g, Sanctify them through thy truth ; thy Word is truth." John 17 : 17.

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yet in less than two years, the gospel found its way bonds, that the attention of the court had been (Ja ani IMO of flu Zino. from the prisoner's lowly home into the imperial attracted to Christianity. It was as a captive that ISSUED SF,MI-MONTHLY halls. Paul is in bonds as an evil-doer ; but " the he had conquered rulers. It was with, his chain that for the word of God is not bound." he had broken from so many souls the bonds that ALI S'T`RALASI.A.N BRANCHES held them in the slavery of sin. Nor was this all. of the Among the saints who send greetings to the Philippian church, the apostle mentions chiefly them He declares ; " And many of the brethren in the International Tract and Missionary Society. Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much —4.— that are of Csar's household. Nowhere could there exist an atmosphere more uncongenial to Chris- more bold to speak the word without fear." FOR IMPRINT AND TERMS, SEE LAST PAGE. tianity than in the Roman court under such a monster The patience and meekness with which he sub- mitted to a long and unjust imprisonment drew at- UREAY70N. of wickedness as then stood at its head. Nero seemed to have obliterated from his soul the last tention, and forced the conviction upon many minds THE spacious firmament on high, trace of the Divine, and even of the human, and to that where there was such a willingness to suffer, With all the blue, ethereal sky, bear only the impress of the Satanic. His attend- there must be an unwavering faith in the doctrines And spangled heavens, a shining frame, ants and courtiers were in general of the same advocated. His cheerfulness under affliction -and Their great Original proclaim ; imprisonment was so unlike the spirit of the unfortu- Th' unwearied sun, from day to day character as himself, fierce, debased, and corrupt. To nate and afflicted of the world, that they could not Does his Creator's power display, all appearance it would be impossible for Christianity And publishes to every land to gain a foot-hold in the court and palace of Nero. but see that a power higher than any earthly influ- The work of an almighty hand. Yet in this case, as in so many others, was proved ence was ever abiding with him. His courage and Soon as the evening shades prevail, the truth of Paul's assertion, that the weapons of faith were a continual sermon. And by his example, The moon takes up the wondrous tale ; his warfare were "mighty through God to the pull- other Christians were nerved to greater energy. And nightly, to the listening earth, ing down of strongholds." Trophies of the cross They felt that they would not be losers in becoming Repeats the story of her birth : were won, even in Nero's household. From the vile the advocates of truth and pushing forward the work While all the stars that round her burn, from which Paul was temporarily withdrawn. In And all the planets in their turn, attendants of a viler king were gained converts who Confirm the tidings as they roll, became sons of God. These were not Christians these ways were the apostle's bonds influential, so And spread the truth from pole to pole. secretly, but openly. They were not ashamed of that when to all appearance he could do the least, What though in solemn silence, all their faith. They felt the warmest affection for when his power and usefulness seemed cut off, then Move round the dark terrestrial ball? those who were older in Christian faith and ex- it was that he was gathering sheaves for Christ in What though no real voice nor sound perience, and they were not afraid or ashamed to fields from which he seemed wholly excluded. Amid their radiant orbs be found ? acknowledge them as brethren. The mysterious providences over which we so In reason's ear they all rejoice, often lament, are designed of God to accomplish a And utter forth a glorious voice, And by what means was an entrance achieved Forever singing as they shine, and a firm footing gained for Christianity where work which otherwise might never have been done. "The hand that made us is divin even its admission seemed impossible ? In former The Christian who manifests patience and cheerful- —Addison. ' years the apostle had publicly proclaimed the faith ness under bereavement and suffering, who meets of Christ with winning power ; and by signs and death with the peace and calmness of an unwavering miracles he had given unmistakable evidence of its faith, may accomplish far more toward overcoming divine character. With noble firmness he rose up be- the opposition of the enemies of the gospel than he CAESAR'S HOUSEHOLD. fore the sages of Greece, and by his knowledge and could have effected, had he labored with his utmost eloquence put to silence the arguments of proud energy day and night to bring them to repentance. MRS. E. G. WHITE. philosophy. With undaunted courage he had stood Let no one feel that because he is no longer able THE gospel has ever achieved its greatest success' before kings and governors, and reasoned of right- to labor openly and actively for God and his truth, among the humbler classes. " Not many wise men eousness, temperance, and judgment to come, until he has no service to render, no reward to secure. A after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, the haughty rulers trembled as though already be- true Christian is never laid aside. God will use him are called." It could not be expected that Paul, a holding the terrors of the day of God. But no such effectually in health and in sickness, in life and in poor and friendless prisoner, would be able to gain opportunities were now granted the apostle, confined death. It is in the darkness of affliction, bereave- the attention of the wealthy and titled classes of as he was to his own dwelling, and able to proclaim ment, trial, and persecution, that the light of Roman citizens. Their whole life—physical, mental, the truth only to those who sought him there. He Christian faith shines brightest, and the Lord's and moral—was on a different plane from his. To had not, like Moses and Aaron, a divine command promises are found most precious. And when the them vice presented all its glittering allurements, to go before the profligate king with the rod of God, grave receives the child of God, he being dead yet and held them willing captives. But among the toil- and demand his attention, and in the name of the speaketh. The memory of his words of admonition worn, want-stricken victims of their oppression, even great I AM rebuke his cruelty and oppression. and encouragement, of his steadfast adherence to the among the poor slaves, many gladly listened to the In his epistle to the Philippians, Paul ascribes to truth under all circumstances, speaks more power- words of Paul, and found in the faith of Christ a his own imprisonment his success in bringing con- fully than even his living example. hope and peace which cheered them under the hard- verts to the faith from Nero's household. He ex- Patience as well as courage has its victories. ships of their lot. presses himself as fearful lest the Philippians have Converts may be made by meekness in trial, no less Yet while the apostle's work began with the thought that his afflictions have impeded the prog- than by boldness in enterprise. If Christians would humble and lowly, its influence extended, until it ress of the gospel. He assures them that the con- be reconciled to the apparent suspension of their reached the very palace of the emperor. Rome was trary effect has been produced : " I would ye should usefulness, and would cheerfully rest from the strife, at this time the metropolis of the world. The understand, brethren, that the things which happened and lay off the burden of labor, they would learn haughty Cwsars were giving laws to nearly every unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance sweet lessons at the feet of Jesus, and would see nation upon the earth. King and courtier were of the gospel ; so that my bonds in Christ are that their Master is using them as effectively, when either wholly ignorant of the humble Nazarine, or manifest in all the palace, and in all other places." they seem to be withdrawn from employment, as they regarded him with hatred and derision. And It was not by the sermons of Paul, but by his when in more active labor. 34 BIBLE ECHO AND SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 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THE HOTTENTOTS AND KAFIRS OF The latter much resembles the seed of the sugar-cane THE SIGNIFICATION OF BAPTISM. SOUTH AFRICA. both in the form of the grain and the manner of growth. It may be cooked in the same way as the WM. COVERT. CHAS. L. BOYD. maize, either being ground, or the grain kept JESUS demanded baptism of John before he en- ABOUT three centuries ago, South Africa was whole and eaten .as rice. Until the wicked and cruel tered upon his public ministry. At first, the request inhabited principally by a race of people now known introduction of liquor by the white man, the Kafirs was refused, bet Jesus stated that it was necessary as Hottentots. This term embraces a large number were a temperate people, water or milk being their on the ground that he must fulfill all righteousness. of tribes and petty divisions which closely resemble common drink. They also make a kind of beer which There is something about baptism relating to each other. In complexion they are like the Chinese ; possesses but a very small per cent. of alcohol, and righteousness, or Christ would not have urged its the hue is very similar to that of a person suffering tends rather to fatten than to intoxicate. necessity upon the grounds which he did. After his with the jaundice. They are small in stature, and Virtue is regarded very sacredly by both men and resurrection from the dead, Christ gave a commission are greatly inferior to the Kafir nation, by whom women, before they are corrupted by the whites, to his disciples, in which lie said to theM, "Go ye into they were conquered and dispossessed of their lands. whom they regard as their superiors. Had the all the world, and preach the gospel to every crea- The face of the Hottentot is very peculiar. The Christians followed the virtues of the heathen, ture. He that believeth and is baptized shall be cheek "bones are high, and'covered with but little flesh, instead of corrupting them with their immorality, saved ; but he that believeth not shall be damned." over which the skin is drawn tightly. This peculiar- less of sin would stand against them in the Judg- Mark 16 : 15, 16. ity is not so much noticed in children as in those of ment, where it will all have to be met. • The first meeting held by these disciples under the older years ; but in later youth and early manhood authority thus delegated to them, occurred at Jeru- it gives the appearance of old age. The Hottentot salenVon the day of Pentecost. It is reported in race is not noted for intellect ; they readily accept FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY. Acts, the second chapter. The preaching of Peter the vices of the whites, but have made little use of on this occasion was with wonderful power. This their virtues. S. McCULLAGH. resulted in the conviction of a great multitude of sin- The Kafirs are a remarkably interesting race of WHILE the subject of prophecy and its fulfillment ners. When the Spirit of God pierced their hearts, natives. As to their origin, I will say nothing is not altogether discarded, yet a vibration of unbelief they cried out and said unto Peter and the rest of positively. It seems most probable that they are flashes through the minds of many when it is said, the apostles, •` Men and brethren, what shall we do ? the descendants of Asiatics who migrated to Africa, Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized " This day is this scripture 'fulfilled in your ears." and mingled with the black races of "the dark con- every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the The past can be believed, and the future credited, but tinent." The Kafir is dark, but not black. There remission of sins, and_ye shall receive the gift of the the present I "Well, we can hardly believe." is a reddish tinge mingled with the black, of which Holy Ghost." Acts 2 : 37, 38. Tnere is another Many seem to entertain the idea that if prophecy he is particularly fond. Some of their chiefs are instance in which the object of baptism is quite were fulfilled in our own day, every one would witness supposed to have had so much power that they could clearly stated. It is found in Paul's narrative of it whether they desired it so or otherwise. Now it is have been born white had they chosen, but their his own baptism. The apostle says that when An- possible for most important prophecies to be fulfilled present color was preferred. Their hair is black and anias came to him, he said, " Why tarriest thou ? before our very eyes, yet we not recognize it. How curly, but not so woolly as that of the negroes. can we know " when shall these things be " unless Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, cad- Their lips are, in thickness, between those of the ing on the name of the Lord." Acts 22 : 16. we are diligent students of the " sure word of European and the negro. They are tall, with well- The object in quoting these texts is to inquire into prophecy"? 2 Pet. 1 : 19. built bodies, straight limbs, an intelligently shaped the relation which baptism sustains to the remission The Saviour's life and work accomplished the ful- head and forehead, and a pleasant expression of of. sins. The word " remission " has two sign ifica- fillment of prophecy at almost every step from the countenance. Unlike the Hottentot, the Kafir re- tions in the Scriptures. When used with reference manger to Calvary. It is prophecy and its fulfill- tains the freshness of youth to a remarkable degree to the blotting out of sins in the Judgment, it is ment that gives us unbounded faith in the inspira- into the years of old age. aphesis, which is defined by Young as •` a sending tion of the Sacred Scriptures. The young men are noted for their swiftness away." It has this definition in Acts 2 : 38. But of foot. Soon after coining to Africa, I was riding After the temptation in the wilderness, the first in Rom. 3 : 25, the word " remission " is used with with a friend, who, by the way, was a fast driver, sermon preached by our Lord was on the fulfillment reference to justification. The text in the Author- through a village where a large number of Kafirs of prophecy. " Jesus came into Galilee, preaching, ized Version says of Christ, that he is " set forth to reside. An athletic young fellow arose from his seat, . . . . and saying, The time is fulfilled." Mark 1 : be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to de- and ran leisurely along the side of the road, keeping 14, 15. " He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath clare his righteousness for the remission of sins.that just abreast of our horses. The driver urged the day, . . . and their was delivered unto him the book are past, through the forbearance of God." The horses to the top of their speed, but the athlete of the prophet Isaiah," and he examined a line of marginal reading fo-r " remission " is passing over. kept his place at the proper distance from their side. prophecy in their hearing. (See Luke 4: 16-20.) This is in full harmony with the Revised Version. Soon he commenced to pass around us with all seem- His hearers were delighted " at the gracious words But further, I will say that it is in line with the ing.ease, until, falling in reach of the heavy whip of which proceeded out of his mouth." All went well whole gospel theme of justification. our driver, he was taught that it is not wisdom to until the key-note was struck, and the prophecy ap- If we have access to God by faith, and if peace show himself superior to a white man's horses. plied. " And lie began to say unto them, This day is with God is given us by faith, and we, are justified In their native state, their temperate habits, active this scripture fulfilled in your ears." Verse 21. At by faith, and become the children of God by out-door life, and simple diet keep them in almost first his audience was delighted ; but when he applied faith, and obtain righteousness through faith, and perfect health, They live to a very old age, and the prophecy to their day and generation, it was more stand accepted of God through faith, why, then, then die as the clock stops, because run down. than their stubborn hearts could endure. '' And all should we yet be baptized for the remission of sins ? Grain may be said to be "the staff of life" of the they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, The answer is that the word " remission," when Kafir. I will mention two ways of preparing it that were filled with wrath, and rose up, and thrust him associated with baptism, does not have any reference are common among them. It is placed in a pot, out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the to our primary acceptance with God, or to the par- and sufficiently boiled. Next it is placed on a large hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast don that we receive when our sins are passed over flat stone, prepared for this purpose by being made him down headlong." Verses 28,29. They could in forgiveness. Sins are forgiven before they are a little hollowing on the top. An oval stone is now not believe that such remarkable prophecy could be blotted out or washed away. On this proposition rolled back and forth, under the weight, and propelled fulfilled, and so few know it. Yet that very day please examine the parable of the Saviour given in by the power, of a strong native woman. A skin was fulfilled the prophecy (Isa. 61) which had= been Matt. 18 : 23-35. Here you will find a man owing has been placed at one side, which may be a little uttered seven hundred years before, and the very 10,000 talents arrested for the debt; But he is lower than-the other sides, into which this pudding people who should have been best acquainted with utterly unable to pay his creditor. He pleads for is worked as it is sufficiently ground. This seems to these things were in absolute ignorance. mercy, and it is granted. It is stated that " the closely resemble the grinding so often mentioned in And so it is to-day. Prophecy is being fulfilled lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and the Bible. In another process of grinding, a mortar in our own generation, which will culminate in the loosed him and forgave him the debt." This debt is is prepared by digging a hole in the end of a log. revelation of the Son of man in the clouds of heaven. forgiven by loosing the man from it, that it may be In this the corn is beaten with a pestle. Comparatively few understand our position in the passed over. The debt is not blotted out, but for the The threshing, grinding, and cooking are done by world's history. The prophetic word opens to our time the man is freed from it. He is justified from the women. If a woman has a small child, it is gaze the eventful future, and by this alone will the it through the clemency and love of his creditor. It strapped to her back, and seems to give her but little child of God understand his position and obey the is nevermore to bind him if he lives after the mind inconvenience. The women are equally well formed, warning call to purity of life and action, " and of his lord in the future. But this he is expected to strong, and healthy with the men. escape all these things that shall come to pass, do. Yet in the parable the man who manifested Two kinds- of grain are in common use among the and stand before the Son of man." Luke 21 : such wonderful compassion was disappointed in the Kafirs,—maize, or Indian corn, and Gaffir corn. 34-36. one whom lie had forgiven. Soon the sad new. FEBRUARY 1, 1891. BIBLE ECHO AND SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 35

