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" Sanctity them throtigh Thy trUth : Thy Word is trUth."—John vii. 17.

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would not save Himself,—not alone that MOST clearly is this set forth in Phil. ii. ?Ely prtstitt ruth. He unselfishly forgot Himself,— but He 7, in the rendering of the Revised Version, PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE could not save Himself. To have saved where we are told that when Jesus had initrnational Tract Society, Ltd., Himself would have been the destruction everything, He did not count it a thing to 59, Paternoster Row, E. C. of all others ; for if He had planned to be desired to hold it, " but emptied Him- save Himself, He would have stayed in self." The Greek word from which this Annual Subscription, By Post, 6s. 6d. Make all Orders and Cheques payable to the International heaven, and never exposed Himself to re- is translated has the sense of " to drain Tract Society, Limited, 451, Holloway Road, London, N. proach and cruelty. But such a thing out." In a sense He annihilated Himself. To be had at Messrs. W. H. Smith & Bon's Railway was impossible ; He could not thus save Threw Himself away, in order that He Bookstalls, or through any News Agent. Himself, for such a saving of self would might save those who were lost, and in danger of annihilation. He took no thought "HIMSELF HE CANNOT SAYE." have been selfishness, and there was no selfishness in Him. He absolutely could for Himself ; He did not defend Himself WHEN Jesus hung upon the cross, the not remain in heaven and leave man. to against. attacks that were made upon Him ; priests and scribes and elders said in mock- perish. But He could not save men, utterly regardless, reckless of self, He was ing contempt, " He saved others ; Himself while keeping Himself in safety apart from lost in solicitude for others. He cannot save." Matt. xxvii. 42. In these words there was a THIS neglect of self was not a truth far beyond what the Jews momentary enthusiasm, as when had apy thought of, —a truth that one under a strong impulse saves even the followers of Jesus do not another from impending death at appreciate. Whoever grasps the the expense of his own life. On full meaning of the statement, the contrary, it was a deliberate, " He saved others ; Himself He settled purpose. Calmly and de- cannot save," and who allows it to liberately, looking over the whole apply to himself, has salvation, for situation, and counting the cost, it contains the whole of the Gospel. He laid down His life, that is, He placed it from Him, gave it up to "HE saved others." The Jews ac- the service of others, and when that knowledged this, yet they crucified Him. them and their troubles. So " He gave was done, the moment of death was but an He whose only offence was that " He went Himself for us." Titus ii. 14. incident in a long career of the same about doing good," was hanged as a male- giving. His life was just as truly laid factor, and He lifted no hand in self-de- THUS we see that the Gospel has its down for the sheep before He came to fence, nor uttered a word of reproach origin and perfection in giving. " God so earth, and while He walked and talked against His persecutors. " He was op- loved the world, that He gave His only and suffered in Judea and Galilee, as when pressed, and He was afflicted, yet He begotten Son." John iii. 16. " The Son with His expiring breath He cried, " Father, opened not His mouth ; He is brought as of man came not to be ministered unto, into Thy hands I commit My Spirit." a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep but to minister,"—not to be served, but to before her shearers is dumb, so He opened serve,—" and to give His life a ransom for IN all this history of self-sacrifice there not His mouth." Isa. liii. 7. He saved many." Matt. xx. 28. " For ye know is a lesson for us. We are not simply to others, and even while hanging on the the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, admire the example of devotion, but to cross, " a reproach of men, and despiied though He was rich, yet for your sakes follow it. In it alone is there salvation. of the people," He showed His power to He became poor, that ye through His Jesus seemingly threw Himself away, yea, save, in the case of the penitent thief ; but poverty might be rich." 2 Cor. viii. 9. that is what He actually did, for He Himself He could not save. He had everything, and we had nothing ; " poured out His soul unto death " (Isa. so He gave up everything, and kept noth- liii. 12), " emptied Himself," drained the AND this was the secret of His power to ing, in order that we might have every- last drop ; " wherefore God also hath save others. It was not simply that He thing. highly exalted Him, and given Him a 258 THE PRESENT TRUTH No. 17 name that is above every name." Phil. ONE thing more. Paul said, " I am spoken ; but I will not answer : yea, twice; ii. 9. His humiliation was His exaltation; debtor both to the Greeks, and to the bar- but I will proceed no further." His casting away of self was His salvation. barians ; both to the wise, and to the un- But, again, from out the whirlwind, the And that was the only possible way of wise." . Rom". i. 14. That which was true Lord speaks to Job, and questions him salvation ; for, as before stated, to have of Paul, is equally true of us. Why was further, until at length, overcome with the sought to save Himself would have been he debtor ?—The answer is plain, when we grandeur of the view of Almighty power to deny Himself, that is, to prove false to once stop to think ; it is simply this, that and omniscient wisdom presented to him, His nature. Since God is love, unselfish- Paul had received the whole of that which Job breaks forth :— ness, the only way that He can preserve was given for the world. Christ gave His " I know that Thou canst do everything, His own existence is to give Himself life for the world. He " tasted death for and that no thought can be withholden away. every man." But Christ is not divided ; from Thee. Who is he that hideth coun- every soul gets the whole of Him. " Unto " HEREBY perceive we the love of God, sel without knowledge ? therefore have I every one of us is given grace according to because He laid down His life for us ; and uttered that I understood not ; things too we ought to lay down our lives for the the measure of the gift of Christ." Eph. wonderful for me, which I knew not. iv. 7. His life is light; and the light that brethren . " 1 John iii. 16. "The brethren" Hear, I beseech Thee, and I will speak : for whom we are to give ourselves are the shines for me, shines equally bright for all. I will demand of Thee, and declare Thou He is the " Sun of righteousness ; " but sons of Adam, for all who are children of unto me. I have heard of Thee by the the sun shines for all ; each one gets all Adam must be brethren. Of course those hearing of the ear; but now Mine eye who give themselves for their brethren in the benefit of the sun, and no one could seeth Thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, Adam, will without question give them- get any more, even if he were the only and repent in dust and ashes." person on earth. So each person gets the selves for their brethren in Christ, who Job acknowledges that his previous life of Christ, which is given Himself counts even those who do not whole of thes knowledge of God had been by hearsay, to the world. Now it is very evident that know the name of God as His brethren, but now he saw and knew Him in the saying, " I will declare Thy name unto if I get the whole of something that is wonder of His works. In his previous My brethren." Heb. ii. 12. " We ought given to all the world, then I am debtor ignorance, knowing God only by hearsay, to the world ; and the same is true of every to lay down our lives for the brethren." —•by criticism and commentary, as it were, Let no one say or think, " My life is soul. The only difference between the —he had uttered many things that he so commonplace and uneventful that I most of us and the Apostle Paul is that he understood not, and had attempted things have no occasion to lay down my life for realised that to him was the fulness of too wonderful for him, which he knew not. anybody ; no great opportunities come Christ given, and he accepted and appro- Now, however, he had determined to to me." It is not in dying on some priated the gift, while we are too often accept the word of hearsay no longer, but great occasion, that laying down one's life content with but a little of the Divine life. to go to God direct for knowledge and consists ; the laying down of life consists We selfishly think to take just enough for wisdom ; "Hear I beseech Thee, and I will in not counting it our own, reckoning our- our own use, and put a part away from us, speak : I will demand of Thee, and declare selves as dead, deliberately putting our not realising that we must have the whole; Thou unto me." Then the Lord heard life from us, and forgetting all about it in and so we fail to realise that we are Job, accepted him fully, and blessed him. thoughts of others. " Let this mind be in debtors. May God grant that we all may you, which was also in Christ Jesus." have the eyes of our understanding en- lightened by the Holy Spirit, so that we A GOD OF LOPE. may know the riches of the glory of His THE lesson, in short, is that nobody can THE difference between the ideas of God inheritance in the saints, and may not be saved by trying to be saved. Salvation expressed in the Bible and those of many reject that portion of the life of Christ is too great a thing to be accomplished by theologians is very wide indeed. It is very which to the natural man seems disagree- human efforts. Strange as it may seem, strange indeed that anyone who had ever able, but may allow His perfectly unselfish we can be saved only as we cease all efforts read the Bible—and believed it in the least life to abide in us, so that we, not alone to save ourE elves, and lose all thought of —could have a conception of God as dis- with our lips, but by the glad offering of self in efforts to save others. Only so do tant and far withdrawn from His creatures, ourselves for others, may truly render we enter into full sympathy with Christ, when He tells us explicitly that He is "not thanks unto God for His unspeakable gift. and become labourers together with God. far from every one of us," that He is But that casting away of self is our salva- always within hearing distance, yes, even tion, for while we are concerning ourselves JOB'S EXAMINATION. always within reach. for others, Christ, who is also concerning IN the thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth How many there have been,—and indeed Himself for others, is as a matter of course chapters of the book of Job the Creator how many there are, who think of God as caring for us. " God turned the captivity Himself recounts the wonders of created a stern and unrelenting Judge, as much a of Job when he prayed for his friends." nature, which He has made,. and demands god of bloodshed and war as Mars, or the Job xlii. 10. of Job a definite answer as to his know- idol Juggernaut ! Very different was the FREEDOM from anxiety .is thus assured ledge of them. conception of King David when he wrote to us. How easy to cast all our care upon It is a long and searching examination— the one hundred and thirty-sixth Psalm, Him, when we know He cares for us. a half a hundred questions at least—and beginning, " 0 give thanks unto the Lord ; And when we know that He cares for us, Job fails utterly, he cannot answer one. for He is good : for His mercy endureth what need have we to care for ourselves ? But Job understood his failure, and said, for ever." Throughout the whole twenty- Thus we experience the truth that the " What shall I answer Thee ? I will lay six verses that is the refrain of each—" for Lord's yoke is easy, and His burden light. mine hand upon my mouth. Once have I His mercy endureth for ever."

