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as of a rushing wind was heard, and lo, kitten/oaths birds were flocking from all directions, God's ways are equal; storm or calm, their numbers darkening the heavens, Seasons of peril and of rest, and in perfect order they passed to the The hurting dart, the healing balm, ark. Animals obeyed the command of Are all apportioned as is best. In judgments oft misunderstood, God, while men were disobedient. In ways mysterious and obscure, Guided by holy angels, " they went in, He brings from evil lasting good, two and two, unto Noah into the ark," And makes the final gladness sure. and the clean beasts by sevens. The While justice takes its course with strength, f Love bids our faith and hope increase ; world looked on in wonder, some in He'll give the chastened world at length fear. Philosophers are called upon to His afterward of peace. account for the singular occurrence, but in vain. It was a mystery which they When the dread forces of the gale Look up, 0 Earth ; no storm can last His sterner purposes perform, Beyond the limits God hath set. could not fathom. But men had be- And human skill can naught avail When its appointed work is past, come so hardened by their persistent re- Against the fury of the storm, In joy thou shalt thy grief forget. jection of light, that even this scene Let loving hearts trust in him still, Where sorrow's plowshare hath swept Through all the dark and devious way; through, produced but a momentary impression. For who would thwart his blessed will, Thy fairest flowers of life shall spring, As the doomed race beheld the sun Which leads through night to joyous day? For God shall grant thee life anew, shining in its glory, and the earth clad Be still beneath his tender care ; And all thy wastes shall laugh and sing. in almost Eden beauty, they banished For he will make the tempest cease, Hope thou in him ; his plan for thee And bring from out the anguish here Shall end in triumph and release. their rising fears by boisterous merri- An afterward of peace. Fear not, for thou shalt surely see ment, and by their deeds of violence His afterward of peace. they seemed to invite upon themselves —Selected. the visitation of the already awakened wrath of God. God commanded Noah, "Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee BIBLE BIOGRAPHY IA have I seen righteous before me in this generation." Noah's warnings had Noah and the Flood generation in regard to events, which, been rejected by the world, but his in- so far as human wisdom could judge, fluence and example resulted in bless- "By faith, Noah, being warned of God were impossible. ings to his family. As a reward for his of things not seen as yet, moved with Had the antediluvians believed the faithfulness and integrity, God saved fear, prepared an ark to the saving of warning, and repented of their evil all the members of his family with him. his house; by the which he condemned deeds, the Lord would have turned What an encouragement to parental the world, and became heir of the right- fidelity ! eousness which is by faith." While aside his wrath, as he afterward did Noah was giving his warning message from Nineveh. But by their obstinate Mercy had ceased its pleadings for to the world, his works testified of his resistance to the reproofs of conscience the guilty race. The beasts of the field sincerity. It was thus that his faith and the warnings of God's prophet, that and the birds of the air had entered the was perfected and made evident. He generation filled up the measure of their place of refuge. Noah and his house- gave the world an example of believing iniquity, and became ripe for destruc- hold were within the ark; "and the just what God says. All that he pos- tion. Lord shut him in." The massive door, sessed, he invested in the ark. As he The period of their probation was which it was impossible for those within began to construct that immense boat about to expire. Noah had faithfully to close, was slowly swung to its place on dry ground, multitudes came from followed the instructions which he had by unseen hands. Noah was shut in, every direction to see the strange sight, received from God. The ark was fin- and the rejecters of God's mercy were and to hear the earnest, fervent words ished in every part as the Lord had di- shut out. of the singular preacher. Every blow rected, and was stored with food for " By the word of God . . . the world struck upon the ark was a witness to man and beast. And now the servant that then was, being overflowed with the people. of God made his last solemn appeal to water. perished. But the heavens and Noah stood like a rock amid the tem- the people. With an agony of desire the earth which are now, by the same pest. Surrounded by popular contempt that words cannot express, he entreated word are kept in store, reserved unto and ridicule, he distinguished himself them to seek a refuge while it might be fire against the day of judgment and by his holy integrity and unwavering found. Again they rejected his words, perdition of ungodly men." Another faithfulness. A power attended his and raised their voices in jest and scoff- storm is coming. The earth will again words; for it was the voice of God to ing. Suddenly a silence fell upon the be swept by the desolating wrath of man through His servant. Connection mocking throng. Beasts of every de- God, and sin and sinners will be des- with God made him strong in the scription, the fiercest as well as the troyed. strength of infinite power, while for one most gentle, were seen coming from Before the flood, God sent Noah to hundred and twenty years his solemn mountain and forest, and quietly mak- warn the world, that the people might voice fell upon the ears of that great ing their way toward the ark. A noise be led to repentance, and thus escape

2 (74) THE CARIBBEAN WATCHMAN the threatened destruction. As the whelmed in the waters of the flood. palmerworm hath left hath the locust time of Christ's second appearing draws With all their boasted philosophy, men eaten ; and that which the locust hath near, the Lord sends his servants with found too late that their wisdom was left hath the cankerworm eaten ; and a warning to the world to prepare for foolishness, that the Lawgiver is greater that which the cankerworm hath left that great event. Multitudes have been than the Laws of nature, and that Om- hath the caterpillar eaten. . . . . living in transgression of God's law, and nipotence is at no loss for means to at- Alas for the day 1 now He in mercy calls them to obey its complish his purposes. "As it was in for the day of the Lord is at hand, and sacred precepts. All who will put away the days of Noah," " even thus shall it as a destruction from the Almighty shall their sins by repentance toward God be in the day when the Son of man is it come and faith in Christ are offered pardon. revealed." "The day of the Lord will . . The seed is rotten under their But many feel that it requires too great come as a thief in the night; in the clods, the garners are laid desolate, the a sacrifice to put away sin. Because which the heavens shall pass away with barns are broken down ; for the corn is their life does not harmonize with the fervent heat, the earth also, and the withered. How do the beasts groan ! pure principles of God's moral Govern- works that are therein shall be burned the herds of cattle are perplexed, be- ment, they reject his warnings, and up." When the reasoning of philoso- . cause they have no pasture; yea, the deny the authority of his law. phy has banished the fear of God's judg- flocks of sheep are made desolate. When great and wise men had proved ments ; •when religious teachers are The to their satisfaction that it was impos- pointing forward to long ages of peace beasts of the field cry also unto thee; sible for the world to be destroyed by and prosperity, and the world are ab- for the rivers of waters are dried up, water, when the fears of the people sorbed in their round of business and and the fire hath devoured the pastures were quieted, when all regarded Noah's pleasure, planting and building, feasting of the wilderness." Joel I : 2, 3, 4, 15, prophecy as a delusion, and looked and merry-making, rejecting God's 17, 18. 20. upon him as a fanatic,—then it was warnings and mocking his messengers, With human testimony from among that God's time had come. "The —then it is that sudden destruction those who have seen these things, and fountains of the great deep were broken corneal upon them, and they shall not who witness the fulfilling condition of up, and the windows of heaven were escape. prophecy without intention of overstat- opened," and the scoffers were over- MRS. E. G. WHITE. ing the situation, and with the pro- phecy itself before us delineating what may be expected in the future, we have reason to accept these things as an- other evidence of the diseased and dy- ing condition of the earth. The Great Sick World The earth is groaning and writhing under the curse of disease because sin and iniquity abound. Because men "love darkness rather -than the light," Insect Pests to twenty millions in a season from one the curse of transgression is " heavy progenitor." Our days are marked by the increas- upon it." ingly destructive insect pests which in- This is testimony sufficient for the But not for long shall these condi- fest the earth. Scientific men are point in question, taken as it is from one tions prevail. Soon they will end and • constantly on the alert to meet the rap- of the world's leading scientific jour- that forever. There comes a day when idly augmenting forces of locusts and nals. These insect pests are growing we shall plant vineyards and eat the grasshoppers, gipsy moth, cotton boll, at an alarming rate everywhere, They fruit of them. No longer will the weevil, and their multitudinous kin- are but an additional evidence that in curse devour, for "there shall be no spite of the improving methods of sci- more curse." dred. ence the diseased condition of all things In the Scientific American of July ro, earthly grows much more rapidly. It is the attitude we take now, the 1897, Geo. E. Walsh writing of these preparation we make for Christ's ap- conditions says :—" For a quarter of a Prof. Riley in the International En- pearing, and in fulfilling of every duty century science has been labouring in cyclopedia, says of the locust pests, and obligation to God, that we shalt the cause of agriculture to reduce the "Insignificant individually, but mighty find entrance into that land of plenty. number of garden pests and hold them collectively, like a plague or blight. In that goodly land, men "shall not la- in check. The annual battles with the The harvest is at hand," the day breaks bour in vain, nor bring forth for calam- with a smiling sun, and all the earth ity." insect foes are carried on energetically seems glad. . . , . . The morn from early spring till late autumn, and comes ; the fertile land of promise and In the days which yet remain for the the farmer and gardener are not quite plenty has become a desolate waste." earth as it is, by a sincere, earnest prep- sure of their crops until they have been Such has been the experiences of aration of righteous living and ener- actually harvested. In spite of all the many grain raising lands in South and getic labouring for the Master, make protective agencies and the Old World. ready for the earth to come. "I will disasters of gigantic proportions will rebuke the devourer for your sakes and break out occasionally. It is the destruc- But these are by no means the limit he shall not destroy the fruits of your tion of the potato crop one season by of what is to come upon the earth, " be- ground," and "it may be ye shall be the Colorado beetle; failure of wheat fore the great and terrible day of the hid in the day of the Lord's anger." fields by blight or rust, another year; Lord come." We quote from Joel the or wide-spread injury to cotton plants prophetic words with regard to these by boll-worms. Somewhere some crop things in the last days. • is pretty sure to be seriously damaged " Hear this ye Old men, and give ear, by insects or the fungus growth, nearly all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath Sacrifice alone, bare and unrelieved, every season. By the middle of sum- this been in your days, or even in the is ghastly, unnatural, and dead : ,but mer, insect foes are swarming all over days of your fathers? Tell ye your self-sacrifice, illuminated by love, is the garden and on every plant. Plant- children of it, and let your children tell warmth and life ; it is the life of Christ, lice or aphides, attack all'Afeak plants, their children, and their children an- the life of God, the blessed and only and they multiply at the rate of from five other generation. That which the proper life of man.—F. W. Robertson.

