the current of worldliness 
and pleasure-loving, and neglecting the light which 
God has permitted to shine upon them, it caused me 
far deeper grief than the death of my children and my 
husband. I had no rest day nor night. 
I longed for peace. I longed for the burden to be 
lifted from me. I had in faithful testimony reproved, 
warned, and counseled. I could do no more. I was 
powerless to correct the existing evils. I had feared 
to attend the southern camp-meeting; I hardly dared 
test my strength by the labor which I should be called 
to perform; but from the first day I felt that the Lord 
was sustaining me. The everlasting arms were my 
support. When standing before the people, I was 
conscious of a strength not my own. I was but the 
instrument; God spoke to the people through clay. 
The burden which had weighed me down, was removed. 
Peace, like a river, flowed into my soul. I was cheer-
ful, yea, joyful, in God. Thus has the Lord in mercy 
often helped me in time past, as I have labored for the 
salvation of souls. Peace and joy continued with me 
through the meeting. My wakeful hours at night 
were spent in communion with God. I felt that a 
risen Saviour pleads in our behalf, at the right hand 
of the Father. Because Jesus lives, we live also; he 
in us, and we in him. 
Oh the Sabbath, we invited all those to come forward 
who desired to reach a higher standard in their religious 
life, and also those who desired, for the first time, to 
give their hearts to Jesus. A large part of our number 
at once responded, and we had a season of confession, 
prayer, and humiliation, before, God. This meeting 
was timely; it seemed to break the spell of coldness 
and wordliness, and, from this point, there was steady 
advancement. 
I was strengthened to speak to the people ten times 
during the meeting, besides several short talks of from 
fifteen to forty minutes, in the social gatherings. In 
addition to this, I wrote not less than one hundred 
pages, during the ten days we were upon the ground. 
Of many interesting features of the meeting, I have 
not space here to write. The Bible-classes were pro-
ductive of much good, in directing the minds of our 
people to the contemplation of Scripture truth. The 
meetings held specially for the youth and children, 
were among the best of the series. At all these yearly 
gatherings, special attention should be given to the 
spiritual interests of the young. Earnest labor should 
be put forth in their behalf. 
On the last Sunday, I spoke in the five o'clock morn-
ing prayer-meeting upon the importance of cherishing 
faith. We must not allow our minds to be led into the 
channel of unbelief. If we talk of our doubts, we shall 
always find doubts to express. If we talk faith, we 
shall have faith, hope, and courage, in the Lord. 
Sunday afternoon, I spoke to a good congregation on 
the subject of temperance, and in the evening con-
tinued the same subject, before a larger company. 
The Lord gave me strength and freedom. To his name 
be all the glory. After the exertion of this day, we 
slept about two hours, and then arose to prepare for 
our homeward journey, leaving the camp-ground at 
three o'clock, Monday morning. 
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VoL. 8, No. 20. 
I returned from this meeting with improved health, 
increased courage, and renewed hope, and with the peace 
of Christ abiding in my heart. As I look back at my 
condition of health a few weeks since, and then see 
what the Lord has wrought for me, I can hardly find 
language to express my gratitude to God. In every 
emergency he has sustained me. I fear that my faith 
has not always been as strong as it should have been. 
The waves of affliction had almost gone over my head. 
But the Lord has again revealed himself in power to 
me, and I will cast all my care upon him who careth 
for me. To me this camp-meeting has been one of the 
best I ever attended. 
Dear brethren and sisters who shall assemble in our 
camp-meetings, Jesus will do great things for us, if we 
will faithfully perform our duty. We must yield our 
will to the will of God. We must honor the Lord by 
obeying all his commandments, even in what we term 
little things. The truth, like its divine Author, is un-
changeable in its requirements, the same yesterday, to-
day, and forever. It is not in harmony with the tra-
ditions of men, it does not conform to their opinions. 
The truth has ever brought a separation between God's 
people and the world. But if our position in former 
years, as a peculiar people, was approved of God, how 
does he regard our present position ? Have we gained 
in spirituality since we departed from our early simplic-
ity ? " Ye are living epistles, known and read of all 
men." It was our Saviour's mission to "purify unto 
himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works." To 
his disciples he says, " Ye are the light of the world." 
And the apostle Paul declares, " We are a spectacle to 
the world, to angels, and to men." 
Every person will reveal in his life all the faith that 
he possesses. Our dress, our conversation, our house, 
our associates, all bear testimony to the world with 
greater force than words can have. " Faith is made 
perfect by works," but faith without works is dead." 
We profess to be giving to the world the last message 
of mercy. Is our daily life in harmony with our pro-
fession ? 
A form of godliness is popular in the world. A pro-
fession of Christianity costs little. There are but few 
who choose the way of self-denial, the way of the cross. 
A few, only, with the apostle, bear about in their bodies 
the marks of the Lord Jesus, desiring to know nothing 
but Christ, and him crucified. But God's blessing will 
attend the faithful few. He will make them channels 
of light to the world. 
Those who conduct sour camp-meetings should, from 
the very beginning of each meeting, teach others how 
to work. This is wise generalship.' The labor should not 
be permitted to come wholly upon the ministers, for 
this will deprive the people of the education which they 
need. They should feel that a responsibility rests upon 
them to engage in the meetings in the tents. There is 
work that all can do, and should do to help others, and 
in doing thus they help themselves. The reason why so 
many are dying spiritually is that they are slothful ser-
vants, do-nothings. Would they go to work, they would 
increase in spiritual strength. 
The work before us is great. Probation is soon to 
close. The wrath of God is about to be poured upon 
the earth. The sweet voice of mercy will soon cease to 
be heard. Every servant of the True Shepherd will re-
alize the perils of this time, and will labor earnestly to 
bring souls to Christ. We must not depend on theory. 
The most conclusive arguments are not sufficient in 
themselves. Our only hope is to reach the people 
through God. The Bible is the sure word of prophecy, 
whereunto we do well that we take heed; but those who 
labor in word and doctrine must have a vital connection 
with God, a deep and living experience. While clear 
and convincing arguments appeal to the understanding, 
the Spirit of God abiding in the heart of the minister, 
must speak to the hearts of those who hear. 
As a rule, ministers are too formal. We must show 
the people that we are in earnest, not merely in the 
desk, but out of the desk; that we fully and solemnly 
believe the truths we preach. If we wish them to feel, 
we must feel ourselves. Some ministers are adopting 
the customs of other churches, copying their habits and 
manner of labor. With many, pulpit preaching is 
mechanical, a mere trade. They do not kindle their 
taper at the divine altar. They do not have the unction 
from on high. The shepherds of the flock should be 
earnest, vigilant, and active now; the end is nearer 
than when we first believed. The people have a right 
to ask, Watchman, what of the night ? Satan would 
have them sleep until the time for the salvation of sin-
ners is past. Let the trumpet give a certain sound. 
