Behold, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be." Rev. 22:12.

VOLUME 20. OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1893. NUMBER 3.

hundred of an evening, and the sectional tation a thing to be grasped or seized, but ,*Igns of fite giunts meetings abandoned, and others very small. emptied himself of himself, that God, might One speaker had three and spoke well, an- fill him with all the fullness of the Godhead

PUBLISHED WEEKLY, AT OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA. other only one for an audience." Certainly (Col. 2 : 9 ; 1 :19), and that thus he might the people are not interested in devotional, manifest in the flesh God to the world (1 TERMS: • practical Christianity, or that which approxi- Tim. 1 :16; John 1 :14); and he could only Single Copy, one year (50 numbers), $1.50 In clubs of 10 or more copies to one address, each, 1.25 mates it most closely. Some noted men do this as God was in him (2 Cor. 5 : 19 ; 9'n foreign countries in postal union, ($2) - • 8s might draw, but it is the men, not the mes- John 14 :9-11). It is well known that the Sample copieS free. gav-See note at beginning of last page. Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, sage. The great Congress of Religions, judged whole life of Christ was a life of self-denial Twelfth and Castro Sts., OAKLAND, CAL., U. S. A. by such conditions as the above, present, as for others' good ; but in this he was only de- (Entered at the Post Office in Oakland.) the Observer says," a very sorry picture." claring the love of God. " No man bath But will not the Congress and Parliament seen God at any time ; the only-begotton MILTON C. WILCOX, EDITOR. have their effect?—Most certainly; they are Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, a mighty step towards the last great confed- he hath declared him." John 1 : 18. See THIS is the advice which Archbishop Ire- eracy of religions under the Sunday banner. also John 6: 46; Luke 10 :22. And what land gave to workingmen at the Labor Con- And'ilius have the prophets presented it. Christ did declare was love, infinite love for gress in Chicago; we 'quote from the New York all. Observer of October 19:— TWO PRINCIPLES. But not so with Satan. A being created Workingmen, hold fast to the observance of the TWO MANIFESTATIONS. of God, gifted with wondrous capabilities of Sunday; it is your day more than the day of men of TWO RELIGIONS. other conditions of life. The Sunday effaced or di- God, clothed with beauty from God, filled with wisdom from God, none should have minished, you are in abject perpetual slavery, or WE have considered in foregoing numbers been more grateful, loyal, and devoted than rapidly moving thither. Heed not the specious the two great powers in the universe,—God pleas addressed to you in the name of your interests and Satan,—actuated by, as well as personi- he. And such would have been the case if by men pagan in mind and barbarous in heart, who lie had been moved by the principle of love. seek to win you over to the profanation of Sunday fying, two great principles,—love, or unself- But no; all the gifts, the beauty, the wisdom, in order to be able to gratify their own lust of ishness, and hatred, or selfishness. These the light and glory which God had bestowed greed. two principles have been set before us in upon him, he took to himself, as though they It was the same prelate who said, a few the word of God in the personalities of Mi- were his by his own creation and not gifts years ago, that "the violator of ft Sunday chael and Lucifer. In Michael, "the One of God. So the prophet speaks of him-un- law is the worst of criminals." Protestants like God," we have manifested the principle der the figure of the King of Tyre :— and Roman Catholics are together on the of love, unselfishness, and self-denial for " Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, Sunday question. Protestantism, so called, others' sake; in Lucifer we have the opposite thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy is going over to Roman Catholicism. Sunday principle of hatred, selfishness,• and self- brightness." Eze. 28 : 17. belongs to Rome. exaltation. Love is the positive term,denoting And this selfishness—and that is the case pure affection for all, working for others' with all selfishness—stops short of nothing, This Religious Age.—But how religious? or good ; unselfishness is the negative side of even to-the destruction of the throne of the uni- what religion ? is well worth asking. The love, while self-denial for the sake of others verse. For, looking upon his wisdom, and Chicago World's Fair was well attended, im- is the carrying out of this principle. Self- beauty, which were wholly from God, he took mensely so when railroads reduced their ishness is the positive term of the opposite all as wholly from himself, and considered fares; and it would have been immensely at- principle; self-exaltation or profit is its ob- that his ability and wisdom entitled him to a tended on Sundays if half of the exhibits ject, while hatred is the other side of the higher place. And therefore he said: "Twill had not been covered on that day. It is safe principle, the side toward all opposed to self- ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne to say that Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show exaltation. It is thus that the two principles above the stars of God; I will sit also upon received its best patronage on Sunday. The are manifest in the two characters, as set the mount of the congregation, in the sides of Parliament of Religions, another great show, forth in the Scriptures:— the north,- I will ascend above the heights of was well attended. One correspondent to the LOVE AND SELF-DENIAL. SELFISHNESS AND SELF•EXAL- the clouds; I will be like the Most High." New York Observer, of October 19, and whonrth at - "Have this mind in you, TATION. This is what Satan said. I, I, I, will do all paper pronounces accurate in statement and which was also in Christ Jesus, "How art thou fallen from heaven, 0 Lucifer [margin; these things. This meant the very destruc- observation, said that the Buddhists, the Ma- who, being originally in the form of God, thought it not " daystar 1, son of the morn- tion of the government of God; for there can hommedans, and the Theosophists attracted ing! how art thou cut down be-but one Most High; therefore, for Satan to a thing to be grasped to be on to the ground, which didst the greatest crowds, and, "with smooth, glib an equality with God,but emp- weaken the nations for thou be like the Most High meant that he would tied himself, taking the form tongues, made their false religions appear to hest said in thine heart, I will be sole ruler. This is selfishness; this is ha7. of & servant, being made in the ascend into heaven, I will be on a level with Christianity." And why likeness of men ; and being exalt my 'throne above the tred of all that opposes self. not? Were they not called here as Bud- found in fashion as a man, he stars of God ; I will sit also The end of this is destruction ; for the tri- upon the mount of the con. d Ilists, Theosophists, etc., to meet Christianity' humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, gregation, in the sides of the umph of the law of selfishness inevitably on a level, in the one common "brother- the death of the cross. Where- north ; I will ascend above the leads to destruction. If Satan had been able heights of the clouds; I will hood "? fore also God highly exalted to have become like the Most High and infuse him." Phil. 2 :5-9, R. V., mar- be like the Most High, yet shalt On the other hand, wlien the Christian Al- gin. thou be brought down to hell." in every responsible being in the universe the liance put forth its best men, they could not Isa. 14 : 12-15. same spirit as in himself, his throne would have get a hearing. The same writer, a friend of Michael, or Christ Jesus, the only being in been in perpetual peril from others who, like the Alliance, said that the "Alliance meetings the universe who had the right to aspire to himself, were ambitious to be.first. The rule were lamentably small, two hu ndred or three be equal with God, did not think such exal- of selfishness is, ultimately, only as strong as 34 r21 THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. Vol. 20, No. 3. the individual is strong to maintain it. And, God. We will not submit; voluntarily sub- cieties circulating documents from door to therefore, the Lord pronounces the fate of Lu- mit, to God (for the religion of Christ knows door, the Y. M. C. A. securing voluntary dos- cifer in the following words: "Yet shalt thou no other submission than voluntary submis- ' ing agreement among clothing stores, the W. be brought down to hen." "I will destroy sion) if we do not have simple, implicit trust, C. T. U., among provision and dry goods stores, thee, 0 covering cherub." and we will not hold simple, implicit trust while another committee provides half a column of Sabbath Refoim matter per week TWO RELIGIONS. unless we have genuine love. And in love it is all summed up. So much for our relation for each local paper that will use it." Out of these two principles, manifest in God- ward: • - It needs only ordinary observation to be their perfection in Christ and Lucifer, have This relation. to God also implies certain able to see that around Sunday these relig- developed among men two great religions. relations with ourfellow-men, for, as expressed ious societies are mustering their hosts. And We do not mean by this that those religions by inspiration, " He who loveth Gods loves yet they know, or should know, for thus reads have always existed in the same completeness .his brother also." - 1 John 4: 21. The same God's word, that " the seventh day is the as seen in their great prototypesand founders. thought is expressed in the words of Christ Sabbath of the Lord thy God." Let not our The devotees of the true religion, which we in Matt. 22 : 37-40. Man's duty is to love readers be deceived. The only true Sabbath may call the true church, have been unable God with all his heart, mind, soul, and reform of this generation is that which is to show forth the perfection of their great Ex- strength, and his neighbor as himself. based on the word of God, on the Sabbath of ample because they have not emptied them- Love to God is begotten by the Holy Spirit the word of God, on the teachings and exam- selves, as Christ emptied hiMself. Neither (Rom. 5 : 5), and that spirit comes by faith ple of Christ. have the devotees of the religion of Satan, or (Gal. 3:14). This spirit is the Spirit of Roman Catholic Love of America.