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

VOLUME 10. OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, FIFTH-DAY, MARCH 20, 1884. NUMBER 12.

it is his constant aifn to lead souls away from in their orderly march through the heavens. their allegiance to the King of Heaven. He It is through his power that vegetation flour- Cjjt digits of % Crater would have minds so trained that men and ishes, that the leaves appear and the flowers PUBLISHED WEEKLY, FOR THE women will exert their influence on the side of bloom. His word controls the elements, and error and moral corruption, instead of using by him the valleys are made fruitful. He covers International Tract and Missionary Society. their talents in the service of God. to save souls the heavens with clouds, and prepares rain for (For terms, etc., see last page.) and bless society. His object is effectually the earth; he "maketh grass to grow upon the gained, when, by perverting their ideas of edu- mountains." "He giveth snow like wool; he Entered at the Post-Office in Oakland. cation, he succeeds in enlisting parents and scattereth the hoar frost like ashes." "When teachers on his side; for a wrong education he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of THE LOYE1 OF CHRIST. often starts the mind on the road to infidelity. waters in the heavens, and he causeth the The conclusions which learned men have vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; ART thou alone on earth, a stranger here, he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth Without one kindred spirit dwelling near reached as the result of their scientific investi- To soothe thy sorrows, or thy joys to share, gations are carefully taught and fully explained; forth the wind out of his treasures." Or breathe thy name to Heaven in secret prayer? while the impression is distinctly given that Parents and teachers should aim to impress Be comforted, for thou hast still a Friend. if these learned men are correct, the Bible can- minds with the beauty of truth. They should Lo ! Jesus loves thee—loves thee to the end. not be. These philosophers would make us be- realize that the safety of the young depends Art thou in sickness? Lift thy weary eyes lieve that man, the crowning wrork of creation, upon combining religious culture with general Unto that cross whereon he bleeds and dies; came by slow degrees from the savage state, education, that they may escape the snare of Behold the pierced hands, the riven side! and that farther back, he was evolved from the unsanctified knowledge. Who and what are For thee he suffered and was crucified; And thou with him hereafter shall ascend, race of brutes. They are so intent upon ex- the men of learning, that the minds and char- For Jesus loves thee—loves thee to the end. cluding God from the sovereignty of the uni- acters of the young should be moulded by their verse, that they demean man, and defraud him ideas? They are not connected with the great Art thou in poverty and sore distress ? of the dignity of his origin. Nature is exalted The Saviour's touch can make thy burden less. Source of wisdom; and if they do not actually Life's load is heavy, but he knows its weight, above the God of nature; she is idolized, while deny God, they at least lose sight of his direct And thou shalt leave it at the golden gate— w her Creator is buried up and concealed from agency in the operations of nature. But his To which thy feeble footsteps surely tend; sight by science falsely so-called. care is over all the works of his hands. Noth- For Jesus loves thee—loves thee to the end. Cold philosophical speculations, and scientific ing is too great to be directed by him; nothing Art thou ia sorrow for some secret sin- research in which God is not acknowledged, are is too small to escape his notice. Hating the evil that lies so deep within? a positive injury. The thorns of skepticism God is the foundation of everything. All One crimson fount can make thee clean and fair, are disguised; they are concealed and made at- Go thou and wash thy soul's stained vesture there. true science is in harmony with his works; all Draw near, nor fear thy boldness shall offend, tractive by the bloom and verdure of science true education leads to obedience to his govern- For Jesus loves thee—loves thee to the end. and philosophy. Skepticism is attractive to the ment. Science opens new wonders to our view; human mind. The young see an independence she soars high and explores new depths; but His sweet voice speaks to weary ones like thee, In Love's eternal language, " Comfort ye." in it that captivates the imagination, and they she brings nothing from her research that con- And all his ancient promises divine are deceived. Satan triumphs; it is altogether flicts with divine revelation. Ignorance may Were made to those who felt such need as thine. as he meant it should be. He nourishes every seek to support false views of God by appeals Goodness and mercy shall thy steps attend, seed of doubt that is sown in young hearts. to science; but the book of nature and the writ- For Jesus loves thee—loves thee to the end. He causes it to grow and bear fruit, and soon a ten word do not disagree; each sheds light on —Sarah Doudney. plentiful harvest of infidelity is reaped. Teach- the other. Rightly understood, they make us ers who sow these doubts do not lead the mind acquainted with God and his character by teach- through the mist of unbelief to faith in the in- ing us something of the wise and beneficent <$mral gtrti spired word. But ignorance of God, of hislaw s through which he works. We are thus might, his infinity, and his majesty, is the real led to adore his holy name, and to have an in- reason that there is an infidel in the world. telligent trust in his wTord. Science and tlie Bible in Education. Many teach that matter possesses vital power. The Bible should be read every day. It is BY MRS. E. G. WHITE. They hold that certain properties are imparted the correct standard of right and wrong and to matter, and it is then left to act through its of moral principle. A life of devotion to God THE foundation of all right education is aow n inherent power; and that the operations is the best shield for the young against the knowledge of God. Many parents who make of nature are carried on in harmony with fixed temptations to which they are exposed while great sacrifices to educate their children, seem laws, that God himself cannot interfere with. acquiring an education. The first consideration to think that a well-trained intellect is more es- This is false science, and is sustained by noth- should be to honor God; the second to be faith- sential than a knowledge of God and his truth. ing in the word of God. Nature is not self- ful to humanity, performing the duties and They neglect to train up their children in the acting; she is the servant of' her Creator. God meeting the trials that each day brings, and nurture and admonition of the Lord, and act as does not annul his laws nor work contrary to bearing its burdens with firmness and courage. though they supposed this important part of them; but he is continually using them as his Earnest and untiring effort, united with strong education would come naturally, as a matter of instruments. Nature testifies of an intelli- purpose and entire trust in God, will help in ev- course. But the first and most important les- gence, a presence, an active agency, that works ery emergency, and will qualify for a useful son to be impressed upon young minds is the in, and through, and above her laws. There is life. Such a life is a series of triumphs, not al- duty of regulating the life by the principles of in nature the continual working of the Father ways seen and understood, but reaching far the word of God. and the Son. Said Christ, " My Father work- into the future, when we shall see as we are Parents and teachers should make God first. eth hitherto, and I work." seen and know as we are known. The influence of his Spirit purifies the heart God has finished his creative work, but his If we work in harmony with the Spirit of and stimulates the intellect. If the fear of God energy is still exerted in upholding the objects God, we shall see of his salvation. The educa- is made the basis of education, the result will of his creation. It is not because the mechan- tion begun here will not be completed in this be a wrell-developed and symmetrical character, ism that has once been set in motion continues life; it will be going forward through all eter- one that is neither dwarfed nor one-sided. Care its work by its own inherent energy that the nity,—progressing ever, never completed. Day should be taken to keep constantly before the pulse beats and breath follows breath; but by day the wonderful works of God, the evi- mind the fact that we are dependent on God, every breath, every pulsation of the heart, is an dences of his miraculous power in creating and and that we owe him willing obedience, a life- evidence of the all-pervading care of Him in sustaining the universe, will open before the time of loving service. The true object of ed- whom we live and have our being. It is not be- mind in new beauty and grandeur. In the ucation is to fit us for this service by develop- cause of inherent power that year by year the light that shines from the throne, mysteries ing and bringing into active exercise every fac- earth produces her bounties and continues her will disappear, and the soul will be filled with ulty that we possess. Satan desires to defeat motion around the sun. The hand of God astonishment at the simplicity of the things this object. He is the great enemy of God, and guides the planets, and keeps them in position that were never before comprehended. 178 THEE SIGr]N"S OE THE TIMES. VOL. 10, No. 9.

The Ancient Scripture. Some, even, doubted if it were well for minis- people lead them to the worship of this or that ters to take texts from it for their sermons. particular saint. No CURRENT questions have, in late years, The Christianity of the Puritans had a strong Middleton shows very well not only that the more commanded attention than those which Old Testament cast; that of their children rites of the papist are borrowed from the pa- concern the literature and the interpretation of seemed in danger of reaching an opposite ex- gan, but that many of those rites were con- the Old Testament. The interest of these treme even more mistaken. We find, now, demned both by the Christian church and the questions has almost pushed the physical scien- that its relation to the New Testament, in its Christian emperors even when religion was tists from their stools. Instead of Tyndall, exhibition of a most interesting and moment- much corrupted. and Darwin, and Huxley, and Haeckel, and ous stage in the steady growth of divine rev- The Christian emperors strictly prohibited Virchow, we have now Robertson Smith, De- elation and^the kingdom of God on earth; as their pagan subjects to light up candles, offer litzsch, Kuenen, and Wellhausen. The date of an ancient literature, some of it perhaps the incense or hang up garlands to senseless im- an Old Testament book is now a more absorb- oldest in the world; as running parallel with ages, for these were then reckoned the notori- ing issue than that of the origin of species, those other ancient literatures now coming to ous acts of genuine paganism. Yet now we while keener optics than those which lately light and yet in most wonderful contrast with see all these very acts performed every day in were scrutinizing flint hatchets and old bones, them; as a repertory of primitive thought and popish countries to the images of the popish are now searching the Messianic psalms and faith, preserved by special divine interposition saints. In a word, since there never was an the statues of Leviticus. Naturally, one is led from the corruption and darkness into which image in the temple of the true God in any to ask what may be the significance of all this, all in the world beside was plunged; as a me- part of the world, yet a perpetual use of them and how it shali be interpreted. morial of ancient genius, plumed for fight by in all the temples of the heathen, it is in vain In part, it must be said, the interest in Old divine inspiration and guided on its way by at- to dispute about their origin. The thing is Testament study, now so manifest, is simply tending divine ministries—we are now aAvak- evident to a demonstration. They must neces- critical and archaeological. We ought not to ening to the fact that, as all this, our Old Tes- sarily be derived to the present Romans from be surprised that there should be scholars who tament is a most wonderful book, or, rather those who always used, and not from those who study our ancient Scripture not as theologians, library of books. The infidel has done his always detested, them—that is from their pa- but only as scholars. Their customary work worst in assailing it. Possibly we had con- gan, not their Christian, ancestors. has been largely in the line of other archaeolog- sented in some measure to his disparagement. In their very priesthood they have contrived, ical literature. They have studied, with the We now see that what he found in it as pecul- one would think, to keep up as near a resem- zeal of explorers, both Egyptology and Assyri- iar, and therefore open to attack, is peculiar blance as they could to that of pagan Rome. ology. That old buried world, which now after just because it is old; and that what he did not And the sovereign pontiff, instead of deriving so many centuries is having a resurrection, ab- find in it is a treasure of knowledge and faith his succession from St. Peter, may, with more sorbs them in the revelations made of the life, worth more than all the wisdom of the world reason and a much better plea, style himself and thought, and worship of what are in a beside.—Dr. J. A. Smith, in Chicago Standard. the successor of the Pontifex Maximus, or chief somewhat strict sense pre-historic times. Dur- priest of old Rome, whose authority and dig- ing the ages in which that old world was the nity was the greatest in the republic. living world our ancient Scripture was written. Identity of Papacy and Paganism. Of this fact these explorers and scholars are We see a simpler and more honest represen- constantly reminded. They turn from the tab- tation of popery than any that Bossuet or the MIDDLETON traced the altars of the Roman- let and the papyrus to the familiar pages of doctors of the church afford in the conduct of ists to the altars of the pagans. His papist the Portuguese, when they first arrived in the printed Bible. As they read this page adversary of course preferred deriving them they are still archaeologists and critics. They India. In their devout and unsophisticated from the altar of incense in the temple of Je- minds, popery and paganism were completely have not the doctrinal interest there which rusalem; and is surprised therefore how I can some of the rest of us have. That their con- identified. The continual shouts of Chrishnu, call it heathenish! Yet it is evident, from the Chrishnu, they confidently mistook for the in- clusions on many points should be different nature of that institution, that it was never from ours, is n-ot surprising. Of two things we vocation of Christ; the idol temples appeared designed to be perpetual, and that, during its to them Romish cathedrals, and the Brahmins, need to be aware, as we take note of the continuance, God would never have approved claimed results of their investigations* (1) that popish priests. From this place the kutwal any other altar, either in Jerusalem or any- escorted the general to one of their pagodas critics are apt to be over-critical; (2) that the where else. But let him answer directly to studies in which these scholars habitually en- or idol temples, into which they entered, and this plain question, Was there ever a temple which the kutwal said was a church of great gage are such in their nature and the discipline in the world not strictly heathenish in which they afford, as to justify the expectation that holiness. This the general believed to be the there were several altars all smoking with in- case, fancying it to be a church of the Chris- there must be value, of some kind, in the re- cense within one view and at one and the same sults. tians, which he the more readily believed, as time ? It is certain that he must answer in the he saw seven little bells hung oyer the princi- Naturally, this form of the prevailing interest negative, yet it is certain that there were such pal door. In front of this entry there stood a in Old Testament study prepares the way for temples in pagan Rome, and are as many still pillar made of wire as tall as the mast of a another. Those who have been accustomed to in Christian Rome. And since there was never ship, on the top of which was a weathei'-cock, regard the date and order of the books in our an example of it but what was paganish be- likewise made of wire. This church was as ancient Scripture as settled beyond all possibil- fore the time of popery, how is it possible that large as a moderate convent, all built of free- ity of question, also the Mosaic authorship of it could be derived to them from any other stone, and covered or vaulted over with brick, the Pentateuch, the integrity of Isaiah's proph- source? Or when we see so exact a resem- having a fine outward appearance, as if its in- ecy and the Messianic character of certain blance in the copy, how can there be any doubt side were of splendid workmanship. Our gen- psalms, are surprised to find all these points about the original? Many altars under the eral was much pleased with the church, as he treated as still open to dispute, while the confi- same roof indicate many objects of worship, actually believed himself in a Christian country, dent tone of conclusions announced regarding and the Polytheism of the church of Rome is and gladly entered along with the kutwal. them excites uneasiness. What does it mean? manifested by the first view of the interior of They were received by the priests, who were Are these conclusions sound ? If so, what their cathedrals. This similarity in the Poly- naked from their waists upward, having a does it all import ? Is faith in the Old Testa- theism of paganism and popery is most clearly petticoat of cotton hanging down from the ment about to part from its moorings, and are shown in the pope displacing Jupiter and all girdle to their knees, and pieces of calico cov- we soon to be afloat? Must even the inspira- the gods from the Pantheon, to make way for ering their armpits; their heads, legs, and feet tion of these ancient books be virtually given the Virgin Mary and all the saints. The no- bare. They were distinguished by wearing up? When such issues as these are present to blest heathen temple now remaining in the certain threads over their right shoulders the mind, whether really involved in the ques- world, is the Pantheon or Rotunda, which, as which crossed over their breasts and under tions under debate or not, one feels that he the inscription over the portico informs us, their left arms, much in the way in which our must look into the matter. And doubtless he having been impiously dedicated of old by priests used formerly to wear their stoles when should; remembering, meanwhile, that the crit- Agrippa to Jove, and all the gods, was piously they said mass. These men are called kafirs, ics are apt to be over-critical, and that zeal for consecrated by Pope Boniface IY. to the blessed and are idolaters, serving as priests in the pa- discovery often makes one on the outlook im- Virgin and all the saints. With this single godas of Malabar; and "on the general going agine that he sees land, while what he does alteration, it serves as exactly for all the pur- into the pagoda, they took holy water with a see is a cloud in the horizon, or a fog-bank far poses of the popish, as it did for the pagan sprinkler from a font, and threw it over the kut- away under the blue. worship, for which it was built. For as in the wal and him, and their attendants. After this, Once more, it would seem that very many of old temple every one might find the god of his they gave them powdered sandal wood to us are coming to be conscious that there is an country, and address himself to that deity throw upon their heads as used to be done interest and value in our ancient Scripture of whose religion he was most devoted to, so it is amongst us with ashes; and they were directed which we had grown in a measure inapprecia- the same thing now—every one chooses the to do the same on their arms. But our people, tive. It is not very long ago that many, be- patron whom he likes best, and one here may as being clothed, omitted this latter part of lieving the Old Testament to belong to a dis- see different services going on at the same time the ceremony, complying with the other. In pensation wholly past, had almost come to re- at different altars with distinct congregations the pagoda they saw many images painted on gard it as no longer of interest for a Christian. around them, just as the inclinations of the the walls, some of which had monstrous teeth MARCH 20, 1884. THE S.IGISTR OE THE TIMES. 179

