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VoL. 63, No. 46. BATTLE CREEK, MICH., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1886. WHOLE NO.' 1691.

1110 had lived long enough it would have been a full But do not become impatient because you cannot Ott trim And trait orb, a periphery. An ellipse is a circle pressed see the curve of events, and therefore conclude that ISSUED WEEKLY BY THE only a little too hard at the sides. The Giant's God's government is going to break down. His- Causeway in Ireland, shows what God thinks of tory tells us that in the making of the pyramids Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association, it took two thousand men two years to drag one Battle Creek, 1V/iohigan. mathematics. There are over thirty-five thousand columns of rocks—octagonal, hexagonal, pentago- great stone from the quarry and put it into the TWO DOLLARS A YEAR (50 NUMBERS) IN ADVANCE, nal. These rocks are as if made by rule and com- pyramids. Well now, if men, short-lived, can af- pass. Every artist has his molding-room where ford to work so slowly as that, cannot God, in the Address all communications, and make all Drafts and Money he may make fifty shapes, but he chooses one building of eternities, afford to wait ? W hat though Orders payable to shape as preferable to all the others. I will not God should take ten thousand years to draw a cir- REVIEW AND HERALD, Battle Creek, Mich. say that the Giant's Causeway was the world's cle ? Shall we take our little watch which we have to wind up every night lest it run down, and hold EARTH AND EDEN. molding-room ; but I do say that out of a great many figures God seems to have selected the circle it up beside the clock of eternal ages ? If, accord- BY ALLIE oI. SANTEE. as the best : "It is he that sitteth upon the circle ing to the Bible, a thousand years are in God's , of the earth." The stars in a circle, the moon in sight as one day, then according to that calculation EARTH rolls its cycles hoary; the years that fade and flee the six thousand years of the world's existence have Bring as yet no rainbow token of the coming jubilee,— a circle, the sun in a circle, the universe in a cir- Bring as yet no cheering promise that the age-long night cle, and the throne of God the center of that circle. been only to God as from Monday to Saturday. of sin When men build churches, they ought to imitate But it is often the case that the rebound is Shall give place to Zion's morning, and the reign of peace the idea of the great Architect, and put the audi- quicker, and the circle is sooner completed. You begin; ence in a circle, knowing that the tides of emotion resolve that you will do what you can. In one That the skies that roll their heavy clouds in darkness o'er the plain roll more easily that way than in straight lines. week you put a word of counsel in the heart of a Shall shine with untold glory when the Lord shall come Six thousand years ago God flung this world out Sabbath-school child. During the same week you again; of his right hand. He did not throw it out in a gave a letter of introduction to a young man strug- That the weary world shall see at last the storms and straight line, but curvilinear, with a leash of love gling in business. During the same week you shadows cease, made an exhortation in a prayer-meeting. It is When the heaven shall smile in gladness and the earth holding it so as to bring it back again. The wild shall echo peace, started from his hand pure and Edenic. It has all gone ; you will never hear of it perhaps, you been rolling on through regions of moral ice and think. A few years after, a man comes up to you, Bring back your long-lost gladness! 0 Eden, bloom again! Where man knows naught of sadness, and fears not death distemper. How long it will roll God only knows ; and says, " You don't know me, do you ? You or pain. but it will in due time make a complete circuit, answer, "No, I do n't remember ever to have seen Bloom again, 0 flowers of Eden! let the skies their youth and come back to the place where it started—the you." " Why," he says, " I was in the Sabbath- renew, hand of God, pure and Edenic. school class of which you were teacher. One Sun- With no fading leaves of autumn for the angry winds to day you invited me to Christ. I accepted the offer. strew; The history of the world goes' in a circle. Why Where no restless waves of ocean lift their troubled hands is it that the shipping in our day is improving so You see that church with two towers yonder 7 " on high,— rapidly I—Because men are imitating the old mod- "Yes," you reply. He says, "That is where I E,mblen1 of the world's commotion echoing hoarse the els of Noah's ark. A aihip-carpenter gives that as preach." mourner's cry; Another day a man comes to you with a " Good Where the wrinkled brow of earth' has been by angry tem- his opinion. Although so much derided by small pests torn, wits, that ship of Noah's time beat the Etruria morning." You look at him and say, "Why, you Let a coronal of beauty as a jewel bright be worn. and the Ger manic, of which we boast so much. have the advantage of me ; I cannot place you." He says, " Do n't you remember, thirty years ago, The Valley of the Shadow felt the Saviour's shining feet; Where is the ship of the sea to-day that could out- His redemption shall bring back again an Eden pure and ride a deluge in which the heavens and the earth giving a letter of introduction to a young man—a sweet; were wrecked, landing all the passengers in safety, letter of introduction to a prominent merchant 7 " And where once in hours of darkness the Lord for greed two of each kind of living creatures, thousands of " Yes, yes, I do." He says,' I am the man. That was sold, species ? . . . was my first step toward success ; but I have re- The ransomed hosts shall tread with joy the shining streets tired from business now, and, am giving my time of gold.; Well now, my friends, what is true in the mate- And glory grind shall fill the earth as waters fill the sea; rial universe is true in God's moral government to philanthropies and public interests. Come up Angelic hosts shall hail its birth—a world from sin set free; and spiritual arrangement. That is the meaning to my country place and see me." And all the ransomed ones shall sing from pain a glad of Ezekiel's wheel. All commentators agree in Or a man comes to you and says, " I want to release, saying that the wheel means God's providence. introduce myself to you. I went into a prayer- As they enter on a land of joy,—a land of perfect peace. meeting some years ago. I sat back by the door. Money Creek, Ill. But a wheel is of no use unless it turn ; and if it turn, it turns around ; and if it turns around, it You arose to make an exhortation. That talk moves in a circle. What then 7 Are we parts of changed the course of my life, and if I ever get to heaven, under God, I will owe my salvation to you." •to• a great iron machine whirled around whether we anton. will or not, the victims of inexorable fate I—No ! In only ten, twenty, or thirty years, the circle so far from that, we 'ourselves start the circle of swept out, and now it sweeps back again to your good or bad actions, and it will surely come around own grateful heart. " I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who But sometimes it is a wider circle, and does not shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom, again to us unless by divine intervention it be hin-* PBEACII THE Wonn."-2 Tim, 4 : 1. 2 dered. Those bad or good actions may make the return for a great while. I saw a bill of expenses circuit of many years ; but come back to us they for burning Latimer and Ridley. The bill of ex- GOOD AND EVIL COME BACK. will as certainly as that God sits on the circle of penses says :— TEXT.--" It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth." Isa. the earth. One load of fir fagots, 3s. 4d. 40 : 22. Jezebel, the worst woman of the Bible, slew Cartage of four loads of wood, 2s. Item, a post, is. 4d, While people yet thought that the world was Naboth because she wanted his vineyard. While flat, and thousands of years before they found out the dogs were eating the body of Naboth, Elisha Item, two chains, 3s. 4d. Item, two staples, 6d. that it was round, Isaiah in my text intimated the the prophet put down his compass and marked a Item, four laborers, 25. 8c1. shape of it—God sitting " upon the circle of the circle from those dogs clear around to the dogs earth."- The most beautiful figure in all geometry that should eat the body of Jezebel, the murderess. That was cheap fire consideiing all the circum- is the circle. God made the universe on the plan " Impossible !" the people said ; "that will never stances ; but it kindled a light which shone all of a circle. There are in the natural world straight happen." Who is that being flung out of the pal- around the world, and around the martyrs ; and lines, angles, parallelograms, diagonals, quadran- ace window 1—Jezebel. A few hours after, they out from that burning of Latimer and Ridley rolled gles ; but these evidently are not his favorites. Al- came, hoping to bury her. They find only the the circle, wider and wider, starting other circles, most everywhere you find him geometrizing, you palms of her hands and the skull. The dogs that convoluting, overrunning, circumscribing, overarch- find the circle dominant ; and if not the circle, then devoured Jezebel and the dogs that devoured Na- ing all heaven—a circle. the curve, which is a circle that died young. If it both ! Oh, what a swift, what an awful circuit I . . . What is true of the good is just as true of the 722 THE REVIEW AND HERALD, 2[VoL. 63, No. 46. bad. You utter a slander against your neighbor. amphitheater of glory Circumference of patriarch It has gone forth from your teeth. It will never and apostle Circumference of Scotch Covenanters ur ontributore. come back, you think. You have done the man all and Theban legion, and Albigenses. Circumference O the mischief you can. You rejoice to see him of the good of all ages. Periphery of splendor un- " Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another ; and the wince. That word has gone out, that slanderous imagined and indescribable. A circle, a circle ! Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his word, on its poisonous and blasting way. You But every circumference must have a center ; name."—Mal . 3:16. think it will never do you any harm. But I am and what is the center of this heavenly circumfer- watching that word, and I see it beginning to curve, ence 7—Christ. His all the glory, his all the praise, and it curves around, and now it is aiming at your his all the crowns. All heaven wreathed into a THE VALUE OF PRAYER. heart. If you try to dodge it you cannot. It rolls garland round about him. Take off the imperial into your bosom, and after it rolls in a word of an sandal from his foot, and behold the scar of the BY ELD. R. A. UNDERWOOD. old book which says, " With what measure ye mete, spike. Lift the coronet of dominion from his brow, THE value of earnest prayer, offered to God in it shall be measured to you again." and see where was the laceration of the briars. faith, none but those who have a living connection You maltreat an aged parent. You begrudge Come closer, all heaven. Narrow the circle around with God can appreciate. It is the connecting link him the room in your house. You are impatient his great heart. 0 Christ, the man ! 0 Christ, the which unites the finite with the infinite. In weak- of his whimsicalities and garrulity. It annoys you God ! keep thy throne forever, seated on the circle ness mortal man can come to the throne of infinite to hear him tell the same story twice. You wish of the earth, seated on the circle of heaven ! power and goodness, knowing that every prayer pre- he was away. You wonder if he is going to live "On Christ, the solid rock, I stand; sented in faith is regarded by Heaven. What a priv- forever. But he will be gone very soon. His steps All other ground is shifting sand." ilege ! No matter how poor or needy we are, no grow shorter and shorter. He is going to stop. —T. De Witt Talmage. matter how difficult the case we present, the Source But God has an account to settle with you on that subject. After awhile your eye will be dim, and of strength is unlimited. The Dispenser of God's your gait will halt, and the sound of the grinding ONLY TO BE USED IN CASE OF ACCIDENT. favor has been tempted, has borne our griefs, and will be low, and you will tell the same story twice, can be touched with the feelings of our infirmities. and your children will wonder if you are going to ON the cars I frequently notice a case of tools, God would have us feel our need, and realize live forever, and wonder if you will never be taken new, well painted on all parts usually painted and whence comes our help. away. They called you " father " once ; now they on some parts not usually, nicely arranged within Those in every age to whom God could intrust call you "the old man." If you live a few years easy reach. Over them you will generally see the his work and commit special light to impart to longer they will call you " the old chap." What words, " Only to be used in case of accident." others, have been men and women of prayer. are those rough words with which your children Sooner or later an accident may occur and those Moses, Daniel, and Paul were men of more than accost you 7—They are the echo of the very words tools be of great service in saving life or relieving ordinary talent ; yet how often they sought God you used in the ear of your old father forty years suffering. Any one who has ever seen a railroad in prayer I How often Jesus prayed ! In the ago. . . . It is a circle. My father lived into the collision, will not object to the word awful. At "solitary place," long before day he was praying. eighties, and he had a very wide experience, and one instant in the midst of health, hopeful and Mark 1 : 35. While others slept, he spent the he said that maltreatment of parents was always buoyant ; at the next, a crash, in the midst of the whole night in the mountain in prayer. Luke 6 : punished in this world. Other sins may be ad- dead and dying. 12. Angels are commissioned to bear messages journed to the Judgment, but maltreatment of With how many is their religion only to be of mercy to earnest praying men of God. Dan. parents is punished in this world. used in case of accident ; doctrines in due form 9 : 20-23. A prison was once all aglow with the The circle turns quickly, very quickly. Oh, what incased in the head, and approved in case an ac- glory attending the visit of an angel ; chains fell a stupendous thought that the good and the evil cident should occur I " I did not know he was a from fettered hands, and locks and bolts were power- we start come back to us Do you know that the professor"—how many times has that been heard less to hold the iron doors of the prison as the Judgment day will be only the point at which the after a death ! So much like those making no condemned man of God walked forth beside the circles join, the good and the bad we have done claims to Christianity, that the idea of their be- angel ; and all this was in answer to prayer. Acts coming back to us, unless divine intervention hin- ing separate, being a peculiar people,:never entered 12 : 5-12. The prayers and alms of Cornelius der—coming back to us, welcome of delight or curse one's mind. But sure enough their names are on caused an angel to leave the courts of heaven on a of condemnation I the church register, and they had once said, "I re- message of love to earth. Acts 10. I would like to see Paul, the invalid missionary, nounce them all." They had once looked over the Jesus taught that "men ought always to pray, at the moment when his influence comes to full tools, thinking they might be handy in an emer- and not to faint." After giving a parable to en- orb—his influence rolling out through Antioch, gency, but with apparently no abiding thought of force this statement, Christ asked the following through Cyprus, through Lystra, through Corinth, every-day use, to make prosperity more prosperous, question : " Shall not God avenge his own elect, through Athens, through Asia, through Europe, and to let in the vital air and the sunshine of which cry day and night unto him, though he bear through America, through the first century, through holy joy in the days of adversity. long with them 2 " Then came the positive reply, five centuries, through twenty centuries, through Pure religion and undefiled is not a paid-up in- with another question for the last generation of all the succeeding centuries, through earth, through surance policy with ample guarantee, with no con- men to answer, " I tell you that he will avenge heaven, and at last, the wave of influence having ditions on the part of the holder•. Co-workers them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of made full circuit, strikes his great soul Oh, then with Christ have more thbught about efficiency in man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth I " I would like to see him ! No one can tell the wide service than about providing for accident. They Luke 18 : 1-8. sweep of the circle of his influence, save the One know about construction trains as well as the pal- The few earnest, praying ones who cry day and who is seated on the circle of the earth. I should ace cars on the old roads. They have found out night unto God, will develop the faith of Jesus in not want to see the countenance of Voltaire when that there are those who love pleasure more than themselves. We are commanded to pray for our his influence comes to full orb. When the fatal God ; and that the over-crowded trains ire on the brethren. " Confess your faults one to another, hemorrhage seized him at eighty-three years of age down-grade, running toward the city of Destruc- and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. his influence did not cease. The most brilliant tion. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man man of his century, he had used all his faculties for Prepare for accident, certainly ; but as well availeth much." James 5 : 16. The reason why assaulting Christianity ; his bad influence widening have a right understanding of the dangers of pros- our prayers are no more effectual, is because of our through France, widening through Germany, wid- perity, which so often results in pride, which is an sins. " Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, ening through all Europe, widening through Amer- abomination to God. Do not let your Bible re- that it cannot save ; neither his ear heavy, that it ica, widening through the one hundred and one main upon the center table as an ornament until cannot hear : but your iniquities have separated years that have gone by since he died, widening there is a death in the family, or the minister calls. between you and your God, and your sins have hid through earth, widening through hell ; until at last Do not let the dust settle on the old Bible you his face from you, that he will not hear." Isa. the accumulated influence of his bad life in fiery once used morning and night, until your fingers 59 : 1, 2. While living in known sin, we cannot surge of omnipotent wrath will beat against his might write these words in the dust : " Not to be come to God in prayer in the full assurance of faith. destroyed spirit, and at that moment it will be used except in case of accident."—R. F. Dutcher, "For if our heart condemn us, Cltod is greater than enough to make the black hair of eternal darkness in Wesleyan Methodist. our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our turn white with horror. No one can tell how that heart condemn us not, then have we confidence to- bad man's influence girdled the earth, save the One.. —Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but the ward God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of who is seated on the circle of the earth—the Lord heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can him, because we keep his commandments, and do Almighty. . . . buy. To be full of goodness, full of cheerfulness, those things that are pleasing in his sight." 1 John But do not make the mistake of thinking that full of sympathy, full of helpful hope, causes a 3 : 20-22. " But let him ask in faith, nothing this doctrine of the circle stops with this life ; it man to carry blessings of which he is himself as wavering : for he that wavereth is like a wave of rolls through heaven. You might quote in oppo- unconscious as a lamp is of its own shining.—Ex. the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let sition to me what St. John says about the city of not that man think that he shall receive anything heaven. He says it " lieth four square." That of the Lord." James 1 : 6, 7. does seem to militate against this idea ; but you —Little words are the sweetest to hear ; little The conditions are plain. Again we read : know there is many a square house that has a fam- charities fly farthest, and stay longest on the " The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and ily circle facing each other and in a circle moving, wing ; little lakes are the stillest, and little hearts his ears are open unto their cry." Ps. 34 : 15. and I can prove that this is so in regard to heaven. the fullest, and little farms the best tilled. Little " And this is the confidence that we have in him, St. John says, " I heard the voice of many angels books are most read, and little songs the most sung. that if we ask anything according to his will, he round about the throne and the beasts and the And when nature would make any thing especially heareth us : and if we know that he hear us, what- elders." And again he says : " There was a rain- rare and beautiful, she makes it little—little pearls, soever we ask, we know that we have the petitions bow round about the throne." The two former in- little diamonds, little dews. Multunt in parvo— that we desired of him." 1 John 5 : 14, 15, stances, a circle ; the last, either a circle or a semi- much in little—is the great beauty of all we love " Therefore I say unto you, What things soever circle ; the seats facing each other, the angels facing best, hope for most, and remember the longest. ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive each other, the men facing each other. Heaven an —B. F. Taylor. them, and ye shall have them. And when ye