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To be an infallible guide, the Bible ment that the scenes which followed it will make light cf the evidences of must be able to instruct in all things beggar description. Rich men lost Christ's near coming, the apostle Peter pertaining to life and godliness. their all, and were reduced from afflu- says such are willingly ignorant of the Such instruction, to be competent, ence to poverty. Poorer people were fact that by the word of God the world must reveal the eternal purpose of God reduced to beggary, and cried like was once destroyed by water. He then concerning this earth and its inhabi- children. So much confusion prevailed adds : "The heavens and the earth, tants This purpose being a fixed one, that martial law was proclaimed. But which are now, by the same word are God's Omniscience must foresee and calamitous as was the recent occasion, kept in store, reserved unto fire against make note of those events which are to the event predicted in the foregoing the day of judgment and perdition of effect the destiny of his people. To be- scripture will bring infinitely greater ungodly men." 2 Peter 3: 4-7. lieve otherwise would belittle the Crea- distress, so much so that "the mighty Such a sure and terrible ending of all tor, and make Him unworthy of confi- man will cry there bitterly, " for that things sinful must be reserved Tor a dence in time of dire need. day will be " a day of wasteness and definite time in the purpose of God, Taking this view of the Bible, we are desolation, a day of darkness and gloom- who could not be true to His declared compelled to believe that the terrible iness, a day of clouds and thick dark- merciful character if He should fail to give calamity just visited upon the Pacific ness. " That day will be "the day of warning of its direct approach. When Slope is significant, as indicating some- the Lord's wrath, " in which " He shall the Saviour was asked what signs thing for which the people ought to be would herald His second advent and prepared. The havoc wrought in San make a speedy riddance of all them the end. In the world, among other Francisco, San Jose, and other cities of which dwell in the land. " Zeph. 1 : 14-18. things He said: "Nation shall rise California, was not wholly accomplished At this time the ethereal arch of against nation, and kingdom against by the shaking of the kingdom, and peat earth. In San Fran- earthquakes shall be in cisco particularly, fire divers places." Matt. 24: of the most persistent 1-8; Luke. 21: IO, II. character followed, de- The first really great vouring the most formi- earthquake to be noted dable structures the art in history since that of men could devise. prediction was made, is This is remarkable in . that of 1755 in Portugal, one way, because these when Lisbon was over- two elements are repre- thrown. Since then sented in God's words they have occurred in as accompanying agen- ever-increasing rapidity, cies for the destruction until quite recently they have followed almost of those whose sins have upon the heels of become so flagrant as to each other. Within ten provoke the indigna- years Stromboli tion of heaven. Isa. 29 : 6. erupted, following an By the combination earthquake. Mount of these two elements, Pelee. soon followed, the destruction of the Earthquake at Lisbon, 1755. carrying great destruc- world will be accomplished in due time. heaven will pass away as a scroll being tion in its wake. Within three months Speaking on this point the prophet says : rolled together, and every mountain Vesuvius has vomited forth fires, "And the seventh angel poured out his and island will remove. Then all men ashes, and lava, destroying at least two vial [of wrath] into the air; and there —kings, rich men, chief captains, and towns and threatening others. These, came a great voice out of the temple of earth's mighty men, with the bond and to say nothing of an earlier disturbance heaven, from the throne, saying, It is free—will hide together among the affecting Charleston on the Atlantic done. And there were voices, and thun- rocks of the hill, and in one mighty Coast, with others in South America, ders, and lightnings; and there was a chorus of lamentation, 'cry to the rocks Central America and other countries, great earthquake, such as was not since and mountains to fall on them, and to are a sure indication, that we are men were upon the earth, so mighty an hide them from the face of Him whose approaching the end of the world, earthquake, and so great. And the wrath they have provoked- by their according to the prediction of the Lord great city was divided into three parts, glaring enormities in sin. Rev. 6: 14- Jesus Himself. and the cities of the nations fell ; and 16. But rocks and mountains can not But, as if to make this doubly sure great Babylon came in remembrance be- then bury them away from impending to us, there now comes unheralded the fore God, to give unto her the cup of destruction ; for as in pitvious foretastes sad catastrophe in California, breaking the wine of the fierceness of His wrath. of that day, fire springs up in all direc- down and destroying important centers And every island fled away, and the tions, and consumes them from off the of industry. This also must be accepted mountains were not found." Rev. 16: earth. as a premonition of the great and terri- 17-2o. That this is not a fancy sketch, we ble earthquake before which all the Those who passed through, the recent have only, to refer again to the scriptures. cities of the nations will soon surely earthquake will corroborate the state- Speaking of the attitude--of those who fall, and the accompanying fires of the

4 (76) THE CARIBBEAN WATCHMAN last day which will -complete the de- but he only gave him ten children. He in the hour's indulgence -of-an-odorous struction of all sinful things. had ten before his calamity came upon cigar, by pens that might be a power in He who pays heed to this warning him. That is worthy of notice. God a better cause ! How many have been ,and lets the Lord direct his ways, will would not admit that Job had lost any led to taste the mocking wine by read- ,certainly escape the general ruin, be- children." He gave him ten here and ing a brilliant account in some popular cause he will have found shelter under ten sleeping.. work of fiction, of how charming and the protecting wings of the Almighty. —Selected. fascinating was the exquisitely beautiful A thousand shall fall at his side, and heroine as she delicately poised the ten thousand at his right hand, but li— sparkling glass of blood-red wine, and the destruction—will not come nigh A Heavy Curse sipped its exhilarating contents ! How him, because he has made the Lord his Next to their intimate companions, many, the judgment of God alone will refuge, even the Most High his habita- what people read has more influence reveal. tion. The angel of the Lord shall keep over them than aught else. It is a true How many girls who might have been him in all his ways. Ps. 91 : 5- L saying that a man may be known by the ministering angels at home, a blessing to In that day, every earthly thing will company he keeps ; and it is no less true father, mother, brothers, and sisters, be removed by the terrible shaking it that one may be known by the kind of have left all, to mingle in the unreal will receive. One thing alone will re- reading he enjoys. There are few evils and abandoned life behind the scenes of main, the word of God, because it can of like magnitude to that of evil and the theater or opera—lured there by the not be shaken, hence must stand forever. vicious literature. Evidences of its brilliant descriptions and talent-worship Fixed on this, one will be safe, even withering, blasting, blighting influences of prominent actresses, as set forth in though the earth be removed out of its are seen on every hand. No other evil the light literature of to-day ! How place. Heb.I 2: 26-28. is so widely extended in Christian lands many a promising boy has forsaken his Shall we not, then, learn the lesson as that of light literature in the form of father's roof, and the useful, honest pur- God would have us study in what is oc- serial and sensational stories, love-sick suits of life, to endeavour to become a curring about us, and so yield our hearts romances, thrilling adventures, seaside second " Claude Duval," "Jesse James," to be controlled by Him that our lives libraries, dime novels, etc., etc. It or some other noted desperado, whom may be moulded after the fashion of His is utterly impossible for one to keep some novels have characterized as a own, and we be prepared to meet those note of them as they fall from the press. hero ! Many instances come to public things that are so rapidly coming upon They enter many homes where the win e- notice every year through the press. the earth ? God grant that we may. cup has never been seen.. Then, there is the great mass of whom J. 0. CORLISS. True, we do not find the " yellow-cov- the world takes no account, who, if not ered" dime novel nor the cheap serial utterly ruined, become mental dyspep- in the gilded mansion of the rich, nor tics, crippled in life's work ; who become The Gospel in the Book of Job the last popular novel in the beggar's men and women of small mental cali- An Englishman said to me, " Mr. hut, but Similar matter is found in each, bre, at best,—dwarfs in mind and soul. Moody, did you ever study the life of with the same influence. This literature This kind of literature presents be- Job ?" of fiction, with its covert sneers at re- fore us nothing real or tangible. The I said, " No, I never did." ligion, its low standards and false pictures of life are either overdrawn or He said, " If you get a key to Job, standards, its unworthy motives, creeps lacking in necessary features. They you get a key to the whole Bible." into the houses of Christians ; it comes present before us Utopian views of life, "What has Job to do with the Bible?" to us through the religious press; it finds which have existence in this world of He said, "I will tell you. I will di- a place in Sunday-school libraries— ours only in dreams. Thousands enter vide the subject into five heads. First, different, it is true, in degree of evil, the marriage relation thinking it one Job, before he was tried, was a perfect but the same unreal, fictitious literature long, happy honeymoon, who become man untried. He was like Adam in still. We see its well-thumbed pages soured as soon as the stern realities of Eden 'before Satan came in. Secondly, often beside the neglected Bible, these life are encountered. Following this he was tried by adversity. Thirdly, the pages intently perused by the children come misery, wretchedness, unfaithful- wisdom of the world is represented by of those who are looking for the soon- ness to marriage vows, intemperance, Job's friends trying to restore him. See coming of Christ, and not a protest ut- divorce. Such are educated to a large what language they used. They were tered by either father or mother, those extent by the romance of the day. wonderfully 'wise men, but they could whose dirty it is to protect and care for Were it not for this false education, we not help Job out of his difficulties. Men the intellectual and spiritual welfare of verily believe that there would be less' are miserable comforters when they do the child, as well as to provide for its divorce and crime against marital law. not understand the grace of God. Job physical needs. Alas, that these things Looking for perfection in their ideal, could stand his scolding wife and his are so ! unreal, selfish fancies, the common du- boils better than these men's argu- The danger, however, lies not in its ties and realities of life make a yoke irk- ments; they made him worse instead of mere purchase and presence, but in its some and grievous to'be borne. better. Fourthly, God speaks, and Job tendency and influence. We know not Novel reading takes from its devotee, humbles himself in the dust. God, be- words to express its banefulness in this energy and zeal in the stern duties of fore he saves a man, brings him down direction. It takes a quicker posses- life, deepens selfishness, and leads to into the dust. He does not talk about sion of the youthful mind, and lures and distrust of everything that does not how he has fed the hungry and clothed fascinates and holds with grip more te- pander to the selfish heart and unreal the naked; but he says, I „am vile. nacious and deadly, .than that of the fancies. To be considered heroes or Fifthly, God restored him, and the lat- wine-cup. In fact, its influence leads to heroines is the acme of the aspiration of ter end'.of Job was better than the first. physical intemperance. How many the slaves of light literature, while the It is better than the state of Adam,be- youth have becLome users of the vile work of real heroes lies undone on cause Adam might have lived ten thou- weed tobacco, by reading how gracefully every „hand. They grumble and find sand years and then fallen; therefore it curled the smoke of the fragrant Ha- fault, they are sicicly, simpering„pee- is better for us to be outside of Eden.. vana from the lips of the -hero of some vish, impatient. They will, weep over with Chfist than that we should be in, wonderful story ! How beautifully ,is the abnormal, slighted” love of one who- Eden without 'God gave Joh., pictured the pleasing (though frequently never existed, and sneer over the wants double as much wealth as he had before, corrupt and filthy) reveries which' come and woes of those who, surgound tTfein. , _ July, 1906. (77) 5 Their own selfishness and the love of to,Which he will contribute every faculty "We have representatiYes of our busi- Christ never cause a pang or feeling of of-his being. ness in several of the principal cities of gratitude. How many times have we The true element in consecration is the world. I call this our missionary seen a sentimental, love-sick girl weep labour. There are those who think that branch. My man there is working over the fate of_a pen-picture, when the if they feel happy, and like to sing while I sleep. He-is my substitute. In poor, tired, discouraged, heart-sick Christian melodies, they are consecrated. that way I work twenty-four hours a mother, and toil-bent father, could not Jesus said, " Come unto Me, all ye that day—for the Master. —Selected. even call forth a word of sympathy ! labour and are heavy, laden, and I will What . rays of light these sons and give you rest." Here many stop. They Too Busyy to Be Kind think that the " rest" is all there is of daughters might be in the days of cloud- There is much food for thought in the gloom and darkness ! What a power the matter. But He did not stop there. He added, "Take My yoke upon you, words, " too busy to be kind"—a some- in the church of Christ, if they were thing, perhaps, that will "strike home" willing to grapple with duty, and, in the and learn of Me." When we put the yoke upon the oxen, what is it for? Do to each anti every one of us. The strength of God, fight the real battles of Young Woman says : " We hear so life ! we then take them• to the pasture to feed ? Do we put the yoke upon the ox much about making every minute count, There may be good things said in and always having some work or course novels, words which appeal to the that he may rest ? —No ; it is that he may labour! -The resting comes when of study for spate hours, and having our purer, holier emotions of our natures, activities all systematized, that there is but words, nevertheless which often the work is done. Take the life of Paul as an illustration no place left for small wayside kind- make the novel all the more dangerous. nesses. We go to see the sick neigh- They are the gilded bait which hides of true consecration. Consider his life; follow him in his long and weary voy- bour, and relieve the poor neighbour, from the minds of the well-disposed the but for the common, every-day neigh- poisoned, fateful hook. They are the ages, his arduous labours, the toils, im- prisonments, scourgings, fastings, ship- uour who has fallen by the way, so far beautiful flowers which hide the snare. as we can see, we haven't a minute to It is this novel-reading which oftentimes wrecks, and all he met and did for that cause he loved more than his own life. spare. The old-fashioned exchange of leads buys to speak of mother as "old garden-flowers over the back fence, and woman," or "the old lady," or father as Such were Paul's credentials of Chris- tian consecration. Take the life of friendly chat about domestic matters, " the old man," or " governor." How help to brighten weary days, and bring many are led to look back over the past Luther and his co-workers, the Wesleys, and Whitfield, and many others who more cheer than many a sermon. We and regret the brightest years of life, ought not to be too busy to inquire which have been given to such reading, spent their time and means for the cause of God. Such is consecration. about the girl at school, or to be inter- —years when memory was most reten- ested in the letter from the boy at sea. tive, when character was forming,—and E. W. FARNSWORTH. It is comfort to the mother's lonely what would they not now give if they heart to feel that somebody else cares -could recall them ! How the memories Twenty-Four Hours a. Da.y for that which means much to her. linger ! How the habit of hasty, rapid, How the " substitute idea" is spread- May no one be able to say of us that he unreflecting reading remains ! How ing is shown by the following incident, was "too busy to be kind." hard it is to efface their impression ! which appears in an exchange :— —Selected. What struggles has it cost to resist their Calling one day upon a business man influence—the blighting, baneful influ- in his office, I found him, as usual, " up Heaven or Hell ? ence of this corrupter of minds, this de- to his eyes" in work. Joshua 24: 21. stroyer of memory, ' this feeder of "Sit down and wait a minute," he One night a young English sailor selfishness ! It is called light literature, said, handing me a chair. stepped into a mission in New York but it is one of the heaviest of curses. 'You are always working 1 I ex- City. At the close of the meeting when Parents, do your duty. Place before claimed. " How many hours do you he was leaving, some one put into his your children the Word of God, and put in each day ?" hand a little card, on which was printed truthful, mind-building reading. Novel "Twenty-four," he replied with a the following : "If I should die to-night reader, be admonished before you be- smile. I would go to . Please fill out and come a mental wreck. Dear youth, My face expressed my astonishment. sign." The sailor put it in his pocket, shun such reading, and, as companions, "Yes," he said, " I work ten or went back to his steamer, and stuck it those who prefer such reading. Be real twelve hours here ; the rest of the time I up in his bunk, without thinking much men and women. The greatest heroes am working at the other side of the about the words. Crossing the Atlantic, arid heroines are those who conquer sin world—by proxy, of course." he was thrown from the rigging in a and self, and lovingly labour for others' storm, and, falling to the deck, broke an good. "I don't understand." "Let me explain," he returned, more arm. He was carried to his bunk, and —Signs of the Times. seriously than before. "When I was at as he lay there alone his eye fell on the school, I became deeply interested in little card, and the message went home the mission cause. I determined to go to his heart. He thought, "It I should Christian Consecration out. to China to work in the field ; but fill out the card honestly now I should my father died, and his business here have to write in the word hell. But I'll "Ye are not your own. For ye are was in such a state that no outsider not fill it out this way." And lying bought with a price : therefore glorify could successfully carry it on. There there in his bunk he accepted Jesus God in your body, and in your spirit, were a mother, sisters, and younger Christ as his personal Saviour, and sur- which are God's." r Cor. 6: 19, 20. brothers depending upon the profits of rendered his whole being to Him. He To be consecrated, in a Bible sense, is the house. I was obliged to remain here. filled in the card with the, word heaven, to devote one's self to the service of But I determined, nevertheless, to have and signed his name. Returning to God. When one professes conversion a representative in the field, and I took England, he soon- got another ship for to Christ, he says to the world that he up the support of a native preacher in New Yoric, and arriving there he walked and all that he has are not henceforth China." Here my friend took down a to the mission and handed in his card. his own, to be used for his own individ- much-thumbed map of southern China, _ Suppose you had a card like that to sign ual interest and pleasure,„ but that he and pointed out a certain town. "That to-day. Which would it be, heaven, or has- espoused the cause of Christianity, is where my man is at work," he said. hell?. —Selected. 6 (78) THE CARIBBEAN WATCHMAN

1822 Turkey 22,000 fully in the light that is shining across his EDITORIAL 1829 Mercia, Spain 6,000 pathway, that they may be hid in the day of 1830 Canton, China 6,coo His wrath. Zeph. I: 1-3. Repent! Repent! GAO. F. ENOCH ... Edito r 1842 San Domingo 4,000 Repent ! 1851 Southern Italy 14,000 ... Associate Editor. B. S. A. Wrtwis.w 1859 Quito, Ecuador 12,000 Editorial Contributors. 1861 Mendoza, Argentina 1'2,000 W. G. KzeUELAND. J. A. STRICKLAND: 1868 Anca, Chili 6,000 1880 Phillipines 3,000 Obtaining a. Good Report 1883 Ischia, Italy 7,500 A Lesson from the San Francisco 1883 Java (and volcano) 100,000 "And these all having obtained a good re- Disaster 1905 India 18,000 port through faith received not the promise. 