—There are the false church, fallen as low as the great Christ (Rorp.8-: 9); the spirit which actuated many expressions of this; we will consider apostate, because of the merciful interposition him to give his- life for the world, to become but one, that of Monsignor Satolli, the papal and restraining influence. of the Spirit of God. poor that we might become rich, and the same ablegate, at the Catholic Congress in Chicago. And yet, in the greaticrises of the world, in spirit, or mind of unselfishness, or love, which He thus points out the'duty of Roman Catho- the times of the formation of various:ages we are exhorted to have in us (Phil. 2: 5). lics:— into which the history and development of The Spirit of God takes possession of us God's truth and church are divided, the lines when we do as Christ did,—empty ourselves To-day it is the duty of Catholics to bring into the • world the fullness of supernatural truth and supernat- between the false and true have been drawn of ourselVes. And, therefore, the very founda- with clear distinction. At other periods it ural life. This is especially the duty of a Catholic con- tion'Of the Christian religion, in Christ and gress. There are nations who are never separated. has been difficult to distinguish the false from in us,'is laid in self-denial, or love for others from the church, but which have neglected often to the true. At such times the true church will (Matt. 16 : 24). apply in full degree the lessons of the gospel. There be found among the scattered ones. In the, • By denying ourselves, or by absolute sub- are nations who have gone out from the church, bringing with them many of her treasures, and times of great crises the two classes are sepa- mission to God, by implicit faith in the sacri- rated. This will appear more evident as we becaue of what they have brought yet show virgin fice of Christ, our sins are forgiven (John 15: light; but, cut off from the source, unless that source progress in this study. 3), the righteousness of God is 'made ours is brought into close contact with them, there is dan- - to de- '.The .principles upon which we are (Rom.- 4 : 5 ; 3:21, 22), and ,Christ by his ger for them. Bring them in contact with those cide between the true and the false, between divine forces by your actions and by your teachings. Spirit takes, up 'his abodein our hearts (Rom. the genuine and counterfeit, are the principles Bring your felloW-countryinen back; bring your 8-: 9; John 14:17; 23 ;• 15 A), making us set forth in God's holy word, and manifest in country. into immediate connection with the great new creatures (2 Cor. 5: 17), and enabling us - source' of truth and light, and the blessed influence the character and life of Christ. 'The' princi- to live and show forth a new life (Gal. 2: 20). of Christ and Christ's church. And in this manner ples may be summed up under one general And, therefore, as, Christ emptied himself and shall it come to' pass that the words of the Psalmist head, namely,- • shall be fulfilled, " Mercy .and justice have you one God filled him, so that Christ did not 'mani- with another; justice and peace prevail." ABSOLUTE SUBMISSION TO GOD. fest himself to the world, but did manifest The best picture of "the fullness of super- the Father in the fullness of his loveliness of 'Phis may be expressed by the simple term natural truth and supernatural life " which character, even so also when we wholly sub- faith... It may be said to be faith and love.' the Roman Catholic Church has furnished is mit to God, when we empty ourselves of our- But genuine faith in God will develop love; the long drama of death and persecution of selves, for Christ's sake, Christ makes us com- for if we trust God, We cannot but love him. the Dark Ages. plete by his fullness (Col. 2:10), gives us his There is implied in this -submission the fol- It is also well to note the progress of those Spirit, so 'that we May manifest the Christ of lowing: (1) The acknowledgment of the right- nations: :Which have never separated from God to the world (John 16 : 14 ; 17 :10, ness of God's authority, not in a general sense, Rome; Behold Austria and Italy and Spain. 21-23). And therefore, also, 'they, having but as revealed in his law ; for he who pro- Compare them with Germany and England. the same Spirit, would have the same love for fesses to acknowledge the authority of a gov- Turn to the New World. Behold the loyal. precious souls which Christ had. For this ernment and yet refuses to submit to its laws, Roman Catholic South American States. Christ • prayed• (John 17 : 26); it was this is really us much in rebellion against the gov- Compare them with this country and nation. which made Paul realize that lie was a debtor ernment as he who is openly against it all, What has made the difference but the bond- to. all, because Christ died for all (Rom. 1 :,14), aild is a much more dangerous enemy. He age to the Papacy apd the rule of the priest? and it was this mind, this spirit, this love, shows that, as long as self is pleased or prof- Yes, bring this country into "immediate con- which constrained him to labor even unto ited, so long as it is expedient, he obeys; but nection with " the'Cburch of Rome, and, the death for all men (2 Cor. 5:14 ; Acts 20 : 24), when it is not, he refuses to obey. His sub- Dark Ages are reproduced, and the peace will even as did his divine Lord. inision is submission to self, not to the gov- be the peace of the lamb within the lion, and ernment. Submission to God is obedience But further Consideration of these princi- ples must be deferred to future numbers. the justice such as Rome has always meted to his every requirement. (2) It implies out to " heretics." And to this end the steps faith in God's wisdom. He who submits to SUNDAY WORK IN WISCONSIN. of America are rapidly tending. Blind " Prot- God implicitly says by that that lie believes estants "are being led to their own destruction, God knows' more than he does in every THE Christian Statesmen says that "Sabbath and they know it not. respect, and that he wants God's' guidance. Committees" have been organized at the fol- In closing Satolli said :— lowing points in Wisconsin : "Appleton, Wau- He shows by that that lie has meekness. • Go forward., in one hand bearing the book of And this is the very class that God will guide. sau, Green Bay, Stevehs' Point, Tomah, Christian truth and in the other the Coristitution of. Ps. 25: 9 ; James 4:6. (3) it implies trust Sparta., La Crosse, Racine, Janesville, Platte- the United States. in God's power, and shows-that the trusting ville, Beloit, followed by the State convention This means—well,let the history of Roman one knows his own utter weakness, and that of the association at Milwaukee. These com- domination throughout her career show what he trusts in God's might alone. He is hum- mittees are federations of churches and in- it means. Rome must put down what she ble, but it is the humble ones with whom clude.members of the W. C. T. U., Y. M. C. A., deems heresy, if she has the power, whatever God takes up his abode. Isa. 57:15: (4) Y. P. S. C. E., Epworth League, etc., dividing constitutions may exist. Intolerance is a Absolute submission to God implies love to into subcommittees, " the Young People's So- logical sequence of her principles. November 20, 1893. THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. [81 35

Prediction, Fulfillment —This is the way the The mission and work of Christ did not Christian Statesman of November 4 congratu- eneral rticles. harmonize with the work of the Pharisees. lates itself over the World's Fair Sunday mud- They were full of self-conceit, and they saw "Having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that that Christ did not approve of their works. dle :— dwell on the earth." Rev. .14:6. Vexatious as are the serpentine twistings of the He gave them no flattering words to nourish World's Fair management, we should not belittle their pride. They were disappointed that "WHOM THE LORD LOVETH." our six great victories by forgetting that we have. Jesus, who manifested to the world so lofty been defeated only in skirmishes on legal techni- BY FANNIE BOLTON. a character, did not mingle with. them, and calities, which will be forgotten when, at the end of practice their manner of teaching, rather than the nineteenth century, we recall as among its great- "Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth." "As many as I go about in so unpretending a manner, work- est moral triumphs that Congress passed the Sab- love, I rebuke and chasten." "Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth ; therefore despise not thou the chasten- ing among all classes of people. They saw bath-closing law by a three-fourths vote, and later ing of the Lord." " For a season, if need be, ye are in heavi- killed the proposed repeal in committee; that the ness through manifold temptations; that the trial of your among the people who listened with rapt at- federal court, on the only occasion when the main faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, tention those who did not belong to the Jew- though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and question was before the courts, decided for the Sab- honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ; whom hav- ish nation, and who had never manifested bath; that "our friends, the enemy," gave us the ing not seen, ye love." the least interest in their teaching. greatest victory of all in the failure of Sunday open- WHoM the Lord loveth, think we of this When the Pharisees expressed their dis- ing through the covering of exhibits of the rich and When sorrow moveth its shadow on bliss? content because of the class of people with the nonattendance of the poor; that the national When sorrow broodeth, and pain is keen, whom he mingled, Jesus set the matter be- commission and local directory at last were con- Is the jewel of promise clearly seen ? • fore them in the parable of the lost sheep. strained by public sentiment to almost unanimous No; when the sorrow shadows us so, votes for the Sabbath. These six victories are But their understanding was darkened; for And the light of the morrow is tinged with woe, vividly called up by the news that two of the five Satan had power over their minds, and they Oh, the fact of the chastening looms above arrayed themselves in opposition to Jesus. Million half dollars are to go back to the mint to be The truth of the Father's tender love! recoined into