Let not our camp-meetings be occasions for visiting 
and feasting. They should be occasions of heart-search-
ing, deep humiliation, earnest, agonizing prayer. The 
judgments of God are about to fall upon the unsheltered 
head of the sinner. We have no time now to seek 
worldly honor, no time to exalt self, to indulge pride or 
ambition. " Our God shall come, and shall not keep' 
silence. A fire shall devour before him, and it shall be 
very tempestuous round about him. He shall call to 
the heavens from above, and to the earth that he may 
judge his people." How shall we stand in that day 
when heaven and earth shall hear the voice of God call-
ing to judgment ? 
When each thought, and word, and motive, is revealed 
as it stands registered in the books of Heaven, when 
every soul shall be tried by the one perfect standard, 
the law of- God, how will our case stand ? When God 
makes inquisition for the blood of souls, when the under-
shepherds gather with their flocks around the great 
white throne, where will those stand with whom we 
have been associated, whom we have influenced ? In 
that day, may it be seen that we have done well the 
work committed to our hands. May our voices swell 
the glad chorus. �
E. G. WHITE. 
Catholics in Washington. 
THE following, as the writer says, is worthy of care-
ful attention. The gigantic strides which the Roman 
Church is making in the United States are not the re-
sult of chance, but of a well-defined plan. The stu-
dent of prophecy has no difficulty in forecasting the 
result. 
For many years past the Catholic Archbishop has 
held, evidently for speculation, a large part of a square 
in the business part of the city. He now wants to sell 
it, and has asked Congress to remit all taxes on it. It 
is to be hoped the donation will not be made. The 
Archbishop's property already exempted is rated at $1,-
905,604, and this assessment is not much more than 
half its real value. He is steadily and rapidly acquir-
ing valuable real estate in the District. Next to the 
Government, the Archbishop is the wealthiest proprie-
tor. He buys no odds and ends; all his lots are of the 
best class. He buys for churches, parochial schools, 
nunnery schools, convents, asylums, homes for the aged. 
As he pays no taxes, he can hold until he can sell at a 
profit and buy more. At the present rate of purchase, 
he and the United States will own between them three-
fourths of the real estate in the District, before the end 
of the century. 
The Baptists, who are more numerous here than the 
Catholics, and the Methodists, who have a still greater 
numerical superiority, own together several times as 
many churches as the Archbishop of Baltimore; but 
they do not together own as much exempted property. 
The figures are as follows: Archbishop Gibbons holds 
exempted property, $1,905,604; the Methodists, $636,-
449; Baptists, $319,921—total, $956,370. Excess of 
Archbishop's exempted property, $949,234. A striking 
difference between the Archbishop and the Protestants 
is that he has a carefully digested policy in regard to 
the acquisition of property; and they have none of any 
kind. Another is, he has no paid agents to take care of 
his; while the agents of the Protestants are all paid. 
It is easy to see what the result will be in this District: 
the Archbishop's successor will be the most wealthy 
corporation sole at the national capital; and when he 
transfers his archiepiscopal residence to Washington, 
which he will do when he finds it no longer necessary 
to mask his designs, he will be so strongly entrenched as 
to defy attack. He will then be a strong political power; 
strong enough, when backed by seven millions of Cath-
olics in the United States, to control the balance of 
power in the national elections. 
Recently, a significant movement has been made here 
by the Archbishop against the public schools. The 
priests have refused to give absolution to parents who 
send their children to these schools. Hereafter, every 
Catholic child is to be brought up in the parochial 
schools taught by the priests. The Catholic population 
is to be isolated, as well as the priests can accomplish it, 
from the rest of the population, by separate education 
and separate social lire. The placing the public schools 
under the ban with bell, book, and candle has not been 
noticed, except in short paragraphs, by the Washington 
daily , ress. �
regard it as of great importance, and ask 
the careful attc Ition • to it of all who love the Republic. 
—Examiner. 
A BERLIN paper publishes the singular report that 
there is a strong and increasing hatred of Germans in 
all parts of Russia; that a declaration of war against 
Germany would be hailed with delight by the Russians; 
Russian nobles are turning off their German servants; 
and German tradesmen are being ruined because Rus-
sians will not deal with them. They are leaving that 
country as fast as possible. 
int faissionarp. 
Letter from Brother Drew. 
'a 
THE following is a personal letter, but it con-
tains matter so interesting that we publish it:— 
I am happy to say that the cause in England 
is onward, and we are of good courage. I left 
Southampton on the 14th of February, for Lon-
don, and spent four weeks there, and sold $75 
worth of our books, including four " Home Hand-
Books;" sold also 1,300 pages of tracts, and left 
several reading for themselves, and hope that 
much good may be done, and we will give God 
all the glory. 
I left London on the 17th of March, for Great 
Grimsby, in Lincolnshire, to labor for a few days 
with Brother John, and we are happy to report 
progress in the work here. We have an invita-
tion to visit Bradford, which, if the Lord will, 
we shall do at no distant day. We believe that 
we can soon find more work to do in this quarter 
than many willing hands could do, and we find 
many earnest lovers of the truth here, as you 
will find anywhere. We find it more difficult to 
reach the people here, but when once they are 
brought to the knowledge of the truth, they are 
such as you can depend upon, and we feel very 
grateful to God for permitting us to have a help-
ing hand in the last message to a fallen world, 
which is to prepare a people for the coming of 
our blessed Lord. I go to Hull to engage in the 
missionary work on board of ships, and on the 
land. Shall be glad to be remembered by friends 
in America, who will supply us with reading mat-
ter in all the languages, especially in English, 
German, Danish, and Swedish. 
We are encouraged every day, for we see God's 
hand in the work; and while we see the world 
fast filling up their cup of iniquity, we are ad-
monished to work whilst the day lasts; the night 
cometh when no man can work. We hope, by 
patient labor, to gather up a few precious sheaves 
to present to the Master when he comes. 
I can assure you that the people here appreci-
ate the favors conferred upon them by our Ameri-
can brethren, in sending them the truth. I was 
introduced to a gentleman who had the Review 
sent to him, and then subscribed for it, and he 
said his subscription was out a year ago, but it 
was such a good paper that he wanted to pay for 
it again. We rejoice because we know that many 
prayers go up to God for those laboring in the En-
glish field, and we shall strive every day to double 
our diligence in this great work. We send our 
kind regards to all the missionary workers, and 
hope to be remembered by them in their prayers. 
Your brother in the blessed hope, 
GEO. R. DREW. 
47 Edon Road, Hull, Yorkshire, England. 
Nevada. 
I CLOSED my meetings at St. Clair, Nevada, 
April 26, after giving 36 discourses. As a result 
of these meetings, fourteen united with the church, 
and twelve others signed the covenant, making 
twenty-six in all that are trying now to be Chris-
tians. We sold about $65 worth of books, and a 
club of 58 copies of the SIGNS was taken, making 
72 with those that were taken before. The Sab-
bath-school, which now numbers about sixty, was 
reorganized. We can but believe the church has 
been greatly strengthened and encouraged. Eight 
of those that were converted were children of Sab-
bath-keepers. The others were neighbors that 
resided near by. �E. W. FARNSWORTH. 