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MEW fearing Goa and serving other gods. Every village has its own peculiar saint, and often its own particular black or white image of the Virgin, with miracles and wonders to sanctify the shrine. This evil wrought so universally that Christianity seemed in danger of extinction from the prevalence of idolatry, and it would have utterly expired had it not been of God, and had He not therefore once more put forth Mingling Darkness With Light. His hand and raised up reformers, who cried out : There is but one God, and one Mediator between God and man.' Brave voices called the church back to her THE BISHOP'S MITRE. another record, as the first in his office to allegiance and to the purity of her faith. adopt the Eastward Position in St. Paul's As for any of you who are trying to link FIRST SINCE THE REFORMATION. since the Reformation. The Eastward good and evil, truth and falsehood together, Position has long been adopted in the beware of the monstrous birth which will come of such an alliance : it will bring on THE new Bishop of London has worn cathedral, but now the choir and chapter you a curse from the Most High." his mitre in St. Paul's and thus established have a Bishop to join them. This is a record as the first to wear such a head- another contribution from the sun-wor- piece in St. Paul's since the Reformation. shipping East. In the eighth of Ezekiel BENIGHTED CHRISTENDOM.. Now, apparently, nothing is lacking in the the Lord plainly tells what He thinks of great cathedral, as its services have long it. Is there not need for the message, IN the current Century Magazine there been so " high " that only the fact that " Come out of her, My people " ? is a description (by the editor) of the they are not in Latin indicated to the scenes of Easter time in Jerusalem, when casual observer that he was not in a the rivalries of the various sects wax the Roman Catholic place of worship. A AND THE REFORMATION IS NOT ENDED YET. bitterest. There is so general a confound- writer in the Edinburgh Review some ing of the religion of Greek, Latin, and time ago gave some examples to show how THE late Mr. C. H. Spurgeon once Armenian Catholics with Christianity in " paganism revenged its defeat by adultera- graphically described the process by which the minds of most people that it is needful ting the Christian creed," when the " falling the early church was paganised. He to point out that it is not Christianity at away " from the purity of the faith came. said:— all. The confusion arises from the fact He said of the mitre :— " The greatest curse, perhaps, that ever that popular notions of Christianity leave The mitre which Clement of Alexandria men- visited the world came upon it in this way. out the religion of Christ almost altogether tions as a pagan dress took its name apparently Certain vain-glorious preachers desired to and substitute man-made religion for from Mithra. The initiate refused the wreath convert the world at a stroke, and to make offered to him in these curious mysteries, and ex- Divine life. converts without the work of the Spirit. olaimed, " My only crown is Mithra." It is the Describing the state of mind of the par- head-dress of the Persian priests, and of the They saw the people worshipping their Mithra-worshippers of Commagene on statues of gods, and they thought that if they could tisans of " Christianity " in Jerusalem the the early Roman period. This is by no means the call these by the names of saints and writer says that " doubt, suspicion, and only instance In which pagan vestments came to martyrs the people would not mind the murder in religion's name, are in the air be used by Christian priests. The scarlet robes of the flamens were adopted by cardinals ; the alb change, and so they would be converted. now as they were of old." The idea was to Christianise heathenism. was an Egyptian sacred dress ; the dalmatic, a Any of the sacred places themselves may be short-sleeved shirt, was worn by Commodus and " They virtually said to idolaters, Now, scenes of violence at any moment. Not long ago by Elagabalus, the emperor who was priest of the good people, you may keep on with your the Dalmatian Cavass in charge of some Russian sun god, symbolised by the black stone brought worship, and yet you can be Christians at tourists who were visiting in the Grotto at Beth- from Emesa, in Syria, to Rome. the same time. This image of the Queen lehem resented the interference of the sacristan Except that the paganism which these of Heaven at your door need not be moved. monk who was clearing the way before the Latin procession, drew his revolver, and shot him dead things symbolise is a living leavening Light the lamp still ; only call the image on the spot ; after that, firing four shots wildly at curse in religious life: the millinery worn "our Lady " and " the Blessed Virgin." the procession, he wounded a priest in the arm by the clergy would be of little interest to Here is another image ; don't pull it down, and rib. anyone. But as it is, they are the marks but change its name from Jupiter to Peter.' It is like the story of many an unpro- Thus with a mere change of names they . and trappings of apostasy which is leading voked murder, but the point is that had perpetuated idolatry ; they set up their this man been treated as a murderer by the religious world away from G.od and altars in the groves, and upon every high back into the corruptions of old pagan hill, and the people were converted with- the Moslem authorities, doubtless Russia, times. And, strange to say, there are out knowing it—converted to a baser who is the protector of the Greek religion multitudes of professed Protestants who heathenism than their own. They wanted in the Ottoman Empire, would, have come object to these extreme points of ritual who priests, and lo ! there they were, robed like to the rescue. It is this kind of religion nevertheless defend clerical dress of a those who served at the altars of Jove. that the great churches of Christendom special style in order to distinguish be- The people saw the same altars and sniffed have exhibited to Mohammedans ; and the same incense, kept the same holy days now Christendom rings with denunciation tween " clergy " and " laity," a distinc- and observed the same carnivals as afore- tion which is absolutely unscriptural and at time, and called everything by Christian of the Turk, and multitudes of pulpits de- the root of all this extreme sacerdotalism names. mand his extinction in the name of Chris- and ritualism. " Hence came what is now called the tianity. The only conclusion possible is The Bishop of London has also made Roman Catholic religion, which is simply that the pulpits so doing know no more of 260 THE PRESENT TRUTH. No. 17. the Gospel than their " fellow religionists " mimic war. While this celebration of nature, then, meaning only death, it is so of the East. Easter time was going on at home, in the only because nature means sin. While THE " HOLY FIRE." Macedonian mountains gruesome war was, life being only the reward of righteousness: in reality, being enacted. Of this a cor- grace meaning only life, it is so only " Now," says the writer, " the time of respondent telegraphs his paper :— because grace means righteousness. miracle approaches." For hours the This afternoon I paid a flying visit to the field Sin and righteousness, nature and grace, crowd in the church has been fighting and hospital in the rear. The sight was very distress- are directly opposite and antagonistic yelling. " As a preliminary to this sacred ing, as the wounded tossed on their beds, scream- elements. They occupy realms absolutely manifestation there is a new, wild out- ing with agony or babbling in their delirium. Others with feverish hands were tearing the cover- distinct. Nature, self-preservation, self- burst of cries and screams." Jerusalem lets of their beds into pieces, and in some in- defence, force, war, and death, occupy only worshippers beat with their fists the men stances as I passed along the poor fellows would the realm of sin. Grace, self-sacrifice, from Jaffa to get their places. " The invite me to look at their wounds. self-surrender, love, peace, and life, occupy noise is frightful." "Men standing on the These are the practical realities, while only the realm of righteousness shoulders of the crowd screech words of the sensuous scenes of beauty and melody The realm of sin is the realm of Satan. religious greeting,— which filled the churches are the theory. Why is it that the theory and practice The realm of grace is the realm of God. This is the tomb of Christ, differ so widely ? It is because religion All the power of the domain of grace is darting a finger at the tomb itself with has been made a theory and not a practical devoted to saving men from the dominion every repetition." Then when the patri- life. The very Easter day and time, as of sin. This in order, that " as sin hath arch within the tomb strikes a fire—which indeed the name itself shows, is pagan and reigned unto death, even so might grace the ignorant believe comes down from not Christian. If, then, the theory is reign, through righteousness, unto eternal heaven—and passes it out, the crowd pagan, it is natural that the practice should life by Jesus Christ our Lord." armed' with candles catch it and run. be pagan also, and so it is. There is not On which side do you stand in this " On and on sounds the clangour and the the contradiction that there seems to be. great controversy? A. T. JONES. shouting ; men, women and children are But the contradiction is between allied mad." A kindly patriarch said the in- pagan sensuous theory and sensual prac- telligent Greeks understood that the fire PITCAIRN ISLAND. tical violence on the one hand, and the is produced by the patriarch, but that any- religion of the Prince of Peace on the one who should tell the frenzied rabble so WE give a picture of this rocky island, other. famed as the retreat of the mutineers of " would be torn to pieces." the ship "Bounty." Their descendants on At the height of the frenzy, as the flame leaped through the rotunda and lighted the encircling TIE TWO SIDES IN THE GREAT this island now number somewhat less chapels, making more rich and glittering the than two hundred souls. A Sabbath- altars, the gorgeous vestments, the whole eccle- CONTROVERSY. siastical paraphernalia, the arms and uniforms of keeping brother visited them eleven years the troops, and the many-coloured costumes of the SELF-SACRIFICE OR SELF-DEFENCE? ago, and since then the islanders have mad and motley crowd, the thought flashed upon been actively in sympathy with our me: Was there ever anything in all Christendom so beautiful and so blasphemous ? " SELF-PRESERVATION is the first law of work. It was their earnest call for And when such blasphemy is made nature." teachers and a school that led to the religion, and when religion itself instead But self-sacrifice is the first law of grace. building of the missionary ship " Pit- of inspiring kindliness and love is the In order to self-preservation, self-defence cairn " which is employed in our work inspirer of every hateful feeling and the is essential. among the islands of the Pacific Ocean. cloak of violence and lawlessness, what In order to self-sacrifice, self-surrender is essential. must the end be ? And now the same THE YOUTH OF JESUS. spirit is spreading in the West and. mul- In self-defence, the only thing that can titudes whose 'profession of advanced be employed is force. IT is written of Jesus in His childhood, Christianity should lead them to a desire In self-surrender, the only thing that can " The child grew, and waxed strong in to carry the Gospel to these benighted be employed is love. spirit, filled with wisdom ; and the grace peoples, and to show to Mohammedans In self-preservation, by self-defence, of God was upon Him." as well what the Christ-life actually is, through the employment of force, force are blindly encouraging war against Mo- meets force, and this means only war. EVERY year His parents went to the hammedans in the sacred name of Jesus, In self-sacrifice, by self-surrender, city of Jerusalem to attend the feast of and are persuaded that they have em- through love, force is met by love, and this the Passover, and in His twelfth year barked in a righteous cause. means only peace. Jesus went with them to the city. When Self-preservation, then, means only war : the feast was over, the parents, forgetting while self-sacrifice means only peace. all about Jesus, started on their road But war means only death : Self-pre. EASTER CELEBRATIONS. home with some of their relations, and did nervation, then, meaning only war, means not know that Jesus was not with them. A DAILY paper heads a column—" Play- only death. While self-sacrifice, meaning They supposed that He was in the com- ing at War; Scenes at the Easter Ma- only peace, means only life. pany, and went a whole day's journey nceuvres." In rain and cold, hailstorms Self-preservation being the first law of before they found out that He was not and wintry winds, the " invaders" and nature, nature then means only death. there. " defenders " scurried from hill to hill, or While self-sacrifice being the first law of crouched wet and shivering behind stone grace, grace means only life. FRIGHTENED as to what had become of walls and hedges in the manoeuvres of But death is only the wages of sin; Him, they turned back to the city, and for April 29. THE PRESENT TRUTH. 