projecting an inch from their months, and some are apt to pinch, but not if you have a small foot; Concealed Infidelity. had four arms; all of them so ugly that they if we have little means it will be well to have seemed like devils, which raised doubts amongst little desires. Poverty is no shame, but being IT is startling to a Christian mind, in turning our people whether they were actually in a discontented with it, is. In some things the over the pages of recent books, to find how Christian church. In the middle of the pagoda poor are better off than the rich; for if a poor thoroughly modern literature is tainted with stood a chapel, having a roof or dome of free- man has to seek meat for his stomach, he is the essence of infidelity. It rarely appears, in stone like a tower, in one part of which was a more likely to get what he is after, than the these times, in a gross and revolting shape, but door of wire, to which there led a flight of rich man Avho seeks a stomach for his meat. A in the far more dangerous disguise of' a poor, stone steps. On the inside of this tower, an poor man's table is soon spread, and his labor SAveet, humanitarian philosophy, a religion of image was observed in a recess of the wall, spares his buying sauce. The best doctors are science and nature; a sort of Christian pagan- which our men could not see distinctly, as the Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman, and ism, in which the phrases and many of the doc- place was somewhat dark, and they were not many a godly plowman has all these gentlemen trines of the Bible are so artfully interwoven permitted to go near, as none were allowed to to wait upon him. Plenty makes dainty, but as to present a deceitful appearance of the truth approach except the priest. But, from certain hunger finds no fault with the cook. Hard of God. This tendency is not confined to books words and signs, our people understood this to work brings health, and an ounce of health is that treat avowedly on religious topics, but be an image of the Yirgin; on which the gen- worth a sack of diamonds. It is not how much pervades, in a greater or less degree, every de- eral and his attendants went upon their knees we have, but IIOAV much Ave enjoy that makes partment of modern literature. Out of a dozen to say their prayers. John de Sala, however, happiness. There is more sweet in a spoonful new novels, books of science, political treatises, being very doubtful that this was a Christian of sugar than in a cask of vinegar. It is not or whatever you choose, at least six or eight, church, owing to the numerous images on the the quantity of our goods, but the blessing of on being read, will leave an impression behind walls, said as he fell on his knees, If this be God on what Ave have that makes us truly rich. unfavorable to Christianity; yet perhaps Avith- the devil, I worship God—at which the general The parings of a pippin are better than a Avhole out containing a sentence that could be inter- looked at him with a smile. crab; a dinner of herbs with peace is better preted as openly hostile to religion. It is the than a stalled ox and contention therewith. general tone that does the evil Avork. One feels, Popery is paganism under a thin disguise of "Better is a little with the fear of the Lord than without being able to say exactly how, that Christianity, and accordingly, in all things it is great treasure and trouble therewith." A little the tendency of thought is destructive of relig- but a gross and material counterfeit of true wood will heat my little oven; why, then ious belief; that, somehoAv, his faith has received and spiritual religion.—James Watson Esq. should I murmur because all the woods are not a wound, as from a weapon tainted with subtile mine ? poison. Jolm Ploughman's Talk on Patience. When troubles come it is of no use to fly in In this characteristic lies the great danger of the face of God by hard thoughts of providence; such books. Open arguments against the PATIENCE is better than wisdom; an ounce of that is kicking against the pricks and hurting Christian religion can be met and refuted, as patience is worth a pound of brains. All men your feet. The trees boAV in the wind, and so they have been met and refuted a hundred praise patience, but few enough can pratice it; must Ave. Every time the sheep bleats, it loses a times already, until they have lost the power of it is a medicine which is good for all diseases, mouthful, and eArery time we complain, Ave miss influencing the minds of thinking men. But and therefore every old woman recommends it; a blessing. Grumbling is a bad trade and how shall this sly, insinuating, serpent-like but it is not every garden that grows the herbs yields no profit, but patience has a golden hand. spirit be met? Its presence is hardly percepti- to make it with. When one's flesh and bones Our evils Avill soon be over. After rain comes ble until its evil Avork has been accomplished. are full of aches and pains, it is as natural for us clear shining; black crows have wings; every This is especially true, we are pained to say, to murmur as for a horse to shake his head when Avinter turns to spring; every night breaks of books intended for the young. Under the the flies tease him, or a wheel to rattle when a into morning. attractive garb of a story told "with exquisite spoke is loose; but nature should not be the simplicity and beautifully illustrated, there is rule with Christians, or what is their religion " Blow the wind never so fast, It will lower at last." too often taught a spurious morality that gently worth ? If a soldier fights no better than a sets aside the Bible, and insinuates doubts that plough-boy, off with his red coat. We expect If one door should be shut God will open an- eventually culminate in various forms of infidel- more fruit from an apple-tree than from a thorn, other; if the peas do not yield well, the beans ity. Let no one under-estimate the extent of and Ave have a right to do so. The disciples of may; if one hen leaves her eggs, another Avill this danger.—N. Y. Examiner, 1867. a patient Saviour should be patient themselves. bring out all her brood; there's a bright side to Grin and bear it, is the old-fashioned advice, all things, and a good God eveiyAvhere. Some- but Sing and bear it, is a great deal better. where or other in the worst flood of trouble, Vicissitudes of Faith. After all, we get very few cuts of the whip, con- there ahvays is a dry spot for contentment to sidering what bad cattle we are; and when we get its foot on, and if there were not it would How common it is for Christians to talk of do smart a little, it is soon over. Pain past is learn to swim. their faith being strengthened, by gifts from God pleasure, and experience comes by it. We Friends, let us take to patience and water- which are just in the line of their desires and ought not to be afraid of going down into Egypt gruel, as the old folks used to tell us, rather fancies; and of their faith being weakened,, or when we know we shall come out of it with than catch the miserables, and give others the sorely tried, by things from God which are not jewels of silver and gold. disease by wickedly finding fault with God. what they have asked for. This is much as it would be, for a child to measure his father's love Inpatient people water their miseries, and The best remedy for affliction is submitting to by the amount of candy and the number of hoe up their comforts; sorrows are visitors that providence. What can't be cured must be en- toys brought home to the little one. A father's come without invitation, but complaining minds dured. If we cannot get bread, let us bless love is shown in the gift of school-books and send a wagon to bring their troubles home in. God that there are still some cabbages in the medicines in their time, quite as surely as in the Many people are born crying, live complaining, garden. Must is a hard nut to crack, but it gift of candy and toys in their time. And God's and die disappointed; they chew the bitter pill has a SAveet kernel. "All things work together r love is shown quite as much in his bestoAval of which they would not even know to be bitter if for good to them that loA^e God." WhateA er Avhat we shrink from, as in his gift of what Ave they had the sense to swalloAV it Avhole in a cup falls from the skies is, sooner or later, good for long for. It is very well for us to talk of our of patience and water. They think every other the land: whatever comes to us from God is faith being strengthened by the evident results man's burden to be light, and their own feathers worth having, even though it be a rod. We of God's dealings with us; not by our estimate to be heavy as lead; they are hardly done by in cannot by nature like trouble any more than a of the dealings themselves before we can know their own opinion; no one's toes are so often mouse can fall in love with a cat, and yet Paul by the reason for them as God sees it now, and as trodden on by the black ox as theirs; the snow grace came to glory in tribulations also. Losses we can hope to see it by and by. Faith is not falls thickest round their door, and the hail and crosses are heavy to bear, but when our sight; faith rests on the Giver, sight measures rattles hardest on their windows; and yet, if hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how the gift. Christians are to " walk by faith, not the truth were known, it is their fancy rather easy the yoke becomes. We must needs go to by sight."—Sel. than their fate which makes things go so hard glory by the way of Weeping Cross; and as we with them. Many would be well off if they were never promised that we should ride to could but think so. A little sprig of the herb Heaven in a feather bed, we must not be disap- IGNORING or quickly forgetting personal inju- called content put into the poorest soup will pointed when we see the road to be rough, as ries is characteristic of true greatness, when make it taste as rich as the Lord Mayor's turtle. our fathers found it before us. All's well that meaner natures would be kept in unrest by John Ploughman grows the plant in his garden, ends well; and, therefore, let us plow the them. The less of a man a person is, the more but the late hard winter nipped it terribly, so heaviest soil with our eye on the sheaves of he makes of an injury or an insult. The more that he cannot afford to give his neighbors a harvest, and learn to sing at our labor while of a man he is, the less he is disturbed by Avhat slip of it; they had better tblloAv Matthew 25: 9, others murmur.—Sword and Trowel. others say or do against him without a cause. and go to those who sell and buy for them- "The sea remembers not the vessel's rending selves. Grace is a good soil to grow it in, but RICHES.—A very rich man recently said: "I keel, but rushes joyously the ravage to con- it wants Avatering from the fountain of mercy. worked like a slave till I was forty to make my ceal." It is the tiny streamlet which is kept in To be poor is not always pleasant, but Averse fortune, and I've been Avatching it like a de- a sputter by a stick thrust into its waters by a things than that happen at sea. Small shoes tective ever since for lodging, food, and clothes." willful boy. 180 THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. VOL. 10, No. 11.

Tlie Kmg-doiri of Christ. I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also I also overcame, and am set down with my shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve (Continued.) Father in his throne." His Father, upon whose tribes of Israel." Matt. 19 : 28." These are the THE Lord himself said his people will in- throne he is now sitting, is not his father David. words of the Lord himself to his twelve dis- herit (he kingdom when the Son of man comes That throne upon which he is now, is not and ciples. And by the words of Paul we readily in his glory, sitting upon the throne of his never was the throne of his father David. locate the time of this judgment, if, indeed, any glory. Matt. 25:31-34. But when the Sou This proof is absolutely incontrovertible. But, further proof can be asked. He said "the of man comes, the voice of the archangel and as surely as the "Scriptures cannot be broken," saints shall judge the world" (1 Cor. 6 : 2), but the trump of God will be heard, and the saints he will yet sit upon the thx-one of his father he said also: "Therefore judge nothing before will be raised from the dead. 1 Thess. 4:15-17. David; upon that throne will he rule over the the time, until the Lord come." 1 Cor. 4:5. And Paul further says that when that last house of Jacob forever; of that kingdom and Rev. 20:1-6 introduces the coming of Christ, trump shall sound, "this corruptible shall put reign there will be no end. And only in this the binding of Satan, the resurrection of the on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on manner can the oath of the Lord to Lavid be blessed and holy—the first resurrection, wThich immortality." Then death will be swallowed fulfilled. is at Christ's coming—and thrones of judgment up in victory. 1 Cor. 15:51-54. Then will The Scriptures inform us that the position given to the overcomers. the saints be prepared to inherit an incorrupt- which the Son of God now occupies is one of And it is further a matter of proof that the ible kingdom, as they will never die and leave expectancy. The apostle says he is set down saints do not and cannot enter upon this work their inheritance to others. Thus beautifully on the right hand of God, from henceforth ex- of judgm nt in the present life or the present do the Scriptures harmonize on this subject. pecting till his enemies be made his footstool. slate. In 1 Cor. 6:1-4 the apostle reproves Now we are prepared understandingly to Heb. 10:13. This expectation is based on the the brethren for going to law, and that before examine the error of those who apply the promise made in Ps. 110:1: "The Lord said the unbelievers, as though they were not com- prophecies we have here noticed to the reign unto my L>>rd. Sit thou at my right hand, until petent to settle their own temporal difficulties. of Christ as a priest on his Father's throne. I make thine enemies thy footstool." His ene- "De ye not know that the saints shall judge The position which Christ now occupies on mies were not put under his feet at the begin- the world? and if the world shall be judged the throne of his Father, as a priest-king, he ning of the period of his sitting at the right by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest will sometime resign. Bead 1 Cor. 15:23-28. hand of his Father. Had that been the case. matters? Know ye not that we shall judge His priesthood will not last forever. Instead Paul's statement in Heb 10 : 13 would not have angels? How much more things that pertain of forever pleading his blood in behalf of sinful been correct. But they will be put under his to this life?" Observe that the judgment of men, he will leave that throne and come to feet when the time comes for him to leave that which he speaks, that of the world and of earth again, "taking vengeance on them that throne, to resign his priestly office, and to come angels, is not in " this life." And there is rea- know not God. and that obey not the gospel to destroy his enemies. Ps. 2:7-10 informs son for this. In this life we cannot discern of our Lord Jesus Christ." 2 Thess. 1 : 6-10. us what disposition he will make of them when motives and so understand the lives and hearts Instead of forever enjoying the privileges of they are given to him. "Thou art my Son; of ihe woi'ld as to be able to judge them cor- the day of salvation, and living under the this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and rectly. Much less can we now judge angels. mercy of the Lamb, the wicked will, in that I shall give thee the heathen for thine inher- The fallen angels, who sinned, are reserved coming day, pray to be hid "from the face of itance, and the uttermost parts of the earth unto the Judgment of the great day. 2 Peter him that sitteth on ij^e throne, and from the for thy possession. Thou shalt break them 2 : 4; Jude 6. Even over them shall the saints wrath of the Lamb; [saying] for the great day with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in sit in judgment. But no saint, however faithful of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to pieces like a potter's vessel. And 2 Thess. and exalted, is qualified to judge them in this stand?" Rev. 6:15-17. 1:6-10, already quoted, shows that it will be life. There is a time coming, however, when at his second coming that he will take ven- our partial knowledge shall pass away; when And now in regard to the faith of the dis- geance on them tnat know not God, and obey we shall know even as we are known. 1 Cor. ciples, as indicated by their question in Acts not the gospel. And this again is in harmony 13:8-12. Paul had the Spirit of Christ, the 1: 6, we confidently affirm that their belief was with Rev. 11:15-18, wdiere it is shown that Spirit of prophecy; but only so as "to know in perfect harmony with the letter and spirit under the seventh trumpet, which closes this in part" and to "prophecy in part." But a of the scriptures we have quoted. And we dispensation, the kingdoms of this world are clearer light is to burst upon his vision when have yet more, and if possible still more con- given to Christ. And in connection with this the Lord comes; when this mortal puts on im- clusive, evidence to produce. gift it is said: "And the nations were angry, mortality. " When that which is perfect is The angel who announced that Jesus should and thy wrath is come, and the time of the come, then that which is in part sha'l be done be born, used the following language: "lie dead that they should be judged, and ihat thou away." " For now we see through a glass, shall be great, and shall be called the Son of shouldest give reward unto thy servants the darkly; but then face to face; now I know in the Highest; and the Lord God shall give unto prophets, and to the saints, and to them that part; then shall I know even as also I am him the throne of his father David. And he fear thy name, small and great; and shou'dest known." All these scriptures leave no room shall reign over the house of Jacob [Israel] destroy them wdiich destroy [corrupt] the for doubt that the work of the judgment of forever, and of his kingdom there shall be no earth." It seems needless to repeat that the the world, in which the saints shall take part, end." Luke 1:32, 33. These are the words reward of the saints will be given when Jesus is after the priesthood of Christ is ended; alter of a messenger direct from Heaven, and may comes again. Matt. 16:27; Luke 14:14; Rev. his second coming; after the saints are immor- not lightly be passed over. And with all these 22:12. talized and glorified. scriptures before them, and having so long en- joyed the personal instruction of the Prince It has been fully noticed that the Judgment But the question may still be asked: If it himself "of the things pertaining to the king- of the saints must be completed before Christ shall already have been decided who are the dom," we think it is altogether unwarranted leaves the throne of his priesthood. But not lost ones; if their names are not in the book to assume that the disciples were laboring unuer so of the Judgment of the wicked. In the of life, wherefore a further judgment in their "prejudice in favor of an erroneous opinion." Judgment which takes place during his priest- cases? To this question the Scriptures afford This text last quoted settles the question that hood, it will be determined whose names shall an easy solution. the throne and kingdom which he now occupies have no place in the book of life; but their In the rewards of the righteous there will is not that to which reference is made in the cases must come up for review that the measure be degrees of glory. " For star differeth from prophecies which have been examined. For, of their punishment may be determined. To star in glory; so also is the resurrection of the as shown by 1 Cor. 15 : 23-28, and other texts, properly locate this work has been one object dead." 1 Cor. 15:41, 42. One is made ruler there will be an end to this reign; his priestly of the present argument, in distinguishing be- over ten cities; another over five cities. Luke reign will cease. And the throne which he tween the two thrones. There is still a work 19 : 17-19. " They that turn many to righteous- now occupies is not "the throne of his father of judgment after Christ resigns his priestly ness [shall shine] as the stars forever and ever." David." That throne he will occupy in the office on the throne of his Father; after his Dan. 12:3. And so in the punishment of the future; and his reign upon that will have "no enemies are given to him, and he has dashed wicked, there will be recognized degrees of end." And so far from the disciples having in pieces the nations and kingdoms of the world. demerit. Some shall be beaten with many their errors corrected by the inspiration which An order of events is laid down in Dan. 7 : stripes, and others with few stripes. Luke they received on the day of Pentecost, as in- 21, 22, from which we gain important instruc- 12 : 45-48. For some it will be more tolerable timated by Dr. Barnes, Peter confirmed their tion on this subject. Speaking of that perse- in the day of Judgment than for others. Matt. belief, in his sermon on that day. Speaking of cuting power, already noticed, which wore out 10:15; 11:22-24. David he said: "Therefore being a prophet, the saints of the Most High, the prophet said: Dr. Bloomfield says of 1 Cor. 6:2:— and knowing that God had sworn with an oath "I beheld, and the same horn made war with "Upon the whole, there is, after all, no in- to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according the saints, and prevailed against them; until terpretation that involves less of difficulty than to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on the Ancient of days came, and judgment was the common one, supported by some Latin his' throne." And one of the most decisive given to the saints of the Most High; and the Fathers, and, of modern divines, by Luther, evidences that Jesus is not yet sitting on the time came that the saints possessed the king- Calvin, Erasmus, Beza, Cassaubon, Crellius, throne of David, the throne which is his by dom." In regard to the time when the saints Wolf, Jeremy Taylor, Doddridge, Pearce. New- right of his birth, is found in his own words shall possess the kingdom, we further quote as come, Scott, and others, by which it is supposed in""Rev. 3:21: "To him that oveicometh wili follows: "In the regeneration when the Son of that the faithful servants of God, after being MARCH 20, 1884. THE S.IGISTR OE THE TIMES. 181 accepted in Christ, shall be in a certain sense, spectable journals will lend themselves to such Test of Loyalty. assessores judicii, by concurrence, Avith Christ, folly, or allow their pages to be used in adver- and being partakers of the judgment to be tising such nonsense. Yet the announcement THERE are tAvo branches of the law of God; held by him over wicked men and apostate informs us that this is done to encourage Bible the one growing out of our-relation to our Crea- angels; who are, as we learn from 2 Ptter 2:4; study (!). We trust that entertainment of a tor, teaching us how to love him Avith all our Jude 6, reserved unto the judgment of the last more profitable character, and Biblical study of heart; the other founded upon our relation to day." a different type, may be provided for both the our fellow-creatures, teaching us our duty to And Dr. Barnes observes:— children and the adults of Canada. Let us them, that is, hoAV to show that we love our "Grotius supposes that it means that they have Bible study; let us encourage it; but let neighbor as ourselves. The first four command- shall be first judged by Christ, and then act as us be sure that it is Bible study.—Old, Testa- ments of the decalogue constitute the first assessores to him in the judgment, or join with ment Stud.ent. branch of the moral law; the last six, the second. him in condemning the wicked." Eight of the ten precepts are negative, teach- Certainly this view has a most respectable THE DOOM Oin SODOM. ing us not to do certain acts, not to insult God array of authors in its favor; and well it may or injure our neighbor; wThile two of them are have, for Ave cannot see how any other view AWAY from the ruin—oh hurry ye on affirmative, requiring us actually to show honor While the sword of the angel yet slumbers undrawn; to God and to such of our fellow-men as, from of the text can, with any show of reason, be Away from the doomed and deserted of God; taken. In speaking of the judgment of the Away, for the Spoiler is rushing abroad ! our mutual relation to each other, demand our righteous, it was remarked that when Christ reverence and obedience. One of these belongs The warning was spoken, the righteous had gone, to the first branch of the law, namely, the Sab- comes his elect will be translated or raised to And the proud sons of Sodom were feasting alone; immortality in a moment, in the twinkling of All gay was the banquet, the revel was long, bath commandment; the other is included in an eye. And this act of glorifying them will With the pouring of wine and the breathing of song. the second branch, the one requiring us to honor our parents. prove that they have already been judged and 'Twas an evening of beauty—the air was perfume, acquitted; accepted of the Judge of all. But The earth was all greenness, the trees were all bloom; It may be objected that the fourth command- as there are two resurrections, one of the just And softly the delicate viol was heard, ment is negative, forbidding labor on the Sab- and one of the unjust, the fact that the unjust Like the murmur of love or the notes of a bird. bath day; but it positively requires us to remem- ber the Sabbath day to keep it holy, and then are not raised at that time is conclusive proof And the shrine of the idol was lifted on high, that they will have been already rejected, or For the bending of knee and the homage of eye; forbids such acts as would profane it. judged unworthy of eternal life. But it is one And the worship was blended with blasphemy's word, The Sabbath, being a memorial of the Crea- thing to determine that a person is guilty, and And the wine-bibber scoffed at the name of the Lord. tor's finished work, and instituted on purpose quite another thing to determine the degree of Hark ! the growling of thunder—the quaking of earth— that his creatures might, by special act, honor his guilt and the measure of punishment which Woe, woe to the worship, and woe to the mirth, him, is better adapted to test man's loyalty, he should justly receive; whether he should be The black sky has opened—there's flame in the air— than any other precept of the decalogue. Hence beaten with feAV or many stripes. The first is The red arm of vengeance is lifted and bare! he calls it a sign betwTeen him and his Israel, done before the throne of the JVIost High while And the shriek of the dying rose wild where the song for a perpetual coArenant. Ex. 31 : 13, 17; Eze. Jesus, as Priest, is blotting out the sins of his And the low tone of love had been whispered along; 20 :12, 20. And Avhen he purposed to proVe people, as he passes by those who are unjust For the fierce flames went lightly o'er palace and bower, his people in the Avilderness, Avhether they and unholy. The second is done by Christ and Like the red tongues of demons to blast and devour ? Avould walk in his law or not, he chose this the saints, who, as Bloomfield says, act as as- Down, down on the fallen, the red ruin rained, very precept as the best calculated for a test of sessores judicii. EDITOR. And the reveler sank with his wine-cup undrained! their loyalty. Ex. 16 :4, and onwTard. The The feet of the dancer, the music's loved thrill, keeping of the Sabbath is an acknowledgment {To be concluded.) And the shout of the laughter, grew suddenly still! of the only living and true God, and this by a The last throb of anguish was fearfully given, positive act of Avorship, or obedience; hence it Encouragement of Bible Study. The last eye glared forth un its madness on heaven, is a better test of loyalty than any one of the The last cry of horror rose wildly and vain, precepts which precede it. CERTAIN prominent Canada papers have un- And death brooded over the Pride of the Plain! dertaken to popularize Bible study. Churches, The last message of probationary time will Sunday-schools, and such other means as are And so it will be when the Lord comes from Heaven, test the people upon the commandments of God. When the wicked to anguish and darkness are driven. T ordinarily employed, will be supplemented by 0, list to the warning; prepare for the day; ReA . 14 : 9-12. But as all professed believers in a method Avhicli not only covers in general the The Saviour is calling thee, turn not away. the religion of the Bible, or at least all Protest- entire field, but also deals largely in detail. —Selected. ants, are agflfed in their teachings concerning The particular kind of Bible study insisted all the commandments except the fourth, the upon is represented as being most profitable, Why Popes Change Their Names. test of necessity must come upon the fourth and, Avith the incentive offered, most entertain- commandment, the Sabbath law. All the poor ing. The plan proposed furnishes employment IT is a fact generally known that monks and evasions that have been invented to excuse the of a high charactcr for the long winter eA^en- nuns on assuming their VOAVS, and popes on as- almost universal neglect of the only weekly ings, for both old and young. The profit to be cending the pontifical throne, usually change Sabbath of the Bible, only increase the danger gained from the study, under this plan, will be their names. ' The reason of this change in the of the people in the test that is coming; but he pecuniary as Avell as intellectual. Gold and sil- case of the popes is a superstitious belief that has clearly revealed his purpose of proving this ver watches, chains, lockets, rings, etc., are unless this is done the new pontiff will not live generation, enlightened by all the light of his presented to the students of this school. An long. The custom has prevailed since it was word and providence, whether they will walk T idea of the scope of the work may be obtained inaugurated in 956 by OctaA ian Conti, Avho as- in his law or not. And so it is not only highly from the announcements made. In the work sumed the name and title of John XII. Julius proper, as we have seen, but strictly necessary, mapped out by one journal the student is ex- Medici would have made a breach had he been that the final test of loyalty to God the Father pected to ascertain (1) hoAV many times the permitted, but his friends prevailed upon him to should be upon this very precept, upon which word Lord, occurs in the Bible? (2) how many take the name of Clement, he being the seventh he tested his people in the Avilderness. times the word Jehovah is found in the Bible? pope to take that name. Thirty-two years la- It is a remarkable fact, that the only precept (3) whether there are tAvo chapters in the Bible ter, in 1755, Marcellus Servius was elected, and of the moral law, instituted as a special sign of exactly alike, and if so, Avhere they are? An- insisted upon retaining his OAvn name. As Mar- our loyalty to the great Creator, and bj^ wrhich other journal instructs its students to ascertain cellus II., therefore, he ascended the throne, alone, by a special act of outward obedience to- on the 9th day of April. He Avas a young man, (1) how many letters there are in the Bible? ward him, we can exhibit our reArerence to him and in robust health, and yet he lived but (2) how many words? (3) what verse in the as such in the sight of our fellow-men, should be twenty-one days after his elevation. Since Bible contains all the letters of the alphabet, esteemed a non-essential, a thing of no impor- that time no pope has ventured to offend against counting 1 and J as one ? tance, an institution that all are at liberty to bend the tradition. It is a little singular that, Avhile It would be no easy task to reckon the re- or abolish to suit their own convenience. But so the name of John has been a favorite one, none sults, in respect either to amount or character, it is. And this is the reason Avhy the fearful of the twenty-one popes have chosen it since of Biblical knowledge acquired by these meth- Avarning of the "third angel" is sent before to the death of John XXII., in 1416. The first ods. To knoAv that there are 3^586,483 letters apprise all of their danger in the last, grand test pope bearing the name of Pius took the position in the Bible, 773,693 words, 31,373 verses, and of loyalty which is before us. in 142 (?), and the name did not reappear after 1,189 chapters; or to have learned that the Oh! that men would open their eyes and see his death till 1458.—Sel. words "Jehovah" and "Lord" occur a certain that their Creator has a right to be honored by number of times—how ATaluable such knowl- exact obedience to that precept which he insti- edge must be. And in addition to the knowl- FOR me the law and the gospel have but one tuted as his memorial, and as a test of our loyalty edge thus attained, sight must not be lost of rule of life; and every violation of the spirit of to him. B. F. COTTRELL. " a pair of beautiful heavily-plated gold brace- the law is a Adolation of the spirit of the gospel. lets," or " a solid gold gem ring," which falls I have long been satisfied that the higher forms LET US never forget that every station in life to the lot of that arithmetical individual Avho of Christian experience are attained only as a is necessary; that each deserves our respect; succeeds first in making himself master of this result of a searching application of God's law that not the station itself, but the worthy fulfil- practical information. How strange that re- to the conscience and heart.—Finney. ment of its duties, does honor to a man. 182 THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. VOL. 10, No. 11.