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stand praying, forgive,If ye have aught against THE HOLY LAND. A CONSISTENT PUBLISHER. any." M ark 11 : 24, 25. — Do we not desire to see the cause of God moving BY ronIA A. BUCK. BY G. W. MORSE. in mighty power 1 Is it not the will of God that "I' wAs thus beneath the Syrian sky, a power should attend the Third Angel's Message On Olive's mount or Bethlehem's plain, THE publisher of the Sunday School Times has not hitherto seen since its rise 1 The faintest- Beside fair Galilee, or nigh been frequently importuned to change the name of hearted must believe this. Where Hermon sheds its dewy rain, that paper to the Sabbath School Times. In a re- His sandals heavy with the dust cent issue, the editor gave quite a number of ex- We are admonished that there should be stated Gathered from treading Zion's street, seasons for prayer. Let those who have faith His meek disciples with a trust tracts from the letters he had received requesting seek the Lord earnestly, remembering that "the Like children, with devotion sweet such change, and added the following comment :— kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the vio- Follow where'er He leads, their Master's "The term ' Sabbath' is, as we have already lent taketh it by force." "The missionary move- weary feet. said, the name of an institution, not the name of ment is far in advance of the missionary spirit. Beneath the olive trees at night, a day of the week. It is a term that is applied, Earnest prayers have not followed the workers When sunset splendors light the sky, in the Bible text, sometimes to a single day,—a day like sharp sickles into the harvest field. . . . They watch the swiftly fading light of the week or a feast day,—sometimes to an en- On sea and plain and mountain high, tire week, sometimes to a full year, and sometimes Brethren, move high heaven with your prayers for And from each softly spoken word God to work with the efforts of his servants. The Breathed from His lips, each listener's heart to an indefinite period of time. To limit its use Lord has agencies that he will put in operation in Thus gained a lesson from his Lord, to the mere designation of a particular day of the answer to the importunate prayers of faith." Which, more than Egypt's magic art, week would be to concede that the fourth corn- in the years to come form of his life a part. In several Conferences the past season a day has mandment is a specific command to observe that been set apart (usually Wednesday of each week) Oh those three years they spent with him! particular day of the week,—the seventh day of as a day to earnestly pray to the Lord of the har- The saddest and the happiest years! each week by its ordinary numbering,—that day, vest in behalf of the success of the laborers in the Ah, nevermore shall memory dim and that day only, as the day of sacred rest and The paths they trod with love and tears; worship ; and this would be equivalent to char gospel field. Are these resolutions forgotten ? or And glancing back to those bright days do we find pleasure in pleading with God for sue- In dark and dreary years to come, ing a breach of the fourth commandment on all cess to attend the truth at these stated seasons of How, like the morning star, their rays Christians who observe any other day than Satur- prayer 7 Listen to the request of St. Paul to his Brighten with light the deepest gloom, day as the Sabbath of the Lord our God. The ed- Till they like conquerors tread their upward itor of the Sunday School Times honors the spirit brethren : " Now I beseech you, brethren, for the journey home! Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the of those Christians who faithfully adhere to Sat- Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your And thou beloved disciple John, urday as the day which they understand to be the prayers to God for me." Rom. 15 : 30. " Pray- When bowed with years on Patrnos' Isle, day of God's appointment for Sabbath observance ; ing always with all prayer and supplication in the Saw in thy vision that bright One but he cannot conscientiously charge all other Who once entranced thee with his smile. Christians with a violation of God's command- Spirit, and watching thereunto wish all persever- Till all thy life was spent for him, - ance and supplication for all saints ; and for me, Thy strength, thy years,—and e'en thy blood ment, as he would do if he admitted that the term that utterance may be given unto me, that I may Was shed,—until thine eyes grew dim, ' Sabbath' is the name of a particular day of the open my month boldly, to make known the mys- With treading where thy Master trod,— week as such. Hence it would be a sign of moral The path that ends within the City of our God. tery of the gospel." Eph. 6 : 18, 19. The apostle weakness on his part if he were to yield to any declared that his brethren helped him by their In Chaldea's skies the stars still shine popular clamor for a misuse of human language, 'prayers. (See 2 Cor. 1 : 11.) And Jordan's stream is Bowing yet; in order to secure a condemnation of those Chris- Paul is dead ; so are all those who were lm- And'pilgrims, with a love divine, tians who religiously observe Saturday as the Sab- Kneel where the midnight soil was wet, bath. prisoned for the truth in his day ; yet we are liv- When on the dark dividing wall << ing in a tnore solemn and important age even than Of life and death He stood, that love It is true that the term ' Sunday ' has its traces that. Now we hear a similar request coming up Might prove for sin the all in all. of the old paganism of our fathers ; but the same from God's messengers of truth, not only in Amer- Oh, mighty power that from above may be said of the name of every other day of the Can break the chains which doth enthrall, week. Would it seem .to be the right thing for the ica, Europ e, and Australia, but from ever y land Till prisoners hear thy voice ring like a bugle call. where God has planted the banner of the last mes- editor of the Sunday School Times to apply a vestige sage of mercy. We must learn to try the strength And thou, fair lake of Galilee, of paganism as the name of every day of the week of God's grace. Let us be united in the prayers That heard His voice amid the storm, except one 1 Is that a sort of religion that would And sank to rest, oh, sacred be commend itself in Missouri or Kansas? We trust of faith for the quickening power of the truth to Thy waves which mirrored oft His form! accompany his word. The more we pray for the He trod thy shore with weary feet, not. As to the question of the origin of religious success of the message, the more will we give to Thy spray hath oft His sandals wet; words in our English language, it will be found carry it forward ; and the more we give to aid the He listened as thy waters beat that very few of those words were created in At close of day when sun had set, heaven expressly for sacred uses, and have been cause of God, the more will we pray for its success. A deep and sad refrain—oh, canst thou hear it yet l Praying and giving for the glory of God, bring used accordingly in all their history. To decide on the angels of God to our homes. Let us court the 0, blest Jerusalem I thy walls, using no words which have a trace of paganism presence of these heavenly beings. May we be On which He gazed, fell long ago. in their beginnings, would be to limit our ordinary Sadly the light of heaven falls speech within most inconvenient boundaries. But careful not to grieve them away by our indifference On roof, and spire, and wall of snow; to the cause of Christ. The very earth which once He trod, apart from the question of the day of the week as Is sacred to the pilgrim's eyes. such, there is another reason for refusing to sub- Like that bright city of our God, stitute the term ' Sabbath-school ' for ' Sunday- THE ROCK—CHRIST JESUS. E'en now doth thy fair Zion rise, school.' The ' Sunday-school' is an institution, or City of David ! bright thy fallen splendor lies. an agency, as well known by its own name as the BY L. O. MOOB.E. Not ours the pleasures which those days modern life-insurance system, the railroad system, Gave to the sons of Israel then; or the banking system; and it has a right to be They heard Thy voice, they saw Thy face, known by its own name. . . . We could no more To what does the word " rock " refer in Matt. As meekly trod the ways of men 16 : 18 : "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I Thou, in Thy humble guise, 0 King change the name of this paper to the Sabbath will build my church " ? The Roman Catholic Of earth and heaven! Thy voice once hurled School Times, or the Bible School Times, with a quickly answers, To Peter. Some say it means The sinful angels down, while ring clear conscience, than we could change it to the Christ, and still others apply it to the truth that The courts of heaven with gates impearled Hosanna Assembly Times, in memory of the chil- For thee whose arms were stretched to clasp a Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God. But sinful world. dren'sjoyous gathering on the slopes of Olivet, on Peter himself affirms that Christ is the chosen of the first Palm Sunday of Christian history. In God, a living stone, and precious. 1 Pet. 2 : 4. 0 Holy Land! dear Holy Land! fact, a change of the name of the Sunday School The world's sad eyes are fixed on thee! Times, in view of the representative character of In verses 6-8 he then establishes his position by Thy hills once brightened 'neath that band each of three texts. The first, a quotation from Of angels sent the night that he, this paper, would be in violation of the conscien- Isa. 28 :16, reads, " Behold, I lay in Sion a chief Bright King of all, came down to bless tious convictions of its proprietors, and would in- corner-stone, elect, precious : and he that believeth The earth, and all its chains to break. dicate a moral weakness of which they ought not on him shall not be confounded." In the second, 0 sinful world, thy wilderness to be guilty." Hath opened wide a path to take It is rare that we observe such consistency quoting from Ps. 118 : 22, he says : " The stone Him to thine arms and let his voice thine which the builders disallowed, the same is made echoes wake. among the adherents of the Sunday Sabbath as is the head of the corner." And from Isa. 8 : 14 he displayed by the editor of the Sunday School Times repeats the words, "And a stone of stumbling, and 0 Holy Land! sweet Holy Land! in thus refusing to change the name of his paper. a rock of offense," which shows Christ's relation Thl cities I may never see; He discovers that it will first be necessary for the Yet oft in waking dreams I stand to the wicked. By Jordan's banks, or Galilee. institution to change its name, before it will be Thus he affirms, and proves by scripture, that In dreams I strike the prophet's lyre, proper to change the name of that great organ of Christ is the rock, the foundation of the church ; Once swept by Hebrew bards of old; the same. and that to the wicked he is a rock of offense. But perished in its olden fire, While commending the consistency of our es- And those sweet tales must be untold, teemed contemporary in the matter above referred And as the Roman Catholic Church regard Peter Till the redeemed shall tread the shining streets as their first bishop, they should accept his views, of gold. to, we can but lament the discovery of points of and let no later pope teach them that Peter is the East Randolph, N. Y. weaknes's in other particulars'that are quite inexcus- foundation stone, which he himself denies. We _ able. He starts off by remarking that "the term also should pay strict regard to Peter's words ; for Sabbath is . . . the name of an institution, not the he, if no other, understood the Lord's statement, —If clouds begin to darken the light of hope, name of a day of the week." It is to be regretted and could tell its meaning. drop deeper the anchor of faith. There is always that he did not go a little farther and state when, Grand Rapids, MM. rock below for those who trust in the Lord. by what means, and for what purpose the Sabbath 724 THE. REVIEW AND HERALD. 4[VoL. 63, No. 46. was instituted. He evidently discovered that all a great public journal of wide-spread influence. things work together for good to them that love should he do so, he would find some very formid- With one more reference, we close this criticism. him. able breakers ahead. For instance, he would have It is this :— been obliged to state that the Sabbath was institu- " To limit its use [that of the term sabbath] to SELF-CONDEMNED. ted in the garden of Eden by the direct act of God, the mere designation of a particular day of the before man fell, as a memorial of creation, to be week, would be to concede that the fourth com- BY ELD. F. PEABODY. observed by mankind perpetually. He would have mandment is a specific command to observe that found that the seventh day of the creative week particular day of the week,—the seventh day of Wno s necessarily in such a condition7 Paul was taken as the specific day for the celebration of each week by its ordinary numbering,—that day, gives a principle in Rom.. 14 : 22, 23 which shows the Sabbath, and that it can no more be changed and that day only, as the day of sacred rest and who may be : " Happy is he that condemneth not to any other day of the week and retain the same worship ; and this would be equivalent to charging himself in that thing which he alloweth. And he reasons for its observance, than a man can change a breach of the fourth commandment on all Chris- that discerneth and putteth a difference between his birth day to some other day of the month than tians who observe any other day than Saturday as meats [margin] is damned if he eat, because he the one upon which he was born, or than Inde- the Sabbath of the Lord our God." eateth not of faith : for whatsoever is not of faith pendence Day of this country can be changed to Such frankness as indicated in the foregoing is sin." We know Paul is writing concerning the fifth day of July. Man might, by. defiantly paragraph is truly refreshing. It means simply feast days and things which some said might be repudiating the.Sabbath instituted by God, insti- this : that if God Selected a definite day of the eaten and others said should not ; yet in the above tute a Sabbath according to his own fancy ; but to creative week upon which to institute a memorial quotation there is a principle that covers all ac- appropriate in behalf of such man-made Sabbath, of his creative work ; and if the fourth command- knowledged duties. the reasons and command given by God for his ment means literally just what it says, the seventh Take any one of the ten commandments and see holy day, would be the most heinous violation of day of the week at the present time, and that day how the principle will apply ; for instance, the the first, the eighth, and the ninth commandments. only, is the Sabbath of the Lord our God. Or, in eighth. A man steals. He knows and acknowl- It would, in the first place, be recognizing other other words, if the Bible record of the institution edges he has done wrong. He discerns and puts a authority than God's as superior to his. It would of the Sabbath, and the command for its observ- difference between his rights and others' rights, be stealing of the most daring character, and an ance, are true and valid, only the observers of the but still disregards his neighbor's rights, and steals out-and-out falsehood. seventh day are conforming to the same. from him. He stands self-condemned. The editor of the Times evidently discovered We respectfully suggest that our esteemed con- Consider the fourth commandment. Every where the foregoing liabilities, should he admit that the temporary can do no more valiant service for the we find people who intend to be honest, yet they Sabbath institution was inseparably fixed to a cause of God in the restoration of his Sabbath than discern between the seventh day of the week, or definite day of the week, and so, with adroitness to accept the conditions of its own admissions, and the Sabbath of the Lord, and the first day, which worthy a better cause, he takes the position that act accordingly. God gave to man for a working-day, and still go the Sabbath is a most convenient institution ; one, right on trampling God's truth under their feet. indeed, that man may move around from one day They, too, are self-condemned. Can such find fault of the week to another, to suit his fancy. Having THAT EIGHTH CHAPTER OF ROMANS. when in the Judgment they find themselves con- taken this positiom, he is prepared to sanction the demned by themselves When the records of BY S. F. PEARSON. observance of any day of the week as Sabbath, by men's lives are laid out before them, it will then be seen that they have had more of a part to act any eldss of people in any part of the globe. Ac- I HAVE often heard of a brother who used to say, cording to the Times, they are all keeping the in their own condemnation or approval than they " Brethren, I am in the eighth of Romans this have anticipated. " Hast thou faith" in what thou Sabbath of the Lord ! Indeed, we may conclude morning ; and it seems to me as I read that chap- art doing ? "have it to thyself before God. Happy that the Times believes that one may keep a whole ter it is a good place to be." is he that condemneth not himself in that thing week, or even a year, as the Sabbath, and that Have not most of us lived long enough in the which he alloweth," or doeth. such observance will satisfy the demands of the seventh? Have we not, like the Roman criminal, A person who has conviction of truthand duty, law for seven weeks, or seven years, as the case carried the decaying body of sin long enough ? Is and has the courage to do right, though opposed might be. Thus one would be at liberty to work it not high time that we were loosed from' it ? Do by all the powers of evil, stands in that attitude continuously for six years, and then observe the we not again and again cry out, like Paul, " 0 toward God and all heaven that will insure happi- seventh year as the Sabbath, and still fulfill the wretched man that I am ! who shall deliver me ness ; while he who goes along stringing and dodg- requirements of the Sabbath command. Notice from the body of this death ? " ing and trembling, all the time doubting, having his words :— But the eighth chapter opens with a different no confidence in his own doings, cannot be happy " It [the Sabbath] is a term that is applied, in experience. Paul had learned the lesson that to though he possesses millions. God's truth and the Bible text, sometimes to a single day,—a day be in Christ Jesus, to take him as his only portion, Spirit give light, show us our duties. Men see, of the week or a feast day, sometimes to an entire to believe all God had spoken concerning him, was are convicted, and know what they ought to do ; week, sometimes to a full year, and sometimes to the way and the only way to escape from the ter- but the multitude try to seek happiness through an indefinite period of time." rible bondage in which he found himself ; and now some other channel than that pointed out by the We cannot conceive how a position could be he can exclaim, "There is therefore now no con- apostle. taken on this important subject that would be demnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who more destructive to the usefulness and uniformity walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For of the Sabbath, than the above. Total abolition the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath KEEPING THE SABBATH. could not do much- more by way of destroying the made me free from the law of sin and death." BY J. D. BUTCHER. divine origin and nature of the institution, and And he says further : " For as many as are led by making it entirely subject to the whims and con- the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. . . "IF thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, veniences of mankind. We are astonished to see And if children, then heirs ; heirs of God, and from doing thy pleasure on my holy day ; and call our contemporary thus turn a Sabbath destroyer. joint heirs with Christ." the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, hon- While it is true that the mere word " sabbath " If righteousness could come by the law, then orable ; and shalt honor him, not doing thine own is variously used in the Scriptures, as suggested in would Paul surely have been secure. A Pharisee, ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking the foregoing extract, it is not true that it always brought up at the feet of Gamaliel, he was taught thine own words : then shalt thou delight thyself has reference to the Sabbath of the Lord, instituted the law, and had strictly observed it from his child- in the Lord ; and I will cause thee to ride upon the at creation and commanded by the fourth precept hood ; but now that Christ had come, something high places of the earth, and feed thee with the her- of the decalogue. The editor of the Times knows more remained for him to do. He could not neg- itage of Jacob thy father : for the mouth of the that there were, under the old dispensation, nu- lect to be as obedient as ever to the law, and must Lord hath spoken it." Isa. 58 : 13, 14. merous feast days, holy days, etc., to which the also believe all that was written concerning Christ, Many who profess to keep the Sabbath seem to term " sabbath " was applied. He also knows that and accept him as his Saviour, and from thence- spend it in a loose, careless sort of a way, think- in all cases, almost without exception, throughout forth realize that he was not his own, but that he ing perhaps that to refrain from physical labor the Bible, wherever the term " sabbath " occurs, had been bought with the precious blood of Christ. on that day is all that is required. Farmers, per- there is little or no difficulty in discovering whether With this assurance he could exclaim, " If God be haps, see no wrong in spending a portion of the a ceremonial institution is referred to, or the Sab- for us, who can be against us " and, " Who shall day in looking after their stock, walking about the bath of the Lord. This last-named institution separate us from the love of Christ I shall tribu- farm, planning the coming week's work, or even maintains its distinctive characteristics upon all lation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or strolling across the fields to spend the hallowed occasions, and under all circumstances where it is nakedness, or peril, or sword ? . . . Nay, in all hours with a neighbor, discussing business pros- mentioned ; and there is not in the entire Bible these things we are more than conquerors through pects and political news--doing their own ways, the least scintilla of evidence that it could be cel- him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that nei- finding their own pleasure, and speaking their own ebrated upon any other than the day of the week ther death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, words. But this does not accord with the words upon which it was founded ; viz., the seventh day. nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, of the Lord by the prophet•41ata,..quote.41. The Even the ceremonial sabbaths all had fixed dates nor hight, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall Sabbath is time that God hash tonsecrated to his and duration, and were not left to any such fluct- be able to separate us from the love of God, which own holy service. Our thoughts should be with- uating, helter-skelter system as the Times endeav- is in Christ Jesus our Lord." drawn from worldly matters, and be centered ors to establish for God's holy day. We do not Is it not the will of our Heavenly Father that upon God and his wonderful works. The manner call to mind any of them that were not to be cel- we all have the same blessed experience which the in which we spend this holy time will stand for ebrated every year, or as often as they came, on a apostle had '1 It certainly is ; for " this is the will or against us in that great day when each individ- definitely prescribed day of a certain month ; and of God, even your sanctification ; " and Christ ual case will be tried. the- time of their continuance was stated with "was manifested to take away our sins." Shall Bloomington, Ind. equal definiteness. we not trust him implicitly, and unreservedly put This endeavor to traduce God's great memorial ourselves into his care, to be led by him just as he to the level of transitory, shadowy, ceremonial in- will, knowing that he will lead us right 7 forlie —Moderation is the silken string running stitutions is unworthy any Bible student, least of knows just what is best for us, and will make all through the pearl chain of all virtue.---Bishop Hall. Nov. 23, 1886r THE REVIEW AND HERALD. 725