common half dollars, because so few The Pharisees said that if Jesus were a true want any souvenir of the frauds associated with.the Yet think of the beauty of this light, prophet, he would harmonize with them,.and government's gift to the Exposition. And the hard-set duty will all grow bright. voice their precepts. and maxims, and treat Of course, as regards the morality of the Say not, "He scourgeth with chastening rod," But say, "The Lord loveth." Think this of God. the wretched publicans and sinners as they question, it has none. The very spirit of the treated them. In giving his Son to die for mystery of iniquity is in the whole of this Have you seen a mother her child reprove? the sins of the world, the Lord God made Sunday legislation. A victory, a great vic- Was her love all over, her tender love, manifest what was the estimate he placed When her love, like a weapon of pain, flashed bright tory, has indeed been won by the Sunday-law To cut the evil that grieved her sight? upon men ; for in giving Jesus to the world, people, if that can be called a victory which be gave heaven's best gift. For this costly Oh, but her bosom felt every dart, sacrifice the most profound gratitude is de- commits the government to religious legis- And she longed to gather close to her heart lation, and, what is sure to follow; religious The child she chastened, to soothe his woe, manded from every soul. Whatever may be tyranny and persecution. As to the exhibit And lead his steps where his feet should go I the nation, kindred, or tongue, whether a man is white or black, he still bears the image of of the American Sunday the whole thing was So doth our Father chasten, reprove; and " the. proper study of mankind is He longs to gather the child of his love God, true to the letter. But what we were about man," viewed from the fact that he is the pur- to remark was that every " victory " that has Close to his bosom, his love to prove. Think not of the chastening, think of his love. chase of the blood of Christ. To show con- been won for Sunday, we have predicted many tempt for, to manifest hatred toward any na- times. And yet we take no credit to ourselves And, oh, how tender his hand will be ! And, oh, how quickly the wrong you'll see ! tion, is to reveal the characteristic. of Satan. for farsightedness. God's word has predicted And, oh, how lovely the right will prove! God has placed his estimate upon man in it, and Rome has demonstrated in her history Think not of the chastening, think of his love. giving Jesus to a life of humiliation, poverty, the end of the repetition of that history down and self-sacrifice, to contempt, rejection, and Oh, in the Father's love believe, here. But why, oh, why will not the follow- And hard it will be that heart to grieve I death, in .order that man, his lost sheep, ers of Christ see this? Let the Spirit brood like a gentle dove, might be saved. Is it then a remarkable And God's chastening all will be filled with love. thing that all heaven is interested in the ran- AT the recent meeting of the American Then how the stubborn heart will break ! som of man? Is it a wonderful fact that ten (Congregational) Board at Worcester, Mass., And low as a child your place you'll take, thousand times ten thousand, and thousands Dr. R. R. Meredith, in his speech October 12, Close to the Father's bosom, and pray, of thousands of angels are employed in as- "I bless thee, Lord, for thy rod to-day. cending and descending on the mystic ladder made the following statement regarding the to minister to those who shall be heirs of views of the Congregationalists touching the "Oh, keep my feet in the path of right! Guide me and lead me through day and night. salvation ? Angels do not come to the earth future probation theory (see Independent of Save me from self; let me learn of thee; to denounce and to destroy, to rule and to ex- October 19) :— • Great is thy tender love to me." act homage, but are messengers of mercy to Do you want to tell me that this board represents • cooperate with the Captain of the Lord's host, the Congregational Churches of the United States in the idea that the untolTmillions of the heathen are THE GOOD SHEPHERD'S ESTIMATE OF A LOST to cooperate with the human agents who shall going down from the darkness and degradations and SHEEP. go forth to seek and to save the lost sheep. irresponsibility of their awful condition on earth to Angels are commanded to encamp round eternal, conscious misery? We do not believe that BY MRS. E. G. WHITE. about those who fear and love God. doctrine. [Loud applause.] To niy mind, and to the minds of the people to whom I have preached, . "THEN drew near unto Him all the publicans and The sympathy of all heaven is enlisted on it is as far beyond the bounds of rational belief as sinners for to hear Him. And the Pharisees and behalf of the sheep that is wandering far from its intrinsic atrocity is beyond the bounds of exag- scribes murmured, saying, This Man receiveth sin- the fold. If the Pharisees had been working geration. [Applause.] We believe that they, as all ners, and eateth with them. And He spake this in harmony with God, in • place of uniting men, are in the hands of the Divine Father, and parable unto them, saying, What man of you, hav- he has not been pleased to tell us