261 three days they sought Him with great ture in such a way as gave them clear asked such questions as would flash light anxiety. " And it came to pass, that after light in regard to the Lamb of God that into the minds of those with whom He three days they found Him in the temple, taketh away the sins of the world. He was talking. He helped them to under- sitting in the midst of the doctors, both made the truth shine out like a light in a stand the true meaning of the prophets, hearing them and asking them questions." darkened place. and showed them what the mission and The doctors were very learned men, and While Christ was teaching others, He work of the Messiah would be. yet they were astonished as they heard Himself was receiving light and knowledge The Jewish people had wrong ideas Jesus asking wonderful questions, and saw about His own work and mission in the about the Messiah and His work. They that He had a good understanding of the world ; for it is plainly stated that Christ thought that when Christ cane in their Scriptures. His parents also listened in " grew in knowledge." What a lesson day, He would do grand and wonderful

' PITCAIRN ISLAND. amazement, as they heard His searching there is in this for all the youth of our things, that He would set them above all questions. day ! They may be like Christ, and by other people. They were looking for the studying the Word of God, by receiving glory that will be seen when Christ comes JESUS knew that God had given Him the light that the Holy Spirit can give the second time, and did not study the this opportunity to give light to those who them, they will be able to give light to Bible so that they could know that He was were in darkness, and He sought to do all others. As they teach others of the grace to come the first time in a very lowly way. in His power to open the truth to the of God', God will give them new grace But Jesus asked questions about the rabbis and teachers. He led these men from heaven. The more they fry to teach Scriptures that pointed to His first appear- to speak about different verses in . the others about the riches of Christ, the ing, that flashed light into the minds of Bible telling about the Messiah whom better understanding Will they have of the those who were willing to receive the they expected to come. They thought plan of salvation, and the more richly will truth. Before He had come to the earth, that Christ was to come to the world in the grace of God abide in their own hearts. He had given these prophecies to His great glory at this time, and make the If the youth will remain as humble as did servants who had written them down, and Jewish nation the greatest nation on the the child Jesus, they will become light- now as He studied the Bible, the Holy earth. But Jesus asked them what the bearers to the world. Spirit brought these things to His mind, Scriptures meant when they spoke of the and showed Him the great work that He humble life, the suffering and sorrow, JESUS A STUDENT OF THE WORD. was to do in the earth. the rejection and death, of the Son of AT the age of twelve, the people saw As He grew in knowledge, He imparted God. Though Christ seemed like a child that the Holy Spirit was resting upon knowledge to others. But though He was that was seeking help from those who Jesus. He felt something of the burden wiser than the learned men, he did not knew a great deal more than He did, He of the mission for which He had come to become proud, or feel that He was above was bringing light to their minds in every our world. His soul was stirred into doing the most humble toil. He took His word He spoke. He repeated the Scrip- action. As one who would learn, He share of the burden, with His father, 262 THE PRESENT TRUTH. No 17.

mother, and brethren, and toiled to help little hands, and childlike, stretched it fearful death at the lurid stake, it is re- support the family. Though the doctors back and forth, until a happy thought markable to note that the inquisitor seems had been amazed at His, wisdom, He seemed to strike her, and she said sweetly : utterly callous to the emphatic testimony obeyed His parents, and worked with His " See, auntie, how I do with the rubber, which he renders to the conscientiousness I stretch it until I see it won't bear any of his victims. own hands as any toiler would work. It more without breaking, and then I let up The earliest persecution of the Albi- is stated of Jesus that as He grew older on it. Say, don't you think, auntie, God genses on record, took place at Orleans He "increased in wisdom and stature, and does—does that way with, with folks ? " about the year 1017. Fifteen persons were in favour with God and man." The homely illustration was surely led out to watch the kindling of the fires The understanding that He obtained heaven-sent, for to the grief-stricken one it which were to be used for their destruction. from day to day, that showed Him how sent home the half-forgotten words, "God As they looked upon the tongues of flame licking up the smaller faggots, and realised wonderful should be His mission in the is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able ; but will that soon their quivering limbs would be world, did not lead Him to neglect the with the temptation also make a way to fuel for the relentless blaze, they were humblest duties. He cheerfully took up escape, that ye may be able to bear it." asked to recant, and pardon was offered. the work that children and youth who And drinking in the sweet comfort of it, But only two yielded their faith, while dwell in humble households are called upon she said, with glad tears in her eyes : thirteen remained staunch. Another to do ; for He knew what it was to be " There is a let up' to my grief now, group went to the pyre singing, " Blessed presQed by poverty. He understands the dear, too, for through you the Comforter are ye when men shall revile you." At temptations of children, for H6 bore their has reminded me of a way of escape."— the capture of the Castle of Minerva, the Helena H. Thomas. Catholics piously offered their prisoners a sorrows and trials. Firm and steadfast choice of recantation or the stake. There was His purpose to do the right ; though were one hundred and eighty of them in others tried to lead Him to do evil, He yet PERSECUTION OF THE all, and to a man they declared for the never did wrong, and would not turn away ALBIGENSES. stake. But this constancy gave birth to in the least from the path of truth and no tenderer feelings in the heart of the right. He always obeyed His parents, THE Albigenses were a part of the monk who has chronicled the event than French nation, and the influence of the and did every duty that lay in His path. expressed in his written words : " No torments inflicted upon them did not die doubt all these martyrs of the devil passed But His childhood and youth were any- with the embers of the stakes at which from temporal to eternal flames." thing but smooth and joyous. His spot- they suffered. Those horrible tortures It was in the year 1178, that Pope Alex- less life aroused the envy and jealousy of were destined to live in the hearts of men ander III published a call for the third his brethren ; for they did not believe on and women for long years afterward. council of the Lateran. It contained an Him. They were annoyed because He They were destined to be repeated to the ominous allusion to the tares which were did not act in all things as they did, and little children at their grandsires' knees, choking the wheat and must needs be would not become one with them in doing and finally to awaken a belief that the God pulled up by the roots. The council of the Catholics must be an awful being, 'evil. He ever seemed like one who was " commended the employment of force by not fit to be worshipped. The atheistical the secular power to compel men to their seeking to learn. He took great delight tendencies of the French Revolution of owe salvation." At/indulgence for sin, to in nature, and God was His teacher. just over a century ago have been com- cover a period of two years was promised MRS. E. G. WHITE. mented upon much by historians.. It is to every man who should take up arms to frequently urged that this was an ex- extirpate the heretics. Each would be traordinary phenomenon of that terrible received under the protection of the church " I CANNOT BEAR IT " time, and one which was not correlated during this life, and those who fell in with the other questions at issue. battle were assured of safe conducts to the SHE had borne up under the " waves Such reasoning is, however, the result world beyond. On such terms as these it and billows " of sorrow, to the surprise of of a superficial view of the facts in the case. was not difficult to raise an army of the all who heard not, as she heard, " It is I, The French people of the eighteenth warriors of those days. be not afrgid." Put one day she seemed century hated God because such bloody Forth went this band on its mission of alone in her grief. The voice of the Com- deeds had been done in His name. It devastation and death. Nevertheless the forter had such a far-off sound that her could not be otherwise, and the " Worship heresy grew and flourished till the ponti- heart did not respond as was its wont, of Reason " was only a logical revolt from ficate of Innocent III. A chronicler •' Even so, Father," but instead, thinking a system which seemed to them to be the assures us that among many thousands of herself alone, she cried in bitterness of soul, most unreasonable form of worship imag- people, there was scarcely a Catholic to be " I cannot bear it ! I cannot ! " inable. found. But how different were the means And burying her face in her hands, she The zeal of the Albigenses was prodigious. employed by the Albigenses for the spread sobbed aloud. But presently she felt an No labour was too severe, no risks too of their faith, to those used by the church. arm about her neck, and heard in loving great to deter them from spreading the So great was the number of converts to tones : "Jul' so sorry for you, auntie." faith which they deemed essential to sal- the ranks of Albigensianism that unless The unexpected words of sympathy in- vation. Their truthfulness and constancy some drastic means could be devised to creased the sobs for a time, and then, half- were admirable. One of the members of check the " vile superstition," it seemed ashamed that the child, above all others, the tribunal of the Holy Inquisition warns only a great question of time when the should have seen her so overcome, she his fellow-workers not to commence his Roman Catholic faith would disappear tried to smile through her tears, saying: interrogatories by asking, " Are you a throughout all the Mediterranean provinces " I am weak to-day, darling, but it seems heretic ? " for the answer will be a simple of France. Although in the majority, the to me as if I cannot hear my grief any " Yes," and then nothing more can be ex- heretics never indulged in persecuting the longer." tracted ; but if the Albigensian is exhorted Catholics. It is true that the nobles were The child, evidently at a loss for words, in the name of God to tell all about his life, rapidly depriving the Roman clergy of lovingly patted the tear-stained face a he will faithfully relate every detail of it their revenues and possessions. This moment, and then she picked up a tiny without falsehood. When it is borne in could not be objected to very strenuously, rubber band, through which she put her mind that this candour led inevitably to a as the priests were neglecting their duties, April 29 THE PRESENT TRUTH. 263

and the monks were disgracefully lazy. religion of high Heaven. In all their deeds THE NEW EARTH. But the Albigenses, however much they they saw only the hand of God, and It is a fair abode, fitted for the new meritorious acts which would purchase a may have believed themselves to be the creatures in Christ Jesus. It can never passport to eternal bliss. It is reported of coming church, never thought of extending grow old or wear out, because it is a one of them—Foulques—that once when their faith by the sword. If they found a spiritual inheritance. It will always re- preaching against the heretics, he compared Catholic zealous enough to contend with main fresh and beautiful, because the life them to wolves and the orthodox to sheep. them; they would reason, argue, and dis- of God permeates every nook and corner An Albigensian whose eyes had been bored pute. Everywhere they expounded the without any obscuring veil. " The desert Word of God to the people. But " they out and his nose and lips cut off by Simon shall rejoice and blossom as the rose. It de Montfort, arose and said, " Did you were content with peaceable conversions shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even ever see sheep bite a wolf thus ? " To and zealous missionary work, and dwelt with joy and singing ; the glory of Lebanon which Foulques rejoined that de Montfort in perfect amity with their orthodox shall be given unto it, the excellency of was a good dog who had thus bitten the neighbours. This was more than the Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the wolf. church could stand, since it had ever held glory of the Lord, and the excellency of But enough ; a fearful day of reckoning that the toleration of others is the per- our God." ".And an highway sh'all be was to come for the church, in which old secution of itself." there, and a way, and it shall be called, scores were to be settled and wiped out by In the year 1207 Pope Innocent III pro- 'The way of holiness; the unclean shall not the red hand of the Revolution. claimed a crusade against the people of pass over it for He shall be with them : P. T. MAGAN. southern France, and by the troops of the the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not church under Simon de Montfort, those err therein." Isa. xxxv. 1, 2, 8. sectaries who had , quoted to the indolent THE ETERNAL PURPOSE. Even as the shekinah glory of God filled priests, " If a man will not work neither let the tabernacle and the temple, in the days him eat," were summarily taught that of old, and Christ in His people " the hope • No. 9. THE ETERNAL INHERITANCE. there " is such a thing as wresting the of glory" did the same, so, in the new Scriptures to one's own destruction." " AND I saw a new heaven and a new earth, everything shall be filled with the It was at the siege of Beziers that the earth : for the first heaven and the first glory' of God. That glory shall flood the greatest atrocities were committed. When earth were passed 'away ; and there was whole eai th as the waters cover tha sea, no more sea. And I John saw the holy the city was taken, no quarter was given. and the knowledge of that glory shall be city, New Jerusalem, coming down from " From infancy in arms to tottering age, in every place. Hab. ii. 14. God out of heaven, prepared as a bride not one was spared,—seven thousand it is Nothing unclean can pass over the high- adorned for her husband. And I heard a said were slaughtered in the church of way there. The same Presence that walked great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, Mary Magdalene, to which they had fled in the cool of the day in the Garden of the tabernacle of God is with men, and for asylum." The total number of slain Eden will there be manifested to His He will dwell with them, and they shall in this one place is variously estimated at people : " And they shall see His face ; be His people, and God Himself shall be from sixty to one hundred thousand. A and His name shall be in their foreheads." soldier more merciful than his leaders, with them, and be their God." Rev. xxi. Rev. xxii. 4. 1-3. asked the papal legate, Abbot Arnold, how The same Presence that sanctified the Once again the earth stands forth in its he should distinguish and save the Catho- ground on which the burning bush stood, perfection of beauty. Weary ages had lic from the here:ic. " Kill them all," and made the inner apartment of the Sanc- rolled over the first earth and the curse was the ferocious reply, " God will know tuary the " Most Holy place," will there His own." Revolting was the carnival of had eaten into its very heart until it had sanctify the highway to Zion, so that it become even as a moth-eaten garment, but murder and rapine of that awful day. shall be called " the way of holiness." now all is changed.' The voice, which in Finally the town was set on fire, and the The same people who have had that the beginning had said : "Let light be," blood-red sun of that July eve looked as if Presence in their hearts creating in them now speaks with the same creative power, the very skies were reflecting the crimson " the highways to Zion " (Ps. lxxxiv. 5, and says : " Behold, I make all things scene. What a holocaust was this to a R.V.) will then come up to worship before new." The redeemed, who had been cre- Deity of mercy and love, whom the people the Lord along those sanctified highways. of southern France " might well be par- ated anew by the same word, inherit all " And the ransomed of the Lord shall re- doned for regarding as the Principle of things, and God inherits them. turn, and come to Zion with songs and The lessons of the past have been Evil." everlasting joy upon their heads : they At the massacre of Lavour, four hundred learned, The temple of the body has been shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow people were immolated on one pile ; and it found to correspond with the temple in and sighing shall flee away." Isa. xxxv. was remarked that " they made a wonder- heaven, so that the same Presence that fills 10. ful blaze, and went to burn everlastingly in the one fills the other. The tabernacle of THE ESTABLISHED PEOPLE. hell." It is beyond the power of tongue God is with men, and He tabernacles with or pen to depict the horrors that were per- them. In the first earth they had learned The pilgrim people shall at last find a petrated upon this innocent and inoffensive that their bodies were the temples of the settled home in the new earth. Time and people. The very soil was saturated with Holy Ghost. They had seen how God can change cannot affect that permanent the blood of men, and the atmosphere foul tabernacle with men, by the demonstration abiding-place. " And the work of right- with the stench of roasting flesh: " From afforded by the earthly life of Jesus. eousness shall be peace ; and the effect the reek of murdered women, mutilated Now the object lesson has been demon- of righteousness quietness and assurance children, and ruined cities," says Draper, strated by their own experience in knowing for ever. And My people shall dwell in a " the Inquisition, that infernal institution, that they are the inheritance of God and peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, arose. Its projectors intended it not only God is their inheritance. The closest in- and in quiet resting-places." Isa. xxxii. to put an end to public teaching, but even timacy between heaven and themselves has 17, 18. to pervade thought. In the midst of these existed because of the indwelling Spirit of " For behold I create new heavens and awful events, Innocent was called before Christ, and now they are prepared for the a new earth : and the former shall not be another tribunal to render his account ; he blessed assurance : " And I saw no temple remembered, nor come into mind." "And died A. D. 1216." therein : for the Lord God Almighty and they shall build houses and inhabit them ; How blind must have been the minds of the Lamb are the temple of it." Rev. and they shall plant vineyards and eat the these crusaders to the principles of the xxi. 22, fruit of them. They shall not build, and 264 THE PPFSPNT TRUTH. No. 17. another inhabit ; they shall not plant, and CAN WE TRUST? preacher in the villages for thirty years, another eat : for as the days of a tree are and he had no more trouble with the the days of My people, and Mine elect IN the midst of my sickness and pain, Lord, drink. Afterward this young woman shall long enjoy the work of their hands." Can I trust Thee, and know Thou art true ? brought a younger brother, and he was Isa. lxv. 17, 21, 22. Can Thy comfort refresh my poor brain, converted. This younger brother had an We have noticed the close connection Lord ? intended wife, and thus she was brought, between the new earth and those who are Can Thy promises thrill my heart through? and was also converted. Twelve months created anew in Christ Jesus, and now we Ah, yes I Praise His name! He hath spoken; after, I was invited to tea with that are prepared to see how both will stand He foresaw all my pain and my grief ; family, and there were present nine per- together. " For as the new heavens and He knew when my spirit was broken, sons who had thus been brought to the the new earth, which I will make, shall It would turn to the Fount for relief. Lord through that young woman who remain before Me, saith the Lord, so shall came in to make fun of the foreign your seed and your name remain." Isa. " I will make all thy bed in thy sickness." preacher and his language. I have told lxvi. 22. The creation, which groaned Blest Lord, Thou dost make it for me I you this, not in the way of boasting, but and travailed in pain, in sympathy with I will pillow my head on Thy bosom, to encourage those who have a desire to fallen man, is now released by the birth of I will rest in Thy promise so free. serve in foreign places. May God greatly the new heavens and the new earth. It " E'en through the dark valley and shadow." bless you all, and help us all to please Him steps into the glorious liberty of the chil- The comfort of Thy staff and rod in our service, whether at home or abroad! dren of God and now stands forth in full Is enough to quell the wild tumult • • • N sympathy with the redeemed. Of a heart that throbs only for God. As the one will remain, so will the WORDS OF WISDOM. other. "And He will destroy in this In pity and love Thou hast spared, Lord, mountain the face of the covering that is And borne with my burden of tears; IN his comments on Matt. xii. 43-45 cast over all peoples, and the veil that is Now I can but trust in Thy word, Lord, Dean Alford refers to the apostasy, cap- spread over all nations. He bath SWAL- And it soothes and allays all my fears. tivity, reformation, and