Jesus walked and taught. Outline the Sea of LEND A HELPING HAND. Galilee, with 'a few fisherman's boats on it ; the Mount of Olives, the river Jordon, and many other Do N'T be afraid of work. Your strength, both of mind and body, was given to you for use. If " That out• sons may be as plants grown up in their youth ; that our things of interest. The older children can thus daughte,s 11119' be as corner-stones, polished after the .similitude of a employ and instruct themselves, and also keep the you can help your fellow-traveler as he walks Induce." Pa. 344: 12. small children intensely interested. I would also along with his heavy load, don't be too lazy or suggest that all children able to write have a Sab- ashamed to lend a helping hand. If you can give THE PEACEFUL LIFE. bath copy-book, in which to write the verses com- the poor, down-trodden creature a word of encour- "Count not attention to the daily duties, nor the strictness of the mitted in the Sabbath-school lesson. agement, stretch out your hand and do it ; do n't Christian life, to be bondage; but count it the sweetest liberty and Of course, all these things must be directed by be afraid of contamination ; if your character is the only way of true peace. Wherever this is accounted hard, that state which is embraced instead of it will be found harder."—John the parents, and if judiciously done, I think the what it ought to be, you will be above suspicion. Rogers, of Dedham,, 1285. Sabbath can be made a delight even to children. If the poor drunkard passes you by, do n't pull Tile working life is the life of peace, Will not parents count the cost, and see how much your garments more closely about you, as if to The words of the wise are golden; better it will be to spend a little time and means say, "I am holier than thou ; " but rather let your And down the line of three hundred years now to keep the dear children in the fold, than to sympathies go out toward him, and, if in your Comes the truth of these words grown olden. be careless, and see them drift away into the world, power, lend a hand to help him lead a better life. Not the days that are passed amid songs and flowers and at last lose eternal life '1 Let us all work as None of us are perfect ; we all need help ; and if In dreamy, inactive leisure, Christ should withhold the helping hand, what But the days that are strong with the stress of toil well as watch and pray. Are those of the truest pleasure. ANNA L. CUNNINGHAM. would become of us 7 Who would hear our cries for mercy, and give us sweet forgiveness and strength The eyes that look straight toward God and heaven, to do better 7 Nor turn from the path of duty, ONE WAY TO BE HAPPY. Are the eyes that see in this changeful world, Be always on the watch to do some helpful thing The sights of the truest beauty. for somebody. Make yourself a blessing to all you Most boys and girls think that if they could meet. Never let it be said of you, " Oh, he's too Who lives for earth and to self alone only have everything they want to wear, to amuse indifferent to the wants of others to give a body a Must find his enjoyments shallow,' them, they would never be cross or dissatisfied. While he who lives for God and right lift," or " feels above lending a helping hand." That is a mistaken idea. Things outside of your- —Church and Home. Finds something each day to hallow. self do not make happiness. I knew a boy once, He who is bound by the yoke of love, about nine years old, who it seemed had every- Aud regains his freedom never, thing to make a boy happy,—a lovely home, a Has his perfect liberty here on earth, And he shall be free forever. father and mother who did everything in the world tntion. to make him happy. He had a printing-press, a Oh, life is short, and its sides sometimes Are darkened with care and sorrow; velocipede, a bicycle, sled, skates (ice and roller), But the loyabhearted, the brave of soul, books—everything ; and yet he was the most un- THE ORIGIN OF SUNDAY. Has always a glad to-morrow. happy child I ever saw. One winter morning the ITS BEARING ON THE SUNDAY LAWS OF THE PRESENT. Then let us patiently bear the cross, streets were covered with snow. All the boys Our service and love confessing; in the neighborhood were out with their sleds, For the life of labor and faith and love shouting and laughing and having the best kind [THE following article was written by Eld. A. Is the only life of blessing. of a time. This boy went about the house frown- H. Lewis, Seventh-day Baptist. Our readers will —Marianne Farmieegham. a ing, growling, and whining. What about, do you find in it no arguments with which they are not think 1 He was not satisfied because his sled was already familiar ; but the article will have special HELP THE CHILDREN KEEP THE not longer, and utterly refused to go out. He interest for them in the fact that it was first pub- SABBATH. " would not go out with such a mean sled," he said. That afternoon I was walking not far from lished in the Popular Science Monthly, and from How shall our children keep the Sabbath 'I has this boy's house, when I heard shouts of laughter that copied into the Chicago Tribune. All Sab- long been a perpjoxing question to many good from some children, who were out of sight around bath-keepers will read it with a feeling of satisfac- brethren and sisters. Some devoted parents have the corner. When I did see them, I stood per- tion that the truth on the question of the origin required their young children to keep the Sabbath fectly still. There were four little children with- and nature of Sunday observance is thus laid be- just as they did without any variation, and the re- out overshoes, or overcoats, or mittens. They had fore a class of readers whose attention may perhaps sult has too often been quite the opposite of what an old broom, which they were using as a sled. never before have been called to it.] the anxious parents desired. Instead of loving the The youngest- child was sitting on the broom, and Lord with all the heart, and keeping his command- two older boys were pulling him along by the The times demand a reconsideration of our ments, they grow to despise the law of God because handle. The fourth child, a girl, was running Sunday laws. They are practically inoperative. of, to them, the tiresome Sabbaths. To men and along holding the little one on the broom. Their There must be some essential reason for this, in women who have any taste for reading, the Sab- eyes were shining, cheeks just like roses, and they the character of the people or in the character of bath usually seems too short ; but children seldom certainly were just as happy as though they had the laws, perhaps both. Either the laws have a delight in spending a whole afternoon in solid had the most beautiful of sleds. false basis and cannot rightly claim public regard, reading, even if they are able to read well. Three tiny, ragged boys were playing together or the people are wickedly indifferent to rightful I take it for granted that all spend the forenoon in the sunshine Thursday on a sidewalk near one authority. This is true of the church as well as in Sabbath-school exercises, either at home or at a of the North End railway stations. A fourth the "world." To know the origin of these laws regnlar place of meeting. I know there are many youngster came up, his eyes glistening with pleas- will help to solve the problem. who are better qualified than myself to advise on ure, his dirty face proud with delight, and the fol- Sun-worship is the oldest and most wide-spread. this subject, as I have never had much experience lowing conversation was overheard :— form of paganism. It reaches back to the prehis- in Sabbath teaching ; but I have had a long ex- " Oh, boys," he cried, "I've foun' a tin-chit toric period. Under various phases it has always perience in common-school teaching, and I know piece." been the persistent foe to the worship of Jehovah. that the secret of success lies in keeping the chil- The others crowded around, and discussed the It was the prevailing, and most corrupting form of dren constantly employed. It is impossible to keep treasure excitedly. Then they sat down on the idolatry which assailed the Hebrew nation. Its a child occupied unless you keep it. interested ; and curb-stone to compare reminiscences of recent lucky lowest form, Baal-worship, produced the deepest in order to secure an interest, there must be changes finds. social and moral degradation. As the period of from brain work to band-work or copying, such as " I foun' mos' a hull piece of a top, yesterday," idolatry passed away, sun-worship assumed a less map-drawing, object-drawing, etc. A little tact said one. materialistic form, without losing the virulence of on the part of the teacher will enable him to ar- "I foun' a big bone in our alley, a n'orful big its poison. It lay in wait, like a beast of prey, to range the exercises in such agreeable changes that bone," said a second, "'n' I'm goin' to make a corrupt Christianity as it had already corrupted the child may be kept profitably employed all day jumper out of it." Judaism. Transferred from the East and from without knowing that he has done real work. The youngest child, the very dirtiest, smallest, Egypt to Greece and Rome, it became popular, Day-school has never been satisfactory where thinnest baby that ever walked, had listened with and great efforts were made under Heliogabalus there was not suitable apparatus ; and so it will a smile of perfect content, and now he chimed in, and others in the third and fourth centuries to be in Sabbath exercises. I will name a few neces- in,.a tone whose pride and joy no words can con- exalt it above all other religions. Indeed, Mith- sary articles : First, a paper blackboard (one can vey,— raicism came near gaining the field and driving be had for about seventy-five cents, or more, ac- " Thith mornin' I foun' a peanut." apostolic religion out of the Roman Empire. It cording to size) should be hung in every family You see, it is not what you have, what you find, did corrupt it to an extent little understood. room or dining room, A box of white and one of that makes you happy, but the use you make of it. Pagan Rome made religion a part of the State. colored crayons should accompany it; secondly, a If you use it to enjoy it, get all the pleasure and Long before the advent of Christianity the Em- number of books suited to the ages of the children profit there is in it out of it, you will be happy in peror, Pontifex Maximus, as head of the State and' should be at hand. When they have read, or list- its possession ; but if you think all the time that therefore of the church, was accustomed to legislate ened to reading, until they show signs of restless- you want the thing you have not got or cannot upon all religious matters. He had supreme power ness, then relate some Bible story, and if you can, have, you lose all the pleasure locked up in your in this direction. Scores .of sacred days were set explain it more fully by representing it on the present possession. You know Paul said, "I have apart, under the pagan empire, upon which judicial board. Even a rough sketch, especially with the learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be proceedings and certain forms of work were pro- colored chalk, will be interesting to children ; and content." Now, that is a text for you to think hibited. It was the settled policy of the empire a little practice will enable almost any one to draw about. Paul meant that he had learned how to for the emperor thus to determine concerning passably well. use the present time, the present gifts, the present ferial days. A good exercise for the children alone, is draw- friends ; that it was not wise to keep grasping all Apostolic Christianity forbade all appeal to the ing the countries in and around the Holy Land. the time for something out of reach. Think about civil law in matters of Christian duty. Christ Let them become familiar with all the places where it.—Citriatictn Union. and his apostles sought only the rights of citizen- 726 THE REVIEW AND HERALD. 6[VoL. 63, No. 46. ship at the hand of civil government. When these Apollo, and Mithras as to the Christians. There is no ref- the divine authority. It forbids the conscience to were refused, they gladly yielded, suffering per- erence whatever in his law either to the fourth command- rise above the human authority. The result is, no ment or to the resurrection of Christ.— Church History, secution, unto death if need be. Christ repeatedly vol. 3, p. 380. conscience. If, on the other hand, the observance declared, " My kingdom is not of this world." New of the Sunday, or the enforcement of the law, be Testament Christianity could not have instituted Milman says : '• The rescript, indeed, for the religious urged upon grounds of policy and expediency, observance of the Sunday, which enjoined the suspension such a cultus as that which gave rise to Sunday of all public business and private labor, except that of each man instantly claims the right to judge for legislation, the union of church and State, under agriculture, was enacted, according to the apparent terms himself as to what is expedient or necessary. Di- an emperor or an emperor-pope. " Old Mixon " of the decree, for the whole Roman Empire. Yet, unless vine authority alone can give a Sabbath. Human peach trees cannot bear crab-apples. All evil legis- we had direct proof that the decree set forth the Christian authority can give no more than a holiday. reason for the sanctity of the day, it may be doubted whether lation concerning religious faith and practice, such the act would not be received by the greater part of the The results which confront us, indicate an un- as obtained in the Roman Empire, was the product empire as -merely adding one more festival to the fasti of derlying philosophy against which it is useless to of paganism. It was not an offshoot of Christianity the empire, as proceeding entirely from the will of the fight. They show that the pagan conception, which or of the Hebrew theocracy. emperor, or even grounded on his authority as supreme makes the State the source of authority in religious The first civil legislation concerning Sunday pontiff, by which he had the plenary power of appointing matters, the arbiter of disputes, or the regulator of holy days. In fact, as we have before observed, the day appears in the edict of Constantine the Great, 321 of the sun would be willingly hallowed by almost all the acts, is not only foreign to the true Christian con- A. D. Nothing appears in history as demanding pagan world, especially that part which had admitted any ception, but is destructive of it. The Christianity the legislation, or as wishing it, except the will of tendency toward the oriental theology."—History of Chris- of the fourth century was widely removed from the the emperor. He was a well-known devotee of tianity, vol. 2, pp. 396, 397. Christianity of the apostles. No one element did the sun god, as were his predecessors. His atti- No other legislation concerning Sunday appears more to create this degeneracy than the interference tude toward Christianity, both before and long for the next sixty-five years. Meanwhile the by the State in matters of religion. No form of after the issuing of the Sunday edict, was the atti- church was becoming paganized, the papacy was interference affected the life of the people more tude of a shrewd politician ; toward his rivals it developing, the empire was tottering, and all things than legislation concerning holy days and religious was that of an unscrupulous, bloody-handed mon- were getting ready for the Dark Ages. From the festivals. The effort which Puritanism made to arch. He gained power by intrigue, deceit, and close of the fourth century to the close of the fifth, lift the whole question to a higher level has failed murder, No accurate historian dares call him a the legislation was enlarged, including scores of because it persisted in the fundamental error that " Christian emperor." Romish tradition and su- other days, most of them pagan festivals, christened the State may justly legislate concerning religious perficial literature have misnamed him the " first by new names, and but slightly modified in the duties. Religious Sabbatizing is a duty which men Christian emperor." The facts relative to his life manner of their observance. As church and State owe to God alone. Civil law can make a holiday, and character forbid every such claim. He refused became more thoroughly united, the pagan idea can institute a day on which business and labor to unite with the Christian church until he lay on that the civil law ought to regulate religious actions will cease ; it can never make a Sabbath any more his death-bed, in 337 A. D., when he received and religious belief was so fully developed that the than it can make an honest man. All appeal to baptism, hoping thus to make the most of both State determined not only what men should do, civil law concerning Sabbath-keeping is necessarily worlds. The text of his Sunday edict and the sur- but what men should believe. Civil law practically degrading, and opposed to the genius of Christian- roundings all show it to have been purely heathen. decided what Christianity was. It defined ortho- ity. The Sunday laws have not become obsolete The text is as follows :— doxy and heresy, thus involving the whole realm because men are comparatively more wicked than Let all judges, and all city people, and all tradesmen rest of religious conscience in the meshes of political before, but because men have steadily risen above upon the venerable day of the sun. But let those dwelling intrigue. the pagan conception which permits the State thus in the country freely and with full liberty attend to the As the Holy Roman Empire grew upon the ruins to interfere. He who complains of the decline in culture of their fields, since it frequently happens that no of the pagan empire, it continued to secularize and regard for Sunday laws, complains of an unavoid- other day is so fit for the sowing of grain or the planting of vines ; hence the favorable time should not be allowed corrupt Christianity. Civil legislation relative to able fruitage which has alrays appeared and al- to pass, lest the provisions of Heaven be lost. Sunday and other festivals and fasts prevailed dur- ways will appear when the State interferes with Given the 7th of March, Crispus and Constantine being ing the Dark Ages. Our Saxon ancestors, con- religious matters. Consuls, each for the second time. —Codex Justin, lib. 3, verted under this empire, received this inheritance, Another result has developed in connection with lit. 12, 1. 3. and transmitted through the Saxon and English our Sunday laws whereby the vilest and most ne- If the foregoing law were associated with Chris- laws the entire genius of Sunday legislation to our farious business known to our civilization has in- tian law, the testimony against it would be less own time. The chain is unbroken which binds the trenched itself behind them, and at the same time damaging. But the following shows that the next Sunday law of to-day to the first pagan Sunday defies them. The enforced leisure which the Sun- day Constantine issued another edict, which, like law of 321 A. D. day laws and the customs concerning Sunday have the above, is unmixed paganism. There was little or no development of the Sab- brought about, make Sunday the great harvest-day Edict concerning haruspices :— batic idea, as drawn from the fourth command- for the saloons and their associate evils. The Sun- The august Emperor Constantine to .Maximus : If any ment, until the time of the Puritan Reformation. day laws prohibit many forms of legitimate busi- part of the palace or other public works shall be struck by Under the theory that the fourth commandment ness which our Christian civilization has come to lightning, let the soothsayers, following old usages, inquire allow ; and any persistent effort to enforce the Sun- into the meaning of the portent, and let their written words, might be transferred from the seventh to the first very carefully collected, be reported to our knowledge ; and day of the week, Sunday legislation took on the day laws against the saloon is met by the saloonist also let the liberty of making use of the custom be accorded more distinctively Sabbatic type which has pre- with the counter-effort to enforce the laws against to others, provided they abstain from private sacrifices, vailed in America. The theocracy of the New legitimate business. In the absence of any strug- which are specially prohibited. England colonies, wriich made the civil govern- gle with the saloon, nobody thinks of enforcing the Moreover, that declaration and exposition written in re- laws against legitimate business, or against popular spect to the amphitheater being struck by lightning, con- ment subservient to the church, instituted the cerning which you had written to Heraclianus, the tribune most rigorous Sunday legislation. These early amusements. Meanwhile the rum traffic, content and master of officers, you may know has been reported to colonial laws were not only rigid, but were rigidly to close the front door, if that be really insisted us. enforced. Their power was short-lived. As the upon, goes forward, and will continue to go for- Dated the 16th, before the kalends of January, at Seridica colonial governments gave way to the States, and ward, unchecked. Legitimate business cannot af- (320), Acc. the 8th, before the ides of March, in the Con- sulship of Crispus II. and Constantine III., Caess, Goss, 321 the States became united in the nation, Sunday ford to be interfered with, and the liquor power, A. D. — Codex Theo., lib. 16, tit. 10, 1. 1. legislation was continually modified, and its influ- holding the club in its own hand, says, "Permit The reader will note that nothing appears in the ence steadily declined. The laws still exist, but me to go forward, through the side door at least, law, neither does anything appear in the accompa- are disregarded by all classes of society, according or I will give you endless trouble through the same nying evidence, showing that Christians desired to choice or convenience. Religious men assemble law whereby you seek to interfere with me." In the law, or, were in any way interested therein. in conventions, and speak through resolutions ; many places, as in our Western cities, the liquor It applied to all the subjects of the empire alike. and editorials bewail the state of things, and talk power is strong enough to openly defy every effort, The day is not mentioned, except by its heathen of the necessity of more rigid enforcement of the and to push its business through the front door, title of the Sun. There is nothing in the restric- Sunday laws. No one heeds such talk, and no regardless of law. Between the two methods, the tions placed upon it unlike the restrictions which law is enforced. Year by year we drift' farther rum traffic has taken full possession of Sunday, already existed concerning many other pagan days. away from a religious regard for Sunday. The and the larger half of its profits are gathered in The following extract, from the work of an English most cogent arguments driven into the public mind that day. barrister, is pertinent at this point :— are like a nail driven into the weak mortar of a A still more deplorable evil has come upon the thin wall ; it looks well till you attempt to, hang a church itself, through reliance upon the Sunday That the division of days into juridici et ferati, judical law and through the acceptance of Sunday, and non-judical, did not arise out of the modes of thought weight upon it, when it gives way, deepening the which peculiar to the Christian world, must be known to every sense of failure. Hence we say, as at the begin- has neither scriptural authority nor standing- classical scholar. Before the age of Augustus the number ning, either the Sunday laws are not grounded in room on the law of God. It has ceased to appeal of days upon which, out of reverence to the gods to whom Christianity, or the public conscience has become to the law of God—except in a very weak way—as they were consecrated, no trials could take place at Rome, wickedly indifferent. the source of authority in matters relative to the had become a resource upon which a wealthy criminal could Sabbath, and has thereby become shorn of all real speculate as a means of evading justice ; and Suetonius Why thus enumerates, among the praiseworthy acts of that emperor, The real philosophy of the situation is this : strength. Year by year the church drifts farther the cutting off from the number thirty days, in order that Sunday laws, coupled with the false no-Sabbath into the stream of Sunday desecration. The pul- crime might not go unpunished nor business be impeded. theories which were developed in the second cen- pit talks of the terrible disregard for Sunday which —Feasts and Fasts, p. 6, by Edward V. Neale. tury, have depraved the public conscience, and pro- prevails, while the pews hasten out Monday morn- Church historians have been obliged to recognize duced the very results over which good men now ing to pocket the profits of Sunday business and the purely heathen character of this legislation. mourn. Granted, for the sake of the argument, Sunday revelry. Thus, dependence on the civil Schaff says :— that Sunday has rightfully taken the place of the law, and false theories concerning the abrogation But the Sunday law of Constantine must not be over- Sabbath, and ought to be observed in accordance of the Sabbath, have turned the heart of the church rated. He enjoined the observance, or rather forbade the with a Christian interpretation of the fourth com- itself away from the law of God, and left it to lean public desecration, of Sunday, not under the name of Sat- mandment, the fact remains that the civil law, on a broken reed which is piercing it through. batum or Dies Domini, but under its old astrological and heathen title, Dies Solis, familiar to all his subjects, so that assuming control of religious actions, places itself The results are sad, but terribly real. They are the law was as applicable to the worshipers of Hercules, between the human heart and God. It shuts out legitimate, unavoidable, but none the less ruinous. Nov. 23, 1886)7 THE REVIEW AND I:JERALD. 727