Paul's Second Missionary Tour. one way or the other, that he was willing to \t Sabkift-Sduwl employ it as an expedient to allay a prolific "AND Paul chose Silas" for his companion, source of opposition to his work. And there and was again "recommended by the brethren is no probability that Timothy, as a minister LESSON FOR THE PACIFIC COAST.—APRIL 5. unto the grace of God." In the interval since of the gospel, ever considered himself "a debtor his last tour he had received, at Jerusalem, the ACTS, CHAPTERS 15 : 36—17 :10. to do the wrhole" ceremonial law. hand of fellowship from the "pillars," Cephas, Peter's Fallibility. James, and John (Gal. 2 : 9), and went forth on this journey with a double commendation. Silas The Journey Continued. DURING the period covered by THE closing was also a prophet, and proved a most valuable BUT three verses are given to the journey verses of the previous lesson—in the interval co-worker under all circumstances. They went " throughout Phrygia and the region of Gala- between the conference at Jerusalem regarding "through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the tia," and on westward to Troas, a city on the circumcision and the events chronicled in the churches." This confirmation is not to be un- iEgean Sea. Notwithstanding the short his- present lesson—there occurred an episode in derstood in the sense of the modern rite of con- tory, there wrere churches raised up, although the church at Antioch not recorded by the firmation of members in some of the popular we are not told at what particular places. writer of the Acts. But Paul relates it some churches. They strengthened them by exhor- There were churches at Colosse and Laodicea, years afterward, in his letter to the Galatians, tation, confirming their faith. And probably cities near or on their probable route, but com- chapter 2 : 11-14. It seems to us surprising more than anything else, the decrees, which the mentators place their origin at a later date. Of howr Peter, after his remarkable experience at apostles brought from Jerusalem regarding this visit Conybeare and Howrson say:— Joppa and Ceserea, and his decided stand in the circumcision and the ceremonial law of Moses, "Paul affectionately reminds the Galatians discussion at Jerusalem, could at Antioch have had the effect of "confirming" them, as had that it was ' bodily sickness which caused him so far stultified his former position. In " The been the case in Antioch. to preach the glad tidings to them at the first.' Great Controversy " we find this solution:— No places are mentioned in Syria and Silicia, The allusion is to his first visit; and the obvi- " God, wrho know7eth the end from the begin- but there were "churches " there, and we learn ous inference is, that he was passing through ning, permitted Peter to exhibit this weakness from Gal. 1 : 21-23 that Paul had preached Galatia to some other district (possibly Pontus, of character, in order that he might see that through that " region." Barnabas had prob- where we know that many Jews were estab- there was nothing in himself whereof he might ably gone over most of the ground, in his lished), when the state of his bodily health ar- boast. God also saw that in time to come search for Paul, as far as Tarsus and on their rested his progress. Thus he became, as it some would be so deluded as to claim for Peter return to Antioch. Two prominent cities on were, the evangelist of Galatia against his will. and his pretended successors, exalted preroga- this route were Alexandria and Issus in Syria; But his zeal to discharge the duty that was tives which belonged only to God; and this and in Cilicia there were Adana, iEgce or laid on him did not allow him to be silent. He history of the apostle's weakness was to remain Mopsuestia, and Tarsus, all places of consider- was instant 'in season and out of season.' as a proof of his human fallibility, and of the able note—the latter being the capital of the 'Woe' wras on him if he did not preach the fact that he stood in no way above the level of province and the birth-place of Paul. gospel. The same providence detained him the other apostles." among the Gauls which wTould not allow him to Again in Lycaonia. enter Asia or Bithynia; and in the midst of his Dispute between Paul and Barnabas. weakness he made the glad tidings known to FOUR or five days' journey from Tarsus, all who would listen." through the Taurus range of mountains via the THIS lesson proper begins w7ith Paul's sugges- great pass anciently known as the " Cilician The Gospel Goes to Europe. tion to Barnabas to visit the brethren in every Gates," would bring the apostle and his com- city where they had preached the word. Bar- panion to Derbe, the turning point in his previ- As the heavens are higher than the earth, so nabas desired to take Mark with them again, ous tour. Here, at Lystra, and Iconium, we are God's ways and thoughts higher than man's. but Paul dissented because of his defection at can readily imagine a hearty welcome to the Isa. 55 : 8. Paul had little realization of the ex- a critical moment on a former tour. " And the r missionaries and a grand spiritual feast for the tent of the journey wdiich the Spirit had marked contention w as so sharp between them, that churches. At Lystra, Paul, with his keen per- out for him, when he suggested to Barnabas a they departed asunder one from the other; and ception and the aid of the Spirit, made selec- tour among the churches already raised up. so Barnabas took Mark and sailed unto Cyprus." tion of a young man to accompany him in his Up to his arrival at Troas he seems to have Chap. 15 : 39. The record does not show any extensive work. Timothy had been educated been guided principally by the frustration of his opinion of the writer as to whicj^ of the dispu- in the Scriptures from his youth, and was "well own plans. But he persevered in his labors, tants was in error. The following comment in reported of by the brethren "—two very im- " nothing doubting," and here he was shown in the " Life and Epistles of Paul," by Conybeare portant qualifications. Besides, considering the vision a foreign door opened to him, which he and Howson, is worthy of note:— manner of the introduction of the gospel in did not hesitate to enter. Man is excusable for " The only course which now remained was to Lycaonia, and the character of the Jews with not fully comprehending God's great plans, pro- choose two different paths and to labor inde- whom he was thrown in contact, we may sup- vided he exercises faith enough to move forwrard pendently, and the church saw the humiliating pose it required no little nerve to live a Chris- as fast as the Spirit opens the way before him. spectacle of the separation of its two great mis- tian life in that region. Paul's company now A familiar illustration may be pardoned: Stone- sionaries to the heathen. We cannot, however, numbered the same as that of the first part of wall Jackson was a remarkably successful mili- suppose that Paul and Barnabas parted like his former journey—a prominent companion tary leader, but he did not pretend to lay out enemies, in anger and hatred. It is very likely and a young " minister." great plans—he simply executed. Such was his that they made a deliberate and amicable ar- faith in General Lee, that he said he -would not rangement to divide the region of their first Timothy Circumcised. hesitate to go blindfolded where that officer had mission between them, Paul taking the conti- laid the plan. This is the principle upon which nental, and Barnabas the insular part of the PAUL'S position that " circumcision is noth- Christians ought to work. God's plan includes proposed visitation. Of this at least we are ing" is too well knowm to require repitition r the world, and he seems to work through a suc- certain, that the quarrel w as overruled by di- here. His stand on this subject at Antioch cession of reformations, each one calling for the vine Providence to a good result. One stream and Jerusalem forever settles his doctrine as to exercise of faith, and presenting its "peculiar of missionary labor was divided, and regions any virtue or obligation being connected with test. The Holy Spirit has been delegated as blessed by the waters of life were proportion- the rite under the gospel. But "because of the grand guide in what to teach, how "to teach, ally multiplied. Paul speaks of Barnabas after- the Jews which w^ere in those quarters," he and where to teach. Our province is to promptly ward as of an apostle actively engaged in his would temporarily avoid a cause of opposition. enter every door that is opened before us by the Master's service. We know nothing of the de- He had reason to know the desperate extreme providence of God, in the same faith that char- tails of his life beyond the moment" of his sail- to which their prejudice would be likely to run acterized Paul's entry into Europe. ing for Cyprus, but we may reasonably attribute if he associated an uncircumcised companion to him, not only the confirming of the first con- in his work. verts, but the full establishment of the church In the face of his positively-asserted opinion Reception of the Missionaries. in his native island." on this subject (1 Cor. 7 : 19; Gal. 2 : 14; 5:6; THERE were now at least four in the company, We have the assurance that Mark afterward 6 : 15), it is unfair to infer, as some do from as the writer (Luke) says, "we were in that enjoyed the confidence of Paul. In Col. 4 :10, Gal. 5 : 3, that Paul would place Timothy un- city [Philippi] certain days." Chap. 16:9. Just 11, he is spoken of as a " fellow-worker " and a der obligation to keep the whole ceremonial where he joined the party is not stated, but " comfort" to the apostle in prison at Eome; law, and then take him out on a long mission- here is the first place where the pronoun we and is mentioned in the letter to Philemon, ary journey to preach the gospel. Although occurs in the record of the journey as including written about the same time. Also in 2 Tim. the apostle would not court persecution, and the writer. 4 : 11, Paul says of him, that "he is profitable would avoid it if possible for the work's sake, There w^as no Jewish synagogue here, and to me for the ministry." There is no doubt he was not so fearful of it as to squarely com- the first worshipers of God that they met were that the apostle's rebuke at Antioch was promise a leading principle of his faith to save " by a river side," out of the city, " where prayer " profitable " to Mark, and that he never again himself or his companions. It was because the was wTont to be made." In this company the gave way before prospective hardship. mere act of circumcision amounted to nothing, apostle found a confirmation of the call which MARCH 20. 1884.