what he is going ing an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth with the adversary of God and mall, they to do with them; and it is a libel on God to repre- not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and would not have been found despising the pur- sent them as going out of their darkness and irre- go after that which is lost, until he find it? And chase of the blood of Christ. As the delu- sponsibility into eternal conscious perdition. • We do when he bath found it, he layeth it on his shoul- sions of Satan are broken from human minds, not believe anything of, the kind in the Congrega- ders, rejoicing. And when he cometh home, he call- as the sinner looks to Calvary, and sees the tional Churches. eth together his friends and neighbors, saying unto costly offering that has been given to save an While we agree with Dr. Meredith's protest them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep apostate and ruined race, he con templates against endless misery, we do not believe which was lost. I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, and is deeply moved by the love of God, and that God has left us in ignorance concerning more than over ninety and nine just persons, which becomes repentant. "Herein is love, not the fate of those who reject the spiritual light need no repentance. Either what woman having that we loved God, but that he loved us." which comes to them. " The wages of sin is ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, cloth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek dili- Oh, that wemight comprehend the love of God .death," is the language of the Scriptures. gently till she find it? And when she hath found and even to a faint degree take in the com- "As many as have sinned without law .shall it, she calleth her friends and her neighbors to- passion that has been manifested toward also perish without law." " They shall be as gether, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found fallen man ! How would we look and live the piece which I had lost. Likewise, I say unto though they had not been." They chose you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God By beholding Christ man becoMes changed death, and God gave them their choice. over one sinner that repenteth." and transformed in character from glory to 36 tc THE SIG-NS OF ~min TIMES. Vol. 20, No. 3. glory. The conflict between light and dark- A REVIEW OF SUNDAY LEGISLATION IN CEN- some persons as to what is the good of declar ness is entered upon. Look, poor sinner,repre- TURY NINETEEN.* NO. 3. ing against these measures, since they died in sented by the lost sheep after whom the shep- the Fiftieth Congress, and never were enacted. herd is seeking, look to the cross ! The BY PROF. P. T. MAGAN. We answer, First, because, although these Pharisees may hold in contempt the very one measures are dead, the spirit which gave birth whom the Lord is anxious to save. In the So MUCH for the Blair Amendment; now to to them still lives, and is even now.seeking to poor blind man restored to sight by the com- the Blair Sunday Rest Bill, which the same enact laws infinitely more blasphemous, more passionate Shepherd, was one whom the self- senator introduced four days earlier. Here is papal, and more entirely an tichristian than righteous Pharisees thought worthy only of the complete text:- these. Second, since that time, although the associations backing these bills have been ap- sneers and hatred. 50th CONGRESS, l S. 2983. 1st SESSION. • parently content with the enactment of milder Jesus, the Son of the Highest, is combating A bill to secure to the people the enjoyment of the first day the powers of Satan, who is laying every pos- of the week, commonly known as the Lord's day, as a day of measures, these are only an index to what rest, and to promote its observance as a day of religious wor- they will do when they have the power. So sible device whereby he may counteract the ship. Be it enacted b- the Senate and House of Representatives of the that, although technically these bills are dead, work of God. The prize for which the pow- United States of America in Congress assembled, That no person, ers of light and darkness are contending, is or corporation, or the agent, servant, or employe of any per- practically they are very much alive, as the son or corporation, shall perform, or authorize to be performed, remainder of this paper will amply prove. the soul of man. The Good Shepherd is seek- any secular work, labor, or business, to the disturbance of oth- ing his sheep, and what self-denial, what ers, works of necessity, mercy, and humanity excepted ; nor Now to the Blair Sunday Rest Bill, per se. shall any person engage in any play, game, or amusement, or We have already made some charges against hardships, what privations he endures! The recreation, to the disturbance of others, on the first day of the under shepherds know something of the stern week, commonly known as the Lord's day, or during any part it, all of which and many more we are pre- thereof, in any territory, district, vessel, or place subject to the pared to defend against the world. conflict, but little in comparison to what is exclusive jurisdiction of the United States; nor shall it he law- endured by the Shepherd of the