any way, be it ever so humble, connected with the still. We must either go forward with it, or Our tart Mist e5. spread of the Third Angel's Message afford to be sooner or later drop out. Which shall we do? slack and dilatory in our work 1-Indeed we can Hard work, earnest toil, agonizing prayer, tears, not afford it. It will cost too much. The loss of sacrifice, self-denial, privation, persecution, hunger, " Blessed are ye that sow beside au waters."-Isa. 32 :20 eternal life will be the price we shall have to pay weariness, jeers, scoffs, scorn, and intense suffering - - __ for negligence. are before all who will go through with the work SEND NE, Missionary workers, who are sending out the and people of God. But beyond all this weight of white-winged messengers of mercy and warning, sorrow and care, eternal life, with all its unspeaka- BY MRS. D. B. WALKER. occupy an important place in God's plan for en- ble joys and pleasures in the presence of Jesus, liahtening the world. God has not given his "Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields ; 6 angels, and friends, appears before us, inviting us for they are white already to harvest." John 1: 35. people a world-wide message to carry without also onward and upward, strengthening us for the en- I 'LL up and away, to the fields I '11 go, equipping them with talents and means to use in durance of any trial if we may at last obtain so rich In patience and faith the seed I'll sow; the promulgation of this message. Impossibilities a prize. Can we afford to lose this ?-No, a thou- In hope will I wait till the dew and rain are required of no one. He has given us all talents sand times no ! Let this be our choice, come what Shall ripen it into golden grain. to use to the honor and glory of the Master. As will. Let us work and pray earnestly for the sal- No longer I '11 idly sit and say, co-workers with Jesus, we are responsible for the vation of precious souls for whom Christ died. There's naught that I can do to-day; right use and proper development of these abilities. No half-hearted work will be accepted. The I'll up and away, like a servant true, God's opening providence is going out before us ; night is far spent. The last precious hours of pro- Saying, "Lord, what wilt thou have me do?" shall we not as missionary workers keep pace with bation are swiftly closing. Soon it will be too late There 's enough to do; the fields are white, the advancing light? Shall we not labor as ear- to labor for souls. What we do, must be done The lost ones wander in darkest night, nestly and zeaously for the salvation of our fellow- quickly. Let us arouse, casting off the unfruitful Their eyes are blinded by error and sin- men as we shall wish we had when we stand before works of darkness, and girding on the whole armor Who will help bring the wanderers in i the great Judge of all the earth 1 How insignifi- of light, that we may be accounted among the cant and small our most earnest efforts will then My heart says, Lord, here am I, send me; faithful workers, and be approved and accepted at Let me help set the captives free, appear ! Think of the great sacrifice and terrible last. Let us be faithful, "redeeming the time be- Let me work for thee in the field to-day; suffering of God's dear Son, that our -salvation cause the days are evil." HATTIE E. I-IAums. Bless my labor, dear Lord, I pray. might be made possible. Shall we shrink from Pleasant Grove, Minn. following in the footsteps of our Master, and thus _ My crown I'll leave in Jesus' care, - - - If the gathering work I may but share; be accounted unworthy of the great love God has And when the labor has all been done, manifested to us through that gift / Have we a ibIt tats May I share, in the joyful " harvest home." right to expect an easier time than our Master p. had / Was not his work also as unpopular with Then I'll ufc, and away; to the fields I'll go, the masses ? Can we expect less of the jeers and "Search the Scriptures."-John 5:39. With a faithful hand the seed I'll sow; scoffs and scorn of the world to-day than Jesus The Lord will bless with dew and rain THE HOLY SPIRIT. And sun, to ripen the golden grain. met eighteen hundred years ago 1 Satan now is Chesaning, Mich. not only as active and zealous in opposing the prog- BY HELEN L. MORSE. ress of truth and right as he was then, but he is OHIO TRACT SOCIETY. come down in great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time in which to work for the destruc- 1. IN establishing the Christian church, what Report for Quarter Ending Sept. 30, 1886. Lion of men. Oh I let us put corresponding energy did the apostles teach would follow repentance and No. of members 298 and zeal into our work. conversion ? Acts 2 : 38. " reports returned 135 2. Have we a record that the Holy Spirit was " members dismissed 3 We are highly honored to be in any way, if ever f4 44 added 1 so small, connected with the work of God. How poured upon those who accepted the gospel? Acts " letters written 108 thankful we should be that God in his wisdom has 8 : 15-17 ; 19 : 1-6. " missionary visits 544 so arranged that all may have a part in the great 30 3. Was the promise of this Spirit confined to " Bible readings held work of saving souls ! If it was necessary that the apostolic church ? Acts 2 : 38, 39. ' " subscriptions obtained for periodicals 198 Christ, our example, should spend whole nights in 4. Do not those " afar off" include all who " pp. books and tracts distributed 65,701 prayer and supplication to the Father to prepare shall henceforth be reached by the gospel ? " periodicals distributed 2,984 him for the' needs of a single day, what must be Received on tract fund, $65.50 ; on periodical fund, our needs who are living eighteen hundred years 5. What are the works of the flesh 1 Gal. 5 : $110.30 ; on other funds, $31.99. farther down the stream of time, and with each 19-21. Societies at Corsica, Columbus, Camden, Edison, Litch- • field, New Antioch, and Yellow Springs, and Dists. Nos. 6 succeeding generation are growing physically and 6. What is said of those who 'produce those and 7 failed to report. L. T. DYSERT, See, morally weaker ? works ? Verse 21, last clause. ...--..-.. There never h,as been a time when it was so hard to live a moral and Christian life as it is 7. How can we avoid them ? NEBRASKA TRACT SOCIETY. By bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit. See Gal. 5: at the present. 22, 23. for Quarter Ending Sept. 30, 1886. After six thousand years ofstruggling against Report 8. Can we expect to please God without this No. of members 412 the powers of darkness, and yielding step by step " reports returned 189 to the prince of wickedness, man has become so Spirit ? Rom. 8 : 8. " members added 6 weak morally that it is impossible for him to meet 9. Can we belong to Christ without it T Rom. tf " dismissed. 3 and vanquish his great adversary without divine 8 : 9. " missionary visits 1,927 " letters written 152 aid at each step. While Christ was connected 10. Are we candidates for the kingdom without " Signs taken in clubs 53 with his earthly ministry, he had to meet the it ? John 3 : 3, 5. " Gospel Sickles taken in clubs 185 snares of Satan on every side, who was constantly 4‘ subscriptions obtained for periodicals 210 seeking to thwart the great plan of salvation. If 11. How did Christ explain the new birth to " pp. tracts and pamphlets distributed.... 241,464 b Nicodemus ? John 3 : 6-8. 12,796 he could only have made Christ's work a failure, " periodicals distributed We are born into a spiritual life, and instead of living to Bible readings held. 250 victory would have been his. When eternity opens " gratify self and to the service of the world, we henceforth Received from districts, $272.39 ; from ministers and before us with all its unspeakable joys and treas- make it our object to deny self and please Christ. agents, $512.50 ; on sales, $370.41 ; on periodicals, $52 ; ores, then, and only then will we know and realize 'on tent fund, $357.35 ; on tract fund, $38 ; on educa- how much we owe to those nights of prayer spent 12. Since we cannot see this Spirit, how can we tional fund, $16.20 ; on Tidende fund, $1 ; on Arkansas re- on the cold damp ground by the Son of God. testify to its possession 1 Verse 8. lief fund, $1 ; for city missions, $5 ; for foreign missions, By its operations and the changes it produces in our $54. To-day Satan is exerting his whole force against at Friend, Sutton, Seward, Waco, New Era, the work of the Third Angel's Message. He is lives. Though we cannot see the wind, we can witness its' Societies effects everywhere, Silver Creek, Twing, Kirkwood, and Greedy failed to report. trying in any and every way to draw the attention S. E. WurrEfs, See. of the laborers, from the least to the greatest, from 13. Into what intimate relation to God does the their wotk. Christ, looking forward to our day, possession of his Spirit bring us I Rom. 8 : 14. OUR RELATION TO GOD'S WORK. saw and fully realized the mighty foe his people 14. What may it reveal to us of his loving care `I would have to meet and contend with in the closing 1 Cor. 2 : 9, 10. BECAUSE of the magnitude of the work God has work of the gospel dispensation. He knew that The glorious things that are hidden from those who walk committed to us as a people, and the shortness of our only source of help and strength would be in by sight can be discerned by those who are led by the the time in which we live, there is an ever-in- himself, and that our only way to obtain the Spirit' creasing responsibility and solemnity attached to it needed grace would be in earnest, agonizing prayer. 15. How willing is God to give this spirit ? as we near the close of probation. God has nom. This is the way he obtained a preparation for his Luke 11 : 13. • milted to his people the most sacred and solemn work, and it is the only way for us ; hence his 16. To whom does he give it I Id. work ever given to any people in any age of the example and admonition to watch and pray always. Those that ask. world ; and to the performance of this work the The missionary work is rising all over the great 17. How may all obtain it 1 Verses 9, 10. most weighty responsibilities are attachdd. Here harvest field. Shall we as missionary workers with its teeming millions standing just " Ask, " seek " " knock." By a steadfast desire, an is a world, keep pace with it, or shall we drop out and let intelligent' faith, and' earnest seeking, it may be ours. upon the brink of eternity, to be warned of its others fill our places in coming up to the help of Battle Creek, Mich. fast-approaching doom. Our work is enlarging 'the Lord against the mighty, and when the work ' everywhere. Facilities and opportunities for the closes, receive the crowns that might have been dissemination of present truth are increasing on ours, and hear the welcome "well done" that --Man must work. He may work grudgingly every hand. In view of these facts, and of the might have gladdened our hearts 7 No one con- or gratefully. He may work as a man or as a duty we owe, our fellow-men, can we who are in netted with the spread of this message can stand machine.-Henry Giles. . 728 THE REVIEW AND HERALD. 8[VoL. 63, No. 46.

Delegates being called for, seventy-one responded, Communications were also read from South Africa, wariew ad ma representing twenty-three Conferences and four mis- and interesting remarks made about the introduction sions. of the truth there and in South America. It was 'Sanctify them through Thy Truth : Thy Word is Truth." By vote the Chair was empowered to appoint usual then— committees, which he did as follows :— Moved, That the Chair appoint a committee of BATTLE CREEK, MICH., Nov. 23, 1886. On Nominations: J. Fargo, J. B. Goodrich, C. L. four, to act with the three members of the General Boyd. Conference Committee present (making a committee ITRIAH SMITH, - - - EDITOR. Resolutions: of seven), to consider the special phases of the work WAGGONER, t On R. A. Underwood, A. B. Oyen, GEO. I. BUTLER, CORRESPONDING EDITORS. E. J. Waggoner. in the different parts of the foreign field, and make On Credentials and Licemes : S. N. Haskell, B. L. such recommendations as they may think proper in- THE CONFERENCE. Whitney, G. G. Rupert. regard to providing for the same.—Carried. On Auditing Eld. Geo. B. Starr raised the question of the pro- Oun readers, we anticipate, will be watching with (with Conference Committee) : Har- mon Lindsay, D. T. Jones, D. B. Oviatt, J. Fargo, priety of our taking some steps to circulate our liter- interest for the first word from this twenty-fifth an- ature at the Prophetic Conference in Chicago, where- nual gathering of the representatives of our people J. H. Morrison, Harrison Grant. On Religious Exercises : R. M. Kilgore, L. Mc Coy, upon Geo. B. Starr, N. C. Mc Clure, and S. B. Whit- in General Conference. The meeting was called to ney were appointed a committee to take such action order by the President, promptly at the appointed G. C. Tenney. The Chairman then presented to the Conference a in regard to the matter as they might think proper. hour, 9 A. M., Nov. 18, with the fullest representation Adjourned to 2 : 30 P. M. present we have ever had at any General Conference. general review of the work during the past year. FOURTH MEETING, AT 2 : 30 P. M.--Prayer by Eld. Twenty-six State Conferences and four missions General prosperity has attended the cause, as much R. A. Underwood. Minutes approved. The com- are represented by delegates, and' others by letters. so as in any year in the past. Our views have re- mittee called for at the preceding meeting on special Eld. B. L. Whitney represents the Swiss Conference ceived a more general hearing. We have sold more wants of the foreign fields, was announced as follows : and Central European field ; Eld. M. C. Wilcox, the books than ever before. And a larger number of B. L. Whitney, R. M. Kilgore, A. R. Henry, and H. British mission ; Eld. A. B. Oyen, the work in Nor- young people have attended our institutions of learn- Nicola, these brethren to act with the members of the way and Denmark ; and Bro. Norlin, the Swedish ing, with the object before them of entering into General Conference Committee in the matter commit- Conference. These brethren are just from their some branch of the work at the earliest possible time. fields of labor, and can speak from immediate obser- The missionary work was also reviewed at some ted to them. The subject of the former part of the day—the vation of the work there. Eld. Haskell speaks from length, and the financial standing of the different missionary work—being again taken up, the follow- personal expeAence of the work in Australia and missions was presented. The outlook all along the ing vote of thanks from the church in Christiana, New Zeala,ntr. Eld. Rosqvist represents the Swedish line is of a very encouraging character. Allusion was also made to the opposition that is arising against Norway, was read :— work in this country ; and others are present who our cause in some quarters, and the persecution un- represent quite a number of the city missions. TO THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF S. D. ADVENTISTS, U. S. A. der which some of our brethren are already suffering. THE undersigned committee would hereby in behalf of The delegations from all parts of the field, taken as But this should be no cause of discouragement ; for a whole, make a strong Conference both in numbers the church of S. D. Adventists in Christiana, Norway, send this is just what we have long been expecting, from and experience. While some new faces appear from to you the following vote of thanks, adopted unanimously the declarations of God's word. Eld. Haskell also by the church:— some sections, there is an evident increase in strength made interesting remarks on the missionary work. on the part of the older members. Added years and Whereas, Our brethren in America have so kindly fur- Moved, That a committee of five (afterward amended continued labors are developing strong men to a very nished means, and thus secured the erection of a suitable to four) act with the General Conference Committee building for the publishing work and meetings, and fur- gratifying degree. as a committee on the distribution of labor. nished excellent- facilities for publishing and printing ; Bro. J. A. Armstrong is a delegate from Arkansas. D. M. Canright, A. J. Breed, Louis Johnson, M. C. and— This is the brother whose name has heretofore ap- Wilcox, were appointed as said committee. peared in the REVIEW, who has felt a little of the op- Whereas, We are now most comfortably situated in a Adjourned till 2 : 30 P. M. suitable hall for meetings, well warmed and lighted, and in pression which is sure to come from religious intol- SECOND MEETING, AT 2 : 30 P. M.—Prayer by Eld. every way well adapted to the preaching of the truth and erance and, bigotry, when it can avail itself of un- I. D. Van Horn. Three new delegates handed in cre- worship of God; therefore— righteous laws ; and we can hear from his own lips dentials. The Chairman introduced the question of the story of the persecutions in that State. The leg- Resolved, That we do hereby express our heartfelt grat- prosecutions for Sunday labor, for the consideration islature which repealed the exemption clause pre- itude to God and to our American brethren for these com- of the Conference. Bid. D. T. Jones made a state- H. STEEN, viously existing in behalf of those who observed some forts and blessings. ment of the situation in Arkansas. Brn. Armstrong, G 0 MEI" Committee. other day than Sunday, was controlled by the large Wood, Fulton, Rees, Rupert, and Young, spoke on J. SYVERTSEN, proportion of ministers of which it was composed. the various phases of this question in different States ; A communication was then read from Bro. J. Kol- Through the influence of these, that repeal was se and the principles involved in the question were dis- voord, in reference to the work among the Holland- cured. And since then observers of the seventh day, cussed at some length by E. J. Waggoner and other ers in this country. Some time was spent in consid- to the exclusion of all other classes, have been hunted brethren. On motion, the Chair was requested to ap- eration of the wants of this part of the field. Eld. out to suffer its effects. The unmistakable evidence point a committee of seven, himself being chairman, Haskell spoke in regard to the natives of New Zea- of religious spite in the complaints and prosecutions, to consider the question, and make some recommen- land, called the Maories, and the facilities that exist and the overriding of all principles of equity on the dations to the Conference. for bringing the truth before them. All things point part of the so-called officers of justice in the matter to the necessity of a paper in the Maori language at of exacting fines and imprisonments, would furnish The following brethren were named as said com- mittee : Geo. I. Butler, S. N. Haskell, J. Fargo, A. no distant day. Bro. T. H. Gibbs spoke of the mis- a fitting chapter for the gloomy annals of the Dark sion in New Orleans, and his connection with the Ages. Let the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor R. Henry, R. A. Underwood, E. W. Farnsworth, F. D. Starr. work in the South. He gave an interesting account be done up in sackcloth, and dusted over with ashes, of the work there, and made a strong appeal for the Adjourned to Friday, at 9 A. M. so long as in some parts of our land, liberty is a name South. THIRD MEETING.—Prayer by Ed.- D. P. Curtis. only and not a reality. The matter of theological questions being intro- Minutes of last meeting read and approved. Three Friday forenoon Brn. Whitney, Wilcox, and Oyen duced, it was moved that the Chair appoint a com- new delegates were added to the list of members. gave a report of the work and the outlook in the mittee of nine to consider any theological questions By vote brethren present in good standing not mem- fields which they respectively represent. This was that may come before the meeting. The Chair re- bers of the Conference, were invited to participate in a marked occasion in the Conference, which those questing to be excused from the appointment of this its deliberations. who were present felt that they could not afford to committee on account of his expressed views on one The subject of the missionary work being intro- have missed. All hearts were moved by their stirring of the questions to be considered, the motion was so duced, Eld. S. N. Haskell spoke of the work, follow- and impressive words. A report from the British amended as to substitute Eld. Haskell in place of the ing whose remarks an earnest petition from Australia, field and a petition from Australia are given in an- Chair as the one to appoint the committee, and that other column. signed by eighty-three names, was read, inviting a both Elds. Butler and Haskell be on that committee. visit from sister White, Bro. W. C. White, and S. N. It is expected there will be preaching each evening Adjourned to call of Chair. through the Conference. Eld. R. A. Underwood Haskell, and the permanent location of some.efficient GEO. I. BUTLER, Pres. spoke Thursday evening, Eld. B. L. Whitney Friday laborer among them. Eld. B. L. Whitney spoke U. SMITH, Sec. evening, and Eld. Haskell Sabbath forenoon. On some forty-five minutes, giving a very interesting (To be continued.) the latter occasion there were some two thousand survey of the work in Europe, what has been done, what remains to be done, the difficulties of the work, present. In the afternoon a general social meeting CUNNINGLY-DEVISED FABLES. was held, and Dr. Kellogg spoke in the evening. and what is specially needed now to carry forward the work. Eld. M. C. Wilcox spoke half an hour in No words of mockery can be uttered by latter-day We are able to present at the hour of going to press, regard to the work in England, showing its impor- scoffers, nor words of opposition by error-loving pro- a report of only four of the business meetings. From tance, the special difficulties it has to meet, and the fessors, nor sentiments of scorn or indifference by a these the reader will gather a further knowledge of extent and magnitude which the work must assume careless and ease-loving world, that the word of God the subjects that have already come before the meet- there in the near future. Following this, a commu- has not pointed out, and fortified the humble disci- ing. nication was read from Eld, S. H. Lane concerning ple against them. GENERAL CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS. the work in that field. Eld. A. B. Oyen spoke thirty- Scoffers refute themselves. How often are the Ad- five minutes in regard to, the work in the Scandina- ventist people told, in the bitterness of the opposi- TWENTY-FIFTY' ANNUAL SESSION. vian countries. Prosperity has attended it, and when tion which they have to meet, that they are the false THE General Conference of Seventh-day Advent- the office of publication in Christiana is better sup- prophets that should arise in the last days, as recorded ists met for its twenty-fifth annual session at the plied with publications, as it soon will be, the work in Matt. 24 :24. How is this ? Are we those false appointed time, Nov. 18, 1886, with the President, will become self-sustaining by means of canvassers. prophets ? Yes ! exclaims the enraged opponent. EM. Geo. I. Butler, in the chair. Prayer by Eld. The remarks of all these brethren were full of inter- But, friend, those false prophets were to arise just S. N. Haskell. est and encouragement. before the coming of Christ, and constitute a sign of

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that event ; and if we are the ones, then that sign is Sabbath simply to show what God's rest is, and from people of God where they shall enjoy peace and fulfilled, we are in the last days, and the coming of what point it is to date. The Sabbath is not here re- quietness and assurance forever. Christ is at the door I But hold ! that is the very doc- ferred to as a type of our future rest, neither as the From the contrast which Paul draws between the trine we are proclaiming, and hence we cannot be the rest promised to the fathers, nor as that given by two rests of Heb. 3 and 4, and between Moses and false prophets spoken of. Thus the skeptic refutes Joshua, nor as having been superseded by the " rest Christ, Joshua and Christ, the house of Israel and the himself and clears us. that remains." household of faith, we understand at once the relation Again, Peter informs us that " there shall come in But there is a promise left us of entering into his that exists between them : it is that of type and anti- the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, rest. What is it for us to enter into the rest of God, type. As Moses and Joshua were types of Christ, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming ?" and how is it to be accomplished, and when? The cases and the house of Israel a type of the household of Now it is evident that before this can take place, the of certain ones who fell in the former dispensation faith, so the rest of Canaan was a type of the glori- doctrine of the Lord's coming must be agitated. There are held up before us as warnings to us against cher- ous rest of the new earth, yet in store for the redeemed. must be a general move on that subject, and the at- ishing within us an evil heart of unbelief, and as a But if the rest that remains is yet future, it may be tention of the people be called to it, or there would spur to our faith. These persons came short of enter- asked how Paul can say in chap. 4 : 3, "For we which be no occasion for the scoffer to arise and propose ing into some rest promised in the past. What rest have believed do enter into rest ? " We reply that it his 'question, Where is the promise of his coming? was that ?—The rest of Canaan. When God foretold is very evident that the rest is yet future : for it is If,-then, we can find a time when the doctrine of the to Abraham the bondage of his seed in a strange promised only on condition that we hold fast to the Lord's coming is urged upon the people, and scoffers land, he also foretold to him that they should come end. Chap. 3 : 6, 14. It is set forth as an object to coming up all over the land, with the very question forth and possess the laud of Canaan. When Moses be sought after. " Let us labor, therefore, to enter in their mouths which Peter ascribes to them, what was raised up to lead 'Israel out of Egypt in accord- into that rest" (chap. 4 : 11), and let us fear lest finally must we conclude ?--Why, beyond controversy, that ance with this promise, God told him that His pres we come short of it. We have been accustomed to we have reached the very time spoken of by Peter. ence should go with him, and Ile would give him argue in reference to immortality, that the fact that And when did he say these things should happen ?— rest. Ex. 33 : 14. And when they drew near to the we are exhorted to seek for it shows that we do not "In the last days." Very well. These things are now promised land, and Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe now have it ; for God would never counsel us to seek transpiring before our eyes. The picture Peter has of Manasseh desired their portion on the east side of for that which we already possess. We may apply presented before us, is being fulfilled to the letter. Jordan, the Lord told them that they should pass the same reasoning to the promised rest of Heb. 4. We have therefore only to say to the scoffer as he over the river and assist their brethren till he should If, then, verse 3 is to be taken in the present tense, comes up,' that there is abundant promise of the Lord's give them rest also. Moses not being permitted to we must understand it the same as those texts which coming ; that Peter has pointed him out, and described enter the laud, the people were led in by Joshua- declare that we have eternal life ; and that we have his work as that which should take place in the last And when they had displaced the inhabitants, whom redemption through Christ's blood. John 6 : 54 ; days ; and that therefore he is himself furnishing un- on account of their loathsome- abominations the land Eph. 1 : 7 ; Col. 1 : 14 ; 1 John 5 : 13. The righteous answerable evidence in favor of the doctrine against was compelled to spue out, Joshua assured his peo- do not yet in reality possess these blessings ; but they which he scoffs. ple that in the possession of Canaan which they had have them by faith, which is the substance of things But again, Peter takes occasion to assure the disci- then acquired, the Lord had fulfilled all that he had hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen. And ples that they " have hot followed cunningly devised promised the fathers concerning the occupation of in no other sense can we be said in the present tense fables." In reference to what subject does he speak that land, and that he had given them rest round to enter into that rest. It is sure to us if we hold this ? Answer : "The power and coming of our about, according to all that he had sworn to this end. fast our belief, and are steadfast unto the end. But Lord Jesus Christ." What is the matter here' ? Why, some translations give this a future meaning. Wake- The laud of Canaan, then, was called a "rest." It we may be sure that this doctrine will be denounced field translates it, " For we believers are to go into was a rest promised to the seed of Abraham. It was as a fable ; and not being able to account for the that rest" Translating it in this manner, the idea the rest into which some could not enter on account Scripture harmony by which it is sustained, people cannot be mistaken. A more literal rendering of the of unbelief, and who consequently perished in the will endeavor to soothe their consciences with the Greek, would perhaps be, " We, having believed, en- wilderness. But was that the full rest contemplated thought that it is very "cunningly-devised," but still ter into the rest ; which carries the same idea ; in the promise ? God has promised his people that a fable. And how is it ? If popular theology be namely, that we are not to enter into the rest till the they shall enter into his rest. Joshua gave them all correct, we are certainly following a fable. We are time of our probation, or the period in which we are deluded. All our expectations of the coming of Christ, that was promised concerning the rest in Canaan. to exercise belief, is accomplished. Yet says Pahl in Heb. 4 : 8, " If Joshua [margin] had and all that we are doing in reference to that event, A query may arise on verse 10 : " For he that is en- given them rest," that is, the full rest embraced in are wholly based on fable. But how do they account tered into his rest, he also bath ceased from his own the promise made of God to the fathers, "then would for the wonderful harmony which our theory pre- works as God did from his." To whom does this re- he not afterward have spoken of another day." If sents ? Oh, how often we hear the expressions, Your fer ? —We think to the believer. And this language, the rest given by Joshua was not the complete rest doctrine is very curious ; it is well put together ; whether it was spoken for this object or not, does,, contained in the promise, it becomes at once certain What an ingenious theory you have ! etc., etc.; but most effectually cut off the idea that this rest is to be that there "remaineth a rest," which will meet the still they declare it a fable, and go to their farms, enjoyed in this present state. For so long as a person their merchandise, or their pleasure. Has not Peter provisions of the promise. What rest is this, and is engaged in "working out his salvation with fear anticipated this very thing May we not tell such when shall we enter upon it ? This rest, like the and trembling," so long as he is laboring to enter into persons that Peter has declared that they would de- rest of Canaan, is preceded by a day of trial. David this rest, so long he is not enjoying the rest for which nounce the doctrine of the Lord's coming as a fable, mentions it in the ninety-fifth psalm : "To-day if he is seeking. But this work and labor is to continue and then pass over the wonderful harmony of the ye will hear his voice." Paul says, " Again, he Ern- on our part till the end ; consequently till then we do doctrine, by regarding it as very cunningly-devised ? iteth a certain day, saying in David, To-day, after so not enter into that rest. But after our race is run, —Verily so. long a time ; as it is said, To-clay if ye will hear his and our warfare accomplished, then, just as God But, brethren, the assurance of Peter is ours : We .voice, harden not your hearts." And this is the other rested from his creative work. and was refreshed, and day or period that was " spoken of " or allotted, be- have not followed cunningly-devised fables, in mak- took delight in the result of his labor, so the believer ing known the power and coming of our Lord Jesus cause the rest given by Joshua was not the full rest rests from all the labors of his probationary pilgrim- contemplated by the promise. Christ. Peter saw upon the mount a miniature rep- age, and enters upon the full fruition of his hope. resentation of the future glorious coming of our Lord The period that is meant by this language we learn The thoughts here offered may be summed up as in the clouds of heaven. We shall soon behold the from Heb. 3 : 14, 15 : "For we are made partakers follows : 1. The rest which we are promised, was, reality. And then our course will be vindicated, of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence like the kingdom, prepared for us at the foundation and our hopes fulfilled before an unbelieving and steadfast unto the end ; while it is said, To day if ye of the world. 2. Man by sin was thrown out of it scoffing world. will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the for six thousand years. 3. A type of it was given to provocation." The provocation was the forty years us in the possession of Canaan by the Jews. 4. We THE REST THAT RRIKAINETH, HEB. 4. of temptation in the wilderness, while Israel was occupy the same relation to the future heavenly rest journeying to the promised land, during which time that Israel coming out of Egypt did to the rest of Ca- "LET us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us Moses was faithful in all his house. The time covered naan. 5. As those who fell in the wilderness came of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to by the expression, " To-day if ye will hear his voice," short of that rest through unbelief, so there is dan- come short of it." Verse 1. Whose rest is here re- is the time during whiCla Christ occupies the place of ger of our coming short of the future rest through the ferred to, by the expression " his rest" ? To deter- "a son over his own house, whose house are we." same means. 6. This rest will be given to us at the mine this, we must go back to chapter 3, where the Verse 6. In other words, it is the present, or what close of this dispensation ; for Paul says in 2 Thess. subject is introduced. There God speaks of the apos- is commonly called the gospel, dispensation. 1 : 7, "And to you who are troubled [God shall recom- tasy of Israel in the wilderness, and says, " Wherefore Then what is the rest that remains for the people pense, or grant,] rest with us, when the Lord Jesus I was grieved with that generation. . . . So I of God, and for which this dispensation is prepara- shall be' revealed from heaven with his mighty an- swear in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest." tory ? If Canaan was not the rest contemplated in gels." Verses 10, 11. The rest, then, is God's rest. Now, the promise, what is ? Rom. 4 : 13 tells us, " For the Let us labor, therefore, to enter into that rest ; and what is God's rest, and from what point does it date ? promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was let us fear, lest, a promise being left us, any of us -An answer to these questions will explain the allu- not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but should come short. sions to the work of creation and the seventh-day Sab- through the righteousness of faith." Then the prom- bath in chap. 4 : 3, 4 : "The works [God's works in ise to Abraham was not only that his seed should tem- FEAR NOT, LITTLE FLOCK. creation] were finished from the foundation of the porarily possess the land of Canaan, but that he and world. For he spake in a certain place of the seventh the nations that should be blessed in him should ulti- "FEAR not, little flock," says Christ to his follow- day [Syr., Sabbath] on this wise, And God did rest the mately possess the whole world ; not, of course, in ers ; "it is your Father's good pleasure to give you seventh day from all his works." God's rest is thus its present state, but when it shall have been renewed the kingdom." Precious as this promise has been to defined to be his rest after his creative work, on the and freed from the curse forever. We need no plainer the church in all ages of her history, it applies with first seventh day of time, and to date from that point. declaration that the promise looks over into the new peculiar force as we come down to the close of this And we understand that allusion is here made to the earth, and that that is the rest that remains to the dispensation. When the time draws near that the 730 THE REVIEW AND HERALD. t°[VoL. 63, No. 46.

saints are in reality to take the kingdom, when the tions, you may have the presence and help of the di- From the interest you have taken in our welfare in last great struggle is to ensue, when the powers of vine Master. We thank our Heavenly Father that he the past, we are sure you will consider our petition earth and hell are to combine to oppose the work of put it into your hearts to send men and means to this favorably, and do what you can to supply our needs. God, and to try to defeat his purposes concerning far-off land, that we who were in darkness might And notwithstanding the choice herein expressed, his people, then the assurance is doubly precious receive the light of truth for these last days. And, we shall regard your unanimous approval in the case, from the great Captain of our salvation, that it is being persuaded that you were divinely guided in whatever it may be, as that which will work for our our Father's good pleasure to give us the kingdom ; thus furnishing help to supply our needs, and also good, and the good of the cause at large in this field. that the fact that we shall take it, and possess it for- believing that God will be present in your assembly, May your decision in this, and in all other matters ever and ever, is unalterably sure. to guide in your councils, we pledge you our sympa- that may come under your consideration, be founded Another feature calculated to assure our hearts, is thies and prayers, and also our best efforts to carry in wisdom, and may their results show them to have the fact that we are addressed as a "little flock." As out any suggestions you may make relative to the been sanctioned in heaven. the line of distinction becomes more clearly drawn work in this field, which we have so recently learned [The foregoing petition contained the signatureg between the church and the world, as the forces of to love. of eighty-three names.] the enemy are being combined and consolidated, and And while we are truly thankful for the help al- ready afforded, we do not feel perfectly satisfied with people are more definitely taking their stand upon ENGLISH MISSION REPORT TO GENERAL one side or the other, the great disparity of numbers what we are at present able to accomplish. The sig- CONFERENCE. between the two classes becomes more apparent. nal blessing of God that has thus far attended the ef- The people of God are as "the shaking of an olive forts of our laborers, has caused the sound of present To the Delegates and Brethren and Sisters of the tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is truth to echo in various quarters of our land. This, General Conference, Greeting. done." But the Saviour, looking down through eight- in turn, has brought demands for help which, with Thinking that a brief statement of the work in the een centuries, and beholding a little handful of the our present scanty supply of laborers, we cannot pos- British mission may be interesting, I take this method last generation, waiting for the consolation of Israel, sibly furnish, and has caused much thought and deep of communicating to you. I shall not be as explicit and longing for the coming kingdom, sends forth to anxiety as to how the exigencies of the case may be in my statements as I should be if the mission were them the hope-inspiring proclamation : "Fear not, met. We therefore feel impelled to present our ne- not represented by delegate ; for Bro. Wilcox will in little flock." Do not be surprised or disheartened cessities before your body, asking you to take some all probability communicate many interesting facts that your numbers are so few. Deceive not your- steps by which our difficulties may be partially, at connected with the work here. selves with the thought that all the world will be con- least, relieved. During the past year the work has not increased as verted, or that the multitude will turn to the narrow Had we a school for the training of workers such rapidly as we have desired it should ; yet be assured way. Christ's flock has always been small, and will as exists in various parts of your country, we might, it has made real progress, and a large number know be smallest at the last. with the blessing of the Lord, increase our corps of of us and our work to-day who one year ago knew But the injunction, "Fear not," is unqualified and laborers from among ourselves. We sorely need an not of our existence as a people. As ministers, we unlimited. It is not confined merely to one genera- institution of learning in our midst ; indeed, such a have opened up new fields, and in every instance tion, or to two, or to any particular time, but reaches demand seems almost imperative. In the case of our some have become interested, and at almost every clear through to the end. Christ does not say, Fear children, the laws of this country compel us to send place one or more have embraced the truth. not, after such and such perils are passed ; or, after them to the State schools, unless it can be shown We have made a specialty of the canvassing work, you have escaped such and such dangers, then have upon examination that they are being satisfactorily and it has proved Oven more successful than we an- no fears ; or if the opposition does not rise too strong, taught in a denominational or a private school. A ticipated, demonstrating thoroughly that our pub- or the way becothe too strait, or the voyage too school in which the Bible shall be esteemed the Book lications can be sold in England—that the time is not rough, or the Cord delay too long, or Satan work of books, and where its principles may be assidu- far distant when the selling of books and papers will with too great power, or evil increase too rapidly in ously instilled ; also where our young men and become an important adjunct in our work here. the earth, then you need not fear. But the injunc- women, who long to work in the cause of the Master, Four missionaries have been at work on ships at tion is unqualified, Fear not at any time, under any may be trained in the various departments of the Hull, Liverpool, and London. Two have worked the circumstances. God has foreseen all the powers that work, would not only be a boon highly prized by us, entire year, one nine months, while the other has would confront the progress of his people, and all but, we believe, would be the means of inestimable worked but three. These brethren have visited 8,154 the dangers that would surround them ; and when good in this field. We do not expect such a school ships. To get a correct idea of the extent of the he tells us not to fear, we may be sure that there is would be large at first ; but could some married ship work, imagine all these ships placed one before no cause why our hearts should fail us. brother and his wife who have their whole hearts in the other, when, allowing each ship to be 200 feet Then let the dangers of the way thicken, let fam- the work and the capabilities for 'working up the long (a low estimate), the whole would form a line ine, persecution, and perils come, let the anger and matter, be sent to us, we believe that such an enter- over 300 miles long. These vessels have visited all perplexity of the nations increase, let the time of prise could be made self-sustaining in a compara- parts of the globe. They have carried papers to trouble, greater than has ever been since there was a tively short time. South Africa, India, Finland, South America, and nation, burst upon the world, let the plagues fall, let Our publishing work is also rapidly developing, the islands of the sea. As one result of this work, a the great day of wrath which is to sweep away an and will soon call for wise planning to provide for gentleman in Finland embraced the truth, through unthankful, unholy, and rebellious race, appear— its growing wants. Matters of grave importance in whose instrumentality and the reading matter which above all the din of strife and destruction, the clos- connection with that work will be constantly coining he obtained of our missionary, some twenty, we un- ing up of a dispensation, and the judgment of a up, and will need to be carefully deliberated upon by derstand, are keeping the Sabbath. Bro. Matteson doomed race, the child of God hears the clear accents those of ripe judgment in this branch of the cause. thinks of visiting this company. of the Saviour saying unto him, " Fear not Some one who has had successful experience in Through the office and our missionaries, books have One kind of fear only are we counseled to cherish building up such institutions in other parts of the been sold during the past year to the amount of $1,- —the fear, having a promise left us, of coming short ; world, is needed here to take the general oversight of 766.01. The most of them have been sold through the fear that we shall wander from the fold. if we the work, and to give counsel and encouragement to our agents,—the ship workers and canvassers. Sev- are of the flock of Christ, we shall bear the charac- the workers, eral lady canvassers have been at work in cities and teristics of that flock. They are a peculiar people ; It may not seem to be the most modest position for villages. During the past nine months, they have they are not of the world ; they are free from pride us to assume, to intimate our choice as to whom we disposed, by cash sales, of thousands of papers and and the spirit of the world ; they have their conver- wish to see occupy this place among us. We have pages of tracts and pamphlets. They have received sation in heaven whence they are looking for the read with delight the writings of sister White, and for the sale of papers and in subscriptions the sum Lord and Saviour ; they are laying up their treasures have also been told of the place her son, Bro. W. C. of $600. Those working on land have held over 400 above ; they are living in all respects like pilgrims White, occupies among you. Had we any hope that Bible readings with interested persons. In this work and strangers upon the earth. Do we bear with us they could be spared to visit this country, we would they make many friends, who are interested in the the marks of the flock of Christ ? Here let us care- rejoice above measure, and heartily welcome them to work of the minister who follows and preaches the fully examine ourselves, but banish all other fear ; our shores ; especially if such a visit could be pro- truth. During the year, two missionary institutes for God will faithfully perform all that on his part longed indefinitely. Such a privilege we fondly an- and one workers' meeting have been held for the he 'has spoken. He who "bears all nature up, will ticipate at no very distant day ; yet at this early stage workers. A deep interest was taken in these schools, guard his children well." of our work we hardly dare hope for their presence, and they have proved a blessing to the work. We "Shout, ye little flock and blest, knowing the pressing demands upon them from other expect soon to establish a mission. training-school, You near Jesus'•throne shall rest; needy parts of the wide field. that the work of educating workers for the cause There your seats are now prepared, But for the position we have mentioned, some one may be carried on more successfully in the future. There your kingdom and reward. Fear not, brethren, joyful stand is needed on whom we may depend to remain per- The British Isles are a vast missionary field. All On the borders of your land: manently with us. And there is one who has already told, they are not as large, as far as territory is con- Jesus Christ, your Father's Son, endeared himself to our hearts, by the earnest, self- cerned, as some American Conferences, yet there is Bids you undismayed go on." sacrificing spirit he has manifested in our midst. a population of nearly 35,000,000. There are one The confidence we feel in his capabilities and integ- hundred and twenty cities of over 20,000 inhabitants PETITION FROM AUSTRALIA TO THE GENERAL rity of character, assures us that he would be a suita- each, a hundred and twelve of which have never been CONFERENCE. ble person to fill the responsible position of coun- entered by any of our workers. Sixteen of these cit- selor in the work of God in Australia. We are well ies have over 100,000 inhabitants, ranging from 100,- Melbourne, Australia, ,Sept. 1, 1886. aware that the brethren of America will• all feel re- 000, to 700,000, while London, the world's great cen- To the Seventh-day Adventist General Conference, gret at the thought of parting with Bro. Haskell ter, has nearly 4,000,000 inhabitants. City missions assembled in Battle Creek, Michigan, U. S. A. but knowing that there are others in that country should be established in each one of these one hun- BELOVED BRETHREN : The brethren and sisters of eminently qualified to take up the burden he may lay dred and twenty cities. We pray that the Lord of the Seventh-day Adventist Church of Australia, down, and in view of our pressing necessities, we be- the harvest may raise up men and means that this whose names are hereinafter subscribed, send fra- lieve that our brethren there will make the sacrifice may be done in his own good time. ternal greeting, and pray that in all your delibera- in behalf of the young cause in this island continent. In our tent work we have used two tents, which Nov. 23, 18861 1' THE REVIEW AND HERALD. 