final apostasy of LOWED UP DEATH FOR EVER ; and the Lord And I hear in the night-time of anguish the Jewish Church in the rejection of God will wipe away tears from off all Thy voice sounding thrillingly sweet : Christ, to the destruction of the nation. faces ; and the reproach of His people " Fear not, child, nor let thy heart languish ; He continues in words which should be all the earth : shall He take away from off I am bringing thee close to My feet." heeded now:— for the Lord bath spoken it." Isa. xxv. 1\Ias. S. L. STOUT. " Strikingly parallel with this runs the 7, 8, R.V. history of the Christian church. Not long The veil that covers the people is torn after apostolic times the golden calves of from its place. Sin is for ever gone, never idolatry were set up by the Church of to appear again. Death is swallowed up MAKING FUN OF THE PREACHER. Rome. What the effect of the captivity in victory. No cemeteries will be seen in was to the Jews that of the Reformation the new earth. No funeral trains will WHEN I came to England, sixty-six has been to Christendom. The first evil wind their mournful way over that fair years and four months ago, said Mr. spirit has been cast out. But, by the creation. No weeping eyes shall there be- Muller, of the Bristol Orphanages, I knew growth of hypocrisy, secularity, and ra- wail' the loss of loved ones. The Lord very little English indeed, and as I began tionalism, the house has become empty, God will wipe the tears from every eye by to speak a few words, I used to go out and swept, and garnished, swept and garnished removing the cause of weeping. Sin shall talk to the children ; and though they by the decencies of civilisation and dis- be no more and therefore death, which is used to laugh at my mistakes, I took coveries of secular knowledge, but empty contained in sin, is gone for ever. notice, and was diligent to use the few of earnest and living faith. And he must Oh, blessed day ! when these veiled words that I knew, and so I got on to read prophecy but ill who does not see eyes shall see the King in His beauty; learn others and to improve myself in under all these seeming improvements the when these ears shall hear the words : the language. It is now sixty-three years preparation for the final development of " Come, ye blessed of My Father, inherit and four months since a young woman, the man of sin, the great re-possession, the kingdom prepared for you from the gaily dressed and with her face painted, when idolatry and the seven worse spirits foundation of the world ;" when these was going out for a holiday on the Lord's shall bring the outward frame of Christen- weary feet shall walk the streets of gold, day; but first she thought she would go dom to a fearful end." and wander up and down the beautiful into Gibeon Chapel, and hear the foreign Dean Alford knew it because God has banks of the river of life ; when these eyes preacher, to make fun of his language. foretold it in His " more sure word of shall gaze upon the beauties of the land She only meant to remain two or three prophecy." " Blessed is he that watch- that is .‘ very far off." minutes, but she found she could not go eth." M. C. WILCOX. The righteousness of Jesus Christ is the out. Her attention was fixed. The Word only passport into these eternal glories. reached her heart. She was rooted to her It is offered freely unto all, and is " upon seat, and was converted to God that morn- VIEWED FROMFROM ABOVE, all them that believe." The firstfruits of ing. that glorious inheritance has already been She went away from the service to wash SALVATION is all of grace. Yet these tasted by those who acknowledge Christ the paint from her face, and to long for things are required : " Let him that nameth as Lord. And " now we see through a the evening meeting. In the evening she the name of Christ depart from all glass darkly, but then face to face," and brought her sister, and at that service the iniquity." " Whosoever would be My the deeper revelation of the ages of sister was also converted. Then she disciple, let him take up his cross, deny eternity inspires deeper love to our Creator brought with her a married sister, and himself daily, and follow Me." " Ye can- and Redeemer. H. CHAMPNESS. she was converted. Then the married not," says our Lord, "serve God and sister's husband, who was a great drunkard, mainmon." Shrink not from the pain " GROWTH in grace is often helped by was brought. He would stand outside a these sacrifices must cost. It is not so having the grace to say no." public-house, and take off his jacket and great as many fancy. The joy of the Lord exchange it for gin, and then he would is His people's strength. Love has so " THE wages of sin is death, no matter take off his waistcoat and exchange that swallowed up all sense of pain, and sorrow how promptly we pay our pew rent." for gin. He was converted, and became a been so lost in ravishment, that men of April 29. THE PRESENT 'MUTH. 265

old took joyfully the spoiling of their many cases. I heard of a preacher the other tend .the same precious boon to their goods, and martyrs went to the burning day who took for his text some words fellow-sinners. We should not forget the stake with ° beaming countenances, and like those of the Psalmist : " We are fear- hole of the pit from whence we were sang high death-songs amid the roaring fully and wonderfully made," and he de- digged, nor refuse to extend the hand of flames. Let us by faith rise above the livered an eloquent discourse on anatomy. mercy to any that are sunken in the mire world, and it will shrink into littleness But it did not save anybody, as far as and clay of sin. and insignificance compared with Christ. heard from. There are lots of lectures Says the One who is the embodiment of Some time ago two aeronauts, hanging just like this being given all the time as mercy, and in whom we hope, " Blessed in mid-air, looked down to the earth from substitutes for the Gospel. Are we sur- are the merciful ; for they shall obtain their balloon, and wondered to see how prised that they are not followed by con- mercy." Let us look well to our own small great things had grown. Ample versions ?—D. L. Moody. hearts, then, and see that they are in ac- fields were contracted into little patches ; cord with this heavenly principle. the lake was no larger than a looking- ALBERT WEEKS. glass ; the broad river, with ships floating THE WINOS OF FAITH. on its bosom, seemed like a silver thread ; I• - • • the wide-spread city Was reduced to the This my heart read long ago, SINGULAR FOR CHRIST'S SAKE dimensions of a village ; the long, rapid, Writ in letters golden : flying train appeared but a black caterpillar Every gift from Heaven descends, slowly creeping over the surface of the Nought by chance is holden ; IF you follow Christ fully, you will be ground. And such changes the world He who trusts to Love's rich store sure to be called by some ill name or undergoes to the eyes of him who, rising Shall not need to ask for more. other. For, first, they will say, " How to hold communion with God and antici- Balms for wounds, and songs for sighs, singular you are ! " " Mine heritage," pating the joys of heaven, lives above it and Hopes of highest gladness, says God, " is unto Me as a speckled bird; looks beyond it. This makes it easy and These, dear Lord, Thou dost impart, the birds round about are against her." even joyful to part with all for Christ ; Lifting us from sadness. If you become a true Christian, you will "this is the victory that overcometh the Teaching us to banish fear, soon be a marked man. They will say, world, even our faith."—Thomas Guthrie, In the thought that Thou art near:. " How odd be is ! " " How singular she D. D. is ! " They will think that we try to make Faith has wings, and like a bird ourselves remarkable, when, in fact, we Soaring ever higher, are only conscientious, and are endeavour- GRATITUDE FOR BLESSINGS.—We need Singing, winging Heavenward, ing to obey what we think to be the Word to praise God more " for His goodness, Still doth she aspire ; • of God. Oftentimes that is the form of and for His wonderful works to the chil- So our trustful souls would fly contempt ; practical Christians are set dren of men." Our devotional exercises Unto Thee, 0 God Most High. down as intentionally eccentric and wil- should not consist wholly in asking and ANNIE E. LYDDON. fully odd. receiving. Let us not be always thinking Mothers have brought that charge against of our wants, and never of the benefits we daughters who have been faithful to Christ, receive. We do not pray any too much, MERCY. because they would not go into gaiety or but we are too sparing of giving thanks. indulge in vain apparel, and many a man We are the constant recipients of God's " ComE now, and let us reason together, has said it to his fellow-man by way of mercies, and yet how little gratitude we saith the Lord ; though your sins be as accusation, " You must be different from express, how little we praise Him for what scarlet, they shall be as white as snow ; anybody else." This difference, which He has done for us !—Mrs. E. G. White. though they be red like crimson, they God has made a necessity, men treat as shall be as wool." Isa. i. 18. " For a mere whim of their own. If we do not as the heaven is high above the earth, so come out from among them, and be THE PREACHING BIDDEN great is.His mercy toward them that fear separate, we cannot expect to be housed Him." Ps. ciii. 11. beneath the wings of the Eternal; but WHEN God sent Jonah to Nineveh, He Thus the goodness of God is manifest in if we do, we may reckon upon being re- said, " Preach the preaching that I bid His free and complete mercy to us. But garded by those round us as strange, un- thee." And it was because he did not care He cannot save us in sin. It is necessary friendly creatures.—Spurgeon. to do it that he got shut up in the whale. to confess and forsake our sins. Prov. Lots of preachers to-day are shut up in the xxviii. 13. All sin must be put away. same way, so far as any fruit of their work The mind must be transformed and re- LET us go forth, as called of God, is concerned, and for the same reason. newed by the Spirit of God ; and the Redeemed by Jesus' precious blood; same mercy that we would have extended They do not preach what God bids them His love to show, His life to live, to us must exist in our hearts toward to preach. Nobody can expect souls to be His message speak, His mercy give. converted under a ministry that gives a others. "And when ye stand praying, The Christ of God to glorify, good part of its time to picking flaws in the forgive, if ye have aught against any ; His grace in us to magnify, Bible. We do not hear so much of ration- that your Father also which is in heaven His Word of love to all make known,— alism and infidelity in these days as we do may forgive you your trespasses. But if Be this our work, and this alone. of what is called " Modern Criticism," but ye do not forgive, neither will your —El Nathan. this seems to be doing the same deadly Father which is in heaven forgive your work as of old, only under a new name. trespasses." • When the masses of the people begin to If we would enter heaven, we must have Ann is it not wonderful, servant of God, the spirit of heaven. God, Christ, and think that these modern critics know That He should have honoured us so with His more about how the Bible came to us than the angels are full of mercy for weak, sin- love, Jesus Christ did, we need not wonder if ful man. How appropriate, then, that they begin to lose faith both in Him and man, who reaps the benefits of so great That the sorrows of life should but shorten the in it. mercy, should himself be merciful. Strange road "And then, when the Bible is not criti- it is that any who hope in the mercy of a Which leads to Himself and the mansions cised, it is put out of sight altogether in too pure and holy God, should be slow to ex- above ? 266 THE PRESENT TRUTH, No 17.