was brought to him that the one to whom he had of the Sabbath and the manner .of its observance. hide covered with patches of mud and deep red smears been so gracious had arrested and treated in a very How, then, could even Christians unite on a law of blood. Gradually the rain ceased, and the wind harsh manner a fellow-servant, because the man was touching this matter? . . . What may be called the died away. With the first glimpse of dawn in the owing him a small pittance. It was when this in- statute laws of God (such as we have enumerated) village, there was creaking front the small square cane telligence was conveyed to the king that he caused are for the individual to receive and define ; and be- doors of the huts, as they were removed one by one, the man to be arrested again for the same debt, al- cause they are for individual judgment, they cannot and dark, manly figures, with long spears in their though it had once been forgiven ; and finally be enforced by the nation. If it were attempted, hands,.stepped forth and stretched themselves, after he had to answer for it all just as though it had each Christian and Jewish sect would have its own their night's heavy sleep. never been forgiven. special form to advocate, and even the individuals of After hastily arranging their scanty loin-cloths of This lesson is given to illustrate how God is to the same sect would be divided in the preparation of beaten bark, the men all started into the dark woods manage the affairs of his kingdom. If we will take the laws. to see if any elephant had been wounded by the these scriptures and combine them into one lesson, What ! Shall we then lose our Sabbath ?—Yes, traps. The party entered the forest in single file, we can readily discover that man is accepted throligh if it is to depend on human law. It would be a sad but soon divided into small companies and set off in faith in Jesus Christ, and that a new life begins thing to have our Sabbath like the other days of the different directions. Ioko took an entirely different there, but that there is yet an important point for week. Every Christian would mourn over such an route from the others, and when about two miles him to pass before he is confirmed in an eternal exist- issue. But far better that than the formalistic Sab- from the village he halted suddenly, snapped his ence, and made equal to the angels of heaven. bath that would be ours by legal enforcement, and fingers, and placed his hand over his open mouth, This point is the Judgment. In the Judgment, the the utter overthrow of individual rights, which would saying to himself in a low tone : " Look at this sins of his whole life will all be blotted out, or else be its prominent factor. The Sabbath as a religious elephant track I See what a path is here 1 " He they will stand against him. Upon this point the day is for tile individual Christian and the church followed the trail for some time, until within view of prophet Ezekiel wrote as follows : " When the of Christ. It is a day of privilege and spiritual the trap he had set the previous day, when his ex- citement became intense ; for he found the spear was righteous turneth away from his riallteousness, and significance, to be prized and faithfully used by each committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the godly heart. Used by such, it will be indeed a holy gone, and the grass and leaves beneath the snare abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he day, but enforced by national law, it will be a soul- were covered with blood. Without hesitation, he - live ? All his righteousness that he bath done shall less form, a hollow mockery, displeasing to God and followed tile blood-stained tracks, until he ap- proached the great ant-hill, near which he stopped a not be mentioned ; in his trespass that he bath tres- promotive of hypocrisy.—Christian at Work. passed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them moment to extract a thorn from his foot. He was shall he die." Eze. 18 : 24. startled by a deep groan, and, cautiously stepping The reader will understand from these scriptures forward, he saw his prey leaning its unwieldy form A TUSK OF IVORY. that it is possible for an individual who has once en- against the mound. " Lo-o-o I It is the evil one, joyed the pardon of his sins, to fall away and be lost. Litoi Linene ! " (Big Ears) gasped Ioko to him- When this is the case, all pardon is cancelled, and SILENT and almost motionless, quite hidden in self, excitedly. Silently watching the animal, to he has to answer finally for all the sins of his life. the darkness, stood the huge form of an old bull decide in his own mind upon the best mode of spear- If he lives a faithful life in Christ, all his sins will elephant, one of whose tusks had been damaged in ing him in a vital part, he firmly gripped his heavy be blotted out in the Judgment by the blood of Christ. his youth and had become totally decayed. His head spear, the haft of which was fully eight feet long, Peter referred to this gospel truth when he exhorted was bent forward in order to rest his one monster and stepped softly forward until within reach of the his hearers : " Repent ye therefore, and be converted, tusk upon the ground, his trunk, loosely coiled left shoulder of the unconscious animal. With that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of between his fore-legs, was also resting on the ground, steady nerve he poised his weapon, and with a refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord." and his great ragged ears flapped spasmodically in mighty plunge drove the keen-bladed spear deep vain endeavors to shake off the myriads of mosquitoes Acts 3 ; 19. Every stain of sin is to be removed, into the elephant's heart, and sprang away among the that persistently hovered around his head. Suddenly not only from the soul, but from the books which trees. With a shrill, trumpeting cry of pain, Litoi faithful angels have kept as well. Through faith the the forest was lit up by a most vivid flash of light- Linene staggered to his feet, swayed forward, heart is purified now ; but in the Judgment all evi- ning, followed an instant afterward by a crashing peal quivered, and fell to the ground lifeless. Ioko, after of thunder. The elephant raised his head with a dences of guilt recorded against those who shall be waiting a few moments to satisfy himself that the saved, are removed, startled jerk, his huge limbs shaking with fear. animal was dead, calmly stepped forth and raised a Almost before the rumbling echoes of the thunder cry that echoed through the woods, and which soon Faith and confession have to do with particular had died away, the rain, that had been threatening brought several of his companions to the spot. - or individual sins. Baptism relates to the whole for so many hours, fell in torrents. Flashes of Without any further sign of excitement, he quietly body of sins of a lifetime. It is also used as a figure lightning succeeded each other so rapidly that the busied himself in cutting his barbed spear from the to represent our union with Christ : " For as many attendant peals of thunder were converted into one carcass. He then examined the one large tusk and of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on continuous roar, and the violence of the wind soon the decayed stump of its fellow, remarking to his Christ." Gal. 3 : 27. It is in this ordinance that we increased to a veritable tornado—a tropical hurricane. companions, who were now arriving, "Now the evil openly receive his name. In this act we are con- Trees were blown down and uprooted on all sides of spirit is dead. Litoi Linene will lead no more nected with believers in Christ. " For by one Spirit the terrified elephant, who remained for some time elephants to our plantations." are we all baptized into one body." 1 Cor. 12 : 13. motionless with fear, but, as the tempest continued, In a very short time the scene became inde- All who enter this sacred union should reckon them- the monster became suddenly panic-stricken, and scribable. Excited men with sharp knives com- selves as dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God. charged madly through the dense forest, stumbling menced cutting lumps of meat from the still warm Being thus united, they are to bring forth fruit unto and falling over the trunks of uprooted trees in his carcass, and throwing them to the eager women and holiness, and in Christ receive everlasting life. endeavors to gain some open patch where there children, who crowded around with baskets, quarrel- would be no danger of being crushed by tile falling ling like wild animals over the possession of each timber. Tile lurid flashes of lightning revealed the piece of flesh that was thrown among them. The DR. HOWARD CROSBY ON SABBATH frightened animal with coiled trunk and head bent savages' hearts were filled with joy at the prospect LAWS. low, blindly smashing a way through the dense woods. of a huge feast. That night, under cover of the Suddenly, in the midst of a mad rush, the elephant darkness, Ioko, all alone, buried the one heavy tusk THE Sabbath as a religious day cannot be en- sank to the ground with a sharp squeal of pain. of Litoi Linene in a swamp far from the village, so forced by law by a government which invites men of The poor brute had severed the vines that supported one that only he himself knew of the place of conceal- every form of religion to equal privileges. This of the traps that had been arranged the previous day, ment. He hid the tusk according to the tribal cus- fundamental principle must be sustained, or the basis and a heavily weighted spear was plunged between tom ; for in the Aruwimi districts the- people of of our liberties is gone. Short-sighted people_ say, his shoulders. For some moments the wounded neighboring villages are seldom good friends, and " Is not the Sabbath commanded by God ? and must animal remained motionless, then the great body they all have a habit of attacking each other at odd we not therefore enforce its observance ?" They rolled slowly from side to side in vain endeavor to times in order to capture men, women, and children fail to see the false conclusion. God has com- free himself from the spear ; but the weapon was for cannibal purposes. As tusks of ivory have an manded very much that no human law can or ought barbed, and the points had penetrated too deeply to acknowledged value equal to that of a human being, to enforce. He has commanded the reading of his be shaken off. After many efforts the animal at it is customary for the members of each village to Word, the collections for the saints, the withdrawal last got on his legs again and staggered a short conceal in the forests as many tusks as they can ob- from the unbelieving, and tile avoidance of excess in distance through the forest, until, growing rapidly tain, so that they may be in a position to redeem, if living ; but what human government could or should weaker from loss, of blood, he stopped to rest and permitted, any of their companions who may be un- enforce these commandments ? Furthermore, these leaned the weight of his body against a large ant-hill, fortunate enough to fall into time hands of their short-sighted people do not remember that Misr- breathing .heavily and groaning deeply in agony. hostile neighbors.—Mr. Herbert Ward, in Scrib- tians themselves differ in regard to the obligations Here he remained, exhausted, until daybreak, his ner'a Magazine. 86 BIBLE ECHO AND SIGNS OF THE TIMES. Vol. 6, No. 3.

IMPORTANCE OF SCRIPTURE STUDY. The fearful consequences to the human race of UNPREPARED. No. 6. man's transgression, let the world's sad history tell D. LACEY. in the sorrow, sickness, and death which have been WE physicians, said Doctor Blank, lately, have THE Scriptures alone reveal to us the one al- rife all through the ages, and are still, in our own many glimpses of tragedy in our daily rounds. mighty, eternal God, the Creator and Governor of day, a fearful factor in the sum of this life, with The most pitiful one that I remember was the death- the universe, and our own place and purpose in the the still more awful possibility—nay certainty, in bed of a lad, a member of the junior class in a universe, our fallen condition, the cause of that fallen the case of all who fail to take the- light of God's certain college, who had been thrown from his horse condition, and the one means by which alone the ul- Word for their guide—of eternal death hereafter. and fatally hurt. timate end of our creation may be realized,—God Has not Scripture pointed out all this in language He was a large, vigorous man, and had always glorified in and by us, and ourselves, not only saved which all may fully understand? possessed superb health. Probably he had never from perishing, but in possession of eternal life and How truly impossible is it, then, for us to over- thought of the possibility of death for himself. His all the unspeakable joy and happiness such life alone estimate the enormous value of the treasure we have hurt was internal. It gave him no pain, and he can give. It is all this which makes the Bible, in the possession of such a revelation as is contained spoke jocosely of his " slight accident." It was my above and beyond all other books, the sublimest, in Scripture, bringing to light the plan of the duty to tell him that he had not an hour to live. In the most intensely, the most profoundly interesting Almighty in view of the sadly changed condition in one moment- the boy had to give up friends, home, study, in comparison with which all else is but the veri- which sin has placed us and our race. With what the thousand pursuits and hopes which filled his mind, est foolishness and rubbish. It, and it alone, shows joy and thankfulness ought we to receive that and face death. who and what we are, whence we came, and whither blessed truth, that we may indeed have eternal life An awful silence followed. Some one at his bed our destiny tends ; and how dependent, after all, which is in-Christ. We are assured from Scripture side sobbed out for him to " trust in Jesus." our own destiny is upon our individual acts. that "as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall He turned his head and cried, " Mother, who is It will not be unprofitable briefly to glance at some all be made alive." Jesus T What is he ?" of these questions in the light of God's Word. Having succicntly hinted at the awful results of She tried to answer him, but his brain grew cloudy. Though we, as Christian people, know much of these sin, we might as briefly turn to the brighter side of He did not understand her, and, so unanswered, he things from Scripture, nevertheless more than ever the picture. A study of SCripture demonstrates died. is it well to be put in mind of them, and to mark that the Almighty is indeed a God of love. We They were not heathens. The mother was an reverently the words of the apostle Peter in the first have only to read the history of patriarchs, prophets, intellectual, brilliant woman ; she owned a pew in a chapter of his second epistle. " Wherefore I will andapestles, and we shall find teeming evidence of church, and went to it sometimes, as she conformed not," says that apostle, " be negligent to put you God's divinely loving nature. This immortality, to all other customs of respectable society. She was always in remembrance of these things ; though ye after man's fall, is shadowed forth in the promise of proud and fond of her boy ; she had been in many know them, and be established in the present truth." Christ, who was the seed of the woman that should ways a faithful mother. When he was a child, she Obviously, then, he thought it meet to stir up the bruise the serpent's head ; and who in the fulfillment cared for his digestion, his teeth, his clothes, his Christians of his day by putting them in remembrance of time and God's good purpose, was to come and manners. of the things which concerned their everlasting well- suffer, "the just for the unjust.'' She had herself carefully trained him in math- being ; so we may safely regard it as manifestly im-, Well might the apostle John declare, "In this is ematics to prepare him for a special course in college. possible for us ever to have the solemn consideration manifested the love of God toward us ; because that She had guarded him against improper associates, of the great questions which have relation to our per- God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that and anxiously placed him in " a good set" of com- sonal and everlasting spiritual welfare too deeply im- we might live through him ; " a love demonstrat- panions ; but she had left him to learn of the one pressed upon our minds and hearts. No 1 the fearful, ing beyond doubt that God did not want man to Friend who was to control his whole life here and the fatal danger and tendency is to the neglect of perish, had no pleasure in the death of the hereafter from the chance words of a sermon or the these things, to let them slip. wicked ; but that man, in spite of his rebellion, half-forgotten lessons of a Sunday-school teacher. Into the facts of creation, apart from ourselves, might live, forever. In the train of man's I shall never forget that woman's face as she stood we need not here stay to inquire ; it is sufficient for disobedience follow only, in too natural sequence, looking at her dead son. us to know that we are here in this world. The all- sickness, sorrow, and death, on the one hand ; Christ stands at the door of every household and important problem for us to solve is, What are we here on the other, however, through Christ's sac- knocks. Should not a mother open it for her children, for ? and how best can we secure the end and fulfill rifice and obedience to God's law follow fallen man's that he may come to them?