Eld. Haskell's Trip to Europe. 
[From the Review and Herald.] 
MAY 13, Eld. S. N. Haskell sailed from New 
York to visit our missionaries in the Old World. 
This visit has been in contemplation for several 
years past, but a pressure of other duties has pre-
vented hitherto. It is with great difficulty that 
he could find the time to go this spring. Bro. 
Gardner, from California, who traveled extensively 
there years ago, and is familiar with the customs 
and languages of Central and Northern Europe, 
will travel with him. This will be a great assist-
ance to Eld. Haskell, and will enable him to 
accomplish much more good. It has seemed very 
important to us that one of the leading brethren 
here should become acquainted with the state of 
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things in Europe, in order to co-operate to the 
best advantage with our fellow-laborers there. 
We cannot well understand the situation of things 
without personal observation. We trust his visit 
will be a great encouragement to our dear mis-
sionaries who are toiling under great difficulties. 
Some of them are laboring under a great pressure 
of feebleness and anxiety. May God bless, and 
guide, and sustain them. We hope Bro. Haskell, 
in his great interest in the missionary work, may 
be able to discover special openings for the truth. 
We expect this will be the case. We believe the 
time has come for forward movements in various 
directions. This work cannot, must not, stand 
still. Our eyes are not backward toward Egypt, 
but onward to the land of hope and immortal 
glory. May we not expect this visit to Europe 
will be another important point in the advance 
of the work ? �
GEO. I. BUTLER. 
Vigilant Missionary Reports for Quarter 
Ending March 31. 
MILTON, OREGON. 
WALLA WALLA, W. T. 
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Upper Columbia T. and M. Society. 
REPORT FOR QUARTER ENDING MARCH 31, 1882. 
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A Cornish Cobbler's Sermon. 
"HE first findeth his own brother, Simon." 
Now I am sure 'tis a good plan to go looking 
after one soul. Every soul in the world do belong 
to our Lord. He made 'em, every one; and he 
bought 'em every one, with his precious blood. 
They's his every way, and the devil is a thief. 
I've often thought what a poor master the devil's 
servants have got. Why, when he came up to 
tempt our mother Eve in Paradise, he hadn't got 
any bit o' a little for to bribe her with, an' all he 
could do was to tempt her to steal her Master's 
apples. He haven't got anything at all of his own. 
. �
. �
. Andrew didn't say: " I'll try to do all the 
good I can," and then do nothing, because he 
could'nt find any to do; but he says: " There's 
Simon; I'll go and catch him." That's the way; 
pick up one soul, and set your heart 'pon it; begin 
to pray for that one, and go on trying till you've 
got it; and then try for another. We 'might do a 
good deal o' good in the world, if we didn't try to 
do so much. I've heard folks a singin', an' 
meanin' it, too:— 
" Were the whole realm of nature mine, 
That were a present far too small." 
An' because the realm o' nature wasn't theirs, they 
didn't give anything at all.—Southern Cherrchman. 
" GOD loveth a cheerful giver." 
Zrinveranzz. 
Moderate Drinking. 
SOME men can drink moderately. My father 
drank moderately. He could drink in moderation; 
his son could no more drink moderately than you 
could blow up a powder magazine moderately, or 
fire a gun off a little at a time. I did as every 
intemperate man has done; I tried to drink 
moderately, and failed. No man means to be a 
drunkard. There is not an intemperate man but 
tries to be a moderate drinker, and fails. Why, a 
man said to me, " Well, you know what one man 
can do another one can, if he sets himself about 
it." Oh, no; not at all; oh, no, sir. So I say to 
the moderate drinker, " I don't expect to convert 
you to my notion; al I ask is this: If you will 
drink, drink, but don't tell these young men you 
set them a good example by your drinking. 
" If they do as I do." " Ah, if they do as you 
do. �
Suppose they can't do as you do ? " Oh, well; 
one man can do what another one can if he sets 
himself to work about it." I saw a man stand 
on a little platform that was sustained by a rope 
that was fastened, I suppose, on the inside of a 
little window on a spire about ten feet from the 
wall, 135 feet from the pavement, and he stood 
on that little platform without holding to any-
thing. A man on the sidewalk hallooed to him. 
He put his hands on his knees, looked right down 
135 feet, and spoke to the man on the sidewalk. 
How many of you could do that? All of you 
could, if you only think you could, to be sure. 
You could do what any other man could do. 
Well, try it. Now if that man on the platform 
had said: " Follow my example," you would have 
said: " Oh, I don't like the looks of the thing." 
" Well, but I have stood here every day for the 
last two or three weeks perfectly safe; just try 
and do as I do; don't bend down with a rush; do 
it in moderation; don't rush for it, but steadily 
and moderately exercise your self-control. Now 
put your foot right on this plank. That's it! 
There, there! Now take the other foot, then the 
other—a moment—the other step." Ah, well, 
but down I go. You may say I was weak-
minded, if you like. I say neither the mind nor 
the will has anything to do with it. You may 
call it a physical inability, if you like, for there 
are a great many persons with just that physical 
inability, and if I am unsophisticated, and you 
tell me I can stand there because you have, you 
induce me to do it andl fall, are your skirts clear 
of my blood ? I only ask the question, and leave 
the decision to you. 
You may fill this room with young men to-
night, and let every man of them go out and say, 
" I am going to be a moderate drinker. I am 
going to exercise self-control and self-government, 
and I am going to use this article in moderation." 
Take your pen and paper and make your calcu-
lation—make it as correct as you can—for life 
insurance, what proportion of these men will be-
come drunkards. You say that there is no nec-
essity that any of them will. I care not for the 
necessity—some of them will. By all past expe-
rience you know it. Why, let any young man 
look back for the last ten years, and count up the 
men that have become intemperate and ruined, 
lost their situations, one after another, and drifted 
out to get their living by miserable sponging and 
begging, and when you are sixty years of age the 
long fingers of memory will draw crowds of them 
that you knew, that have gone to ruin through 
drink, not one of them intending it.—John B. 
Gough. 
A SAND-BAG is one of the most serviceable ar-
ticles to use in the sick room. 
Get some clean, fine sand, dry it thoroughly in 
a kettle on the stove, make a bag of flanne, abot? 
eight inches square, fill it with dry sand, sew 
the opening carefully together, and cover-the bag 
with cotton or linen cloth. This will prevent the 
sand from sifting out and will also enable -you to 
heat the bag quickly by placing it in the oven, 
or even on top of the stove. 
After once using this you will never again at-
tempt to warm the feet or hands of a sick person 
with a bottle of hot water or a brick. The sand 
holds the heat a long time, and the bag can be 
tucked up the back without hurting the invalid. 
It is a good plan to make two or three of the 
bags and keep them ready for use. 