731 have been fairly successful. The large tent was first the world. The time must come, and that soon, when and then all will be kept quiet and orderly. Breth- pitched in a city of some 15,000 inhabitants. The books and papers will be sent from here to all of ren, you who lead our Sabbath-schools, think of these work was first started there last winter by one of our England's colonial possessions, and they are so situ- things, and see if you are conducting them so as to canvassers. Through the labors of Eld. Durland and ated in all parts of the world that the sun always please God and benefit the children. our tent effort, a company of eleven have embraced shines on them. May the Lord, hasten the glad day D. M. CANRIGHT. the truth, and we expect in a few weeks to organize in which the truth may be carried to all these coun- a church. Several have embraced the truth where tries, is our prayer. the smaller tent was last pitched. Some have decided The meetings of the General Council were excellent. since the tent was taken down. The tent work there The Lord blessed the deliberations. The labors of has laid the foundation for a church. The excite- Bro. and Sr. White were highly appreciated, and have " Tell me the meaning, of Scripture. One gem from that ocean is ment attending the last general election (there have resulted in much good. The Lord has imparted much 2wrth all the pebbles of earthly streams."—M Cheyne. been two during the past year) retarded our tent work strength to his servant, so that she has been enabled very materially. But we think that the tent work is to do a great amount of good in the countries she has SCRIPTURE QUESTIONS, a success, and that it will constitute a means of intro- visited. The work has been much strengthened by ducing the truth to the attention of thousands. her labors. ANSWERS BY G. W. MORSE, In regard to numbers, the standing of the mission We pray the Lord to especially bless you all in 528.—NEVER-DYING WORM. is as follows : Number of churches, 3. Number of your deliberations. We shall be glad of a visit from Please explain Mark 9 :44, 46, 48 ; Isa. 66 : 24. B. F. M. church members, 81 ; number keeping the Sabbath Eld. Haskell and any others the Conference may de- See "Man's Nature and Destiny," pp. 124, 337, for who are not yet members of churches, 41 ; making a cide to send. sale at this Office ; price $1.50. total of 122 Sabbath-keepers. The tithe during the S. H. LANE, Chairman British Mission Board. 529.—"FALLEN TABERNACLE" AND "WASTE PLACES." Great Grimsby, Eng., Oct. 27. past year has amounted to $390.35. We have re- Are the "fallen down" tabernacle and "ruins thereof " of Acts 15: ceived toward the purchase of the tent, $162.18 ; in • 16 identical with " the old waste places" and the " breach" of Isa 58 12? J D. R. donations to the tract society, $51.09 ; making a to- ORDER AND DEVOTION IN THE SABBATH-SCHOOL. We think not exactly. Acts 15 : 16 is a quotation tal of $603.63. This amount has been raised by the THE object of the Sabbath-school is not merely to from Amos 9 : 11, 12, which is a prophecy of the rise friends in England. We have received on subscrip- teach a knowledge of .the facts and truths and doc- of God's remnant church, or "peculiar people." un- tions and sales of Present Truth $846.28, which has trines of the Bible. If this is all that is gained, it der the gospel dispensation. Isa. 58 :12 refers more materially aided us in our printing work. , particularly to the specific work of that church in re- may be a positive injury. Men can hold the truth of Quite a quantity of papers and books have been storing a knowledge of God's word, freed from the God in unrighteousness, as many do. While it is sent to South Africa. As the result of this, and mis- error and superstition with which it had for many very.bnportant to teach a knowledge of the word of centuries been covered. sionary labor done by other societies and individuals, God, it is more important to reach the heart, and to a number• are keeping the Sabbath. One minister 530.—S. D. ADVENTISTS AND THE PROHIBITION PARTY. teach reverence and devotion and the love of God. has become deeply interested, and has ordered sev- Is it advisable for S. D. Adventists to unite with the Prohibition This part of the service must never be left out of the party, and work with them? Is net this the beginning of the work eral dollars' worth of books sent to him. By a letter that is to bring about the Sunday law, and enforce its observance Sabbath-school. I am impressed with the thought upon the nation ? M. F. M. just received from him (a copy of which we inclose that we do not give as much prominence to this part No. 5, current volume of the REVIEW, contains an to Bro. Butler) we learn that he is translating some of the Sabbath-school exercises as we should. The article from Eld. Butler on the subject of the fore- of our works into the Dutch language. We are glad lesson is made the one all-absorbing topic. The song, going questions, that answers them fully as they can feels it duty to furnish be answered at this time. that the General Conference the prayer, the devotional part of the school is hur- a laborer for that field. We shall do what we can to ried through with and dropped out of sight. This is 531.—OOLOSSIANS 2 :16, 17. Please explain Col. 2 : 16, 17. G. A. w. encourage the friends in Africa by correspondence not as it should be, nor as it must be. and sending them reading matter. If we are to get the greatest good from the Sabbath- For a more complete explanation of the above texts than it is possible to give in this connection, see the We have felt for several months that the location school work, it should be impressed on all, old and of our publishing work should be changed, our quar- pamphlet entitled " The Two Laws," for sale at this young, that the worship of God is an important part Office ; price 15 cts. ters here being already too small. The minds of all of the exercises. The superintendent should see to it seem to be directed toward London as the best place 532.—CHRIST THE FIRST-FRUITS. that the school is taught as thoroughly in this as in What is meant by the expression "first-fruits," in 1 Cur. 15:20, 23? for the future establishment of our work. The time the lesson itself. To do this it will require thought, L. A. will soon come when to properly prosecute the work and study, and planning, and tact on his part. He Christ was the first to be resurrected, nevermore to here it will be necessary to have a publishing house die, as a public demonstration of the resurrection, must have his songs properly selected, and that be- and thus became the earnest, or pledge, that all who of our own. The subject was discussed to some ex- forehand. It should be impressed on every mind tent in the General Council held here ; but in view sleep in him will have a similar resurrection. As in that singing is just as much a part of the worship of the raising of grain, the first to ripen becomes a of the straightened condition of our general finances, God as praying ; and further, it should be urged upon pledge of the entire harvest, so Christ became the it was decided not to make any move in urging mat- all that singing and praying and the reading of the pledge of redemption of the righteous dead from the ters in that direction until financial affairs are in a record, are all just as much a part of the Sabbath- grave. better condition. Surely the time will come when school, and just as important, as the lesson itself. 533.—VISITS OF MARY MAGDALENE TO CHRIST'S the work here will demand a publishing house. All should be there on time to take part in, every one SEPULCHER. Please explain the apparent discrepancy between Matt. 28 :1 and There are many evidences pointing to the ultimate of the exercises. Mark 16:1, 2, in regard to the time when Mary went to the sepulcher, success of the cause in this great kingdom. I might Often the Sabbath-school proves a great injury to E. J. R. fill several pages in regard to incidents of an interest- the children, because they are allowed to so be disor- On this subject we cannot do better than to give the conclusions reached by Dr. Olshausen, after a ing nature which have occurred showing that the derly, so noisy, so undevotional, and so irreverent. truth is gaining a foot-hold in this country. Many somewhat extended discussion of the several accounts They are permitted to run about the house, play, talk, given by the evangelists. He says :— of these things are seemingly of no great importance, and laugh, and have a regular frolic before school "Early in the morning Mary betakes herself to the but they all proclaim with an unmistakable voice that opens. They are even allowed to whisper or run sepulcher in company with the other women. But, the truth is affecting hearts. One such incident has about the house during singing, choosing their places hastening in advance of her female companions, to occurred since I commenced to write this letter, which her astonishment she finds the sepulcher empty. Im- in a noisy, boisterous manner. Thus the school is mediately Mary runs in haste to Peter and John. In is so fresh in mind. that you will pardon me if I relate kept in constant commotion and disorder from be- it. A gentleman rapped at the door, and when ad- the meanwhile, the other women arrive, see the an- ginning to end. The teacher talks loud, the superin- gels, and receive their commands and tidings. After mitted took an old, much-worn copy of Present Truth tendent talks loud, the scholars talk loud, and every- they have gone away, Mary arrives with the two disci- from his pocket (it had been torn in two before he thing is opposite to what it should be in the house of ples, who, having. seen the empty sepulcher, return received it), and as he produced the remnants, he the Lord. The Lord says : "Keep thy foot when home. Mary still remains by the tomb, weeping. And now the angels appear to her also, and next the asked if we were still printing the same paper. When thou goest to the house of God." Bed. 5 : 1. This answered in the affirmative, he said he would like to Lord himself. After this appearance of the Lord, thought should be in our own minds, and ever be im- which was witnessed by Mary alone, the Saviour purchase the back numbers for the year. After pay- pressed upon the school, that the moment we come again revealed himself to the women, who were re- ing for them he said he had seen advertised in his old into the church, we come especially into the presence turning from the sepulcher. With this interpretation copy a book which he would like. It was "Truth of the great God. all discrepancies vanish." Found." Ile purchased it, and as we were wrapping It is a sad misfortune fora child to be allowed, 534.—ALL ISRAEL TO BE SAVED. it up for him we asked him how the remnant of the Sabbath after Sabbath, to be rough and coarse, and Please explain the meaning of Rom. 11 :25, last clause, and the fol• paper came into his possession. He replied that it noisy and boisterous in the church. It is a terrible lowing verse. F. L. A. reached his house wrapped around some goods, and The last clause of Rom. 11 : 25 reads thus : "Blind- loss to him spiritually. He will carry that impres- ness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness chancing to glance at it, he had become deeply in- sion with him all through his life ; and many a poor terested in it. He is a Baptist. He left orders to have of the Gentiles be come in." By the blindness that child will be ruined by disorderly, irreverent habits happened to Israel in part, is meant the failure on the each issue of the paper delivered at his residence. which he was allowed to form in early childhood in part of most of the Jews to accept Christ. The apos- He also took " Who Changed the Sabbath," as he the church of the living God. Hence we say that su- tle says this blindness, or rejection of Christ, shall said he had often wondered how the Sabbath came perintendents, teachers, parents, and all older ones continue until the "fullness of the Gentiles be come in ;" that is, until the gospel has performed its com- to be changed. As I have before stated, many such should set the example by being very quiet in the incidents are constantly occurring, which, like straws plete work in the world, and that will bring us to the church. close of probation and the second coming of Christ. on the stream, indicate which way the water flows ; We are more disorderly and irreverent in our serv- The first clause of verse 26 says : "And so all Israel and as sure as water will find its level, so sure will ice in the house of God-than other people, and it is shall be saved." When Christ comes the second time, the truth gain the victory in these old countries. time we should reform. The proper way to stop this he will bring salvation to all his children, whether alive or sleeping in their graves ; whether of those The truth gains ground slowly in this country ; but in the Sabbath-school, and the proper way to begin in the end, if we are right in our opinion, the Eng- who belonged to the original Israel, or of those who the Sabbath-school, is to have officers and teachers have been grafted in from the Gentile world. The lish mission is destined to be one of the most impor- there twenty or thirty minutes before school time. concluding portion of the verse is a quotation from tant in our work, and I think I do not speak unad- Let them be in their places, and gather the children Isa. 59 :20, 21, the same being a prophecy of the final visedly when I say, perhaps the leading mission in around them in their classes as fast as they come in, deliverance of the true Israel. 732 THE REVIEW AND HERALD. "[VOL. 63, No. 46.

including hymn books. Obtained two subscribers for menced to keep the Sabbath at this meeting. The the REVIEW. Donations amounted to $12.24. We Edinboro church held their quarterly meeting the ro#mis of the anst. trust some fruit of this effort will be seen in the king- second Sabbath in October. Three received the right dom of God. R. F. BARTON. hand of fellowship at this meeting, and two joined Nor. 15. GEO. W. PAGE. the tract society. In this vicinity there are ten keep- " He that goeth forth and vreepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubt less come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him."-Ps.12613. ing the Sabbath who are not now prepared to join, Cumiu'ru.—The good work here still goes forward. but we trust they will in the near future. All are of KINDLE THE BEACON ! A few more have embraced the truth, and several good courage. others are deeply interested. We have decided that The Bear Lake church held their quarterly meeting .:;EE where the hosts are marching, the interests of the cause demand that we proceed at the third Sabbath in October. One joined the church.' Of life and hope the foes, once to erect a meeting-house. Accordingly a good This church has more than doubled its membership Their standard, Satan's banner, lot has been secured, and something over $200 have in three years ; besides they have suffered the loss of Their track,' a waste of woes. been pledged. We have full confidence that a church two by death, and two have been dismissed by letter. will be established here, and it seems almost indis- The fruits of the Spirit are readily seen in all these In darkness they are corning; churches ; and though young, yet they are active and Secret the paths they,take; pensable that a place be provided for meetings. The majority of those who have embraced the truth so growing. May the blessing of God continue to rest By guile they would surround us, upon them, is my prayer. As the result of our Bloom- Our souls their captives make. far are sisters. Two leading contractors who are in- terested in the truth, but have not yet embraced it, ing Valley effort, we leave fourteen keeping the Sab- Let prayerfulness he lighted agree to see that all the work is done without cost, bath ; two previously kept it. A great interest is With influence from on high, and that it is done at once, provided we will build awakened far and wide, and many calls are made for And faith send out its luster now. Yet with all of this help, we find it necessary us to visit various places. I leave Bro. 3'. L. Baker Against doubt's darkened sky. to ask our brethren who can help us a little, to do so. to follow up the work here. Our donations and profits on book sales meet all our expenses. Quick! light up every beacon, I shall be much disappointed if I do not receive con- Each virtue radiant be, tributions from a number with whom I have labored Oct. 25. J. G. SAUNDERS. It is for our salvation, in the past, some of whom I have helped personally Our spirits' liberty. to build houses of worship. SMITH SHARP. ILLINOIS. Nov. 11. Quick! kindle every beacon, AMONG THE CHURCHES.—After returning from the I have looked the ground over, and feel to fully in- And flash the alarm-fire bright; Missouri camp-meeting, I labored in Chicago and with One sluggish, faithless purpose dorse the above call, and ask all who can respond, to do so immediately, by sending by money order or the churches in the northern part of the State. At May lose the sacred fight I Chicago tract societies have been organized on the —J M. Ludlow, D. D. draft to Eld. Smith Sharp, Chanute, Neosho Co., Kan. Pres. Ken,. Conf. south side, north side, and at Pullman, with an aggre- J. H. Coon, gate of about forty members. Five from" Pullman MINNESOTA. were baptized and added to the church at Chicago, INDIANA, making its present membership sixty-five. Oct. 22-24 I spent at Belvidere. A new clerk was PINE ISLAND AND KAimAs.—Sabbath and Sunday, WABASH.--The work here still progresses. We Nov. 13, 14, T was at Pine Island. I found the little elected, and an elder was elected and ordained. Three have secured a hall for $40 a year, in which we have evenings of the following week I spent at Hunter. company there of good courage. We held five fneet- been holding meetings, which however have been in- Inge in an, preaching four times, and holding one The house was well filled each time with interested terrupted somewhat by other meetings held in the hearers. An aged lady and her daughter had recently children's meeting. Three signed the covenant, We same hall. There is a good prospect of soon organ- tried to set before them the importance of seeking espoused the cause of truth, and during the meetings, izing a church here. Twenty-three thoroughly ear- a son of the latter and his wife also took their stand. God and of getting in such a position before him that nest adults are keeping the Sabbath, and we know he could intrust them with more of his Spirit. The The two first mentioned were baptized the following of fifteen more who will probably do so soon. We Sunday at Roscoe. Here also an elder was elected and outside interest was good, and I think that a little now have a Sabbath-school of fifty-six members. Op- labor bestowed there would result in much good, and ordained. On Sunday the Congregational church position from the ministers continues, but only serves was opened to us, when I spoke twice, on temperance, that others would be constrained to keep the com- to call attention to the truth. The Bible readings mandments of God and the faith of Jesus. and prohibition and its relation to the Christian Sab- continue with great interest. A. W. BARTLETT. bath. Nov. 15 I came to my home at Kalmas. I expect 0. C. GODSMARK. to commence meetings the 19th, in a school-house At Rockford I spoke twice, and although the near here, as there seems to be an interest on the brethren could in truth plead a lack of this world's part of some to hear. My courage is good. TERHUNE.—Oct. 28 to Nov. 1, I was at Terhune goods, over forty dollars were pledged for a club of Nov. 16. C. M. CHAFFEE. with Bro. E. E. Marvin, who, when I arrived, had Signs and Sickles. been holding meetings there one week. Assisted by At Lena six meetings were held, and we were much Brn. N. W. Kauble and Wm. Gray, Bro. Marvin had encouraged to find all the brethren present, though OHIO. previously held a six weeks' tent meeting there, most of them lived ten or twelve miles distant. which closed in time for the workers' meeting at Bro. A. G. Hutchins, our State agent, was present, GREENSBURG.—The meetings at Greensburg began Wabash. This time our services were held in a bhall and made contracts with six persons who will en- Friday evening and closed Sunday. The weather provided for the purpose by a friend. Sunday, Oct. gage in the sale of our publications. I am now at was stormy, keeping some away ; but the meetings 31, nine were baptized. The subject of church or- Battle Creek, where I shall be till after General Con- were encouraging, and the resultS all that we had ganization being introduced, thirteen brethren and ference. R. M. KILGORE. hoped for as far as our own people were concerned. sisters gave their names for membership. Instruc- The elder of this church expects to spend the winter tions have been given upon the subjects of the spirit of NORTH CAROLINA. canvassing for "Thoughts" and the "Marvel of prophecy, tithing, and missionary work. Bro. Marvin Nations." The brethren here and at Bloomfield have is now bolding meetings three miles out from Terhune, VALLEY Cnucrs, LENOIR.—I was with the Valley been very liberal in their donations of fruit, butter, where.there was a call for preaching. Crucis church from Oct. 28 to Nov. 2. This was our etc., to the Cleveland mission. They have a church Was. COVERT. general meeting for North Carolina. There was quite building nearly ready for dedication, for the comple- a good attendance of our brethren, and an excellent tion and present indebtedness of which about $250 WALDRON, HOMER, AND ROCHESTER.—Since my interest on the part of those not of our faith. This were needed. This sum was promptly raised, and in last report 1 have labored at the above-named places. church is composed of the oldest Sabbath-keepers in a few weeks their church will be ready to be ded- Oct. 17 hundreds gathered on the banks of Cons the State, most of whom were brought out by reading icated, with no debt upon it. It has taken some ef- Creek near Waldron, to witness the burial in baptism our papers, books, and pamphlets, which were sent fort for these brethren to erect their house of worship ; of eight dear souls. As this solemn ordinance was to them by the Lancaster tract society. Spiritually I and we trust its privileges will be all the more prized. being administered, many realized its fitness as a regard them a good company ; financially, they are May this company so live that many may be added to likeness of that which it is designed to commemorate, poor, but are willing to do all they can to advance the their number. R. A. UNDERWOOD. —the burial and resurrection of our Lord. cause of present truth. Two of their number expect Oct. 29, 30, by request I held meetings four miles to labor in the cause. west of Waldron. The attendance was good, and the From Nov. 4 to 8 I was with the company at Lenoir, MISSOURI. very best of order was maintained. Sunday, Oct. 31, twenty in number. They were brought out this sum- mer while I was there with the tent. They have HARRISONVILLE.—The outside interest at our camp- I held services at Waldron in a hall owned by the Universalists. The friends here have an interesting met strong opposition from the professed Christians meeting was such that it was thought best to follow Sabbath-school, and will soon have their new church around them, and were shut out of every house for it with a series of meetings. So we pitched our 50- house up. I sold several dollars' worth of books, and meeting in the neighborhood ; but they went to foot tent in the town, and began meetings the even- received sixteen subscriptions for the REVIEW. Nov. work in earnest, and have built themselves a nice lit- ing of Oct. 8, and continued until Nov. 7. The in- 1-8 I met with friends at Homer. I found all of good tle meeting-house, which is all paid for. Here we had terest was good throughout, our congregations aver- courage and growing in grace. They will soon have excellent meetings. The Lord gave a straight testi- aging fully 200. Nineteen signed the covenant, all their new house of worship, 28x40 feet, ready for ded- mony for the people. Three were baptized. I would heads of families but two. Many others were almost ication. have organized a church at this time had it not been persuaded. Several subscriptions were taken for the Nov. 13, 14 I held meetings with the brethren and that several were moving away, and it seemed best to REVIEW, and thirty-five copies of the "Marvel of sisters four miles north of Rochester. This company wait until things were more settled. Nations" were sold by the canvassers. A Sabbath- was brought out under the labors of the writer some This closed my work here for the Conference year. school was partially organized, and a club of ten In- three years ago. Nearly all have labored faithfully, When I look back over my first year's work in the structors taken. Our company consisted of Srs. Ra- and as the result there isstill a good outside interest, South, it seems to amount to but little ; but I thank chel and Mary Hobbs, part of the time Brn. Wood- God that the work has not been an entire failure. ward, Kivett, and Banta, and myself and wife. Two and I believe many ere long will accept the truth. I closed the meetings Sunday night with a full house. About sixty have embraced the truth, twenty have of the company will remain for a time to complete I now expect to spend a short time at the Battle been baptized, $100 tithe have been paid where noth- the organization and give further instruction in the Creek College, which place will be my address for ing had been done in this direction before, and two Sabbath-school and meetings. The expenses of this the present. M. G. HUFFMAN. churches will be organized on my return from Gen- meeting were met by the citizens of Harrison- Nov. 16. eral Conference. I am not tired working for the peo- vine, with the exception of $3.34. A good measure ple in the South, knowing there are good souls here of the Spirit of the Lord was with us in the meetings. PENNSYLVANIA. that will embrace the truth when it is properly pre- To God be all the praise. R. S. DONNELL. sented to them. J. M. REES. AMONG THE CHURCHES.--Since my last report, I Nov. 1J. KANSAS., have held in all 91 meetings. Have given 75 dis- courses and 52 Bible readings, and made 180 family NEBRASKA. FORT SCOTT.—We closed our meetings here last -visits, besides attending three quarterly meetings. night ; have had a fair hearing and interest. Twenty The Waterford church held their quarterly meeting FREMONT, BLAIR, AND DUNBAR.—From Sept. 29 have signed the covenant, and there are a few others on time, at Mill Village. Five were added to the to Oct. 5 I held meetings with the church at Fremont, for whom we hope. Four were added to the church church, and two were baptized. I look for more ad- composed of Scandinavians and Americans ; hence I by baptism. We have sold about $40 worth of books ditions to this church in the near future. One com- held services in both languages. Most of the breth-

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ren have been in the truth ,for a number of years, days of faithful work there, and were pleased to see prominent place in the school. Its meetings are held and have had many privileges and much light. May a marked change take place for the better. Two weekly, and have been growing in interest since the ' God help them to so live that they may exert an in- united with the church, and two others commenced opening of the year. Never in the history of the • fluence for good, and thus gather with Christ. to keep the Sabbath. An elder was elected and or- society, has the prospect been so encouraging as at Oct. 8-11, I held meetings with the church near the dained. The church now has two elders and two the present time. The percentage of the whole num- city of Blair. The brethren here had just finished deacons. A new clerk was chosen, and a new record ber of students attending the College who are mem- their house of worship, and had adorned it with ap- book purchased, and we firmly believe the members hers of the society is much larger than it was at this propriate mottoes, flowers, and evergreens, prepara- will now go forward with new courage. Very few time last year. The present membership is 125, and tory to the dedication, which took place at this time. had been paying an honest tithe ; and we made an we expect our numbers will be greatly enlarged the The church building is small, but large enough to effort to impress on the officers their duty to be ex- coming term. accommodate all who worship there. The fact that amples to the flock in this respect as well as in other The members, as a rule, are very regular in attend- it was all paid for seemed to make the brethren feel duties. ance, and the zeal and earnesaness with which the . of good cheer. I also held meetings with the Scan- Could our people in the different churches see and work is entered upon show that a love for it exists in dinavians here, which were attended by some from realize the importance of maintaining a high moral the heart ; and this is the secret of success. To those the outside. This church has passed through some standard, so that the labor of the minister among who have no love for the spread of truth, it might ap- trials, but we hope they will see better times. The them might be put forth to reach the children and pear very dry and uninviting ; but to those whose following Sabbath and Sunday I spent with the breth- youth and the unconverted, how much better the re- hearts are in the work, and who have a longing de- ren living in the city of Blair, with whom I held suit would be than to occupy his time in settling sire to have the light brought before their fellow- some very good meetings. An effort was made to troubles and wrongs ! May the Lord help our people creatures, it cannot but be interesting. raise money to pay the indebtedness on their church. to adjust all their difficulties among themselves, that We are now sending out nearly 600 copies of our There are but a few brethren here, yet we hope the when a minister does visit them, they may be ready periodicals weekly, including REVIEWS, Signs, Sickles, time will come when others will unite with them. to take hold and help bring souls to the fold of Christ. and German, Danish, Swedish, and French papers. At the house of one of the brethren here I held one I. D. VAN HORN. These, with the blessing of God, we trust will bring service in Scandinavian, at which several from out- • the light of present truth before many who will fi- side were present, and seemed much interested. NEW LONDON, WIS., CAMP-MEETING. nally shine as stars in our crowns of rejoicing. Lit- Oct. 22 to Nov. 1, I labored with the church at tie can we judge as to the amount of good we accom- Dunbar. This church is composed mostly of Scandi- IN many respects this meeting was a success. The plish in sending out these silent messengers, which navians. These brethren accepted the truth about weather was all that could be desired, it being warm go into every part of the world. Many an individual two years since. I held services here nearly all the and pleasant throughout the entire meeting. The at- has been led to accept the light of truth by reading a time in their native tongue. Eight united with the tendance was not as"large as it ought to have been, single paper or tract ; and so we are content to labor church, six of whom were baptized, one being a those for whom the meeting was appointed, and who on, leaving the result of all our efforts in the hands • Swede 81 years of age.. Others have lately coin- were expected to be benefited, not being presen t. We of Him who says : " So shall my word be that goeth menced to keep the Sabbath, and still others seem are living in solemn times, when the power of Satan out of my mouth ; it shall not return unto me void, interested. May God help these brethren to continue is growing stronger ; and the benefits of such meet- • but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it faithful in laboring for others in meekness and love ; ings are much needed to strengthen and encourage shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." then God will bless their efforts. 0. A. JOHNSON. us. Those who were present, made it a special time Much time is spent in our meetings in devising the Nov. 10. ' of seeking God from the very beginning of the meet- best plans and methods of carrying on the work, - I' • ing. All seemed to realize this to be necessary in the proper way to fold and wrap papers, how to write MICHIGAN. order to obtain the desired blessing. missionary letters, the necessity of neatness 'and At each meeting there was an increase in attend- method in all our work, so that the truth of God be 0 V1D. —It is now a little more than ten years since ance, until on the Sabbath the congregation numbered not marred in our hands, The officers of the society Mrs. Burrill and the writer held a tent meeting in It was a good day for all. After list- At that time only a small company, two hundred. meet every week for consultation as to• the wants this village. ening to words calculated to awaken the sinner and and interests of the society. This we consider in dis- nearly all of whom were women, united in church backslider to a sense of their condition, a call was We ty ; but they have always held regular Sabbath pensable to the success of a prosperous society. capaci made for those to come forward who felt their need have been made glad by receiving some very encour- meetings and Sabbath-school, nor have they been be- of a Saviour, and those who felt that they had wan- in faithfully paying the tithe and doing mission- aging letters from those who were once of our num- dered away from God, and desired to return. About her, but who are now laboring in more extended fields. hindary work. Of late they are seeing fruits of their la- eighty responded, twenty-six for the first time. Quite a number have recently begun the ob- ' We appreciate all these remembrances, and would hors. Sunday there was a good attendance, several bun- be pleased to hear from others. A new term of school servance of the Sabbath, and among these are some dyed listening attentively to the word spoken. After men who will be of real worth to the cause. The will soon be here, and we expect many will come in the sermon a large company gathered on the bank of to enjoy the benefits of the College. Let all those ordinances were celebrated, and four were added to the river, where nineteen were buried with their Lord who anticipate corning, make up their minds before- As the church is the church ; others will soon join. in baptism, seven of whom united with the church at hand to become members of the College Missionary gathering financial strength, the members are talking New London. Society. We greatly desire the help of God in our about building a chapel. Services were held each day in the Danish and If some of our brethren in other places should hap- work. C. B. C. German languages. Meetings were also held daily in Nov. 15. pen to attend meeting here, they would observe that the interests of the Sabbath-school work, Bro. J. E., - , .. _ ....ggggggg_ --- some of these sisters drive eight or nine miles to at- White being present to assist. Book sales amounted tend Sabbath services,—a good example for those to $150, and $405 were raised for the depositoryfund. who think it so hard to go a less distance to meeting. The brethren departed to their homes feeling that the One from this company is at work in one of our mis- ur a} {"Qt. time had been profitably spent. We hope the good c sions, and now two more are ready to devote them- influence of the meeting will be felt by those who It has been refreshing to us to selves to this work. were not there, and that they will not miss another .;,i.Aiildistte -Gen.balm, 43: and n. a little .honey, spices and myrrh, nuts and Bro. Hutchins was spend a few days with them. A. J. BREED. with me, and rendered valuable assistance. such meeting. _Nov. 11. A. 0. BURRILL. • BOULDER, COL., S. S. CONVENTION. —A constant faith begets a constant peace.—.Mason. AMONG THE CHURCHES, —Sin ce camp-meeting I have — —We make too little of what we say of others, and visited and held meetings in Charlotte, Flint, and Ha- THE first S. S. convention of the Colorado S. S. a great deal too much of what they say of us. zelton. The quarterly meeting at Charlotte was held Assocatoni i was called to order at the time appointedt d by the president, JJ. D.D Pegg. The attendance was —It is too late to spare for the furtherance of God's Oct. 1-8. Five sermons were given, the ordinances cause when all is spent. were celebrated, and one good social meeting and not large at the commencement, owing, no doubt, to Seven candidates a severe snow-storm on the day previous. But as —Plenty of time is given us in life to do all that two business meetings were held. God intended we should do. were baptized, six of whom, being from Brookfield, the trains came in from different directions Friday joined that church ; one united with us here. Union morning, every indication was that we souh ld still —No books are so legible as the lives of men ; no prevails, and the tithing system is well carried out. have a fair attendanced ; an we were not di sap - characters are so plain as their moral conduct. Oct. 8-1.4, I was with the church in Flint. We pointed. One notable feature of this meeting was found those who made a start at our tent meeting the interest manifest from the beginning. -An essay —The best way to keep good nets in memory is to refresh them with new ones.—Cato. still interested, and some have become fully estab- on how to implant the missionary spirit in our Sab- the opening exercises, and fished. Seven discourses were given, the ordinances bath schools, was among —The generous never enjoy their possessions so were celebrated, and one social and two business was re readd f theofbenefit those who were nota t much as when others are made partakers of them. It was exceedingly gratifying to meetings were held. Three persons were baptized, the first meeting. see the willingness on the part of all to do everything —It is the business of anybody who can, to set five were added to the church, and one member was right what anybody has set wrong.—Paul Paha% disfellowshipped. Tithes are faithfully paid by some, assigned them. Every subject in the program met a but there is still room for improvement on the part response. The articles were every one of them —He that can feast upon another's misery, vexa- • of many. Some wrongs were adjusted, and on the good, practical, and to the point. The subjects were tion, or disappointment, has a most unhealthy soul. whole this quarterly meeting was a blessing to the all freely discussed with the best of feeling, and each seemed to enter heartily into the spirit pf the meeting. —Divine confidence can swim upon those seas cause in Flint. which feeble reason cannot fathom.— W. Seeker. Oct. 15, in company with Bro. G. H. Randall, I Sabbath forenoon, Bro. Pegg preached to us, after went to Hazelton. We found this church in a low which opportunity was given for short testimonies, —Let your words be accompanied by correspond- condition spiritually, because of trials, backsliding, which many embraced. The good Spirit of God ing deeds. Let profession and performance go to- and disorderly walk. As a beginning in the work of came in, and hearts were touchedbytsnuence.i i fl gether, rendering your life consistent, and your ex- reform, a committee of three was appointed whose There were quite a number of outsiders from the ample worthy of imitation. ' duty should be to inquire into every source of trial, town in attendance at different meetings, and every one present felt like saying, " It is good to be here." —Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and visit the backslidden with the view of helping them perverse craft the merest shallowness.—Barrow. to renew their interest in the truth, and investigate Sunday night was the last evening, but the interest concerning those who were walking disorderly. The had been maintainedtrougout. h h —To really hope for heaven hereafter is to live for committee did their work faithfully. Such subjects A resolution was passed that the essays on securing heaven here ; all else is self-deception, and deserves were chosen in the discourses given as would meet the attention of the young, and what our children failure. the wants of all, and elevate the standard of devotion, should read, be published. The secretary's report —O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this piety, and truth. We were obliged to remove one of showed _an increasing interest and healthy growth day ; if I forget thee, do not thou forget me f-=-Sir the elders of the church from office, and withdraw during the past quarter. The meeting was in every Jacob Ashley. way a success. C. P. HASKELL. , the hand of fellowship from seven members. Several —Live near to God, and so all things will appear who had ceased to bear a part in the meetings, and to you little in comparison with eternal realities.— given up family worship at their homes, made a new THE BATTLE CREEK COLLEGE VIGILANT P. M 31i; Cheyne. start, and seemed thoroughly aroused from their slum- MISSIONARY SOCIETY. bet. Many hearty confessions were made, feelings —The moment we feel angry in controversy we of hardness gave way, and the tender, melting spirit Tax College Missionary Society was reorganized have already ceased striving for the truth, and have of Jesus was manifested. We spent twenty-three at the beginning of the school year, and holds a begun striving for ourselves.

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of thyeeppublica 9,v.lands were esnotlyd,that the fa vaecrraegsea sales foran ad few millions _ Jet Obituarp ritir.t5 Iti13$ of tilto ..:. . that there are ab ut two hundred millions of acres of public • lands remaining in the possession of the nation. FOR WEEK ENDING NOV. 20. —The storm of the 17th and 18th was general through- "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth."—Rev out the central and northern portion of the United States, 14:1s. DOMESTIC. amounting to a "blizzard" in Minnesota and Dakota. Trains on many of the northern railroads were snowed in, —A fire at Louisville, Ky., Saturday night, destroyed na ex —Died at Haydenville,Oct 31, 1886,my father,Chester and some roads were abanddned entirely. Several vessels Sheldon,sDL aged" eighty-three years. The unera servies were held $275,000 worth of property. and about forty lives are reported lost -on lakes Michigan Nov. 2, conducted by Eld. Allen (Methodist), of Florence, who spoke- and Huron. words of comfort, and we laid him to rest to await the resurrection —A Chinaman was naturalized and registered as a voter , MOTH. L. H. THAYER. at Des Moines, Iowa, the other day. —When it is said that the edition of the November Cent- SKINNER.—Daisy, only daughter of James A. and Mary E. Skinner, _A two-pound nugget of virgin gold has been found in wry is 250,000 copies, we do not think that that means a died at their home in Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 21, 1886, aged 4 years and Transylvania county, North Carolina. weight of about 94 tons, or a bight, the magazines piled 6 days. The father, mother, and two brothers sadly miss the sun- one upon another, of 8,312 feet, or a length, end to end, of beam thus taken from their home; but they hope to inset her on the —It has been estimated that the United States Govern- morning of the resurrection nevermore to be parted. 39 miles, or an expanse of the sheets before folding of 307 A. J. CUDNEY. ment pays out $7,000 in pensions every hour. acres! Yet that is the truth in the case. It shows that there are physical as well as intellectual problems in issuing malOyligiaTlieudghotferc ex aemg.gtieonvir ina.Pdalmrea,w —Snow fell on Friday night tbre.ughout New York and Maler,seNoavg.eri.h1i8rtsy6! New England to the depth of fr,.m eight to twenty inches. a great magazine. four years. She was highly esteemed by those who associated with her in life. On her dying bed she exhorted her parents, brothers, and —According to Lieutenant-general Sheridan's annual —Manufacturing and building enterprise has received sisters to prepare to meet her in the kingdom of God. May God help report, the United States army consists of 2,102 officers and new stimulus in nearly every State in the Union. The the surviving members of the family to heed her advice, and prepare 23,946 men, greatest activity is in the New England and Middle States. eet where death. and the tomb can divide them no more. In harmony ifthromhe2rsdaynamugclretiqut elsit., I made some remarks on the day of Large mills are to be built at Fall River; one will cost —For the first time in years, no strikes are report, d from herInbuliyalw, J. B. GOODRICH. $500,000 and run 40,000 spindles. Textile mills are to be the Pittsburg district, and all industries are being operated erected In Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, New SIMPSON.—Died of consumption, at Knoxville, Iowa, July 8, 1886, to the fullest extent. Jersey, and at several places in the South. New machinery Henry M. Simpson, aged thirty-one years. Bro. Simpson was born in —The business portion of Durham, N. C., was partly Lexreas,4a;i3drorec..11 tlaieensAedny.enItnistAitteinwtehnatt tSotrri ae,ttluendcereer tkhea nIad- is going into over half of the manufacturing establishments • ; destroyed by fire Tuesday morning. The loss is $500,000, of these States, labored at the Sanitarium till the spring of 1885, when he moved to with insurance of $150,000. ..-- . Iowa. He has seen much of sadness and sorrow in this life ; but the Christian's hope sustained him. He bore his sufferings with the ut- . —A tornado Thursday in the Chambersburg and Leek FOREIGN. moat patience and resignation to the will of God, and died in bright Haven (Pa.) sections, leveled houses and barns, tore up __ hope of immortal life at the resurrection of the just. He leaves a trees by the roots, and imperiled the lives of many persons. faithful companion, who tenderly cared for him during his sickness. —The river Po has overflowed its banks at Rovigo, Italy, Funeral services by the writer. C. F . STEVEN.