1906 California (Estimated) 2,000 God having provided some better thing for us, Luke 13 I.5 that they without us-should not be made per- "There were present at that season some 686,50o fect." Heb. I I : 39,40. ' It sounds, just hear- that told him of the Galileans •whose blood Just look at that partial list and think of the ing the above text repeated, like a simple mat- Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. almost 700,00o souls who have perished ter, this .obtaining a good report through faith. And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose recently in earthquakes, not to say anything How many of us are perfectly willing to have ye that these Galileans, were sinners above all of other disasters by end and sea, and the the good report made ? How many are very anx- the Galileans, because they suffered such thousands lost in volcanic eruptions. Then ious to see the words, Well done, written oppo- things ? I tell you, Nay: but except ye repent, remember the promise that Jesus made that site their name sand yet do not realize the full ye shall all likewise perish. Or those eight- these should be signs of His coming, and ask import of the situation or the real require- een, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and yourselves solemnly, is not this alone sufficient ments of the case. slew them, think ye that they were sinners evidence that the end of all things is at hand ? " These all having obtained a good report above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem ? I tell The lesson to us is repent, or we shall like- through faith." Faith,—not alone professing you, Nay: but except ye repent, ye shall all wise perish. In Ecclesiastes, chapter 8, verse a possession of a belief in Christ and in God. likewise perish." we read, "Because sentence against an evil Faith—the substance of things hoped for—the If Jesus were here to-day he would doubtless work is not executed speedily, therefore the evidence of things not seen. Faith like this say, "think you that the people of San hearts of the sons of men, are fully set in them carried Jesus, the Christ, through the years Francisco were sinners above all other people to do evil." The human heart is so deceitful spent in this world,—unspotted. It sent many in the world, I tell you, Nay: but except ye that a staying of judgment, confirms it in its a soul to the martyr's crown. " And what shall repent, ye shall all likewise perish," evil course. So now at the end of the world, I say more? For time would fail me to tell of The finger of God has touched San as the world is fast forgetting God, and plung- Gideon, and of Barak and of Sampson and of Francisco. Its mighty buildings have been ing deeper and deeper in sin, God is now exe- Jepthae ; of Daniel also, and of Samuel and of shaken down. Millions of dollars worth of cuting speedily the sentence against evil the prophets; who through faith subdued king. property have been lost, hundreds of thousands works, so that the world will be without dooms, wrought righteousness : . . . . . are homeless hundreds have lost their lives, excuse. What San Francisco has suffered, 13, jug destitute, afflicted, tormented." All and the lesson to us is Repent, Repent, R,-pent! other great and wicked cities will suffer, and these obtained a good report. Read the whole Men say God has nothing to do with this these awful things will increase and thicken of chapter eleven and it tells its own full story. visitation. They say their science wholly dis- until the final cataclysm which will he general The report of their life says they subdued proves it. And yet when it comes to the mat- over all the world. kingdoms and wrought righteousness. . . ter of dollars and cents we see how quickly the being destitute, tormented, afflicted. It was Insurance companies fail to pay the losses, Isaiah 24 In Isa. 24 we have a vivid, description of this not an easy road to honour. It was over a claiming exemption under the clause in their rough road, but the end thereof was worth the' Policies, known as the "Act of God" Clause. time. Read it carefully. The Lord will make it empty and waste, and turn it upside down, tortuous path. The final reward worthy a When we express our belief in the fact that life of privation and endeavour. this is really an "act of God," men laugh at scattering abroad its inhabitants. " The land shall be utterly spoiled, the earth will be And yet we, dear reader, complain of our lot. us, call us ignorant and unlearned, and cast an We who profess to be followers of the meek eye of pity in our direction. When we inti- moved exceed tngly, it will reel to and fro like a drunkard and be remwed like a cottage." and lowly Jesus are many of us looking upon mate that we believe it is evidence of the near ourselves in these days of peace and prosper. return of •ur Lord, this feeling on their part is What is the reason for this ? ' The transgression ity and pitying ourselves in this condition. intensified. Our reply is this : If the advocacy thereof shall be heavy upon it. The earth also Faith, the substance of things hoped for—the of such beliefs, marks us as unlearned, we are is defiled under the inhabitants thereof, be- real thing, is it in us—is it ours ? Faith works in good company, and further we pass the cause they have transgressed the laws, changed —without working is dead. Works what?— charge on from us, back to our Lord and the ordinance, broken the everlasting cove- us, our lives, our all. And to what end ? That Master whose words we are following. Jesus nant, therefore hath the curse devoured the we may obtain a good report. was asked, what shall be the sign of thy com- earth " etc. But the faith that works in us will meet just ing and the end of the world? Luke in the Oh, what can be more solemn ! These scenes as severe tests as did the faith in ages past. chapter of his gospel, verse II, answers:— are just before us. The WATCHMAN pleads for 21st The substance must be tried, tested, put in the " And great earthquakes sh"ll be in divers men to allow God by His Spirit to bring them furnace of affliction until God knows that we places, and famines, and pestilences; and fear- in harmony with His law, and write His law in ful sights, and great signs shall there be from their hearts. And yet even professed Chris- are sure of a good report concerning our faith. That faith, if it is faith, is real substance that heaven." tians are opposing this, publishing everywhere can stand trial. That faith if it is in truth sub- Here we rest our faith. We believe Jesus of that God's law is abolished, that Grace frees stance, will be an evidence of some thing in our Nazareth was the Son of God, sent from men from obedience to His Holy Will, appl) • heaven to teach us the Truth. We will stand ing the name of unbelievers in Jesus to those lives that though recognized is not seen, not by his words forever, even though all the who still stand by the perpetuity of the law. understood. And that faith stands, because it scientists in the world scoff and call us un- They shall reap the whirlwind. San Fran- is grounded on one aim, one desire, one deter- learned. Thank God we are in good company. cisco is just the first-fruits of an awful har- mination—that "looking unto Jesus the au- Earthquakes were felt soon after Jesus spoke vest. May God help every honest heart to thor and finisher of our faith," and encom- these words. One in A. D. 79 accompanied the withdraw from such doctrines before it is too passed by the witnesses of the past who had. eruption that destroyed Pompeii and Hercule, late. that faith, we shall "lay aside every weight neum. In A. D. 742 there was an awful one "Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, ( all of the world our relationship therein, all in Syria, in 1692 Port Royal, Jamaica was des- and see and ask for the old _paths, where is the that would hold us to this world,) and the sins troyed with about 3,000 people, but it has good way, and walk therein and ye shall find which have in the past beset us) and run with been left for the last two centuries to record rest for your souls." But they said, " We will patience the race that is set before us." the most frequent and most awful in the his- not walk therein. Also I set watchman over With faith comes trial, disappointment. af- tory of the world. The following is a partial you saying, hearken to the sound of the fliction, distress, hunger, nakedness; yea all list of those in the last two centuries that have trumpet. But they said we will not hearken. that may be of this world called bad luck, fate, resulted in great loss of life. Many are not in Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, 0 —it comes by tests in little things and in great this list. congregation, hat is among them. Hear, 0 things. It may be to-day some pettish word earth : behold I will bring evil upon this by which our patience will be tried. Tomor- Place No. killed Date people. even the fruit of their thoughts, be- row some overwhelming sorrow. But faith 1703 Yeddo, Japan 190,000 cause they have not hearkened unto My words stands. It is true metal; and whether the 1716 Algiers, Africa 18,000 nor to My law but rejected it." Jer. 6: 16-19. blow comes from the hammer on the anvil or 1726 Palermo, Italy 6,000 God is to-day calling back to the old paths. the droppings of the water, it is steadfast, un- 1731 Pekin, China 93,000 Everything inhoduced during the apostasy of changeable, it was built from everlasting sub- 1746 Lima, Peru 18,0o0 the Dark Ages must be now discarded. Old- stance—the rock Christ Jesus. Dear reader, 1754 Cairo, Egypt 40,000 time religion, Apostolic doctrine and practice have you faith? Will it bring a good report? 1755 Lisbon, Portugal 35,000 only will suffice. All else will be plunged into Is it from the right source? Will it stand the '773 , C. America 33,000 the wreck and ruin of the last days. tests of daily crosses and affliction ? 1797 Quito, Ecuador 41,000 May God help every honest soul to walk July, 1906. (79) 7 full requital. The only way is to fall back on nature when drug quackery has destroyed your faith and your po cket -book. Health and Temperance The Great Physician God has given us wisdom, and he wants each one to learn that the body Shun the Wine Cup from them now; but wait till that strong is not to be abused just simply for constitution is gone. Some day you pleasure. Many are looking for health, Children, do you see the wine will feel the rod of punishment. and they can find it if they will recog- In the crystal goblet shine? Be not tempted by its charm. It is an astonishing how little people re- nize the laws of our being, which are Children, shun it; alize that it is their own transgression only God's laws. It is sin that is draw- Touch it never, of physical laws that makes them sick. ing us into the pit of destruction ; God Fight it ever. Pain is only to remind each trans- is working and will work to heal the Do you know what causeth woe gressor, " So far hast thou gone ; go no wounds which sin has made, and he Bitter as the heart can know? farther." When your nerves despise wants you and me to recognize hip as 'Tis the selfsame ruby wine you, and you dislike them, you begin the Great Physician. He wants you to Which would tempt that soul of thine. Children, shun it ; with yourself and trace your pedigree ; keep close to him by obeying nature's Touch it never, somewhere along the line you will find laws, by inhaling he•r pure, sweet air, Fight it ever. the cause of your trouble. deeply, fully, and continuously. Bathe Never let it pass your lips; Neurasthenia, Nervousness, and Indigestion. in it, sleep in it; court the sunbeams of Never even let the tips Nerve force is the electrical energy heaven as you would a lover. Of your fingers touch the bowl ; that keeps all the organs in balance in Eat only delicious, nutritious foods, Hate it from your inmost soul. nature's cure. To save it, to increase such as grains, fruits, and nuts, not for- Truly shun it; Touch it never, it, means health and happiness, while getting to masticate thoroughly. Drink Fight it ever. on the other hand the spendthrift uses only pure water. Practise cleanliness and purity of habits ; cultivate mental Fight it. With God's help stand fast up his capital, and reaps pain and dis- Long as life or breath shall last ; ease. Most chronic invalids have spent serenity and hope, and the truths found Heart meet heart and hand join hand; large loans of vitality and" lost the re- in Psalm 103 will be made plain : "He Hurl the demon from our land. serve fund in drugging. healeth all thy diseases, "and again we 0, then shun it ! find that God has said, "For I am the Touch it never, The neprasthenic and nervous dyspep- Fight it ever. —Sel. tic have let business cares, home duties, Lord that healeth thee. " Ex. 15 :26. or an uncontrollable appetite rule them M. M. MARTINSON, M. D.

until they have spent their reserve force. • • Drugs and Disease. The badly cooked, greasy, and spicy foods, fast eating, the appetizers so The Value of Lemons People are tired, and instead of ta- popular of late years, and all noise and These are some of the things the king nature's rest, they stimulate, and worry of business, have tapped your when the reaction comes, they stimulate lemon can do for you:— nerve supply; that is to say, you have Squeezed into a glass of water eery again. This course soon ends in a let out more than you have been able broken dow.n constitution. You are sick morning and drank, it will keep your to supply. You are a neurasthenic, a stomach in the best of order, and will because you have not obeyed nature's nervous dyspeptic. Your liver will not law, and now pain has conquered your never let dyspepsia get into it. act, your heart palpitates, you are sick If you have dark hair, and it seems to human breath and turned it into a sigh ; because you have bankrupted your vi- but what can medicine do? be falling out, rub a slice of lemon on tality. But where is the "elixir of your scalp, and it will stop that little If it is a strong hypnotic, it may daze life" that will cure you? Let me tell the nerves so that they cannot cry out ; trouble promptly. you that you will not find it in a bot- but can the drug remove the cause, or Squeezed into a quart of milk, it will take away the poisons that cause the tle. • give you a mixture to rub on your face nerves to shriek in pain ? Should the Nature's Remedies Forgotten. night and morning, and give you a com- drug be a stimulant, it may irritate the People are not apt to distinguish be- plexion like a princess'. organ to a greater activity ; but does a tween prevention and cure. They look If you have a bad headache, rub slices stimulant supply the cell with food to for books which will instruct them how of lemon along the temple. The pain do the work of cleaning out rubbish to cure by drugs, so that they can feel will not be long in disappearing, or at that has accumulated ? Will it purify well . They have full confidence in least in growing easier to bear. the corrupt blood-stream? The answer their doctor and his pills or some nice If a bee or an insect stings you, put a is, no. patent medicine. They do like some- few drops of lemon juice on the spot. All your apothecary shops with their thing that will alleviate pain without If you have a troublesome corn, rub compounds will not do what nature can removing the cause. When the health it with lemon after taking, a hot bath, with rest and sunshine. You may travel is ruined by gluttonous habits of over- and cut away the corn. from north to south and from east to eating, when the body is stupefied with Besides all this, it is always ready for west to find the elixir of life, but as poisons of a multitude of indulgences, the preparation of old-fashioned lemon- long as you abuse your vital organs, when all mental serenity has been lost ade. Altogether, the lemon is an article and take no interest in them, you will and you can stand it no longer, your few can afford to get along without-- suffer. The nostrums and all the pills greatest delight is to find some drug Health, London. and patent medicines which promise which will give relief, so that nature you health and happiness are only de- will not dare to cry out again, and you ceivers; your tea, coffee, tobacco, spices can go back to your old habits of violat- " It's far easier to slide down a balus- and condiments have no food value; ing nature's laws. You may plead trade than to climb a flight of stairs. they are only stimulants which de- for relief in this way, but you will not One can slide down to obscurity without range the fine machinery of the body. get it, for pain is only the penalty of sin trouble ; but it takes climbing to be It may be that you feel no bad effects against the body or soul. Nature exacts somebody."

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Our 'WAN 5otti !PT J For Love's Sake and do up dainty handkerchiefs and lates, and avoid pies and sweetmeats. socks, which ought not to go in the Remember that good health is depend- Sometimes I am tempted to murmur, That life is flitting away, general wash. By and by you may ent on very simple rules. With only a round of trifles want to teach somebody how to do these One of the best aids in keeping good Filling each busy day; things, and you must know how your- health is to be always cheerful and sun- Dusting nooks and corners, self. ny. Remember Alice Cary 's advice :-- Making the house look fair, And patiently taking on me One ofthe important things for you at "Do not look for wrong and evil : The burden of woman's care. present is to take good care of your You will find them if you do. Comforting childish sorrows, health. Few little women like to carry As you measured for your neighbor, And charming the childish heart umbrellas.when it looks like rain, or He will measure back to you. With the simple song and story put on overshoes on a damp morning. Look for goodness, look for gladness, Told with a mother's art; You forget your rubbers and leave them Setting the dear home table You will meet them all the while; And clearing the meal away, in the wardrobe at school, if it has hap- If you bring a smiling visage And going on little errands pened to clear up at noon. Then comes a To the glass, you meet a smile." In the twilight of the day. wet morning, and the rubbers are not to —Selected. One day is just like another; be found at home. When mother insists Sewing and piecing well on your wearing your jacket, don't ob- Little jackets and trousers, ject; she knows better about this than So neatly that none can tell Whose Happiness? Where are the seams and joinings. you do. A young girl who is careful Ah ! the seamy side of life not to take cold at fifteen will not think The small boy was drawing his still Is kept out of sight by the magic much about health at twenty. There smaller neighbour along the walk in his Of many a mother and wife ! will be no need. little wagon. He looked up beaming And oft, when ready to murmur Perhaps temptations will come to you when a watchful face appeared at the That life is flitting away, to think too much about your• looks, doorway. With the self-same round of duties "I'm trying to make Fanny happy, Filling each busy day, and to worry about your clothes. It is It comes to my spirit sweetly, a great trial to a girl to have an unbe- aunt," he said. With the grace of a thought divine : coming frock, or to feel that she does " What a beautiful spirit for the child "You are living, toiling, for love's sake, not look as nice as others round her. to have!" exclaimed the admiring aunt And the loving should never repine. But though you do not know it, you are as she closed the door. "You are guiding the little footsteps But presently, as she watched from In the way they ought to walk ; at a beautiful age, and can hardly help you are dropping a word for Jesus making friends if you are a true girl, the window, it seemed to her that the In the the midst of your household talk; cheerful and obliging, for your eyes are effort, however commendable, was not Living your life for love's sake, bright, you are always having fun, and very successful. Wee Fannie was evi- Till the homely cares grow sweet, dently afraid to ride, and was much in- And sacred the self-denial your laughter bubbles over, and no- That is laid at the master's feet." thing troubles you long. Take a bath clined to climb out of the wagon and —Margaret E. Sangster. every day, and get a beauty sleep by draw it herself. This Master Robbie going early to bed, and you will have stoutly resisted. roses in your cheeks. Don't hurry to "She doesn't like riding, Robbie," ex- Our Little Women put up your hair, but wear it in braids. claimed the aunt. "You must let her The Early Teens At fifteen a girl' s dress should be be horse if you want to make her happy." One passes a white-mile stone when very simple. Don't wear jewelry. It " But I want to draw it myself. I she enters her teens. The girl who is out of taste and in bad form sfor a want to make her happy doing things I was twelve yesterday feels a good deal schoolgirl. Be particular about your like to do," answered Robbie, with a older to day, when she is thirteen, and gloves and shoes. A girl whose shoes very unamiable scowl. realizes that she is leaving child-hood are in order, buttons and string in Poor boy! it was selfishness after all. behind and entering the domains of the place, the shoes well fitting and proper- And that same " beautiful spirit" lies at young girl. Once fairly in the teens, ly polished, conveys an idea, of trim- the root of much that we older ones also the years rush on like waves in a mill- ness and tidiness that is charming. like to call kindness to others, and is the race. There is so much to do, there is No matter how well your dress, if you cause of the lack of gratitude which we so much to learn. But you need not be have shoes run down at the heel and resent. We want to make people happy bewildered. Take one day at a time, half fastened, you will look like a heed- by doing the things we like to do, and and have for your motto, "Doe ye next less and untidy girl. not by doing the things they would like thynge." At this time it is well to Mend your gloves as soon as they rip. to have done. —Selected. begin learning domestic arts. Perhaps A good plan is to keep needles and you can already make cake and nice sewing silk of the right colour threaded desserts, and have often made a cup of for the purpose. If you wear light Speak kindly to others as you are coffee and a crisp bit of toast for mother gloves be sure that they are clean. passing through this life; and, if pos- when she has a headache. Why not Soiled white gloves are the mark of a sible, give them a lift on the way. How find out something about laundry girl who lacks refinement. sweet the thought must be, when we -work? Although it is too hard for little Sleep .with abundance of fresh air in come to die, that during our lives we hands, there are parts of it that every your room. A stuffy atmosphere at have been useful to others. And surely girl ought to understand. For instance, night means dull eyes and stupidity. it must be a mean death to die with the how to wash flannels, which is an art by next day. If you want to have a good knowledge that we have been only goOd itself; how to freshen ribbons and laces, complexion, don't eat too• many choco to ourselves. ---Geo. R. 'Scott: • July, 1906. (81) 9 " What does it mean ?" she asked,

Z.; eagerly. " It means a Sunday-school teacher that three or four of those girls have— the kind that isn't content until she finds beauty for everyone. She had been teaching these girls a long tithe. They were slow at understanding, but one day, about a month ago, one of 1 them looked out of that window at sun- set, and saw—for the first time in her "The Sign of the Smile" The clergyman turned sorrowfully life.. Almost unconsciously she began to sing. Others looked up, saw the sun- "We're weary a-walking the highway of life; away, The prisoner called after him, We're fretted and flustered with worry and and catching his hand, held it in his set, and understood, too. And they strife. own while he could. Teats were in the joined in the song. Now it is a part of Let us drop by the wayside the heavy old load, preacher's eyes. their day." And rest at the inn at the turn of the road— The visitor turned for a last look into Let us tarry awhile Fourteen years passed. The convict At ' The Sign of the Smile.' was sent to work in the mines. The the big room. minister went down one day into a mine, " Has it made a difference ?" she "Let us tarry awhile at 'The Sign of the Smile'— and among the workmen saw a gigantic asked, as the door closed behind them. Forget all our griefs in the joys that beguile; figure bent with hardship and age. The superintendent smiled. "Most Let us pleasure the noon till it changes to " Who is that ?" he asked the keeper. miracles need time," he sai,d, "but there night; "A lifer, and a steady fellow—the is seldom any quarrelling or coarse jok- Then up with our loads and we'll find they are light— best of the gang." ing now as the girls go out. That Let us tarry awhile Just then the "lifer" looked up. His means something." At 'The Sign of the Smile."' figure straightened, for he had recog- " I envy them their teacher," said the nized the clergyman. His eyes shone. visitor. The Right Word "Do you know me?" he said. "Will —Youth's Companion. An instance of the transforming He come soon? I've tried to be good." power of the right word is furnished by At a single word of sympathy the life the following incident :— had been transformed, the convict re- Where to Sail Many years ago a minister was pass- deemed. —Selected. A steam boat was at New Orleans, and a ing through a prison crowded with con- The Even-Song man applied for the vacant post of pilot, victs showing every phase of ignorance saying that he thought he could give and brutality. One gigantic fellow A woman who counts by scores her satisfaction, provided they were " lookin' crouched alone in a corner,- his feet friends among the world's workers was for a man his size and build." chained to a ball. There was an un- telling the other day of a discovery she "Your size and build will do well healed wound on his face, where he had had made.. She was spending a few enough," said the owner, surveying the been shot when trying to escape. The days in a factory town, and as usual lank form and rugged face of the applit sight of the dumb, gaunt figure touched asked for permission to visit the facto- cant with some amusement, "but do the visitor. ries. In one of them the superinten- you know about the river, where the "How long has he to serve?" he dent hesitated a moment. snags are, and so on ?" asked of the guard. " We do not usually allow visitors " Well, I'm pretty well acquainted "For life." during the afternoon," he said, "but I with the river," drawled the Yankee, " Has he anybody outside to look am going to make an exception in your with his eyes fixed on a stick he was after him—wife or child ?" case, and suggest that you come about whittling, " but when you come to " How should I know ? Nobody has half-past four. It will take about an talkin' about snags, I don't know ex- ever noticed him all the time he has hour to go over the building as you will actly where they are, I must say." been here." want to. I think you will enjoy being "Don't know where the snags are? "May I speak to him ?" here at that time." said the boat owner, in a tone of dis- "Yes, but only for a minute." Puzzled but interested, the visitor gust ; " then how do you expect to get The minister hesitated. What could presented herself at the office promptly a position as pilot on the river? he say in one minute ? He touched the at half-past four the next day. The su- "Well, sir ," said the Yankee, raising man's torn cheek. perintendent himself took her through, a keen pair of eyes from whittling and "I am sorry," he said, " I wish I but she saw nothing unusual until she meeting his questioner's stern gaze, could help you." reached the last room, a long one, in with a whimsical smile,.. "I may not The convict looked keenly at him, which, at one end, two windows faced know just where the snags are; but you and he nodded to indicate that he be- the west, where, across the winter hills, can depend upon me for knowin' where lieved in the sympathy expressed. the winter sunset was already fading. they ain't, and that's where I calculate " I am going away, and shall never As the superintendent opened the to do my sailin'." see you again, perhaps; but you have a door, she saw at first only those western There are snags everywhere on which Friend who will stay here with you." windows ; then she became conscious of many young • people make shipwreck. The small, keen eyes were upon him ; something else; breathing throUgh the Bad companions lead many astray. the prisoner dragged himself up, wait- clatter of the machinery. Music 1 The Bad places attract and ruin many. Let ing and eager. room was full, of it ! In a moment she the pilot's plan be ours. Keep clear of "Have you heard of Jesus ? " caught the words : snags. Sail where they ain't." "Yes." "Softly now the light of day Fades upon my sight away. Where there is anything that would " He is your Friend.. _If you are.good 'Free from care, from labour free, make life a poorer, smaller, .less and.true, and will pray to God to help Lord, I would .commune a ith Thee." and noble and honourable thing than it you, I am sure he will care, for you." They stood there, silent, till, the whole wotild otherwise be; keep away 'fro:t#:,it., " come,. sir," called the keeper, beautiful stiftg5 wag sung ; then she filmed It is a snag ':)It is dangerous':,ul ' time's up." to her guide:,' ' where it "

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Aro and the Circle of the Caribbean Parish of Portland where the writer had A Burman and His New Testament the pleasure of being the pioneer of the All the lands washed by the waters of Third Angel's Message. It was most An interesting account of the work the blue Caribbean have many things cheering to find almost all the first be- effected by a Burmese New Testament in common. Although different lan- lievers still faithful and of good courage, is given in a recent volume entitled guages are spoken, yet religion is uni- and to see so many new faces in each "Among the Burmans," by H. P. versal and has to do with the souls of congregat ion. There are now nearly Chocrane. The Testament fell into the men, independent of their race or lan- fifty churches and companies of be- hands of a Buddhist, who has himself re- guage. The growing trade of these lievers in the Advent Message in lated the circumstances of his conver- lands is binding this entire field together Jamaica. sion :— commercially, and the steamer communi- The work planned being completed " I kept my New Testament in my cations are such that the entire field in a most satisfactory manner, the writer jacket pocket wherever I went. When will have to be worked together so far sailed away from Kingston, April 28th. resting from my work, I would take out as our work is concerned. And now The next stop was Colon over night my Testament, and read a little, slowly our Institutional work, our Publishing and then on to Port Limon in Costa going on through Matthew, Mark, and and Educational work especially is Rica, by May znd. Two days of spirit- Luke; but I understood nothing of what binding us all together. filled meetings with the believers here I read. I read about the birth of Jesus Along the North Coast of South in their new church building, and then Christ, his teaching, his wonderful mir- America it was my privilege to visit on to Bocas-del-toro in Panama. acles ; but who Christ was, I did not several (to us) unentered fields. La Here the writer met Elder I. G. know. Guayra, in Venezuela, and Savanilla, Knight and wife and had a very enjoy- " Then I came to John. In the first Banenguilla and Cartagena in Colombia. able time, visiting in the Mission launch chapter I read, ' In the beginning was We also passed under the lee of the churches and believers scattered around the Word, and the Word was with God, Dutch Islands. Oh, how my heart on the coys or islands, scattered and the Word was God.' Then a little ached as I passed through all these throughout the lagoons of this part of farther down I read, 'That Word every- places teeming with the busy activities the Republic of Panama. Everybody thing created ; and without a Divine of life, and none to stand as witnesses here travels by water. If a friend asks creating was not so much as one thing.' for the last warning Message. It is you to take a walk, don't think about Is that so ? I said. Did that Word make cheering to know that some plans are going up the road, for he will take you me, and not me, but everybody and being laid, that may result in opening out the back door to his canoe. everything in all this great world ? some of these fields soon. Roads are almost an unknown quan- " And then I read that he was the The next stop was Colon. As it was tity in that part of the world. But the light, and that the light shines in dark- Wednesday, time for the regular mid- meetings held were good, and the ness, and the darkness would not re- week service, I had the pleasure of meet- people displayed the same interest and ceive it. Why, I said, that is just the ing with the brethren and sisters in our enthusiasm as was manifested else- way it is here. These people are in the church building at Monkey Hill. We where. dark, and will not believe what the had a splendid time, although rain pre- After the pleasant stay there, I had a preachers of the Jesus Christ religion vented those from Colon coming up. most unpleasant trip on the schooner say to them. Then farther down I read, This building was far away from "Herald" back to Colon. Four busy days 'The Word took the state of man, and Colon and unsuitable for a church build- were spent on the "Strip" in interest of lived among us.' ing, so we were really glad to learn that the work. Especially on Sunday did " And as I read on, I found that the the government required the spot, and we have tremendous crowds at our open Word that was with God and was God, that a good sum of money was offered air meetings. The writer left Colon and created all things, and became flesh for the building and a free lot in some with deep regret. and lived on the earth, was the same other part of Colon. Praise His Name! Many West Indians have gone to the Lord Jesus Christ that I had been read- Our steamer arrived in Kingston, Canal Strip to work for the bread that ing about in Matthew, Mark, and Luke. March 24. We found the brethren and perisheth, and will lose eternity as a re- " I went home, and told my wife that sisters awaiting us, and a series of meet- sult. The old home associations are I had become a Christian, and that as ings were begun that were carried with broken up, and to my mind, things mor- the preacher said that all who enter the splendid success right through the is- ally and spiritually are in a bad way. Jesus Christ religion must receive the land. Everything tends to draw these souls in dipping ceremony, I am going to get The writer and Elder Beckner, the a strange land, downward. It did not baptism." president of the Jamaica Conference, seem to me that any of the churches " Were you not afraid your heathen drove the length of the Island, arriving were arising to the situation. One neighbours would make trouble ? " I in Montego Bay on Good Friday, hold- thing is sure, unless something is done asked him. ing meetings all along the way. I then and that right early, a multitude of souls "What trouble could they make, took train and met Elder Fletcher at will be lost who otherwise might have teacher? Nearly all of them were in May Pen, then passed over to Portland been saved. debt to me. But when I told my hea- with Elder Strickland, finishing up with E. then wife she was very angry, and said, Spanish Town. `Very well ; if you want to be baptized, The meetings were very encouraging be baptized, but I will not be a Jesus all the way-around. Especially gratify- " The Christian will always be a Christ wife. I will never, never wilt, ing were the good meetings held in the lover of humanity in darknesit" live with you.'

July 1906. (83) 11 " Finding that she did not relent, I. India and Burma, in spite of many unfavour- events of recent years demonstrate the truth able conditions. of the Bible prophecies which describe a time said, Do not go away. All this trouble Seven have signed the covenant at Liberta, when the cities of the nations fall and when is not because of your changing, but be- Antigua, as a result of the tent meetings held the heavens and earth are shaken so that is- cause of my changing. If anybody is to by Pastor L. E. Wellman and Bro. Alex. lands remove out of their places and hill§ move suffer, I must be the one to suffer. Smith. lightly. In that time soon to come the works Pastor W. A. Sweany 'of St. Patricks, Gren- of man will be but vain endeavours. There are the eleven buffaloes, and six ada, reports that twenty-five are candidates for rice-fields, and the house, and the ba- baptism at that place. He expects to perform An Interesting Decision nana garden ; take everything, only let this rite before coming to Conference this The supreme Court of the re- me have the thirty rupees in the box, month. cently made a decision in regard to divorce, Brother J. G. Dasent who has been labouring which will make them considerably harder to and I will go away. I will go to since March at The Gardens, Barbados, reports Toungoo. If they will not baptize me obtain in the future. This new decision makes the organization of a Sabbath-school of twenty- it impossible for a man or woman to obtain a there, I will go to Bassein. If they two members. Several await baptism here divorce except in the State in which both have will not baptize me there, I will .go to also. resided subsequent to the proceedings. In the Pastor W. R. Smith who was sent to Korea past husbands or wives have gone to some re- Moulmein.' I had the Jesus Christ re- in answer to the urgent call of that people for ligion with my whole mind ; and I was mote part, resided for six months and then eas- a worker, has removed from Seoul, where he ily obtained a divorce. determined to be baptized." first located, to Chinampo on account of the —Sel. special interest of the people of the latter place Peace Again in the message. The other Korean companies and churches are only a few miles from this Success Magazin e rather humorously puts city. the present setting of the peace situation. In Our Work and Workers Pastor P. Giddings reports the baptism of noting the prospects for the year 1906 thus far two, in the country at Dominica. They were it makes mention of only the occasional use of man and wife, he the son of a local preacher, The brethren in India recently sent Bro. the machine guns in the Philippines, a little and she the superintendent of the Wesleyan German war or two in South Africa, (and we Mookerjie and wife to Gopalgunj. Sunday-school. Many others are interested. They have found a ready entrance among might add, a little British trouble in the same the people, and about thirty families have ac- The work in Hayti is moving with surprising section) and a periodical revolution in Central cepted the truth. At Karmatar encouraging rapidity. Pastor Tanner reports that if ttfe America. Of course this list does not count for much, there are so many greater wars that reports of progress in school and evangelical spirit and power of God are taking hold of the work come, as also at the Santal station, work everywhere as here, it will mean that might be. However, as the world is on the Jesus will come very, very soon. Many among tiptoe of expectation of the greater things Simultala. most of the time, we are reminded constantly In fact, Eastern Tidings gives one the im- all classes have come out firmly for the truth, pression that rapid strides are being made in and the work moves forward daily. of the situation in a story we read in early days, of a torch held over a powder barrel while, • • a very peaceful and subdued company slunk 9231 =-94.4 Vrd within themselves as compulsory observers. 1 But such situations get on the nerves finally. 1 Humanity comes to a place when it rather take the consequences than endure the strain. Is the world coming to that place? Events March of Events :41 seem to witness that it is. The Tabah Incident 6 * 6 ==1, 6 =Z.* • 'Z.= A,o Some weeks back Abdul Hamid, sultan of mm• AI lam Amilimm .•••a 601 • Turkey, took upon himself to send troops to oc- are under arrest. Attempts on the lives of cupy Tabah and the Sinai peninsula, at the Science several rulers are repprted. head of the Red Sea. This territory is claimed Science lost one of its leading lights by the Egyptian government, backed by through the accidental death of Professor Russia England. As a matter of course England pro- Curie, who with his wife discovered radium. The Russian Douma began its work on May tested and at the same time quietly sent a fleet Madam Curie has been appointed to the chair loth. It is the first representative assembly to Constantinople for the Sultan to ponder of science in the University of Paris in her that has met in Russia. The membership is in over. Of course as England meant business, husband's room. This is the first time that a two houses, the upper house or council of the Abdul Hamid "came down." It looked some woman scientist has been awarded such high empire, and the douma or popular assembly. what like trouble at the time but the usual farce recognition. The members of both houses on assembling came about. This cannot last forever as Netherlands first went to the Winter Palace at which place England, is encroaching, as are otherI nations an address from the throne by Czar Nicholas upon the Mohametan countries until they are Awards of prizes have just been made for the was read. It was evidently anything but satis- getting exasperated; and there is an old saying best designs for the Palace of Peace that is to be factory being greeted for the most part in that even a worm will turn. When that time built at The Hague at the expense of Andrew stolid silence. Afterward the Douma de- comes we may look for the fulfilment of Carnegie. The first prize of $3,000 went to manded several reforms, and the liberation of Daniel r : 44, 45; 12 : 7. L. M. Condonnier, a French Architect, whose the political prisoners. The request has not design will be used. It provides for a beauti- been granted, and the attitude of the Russian Bubonic plague is raging in Persia. A St. ful building in the style of a Northern French Government seems to be like that of the parent- Petersburg dispatch says : "Since the recent Chateau. The rest of the $10,000 in prizes was who having brought its offspring into the disorders stirred up the fanatics against distributed among a number of other competi- world would demand obedience therefrom. If foreign witch devils,' when mobs of natives tors. present conditions continue it is doubtful if the destroyed hospitals, expelled European medi- Spain Douma will be much better than automatons. cal staffs, and drove off quarantine cordons, Severe rioting and considerable bomb throw- the plague situation in Seistan, on the Per- King Alphonzo of Spain andPrincess Ena of ing took place during May. Admiral Kugnuch sian-Afghan border, has a:•sumed appalling di- Battenhurg were married at Madrid on the and Police Captain Constantinof of St. Peters- mensions, spreading rapidly in northeastern 3oth May. The match has been the cause of burg and Warsaw respectively were among the Persia, and numbering its victims by hundreds. many unpleasant things being said in England victims. The excited populace refused medical assist- owing to the Princess' renunciation of the Prot- ance, and the only hope is that the summer estant faith iu order that she might be able to San Francisco heat may restrict the plague, but it is sure to marry King Alphonzo. rage with greater severity in the autumn." Princess Ena is a grand-daughter of the late From the ruins of the old San Francisco, Queen Victoria, and it is said one of the bright- the business men of that city expect to bring The United States government has just est and best of the English Royal princesses. forth a newer and more beautiful city which scored a complete victory against the General She ascends the throne of Spain as Victoria, " shall be as safe as the caves of ocean and will Paper Co., and 23 other paper manufacturing having assumed that title at the expressed be destroyed no sooner than they." A City concerns under the anti-trust laws. They have wish of the Spanish. which no earthquake will be able to shake therefore decided to dissolve their combine. During the procession in Madrid an anar- down, as the buildings will be of stone, ribbed They threatened that the dissolution would chisttlirew a bomb at the royal carriage which with steel. mean a raise in the price of paper, but Attorney- eirpl6tled; wounding and killing several But little do men realize the future and what General Moody states that the real result has .4)tsth~tendants and spectators. The villain it holds in store for the inhabitants of earth. been to reduce prices 3o per. cent. It is ap- who perpetrated the deed was afterward run to Men may build and men•may plan structures parent where the benefit of trusts, to a country earth.but committed suicide. Other suspects which they vainly imagine will stand, but lies. It is evidently to themselves.

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der the control of reason and conscience, and For the evening services special preparation they are rewarded with health of body and has been made. On Sunday and Monday even- mind. While they do not urge their views ings June 24th and 25, and July tat, and 2nd, offensively upon others, their example is a we have obtained for special services the Prin- testimony in favour of right principles. These ce's Building, the largest hall in Trinidad . persons have a wide influence for good." Here special efforts will be made to bring to the attention of the people the messages of • 4 God for this time. The Chinese Language During the remaining portion of the Confer- Devoted to the proclamation of the Faith once John Wesley described the Chinese language ence on the intervening evenings services will be held in continuation of the before mentioned delivered to the Saints. as an invention of the devil to keep the mis- sionaries out of China. It has not altogether in the church at 31 Dundonald St. succeeded in keeping them out; but it has Among the delegates expected to attend from July 1,1906. made their work very difficult, and often ri- the different islands and from abroad are Pas- diculous. Dr. J. P. Masters, one of the few tor I. H. Evans, of Washington, D. C., U. S. A., foreigners who have mastered the language, treasurer of the Seventh-day Adventist General Contents Conference, Pastor J. A. Strickland of King- tells of a missionary who was explaining the Poetry. goodness of the Heavenly Father. The word ston, Jamaica, Pastor I. G. Knight and wife of I Panama, Pastors Kneeland and Davis of Dem- Afterwards for heavenly is "teen," with an aspirate on Shun the Wine Cup 7 erara, Pastor Enoch of Barbados, Pastor Svveany For Love's Sake 8 the vowels. The missionary left out the as- of Grenada, and other ministers and workers The Sign of the Smile 9 pirate, with the result that the word meant from Antigua, St. Thomas, Dominica, St. General. "crazy." After Dr. Masters had studied Can- Vincent, Tobago and Demerara. Noah and the Flood. . MRS. E. G. Warne. 1 tonese a few months, he endeavoured to . W . . . 2 The Great Sick World. preach a sermon. He wrote it out carefully, but We are sorry the steamship communication What Do These Things Mean. . . , . 8 is at present such as to make it impossible for The Gospel in the Book of Job. . . . 4 made so many blunders in tones, vowel quan- many of our lay brethren to attend. The same A Heavy Curse. . . E. . . . 4 tities, and aspirants, that some of the Chinese Christian Consecration. E. W. FARNSWORTH. 5 difficulty is met in all arriving on time, even remarked how much the English language re- Twenty-four Hours a Day. • • • • 5 among the workers, but we hope to have every- 5 sembled the Chinese. They supposed that he Too Busy to be Kind one with us by the 25th June, except Elder Heaven or Hell 5 had been preaching in English ! On another Evans of America who will arrive we expect, on Editorial. occasion he meant to order a roast chicken, the 29th inst. A Lesson from the San Francisco Disaster— but he told his cook to go out and set fire to Obtaining a Good Report. . . . , . 6 Brethren and sisters all pray for the success of the street. The Chinese language has 44,700 Health and Temperance. these meetings. Seek God for the blessing for characters in the standard dictionary. There Drugs and Disease—The Value of Lemons 7 yourselves and may we all be uplifted, given are, moreover, 700 distinct sounds, to each of Our Young Folk. greater courage and enduring patience, and which is attached a sort of metrical scale, rang- Our Little Women—Whose Happiness. 8 plans be laid for the giving of this- message ing from an octave to an octave and a half, The Home. more quickly and successfully than ever before giving a variety of tones which only a musical The Right Word—The Even Song—Where to Sail. 9 in the coming years. Missions. 10 ear can detect. The tone is all-important. •Around the Circle of the Caribbean—A Burman For instance, the sound " stung" may mean and His Testament. grasshopper, oar, elephant, mechanic, or pick- Recently in our reading we came across the March of Events. 11 les, according to the tone.. —Sel. following on the ill of debt. It so express- Here and There. ively gives the true state of the debtor and the Abyssinian Monkeys—A Good Gun to Carry. freeman that we quote here some of the lead- cover page iii Watchman Press Fund ing thoughts. "Of what hideous progeny of ill is debt the Quite a number of donations on the Watch- father. What meanness, what privations what "What parents are, that, to a great extent, man Press Fund have been received during the the children will be. The physical conditions loss of self-respect, what cares, what double past two or three months. We have made no dealing! How in due season it will carve the of the parents, their dispositions and appetites, report during that time, but herewith list the their mental and moral tendencies, are, to a frank open face into wrinkles, how like a knife names of the donors together with the amounts it will stab the honest heart. And then its greater or less degree, t eproduCed in their chil- remitted. We have hard from only one or dren." transform ation,—It has been known to change two companies since the Mid-Season Offering a goodly face into a mask of brass; how with the Minimize your difficulties. Work for some was taken; hence will be able to give no details evil custom of debt has the true man become noble purpose. Face life with courage. Stick of this portion of the fund till a later date. a callous trickster!" On the other side is a to your task whatever it may be until com- Previously reported ... ... $652 09 goodly picture. " A freedom from debt, and pleted, and through faith you will meet the Mrs. M. Bunting, Trinidad oo what nourishing sweetness can be found in a high ideal held out in the example of the Mas- J. Gumbs 5 00 cup of cold water; what wholesomeness in a ter. San Fernando Church „ 55 dry crust; what ambrosial nourishment in a Couva Church, „ (Special Fund) 3 oo hard egg. He who dines out of debt, thoup, - Remember, success as a christian 'depends Mission Band, Demerara, ... 2 96 his meal be a biscuit and an onion, dines in upon your choice. God will not choose for Geo. Jeffrey, 24 "The Appolo." What warmth in a thread-bare you—you must choose for yourself. God will J. N. Loughborough, U. S. A. I 8o coat if the tailor's receipt is in the pocket! give the needed strength as you choose the Oakville S. School, „ „ „ 3 46 Poverty is a bitter draught, but may, and better way. and start the journey, but you A. J. Wright, Port Limon .. 4 8o sometimes can with advantage be gulped down. must first decide that you will follow Him. My son, if poor, see thy mouth water at a last 90 There are chances of success to-day for the $685 week's roll; think a threadbare coat the only man or woman who has high "ideals and is wear ; acknowledge a whitewashed garret the willing to sacrifice in order to live up to them." East Caribbean Conference fittest housing for a gentleman; do this and flee debt" These words contain a lesson of There are not only chances but an absolute At Port-of Spain, Trinidad, June 24th to July care ful study. The word of God says, " The surety of success if the man or woman who 4th is to be held the 4th Annual Session of the borrower is servant to the lender," And the trusts God has his eyes fixed on Christ Jesus and East Caribbean Conference of Seventh-day Ad- words of this writer just quoted are a true ver- never loses sight of this goal of his ambition. ventists. It is anticipated that this meeting sion of the actual things that transpire in the will be the largest of its kind held in this por- "Christian life is more than many take it to borrowing and lending of this world. be. It does not consist wholly in gentleness, tion of the West Indies and an inspiration to patience, meekness and kindness. These all who may be privileged to attend. Services graces are essential, but there is need also of will be held daily in the Seventh-day Adventist "Three years ago a Mohammedan merchant courage, force, energy and perseverance. The church at 31 Dundonald St., from to A. M. to r from Timbuktu went for trade to the English path that Christ marks out is a narrow, self— P. M. with a short intermission at it :3o. Dur- settlement of Bathurst, on the Gambia River. denying path. To enter that path and pass on ing the first portion of these hours, Conference Some one gave him a text card in Arabic. through difficulties and discouragements, re- work will be done. During the latter portion, The next year he traded again in Bathurst and quires men who are more than weaklings." matters of special importance with regard to asked for the book from which that wonderful church, missionary, publishing and educational text was taken. When, the Bible was shown "Those who understand the laws of health, work in connection with the denomination will him he bought it and went away. The third and who are governed by principle, will shun be discussed. Among the subjects are—Home year the merchant came to Bathurst and the extremes, both of indulgence and of re- Missions, Foreign Missions, Young People's bought eighteen Bibles for friends who wanted striction. Their diet is chosen, not for the Work, Sabbath School Work, Medical Missionary the book. Now, the British and Foreign mere gratification of appetite, but for the up- Work, Church Officers and their Duties, etc. Bible Society is arranging to open a Bible de- building of the body. They seek to preserve During the afternoons, the various commit- pot in Timbuktu—the synonym in all the every power in the best condition for highest tees will meet and accomplish their work, and Sahara for Mohammedan exclusiveness and service to God and man. The appetite is un- occasional special sessions will be held. fanaticism."

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July, 1906. 111 conclusively that a vessel of this primitive Abyssinian Monkeys looking craft ,was released from the tugboat which had towed it outside the harbour, and make might be perfectly seaworthy for a long Large numbers of monkeys frequent the hills left to face the weather on its own account, it voyage. It is well known that the proportion- of Abyssinia. They move about in organized developed remarkable sea-going qualities. It ate dimensions used by modern shipbuilders bands, and their proceedings are arranged in drifted sideways with the tide, creating a belt are identical with those of the ante-deluvian the most orderly and tactical manner. They of calm water to leeward, and the test proved vessel.'" are difficult to approach, unless it is gradually and cautiously done; but I have succeeded on a camel in getting within a few yards of them +49:4+++0.40:02+04920+:40:020.0.49:9:02+++...4%. when they were crossing the path ahead of me about fifty in single file following their leader, and looking with manes like small lions. Their movements are full of interest, and well repay observation; they have chiefs, sen- THE tries, and advance and rear guards on the march. The mothers carry their children on their backs exactly like the larger human crea- 11 MINISTRY OF HEALING tures in these countries. They talk and chat- ter, the females being especially loquacious, "That Thy way may be known upon the earth; Thy quarrelsome, and combative. These are clearly saving health among the nations. under the command of the elder males, whose gesture alone is sufficient to reduce them to Thus we are introduced to the pages of this soul inspir- 1;311: obedience. They live in small caverns among the hills, ing volume which is dedicated to the physicians and nurses rim but will most certainly avoid a direct return to their haunts if followed. They are less timid of every land, who with the Chief Physician, the Great of men when these are mounted on camels Medical Missionary, are labouring bravely and unselfishly than when on foot, experience having doubt- less taught' them that the former is usually to heal the sick, to comfort the afflicted, and to teach the travelling to a destination, and that his steady, way of life. It is a volume which will draw you nearer to jogging pace is rarely interrupted by his curi- the Master. It will take you from yourself and teach you osity. On one occasion I saw a whole family tribe to labour unselfishly for others. on the road home after a foraging excursion, From the preface we take the following :— and successfully tempted some of the younger ones to leave their ranks by quietly rolling " All sickness and pain, all suffering and sorrow, are the pieces of bread and sugar at them; but the result of law transgressed. The wonderful human ma- older members were above such weakness, and went on in a stately way up the hill, disap- r. chinery has been tampered with, and its delicate mechanism pearing over the ledge, and reproving the has been made to run counter to the law of its life and persis- youngsters as they retired. —A Visit to Abyssinia. tency ; disease and death are the result.

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