A Few Facts. 
TAKE these facts to heart, and show by your 
vote and by all your acts, that you are bound to 
protect your hearthstone from the invasion of 
the rum demon. 
In Saltaire, England, a town of 11,000 inhabit-
ants, there is complete prohibition of all intoxi-
cants. Pauperism and crime are almost unknown. 
In Bessbrook, Ireland, with 4,000 people, the 
sale of liquor is completely prohibited. Result: 
no poor-house, pawn-shop, or police station, and 
peace and industry reign supreme. 
Vineland, N. J., with 10,000 inhabitants, has 
enjoyed for years the total prohibition of the 
liquor traffic. Three hundred dollars a year pays 
the costs of crime. Taxes only one per cent. on 
valuation. 
Seven temperance towns in Delaware County, 
N. Y., total population about 15,000, have aver-
aged for past eight years less than $12 each for 
pauperism, crime, police justice and excise, while 
our town, Coxsackie, N. Y., with seventeen places 
where intoxicants are sold, and with less than one-
fourth the above population, submits to costs for 
crime, pauperism, etc., to the amount of $1,120.21 
per annum. 
In the 8,000 licensed, and 2,000 unlicensed sa-
loons of New York City, $60,000,000 are wasted 
every year that should buy bread, fuel, shoes, and 
clothing for the people. Yes, and this immense 
sum is five times wasted; for first, the drinker is 
incapacitated for labor just in proportion to the 
amount he wastes in drink; secondly, the original 
sum thus spent is an absolute waste, bringing not 
a drop of real, lasting happiness to himself or 
family, but an ocean of woe; thirdly, this im-
mense sum is drawn from the traffic of the honest 
business men of New York; fourthly, this traffic 
is responsible for the great majority of all the 
costs for courts, police, crime, pauperism, and 
insanity; fifthly, it robs fifty thousand wives, 
and a hundred thousand children of their lawful 
right to a comfortable home, decent clothing, and 
a well-spread table, and of the love and kindly 
care of husband and father. 
In 1880, the total number of persons arraigned 
in the police courts of rum-cursed New York City 
was 71,699, and of these 48,191 were for intoxi-
cation and disorderly habits; of the remaining 
23,508 a very large proportion were for crimes 
growing out of the liquor curse. 
Is this not enough ? Will not business men, as 
well as Christian men, haste to the rescue, and 
through the ballot-box, and in every other way 
put their heel upon this invader of their fireside, 
and their homes ?—Morning and Day of Reform. 
Standing Treat. 
ONE of the most foolish customs in the world 
is standing treat for drinks; other things are not 
bought in this way. Boys, if you want to be 
generous and treat each other, why not select 
some other place besides the liquor shop ? Sup-
pose, as you go by the post-office, you remark: 
" I say, my dear fellow, come in and take some 
stamps!" These stamps will cost you no more 
than drinks all around. Or go to the haber-
dasher's and say: " Boys, come in and take a 
box of collars." Walk up to a grocer's, free and 
generous, and say: " What kind of coffee will you 
have ?" Why not treat to groceries by the pound, 
as well as liquors by the glasS ? Or take your 
comrades to a cutler's and say, " I'll stand a good 
pocket-knife all around." 
Suppose a man should keep a den of rattle-
snakes, and allow m'en to come in and be bitten 
at ten cents a bite ? Would it be a sensible thing 
for a man to invite all his friends in to be bitten 
at his expense ? Is it worth while to turn our 
friends into brutes, maniacs, murderers, and their 
homes into hells of trouble and distress, by giving 
them " something to drink at my expense ?"—
Golden Censer. 
AT the recent restoration of a church occupied 
by the advanced Ritualists in England, one of 
the workmen employed ascended the pulpit and 
exclaimed. " I publish the bans of matrimony 
between this Church and the Church of Rome!" 
"And I," said another artisan, toward the first 
speaker, "forbid the bans." "On what grounds?" 
inquired he of the pulpit. "Because the parties 
I are too near o'kin," was the reply. 
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THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
Vol.. 8, No. 20. 
bentr Tirrte. 
LITTLE THINGS. 
"THOUGH little I bring," 
Said the tiny spring, 
As it burst from the mighty hill, 
" 'Tis pleasant to know, 
Wherever I flow. 
The pastures grow greener still." 
And the drops of rain; 
As they fall on the plain, 
When parched by the summer heat, 
Refresh the sweet flowers 
Which drooped in the bowers, 
And hung their heads at our feet. 
Though the drops are small, 
Yet, taking them all, 
Each one doing all that it can 
To fulfill the design 
Of its Maker divine, 
What lessons they give unto man ! 
May we strive to fulfill 
All his righteous will, 
Who formed the whole earth by his word. 
Creator Divine, 
We would ever be thine, 
And serve thee, our God and our Lord. 
--Observer. 
A Story of One Mother. 
BY MARY MARTIN. 
A CENTURY ago, Mr. and Mrs. Thompson found 
a home among the mountains and forests of New 
Hampshire. They had come from a town in the 
vicinity of Boston, and although " the flood of 
years" has wrought great changes in that, and 
suburban towns, it was a great change to little 
Lucy Lee when the neat cottage and green fields 
were lost in the log cabin that occupied the only 
land that had yet beon redeemed from the "forest 
primeval." As the years passed, fields of waving 
grain and golden maize clad the hills and valleys, 
where towering trees had once stood. A comfort-
able house occupied the original site of the log 
cabin, and a fine young orchard gave promise of 
delicious fruit. Occasionally a bear from the 
neighboring mountains had committed depreda-
tions within the inclosure, but for the most part, 
prosperity had attended the efforts of these 
worthy, industrious people. Two fine boys had 
come to brighten the home, but the little daugh-
ter slept in a quiet spot not far from the farm-
house door. Five years had come and gone since 
the little light went out, and often, still, did the 
mother's eyes NG ander from her spinning or weav-
ing to the tiny mound that had been raised above 
her treasure. Time, who knows no waiting, went 
on. �
The years were filled with unremitting, hon- 
est toil, and prosperity. Was it not prosperity? 
By reason of sacrifice and planning, not only 
had many substantial comforts been added to the 
home, but the sons had received a better educa-
tion than others whose circumstances were appar-
ntly quite as favorable. The mother had inher-
ited the fine appreciation of intellectual advan-
tages that chtiracterized the early settlers of New 
England, and she resolvedthat whatever sacrifice 
of personal comfort might be involved, her chil-
dren should have the best facilities for mental cul-
ture that could be afforded them. The village 
.pastor was a learned man, and for a consideration 
(that was thought to be very exhorbitant), pro-
posed to receive as pupils such of the young people 
of his parish as wished to avail themselves of bet-
ter opportunities than the district schools afforded. 