—Youth's Companion. the design God, in man's creation, had in view 9 redemption from the curse of sin and 'condemnation of the law. Then as man's disobedience and sin To Scripture alone we must ever go to find answers BALLASTED CHRISTIANS. to these all-absorbing questions. We turn to the were his own act and deed, by which he lost paradise book of Isaiah, and there find the object of man's and his dominion, and thus, worst of all, eternal life, M. C. WILCOX. creation set forth. In the 43rd chapter, after die sol- it is only in Christ that we can escape the sad conse- BALLAST for ships is generally composed of lead, emn language, " Thus saith the Lord," we find quences of all our sins and transgressions, through pig-iron, slag, stone, or some other heavy material recorded in connection with other things these that obedience, like his, to God's Word and com- of little worth, In fact, the material used as ballast words : " I have created him for my glory; mandment, as hath already been set forth. Then with I have is often absolutely worthless as an article of mer- formed him, yea, I have made him ;" and on turning Christ's sacrifice and death for our past disobedience, chandise. It seems a pity indeed to load down to the epistle to the Ephesians, we find the apostle and through his intercession and atonement for us ship with such worthless matter. Why should it Paul, when referring to his preaching among the only, have we hope. And this, too, be it never for- be cumbered with so many tons of seemingly useless Gentiles " the unsearchable riches of Christ," using gotten, is a contingent one ; not wholly, as some rock ? How buoyantly and gracefully that ship this language : " And to make all men see what is teachers would have us believe, dependent upon faith rode the smooth waters of the harbor after launch- the fellowship of that mystery which from the begin- (leaving nothing in the world for us to do), but upon ing, and how secure and stable she seemed ; why, ning of the world bath been hid in God, who created work also, as the Scripture clearly and distinctly then, the tons of rock 7 all things by Jesus Christ." Then here we see points out in the emphatic and not-to-be-mistaken But,, worthless as are those tons of rock intrin- man, who must of necessity be included in the " all language of Paul to the Romans : " That God will things," created by God, and for what purpose ? render to every man according to his deeds; to them sically, they are absolutely necessary to the safety of For none other, as now demonstrated, than the who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory the ship. Above that graceful, symmetrical hull glory of God, Alas ! then, that man, who, as we and honor and immortality, eternal life; but unto will soon be spread, to the strong winds of the sea learn in the first chapter of Genesis, was created in them that are contentious and do not obey the truth, the ship's broad sails. Those mighty winds would the image of God, to have dominion over all the but obey [that is, work] unrighteousness, indignation upset the proud ship, were it not for the ballast in earth, should so soon, by his transgression of God's and wrath; tribulation and anguish, upon every soul the bottom, Even the well-ballasted ship is some- command, have defaced the one and lost the other ; of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first and also of the times thrown by the strong gale on her beam ends ; and thus himself have frustrated the very purpose Gentile ; but glorl , honor, and peace to every man that but the weight of ballast immediately rights her. which the Almighty in love had designed. That worketh good, to theJew first and also to the Gentile." Were the sea always smooth, the winds fair, the sky man did indeed do this, the account supplied to us Equally emphatic is other language of the same clear, the light-ballasted would ride safely ; but it is by the sixth chapter of Genesis but too amply testi- apostle, when addressing the brethren of the church the staunch craft, heavily ballasted, that weathers fies. The sad words we select from that chapter in at Philippi, to whom he says plainly : " Work out the storm and tempest. proof are these : " And God saw that the wicked- your own salvation with fear and trembling." How Christians are not unlike ships. Some are lightly ness of man was great in the earth, and that were these Philippian saints to do this ? Ob- ballasted. In the inland lake, over smooth waters, every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was viously, like us, by first believing and then obeying in the quiet harbor, before fair, mild winds, they sail only evil continually, and it repented the Lord that the truth. Then as obviously the truth must first peacefully and safely ; but when they enter the wide he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him be known ; and how are we to know what is truth ?— sev, where fierce winds contend for the mastery, how at his heart." Only by diligently and carefully studying God's Word. many careen over by the. blast, fill with water, and PEBRIJARY 1, 1891. SIt3LE ECHO AND SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 37 , go down ! They are just as heavy in one part as in difference ; one probable reason being that custom death blow. At this time there were not far from another. Ballast is needed. has reduced the prejudice against hospitals which 4,000,000 men and women in bondage. They were How many Christians there are who seem bur- exists largely in some parts. But we are certain that ignorant, brutish, and superstitious, as the natural dened with useless material ! Some have unbeliev- the exorbitant and unreasonable charges of the result of their condition. They sighed for liberty, ing friends, who by every effort are hindering them medical profession for ordinary practice is the great but knew not how to use it. in Christian life and work. Some faithful workers reason that drives people to seek the aid of hospital When the law declared them free and equal, they in the cause of God. are burdened with continual and charity. Far a man of common means to employ a were dazed with the sight of their privileges, and prolonged sickness in their families, which draws physician and nurse means financial ruin if he escapes their former masters found themselves facing a continually upon body and mind and heart, seem- physical death ; and perhaps it means both. The momentous question. To receive their chattels on a ingly crippling their energy and work. Others have doctors look enviously at the hospitals, and complain social equality, they could not and would not ; to bodily in firmities—thorns in the flesh--which to human of the "Lodge" system, which is very properly re- murder them they had neither the heart nor power ; wisdom burden and hinder in the work of God. But garded as a humbug by many besides doctors. But to banish them was a task they could not cope with. are these really burdens-? Does God permit them these two institutions are the poor man's only hope After a lapse of twenty-five years, the question has in order to hinder his faithful servants ? for life. When our physicians present their services changed somewhat in feature, but has not lost its for a reasonable consideration, hospitals will have an Nay, verily ; God does not permit trials like these gravity. Many of the colored people have made easier time, domestic nursing will be studied and to hinder his servants. It is not his design that good, use of their opportunities, and have acquired practiced, and families will be taught to bear the they, shall prove useless burdens. It is not wise financial and intellectual standing. But with the burdens they ought to bear in behalf of their loved therefore to murmur against them ; it is not safe to Southern white people, the race prejudices are not ones. try to get rid of them in any other way than God's diminished. The same determined stand is taken to way ; it is not Christian to do otherwise than to draw the color-line, which is an impassable gulf. THE RACE QUESTION IN THE UNITED submit to God and bear them to his glory. Thus- As the colored race gain power and prowesS, they did Paul. After pleading with God that he would STATES. will press the walls of ostracism, and demand the remove the infirmity which troubled him, he received recognition which is assured to them by the Consti- the answer that God's grace was sufficient. THREE distinct races, white men, black men, tution. But to the Southern aristocrat this is the These trials and infirmities are, in the providence and red men, are struggling earnestly with this ques- bitterest gall. The negro question is not on the of God, designed as ballast to our ship. They are tion in the great country named above. With one way to a speedy solution, as is the Indian question. meant to continually keep within us a sense of our of these races it is a question of autocracy, with the The black man was brought to America against his own weakness, and thus bring us nearer to God. other two of mere existence. When, two or three will ; but he is there to stay. He flourishes in the Worthless in themselves, burdens in themselves, they centuries ago, settlements of white men began to find soil, and is equal to the task of self-preservation. are, under God, ballast which will keep us righted place upon the eastern borders of the country, the It would be a happy day for our American neigh- during storm and tempest and, shock of billows. whole continent was peopled, though sparsely, with a bors if they could become quit of their prejudices, and Such Christians may not be noticed particularly in copper-colored race, who, from their resemblance to learn to look upon mankind as God looks upon them, time of fair weather or on the smooth waters of the the inhabitants of the East, were called Indians. and as their own grand avowed principles declare harbor, but in time of storm and trial and tempest, They were a simple people, living in tribes, each them to be—" created free and equal." the staunch-ballasted Christian is the One depended possessing some national characteristics and dis- upon. He sails upright ; he can stand the stress of tinguishing peculiarities. They generally lived SIX MONTHS' RECORD OF CRIME. wind and storm ; he can bear a broad spread of can- peaceable, nomadic lives, supporting life by the vas in strong wind. Despise not the ballast, brethren, chase, by fishing, ,and a few simple agricultural but let it remain, and spread more of the canvas of operations. Fnoar statistics gathered and given by the Evening faith for the winds of God's free grace and power. The inroads of the Europeans soon created jeal- Herald, we present the following figures of the ousies and inspired revenge. The evil concomitants record for the past six months of the criminal courts of civilization, rum and vice, were present to stir up in Melbourne. The jurisdiction embraces only the evil passions; and in many cases the unsophisticated city proper, and does not include any of the suburban wild men were transformed into demons, and com- cities: The number of cases acted upon was 11,013. mitted bloody deeds of massacre. But the land was Of this number 3,069 were cases of drunkenness, HOSPITAL CHARITY. gradually wrested from them; and as they witnessed and the remainder embraces every variety of crime the rapid contraction of their hunting grounds, they known in the calendars of our courts. Offenses IT is true beyond doubt that the charities ex- began "to read their doom in the setting sun." against the person were 288, against good order, tended in our admirable hospital system are greatly Their fate has been inevitable. Civilization can- 2,665. Rowdyism and miscellaneous roguery have come upon us like a flood, and as we witness the imposed upon by greedy persons, who have more not be held chargeable with unlawful usurpation, nor regard, for the money they can save than for the has time Government at any time wittingly dealt out actions of the youth and children who live upon our truth. The late president of the Medical Society of cruelty to time aboriginal race, though they have often footpaths, there seems to be but very little to encour- Victoria claimed that there was good reason for been the victims of individual persecution and age hope for anything better. The youngsters of our believing that fully one half of the patients at our wrong. cities are already heroes in criminal education, and the gaoler will not run out of business at the present hospitals are unworthy of the favors they receive The most powerful of the remnants of their tribes rate of progress. gratuitously ; unworthy because they are fully able are now in revolt; but we apprehend that the Indian to bear the expenses of their own illness. question will soon have been effectually settled, and In other countries that we are acquainted with, the waves of civilizat,on will meet and close over the KING OF HAWAII. where good hospital accommodations are provided, not red man of the American forests. He has resisted more than a very small fraction of the number of the irresistible a long while, and the history of the THE telegraph informs us that King Kalakaua, applications for treatment are ever made that are race furnishes many instances of noble qualities of of the Hawaiian [glands, is dead. Of the particulars pouring in a constant stream into the overcrowded' the untutored mind—many that will, never be of his death not much has reached us. He was on hospitals of the Australian cities. The reason for written. a visit to the United States, and rumors have this is not in the greater amount of sickness that With the fabric of early national life in the United asserted that the cession of his dominions to that prevails; for Australia is blessed with good sanitary States the negro was interwoven as the slave of the government formed the principal object of his conditions, except as they have been perverted by the white man. They were captured and rudely torn journey. But in the midst of this tour he was unwholesome circumstances of human population. from their native land to become a humble element stricken with a fatal malady, blood poisoning, some The difference is this : In the United States, for in the social life of the American States. The Dec- say, Bright's disease, say others, and hastily started instance, cases of illness occurring in families are laration of Independence declared it to be a self-evi- for his home. On the shores of the ocean at San almost universally treated at home. Husbands very dent truth, "that all men are created free and equal, Francisco, lie halted and died. His age was fifty- rarely dispatch their wives to the care of strangers, and are endowed by their Creator with certain in- five years, and his kingly career began in 1874, and and wives would be very reluctant to relinquish the alienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and has been interrupted by revolutions and stormy care of husband or children into the hands of un- the pursuit of happiness." At the same time the scenes. What the future of the little kingdom will known parties. They resort to the hospital only in statutes, customs, and courts of that nation upheld be will doubtless soon be decided. It is reported extreme cases, where the care of the patient at home and roStered, in the Southern States, the abominable that another revolution has upset matters in Hono- is wholly impracticable. But here with us it is system of human slavery in its most servile form for lulu since the king departed. It. would doubtless be different; the unlucky one is at once posted away to many years. At last, in the emergencies of civil a relief to honest citizens if the islands could be - the hospital. war, it became necessary to proclaim the black men placed under the direction of a responsible govern- There may be more than one reason for this free men, and the cherished' institution received its ment. )81BLE ECHO ANID SIGNS O1' THE Vol.. 6, No. 8.