had planned for 'em long enough, but that kind o' makes a body feel's if dey had to yro e6atsoever tOinds do it, an' I wanted to get dinner for yer all are true out o' my warm feelin's when de time odre"4 toant esetinds. come." " When a man has provided bountifully for his household, it seems as if he might expect to enjoy a small share of it him- self, even if the preparation does require a little trouble," remarked Mr. Allyn im- patiently. • " Cur'us how things make a body think of Bible verses," said Rachel, musingly. " Dar's dat one 'bout Who giveth us all things richly to enjoy ; ' an' What shall I render to de Lord for all his benefits to'ards me ? ' Dar! I didn't put on dem peaches ! " Dat's all," she said returning with a very few peaches at the bottom of a large basket. " De childrens eat a good many, eiG;41- an' dey was used up one way an"nother. HOME. K9 I'se sorry dar a'nt no more, but I hopes ye'll 'joy what dar is, an I wishes 'twas five times as much." ODDS AND ENDS. think such a view of it ought by all means A look of sudden intelligence flashed to be avoided. I like to give freely and into Mr. Allyn's eyes ! He bit his lip for OUR lives are full of odds and ends, gladly of what I have when the time a moment, and then asked, quietly,— First one and then another ; comes. Money laid aside beforehand has " Couldn't you have laid asidb some for And, though we know not how or when, only a sense of duty and not much feeling us ?" They're deftly wove together. about it ; besides, what difference can it " Well, s'pose I could," said the old The Weaver has a master's skill, make so long as one gives what he can servant, relenting at the tone. " I will And proves it by this token ; when there is a call ?" next time. Allers thought de folks things No loop is dropped, no strand is missed, Soon there came a call. belonged to had de best right to 'em ; but And not a thread is broken. " Came, unfortunately, at a time when I'd heard givin' whatever happened was so we were rather short," Mrs. Allyn said, much freer an' lovin'er way o' servin' dem And not a shred is thrown aside, regretfully. " However, we gave what we ye loves best, dat I thought I'd try it. But So careful is the Weaver, could," she added. " I hope it will do it does 'pear's if dey fared poor, an' I'll Who, joining them with wondrous skill, Weaves odds and ends together. gocd, and I wish it were five times as have to go back to de old plan of syste- —Selected. much." matics." Old Rachel shook her head over that " Do you see, George ? " questioned the cheerful dismissal of the subject. She wife, when they were again alone. SYSTEMATIC GIVING. shook it many times that morning, and " Yes, I see. An object lesson with a seemed intensely thoughtful, as she moved vengeance." Aurrr RACHEL, an old coloured woman, slowly about her work. " And if she should he right, and our had lived with Mr. and Mrs. Allyn for When the dinner-hour arrived, both careless giving seem anything like this ! " years, whether as mistress or servant of master and mistress scanned the table with pursued Mrs. Allyn. the establishment, they could scarcely wide-open eyes, astonished at the plain " She is right, Fanny. We call Christ tell ; they only knew that she was in- and meagre fare, so unlike any dinner that our King and Master; believe that every valuable. She had taken a grandmotherly had ever before been served in that blessing we have in this world is His guardianship of all the children, and had house. direct gift, and all our hopes for the a voice in most matters that concerned the " What has happened, my dear? " asked world to come are in Him. We profess father and mother, while in the culinary the gentleman, turning to his wife. to be not our own but His, that His ser- department she reigned supreme. " I do not know," she replied, with a vice is our chief business ; and yet, Aunt Rachel had strong opinions, espe- questioning glance at Rachel. strangely enough, we provide lavishly for cially in the matter of giving to the Lord. " Dat's all de col' meat dar was—sorry our own apparel, entertainment, and ease, " I believe in systematics 'bout such I didn't have no more," she said, half and apportion nothing for the interests of things," she emphatically said, and out of apologetically. His kingdom or the forwarding of His her own little store she carefully laid aside " But I sent home a choice roast this work, but leave that to any chance pence one-eighth. morning," began Mr. Allyn wonderingly, that may happen to he left after our wants " Cause if dem old Israelites was tol' to " and you have no potatoes either—nor and fancies are gratified. It doesn't seem give one-tenth, I'd just like to frow in a vegetables of any kind." like very faithful or loving service." little more for good measure." But the " A body has to think 'bout it a good There was a long talk over that dinner- friends, so beloved, paid little attention to while aforehand to get a roast cooked, an' table,—indeed, it did not furnish oppor- the old woman's opinion. I thought I'd give ye what I happened to tunity for much other employment; and " The idea of counting up all one's in- have when de time come, an' I didn't hap- that afternoon husband and wife together come, and setting aside a fixed portion of to have much of nuffin'. Oh ! I forgot the examined into their expenses and income, it for charity, and then calling only what bread " and set apart a certain portion as sacred remains one's own, makes our religion " No bread ! " murmured Mrs. Allyn. unto the Lord, doing it somewhat after seem arbitrary and exacting ; it is like a " No, honey ; used it all up for toast dis Rachel's plan of " good measure." To' do tax," said Mrs. Allyn, one day ; " and I rnornin'. Might have made muffins, if I • this, they found, required the giving up April 29 THE PRESEN1 TRUTH. 267

of some needless indulgences, a few accus- " That is where the milk was not wiped the church of St. Mary Overy, and en- tomed luxuries. But a cause never grows up quickly enough and caused a slight dowed, in addition, a college of priests, less dear on account of the sacrifices we grease-spot," announced the director, who built the first London Bridge at the make for it, and as these two scanned the critically surveying the spot. " A little spot where the wealth of their benefactress various fields of labour in deciding what to gasoline will remove that." had been amassed. The collegiate church bestow here and what there, they awoke Upsetting an ink-bottle, though not a of St. Saviour's, Southwark, is the suc- to a new appreciation of the magnitude and thing to be desired, is not regarded as such cessor to that church built out of the glory of the work, and a new interest in its a direful calamity as formerly by at least miser's gold. success,—the beginning of that blessing one observer of this scezie.—Womankind. pronounced upon those who " sow beside all waters."—Selected. "NOT IF IT WAS MY BOY." THE WAY TO REST. SOME years ago, the late Horace Mann, AN INK-BOTTLE EPISODE. IN the opinion of an authority, useless an eminent educator, delivered an address tricks of moving the fingers and toes when at the opening of some reformatory insti- " Oh, dear, look at that ? " the body should be quiet, are all exhaust- tute for boys, during which he remarked " Your carpet will be ruined." ing, partly t ecause the disposition that that if only one boy was saved from ruin, " What shall we do ? " prompts them proceeds from wrong physi- it would pay for all the cost and labour of " Get something to catch the drops. cal conditions. A perfectly healthful and establishing such an institute as that. Don't stand there looking at it." phlegmatic person has no desire to rock After the exercises had ceased, in private All these exclamations were called forth fiercely or pace erratically during the conversation a gentleman rallied Mr. Mann by an occurrence that certainly looked execution of some small task that should on his statement, and said to him,— serious enough. One of the occupants of bring into play no muscles save those of " Did you not colour that a little, when the room, in turning suddenly round, had the hands. How often you see even the you said that all the expense and labour hit with her hand an ink-bottle standing on muscles of the jaw moving on a face which would be repaid if it only saved one the desk. In a moment the bottle. was should be quiet, showing a pressure of the boy ? " rolling over the floor, after liberally dis- teeth, moved, most likely, to the time of a " Not if it was my boy," was the solemn tributing its contents on various parts of tune which is running in the mind. To and convincing reply. the carpet. condemn the sluggard in toto has too long Ah, there is a wonderful value about One person in the group, however, was been the fashion. When you rest, do it " my boy." Other boys may be rude and equal to the occasion, and gave her orders as absolutely as he. In all leisure, relax rough ;. other boys may be reckless and immediately. every muscle, from the tips of the fingers wild ; other boys may seem to require " Have you got any milk in the house? " and toes to the face, like one asleep.— more pains and labour than they will ever " Yes, plenty," was the answer. Selected. • repay ; other boys may be left to drift un- " And a fire in the stove ? " cared for to the ruin which is near at " Yes." hand ; but " my boy "—it were worth the " Heat some milk very hot and bring it AN ANCIENT MISER. toil of a lifetime and the lavish wealth of here quick." Only a small quantity was a world to save him from temporal and put on at first, so that in a few minutes the THE church which has only recently eternal ruin. We would go the world hot milk was brought to the director of been made South London's Cathedral, St. round to save him from peril, and would affairs, who meanwhile had been absorbing Saviour's, Southwark, just over London bless every hand that was stretched out to all the ink possible with the blotter. Bridge, owes its existence to an ancient give help and welcome. And yet every " Bring some warni water and a cloth, miser. A newspaper tells the strange story poor, wandering, outcast, homeless man, and put more milk on to heat : this will as follows:— is one whom some fond mother called "my not be enough," were the orders issued, boy." Shall we shrink from labour, shall while she poured the steaming milk with Many centuries ago there was a ferry we hesitate at cost, when the work before liberal hand directly on the ink. Her where London Bridge now stands, the us is the salvdtion of a soul ? Not if it is directions were quickly followed, and the owner being a waterman named John " my boy," nor if we have the love of Him milk rapidly washed up 'with warm water. Overs, who made an immense fortune in who gave His life to save the lost.— More milk was applied where the amount conveying passengers across the river. Selected. of ink was greatest, or on spots which had He was a dreadful miser, after the pattern escaped the first application. All present of those we have already dealt with. He joined in the vigorous exercise of the cloth fed his household on the stalest and SLEEP. and warm water, or in bringing fresh mouldiest bread that could be got, and the supplies as that in use became inky black. cheapest meat. Tainted meat, he said, " There," said the director, surveying was doubly cheap ; it cost little to buy INSUFFICIENT sleep is, says a medical the scene and drying her hands, " we can't and went a long way. journal, one of the greatest crying evils of tell exactly till morning, but I believe that One day he conceived and carried out a the day. The want of proper rest' and it is all out." master stroke. He pretended to be dead, normal conditions of the nervous system, " I call it marvellous if your statement believing that his demise would cause his and especially the brain, produces a proves true," remarked one of the company; household to eat little or nothing on the lamentable condition,— deterioration in " I never saw such a quantity of ink wiped day of mourning, and so a day's food would body and mind, exhaustion, excitability, out in that fashion before." be saved. The servants and apprentices, and intellectual disorders generally. Up The next day, however, she was obliged however, instead of fasting and weeping, to twenty a youth needs nine hours sleep, to confess that the marvel was true, for feasted merrily. Their dissipation roused and an adult should have eight. the only traces of the catastrophe were him from his pretended death, and he sud- that the portions of the carpet which had denly appeared to the revellers in his received the impromptu scrubbing were shroud. One of the apprentices, thinking REMOVE rust from steel knives by cover- cleaner than the surrounding parts. the apparition to be the evil one himself, ing them for two days with sweet oil; then A day or two later a dark spot appeared struck out his brains with an oar handle. rub with a lump of fresh lime until the in one place, His daughter, left extremely rich, founded rust disappears, 268 THE PRESENT TRUTH. No. 17.

Sussex ore, but if coal is found in sufficient quantity in neighbouring Kent, this objec- tion will disappear. Sussex iron ruled the market long ere Middlesboro' was heard of, and when there was no Black Country in the Midlands. It is hardly likely to rival those centres, even if smelting is re- established, but there is certainly a chance of the creation of a new Black Country between London and Brighton.

