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"Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy Word is truth."—St. John 17: 17.

Vol,. 6. LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1890. No. 17.

" If the world addressed your Majesty But there is a mourning that springs THE PRESENT TRUTH, from this place, the world would not from a source as much higher than these PUBLISHED FORTNIGHTLY. say, Blessed are they that mourn,' but, as the heavens are higher than the earth. —FOR— Blessed is the prince who has never It was all revealed when the apostle Tiadt 0odiety, fought but to conquer; who has filled was inspired to speak of a "godly sor- the universe with his name; who, through row " that "worketh repentance to sal- 48, Paternoster Row, London, E.C. the whole course of a long and flourish- vation ; " that is, a sorrow prompted by ing reign, enjoys in splendour all that God, and that after the mind of God, and REST AFTER LABOUR. men admire—extent of conquest, the that leads the soul which is exercised esteem of enemies, the love of his people, thereby, back to God. To this kind only LOVINGLY, 0, so lovingly, Falls His blessing to-night ; the wisdom of his laws.' But, sire, the could Christ have reference when He Into my soul so tenderly language of the gospel is not the lan- said, " Blessed are they that mourn; Shines the heavenly light. guage of the world." for they shall be comforted." He means Resting my heart, 0, so sweetly, It is a trite enough saying that we moral mourning; that is, mourning on Giving such holy calm, Driving away all the shadows, are in a world of mourning, and no path- account of sin. And this true peni- Taking away alarm. way was ever made through this life that tential sorrow is not prompted merely by Earth, with its uplands and lowlands, had not in it some footsteps of sorrow ; the fear of the consequences of sin, Seems to vanish afar ; but this saying is so common only be- either in this world or the world to come, Vistas of glory and beauty but springs from a deep sense of the Open from Bethlehem's Star. cause the experience is so general. There are, however, different kinds of sorrow, enormity of sin as rebellion against the Angels lift garlands of flowers, God of infinite holiness and love. Scattering their petals sweet, arising from different causes. Paul Down through the azure of joy-land, classifies them into two great divisions In true conversion there must be con- Down to my very feet. when he says : " For godly sorrow work- viction of sin and the revulsion of the Thanks be to God for this blessing, eth repentance to salvation not to be re- whole nature against it as an offence Thanks be to Jesus, His Son, pented of; but the sorrow of the world against God. The Scriptures do not use Thanks for this foretaste of glory, After my work is done. worketh death." 2 Cor. 7:10. Dr. John such figures as "death to sin," and the ELIZA H. MORTON. Thomas, an eminent English prelate of " crucifixion of the old man," the carnal the last century, says : " Disappoint- nature, without meaning. Rom. 6 : 6 ; ments, bereavements, poverty, diseases, 7 : 9-11. The modern patent process of social slander, oppression, moral con- conversion without the convicting power Alactal rtifjo, trition, are some of the sources from of the law laid upon the conscience, and a death to sin,—to pass from the hilarity "Hear; for I will speak of exeellentthings ; and the opening which proceed those manifold streams of of My lips shall be right things." Prov. 8: 6. sorrow which roll their turbulent billows of a life of worldliness right over into the over human souls." hallelujahs of professed faith in Christ, without any change of nature, any sense SORROW THAT BRINGS COMFORT. But not to all these is the com- pensating of the promise of comfort at- of the heinousness of sin, and any com- " BLESSED," says Christ, " are they tached. The Scripture does not say, punctions for past transgressions of God's that mourn ; for they shall be com- " Blessed are they that mourn " over un- law,—is not the gospel method, and will forted." Matt. 5 : 4. gratified selfishness, over disappointed not secure the gospel fruits, a permanent The idea does not end with the words ambition, over wealth struggled for but change of life, and the peace of the in which this proposition is expressed. never obtained, over miscarriage of Christian which passeth understanding. What is here uttered is only the positive worldly schemes and plans, over political This " godly sorrow which worketh re- side of a great truth ; but it carries with reverses, over social slights, over be- pentance to salvation not to be repented it its negative, which is, that none ex- trayed confidences, over exposure of of," the true mourning of which Christ cept those who do mourn, shall be, or wrongs ; " for they shall be comforted." speaks, is " blessed," because it brings can be, really comforted. No ; the promise cannot descend into true and lasting comfort. It is the This at one stroke reverses the judg- such low channels as these. But men probing of the wound by the greab ment of the world. The majority of who are thoroughly for this world, know Physician before He applies the healing mankind are engaged in a feverish chase of no mourning that springs from any balm. It is the clearing of the air of its after happiness ; and they seem to think higher source. If they are bereaved, foul and noxious vapours by the passing that the first essential in the way of they have a sorrow that is without hope; tempest, that the sky may become more securing this desired boon, is to shun and if they mourn from such occasion serene, and the face of nature fairer by sorrow. But our Lord here reveals the as any named above, they have only the purifying process. The mourning is fact that it is only through sorrow that the pangs of remorse, or the goadings of brief ; the comfort is lasting. Much of true happiness can be attained. the evil genius of jealousy and envy, this comfort (and it is the only true and Massillon, the celebrated French murmuring, complaint, and discontent. real comfort which is to be had in this preacher, had the boldness to address And all goes out in darkness at last. world) comes here in this life ; its in- the emperor, Louis XIV., in these words : "The sorrow of the world worketh death." finitude will be reached in the kingdom 258 THE PRESENT TRUTH. Vol,. 6, No. 17. of God. Here it is the comfort of sins that after we are justified through Christ a new commandment I write unto you, pardoned, of peace which the world can- for past offences, we are under no obliga- which thing is true in Him and in you not give nor take away, of the approba- tions to obey God by keeping His law ? [true as magnified by Christ,and exempli- tion of God, and of the hope of im- What is it to transgress, or disobey, God's fied by His followers] : because the dark- mortality through Christ the Lord. law ?—" Whosoever committeth sin trans- ness is past, and the true light now Right here the enemy deceives many gresseth also the law ; for sin is the shineth." Then let all remember that souls. There is a certain kind and de- transgression of the law." 1 John 3: 4. to believe in Christ is to walk in the gree of enjoyment in sin ; there are what Who will dare answer the query of the light that He has brought to us, and may properly be called the pleasures of apostle Paul in Gal. 2 : 17, in the affirm- that " he that saith he abideth in Him, the world ; and the devil would have all ative, and contradict the words of in- ought himself also so to walk, even as men, particularly the young, suppose that spiration ? " But if, while we seek to be He walked." Verse 6. " Light is sown these are the only real pleasures to be had justified by Christ, we ourselves also are for the righteous " (Psa. 97 : 11), but not here, and that if one becomes a Christian, found sinners [transgressors of the law], for those who knowingly and willingly he must then clothe himself in sack- is therefore Christ the minister of sin ? violate the precepts of light—God's holy cloth, and go with his head bowed down —God forbid." That kind of belief law. If we abide in Christ, we shall and his heart filled with gloom and sorrow which presumes on the mercy of God, is bring forth the same kind of fruit that and mourning all his days. Never was a that which will one day cause many, as He brought forth, even as the branch greater perversion palmed off upon men. do the devils, to tremble. The devils that abideth in the vine bringeth forth The pleasures of sin are not true, but believe there is one God, but they do the same fruit as the vine ; but " with- false and deceitful. They are but the not do His will. They are held in re- out Me [says Christ] ye can do nothing." exhilaration that accompanies intoxica- serve "unto the judgment of the great John 15 : 5. A. W. ROTHWELL. tion, to be followed by a terrible reaction day" (Jude 6) • and men and women by and by. " The wages of sin is death." likewise, who refuse to submit to God's But the child of God is not to mourn will, are warned to profit by this example. "AN HOUR WITH GOD." Verse 7. for ever, else where would be the comfort? " MY voice shalt thou hear in the —" they shall be comforted." Through To believe in Christ, therefore, is more morning, 0 Lord ; in the morning will I the gateway of death to sin he enters than to give a mere nominal assent to direct my prayer unto Thee, and will into a nobler life, to peace unfelt before, the fact that He is the Son of God, and look up." Psa. 5 : 3. The Christian into green pastures of delight unknown the Redeemer of the world. Says John should devote some portion of each before ; his tears are turned to showers (chap. 3 :18, 19), " He that believeth on day to prayerful meditation and the of sunshine, and he finds himself trans- Him is not condemned ; but he that be- study of God's Word. How can any one ported from the valley to heights of lieveth not is condemned already.. . meet the temptations and vexations of glorious bliss, to be reached by no other And this is the condemnation, that light life without the strength such prayer pathway. He giyes up nothing but that is come into the world, and men loved and devotion secure ? And is not the which is unreal and transitory and harm- darkness rather than light, because their best time for this immediately after ful, leading on to ruin. He exchanges the deeds were evil." Then to really believe rising in the morning ? It is true that, injurious stimulus of sin for the sober, in Christ is to receive light. " But if we as a rule, people think they have all they rational, and noble enjoyments of life. walk in the light, as 'He is in the light, can attend to in the early morning,— Reader, which shall we choose, the we have fellowship one with another, the men going about their various duties, pleasures of sin for a season, which end and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son and the women attending to their house- in pain and death ? or that comfort which cleanseth us from all sin." 1 John 1: 7. hold cares. But there is no time when springs from godly sorrow, the blessed Precious light, this, in which to walk ! the mind is so free from annoyance, and mourning which attends renunciation of Can we know what this light is in which so rested and fitted to grasp the blessed sin, the fruit of which is holiness, and the we are to walk if we would be cleansed lessons of the Bible as in the early end everlasting life ? " Blessed are they from sin and accepted of God? morning. that mourn for they shall be comforted." Bryant beautifully sings the great In Prov. 6 : 23 we read : "For the com- It is right to give to our kind Heavenly truth of our Lord's words in the following mandment is a lamp ; and the law is Parent our first and best thoughts. It is right to honour Him with the first lines :— light;" but it is only in the life and teaching of the Son of God that we can fruits of our hearts. It is best for us to " ID deem not they are blest alone, Whose lives a peaceful tenor keep, behold and comprehend it in its full seek His blessing before we enter upon For God, who pities man, hath shown strength and power. Said the prophet the duties, and assume the responsibili- A blessing for the eyes that weep. (Isa. 42 : 21) : " He shall magnify the ties of the day. It will be found a source " There is a day of sunny rest law, and make it honourable." 0 the of strength to rise an hour before the For every dark and troubled night, exceeding breadth of the law of God usual time for the family to rise, and take And grief may bide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light. when viewed in the teachings of Christ ! the Bible and carefully read it by course, " Whosoever is angry with his brother one, two, or three chapters, according to "For God has marked each sorrowing day, And numbered every secret tear, without a cause, shall be in danger of the the amount of study required to under- And heaven's long age of bliss shall pay judgment." Matt. 5 : 22. Viewed in stand what is read. This invites the For all His children suffer here." any other light than this, the command- Lord near. It brings , one into sweet TT. S. ment, "Thou shalt not kill," would never communion with Him. The light of have meant more to us than a restriction truth from His Word shines into the BELIEVING IN CHRIST. on the mere outward act of murder,— heart, and often is found a promise, MANY, in order to shun the duty that the letter of the law. Again, " Whoso- a reproof, an exhortation—just what is is laid at their door to obey all of God's ever looketh on a woman to lust after needed for the day. It is well to have a commandments, appeal to the New her hath committed adultery with her pen at hand, and make such notes as Testament, where it is said, "Whosoever already in his heart." Verse 28. Re- may seem profitable. After thus read- believeth in Him [Christ] should not garded in this light, the commandments ing the Word, bow in grateful prayer, perish, but have everlasting life." John of God seem new to us ; but the be- and thank God for the blessing of sleep 3 : 16. Simply, "Believe, and you will loved disciple writes (1 John 2 : 7, 8) : and rest, and for His love, and seek grace be all right," I have heard poured into " Brethren, I write no new command- and strength for the day. Then one is the ears of those who were burdened ment unto you, but an old commandment ready to arouse the household, and to- with sin and seeking for pardon. which ye had from the beginning. :the gether, before entering upon the cares of This may well lead to the query, What old commandment is the word which ye the day, have the regular family worship. is it to believe in Christ ? Does it mean have heard from the beginning. Again, This course, if carefully followed, will AUGUST 14, 1890. THE PRESENT TRUTH. 