plains this to us in Hob. 1 : 8: " Unto the Son he are means to bring us in harmony with the Divine saith, Thy throne, 0 God, is forever and ever ; will. Should some reader of this sad incident in the sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre

The little " mother" had lost all her matronly own blundering folly, and for grace to overcome his it is said that the maker of them was permitted to dignity ; she was just a sorrowful little child ; all hasty temper, which had once more caused such need- sell them in his shop only on the 1st and 2nd days the - fun was ended. She and her brother took the less pain. of January. Consequently ladies had then to pur- younger ones to be safe under the real mother's eye, The prayer offered and heard, they all arose, and chase a stock for the year, and their husbands pro- and the two went quietly upstairs. There the little the father, seate 1 on the bedside, wiped away the vided them with money for the purpose. This was " mother " had a good cry, and the boy tried to tears from Nellie's face, and asked her pardon, too, the pin-money. But when pins became cheap, and comfort her, nearly ready to share-her tears, only the which was gladly given. could be procured anywhere on any day, there was no hot indignation in his heart kept the, tears from Then the cloud caused by the Christian's " vice" need to lay in a store for a twelvemonth. The ladies, overflowing. These children were loving and happy was rolled away, and the sunshine of peace and mu- however, still insisted upon their right to their as a rule, and had been taught to pray, as children tual love shone out as they all went down together to allowance, and s ) the term pin-money came to mean should, in a natural fashion. As the sister's grief tell the mother of the battle and the victory. simply them mey set apart for a lady's own personal grew too strong for him to look at patiently, the The sequel- is even more touching. Three years expenses. little fellow said, " Sissy, let us pray about it ;" and had passed away, and the little lad was ten years old, THE DEEPEST LAKE KNOWN. the two knelt together by the bedside, and told On the appointed day, he took his place before the their heart-grief in that other Father's ear, who Congregation, among the adult candidates for baptism. BY far the deepest lake known in the world is never makes mistakes by ignorance or hasty judgment. The older candidates in turn had given their public Lake Baikal in Siberia, which is every way compar- In a little while they heard their lather downstairs testimonies of saving faith, pardon, and peace. able to the great Canadian lakes as regards size; asking, "Where are the children gone '?" Their When the little one's turn came to speak, the pastor for, while its area is over 9000 square miles, making mother -said they had stopped playing, and she gave some explanation of what he had previously it about equal to Erie in superficial extent, its enor- thought they were upstairs. ascertained concerning the child's life and faith ; mous depth of between 4000 and 4500 feet makes the Up came the father, and as he mounted the stairs, then, turning to the boy, he asked, " How do you volume of its waters almost equal to that of Lake the little girl's grief broke out afresh ; for she was know you are a child of God ?" Without hesitation Superior. Although its surface is 1350 feet above very fond of her father, and could not bear that lie the lad replied, " Because he hears my prayers." the sea level, its bottom is nearly 3000 feet below it. should be angry with her ; and knowing she dill not " How do you know he hears your prayers ? Can The Caspian lake, or sea, as it is usually called, has deserve it, made her sorrow the more bitter. She you tell us of one instance ?" asked the pastor. a depth in its southern b lain of over 3000 feet. remained on her knees with her face pressed against It was a trying ordeal for the boy's self-possession, Lake Maggiore is 3000 feet deep, Lake Cotno the bed, while her brother got up and stood guard as all who have pasSed through such an experience nearly 2000 feet, and Lagodi-Garda, another over his sister in a very defiant mood. Well know ; and the lad glanced at his father, as it Italian lake, has a depth in certain places of 1900 The little lad had a spice of the father's quick they had a mutual understanding Of at least one feet. Lake Constance is over 1000 feet deep, and temper, and was not easily cowed, while keenly alive answered prayer, but he Was not sure that he ought Huron and Michigan reach depths of 900 and 1000 (as children are) to a sense of injustice. to tell that memorable instance, and thus reflect upon feet.—Christian at Work The father opened the door, and in a voice by no his father's character. Before the child had time to means tender or penitent, said, " What are you speak, the father himself, who was a deacon, rose and CARPET-WEAVING IN INDIA. doing here ?" adding to the little boy, " Have you asked per.nission of the minister and congregation to been fighting ?" " No," said the boy, " we haven't answer the question for his son. The request being Tan shawls and carpets of India have long been been fighting ;" stroking his sister's hair gently as granted, the farmer told the-story already feebly told famous for their color. Their popularity is partly he spoke, but looking defiantly at his father. The by my pen. As he spoke, the strong man wept, and due to the brilliancy and permanence of the dyes dull man was losing his temper again, and asked the people wept with him as he honestly confessed his employed, and partly to the harmonious tints into very petulantly, " Then what is Nellie crying about ?" own share in that wall-reniembered day's history, which the colors are blended. The figures, except The boy sturdily answered, looking into his father's when he first realized that his hasty temper led him when they are geometrical, are apt to be rudely face, " She is crying because you were so cross, and into " sin," and also learned the most precious lesson drawn. spoiled our fun. We couldn't play any more, and of Ins life—of his children's faith in a prayer-answer= It is matter of surprise to learn that work so artis- we came up here to ask God to make you sorry for ing God. tic as the weaving of the wonderful fabrics which your wickedness, and to give you grace to confess it." This was testimony enough. No vote was wanted cannot be equalled in our mills, is every part done on This was a practical sermon such as the farmer had to decide that the little child was a fit and proper the ru lest of looms and by little boys of less than seldom heard, and being already " convicted " by his person to receive the ordinance of baptism, and to be twelve years of age. Mrs. King describes the work own conscience, and suspecting that he might poss- taken into the communion of the church of Christ. as she saw it done in one of the hill town, near the sibly have misjudged his little daughter, he really The Kansas farmer had also realized during those borders of Kashmir. had come in the second time from the barn to do three years, as he had never done before, that the, " We passed through an archway into a large, what he should have done before the reprimand was grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is able to overcome deserted-looking enclosure full of rubbish heaps, and given—find out what the little ones really were doing even a hasty temper, which he had first seen to be a having a deep colonnade of mucLbricks running all when he snubbed them. sin through the faithful preaching of his little child. round. Under this were erected rude looms, of which It was very humiliating to the grown man to bathes The Master says still, " Of such is the kingdom of there must have been over fifty, but at the present condemned as " wicked " by his own children ; but heaven." time only six are being worked, owing to trade being he really was a Christian, though not altogether slack. Christ-like yet, so he had sense and conscience gurivao. " The carpets were most beautiful in color and enough to see that he needed to straighten this design, all intended for the London market. We tangle out. saw one, measuring twelve feet by ten, which was THE LARGEST HOUSE IN THE WORLD.—Accord- In a kinder tone he questioned the boy as to what nearly finished. Six little boys, varying in age from ing to Le Petit Journal, this is the " Friehaus," they were doing when he first Came in ; and the eight to eleven years, were working it, while one of situated in Wieden, a suburb of Vienna. This little lad replied, " We were playing at house,' and them read out the pattern from a slip of paper. immense block has thirteen courtyards and thirty- Nellie was mother.' I wasn't quick at doing what Their small brown fingers worked so nimbly, knot- one staircases. It contains 1500 rooms, and gives she said I was to do, so she spoke like mother does shelter to 2112 persons belonging to all grades of ting on the various colored wools and cutting off the when we don't go quick. But we were only.playing; society. A special postman is assigned to this ends with a knife, that one could hardly see what and it was fun till yoU came and spoiled it all, and they were doing. It seemed amazing that such building for the distribution of the letters, upon scolded Nellie for nothing. We knew God was angry which you have to be careful to put the Christian young boys could have attained such dexterity. with you, and that you didn't know any better, so we Their pay is from eight to twelve shillings a month. name and surname of the addressee, the number of came up here to ask that you might be made sorry, and " We were told that they could make a carpet of the yard, the stairs, and the apartment, if you wish have grace to come and tell us so." the size they were then working in one month; so them to reach their destination. The child had not only learned the phraseology of that the actual cost of the making would be about the church, but had also learned the meaning of his three pounds, and as the carpet would sell here for words, which is more than many grown-up children THE MEANING OF "PIN-MONEY."—Pins are now- over thirteen pounds, there must be a handsome profit seem to do ; while his faith that God would hear and a-days so cheap and common, says the Scottish over and above the cost of the wool and the interest answer their prayers was without a flaw. He asked, American, that when we wish to express an opinion on capital sunk." and received, as the Saviour promises to those who of the valuelessness of a thing we often say it is ask in faith, nothing doubting. " not worth a pin." But long before they were THE largest tree in the .world, according to statis- The father had heard enough. He knelt down made by machinery, each pin had a distinct value, tics lately published by the Italian Government, is a beside his-little daughter, and with his arm over her and a good deal more care was taken of it. Pins are chestnut standing at the foot of Mount /Etna. The he thanked the Lord for his children's prayers, for supposed to have been invented in the fourteenth circumference of the main trunk at sixty feet from his children's faith ; and he asked forgiveness for his century, and for a considerable time after this period the ground is two hundred and twelve feet. 46 BIBLE ECHO .26,Nr) sIGNs•OF' THE TIMES. Vol. 6, No. 8.

fellow-creatures. "On these two commandments THE BOOK OF DANIEL. 6clito gni "ipuo of tiu hang all the law and the prophets." Every moral precept is tributary to one of these prin- " Christ, the Power of God and the Wisdom of God." THE BIBLE not only presents a code of moral ciples. The great Jehovah outlines these two ethics of the highest perfection, it is by its author commandments in the ten which comprise the GEO. C. TENNEY, MISS E. J. BURNHAM, designed to serve other purposes in behalf of Editor ; Assistant. decalogue; the first four indicate our duties to benighted mankind. It is of the highest interest Corresponding Editors, God, the last six point out our duties to man. to a transitory race, who are passing a limited S. N. HASKELL, E. J. WAGGONER, J. 0. CORLISS. These commandments are not simply negatory time of sojourn in this probationary state, to be to vice, but they bespeak virtue. By the Saviour, confirmed in their knowledge of the way by Melbourne, Australia, February 5, 1891. prophets, and apostles, they were treated as certain way-marks, which have been established living, spiritual truths, designed to convert the by Him who formed the way. Pilgrims on an THE ETHICS OF THE BIBLE, soul, to purify the heart, and to sanctify the indi- unknown road are interested in, and encouraged vidual. Every departure from virtue or morality, by, every sign of the nearing consummation of THE Bible claims to be the work of divine every violation of the great principle of love, is their wearisome journey ; and as one after inspiration. 2 Tim. 3:16. How well it sustains condemned by at least one of the grand principles another of the landmarks pointed out in their this claim has been the subject of great contro- which form the decalogue. The moral ethics of guide-book is reached, it is hailed with ever- versy. The avowed enemies of God have always each dispensation have been founded upon them, increasing joy and confidence. Each point in- disputed the claim, and by every possible means and they will form the test of character in the creases their assurance ; and, comparing the way have criticised and fought the work which the Judgment. Immutable as God, the great prin- with the book, they may at all times intelligently Bible sustains. Professed friends of humanity, ciples of right can never change. estimate their relation to the end. There are and advocates of science, have assailed it. Not What have been the fruits of these principles ? prophecies in the Bible which serve this purpose only so, but in the house of friends, from the How have they affected human interests ? The to the children of God. Peter, the apostle, says sacred desk, the Holy Scriptures have received skeptic will almost invariably point in reply to that prophecy is as a light shining in a dark their most grievous wounds. this question to those whose professions have place. There is one feature of this great conflict for been in conformity to them, but whose lives have The prophetic writings of the book of Daniel life, maintained by this ancient Book, which is denied them. But the career of the hypocrite is are particularly of the nature we have indicated; made more prominent by the lapse of time and not a test of Bible principles. Such examples and in a series of articles we will invite our by the failure of each successive attack. There only point out what it is not to obey Bible prin- readers to a study of the import of this remark- has been evidently associated with all its history ciples. Whether in national or individual expe- able book. And we indulge the hope that this an unseen protecting power; so that after all the rience, it must be confessed that the practice of work may prove to be of interest and profit. emergencies of a violent and constant warfare, it the principles of morality and righteousness still stands before the world faithfully bearing its taught in the Bible has been salutary in its effects. Daniel was not a prophet, as we might say, pro- testimony and emitting its light to the wayfarers Bible lands are lands of liberty and enlighten- fessionally ; he was not as Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jere- of earth. While it may safely be said that at no ment. So far as men have walked in the paths miah, and many others, especially devoted to the time in the past have its assailants been more of love to God and love to man, they have work of the seer and spiritual guide for the active, numerous, and boastful than at the advanced in all that makes life desirable. Where people. Daniel was a statesman by birth and present, it may with greater force be said, that they have discarded these principles, they are calling,—a prince of Judah, though a captive. never before has the Sacred Book been so widely found walking in the lowest paths of degradation. Educated in the learning of the day, with a circulated and so thoroughly studied. Never The Bible defines sin, and denounces it. It judgment and intuition sanctified and broadened before has such activity been witnessed in points out righteousness and how to attain to it. by the Spirit of God, he was qualified to sit in its great arsenals of truth, where weapons for the It encourages that which is truly noble, and the councils of kings ; and he came to occupy pulling down of Satan's strongholds are being incites to active works of love and goodness. It places of great honor under two dynasties. formed. It is not surprising, therefore, that the gives "to every man his work," and points the Daniel attributed his success directly to God, great enemy should strive by every possible faithful worker to the rest that remains. It dis- and occupied in his own sight a very humble means to destroy confidence in that Book which approves of pride and selfish aggrandizement, of place at the footstool of divine grace. No has formed the principal obstacle to the advance- oppression and revenge, while it elevates the worldly honor ever elevated him above the most ment of his kingdom of darkness. meekness, gentleness, humility, and purity of childlike trust in God. No pressure of cares, nor The fundamental element of our true relation Christ as the perfect representation of God's applause of the people, nor rewards of rulers, to God and the truth is the principle of faith, glory, worthy of the emulation of all who desire nor personal danger, could cause him to remit a Faith in God—believing that he is—faith in the to live to the highest purpose. This is the legit- single duty to God or break up his habits of Bible as the divine Word, forms the only basis imate object in the work of the Bible. It is devotion. Too many people make these things upon which a godly life and character can be often defeated by the perfidy of mankind; but an excuse for not doing as they otherwise would. built. Faith in the Bible and faith in the God of where humble fidelity to its teachings has actuated Daniel never offered such an excuse. With him the Bible are inseparable. It is always noticeable men, its object has in the same measure been God was always first, and the world second. that modifications of the sacred record produce attained. Personal considerations were obscured in a faith different ideas of the Deity than those taught in What the world would have been without the that no circumstance ever shook. As a young the Book. But necessarily and naturally, if the Bible, we can only infer from a glance at those captive about to be introduced to the court of Bible be the production of the divine mind it dark portions of earth where its light has not Babylon, he was faithful even in refusing to eat would not fail to give correct impressions of its been received. What the world would be if all the food or drink the wine which he had been Author. men obeyed the Bible, we can only judge by our taught was unfit for those who desired to serve Whether the Bible be worthy of our credence, asssociations with the best and purest of men, God. When an old man, he refused to interrupt and whether its Author be our God, may be and by our conceptions of that place where sin is his custom of prayer even at the pain of being settled at the same inquiry. The Author of the unknown. The truths it teaches are eternal, cast to lions. Bible was once on earth, and while here gave us because they are of. God. When the conflict is God loved Daniel ; and three times a divine a sufficient test by which to try this and similar over, the work of the infidel and scoffer will messenger is commissioned to bear to him the questions. "Every tree is known by his own soon be forgotten; but the blessed Bible, man's welcome message, "Thou art a man greatly be- fruit." Men do not gather figs from thorns, nor best friend and guide, will be crowned with the loved." No one else has received such recogni- grapes from a bramble. "A good tree cannot laurels of everlasting gratitude by those who tion, and so far as his record is given, it bears bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree have followed its guidance through all the dark- no evidence of flaws or human frailties such as bring forth good fruit." In applying this test to ness and unbelief of an earthly experience. attend the lives of nearly all other Bible charac- the Bible, we have the history of many centuries Here man may trample under foot and treat ters. In the midst of his active career, the Spirit before us. Its work is not a recent experiment, with scorn the Word so graciously given ; but in often rested upon him, and revealed to him nor has it been done in a corner. In ethics the day that truth sits enthroned in majesty and wonderful visions of the future. Uncouth sym- the Bible is most simple and concise. The judgment, the opinions of men will become as bols are often chosen to represent the kingdoms whole code of morality taught in the Scriptures the chaff of the threshing-floor. Human wis- and powers of future ages. But over this fact is expressed in the one word—Love. "Love is dom, which has ascended from beneath, will none need stumble. The significance of the the fulfilling of the law." That is, he who ful- again sink into darkness beneath the flashes of figures which appear in Daniel's panorama is of fills the obligations of love, fulfills all obligations. glorious light which demonstrate to the universe too great importance for us to quarrel with the The Bible requires that our love should be placed the stability of that Word of truth, which has choice of figures. As already intimated, Daniel supremely upon God, and secondarily upon our been the hope of the good of all ages. is first introduced upon the pages of sacred biog- PEBRITARY 1, 1891. 131r3LE ECHO AND siGNS O1' ra TIMES. 41 raphy while a youth. He was one of four fallen man can come to God only through a A SKETCH OF JAPANESE EDUCATIONAL children of captivity chosen by the officer of sacrifice; while the incense ascended with the INTERESTS. Nebuchadnezzar, on account of their eminent prayers of the worshippers, as the merits of mental and physical fitness to attend the Baby- Christ are presented for us before the Father. S. N. H. Once a year, on the day of atonement, the sins lonian court as advisers of the king. At this IN our former articles we have stated that the which had been transferred to the sanctuary time the supreme power of Babylon was ac- Japanese were an educated people. The Govern- came in review. On that day the high priest knowledged by the world, and Nebuchadnezzar ment has established a system of public schools, ministered alone in the most holy place, before sought to gather from all parts of the realm the so that a limited education is within the reach of the ark which contained the broken law, and very flower of youthful manhood and wisdom, the poorest. On almost all occasions, persons in the mercy-seat, the token that God will be who would act as councillors, and at the same the doors of the shops, and even the half-clad in gracious. Thus year by year Israel saw enacted time serve by their presence at the capital to the streets, can be seen with a book in their before their eyes a representation of the true more securely unite the heterogeneous fragments hands. of nations of which the empire was composed. ministry for sin in the true sanctuary, and of the In the sixth century, written language was The Lord associated this movement with his own final blotting out of the sins of the righteous. generally introduced among the common people plans, and out of it worked great results not only But the sins were removed only in a figure. in Japan. A Corean scholar, however, named to Daniel, but also to all who should in after There was a remembrance made of them every Wani, came over to Japan in 255, and, residing ages read, understand, and believe his testimony. year. The sacrifices were not efficacious. The blood some time at the court, gave the Mikado's son of bulls and goats could not take away sins. some instruction in writing. This .came about SOME BIBLE HILL-TOPS. Heb. 10 : 4. They spoke of a Saviour to come, by a Japanese general, Arata, going over to through whose blood there would be remission Corea to aid one state in its battles against another, in 249 A. D. In A. D. 403, a court THE FIRST ADVENT. of sins, including those that were under the first covenant. Heb. 9 : 15. annalist was chosen, envoys and tribute bearers came, and presents were exchanged. Silk worms R. 3. B. The first advent marked an important epoch were imported, and mulberry trees were brought AT length the fullness of time came, and Christ in the plan of redemption. The Jewish service over and planted. Tailors came in 479, archi- made his appearance among men. All the cir- was full of meaning and instruction. It was tects in 493, learned men in 512, and in cumstances connected with his advent were admirably adapted to serve as a system of 552 a company of doctors, divine astronomers, and planned in wisdom and love, that the evidence worship, and as a barrier to keep the Jewish mathematicians came to live at the Japanese of his divine mission might be ample, and that church separate from the world ; but it brought court. With these came the Buddhist mission- the world might be reached by the glad tidings nothing to completion. It led to Christ, through aries. This was the first great wave of foreign of hope. He came to a people who were ac- whom the plan of salvation is completed, and the civilization in Japan. Says Griffis, in speaking quainted with the prophecies concerning him, redeemed, freed from guilt, receive their eternal of this time : " The early centuries of the and who were able to recognize the work of God. inheritance ; " God having provided some better Christian era, from the third to the eighth, John 3 : 2. The time chosen was when there thing for us, that they without us should not be mark that period in Japanese history during was a brief lull from the tumult of war. The made perfect." Heb. 11 : 40. It was typical, which the future development and character of place selected for the advent was in the heart of and the typical must give place to the real ; the the nation were mightily influenced by the the then civilized world. With the great nations many ceremonies of the Jewish ritual, to the introduction, from the continent of Asia, of the of antiquity grouped around her, and making simple forms and ordinances of the Christian most potent factors in any civilization. They her plains the highways of their commerce, worship; viz., baptism by which we confess Christ; were letters, religion, philosophy, literature, Palestine was admirably adapted to be a centre and the communion service, in which we call to mind his life of humility—when he came not to laws, ethics, medicine, sciences, and art. Hereto- of light. fore the first unfoldings of the Japanese intellect For three years and a half, by the seaside and be ministered unto, but to minister—his death on in the composition of sacred hymns, odes, poems, in the cities and villages, Jesus taught the people, the cross, and the promise that he will come again. myths, and tradition, had no prop upon which to illustrating the law of God by his preaching and The Christian ordinances point to a crucified train, and no shield against oblivion but the by his example, and then on Calvary he paid and risen Saviour, who is now ministering in unassisted memory. The Japanese were now to the penalty of its transgression. And the our behalf, while the Jewish ritual pointed to have records. Heretofore religion was simply vail of the temple was rent from the top to the Christ and his work as still in the future. To the rude offspring of human imagination, fear, bottom, indicating that it no longer concealed continue these services after his death was no and aspiration, without doctrinal systems, moral the divine presence, and that its service had longer faith ; it was denying Christ, and the codes, elaborate temples, or sacerdotal caste." ceased to be accepted of God. work of God in the world. Christianity super- The Empress Gemmi-tenno, who reigned from A new order of things with reference to the seded the ceremonial law ; but it did not 703 to 714 A. D., greatly improved the condition work of God in the earth was instituted. The antagonize it. The Christian system was the of things in Japan. She was the 43rd sovereign place of ministry was changed from the earthly outgrowth of the law, or rather its corollary ; in the dynasty. It was during this period that to the heavenly sanctuary. The earthly sanctu- for Christ was the national hope of" Israel ; he the oldest annals extant were compiled, making ary had been a copy of the true sanctuary in the was the one of whom all their prophets and the Kojiki (their Bible). It was during the heavens, as its ministry was a representation of righteous men had spoken. reign of her successor, Gensho-tenno, 715 to 723, the true ministry for sin. The ministration here The Jews did not receive Christ. Had they that was issued the Nihongi, which is the oldest finished, the most holy, or heavenly sanctuary done so, they might have remained a nation, and source of ,Japanese history. These books on the was anointed (Dan. 9 : 25), and the service in it been the missionaries to preach the gospel and history of the dynasty and their kingdom were commenced. John, on Patmos, had a view of thus open the door of hope to the world. But taken from tradition. both apartments. In Rev. 1 :13, 20 ; 4 ; 8 :3, they could not believe that their divinely-ap- he is evidently looking into the first apartment ; pointed rites and institutions were to give place Shimotsu -Michi- no - Makibe spent nineteen for though he sees the Father on his movable to others. They had lost sight of their priestly years of study in China, and after his return he throne (Eze. 1 :4-28), he sees also the golden mission and the heavenly inheritance, and had was called the inventor of the syllabic writing, candlestick, and the altar of incense with incense their eyes on national glory. They had forgotten which he derived from the Chinese characters. offered thereon in the golden censer. But in that they needed a Redeemer, and looked for a To this period belongs also the discovery of the Rev. 11 : 19, the scene is laid in the second king. Paul testifies of them : " Being ignorant gold mines, as well as the introduction of the apartment ; for there is seen the ark of his testa- of God's justification, and seeking to establish cultivation of the orange. It was thus that arts, sciences, and civilization, hand in hand, found ment. their own, they have not submitted to the justi- The priesthood was changed. The priests of fication which is of God. For Christ is the end their way into the Sunrise Kingdom. The age the family of Aaron had ministered before God- [Gr., telos,"final purpose, that to which all the of Kammu-tenno, from 782-807, fills an im- for men, faintly foreshadowing the royal pries t parts (of a whole) tend, and in which all termi- portant chapter in Japanese history. Of him, hood of David's great Son, who is " a priest for- nate."— Robinson and Bloomfield] of the law for Rein in his work on Japan, says : " He, ranks ever after the order of Melchisedec." Heb. 5:6; justification."—Campbell's translation of Rom. with the most eminent princes of the country, Ps. 110:4. They had presented the offerings 10 : 3, 4. whose destines he directed, as fiftieth Mikado, over which penitent sinners had confessed their There has always been a testing element in with care and success. In all departments he guilt, testifying faith in a greater and perfect truth'; and to accept Christ, and give up their exhibited great zeal and understanding of the Offering to come. Daily, morning and evening, cherished forms of worship and hopes of national manifold requirements of the country. He took at the hour of prayer, a lamb had been offered 'glory was the test to the proud, scribes and pains in making dams and canals to regulate the on the altar of burnt-offering, showing that Pharisees of Judea. course of the rivers and extend communication, 42 BIBLE ECHO AND SIGNS OF THE TIMES. Vol. 6, No. 3. put an end to mendicancy, and introduced order And while it taught the young samurai to be an I not be the result of more inherent goodness into the civil service. His interest was not less obedient, loyal subject to his feudal lord, it failed attaching to the human family than formerly. keen in the education of the young and in to develop a general sense of justice or to ennoble Indeed, observation teaches that selfishness and religious needs." He built a palace on the bank the feelings. It left him in utter disregard of every form of vice abound on every hand. Even of Kamo-gawa, surrounding it with 1216 streets; universal human rights and duties ; but it taught the church itself cannot boast of freedom from " and in consequence of beautiful position, archi- him to try his sword on the first wanderer he taint of evil. On the other hand, many tectural monuments, and historical reminiscences, encountered outside the limits of his clan, or in within its fold seem steeped in selfishness and no less than as the seat of learning and art, overbearing quarrelsomeness to stop a rival's iniquity. it became the much-esteemed centre of the way. The impress left upon this class of people It is the latter fact that has seemed to call for country." will yet prove a great hindrance to the-mission- so many independent efforts to evangelize the Buddhist superstition had by this time taken ary work of the nineteenth century. heathen nations. Did the church stand in the deep root in all strata of society. Their priests, The Dutch afterwards introduced many im- light as it should, it would read aright the signs combining religious with other instruction, provements in the art of printing, and the of the times, and zealously undertake the work worked their way into the hearts of the people practice of medicine and other sciences of a more evidently demanded at its hand. But because it by the interest they took in the education of the technical nature. But the lesson taught the Jap- has not done this, many are being moved upon children. Among most of the people, children anese by the Jesuitical influence of the sixteenth to step into the breach, that the hedge may be were regarded as a special favor from Heaven ; and seventeenth centuries, together with their made up before the appearing of the Master to hence the Japanese proverb, "Honest people natural disposition, has created a jealousy gather to himself his own. have many children." The new-born child against the introduction of any foreign re- This is very evident from the fact that in all receives his name on the seventh day. When he ligion. At different periods in the history of these independent efforts the one great reason is thirty days old, his head is shaven. Then the the nation ever since the seventeenth century, offered why haste is necessary in the work, is, child, washed and gaily dressed, is carried to the there have been members of the samurai and that the coming of the Lord is imminent. And temple by its. mother, where she offers some coin other of the nobles and the royal families that why is this not what might be expected, in view and renders thanks to the family god. On the have sought intercourse with other nations for the of the prophetic declarations of the Word, which sixth day of the sixth month of the sixth year, he express purpose of gaining information, and not point out the certainty of the Master's coming to receives his first lesson, with all the etiquette infrequently have they been beheaded as traitors reckon with his servants ? It is only consistent and solemnity which have always characterized to the kingdom. Finally, when Commodore with the divine plan that before the mystery of the nation in such matters. His necessary, out- Perry demonstrated to the Japanese the practical God shall be finished, special light will be given to fit, or writing materials, consists of an ink-box utility of civilization, by placing the railway and the devoted followers of Christ, which will stim- with a piece of ink with a brush of the thickness telegraph upon their own soil, it became the ulate them to herald to the remotest bounds, the of a little finger, and an ink dish, also a little prominent agent in forming the treaty. The news of the soon-coming King. vessel for holding water, as well as some paper ; desire for Western knowledge, which had been But if the professed servants of the Lord shall and thus the new pupil is introduced to the previously created in them, now burst forth like begin to make excuses when asked to go out into teacher, who makes before him, on a large scale, a pent-up volcano. Individuals were sent by the the by-ways and proclaim that the marriage-sup- the simple and more complex signs, one after Government to the United States and European per of the Lamb is ready, he will select those who the other, and . with unwearied patience and nations to bring back to their native shores a are not so bent on ease and self-caring, to do that unvarying kindness shows him how to copy knowledge -of the arts and sciences of these work. Already a large number have gone to them. When he has thoroughly mastered