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PAPER rails for railways are finding great favour in America, says a London newspaper. The iron or steel rails now in use are by no means free from defects. The metal is always more or less affected by the condition of the atmosphere, and accidents are frequently traced to the DURING THE QUEEN S REIGN. than a horse could take them. The result warping, contraction, or expansion of the was an isolation of town from town, and rails. Again, there are flaws and similar of the country from London, which made imperfections in rails of the metallic order, ABOUT the year 1837, says Knowledge, between the England of that day and the and these often give trouble. The heavy electric telegraphs were first established England of our own time a difference locomotives and other rolling stock of as commercial speculations in three dif- which will be appreciated by all. these days require extraordinary large and ferent countries. Steinheil's system was There was no single daily newspaper heavy rails, consequently the rails cannot carried out at Munich, Morse's in America, published outside London. It was a be made very long, as the weight would be and Wheatstone and Cooke's in England. society unfurnished with these things that too much. The paper rails are less than The wires were buried in the earth, and Queen Victoria began to rule over in 1837. one-half lighter for the same length and were five in number, each acting on sepa- The electric telegraph, making, as it now size, so that, as far as the light question is rate needles, the first telegraph line being does, the whole civilised world all of a- concei Lied, the length of the latter can be on the Great Western Railway from Pad- piece, through which it ramifies like a vast twice that of the iron or steel rail. This dington to West Drayton. These initial nervous system, had not then linked the obviates the use of just so many joints, attempts at telegraphy, clumsy enough Sovereign with every part of her dominions. dispensing with so many bolts and con- when compared with the refined methods America and Australia were then practi- nections, and relieving the wheels of the of our own time, were inspired chiefly by cally unknown to the bulk of our people. train from just so many shocks. the work of Faraday, who established the In short, the nineteenth century actually connection between magnetic and electric began with steam communication by sea, currents. COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY CHANGES. with steam machinery, with railways, with telegraphs, with the development of the In the domain of invention or mechanical colonies ; but all these transforming in- THE nearest approach, so far, to real science the contrast between the present fluences were in reality nothing more than colour photography, says a newspaper, time and the year 1837 is most striking. the dawning of the brilliant Victorian era, has been made by M. Chassagne, who Sixty years ago the great railways were all which has made its indelible imprints on has been demonstrating his process to a begun, but not one of them was completed. the scroll of history. number of experts in the King's College The line between Liverpool and Man- laboratory. An ordinary photographic chester was opened in September, 1830. plate is treated with certain salts—the In 1836 it was carrying four hundred and nature of which is at present kept secret. fifty thousand passengers in the year. SUSSEX IRON. A photograph is taken and developed in There were also a great many lines pro- the usual way. A print is then made from jected, which afterwards settled down into IF the coalfield at Dover is developed this negative on photographic paper which the present great trunk lines. At that successfully, it is intended, says the Echo, has been treated with the secret solution. time a writer in the Athenceum says :— to re-establish the iron industry of Sussex. The print is afterwards washed over with " When these lines are completed, letters It is strange to us to think that, up to dyes of the three primary colours, when a and passengers will be conveyed from 1720, the now sleepy and eminently rural process of selective absorption takes place, Liverpool to London in ten hours Little district of the Weald was the centre of the each part of the picture acted upon by any attention has yet been given to calculate iron manufacture of the country. The particular colour absorbing from the dye— the effects which must result from the iron railings round St. Paul's were cast in or a combination of the dyes in the case of establishment throughout the kingdom of Sussex, and Chichester was as famous for the intermediate shades of colour—its own great lines of intercourse traversed at a its needles as Sheffield is now for cutlery. particular colour or shade, and rejecting speed of twenty miles an hour." Ore is plentiful, and iron was smelted in the rest. The resultant colouring is said There were no hansom cabs and no the time of the Romans. The industry to be exceedingly faithful to nature. Parcels Delivery Company. There was a continued down to 1828, when the last twopenny post, but no penny post and no furnace was extinguished at Ashburnham. book post. It was not till 1838 that the Wood supplied the fuel, and the denuda- WHERE DO THEY GO ? Sirius and Great Western first steamed tion of the country of timber led to the across the Atlantic. In the main, how- prohibition of the smelting furnaces by ABOUT 1,500 tons of brass and iron are ever, there was no means of transporting Parliament. The price of coal has been used every year in the United Kingdom in man, merchandise, or message quicker the only hindrance to the working of the the manufacture of pins. April 29. THE PRESENT TRUTH. '269

It must have been hard for a young child to stand alone, homeless and house- less, in a great city. Perhaps Cyril knew the words, " When my father and mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up," and they may have comforted him, and strengthened him for the harder troubles that were to come: He was soon called to appear before the terrible heathen judge, who was sending Christians every /ow (14' A.i ,„ day to torture and death. ; if fit q 44///,/' ti,afillid"141 tillAdt Yet the judge's heart was not hard towards the little prisoner. Perhaps he had children of his own at play in that great marble palace of his, with the pillared portico. He spoke compassionately and kindly to Cyril, who stood before him, calm and fearless—one solitary little boy in the midst of armed guards and soldiers, and a vast concourse of people looking on. " My child," said the judge, " I will pardon your offence against the laws, and REMEMBER THY CREATOR. pastors by reading the Scriptures aloud, your father will receive you again, if only and doing other services suited to their REMEMBER thy Creator now, you are wise and obedient, and worship age), and sometimes there were quite little While health and strength are thine ; the gods, like every one else. By-and-by, children. But these young and weak ones While yet upon thy youthful brow when you are a man, you will have your were made strong by Christ to suffer and to The light of love doth shine. father's lands and wealth ; be advised, Remember how He died for thee die for Him as bravely as their fathers and therefore, and take care of your own in- Upon the cross of Calvary. their teachers. They were not afraid, for terest." He was with them. It may be, too, that " God will receive me," Cyril answered Remember with what grief and pain He helped them through the fearless looks, bravely, " I am not sorry that I am driven He journeyed to the cross; and the loving, encouraging words of their from our home. Nor am I afraid to die." How He thy sorrowing heart to gain older fellow-sufferers. " Not afraid to die!" thought the judge. Esteemed all else but loss. Once, however, it was given to a child " Poor child, he little knows what death Oh, think what pain and agony to stand quite alone to witness and to die is, nor how terrible it can be sometimes He bore in dark Gethsemane for his Lord. Nearly three hundred years made." So he called one of the guards, after Christ, in the town of Caesarea in Remember when in judgment-hall and said to him, with an angry frown, Cappadocia, there lived a little boy, pro- He stood condemned to die, " Take this obstinate Christian away, and bably of Greek extraction, named Cyril. And drained the bitter cup of gall, burn him in the fire." No Christian father taught him to pray, no No earthly friend stood nigh. But Cyril did not hear another word or Christian mother told him at her knee the Christ, the Passover Lamb, was slain two that he added in a lower tone. He story of the Saviour's love. His parents, That you and I might live again. went bravely away with the guard ; and like most of their fellow-citizens were though there was no one there to tell of it, Remember when the tempter's art heathen ; and just then they were no doubt there may have been a smile on his lip and Would lead thy soul astray, afraid of having anything to do with Chris- a light in his eye. For he must have felt That Jesus Christ has bought thine heart— tians, for the Emperor Valerian, who had Christ very near him then. Oh, 'twas a price to pay favoured them at first, had latterly become The judge and the other guards, and all Remember what He paid for thee a furious persecutor. All Christians who Upon the cross of Calvary. the people, waited in silence for a space. would not give up their faith and worship HARRY ARMSTRONG. Then, according to the secret command idols were liable to torture, and to many given to the guard, Cyril was brought back kinds of cruel death. We do not know again before them. But he did not wait how little Cyril first heard of Christ, but it HONESTY. for the judge to ask him what he thought may well have been through a Christian of the headsman's axe, the sword, the servant, or slave ; for there were many THE Rev. Dr. Sargent states that during terrible lire that had been shown him. such, and they often proved the best of the days of slavery a smart, active, coloured " I am not afraid of your fire and your missionaries to their masters' households. boy was put up for sale. A kind master However it came to pass, Cyril learned sword," said he. who pitied his condition went to him, and to know the true God, and His Son Jesus Some of the crowd could not help weep- said, " If I buy you, you will be honest ? " Christ, and to love Him better than his ing as they looked at the brave boy so The boy with a look that baffled descrip- life. He did not hide from anyone that he ready to go to Ins death. Cyril turned to tion, replied, " I will be honest whether prayed to Christ, and that he would not them, as one who marvelled at their grief, you buy me or not." That is true honesty! worship idols any longer. His first trial " Do not weep for me,- he said, " for I am —Selected. was from his playfellows, who mocked and going to a glorious city." persecuted him ; but this was only the be- Once more he was led away, and this CYRIL : THE BOY MARTYR. ginning. His father was very angry ; time there was no reprieve. Amidst the doubtless he was afraid of the miseries the wonder and admiration of a great con- SOMETIMES, in the days of the early child's apostasy might bring upon the course of people the young martyr laid down Christians, little bands were surprised by whole household. Probably he tried milder his life for the Lord he loved. We do not their enemies at their worship, and brought measures at first, but when these were of quite know even how he died ; but we may at once before heathen tribunals to answer no avail and Cyril continued steadfast, he hope the pitying judge bade the headsman for their faith. In these bands there were disowned him, and turned him out of the use his axe, at that time counted the often young boys (who used to help the house. easiest and least dishonourable death. 4270 THE PRESENT TRUTH. -No

Nor have we any other speech of his to Cook until the whole is thickened and tell ; he takes leave of us with thOse happy clear. When cool, stir into the mixture words still lingering on his lips, " I am five nice oranges which have been sliced, going to a glorious city."—Sunday Hours. and freed from seeds and all the white portions. Meringue, and serve cold.

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Orange Custard.—Turn a pint of hot milk over two cups of stale bread-crumbs, and let them soak until well softened ; add the yolks of two eggs, and beat all together until perfectly smooth ; add a little of the grated rind and the juice of three sweet oranges, and sugar to taste. Lastly add the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff —Bread riots are reported from Spain. froth, turn into cups, and place them in a —There are three habitual criminals in London moderate oven in a pan of hot water, and to every two policemen. bake twenty minutes, or until the custard --The annual taxes of the world aggregate the is well set but not watery.—Mrs. Kellogg, enormous sum of £1,087,530,000. in Good Health Magazine. AN ISLAND DEPOPULATED BY —In Italy there are more theatres in propor- tion to the population than in any other country. WHISKEY. Breathing and Digestion.—" The cir- —Sixty-one British vessels were totally wrecked ldiuverieng the month of March, with a loss of 171 AN interesting island we visited near culation of the, blood through the liver, Oumwaidjik is, says Mr. de Windt, who and hence all the functions of the liver," has just returned from a journey in.Alaska says Good Health, " are greatly aided by —The war preparations in South Africa on the and Siberia, the little King's Island, which part of both the Transvaal and the Colonial the action of the chest and diaphragm in authorities give rise to much anxiety. consists of a tiny rock, about half a mile breathing. When the chest wall is lifted in diameter, in the flood sweeping through outward in the act of inspiration, air is —More than 45 per cent. of English people could not write their names when the Queen as- Behring Straits. Here, clinging like swal- not only drawn into the chest, but blood is lows' nests to the rugged sides, are the cended the throne. The proportion of illiterates also drawn toward the heart. Deep has now been reduced to 6 per cent. huts of the King's Islanders—renowned breathing is thus a very important means boatmen and walrus-hunters. The island —French papers express the hope that in case of aiding both the stomach and the liver Germany and Great Britain fall out over the produces nothing, not even a blade of in their work." grass or morsel of moss, and here the vio- Transvaal question France may gain advantages. * * The " Concert of the Powers " is not a peace con- lence of the wind is so great that the cert. summit of the island cannot be used as a HIGH prices for food are said to be —The spirit of gambling dominates all classes place of residence. These people are en- threatened during the Jubilee season in in Russia. 'Recent official statistics show that tirely dependent on walrus for their London, but the articles promising the more than 2,000,000, roubles (about £330,000) are winter's keep, for they are forty miles principal rise in price are meats ; so it is each year spent on playing cards in Russia in from the nearest land, and icebound eight possible that no harm will be done, but Europe. months of the year. Seven years ago a that many may have opportunity to learn —Bishop Tucker says that the decree abolishing whaler left the population of under 100 how much healthier and cheaper they are slavery in Zanzibar will not release the great mass six barrels of fiery whiskey in exchange able to live without so much meat. All of female slaves, who are retained as the wives of for walrus tusks. The following summer should inform themselves as to the dif- their owners, who are permitted to hold as many as they please in bondage. every human being on the island was ferent grain preparations to be had in their found dead of starvation. They had got market, and of the best modes of cooking —The credit of having the smallest circulation drunk, disregarded the walrus-hunting, them, and thus they may come out at the of any newspaper in the world belongs to the and starved slowly to death the following Imperial Gazette of Beilin, of which two copies end of the Jubilee better off both in pocket are printed daily. This exclusive publication is winter. Not a soul survived, but the and in health. intended for the perusal of the Emperor alone. island is now repopulated by Eskimos from the mainland of Alaska. —The Forth Bridge is constantly being re- The Good Way.—In these days, says a painted ; in fact, no sooner have the painters domestic writer, the question of food is not reached one end than they have to commence again at the other. It takes fifty tons of paint to confined to the tempting of the palate, but ORANGE RECIPES. give it one coat, and the area dealt with is some- is of a much wider scope, and has to do thing like 120 acres. with food values as nourishment, as an aid and steam the —According to the Army and Navy Gazette, Orange Rice.—Wash to health and to mental development. In rice. Prepare some oranges by separating experiments in the utilisation of kites for observa- short, the choice and preparation of food into sections and cutting each section in tion purposes, in time of war, are being so per- is now among the sciences. In nothing is sistently and successfully carried on that there halves, removing the seeds and all the the change so noticeable as in the lessen- can be no doubt that eventually they will be found white portion. Sprinkle the oranges lightly ing taste for the old-fashioned sweets, cake more practical than balloons. Before long, says with sugar, and let them stand while the the Gazette, "Kites will take their place as part and such forms of food; and the substitu- rice is cooking. Serve a portion of the of the equipment of war." tion of simpler and more wholesome dishes. orange on each plateful of rice. —The National Union of Teachers met in * * *** Swansea last week, over a thousand delegates being present. It was stated that 5,326,000 chil- Orange Float.—Heat one quart of water, An Anti-Cigarette League has been dren are on the rolls of the Board and Voluntary the juice of two lemons, and one and one- established among the Grammar School schools, of whom a million are daily absent. Of the whole, four millions end their school educa- half cupfuls of water. When boiling, stir boys of New York. It has now ninety-five tion at the age of eleven, just at. the time when, _into it four tablespoonfuls of cornflour branches in as many schools, with a as the President said, they are at an age to begin rubbed smooth in a very little water. membership of over 40,000. to appreciate educational advantages.

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" Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, lute and eternal extinction of all oppression, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them poverty, and suffering. Get acquainted Vrtsttit Cm*, which despitefully use you and persecute you ; that ye may be the children of your Father which with it, and proclaim it. "I am the way, the truth, and the life." "And lo, I is in heaven ; for He maketh His sun to rise on am with you alway, even unto the end of the world." the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the LONDON, APRIL 29, 1897. just and on the unjust." A Strong Delusion.—Spiritualists are preparing to celebrate the Jubilee of AR TERMS SEE FIRST PAGE. The God of mercy lets the sun shine in Turkey as brightly as in Greece, and with Modern Spiritualism next year. One of THE PRESENT TRUTH may be obtained in South His rain waters the vineyards of the Turks their journals declares that since its rise in Africa through the International Tract Society, 1848 it has exercised " widespread and 28a Roeland-street, Cape Town. as well as those of the Greeks. Let it even be granted that the Turks are very revolutionary influence upon the thoughts of the age," and has been " the leaven of THE official visit of the Archbishop of bad and the Greeks are very good, yet the past half-century, effectually leavening York to Russia has been the occasion of " pure, mercy " will as quickly and as ten- the whole lump." As an evidence of this much talk of closer relations between the derly bind up the wounds of the one as of it points not only to the millions of avowed Church of England and the Russian Church. the other. We have no opinion to express as to the relative merits of the two parties Spiritualists, but to the recognition of the principles of Spiritualism in the religious AGENTS of the London Missionary So- to the war, only of war itself, that it is world at large. " Its phenomena are ciety in Madagascar report that numbers wicked, no matter by whom conducted nor familiar," it is said, " in every royal of their chapels have been forcibly taken by whom it is encouraged ; but we are household in Europe." It is Satan work- possession of by the Jesuits, who feel sure that when " pure mercy," and not ing " with all power and signs and lying secure in the favour of the Government. political partisanship, starts a fund for the relief of wounded and suffering men, it wonders." will be applied impartially wherever such THE Te Torea, a Rarotongan newspaper To the Pit —A striking story is told by men are found, without questioning whether just received', contains an account of the Josiah W. Leeds of how one young man they are Greeks or Turks. Certainly the closing of the winter term of the Arorangi was broken of theatre-going. Having Christian ministers who respond to the public school which some of our mission- made an appointment to meet one of his appeal will take this view of the matter. aries have been conducting. The school friends at a theatre entrance, he was so and its work are highly spoken of. The struck by the usher's repetition of the same paper shows that Romanism is words, " This way to the pit ! This way Lawless Violence.—On Thursday, April making rapid progress in the South Pacific to the pit ! " that he hastily left the place, 22, an attempt was made to assassinate islands. and never afterward visited a theatre. King Humbert of Italy, in precisely the The Judgment will reveal the fact that A CORRESPONDENT with the Turkish same manner as that by which President many thousands have found their way to troops says :— Carnot, of France, lost his life. The at- the bottomless pit through the theatre The longer the soldiers fight the keener their tempt happily failed, and the would-be entrance. lust of battle seems to become. assassin was taken into custody. It is One with the Greeks describes the same stated that " he is without accomplices, What the World Praises —One of spirit, which he says amounts really to a and made the attempt merely as a hostile the war correspondents says,— mania. It is the fury of devil-possessed demonstration against the head of the State, because of the bad condition of the When among Greeks one might easily imagine men. They delight in killing because con- it would be a disappointment and almost a dis- trolled by Satan, who " was a murderer country." It may be that only the one grace, for those who fight not to get killed. from the beginning." person is directly concerned in this crime, This disregard of life is what makes yet the fact is that the man has thousands " good soldiers," that is, those who will fight The Quality of Mercy.—The Daily of backers, and that not only among the desperately, and not be dismayed when Chronicle has made an appeal to its lawless men who boldly advocate such the odds are against them. It is the true readers, " in the name of humanity, to methods of improving the condition of " war spirit," and is shown not only by contribute to a fund on behalf of the things. When law-abiding citizens, for- those who fight, but by the wives and Greeks wounded in the war." It also getting mothers who are dependent on them, and adds " a most earnest appeal to Christian How small, of all that human hearts endure, whose support is cut off by their death. ministers throughout the country on be- That part which laws and kings can cause or cure, We do not remember having ever seen half of the sufferers." It is a worthy ob- proclaim that the business depression, the any expression of horror at such reckless- ject, and it is not supposable that anybody poverty, and the misery that abounds at ness ; yet those who think it nothing can be found so hard-hearted as to refuse any time are due to this or that political strange, and who even applaud it, are aid and sympathy to poor, wounded men. party, and that the retirement of this man shocked whenever a man merely gives up But when we are told that this fund is and the promotion of that man would clear a situation that he cannot hold and at the " one of pure mercy," we cannot help away the troubles, they are unconsciously same time serve the Lord fully. He is wondering if the prompters have forgotten stimulating those who know no law but accounted foolish, even mad, nay, almost that force and violence, to just such rash inhuman in his disregard for the welfare of The quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth like the gentle rain from heaven measures to better the condition of things. his family, although he has the sure pro- Upon the place beneath. Only in the Gospel of Jesus Christ is there mise of life ; while the man who lightly or the instruction of Him from whom any prospect of real help to the poor and leaves his family to go to certain death, is Shakespeare learned that sentiment, oppressed, and that gives sure promise praised. What a strange distortion of namely, not only of improvement, but of the abso- vision the devil has afflicted people with.