The progress which Charles and Harry Thomp-
son made in their studies w'as very gratifying to 
their parents. At length their ambition reached 
beyond the limits of the farm, to the fascinating, 
wide world in the distance. When they made 
known their desire to seek employment in the 
city, the fond parents felt that they ought to be 
willing to forego the pleasure of their society, 
and cheerfully submit to such inconvenience as 
might be necessary to secure their children's ad- 
vancement. �
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Charles left home one autumn after the har-
vesting was done, and Harry the next, a little 
earlier in the season. Mothers know what these 
experiences cost. It may seem a small thing to 
put four pairs of socks, four shirts, a few hand-
kerchiefs, and a new suit of clothes into a little 
leather-covered trunk; but not only has a moth-
er's loving hands carded, and spun, and woven, 
and sewed or knit every stitch, but something of 
more priceless value has been added to the small 
collection. Who can estimate a mother's prayers 
and tears? 
It was lonely at the farm; but if the eyes some-
times filled with tears, as they fell upon the well-
worn school-books or the little frocks and trou-
sers so carefully folded and laid away in the chest, 
no word of complaint or regret ever escaped the 
lips. 
The habits of strict business integrity in which 
the young men had been trained both by precept 
and example, insured them good situations, and 
their native energy and ambition secured promo-
tion and success. It was very gratifying to the 
parents in the old home to receive tidings that 
their children were " doing well." It compensa-
ted for many a heart-ache, and many a sacrifice. 
When after six years' absence the sons came 
home to spend a week, bringing their young 
brides, one in the beautiful spring-time, the other 
in the golden autumn, they were welcomed with 
the most sincere pleasure, and pardonable pride. 
If the sons sometimes blushed at the parents' 
antiquated pronunciation, and forms of expression, 
and the daughters were somewhat reserved and 
haughty, it was generally attributed to " the new 
city ways." A mother's mantle of charity was 
found sufficiently broad to cover all. 
It was very evident that the aroma of apple 
and cloYer blooms, and the gorgeous autumnal 
tints were inadequate to compensate either daugh-
ter for the, to them, objectionable features of 
farm-life. A week soon passes, and if there had 
been a shadow of disappointment, there was also a 
shade of relief at its close. 
Truly has it been said, " Time and tide wait for 
no man." The silver hair and bowed forms 
plainly indicated that Mr. and Mrs. Thompson 
had passed the Summit House, and were far on 
their way to Sunset Land. But " a reaper," " with 
his sickle keen," met them by the way, and a 
woman's weary form was seen passing the last 
milestones alone. 
It was found that Mr. Tompson bad died insol-
vent—that his name, given to aid a friend, had 
debarred him from all right of ownership to the 
broad and fertile acres—that nothing remained of 
all the years of toil but what the four walls of the 
house inclosed. 
When it was decided that the house must be 
vacated, and that it was " best mother should go 
to a neighbor's to board " for a stipulated sum 
which was to be remitted by the sons, and when 
she found herself in the one small room that was 
henceforth to be considered hers—then she felt 
that she was, indeed, alone. 
A heart so kind and tender as hers had ever 
been, and hands that had ministered readily and 
lovingly to others' need, could never meet with 
cold neglect in the neighborhood where she had 
been known so long and well; and she still found 
reason to return thanks to the Giver of all good. 
In a few years, Charlie, who lived in an adjoin-
ing State, wrote his mother to come and make her 
home with him. 
In addition to her wearing apparel, she took 
her fine bedding, all of which had been manu-
factured by her own skill and industry, together 
with such heir-looms of silver-ware as she pos-
sessed, and accompanied by a friend, took her first 
ride on the cars. 
But a few months had passed when it became 
evident that the mother was considered a burden 
rather than a blessing, in the fashionable city 
home. Sweet, serene, and heavenly-minded—a 
treasure that would have been highly prized in 
many a family circle—when the truth forced its 
way to her already sorrow-stricken heart, no 
words could express her anguish. 
When it was suggested that she should go back 
and board with the family she had left, she ut-
tered no word, but quietly gathered her small 
wardrobe (she was permitted to take nothing 
more of all she had brought), and alone retraced 
her weary way. 
A few years passed, but the regular remittances 
which had heretofore arrived promptly, failed to 
come. The sons were interviewed by letter, but 
there was no response. It came to be understood 
that they no longer considered themselves respon-
sible for any bills contracted by their mother. 
The neighbors could scarcely repress their indig-
nation, and such was the universal esteem for the 
more than widowed mother, that, although de-
pendent upon the town for her support, no word 
was ever whispered to her of the situation. 
But sickness and death entered the family cir- 
cle, of which she was a member, and the new 
Board decided that she must be removed to an 
adjoining town. It was a trying ordeal for a per-
son of her years and bodily infirmity, but s' 
 
silently submitted to the inevitable. During tL 
journey, a person more noted for volubility than 
fine feeling, apprised her of the fact that her sons 
no longer met her bills, but that it was a town 
expense. When convinced that such was the 
case, it was too much for the aching heart and 
silvered head, and they bowed beneath the stroke. 
She would sit for hours with folded bands, and a 
far-off asking look in the faded eyes, softly re-
peating her sons' names, adding, " No, no, you 
could never do that." A few months sufficed to 
complete the sad story, and the recording angel 
had closed the book. 
I was visiting in the place at the time, and my 
hostess was called to assist in performing the last 
sad offices for the dead. When the bell pealed forth 
in solemn tones from the country village church, 
I could but experience a feeling of relief that so 
much of suffering as that one life had held, had 
ended at last. Telegrams were sent to the sons 
in their respective homes, but neither appeared 
at the funeral. No kindred eyes wept over the 
placid face as the coffin lid was closed, and stranger 
hands lowered the plain casket that inclosd the 
precious jewel. Surely he who buried his servant 
on "Nebo's lonely mountain," has marked the 
sacred spot, and " when the graves are opened," 
will remember and claim his own. "Every man's 
work shall be made manifest; for the day shall 
declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and 
the fire shall try every man's work of what sort 
it is." 
Company Manners. 
" WILL you please sit down and wait a few 
moments till mother comes ? " said a little girl to 
two ladies who came to see her mother. "And 
will you give me a glass of water, Martha?" asked 
one of the ladies; "I am very thirsty ." 
" With pleasure," answered Martha, and she 
presently came back with two goblets of water on 
a small waiter, which she passed to both ladies. 
"O, thank you," said the other lady; you are 
very thoughtful." 
"You are quite welcome," said Martha, very 
sweetly." 
When Martha went out of the room, one of the 
ladies said, " This little girl is one of the lovliest 
children I ever met. How sweet and obliging 
her manners are ! " 
Let us go into the next room and see. Martha 
took the waiter back into the dining room. 
" Me drink ! me drink !" cried little Bobby, 
catching hold of his sister's dress, and screwing up 
his rosy lips. " Get out, Bob!" cried Martha; "go 
to Bridget." " Don't speak so to your little 
brother," said Bridget. " It's none of your busi-
ness what I say," cried Martha, tossing back her 
head. 