sheep. With ful for any person or corporation to receive pay for labor or The object of the bill is stated in the first what compassion, what sorrow, what persist- service performed or rendered in violation of this section. paragraph of section 1, viz., "to secure to the peo- SEC. 2. That no mails or mail matter shall hereafter be trans- ence, he seeks the lost! How few realize what ported in time of peace over any land postal route, nor shall ple the enjoyment of the first day of the week . any mail matter be collected, assorted, handled, or delivered . . as a day of rest, and to promote its ob- desperate efforts are put forth by Satan to de- during any part of the first day of the week : Provided, That feat the Shepherd's purpose. When theShep- whenever any letter shall relate to a work of necessity or mercy, servance as a day of religious worship." Now or shall concern the health, life, or disease of any person, and religion—true 'religion—is the duty which herd at last finds his lost sheep, he gathers it the fact shall be plainly stated upon the face of the envelope in his arms with rejoicing, and bears it back containing the same, the Postmaster General shall provide for man owes to God; it is " man's personal rela- the transportation of such letter. tion of faith and obedience to God." There- to the fold on his shoulders. And the harps SEC. 3. That the prosecution of commerce between the States of heaven are touched, and an anthem of re- and with the Indian tribes, the same not being work of neces- fore, according to this, the State is to take sity, mercy, or humanity, by the transportation of persons or upon itself the duty of superintending "man's joicing is sung over the ransom of the wan- property by land or water in such way as to interfere with or dering and lost sheep. "Joy shall be in disturb the people in the enjoyment of the first day of the week, personal relation of faith and obedience to or any portion thereof, as a day of rest from labor, the same not God " in this matter of Sunday observance. heaven over one sinner that repenteth more being labor of necessity, mercy, or humanity, or its observance than over ninety and nine just persons which as a day of religious worship, is hereby prohibited ; and any This is in verity to overturn the whole foun- person or corporation, or the agent, servant, or employe of need no repentance." any person or corporation, who shall willfully violate this sec- dation upon which the civil structure of the tion, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten or more United States rests,—it is to make the govern- • How does the contrast appear between the than one thousand dollars, and no service performed in the scowling scribes and Pharisees and the Christ prosecution of such prohibited commerce shall be lawful, nor ment the people's censor morum, the pater pa- shall any compensation be recoverable or be paid for the trix,—father of the people, instead of their they condemned, misinterpreting his mission; same. and putting upon his words the worst possi- SEC. 4, That all military and naval drills, mutters, and pa- creature. It turns the legislative: assemblies rades, not in time of active service or immediate preparation into hierarchs and the judiciary benches into ble construction ? The Son of Man came to therefor, of soldiers, sailors, marines, or cadets of the United seek and to save that which was lost. A lost States, on the first day of the week, except. assemblies for the boards of inquisitors. It puts the rulers in dim and orderly observance of religious worship, are hereby the place of God; for Jesus Christ distinctly sheep never finds its way back to the fold of prohibited; nor shall any unnecessary labor be performed or itself. - If it is not sought for and saved by permitted in the military or naval service of the United States declared that the things of God are to be ren- on the Lord's day. dered to God and the things of Caesar to Cae- the watchful shepherd, it wanders until it SEC. 5. That it shall be unlawful to pay or to receive pay- perishes. What a representation of the Sav- ment or wages in any manner for service rendered, or for la- sar. But this bill is for the purpose of making bor performed, or for the transportation of persons or property, the people render an account of their religious iour is this! Unless Jesus, the Good Shepherd, in violation of the provisions of this act, nor shall any action had come to seek and to save the wandering, lie for the recovery thereof, and when so paid, whether in ad- observance of Sunday to Caesar, which is civil vance or otherwise, the same may be recovered back by who- government, so that its intent is diametric- we should have perished. The Pharisees had ever shall first sue for the same. taught that none but the Jewish nation SEC. 6. That labor or service performed and rendered on the ally opposed to the plain command of Christ. first day of the week in consequence of accident, disaster, or Since, therefore, this bill puts rulers in the would be saved, and they treated all other unavoidable delays in making the regular connections upon nationalities with contempt. But Jesus at- postal routes and routes of travel and transportation, the pres- place of God, by empowering them to call ervation of perishable and