one nations. They hailed with joy teachers of these various parts of the harvest field, without any form, he goes on to the second, and so on. Thus sciences, and encouraged those to come and take promise of support. But they have the spirit of the he gradually acquires, in addition to the easy charge of their schools and hold positions in their Master, and are willing to take their lives in their native syllabic writing, a stock of Chinese word colleges who used these positions to introduce the hands, and go anywhere, and do anything that signs. On the lowest calculation, he must Christian religion, contrary to the wishes of will help carry forward the work of God. the Japanese. The doctrines of Buddha and master, within six or eight years, about a thou- A letter lately received from one of the work- Confucius had prepared their minds, not for the sand of these. The more adept pupils, under ers in the Soudan, relates how the Lord seems to gospel, as some writers claim, but for atheistical competent teachers, learn as many as three or be opening the way for their work, and then works, and such literature as would lead them four thousand, and scholars as many as ten adds : " If we had a dozen more workers here away from God and the Bible. As these students thousand and often more. now, they could be used at once in strengthening who had been sent to other nations returned, The Japanese maiden is considered to have the work of our brethren, as well as in opening bringing with them skeptical ideas, they at once received a good education when she has learned to the world the possibility of the evangelization began to fill the positions in the schools and to read and write, to do simple sums, and to per- of the 90,000,000 of the Soudan. May God se- educational institutions that had previously been form the tasks and duties appropriate to her sex. lect and equip many laborers, both here and at occupied by Christians, until already they are She is also expected to learn to play on a three- home, for the mighty work of carrying the sim- no longer in want of Christian teachers. stringed guitar, the simplest of all instruments. ple story of the cross to those who sit in dark- There is another thirteen-stringed instrument ness." which is found in the better houses, called Koto, THE GREAT MISSIONARY UPRISING. It seems strange to read such words of encour- which is played while lying down. Its tones are agement from these voluntary missionaries, who more pleasing and harmonious, but it is more J. 0. C. have no rich treasury behind them, and then difficult to play. This the more proficient master. WE can find no better term for the present in- think how circumscribed are the efforts of those There is another instrument called the Biwa, a creasing activity in foreign mission work than who have so long stood proclaiming the near mandolin with four strings, which is generally that at the head of this article. One hundred coming of the Lord. Do such really believe their played by old people. They also receive instruc- years ago, when William Carey was agitating the own words ? If so, how can they rest at ease, tion in skilfully arranging flowers in vases, on subject of missions, he was considered by many when they know that three-fourths of the entire which there are special illustrated treatises. entirely out of place, and it was only by the most world have never so much as heard of Christ ? In these nurseries of intelligence, the imagina- persevering energy that he succeeded in securing Already the cry of the heathen for the gospel tion is excited by fables and tales of heroes,—how an appointment as missionary to India. has become so earnest as to place the church's great scholars have scared away evil spirits by How different the situation now ! At the responsibility in the matter beyond cavil. But writing in the air a verse of Buddhist scriptures, present time, the agitation of foreign missions is what will that body do in the premises ? What etc., etc. greater than ever before known, and yet it is will our own people do in regard to the work But the influence of Chinese civilization on constantly increasing. Institutions for the de- assigned them ? Already inviting fields are the court is not so favorable as among the velopment of medical missionaries are rapidly ready for them to enter, in both the Eastern and common people, It was found that while the multiplying ; and still there is a demand for the Western hemisphere. But because the means philosophy of Confucius formed respectful sons, more. Hundreds of college students stand are not at hand for a liberal support of laborers docile pupils, obedient subjects, skilled calig- pledged to enter the foreign field whenever an in those fields, they are uncultivated. Shall it raphers, enthusiastic admirers of antiquity, it opening is presented. New missions are be- always be thus ? Rather, shall we not soon hear made the students narrow minded ; for it did not ing opened in various countries, which are inde- of devoted young men who are willing to give arouse their intelligence. It left the conscience pendent of denominational lines and of denomi- themselves to this work, notwithstanding the entirely under the control of custom. It kindled national support. financial strait ? We hope so ; indeed we believe no religious thought or feelings, but encouraged The question naturally occurs : Why this so, and only pray that God may hasten the time the narrowest spirit of caste and clannishness. sudden activity in missionary labor ? It can- when this may be brought about. VEBRHARY 1, 1891. BIBLE ECHO AND SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 43

SABBATH-SCHOOL LESSONS. 3. "If any man will do his will, he shall know of the gale #tuitintt. doctrine." This evidently does not mean that if a man Lesson 7.-February 14, 1891. does the will of God, he shall know of the doctrine ; BIBLE-READING. for he couldn't do the will of God unless he knew the NO OPEN VISION. doctrine. The meaning is that if any one is disposed 1. What is said of the word of the Lord in the to do the will of God, -he will not be left in ignorance. THE FIRST COMMANDMENT. days when Samuel was a child ? 1 Sam. 3 :1. The Revised Version makes it plain by rendering the text : If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know S. N. H. 2, What is the result when there is no vision of the teaching." from the Lord ? Prov. 29 :18. THE first commandment, like all of God's require- . 4. The law and the testimony, which is the,spirit of ments, is far-reaching, and takes hold of the affec- 3. What people are in good condition ?-Ib., prophecy, are closely and inseparably joined. Each tions of the heart. There is but one living and true last part. upholds the other. If any one is disposed to do the God. He is the Creator of all things in heaven and 4. Since people perish where there is no vision, will of God, the word of God will be revealed to him ; and by the light of the word given through the earth. Every blessing that comes to the human but do not perish where they keep the law, what prophets, he knows better what God's will is, and how must we conclude? Ans. That where there is no race is bestowed freely by the one common Father to to do it. The perfect gospel is contained in the com- all mankind. He is no, respecter of- persons, and we vision, the law is not kept. mandments of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. should always point to this one and true God every 5. How was it when there was no vision, in the person who has any object before him to worship, or days of Samuel and Eli? 1 Sam. 2 : 17, 24, Lesson 8.-February 21, 1891. for his affections to twine around, that would in any 6. Is the fact that there is no open vision the THE ARK TAKEN, way detract from keeping any of God's command- primary cause of lawlessness, or is disregard for 1. What was the result of a battle between the ments. God and his law responsible for there being no direct Israelites and the Philistines, that was fought near 1. What is the first commandment ? revelation from God ? Rom. 1 : 21. Ebenezer? 1 Sam. 4 : 1, 2. " Thou shalt have no other gods before me." Ex. 20 : 3. 7. What do men do to the truth by unright- 2. What did the elders of Israel decide to do to 2. Do Christians have more than one God ? eousness ? Verse 18. See Revised Version, and guard against a like result another time? Verses "But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are note 2. all things, and we in him ; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by 3, 4. whom are all things, and we by him." 1 Cor. 8 : 6. 8. What hindered the people. in Christ's day 3. When the ark came, how was it received 3. Wherein does the Christian's God differ from from beholding some of his mighty works ? Matt. Verse 5, 13 : 54-58 ; note especially the last verse. other gods ? 4. How did the Philistines feel when they heard " God, that made the world and all things therein, 9. What is • the great characteristic quality of that the ark of God had come into the camp of seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth." Acts 17 : 24. sin? Heb. 3 : 13. Israel ? Verses 6-8. 4. Is there any other God ? 10. Unto whom is light given ? Ps. 97 : 11 ; 5. With what words did they encourage one "I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is ho god 112 : 4. besides me. I girded thee, though thou hast not known another ? Verse 9. me ; that they may know from the rising of the sun, and 11, In order to retain the light that we have, what 6. What was the result of the battle that fol- from the west, that there is none besides me. I am the must we do ? John 12 :35, 36. lowed ? Verses 10, 11. Lord, and there is none else." Isa. 45 :.5, 6. 12. What, then, can be said of the path of those 7. What may we learn from this ? Ans. That .5. Did he make all the people that are in the who walk in the light ? Prov. 4 : 18. the mere possession of the truth of Godwill not pro- world ? 13: To what people will the true doctrine be re- tect anybody. See note 1. "And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to vealed ? John 7 : 17. 8. Yet what will the truth be to some in the dwell on all the face of the earth." Acts 17 : 26. 14. What is meant by the expression, " If any day of trouble ? Ps. 91 : 4. 6. What does he give to all ? 9. Where roust a person have the truth in order " He giveth to all life, and breath, and all things." man will do his will"? See note 3. to receive benefit from it ? Ps. 37 : 31 ; 1 : 1-3. Verse 25. 15. Cite a case illustrating this. Acts 10 : 1-6. 10. When men who make their boast in the law 7. Then do all live in him ? 16. What is joined with the commandments of are guilty of violating it, what is the result ? Rom. " For in him we live, and move, and have our being." God? Rev. 12 : 17. Verse 28. 2 : 23, 24. 17. What is the testimony of Jesus ? Rev. 11. What naturally resulted from the Israelites' 8. What does he give to all mankind alike ? 19 : 10. "He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on-the good, wrong use of the ark ? Ans. The Philistines lost and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." 18. Then what will those have whose hearts are their fear of it; and of God, whom it represented. Matt. 5 : 45. inclined to keep the commandments ? See note 4. 12. How did the Philistines dishonor the ark ? 9.' Why have all mankind one common Father ? 19. If one would be free from offense toward God 1 Sam. 5 : 1, 2. " Have we not all one Father Hath not one God created and man, what must he accept ? Acts 24 : 14-16. 13. How did God assert the supremacy of his us 2" Mal. 2: le. 20. What is said of those who do the command- law ? Verse 3. Does God love one portion of his people more 10. ments ? Ps. 111 :10. 14. What proved that this was no chance occur- than another? rence ? Verses 4-7. 21. And how will those fare who believe the " Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of per- 15. What was there in this that was calculated prophets of God ? 2 Chron. 20 : 20. sons ; but in every nation he that feareth him, and work- to show to the Philistines the vanity of their idols ? eth righteousness, is accepted with him." Acts 10 : 34, 35. NOTES. See note 2. 11. How has God shown his love for all the 1. "The word of the Lord was precious in those 16. What does the Lord say of the. idols of the days." That which is rare is precious. The word of world ? heathen ?- Ps. 115 : 4-7. " God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten the Lord to the people in those days was very rare ; it Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish was seldom heard, because there was "no open vision," 17. What of those who make them and trust in but have everlasting life." John 3 : 16. literally, no vision spread abroad. There were doubtless them ? Verse 8. NOTES. 12. How much, then, should we love God ? many who would have been glad to receive the word of " Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, the Lord, but they were deprived of it by the wicked- 1. The fact that Israel was defeated notwithstanding and with.all thy soul, and with all thy Strength, and with ness of those in high position. Doubtless the fact that the presence of the ark of God, is designed to show all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself." - Luke 10 : 27. the word of God was so rare in those days made it that the truth is not to be used as a charm. The 13. How, can we make the worship of the true doubly dear to those who had it. possession of a cart load of Bibles will not keep any one from harm or from the assaults of the enemy of souls. God vain ? 2. " Who hold the truth in unrighteousness."' The " Teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." word "hold" is not used in this case in the sense of pro- It is only when the truth is hidden in the heart, and is Matt. 15 : 9. fessing. The text does not convey the idea that men a part of the life, that it acts as a shield, to quench all may possess the truth and cling to it, and yet live the fiery darts of the enemy. 14. What will become of all such doctrines origin- unrighteous lives ; for the Scripture testimony is abun- 2. A most striking point against the vanity of idols ating with men ? dant to show that men who do not practice a truth soon is made in the description of the downfall of Dagon "Every plant which my Heavenly Father hath not lose the knowledge of it. The word "hold" is used in the planted, shall be rooted up." Matt. 15 : 13. before the ark. Dagon was an idol with the body of a common sense of restrain, keep back; as one holds fish, and the head and hands of a man. When the idol 15. What did the Saviour say of those who ad- another when he 'restrains him of his liberty. Wicked fell before the ark and lost his head and his hands, only hered to the traditions of men in opposition to the men, especially if they are in the church, restrain the the fishy portion remained. The record says that "only commandments of God ? truth of God. Paul said that the name of God was Dagon was left to him." Now the word "Dagon" is " They be blind leaders of the blind ; and if the blind blasphemed because of the unrighteous deeds of the the diminutive of the Hebrew word for fish, so that we lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch." Verse 14. Jews, who made their boast in the law and yet broke have in reality the statement that when Dagon fell 16. What did Jesus say is written ? it ; and he asked the brethren to pray that the 'word before the ark and lost his head and his hands, " only a "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only might have free course.' The sons of Eli by their little fish was left." That is all that there was to the shalt thou serve." Matt. 4 : 10. wickedness held back the word of God from the people. idol in which the Philistines trusted. 44 E3itt3LE OT-#4:) ANt) Yc Ns OP 1 t4E TIMES. Vol. 6, No. 8.

menced to eat my breakfast, when two ministers came village Tscherbakowka, to go security for Bro. Klein, and said they had to hurry to catch the steamer south. and he has helped them very much in many respects. The water being extraordinarily low, the steamers His natural brother is one of our church elders in WITYESSE8. were very irregular. I took a conveyance and the South. Through his influence, Brn. Laubhan hurried with them to the landing, which was a mile and Klein gained permission to buy property in the " I AM working alone, and no one hdeds 1" from the city. Hundreds of carts and conveyances colony, and thus have town rights ; therefore they Who says so, does not know ; plowed their way through the sand and water. cannot now be sent away so easily. There are clear eyes watching on every side, After awhile our crowded steamer left the landing, I talked with the judge quite a while, and he will And wherever our feet may go to carry us eighty miles down this river. The Ger- We are " compassed about with so great a cloud go once more to the Russian judge in the Astrakhan That if we could only see, man colonies are on both sides of the great river, ex- Government, who has Bro. Klein's case in hand, We could never think that our life is small, tending over a territory some 200 miles in length, and see whether the matter cannot be settled. Ac- Or that we may unnoticed be 1 and about 100 miles in breadth, forming a part of cording to the law, Bro. Klein could go but twenty We seem to suffer and bear alone the governments of Saratow and Samara. The Ger- miles within the herders of the colony ; but the Life's burdens and all its care ; man population is nearly 400,000, three-fourths of judge is so kind that he permits him to go 200 And the sighs and the prayers of the heavy heart whom are Protestants. Some of the colonies, num- miles, and will spare no pains to have him freed. Vanish into the air. ber from 5000 to 10,000 souls. Scattered over this Yet some four months have passed, and it is hard But we do not suffer or work alone ; large territory, we have about one hundred Sabbath- And after a victory won, to tell how much longer they will let the matter Who knows how happy the hosts may be keepers. At first, when our brethren begin work in stand. As the work in Russia suffers so much on Who whisper a soft" Well done 1" a colony, the opposition is very great ; they can account of the lack of laborers, our prayers should often remain only a few hours, when the police send Oh, do not deem that it matters not surely ascend in behalf of Bro. Klein; that he may How you live your life below; them away ; but in course of time they are left more be fully freed in the near future. It matters much to the heedless crowd unmolested. All this, together with the few chances We are now on our trip to the Caucasus. We That you see go to and fro ; that our brethren here have had to labor with return by steamer to Saratow, and from thence go four For all that is noble and high and good persons of experience, explains why the work here Has an influence on the rest, days by rail. Our large steamer is overcrowded. had not been fully organized as in other countries ; And the world is the better for every one We are in the second cabin ; directly across is a and it had suffered in consequence. Who is living at his best. Persian merchant, who, instead of using the table to Sabbath night, at two o'clock, the steamer arrived But even if human eyes see not, write on, sits in Oriental fashion on the couch, with at the Tscherbakowka landing, where Brn. Laubhan No one is unobserved ; crossed legs, and writes while thus seated. A There are censures deep and plaudits high and Klein reside. My last letter had not yet ar- stranger would think at first sight that he has no As each may be deserved. rived, and I came rather sooner than they expected ; legs, and would surely call it very uncomfortable ; We cannot live in a secret place, but all were glad- to see me Sabbath morning, when There are watchers always by ; but he writes with perfect ease. about twenty gathered. Last spring a church was For heaven and earth are full of life, My prayer is that soon all these nations, to the And God is ever nigh. partly organized here, and since, a Sabbath-school and tract society. After the Sabbath we sent very interior of Asia, may hear of this truth ; and Oh, for a life without reproach, to accomplish this it is very important that more be For a heart of earnestness! abroad to notify the scattered brethren as far as pos- For self forgotten, for meanness slain, sible, so as to have a general meeting the coming Sab- done for the great Russian Empire, which is not For hands well used to bless I bath. Several came during the week, and we had a only the key to the East, but becomes more and Lord, raise us far from the little things, few meetings. There are now three churches here, more its ruler. L. R. CONRADI. And make us meet to be and as many tract societies have been formed. Skilled workers here in the place we fill, Last Sabbath quite a number joined the Tscherba- And servants unto thee. THE FUTURE OF BRAZIL. —London Christian World. kowka church, and in time evening we celebrated the a rt ordinances. About half of the Sabbath-keepers on the Volga were present, and all seemed thankful SINCE the advent of the republic, the horizon of A VISIT ON THE VOLGA. for the instruction received. the gospel has become clearer and more distinct. Bro. Klein and Bro. Siebenlist (the elder of the The republic has brought with it the separation of A JOURNEY of about 2000 miles brought me from church here) gave me a full account of their experi- church and state, civil marriage, and the seculariza- Hamburg to our dear brethren and sisters on the ence while in jail, and since that time. Bro. Sieben- tion of time cemeteries. These three measures have River Volga, in Eastern Russia. Ten days were list, who, with eight of his family, has kept the Sab- been accepted by the people with much satisfaction. spent on the way, train, especially toward Sara- bath for nearly four years, has a blacksmith shop in But they have stirred up a nest. of vipers. The tow, becoming slower and slower, a feature we notice a Russian village on the other side of the Volga, in priests, with some honorable exceptions, are offer- in every particular going eastward. While Peters- the Astrakhan Government. He had often read the ing all the opposition possible The measure which burg is a modern city in every respect, Moscow, Scriptures to the Russians in the village, and differ- is considered most dangerous to their interest is the which I reached Wednesday morning, is a Russian ent ones seemed interested. The Russian priest was decree of civil marriage, and, next after, that of secu- city in every sense of the word. It is the capital of dissatisfied for seine time, as the people would come larization of the cemeteries. New journals have the national life, or as the Russian patriot flatter- to him and ask him so many questions. About sixty been established to combat these reforms, and to ingly calls it, " Matuscbka Moskwa," " the dear miles east of here are sixteen German Sabbath- create, if possible, a clerical party. It remains to be mother Moscow." As I had to wait some eight keepers ; these Bro. Siebenlist wished Bro. Klein to seen if the people are willing to be led by the nose by hours for my train, I went up to the Kreml, walked visit before he went south. Bro. Klein consented, the Jesuitical faction. The fall of the monarchy around its ancient walls, and ascended again the and just as they started, on the instigation of the was a tremendous blow to the Jesuits. Indirectly noted bell-tower of Ivan the Great, from which one priest the police came and took all their books and they had laid a mine to destroy the cause of the enjoys a grand view of the city. The mighty Kreml, put Bro. Klein and young Bro. Siebenlist in gaol. gospel, since it is well known that the late govern- over a mile in circumference, with its palaces and The accusation was that Bro. Klein had preached to ment had resolved to take severe measures against churches ; the great city around it, with the green the Russians, and .even offered them some money if the Republicans; and nearly all the believers being and brown roofs sheltering thousands of houses, great they would leave their faith. in prison they tried allied to that party, the party of liberty of conscience, and small ; and the cupolas of the 400 churches, every way to have Bro. Klein talk Russian, which he destroying the one would also affect the other. But many gilded, present a view not soon forgotten. is unable to do ; and when after five days Bro. Sie- in a night, the handwriting appeared upon the wall, Not far from the Kreml stands a grand cathedral, benlist and his son were released, Bro. Klein was in and the same night saw the fall of the monarchy lately built of white marble, with gilded cupola, a great strait, as he could understand hardly any- and the deportation of the whole royal family. whose interior is said to be the richest in the world ; thing. Another fact, also well known, the princess regent I myself have never seen its equal. Our train from Bro. Siebenlist and his son, while released, had was entirely under the power of the Jesuits; but the Moscow was overcrowded ; not only were the aisles their passports retained, a guard was placed before will of the Lord was that she should not reign. full, but some even lay under the seats. And to their house, and for several weeks the whole family The church has lost a certain prestige among the heighten the discomfort, some began to sing their had to appear twice a day before the police, so they people by these decrees. In many minds that national songs. The country, only now and then might be assured that none had left the place. Brn. slavery which so long existed has been broken. covered with forests, was white with snow till we Siebenlist and Klein had a number of German People breathe easier and are freer in the expression drew near to Saratow. Bibles and other books taken from them. None of of their sentiments. And in those districts where Friday morning we reached Saratow, the terminus these have been returned. At first, Bro. Siebenlist the priests in other days ruled with a rod of iron, of the railroad. The street car brought me to the could hardly leave the place, but now, after mouths there the people are now in a state of active opposi house of Bro. Perk's brother, who is in charge of the have passed, he finds no difficulty. Bro. Laubhan tion and defiance. Time tables are being turnel. British Bible Depository here. Hardly had I com- induced his half-brother, who is the judge of the These decrees are also having another tendency, FEBRUARY 1, 1891, BIBLE ECHO AND SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 45 that of adding to the indifference which had already Prolonged public inconvenience and loss, and some began to show itself in many quarters; and so 4m -tuning. rioting, attend the railway strike in Scotland. making this class of society much more difficult to An electric railway has recently been opened in govern. Fears are entertained of an Indian rising in Central Switzerland which ascends the peak of Rouchberg at But on the whole, great and material progress America. an angle of nearly seventy degrees. Will be made under the republic. Already, in all Another revolutionary movement is distracting During the last fifteen years, the enrolled military the states, the public school system is being reno- Argentina. force of the leading European nations has doubled. vated, and economies are being introduced into the Edison claims to have discovered an electrical cure There are now 11,000,000 men in Europe ready to be public service, together with other betterments.— for the gout. ca led into the field. Brazilian Missions. The Japanese Houses of Parliament have been totally Of the ,12,000 miles which form the land girdle of destroyed by fire.. China, 6000 touch Russian territory, 4800 British terri- CATHCART AND QUEENSTOWN, SOUTH The difficulties of the Irish Home Rule party seem tory, and only 400 French, while 800 may be described as doubtful. AFRICA. no nearer adjustment. A party of expert oil-drillers from New York have In a recent speech, speaking of the disarmament of gone to India to search for oil. Europe, Emperor William expressed himself as strongly I HAVE recently visited Cathcart, where two in favor of such a movement, but fearful that the time A bill prohibiting the sale of fire-arms to Indians is families are obeying the Truth. I baptized ten, and for it has not come. before the United States Senate. organized a Sabbath-school of twenty-two members. King Kalakaua of the Sandwich Islands died recently - My wife's health requiring a more favorable Nearly 7000 pounds of attar.of rose-, worth £70,000, while on a tour in the United States. During his climate, we have removed to Queenstown. It is two were exported from Turkey last year. absence, a revolution had broken out in his tempestuous weeks since we arrived in this plaCe, and we think A gang of Texan thieves recently raided an express little "teapot kingdom." we can see decided changes for the better. We train, and made off with £5000 and the mails. Mr. George Bancroft, the great American historian. attribute this blessing, however, to the power Of the Princess Victoria, second daughter of the Prince of died Jan. 18, at the age of ninety. Mr. Bancroft was Great Physician, whose blessing we have sought. Wales, is betrothed to the Duc de Luxernhourg. a voluminous and painstaking writer, and continued his literary pursuits to the close of life. The Lord is good, and the language of our hearts is Major Wissmann, chief of the German expedition in expressed in Ps. 116 :12. • East Africa, has been declared insane, and recalled. Intense excitement prevails in Belgium. The agi- tation is in favor of the extension of the political Queenstown is a quiet little place about two The cruiser Tauranga of the Australian squadron franchise and the adoption of manhood suffrage. Great hundred miles from the coast, containing 2000 inhab- attained a speed of nineteen knots an hour at its trial. precautions have been taken by the authorities to pre- itants, with five churches,—Methodist (which is the England is making negotiations for the purchase serve order. strongest), Congregational, Dutch Reformed, Church from Germany of Damaraland on the west coast of Canada has rejected Mr. Blaine's proposition in favor The Congregational of England, and Catholic. Africa. of reciprocal trade between the United States and minister and his wife called the week after our arrival, The public debt of France is estimated at £1,040,- Canada. Lord Salisbury favors the scheme. believing and he kindly invited me to occupy his pulpit on the 000,000, making it the heaviest debt of any country in that it will tend to the settlement of the Behring's Sea following Sunday evening, which I did. Europe. seal-fisheries dispute. Nothing has been done in this vicinity by our A sudden volcanic eruption has occurred in the north The contributions in England to sustain missionary workers. Bro. Oldfield will be here in a few days to of Algeria. Forty persons were killed and many operations on the North Sea among English deep-sea canvass for ‘‘ Bible-Readings," which I hope will injured. fishermen, amounted last year to £20,000. Ten fully prepare the way for other labor. We hope while Arrangements have been made for a bi-monthly equipped evangelizing vessels, three of which are here, not only to regain health, through the special supply of Dr. Koch's lymph to he forwarded to the hospital ships, are employed in the work. blessing of God, but to sow faithfully the seeds of colonies. Chili, one of the South American republics, is un- successfully grappling with a revolutionary movement. truth, and gather some souls for the heavenly garner. The Emperor of Germany has made overtures toward the re-establishment of friendly relations with Prince The navy aid the insurgents. English, French, and The combined and combining influences of the Birsmack. American gunboats have been ordered to Valparaiso to enemy against the Truth ought to cause us to feel The final accounts in connection with the Paris protect residents of their respective nationalities. our need of greater power to meet these influences ; Universal Exhibition of 1889, show a surplus of The settlement of the affairs of the Baring Brothers, while the attendant blessings of God upon our feeble £400,000. the London banking firm whose recent failure came so efforts in the past, should encourage us to believe As a result of the severe winter, there is widespread near precipitating a world-wide financial crisis, has that the putting forth of such efforts as the cause distress among the poor of London, 100,000 men being been nearly completed, and promises to show a. satis- now demands, will insure the divine help so neces- out of work. factory surplus. The London money market has recovered its usual tone. sary in accomplishing the great work now before us. Floods in the Riverina have done great damage. May the language of every heart be, " Lord, what Crops and fences have been destroyed, and thousands Mr. Mc.Kim, a missionary at Osaka, Japan, says : wilt thou have me to do?" of sheep drowned. "The religion of Christ is firmly rooted in Japan. No opposition or persecution can pluck it up. Although IRA J. HANKINS. The question of the division of Queensland into two the total number of converts is not greater than +Ow I colonies will soon engage the attention of the British- 100,000, Christianity is already a power whose influence TENT—MEETINGS IN IRELAND. House of Commons. is felt all over the empire." Mr. Parnell and Mr. O'Brien have issued a joint Lyman E. Knapp, the governor of Alaska, in his appeal to Irish sympathizers in America for funds in THE first attempt to hold tent-meetings in Ireland annual report says that the value of exports during the aid of evicted tenants. has just been made by Brn. Francis Hope and year is as follows : Whalebone, £231,941 ; whale oil, William Hutchinson. The tent was pitched near a The International Exhibition at Kingston, the capital £34,500 ; codfish, £111,000 ; salmon, £671,000 ; gold small place called Tanderagee, in County Armagh. of Jamaica, was to be opened on the 27th ult. by (estimated), £400,000 ; fur seals, £400,000 ; other ex- Prince George of Wales. This place was selected because it was so near to ports enough to make a total of £1,968,146. The Indian rising in the United States is at an end. Banbridge, where Bro. Hutchinson had previously So destructive have been the ravages of the locusts The red men, seeing that the struggle was hopeless, held a series of meetings in a hall. On account of in this colony this year, that the Minister of Agricul- have laid down their arms. the opposition of the clergy, the attendance was not ture sent an officer of his department to investigate the The troubles in the British shipping trade grow more large ; hut those who did come manifested great life and history of the pest, and suggest a remedy. He and more threatening, and the prospect is that they may interest and became warm friends. Nine signed the has done so, and thinks the best remedy is to he found terminate in a general strike. covenant, and as three were already keeping the in protecting such native birds as the crow and the ernu. General Booth has collected £100,000 towards the of twelve members was organized. Prof.' Stuart has purchased a full complement of Sabbath, a class carrying out of his scheme. He intends to visit Nor- bacteriological apparatus for the New SOuth Wales " The tent was then removed to Coleraine, a fine way and Sweden in its interests. town of 7000 inhabitants. The meetings were re- Government, and urges that, in accordance with Dr. An agitation in favor of the eight-hours system is Koch's advice, immediate steps be taken for the ap garded with suspicion, as they were not under the in progress in America ; 250,000 miners threaten to go pointment of two experienced acteriologists, who patronage of the resident clergy. Four signed the on strike in May over this question. shall experiment with a view to discovering some covenant here, and a school of fifteen members was Steps are to be taken by the British House of Com- specific for the destruction of the rabbit pest. organized. Many acknowledge the Truth, but they mons to appoint a committee to inquire into the excess- Thirteen Chinamen and two Englishmen have been seem fettered, so that they dare not step out and obey ive hours of work of railroad employees. arrested in Melbourne for smuggling cigars. When God. General Booth proposes to visit Australia next Sep- arrested, the prisoners had, concealed on their persons tember, his object being to remove the prejudice that and stowed away in the cabs they occupied, a large THE Spirit of Christ is very sensitive and easily exists in the colonies against his colonization scheme. quantity of goods that had just been landed. The grieved. If we cherish ambitions, or pursue aims, The fifty largest libraries in Germany possess Chinamen, however, belonging to the steamer, and not or harbor feelings, or commit sins which grieve him, 12,700,000 volumes, against those of England with about being citizens, were released froni eustod), as smug- then our communion with the Spirit is interrupted, 6,450,000, and of North America with about 6,100,000 gling Chinamen was held to be worse than smuggling and. the soul is left in darkness. volumes. cigars and tobacco. 46 BIBLE ECHO AND SIGNS OF THE TIMES. Vol. 6, No. 3.