"Martha!" That is grandmother calling from 
the head of the stairs. " What ! " screamed 
Martha, back. "Please come here, dear," said 
grandma. " I don'.t want to go," muttered Martha. 
She, however, dragged herself upstairs. Unwill-
ing feet, you know, find it hard to climb. 
" Martha," said grandma, " will you try to find 
my specs? I am pretty sure I left them in the 
dining-room." "No you didn't," cried Martha, in 
a cross, contradictory tone; " you always lose them 
here;" and she rummaged round the chamber, 
tumbling things over like the north wind. 
" No matter," said the dear old lady, seeing she 
would have much to do to put things to rights 
again, "no matter, Martha; they will come to 
hand;" and she quietly put down the newspaper 
for by and by. Martha left her and went down 
stairs with a pout. 
Oh, dear ! where are Martha's civil, obliging 
manners? Why, those are her company manners. 
She puts them on in the parlor, and puts them 
off when she leaves the parlor. She wears them 
before visitors, and hangs them up when they are 
gone. You see she has no manners at home. 
She is cross and disobliging and rude and selfish. 
She forgets that home is the first place to be polite 
in—in the kitchen as well as in the parlor. There 
is no spot in the house where good manners can 
be dispensed with.—Selected. 
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Religious Notes. 
-The Roman Catholic Society of Foreign Missions, of 
Paris, claims to have under its care nearly 800,000 Cath-
olics in China, India, and Japan. In these fields it re-
ports 26 bishops, 574 missionaries, 394 native priests, 
1,680 cathechists, 2,500 churches and chapels, 30 semi-
naries, and 1,683 schools and orphanages. In 1880 
there went out from the Seminary in Paris 37 new 
missionaries. For the same year, the Society reports 
246 conversions of heretics, the baptism of 18,969 Pagan 
adults, of 256,387 children of Pagans, and of 27,919 
children of Christians. It is stated that the Pagan 
children " are baptized at the point of death, and gener-
ally die at once," so the society can " claim to have 
added a quarter of a million to the inhabitants of 
Heaven the past year." 
News and Notes. 
-A tract of 4,000 acres of land has been purchased 
in Arkansas for an Italian colony. 
-A dispatch from St. John, N. F., May 17, says that 
100 vessels are fast in the ice off the coast. 
-Thirty-seven houses, including every business house, 
in Stewartsville, Mo., were burned on the 16th. 
The Philadelphia Press Fund, amounting to $3,-
542, has been presented to Mrs. Sergeant Mason. 
-The Order of the Knights of Labor, an organization 
opposed to strikes, has attained a membership of 140,000. 
-A periodical has just been started in Vienna, the 
articles of which are to be in twelve different languages. 
-The Captain, officers, and fifty-five of the crew of 
a Turkish transport, perished recently in the Bosphorus. 
May 16, the Indians made an attack on a train on 
the Conception Road, in Texas, and killed several per-
sons. 
-Two schooners, one in Fortune Bay, and the other in 
Placentia Bay, N. F., were lost, May 15, with all on 
board. 
-There is said to be in circulation in Washington 
bogus silver certificates of the denomination of $1,000, 
which are equally as well executed as the genuine; and 
it is charged that they must have been printed from 
electrotypes of the original plates. About 500 of these 
certificates are in circulation. 
-A mob took forcible possession of the railroad at 
Crittenden, N. M., May 16, on account of the presence 
of a number of Chinese laborers. They drove all the 
Chinamen from the camp, and then, seizing the Super-
intendent of construction, hung him to a telegraph pole, 
until he promised to hire no more Chinamen. 
-Surveys have been made for an aqueduct 225 miles 
long, to supply New York, and towns along the Hudson, 
with water from Lake George. It is estimated by the 
chief engineer of the scheme, that a daily average of 
1,500,000,000 gallons of exceptionally pure water would 
thus be made available for city purposes. The estimated 
cost is $50,000,000. 
-It is thought that the murderers of Cavendish and 
Burke will come to America, and all steamers are being 
searched, and suspicious persons are arrested. The fear 
of being arrested is now so general in Ireland, that 
peasantry traveling outside their districts are applying 
to the police for pass-ports. Those who leave for America 
are doing the same. 
-About 5,000 emigrants landed at Castle Garden, New 
York, the 18th. Among them were a number of silk-
weavers, from France; a party of fifty grape-growers; 
many Scotch and English farmers; also carpenters, ma-
sons, etc. The German steamers brought nearly a thou-
sand emigrants, mostly agriculturists. These are the 
kind of emigrants that this country wishes to receive. 
-A sailing boat, containing a pleasure party of twelve, 
was capsized in Lake Calumet, near Chicago, May 11, 
and all on board were drowned. All the men worked 
in the Pullman Car Works, and nearly all leave fami-
lies. On the 16th also, four young men were drowned, 
who were fishing in the lake. Three prominent citizens 
of St. Paul, Minn., were drowned the same day in White 
Bear Lake. 
-The Texas Court of Appeals declares that if a man 
gets so drunk that he does not know what he is doing, 
and then commits an assault, he is entitled to an ac-
quittal. This offers the ruffian a premium for drunk-
enness. In commenting on this decision, the Oakland 
Times sensibly remarks that it would be more in accord-
ance with sound public policy, if the man who fortifies 
himself with liquor for the commission of a crime, were 
to receive an extra punishment for his offense." 
-A scientific feat never before attempted with success 
has just been accomplished in Cleveland, where Richard 
Jahr, a German student in photography, has photo-
graphed President Garfield's tomb by moonlight. Jahr 
has labored for some time, and expended considerable 
money in attempt to secure a negative with no other 
light than that of the moon, and it was not until one 
night recently that his efforts were crowned with suc-
cess. The camera was left in position seven hours before 
the negative was perfected. 
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-It is said that the Moravians, who number only 
20,000 at home, have been the means of Christianizing 
73,000 heathen. 
-The Episcopal Church, in convocation, has agreed 
upon a special form of prayer for use during the present 
trouble in Ireland. 
-A few years ago Portland, Oregon, was a mission 
station. It now has a Baptist Church of 300 members, 
and is contributing $1,000 annually for gospel work in 
other fields. 
-During Bishop Bowman's visit at Foochoo, China, 
a Chinese merchant presented him with a sealed envel-
ope which was found to contain three checks, two for 
$3,000, and one for $4,000, his contribution to the Anglo-
Chinese College at Foochoo. And this man was not a 
Christian, but a " heathen Chinee." 
-One of the most noticeable features about churches 
in missionary lands is their liberality. A report from 
Madura mission, Southern India, says that most of the 
2,501 church members earn but ten cents a day as la-
borers, yet nearly every one gives something, if it is but 
a handful of rice from their scanty store. 
-In 1851 there were 91,092 Protestant Christians in 
India; in 1881 the number had increased to 340,623. 
We are glad to record accessions to Christianity in 
heathen lands, for we believe that, as a rule, a given 
number of converts represent more real piety than the 
same number in a so-called Christian land. 
-A man in Texas, by the name of Joe E. Marsh, 
who is certainly blasphemous, and probably insane,. 
claims to be the " prophet like unto Moses." He claims 
that the prophecy of Isa. 53: 12, " He was numbered 
with the transgressors," is fulfilled in him, because he 
has two brothers-in-law who are murderers. 
-In the recent Baptist Convention in San Francisco, 
Rev. W. T. Fleenor preached from the text, " Lead me 
to the Rock that is higher than I," and said that the 
opportunities in Christianity were unlimited, and that 
those desirous of advancing to higher planes of Christi-
anity could do so if they only would, but that those who 
occupied somewhat advanced positions in the Christian 
world were too prone to think they had gone far enough, 
and sought no further advancement. 
-It is unfortunate that those who profess the greatest 
degree of holiness, are often the most irreverent, some-
times almost blasphemous in their language. The Sal-
vation Army in Philadelphia, a few Sundays ago, an-
nounced "A Real Halleluia Spree," led by "Shouting 
Annie, from Baltimore; Captain Pilgrim Charlie, the 
Salvation Wonder; Captain Joe, the Halleluia Carpen-
ter; and Glory Milt, the Halleluia Drummer." There 
was also announced " A Knee Drill " by the " Blood and 
Fire Brigade," and " Sharpshooting by the Soldiers of 
the Lord." 
-Six years ago a young theological student began to 
memorize the entire Bible, applying himself assiduously 
to his task during nearly the whole of that period, for 
fifteen hours a day. When he had nearly finished his 
task, his mind gave way, and he is now in an insane 
asylum. Some people imagine that because many good 
men and ministers are very familiar with the Bible, the 
way to be religious and gain an understanding of the 
Bible is to get it all in their head. They mistake, and 
go to work backward. Get the Bible into the heart, 
and then remember the exact wording of as much as 
you can. 
-Chicago has passed a law requiring wagon wheels 
to have broad tires. It is cheaper than to mend the 
streets. 
-In 1871 the revenue of the Suez Canal amounted 
to about $1,700,000; in 1881 it had grown to more than 
$10,000,000. 
-The men in all the principal tanneries in Chicago 
struck for higher wages, May 18. About 10,000 men 
are thus out of work. 
-Des Moines, Iowa, claims the largest distillery in 
the world. It employs 125 men, and consumes 7,000 
bushels of corn daily. 
-An $800,000 fire is reported from Lyons, France, 
May 19. Many work-shops are destroyed, and 3,000 
people are out of employment. 
-During the year 1881 there were 26,000,000 pounds 
of oleomargarine, and 21,000,000 pounds of butter ex-
ported from the United States. 
-Lieutenant Danenhower, who was in command of 
the only surviving party of the Jeannette crew, is now 
on his way from Liverpool to New York. 
-One hundred dollars' fine, and thirty days' impris-
onment is what a Cincinnati saloon-keeper received for 
violating the Sunday Law. This is the full penalty. 
-The steamer Rio Grande, with a cargo of cotton 
from Galveston to New Yea k, took fire and was sunk off 
Delaware Breakwater, May 17. Loss about $370,000-
000. 
-An experiment has been made between Melbourne 
and Albury, which shows that ordinary telegraph wires 
will, for a distance of 200 miles, serve to convey tele-
phonic messages. 
The total of the killed and wounded by the recent 
cyclone at McAllister, Indian Territory, is 120. Of 
these fifteen are dead. Many are maimed fork life, and 
others cannot recover. 
Articles of incorporation have been filed for a Cable 
Railroad on Market Street, San Francisco. Horse cars 
will be superseded. The road, with its branches will be 
over thirteen miles in length. 
-A lady tenant in Chicago recently obtained a ver-
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tained through misrepresentation as to the sewerage 
and plumbing of the house she occupied. 
-A prominent attorney of Portland, Oregon, died 
suddenly on a couch in a Chinese opium den last week. 
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become asphyxiated while smoking opium. 
-It is said that Russia is beginning to repent of the 
persecution against the Jews. The Jews who are leav-
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business in some places is seriously crippled. 
-Mr. Lynch, the colored Congressman from Miss-
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bought his mother and her children. His former owner 
is still living, and is a firm friend of the legislator who 
was once his slave. 
-A Western genius has invented a contrivance 
whereby the escape steam and hot water may be thrown 
out at the point of the cowcatcher of a locomotive, and 
not at the sides, as now. Thus he expects to frighten 
cattle from the track. 
-The New England Conservatory of Music has ob-
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and will turn it into a musical college. It will accom-
modate 600 boarding pupils. The cost of the building, 
with repairs, is $750,000. 
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Sabbath Memorial. 
THE Sabbath Memorial for April, 1882, is just re-
ceived; published by Eld. W. M. Jones, 15 Mill Yard, 
Goodman's Fields, London, E. 
This number of the Memorial is very interesting; in-
deed, every number is interesting. Bro. Jones is thor-
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The "Evangel's" Last Wail. 
THE efforts of Dr. Kalloch in behalf of religion, pu-
rity in politics, and the Baptist denomination, do not 
seem to be well appreciated. The Evangel, the organ 
of the Doctor, has expired. In its last issue are the 
following words:— 
" On the 23d of April preceding the meeting of the 
Convention in Sacramento, Rev. I. M. Kalloch, the son 
of Dr. Kalloch, and assistant Pastor of the Metropoli-
tan Church, put an end to the miserable and infamous 
life of Chas. De Young. This brave and necessary act 
was such a technical violation of tardy and inoperative 
law, that it gave an opportunity and excuse for the old 
and devilish elements of envy in a few rival churches 
in this city to show their long-slumbering vindictive-
ness and ferocity." 
That this was a " necessary act" in behalf of tardy 
justice does not to us appear, inasmuch as the trial of 
De Young was set for May 3—about ten days subsequent 
to the time of his assassination. The above extract is 
quite in keeping with the tone and spirit of most of the 
articles in the last number of the Evangel. After this 
indorsement of a premeditated and atrocious crime com- 
mitted by the pastor of the "Metropolitan Church," we 
think the Evangel can well be spared from the list of 
" religious" papers. 
Upper Columbia Camp-Meeting. 
OAKLAND.—Church N. E. corner Clay and 13th Streets. 
Meeting every Sabbath (Saturday) at 11 A. M. Preaching 
every second and fourth Sunday evening of each month. 
Prayer-meeting every Tuesday evening. Eld. J. H. Wag-
goner, Pastor. Sabbath-school at 9:30 A. M. 
Dr. E. J. 
Waggoner, Superintendent. Seats always free. 
SAN FRANCISCO.—Church on Laguna Street, between Mc-
Allister and Tyler Streets. Meeting every Sabbath (Satur-
day) at 11 A. M. Prayer-meeting Wednesday evening. M. 
C. Israel, Elder. No regular preaching. Sabbath-school at 
9:45 A. M. E. A. Stockton, Superintendent. Street-cars of 
the Hayes Valley Line, and Central and Lone Mountain Line, 
pass close to the meeting-house. 
THIS meeting will be held, D. V., in the City Park, 
Dayton, W. T, May 31 to June 6, 1882. First service, 
Wednesday evening at 7% o'clock. It is expected that 
Eld. J. H. Waggoner, Editor of the SIGNS, of Oakland, 
Cal., and other speakers, will be with us. Our four 
Conference organizations will hold their annual sessions 
in connection with the religious exercises of the encamp-
ment. Let each organization elect delegates, prepare 
reports, and make an early and thorough preparation to 
attend. 
Do you wish to rent a tent ? Order of the undersigned 
without delay. �
G. W. COLCORD, 
Box 37, Walla Walla, W. T. �
for Conf. Com. 
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OAKLAND, CAL., FIFTH-DAY, MAY 25, 1882. 
Camp-Meetings. 
IOWA, Des Moines, 
UPPER COLUMBIA, Dayton, W. T. 
WISCONSIN, Baraboo, �
, May 31-June 6. 
June 1-6. 
8-13. 
" 14- 
OREGON, Salem, �
" 14-20. 
NORTHERN MICHIGAN, Saginaw, �
" 21-27. 
MINNESOTA, Minneapolis, �
June 29-July 4. 
DAKOTA, Parker, �
July 21-31, 
TEXAS, Waxahachie, 
Healdsburg Academy. 
A LETTER received from Prof. Brownsberger informs 
us that he is of good courage, and hopeful concerning 
the progress and prospect of the school. With this in-
telligence we are cheered, as will be all our friends in 
this State. He is doing all in his power to make it 
what it should be at the present time, and to provide 
for its future wants. In all this he will be sure of the 
hearty cc-operation of friends whose hearts and efforts 
are with him in the work, And we ask the prayers of 
all the brethren and sisters for the prosperity of this 
very important enterprise. 
Gratifying. 
THE following telegram has been received at this 
office:— 
" Send one hundred copies SIGNS to Exeter, Ne-
braska." 
And more weighty still the following:— 
" Make club SIGNS one thousand. Address New 
England Tract Depository." 
We are pleased to know that the friends of the SIGNS 
are active in their labors, because we are pleased to 
know that the paper is successfully serving the purpose 
for which it is published. _Now is the time for us all to 
work; now is our opportunity, and we cannot expect 
that all the privileges of the present time will long con-
tinue. God bless the work and the workers. 
Tent Meeting in San Francisco. 
THAT which we have long desired has at length come 
to pass. Elder Van Horn commences tent meetings in 
San Francisco this week. Although it has not been 
possible to secure a fellow-laborer to join him in the 
preaching, he is assisted by the most efficient colporters 
and visitors that the Conference Committee could obtain. 
The church in the city has done a large amount of mis-
sionary work during the past season, and we hope they 
will not now neglect the important duty of beseeching the 
Lord to send prosperity, All our efforts will be in vain 
without the direct blessing of Heaven. " Work, Watch, 
Pray." 
At the annual meeting in Oakland it was resolved to 
invite Elder E. W. Farnsworth to come and labor with 
Bro. V. H. in San Francisco. Bro. F. writes that it 
is in his heart to come, but the state of his wife's 
health renders it impossible. 
Pearly Portals. 
WE have received a few advance pages of a soon-
coming book of words and music for Sabbath-schools. 
Its title is "Pearly Portals;" its author is D. S. Hakes; 
publisher, Geo. D. Russell, Boston. Many of our read-
ers are so well acquainted with the writings of Mr. 
Hakes that we need say nothing to them in favor of his 
music. We do not hesitate to express the opinion that 
this book will become popular, as the music is of a high 
order. We have received permission to give some pieces 
in the SIGNS, of which we shall soon avail ourselves. 
Sabbath Readings, Four Volumes. 
THOSE who heard the remarks of Sister White at the 
camp-meeting at Hanford, on the care of children on 
the Sabbath, will, more than ever before, appreciate 
these volumes. If you would have the children love 
the Sabbath, it must be made to them just what the 
Lord says we should call it—" a delight." Some make 
it a "weariness" to youthful minds, and then wonder 
that their children do not seem to appreciate its bless-
ings. The minds of the young cannot bear heavy read-
ing, doctrinal books, or even the reading of the Bible, 
te, 
T
HE Bible record of the Sabbath; the secular history con-
cerning it; the successive steps by which the change to 
the first day was made ; and the work of restoration, are 
given in detail. 
EVERY TEXT OF SCRIPTURE 
Concerning the Sabbath is commented on at length; and the 
COMPLETE TESTIMONY OF THE FATHERS 
In regard to the Sabbath and first day is given. The com-
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fully shown. A copious index enables the reader to find the 
comments on any text, or the statement of any historian. 
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THE NATURE AND TENDENCY OF 
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BY ELD. J. H. WAGGONER. 
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THE SANCTUARY, AND THE 
2300 DAYS OF DANIEL 8:14. 
BY ELDER U. SMITH, 
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prophecy largely depend. It explains the past Advent movement, 
shows why tho e who looted for the Lord in 1844 were disappointed, re-
vtals the fact so essential to he understood, that no prophetic period 
reaches to the second coming of Christ, and shows where we are, and 
what we are to expect in the future. But the greatest beauty of the 
subject is seen in the light it throws upon the progressive steps of the 
remedial system, the types and shadows of the former dispensation, and 
the posiCon and work of our Lord in the present. It determines abso-
lutely the question of the nearness of tilt second coming of Christ, the 
perpetuity of the law of God, the nature and time of the atonement, and 
the work of Judgment that precedes Christ's coining. A knowledge of 
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Our Publications in England. 
ANY of the books, pamphlets, and tracts issued at this 
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during an entire day. We believe it is wrong to compel 
a child, or any young person, to read the Bible when 
the mind is wearied. It is calculated to beget a distaste 
for that book which should ever be read with pleasure. 
The compiler of "Sabbath Readings" has well supplied 
a want among our people. These books are full of 
profitable reading matter, with nothing whatever of 
an objectionable nature; full of interest and pure 
morality. 
The four volumes are now put up together in neat 
boxes, and will be furnished at the office of the SIGNS 
OF THE TIMES for $2.50, post-paid. A large number 
of them are needed among our people. They should 
be in every family. 
IT is said that there are at least 500,000 negroes 
who are willing and ready to emigrate to Liberia, and 
the American Colonization Society calls for aid for them. 
AN institution, called a "baby repository," has been 
established at Cleveland, Ohio, where working women 
can leave their infants, and have them oared for at a 
cost of five cents per day. 
Appointment.5. 
Oakland and San Francisco. 
A MINE OF INFORMATION. 
History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week 
BY ELD. J. N. ANDREWS.