exposed property, and the regular men to account for their religious observances, tracted the attention of those that the Phari- and necessary transportation and delivery of articles of food in sees despised, and he treated them with con- condition for healthful use, and such transportation for short it follows that this bill is blasphemous. All distances t-om one State, district, or Territory into another sideration and courtesy. Because he did this, State, district, or Territory as by local laws shall be declared to such attempts to make men religious by tor- the Pharisees sought to bring a charge against be necessary for the public good, shall not be deemed violations turing their bodies for the good of their souls of this act, nut the same shall be construed so far as possible to him, and destroy his influence. secure to the whole people rest from toil during the first day of are repudiated by high heaven, for. Christ "God so loved the world, that he gave his the week, tneir mental and moral culture, and the religious himself said, "If any man hear my words, and observance of the Sabbath day. believe not, I judge him not." John 12:47. only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth Now, first, we will recur to a statement made in him should not perish, but have everlast7 And again, " God sent not his Son into the already i n this paper, vi z., th at the Blair Amend- world to condemn the world; but that the ing life." This love on behalf of man, ex- ment to the Constitution was for the purpose pressed in the gift of his only-begotten Son, world through him might be saved." John of making this bill, and all other bills of sim- 3:17. It is a bill worthy of thegenius of Louis called forth from Satan the most intense ha- ilar cult, constitutional; for, according to the tred, both toward the Giver and toward the XIV. of France, of whom it was said that he Constitution as it was then and as it is to-day , t priceless Gift. Satan had represented the dragooned his subjects to heaven. this bill and all other bills of kindred ilk Father to the world in a false light, and by Moreover, it is papal, for it is in the inter- were and are unconstitutional. But this bill this great Gift his representations were proved ests of a papal institution ; for Sunday is a is essentially a religious bill, that is, it is in untrue, for here was love without a parallel, creation of the Catholic Church; it is the dis- the interests of one particular religion. And proving that man was to be redeemed by an tinguishing mark of the " mother of harlots" that phase of religion with which it deals and inconceivable cost. Satan had tried to oblit- —the beast which is to be cast into the lake which it is intended to protect is SUNDAY KEEP-' erate the image of God in man in order that of fire and brimstone. It is for the purpose ING. Therefore, it logically follows that the of enacting a lie. Sunday is not the Sabbath; as God looked upon him in his wretchedness, Blair Constitutional Amendment wasin tended in his perverseness, in his degradation, he Sunday is not the Lord's day; far from it, it to pave the way for the teaching of a proper is the distinguishing feature of the most in- might be induced to give him up as hope- observance of Sunday in the public .schools iquitous system for oppressing and degrading les'sly lost. But the Lord gave his only- of all the States. the souls of men that ever has been, or that begotten Son in order that the most sinful, the The question may arise in the minds of ever will be, upon the earth,---the Roman Cath- most degraded, need not perish, but, by be- *All rights to reprint reserved by the author. olic Church. Si) far from being the Sabbath lieving on Jesus . Christ, may be reclaimed, The author refers to the Constitution as it reads, as our day of sacred rest, Sunday is a day upon regenerated, and restored to the image of God, forefathers gave it to us, and not to what the Constitution has been construed to mean by the Supreme Court decision of Feb- which God commanded men to work; for the and thus have eternal life. ruary 29, 1592.—Eo. S. OF T.) fourth precept- of the Decalogue emphatically November 20, 1893. THE SIGNS OP THE TIMES. tal 37

declares, "Six days shalt thou labor; . . United States was .doomed from the day she ing for a morsel of bread. When those cries but the. seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord started upon. the road of religious legislation. ascend to God, is it any wonder that he cries thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work." We may be defeated by the acts of our ene-' down, Woe unto you rich men? How must Ex. 20 : 9, 10. • mies, but our own deeds alone can degrade those jewels look in the sight of him whose Then, since these men, styling themselves us. And religious legislation always bas, and Son had not where to lay his head? Christians, seek to enact laws commanding ever will, yield a harvest of wickedness and "Lovers of pleasure more. than lovers of men to rest upon a day on which God dis- woe. • • God," wrote Paul. • In England no less than tinctly said, " Thou shalt labor," are not they A SIGN OF THE LAST DAYS. $20,000,000 is annually expended for the cruel antichristian ? sport of fox hunting, and while thousands of It is wrong in principle. