"Behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be." 11ev. 22 e 12.

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passion or revenge, by injuries which pride and self- ize. If we would not build our hopes of Heaven love would deem unbearable. Love is unsuspecting, upon a false foundation, we must accept the Bible as *ign.5 of the ever placing the most favorable construction upon the it reads, and believe that the Lord means what he says. He requires nothing of us that he will not give PUBLISHED WEEKLY, FOR THE motives and acts of .others. Love will never need- lessly expose the faults of others. It does not listen us grace to perform. We shall have no excuse to S. D. A. MISSIONARY SOCIETY. eagerly to unfavorable reports, but rather seeks to offer in the day of God if we fail to reach the stand- '(FOr Terms, etc., See Last Page.) bring to mind some good qualities of the one defamed. ard set before us in his word. We are admonished by the apostle: " Let love be Love "rejoiceth not in' iniquity, but rejoiceth in without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; Entered at the Post-Office in Oakland, Cal. the truth." He whose heart is imbued with love is Cleave to that which good. Be kindly affectioned filed with sorrow At toe errors and weaknesses of cene to another with brotherly e; in Amur THE HEALING HATE others; but when truth triumphs, when the elouu one another." Paul would have us distinguish be- that darkened the fair fame of another is removed, or the hearts of men, tween the pure, unselfish love which is prompted by HATRED Within when sins are confessed and wrongs corrected, he Lurks like an adder in its den,— the spirit o f Cl st , d theimeanin g, deceitful Or like a tarn, in blackness hid, rejoices. pretense with which the world abounds. This base ,ing pyramid. "Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all Beside a frown counterfeit has misled many souls. It would blot out Its sluggish waters foully roll things, endureth all things." Love not only bears the distinction between right and wrong, by agreeing The slush of sin against the soul, with others' faults, but cheerfully submits to what- with the transgressor instead of faithfully showing And s on the mire becom s a clod ever suffering or • inconvenience such forbearance No hand may break, save that of God. him his errors. Such a course never springs from makes necessary. This love "never faileth." It real friendship. The ,spirit by which it is prompted can never lose its value; it is the attribute of Heaven. dwells only in the carnal heart. While the Christian From heavenly heights a voice is heard, As a precious treasure, it will be carried by ies And the dark tam is strangely stirred:— will be ever kind, compassionate, and forgiving, he possessor through the portals of the city of God. The hardened mire, ny love enticed, can feel no harmony with sin. He will abhor evil The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, and peace. Dis- Melts 'neath the tender touch of Christ. and ,cling to that which is good, at the sacrifice of —H. Rayne) iia S. S. Times. he wo k oaanf S t and the fruit of cro d anifed str are t enjoy peace and love, association or friendship with the ungodly. The spirit sin. If we would as a people, of Christ will lead us to hate sin, while we are will- we must put away our sins, we must come into ing to make any sacrifice to . savethe sinner. 0,i nip ran rfitivi. harmony with God, and we shall be in harmony with one another. Let each ask himself, Do I•posSess the "This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that grace of love'? Have I learned to suffer long, and to ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the be kind 7 Talents, learning, and eloquence, without vanity of their mind, having the understanding Brotherly Love. this heavenly attribute, will be as meaningless as darkened, being alienated from the life of God through tinkling cymbal. Alas that the. ignorance that is in them, because of the blind- BY MRS. E. G. WHITE. sounding brass or a this precious treasure is so lightly valued and so little ness of their heart; who being past feeling have given sought by many who profess the faith themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all un- "By this shall all men know that ye are my dis- cleanness with greediness." The apostle admonishes Paul writes to the Colossians: "Put on, therefore) iples, if ye have love one to another." The more his brethren, in the name and by the authority of the closely we resemble our Saviour in character, the as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of Lord Jesus, that after having professed the gospel mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, greater will be our love toWard those for whom he • they should not conduct themselves as did the Gentiles, long-suffering, forbearing one another, and forgiving died. Christians who manifest a spirit of unselfish but should show by their daily deportment that they 'love for one another are bearing a testimony for one another, if any manhave a quarrel against any; even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. And had been truly converted. Christ -which unbelievers ca.n neither gainsay nor " Put off concerning the former conversation the above all these things, put on charity, which is the resist. It is impossible to estimate the power of such old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful bond of perfectness; and let the peace of God rule an example. Nothing will so successfully defeat the lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and your hearts, to which also ye are called in one devices of Satan and his emissaries, nothing will so in put on the new man, which after God is created in build- up the Redeemer's kingdom, as will the love of body, and be ye thankful." "And whatsoever ye do, " Once they were Christ manifested by the members of the church. in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, righteousness and true holiness. corrupt, degraded, enslaved by lustful passions; they Peace and prosperity can be enjoyed only as meekness giving thanks to God and the Father by him." were drugged by worldly opiates, blinded, bewildered, and love are in active exercise. The fact that we are under so great obligation to ' In his first Epistle to the Corinthians, the apostle Christ, places us under the most sacred obligation to andbeen betrayed taught the by truthSatan as s itdevices. is in Jesus, Now there that theymust had be. Paul sets forth the importance of that love which those whom he died to redeem. We are to manifest a decided change in their life and character. should be cherished by the followers of Christ : "Though toward them the same sympathy, the same tender The accession of members.who have not been re- I speak with the tongues.of men and of angels, and compassion and unselfish love, which Christ has newed in heart and reformed in life is a source of have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or manifested toward us. Selfish ambition, desire for weakness to the church. This fact is often ignored. a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of supremacy, will die when Christ takes possession of Some ministers and churches are so desirous of prOphecy, and understand all mysteries, and all the affections. an increase of numbers that they do not bear securing knowledge; and 'though I have all faith, so that I Our Saviour taught his disciples to pray, `Forgive faithful testimony against unchristian habits and could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am us our debts, as we forgive our debtors." A great practices. Those who accept the truth are not taught nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed blessing is.here asked upon conditions. We ourselves that they cannot safely be worldlings in conduct while the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, state these conditions. We ask that the mercy of they are Christians in name. Heretofore they were and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." God toward us may be measured by the mercy which subjects of Satan's subjects; henceforth they are to be? No matter how high his profession, he whose heart we extend to others. Christ declares that this is the Christ. The life must testify to the .change of leaders. is not imbued with love for God and for his fellow rule by which. the' Lord will deal with us: "If ye Public opinion favors a profession' of Christianity. men, is not a disciple of Christ. Though he should forgive men their trespasses, your Heavenly Father Little self-denial or self-sacrifice is required in order possess great faith, and even have power to work' will also forgive you; but if ye forgive not men their to put on a form of godliness, and to have one's name 'miracles, yet without love his faith would be worth- trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your enrolled upon the church book. Hence many join A. less. He might display great liberality, but should trespasses." -Wonderful terms ! but how little are the church without first becoming united to Christ. he from some other motive than genuine love, bestow they-understood or heeded. One of the Most common In this Satan triumphs. Such converts are his most all his goods to feed the poor, the act would not sins, and one that is attended with most pernicious efficient agents. They serve as decoys to other souls. commend him to the favor of God. In his zeal he results, is the indulgence of an unforgiving spirit. They are false lights, luring the unwary to perdition. might even meet a martyr's death, yet if destitute f How ninny will cherish animosity or revenge, and It is in vain that, men. seek to make the Christian's the gold of love, he would be regarded by God asa, then bow before God and ask to be forgiven as they path broad and pleasant for worldlings. God has not deluded enthusiast or an ambitious hypocrite. forgive. Surely, they can have no true sense of the smoothed or widened the rugged, narrow way. If The apostle proceeds to specify the fruits of love: import of this prayer, or they would not dare to take we would enter into life, we must follow the same " Charity suffereth long, and is kind. Charity envieth it upon their lips. We are dependent upon the path which Jesus and his disciples trod,—the path of not." The divine love ruling in the heart extermi- pardoning mercy of God every day and every hour; humility, self-denial, and sacrifice. nates pride and selfishness. "Charity vaunteth not how themcan we cherish bitterness and malice toward (To be Concluded.) itself, is not puffed up." The- purest joy springs from our fellow-sinners ! If, in all their daily intercourse, the deepest humiliation. The strongest and noblest Christians would carry out the principles of this prayer, characters rest upon the foundation of patience and what a' blessed change would be wrought in the church THF. way to avoid great faults is to beware of love, and trusting submission to the will of God. and in the world ! This would be the most convinc- lesser faults. Charity " cloth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh ing testimony that could be given to the reality of not her own, is not eiisily provoked, thin keth no evil." Bible religion. His life is miserable who wishes to be feared iThe heart in which love rules, will not be filled with God requires more of his followers than many real. rather than loved. 50 THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. Vol- • 9, No. 5. 1,1

Final Destruction of the Wicked. were the most scanty, while "their disadvantages the la, iest angels are. They shall become un utter- Objections Considered. were the most enormous, are, on. the popular ably more than even this. And this by the laws theory, all handed over to eternal torment. For of their intellectual and moral nature—not by 1. " IF final destruction be the doom of all the them, as well as for the vilest, is there never-ending miracle. suffering. wicked, this sameness of end, involving all alike Will not then the lost, if immortality be in- in one undistinguishable ruin, seems to do away I know very well that many intelligent and alienably inwrought into the very essence of their with the Scripture doctrine of degrees of, punish-. pious persons, on whom the almost universal being, as some affirm, continue of necessity in ment. , If all are destroyed, , all are involved in doctrine has taken too deep a hold to permit them like manner to attain to one enormous growth in the same doom." altogether to abandon it in words, are in the habit wickedneSs after another; just as here on earth, To my own mind this appears one of the very of conso:ing their minds with the reflection. that " wicked men and seducers wax worse and strongest of all objections to the views suggested. —as there are these manifestly innumerable gra- worse?" Will the child in wickedness, by some And it is incumbent on me therefore to consider it, dations of guilt, from the faintestrrudimental form strange process of mental and moral petrifaction, thereof,• up to its fearful est maturity,—so the future continue a child forever? How long. will they although I am not aware that it has been brought pun forward by any opponent. But our aim is truth. ishment of multitudes who will fail of Heaven who, on their entrance within the adamantine Let it he admitted as indisputable that there shall be so light in comparison as scarcely to de- gates of hell, were the least depraved, and were are, as we easily perceive there ought to be, de- serve the name. In this way, to my knowledge, therefore subjected to the lesser torment, remain grees of punishment. How does the theory I sug- do some who are not willing to deny the common thus comparatively unhardened in sin; when they gest provide for this? doctrine altogether, try to relieve their own find themselves in a world where there is no Now suppose i answer frankly that I feel some minds, when they contemplate the futurity of the chance of struggling back into virtue, no oppor- little difficulty here. What then? Are there no unsaved. -Then why preach an indiscriminate tunity afforded; but where all their associates are difficulties connected with almost everything we allottment to one common hell? If' some of the unutterably vile, and many of them even demons, believe? We believe on evidence. And evidence lost, the least guilty of all, will suffer but little, whose rage and cruelty and abhorrence of God may be sufficient to compel belief, even though why does the common doctrine, as taught from and holiness are beyond the pow r of tongue to there may remain some difficulties unexplained. our pulpits, keep this out of sight, and reiterate describe? Will they not, theMselves, must they the assertion, that for all who are not fit for not, by dire necessity of nature, become fearfully - Why do I reject the popular doctrine ? Not Heaven there is eternal "weeping, and wailing, because of the difficulties in which it is involved. confirmed in wickedness ? Finding themselves and gnashing of teeth." irretrievably doomed to ivoe, for the evil they But because, first, Isdo'not find it taught in Script- But alas! 'this view, which seems to make had done during their brief abode on earth, while ure; and secondly, I think I do find something some approach to equity, to pay some, tribute of else taught there very distinctly. their responsibility was but commencing, will respect to the strong instinctive sense of justice they not bate with ever-growing intensity of It will be admitted by all - Who have attentively and righteousnesS.which man, the product of an hatred the God who has thus plunged them into studied the Scriptures, that we often have there all-wise Creator's hand, can never quite lose—will hopeless misery? grand outlines of truth, the details of which are not bear the light.' it yields no solid relief to the But I cannot pursue the thought: The mind reserved. Or, we have vast masses of truth, distracted mind. Only let it be examined, and turns away, unable to bear the ideal scene. In whose reality is apparent, but the twilight'hour the objection continues in nearly its original force. another sense than the prophet's, "the whole of this incipient stage of our existence does not head is sick, and the whole heart is faint." And permit us to discern clearly the outlines thereof For, First,—This very light punishment—of yet it is almost necessary that we should gird " Now we see as through a glass darkly." the more thoughtful of. the orthodox—is to be ETERNAL! Nothing can disguise that. Let it be up our loins for the fearful task. One thing however will suggest itself to the granted that in the case of multitudes the positive Let the reader however admit, what indeed he reader, on this point, as very obvious. Namely, inflictions shall be comparatively light. Give to ought not for a moment to question, that there that it is quite conceivable that the, length of time orthodoxy every advantage. Ifet it soften and will be expansion, development, growth of intel- which shall elapse ere the wicked utterly cease to modify at pleasure. Still there is this element of lectual power and moral character, in the next be, and the degree of suffering by which their ETERNITY! And to•think of even a light punish- state. And this as a matter of course; by virtue final dissolution shall be preceded and accompa- ment. laSting forever, in a world where there is of the very laws which the Creator bath stamped nied, may be exactly proportioned to their vari- no alleviation, no hope; and this the portion of upon our being. And then, in one indiscriminate ous deserts. This idea cannot, at all events, be the least guilty—eternally shut out of HeaVen, hell, will not all degrees of guilt, all shades of designated as incomprehensible. Nor is it absurd. eternally lost, to live forever, conscious of be- character, be soon confounded? And under the And it would meet the case. It would alsd be in ing forever doomed to despair; denied all pleasant influence of despair, under the promptings of harmony with the universal order of things. There employment—nothing honorable, nothing good, hatred to him who bath thus plunged them into may be latent laws in existence and operation, to engage the conscious powers—no possibility of one abyss, and wrought on by the conduct of the natural effect Of which would be perfectly to personal improvement, or elevation of character, their fellow-sufferers, and goaded by their tor- proportion suffering to crime. Many things con- all the happiness of the saved eternally beyond ments, and maddened by the hot tumult and sonant with this will immediately occur to the their reach, and dark, dark despair their everlast- hellish strife of those doleful regions, which they mind of the intelligent reader. " Whatsoever a ing portion? are consciously to endure forever .and ever,—will man soweth, that shall he also reap." To think of the punishment of those whose not, must not, all the doomed inhabitants of the I cannot undertake to affirm that this, to us guilt is of the faintest shade, as mere privation, pit soon attain to a giant growth in wickedness? obvious proceeding, will be the precise mode in loss of all happiness, forfeiture of all good, and This, as it appears tolls, is the inevitable tendency which the exceedingly various degrees of crimi- this felt and groaned under forever by spirits that of the sense of eternal despair. nality will meet their just desert. To the fact of necessarily pine for good, certainly does not bring And if the friends of this tremendous orthodoxy degrees of guilt, we must adhere. And then the the lowest degree of punishment down to the first shall object to the representation we have given, consequence is inevitable. The suggestion al- point of criminality in the moral scale. Still it is it is submitted that, however they may shrink ready made may prove correct. If so, it would an infinite punishment for a finite demerit. And therefrom, it is nevertheless perfectly fair. Fair, -perfectly meet the objection. thus assuredly the orthodox are not in a condition do I say? It is a most subdued and faint and But now would it not be well just to consider for to object that our theory scarcely consists with feeble intimation of one legitimate' consequence a moment how the *supposed objection affects. degrees of punishment. Their objection however of their cherished faith. Exaggeration is utterly the popular view? Is it an objection which any has been replied to; and in addition I have under- impossible. And let them never close their eye's advocate of orthodoxy can safely urge against taken to show how, while on the views of this to anything they really believe. There 'is no me ? Assuredly not. Is it a dangerous weapon volume the difficulty can be met, it remains in all merit in refusing to see. Voluntary blindness is for orthodoxy to touch? If any of the believers its force against the very parties who would fain no virtue. To acquiesce implicitly in everything in eternal torment attempt to employ it against urge it. the righteous Judge really determines, is indeed me their brethren may well say, " Save us from And, Secondly,—While orthodoxy in its mildest the pleasant duty of a child of God, as pleasant our friends." And if I have not hesitated to ad- form would exhibit the punishment of some as to our own minds as it is filially becoming. But mit something of difficulty involved in the Script- consisting in privation merely—losing sight of all unquestionably to acquiesce in a human and there- ure doctrine of the less guilty being beaten with that this privation necessarily involves— it may fore possibly mistaken interpretation of his coun- few, and the more guilty with many stripes, how be fairly submitted to them that' even this poor sels, is quite another thing. The former is a intensely ought the holders of the current doc- solace fails them. virtue, the latter a fault. Rather indeed than I trine to feel themselves pressed with the same For let the least guilty, those who had fewest should write or - speak a word of irreverent re- difficulty. religious advantages, .or who died shortly after flection on any of the divine proceedings, let my It'is now my turn to object. And the objection their responsibility had commenced, be shut up right hand fbrget her cunning, and my tongue is incomparably more weighty as against ortho- in hell, in the lake of fire prepared for the devil cleave to the roof of my mouth. I would cheer- doxy. Let us see. You believe that every indi- and his angels. Let them become conscious, of all fully die a thousand deaths, rather than allow vidual of the human-race, who is not born again that they have lost. Let them recognize that the faintest shadow of an unworthy thoua;ht of of the Spirit, no matter for age or other circum- the vilest wretches that ever disgraced humanity, the Most High God, my Creator, and Redeemer, stances, " shall be cast into outer darkness, with and the fiends that murderously though invisibly and Father, to harbor in my mind. Let my heart weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth; " shall tempted them to evil, are to be their associates be torn quivering from my wretched bosom ere receive "indignation 'and wrath, tribulation and forever; that through eternal ages the wrath of it become the allowed lurking place .of one trai- anguish;," and "shall be tormented day and night God is to rest upon them; and that there is no torous suspicion of the rectitude of his decisions, forever and ever." You also believe in degrees hope, no not the faintest; and how long will their " whose work is perfect; for all his ways are of guilt. That is, you believe there is the first original disparity in wickedness continue.? judgment; a God of truth and without iniquity, faint dawn of responsibility; that as people Or does orthodoxy dream that there will be just and right is he." • die at all ages, and under all circumstances, may no fearful growth of character in hell? We are And I pray the orthodox, in their fairness and die very soon after becoming responsible agents, often hearing how matured the devil, has become kindness, not to mistake my remarks on their and while yet their responsibility, owing either in the hellish arts of temptation, by the practice interpretation of Scripture, for reflections on the to age, intelligence, education, or other circum- of ages. The faculties of the saints also will divine testimony itself. I trust to be found to stances, is infinitesimally small. Yet the least expand in Heaven. They shall rise frOm one " tremble at God's words" as reverently as them- vicious of the heathen, and the least guilty of the degree of moral elevation to another. They shall selves. But Ideem them wrong, fearfully wrong, unregenerate in England, they whose advantages become equal to their present conceptions of what in their .interpretation of " the lively oracles." r

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-And it is their (to my mind) utterly mistaken The Bible and the Prayer-Meeting. it with them to the market-place and prayer- and terrible injurious doctrine that I speak of meeting alike, as the face of Moses shone when thus freely; and not any doctrine of that blessed DR. JAMES ALEXANDER in one of his published coming from the mount where he had communed book which "is a lamp unto my feet and a light letters expresses regret that the noonday meet- with God.—Illustrated Christian Weekly. unto my path;" " the joy and rejoicing of my ings in New York during the great revival of heart," " better unto me than thousands of gold 1858 gave so little prominence to Scriptural in- What You Told. and silver." struction. Their great aim seemed to be to kin- UNRULY and vain talkers" frequently find that But to return to our point, after this brief' dle or deepen religious emotion, while little effort "- they have told more than they intended to; and digression, prompted by a natural solicitude to was made to expound or enforce the peculiar sometimes they tell much more than they sup- prevent misapprehension. It was objected that truths of the Bible. - pose. You perhaps told the other day an idle our theory is incompatible with the Scripture This deficiency still presses itself at times upon rumor of a brother's fault. It was a spicy story, doctrine of degrees of punishment. To this it thoughtful Christians. We have attended meet-. that there was one very ob- ings not a few, especially in seasons of religious you laughed at your own wit, and others laughed was replied, First, to hear the tale. That was what you told; but vious method by which, though all that were interest, when the word of God was not read in the opening service, and no direct allusion was you also told more. You told that you were a unfit for existence should be finally destroyed, man of unclean lips; a man who had the tastes of the sufferings to be endured might yet be pro- made to it' any time as the source of authority and the only guide to inquirers. The leader and a blackguard, and the dialect of the bar-room. portioned to their guilt. An exact providence You told that you were willing to smile to a man's might perfectly serve that retributive justice brethren seemed to rely more on exciting tunes and earnest exhortations than on the inspired face, and sneer at him behind his back; that you which the Scriptures intimate; or, the silent but would shake a man's hand, and then turn and sure operation of latent laws might accomplish word for the salvation of souls. Too often the result of such a work is a notable fulfillment of the pick his character; that you were willing to tell the result. a dirty story when you did not yourself believe it was submitted that whatever prophet's words, "Thou hast 'multiplied the na- An,c1, Secondly, that it was true; and convey an impression to weight there may be in the objection, it lies tion, and not increased the joy; " and if we mis- take not, there is in too many of our ordinary others which in your heart you believe to be a properly and with tremendously accumulated falsehood. You thought you had told something force against the popular doctrine itself, rather devotional meetings a painful deficiency of Bib- lical instruction. The formal discourse of the pul- to the discredit of your neighbor; in fact you told than against our own. For that the orthodox much more to the discredit of yourself. What belief, while it holds to degrees of punishment in pit, it is true, is out of place. Long, rambling, and wearisome talks, which edify none and ex- you told about your neighbor might have been words, in reality confounds all variety of crime and probably was false, but there could be no pos- haust the time at the expense of prayer and and award, by dooming even the least guilty to sible mistake about the truth of what you told praise, are even- worse. But surely there is a endless punishment, and that under circumstances about yourself. You supposed you told your which must inevitably obliterate all traces of happy mean. Those meetings are most interest- ing and profitable which give a deeper insight neighbor's affairs, and rehearsed his business, and original disparity of guilt. And thus. the best thus tried to disgrace him in the eyes of others; into God's truth, and increase its vital power over artillery of our opponents seems to us no longer but you also told that you were a busybody in the heart. All can recall such seasons in their to play upon our ranks, but, inevitably abandoned other men's matters; that you attended to others' own experience, when, by a simple paraphrase of by those who brought it into the field, to be suc- affairs rather than your own; and that you pos- cessfully turned against them, and to become a the verses read, or a few striking comments on sessed not only the disposition of a slanderer, but them, an important Bible truth was presented in frowning rampart to defend the position which also the character of a meddler and mischief- a new light or connection never to be forgotten. it was planted to assail. maker, who is least welcome where he is best 2. If a vast multitude of irreclaimable sinners Or when some experienced Christian, whose soul -daily fed on the Bible as the Israelites in the known. were really to be destroyed, such a fearful catas- was Keep on with your remarks, my friend, and . wilderness on manna, as he compared things spir- trophe would surely have been more explicitly you will not only tell what you know about your itual with spiritual, taught that the word of God announced in the Scriptures. neighbor, but also a number of things which you To which also two replies instantly suggest was a treasury filled with things new and old. do not know about yourself. Somebody will profit themselves. First, that this awful consummation Christians talk much about the importance of warm and spirited meetings, and well. But some- by the disclosure, and learn to keep clear of a is affirmed as plainly as words can. teach it, if man who does not know how to bridle his tongue only we take the language of Scripture in its times they mistake forced emotion for genuine or mind his own business. They will beware of plain and obvious sense. We need not here re- feeling. There can be no heat without fire, and the talebearer and slanderer. When they hear peat the texts so often quoted in the course of the fire of grace in the heart can be kept up only him talk about others they will say, "perhaps this discussion; but what word's or figures would by a constant feeding with the fuel of truth. my turn will come next." "A dog that will fetch convey the idea, if those employed throughout Those church members who love the Bible., most, study it most intelligently, and drink in its quick- a bone will carry one;" and it is best to " beware the New Testament on this subject are not al- of dogs. "—Selected, lowed to teach it? The wicked are " stubble," ening spirit, are the best supporters of the prayer- " chaff," " tares," that are to be " burned up;" meeting. When the love of others waxes cold, they are faithless servants, or rebellious subjects, theirs appears the warmer by contrast; when Not Ashamed. that are to be " cut asunder," " slain;" they are few come to the solemn feasts of Zion, their fidel- JUSTICE MCLEAN, of Ohio, heard a minister to be " punished with everlasting destruction ity is the more unwavering; when others are preach. He bad been a skeptic, and this minis- [proceeding] from the presence of the Lord, even dumb or despondent, God's statutes are still their ter spoke to him in such a way as to convince from the glory of his power;" to .be " cast into song in the house of their pilgrimage. him of the truth and necessity of the Christian a lake of fire," and to be " destroyed both body But to give the Bible more power in the religion. He was led to see how Christ had died and soul in hell." prayer-meeting, it must have a larger place in for him, and was born again. He went home. Really the objection seems to me utterly des- the closet. Christians cannot talk beyond their He had hardly gotten there before he said: "We titute of force. But if the friends who differ experience. They cannot expound what they do are going to have family prayer; let us go into think otherwise, let them, Secondly,—consider not understand, nor speak of truth whose power the drawing-room and pray together." how the principle, on which their objection is they have not felt in the 'heart. The Bible is " But," said his wife, " there are four lawyers founded, will bear on the popular creed, on be- not read and pondered in our day as it was by in there; they have come to attend court. Let half of which it is urged against us. Is not the our fathers, and we are not nurtured into spir- us go into the kitchen to have prayers." Judge objection much more becoming and reasonable itual strength by its truths as the Puritans of McLean replied: " It's the first .time I ever in- as proposed by us against the common belief? the age of Baxter and Bunyan. Business men vited the Lord to my house, and I don't propose May we not, with incomparably more propriety, find little time for closet reading, and the old- to invite him to the kitchen by any means." He urge that if the orthodox doctrine were the true fashioned hour of quiet musing over the page of went in to those lawyers, and said: " My friends, one, it would most assuredly have' been set forth Scripture is by-gone—the newspaper, with its I have found out that Jesus died on the cross for in a far different manner than that in which in- telegraphic dispatches and its commercial reports, me; .I have given myself to him, and now I pro: spired writers have expressed themselves on the absorbs more time and earnest thought than the pose to invite him to my house. You may do as subject? If for myriads of God's intelligent, word of God. Young people seem to have little you please—go or stay. Bat I am now to make though, alas! rebellious creatures, there were a taste for an intimate acquaintance with the Bible. my first prayer in my own house." They said whole eternity of torment, would the teachers The last novel, or volume of poems, or the ex- they would very much like to stay, and did stay. of this appalling doctrine have contented them- citing periodical tale, or, on the Sabbath, the From that day, Judge McLean lived a consistent selves with the few and simple expressions which book from the Sabbath-schoollibrary, has a more Christian life. are usually quoted in its support? Read our powerful attraction for them than the revealed popular hymns on the subject, and see how Watts message from Heaven. Copies of the Bible have Rescued. and others have set forth the future. Or, if it been multiplied beyond precedent; they are found please better, read Pollok's description of the in almost every home, and each member of a A CHILD stood at the turn of a narrow mount- torments of hell. Christian family must have his own. Popular ain road, as a stage, loaded with passengers and But no, my brethren will properly refuse to commentaries and lesson helps are numerous and baggage, came thundering along. It looked up ask the poet's aid. And yet the popular doctrine cheap; and illustrated works, shedding a flood of and smiled in the face of imminent death. cannot be exaggerated. Come, however, to cool light on the geography, and customs, and history With great effort the horses were stopped, the and prosaic divines. Take that mighty and ex- of Bible lands, are within the reach of all; but driver sprang to the ground, and gently lifted cellent man,. Jonathan Edwards. Read his ser- we fear there is less true knowledge of the Script- the child out of the road. But then the infant mons on the subject, and see the manner in. which ures than when the helps to study were fewer. wept piteously. So it is with God's people, it is natural for the soberest men to express them- The Bible is less talked of at the fireside and in who drift on toward ruin, fancying themselves selves, .who really believe the doctrine. But we social circles; it exerts less power in meetings for prosperous, and when their Father which is in need not prolong our remarks. If there be any devotion. Heaven stretches out his hand to save them, they force at all in. the objection, it lies really against One sufficient reason alone can be assigned for call his help " affliction," and weep and mourn. the popular doctrine, and not against our own.— all this—it is not read and appropriated in the Blessed, indeed, are they who at all times can " Future Punishment," by H. H. Dobney. closet; it is not meditated upon in hours of rest feel that "He doeth all things well." We must and quiet. When Christians feel its quickening believe it, and " what we know not now we shall " BEHOLD, the Judge standeth at the door. influence in their private devotion they will carry know hereafter."—Christian Advocate. 52 THIH, SIGNS '014.1 1111-11-1, TIMES. VOL. 9, No. 5.

Carnal Weapons.. infidelity and formalism. Apostasy is generally know the mystery of the kingdom of God." succeeded by infidelity or formalism, or both; Mark 4 : 11. These things are indeed hidden BY JOSEPH CLARKE. and should the Protestant churches take • the from the wise in their own conceits, and are re- example of the papal church, in adopting her "For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but vealed unto " babes "—the trustful and believing. mighty ihrough God to the pulling down of strongholds." weapons, they will also adopt her policy of using Matt. 11 : 25; Luke 10 : 21. 2 Cor. 10:4. these weapons against the truth. Just as Cain Not all prophecy is found in the Old Testament THE great difference between the dispensation was blinded in his course by his carnal mind, so only. The New Testament abounds in it. The allotted to the Israelitish nation, and the dispen- now the sense of right may be made unfeeling last book of the New Testament canon is termed sation -of our Saviour Jesus Christ,i is this: That by opposition to reformS. And churches and by the Holy Spirit " The Revelation of Jesus was a union of' church and State; this is a dis- people may do as did Annas and Caiaphas. These Christ, which God gave unto him, to show unto pensation purely spiritual. That was a union of men were dignitaries in a church founded by his servants things which must shortly come to pass," civil and ecclesiastical law; this is wholly free God himself, through his faithful servant Moses. and declares that " Blessed is he that readeth from the responsibility of the execution of civil They were as highly exalted as position could and they that hear the words of this prophecy." law, while its members are subject to it. place them. They .could not listen to a plain. Rev. 1 : 1,3. We are also warned by the same While the church was a part of the State, as command to reform, consequently they had re- Spirit to " despise not prophesyings ' (1 Thess. was Israel. in the days of King David, her weapons course to carnal weapons. They cried to Pilate 5: 20), and reminded that the prophecy came were (in part) carnal. It had a standing army, for a mandate; so now it is evident that a man- not by the will of man, but holy men of God a church (in part) maintained by the public funds, date is necessary to Sustain the crumbling Sun- spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. 2 and the judiciary, and army, and the treasury, day edifice, because the true Sabbath is preached, Pet. 1 : 21. It is God's revelation to us. How controlled by the church, as it also was fostered and all. good men are pressing toward. it. Let dare we cast it or any part of it away ? "If any and guarded by its care and labor. All who all beware of using carnal weapons, the last re- man shall take away from the words of the book were by birth descendants of Jacob, and were sort of apostate churches. of this prophecy, God shall take away his part circumcised, were members of this body corpo- out of the book of life." Rev. 22 : 19. Then, rate and spiritual, and were, by right, entitled The Study of Prophecy. brethren, let us come reverently to the Word, and to a place at 'all church ordinances and feasts. study it devoutly, imploring the help of the Holy Such an organization as that, of course had INSPIRED or Bible prophecy is God's revelation Spirit, as an important part of his mission is to for its weapons of defense, both carnal and spir- to man concerning things to come. The prevail- " show us things to come." John 16 : 13. itual weapons; for while the priest ministered at ing sentiment that the study of prophecy with a . Indeed, the future would be as void of hope the altar, the soldier grasped the sword of vic- view to looking into the future is unprofitable and cheer to the Christian as to the unbeliever, tory. Both moved in harmony. Both were united speculation, is erroneous, and in direct antago- were it not that " we have also a more sure word in one unbroken bond of love; and while faithful nism to the plain declaration of the Holy Spirit of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take to God, the acknowledged head over all, they that "all Scripture is profitable heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, were invulnerable to the united forces of the for doctrine . . . for instruction in righteous- until the day dawn." 2 Pet. 1 : 19.—Selected. world. ness." 2 Tim. 3 : 16. Many indeed regard it as ,But the weakness of the-people of God at that not only a waste of time, but as downright sacri- The Unjust Steward. time, or during that dispensation, was-in the fact lege to thus attempt to " pry into the secret DR. HOWARD CROSBY gives the following ex- that in this union of church and State, the re- things of God," forgetting that he "revealed?, position 'of the parable of the unjust steward. generated and the unregenerated were brought what shall be in the latter dap " (Dan. 2 : 28), It is clear and plain, and seems the most consist- in too close contact, the good element being gen- and that " the secret things belong unto the Lord ent and reasonable of any that we have heard:— erally more or less .diluted and weakened by a our God, but those things which are revealed belong In the parable of the unjust steward (Luke 16 : constant contact with the carnal element, and unto us and to our children forever." Deut. 29 : 29. 1-8) the words, " Take thy bill and sit down quickly the presence at all times of worldly men, as lay It is urged as another objection to the study and write fourscore" (5-7), are regarded by all com- members of that religious confederacy. Even and exposition of the prophetic portions of the mentators as marking the unjust action whereby its officers, its priests in the spiritual department, word of God, that they so abound in, metaphors, the steward obtained this epithet " unjust." And and its kings and generals and judges in its sec- symbols, and figurative expressions as to render it this view is founded upon the idea that the bill ular department, were as often men of the world, absolutely impossible to understand them aright; (gramma) is the lord's bill of indebtedness as were lay members in the same body. yet it is safe to affirm that most, if indeed not all, against the debtors. But no lord would com- The word "theocracy " is often used to describe of the symbols, metaphors, and figures use.d are mend his steward for reddcing his bills, and the the government of the Israelites. It is from 618o5 fully explained, if not in the immediate context act would be one of very vulgar rascality, show- (God), and Hparo5 (strength)• that is, the power to where they occur, elsewhere in the word. ing no praiseworthy quality whatever. In 5-8, of that government -was in. 'God. Although its Take for example the vision of the " beloved dis- however, we find the lord commending his stew- weapons were in part carnal weapons, they were ciple " as given in Rev. 17, wherein he saw a ard for this act as a wise one; but there is no effective and powerful only as'. they were backed " woman " sitting upon " many waters." Both of wisdom in wickedness. Let us endeavor to set by the power of God. these symbols are explained in the same chapter: forth another view of this matter. The new dispensation is freed from the onerous " The waters which thou' sawest . . . are peo- The steward was unjust because he had wasted cares of the State. Says Christ, " The hour ples . . . and nations " (verse 15); " and the his lord's goods. -Verse 1. For this reason he'was cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers woman which thou sawest is that great city to be removed. As a steward of a great lord shall. worship the Father in spirit and in truth." which reigneth over the kings of the earth "' he undoubtedly had a large income. He would John 4 : 23. No more does God call to his temple (verse 18). not be left penniless, but still he would not have a people who are his only in name. No more_ It is further objected to the study of the proph- enough for a permanent living. He looked for- does an outward mark distinguish his people from ecies, that they are likely to lead into error through ward and saw that what he had would b® spent the world. None now need affiliate with the a misapprehension of their true meaning. The in a year or two, and then he would be in want, governments of this world to carry- out the sys- danger of error lies not in a devout study of the for, of course, no other lord would employ him as tem of worship inaugurated by our Saviour; for word of God, but lies rather in remaining in ig- steward after his removal from the service of the says Christ, " God is a spirit; and they that wor- norance of it. When questioned by the rational- first for unjustice. Now (thinks he) if I can ship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." istic Sadducees concerning the resurrection, Jesus only make friends of another class (my lord's John 4 : 24. charged them with erring through not knowing debtors) by my money I can be taken care of all .The dispensation of the people of Israel was the Scriptures (Matt. 22 : 29), and he rebuked my life. Accordingly he goes to those who owe one of force. Each one was compelled to obey the two disciples On their way to Emmaus because a rental to his lord, and out of his own money its' discipline rigidly and in form. Now no such they had refused to believe literally " ALL that pays part of his indebtedness. The " bills" which obedience is called for. A voluntary obedience to the prophets had written " concerning him. they were to write for fifty and eighty instead religious duties is all that God accepts. The civil Luke 24: 25. of a hundred were like our checks (or due bills), governments may and should compel obedience Another common objection - to the study and or they were orders on the overseers Of the crops. to civil law; but as to religious duties, they must preaching of prophecy is, that it is not practical. The balance he would make up. The lord, cer- be voluntary, or they are not acceptable to God. Why not? It is in the fullest sense a part, and tainly knew what his rental was, and could not The papal church has tried the experiment of the greater part, too, of God's word. Shall we be deceived by a half or three-fifths payment. ruling the church with carnal weapons. .The say, against the testimony of the Holy Spirit, The whole had to be paid him in each case. world is well informed of how well she governed. that not all Scripture is profitable for instruction Besides, the lord is entirely cognizant of the act Fifty million of martyrs will attest to the effect in righteousneiss ? If so, we virtually accuse God of the steward, as the parable shows, which of using carnal Weapons in the church. Should of cumbering his word with a weight of senseless would have been concealed if it had beenthe the Protestant element attempt the same in this rubbish which we mortals assume to be wise wicked act usually supposed. or any other country, the results would be the enough to sort out and dare to cast away. Jesus Another thing which proves this view the same as with the Papacy. A class of men would left the command to " search the Scriptures," correct one is the moral which our Saviour adds: arise who would far outdo the papal church in even the prophetic Scriptures which testified of "Make to yourselves friends of (i. e., "by") the tyranny and oppression. him, and that command has never been revoked. mammon of unrighteousness," etc., which means: Christ has laid down the rule for this dispen- Few believers will deny that the preaching of a " Use your money so as to make friends for sation; his people are to come out from the world. future life, of a judgment to come, and of future eternity." But if the steward only reduced the Any affiliation with the ruling governments, to rewards and punishments is practical; yet this is amount of the debtor's bills, he did not use any enforce religious duties, is going beyond the rules all prophecy and nothing else. If we accept the money at all. He used only trickery: If he, left on record. All churches doing this since the Bible as the very word of God, why ignore by far however, took his own money to pay their bills, opening of the Christian dispensation, have fallen the greater portion of it ? Paul's sin in the eyes he then literally " made to himself friends by the into the meshes of formalism and error. Look of the Jews after his conversion lay in his •believ- mammon of unrighteousness." Note that the at the Greek Church, which is upheld by Russia; ing as literal all things which were written in the mammon is so-called, not because the steward's or .the Lutheran, upheld by the government of prophets (Acts 24: 14), and does it become the act here was unrighteous (for the phrase occurs Germany; or look at the Episcopal Church, up- church to-day to condemn him or others for do- not in the account of the steward's act, but in held by England, and in each you may mark a ing the same thing? • our Saviour's appeal to his hearers) but because great • decay of vitality, and a rank growth of Unto us, the disciples of Jesus, it is "given to mammon is so generallyused in an unrighteous way. FEBRUARY 1, i 883. TT—ITE SIGNS 0 PI TT-I •TIM 53

this that he would have his people have a care superintendent, with some hesitation,—thinking, the abbatit-c*thool, for one another. We are each our brother's good man, of the rich and rustling silks, worn keeper. The Lord has said, " Thou shalt not by the cla'ss in question, and of the plain attire hate thy brother in thine heart; thou shalt in any of the woman before him. " It is an unpopular Notes on Lesson for Feb. 10. wise rebuke thy neighbor, and shalt not suffer sin class," he continued; " nobody succeeds in it; but upon him." Lev. 19 : 17. When the church, then, you might try it for to-day." searches out the erring one, and rebukes him, it Lookingn her direction a little later, he could THE CHARGE TO JOSHUA. is doing that which is absolutely necessary to its hardly believe his eyes. The ice had melted. THE number of times that the Lord tells Joshua own existence. Just as a man cannot be said to The class had forgotten itself over the Bible, and to be strong and of good courage is worthy of be sound if one of his limbs is diseased, so the was a unit in its eager attention to the lady, who note. After telling him that he will be with him church is not pure unless each individual member was speaking to them in a low, sofr: voice, and as even as he was with Moses, and that not is walking orderly. And each person should also if what she had to say was worth their hearing. fail him, the Lord says, " Be strong and of a good consider how much responsibility attaches to his And, yes indeed, he could see that they were ask- courage," chapter 1: 6; then follows the assurance course. By a wrong.course he may involve many ing questions as well as replying to them. that he shall divide the land among the Israelites. others in his own ruin; so true it is that " none of Sunday after Sunday, the stranger, who soon In the next verse he says again, " Only be thou us liveth to himself." grew to be a friend, was in her place; but strong and very courageous.". Then follows an THE MIRACLE AT GIBEON. ere!ong the six had grown to twelve, and then admonition to do according to all that was writ- to twenty; and in three months the number had ten in the law, and to meditate -upon it day and " Then Spoke Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before increased to thirty-five. A little unused room, night; and then exhortation is again given: not much more than a recess, was set apart for " Have not I commanded thee ? Be strong and the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and the class, which could no longer establish itself in of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou its old quarters. dismayed." thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the The original six wore as well dressed as ever, The Lord does not desire that his people- should but very much less exclusive. .Eor among the give way to discouragement. The same exhor- people had avenged themselves upon their ene- mies." " So the sun stood still in the midst of additions to their ranks was a pretty German tation that was addressed to those who were Bertha, who was a nurse in a neighboring family; about to enter into the earthly Canaan, is appli- the heaven, and basted not to go down about a whole day." Some, in their eagerness to over- a Swedish Katrine, who was a seamstress; an . cable to the Israel of God, who are striving for Irish Nora, whO lived as maid-of-all-work in the an inheritance in the heavenly Canaan. "Be tbrow the Sabbath of the Lord, have found in this occurrence a loss of time. But there was no home of one of the deacons; and' at least a dozen strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither young women ,who earned their living in shopS' be thou dismayed." Why not be discouraged? time lost. It was simply a lengthening of the day. If such a miracle should occur on -the Sab- and factories. Are we not weak? and is not our enemy power- There was, besides, a teacher in one of the pub- ful ? Would it not be presumptuous in us to feel bath, it would simply lengthen the Sabbath. Two days were not combined in one, but it wa!s . lic schools, a young art student who had comp strong and confident ? Yes; it would if we from the country to pursue her favorite branch, depended only on our own strength; but fortu- one long day. "And there was no day like that before it or after it." and a pale girl who was writing for the, papers. nately we have also the same promise that was A more miscellaneous set could not have been made to Joshua. It is this: " For the Lord thy Skeptics find abundance of food for caviling in this miracle, as, indeed, they may in any. But imagined. Yet they did not seem ill-assorted. God is with thee whithersoever thou goest." There was no patronage in the manner of Flori- And he has also said, " I will not fail thee, nor the Bible student need not be troubled about it. To say that it could not occur, is in reality to bel N., the judge's daughter, nor the least servil- forsake tliee." The Christian should ever realize ity in the air of Duleie W., who was folding this glorious truth: " The eternal God is thy deny that God is the creator,of the heavens and the earth; for if God made the planets it is cer- sheets for books daily from eight until five. refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms." " Tell us your secret," said some of the teachers Knowing this, how can he become discouraged? tain that he can control them. It is said that God• instituted fixed laws by which they should one day, to Miss . It was at a little after- The apostle's exhortation is, " Be strong in the noon meeting of the lady teachers, informally Lord, and in the power of his might." Eph. 6 : 10. be governed. Very true; but did he put those laws out of his own power? The maker of a assembled to talk over methods. " How do you HOLY THINGS. threshing machine designs that it shall work ac- contrive to hold those girls ?" "I have no secret," was the reply. "I pray It is sometimes claimed that there is no such cording to a certain plan; yet he can stop the for my. girls daily. 1 name each individual at thing as holy time; that it is absurd to think that machine without altering the plan. One thing some time every week, to my Master, and I study one day is really any better than another; that is certain: the universe did not create itself. Al- the lesson with my whole heart and soul. 1 try man can make any day a holy Sabbath by resting though the mind of man cannot conceive of its to make it a living lesson; not a story of the upon it. It would be interesting to hear such ones extent, nor fathom the laws by which it is gov- past, but a vivid stirring story fcr to-day. I try explain Josh. 5 : 15. The case is similar to that of erned, there must be a creator who is infinitely to find out what is back of each girl,—what Moses at the burning bush. Joshua had seen the greater than the universe. " He taketh up the isles as a very little thing." It is evident that the home influences she has, what are her surround- man standing by Jericho, and had learned that he ings, and to what key her life is set. Then I was the " captain of the host of the Lord." Creator can do as he pleases with what ,he has seek to discover whether she is happy or con- " And the captain of the Lord's host said unto created. If it is asked how it is possible that tented, whether she feels herself of use, and what Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the such a miracle could be performed without disar- work she can do, and my constant refuge in place whereon thou standest is holy. And ranging the whole planetary system, I would every doubt and perplexity is my Saviour. I Joshua did so." Now did the ground become reply, "I do not know; I cannot imagine; If I know these young lives are very precious to him, holy because.Joshua took off his shoes, ©r was it could, it would cease to be a miracle." The dis- and I cannot be satisfied to let them slip into holy before ? The answer is, It was holy before, belief in miracles arises from the fact that men worldliness, when they ought to be consecrated for the Lord said so. Then it seems that there are too proud to acknowledge that there is any- to him." may be a difference between things of the same thing which they cannot understand. He who " But how did you conquer the caste feeling so kind. There was no outward difference between believes only what he can comprehend and ex- completely? " the ground on which Joshua was standing and plain, will have a very short creed. It is no shame for man to confess that he cannot by A light came into the dark eyes, kindling the the ground in other places, yet there' was a dif- expressive' face into rare beauty. ference. One was holy, on account of the pres- searching find out God. E. J. W. " I think nothing about it. Caste must go ence of the Lord, the other was not. The down when the cross .is the central thought. ground on which Joshua stood would have re- How She Contrived It. Why, Elsie D. brought Katrine in, having asked mained holy even if he had not removed his shoes. IN a certain Sunday-school, no matter where, permission of her friend, who was Katrine's em- So it is with the Sabbath. The Lord has made it ployer; and Nora came because Katrine, who holy, and_ it will remain holy whether man there was a class which had been the despair lived next door, asked her to;, and Miss Jenny regards it or not. The failure to discriminate of successive teachers. One after another was frozen out by the elegance, or was it by the stiff- F., a gifted •young creature who is very much between the holy and the profane is that which alone in the vast city, was invited by Carrie P., brings the judgments of God.upon mankind. ness, of the half-dozen beautiful young girls who composed the exclusive circle. Bound together who also studies with Professor . Once we THE DEFEAT AT AI. by congenial social relations, the young ladies had set the ball rolling, there was no trouble. In this case it was well shown how dependent remained, apparently indifferent as to whether The only secret," said the little woman, smiling, the people were on God. When they trusted in they had a teacher or not, 'and equally polite and " is that I bear my scholars on my heart night themselves they failed. And what was the reason uninterested with the new teachers. who came and day, that 1 set them at work, and that I that God was not among them ? Because there from time to time, as they had been with the old. get them to be wide awake • with interest in the was sin among them. And by thiS we can learn The superintendent grieved over their lack of Bible, which is the most _interesting book in the the necessity of the church being pure as a whole. class feeling. They were in the school, and not world. And then I trust in One who never There was only one man in the camp of Israel of it. It was suggested to him to press them breaks his word. He is with us always."—Mar- that had transgressed, yet God withheld his into the service as teachers. They, one and all, garet E. Sangster, in S. Times. presence from them. So a single individual in declined the office. During the opening and the church may, by his wrong course, defeat all closing exercises, they -behaved with propriety, THE more a teacher has studied his lesson, the the labors of those who would make advance as grown-up girls should, and, when they had more likely he is to feel the need of the further moves. 'This also shows the necessity of main-. no one to teach them, they spent the time in help of the teachers' meeting. He wants to know taming strict Church discipline. The sin of Achan talking to each other with evident enjoyment, but what points in the lesson have perplexed others, was imputed to the entire camp, until the offender as evidently about anything else rather than the and what points have seemed to them of practical was searched out.and punished. The record says, lesson. value, in order to direct his own thoughts and " But the children of Israel committed a trespass One day, a little dark-eyed woman entered the energies most effectively for his class. It is only 1114 the accursed thing;. for Achan . . . took school, and offered her services as a teacher. the poorly furnished teacher who thinks he can of the accursed thing." Yet there is no evidence She stated that she had recently come to live in. get on as well without the teachers' meeting as that anybody besides Achan was concerned. in the neighborhood, and wanted to work for Christ. with it. The trouble with him is, that he dosen't the theft, or knew of it. The Lord showed by " We have a young ladies' class," said the know how much more he needs to know.

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pray that God may make that opportunity a blessing night after the Jewish Sabbath, which was still observed ($igit of fke to some others, as it was to us. as a day of rest by all of them who were Jews, or Einte5. Sabbath, Jan. 13, we met with those assembled in Jewish proselytes, and considering this the beginning of the first day of the week, spent it in the manner District Quarterly meeting in Newton. We spoke in "Can ye not discern the signs of the times ?' above described. On Sunday morning, Paul and his the morning and Bro. Butler in the afternoon. Our companions resumed their journey, being constrained, J. H. WAGGONER, EDITOR. subject was the missionary aspect of the Third Angel's no doubt, by the movements of the ship, which had J. N. ANDREWS, Message. Sunday morning the resolutions adopted at already been in the harbor of Troas seven days." _ CORRESPONDING EDITORS. URIAH SMITH, • the Greenville meeting were considered, one by one, and It is not Scriptural to call that "the Jewish Sabbath" indorsed, and others to the same intent adopted. It was which the Bible always calls "the Sabbath of Jehovah." OAKLAND, CAL., FIFTH-DAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1883. a good meeting and we trust will prove profitable to the On that day, God, the Creator, rested from his work. cause. All were encouraged, and every one seemed The quotation shows that he was in a position to-do.in- ' Meetings- in Michigan. fired with new zeal to work in this glorious cause. justice to- the seventh day, and in other places he makes AFTER the meeting of the Michigan State T. and M. About half w"..st three in the afternoon we parted with unwarranted claims for the first day. And this makes Society in Greenville, we were detained with business our friends and kindred there and started for Battle all the more valuable his admission that Paul did not in Battle Creek most of the week. During this time the Creek, a distance of about twelve miles, where we had observe that Sunday as a day of rest. His supposition missionary meeting of the Society in Battle Creek was an appointment for the evening. The air was piercing of the reason has no weight, as it is only a supposition. held. The church in this city has nearly five hundred cold, and we were strongly reminded of many similar But this is the only text which is produced in favor of members, while the T. and M. Sociky has only about experiences in our past labors. We also thought of a precedent for Sunday keeping. one hundred and fifty members. This should not be so. California ! We arrived in Battle Creek before six The work of the Third Angel's Message is pre-eminently o'clock, but felt somewhat unfitted for the evening ser- Early Apostasy in the Church. a missionary work, and the churches of Seventh-day vice, our last meeting in Michigan. We feared that we Adventists ought to be missionary churches. It would did not succeed in expressing half what we felt on this THE book of Acts is an inspired history of the church. be sad indeed if, in the great day, a minority only of occasion. During the period which is embraced in its record, the our church members were to hear the words: " Well We are now preparing for our journey to the " Far, apostles and their fellow-laborers were upon the stage done, thou good and faithful servant." They who hear far West," on which we hope to start in a few days. of action, and under their watchcare the churches of these words spoken to them will not only be servants, Battle Creek, Mich., Jan. 15. EDITOR. Christ preserved, to a great extent, their purity of life they will be good servants. They not only-profess, but and doctrine. These apostolic churches are thus set forth as the proper examples for all coming time. This they do. And they not only do something, but they do Brief Comments. book fitly connects the narratives of the four evangelists it well; they do it faithfully. • They 'must not—they ACTS 20 : 7. " And upon the first day of the week, with the apostolic epistles, and thus joins together the cannot—be negligent. They cannot love their own when the disciples came together 'to break bread, Paul whole New Testament. But when we leave the period ease. They cannot choose their own way in preference preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; embraced in this inspired history, and the churches to/active, energetic service in the cause of God. They and continued his speech until midnight." which were founded and governed by inspired men, we who do not give all diligence to make their calling and This text is relied upon by many as evidence that the enter upon altogether different times. There is, unfortu- election sure will surely fail of a reward in the kingdom Lord commanded his disciples to break bread upon the nately, great truth in the severe langtiage of Gibbon:— at last. 2 Peter 1 : 5-11. first day of the week; in fact, upon every first day Of And the Lord will make no mistakei; he will not deal the week. This is the only text in the Scriptures which "The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of in flatteries. He will not say " Well done " to any who describing religion as she descended from Heaven, is ever appealed to as proof on the point; yet the proof arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy have not done well. He will not call any one a " faithful is not contained in the text or context. duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover servant" who has not been faithful in his service. We The Scriptures do explicitly command the celebration the inevitable mixture of error and corruption, which fear that many who profeSs the faith of the Message will of the Lord's supper, and as explicitly inform us hbw she contracted in a long residence upon earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings."--Decline stand on the unhappy scle of • Matt. 7 : 21-23, in that to celebrate it. But in regard to and the time or the fre- Fall of the Roman Empire, chap. xv. day. They surely will unless they consecrate their quency of its celebration they are silent. Therefore What says the book of Acts respecting the time im- lives to his service, and move forward in the work of they who endeavor to bind the church to particular or mediately following the labors of Paul ? In addressing -spreading the !ignt to their fellow-men. God commits stated times for its celebration are usurping authority the elders of the Ephesian church, Paul. said:— the message of warning to his people, and who that neg- over the household of faith. It was instituted the " For I know this, that after my departing shall lects the work can hope to be accepted in the day of evening of the Lord's betrayal, certainly as early as grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the his appearing ? Thursday evening. Once it was celebrated, at Troas, on flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speak- The Society in Battle Creek resolved to take one the evening of the first day of the week, on what is now ing perverse things, to draw away disciples after them." Acts 20:29, 30. thousand copies of the SIGNS, with which to work the, called, in the Roman method of reck. oning, Saturday It follows from this testimony that we are not author- coming year. It was a question whether this number evening. But there is not a word said in the New Tes- ized to receive the teaching of any man simply because would be sufficient to meet the demands of the work in tament as to either duty or custom to observe it on Sun- he lived immediately after the apostolic age, or even in this church for all the year .1883. If the society were day evening rather than on the evening of its institu- the days of the apostles themselves. Grievous wolves as large as it ought to be, it would easily double the tion. One instance does not make a custom; we must were to enter the midst of the people of God, and of number. All honor to the workers in Battle Creek. have either a number of instances or a declaration that their own selves were men to arise, speaking perverse Among all the missionary workers with whom we have it was done according to a custom. We have a case in things. If it be asked how these are to be distinguished met, we have found none more zealous and energetic than point in Acts 17 : 2; " And Paul, as his manner was, from the true servants of God, this is the proper answer: the officers and members of the Battle Creek Society. went in unto them, and three Sabbath days reasoned Those who spoke and acted in accordance with the Sabbath and first-day, January 6 and 7, we spent with them out of the Scriptures." And in Luke 4 : 16; teachings of the apostles were- men of God; those who with the church in Burlington. This was the only "And be [Jesus] came to Nazareth, where he had. been taught otherwise were of that class who should speak Sabbath we had the pleasure of passing with the brought up; and as his custom was, he went into the perverse things to draw away disciples after them. church with which we have stood related since its for- synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up for; read." What say the apostolic epistles relative to this, apos- mation. In 1857, in company with Bro. Bates, we had Now in regard to the evidence of duty on this point tasy ? To the Thessalonians, it the happiness of pitching a tent in the quiet little vil- we notice these things: 1. Jesus never commanded his is written:— lage of Burlington, where a goodly number embraced " Let no man deceive you by any means; for that day disciples to break bread on the first day of the week. shall not come, except there come a falling away first, the truth; some of whom we met at our late meeting He commanded them to do it, but he said not one word' and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; there. Some of the original number have fallen asleep; about any time or times for its observance. 2. We who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is a few apostatized; and quite a number have moved have no agreement of occurrences to indicate that there called God, or that is. worshiped; so that he as God away. And most of this last number have made a great was a custom of that kind. 3. There is no mention of sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. . . For the mystery of iniquity cloth already mistake. They have suffered loss, either financially or any custom having existed to that effect. We think work; only he who now letteth will let, until he be spiritually. We are confirmed in our belief that breth- that no one who wishes to follow the word _of the Lord, taken out of the way. And then shall that wicked be ren should not leave a church which has need of their and is ready to be guided by the evidence in the case, revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit. help, without a clear duty calling them. can hesitate to decide against the claim put forth on this of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming." 2 Thess. 2:3, 4, 7, 8. By reason of removals, We have sometimes feared that text by those who advocate the Sunday. To Timothy, in like manner, it is said:— the organization in Burlington would become extinct, It is well understood that the desire to manufacture "Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; and the meeting-house Which we helped to erect be los:, evidence on this text in favor of the weekly observance reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doc- . to the cause. But our late visit gave us much encour- of the Lord's supper on the first day of the week, grows trine. For the time will come when they will not en- agement, and we are hopeful for the cause in that place. out of the desire to do honor to the Sunday, and to dure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall There is a good interest in the Sabbath-school. On raise the inference that the disciples did put honor upon they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and Sabbath we spoke of the early days of the church, and it in making it the day for stated religious obserVances. shall be turned unto fables." 2 Tim. 4:2-4; 2 Pet. 2; the progress and present condition and prospect of the The object is to exalt it to the place of the Sabbath; Jude 4; 1John 2:18. cause. It was a time of good cheer to our hearts: On to find a justification for callitg it " the Christian Sab- These texts are most explicit in -predicting a great Sunday they had a business meeting. Bro. H. W. Mil- bath." But the text itself contains a refutation of the apostasy in the church; and in stating the fact that ler was re-elected Elder, and Bro. R. B. Barker, Clerk. claim. It proves that they did not regard it as a Sab- that apostasy had already commenced. The Roman On Sunday evening we had the privilege, which was bath, or day of rest, as Paul took his journey from church, the eldest in 'apostasy, prides itself upon its truly a privilege to us, of speaking to a full house of Troas on Sunday morning. This is admitted by those apostolic character. In the language of Paul to the oureold neighbors and friends. We had little. hope of who plead for the first day. Thus Prof. McGarvey, of Thessalonians, already quoted, that great Antichristian ever seeing many of them again in this world, and, with the denomination of Disciples, an earnest first-day man, body may indeed find its claim to an origin in apostolic a sense of this fact pressing upon us, we presented to says in his " Commentary on the Acts:"— times vindicated, but its apostolic character most em- them the provisions of God's grace in the gospel. We " I conclude, therefore, that the brethren met on the phatically_ denied. And herein is found a striking

FEBRUARY 1, 1883. rinn-F, SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 55 • illustration of the fact that an evil thing is not rendered and it is admitted on all sides that these frank con- expressly stated that the "seventh day is the Sabbath; " . that that day must be kept holy, but •that the other good by the accidental circumstance of its originating fessions are a proof of his superiority. Never •be afraid to say that you do not know—when You do not six, including the Sunday, are "working days; "that God in the days of the apostles. Every thing, at its cora- know." did the greatest part of his creative work on the first day; mencement, is either right or wrong. If right, it may With the last sentence we heartily agree. But with be known by its agreement with the divine standard.all respect to President Woolsey's superior ability— the disciples of Jesus did work on that day, which they would not do on the Sabbath; and that Paul used it as an If wrong at its origin, it can neirer cease to be such. which is unquestioned —we deny that proof of his ordinary traveling day. Now as it is an impossibility Satan's great falsehood which involved our race in ruin superiority is found in his confession of inability to has not yet become the truth, although six thousandunderstand certain portions of Scripture. We refer for one to know that which is not true, would it not be the part of modesty, to say the least, for our friends to this of Sept. years have elapsed since it was uttered. Think of especially to one that was made in the Times admit that they do not know that Sunday is the Sab- ye who worship at the shrine of venerable error. When 2, 1882, where, in commenting on.Mark 13 : 30 .he said, bath ? the fables of men obtained the place of the truth of God, "This passage is surrounded with very grave difficulties, We will not press the matter further. We admit t he was thereby dishonored. How, then, can he accep which theZy- unda school ex positor had better look that we do teach the doctrine of the soon coming of the obedience to them as any part of that pure devotion boldly in the face and then pass on." The 28th and Lord with great confidence, but since the Bible alone is which he requires at our hands? They that worship 29th verses of this chapter read thus: " Now learn a the ground of our confidence, we think we do well to be God must worship him in Spirit and in truth. How parable of the fig-tree; when her branch is yet tender confident. To those who dare not speak with confidence many ages must pass over the fables of men before they and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh; on this point, but are very certain of the other points become changed into divine truth? That these predic- so ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things which we have mentioned, we quote the words of Paul tions of the New Testament respecting the great apos- come to pass, know that it [Christ's coming) is nigh, " Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that tasy in the church were fully realized, the pages of even at the doors." Then follows the troublesome text: thing which he alloweth." E. J. W . ecclesiastical history present ample proof. Mr. Dowl- " Verily I say unto you, that this generation [the genera- ing, in his " History of Romanism," bears the following tion that should witness the fulfillment of the signs] The Coming of the Lord.—Why We Write testimony:— shall not pass till all these things be done." Now we About It. • "There is scarcely anything which strikes the mind hold that the preceding verse is a positive command for of the careful student of ancient ecclesiastical history with greater surprise than the comparatively early us to know in regard to these things; and to claim THE following is from the Christian _Herald (Disci- period at which many of the corruptions of Christianity, ignorance under these circumstances is not a mark of ple), of Monmouth, Oregon:— which are embodied in the Romish system, took their superiority. It is a sin. ' The SIGNS OF THE TIMES spends a good deal of rise; yet it is not to be supposed that when the first' It is always well to be humble; but willing ignorance its time in writing about the second advent of Christ, originatorspractices planted of many those of thesegerms unscriptural of corruption, notions they andantic- is not proof of humility. 'What would be thought of a and talks as though nobody except the Seventn-day ipated or even imagined they would ever grow into such Professor of mathematics who should say, " It is claimed Adventists believes that Christ is ever coming again to ought to know that when it is a vast and hideous system of •superstition and error, as by some that two and three are five, yet there are grave this earth. - The SIGNS is that of popery. . . . Each of the great corrup- difficulties in regard to it, which the student should tryingwasting to prove its paper the second and ink. advent The truth of our is we Saviour 'are caring it is , tions of the latter ages took its rise in a manner which but little about the matter, for we simply accept the it would be harsh to say was deserving of strong repre- look boldly in the face, and then dodge; we must not hension. . . . The worship of images, the invoca- be dogmatic." Everybody would say that he was fact of his coming, and as to tile time, we are not in the tion of saints, and the superstition of relics, were but unfit for his position. , When a thing is plain, it is least concerned." expansions of the natural feelings of veneration and only an act of simple manliness to speak decidedly in What has the Herald been doing, that it does not affection cherished toward the memory of those who - to it. So in the case under consideration. want to hear about the coming of the Lord ? When a regard had suffered and died for the truth." Christ's language throughout the chapter is clear and child manifests indifference in regard to the return of Robinson, author of the "History of Baptism," bears plain. He briefly maps out the history of the world his father, who has been absent, it is generally -attribu- the following testimony :— till the clbse of time, and gives certain signs which table to one of two causes: Either the child has no love "Toward the latter end of the second century most of will immediately precede his coming. Then he says for his father, and does not desire to see him; or else the churches assumed a new form, the first simplicity know that his coining is at hand. To say, he has been doing that which he knows to be wrong, disappeared; and insensibly, as the old disciples retired we may to their graves, their children along with new converts, then, that we do know that it is near, is no assumption and fears that he will receive the punishment which he, both Jews and Gentiles, came forward and new modeled of superior wisdom, nor mark of egotism in those mak- richly deserves. Which one of these reasons applies in the cause. ing the claim, but simple obedience to our Saviour's the present instance ? The working of the mystery of iniquity in the first command. " The truth is we are caring but little about the centuries of the Christian church is thus described by a The man in the parable, when asked why he had not matter," says the Herald. Well, that is just why we recent writer:— on a wedding garment, was speechless. We would not spend so much of our time writing and talking about " During these centuries the chief corruptions of care to meet our Lord with no other excuse for not it; and inasmuch as there are thousands of persons who popery were either introduced in principle, or the seeds Herald is,. we think being prepare are in the same condition that the those baneful fruits which appeared so plentifully at a directions. We very much fear that he would say, we cannot justly be accused of wasting our time. At later period. In Justin Martyr's time, within fifty "My people are destroyed for lack of-knowledge; be- any rate, we do not propose to stop. In fact, we dare years of the apostolic age, the cup was mixed with cause thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject not stop, for we have the following urgent command water, and a portion of the elements sent to the absent. thee." In a case. of this kind, it is not safe to make ex- laid upon us: " Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and The bread, which at first was sent only to the sick, was, sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the in- in the time of Tertullian and Cyprian, carried home by periments. the people and locked up as a divine treasure for their But there is another side. These, same individuals habitants of the land tremble." Joel 2 : 1. Why all private use. At this time, too, the ordinance of the who are so fearful of appearing dogmatic on the subject this alarm ? What.need is there of any unusual dem- supper was given to infants of the tenderest age, and of Christ's coining, seem never to be troubled with that onstration ? Answer: " For the day of the Lord wascustom styled of praying the sacrifice for the of dead, the bodyTertullian of Christ. states, The was fear in regard to another subject—the immortality of cometh, for it is nigh at hand; a day of darkness and common in the second century, and became the universal the soul. There is no doubt in their minds on that of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness." practice of the following ages; so that it came in the point. That the soul of man is immortal is held' to be Surely there is reason enough to talk about it. fourth century to be reckoned a kind of heresy to deny so certain that it is useless to argue it. Disbelief in But, says the Herald, " we simply accept the fact of the efficacy of it. By this time the invocation of saints, we are not in the least the superstitious use of images, of the sign of the cross, that is'considered synonymous with disbelief in the his coming, and as to the time, Therefore it thinks that nothing more and of consecrated oil, were become established practices, Bible and Christianity. And what is the ground of this concerned." and pretended miracles were confidently adduced in positiveness? Simple inference. Nowhere in the Bible need be said. Now we are very well aware that al- proof of their supposed efficacy. Thus did that mystery is the s:atment made that man is immortal, i. e., un- most all bodies of professed Christians accept the fact ofthe iniquity, apostles, which speedily was alreadyafter their working departure, in the spread time of its dying, excepting in Gen. 3 : 4; and as that statement that Christ is coming; but that is not enough. The was made by Satan, the father of lies, it must be dis- trouble is that they are content with the mere expression corruptions among the professors of Christianity." nt. The Bible of their belief that lie will come sometime, but are not Neander speaks thus'-of the early introduction of counted about one hundred per ce plainly states that " God only bath immortality," that particular as to when he comes, or, seemingly, as to image worship:— at alt.• Now the command.is, "Blow "And yet, perhaps, religious images made their way if man obtains it he must " seek " for it; that it is the whether he comes sound an alarm in my from domestic life into the churches, as early as the end " gift of God " " through Jesus Christ our Lord," and ye the trumpet in Zion, and of the third century; and the walls of the churches were that it will be bestowed only on the righteous, and at holy mountain." It is among God's professed followers painted in the same way."—.Rose's Neander, p. 184. the coming of Christ. Yet in the face of all this, those that the alarfn is to be made; those who nominally J. N. A. . who are not ashamed to confess their ignorance of a believe in the coining of the day of the Lord, but don't thing which 'Christ has commanded us to know, have care anything about it. Is there not need enough for Unwarranted Modesty. no hesitancy in affirming that man is naturally im- an alarm to be sounded, when even the " watchman on the walls of Zion," hold their peace, and publicly THE Sunday-school Times very justly says that it mortal. " requires character as welt as courage to admit that There is another point on which we would like to profess- that they care nothing ,about what is coining ? one does not know what he is supposed to know—or have our friends follow their own advice,—" Never be The command is given to these watchman, " Go through, what he supposes lie is supposed to know." It then afraid to say that you do not know, when you do not go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; gives some instances illustrative of this trait of charac- know." It is in respect to the Sunday. Our " ortho- cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones, for the people. Behold the Lord ter, and says:— dox " friends feel very confident that the first day of lift up a standard Say ye to " Yet, so rare is the courage and so rare is the charac- the week is the Sabbath—so confident that they want bath proclaimed unto the end of the world, ter which prompts and justifies such answers as these, -outwardly. the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; that it is too often a surprise when a man admits his to force everybody to observe it, at least ignorance on a point concerning which his opinion is Yet nowhere in the Bible is it stated that Sunday is the behold his reward is with him, and his work before sought. ' Just now there is widespread comment on Sabbath. Nowhere is Sunday called by any other him." But the watchmen refuse to lift up the standard, President Woolsey's frequent confessions of inability name than simply " the first day of the week." No- or to clear the way so that the people may walk in the toperplexities, understand in allthe theBible mysteries, text on which or to he solve is comment- ail the where is it stated that. Christ or his apostles or anybody law of the Lord, and thus be prepared for his coming. else ever observed that day. On the contrary it is And this explains why they are not caring for his ing week by week, min the SUndaY=SCh001 Times; • TH 1-i; 56 SIGNS OF TETT-44 TIMES. VoL. 9, ,No. 5.

coming.. To the command to " ask for the old paths, and feebleness of our mortal bodies, we are unable to mind, and he is planning for their good; thinking where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall do much that we would like to do. We lose our friends, find rest for your souls " (.Ter. 6 : 16), they have re- how he can encourage those who believe, and and are often obliged to mourn. But when Jesus how those yet unconverted may be reached in the plied, " We will not walk therein." No wonder they comes all this will cease. " And God shall wipe away best manner. It is expected that the minister of do not want to hear of his coming. all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more the gospel will do- this; it is well known that if Perhaps some one will say that we are straining a death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be he does not do so, all th.e success that may attend point, and that these " old paths," this " good way," in any more pain; for the former things are passed away." his labor will be, in a measure, accidental. which they have said they would not wa!k, is not the Law " He ,that testiuieth these things saith, Surely I come Now the same thing will apply to the mission- of the Lord. Then read what follows: " Hear, 0 earth; quickly. Amen. Even so, come Lord Jesus:" ary worker who occupies a more limited field. behold I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of E. J. W. When a member of the Missionary Society has their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto received the names of persons to whom to send my words, nor to my law, but rejected it." Verse 19, the SIGNS and other reading matter, he • should But we will speak further on this point at another he li55ionari. feel that those individuals are his especial charge. time. He should feel in a measure responsible for their • salvation. So far as his influence extends, his . The Herald says it is not caring-about the coming responsibility is just as great as that of the of the Lord. Well, we do care about it, and for these California Tract and Missionary Society. preacher. He should engage in the work with very. good reasons:- seriousness and earnestness. He should make it DISTRICT NUMBER ONE. We shall then be with Christ. a subject of prayer. It is not enough to praylor He himself says, THE " I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and quarterly meeting of District No. 1 was the success of the. missionary work in general; held at Healdsburg, Jan. 12, 13, 1883, Wm. Ings, each individual must be the subject of earnest prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive Director, presiding. you unto myself; thal where I am, there ye may be prayer; not once or twice but constantly. Try There was a good attendance from other to feel the same interest in each that you would also." John 14 : 2, 3. Paul also says, " For this we churches in the District. The best plans of doing say unto you by the word of the Lord, if he were present in person. W hen the mission- that we which T. and H. work were thoroughly discussed, and ary worker sends off his paper, laden with mes- are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall all 'seemed eager to learn, all they could that sages of truth, he should feel that he is in the not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord him- would 'aid them in advancing the, work of the position of one who is delivering a sermon to a self shall descend ,from heaven with a shout, with the Third Angel's Message. congregation. True, he is not responsible, as is voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and The Committee on Resolutions submitted the the preacher, for the words of the sermon, but he the dead in Christ shall rise first; then we which are following, which were discussed and voted on can pray, as the preacher does, that God's Spirit alive and remain shall be caught up together with them singly, each being adopted by a unanimous vote:— will accompany the word and impress it /upon the WHEREAS, in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we believe that we are living near the hearts of those who receive. "Not by might, clo4e of probation, and in the midst of perilous times, we ever be with the Lord." Thess. 4 :15-17. There is nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord." and recognize it to be our solemn duty, as well as our " Except the Lord build the house, they labor in no other way than thisoithat we can ever go to dwell privilege as a people, to warn the world lying in wick- 'with the Lord; therefore the coming of the Lord is to edness, in all appropriate ways, of the impending Judg- vain that build it; except the Lord keep the city, us a matter of considerable importance: ment, and— the watchman waketh but in vain. " The truth WHEREAS, In the many excellent fields for missionary may be clear and plain, and may be presented in We shall then be made like him. ".Behold, what labor and ready access to the same, we recognize the a most forcible manner, yet it will fall lifeless •to manner of love the Father hath bestowed on us that opening providence of God, and our deep obligation to the ground unless God directs it to the heart. No we should be called the sons of God; therefore the improve these favorable opportunities of spreading a one should think of attempting to write a letter world knoweth us not, because it. knew him not. knowledge of the truth, and— on the subject of religion without first asking Beloved, now are we the sons of God, And it doth not WHEREAS, We feel grateful for the SIGNS OF THE God to direct. We should realize that it is God's TIMES, which contains well-filled pages of matter just yet appear what we shall be; but, we know that when. work, not our own, and we must endeavor to do adapted to the wants of the people; therefore— it in his way. Work done in this way accom- he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see Resolved (1), That we, the members of Dist. No. 1, him as he is." . 1 Jno. 3 : 1, 2. " For our conversation engage heartily in mailing the SIGNS plishes double good; it will be blessed to the good to Humboldt CO., of the one for whom it is done, and will strengthen [commonwealth] is in Heaven, from whence also we and other parts of the District, as Providence may open the way. the worker. But missionary work done in a list- look for the Saviour; the Lord Jesus Christ; who shall Resolved less manner, as a mere form, hurried through as change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like (2), That we will enter upon a thorough canvass for the STG-Ns and the premium throughout the quickly as possible, will certainly not strengthen unto his glorious body." Phil. 3 : 20, 21. Many per- District; and — the one who does it, and can not be expected to sons pay a great deal of attention to the adorning of Resolved, That we will not cease our efforts to spread accomplish much for anybody. .their bodies; but no amount of earthly adorning can the truth by means of visiting from house to house, and We are told to pray the Lord of the harvest make them compare with Christ's glorious body. With that we will carry on the same by loaning and selling that he would send forth more laborers into the the packages of tracts lately introduced by the Director field. We would not have been told the hope that this promise will soon be fulfilled, we can of the District. - to pray, if. be content even if we are ill-favored now. praying would do no good. If the work lags, Resolved (3), That we will not cease our efforts un- We shall then receive a crown. Peter exhorts may we not conclude that this injunction has not til every accessible library and reading-room in the been heeded? And even when we do pray for those who are placed over the flock, to feed them, and District are supplied with our reading matter. .RescAied laborers, is it not often the case that we want says, " And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye (4), That we adopt the recommendation somebody else to be raised up, while we do noth- shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away." heretofore made, that we supply our church libraries with the writings of Sister White, and loan and sell to ing?' If all would pray earnestly for laborers, and 1 Pet. 5 :4. And Paul also defines still more closely those who will read them. then would go to work to do their part toward those who will receive this crown. " I have fought a Resolved (5), That as the SIGNS is furnished in clubs supplying the demand, how quickly the work good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the at cost price, we deem-it an unjust practice to use any of might be done. Let us place ourselves in such a faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of the copies thus obtained for personal reading, and that position that when we pray, we may say, "Here righteousness,. which the Lord, the righteous Judge we advise every member to subscribe for the same at am I, send me." 'Depend upon it, the Lord Will the regular price. shall give me at that day; and not to me only, but • find employment for us all, and that which is just unto all them also that love his appearing." WHEREAS, We highly appreciate the value of the suited to our capacity. E. J. W. 2 Tim. 7?,eview and Herald, 4: 7, 8. Then it appears that we must do something our church paper, therefore— Resolved,- That we regard the more than merely to admit that Christ is coming, if we Review and Herald Report of Labor. indispensable, and that it should be in -every family of obtain the crown; we must love his appearing. But Seventh-day Adventists in the District; and that we what we love we think about; and " out of the abundance recommend that each church supply every member who SALEM, OREGON.—Efforts have been made to of the heart the mouth speaketh." Paul intimates is not able to subscribe for the same, out of such funds bring about a better state of things in the church as they may have to assist the poor. that he loved the appearing of Christ; and that fact is here. Some had become discouraged, and turned evident from his writings, because he speaks of that It was also voted to have 3,500 wraps printed, away from the church. In harmony with Script- more than of any other thing. Every letter that he wrote, to be used in the work of lo'aning tracts, and ural irvtruction, we discharged the sad duty of that each T. and M. member in the district, be disfellowshiping several members. Our prayer. contains more or less reference to Christ's coming. furnished with a copy of the above Resolutions, is, that they may yet see their wrongs, confess Will the Herald say that he wasted'his paper and that they may be thoroughly carried out and and forsake the same, and, like the prodigal son, ink ? We have not said so much about it as Paul did, lived up to. E. A. CHAPMAN, Dist. Sec. come back to the Father's house. Two were but we mean to do better in the future, and thus obey added to the church, one of them being baptized. the command to " exhort one another, and so much the A Word to Missionary Workers. Bro. Raymond was with me in the commence- more as ye see the day approaching." If we loved, his ment of these meetings, and from here went to appearing more we should talk about it more, and try the southern part of the WHAT would be thought of a minister of the State, where, I . trust, to induce others to love it also; and if everybody loved souls may be gathered out for the soon coming gospel who did not pray before conducting a and everlasting kingdom. it, then surely we would talk about it more than ever; meeting or preaching a sermon; one who never Under more favorable circumstances, with the it would be an ever joyous topic of conversation. prayed for the success of the work in which he church in a condition, with heart and hand, to At Christ's coming we shall be made immortal. was engaged, or who never made those under his Paul care the subjects of especial prayer? People would assist in the work by faithful missionary labors, says in 1 Cor. 15 : 51-54, that at the sound of the I trust that meetings may be held at Salem, and say of such an one that he was not very deeply in- last trump the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and that we may then see, instead of a pile of branches the living shall be changed; that it is then that this terested in his work, and they would not be disap- pointed if it should be a failure. ,The successful trimmed off, precious scions grafted in, which corruptible will put on incorruption, and this mortal put will bear fruit to the honor and glory of the minister not only prays for the success of his on immortality. We long for that time to come. Master's cause. To this end I hope the church work in general, but the individual members of Have we not good reason to care for our Lord's com- will faithfully labor, with earnest prayer to God. his congregation are the subjects of his daily Jan. 82, 1883. ing? Here we suffer pain; we are often obliged to secret prayer. He feels personally responsible for CHAS. L. BOYD. _confess that we are sick; on account of the weakness their salvation. _Night and day they are upon his " No MAN liveth to himself."

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Potter Valley, California. " Chewers," one writes, "eject their saliva upon or her possession,' in any ropewalk, or barn, or the sidewalk, in the store, in spittoons, which stable, any fire, lighted pipe, or cigar, the person I HAVE been laboring here at intervals for sev- become incorporate stenches, in dark corners of so offending shall forfeit and pay, for each offenSe, eral weeks, and can report as the result that railroad cars, to stain th.e white skirts of unsus- a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars nor less eight earnest souls are striving to follow the picious women, in lecture-rooms and churches, than twenty dollars." example of Christ in keeping his Father's com- upon fences, and into stoves that hiss with anger The first of these acts was never enforced, and, mandments. John 15 : 10; 1 Peter 2 : 21. In at the insult. And the quids after they are having remained on the statute book for more this place I had to contend with a new and ejected !" than kixty years a dead letter, in 1880 was re- peculiar error of these last days; i. e., the denial "Smile smoke till their bedrooms and shops can pealed. of our Saviour's existence previous to his birth scarcely be breathed in, and until their breath is The second, which is a law absolutely necessary/- in Bethlehem. When pointed to scriptures like as rank as the breath of a foul beast, and their as a precaution of safety, is still in force in Bos- John 6 : 38, where the Lord speaks of coming clothes have the odor of the sewer." ton, and ought to be in every city, town, and ham- down from Heaven to accomplish a definite object, And this loathsome without is only a fit expo- let throughout the land. But it simply contem- the advocates of- this error tell us that it was -a nent of the equally loathsome within. Says Dr. plates protection against danger. When shall we word or promise which came down. If so, Christ Alcott: " If the interior of the tobacco-user could take higher ground ?—Christian at Work. desired to be turned to a mere promise again, be fairly exposed to the public gaze, I am not according to these words found in John 17 : 5: sure but it would' do more to deter the rising gen- " And now, 0 Father, glorify thou me with thine- eration from falling into this foul habit than all Slave, or Master—Which? own self with the glory which I had with thee our lectures; and essays, and homilies." before the world was." In Colt 1 : 13-18, we Did no one suffer except the willing victim., the WHAT do you think of it, boys? Which would learn that the Lord Jesu.s is the- first-born of case would be different. But the dreadful pen- you prefer to be ? 'Do you. feel any desire to every creature, the creator of all things; the alty, though well-nigh as universal as that follow- become a slave, and have a merciless tyrant for beginning. See also John 1 : 1-3;- 3 : 16, 17, 31; ing the sin of Adam, falls heaviest on the nearest your master, ,whom you would be compelled to 6 : 62; 8 : 58; 1 Pet. 1 : 11; Heb.• 1 : 1-11, etc. and dearest—on thOse who can never escape the obey ? Or is there not a spirit of true, manly Let us thank the Lord that his truth is so plain, pride within your breast that scorns such a sickenin g atmosphere. so easily vindicated. My post-office for the pres- Daniel Webster said, "If gentlemen must thought? I know of many young men who have volun- ent will be Pleasant Grove, Sutter Co., Cal. smoke," or chew, he might as well have added, Jan. 21. E. A. BRIG GS. "let him take the horse-shed." This seems to tarily taken upon themselves a lifetime of servi- have been the prevailing sentiment in that staunch tude under the most exacting of masters. temperance town, Oberlin, Ohio. Years ago a I have a friend, a young merchant, in one or gelitprance. Doctor of Divinity smoker, who was passing a New England's thriving villages, who has a few days there, found. himself out of cigars. After queer, filthy, black-looking thing for a master, a long hunt in search of them, he was directed to which he calls tobacco. He is thirty-two years Civil Rights vs -Tobacco. a hostler, who might, perhaps, supply him. He of age, and has passed over half of those years soughtht him out and obtained a cigar, but when under this bondage. Many times during the day WOULD that the regulations as to the use of will he salute this master by affectionately plac- tobacco were far more numerous and stringent— told that he must go behind the stable to smoke, be had such a sense Of shame that- from that time ing him to his lips. You would suppose by this that our railroad directors might label certain that he either loved or respected him, while the For the Unclean, and then prohibit smokers he forsook the indulgence: cars, Not so apt disciples were two New England fact is, he despises him. He has often told me or chewers from entering any other! that he would give a thousand dollars to be com- As it is, the irrepressible smoker follows you ministers, who, being at the same place at a con- vention some years later, walked down the rail- pletely out of his power. He has tried several wherever you go. You Seat yourself in a car, and times to break his fetters, but with no success. in utter disregard of the printed ordinance, way track for their daily smoke. " Smoking forbidden," in some subtle, indescribable It is not uncommon to find among temperance I dropped into his store one day,. and found fashion, the dreaded odor assails you in front lecturers ardent devotees of the weed. A total him all out of sorts, fidgety, nervous, and suffer- and rear. You pay an extra dollar and retreat abstainer, yet a tobacco sot! We have suffered ing from a severe headache. It was a time when to a Pullman. Vain effort! From the conductor's quite enough from these -demi-semi-reformers. he was trying to break from his bondage. He room, or regions unknown, comes the same sick- Our parlors and our chambers, our halls and our had refused obedience for two days, and 'the re- ening vapor. sanctuaries are often desecrated by their per- lentless little master was after him with whips "I was glad," said Thoreau, when at Cape Cod, formances. " Why don't you use the church for and hounds. One seemed to be gnawing fero- " to have got out of the towns, where I am wont your temperance addresses, and devote to the ciously at his stomach, anouher was licking his to feel unspeakably mean and disgraced, to have cause the money you spend in hiring a hall? " throat as dry as a bone, while a host of them left behind me for a season the bars of Massachu- " Oh, it would never do, the church is so fear- seemed scampering through his brain, and dart- setts, where the full-grown are not weaned from fully defiled by these lecturers." ing back and forth on every nerve. Boxes of the savage and filthy habits—still smoking. My When such men come out from -a smoke-room, cigars and tobacco stood on his shelves for sale, spirits rose in proportion to the outward dreari- pallid, trembling, and bearing the nauseous signs and whenever he went near them they seemed ness. The towns need to be ventilated. The of the indulgence, instead of mounting the plat- to give the command: " Come, sir, you must take gods would be pleased to see some pure flames form to exhort others to temperance, would it not a bite," or " It is time for you to have a smoke." from their altars. They are not to be appeased be more fitting that they should take the back A.nd the poor fellow was goaded until he bad to with cigar smoke." seat, and listen in silence and humiliation? " Thou submit, and, by his actions, acknowledge hiinself The outlook has not improved since Thoreau's that sayest another shall not drink,' dost thou in their power. This young man learned to use day. On a Sunday summer's evening, you wan- smoke or chew?" tobacco when a boy, thinking it would make a der forth to an out-door meeting on the hill, side. ",Tobacco demoralizes," says Dr. Parker. " It man of him to be able to smoke a cigar. Do Once, twice, and yet again you change your seat makes a man careless about his hair; he lets his you think he is more manly now on account of to escape the vicinity of some smoker who is pol- nails go uncleaned; his clothes are soiled—in a the habit ? - lilting the pure air around you, word he is dirty." Boys, don't allow yourselves to be deceived in You go on board a steamer, anticipating a pleas- A writer in Blackwood asserts that "tobacco this matter. Tobacco will never make a man Of ant sail On lake or river. When everything is ar- is the favorite filth of every savage life within the you, but will make you its slave instead. If you ranged, you take a seat on, deck. Presently you circumference of the globe; that it fills th.e atmos- commence its use, it is almost certain that you are haunted by that unmistakable odor, and turn- phere of the continent with a perpetual stench; will regret it afterwards. If you doubt this, ing, you find a gentleman near by puffing away . . . that it is, in its own nature, the filthiest, just test its truth by,the experience of others. Ask without the remotest consciousness that he is dis- most foolish, dullest, and most disgusting practice every candid man among your acquaintances who , turbing any one. You move your seat to get out on the face of the earth." has used it for ten or more years, and see if of his range, but that only brings you into the Why cannot the civil trespass law be brought nine out of every ten will not advise you to let vicinity of another offender. Verily there is no to bear on this matter? Our statutes forbid that tobacco alone. They regret having fbrmed the escape. The smokers persist in planting them- any man shall, from greed of gain, or to gratify habit themselves, and would gladly 'break from selves before you, or behind you, or beside you, an unnatural appetite, cause a nuisance in any it if they could easily do so. and no one. says them nay. public place where all have equal rights and a " I can do something that you can't," said a You betake yourself to some rural retreat. But common interest. Is not the wide-spread use of boy to his companion. " I can chew tobacco." no matter how secluded it may be, there will be tobacco a nuisance so offensive, so unwholesome; " And I can do something you can't," was the some way of getting through it, whether by car, that, if suddenly sprung upon the community, quick reply. " I can let tobacco alone." coach, or cart. And whatever the vehicle, some- there would be a spontaneous uprising, an indig- Now that is the kind of boy we love to see. body will be in it, and that somebody will be sure nant mass-meeting, which would demand its im- The boy who has the " backbone " to refuse to smoke, or chew, or both. mediate expulsion ? No pipe or cigar ought to when asked to do a foolish or wicked thing, is Even the broad ocean offers no asylum. In be smoked within a thousand yards of a church the one we are proud of. ' It is an easy matter spite of printed enactments, the lawless wind or place of public gathering. Cannot the early to sail with the wind or float with the tide, and bears the dreadful odors " abaft the helm," di- New England statute be revived, at least so far it is easy enough to form bad habits, so no one rectly into your face. Can the moral atmosphere as to impose a fine on any person using this weed can boast over the power to do that. It is the engendered by this habit be any more securely publicly ? one who can let them alone that is worthy of locked in? A traveler says: "One of the foulest In 1818 the following Acts concerning smoking the praise. And the best time to let tobacco places I ever saw for blackguard, profanity, and were passed in the metropolis' of New England, alone is before the appetite for it has beeniformed. indecent language, was the smoking-room of an and recorded among the city ordinances:— There is nothing inviting about it then. ocean steamer." And this testimony is abun- " Every person who shall smoke, or have in his or her possession any lighted pipe or cigar, in any Don't use it, 'boys. It is 'filthy, poisonous, dantly confirmed. disgusting stuff at its best. Be man enough to Is there, then, I repeat, absolutely no refuge, street, lane, or passageway, or on .any wharf, in - said city, shall forfeit and pay, for each and every let it alone. Hold your head up proudly and no quarantine by which these noxious, ever pur- say that you are its master, and never intend to offense, the sum of two dollars." suing, ever persecuting spirits of the air c.an be become its slave.—C,. L. Hill. effectually shut out from the innocent ? " And, further, if any person shall have in his 58 TH I-+] SIGNS ov TI-1 1H, TIM IH:S. Vol,. 9, No. 5.

but• when she returned found she had forgotten the dear old piano, every well-remembered line 'fianit circle. full half the message she was to have delivered on its carved case greeting her astonished gaze. now surely this was very careless; yet neverthe The next instant the top was raised, and for- less Mabel thought grandma's reproof. very un getful of everything but her ecstasy of surprise -w- rri-16-urr AND WITI-{IN. kind and unmerited, and, full of moody thought and delight, Mabel passed her hand lovingly over and with a sob in her throat, away she went to the keys, but once more started back. more de- WITHOUT the Master's house 'tis dark and cold, the darkened parlor to pour out her feelings in Within are warmth, and light, and endless Cheer ; lightfully astonished than ever. Could it be the Without 'tis dismal as a dead man's bier, melancholy notes on the sympathetic old piano. same old instrument, so discordant, so defective, Within new glories evermore unfold. Entering from the brilliant sunshine, Mabel had now sending forth such sweet, rich notes ? Be- Without are demons terrible and bold, almost to grope her way; and had reached the fore shej could again touch the soft chords, Within angelic hosts in white appear ; center of the room before noticing anything un- grandma stood beside her. Without men groan in agony and fear, usual, when suddenly, with an overpowering sense " 0, grandma, have you seen it, have you heard?" Within are rest, and peace, and joys untold. of something missing, of a great vacancy about cried Mabel joyously. " It is the old piano with Without great storms seem ever imminent, her, she stood motionless, and felt, more than she new life!" - Within can only gentle zephyrs come ; saw, that her one true, faithful friend was gone. " That is indeed just it, my own little girl," Without men shudder as in dungeon pent, answered grandma, " a new life that I hope is to Within are all secure in heavenly home. For several moments she stood quite still, a mute, incredulous sorrow creeping over her, and be a pleasure to you for many years to come; and Without are Satan and his wretched crew, then with a great choking sob away she flew to let me give you your first lesson. Do you not see Within stands Jesus to our welcome view. her grandmother. these keys, that only a few months since did their --Alexander Macaulay. "0, grandma," she cried, " they have taken it work so imperfectly, some selfishly ; mute, giving away! Some one has carried off my piano! forth no sweet response when called, others all out Out of Tune. What has happened to it? Tell me where it has of tune, jangling together and producing no true gone!" music; now, who do youlsuppose must have WHILE yet but a little girl, Mabel Downing had Grandma's face, that could be stern at times, wrought this change upon it, giving it a new, seen her father and mother pass away from her, turned now with gentle love and tenderness to- sweet life ? " and after the breaking up of the happy little family, ward the distressed young countenance looking "It must have been the maker, grandma," said she was sent to live with Grandma Downing, who up to hers. Mabel, a very thoughtful look stealing through lived all alone in a rambling old house, peopled "Mabel, dear," she said, " I was obliged to her gladness. more by memories than by living inmates. send the piano away for reasons I cannot explain. That is rightly guessed," answered grandma; Of course it was very lonely and very sad, al- now; I would have told you before it went, had I " the. old piano, with all its imperfections, has though there were some pleasent neighbors near, not believed it would only increase your pain in been given into the keeping of its maker all this and grandma would gladly have made it a happy giving it up. I hope my little girl will try and time, and to-day he has returned it to me renewed home for the. pale, sorrowful little girl who had be happy-without it." as you see it. I wonder if Mabel can think of come to her; but it seemed as thotfgh Mabel could "But, grandma, I never can be happy without something else that hasztown sweeter and better not, or would not, brighten up under her grand- it," sobbed poor Mabel; "I loved it better than during the same time ? I know] a young_heart mother's kind efforts. It seemed to her that the anything in all the world, and I don't believe I that three months ago was as much out of tune old lady had such strange ideas of making people can live without it! " as theA piano;, though duties and pleasures lay happy, and a strange way too, as she found, of deal- " Not quite so bad as that, Mabel," said grandma straight before it each day like these white and ing with their faults. She seemed.really to believe soothingly. " We are very, very rarely, re- black keys, yet when God listened for sweet that girls were happier for having regular duties quired to give up anything which we really can- music, -as he does from every heart, these being for regular hours, and, to Mabel's way of thinking, not live without; trust grandma for once, and try his own loved instruments, his ear heard only dis- many of these duties were not in the least amus- to learn, what she was long in learning, that, cordant sounds, some of the keys remaining coldly ing; but instead of wisely adopting grandma's if we will but look for it, a truer happiness will mute, others harsh and unlovely, and all sadly out views, the little girl clung obstinately to her own, often spring, up to fill the place of one that has of tune. I have tried to send that yoor little heart and I need scarcely tell you that she was far from been taken from us." back to its Maker, and I believe he alone has made happy. • But those were sad days for a time that fol- it the healthy, happy heart it now is,fgiving out There was but one thing in all the house which lowed for Mabel; her first thought in the morning sweet music to all." Mabel had found really to love or care for; this was of her great loss, and she could not go, near " Ah, grandma," said Mabel thoughtfully, "I was nothing less than the old piano standing all the old parlor without a fresh burst of grief. never understood so well before what you have alone in the old-fashioned parlor—a piano that There were so many hours that now seemed meant in•telling me that we must all ask God for years ago had sent forth beautiful strains, making empty and joyless for her—hours which for a few a new life, and a new heart through Jesus Christ." melody in many hearts, but which, in the silence days she spent mostly in sullen, repining thoughts, And Mabel never forgot that lesson, or, if in- creeping gradually over the old home, had not but which she gradually began to find so tedious clined to forget, instead of tempting her 'to neg- been even opened for a long time. that she was glad to shorten them by almost any lect its teachings, the old piano remained a con- But on the very first day Mabel had found her device. tinual reminder of her duties; and as she watched way to it, and when grandma discovered her little Having no temptation now to hurry through carefully to keep her dear instrument free from visitor's love for music, and heard her play some her morning duties, one by one they were per- dust or injury, so did she watch over God's instru- sweet little airs caught by'ear, she willingly gave formed more thoroughly, thereby calling - forth ment within her, that it might ever send forth Mabel permission to entertain herself thus when- only praise and cheery words from grandma, in- ever she wished. only sweet and pleasant music to his pure ear.— stead of reproof, and this of itself drew the little New York Observer. This was indeed a pleasure to Mabel; morning girl's heart nearer to the one whose real love she and evening found her continually in the dim- could not doubt. And many a pleasant book, A Curious Combat. lighted parlor, not caring for listeners, preferring wholly discarded while the old piano stood wait- to be all alone, playing softly or gladly on the old ing for her, did Mabel now find a true and enter- A TRAVELER in South Africa witnessed not long instrument, never knowing when to leave it, and taining friend, giving. a double pleasure as she often not till grandma had called several times, since a singular combat. He was musing one read aloud to grandma, while the latter sat knit- morning, with his eyes on the ground, when he reminding her of some forgotten duty, or to send ting. her out in the fresh air. noticed a caterpillar crawling along. at a rapid The garden, too, seemed now to bloom with new It is true, the old piano had long since seen pace. Pursuing him was- a host of small ants. and sweet attractions to Mabel, tempting her to Being quicker in their movements, the ants would its best days; many of the keys were quite mute, remain longer each day, and sending her in at half were out of tune, and all jangled most un- catch up with the caterpillar, and one would last with rosy cheeks and bright eyeS. 'The little mount his back and bite him. Pausing,the cater-, musically, except a few chords, which Mabel soon neighbors, who before had tried in vain to be learned to love and dwell upon; indeed, to the pillar would turn his head, arid bite and kill his friendly, wondered now over the change that tormentor. After slaughtering a dozen or more lonely little girl it seemed as though the old piano made Mabel so much more attractive and lovable could understand her feelings, and could sympa- of his persecutors, the caterpillar showed signs of —a change altogether more perceptible to others fatigue. . The ants made a combined attack. Be- thize more fully with her than anything else; than to the little girl herself. when accidentally touching a dumb note, and re- taking himself to a stalk of grass, the caterpillar For we must not suppose that she had quite climbed up tail first, followed by the ants. As ceiving no response, it seemed to remind her of forgotten her dear old friend that had been so loved voices now mute or silent; the long row of one approached, he seized it in his jaws and great a treasure; no, far from it; she longed for threw it off the stalk. The ants, seeing that the keys seemed to her like so many little friends, it often with a yearning desire to pass her fingers each in turn giving her all the pleasure in its caterpillar had too strong a position for them to over the sympathetic keys once more, but she had overcome, resorted to strategy. They began saw- power, regardless of discord. And little by little ceased to repine for the lost pleasure, learning the Mabel ceased to care for any other friends, find- ing through the grass stalk. In a few minutes lesson that comes to us all in time, "The lesson the stalk fell, and hundreds of ants pounced upon ing comfort in the old piano at all hours, and tell- of doing without." ing out all her troubles through her idly wander- the caterpillar. He was killed at once, and the. Three months had gone by, and one summer victors marched off in triumph, leaving the foe's ing fingers, really believing that the instrument evening, after a long walk for grandma, Mabel understood all, and responded as sympathetically body on the field.—Sell. as its cracked voice would permit. wandered mechanically to the parlor in one of those wistful moods, thinking sadly but patiently DURING an earthquake that occurred a few Don't you think it was time for grandma to of her lost delight. And once again, as on that insist upon more fresh air and busy duties for a years since, the inhabitants yof a small village well-remembered evening so long ago, she had were generally very much olarmed, but they little girl who could indulge such dreamy thoughts reached the center of the room before sometbing and fancies? But grandma insisted to little pur- were at the same time surprised at the calmness caused her to pause and gaze incredulously before and apparent joy of an old lady whom they all pose, for Mabel only retreated the more persist- her. ently to her old friend for every unwelcome sug- knew. At length one of them, addressing the gestion or command. Could it have been a dream all this time, or old lady, said:— could her eyes now be deceiving her; for there., " Mother, are you not afraid?" One afternoon she was absent for more than an in the same familiar spot, looking unchanged, ex- hour on an important errand for her grandmother, " No," said the mother in Israel; "I rejoice to cept perhaps a little fresher 4nct brighter, stood know thAt I have a God that can shake the world." FEBRUARY 1, 1883. THE SIGNS OE TI-1 Fi] TIMES. 59

—The charge of murder against Frank James has HEALDSBURG COLLEGE. Religious Notes. been withdrawn, and his bail has been fixed at $3,500. The next act in the play will doubtless be to give him A MODEL INSTITUTION. —There are forty-five Catholic congregations in St. a pension, and pay•him for the time lost while detained Louis. in jail. Instruction given in Ancient and Modern Languages and the Physical —There are now two Methodist congregations of na- —The last steamer from Australia brings news of a ces. tive Christians in Caunpore, India. terrible accident in a gold mine near Creswick, Victoria. Common Branches Thoroughly Taught. Special Training for Teachers. The Catholic Monitor 'declares its principles thus: The men at work unexpectedly broke into an old shaft, "As God is above the world, so must Catholics be Cath- when the mine was instantly flooded, and twenty-two GREAT SUCCESS. olics first and patriots afterward." miners were drowned. This Institution has met with almost Unparalleled Success in —The city of Montreal has made a claim for taxes on —The queen of Madagascar has set an example that the short time since its incorporation. a church on the ground that a fair was lately held in Christian rulers would do well to imitate. In a procla- WHY DOES 'IT PROSPER ? the building for profit, whereas, to be exempt from tax- mation forbidding her subjects either to sell or drink The Instruction is very Thorough and Practical. ation, buildings must be used exclusively for divine rum, she says: " I cannot take a revenue from anything The Discipline is Rigid yet Parental. purposes. that will debase and degrade my people." The Strong Moral and Religious Influence finds its equal in no other Examiner asks information in Institution of the kind. —A reader of the —Messrs. Davitt, Healey, and Quinn, charged with 4.1 The Expenses of Students for Board, Tuition, etc., come within the regard to the best books of devotion, and that paper inciting to lawlessness, have been ordered by the Court ability of all. very truly replies that the Bible is the best book of to give securities for good behavior, or to go to jail for 5. The Methods employed in the class-room, and the Professional devotion in existence, and worth more than all the rest six months. A week's time was allowed them to make Instruction, afford special advantages to those desiring to teach. Combined. their choice, but they refused to give bail, and it is While its courses embrace all the higher Collegite Branches, —The Golden Rule says: " Many a man who cannot thought that they will be sentenced to solitary con- which are taught in the most thorough manner, especial attention is given get time to attend the church prayer-meeting, will, if finement at hard labor. to the Common Branches. he becomes the head'of a secret society, give three even- —The Coroner's jury in the case of the Tehachepi DISCIPLINE. ings a week to lodge and committee meetings, and not disaster, found the engineer and brakeman guilty of One of the prominent features of Healdsburg College is the effort to complain in the least." criminal carelessness, and they have been arrested. It impress upon its students the claims and benefits of morals and religion. —Bishop McNamara, of the Independent Catholic seems that the engineer did not dare follow the runa- Any one of known evil habits, who is exerting a pernicious influence upon Church, says there are about 50,000 neople of Irish Cath- way cars with his engine, until he received orders from his fellow-students, is not tolerated in the school. olic blood in Chicago who have lost faith in the Roman head-quarters. This is equal to a man's refusing to EXPENSES. Church, and are accessible to gospel preaching. He is rescue a drowning person, because he has not been in- The tuition ranges from $2.25 to $6.00 per month. Board in private expecting to begin labors among them early this year. troduced. families and in the college boarding-house ranges from $3.00 to $3.50 per Bishop Ireland, of the Roman Catholic diocese of —The loss of life on the water within two weeks week, with room completely furnished. Minnesota, forbids members of the church from keeping past, has been fearful. First came the loss of the ADVANTAGES TO TEACHERS. saloons, tending bars, or furnishing liquor to the public steamer Cimbria, with its 450 passengers. Then the Besides the regular class drills in the different branches, there is given iii any manner whatever, under penalty of excommu- brigantine Mariposa was sunk in Long Island Sound, occasional instruction concerning methods and genera. school manage- nication, and his action has caused quite a sensation only one man escaping. At Lisbon, Jan. 22, the ship ment. among Catholics generally. Forwaerts sunk, and eight persons were drowned. A PRIMARY DEPARTMENT —Rev. David Gregg, of New York, in a lecture And during a gale on the English Coast, Jan. 26, a Is connected with the College to accommodate those children whose par- published in the Christian Statesman, says, "The doc- schooner and crew were lost at Yarmouth. ents desire to place them under the instruction and moral influence of the trine of the Sabbath is republican," and then quotes, --Following the railroad accident in. California comes school. "The Sabbath was made by man." That is perfectly the news of a terrible one in West Virginia. Three CALENDAR. true of the sabbath which he keeps, but the Sabbath coal trains coupled together, consisting of three engines The Spring, Term begins January 3, 1883, and closes May 25, 1383 which we observe is of divine origin. and sixty-nine loaded cars, started down the steep After a vacation the Fall Term opens July 25, 1383. President, —The Michigan correspondent of the Examiner says grade near Cumberland. The brakes proving unable Address, S. BROWNSBERGER, A. M., llealdsburg, Cal. that the Ba ptists are losing ground in Michigan. !Yin- to hold the train, it went flying down the hill. Coming ing the last five years the population has increased 12 to a curve it jumped from the track, landing in a mass per cent., and the number of Baptists only 5 per cent.; in • a ravine 100 feet below. Fifteen men are known 0_00D HEALTH. while in 1835-40, when the population increased 100 to have been killed. • iJr per cent., the number of Baptists increased 150 per —Secretary of the Treasury Folger, has addressed a A MONTHLY MAGAZINE. cent. letter to the Senate, showing the urgent necessity for DEVOTED TO PHYSICAL, MENTAL, AND MORAL The Free Methodists at a recent conference at Bur- providing additional vault room for storing silver, or CULTURE. lington, Iowa, resolved that brewing bed, making cider, for discontinuing the coinage of silver dollars. The raising hops for brewing purposes, and growing, using. San Francisco Sub-Trea-ury is full, having on hand Goon HEALTH is emphatically a Family Journal, being cheap, plain, and trafficking in tobacco, constitute a sin 'against God and $21,788,606, or about 628 tons. To transfer this to practical, qualities which have won for it the largest circulation of any our neighbor; and that persons guilty of any of the some sub-treasury in the East, would cost $100,000 for Meant' Journal in America. It is devoted to all reforms, but is ultra in above practices are not worthy of membership in a each million transferred, and there are none in a con- none. It is unpartisan and unsectarian. Its only creed is nature's laws. Christian church. dition to receive that amount. The amount of silver It treats of Health, Temperance, General Literature, Science, and many Rev. D. F. Leach of Latesville, Va., writing to the in the several offices, Jan. 1, was $120,538,534, or about other inter( sti'rg and practical subjects; it is a live paper, and every way- Examiner, says that while in very many individual 3,500 tons of coin. adapted to the wants of the family. There is something in it for every- instances, and'in some communities and churches, there —Paris telegrams are exciting intense interest and body. is great improvement in the moral and religious con- some anxiety. Bankers and merchants having business Every number contains valuable articles about how to preserve health, dition of the Freedmen, these are exceptions •and not relations with France, say, as things stand now, it is and how to treat diseases with simple remedies. Its presence in a family will save many tunnies its cost every year. Each the rule. He says that most of them have no proper impossible to tell what a day may bring forth, and number contains 32 pages of solid reading matter. Send for specimen idea of God and Christ, and that their religion is sim- some of the French financial houses are said to be act- copy ply fetichism, with the names of God and Christ incor- ing with great caution. The Germans predict another PRICE, $1.00 A YEAR. porated. The idea of a change of heart, forgiveness of revolution in Paris within thirty days. There are few sins, or a desire for holiness, has never entered their observing Americans, however, who think things will Address, Goon IINALTII, Battle Creek, Mich., minds. He says that a great many of the colored Bap- take that shape, though they admit that the situation Or, SIGNS OF THE Tones, Oakland, Cal. tists are involved in this gross darkness, and calls for has a sinister aspect. Private dispatches to financial enlightened Christians to pray and labor more for their houses from Berlin and Frankfort say there is also AURAL HEALTH RETREAT. spiritual emancipation. some uneasiness there. —On the Morning of the 22d ult., a band of fifteen CRYSTAL SPR N GS. News and Notes. robbers attacked a train on the Central Pacific Railroad, Tms beautiful resort is well known to hundreds of Californians, who near Montello, Utah. The engineer and fireman were have made it their home during a portion of the year for several years. captured, but the express messenger, armed with a shot —Gustave Dore, the famous French artist, died in It has lately been refitted, and valuable improvements have been made. gun, successfully resisted all their attempts to enter the Paris, Jan. 23. With a full corps Of competent physicians and helpers, nt y resents attrac- express car. Although severely wounded lie held his tions to invalids that are found inn no other Sanitarium in California. The production of beet-root sugar in Europe last position for three hours. The robbers were about to Every variety of bath can be given. It is most beautifully situated .311 year amounted to 1,920,000 tons. drive him out by burning the car, when they were the mountain-side, two and one-half miles from St. Helena. The little —Prince Frederick Charles, brother of Emperor frightened away by the approach of another train. It valley which it overlooks is a gem, and the surrounding mountain scenery William, died in Berlin, Jan. 22. is thought that they were part of an organized band, is such as can only be found in California. Experienced tourists affirm —Differences in the French. Cabinet have led to the who have a strongly fortified place of concealment in that there is no finer place in the State. The water is pure, and the resignation of all but three of the members. the northern part of Utah. climate mild. II. H. CHASE, M. Is., St0Helena, Cal. Last 'year the New York Excise Commissioners Address, granted 9,083 licenses, the fees amounting to $530,990. 1- —The Japanese Government has introduced the b it u 12 . PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING HOUSE, electric light into the government buildings at Yoka- hama. PUBLISHERS " SIGNS OF THE TIME ETC. ATWOOD.—Sarah R. Atwood, died of quick consump- , —During, the past five years, 2,400 divorces have been tion, at St. Helena, January 24, aged 30 years, and 1 granted ,in Maine, a ,ratio of one divorce to ten mar- month. Sister Atwood embraced the "present truth" GENERAL BOOK AND JOB PRINTING, riages. under the labors of Elders Loughborough. and Cornell, In the Best and Latest Styles, and at Satisfactory Rates. —Dr. George M. Beard, of New York, of considerable in 1873, and her aim since then has been to discharge note as a medical writer and electrician, died on the faithfully every Christian duty. Although not phys- BOOK-BINDING, 24th ult. ically strong, she has been in the enjoyment of quite In all its Various Branches, Promptly Executed in the Most Two stage stations in Esmeralda County, Nevada, good health until a few weeks ago, from which time Substantial Manner. were raided by robbers last week, and five men were she has failed rapidly. She seemed to feel that it was murdered. her lot to sleep, and was resigned to trust in the hope STEREOTYPING AND ELECTROTYPING, An insane woman murdered her three children of living again. Her last words were, "My heavenly By the Latest Improved Methods. at Milwaukee, last week, under the delusion that the Father. I die in peace." A large company of friends Bible demanded the sacrifice. assembled at the last sad rite, and I presented to them ENGRAVING. the Christian's hope. W. M. Over 2.300 men are employed in the Vermont HEALEY. In the Finest Styles of the Art. marble quarries and works, and the yield of marble last year was valued at more than $2,000,000. LIVELY.—Died of consumption, in Oakland, Cal., VrOrders for anything in our line, by 'mail or express, --There was an extensive cave-in Jan. 24, in a coal Jan. 14, 183, Sister Anne E. Lively, aged 28 years, will receive prompt attention. mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa. On the surface, cracks are 3 months, and 20 days. Funeral discourse at the Address, PACIFIC PRESS, visible for : acres in either direction. A number of Seventh-C-ay Adventist house of worship, by Eld. M. C. 12th and Castro Streets, Oakland; houses have settled from six inches to two feet. Israel. Or, 529 Commercial Street. San Francisco. 11111

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come,'as it so happens that the International Sunday- rr H E ADVENT REVEW AND SA B- rAjc *4115 of fly filmes. school lessons and the Sabbath-school lessons on the New _ Testament History, by G. H. Be]], will be devoted to the BATH HERALD, FOR 1 8 8 3. OAKLAND, CAL., FIFTH-DAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1883: book of Acts during that period, thereby rendering it desirable that thousands should come into possession of Tms paper entered upon its sixtieth volume with the new year, and the very information contained in the " Life and under auspices the most favorable for a continued career of usefulness. CORRECTION.—Elder Boyd wishes us to state that he Epistles of Paul." The various departments which have given the paper a pc;sition among held only two meetings with the church in East Port- the best in the land in the past will be maintained, with several addi- The great apostle/ to the Gentiles is the most conspic- tions which will still further increase its value and usefulness. The paper land„Or., instead of ten, as was incorrectly stated in uous figure in the book of Acts. Indeed the larger will contain, from week to week, the beet thoughts of the best writers, the SIGNS of Jan. 4. on subjects of thrilling interest and importance. Its publishers, editors, portion of it is devoted to a narration of what he did and and contributors, being profoundly impressed that the paper has a said. Quite full accounts are given of his travels specific field to occupy, and a special message to give to the world, will HERE is a significant item from the an exchange :— through the Roman Empire, and mention is frequently devote to the topics upon which they treat, the stud3 and thought to "The Sunday Protection Association of Milwaukee, made of nearly all the cities where he labored; this which their importance entitles them. The events almost daily trans- piring in the civil and ecclesiastical world are big with momentous im- Wis., have completed their organization and laid out being true, the following brief; and by no means com- portance as bearing upon the interests of the people of God in the their plan of work. Directors have been chosen in plete, statement of the subjects treated of in the book of immediate future. The Review and Herald will undertake not only to three classes of five each, to serve one, two, and three Conybeare and Howson, will give something of an idea faithfully chronicle such events as they occur, but will seek to discover years. The following denominations are represented: their significance in their relation to the present and future, as indicated English and Holland Presbyterians, English Congrega- of the amount of information which it will furnish to in the prophetic Scriptures. In response to the oft-repeated query, tional, English and-German Baptists, English, Scandi- Sabbath-school teachers and• scholars in their earnest " Watchman, what of the night?" it will endeavor to give the trumpet navian, and German Methodists, the Evangelical Asso- efforts to obtain all the knowledge possible concerning no uncertain sound, but will seek to "discern the signs of the times," ciation, and Jews. But seven of the directors speak the thepersons, places, and things mentioned in the book of and discriminate between light and darkness. In short, it,is the purpose English language, and of the thirty-five present at the of the publishers to make it just such a paper as every thoughtful, candid last meeting of the association, twenty-one were Ger- Acts. person will delight to read. To further extend its already large circu- mans, who declare that their nationality as a class are The 'period of Christ's Apostles; The History and Civ- lation they make the following liberal in favor of keeping th. Sabbath [Sunday]. A secretary ilizations of tne Jews; The Preparation of the Roman PREMIUM OFFER is to be employed, who shall devote his entire time to Empire ,for Christianity; . The Description of Tarsus, For $2.50, the Review and Herald for one year, and a copy of the val- the work, and an office is to lie established in a central uable work, " BibliCal Institute." portion of the city, where the committee meetings will Cilicia, and Judea; The Description of the Sects and be held." The subscription price of the paper being two dollars, the inducemen Parties of the Jews; The Family and Childhood of offered the subscriber is a splendid dollar book for 50 cents. Paul; The Student life of Paul; Rabbinical Schools; The " Biblical Institute" is a volume of 325 pages. It contains the Guide to Correct Language.. substance of Eld. Smith's Biblical lectures in Battle Creek College before The Early Manhood of Paul; Paul's Connection with the class of theological students, constituting a brief but complete Gamalie], and Stephen; The Funeral of Stephen; Paul's bird's-eye view of the principal points of faith cherished by S. D. Ad- WE have now a supply of this book on hand, and Persecutions; The Vision of Christ; The Three Days at ventists, and the Scriptural reasons on which they are based. The sub- are ready to fill all. orders. 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