Careful experiments have shown very clearly that Sleep, for instance, is a fundamental condition of cal* anti &manure. different classes of food require a particular quality high health. Nothing can make up for a deficiency of digestive juices for their digestion. For instance, of it. Lack of food does not begin to equal lack of THOR 0 UGH. a gastric juice that will digest animal food the best, sleep in its power to depress vitality, and so to ren- is inferior for the digestion of vegetable food, and der the system liable to any prevailing disease. FROM THE SWEDISH OF COUNT SNOILSKY. vice versa. The obvious conclusion to be drawn Still, insufficiency of food is a great depressant, and ONE and one only must thy purpose be, Whole and decided ; from this fact is that the simpler the dietary, the may exist where it is least suspected ; for the food From giant force but pygmy deed would'st see, more perfectly will the digestive process be per- must be such as to supply the daily waste of all the Were it divided. formed. For persons whose digestive powers are tissues—brain, nerve, bone, muscle and fat—besides Thou must at once thy choice forever make, naturally weak, this is a matter of special importance. furnishing heat-forming fuel. Many a person For strife or pleasure ; Such will find it well to avoid eating meat and who sits at a luxurious table is not half fed. Must choose the kernel or the husk to take— vegetables together. Meat and grains may be But over-eating is as bad as under-eating, and Repent at leisure. taken together, but not meat and vegetables, by often acts more promptly. All the organs, especially Some seek for pearls, others for babbles mere, persons of weak digestion, the latter being much those that eliminate the waste, are overworked and On life's sea cruising ; more difficult of digestion than either of the others, weakened. Poisonous waste is retained in the cir- Complain not if the bubble disappear, If the bill of' fare taken at a single meal were con- culating fluid. Any over-indulgence wastes the 'Twas thine own choosing. —Collard J. Stock. fined to three or four articles of food, there would be nerve-elements faster than they can be supplied, and fewer dyspeptics scanning the newspapers for some nerve-force is behind the normal working of every HYGIENE OF DIGESTION. patent nostrum to " aid digestion." organ. Hot and Cold Bathing after Meals.—Especial Worry and care have a like effect, not only Late Suppers.—Eating late at night, when the mention should be ma le of the injury to the digest- rapidly using up nerve-force, but also weakening muscular and nervous systems are exhausted by the ive organs quite certain to result from taking either the organs that elaborate it. Fear, also, is a great labor of the day, and then retiring soon to rest, is a hot or a cold bath soon after eating, as few people vital depressant, and by itself often induces a fatal one of the most active dyspepsia-producing habits to are aware of the danger of laying the foundation for susceptibility to epidemic diseases. Temporary, and which- modern society is addicted. As before ex- years of discomfort in this way. If the bath be a yet fatal, susceptibility may be caused by fatigue. plained, " a tired stomach is a weak stomach ;" and hot one, the stomach will be deprived of the blood Eight white rats, having been subjected to exhaust- in addition, we may add, a sleepy stomach is a necessary to support the rapid secretion of gastric ing exercise for several days, were inoculated with an sluggish one. Secretion must of necessity be juice for the digestion of the food, by the sudden re- attenuated poison. Four others in a normal condi- deficient in both quantity and quality, owing to the laxation of the capillaries and arterioles of the skin tion were similarly inoculated. All four of the exhausted condition of the system ; and with a drawing the blood to the surface of the body. A second series survived, while seven of the first series further obstacle afforded to prompt digestion by the cold bath, on the other hand, or any sudden ex- died.— Youth's Companion. slowing of the vital operations during sleep, posure to cold, may, by causing contraction of the it is almost impossible that there should be other blood-vessels of the surface of the body, cause UNLUCKY. than disturbed digestion and disturbed sleep in sudden congestion of the stomach, which is equally consequence. It is under these circumstances that fatal to good digestion. Very nearly the same people often suffer with obstinate insomnia, bad danger exists from the taking of baths just before a UPON a certain American plantation, before the dreams, nightmare, and similar troubles, from which meal. No bath involving any considerable p late war, there was among the negroes an old man they arise in the morning unrefreshed, and unrecu- of the body should be taken within two hours of named Tony, whose duty it was to attend to a little perated by "Nature's sweet restorer," the work of a meal. over-shot mill, where was ground the meal used upon assimilation, by which repair takes place, having Errors in Quantity of Food.—If errors in the the plantation. He was a constitutional grumbler, been prevented by the disturbed condition of the manner of taking food are active causes of indiges- never satisfied that he got his share of anything. nerves. tion, mistakes in quantity are still more potent in Between Tony and his master there existed a No food should be taken within three or four this direction. It should be noted, however, that strong friend-ship; they had been playmates in boy- hours of retiring. This will allow the stomach errors of tins class are very closely connected with hood, and Tony never failed to pour into his master's time to get the work of digestion forward sufficiently errors in the manner of eating, and in the quality of ear the tale of his real or imagined wrongs. to enable it to be carried on to completion without food taken. It is generally true with physical as One summer an epidemic of fever broke out in the disturbance of tile rest of the economy. The last well as moral transgression, that one bad habit crowded negro quarters. It prevailed for several meal of the day, if three meals are taken, should be implies another ; and especially is this the case in weeks, arid many of the servants died, but Tony's a very light one, preferably consisting of ripe fruit reference to dietetic errors. A person who eats too house was apart from the others, upon a high hill and simple preparations of the grains. The custom fast is likely to eat more than is necessary ; and the near the mill, and .he and his family escaped the which prevails in many of the larger cities of same is true if too large a variety of food is partaken pestilence entirely. making dinner the last meal of the day, eating of of, or food rendered exciting an I stimulating by One morning in the fall, after the epidemic had articles the most hearty and difficult of digestion as seasoning with irritating condiments.—J. H. Kellogg, subsided, his master, sitting upon the gallery, saw late as six or even eight o'clock, is one that ought M. D., in Home Hand-Book of Hygiene and Medicine. Tony approaching, with his usual moody, dissatisfied to be discountenanced by physicians. It is only to expression. be tolerated at all by those who convert night into SUSCEPTIBILITY TO DISEASE. " Well Tony," he said, " what's the matter now 9 day by late hours of work or recreation, not retiring You've been so lucky in escaping the fever, I expected until near midnight. But in such cases, a double OF several persons who have been equally exposed to see you happy for once in your life." reform is needed, and so there can be no apology to chilly weather, one takes a fatal cold, while the ".Lucky !" growled Tony, " I don' see whar de offered for this reprehensible practice on any physio- others are wholly unaffected. When scarlet fever or luck is. Hyah's all dem other niggahs been layin' logical grounds. diphtheria enters a family, it is a rare thing for ail up an' restin' in (ley beds fur weeks an' munts, havin' Too Many Varieties of Food.—Many dyspepsias the members to be attacked. The gre tt majority mo' physic den dey could hole down, while I'se been arise from the eating of too many kinds of food at escaped la grippe during its late prevalence. And grindin' stiddy on dat mill, an' me an' my folks aint the same meal, another growing custom in modern the same is true of epidemics of every kind and even had our sheer uv de physic used on de planta- times which deserves to be distinctly condemned. degree. shun."—Selected. At great dinners in honor of distinguished person- This difference is mainly due to difference in per- ages, when friends are to be entertained, and in the sonal susceptibility, inherited or acquired. Disease THE German spelling for beer is bier. In English majority of well-to-do families as a general custom, invades the body at points where its life-forces are a bier is a frame, or carriage, for conveying dead the eaters are tempted to gluttony by having pre- weakene I. Such a lowering of the vital resistance bodies to the grave. The step from beer to the sented to their palates a great variety of complicated may date back for generations. This is one reason grave is very short. In appearance the beer-drinker dishes, almost any one of which would be too much for the astounding mortality of infants, so immensely may be the picture of health, but in reality he is for the digestive organs of most inferior animals. beyond that in the young of some of the lower ani- most incapable of resisting disease. A slight injury, On the occasion of the giving of .a great dinner to mals. Many persons who start with small power of a severe cold, or a shock of the body or mind, will some notable, we have known instances in which resistance carry it through life. Their only hope is commonly provoke an acute disease, ending fatally. more .than a hundred dishes were served in suc- constant care and freedom from exposure. —Scientific A ,nerican. cessive courses. Such gormandizing soon breaks But of those who reach adult age, the greater part down the most vigorous digestive organs, since it may be supposed to have inherited an average mea- THE consumption of strong liquors reached in adds to the labor of digesting food which is improp- sure of physical soundness. Whence their suscepti- St. Petersburg in one year more than 34,875,000 erly cooked, a larger variety than the digestive juices bility to disease? It comes from physical transgres- gallons. On the average, every inhabitant of the are capable of bringing into a fit state for absorption. sion, either positive or negative. empire consumes nine gallons a year.

FEBRUARY 1, 1891. BIBLE ECHO AND SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 47 nbtioluiro' gigpartaunt. rophelic 'fights, AGENTS. OR ORDERS may be addressed to any agent in the following list :— TESTIMONY OF THE CENTURIES. Adelaide.—Pastor Will D. Curtis, Parkside. THIS new work, as its title indicates, treats of some of the leading prophecies of both the Old Ballarat.—Mrs. E. Booth, 146 Drummond Street ; and the New Testament, showing the exact fulfillment of the predictions of the Bible concerning Miss A. Pearce, Bridge Street. Egypt, Tyre, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome. Also of the prophecies concerning Collingwood.—C. Robertson, 49 Islington Street. the First Advent of Christ, which Daylesford.—Mrs. Eliza Lamplough. Geelong.—A. Carter, Little Myers Street W. PROVE THE INSPIRATION OF THE BIBLE, New Zealand.—lract Society, Buckle St., Wellington. And give assurance that other prophecies which are noted will as surely and exactly be Prahran.—E. S. Ebdale, 27 Commercial Road. fulfilled. Its design is to remove some of the covering that has been thrown over prophecy by human speculation, so that its clear light may shine out. This has been done by letting Sydney.—D. Steed, 55 Lennox Street, Newtown. the BIBLE TELL ITS OWN STORY, in its own language. No theories are advanced ; but Tasmania.—James Smith, 101 Liverpool Street, the plain predictions are laid side by side with the well-attested historical facts which show Hobart. their exact fulfillment. To the student of Bible prophecy it will be found an invaluable aid, United States.—Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal. and to the general reader a source of much instruction and information. It is nicely printed on Wychitella.—Mrs. M. Stewart. heavy paper, and embellished with

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ANNOUNCEMENT FOR NEW ZEALAND. A PRIVATE letter has been received from Bro. L. R trito C ffiipv, of the Zino. Conradi, announcing his safe return to Hamburg from his perilous trip in Russia. He has had the privilege of WE have completed arrangements with the New Melbourne, Australia, February 1, 1891. preaching the Truth to Russians, Bulgarians, Hungarians, Zealand Tract Society by which they become publishers Austrians, Greeks, Turks, and others. He has been of the BIBLE ECHO and Good Health in the relation of a in many scenes of danger. but the Lord has brought him CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. branch office. All business relating to these periodicals through. Many in the dark dominions of the Czar are in New Zealand will now he transferred to the office of embracing the message of truth for our time. We that society. Subscriptions will be received and paid POETRY. hope to be able soon to place before our readers a full 33 there, and these periodicals will not be sent from this Creation account of his eventftil trip. Homely Counsel 38 office to subscribers in that colony unless by special Witnesses 44 arrangement. We shall endeavor to arrange to have the Thorough ...... 46 THE first great commandment is, " Thou shalt love papers published in both offices as nearly simul- GENERAL ARTICLES. the Lord thy God with all thy heart." "And the Csar's Household 33 taneously as possible. second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neigh- The Hottentots and Kafirs of South Africa 34 This arrangement, we anticipate, will prove highly bor as thyself." On these two commandments the Fulfillment of Prophecy 34 satisfactory to all concerned. We believe there will be The Signification of Baptism ... 34 whole interest and duty of moral beings hang. Those Dr. Howard Crosby on Sabbath s Laws 35 less delay, and that if mistakes occur they may b,; who do their duty to others, as they would that others A Tusk of ivory ... 35 more readily corrected. should do to them, are brought into a position where Importance of Scripture Study.—No 6. 36 - Subscriptions will he credited on the Wellington God can reveal himself to them. They will be ap- Unprepared 36 Ballasted Christians 36 list for the time they are paid up There are a few proved of him. They are made perfect in love, and TIMELY TOPICS. subscriptions in arrears, and as we are to close our direct their labors and prayers will not be in vain. They are Hospital Charity ... 37 account with subscribers in New Zealand, we would be continually receiving grace and truth from the fountain- The Race Question in the United States 37 glad to have all such paid up at once. head, and as freely transmitting to others the divine Six Months Record of Crime ... 37 light and salvation they receive. In them is fulfilled King of Hawaii 37 The address of tile New Zealand office is New Zealand THE HOME CIRCLE. Tract Society, Buckle Street, Wellington. Communica- the language of the scripture, "Ye have your fruit Dinah 38 tions designed for the editor should be sent to North unto holiness, and the end everlasting life." As Little Children 38 Fitzroy, Victoria, as formerly. Selfishness is abomination in the sight of God and USEFUL AND CURIOUS. holy angels. Because of this sin, many fail to attain The Largest House in the World 39 the good which they are capable of enjoying. They The Meaning of Pin-money ... 39 THE half-yearly meeting of the stockholders of our The Deepest Lake Known 39 Publishing Company was held in the office hall on the look with selfish eyes on their own things, and do not Carpet Weaving in India ... 39 evening of Jan. 24. At this time the balande sheet, love and seek the interest of others as they do their EDITORIAL. showing the workings of the Company, was presented own. They reverse God's order. Instead of doing The Ethics of the Bible ... 40 by the Directors together with their report. The report for others what they wish others to do for, them, they The Book of Daniel 40 do for themselves what they desire others to do for Some Bible Hill-tops ... 41 was very satisfactory, showing a substantial increase in them, and do to others what they are most unwilling A Sketch of Japanese Educational Interests • • • 41 the assets of the association and an increased amount The Great Missionary Uprising ...... 42 of work do e. We have special reason for gratitude to have returned to them. Love is of God. The un- BIBLE STUDENT. to God, who has thus far sustained our work, though we consecrated heart cannot originate, or produce, this The first Commandment ... 43 have to contend with extraordinary dullness of times plant of heavenly origin, which, in order to flourish, Sabbath-school Lessons 43 and other obstructing features. Those stockholders must be watered constantly with the dew of heaven. FROM THE FIELD. who have not received copies of the balance sheet, will It can flourish only in the heart where Christ reigns. A Visit on the Volga • • • 44 The Future of Brazil ...... 44 be supplied on application. This love cannot live and flourish without action ; and Cathcart and Queenstown, South Africa ... 45 it cannot act without increasing in fervency, and ex- Tent-meetings in Ireland ... 45 tending and diffusing its nature to others.—Mrs. E. G. NEWS SUMMARY INFIDELITY IN HIGH PLACES. 45 White. HEALTH AND TEMPERANCE. Hygiene of Digestion ...... 46 THE experiences of two new cathedrals have been THE marked tendency of modern schools and uni- Susceptibility to Disease 46 vividly before the country for the past few days. Unlucky ... versities to liberalism and different phases of infidelity ... 46 First we allude to the consecration on the 22nd ult. of PUBLISHERS' DEPARTMENT 47 is a matter of grief to those who really love and vener- St. Paul's, a noble building erected in the heart of EDITORIAL NOTES 48 ate the Book of books. But how can we justly expect Melbourne. There was a notable assembly of the anything else in view of such utterances as are accred- great ones within, and a crowd of lesser ones without: ited to the " Reverend " A. W. Motnerie, professor at We send no papers out without their having been ordered. Hence The pomp and show of musty centuries were tnimiced persons receiving the BIBLE ECHO without having ordered it, are King's College ? The interview is published in Wit by those who love the praise of men. And according being supplied by some friend, and they will not be called upon to and Wisdom,, and is being extensively copied. Extracts pay for the paper to the sensibilities of many people, the borders of sacri- from it read as follows lege were very nearly approached, when, with assumed WE are indebted to Bro. La Rue of Hong Kong for a "The Bible does not make the ghost of a vestige of dignity, the lordly bishop adopted the sublime language fresh lot of China papers, containing particulars of the claim to inspiration in the orthodox sense. All that is good and great in it is inspired. But the Bible is full of Heaven, and exclaimed outside the door, "Lift up your late act of piracy and other matters of interest. of contradictions and inaccuracies which are not in- heads, 0 ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting spired, therefore it cannot be inspired as a whole. No doors ; and the King of Glory shall come in." And THE removal of Bro. S. McCullagh to New Zealand educated man can honestly believe it is inspired in the doors came open. Another cathedral in Goul- history or science. Huxley in science or Freeman in has necessitated his resigning the office of Conference history are far more inspired. The inspiration of the bourne, New South Wales, is having a different experi- Secretary. Bro. G. Foster, Chilwell, Geelong, Victoria, Bible must be restricted to moral and spiritual matters, ence through the contumacy of one of its wardens, a has been appointed to the office, and all reports of and even then it is as low at times as any book. I certain Captain Rossi, who seems to have got his churches should be sent to his address. consider that ' In Memoriam' is in advance of St. "back up" properly, or improperly, because the build- John's Gospel, but ' In Memoriam' would never have existed if Christ or St. John had not first lived. . . . ing is not put to the uses which suit his ideas. So far WITH sincere pleasure we acknowledge the receipt of As regards miracles, I simply say that the whole the rampant captain seems to have things his own way, several very fine photographic views from the Inter- trouble is explained thus : Miracles are seen by those very much to the annoyance of other parties. At national Sabbath-school Association. The views repre- who expect to see them. There is no reason to suppose least a genuine scandal and reproach on the Christian that when a miracle occurred, a violation of nature sent the missionary ship Pitcairn in several forms, and faith is being stirred up over the affair. It beats all took place. Some of Christ's 'miracles,' such as those also the workers and crew. Those of our readers who with the unclean spirits,' may have been akin to the how much genuine meanness a man can display when can call will be welcome to see these interesting pictures. modern hypnotism. The evangelists were honest, but he acts out his natural feelings. ignorant. Remember the unscientific mind looks upon the unusual—not the usual—as the special proof of THE Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal., have sent us sample God." The interviewer then asked, " Don't you believe The Bible Echo and Signs of the Times, copies of the following publications : Siberia and the Christ rose again ? " Dr. Motnerie replied : "Certainly A 16-page Religious and Family Journal, Nihilists, by Wm. J. Arm -trong, illustrated, in pamphlet not physically. Why, do you ? Come, I shall have to form. The book contains 160 pp., and sets forth the interview you. 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