-TheThe firefire which started in West Pratt street, Baltimore, e an immense area of land. —The use of glass flooring, giving light to the rooms in Trowbridgesonuli Volsetgeurn Co.,s Mi ch. , Nov. 4, 1886, at Wednesday night, destroyed almost an entire block occu- theF °rresidenceseTs7dLe—n eel hex Sophronia Foster, aged pied exclusively by wood-workers, causing a loss of $150,- beneath, is rapidly increasing in Paris, especially above 79 years, 9 months, and '12 days. She was born in Massachusetts,and 000. cellars. moved to Ohio, where at the age of eighteen she was married to Leonard Foster, who died in 1848, leaving her to care for seven chil- -In a loft at Kingston, N. Y , there was found the orig- —The authorities at London are taking great precautions dren, which she did with the faithful help of the oldest son, who also inal letter written by Benedict Arnold to the American fur the safety of life and property in view of the proposed cared for her in her old age. She moved her family toMichigan about thirty-threethi vears ago,-and soonsdozhafter laermgherancueltehreopir•elettt sruatnha people to vindicate himself for his attempted betrayal of socialistic demonstration to be held there on Sunday, the remaining faithful the country. 21st. sympathizing friends foil ,wed her to her grave, where she sleeps in Jesus. Funeral remarks by the writer. T. S. PARMELEE. —France has one lawyer to every 4,762 of the popula- —General Kaulbars and all the Russian consuls have left tion, Germany one to every 6,428, while the State of New Bulgaria, owing to the refusal of that country to comply _Ems li TENSDN.—Diedi n Alaiedon, Mich., Oct, 13, 1886, Lars Christian York, with its population of 5,000,000, has 11,000, or one with the demands of Russia. Christensen, aged 67 years, 11 months, and 12 days. The deceased to every 455. • was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and came to this country after —The Pall Moat Gazette makes the odd statement that having spent some years in traveling to various parts of the earth. —Ten men were indicted at Sioux City, Iowa, Thurs- Queen Victoria owns the finest set in existence of the auto- He embraced present truth nineteen years ago, and at the time of his day, for murder and conspiracy in taking the life of the graphs of the signers of the American Declaration of In- death he was a member of the Alaiedon church. For some months Four of the persons indicted have not he had been in rather poor health, but his death was caused by the Rev. Mr. Haddock. dependence. kick of a colt. He survived but two days after being injured. The been arrested. -There are 550 pounds of tobacco consumed in Belgium bereaved family were thus very unexpectedly deprived of the les- ence of a kind father. Funeral attended by the writer. Text, Num.p —The flour production at Minneapolis last week was for every 100 inhabitants. Holland, Germany, and Austria 23:10, last clause, F. D. STARR. 161,000 barrels, against 160,060 barrels the preceding come next, amid France stands seventh. Of all the Euro. CALVERT.—Died of rheumatism, Oct. 2, 1886, at his home in Village week. The receipts of wheat were the largest on record— pean countries England very nearly smokes least. Creek, Allamakee Co., Iowa, Jonathan Calvert, in the sixty-eighth 1,910,150 bushels. —The Emperor of China's new throne at Shanghai is to year of his age. In early life he gave his heart to God, and united e .rab,yhe..eresnafyteelawrsaia•dgohehebeecma its- —John T. Moncrief, of Greenfield, Ind., has just been have its foundation and pedestal made of gold bricks, and IIII-1,-,t1letl'ill -ia,CphtiusrtchChusrcelYie embracedTree Ida e allowed a pension of $72 per month, the back pension the sub-prefect of Soochow has sent to Pekin 3,000 pieces doctrine of the Seventh-day Adventists, and united with that church. amounting to $12,244.14. This is the largest pension ever of solid gold bricks, of the ordinary shape of clay bricks, His sufferings during his last sickness were great ; but he died in the blessed hope of having a part In the first resurrection at the coming granted by the United States. for this purpose. of the Life-giver. A companion, six children, and four brothers, —Anew use for the tobacco plant has been discovered. --Russian geographers report that numerous lakes in with a large circle of friends, mourn. their loss. Rev. Houghton, of Lansing, and Eld. Swedehurg of Village Creek, offi ciated at the Its stems and waste, it is claimed, are equal to linen rags Siberia, chiefly in the Tobolsk and Tomsk provinces, are funeral. Text: Ps. 37 ; 37, ' MRS. J. CALVERT. in the manufacture of paper. Tobacco waste costs less rapidly drying up and that villages now stand on spots than $10 a ton, linen rags $70 to $80. covered by extensive sheets of water 100 years ago. JORDAN.—Died of general debility, at his home in Lodi, Wis., Eld. N. M. Jordan, in the 56th year of his age. Bro. Jordan was converted —Mons. Bartholdi, just before starting for Europe, re- —Advices have been received at Plymouth, England, that at the age of eleven, and united with the Baptist Church in Rhode ceived a cablegram stating the dangerous illness of his the Chinese steamship Taiakarnan burned while running Island, where he lived till 1856, when he moved to Lodi, where he mother. She is now 80 yeas 8 old, and her face was the under pressure in a gale off Niiagata, and that ninety-six has since resided. In 1860 he heard and embraced the truth under the labors of Elds. J. N. Loughborough and T. M. Steward. In 1875 model for that of the now famous Statue of Liberty. persons who were on board perished, including the officers, be went out to labor in the cause of present truth, since which time —A stage containing nine persons was carried over a who were Englishmen. he has joined with the laborers in Wisconsin in declaring the solemn truths for these times. He peacefully fell asleep Oct. 21, 1886. He precipice fifteen miles east of Aspen, Col., by an avalanche, • leaves a sorrowing companion and five grown children to mourn, but Tuesday evening. A relief party dug out the unfortunate not without hope. RELIGIOUS, Many of the brethren and friends were at the passengers, four of whom are not expected to survive. funeral to sympathize with the sorrowing faniily. Words were -- spoken by the writer, from Ps. 17 :15. A. J. BREED. —Thousands of claims have been staked out in Indian —The Georgia Presbyterian Synod has found Dr. Wood- Territory, below Caldwell, Kan., where rich silver deposits row guilty of heresy for believing in the doctrine of ev- WILLIAMS.—Died in Lincoln, Neb., of lingering consumption, Eliza- A company of soldiers have been or- beth, wife of J. C. Williams, in the 65th year of her age. Sr. Williams are believed to exist. olution, had been agreat sufferer for many years. Thirteen years ago she dered to Caldwell to keep prospectors out of the Territory. .Lithl:n familyr .,e cameutto t i Sotant eh ferrom Wisconsin,ltere s ztfii,gitithereby a a° eT —It is said that Mormon missionaries have been making health while way —A cyclone wrecked the John L. Tompson Chemical many converts in the Monongahela River coal regions in dent by which she was badly crippled, and for'two years closely con- Works at West Troy, N. Y., Thursday morning, causing a Pennsylvania. fined to her room. From that time to the time of her death her loss of $40,000. Six men were burned by vitriol, and a strength slowly wasted, At an early age she was converted, and canal-boat captain was blown into the canal and drowned. —There seem to be signs of a great movement among united with the M. E. Church. While in Wisconsin she heard the the Hindoos, recently described by a missionary who had Aulgsersateersstaitestpinreaceohded, and with joy accepted it and kin- passenger train Iheirddtr g During the last few —A Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy been among them ten years, toward the formation of a weeks 'of her' life, her earnest and almost prayer was that dashed into a freight stuck in the snow at Hinton Station, national Hindoo church, her family might all be reunited in the earth made new. She leaves Iowa, Tuesday night. Several persons were injured, and a husband, son, and daughter to mourn their loss. A. J. CLIDNEY. the entire freight train is reported to have been destroyed —The Vatican is conferring with the French bishops rel- - by fire. alive to the best policy to be pursued by the Catholic Formm.—Died June 30, 1886, in Be Ruyter, N. Y., of consumption, clergy in France in the event of the Chamber's voting to Eld. Thomas Fisher, aged seventy years. Eld. Fisher was a native of —By the use of the exquisitely sensitive dry plates now Wnyiu mpton county, England. At the age of sixteen he was converted, abolish relations between France as a State and the Vatican uniting with the M. E. Church; and at twenty he was licensed to ex- made, which take a clear impression, in daylight in the as a religious power. hurt. In 1838, he married a widow with three daughters, and shortly fraction of a second, photographs of stars have been ob- after sailed from Barnstable, Eng., landing in New York after a per- —Six American citizens have been arrested in South tained which the most powerful telescopes have been un,7 ilous voyage of five weeks. In 1842 he was ordained to the gospel able to reveal. . Russia for preaching in an orthodox assembly of Russians. ministry, and in 1846 accepted a call from the Baptist church in Be Mr. Lothrop, the United States Minister at St. Petersburg, iRnuzyLerimbee,aincad Iliewiefoentvninet beaesntobranids shortly afafterfoteir fitheir corn- —The Erie Breaker, near Scranton, Pa., operated by the has been endeavoring to induce the authorities to release du-ring which time his attentionp was called to' the Bible `SealiTeal'Isi: Hillside Coal and Iron Company, was burned Tuesday, the prisoners, but so far has been unsuccessful. Always ready to follow the light of the Bible, he accepted the Sab- creating a loss of $100,000. - The buildings of the Piqua bath truth, and ever after conscientiously kept the Lord's true (Ohio) Manufacturing Company were also destroyed, the —The Romisb priests in Paris township, Michigan, took Sabbath. He became pastor of the Seventh-day Baptist church in loss reaching $25,000. a hand in the late election, and instructed their followers Be Ruyter in 1859, and served them in that capacity at different what ticket to vote. In order to know who dared disobey periods for several years, besides being pastor of churches at other —A- new method of manufacturing car wheels has been places. Several years since, he saw and embraced present truth, and orders, they furnished the voters wills yellow tickets. At taught and lived it till his death. He was a man of faith and prayer, tested at method of with satisfactory results. B y last accounts the Canvassing Board was deliberating over and in his ministerial work was untiring. When remonstrated with the old method three men could snake only 18 wheels per the question whether or not these tickets were legal. by his friends far so overtaxing his strength, he would reply that he day of 12 hours. By the new process the same number of had committed his way unto th is s who was able to keep him. He was always unassuming, courteous, and kind. The bereaved and men can turn out a perfect wheel every minute, or 720 per —The Montreal haekmen's union has issued the follow- afflicted found in him a sympathizer ; and all in trouble, a judicious day. ing circular: "It having been represented to us that it is adviser. wrong to work on Sunday for good and sufficient reasons, For several years he had been a prey to that most flattering and —Ex-President Chester A. Arthur died at his residence deceptive of diseases, consumption. Many times in answer to prayers in New York, Thursday morning, at 5 o'clock. Tuesday —first because God commanded man to keep the Sabbath of faith, he had been raised from the very brink of the grave. Last night he had been stricken with cerebral apoplexy, had day holy, and second because our horses ri quire rest from May he had an attack of lung fever, from the effects of which he had labor on the seventh day as much as we do ourselves, — not sufficient strength to recover. Although suffering much, he not regained consciousness, and passed away without a Peacefully and patiently waited his release. His life went out with- struggle, surrounded by his family and friends. The funeral therefore, we ' the hackmen of Montreal, believing that we Outa struggle, and he quietly entered into rest. Funeral services will take place Monday morning. should act in accordance with God's law, do hereby agree were held in the S. D. Baptist church, Eld. Poole and Eld. Clark (S. D. to abstain from labor on Sundays in the future, and request Baptist) officiating. May the God of the widow sustain the bereaved re ralltsiiifounliandmheornifte —The National Land Office reported that during the last hackmen not to bring out their carriages for hire on ieenbsleanns,coalinndsersacitf thee rpnztefrjends remember civil year, ended on June 30, over twenty millions of acres Sunday." L. IL B. P.

Nov. 23, 1886.r THE REVIEW AND HERALD. 735 MATTER Ali D SPIRIT; ppointntents. \ledical*Surpjcal Sanitarium OR, THE PROBLEM OF HUMAN THOUGTH. "And he said unto them, _Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature."-Mark 16 : 15, By D. M. CANRIGIIT.

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denominational literature in Dists. No. 11 and 12, impunity a statute declaring it illegal to do so. But a ght Kansas, correspond with the director of Dist. No. 11, man's religion cannot be accepted as a justification for com- 41 trim and wi eTaiil mitting an overt act made criminal by the law of the land. A. M. Morrell, Box 473, Fort Scott, Kan., stating If the law operates harshly, as laws sometimes do, the rem- what books they desire to work with ? Those who BATTLE CREEK, MICH. Nov. 23, 1886. edy is in the hands of the legislature. It is not in the prov- would canvass for " Sunshine" and " Women of Mor- ince of the judiciary to pass upon the wisdom and policy monism," we would like to hear from as soon as pos- of legislation; that is for the members of the legislative CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. department; and the only appeal from their determination • Bible, to obtain the benefit of the holiday trade. is to the constituency. [All articles, except in the departments of Choice Selections and E M KALLOCH. Toe Home, which contain no signature ,.r other credit, will be under- The assertion that all days are kept by different stood as coming from the Editor. All signatures to articles written classes, and therefore the State could not fix upon for the REVIEW, will be printed in SMALL CAPITALS ; to selections, in Italics.] ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT DECISION. any day as a holiday without taking somebody's Sab- Poetry. OUR readers will be interested to read the decision bath, is not true. Only three days are regarded as SANTEE 721 Earth and Eden, Aurs M. of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, in the case of Bro. sacred days. These are the Sabbath of the Lord, and The Holy Land, Town A. Dues ' 22 The Peace'ul Life, Marianne &Immingham 725 Scoles, a copy of which he has kindly furnished us :— the two thieves between which it is crucified—the Send Me, MRS. D. E. WALKER... ...... 727 'Friday of Mohammed, and the Sunday of the pope. Kindle the Beacon, J. M. Ludlow, D. P. 732 Decision of the Supreme Court, J. W. Scoles vs. State — Sernion. appealed from Washington county. The specious plea that the Sunday law interferes Good and Evil Come Back, 7'. De if Talmage 721 The indictment charges that the defendant "on the 3rd with no man's religion, is unworthy any candid mind. this. Contributors. day of May, 1885;the said day being Sunday, unlawfully And the doctrine that the law of the land can make was found laboring and performing other services, the same The Value of Prayer, ELD R. A. UNDERWOOD 722 acts criminal which are permitted by the law of God, The Rock—Christ Jesus, L. O. MOORE 723 not then and there being customary household duty of daily A Consistent Publisher, G. W. Moan 723 necessity, comfort, or charity." is monstrous. That Eighth Chapter of Romans, S F. PEARSON ... .. 724 The particular act that constitutes the alleged offense is --....--.--.... Self-condemned, ELD. F. PEABODY 724 Keeping the Sabbath, J. D. BUTCHER 724 not set out, and appellant urges that the indictment is not ENTANGLETIt HIMSELF. Home. sufficient. Held: The language of the statute which creates the Help the Children Keep the Sabbath, ANNA L. CUNNINGHAM 725 Tim exhortation of Paul to Timothy, his "own One Way to be Happy, Christian Union 725 offense is employed in the indictment, and nothing more is Lend a Helphig Hand, Church and Home 725 required in a statutory misdemeanor, where the general son in the faith," was,' " Thou therefore, my son, be Special Mention. language of the statute is sufficient to apprise the defend- strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus." 2 Tim. The Origin of Sunday, r:. H Lewis, D. D 725 ant of the nature of the accusation against him. We can- 2 : 1. Here is the great source of never-failing not say that the indictment is insufficient under this rule, `thse react Soeleties. but think that the defendant would be enabled to prepare strength, of sure support. But Timothy had a part Ohio Tract Society, L. T. HYSERT, Sec 727 Nebraska Tract Society. S. E. WHITEIS, Sec 727 his defense and plead the judgment in bar of a second pros- 'to act in securing and retaining this strength. He Our Relation to God's Work, Hattie B. Harris. ...... 727 ecutfon for the same offense. must publish to others the glorious truths which he Bible Readings. • The proof shows that defendant was found painting a had received, commit them to "faithful men," who The Holy Spirit, HELEN L. MORSE 727 church on a Sunday. He offered to prove that he was a member of a religious society known as the Seventh-day should "be able to teach others also." Editorial. Again, he must " endure hardness, as a good sol- The Conference 728 Adventists, one of the tenets of which is the observance of General Conference Proceedings 728 Saturday as the Sabbath instead of Sunday, and that he had dier of Jesus Christ." It has been said that among Cunningly-devised Fables 728 regularly refrained from all secular work and labor on Sat- the characteristics of a good soldier in the military. Fear Nut, Little Flock • • 729 urday, agreeably to his religious faith and that of his church. The Rest that Remain eth. Heb. 4 729 ranks, there must be found obedience, submission, dis- Petition from Australia to the General Conference...... 730 But the court rejected this testimony, and the defendant Engli h Mission Report to General Conference, S. H. LANE, was convicted and has appealed. cipline, and courage." And by the soldier of Christ, Chairman British Mission Board .. ...... 720 The offense was committed after the repeal of section Order and Devotion in the Sabbath-school, D. Al. CANRIOTIT, 731 also, these attributes must be possessed. 1886 of Mansfield's Digest by the legislature of 1885. The Continuing his instruction, the apostle says : " No The COMM.C7atarl• appellant contends, however, that the effort to repeal section Soripture Questi ns: Answers by 0. W. Moils& ... ,... 731 1886 was ineffectual; and if it was not, the law without the man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs Progress of the COUllse exception made by that section, gives a preference to other of this life ; that he may please him who bath chosen Reports from Minnesota-011M—Missouri—Kansas—holiana religi .us denominations over that of the appellant, thereby him to be a soldier." Many a man who has been —Pennsylvania —111i n ois —North Carolina—Nebraska violating section 24, art. 2 of the Constitution; and more- called to preach the gospel, many, before whom the —Michigan 732,783 over, denies to him the equal protection of the law within New London, Wis Camp-meeting, A J Benno . 733 whitening harvest field has opened invitingly, solicit- s. S. Convention at Boulder, Colorado, C. P. HASKELL ...... 738 the meaning of the Federal Constitution. Battle Creek College Vigilant Missionary Society, C. B. C... 733 Held : The argument against the repeal of section 1886 ing their time, talent, and influence, have allowed News . 734 is based upon the idea that if the law is read without that themselves to become entangled in some of Satan's Obituaries 734 provision the penalty of the statute is "extended" to the nets, and their usefulness to the cause was lost, lost appellant without a re-enactment of the law, thereby vio- Appotettmenta 735 lating section 23, art. 5, Constitution. But it will be ob- forever. Could all who have the opportunity of pre Publishers' Department . 735 served that that provision of the Constitution does not in paring for positions of usefulness in spreading a Traveler's Guide.... 735 terms prohibit the repeal of a law by reference to its titles, knowledge of the Third Angel's Message, become - Editorial Notes .... 736 and the prohibition can be extended by implication only. thoroughly enlisted in the work of preparation for The power of the legislature is not to be cut off by infer- ence, save where the inference is too strong to be resisted. the fields of duty, and in publishing the glorious Our readers will be pleased to see a few leaves We look to the Constitution, not to see whether power is news of the speedy coming of Christ and proclaim- gathered from the Conference tree of 1886, in this is- granted, but to ascertain if it is withheld, and when there ing the light shining upon the perpetuity and im- sue. The petition from Australia shows how deep a is a doubt as to the existence of a power it must be resolved mutability of the law of God, how speedily might in favor of the legislative action. our work conclude ! feeling has taken hold of hearts there in behalf of the It is well settled that this provision does not make it cause of truth. The report from the British mission necessary, when a new statute is passed, that all prior laws With respect to this work, we need more of the is also encouraging. modified, affected, or repealed by implication by it should spirit of the military chieftain credited with these be re-enacted. This would be an absurd and impracticable words : "I come here to perform my duty, and I construction. If the legislature had undertaken to amend neither do nor can enjoy satisfaction in any thing .t:tkir Our ministers are becoming more and more the section, the provision under consideration would have settled in the conviction that the great crisis of this required the section as amended to be set forth in extenso, except the performance of my duty to my own country." work is just upon us, and that the times call for de- and the old section upon the passage of the new one would have been repealed, if not expressly then by implication. Who will find strength in God to do duty, to stand votion, watchfulness, -prayer, separation from the In that event there would have been no necessity for re- for the right, to free himself from and escape en- world, and entire consecration to God as never be- enacting the other parts of the chapter, in which the section tanglement, and finally stand in the Judgment of fore. Who will be found among the wise instead of is found. When there is an express repeal of a section without a substitute for an amendment to it, what greater the great day ? Our dear brethren may be in bonds the foolish servants, when the Master comes ? necessity for re-enacting the other sections that are affected and prisons for the truth's sake, but " the word of - only incidentally by the repeal? The section has been re- God is not bound." Se' The following from the Sunday Mercury, New pealed, and the chapter is intact without It. , The constitutionality of our Sunday laws is not affected Hear the apostle again: "Therefore I endure all York,-shows that stirring news may soon be expected •by the,repeal of section 1886. (For the reason commonly things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain from the East :— given for sustaining these acts; see Commonwealth, vs. the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal "LONDON, Oct. 30. —Advices from Braila, Rouma- Has, 122 Mass. 4.) It is said that every day in the week glory. It is a faithful saying : For if we be dead nia, say that feverish preparations for war are being is observed by some one of the religious sects of the world as a day of rest; and if the power is denied to fix by law with him, we shall also live with him : if we suffer, made in Southern Russia. A number of ironclads are we shall also reign with him : if we deny him, he expected at Sebastapol, several transports are riding Sunday as such a day, the same reason would prevent the at anchor in the harbor of Odessa, and torpedo boats selection of any day; but the power of the legislature to also will deny us.' A. S. HUTCHINS. are leaving Sebastopol for Varna. select a day as a holiday is everywhere conceded. The , "The resumption of diplomatic relations between State from the beginning has appropriated Sunday as such. On that day the ebusiness of our courts and public offices France and Russia is hailed by the French press with has always been suspended; theissuance and service of a unanimous outburst of satisfation." legal process prohibited; presentment and notice of dis- S AI\ 1\ I GEN S I-- AWOL , honor of commercial paper not allowed; and the perform- A 16-page Swedish Religious Semi-Monthly,—Published at THE MINISTER'S SCRAPBOOK. ance of an act in execution of a contract which matures on Battle Creek, Mich., and Christiana, Norway. ---- Sunday postponed to the next day. This observance of THE REVIEW Office has just issued the second edi- Sunday as a day of refrainment from secular business has SANNINGENS HAROLD is devoted to the proclationdoLgee l Coming oainCdh.-;ilset,dtehfeenesxepolrtitionf Prophecy a tion of the Minister's Scrap-book. It is put up in a always been required of the people generally without refer- doctrines on in e ne ral commandments of God and ence to creed, and they continue to observe it, without corn- the faith of Jesus. ' strong, durable manner, is 8x10i inches in size, and plaint that as a municipal institution it violates any of their contains 100 pages. It is just what every minister ITS FAMILY DEPARTMENT constitutional or religious rights. The principle which up- Is filled with instructive reading, accompanied by beautiful illustra- needs. Price $1. Delegates to Conference are in- holds these regulations underlies the right of the State to tions, and also contains graphic news items of the most important vited to examine it. . D. M. CANRIGHT. prescribe a penalty for the violation of the Sunday law. events transpiring from time to time. The law which imposes the penalty operates upon all alike, and interferes with no man's religious belief; for in limit- TERMS, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. TO KANSAS CANVASSERS. ing the prohibition to secular pursuits, it leaves religious To American and European Subscribers, I copy, one year, $t oo profession and worship free. To new subscribers, with Swedish Hand-Rook as premium, . i 5o The appellant's argument, then, is reduced to this: that To new subscribers, with Swedish " Sunshine" as premium, g oo WILL all our brethren and sisters who contemplate because he conscientiously believes that he is pc.rwitted by In Clubs to be used for Missionary purposes, per copy, - 75 canvassing, or who are willing to canvass, for our the law of God to labor on Sunday, he may violate with Address, SANNINGENS HAROLD, Battle Creek, Rich.