259 be an inestimable blessing. It will re- could just as well have brightness, and draw from what is revealed, or the judg- quire an effort and resolution to do this. the blessing of the Sun of Righteousness ments of their own minds independent Often one is weary and desires more arising in their hearts with healing in of revelation. sleep and rest; but the favour and help His beams. MRS. E. G. WHITE. Unity of faith is possible to all those of God is more than all else to the Chris- who will believe that which is clearly revealed. According to the testimony tian. We are nearing the judgment, THE SECRET OF A HAPPY DAY. and trials are thickening around us. We of the Scriptures, the Church is coming need to be closely allied to Heaven. "The secret of the Lopsais27itihi.them that fear Him." to unity of faith. But opinions are pri- God will be found of those who diligently JUST to let thy Father do vate property ; and unity of opinions is seek Him. " An hour with God " i.9 the What He will ; not to be expected, and should not be Just to know that He is true, contended for. happiest hour of the day. Try it, breth- And be still. ren and sisters, and see if you will not Just to follow hour by hour The cause of divisions in the Church gain some rich experiences which would As He leadeth ; is the exaltation of opinions to the place Just to draw the moment's power and dignity of faith. Different indi- be an encouragement to you. As it needeth. J. M. HOPKINS. Just to trust Him, that is all I viduals have different opinions ; and Then the day will surely be from the natural pride of the human Peaceful, whatsoe'er befall, heart, each exalts his opinion, calls it Bright and blessed, calm and free. NATURE'S MINISTRY. faith, and feels sure that in order to — Just to let Him speak to thee unity of faith, all must receive his THE beauties of nature have a tongue Through His Word, Watching, that His voice may be opinion. This is the cause of division that speaks to our senses without ceas- Clearly heard. and discord. ing. The open heart can be impressed Just to tell Him everything When preachers and people preach with the love and glory of God as seen As it rises, And at once to Him to bring andpractice what the Scriptures teach in the works of His hand. The listen- All surprises. in clear and explicit terms, and let ing ear can hear and understand the Just to listen, and to stay opinions rest in private seclusion, m here communications of God through the Where you cannot miss His voice, This is all I and thus to-day they belong, unity of faith will be the works of nature. There is a lesson in Communing you shall rejoice. result. There is enough of truth which the sunbeam, and in the various objects all may find clearly revealed, to occupy Just to ask Him what to do in nature that God has presented to our All the day, the time of the preacher, leaving doubt- view. The green fields, the lofty trees, And to make you quick and true ful questions out of the account ; and the buds and flowers, the passing cloud, To obey. the salvation of a greater number will be Just to know the needed grace the falling rain, the babbling brook, the Hebestoweth, the result. Let all preach what they sun, moon , and stars in the heavens, all Every bar of time and place know from direct revelation, and let alone invite our attention and meditation, and Overfloweth. what they don't know, and it will be well Just to take thy orders straight bid us become acquainted with God, From the Master's own command. for both preachers and hearers. who made them all. The lessons to be Blessed day I when thus we wait R. F. COTTRELL. learned from the various objects of the Always at our Sovereign's hand. —.i....e....b— natural world are these : They are obedi- Just to recollect His love, A SHORT TALK WITH A BAPTIST. ent to the will of their Creator; they Always true; never deny God, never refuse obedience Always shining from above, Always w. LOOKING over the Baptist C,hurch to any intimation of His will. Fallen Just to recognize light Manual which contains their " Declara- beings alone refuse to yield full obedi- All-enfolding; tion of Faith," I find something that has ence to their Maker. Their words and Just to claim its present might, All-upholding. a semblance of inconsistency in it, and works are at variance with God and Just to know it as thine own, perhaps may be of interest to the Bap- opposed to the principles of His govern- That no power can take away. tists, at least in the way of suggesting ment. Is not this enough alone For the gladness of the day ? the necessity of a revision of the ground- It is a sad thing to be discontented work of their faith, if they have not Just to trust, and yet to ask with our surroundings, or with the cir- already felt such need. cumstances which have placed us where Guidance still ; Take the training or the task, Under Article XII. of the above-named our duties seem humble and unimport- As He will, work, I find the following :— ant. " Blessed are the meek ; for they Just to take the loss and gain, shall inherit the earth." The spirit of As He sends it; " We believe that the law of God is Just to take the joy or pain, the eternal and unchangeable rule of meekness is not a spirit of discontent, As He lends it. but it is directly the opposite. Those He who formed thee for His praise, His moral government." Will not miss the gracious aim ; Under Article XV. I find this declara- professed Christians who are constantly So to-day and all thy days whining and complaining, and who seem Shall be moulded for the same. tion :— " We believe that the first day of the to think happiness and a cheerful Just to leave in his dear hand countenance a sin, have not the genuine Little things, week is the Lord's day, or Christian article of religion. Those who look All we cannot understand, Sabbath." All that stings. Now I wish to ask my Baptist brother, upon nature's beautiful scenery as they Just to let Him take the care would upon a dead picture, who choose Sorely pressing, how he can believe both of these articles to look upon dead leaves rather than to Finding all we let Him bear at the same time. Perhaps if I should Changed to blessing. question him a little, we might ascertain gather the beautiful living flowers, who This is all I and yet the way take a mournful pleasure in all that is Marked by Him who loves thee best ; whether or not such a thing is possible. melancholy in the language spoken to Secret of a happy day, Ques.—First, then, you say you believe Secret of His promised rest. the first day of the week is the Lord's them by the natural world, who see no —F. B. Havergal. beauty in valleys clothed with living day, or the Christian Sabbath, do you - green, and grand mountain heights not ? FAITH AND OPINIONS. clothed with verdure, who close their Ans.—Yes, sir. senses to the joyful voice which speaks FAITH is founded on evidence. That Ques.—Do you believe the first day of to them in nature, and which is sweet which has no declaration of Scripture to the week, the Lord's day, or the Christian and musical to the listening ear,—these support it, is not Bible faith. This faith Sabbath, is the seventh day ? are not in Christ. They are not walking is simply belief of what the Scriptures Ans.—No, sir ; certainly not. in the light, but are gathering to them- affirm and teach. Ques.—Then you must believe that selves darkness and gloom, when they Opinions are the inferences which men the law of God has either been changed 260 THE PRESENT TRUTH. Vol,. 6, No. 17. or abolished, do you not ; for that says ing out of heaven from God, having the " No." the seventh day is the Sabbath ? glory of God : and her light was like unto " Within a year ? " Ans.—Yes, sir ; I presume one or the a stone most precious, even like a jasper " No." other must be true. stone, clear as crystal "--when we shall "When, then ? " Ques.—Well, which do you believe is serve God, and see Him not as through " Never." true ? a glass, not with our finite eyes that are " ' Never' ? And what provision hast Ans.—I believe that it has been so often dimmed with tears, not with thou made concerning thy entertainment changed. our heads aching with the cares of this in the place whither thou goest ? " Ques.—Very well, then, I want to ask life, but, bless God 1 we shall see Him " None at all." you how you can believe the twelfth face to face.--Christian at Work. " What 1" said the fool ; " none at all ? article of your faith, which says, " We Then take my staff. Art thou going believe that the law of God is the . . . away for ever, and yet have made no unchangeable rule of his moral govern- THE VALUE OF WATER. preparation for the journey? I am not ment " ? How can that which is un- ONE of the most impressive sights a guilty of such a- folly as that." changeable be changed ? traveller can witness is that obtained Ans.—Well, I guess I shall have to from the summit of the great Pyramid THE WRATH OF GOD. take that back, and say that it has been of Gizeh, near Cairo, in Egypt. On the abolished. JESUS taught us that the wrath in one hand is a plain of marvellous fertility, God is the unchangeable perfection of Ques.—So you think it has been abol- reaching from the Nile almost to the foot ished. Then I want to know again how holiness ; and that holiness is love to the of the Pyramids. There the graceful holy and wrath to the guilty. The same you can believe that twelfth article of palm-tree waves its head, and there even faith, which says, " We believe that the fire that warms and cheers, that refines in the winter as I saw it in the middle and purifies, also burns and blasts, tor- law of God is the eternal . . . rule of of February, the succulent clover glows His moral government." How can that tures and consumes ; it all depends on in the warm, bright sunshine, while the our relation to the fire, whether it be which is eternal be abolished ? wheat in its luxuriant greenness seems Ans.—Well, I hardly know about that our friend or our foe. We ourselves, by eager to shoot into ear. What a picture our sin, create the impulsion, with which twelfth article.. of satisfaction the camels and donkeys That is just it, my brother. To be we often find fault in God. and oxen present as they wait to be In Retsch's illustrations of Goethe's consistent you will have to do one of two loaded, while revelling in the rich pro- things. If you wish to keep the first Faust, there is one plate where angels vision afforded by this green food ! are seen dropping roses down upon the day of the week, you will have to give On the other hand is a picture of up that twelfth article, and avow that demons who are contending for the soul desolation itself. As far as the eye can of Faust. But every rose falls like the eternal and unchangeable God has reach there is nothing but sand. Not a an ephemeral and changeable law, which molten metal, burning and blistering shrub or tree or blade of grass is to be wherever it touches. God rains roses itself is not very consistent; or else give seen. And the Arab who stood by my up that fifteenth article, quit keeping down, but our sinful hearts, meeting side on that unique elevation informed Divine love with hate, and grace with Sunday, and observe God's holy Sabbath, me that in one direction there was the seventh day of the week. To hold stubborn, wilful disobedience, turn love nothing else to be met with for a three into wrath ; and what dropped from His on to both is an impossibility. Which months' journey. Who can imagine the will you do ? W. A. COLCORD. hand a flower, beautiful and fragrant, dreariness of such a terrible Sahara ? becomes, when it touches the ungrateful • • -• • What makes the difference between and unloving soul, a live coal.—Dr. these two tracts of country? The answer Pierson. JASPER. is contained in one word—Water ! How AMONG the precious stones often re- strikingly is Ezekiel 47 : 9 illustrated THE BLESSED HOPE. here : " Everything shall live where the ferred to in the Bible we find the jasper, FOR a Christian one great memory a stone clear as crystal, or rather of a river cometh." In nature there is no fer- tility without water, and in grace there fills the past—Christ has come ; and one crystal hue. It was the last of the twelve great hope brightens the else waste is no growth without the water of life inserted in the breastplate of the high future—Christ shall come. That hope (Rev. 22: 1, 2). How fervently should priest, and the first of the twelve used in has been far too much left to be cherished believers pray the foundations of the New Jerusalem. only by those who hold a particular It is also mentioned among the stones Dear Fountain of delight unknown No longer sink beneath the brim ; opinion as to the chronology of unfulfilled that adorned the king of Tyre. John But overflow, and pour me down prophecy. But it should be to every says that " one sat on the throne ; and A living, and life-giving stream I—Cowper. Christian heart "the blessed hope," even He that sat was to look upon like a —Gamin Kirkham. the appearing of the glory of Him who jasper and a sardine stone." has come in the past. He is with and It is spoken of as a stone most precious, WHICH WAS THE FOOL? in us, in the present. He will come in and as we infer of a brilliant and trans- the future " in His glory, and shall sit parent light. It is said that the stone THERE was once a certain lord who, upon the throne of His glory."—Dr. that we call jasper is not the same, as as many a great man did in the old Alexander Maclaren. that is an " opaque species of quartz, of days, kept a fool in his house to amuse a red, yellow, green or mixed brownish- by jests and antics. His master gave THEORY AND PRACTICE. yellow hue, sometimes striped and some- this fool a staff, and charged him to keep times spotted, in no respect presenting it till he should meet with some one who IN theory, piety is reverence and love the characteristics of the crystal. The was a greater fool than himself, and if for God, and in practice it is the exercise only feature that at all accords with the he met with such a one to deliver it over of all our powers in obedience to the scriptural account is that it admits of a to him. Not many years after this, his Divine will. Combining the theory and high polish." A writer thinks that the lord was on his death-bed. His fool came practice, we have the richest treasure diamond would more adequately answer to see him, and was told by the dying known on earth, and love for God is to the description in the Book of Revela- master that he must shortly leave him. shown in perfect obedience to God. tion, and that the term rendered " dia- " And whither dost thou propose to This is the pearl of great price, the value mond " in Ex. 28 : 18 refers to the em- go ? " said the fool. of which cannot be computed by any erald. " Into another world," replied the lord. human arithmetic. All it does for its How glorious it will be to see " that " And wilt thou come back again possessor and for the world can never be great city, the holy Jerusalem, descend- within a month ? " expressed in this life.—Rev. D. W. Gates. AUGUST 14, 1890. THE PRESENT TRUTH. 261

brave an air ? Be sure he is a lunatic. Italian vase. Meanwhile he grew poorer fontAt+ God help his poor family ! " and poorer. His wife and children, poor I But day after day the man went to things ! scarcely got enough food to keep "Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, and fro, and heeded not his neighbours' body and soul together. whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, what- frowns and sneers, or their shrinking One morning when Palissy's hope was soever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these from him as he passed by. high that he would soon be able to per- things."—Phil. 4 : 8. His name was Bernard Palissy, and fect the enamel, a workman whom he his whole soul was wrapped up in one had hired for a pittance to help him, PALISSY, THE PROTESTANT POTTER. object, to which he sacrificed everything. declared that he would not stay another If you had entered the poor cottage, day unless the money that was due him IN the quaint old French village of you would have indeed discovered just was paid. Palissy gave him his last suit Saintes there lived, more than three such a furnace as the villager described; of clothes ; but the man was not satisfied, hundred years ago, a very strange, eccen- and scattered about the room you would and soon went away. Left thus alone, tric man. have seen a number of pots, pieces of Palissy worked with more desperate So mysterious were his ways that his clay, and various bottles and crucibles. energy than ever. But now the wood neighbours, who were simple, ignorant It was, true, too, that the furnace was which he used for the fuel of his furnace country folk, avoided and feared him. always roaring with a big fire, which gave out, and he had no money to buy As he passed through the winding village was kept constantly at a red heat. any more. All his labour seemed about street he was dressed so shabbily that But Palissy was not a sorcerer, and to become in vain, for if the fire of the he looked like a beggar. People who was not concocting any magic draught, furnace went down, the enamel could saw him for the first time half expected or trying to turn the baser metals into not be made. him to stop, put on a pleading face, and gold. He was engaged in a work which Stung almost into despair, Palissy humbly ask for " one little sou." he knew, if he succeeded in it, would was struck by a sudden idea. He rushed Yet, threadbare as he was, his air was give him fame and wealth to his heart's into his little garden, tore down the not at all that of a beggar. He hurried content. trellises which supported his few fruit along with a brisk step. His large brown Palissy, though of humble birth, had trees and grape-vines, and hurled them eyes glistened brightly, and there was picked up here and there a good deal of on the fading fire. Yet, alas ! the com- almost always an eager smile upon his knowledge of chemistry and the qualities position he had made and put into the lips. He did not seem to be in the least of minerals and ores. furnace would not melt. The fire once conscious of his tatters ; and if he nodded He had, too, a very ardent love of all more waned. Palissy then seized the to his neighbours, and they turned their beautiful objects. He had begun life as chairs and tables, frantically broke them backs on him in reply, he went on smiling a surveyor, and had then learned to paint up, and cast them upon the flames. He just as before. on glass. But though his work was tore the door from its hinges, the window This peculiar man dwelt in an old cot- good, he did not succeed very well ; for frames from their sockets, and piled instead of attending to his business, he them on the fire. Then seeing that the tage a little out of the more thickly enamel did not yet melt, in his despera- settled part of the village. He had a was studying and dreaming his time pale, thin, sad-looking wife, and three or away. tion he pulled up the very boards which But an event happened one day that formed the floor of the room, and added four children, who looked as if they were gave him a new purpose in life, and these to the roaring conflagration. As far from being well fed. What was stranger, still, he never liked to have changed the whole current of his exist- now he looked into the blazing fire he of a sudden gave a wild shout of joy : anyone enter his tumble-down cottage. ence. While wandering about a neigh- bouring town he chanced to spy in a shop " Come hither, good wife ; come hither, It was clear to the village folk that he window a very beautiful decorated cup. my children " had some dark secret which he was very The fine polish and brilliant colours of They hurried in, not knowing what to anxious to keep from all the world, and that he was afraid that if anyone entered the cup at once attracted his artistic eye ; make of the frantic cry. As they entered and though he was poor, he managed to the room where the furnace was, they his door it would be discovered. scrape together enough money to buy it. saw Palissy, his face flushed with the Those were very ignorant, superstitious This cup, which had been made in heat and his eye glistening with triumph, times, and when there was a mystery Italy, absorbed his attention. He studied standing by the furnace. He held up about anyone, it was always attributed its every line and feature, and kept won- the vase which he had just taken from to some wickedness or some unholy art. dering and wondering and wondering it. It glittered with its dazzling polish As this man passed a group of villagers, how it received and could keep such a and its beautiful colours ; at last he had they would look at him frowningly, and beautiful, smooth, glossy polish. No indeed discovered the secret of enamel- would fall to whispering to one another. such cup could ever have been made in ling. The time of triumph and fortune " He is a sorcerer," one would mutter, France. had come. " and makes witches' philters, and casts What if he could find the way to make In the latter days of his life Palissy the evil one's spells over people." beautiful ware like this ! Surely then suffered for his religion. He had always " No," another one would say under his fortune would be made, and his poor been a very firm Protestant, or, as the his breath, " he is a coiner of false money. wife would wear Lyons silks, and his French Protestants then were called, a Look you : he has built a big furnace in haggard little children would dine each " Huguenot." When he was an old man the back of his house, and he keeps it day on ragouts and the best of fruits. the Huguenots were bitterly persecuted. ever a-roaring. You can see the smoke Palissy abandoned everything to gain Palissy escaped death for his faith's and sparks shooting up any time o'day. this object which he now set before him- sake, but when he was seventy years old There he has his crucibles and chemical self. No more surveying or glass paint- he was put into the Bastile because he things, and he carries his false livres ing for him. He would discover for him- would not desert Protestantism and be- away to the towns, and exchanges them self the art of enamelling, or die in the come a Catholic. for good, honest ware." attempt. The king, Henry III., visited the Then perhaps a third, more kind- So in the rear of his cottage he built aged martyr in his prison cell. He told hearted than the others, would reprove with his own hands the big, rude furnace, Palissy he was sorry, but said to him, his comrades, and slowly shaking his bought the chemicals which he thought " My good man, if you cannot become a head, would add : " No, the poor wretch necessary for his work, collected a supply Catholic, I shall be compelled to leave is mad—clean gone mad. How else of the right kind of clay, and resolutely you here in the Bastile." could the man, who is so poor, in rags, set about his task. For a long time he "Sire," was the old potter's brave with wife and children always a-starving, failed in every attempt to produce a reply, " I was willing to, give up my life, go about with such bright eyes and so bright enamel, such as he found on the but I am surprised to hear the great 262 THE PRESENT TRUTH. VoL. 6, No. 17. king of France say, I am compelled." are Christians, but example goes much This is a condition, sire, to which I can farther. An instance of human influence never be reduced, because I am prepared caitit anti );ntitAtttaqt+ is seen in the fashions of the day. How for death, because your whole people many there are that follow the few who "Whether therefore ye eat,o orr 10 nk,n. or whatsoever ye do, do have not the power to compel a simple all to the glory of God." 1 c lead ! How many are led to do what potter to bend his knee before images their own judgment condemns ! In this which he has made." •CHINA'S CREATEST CURSE. way thousands are led to smoke. They Palissy died at last, when he was smoke because their neighbour does. JEALOUS of the bordering stranger almost eighty years old, in the prison in China built her guardian wall ; It does not hurt him, it will not hurt which he had cheerfully dwelt, on account Fearful, too, of distant danger them. Thus they reason ; the habit is of his faith, for nearly ten years.—Geo. Closed her gates to one and all ; formed ; and the individual character But at length the sly invader, Towle, in Harper's Young People. Knocking with an ominous din, is ruined. It is the same in the matter In the guise of honest trader of liquor drinking. Men dislike to refuse Claimed the right to enter in. a social glass, offered with such apparent DEPRESSING. China answered " No admission 1 " kindness and heartiness. They drink, IN some households the wind is al- Britain spoke with cannon roar ; and stumble, and fall. Scorned to stand upon condition, ways " in the east," and no one quite Hurled her bolts and forced the door. 2. It is a Christian's duty to give no knows the reason. The causes, patiently Entered with the drug Satanic offence, or in other words, to put no traced, usually centre in some one mem- Charged with foul and deadly fumes ! stumbling-block in another's way. Paul Tarnished lies the shield Britannic ber. He may not have what is usually Stonelike now on countless tombs. expresses this thus : " It is good neither meant by a " bad temper," and may go to eat flesh nor to drink wine, nor any- on, day after day, giving others little Manhood's prime falls opium-smitten, Dried and shrivelled in the smoke ; thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, cause for active complaint against him. Souls are snared and serpent-bitten, or is offended, or is made weak." Rom. And yet his personal atmosphere is so Blighted as by lightning stroke. 14: 21. Christ says: "Whoso shall cause depressing that the constitutionallysober Widowed hearts by torture broken, Robbed and desolate and lone, one of these little ones which believe on are made melancholy by his presence, Charge us with their woes unspoken Me to stumble, it is profitable for him and the light-hearted find themselves Chide us in their stifled groan. that a great millstone should be hanged deep in the blues. " I don't see why While no hope of Heaven's bright morrow about his neck, and that he should be everybody complains of my manner," once Hallows yonder tear-drenched sod; sunk into the depth of the sea." Matt. said a most estimable gentleman ; " I'm While yon wail of helpless sorrow 18 : 6, Revised Version. Struggles to the ear of God ; sure I don't easily lose my temper, and While an unoflending nation These are principles for Christians to I never say disagreeable things." " Ah By our own is " drawn to death," follow ; and yet how many there are who but you always look as if you were think- Shall we quench our indignation ? Must we meekly hold our breath? profess Christ's name who regard them ing them, and that's worse," answered a not. How many ministers, elders, dea- candid friend. Repressed criticism is, What though wrong should fill our coffers While it fills our cup of sin ? cons, and other more or less prominent indeed, sometimes harder to bear than Where the cause of justice suffers Christians, use tobacco with seemingly a frankly-uttered complaint.—Sel. Boots it that the strong should win ? no thought of its influence on others. When the Judge of all creation, Rising, shall avenge the right, The mother says, " My son, I wish you TRAVELLING STONES. Who shall proffer vindication would not drink wine and smoke cigars." For abuse of England's might ? And the reply comes back : " Why, STONES similar to the famous travel- By a Briton's love of freedom, mother, Elder A drinks wine ; for I ling stones of Australia, have recently By his scorn of alien thrall ; have seen him drink. And Deacon B been found in Nevada. They range By the impulses which lead him To the help of those who fall : smokes, and Deacon C chews. And old from the size of a pea up to six or seven By our Christian name and prestige, Auntie B takes snuff. If it is not inches in diameter, and when placed By the love of God, we say wrong for them, it is not for me." A within a few feet of each other, upon a Let the death-drug's every vestige From our realms be swept away. hard argument for the mother to meet. flat surface, they will at once begin —W. Maxwell, in the Christian. She must say that these, church officers travelling towards a common centre, are wrong, or admit the point made by where they will huddle together. They the boy. Oh, how many times the boy's are always to be found in heaps at the FOR THY BROTHER'S GOOD. argument is admitted ! He becomes a bottom of natural basins in that section. WE gave one reason last fortnight why young smoker, seeks boon companions, Scientists say that their attraction is a a Christian should abstain from the use goes down and down, and fills a drunk- magnetic one, the material of which they of alcohol and tobacco, namely, for his ard's grave. What was the trouble ? are composed being a kind of loadstone. own personal good, physically, tempo- Where was the fault? In defective rally, mentally, and morally. We wish home teaching, doubtless, to some ex- WITH regard to the liquor traffic to present another reason. The reason tent, but not all. The elder's glass of among the natives in the Western Sou- already considered is purely a selfish one. wine had its strong influence on the im- dan, the Niger Company has taken ad- It appeals solely to self and selfish inter- pressible, social buy. The deacon's cigar vantage of the international agreement ests. Our second reason for abstinence justified the boy's cigar, and stultified arrived at in Brussels, and has made a is a more forcible one, because it is un- his conscience. The father's pipe ruined regulation absolutely prohibiting the selfish. It is— the son. The mother's lax notions have importation of spirituous liquors, for A Christian ought to abstain from proved the open door to intemperance. sale or barter, into any place within the alcohol and tobacco for his brother's The weak brother in the church is jurisdiction of the company north of the sake. affected in the same way. We once seventh parallel of north latitude—that 1. Every man has his influence. knew a reformed drunkard's appetite to is to say, into about nineteen-twentieths Every man is moulded more or less by return with almost uncontrollable fury of the regions over which they had influences. The little girl sees in her on taking a glass of sweet (?) cider, control. loved mother her ideal. The mother offered by a most excellent man, a min- may teach the little one by wholesome ister. But grace prevented what might EVERY attempt to make others happy, precept, but her example is much more. have been a final fall. Many things are every sin left behind, every temptation The father may instruct 'by words his lawful to Christians, but not expedient. trampled under foot, every step forward little boy, but his example cries more Millions fall through the expediencies in the cause of what is good, is a step loudly than words. Christians may pro- of others. Fellow-Christian, what is nearer to heaven.—Dean Stanley. fess before their neighbours that they your influence ? Who is taking the AUGUST 14, 1890. THE PRESENT TRUTH. 263

downward step on your account? If OUTRAGED NATURE. THE GOVERNMENT INQUIRY ON you cannot quit for your own sake, do TUBERCULOSIS. it for the sake of your weak brother, I WILL tell you what is ten times, and WE cannot hear that any satisfactory who is striving for the better part. ten thousand times more terrible than progress has been made in starting the Take out the stumblingblocks in the war— Outraged Nature. She kills, and investigation which Mr. Chaplin prom- way. You will profit as well as he. kills, and is never tired of killing, till M. C. W. she has taught man the terrible lesson ised some time ago should be undertaken he is so slow to learn, that nature is only into the very grave question of the WHAT I LOST BY SIGNING. conquered by obeying her prevalence of tuberculosis in cattle and --- Man has his courtesies of war ; he spares mulch cows used for human food. The I HAVE been thinking about the losses the woman and the child. But nature frequency with which tuberculous cattle I have met with since I signed the total is fierce when she is offended, as she is have been seized in market, the cer- abstinence pledge. There isn't a man bounteous and kind when she is obeyed. tainty that a much larger amount is who has lost more by stopping drink than She spares neither woman nor child. sold and enters into our daily food, the I have. Wait a bit, and I will tell you She has no pity; for some awful but grave consequences which are believed what I mean. There was a job of work most good reason, she is not allowed to to follow the drinking of uncooked milk to be done in the shop and the boss called have any pity. Silently she strikes the from tuberculous milch cows invest this fur me. " Give it to Spencer," said he : sleeping child with as little remorse as promise of the Minister of Agriculture " he's the best man in the shop." she would strike the strong man—with with serious importance. We believe Well, I told my wife, and she said : the musket or the pickaxe in his hand. that some conference took place between " Why, John ! he used to call you the Ah I would to God that some man had Mr. Chaplin and the President of the worst. You've lost your bad name, the pictorial eloquence to put before the Local Government Board as to the haven't you ? " mothers of England the mass of prevent- carrying out of the order and methods "That's a fact, wife," said I. "And it able suffering, the mass of preventable of inquiry, but the matter seems thus isn't all I've lost in the last sixteen agony of body and mind which exists in far to have stopped there. It is very de- months. I had poverty and wretched- England year after year.—Kingsley. sirable that it should not be indefinitely ness, and I've lost them. I had an old hung up.—British Medical Journal. - ragged coat, and a shocking bad hat, and CONSUMPTION OF ETHER IN IRELAND. some waterproof boots that let the wet "LAND DELUGED WITH RUM AND GIN." out at the toes as fast as they took it in THE Government propose to appoint a at the heels. I've lost them. I had a Select Committee to inquire into the A REMARKABLE document has reached red face, a trembling hand, and a pair of adulteration of British and foreign spirits, the Native Races and Liquor Traffic shaky legs that gave me an awkward and to report as to how far it would be Committee, of which the Duke of West- tumble now and then. I've lost those. possible to apply the Merchandise Marks minster is president, from the Abbeokuta I had a habit of cursing and swearing, Act and the Sale of Food and Drugs Act Young Men's Christian Association. and I've got rid of that. I had an aching to the concoctions that pass for spirits. They depict in vivid colours the evils head sometimes, and a heavy heart, and, Mr. T. W. Russell proposes to add a done by European fire-water. " The worse than all the rest, a guilty con- rider to the Government motion, that whole land," they say, "is almost deluged science. Thank God, I've lost them all I " it be an instruction to the Committee to with rum and gin ; our people are ac- Then I told my wife what she had lost : inquire into the sale and consumption tually dying ; they drink too freely and "And you had trouble and sorrow, and a of ether as an intoxicant in certain parts indiscriminately ; there is no more order; poor, wretched home, and plenty of heart- of Ireland. The consumption of this anarchy rules supreme; kings and rulers aches, for you had a miserable drunkard drug has—says the London Correspond- abuse their offices; subjects are disloyal; for a husband. Mary, thank the Lord ent of the Manchester Examiner— parents and children no more recognize for all that you and I have lost since I reached alarming proportions in the their relative duties to each other ; and signed the pledge."—The Agitator. counties of Derry and Tyrone. On mar- what mostly to be deplored is, infants - -- - ket days the streets of some of the towns are nursed with this poisonous drink." - - FROM TWELVE TO TWENTY-ONE. and villages smell of ether, and as it is more destructive than ordinary alcohol, AT the recent Conference of the THERE is no period of life more im- the Chancellor of the Exchequer has ex- American Methodist Episcopal Church portant, from an hygienic point of view, pressed his willingness to accept the rider. it was decided that the degree of offence than the age between twelve and twenty- - _ - - committed by a member who encourages one, for as Dr. Hector George points out, SEE the results of this traffic in its the liquor traffic by renting property for it is between these years that the skele- true colours, placed so full and fair before saloons, or signing petitions for licenses,: ton and brain take their definite form. you that the very youngest cannot err should be changed from " imprudence, It is then that an abundance of general in their decision. A liquor-seller had a as heretofore, to " immorality."i exercise will facilitate development; it tavern undergoing repairs. One day a OF the fifty thousand drunkards who is during this period that deformities boy came running to his mother, cry- die every year in the United States, a are so easily contracted ; stooping, for ing out, " Mother, Mother ! " " What is largeproportion—a Mrs. Emma P. Ewing instance, from leaning over work, or it my boy ? " " Mr. Poole's tavern is fin- declares—have the appetite for intoxi- writing at a too low desk, crooked ished, mother." " How do you know, my cants aggravated, if not implanted, by shoulders or hips from carrying weights dear ? " inquired the mother. " Why, I the food which constitutes their daily always on one side, or from allowing saw a man come out drunk ! " That diet. pupils to sit crookedly at their work. is the legitimate fruit of the dram But now,'happily, there is open to every- shop.—Gough. BLACK ink-spots may be removed body that splendid antidote to deformity from white goods by dipping the soiled —gymnastics. It is the same thing with PRINCE BISMARCK, it is said, has given part in melted tallow, letting the cloth the brain, everything in a man's life de- up cigar smoking altogether. " An in- lie for awhile, and then washing in the pends on the impressions he receives in veterate smoker such as I used to be," ordinary way. his youth •' his surroundings must be he recently remarked, "probably gets A FAMILY in Clapton suffered from refined and clever if it is wished that his through a hundred thousand cigars in his poisoning after eating winkles, the father mind may also become so. In the words life, if he reaches a fair average age. But dying. of Dr. George, what is wanted is "An he would live longer, and feel better all upright mind in an upright body."— his time, if he should do without them." DR. RICHARDSON says alcohol causes Hospital. 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THE merits. The life of Christ is the grandest when he asked what he should do to have PRESENT TRUTH. illustration of perfect obedience that this eternal life, is just as forcible and true

"And be Established in the Present Tenth."—Bible. world has ever seen. He kept His to-day as it was when, eighteen centuries Father's commandments (John 15 : 10). ago, He declared, " If thou wilt enter LONDON, AUGUST 14, 1890. He came to do His Father's will, and into life, keep the commandments." The was obedient unto death, even the death men of the mightiest faith, were men who OBEDIENCE. of the cross. His followers are coin- had learned to obey the commands of manded to walk even as He walked (1 God. They walked by faith, but their No sacrifice that man can make, nor John 2 : 6). " He that saith he abideth faith led them to do what God required. works of supererogation he may try to in Him, ought himself also so to walk, What they did through Christ strengthen- do, can ever take the place of humble even as He walked ; " and it is only by ing them, we can do in the same manner, and cheerful obedience to the Divine walking with Him that we can walk as but our ears must be quick to hear the commands. Man was endowed by his He did. Divine voice, and our hearts as quick to Creator with a moral nature, with a con- We must possess an obedient spirit to obey. The grandest possibilities are be- science which was ready to commend the be acceptable to God. Our prayers and fore us if we will .but lay hold of the right and condemn the wrong, and pos- our sacrifices will not take the place of Almighty Arm of our Strength, and cheer- sessing reasoning faculties and a mind such a spirit ; for the Lord hath not " as fully, willingly, trustingly, do His will, capable of appreciating in some measure great delight in burnt offerings and sacri- and walk in His counsel. We shall thus the love of God he was thus placed under fives as in obeying the voice of the Lord." realize of His salvation here, and finally the highest obligations to love, honour, " Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, shall dwell in His presence for ever in the and obey Him, whose creature he was. and to hearken than the fat of rams." kingdom of God. D. A. E. In turning from the path of moral recti- 1 Sam. 15 : 22. The prophet then gives tude, man not only lost his life through us a view of how God looks upon a dis- THE SPIRIT AS A GUIDE. his disobedience, but he also lost his obedient spirit : " For rebellion is as the power to obey God. This fact would be sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as WHEN Christ told His disciples that sad in the extreme were it not that the iniquity and idolatry." Through disobe- He was about to go away, and that they second Adam, our Lord Jesus Christ, dience man lost access to the tree of life could not follow Him, their hearts were who redeemed man from death by the (Gen. 3 : 22-24), and to those who obey filled with sorrow and anxiety. They merits of His own death, also secured God, that privilege will again be granted dreaded to face an unfriendly world alone. to man the strength which he lost through (Rev. 22 : 14). We have seen that we He had been their guide and instructor, the fall ; yea more, for He strengthens can render obedience only through our and they had learned much from His " him with all might according to His Lord Jesus Christ. Taking a view of the teachings. They knew of no one who glorious power " (Col. 1 : 11). Fallen results of obedience thus rendered, we could fill His place. Peter had echoed man cannot hope to do what unfallen see that it involves,— the sentiments of all the disciples when, Adam failed to accomplish. The stream 1. Our union with Christ. " He that in answer to Christ's inquiry if they also cannot rise higher than the fountain. If keepeth His commandments dwelleth in would go away, he said : " Lord, to whom Adam, fresh from the hand of his Creator, Him and He in him " (1 John 3 : 24). shall we go ? Thou halt the words of upright and free from the taint of sin, The Saviour dwells not in that heart eternal life." They knew that no one so miserably failed, well may his posterity which is filled with the spirit of unbelief else could do for them what Jesus had despair of doing God's will only as they and disobedience, but His delight is to done ; and the thought of being separated become connected with Him who has look to that man, " even to him that is from Him was a sad one. promised to strengthen such " with all poor and of a contrite spirit, and trem- To comfort them, Christ gave them the might." bleth " at God's word. (Isa. 66 : 2.) assurance that He would come again, and Ample provision has, therefore, been 2. The prayer of faith offered up from receive them unto himself, and that by made, whereby poor fallen man can ren- an obedient heart, will be heard in heaven ; this means they could again be with Him. der obedience to the requirements of God. for " whatsoever we ask, we receive of But even this promise was not sufficient, He who earnestly desires to do the will Him, because we keep His command- for there would still intervene a long of God, and is the most conscious of his ments, and do those things that are period during which they would be left own weakness and helplessness, is the pleasing in His sight." (1 John 3 : 22.) alone. How could they get along with- successful man in the battle for eternal 3. It is an evidence of our knowledge out the presence and counsel of their life. The realization of his inability to of God. " Hereby we do know that we Lord ? live a life of obedience without Divine aid, know Him, if we keep His command- Again Jesus meets the difficulty by drives him to the source of his strength, ments ; " but he who professes that he promising that whatsoever they should and as by faith he lays hold upon the knows God and denies Him by his works, ask in His name should be done for them; everlasting Arm, with the apostle he can is described as " being abominable and and He added, " And I will pray the say, " I can do all things through Christ disobedient, and unto every good work Father, and He shall give you another which strengtheneth me," and he realizes reprobate." Titus 1 : 16. Comforter, that He may abile with you that his own strength " is made perfect 4. It has to do directly with our salva- for ever ; even the Spirit of truth." John in weakness." tion, for Christ is the " author of eternal 14 : 16, 17. This Spirit was to be sent in Genuine faith results in obedience, and salvation unto all them that obey Him " His name, and was to take His place un- through obedience thus rendered the work (Heb. 5 : 9). It is the willing and obe- til His return. Said Christ, " I will not of purification goes on in the life day by dient that shall eat the good of the land, leave you comfortless [orphans] ; I will day. " Seeing ye have purified your while those who refuse and rebel shall come to you." This coming does not re- souls in obeying the truth through the be devoured with the sword ; for the fer to His personal, visible coming, when Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, mouth of the Lord hath spoken it (Isa. He will receive His people to Himself, see that ye love one another with a pure 1 : 19, 20). but to the Spirit that should come in His heart fervently." Thus obedience acts Finally, the Lord promises to give to name. The Spirit was to be their guide, its part in the purification of the life. those who obey Him His Holy Spirit as to prepare them for His coming at the This is not to ignore the value of the an indwelling presence (Acts 5 : 32). The last day. shed blood, but rather to magnify its answer of our Saviour to the young man The offices of the Spirit are many ; but AUGUST 14, 1890. THE PRESENT TRUTH. 265 there is a special one pointed out in this 17 he describes the Christian's armour. on any command of God.' Calvin de- discourse of our Lord. Said He : " These The following is the concluding portion : nounced as false prophets ' those who things have I spoken unto you, being yet tried to enforce Sunday by the fourth com- " Above all, taking the shield of faith, mandment.—(' Institutes' bk. ii.) He in- present with you. But the Comforter, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all dulged in the recreation of bowls on which is the Holy Ghost, whom the the fiery darts of the wicked. And take Sunday (Dr. Hessey's Bampton Lectures), Father will send in My name, He shall the helmet of salvation, and the sword of and he had Servetus arrested and brought teach you all things, and bring all things the Spirit, which is the Word of God." into court on Sunday. Principal Donald- to your remembrance, whatsoever I have Christ said that when the Comforter, the son said not long ago in the Contemporary said unto you." John 14 : 25, 26. It is Review, ' There is no command in the Holy Spirit, should come, He would " re- New Testament to keep the Sunday.' as a teacher that the Spirit is here prove [convince] the world of sin, and The change was by gradual process, and brought to view. of righteousness, and of judgment." Paul the history of the Roman apostasy is the Many persons entertain very erroneous says that " by the law is the knowledge history of the Sabbatical observance of views as to the manner in which the of sin." Both these passages are har- Sunday. In John Milton's Treatise on Spirit operates. They imagine that it monized by the one quoted from Paul Christian Doctrine ' we read : For if we to the Ephesians. The Spirit does in- under the Gospel are to regulate the time will teach them something which the of our public worship by the prescriptions Bible does not contain. The Mormons deed convince of sin, but it is by impress- of the Decalogue, it will surely be far claim that the canon of inspiration is not ing on the minds and hearts of men the safer to observe the seventh day, accord- yet full, but that new and additional claims of God's Word. The Bible is the ing to the express commandment of God, truths have been revealed to them. sword, the instrument by which the than on the authority of mere human Others, who would not for a moment Spirit pierces the heart and lays bare its conjecture to adopt the first. I perceive, also, that several of the best divines, as admit this position, make a claim that is wickedness. The Spirit is the active agent, but the Word of God is that Bucer, Calvin, Peter Martyr, Musculus, in reality the same. When certain Bible Ursinus, Gomarus, and others, concur in truths are presented to them for their through which it works. The two al- the opinions above expressed." observance, they excuse themselves from ways act in unison. all responsibility in the matter by saying We should look with suspicion upon that they are led by the Spirit of God, any spirit that counsels opposition to the THE LIFE EVERLASTING. and do not feel it their duty to do that Word of God. John tells us that there (Concluded.) are many spirits, and that we are to try particular thing. They say the Spirit How, THEN, are we to secure a title to was given to guide into all truth ; and, them. In Isaiah we are told by what the life everlasting?—Only through Christ ; we are to try them : " To the law and to consequently, if it was necessary to obey for He alone is the (zoe) life ; and he that that portion of the Scripture, it would the testimony ; if they speak not accord- hath not the Son hath not life. The ing to this word, it is because there is no have been brought to their notice. The psuche-life we obtain through generation ; It is the fact that they do not feel impressed to light in them." Isa. 8 : 20. the zoe-life through re-generation. The spirit of darkness that leads men to act obey, is proof to their minds that there latter comes to us from. another source, is no necessity for obedience. To such contrary to the Word of God. E. J. W. through a different channel ; it is of a persons the Bible is of no account; they different nature, spiritual and divine. It make its truth depend entirely upon their is the life of God, through which alone we SUNDAY AND SABBATH. own feelings. And they actually charge become partakers of the Divine nature. God with the inconsistency of authorizing A WRITER in a recent number of the " For the law of the spirit of (zoe) life in His Spirit to speak in contradiction of London Echo thus summarizes the his- Christ Jesus hath made me free from the His revealed Word. The fact that God torical testimony as to the Sabbatical ob- law of sin and death." Rom. 8 : 2. " The cannot lie should convince anyone that servance of Sunday :— true antithesis," says French, " of zoo, is His Spirit and His Word must always be " Neander says : The festival of Sun- thanatos" [death] . in harmony. day, like all other festivals, was always This life we do not now in reality Christ prayed for,His disciples, " Sanc- only a human ordinance.' Of these festi- possess. According to a text already tify them through Thy truth ; Thy Word vals, Dr. Heylin, an old writer, says some quoted, God hath given unto us eternal chose Sunday, ' because our Saviour rose is truth." The psalmist David said, life (in purpose) ; but this life " is in His " Thy righteousness is an everlasting that day from among the dead, so chose they Friday for another, by reason of the Son." The evidence, and representative righteousness, and Thy law is the truth." Saviour's Passion ; and Wednesday on of this life for this present time, is the From these passages we learn that when the which He had been betrayed ; the Holy Spirit, which we have in our hearts. Christ said, " When He, the Spirit of Saturday, or ancient Sabbath, being mean- For the apostle says, " If any man have truth, is come, He will guide you into while retained in the Eastern Churches.' not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of The reason for giving Sunday the first all truth," He meant that the Spirit would His." Rom. 8 : 9. If he is none of lead them into a proper understanding of place in later times, when professors of Christianity found themselves surrounded Christ's, he has not Christ ; and if he that which had already been revealed. by the Pagan observers of the day of the have not Christ (or the Son), the other He plainly stated this when He said, Sun, is thus stated by Morer (' Dialogues text assures us he has not (zoo) life. And " He shall teach you all things, and on the Lord's Day') Sunday being this is the only life that takes hold upon bring all things to your remembrance, the day on which the Gentiles solemnly the future. If a man has not the Spirit whatsoever I have said unto you." Many adored that planet . . . the Christians of Christ, he has no hold upon this life ; things that Christ said were not under- thought fit to keep the same day and the same name of it, that they might not ap- if he has that Spirit, then he has a sure stood at the time ; but they were made pear causelessly peevish, and by that pledge of it. And if with that Spirit in his plain by the Spirit, after Christ had as- means hinder the conversion of the Gen- heart he even falls in death, he sleeps cended to heaven. And it is thus that tiles.' Many, however, clung to the " in Jesus " and his " life is hid with the Spirit teaches us now ; it leads those seventh day of the commandment, and as Christ in God." Col. 3 : 3. And then who Are humble and teachable into a Bishop Jeremy Taylor says, for almost " when Christ, who is our (zoe) life, shall years together kept that day.'— proper understanding of the written Word 300 appear," we, receiving from His hand the of God. (' Doctor Dubitantium.') But the Coun- cil of Laodicea, A.D. 364, anathematized actual gift of the life everlasting, " shall Paul gives testimony on this point all who did so. The Augsburg Confession appear with Him in glory." Verse 4. which is not uncertain. In Eph. 6 : 13- says Sunday observance is 'founded not Thus Christ becomes the second Adam, 266 THE PRESENT TRUTH. VoL. 6, No. 17. sustaining the same relation to the multi- army and then a number of years on the to return to Hamburg. But just as I tudes endowed with eternal life that the police force, he knew some German. The started, a messenger came from the first Adam sustains to the inhabitants of doctor accordingly took leave to visit his Catholic priest with an invitation for me this world, possessed of their temporary, former colleague from the school, the to call on him. When I arrived, the physical, mortal, life. He is the great Catholic priest of the village. He told doctor was still there, and he, the priest, Life-giver, the author of eternal salvation me that there were still five families who and the school-teacher were drinking to- to all them that believe. But if we say that as Christians observed the Sabbath, but gether. The priest knew scarcely any every man has eternal life in his own that three of these belonged to the Re- German, but he asked why I had gone to nature, by creation, we rob Christ of His formed Church, and he and his brother were one of his members instead of coming to high prerogative, and His crowning glory. Catholics. As strange as this may sound him for information. I told him that as And this is done by that system of we must not forget that Sabbatarians he knew no German, he could not have theology which has been dominant in were forced to join one of the tolerated helped me, and I also had the address of Christendom ever since the great apostasy religions years ago. He eagerly listened the other man. As the doctor stepped was accomplished in the Christian church, to the light as I tried to present it to him out for a little while, he tried finally to and the Dark Ages settled down upon the from the Bible, taking his Hungarian tell me in Latin that according to the world. And how tenacious still are mul- Bible, while I found the passages in the laws of Transylvania, proselyting was not titudes of this view which so dishonours German. He begged that we might soon allowed, and that he was the priest and our Divine Redeemer 1 In the language have the truth in the Hungarian language. shepherd of this flock. As a storm had of another, " How unwilling dying man He had enough property to support him- come .up, I was forced to remain, but I is to put his entire dependence on Him self, but he desired so much to go where urged the doctor to secure a team to re- who died to redeem him from death ! there were Sabbath-keepers, or where he turn. But the horses did not come, and, How reluctant he is to give Him all the could attend our meetings. He then went fearing trouble, I departed suddenly, glory of his salvation ! " with me to the synagogue to show me the taking the risk of finding my way through We point the reader to a more excellent Sabbath-keepers who had joined the Jews. the mud and darkness rather than stop. There were 138 souls, large and small, way,—a way which shall in the end pre- It was no easy task, as the creeks had vail ; for finally every creature shall as- who had taken this step about twenty years ago. swollen, and I had to go clear around cribe the praise and glory of his salvation through fields. But I arrived safely at to Him who sitteth upon the throne and This may seem strange to our people the inn, feeling grateful to God for His unto the Lamb. Let us begin here to as they read of it ; but to judge this preserving care. Monday morning found anticipate the true strains in that song of aright, it is necessary to know the full me again in Buda-Pesth where I called adoration. u. s. history of the Sabbatarians in Austria, upon the Jewish rabbi who had written and the laws, and this I shall give in the history of these Sabbatarians. The A VISIT TO AUSTRIA. future articles. Enemies uoint to this gentleman told me that he was working triumphantly, but, lo they are like the (Concluded.) at present on the German manuscript, man who steals his neighbour's property, HERE in Transylvania are over a million and hoped to have it published soon ; and then blames him if he starves. They and he promised me the very first copy in Roumanians, and some 250,000 German suppressed the Word of God among them, colonists, but these are farther south. On exchange for the " Sabbath History ; " he put their ministers in prison, persecuted also expressed his readiness to give me our way they showed me thejcastle where them in every way possible, sent Catholic Simeon Pechy, the great Sabbatarian any information I wished. He has also a priests with soldiers there to convert them, number of their works in his possession. writer, had once lived. Friday evening and when they forbade their holding meet- we arrived in the place, and as I was so ings, enrolled them in their churches In this work I found a number of fortunate as to have a recommendation against their will, and as the light of truth references which gave me a new channel from a former doctor here, and not know- faded, only the Sabbath remaining, the of research concerning the history of the ing whether any in the little village could fallen Christians spurned and despised Sabbath ; namely, Jewish works. Thus speak German, I prevailed upon the them, the Jews settled and laboured when I arrived in Vienna, I went to the present doctor to accompany me Sabbath among them, and they fell their easy imperial library the next morning, and morning to the village. He consented to prey. There was a strange confusion in found several of these in the German lan- do this, for he understood the German the synagogue, and the noise seemed guage, the most valuable of which was the well, as he had studied in Vienna. I anything but worship, and could but fill history of the Russian Sabbath-keepers told him what brought me here, and gave one with sadness. My prayer was that from before the Reformation until the him some of our publications. After an the truth might yet change matters again.. present time. This history rested entirely hour's ride we came to the village, hidden on Russian authorities, and was some- in a valley, called Bozod-Ufallu, contain- In the afternoon I visited the Jewish thing I had desired long ago. And here ing about 150 houses. We drove to the leader, as I had been told that he received again I found a record of persecutions house where the man lived whom I wished a letter a year ago from some American which seems almost incredible. I felt Sabbath-keepers. It came from Alfred to see, and as we entered his yard, he grateful for all this material, and hope met us, dressed in the national suit, and Center, and contained chiefly questions soon to write a series of articles, giving a his dress and everything else betokened about their observance of the Sabbath, description of all the persecutions of the that he was observing the Sabbath, the their mode of baptism, etc. It was given Sabbatarians, and their history, since the chief of the few who are left of the to the Jewish rabbi, and I doubt whether time of Constantine. The history of the thousands, after three hundred years of it ever was answered. Of the two letters Sabbatarians is indeed written with blood ; persecutions. When the doctor told him I had written, I could find no trace. In the blazing fires of the stake light us who I was and what errand had brought the afternoon several of the young Jews through the darkest periods of history, me, his face kindled, and he asked me in who could speak German, came to the and the bulls of the popes and the decrees German : "Do you observe the Sabbath?" house where I stopped, and I had a Bible of emperors give us a faithful record of reading with them; I also left them some I told him I did, when he shook my hand their devotion to the truth of God. Just of our German literature. heartily. I found, to my great relief, as I went to the library, I saw the Em- that Providence had ordered matters so Toward evening I concluded to walk peror of Austria coming in his carriage. that, as he had served eight years in the back to the little town, as I was anxious He is quite an elderly gentleman.

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From here I went to Bohemia, arriving again, after an absence of over three in Prague when they had their great weeks, thankful for the information gath- ni0 ettIttf national holiday—St. John's day. It ered, and praying that this journey might was hard to find a lodging ; every place be a means to some extent, of opening "Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night. The morning cometh, and also the night; if ye will was crowded, and the next morning the the work in the Austrian Empire. But enquire, enquire ye: return, come."—Isa. 21 : 11,12. streets were literally packed. The main for this our German literature will not bridge across the river Moldau, which is suffice; we need publications in the Hun- ornamented with some thirty statues of garian, Polish, Roumanian, and Sclavo- INSTRUCTIVE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. saints, was one of the chief objects of de- nian languages. While in Berlin, I found THE tendency to recognize officially votion for the Catholics. In the cathedral a place where they not only do reliable some of the claims of Romanism, led to on the hill the crowds were so great that work, but do it quite reasonably ; and questions and discussions in the House soldiers had to keep order, and it was from what I know now of the needs and of Commons last week which show that wants of the country, I hope that we almost impossible to see the prison of neither one of the great political parties is may soon have some publications to open some certain saint. At eleven the arch- able to resist the temptation to strengthen up the work among these various nations. bishop appeared in a fine carriage gilded its hands by sacrificing the principles And as God had in this empire, centuries and drawn by six fine horses, preceded by which should guide a temporal power in ago, witnesses for the Sabbath, where couriers, like a prince. How different its dealings with any spiritual power. they had neither the light, nor the was the scene of this shepherd from the This has, indeed, often been shown in the chances for literature, nor the freedom scenes we read of the true Shepherd of past, but the point is emphasized strongly old ! I could see hardly any traces of that exists at present, we may surely just now. Huss, only one street being named after hope that the day is not far in the future, A leader in the Daily Chronicle con- him. I went to the museum, where I if we labour earnestly and with faith, siders the questions raised in the House saw a Latin manuscript written by him. when we shall have churches in this dispassionately, and with freedom from There was also the large sword of Gustav empire also. May our prayer be that party bias. Speaking of Cardinal Man- Adolph. At present there is quite a con- God will send labourers, and may we do ning's " precedence " the Chronicle says :— tention, as some citizens wish to have a our share that labourers can be educated Still it is impossible to let our personal regard monument erected for Huss, while the and sustained in these fields. for Cardinal Manning induce us to submit to archbishop and the Catholic clergy are L. R. C. claims which from past experience we know trying to hinder it in every way possible. the Papal Court will soon push still further on behalf of less worthy persons. not only here, From here I went to a town near by, GOOD MOTIVES. but in Ireland. It seems clear that no Govern- where there was a preacher who was ment is collectively responsible for giving IT is a very pertinent question which convinced of the Sabbath, and had visited Cardinal Manning precedence after the Prince the Psalmist raises, " Who can under- of Wales. The thing was done by the Home our brethren in Basel, but had not taken stand his errors ?" and a very appropriate Office, and it is traceable to a good-natured as yet a public stand for the truth. He request of the Heir-Apparent. That is why sequel is formed by the prayer, " Cleanse says that he keeps the Sabbath with his the Cardinal's name was put after the name Thou me.from secret faults." It requires of the Prince and before that of the Lord family. I stopped over Sabbath with the closest scrutiny of our lives to reveal Mayor in the Commission on the Housing of him. A friend of his in Southern Bohemia the Poor, and why his eminence has been given to us any defects. We are so apt to judge also keeps the Sabbath. I hope the day precedence even over the Lord Mayor in the of our actions by our motives and inten- City of London. . . . It is simply ridiculous is not far distant when we can have some tions, or by what we imagine our motives to recognize officially a title conferred on an of our works in the Bohemian language, to be. But we are not capable of discern- Englishman by a foreign priest who happens and some preachers labouring in that to be Sovereign Bishop of Rome when we re- ing our motives. " The heart [or motives] fuse to recognize titles and decorations con- tongue. This minister has considerable is deceitful above all things, and des- ferred on Englishmen by foreign Princes who trouble with the authorities, and has to are not priests of the Romish cloth. It is perately wicked. Who can know it ?" illegal, indeed, to give precedence such as is appear often before court because he is God only knows what is really in our trying to preach to the people the true now accorded to Cardinal Manning by the hearts. Of the real condition of the heart, Government, not only over the Archbishop of way of repentance and faith. Sunday we and others have no better index than Canterbury, but over everybody after the morning I left early, and passed through Prince of Wales. the outward actions. Let us not, then, The other point discussed in the House the beautiful Elbe valley, which in some excuse ourselves in wrong doing under parts resembles the Rhine valley, to on lines of crimination and recrimination the cover of having " good motives." Dresden, in the kingdom of Saxony. was the mission of Sir Lintorn Simmons God's law, as interpreted by Christ, is the to Rome. The Chronicle says :— Here is a kingdom with over 3,000,000 great rule of action, and our only motive Protestants, and nothing has been done should be to keep that law in thought and There is much that is despicable in the here as yet, to spread the truth. Touch- action of party men on both sides in this busi- action. ness. The Opposition taunt the Government ing in Leipsic, I came Monday afternoon with sending an envoy to the Vatican. Then to Magdeburg, where Brn. Schlegel and This law, magnified and impressed on Mr. T. W. Russell calls for the production of Hurschmann were canvassing. Magde- the heart, isl the best detector of wrong Mr. Gladstone's instructions to Mr. Errington. doing. Any other standard which we The other side immediately retort by demand- burg is a city of over 1,000,000 inhabit- ing the production of Lord Salisbury's instruc. ants, but they found it very hard to gain may erect is sure to be faulty, and will tions to the Duke of Norfolk. Do Englishmen access to the people. Bro. Hurschmann lead u§ into serious faults, which we very care two straws about this aspect of the case ? finally obtained a number of recommenda- likely cannot understand. Secret faults The article condemns the mission, but tions, and thus sold quite a number of lurk in the heart under the cover of a false on its results rather than on the principles books. Some became very much inter- conscience or a sinful heart. involved. No objection is taken to send- ested, but thus far no promising field has But however insensible men may be to ing an envoy to the Pope, provided the been found in this part of Germany. It their own faults, it is not so in regard to Pope sends a nuncio to the Court of St. is surprising what a difference there the faults of others. Every one of us will James. "But it is beneath the dignity seems to be between the different cities estimate his moral perceptive power by of a great Power like England to send an of Germany, and it will take patience his ability to point out the failings of envoy to a foreign Court that will not and means to learn just where the best others. A better test would be obtained deign to send an envoy here." This is fields are. if we first plucked " out the beam out " taking a very narrow view of the matter. In the evening I arrived in Hamburg of our own eyes. G. C. T. Protestants will regard the fact of such

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relations with the Vatican as much more THE JEWS IN RUSSIA. pudiated and suppressed them, but in 1886 deplorable than any consequences which Leo XIII. reconfirmed all their privileges. But united Italy gives us a lesson as to the might follow the mission under considera- IN the face of the increasing intolerance of all dissent from the Orthodox Greek method of dealing with them. She has pub- tion. A permanent relation would only licly recognized them as foes, and suppressed Church, the world will hardly believe in result in more frequent surrenders, for them, and the Jesuit college at Rome has been turned into a public school and a free library. the price for Rome's favours would have the sincerity of Russia's professed sym- pathy with the persecuted Armenians in I commend these facts to the United States. to be paid. Of the results of this mission, Asia. Extraordinary measures of re- the Chronicle says :— pression have lately been directed against Lord Salisbury clearly went out of his way to write a humiliating dispatch to the Vatican the Jews. It is ordained that in future rogrAt of lilt alt$4+ stating that England recognized her obliga- Jews shall reside only in the larger towns, tions to enforce the canon law in Malta, which and it is estimated that the total number " Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after is an English colony. We defy Lord Salisbury many days."—Ecel. 11: 1. to quote a line from any authoritative official of persons who will be expelled from their document connected with our taking over homes by the new law will not be far Malta which puts us under any such obligation. from one million. A large proportion of ONLY. There is not, even in the most bigoted Catholic country in the world, any Minister that would the Jews in Russia have become agricul- ONLY a word for the Master, turalists, artisans, and professional men. Lovingly, quietly said ; to-day dare to declare that he recognized any Only a word, obligation to enforce the canon law over the These will be ruined, and those who sur- Yet the Master heard, civil law. If we recognize this obligation in And some fainting hearts were fed. Malta, how can we evade it in Ireland and vive the persecution must become traders Quebec 2 . . . The recognition of the authority in the towns. The universities and the Only a look of remonstrance, of the Pope to legislate for Malta, and of his professions are also closed against them. Sorrowful, gentle, and deep ; consent being necessary before legislation in Only a look, conflict with canon law be initiated by the All this is done in the name of religion ! Yet the strong man shook, British Government, is moreover bitterly op- A correspondent of the Times says :— And he went alone to weep. posed by the elected members of the Maltese The Czar has declared a religious war against Only some act of devotion, Legislative Council. all who fail to conform to the Orthodox Russian Willingly, joyfully done; The whole matter is a significant and Church. The Lutherans have not escaped " Surely 'twas naught " (So the proud world thought), painful sign of the times. W. A. S. his vengeance, and have lately suffered for But yet souls to Christ are won. their contumacy. But the vials of the Im- —Selected. perial wrath have chiefly been poured out upon the Jews, always the scapegoats of re- ROMAN CATHOLIC CEREMONIES OF ligious fanatics. It appears, from the new NORWAY. HEATHEN ORIGIN. edicts, to be the object of the Czar's Govern- ment to drive all the Jews from the rural JUNE 11-16 it was my privilege to attend As ENTERPRISING travellers are visiting districts into the overcrowded towns, there to the camp-meeting at Moss, Norway. This and exploring every country on earth, be decimated either by the diseases resulting city has a population of 7,000, and is situated from congestion or by the starvation conse- on Christiana Bay, about twenty-five English discovering new sources of information, quent on loss of livelihood. The village homes miles below Christiana. The camp was located and unearthing long-buried monuments are broken up, the artisans and agriculturalists on a hill-side in the edge of a pine grove above which testify in no uncertain tones of the of the provinces are driven into towns where the city, affording a view of the bay below and there is neither roof to shelter them nor work the landscape beyond. Fifteen family tents history, customs, and religions of the past, for their willing hands.. Such a persecution in- and one large pavilion composed the cotton it appears more and more clearly that all volves a refinement of cruelty for which history village. the leading features of the Roman Cath- affords no parallel. It means massacre, not About 200 of our people were in attendance, by sword or dagger as of old, but by a slow, mostly from Norway, a few having come from olic ritual, are copied pure and simple automatic process of lingering death. The Denmark and Sweden. There not being room from the forms of ancient heathen wor- smaller incidents of the persecution—the de- in the tents for all, some lodged in houses ship. Roman Catholicism is simply pa- privation of educational advantages, the closing near by. Among labourers present may be of the Universities to the Jews, their exclusion mentioned J. F. Hansen and M. M. Olsen ganism re-christened and called Christian. from the professions—all these shrink into from Copenhagen, J. M. Ericksen from Stock- In a new universal history, we find this insignificance compared with the vast and holm, and L. Johnson, E. G. Olsen, N. Clausen, testimony concerning the resemblance widespread scheme of expulsion from hearth and K. Brorsen from Norway. It seemed good and home, which means death to countless to meet so many old friends and co-labourers existing between Roman Catholicism and thousands. Thousands of the hapless victims after a few years' separation. It was a fore- Buddhism :— of Russian oppression will doubtless, as in taste of the joyous meeting that will take place The first Roman Catholic missionaries who 1883, break through the cordon on the Galician when the Saviour comes to gather home to met the Buddhist priests, were struck with and German frontiers and find an asylum in glory all the scattered children of God. wonder at the many resemblances between free England, to the injury of our overstocked From the first there was a general effort the customs of Buddhism and those of Roman labour market. The like irruption of fugitives made by all to seek the Lord. Many prayers Catholicism, and thought that Satan had been unwelcome indeed, yet on grounds of common were offered for a special blessing, and we mocking their sacred rites. Father Bury, a humanity impossible to resist, will take place, were not disappointed. On Sabbath the Lord Portuguese missionary, on beholding Chinese as in 1883, in Austria, France, Switzerland, came especially near. All hearts were deeply bonzes tonsured, using rosaries, praying in an Holland, and Turkey. moved, and we received a much greater bless- unknown language, and kneeling before images, ing than we had faith to expect. While exclaimed in astonishment: "There is not a children and unconverted came forward to piece of dress, nor a sacerdotal function, not " ROME NEVER CHANGES." signify their determination to serve the Lord, a ceremony of the court of Rome, which the there was a general move to draw nearer to devil has not copied in this country." DR. LEROY M. VERNON, says an Amer- Him. It seemed as though we were at the open gates of heaven, and all felt that they Poor dupe. When he beheld these ican paper, is responsible for the following must press in while opportunity lasted. The things in a pagan religion, which he ought concerning the present status of Roman- Lord was better to us than we deserved, and ism, which, if true, verifies the oft-repeated signified what great blessings He has in store to have known antedated by many centu- for those that humble themselves and seek ries that of Rome, he should have ex- statement that "Rome never changes: "— Him with all the heart. claimed : " There is not a piece of dress, My sojourn of eighteen years in Italy has Just before the morning service, we received convinced me of these facts. The Roman In- the news of Bro. Klein's imprisonment in not a sacerdotal function, not a ceremony, quisition is in full organization to-day. We Russia for the truth's sake. A solemn feeling invented by the Devil and perpetuated do not hear the sullen creak of the wheel of came over all, and we felt that we should unite for ages in the heathen world, which he torment, and we forget it. The Inquisition is in an earnest petition to the Lord in his be- still organized in Rome, with definite and par- half. During this season the Lord came very has not also foisted into the religion of ticular records of all living opponents. It near, and we feel sure that if it is for His glory, Rome, and made us believe they were only waits a return of power. Then they will the Lord will deliver His servant. Christian." And then he should have endungeon and gibbet and burn, as they used The attendanee from the city was good, to. The influence of the Jesuits is again as usually more coming than could find place in renounced the whole mass of the heathen- strong as ever in the Romish Church. Repeat- the tent. The weather was good throughout, ish rubbish. u. S. edly the authorities of the Church have re- especially on Sunday. A large crowd was in AUGUST 14, 1890. THE PRESENT TRUTH. 269 attendance, and the Lord gave His servants grace to claim His promises, so that many the Lord greatly blessed the occasion. The freedom in preaching. The order was remark. praised Him for the forgiveness of their sins. German work during the year had progressed able ; no policeman was necessary. The We also felt assured that God would preserve very encouragingly. Over 100 of this nation- citizens were as respectful as in a church, and us and our tent, which He did. This prayer ality had accepted our faith and hope, mostly listened with deep interest to the word, and and praise meeting lasted over two hours. under the labours of one minister. we know by the tears which flowed that a We found afterward that the strong wind NEW ENGLAND.—The camp-meeting in this deep impression was made on many hearts. wafted the sound of our song of praise down Conference was held in Nashua, New Hamp- The annual sessions of the various organiza- to the city below, and that it had made a deep shire, and was preceded by a workers' meeting tions passed off harmoniously, with profitable impression on many there. We felt that we for the instruction and spiritual good of la- instructions. L. Johnson was again elected had several reasons to praise the Lord for the bourers in the cause in the Conference. Over president of the Conference, tract society, and storm. The writer felt to exclaim with the 300 of our people were present at the meeting. the Sabbath-school association. An excellent Psalmist : In the multitude of my thoughts On Sunday the attendance was large, from degree of good-will and confidence seemed to within me Thy comforts delight my soul.' " 7,000 to 8,000 people being on the grounds. prevail. Monday, the last day of the meeting, The blessing of God and the presence of The meetings awakened much interest on the was devoted to the publishing association. His Spirit were felt. throughout the meeting. part of the citizens to hear the preaching and Reports showed encouraging prosperity during Sunday morning thirteen candidates were investigate the Scriptures, and many expressed the past year. Our printing-house in Chris- baptized in the waters of the bay. Four regrets that the meetings were so soon to tiana has a good reputation in the city, and services were held during the day in the tent, close. The friends in New England felt that for some time has been favoured with all the often filled to the utmost by interested it was one of the most profitable meetings work from the outside that it could do. Good listeners. The annual report showed an en- they had ever attended. work and prompt execution are the chief couraging prosperity in the numerical and factors of this prosperity. financial standing of the cause in Denmark. Daring the afternoon, eight were baptized One new church of fourteen members was re- CANADA. in the bay, a large number of citizens witness- ceived into the Conference. The brethren re- ing the ordinance. Monday evening the last turned to their homes with renewed courage Two labourers began a series of meetings in sermon was preached, after which a praise in God. Dresden, Ontario, with an attendance of 125. service was held to conclude the meetings. C The, meetings had continued for a week at the The tent could not hold all in attendance, and LETTER FROM EGYPT. time of writing, with an average attendance although an opportunity was given to depart of about 100, with 300 on Sunday evening. at the close of the sermon, nearly all from the CORRESPONDENCE Was (says the Rome Mitt- There has been a gratifying interest to hear city remained, so that a number of our breth- aionary) commenced last year with six students and to read. ren on the outside found it almost impossible who were attending the Khedivial School at to make their way into the tent to take part Cairo, Egypt, and quite an interest awakened -THE report of labour from Australia and in the praise service. This was an hour of in the minds of two or three to read our pub- Tasmania shows that the book canvassers sold interest and joy, and was a fitting conclusion lications. In this way, one was led to the study during the month of April over £900 worth of to such a good series of meetings. Many of the Bible, instead of the Koran, and took books. pointed, cheering testimonies followed in quick great delight in committing certain portions succession, and when the time to close arrived, to memory. " Bible Readings for the Home the interest was at its height. Circle " was then sent him, and the following It seemed not a little strange to see a meet- extracts from his last letter, shows how much ing continue till nearly 11 P.M. without lamps. it has been appreciated :— itt14 • 4adin + At this season of the year, one here can see to " I cannot express my thanks to you in read without artificial light the whole night, words, how happy I am, now, that I have " So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and except about one and one-half hours. A good found what I have wished for, because at first gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading."— feature of this meeting was that nearly all I was astray, like the lost sheep, but I knew Neh. 8: 8. came at the beginning and remained till the the light from the dark by reading your highly- close. Two meetings daily with the youth by prized book, which pleases me so much. I themselves, and the children alone, contributed pray God that He may prolong your lives and BACKSLIDING. much to the spiritual interests and results. bless you in your efforts. Your remembrances Some came from Northern Norway, from the are very, very dear to me, and I should ever 1. WHAT constitutes backsliding, and how region of the midnight sun, a distance requir- like to have a helping hand from you. Now, does God regard it ? ing ten days to make the journey by steamer. I always spend all my spare time reading the " Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and It was only with great sacrifice that they came, Bible Readings,' which is truly a splendid thy backalidings shall reprove thee ; know there- but they felt richly blessed for their effort. work." fore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, The truth has the same effect everywhere in that thou hart forsaken the Lord thy God, and uniting hearts from all nations into one spirit. that My fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God This gathering was a source of much bless- CAMP-MEETINGS IN AMERICA. of hosts." Jer. 2 : 19. ing and encouragement, and will prove a great 2. What is the constant tendency on the help to the cause in Norway, if all return and WISCONSIN.—The general camp-meeting of part of professing Christians ? labour in the spirit received during its many the Wisconsin Conference of Seventh-day " And My people are bent to backsliding from precious seasons. H. P. HOLSER. Adventists was attended by about 500 of our Me." Hosea 11 : 7. brethren and sisters in the State. About ninety tents were pitched on the grounds. 3. What is the reason of this tendency ? " Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden DENMARK. This attendance was small for this Conference, back by aNerpetual backsliding ? They hold but other local camp-meetings will be held in fast deceit, ihey refuse to return. I hearkened THE annual camp-meeting for the Denmark the State before the summer is over. The and heard, but they spake not aright : no man Conference was held near Aalborg, a town of press published interesting reports of the repented him of his wickedness, saying, What about 20,000 inhabitants, located upon Lime meetings throughout. The preaching was have I done ? every one turned to his course, as Bay. Eleven family tents were pitched on largely of a practical character. Ministers' the horse rusheth into the battle." Jer. 8: 5, 6. the grounds, besides the preaching pavilion. meetings were held nearly every day, which 4. resulted in great spiritual good to the labour- How does the Lord regard the backslider ? About 100 brethren and sisters were in attend. " Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from ance (some securing apartments in the town ers in the State. Daily services were held in her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with during the meeting). The weather preceding the German and Scandinavian tents. The Me, 0 house of Israel, saith the Lord." Jer. 3 : the meeting was unpropitious, but a lull in the time spent together was of great spiritual 20. value to our brethren, and there was a good storm of wind and rain enabled the brethren 5. In order to have the favour of the Lord to make the necessary peparations to begin attendance of interested citizens of the town .again, what must the backslider first do ? the meeting at the appointed time. in which the meeting was held. At the close of the meeting thirty-one were baptized. " Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou "The first day of the meeting the wind haat transgressed against the Lord thy God, and began to blow again," Brother L. Johnson SOUTH DAKOTA.—There were 535 persons halt scattered thy ways to the strangers under writes, " and it increased in strength till Friday encamped on the grounds in attendance upon every green tree, and ye have not obeyed My afternoon, when it became almost impossible the camp-meeting for this State. The differ- voice, saith the Lord." Verse 13. to continue our meetings. We then decided ent lines of work usually taken up in the to take the matter to the Lord in prayer, and meetings were carried on with vigour and 6. What further work must be dqne to meet to this end all the ministers were invited to earnestness, and good results were seen. The the requirements of God ? come on the platform, and the people gathered Conference reported an increase in member- " Let the wicked forsake his way, and the un- as near as they could. This was a holy and ship the past year, having added 150 to its righteous man his thoughts : and let him, return church list, and others have embraced the unto the Lord, and He will have mercy updn him ; solemn time. Many bore testimonies to the and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon." effect that they had never before felt the pres- truth who have not as yet united with the Ica. 55 : 7. ence of the Spirit of God in such a degree. church. The revival meetings were seasons All were moved to tears, and some began to of real blessing from God. Many started for 7. Why is it necessary for the unrighteous confess their sins, and said that they saw them the first time to be Christians. Thirty-five to forsake their thoughts ? as they never had before. The Lord also gave were baptized at the close of the meeting, and " For My thoughts are not your thoughts,

270 THE PRESENT TRUTH. Vol,. 6, No. 17. neither are your ways My ways, saith the Lord." —For the seventh year in succession the —Switzerland is the only civilized country Verse 8. God desires that every one shall culti- Drink Bill of New Zealand shows a decrease. in the world which grants no patents for in- vate thoughts of a high order. To have those of —The potato disease has appeared in Kent, ventions. the opposite class, shows the possessor to be and a potato famine in West of Ireland is —The American Supreme Court has laid it greatly lacking in spirituality. imminent. down that drink can be sent into a Prohibition- 8. What is especially necessary to prevent —Owing to tremendous floods Pekin and ist State so long as it is conveyed in kegs or one from backsliding ? Tientsin are under water, and business is bottles, in which shape it may be sold. The " Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into tempta- quite at a standstill. Prohibitionists are now agitating for " State tion. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is Rights." weak." Mark 14 : 38 ; Luke 21 : 36. —The members of the various religious —A wonderful flower has been discovered sects in the United States number, according 9. What is necessary on the part of believers in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Its chief to the new census, 25,000,000. peculiarity is the habit of changing its colours to show that they are not reprobates ? —New South Wales has decided to follow " Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the during the day. In the morning it is white ; the example of Victoria and South Australia, when the sun is at its zenith it is red, and at faith ; prove your own selves. Know ye not your and start an irrigation colony. own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, ex- night it is blue. The red, white, and blue cept ye be reprobates ?" 2 Cor. 13 : 5. —The population of the United Kingdom flower grows on a tree about the size of a guava in the middle of 1890 is estimated by the tree, and only at noon does it give out any per- 10. If one has the law-of God in the heart, Registrar-General at 38,227,321. fume. what will it do for him ? —The Ameer of Afghanistan intends to des- —In the last report of the Japanese min- " The law of his God is in his heart ; none of patch an Embassy to Russia shortly, to con- ister of education, we find that in the whole his steps shall slide." Ps. 37 : 31. clude a treaty of commerce with that country. country there are 10,862 school districts, the 11. In what particular does the Lord rebuke — The German Emperor, on his way home children of school age numbering 6,740,929. His people for their backslidings ? after his visit to England, stopped at Heligo- The total number of teachers is 62,372, and " Even from the days of your fathers, ye are land, which on Saturday was formally trans- there are in its various schools 2,800,000 gone away from Mine ordinances, and have not ferred to the Germans. children. Advanced courses in art and science kept them. Return unto Me, and I will return —Of 600,000 foreigners in the Argentine are to be found in the university. High-class unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. But ye said, commercial schools, schools of fine art, schools Wherein shall we return ? " Mal. 3 : 7. Republic, there are said to be 280,000 Italians, 150,000 French, 100,000 Spaniards, 40,000 of music, schools for the deaf, dumb, and 12. When the people asked in what thing English, and 20,000 Germans. blind, law courses in German, French and they should return to Him, what neglect did English, libraries and museums, all form a part —The Argentine Republic comprises a group of this admirable system. He point out ? of fourteen States and nine territories, having " Will a man rob God ? Yet ye have robbed a total area in English square miles of 1,125,- Me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed Thee ? 086, with a population of a little over 4,000,000. In tithes and offerings." Verse 8. —It is reported from Cape Norman, New- Obituaq. 13. What remedy did the Lord propose, to foundland, that the inhabitants are suffering rescue the people from their backslidings, and greatly from want of food—mussels and other THE sad intelligence is received of the death bring them where they could again have the shellfish being the sole support of many of of Mary Kelsey White, wife of W. C. White, blessings of Heaven 2 them. June 18, 1890, aged 33 years. She was per- " Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, —A scheme is being prepared by a syndicate that there may be meat in mine house, and prove sonally known to many of our friends in Eng- me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I of large Russian capitalists for the early estab- land and Europe. In 1885 she accompanied will not open you the windows of heaven, and lishment in China of a Russo-Asiatic Bank, intended to promote the development of Russo- her husband to Europe, assisting in the work pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be in connection with the publishing house in room enough to receive it." Verse 10. Chinese commercial relations. Basel, Switzerland. While on the Continent, Why did some of the Lord's disciples —A ' miracle doctor' in Galicia has been 14. in 1887, she contracted the disease, which leave him ? sent to goal for pretending to cure a patient of typhoid fever by burning the bones of two assumed the form of an affection of the lungs, " And He said, Therefore said I unto you, that resulting in death. Her life was remarkably no man can come unto me, except it were given Jewish children in the room. He had stolen unto him of My Father. From that time many the bodies from a Jewish cemetery. prolonged, and a number of times, in answer of his disciples went back, and walked no more —The greatest achievement in the way of to prayer, the disease seemed arrested for a with Him." John 6 : 65, 66. telephonic communication is that of the tele- season, though the Lord did not see fit to re- phone between New York and Chicago. By move it and restore her to health. She died 15. Is there hope in the case of the back- in Boulder, Colorado, whither she had gone to slider ? this medium audible converse is held between two persons standing just one thousand miles reap the advantage of a climate favourable to " Take with you words, and turn to the Lord : lung affections. The following from the ad- say unto Him, Take away all iniquity, and re- apart. —The Russian War Minister is taking mea- dress at the funeral service speaks of her last ceive us graciously : so will we render the calves days : " During all her sickness, though at of our lips. . . . I will heal their backsliding, I sures to increase the means of transport in will love them freely : for Mine anger is turned the Transcaspian Railway, the stations on times suffering severely, she was cheerful and away from him." Hosea 14 : 2-4. courageous, and maintained, as usual, the which are much blocked by the rapid and con- liveliest interest in all that was occurring in siderable development of the cotton trade in 16. Will there be special danger of back. connection with the cause of truth. She was sliding in the last days ? Turkestan. even inclined to look upon her sickness as a " And because iniquity shall abound, the love —The principal picture galleries of Europe blessing, as it gave her more time to devote of many shall wax cold." Matt. 24 :12. are ranked according to the number of pictures to the training of her children. Her strength 17. In view of this danger, whit is every- they contain : 1, Versailles ; 2, Dresden ; 3, kept up so that up to within about four weeks one's duty ? Madrid ; 4, Louvre ; 5, London ; 6, St. Peters- of the close of her life, she was able to ride " Watch ye, tliterefore, and pray always, that burg ; 7, Berlin ; 8, Vienna ; 9, Munich ; 10, out on pleasant days. During these last four ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these Florence •' 11, Naples ; 12, Venice ; 13, Ant- weeks she had more physical suffering, but at things that shall come to pass, and to stand werp ; 14, Turin. the same time had a clearer assurance of her before the Son of man." Luke 21 : 36.—Bible —The great Saram Tunnel through the acceptance with God. She had no dread of Readings for the Home Circle. Caucasus is approaching completion. There death, and no fear for the future. The after- • have, it is stated, been serious irregularities noon of the 18th she seemed to realize her in connection with the payment of the work- condition more fully than before, and to feel men. At one station some 200 are in a starv- that she was near her end. About seven ing condition, and it has been found necessary o'clock in the evening she spoke of the future Adopting ittAtno+ to send gendarmes from Tiflis to " restore in the most cheerful and hopeful way, spoke harmony." to her husband of the immortality soon to be —A new torpedo, named the Victoria,' has given to God's people, and of that happy state —Apples and plums will be very scarce this been invented. It can be discharged from any to come when they would meet again free year. anchorage at a short notice, and fired in any from all sickness and trouble, took leave of There is one pauper in every thirty-seven — direction without the enemy's knowledge. It her children and friends, giving to each one inhabitants in England and Wales. will run under water a distance of two miles some word of good cheer and exhortation, and —America has 200,000 telephones, more and a-half, and can be steered from the start- at half past nine calmly fell asleep in Jesus — than the rest of the world combined. ing to strike a moving ship, and can be ex- adding one more to that blessed company of —Harvest was commenced last week. There ploded whenever desired. whom John speaks, when he says, Blessed is said to be a dearth of labourers in Kent. —Miss Misao Tsuni Hirate San, who is the are the dead which die in the Lord from —Over 64,000 people die in the British daughter of a Japanese nobleman, went to the henceforth : Yea, saith the Spirit, that they islands every year from consumption alone. United States four years ago. She is now may rest from their labours; and their works —The deepest running stream that is known about to return home to work as a Christian do follow them.' She leaves a companion and is the Niagara river, just under the suspen- missionary among her countrymen, notwith- two little girls, one eight and the other three sion bridge, where it is 700ft. deep by actual standing the strenuous opposition of her and a half years of age, besides a mother, measurement. father. sister, two brothers, and other friends."

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FATHERS A NEW BOOK. THE SANCTUARY OF THE —IN— "PROPHETIC LIGHTS" CATHOLIC CHURCH. Is the title of a new book just issued by the - -- PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY and —AND— placed before the public. It is a hand- BY E. J. WAGGONER. some little volume of 200 pages, THE 2,300 DAYS OF DANIEL 8. 14. beautifully illustrated. HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF, —BY— BY URIAH SMITH, Professor of Biblical Exegesis, n Battle Creek College, U. S. A. Because human nature is the same in all ages DR. E. J. WAGGONER. of the world. Hence, he who would know how The subject of the Sanctuary is an exclusively to avoid error in the future, must know how errors The name of the book indicates its character Bible subject, concerning which testimony, full, have developed in the past The " Fathers of and the subjects upon which it treats. To the clear, and positive, is not wanting. It is a centre the Catholic Church " shows the condition of Student of Bible Prophecy this work will be found around which all the great truths connected with the heathen world at the time of Christ, briefly an invaluable aid, and to the general reader a the Atonement of Christ and the Salvation of man states the principles of ancient heathen philoso- source of much instruction and information. It cluster and depend. It is the central point of phy, which was largely responsible for the im- is having a large sale, the second edition is now interest in both the Jewish and Christian dispen- morality of that time, and shows how the . in press. cations. adoption of these principles by prominent men The above work is the only one which attempts in the church, and the incautious lowering of the "PROPHET/a LIGHTS . has been issued in litho- to give a full elucidation of this great subject in standard of pure Christianity to accomodate the paper covers, and also handsomely bound in cloth. the light of prophecy fulfilled and fulfilling. It heathen element, developed the Papacy, which is no fanciful nor fanatical work : but its argu- was simply a new phase of paganism. It shows See address at end of page. ments are such as to commed themselves to the that by the time of Constantine every phase of mind of every consistent logician ; the evidences the Papacy was fully developed, and was only brought forward are sufficient for every one who waiting for supreme power. believes and loves God's Word. It is a death Cloth extra, substantially bound, contains 392 A VALUABLE MEDICAL BOOK blow to Universalism and ultra-Calvinism. Its pages. proofs of prophecies fulfilled shake the doubts of FOR A LOW PRICE. infidels ; its solemn truths and warnings arrest See address at end of page. the sinner, and its clear and forcible exposition of Revealed Truths delights, comforts, and strengthens the Christian. Some of the sub- TEN LECTORES divisions of the work are as follows :_ Connection with Prophecy ; Exposition of Dan. ---01,7 — A WORD FOR THE SABBATH ) 8 ; the Year-day Principle ; Dan. 8 explained by Dan. 9 ; the Seventy Weeks ; What is the —OR,— NASAL CATARRH. Sanctuary ; the Temple ; the Sanctuary Offered by Ezekiel ; the New Covenant Sanctuary • FALSE THEORIES EXPOSED. Its Nature, Causes, Prevention and Cure, and Ministration of the Sanctuary ; Cleansing the Diseases of the Throat, Eye and Ear, due Earthly Sanctuary ; Ministration of Heavenly to Nasal Catarrh ; with a chapter of BY U. SMITH. Sanctuar ; the Priesthood of Christ ; a work of Judgment; Finishing of the Mystery of God; the CHOICE PRESCRIPTIONS, Atonement; the Tenth Day of the Seventh This is a poetic monograph upon the Sabbath —BY-- Month ; the Scapa-Goat ; the End of Sin, etc,. Question, treating it metrically in seven chapters, under the respective headings of " Truth and .1. H. KELLOGG, M.D., See address at end of page. Error "—The Sabbath Instituted at Creation— Superintendent of the largest Medical and Surgical Sanitarium The Sabbath a Memorial—The Sabbath Not in the World. Abolished—Apostolic Example—Sabbath and Sunday—Vain Philosophy. The work consists of 120 pages, and is em- This little lyric pretty thoroughly canvasses bellished with a coloured frontispiece and six HISTORY the entire ground of this important subject. beautifully coloured plates, besides many illus- OF THE SABBATH Numerous texts of Scripture are referred to, trative cuts of the Throat and Nasal Cavity in —AND— which are given in the margin. health and disease. This little book is having THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, It is a very enjoyable book, and few persons a large sale. will begin the poem without reading the entire See address at end of page. From Creation to the Present Time. In Two work. Parts—Biblical and Secular, See address at end of page. NE'W EDITION x By the late JOHN NEVINS ANDREWS, . Of Basle, Switzerland. The leading subject of the day is THE SAB- THOUGHTS ON DANIEL BIBLE READINGS BATH QUESTION. From the pulpit and the press, in social circles and legislative halls, the —AND THE— FOR THE HOME CIRCLE., great demand of the hour is that the Sabbath be more strictly observed. The above work ther- COMPRISES 162 READINGS oughly discusses the Sabbatic Institution in its REVEI_JATION. For Public and Private Study, and answers various phases. This volume is nearly 3,000 Questions on Religious Topics, A MINE OF INFORMATION Practical, Historical, and Prophetic. CRITICAL AND PRACTICAL, on the Sabbath question. It treats the subject from the Biblical and Historical stand-point. All BY U. SMITH. The Readings are contributed by more than a score of Bible students; and give brief, pointed the passages of Scripture in both Old and New answers to the questions, quoting directly from Testaments which have any bearing on the sub- Tam is a new edition of these works, especially the Scriptures, from history, and the writings of ieot are carefully and critically examined. The prepared for the Bible student. It gives an ex- eminent commentators of modern times. It em- various steps by which the change from the position of the chapters verse by verse, with braces readings on the subjects of Conversion, Seventh to the First Day was made, and the final comments and historical extracts, showing the Sanctification, Temperance, Social Purity, Justi- Sabbath reform, are considered in detail. The past fulfilment of prophecy, and presenting some fication by Faith, Faith Healing, the Atonement, work also presents general specifications which must find their ful- the Judgment, History of Satan, the Law of God, THE COMPLETE TESTIMONY OF THE FATHERS fitment in the future history of nations, and the Second Coming of Christ, the Millennium, bearing upon the present attitude of European Home of the Saved, and numerous readings on in reference to the Seventh and First Day of the powers relative to the Eastern Question. 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PRESENT TRUTH. enforce the scheme of union. Now Guatemala A LITTLE book against the Sabbath of the THE is convulsed with revolt against the Govern- Lord, which recently came under our notice, "And, behold, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me ment in its capital. A writer in one of the contained the remarkable statement that Jesus to give every man according as his work shall be."—Rev. 22 :12. reviews sees in this " exactly what would hap- was obliged to abolish the seventh-day Sab- LONDON, AUGUST 14, 1890. pen if in Europe the Powers were to propose bath, which it is acknowledged was the orig- to form a Federal Union on the basis of the inal Sabbath from creation, because the Phari- territorial status quo." sees had so loaded it down with traditions and CONTENTS. vain ceremonies, and had perverted it from its Rest after Labour (Poetry), ELixA. H. MORTON, . . 257 right use. It probably never occurred to the . . . . 257 THE Christian ought never to be discouraged. Sorrow that brings Comfort, D. s., writer that the heathen had "changed the Believing in Christ, A. W. ROTHWIILL, • . . . 268 His joy and hope are not affected by outward truth of God into a lie," and " changed the "An Hour with God," J. M. HOPKINS, . . . . 268 circumstances. Sin within is the only thing Nature's Ministry, Mits. E. G. 'WHIM . . . . 259 that can bring discouragement, and we need glory of the uncorruptible God into an image The Secret of a Happy Day (Poetry), . . . . 269 made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and Faith and Opinions, R. F. COTTIMILL, . . . . 259 not carry this burden a moment. " If any A Short Talk with a Baptist, W. A. CotcoaD, . . 259 man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, fourfooted beasts, and creeping things." Rom. Jasper, 260 1: 23, 25. Suppose he should apply his Sab- Jesus Christ the righteous." And " if we con- The Value of Water, 280 bath logic in this Which was the Fool 7 260 fess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive -case ? Would he have God The Wrath of God, 260 us our sins, and to cleanse us from all un- abolish His truth because men have perverted The Blessed Hope, 280 it ? Very likely, for that is what he claims that 280 righteousness." Then comes the rest and Theory and Practice, God has done with the Sabbath. But would Palissy, the Protestant Potter, 261 peace in Christ. Of Him the prophet said, Depressing 262 " He shall not fail nor be discouraged." To he have God abdicate His throne, and cease Travelling Stones, 262 to exist, simply because men have perverted China's greatest Curse (Poetry), 262 every disciple the Captain of our salvation says, For Thy Brother's Good, M. o. w 262 " I will not fail thee, nor forsake the. Be His worship, and mingled human tradition and What I Lost by Signing, 263 strong and of a good courage." superstition with it ? It is a strange idea of From Twelve to Twenty-one, 283 God that makes Him so dependent upon the Outraged Nature, 263 Consumption of Ether in Ireland, 283 action of men that He is obliged to abolish Inquiry on Tuberculosis, 283 NEWS was received from Zanzibar last week any precept which they may disregard. Will Land Deluged with Rum and Gin, 263 that the Sultan has promulgated an edict He not rather vindicate Himself and His truth Obedience, D. A. B., 264 which provides for the gradual extinction of by punishing those wicked men ?—Signs of The Spirit as a Guido, E. J. NT , 264 Sunday and Sabbath 265 slavery in his domains in the course of a few the Times. The Life Everlasting, u s., 265 years' time. Beginning with the first of August A Vint to Austria, L 5. c , 266 all traffic in human beings is made a criminal M. GIFFARD, a French engineer, exhibited Good Motives, a C. T 267 last month in England a new weapon which Instructive Questions and Answers, w. A. S., . . 267 offence. The slaves of present owners are Roman Catholic Ceremonies of Heathen Origin, u. s., 268 free upon the death of the owner without law- promises to supplant even the use of smokeless The Jews in Russia, 268 ful children, or, otherwise, may pass only to powder in the coming war. The gun is charged " Rome Never Changes," 268 with liquefied carbonic acid gas. It is said Only (Poetry), . , 268 children of owners now living. Any slave Norway, H. P. Houma, 268 may purchase his freedom, and has an ac- that " there is no smoke, no noise, no recoil, Denmark, 289 knowledged right to appeal to the judicial no smell, no heat " upon discharge, and the 289 Letter from Egypt, courts. In this respect we may hope for explosive is one of the moat powerful known. Camp-meetings in America, 269 Canada, 269 much from European intercourse with Africa, At the cost of one penny 250 bullets can be Backsliding (Bible-reading), 269 but unfortunately we cannot be so sanguine as fired, and at the rate of about a hundred a Interesting Items, 270 regards the bondage of intemperance into minute. The most deadly contrivance is the Obituary, 270 Editorial Notes etc. 272 which this intercourse has plunged far too one that commands the highest price in the many of the natives of Africa. Here is a market at the present time. An American firm bought the American rights for £200,000. terrible harvest to be reaped. " LET thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. Ponder the MEMOIRS OF MIGHTY MEN. By Rev. J. J. path of thy feet, and all thy ways shall be THE cry for laws to enforce the observance Ellis. (Alfred Holness, 14, Paternoster Row.) ordered aright. Turn not to the right hand of Sunday in the West, has its echo in the —We have received six numbers of this ex- nor to the left." Prov. 4 :26-27, margin. East. Brother A. La Rue sends from the cellent series of pamphlets, giving thus far the office of our Society in Hong Kong a copy of lives of Bunyan, Robert Moffat, Livingstone, a Hong Kong paper containing a leading Luther, Knox, and John Wesley. Each num- THE seventh annual meeting of the Central article on the movement which has been set ber is well illustrated, contains 64 pp., and is a very large pennyworth. European Conference of Seventh-day Advent- on foot to secure the prohibition of Sunday ists will be held in connection with the camp- labour in the Hong Kong harbour. And now DURING the remaining part of August and meeting which will be held in Oberwil, near a London paper tells of a captain who refused September the Sunday-evening service in the Basel, Switzerland. The meeting begins Aug. to allow his cargo to be touched on Sunday. Athenaeum, Camden-road, N., will be discon- 19, and continues till the 26th. We shall ex- The fact that Sunday is not the Sabbath of tinued. Service as usual Saturday morning pect to hear of a profitable and encouraging the Lord does not prevent our respecting a at 11 o'clock. The evening service will be meeting. man who is willing to act on his convictions resumed Sunday, October 5th. at a loss to himself. But The News makes THE Home Missionary for July gives the the absurd plea that "it is hardly fair" that a THE PRESENT TRUTH: monthly summary of the work done by book shipowner who thus encourages his crew to canvassers in various fields of labour in Europe, A SIXTEEN-PAGE, RELIGIOUS PERIODICAL, respect the Sunday " should suffer in the com- PUBLISHED FORTNIGHTLY. Australia, and America during June. 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