he received in his vision at Troas, of a man another under beds, others in stables, and in crying, " Come over into Macedonia and help every place inaccessible to the lynx-eyed officers us." The missionaries seem to have recognized of the law. this, as they began at once to help them by pro- " One woman carried a flat bottle in her stock- claiming their message. Through this humble Does Prohibition Prohibit? ing, from which she supplied her customers, and means their reception was accomplished, and the officers who got upon her track had an they found a home at the house of a convert IT is a standing declaration of opponents of amusing time of it to make the seizure. She named Lydia. pohibitory laws, that they do not prohibit. profesb-cd her innocence of the charge, and was The query may well be raised, Would these op- anxious to accompany him to the station, but The Adversary Aroused. posers think more of prohibitory laws if they first she would retire into the next room to IN crossing the iEgean the ministers of did prohibit? No, they would not. If they do change her dress. To this the officer consented, Christ had not passed the boundary of Satan's not prohibit, if they are ineffectual, why is it only be would go with her. She wanted an claim. He had been in Europe long before that liquor-dealers prefer a high-license law to opportunity to get rid of the fatal bottle—it Paul's arrival, and was prepared to contest the a prohibitory law? It cannot be that they was her second offense, and the penalty this right of possession. We need not repeat the would rather than not pay money into the time would be six months in jail. That failing, narrative of the arrest of Paul and Silas, on treasury, for there is more defrauding the reve- she insisted upon several changes of location, complaint of the masters of a spiritualist me- nue done by the liquor interest than by all the point being to get away from him till she dium, whom Paul released from the control of others. could break the bottle. The officer was inflex- Satan; nor the cruel and unlawful treatment It is a mere evasion, and a very weak one ible. Like Ruth, where she went he would go the prisoners received by order of the magis- too, to affirm that liquor is sold in those States also. Finally she dropped the bottle and went. trates. Chap. 9 : 16 and onward. The follow- where prohibitory laws are in force. Our laws " She languished six months in jail and her ing comment by Mrs. E. G. White is from " The against murder are prohibitory, yet murders business was closed up. Great Controversy":— are constantly committed, and the majority of " Another woman carried two flat bottles un- " The apostles were left in a very painful con- the murderers escape punishment. Would a der her skirts, at her hips, and it required the dition. Their lacerated and bleeding backs " high license " of murder be more effectual ? services of two women employed in the depart- were in contact with the rough stone floor, Why is it that a brigand in some countries is ment to bring the bottles to the light of day, in twhile their feet were elevated and bound fast to this day more of a hero than a criminal? It the police station. in the stocks. In this unnatural position they is because at some time the rulers received a " When her customers called for their drinks, suffered extreme torture; yet they did not percentage of the ill-gotten gains of the brig- she would hoist her dress and produce the bot- groan nor complain, but conversed with and ands, and it was known that it was little use tles. Where twenty cents was involved she encouraged each, other, and praised God with to try to bring the maurauder to justice, as had no special delicacy. There isn't any deli- grateful hearts that they were found worthy some means would be devised to enable him to cacy in rum, either in buyer or seller. It is to suffer shame for his dear name. Paul was escape. The practice took character from that demoralizing all the way through." reminded of the persecution he had been in- fact, and a successful, bold freebooter was re- Now if the opposers of prohibition will point strumental in heaping upon the disciples of garded as valiant and enterprising. Govern- out some place under license laws, even under Christ, and he was devoutly thankful tbat his ment protection will, in time, make almost any- " high-license " laws, where those who wish to eyes had been opened to see, and his heart to thing respectable in the eyes of the majority. deal in liquors have to resort to such miserable feel, the glorious truths of the gospel of the Put it is bad policy for a Government to sanc- methods as are here described, we will confess Son of God, and that he had been privileged to tion, uphold, or license anything that is only an that there is more virtue in license than we preach the doctrine which he had once de- evil and a curse to society. have ever yet believed. Can they do it ? If spised. There, in the pitchy darkness and des- But prohibitory laws do prohibit. In those such were tbe result of license laws they would olation of the dungeon, Paul and Silas prayed, States where they have been tried they have oppose them as vigorously as they now oppose and sung songs of praise to God. The other been as effectual as any other laws for the sup- prohibitory laws. prisoners heard with astonishment the voice of pression of crime. We have been much inter- The West Virginia Irrepressible said of a prayer and praise issuing from the inner prison. ested in a report of observations in Maine by prohibitory law: "We are willing to give it a They had been accustomed to hear shrieks and D. E. Locke, well known as the author of the trial if it does not more than half prohibit." moans, cursing and swearing, breaking at night " Nasby letters." Few will dare to deny the So will say every true temprance man. If it upon the silence of the prison; but they had statements of Mr. Locke; he is reliable. He is does not more than half prohibit, it will then never before heard the words of prayer and not a citizen of Maine, hut closely observed be worth much more than a license law. High praise ascending from that gloomy cell. The when he was there. He says:— license is a sham, of which reasonable men will guards and prisoners marveled who were these " An Irish woman known to her countrymen soon tire, because the supply will still be equal men, who, cold, hungry, and tortured, could as a dealer in liquors, has a room in the rear of to the demand. A small increase in the price still rejoice and converse cheerfully with each her miserable dwelling fitted up something like of drinks will compensate the dealer; and at other. Meanwhile the magistrates had re- a bar. She has one bottle of whisky, and a old prices they who pay high license can well turned to their homes congratulating them- few bottles of rum in sight, but over them she afford it, because it will be more of a monopoly selves upon having quelled a tumult, by their has a weight suspended by a string, and under, when the poor dealers are closed out. prompt and decisive measures." a tub filled with water, in which kerosene oil Reforms must be progressive or they cease to has been poured. The beer is kept in a water be reforms. We have seen the time in the tem- sprinkler. Another Persecution. perance movement when a proposal of prohib- " She is ready for the officers. They can itory laws could not have obtained a hearing AT Thessalonica was a synagogue of the only approach by the front door, and when they anywhere. But to-day we believe that prohibi- Jews (chapter 17 : 1), and here Paul preached appear she darts into the back room, euts the tion is the only true temperance platform. All Jesus from the Scriptures three Sabbath days, string, the weight descends and smashes the other expedients have proved inefficient. It is when envy provoked another persecution. bottles into the tub of watered kerosene, to de- a good work to reclaim drunkards; but it is far This time the great opposer operated through stroy the smell of the whisky; the sprinkling better to save our young men from becoming the professed people of God. The experience can of beer is overset on the floor, and the evi- drunkards. EDITOR. of Paul at Philippi and at Thessalonica illus- dence is destroyed. trates the fact that in everj^ part of the world, " They search the house for liquor and some- THE tendency is to draw the lines closer and and in every age, Satan has two prominent times find it. One man had dug through his closer between temperance and drink. The day agents through which to attack the work of cellar wall, and made an opening sufficient to was when advocates of moderation might have reformation, namely,—the professed church, hold a small stock. The door to this opening been listened to with respect, but the more the which through pride and self-conceit feels no was a huge double affair, filled with sand, so question is agitated the more hideous does the need of reformation or progress, and the open that tapping the wall would not betray the fact monster alcobol appear, and people must divide enemies of the Lord. It is also a further dem- that there was an opening, and the door itself into two classes—its friends and its foes. There onstration of the fact that in an emergency was painted so close an imitation of stone as to can be no middle ground. He that is not for it these two apparent extremes will work to- make detection almost impossible. It would is against it.—Lever. gether to accomplish a common purpose. The not have been discovered but for the man who Third Angel's Message of the present time, painted it. He babbled in his drink. He took A LEADING daily paper says: "The tax on to- connecting the commandments of God with too much of the stuff which his genius had con- bacco is a discriminating one against a particular the faith of Jesus, is having a like experience, cealed, and betrayed the concealment. Thus branch of agricultural production, and might meeting the combined antagonism of the pop- evil is made to work good. better be removed or made merely nominal." ular church and Spiritualism. And the union " Another woman had her cellar paved with Tobacco itself is a very heavy tax upon the soil of these forces against the truth will become flat stones, and under one particular stone the which produces it, as also upon the victims of more and more marked as the end nears us, earth had been removed sufficiently to hold a its use and their offspring, and ought therefore and the desperation of the adversary becomes large stock of the stuff. to be assessed heavy damages. more intense in view of his approaching doom. " Other methods of concealment are em- W. N. GLENN. ployed. One woman has it hidden in privies, THE wise profit by the experience of others. 184 VOL. 10, No. 10.

that it was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, imme- judgment" is masterly, and, it seems to us, ought to diately after his ascension." settle these questions. Of this we are so confident Cjje JSips of % Cimcs. As Christ represented the Father to the world, so that we do not believe that any one of the spiritual- the Spirit represents Christ to the church during his izers would care to undertake to review him. " Can ye not discern the signs of the times ?" absence. But Christ was not the Father, and the In an Editorial Note in the Old Testament Stu-

J. H. WAGGONER, EDITOR. Spirit was not Christ. He said if he went away he dent, on the " Jewish Theories of Messianic Inter- E. J. WAGGONER, ASSISTANT EDITOR. would pray the Father and he would send them an- pretation," are found the following words:— URIAH SMITH, - - CORRESPONDING EDITOR. other Comforter, even the Spirit of truth. But the "A recent writer enumerates four distinct theo- coming of the Spirit was not the coming of Christ; ries advanced by theologians of different schools, in OAKLAND, CAL., FIFTH-DAY, MARCH 20, 1884. it was not the fulfillment of his promise to come accordance with which these portions are inter- again and take them to himself, to the mansions preted. ... (4) A fourth theory is denominated Will the Lord Himself Return? which he has gone to prepare. Of this we shall the No-Person theory, in accordance with which offer abundant proof. Here we will mention but the Messiah is supposed to be an age of prosperity, MANY people really suppose that our interest in this one fact, which is, however, decisive on the and, in no sense, personal." the doctrine of the second advent is unnecessarily point, namely: most of the scriptures which speak We are not informed as to the time when this great, and that by making it so prominent in our of the second coming, as a matter of hope, were "No-Person theory " arose amongst the Jews. But faith and work we are needlessly building up a written after the day of Pentecost; after the de- we cannot believe it was an early period, for of barrier between ourselves and other denominations. scent of the Spirit. the many references to Messiah in the New Testa- The following query has lain some time in our In connection with the "spiritual sense" of the ment we can find no trace of such a theory. " What drawer; and for different reasons we have neglected Scriptures in regard to the advent, it is necessary think you of the Christ ? [the Messiah.] Whose son to answer it. But it is deserving of an answer, and to notice the position of the sermon on the Judg- is he? They say unto him, The son of David." we now proceed to give it:— ment and the resurrection. It says:— Matt. 22 : 42. " For unto you is born this day in "Why does it require a separate denomination to the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the "The end of the world and the day of judgment^ advocate Christ's second coming? I supposed all for each individual soul, is the day of the death of Lord." Luke 2 :11. " Come, see a man which told denominations believed that, and preached it. Is j the body; that the judgment is a perpetual fact, and me all things that ever I did. Is not this the Christ ?" it not so? Yours truly, L. L. K." ! that many thousands, small and great, appear before John 4 :29. " Do the rulers know indeed that this In answering this question we propose to show ! God every day. is the very Christ ? " John 7 : 26. Christ in Greek- that "all denominations" do not believe it and "The resurrection is typical of the life of the soul; that the figure of a spiritual body teaches, is the equivalent of the Messiah, from the Hebrew. preach it, as it is taught in the plain letter of the not the resurrection of the material body, but the The reader can at once see that according to this Scriptures; that they have invented a substitute immortality of the soul." " No-Person theory," Jesus of Nazareth was not the. for it, which they even acknowledge is a substitute; These declarations are necessarily attendant upon Messiah at all—he could not be. And the exact that the doctrine of the coming of Christ is a great the spiritual theory of the advent; for it would be counterpart of this theory is found in the " No-Person practical doctrine, second in importance to scarcely utterly inconsistent to have a figurative advent, and theory" of the second advent! And we claim, and any in the Bible; and, that we are taught to expect a literal resurrection and judgment day, seeing that who can gainsay it ? that there is no greater violence it.feecause we may and ought to know when it is the latter depend entirely upon the former. The done to the prophecies in applying the "No-Person near. above view is doubtless now held by the great major- theory " to the first advent, than is done in applying I. That it is not generally accepted as an article ity of the churches. It is openly avowed by such it to the second advent. of Christian belief is sufficiently shown in the fact influential journals as the Christian Union, as we We can reduce all the false theories respecting that the doctrine is treated so scornfully by the have noticed in its answers to questions on these Christ to these three: 1. That Christ was to come to great majority of professors of religion. A mere subjects. set up the throne of David, and to reign as his Son> reference to the second coming of Christ in a " union Bishop Merrill, of the M. E. Church, published but not to suffer and to die. This was the belief of meeting" has been known to promptly call out a a book on the " Second Coming of Christ," in which most of the Jews when Jesus was born. 2. That rebuke from the leaders of the meeting. On almost he earnestly contends for the literal construction of Christ was to suffer and die, but not to sit upon the every other point the veriest "crank" could air his those scriptures which speak of the advent, the res- throne of his father David. This is the popular or vagaries without any fear of reproof. The Ad- urrection, the judgment, the punishment of the " orthodox " view at the present time; for orthodoxy ventists (or the " advents," as they are improperly wicked, and the conflagration of the earth. In re- is but another name for popularity, in common and contemptuously called) are scarcely recognized gard to the last two items, if to no others, he cer- speech. 3. That Christ was not and is not to appear as Christian believers by many professors, and this tainly comes in conflict with the prevailing belief in on earth at all in person; that the "Messiah" did without any regard to other points of faith which his own church. At the last General Conference of not refer to any individual who was to suffer and die, they may hold. There is prevailing and increasing the M. E. Church, an inquirer found very few who or to reign on David's throne; but, it signified a dis- a strong feeling of opposition to the subject of the would avow faith in the literal interpretation of the pensation of prosperity, of grace, or great spiritual return of our absent Lord; not so much on the part Bible concerning the punishment of the wicked; blessings. This is the united faith of those Jews of the worldlings who do not regard him as their though the literal was almost the only view held in who hold to the "No-Person theory," and of pro- Lord, as on the part of church members, who claim that church half a century ago. The difference be- fessed Christians who hold to the "spiritual sense" of him as their Lord, and profess to love him. Truly tween the preaching, in that and other churches, on the second advent. And between these theories they say in their hearts, "My Lord delayeth his this subject, at the present time and a half century the Bible is robbed of its glory; the Son of God is a coming." Matt. 24 :45-51. is not, as has been asserted, a mere accommoda- ago, myth; and man has in fact no Redeemer. We have now before us the report of a "Tri- tion to the feelings of " ears polite," but it is the result In closing this paper, and this part of the argu- Annual Meeting" of an "Association of Congre- of a tendency to drift away from the old-time land- ment, we must give some evidence on the second gational Churches," as published in a paper of that marks. The Disciplines and Confessions or Creeds point. denomination. The opening sermon was on the have greatly changed, but they have not changed II. To prove that the churches have accepted a "Second Coming of Christ." The report says: "The as fast as the faith and the feelings of both the pul- substitute for the second advent, is really to give fur- argument was a bold, original elucidation of the pits and the pews have changed. ther proof that they have no true faith in the spiritual sense of Scripture touching the whole sub- Bishop Merrill characterizes the view taken in the advent. ject of the second advent and the general judg- the sermon to which we have referred, and which we In the New York Independent of March 6, 1884, ment." say is now, or is fast becoming, the popular view, as is a Sunday-school Lesson Notes on 1 Thess. 4 :13- It is no secret that " the spiritual sense of Script- Universalism. He says:— 5 :8. This scripture lesson brings out remarks on ure" is the popular sense, if there is indeed any "This is the form of Universalism that is now the advent. After saying that "the great use of such sense in it. The expression is made to signify proposing to lead the Christian world into light! It the doctrine of our Lord's coming is for comfort," something different from the literal or obvious sense. has no place for a Second Advent, as it denies the the writer remarks:— The literal must be the true sense; just such a sense resurrection of the body and a future judgment. It finds only the 'figurative' coming, and places it at " For all practical purposes of comfort the doc- as would be determined by the definitions of the the destruction of Jerusalem." trine of the blessed immortality of the righteous, words used. When we depart from this we cast It is just as easy to harmonize the declarations of the immortality of the soul, takes the place for us ourselves upon a trackless sea without a compass; of any doubtful doctrine of our Lord's second com the New Testament with the theory that the advent it is to give loose reign to fancy, and to make the ing. At our death the Lord comes for us. That is took place at the destruction of Jerusalem, as on what we are to wait and watch for. The dead are revelation of the divine will subservient to the the day of Pentecost, as we shall show when we ex- already passed into glory. They do not wait for the caprices of its self-constituted censors. amine the texts. The Bishop's argument on these trumpfor their judgment and blessedness." On the subject of the advent the sermon says:— several points, against this "bold, original elucida- There is no paper in the country conducted with "I hold that the second coming of Christ, always tion of the spiritual sense of Scripture teaching the more ability than the Independent; perhaps no one spoken of by himself and the apostles as a near whole subject of the second advent and the general of wider influence. And this testimony of a sub- event refers to his return to them m the Spirit; MARCH 20, 1884. THE S.IGISTR OE THE TIMES. 185

lings. Besides the tenth received by the Levites, stitute for the advent " for all practical purposes of after the thousand years of Eev. 20. We say the the Israelites were obliged to set apart another tenth comfort" and blessing, is as explicit as could be length of that day cannot be determined, because of their garden and field produce; and in like man- desired. Also in the Christian Union of the same we have no revelation concerning the length of the ner of their cattle, a second set of offerings, for the date, under the head of "Home Talks about the "little season" of Eev. 20:3, or of the time oc- purpose of presenting as thank offerings at the high Word—the Coming of the Lord," the writer fancies cupied by the final deceptions of Satan, the destruc- festivals. Of these thank offerings only certain fat "a dear mother who went away to the South, or to tion of the wicked, and the restitution of the earth. pieces were consumed on the altar; the remainder, Colorado, or California," for her health, and, when It may be asked, Is the difference a material one ? after deducting the priests' portion, was appropriated letters came saying she was better, the writer says:— Or, Is it practically of any importance to be correct on this point? It is. He who admits that "the to the sacrifice feasts, to which the Israelites were " Every day you could say to yourself, " Some day bound to invite the stranger, the widow, and the she will come back, and not be sick any more, and day of the Lord" is one thousand years in length we shall be so happy together again.' You would has given himself over to the will of the teachers orphan." Home's Introduction, Vol. 2, Part II.' try to do just what would please her, to work and of the "Age to Come." It is easy to prove that they chap. viii. study, and think of her wishes in everything. And are wrong, but we must have the truth in order to "Besides the first-fruits, the Jews also paid tithes if, some day, a message came to take you to the or tenths of all they possessed. Num. 18 :21. • They pleasant summer land where your mother was, why, prove it. A minister who should teach that the day that would be even better than having her come of the Lord is one thousand years in length would be were in general collected of all the produce of the back. That is the way we are to think of our lamentably weak if he should fall into the hands of earth (Lev. 27 : 30; Deut. 14 : 22, 23; Neh. 13 : 5, 10), friends who have fallen asleep, and of the Lord a preacher of the Age to Come. Brethren, study but chiefly of corn, wine, and oil, and were ren- Jesus himself, our best friend." your subjects. Sightly divide the word of truth. dered every year except the sabbatical year. When Some better hope is held out than that of Jesus these tithes were paid, the owner of the fruits coming again. But we say in regard to both these further gave another tenth part, which was carried The Support of the poor. extracts, that the substitute proposed is entirely up to Jerusalem, and eaten in the temple at offer- unauthorized by the Scriptures. The word of the ing feasts, as a sign of rejoicing and gratitude to THERE are many Christians who use their tithe Lord never otfers comfort in consideration of the God. These are called second tithes:'—lb., Vol. 2, as a sort of charity fund, from which they make all immortality of the soul. If it did the wicked could Part III., chap. Hi. their gifts and offerings, of whatever kind. But the take that comfort to themselves, for if the righteous "Every year a tithe was paid to the Levites; and are immortal by nature, so are the wicked. Bible recognizes no such plan as this. The poor are to be supported, but not with the Lord's tithe. In besides that a second tithe, which was carried to Next week we will speak further upon this sub- Jerusalem and eaten there; and every third year it stitute, and show by the plain reading of the Script- ancient times the following was one provision made was eaten at home, in their towns and cities in the ures that there cannot be any substitute for the for the poor: " And when ye reap the harvest of your country instead of it, with the Levite, poor, and coming of the Lord. That nothing whatever can be land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy stranger, and was called the poor's tithe."—D?\ of equal importance; that the promised glorification field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy John Gill, on Deut. 26:12. He gives other testi- of the saints cannot be fulfilled without it harvest. And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vine- mony to the same effect, in his comments on the yard ; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger; succeeding verses, and on Deut. 14 :23-28, and Lev. Tlie Proof in the Text. I am the Lord your God." Lev. 19 :9,10. See also 23 : 2T : 30. " Let there be taken out of your fruits a tenth be- BIBLE-READINGS are both interesting and profit- 22; Deut. 24 :19-21. sides what you have allotted to give to the priests able, but we have always insisted that great care Some may argue from Deut. 26 :12, 13 that the and Levites. This you may indeed sell in the coun- should be exercised in their preparation. The Bible tithe was to be used for the support of the poor, but try, but it is to be used in those feasts and sacrifices is the word of God from Heaven to man; and ac- in this text we see not only the careful provision that are to be celebrated in the holy city." cording to its value as the word of God, so great is made for the poor, but the sacredness with which "Besides those two tithes which I have already the danger of perverting or misapplying it. And the Lord's tithe was devoted to the one object for said you are to pay every year, the one for the constant study and care are necessary to guard which it was designed. We quote the text: "When Levites, the other for the festivals, you are to bring against a misuse of this message to fallen man. Its thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of every third year a tithe to be distributed to those truths are a connected whole, and no one point of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the that want; to women also that are widows, and to doctrine can be turned aside from its true meaning stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they children that are orphans."—JosephusP Ant., Book without doing violence to other points, or to the may eat within thy gate and be filled; then thou IV., chap. 8, sec. 8 and 22. system. To illustrate our meaning we give two in- shalt say before the Lord thy God, I have brought These testimonies, and others that might be given, stances. From a Bible-reading which we lately saw away the hallowed things out of mine house, and together with the argument previously adduced, we take the following:— also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the show conclusively that the Lord's tithe was not « Who, of all the dead, rise first ? 1 Thess. 4 :16." stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, accord, used for the poor; and since it was not used either A little study of the context must satisfy any ing to all thy commandments which thou hast com- for building or repairing houses of worship, it must one that there is no manner of reference to " all the manded me; I have not transgressed thy command- have been solely for those who labored in connec- dead ".in this text. The apostle says that "we ments, neither have I forgotten them." The com- tion with sacred things. Indeed, how could it be which are alive and remain unto the coming of the mand here referred to is found in Deut. 14 :22-29, otherwise. We read, "The tithe is the Lord's." Lord, shall not prevent [precede, go before, or be where, in addition to the requirement to give to the It was to be deposited in the Lord's treasury. Now glorified before] them which are asleep." For when stranger, the fatherless, etc., this statement is made: if I owe a friend ten dollars, it will not do for me to the trump of God sounds, "the dead in Christ shall "And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, in give any part of it to a poor man, even though I rise first; then "—what ? the other dead rise after- the place which he shall choose to place his name know that my friend would use the money in the ward? No; we shall be caught up together with there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine same way, if I were to pay it to him. It belongs to them. They shall rise—not before somebody else is oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and thy flocks." no one but to my friend, and it would be highly dis- raised,—but before we are glorified; then they and Now when we read in Num. 18 :21, "Behold, I honest for me to get a reputation for liberality, by we shall all be glorified together. It is true that have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel giving away that to which I have no right. No one the righteous dead will rise before the wicked dead- for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, can be charitable on another's money. E. J. w. Other scriptures plainly teach it, but 1 Thess. 4 does even the service of the tabernacle of the congrega- not. The whole argument is to show to the brethren Neliemiali's Regard for Sunday. tion," we are forced to the conclusion that the tithe that the dead are suffering no loss in sleeping, as the spoken of in Deut. 14 and 26 is not the same as that IN a "Picture Lesson Paper," issued by the great living, when Christ comes, will have no precedence which was devoted to the Levites on account of their Methodist publishers, Nelson & Philips, New York, over them. And neither party will be glorified be- service in the sanctuary, for the stranger could not and Hitchcock & Walden, Cincinnati, we find the fore Christ comes. by any possibility be counted as one of the Levites- following instance of unaccountable thoughtlessness Another erroneous reference has been made to 2 We can harmonize the two scriptures only on the or unpardonable dishonesty. Peter 3:8, to prove that "the day of the Lord" ground that the tithe which the people themselves, One page of said paper is called the " Berean is one thousand years in length. God has eternity together with " the Levite, the stranger, the father_ Leaflet." It is devoted to studies in the " Old Tes- at his command, and though he does not fulfill his less, and the widow," were to eat, was a second tithef tament." Its title is, "The Keeping of the Sab- promise immediately, he is not slack, for it is equally taken after the tithe for the Levites had been given bath; or, the Holy Day." Its "golden text" is, sure whether he fulfills it to-day or a thousand them. This view of the question is taken by all com- " Eemember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Ex. years hence. This is all that this verse proves- mentators of whom we have any knowledge. And 20 :8." It has a picture of Nehemiah standing up But the length of " the day of the Lord" is only there are some who claim that every third year a third and protesting against the course of those who are determined by the events which transpire in it. In- tithe was collected. We quote a few testimonies:— bearing wheat, grapes, and oil into Jerusalem on the deed, its length cannot be determined, for the de- " Another important privilege enjoyed by the poor Sabbath day. struction of the wicked, and the conflagration of After presenting these texts and facts, which be- the earth, take place in the day of the Lord, but was, what were called second tithes and second first- 186 THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. VOL. 10, No. 11.

long to the true Sabbath and to that alone, the pa- God Works by Minorities. per launches out in behalf of the pagan and papal Jjftiaaiflitarg, Sunday in the following style:— THIS, says Professor Phelps of Andover, is one "1. Which day of the week is called God's day? of the great principles of God's working in the —Sunday. Missionary Work in California and Australia. affairs of his kingdom. He works with minor- " 2. What is it for ?—For rest and worship. ities who are working for him. " Be not afraid " 3. Rest from what ?—From labor. AT our State quarterly meeting at Healds- nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's." Go out "4. Whom are we to worship ?—God. burg, several resolutions were adopted laying against them. The "Lord will be with you. " 5. What is the fourth commandment ?—' Remem- out missionary work for the future. Some steps The history of the church is full of illustrations ber the Sabbath day,' etc. have been taken toward carrying out these of this law of divine procedure. Dip into it any- "6. What is said about work?—Thou shalt do no plans. A list of the libraries of the State has where, and you come upon this divine strategy. work. been obtained, and those which have not been Napoleon thought that he knew the world well. "7. Who came to Jerusalem?—Nehemiah. fully supplied with the books recommended by He had studied the history of great empires, but "8. What did he find ?—People working on Sun- the International Society, will be furnished. he said it was an inexplicable mystery to him Quite a number have been visited with a view day. that Christianity, beginning as it did with a few "9. What law were they breaking ?—God's law. to furnishing these books, with the SIGNS OF fishermen of the feeblest nation then on the " 10. What did Nehemiah tell them ?—That they THE TIMES and Good Health. The almost unan- globe, should in his time have risen to be so much were doing wrong. imous expression is that they will be thankfully more mighty than his own conquests, which had "11. What did he do?—Stopped it. received. We hope before our next meeting almost all the armies of Europe to back them. that this work will be completed. "12. What is wrong-doing ?—Sin. It was God's way of working with minorities Resolution No. 9 reads as follows:— " 13. To what does it lead ?—Suffering. who are working for him. When the church be- "14. What is the only safe way?—To keep God's WHEREAS, The islands of the Pacific Ocean pre- came corrupt, and needed reform, the same thing sent a vast unoccupied field which must very soon was repeated. A few earnest men who were word." receive the light of the Third Angel's Message; hunted like wild beasts, in a few years shook Ip the foregoing quotation we have put two of Resolved, That we urge our tract and missionary the world. The battle was not theirs, but God's. the answers in italics. In the original all the an- workers to anticipate and prepare the way for the An old saying of the German Reformers, which swers are in bold-face type, which makes them more living messenger by a thorough and judicious can- vass of these islands with the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. a modern reformer has untruthfully claimed as prominent still. his own, was, "One, with God on'his side, is a Now if the writer of the questions and answers In regard to this resolution, we have obtained majority." On a certain occasion the Lord en- given above had any knowledge whatever of his a new directory of the city of Melbourne. Vic- couraged his people with these words: " Be not toria, Australia, and the adjacent cities and subject he knew that Sunday is never called " God's afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great mul- towns. Names have been selected, and already day" in all the Bible. He knew*that the Sabbath titude; for the battle is not yours, but God's." quite a large number of the SIGNS are on their 2 Chron. 20 :15. This was the favorite text day of the fourth commandment is not Sunday, and way to that distant country. Twelve or fifteen that the fourth commandment has nothing to do of Sir Fowell Buxton. He once wrote to his of the libraries have been written to, and a daughter that she would find his Bible opening of with Sunday as a day of rest, and cannot be made descriptive circular of a dozen of our bound to sustain it, till it is changed so as to read " first I itself to the blace where this passage occurs. books, with copies of the SIGNS and Good Health, This text it was which gave him courage to day " instead of " seventh day." And he knew that has been sent them, and these will be furnished move in the British Parliament for the emanci- Nehemiah cared nothing about people working on if the librarians wish to receive them. Through pation of slaves throughout the British Empire. Sunday. He worked himself that day. It was the the kindness of the Pacific Mail Steamship When he entered on that conflict he stood almost sin of working on the Sabbath, against which he Company, we can send these books at a very alone; when this bill was first read in Parlia-' protested. low rate of freight, so we hope soon to be able ment it was received with shouts of derisive to refer the readers of the SIGNS in Australia This is just parallel to a statement by Dr. Justin laughter. But he bethought him of this text, to libraries in their own towns, where they can Edwards. In his "Sabbath Manual," page 216, and he began his speech, saying:— have access to the following list of books: " His- respecting Pompey, he says:— tory of the Sabbath," "Thoughts on Daniel _ " Mr. Speaker, the reading of this bill is the be- "Pompeythe Roman general, . . . when be- and Revelation," « The Coming Conflict," " Life ginning of a movement which will surely end in sieging Jerusalem, would not attack them on the of Miller," " Life Sketches," "United States in the abolition of slavery throughout the" British Sabbath; but spent the day in constructing his Prophecy," " The Sanctuary," " Sketches from dominions." The old Hebrew prophet never works, and preparing to attack them on Monday." the Life of Paul," and three volumes of the said a truer word. Sir Fowell knew it, for the Thus he would have us think that Sunday was the "Great Controversy." battle was not his, but God's. The same phenomenon was witnessed in the Sabbath in the time of Pompey, 63 vears before There is a vast field for missionary labor in Christ. first attempt to establish American missions Australia and New Zealand. The island of among the heathen. When one of the early Is it possible that men can be educated into such Australia is 2,400 miles in length east and west, meetings of the American Board was held at ignorance of God's word? And what do theolog- and 1,971 miles north and south, and is divided Bradford, Mass., less than twenty persons were ians think to accomplish by such reckless state- into five colonies, as follows: Victoria, of which in attendance, and they were hooted at by boys Melbourne is the capital, has a population of ments ? Do they not know that even the dullest on the piaza of the hotel where they were in 860,067; New South Wales, of which Sidney scholars will in time discover the fraud, and then a session. Barely sixty-five years have passed, is the capital, has a population of 739,385; South reaction is sure to follow ? and at a recent meeting of that Board in Provi- Australia, of which Adelaide is the capital, has We see plainly enough that the assertions which dence, five thousand strangers from abroad were a population of 267,573; Queensland, of which present, and two churches were filled with eager these men make are just the evidence that Sunday Brisbane is the capital, has a population of friends. needs. That is, if Sunday is to be sustained as the 226,077; and Western Australia, of which Perth When the first American missionaries reached Sabbath, it must be called somewhere in the Bible, is the capital, has a population of 29,019. Be- God's day; there must be some law for it; and it sides this are the islands of Tasmania, with a India, the English Government refused them a landing. " Go back," was the imperious order; must appear that some honor lias been paid to it by population of 114,762, and New Zealand, with " Go back, in the ship in which you came." those who have been commissioned of God to write a population of about 500,000. I11 the General Assembly of the Church of Scot- his word. But none of these proofs exist in refer- The fine libraries to be found in every town land, when it was first proposed to send the gos- ence to Sunday; and to pretend they do, is both a of importance shows that they are a reading pel to the heathen, reverend clergymen declared futile attempt, and a confession of weakness. people, and no doubt there are thousands who against the fanatical scheme. They said that u. s. would gladly accept the truths of the Third " the heathen were a contented and happy peo- Angel's Message if they had an opportunity to ple, and that it was no business of Scottish Christ- UPON church relations North and South the Lou- read, or hear them explained. On account of ians to disturb them." And this, in the face of isville Christian Observer says: "Coldness and dis- expense of postage, we shall not be able to our Lord's express command, " Go ye into all the send as many papers and letters as we other- tance in our conduct brings dishonor on the cause world, and preach the gospel to every creature." wise could. Postage on papers is two cents of Christ. When the Southern men, who are most Not a century has passed since that time, yet each, and twelve cents on each letter. Persons bitter in their expressions, want goods they buy of now all Christendom rings with congratulation who wish to have a part in this work can be Northern mills; when they want magazines, they over the achievement of Christian missions; and supplied with names by Miss Anna L. Ingels, order from New York; in feeble health, they go to Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal.; or if they wish no other class of men is so reverently canonized Waukesha or Northern watering places. They can to assist in paying postage, she will receive in the affections of the church as her mission- mingle in business relations, in joint-stock compan- donations and see that they are properly ap- aries to the heathen world. This is the fruit of ies, and in corporations, in social and political inter- plied. We hope at no distant day that' mis- God's working with minorities who were work- course with men from the other section. But as sionaries may be sent, and a mission established ing for him.—The Presbyterian. soon as church courtesy and cordiality is proposed, in Australia. M. C. ISRAEL. they recoil." "IN the morning sow thy seed, and in the Fresno, March 14, 1884. evening withhold not thy hand." MARCH 20, 1884. THE S.IGISTR OE THE TIMES. 187

Missionary Work in the Fiji Islands. "What is it that thou hast in thine hand, rendering necessary the frequent use of his Moses?" "Nothing but a staff, O God, with handkerchief. Indeed, he seemed so moved THE following compilation of interesting sta- which I tend my flocks." "Take it and use it and interested that I almost forgot the great tistics is from the "Australian Hand-book" for for me," said God. And so he did, and with it auditory around me, and talked and pleaded 1883:— wrought more wondrous things than Egypt with him alone. When I reached the home of It has been said that the late history of Fiji and her proud king had ever seen before. the good deacon with whom 1 stopped, I de- may be almost considered identical with the "Mary, what is it that thou hast in thine scribed my auditor, and found that he was what record of missionary enterprise. In no 'place hand? " "Nothing but a pot of sweet-smelling I expected, a leading citizen, wealthy, and of has missionary effort been more successful, or ointment, O God, wherewith I would anoint high social standing. its fruits been more apparent. It is only forty- this holy one who is called Jesus." And so she "The deacon, too, noticed his emotion, and seven years ago (1835) that the first missiona- did, and not only did the perfume fill all the said, 'I know how much he gave; how much ries, the Eev. William Cross and David Cargill, house in which they were, but the whole Bible- do you think ?' M. A., landed at Lakemba. They found the reading world has been fragrant with the mem- "I replied, 'I should not suppose that a man Fijians at nearly the lowest depths of degrada- ory of the blessed act of love, which has ever in his circumstances could afford to be moved tion—blood-thirsty, and addicted to cannibalism since been spoken of "as a memorial of her." as he was for less than ten dollars.' and all manner of vice. To-day finds the whole "Poor widow, what is that thou hast in thine "'Ten dollars!' was the reply; 'he gave three of them professing Christians; cannibalism has hand?" said God. "Only two mites, Lord. It cents!'' ceased since 1878, polygamy is abolished, and is very little, but then it is all I have, and I " Tears, I have since learned, ofttimes flow the idol worship of past ages has given place to would put it into thy treasury." And so she from very shallow springs. But I still wonder the worship of the true God, and generally there did, and the story of her generous giving has how a man could weep so much for ' three cents.'"' is peace. Many of the converts are said to ever since wrought like a charm in prompting —C. L. W. maintain a consistent walk, and in all a great others to give to the Lord. We copy from the Congregationalist a similar revolution, in outward morals at least, has taken "What is that thou hast in thine hand, story:— place, even if there has not been a real change of Dorcas?" "Only a needle, Lord." "Take it " STIRRED TO THE BOTTOM." heart. These remarks scarcely apply, however, and use it for me," said God. And so she did, A pastor of a church in one of the pleasant to the tribes of the interior of the Yiti Levu, and not only were the suffering poor of Joppa country towns of New York has lived .on a who are estimated at from 7,000 to 20,000, and warmly clad, but inspired by this loving life, pinching salary for four years. Not many Sab- who for some time held out against any advance "Dorcas societies" even now continue to ply baths ago, when the chronic pinch had made the of civilization into their territory. They have, their benign mission to the poor throughout the sore places too hard to bear any longer, he however, been punished on more than one occa- earth.—S. S. Times. stated the case fully from the pulpit, compared sion, and there is every reason to expect that, his means of livelihood with that of his average with the establishment of British rule in Fiji, LO 00 CO parishioners, and showed that he was working Total. they will find it to their interest to keep on -©p on little more than half pay, and was hampered good terms with those surrounding them. The •H in his work among them by poverty. o T. & M. Reserve Fund. CQ following are the returns of the Wesleyan Church Xfl This fair statement indorsed by the known in the Fiji District, which includes the island of h iraoo economy, and faithful, loving ministry of the Rotumah (now annexed to the colony), for the eS ] C5 CO 50 pastor, had its effect, and bore fruits as follows: a year 1881: Churches, 776; other preaching o A leading man in the church and the com- places, 432; missionaries, 8; native ministers, Tti m oo © Church of England No. Signs taken in Clubs. o compensation for the unpaid half service' of clergyman, was located at Levuka; Mr. Pool SH No. of Letters Written.. © four years, a purse of fifteen dollars !—Am-. was appointed Assistant Reader in 1879. It P- Missionary Visits. Missionary. is proposed to establish a Bishopric in Fiji in a No. Members Dism s ud. P connection with the Church of England. The «H N... ..f Members Added © No. of Reports Returned WE believe it was through the faithfulness Roman Catholics have for some time had a mis- of a Seventh-day Baptist lady school-teacher sion in the islands. It is under the name of U No. of Members... © that our Advent brethren first became ac- Prefecture Apostolique, and is governed by an A © Districts quainted with the doctrine of the Bible Sab- Apostolic Prefect, under the French dependence bath, from which sprang that vigorous and of Rome. Their influence, and the body itself, earnest body of Sabbath-keepers. Not every is small, compared to that of the Wesleyans. Tears vs. the Pocket. teacher among first-day people may hope for The number of church members (Catholic) is such results from her example and work, but stated at 8,000. Sir Arthur Gordon, the late THE last step in sanctification, we are inclined every one thus situated may do much for the Governor of the colony, speaking at Exeter to think, is the conversion of the pocket. You cause of truth. The following words from Miss Hall, in May 1878, said, " Out of a population may convert men from profanity, from intem- O. M. Bee, in West Yirginia, shows an appre- of something like 120,000 more than 102,000 perance, from the theater, from fashion and ciation of her opportunities which it may be are regular attendants at Wesleyan churches, frivolity in their varied forms, to attending encouraging and helpful to others to read: and the remaining 18,000 are not heathen, but meetings, distributing tracts, exhorting, sing- "There is a revival of religion in progress at for the most part members of other Christian ing, and praying, but the hand is still unclasped this place (Hooker's Yalley). I am teaching churches. The people of Fiji are now a Chris- from its gains. the public school at this place and am trying tian people. Not to mention smaller and in- It is not sometimes very difficult to move au- to do what I can for the Lord. I have only ferior places of worship, about 800 churches diences to tears while an earnest man pleads been here a short time, and do not know all have been built. Out of sixty-two ordained the cause of the poor and needy. But, not in- the parents yet, but I know and love the chil- ministers now employed in those islands, over frequently, the speaker is surprised to see the dren and can use my influence with them. fifty are natives, and nearly all the lesser teach- large amount of tears people will shed over the Pray for us that the blessing of God may rest ers', such, for instance, as school-teachers, num- poor, and the small amount of money they will on our efforts, that much gooci may be done; bering over 3,000, are natives also. contribute to relieve them. and that the people may know the Sabbath One of the most effective speakers in behalf truth."—Sabbath Recorder. of this Association, furnishes this striking illus- " What Thy Hand Findeth to Do." tration of the point:— THE noble passion, true love, contains all the " WHAT is that in thine hands, Abel ? " Noth- "On a Sabbath afternoon in the autumn of elements of self-sacrifice. Love that pines, and ing but a wee lamb, O God, taken from the 1867, I presented our cause to a crowded house whines, and envies, and feels spiteful at every flock; I purpose offering it to thee, a willing in the town of . In the course of my ad- attention not lavished on itself and its own grat- sacrifice." And so he did, and the sweet smell dress I noticed, in front of me, a fine-looking, ification, is not love at all, although it goes so of that burning has been filling the air ever well-dressed man, bearing all the marks of' often by the name and is mistaken for it. since, and constantly going up to God as a per- wealth and high social position. His eyes, riv- petual sacrifice of praise. eted on the speaker, were brimming with tears, " Go work in my vineyard," saitk the Lord. 12 THE SIGNS Oe THE times VOL. 10, No. 10.

At last I was told that I might move, and I The boy shook his head. "The sheep do not u GJWTTTT DJJIRclt jumped from the chair and called for the bird. know your voice," said he, "and—and—" Ger- After awhile they showed me the picture and hardt stopped speaking. "And what? Can't told me that was the bird; and I distinctly re- you trust me? Do 1 look like a dishonest THE CLEFT 11ST THE ROCK. member to-day how angry I was when I real- man?" asked the hunter angrily. ized that 1 had been deceived. They led me "Sir," said the boy, "you tried to make me false Two CHILDREN at home 'mid the mountains, home between them; I screamed at the top of to my trust, and wanted me to break my word Accustomed to cataracts' roar, Had witnessed the rocks over-hanging, my voice, not so much at the disappointment to my master. How do I know you would Thunder down to the dark chasm floor. of not receiving the bird, as in anger at the de- keep your word with me ?" ception practiced upon me. I remember, too, The hunter laughed, for he felt that the boy They had heard the wild storm 'mid the head-lands, that for a long time afterward when those who fairly cornered him. He said: "I see, my lad, And knew, by the bald eagle's scream, had deceived me would tell me anything, I did That the forces of nature were waking; that you are a good, faithful boy. I will not From cloud-land to dark mountain stream. not believe it. forget you. Show me the road, and I will try to make it out myself." One day all was sunny and fragrant, It is a sad thing when the simple trust of A gem set in Autumn from June; childhood is destroyed, and upon the impressi- Gerhardt now offered the humble contents of The children gave mother a "good-bye," ble little heart is stamped doubt, suspicion, and his scrip to the hungry man, who, coarse as For the play of the long afternoon. deceit. it was, ate it gladly. Presently his attendants Along the sharp curves of the railroad, Parents stand to the child in the place of came up, and then, Gerhardt, to his surprise, They gathered the chestnuts that fell God. The child looks up to them as the embod- found that the hunter was the grand duke, who From the trees on the crags far above them, iment of wisdom and truth, and will in all things owned all the country around. The duke was And measured the ones they would sell. have implicit confidence in them until it is be- so pleased with the boy's honesty that he sent Tommy prattled, and chatted, and frolicked, trayed. Perhaps some Christian parents who for him shortly after, and had him educated. And Mary, self-conscious of care, tearfully and with deep groanings wonder why In after years Gerhardt became a very rich and Felt that her caution was needed, their sons and daughters have forsaken their powerful man, but he remained honesWand true Lest accident come to them there. mother's God and rejected their father's Bible' to his dying day. All at once they were thrown to a flurry, if they could trace effect to cause, would see Honesty and truth and fidelity are precious By the roar of the down-coming train, that the first seeds of skepticism, and guile, and jewels in the character of a child. When they Cranching the miles in a hurry, willfulness were sown by their own thoughtless Lost time by next station to gain. spring from piety they are pure diamonds, and hands in the days of the trusting childhood of make the possessor very beautiful, very happy, It howled 'round the tall mountain head-lands, their children. very honorable, and very useful. May you, my And hung over chasms of foam, "I never yet deceived my child," said the readers, wTear them as Gerhardt did. Then a Dashing on towards the crags, and the children, Who screamed now for mother and home. mother of a bright, inquisitive little girl, who greater than a duke will befriend you, for the wanted to know the whys and wherefores of Great King will adopt you as his children, and Then Mary seized Tommy, and nestled everything she saw or thought of. you will become princes and princesses ro}^al In the cleft of the tall mountain rock, in the kingdom of God.— Young Pilgrim. And shouted, "Hold tight, brother Tommy, "How do you get along when she asks ques- Cling close to the cleft of the rock." tions that you cannot with propriety answer?" I inquired. Just Think of It. So oft in the dread hour of danger, "1 tell her all I can conscientiously," replied When hope our wild cry seems to mock, We can fly to the Friend of the stranger, the mother, "and tell her to wait till she is GREENLAND is without a forest. Do you ask, And cling to the cleft of the Rock. older, and then, perhaps, she will understand How are their habitations warmed in winter? —Rev. I. N. Stratton, A. M. all about it." Sailors tell us that train-oil is their fuel. Train- "Do you never tell her that it is improper to oil is obtained by boiling the fat, or blubber, of Deceivine- Children. ask so many questions?" I asked. whales. But wood is wanting. Their houses "Seldom." replied the good woman, "for I'd must be covered; their spears and javelins must WHILE passing along the streets one day, I rather she would come to me for information have handles. Without domestic or hunting- heard two little boys, apparently about seven than to go to any one else, as 1 fear she might utensils, boats or fishing-tackle, their homes years of age, conversing very earnestly. "My be tempted to do." cannot be tenanted; without wood these things mother says," one was saying, and I lost the How happy will that mother be in years to cannot be made. Travelers tell us that a cer- rest of the sentence; but the other replied, come, if, as the fruit of' her own truthfulness, tain current of the ocean, or certain winds, or "Your mother is different from my mother." she can say, My child never deceived me.—Sel. both united, bear along in a proper direction I could but wonder if those mothers mistrusted the once stately tree, and another and another the notes their children were daily taking of A Faithful Shepherd Boy. with abundant constancy, and lodge the needed their ways and words. forest between the islands. There it remains un- Parents are often ignorant or thoughtless of GERHARDT was a German shepherd boy, and til needed by those whom the Lord forgets not. the keen observation of children. A little girl a noble fellow he Avas, too, although he was The soil does not nourish the needed oak for was once visiting me, and at night, before I put very, very poor. their convenience, but the billow obeys his her in bed, I heard her say her prayers, and One day while he was watching his flock, voice and bears it to them. prayed with her. One day she told me an un- which was feeding in a valley on the borders No trees are thus borne along the shores of truth. I called her to me and told her (' at it of a forest, a hunter came out of the Avoods and France, or Spain, or England, or perhaps any was wicked to tell what was not true, and hat asked:— other nation. They are not needed, but in the in that beautiful home the Lord is preparing for "How far is it to the nearest village?" frozen climes. Where these trees are torn from, his children, Avhoever "loveth and maketh a lie" " Six miles, sir," replied the boy, " but the road or how they are swept away, Ave are not com- can never enter. is only a sheep track, and is very easily missed." monly told, and it matters not, so that the She listened intelligently, and with intense The hunter glanced at the crooked track and Greenlander fails not to receive his mercies. interest, and asked many questions while I told said:— When other shores become naked, and forests her about the celestial city as it is described in "My lad, I am hungry, tired, and thirsty. I Avave not there, they are not supplied as is this the word of God. After awhile she asked very have lost my companions and missed my way. land of snow, for ocean's current is not freighted earnestly: — Leave your sheep, and show me the road. I thus with trees, or it does not bear in the right "Won't folks that lie go there ? " will pay you well." direction, or the islands do not stand so as to "Not unless they repent and ask God to for- "1 cannot leave my sheep, sir," rejoined Ger- form a storehouse for the timber. Reader, give them," I answered. hardt. "They would stray into the forest, and while looking at these facts, such as are scat- Then my mother won't go there!" she ex- be eaten by the wolves, or stolen by robbers." tered all over the earth, it is evident enough claimed, "/or she tells lies." "Well, what of that?" queried the hunter. that our Parent designed it all in kindness. To I was astonished and shocked, for I knew "They are not your sheep. The loss of one or believe otherwise requires an appetite for un- her mother did say things "in fun" that were more wouldn't be much to your master, and I'll truth that no man need covet.—Rev. David not strictly true, but I had no idea that the give you more money than you have earned in Nelson. child noticed it. a whole year. It recalled to my mind the first lesson in "I cannot go, sir," rejoined Gerhardt, very DEAR young girls, your lives are full of noble deception 1 ever learned. When I was a little firmly. "My master pays me for my time, and possibilities. There is but one thing earthly so more than two years old I went with friends to he trusts me with his sheep. If I were to sell truly admirable as a Christian lady, and that is sit for my daguerreotype, and as it was next to my time, which does not belong to me, and the a Christian "gentleman." If an " honest man impossible to keep me still long enough to have sheep should get lost, it would be the same as be the noblest work of God," surely an " hon- it taken, they told me that if I sat perfectly if I stole them. est," true woman is his loveliest. Therefore, still and looked- steadily at the camera for two "Well," said the hunter, "will you trust your young maidens of America, give vourselves to minutes, a little bird would come out, which I sheep with me, while you go to the village and Christ; let him so mould you that you may be might have. get some food and drink, and a guide ? I will kings' daughters indeed, all glorious within, all I sat still and looked until I ached all over. take good care of them for you." fair Avithout. MARCH 20, 1884. THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 189

Novel-Reading. ruptures in the domestic relations of life. The IFE SKETCHES. lady who revels in fiction, may possess the L IT is generally conceded that some of the power,through fanc}^ and feeling, to attract, to THE EARLY LIFE, CHRISTIAN" EXPERIENCE, AND EXTEN- finest fruits of the finest minds are found in interest, to please, to charm, to win; but her SIVE LABORS OF this field of literature, encumbered, it is true, reign over the affections will generally be short, ELDER JAMES WHITE, because her character affords no solid basis of with ponderous heaps of the most vile trash. AND HIS WIFE, One in a thousand of these volumes may, per- trust and confidence. MRS. ELLEN G. WHITE. haps, be read with some profit, and no serious In conclusion, the practice of Avhich we speak injury, while four hundred and ninety-nine of is to be deprecated because it raises extrava- gantly high expectations in the youthful mind, THE production of this book was the last literary labor performed the residue are so frivolous as to render their by Eluer White. As nearly the whole of his active labor was per- perusal a criminal waste of time. The other and then "dooms them to utter disappointment. formed in connection with the Seventh-day Adventist denomination, five hundred will be found positively injurious The novelist paints beauty in colors more which ho was largely instrumental in founding, the work is nec- in various ways. charming than nature, and describes bliss more essarily quite a complete history of that people. Habitual novel-reading is detrimental to ecstatic than man ever tastes. Thus the young The book abounds in interesting incidents, personal sketches, and religious experiences, some of which are quite remarkable, and al- health and vigor of the body. Nature will not are taught to despise the good which God has mingled in their cup of blessings, while they together it forms a volume at once instructive and interesting. be robbed with impunity of a requisite amount 416 pp. Price, $1.25. of food, air, rest, and sleep. Reprisals are al- sigh in vain for a beauty and a happiness which Address SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. ways made where the hours of night are de- never existed in a world that is nigh unto curs- ing, whose end is to be burned. The world of voted to the exercise. J^IFE OF WILLIAM MILLER, The nervous system, moreover, being inti- romance differs so essentially from the real mately connected with the brain, becomes the rough and stormy world of life, that few can WITH PORTRAIT. predominating system during the period of dwell for years in the enchanting fairy eleva- youth, because this predominance is necessary tions of the one and then cheerfully descend to THIS book contains sketches of the Christian experience and public to the proper development and increase of the the dull, dusky, and discordant scenes of the labors of this remarkable man. No other man in this century has other.—Sel. been more widely spoken of, and more generally misunderstood. body. Now strong excitement of the feelings, These skotches were prepared by those who were his co-labirers, and occasioned by works of fiction, has a tendency are a true presentation of the leading events of Lis life and labors. to produce such a predominance of the nervous Japan's Model Postal System. In addition to the life and character of the man, the character of system as permanently to generate the most the Great Advent Movement, in which he acted so prominent a part, afflictive nervous diseases. is clearly set forth. It is shown that Mr. Miller was no mere en- WE clip the following from a Kobe (Japan) thusiast, but a man of calm judgment, and his interpretation of the Novel-reading prevents a strong symmetrical letter to the Philadelphia Press:— prophecies was mainly correct, his only mistake being in regard to development of"the mental powers. In young the nature of the event to take place at the close of the 2300 days, ladies especially, do the sensibilities and imagi- The postal system of Japan is often pointed to in 1844. No one can consider himself well versed in the history of nation need to be repressed rather than stimu- as a model in its way—one of the foremost de- the advent movement in this country who has not read this book. lated, while the understanding and judgment partments of the Europeanized Government. 408 pp. Price, $1.00. require the most assiduous cultivation. Han- And, indeed, it must in all fairness be acknowl- Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. nah More says truly that youth need more bal- edged that much credit belongs to Japan for last. The education, however, which is afforded swiftness in the dispatch of mails, while fettered gABBATH READINGS by works of fiction, consists in crowding more with a lack of railroads. In the first place every FOR THE HOME CIRCLE. sail than the craft can carry. tram carries mail, and in Japan, be it known, the imperial railroads run through passenger trains COMPILED BY MRS. E. G. WHITE. An eager perusal of light literature destroys every two hours, and on the Yokohama rail- all taste for solid reading. Control over the road nearly every hour. Thus, while in America thoughts is lost, while the bewitching scenes of THESE are some of the few really good books. For twenty years three mails each way daily would be esteemed Mrs. White has been selecting choice, interesting, and instructive romance are floating through the mind. His- the climax of facilities, the minimum between stories, the best of which are presented in these four volumes of torical, scientific, and especially religious works, the various cities here is about ten mails each 400 pages each. It would be difficult to find a better collection. The selections have been carefully made, and none need fear to place become insipid and dull The habit of receiv- way daily. This applies merely to the rail- ing pleasure, without any exertion of thought, them in the hands of the young. They are not, however, designed roads, of course. exclusively for the young, but are adapted for general home reading. by mere excitement of curiosity and sensibility, All the members of the family circle will find something in them to may be justly ranked among the worst effects The delivery of mails is also very prompt, and takes place a good many times a day. A entertain and instruct. They are just the thing for holiday or birth- of habitual novel-reading. It cannot but be in- day gifts. Price per set, neatly put up in box, $2.25. person may mail a letter in Yokohama for jurious to the moral mind never to be called Address, SIGN'S OF T.HE TIMES, Oakland, Cai. into action. Under circumstances of perpetual Tukiyo, one hour's ride to the north, as late as dusk, and yet receive an answer the same night, inaction, it wilts and withers like the muscles RP HE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR. of an arm which is always unused. providing his friend is prompt. While in Yo- Novel-reading tends to inflame the passions, kohama I took occasion to mail a letter in a pollute the imagination, and corrupt the heart. post-box as late as six o'clock one evening, at a AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY PAPER FOR YOUTH AND point fully a mile from the post-office. It was CHILDREN, DEVOTED TO MORAL, MENTAL, Moral sense is weakened by the false sentiments AND RELIGIOUS CULTURE. they inculcate. Even the better class are want- soon collected, delivered to the one to whom it was addressed over on the bluffs, and the same ing in true religious principle. They may not THIS paper is not devoted to insipid stories and religious fiction, oppose, or directly denounce, religion; but they evening 1 received a call from the recipient. but is filled with a great variety of that kind of reading which tends make it appear unnecessary, by exhibiting a Every effort is made in the case of foreigners to the healthful development of the youthful mind. Its pages are virtue sufficiently perfect without it. They to deliver their mail to them promptly. So made bright by the choicest illustrative pictures, and its columns are always full of useful information. delineate the most pious characters, and repre- anxious are the authorities to deliver mail that As a Sabbath-school and Lesson paper, it is suited to the wants of sent them under the most affecting circumstan- one of the missionary ladies in Kobe says when scholars and teachers, and is calculated to increase the interest of ces, passing through the most trying scenes, till last summer she went up among the mountains, all who read it, in thorough Bible study. they enter joyfully the eternal state without six miles distant, a special man was despatched The Sabbath-school Department contains two series of lessons, on» the sustaining power of vital godliness. The from the office here, really against her wishes, for children and one for youth. sentimentalism of romance presents no motive to who came all the way on foot, and was not con- TERMS, ALWAYS IN ADVANCE.—Single copy, 75 cents a year ; Five action so pure and exalted as the teachings of tent until he hunted her up and delivered her copies to one address, 60 cents each; Ten or more copies to one ad- the mail. The city carriers have small carts dress, 50 cents each. Christ. On the contrary, the viler class of nov- SPECIAL PREMIUM OFFER-THE SUNSHINE SERIES. els actually teach and commend the most glar- painted red, with which they deliver mail upon the arrival of the large mail steamers. They For every new subscription, accompanied with 85 cents, we will ing vices. A recent author has truly said, give " The Sunshine Series," consisting of a package of ten beautiful " They paint for our imitation, humane murder- go about the city at a dog-trot. This applies, pamphlets of 32 pages each. These comprise a choice collection of ers, licentious saints, holy infidels, and honest of course, to the large port cities. In the in- sketches, stories, poems, etc., adapted to the wants of children, and robbers. Over loathsome women and unutter- terior mail is carried from town to town by contain more reading matter than can be found in many dollar books. ably vile men, is thrown the checkered light of messengers, who also travel at a dog-trot, in Remember, the whole series, 320 pages, and the INSTRUCTOR for a cases where stage lines do not exist. With year, for 85 cents. a hot imagination, until they glow with infer- Address, YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR, Battle Creek, Mich. nal luster." all their ceremonious haste it is amusingly in- Or, PACIFIC PRESS, Oakland, Cal. Novel-reading is objectionable, because it congruous to notice that little effort is made to protect mail—doubtless because, in this poor creates an unnatural and morbid taste. It fre- RATTER AND SPIRIT; quently becomes an inveterate habit, strong and country, valuables are not much transmitted fatal as that of the drunkard. In this state of through the mails. In summer the overland OR, mental intoxication, great waywardness of con- mail-carrier transports the mail from place to THE PROBLEM OF HUMAN THOUGHT. duct is most sure to follow. Even where the place by means of two nets attached to the end habit is renounced, and genuine reformation of a pole balanced over the shoulder. In case BY ELD. D. M. CANRIGHT. of rain these nets are wraped in oiled paper. takes place, the individual often suffers the crav- A PHILOSOPHICAL argument on an important theme, indicated bj ings of former excitement. To one who has been accustomed to the iron its title. 66 pp. Price, 10 cents. Novel-reading lays the foundation for sad mail wagons of America, it is a peculiar sight. Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. 11)0 THE SIO-ISTB OF THE TIMES. ' VOL. 10, No. 12.

—The spiritualistic medium will endure more ex- JPTT&MM' ^EPRTNMII |%tm and | posure and still retain some vitality than any other creature in the animal kingdom. The chief spirit- NOTICE.—We send no papers from this Office without pay in ad- ualists in this city, who draw a good revenue from vance, unless by special arrangement When persons receive copies RELIGIOUS. the credulity of their dupes, have been exposed again without ordering them they are sent by other parties, and we can and again; their "materializations" have been give no information in resrard to them. Persons thus receiving them —Pere Hyacinthe (Loyson) is sojourning in San are not indebted to the Office. shown to be the grossest frauds. Yet after each dis- Money orders, drafts, etc., should be made to "Pacific Press," Francisco and vicinity. aster they recuperate in a few weeks and soon gather NEVER to individuals, as they may be absent, and business thereby —Eev. George F. Penticost has gone to Europe to around them the same old coterie of people whose be delayed. join in labor with Mr. Moody. faith would move mountains. A notorious female medium of this city, who has survived repeated ex- Have You Renewed? —It is estimated that the children and teachers in the Sunday-schools throughout the world number posures here, has just had her devices laid bare in 15,000,000. Washington, but we have an abiding faith that she NOTHING will please us better than to continue will be heard from again in a few months. Lucra- your paper. Examine the credit on your paster, —The managers of a " charity ball" in Phildelphia tive imposture is too good a business to be dropped- and if the time is near please send us your renewal, sent a check for .$2,700 to the Presbyterian Hospital. for any small check like the ridicule of the unbe- or authorize us to continue the paper till you can At last accounts the question as to whether it shall lievers or the light of a gas-jet on a dark and crooked send it. be accepted had not been settled. seance.—S. F. Chronicle. The reason why a certain —The following religious or church item we copy class of people are so easily deluded by impostors is Canvasser's Outfit. from the Christian at Work: "Among the prizes given in 2 Thess. 2 :7-12. raffled for at the Roman Catholic fair in Twenty- CANVASSER'S outfit, comprising a premium book, third Street, last week, was a cask of ale. circulars, blank receipt book, order sheets, and sug- SECULAR. gestions on canvassing, will be furnished by mail, —The older churches of Arnoy, China, in connec- post-paid, for $1.00. tion with the London Missionary Society, have be- gun missionary operations on their own account, —Woman suffrage has again been defeated in showing that they have received the true spirit of the Massachusetts Legislature. To Our Old Subscribers. the gospel. —A petty thief in the jail at San Jose, Cal., killed To each one of our old patrons who will renew his —The Governor-General of Canada takes oath his Chinese cell-mate one night last week. subscription before July 1, 1884, and will send us that he will permit no foreign potentate to exercise —Last week five men were killed by a caving five new subscribers, we will mail a copy of either jurisdiction in Canada, and the Catholics are re- bank on the Baker City, Oregon, branch railroad. of the following choice books: "The Biblical In- belling against it. Which clearly shows the inten- stitute," "The History of the Waldenses," illus- tions of Catholicism. —Great damage has been caused by the breaking of^levees around Roberts Island, San Joaquin County, trated, " Geikie's Life of Christ," " Life and Epistles —There is less liberty in Turkey for Protestant Cal. of St. Paul," or the New Testament, revised version. missions than formerly. The Sultan seems embit- tered against other nations, and is also placing —The richest man in the world is W. H. Vander- OTJR GENERAL AGENTS. greater restrictions than formerly upon his subjects bilt of New York. Assets, over $200,000,000; vearly who profess the Armenian or Nestorian faith. income, $12,000,000. California—Miss Anna L. Ingels, care Pacific Press, —The trial train of the new fast system between Oakland, Cal. —Ten new churches, says the San Francisco Moni- tor, have been dedicated in this Archdiocese during Chicago and Omaha, made 300 miles, to Ottumwa, Colorado—J. W. Horner, Boulder, Colo. Iowa, in seven hours. Dakota—Alice H. Beaumont, Howard, Miner Co., Dak. 1883; thirteen priests have been added to the num- Florida.—J. F. Robbins, Holly Hill, Volusia Co., Fla. ber of clergy, and three new academies have been —By the new fast mail trains from New York to Georgia.—Eld. W. F. Killen, Perry, Ga. opened. The Catholic population has increased Omaha the time between the oceans has been short- Illinois—Lizzie S. Campbell, Belvidere, Boon Co., 111. about 15,000. ened twenty-four hours. Indiana—-W. A. Young, Union City, Ind. Iowa—Mrs. Lizzie H. Farnsworth, State Center, Iowa. —The Catholic colonization in the United States ^ —The breaking of the Grand Levee, at Bayou Kansas and Arkansas—Clara A. L. Gibbs, Ottawa, Kan. is going forward with wonderful rapidity. An Ital- Sara, La., on the 14th inst., deluged the richest sugar- Kentucky—Bettie Coombs, Nolin, Hardin Co., Ky. ian colony "in the interior" is shortly to be organ- producing section of the State. Maine—Mrs. R. Robbins, South Norridgewock, Me. ized, and committees are to be formed at Naples, In San Francisco, on the 10th inst., seven China- Maryland.—J. F. Jones, Calverton, Md. Genoa, New York, Baltimore, and New Orleans, to men were arrested for selling meat in violation of Michigan—Miss Hattie House, Battle Creek, Mich. assist poor immigrants. The Archbishop of Naples the Sunday retailing ordinance. Minnesota—Miss Mary Heileson, Mankato, Minn. has already established a committee. Mississippi—Peter H. Clark, Moss Point, Miss. —A snow-slide in little Cottonwood District, Utah, Missouri—Miss Clara E. Low, Sedalia, Mo. —The Presbyterian Church in Springfield, N. J., on the 7th inst., killed twelve persons and carried Nebraska—Nebraska Tract Society. Fremont, Neb. has been nine years without a pastor, only for the away the new Emma Mine works. New England—Mrs. Eliza T. Palmer, N. E. Tract reason that the members can never agree in their —The Northern Pacific Railroad will put on a Depository, South Lancaster, Mass. choice. They have but two candidates before them through Portland train from St. Paul, connecting New York—Miss Addie S. Bowen, box 113, Rome, at present, but as they are about equally divided with the Milwaukee fast mail train. jver them, there is good prospect of a longer vacancy. N. Y. —In Tonquin, the French troops have occupied North Pacific—Mrs. C. L. Boyd, East Portland, Oregon. What an example such a church sets to the world, North Carolina and South Carolina.—Eld. N. P. Hodges, of Christian unity! Bacuninh. The Chinese loss is said to have been heavy, both in men and war material. Sands, Watauga Co., N. C. —A bill has been presented in the NewJ York Ohio—Mrs. Ida Gates, Clyde, Sandusky Co., Ohio. Legislature which the Executive Committee of the —Petaluma, Cal., took a right view of the great Pennsylvania—Mrs. D. C. Phillips, Wellsville, N. Y. Eastern "slogging" show. Only fifteen persons Tennessee—Mrs. M. C. Fulton, Leach, Carroll Co., Evangelical Alliance has taken steps to defeat. turned out to witness the performance. Tenn. The bill is "To establish the freedom of public wor- Texas—Capt. C. Eldridge, Denton, Tex. ship in the charitable institutions of the State," and —A marvel: Congress is asked to incorporate the Upper Columbia—Mrs. G. W. Colcord, Goldendale, it is claimed that it is so framed that the institutions Spokane Falls and Cour d'Alene Railroad Co., W. T., Klickitat Co., W. T. will be subject entirely to the Catholic priesthood. and, strange to say, no subsidy is asked. Vermont—Lizzie A. Stone, South Lancaster, Mass. So Eome is reaching out to control this country. —The Reno, New, Journal says: "The snow on Virginia and West Virginia—R. D. Hottel, Quicksburg, —A pastor of a leading church in Nebraska is re- the mountain a few miles above Poeville is from 50 Shenandoah Co., Va. ported to have said, in regard to the liquor question: to 100 feet deep, and packed as hard as ice." Wisconsin—Miss Phemie Lindsay, 901 East Gorham "No human enactment should be made contrary to —There seems to be more danger of the Lasker Street, Madison, Wis. divine law." Then in the same paper which con- resolutions creating trouble between political parties tains this language, and much more to the same in Germany than between that Government and the RECEIPTS. effect, is the notice of a marriage, solemnized by the United States. NOTICE.-—The change of figures on the address labels pastor, and it is authoritatively stated that the —San Francisco's third murder within two weeks will be in all cases a sufficient receipt for money sent for bride had been twice divorced, both her previous occurred on the night of the 13th inst. The victim, the paper. If these changes do not appear in due time, husbands being still alive. named Wigfall, and the criminal, named Williams, and if books ordered by mail are not received, please —Rev. Henry Dana Ward died in Philadelphia, were both colored men. notify us. All other business is acknowledged below. Feb. 29, of paralysis. He was aged 86 years, and —Prentiss Teller, the young cash clerk of the CASH RECEIVED ON ACCOUNT.—Iowa T. and M. Society although a minister of the Protestant "Episcopal Pacific Express Co., at St. Louis, who recently ab- $197, Illinois $58, Erastus Banta $14, Mrs Nancy Fugett Church, he was a strong adventist, even ante-dating $2.16, Mrs E Scazighini $2.02. sconded, has been captured at Milwaukee, with Wm. Miller in preaching the near approach of the nearly $90,000 in his possession. CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE.—Lemoore Church per S H returning Lord. He published in the N. Y. Journal Bond (tithe), $17.50, Mrs E Moore $1.00, Mrs C R of Commerce of Nov. 13, 1833, a description of the —The first passenger train since the floods started Sain $1.00, "falling stars" phenomenon, which had occurred east from Los Angeles last Friday, but had to lay CALIFORNIA T. AND M. SOCIETY.—District No. 2, per Mrs but two days previous, and claimed it as a fulfillment over at Colton on account of the general demoraliza- H P Gray, $13.15; District No. 7, per Anna Ingels, $48.75; tion on the road in the vicinity of Yuma. John D Gowell 25c, M S Burnham 25c, Sanford T Stone of Matt. 24 :29. —An aged couple in Monroe, La., named Rodgers. 25c, C P Bollman 25c, E H Linford $1.00, Erastus Banta —Professor Huxley, the English agnostic scientist, $1.00, John 1 Tay $10.00. were murdered by two men to whom they extended takes occasion in his own magazine to say that the hospitality. The murderers failed to secure any "bosh" of orthodoxy is much less offensive to Mm than money, which was concealed in a mattress. ORDERS FORWARDED. the " bosh " of heterodoxy. Whereupon Mr. Spur- geon. in his magazine, draws attention to the esti- —A disastrous explosion occurred in a coal mine BOOKS SENT BY MAIL.—E A Chapman, John Clasby, G at Pocahontas, Tazewell, Co., Va., last week, caus- W Cody, H Scott, Frederick Haub, Ida Regan, T A mate which scientists put upon "liberal" Christians who attempt to adapt their creed to the changing ing the death of 150 men, greatly damaging the Owens, Jane Smithers, Mrs H P Gray, Mrs Samuel Myers, works of the mine and houses in the vicinity. Wm Harmon, A Burr, Mrs M Booth, R D Hottel, Mrs D creeds of science, and suggests that, they do not C Phillips, Miss Eliza D Usher, M Luther, D & A A Call, seem to gain more respect from scientists than do —A destructive prairie fire, originating from loco- I F Wyant, R F Barton, C A Anderson, A W Benson, A those who hold to their Christian belief without daily motive sparks, near Kinsley, Kansas, on the 10th Six, Mrs C Boughn, A N Allen, Miss Ida McDonald, Mrs trying to bring it into harmony with the "latest inst., destroyed several dwellings and much ranch S C King, George A Davis, Lizzie S Campbell. conclusions of science." property. A Mrs. Matheny was burned to death. MARCH 20, 1884. THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 191 19a 1

—Fifty-five thousand photographs of Col. Sude- A Story Worth Telling. ^ MINE OF INFORMATION. kein's murderer have been circulated throughout Russia. A reward of 10,000 roubles is offered for A CERTAIN minister, who belonged to the fault- his capture and 5,000 roubles for information lead- finding, scolding tribe, having exhausted the HISTORY OF THE SABBATH AND FIRST ing to his arrest. patience of several churches, was called to a DAY'OF THE WEEK. —The N. Y. Herald thinks a rigid enforcement of fresh field. For a while "all went merry as a the laws by our customs officials would put a stop to marriage bell." But the ruling passion soon Br ELD. J. N. ANDREWS. the exportation of dynamite explosives for use by began to betray itself, and Sunday after Sunday the enemies of friendly Governments. It asks, Are he plied the wbip with merciless fury, until only THE Bible record of the Sabbath , the secular history concerning we at war with England'? it; the successive steps by which the change to the first day was a few of the more faithful put in an appearance made and the work of restoration, are given in detail. —Mississippi is having her share offlood. Th eto receive their portion of something that was water is breaking through the levees, and flooding EVERY TEXT OF SCRIPTURE concerning the Sabbath is com- many plantations. In the Sunflower and Yazoo not meat in due season. At the conclusion of mented on at length; and the COMPLETE TESTIMONY OF THE bottoms, the damage is said to be greater than during one of his excoriating harangues a worthy dea- FATHERS in regard to the Sabbath and first day is given. The con invited him to his house to take dinner. comparative merits of the seventh and the first-day Sabbaths are the great floods of last year. fully shown. A copious index enables the reader to find any text, —Five train-robbers escaped from jail at Silver After finishing a bountiful repast, which is al- or the statement of any historian. City N. M., on the 9th inst.. and being overtaken by ways the time a thoughtful man chooses to per- Should be read by everybody. 528 pp. Price, $1.25. a posse, two of them were shot and two captured and form a delicate service, he very quietly asked Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. hanged. The other one, who killed a citizen, had, his pastor if he had ever read and carefully at last report eluded the pursuers. studied John's account of the interview between —The spongefisheries o n the coasts of Florida and our Lord and Pe^er and other disciples, after HE TBUTH FOUND. Bahama Islands are said to be overworked, on ac- his resurrection. count of the heavy demand for the article, and the sponges not being allowed time to grow to a large " O, yes," said he, "I have often read it with THE NATURE AND OBLIGATION OF THE size, the supply is becoming scarce and the prices profit." SABBATH OF THE FOURTH high. "Well," said the deacon, "suppose I turn to COMMANDMENT. —The proposed scheme of a confederation of Euro- it and read it over care'ully ?" By ELD. J. H. WAGGONER. pean nations for the suppression of socialism, it is "O, no," said the pastor, "I can repeat it all feared will fail, because little Switzerland declines from memory." THE title of this little book sufficiently explains its character. It to join it. The council of that Government holds "But," persisted the deacon, "I prefer read- contains more Scriptural information in regard to the Sabbath than that socialists are amenable to the regular criminal ing it" now7." any other book of twice the size, and yet it is so simplified as to be laws, and that is sufficient. easily comprehended. The author quotes the opinions of many So the book was opened at the place, and the learned men concerning the Sabbath, and their confiiciing theories —Chancellor Bismarck appeared in the Reichstag deacon began: "Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou on the 13th inst., and disclaimed any intention to are strongly contrasted with the clear, straightforward teaching of rupture the friendly relations between Germany me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, the Bible. 64 pp. Price, 10 cents. and the United States. He simply declined to be Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. "an enemy's postman." He claims that "Prussia unto him, Beat my lambs! He saith unto him prevented the recognition of the Southern Confed- the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest eracy by the European powers. thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou rjIHE SEVENTH PART OF TIME. T —Another decisive battle occurred near Suakim, know est that I love thee. He saith unto him, By W. H. LITTLEJOHN. Soudan, on the 13th inst., between the British forces Maul my sheep. He saith unto him the third under General Graham and the rebels under Osman time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? THIS is a refutation of the theory that God sanoiined simply a sev- Digna. The Arabs fought desperately, but were Peter was grieved because he said to him the enth part of time as the Sabbath, without fixing that time to any badly defeated, losing about 2,000 killed, and the third time, Lovest thou me ? And he saith unto definite day. The necessity for a wounded are estimated at nearly 6,000. The British loss was over 200 in killed and wounded. him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou know- UNIFORM DAY OF REST, est that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, —A dispatch from Mandalay, Burmah, says the Is admitted by nearly all, and is advocated in this book. The author Shans, a native hill tribe in the north, have revolted Larrup my sheep! " The good deacon closed also shows that the Creator understood and anticipated this neces- and are devastating the lower plains. They have the book with great gravity, and "no matter sity, and proves by five different processes of reasoning that tue invested the town of Bahamo, from which the En- how the story ended."—Christian Index. seventh or last day of the week, and no other, was in the beginning, glish and American missionaries have fled. The and is now, the Sabbath of the Lord. missionaries report that several villages in the vicin- 32 pp. Price, 4 cents ; liberal discount by the hundred. ity of Bhamo have been sacked and burned. Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. —A farmer residing near Armiston, Alabama, last (Dhitttarg, week bought some Chicago beef in town, for the rpHOUGHTS ON DANIEL, purpose of giving it a trial. At dinner his wife and MANN.—Died of hemorrhage of the lungs in Perry, three children ate heartily of the meat, and in a Richland Co., O., Jan. 17, 1884, our beloved brother. CRITICAL AND PRACTICAL. short time afterward were all suddenly taken sick Eld. Abner Morton Mann, aged thirty-seven years, and died within a few minutes of each other. Thesi x months, and eleven days. His early days were By ELD. U. SMITH. father, not feeling well, had not ^aten any of the spent in preparing himself for a useful life. He be- meat. gan the study of medicine at the age of eighteen. EXPOSITION OF THE BOOK OF DANIEL, VERSE BY VERSE. —OTTAWA, March 13.—The bill recently passed Soon after graduating and'entering upon a success- by the British Columbia Parliament, granting Cap- ful practice, he became interested in the third an- tain J. C. Ainsworth of Oakland, Cal., and his associ- gel's message by hearing Elds. Van Horn and Law- WE are now living in times plainly pointed out in this prophecy, rence. He soon became convinced of the truth, and and it is important to understand it; for Daniel himself says that ates 750,000 acres of land in the Kootnai region, was in the time of the end, the wise shall understand ; while, if we fail, officially approved by the Dominion Government to- after some months embraced it with all his heart. The last seven or eight years of his life he had la- we are equally guilty with the Jews, who knew not the time of their day. This grant is given in consideration of the visitation (Luke 19 :42-44), and shall meet a similar fate. grantees establishing a line of rail and steamboat bored sucessfully in winning souls to Christ and the truth. His health failed him during the last year, 416 pp. Price, $1.25. communication connecting the Canadian Pacific Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. Railroad with the Columbia river. so that he was able to do but little at times. The last few months he had felt much better, and had held some meetings with good results. One week be- rjlIIOUGHTS ON REVELATION, fore the day of his funeral he spoke with freedom an hour or more to the members of his own church at CRITICAL AND PRACTICAL. ^PFLHTTNUNTS. Waterford, after which he enjoyed a precious season in celebrating the ordinances. The night of his By ELD. LT. SHITH. MEETINGS will be held at Burr Valley, commenc- death he retired after family worship, at which he ing Thursday evening, March 20, and closing Sunday offered his last audible prayer for the family circle THIS work presents every verse in the book of Revelation, with evening, the 23d. that they might be "unbroken in the kingdom of such remarks as serve to illustrate or explain the meaning of the God." He awoke about 1 o'clock and said, "I am text. It is a new and harmonious exposition of that important book, Also at Lemoore, commencing Tuesday evening, bleeding again," and died in a moment. He leaves and is designed to create an interest in its study. 25th inst., and closing Sunday evening, the 31st. a wife, two children, a father, mother, and sister, 416 pp. Price, $1.25. W. M. HEALEY. with many friends, to mourn their loss. We lay a Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. M. C. ISRAEL. faithful co-laborer away to rest, with the blessed hope that when Christ shall call, " Gather my saints jglBLE SANCTIFICATION: Annual Meeting-. together unto me, those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice," he will hear his voice and A CONTRAST OF come forth. Words of comfort, were spoken from THE regular annual meeting of the society of the James 4 : 14 by the writer, to a congregation of six TRUE AND FALSE THEORIES. Seventh-day Adventist Church of Oakland, will be hundred or more. R. A. UNDERWOOD. held at the house of worship, on Wednesday, April By MRS. E. G. WHITE. 2,1884, at 7:30 o'clock p. M., for the purpose of elect- HAND.—Died in Chico, Dec. 21, 1883, Winnie, ing a Board of five Trustees, and transacting such daughter of William and Emma Hand, aged 3 years THIS is a pamphlet of only 84 pages, but its value is not to be other business as may come before the meeting. A judged by its size. It is just what its title indicates : a faithful pre- and 10 months. Being the youngest of the family, sentation of Bible truth on this important subject, and an exposure general attendance will be necessary, in order that of a bright and amiable disposition, her loss is the proceedings may be in accordance with the law. of the false theories prevailing in regard to it. Every believer in deeply felt. The bereaved family have the sym- Bible truth should read it. Buy it, read it, and lend it to your By order of the President, pathy of a large circle of relatives and friends. neighbor. Price, 10 cents. W. N. GLENN, Sec'y. MRS. L. YOUNG. Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. 192 THE SIAISTS OF THE TIMES. VOL. 10, No. 12.

the General Conference who will attend any of these " Hebraica. camp-meetings. That he is best acquainted with, Cjn digits if % Crates. THIS is the title of a new monthly published by and most deeply interested in, the business matters the American Publicatidh Society of Hebrew, Mor- which will come up at these meetings, and it is quite OAKLAND, CAL., FIFTH-DAY, MARCH 20, 1884. gan Park, 111. Edited by Dr. Wm. R. Harper, Pro- necessary that he attend them all. fessor of Hebrew, etc., in the Baptist Theological 2. To do justice to the business of the northern Seminary, having for associates, Dr. Hermann L. Pacific Coast Camp-Meetings. meetings, as well as other business, those who go Strack, Professor of Theology in the University of from this State will need some time at the office Berlin, and Dr. Paul Haupt, Professor of Assyriology THERE are three camp-meetings to be held west of immediately before going North, and after the Los in the University of Gottingen, etc. the Rocky Mountains early in the coming summer; Angeles meeting. This is a magazine of twenty-four pages—the one in each of the three Conferences: California, 3. That the steamers leave here every five days, number to be increased—in the interests of Hebrew Upper Columbia, and North Pacific. We have, in so that we can not start any day we please as we can study, while the Old Testament Student, published the past, had to call attention to the necessity of the on the railroads. by the same, is devoted to the study of the Old Testa- meetings in the two northern Conferences being ap- 4. If the U. C. Camp-meeting begins as early as ment. It is a valuable work for the Hebrew scholar, pointed to suit the convenience of those who at- May 29, in all probability most of the laborers re- and for all who wish to become scholars in that lan- tended them from a distance, who had to attend ferred to here Mall fail to reach it. guage. The second article in Hebraica, by Prof. both. And in past years our spring camp-meetings The meetings North should be long enough to Strack, seems to belong to the department of the in California have been so arranged that a minister give time for the transaction of Conference and mis- Student, being on "The Higher Criticism, a Witness could attend them and also reach the northern meet- sionary business, for Bible-readings, for the neces- to the Credibility of the Biblical Narrative." ings in good season. sary preaching, and for devotional meetings. If Prof. Harper is not only enthusiastic on the sub- Now our work is enlarging, and great changes are sufficient time is taken, the business may be all so ject of the literature of the Old Testament and the taking place. Under the advice of. the General Con- attended to that a week's time will not be needed study of the Hebrew, but he has a rare faculty of ference there has been a drawing together of those between the meetings. The Portland meeting can arousing others to enthusiasm on that subject. He who labor in all parts of the Pacific Slope. Theb e reached without the delays in changes which is eminently practical as a teacher, and they who Presidents of the northern Conferences have attended have been experienced in former years. study under his instruction cannot fail to make sat- important meetings in California, and it has been We feel deeply interested in all these meetings, isfactory progress. Terms of Hebraica, .$2.00 a considered advisable to hold a council of these three and our prayer is and shall be that they may be year, ten numbers. Conferences this season. If size and numbers were blessed and prove a blessing to the laborers, to the taken into account, this council would be held in people, and to the cause at large. Excursion to Los Ang-eles. California; but, for the better accommodation of the younger Conferences, and for those who can rep- Annual Meeting- in Oakland. THE S. P. Railroad offers a skeleton car, thirty- resent the Territories, especially Idaho, it has been six passengers, to Los Angeles and return, at a rate decided to hold it with the N. P. Conference, with THE Annual meeting of the Stockholders of the which will make it about half fare. The meeting the camp-meeting to be held in East Portland some Pacific Publishing Association will be held April 28. will be held May 8-18. This will give an opportu- time in June. That is the most central point; a gen- But a most important meeting will be held just be- nity to attend an important meeting and to see that eral meeting there will give Oregon and Washington fore that, April 18-27. It will be similar to the beautiful country in the summer season. Those who a much-needed opportunity to become better ac- meeting recently held in Healdsburg. It will be for wish to go will correspond immediately with W. C. quainted with the nature and spirit and wants of preaching, devotional meetings, and Bible-readings. White, Pacific Press, Oakland. our work, and with the laborers outside of their im- We invite a general attendance from neighboring mediate fields. churches, and we speak of it early in order that all SPECIAL attention is called to the article on the Elder Loughborough has appointed to leave Michi- may have time for preparation to attend. Our first page of this paper, by Mrs. E. G. White, en- gan April 1 for this State. Elder Corliss is now in brothers and sisters from Contra Costa County should titled, Science and the Bible in Education. All of Oregon. Eld. W. C. White is one of the General attend. And those who have newly come to the Mrs. White's writings are highly prized by the Conference Committee. These three, and perhaps faith in San Francisco are specially invited. It will readers of the SIGNS, and they are worthy of all Sister White, will, Providence favoring, attend both be just the opportunity they need. We invite our the favor they receive. The article of this week is the northern camp-meetings. The editor of the friends from all sections of the State to come and full of weighty truth, and parents and guardians, SIGNS also expects to attend the meeting in East partake of the joys and benefits of this meeting. all who are seeking an education, should carefully Portland, and perhaps will attend that in Upper As stockholders, and representative men from all consider it. Columbia. As far as laborers are concerned, no parts of the field, will be here to the meeting on the former meetings on the Pacific Slope have been so 28th, we invite them to come at least early in the Los ANGELES reports thirty-three inches of rain, well supplied as these will be. week before, so as to attend the religious meetings. up to March 10; nearly twice as much as has fallen In view of this large supply of laborers the As many as can come still earlier we shall be happy in Oakland. Considering that Los Angeles is a dry friends in the northern Conferences ought to put to see at the beginning, April 18. country, that the rains came late, and that there is forth extra efforts to have a large turn-out of the We shall make efforts in the Oakland Church to yet time for more, the amount is extraordinary. churches and of others. Last year they said they have accomodations prepared for all who attend. All California has had abundance of rain this cou'd and would secure a larger attendance, and This is the duty of the churches in all places where winter. reach a multitude of people, if the supply of labor- important meetings are held. Make your prepara- WHAT is a cold winter ? We have had a rather tions early, and come without fail. No one who at- ers would warrant it. This year an abundant sup- cold winter in Oakland; we never before saw so tends this meeting will ever regret it. ply of experienced laborers will be furnished, and many successive frosts in this city. But of the se- we expect they will make most earnest efforts to get verity of the cold our friends in the East can judge the people to attend. Bartlioldi's Statue of Liberty. from this: Calla lillies have been in bloom all win- But our coming camp-meeting in Los Angeles will ter in the open air! We certainly have an enjoya- be an important one, and Elders White, Loughbor- THE American Committee of the " Statue of Lib- ble climate. ough, and Sister White will attend that. To con- erty," of which Wm. M. Evarts is Chairman, have form to other appointments of the laborers in this issued a circular "To the American Press," in which A CARD from Eld. R. S. Webber, of Richmond, State that was appointed for May 15-25, as an- they say:— Maine, informs us that the price of his book, The nounced in our paper last week. But it was not " We are informed by the publishers of the official Bible Defended, is $1.25, postage paid. taken into account, in fixing this appointment, that engraving of the Bartholdi Statue and Pedestal, through the liberality of The Travelers Insurance it must be held early enough to enable the ministers Company of Hartford, Conn., every editor in the THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES, to reach the Upper Columbia meeting. It has been United States is to be presented with a copy of a PUBLISHED WEEKLY, AT OAKLAND, CAL., FOR THE found necessary to make a change, and the Los special ' Press Edition' of this engraving." Angeles meeting will be held May 8-18. We have received a copy of the engraving. It is International Tract and Missionary Society. We have received, not an appointment, but, an a splendid picture, 26x36 inches, representing New A sixteen-page Religious Family Paper, devoted to a discussion of intimation that the meeting in Upper Columbia will York harbor, with the statue as it is to be. The in- the Prophecies, Signs of the Times, Second Coming of Christ, Har- be appointed to begin May 29. This will be one tention is to have the statue and pedestal completed jiiony of the Law and Gospel; with Departments devoted to Tem- week too soon to suit those who must attend the and in position next year. It is a noble work of art. perance, The Home Circle, the Missionary Work, and the Sabbath- Los Angeles meeting. In making their appoint- In ordering this special press edition of the official school. ment we hope the friends in that Conference will engraving, the Insurance Company made both a Price Per Year, $2.00 In Clubs of live or more copies to one address, to be used in Mis- consider a few points:— contribution to the statue fund and a fine present sionary Work, 150 1. Eld. W. C. White is the only representative of to the editors. Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal.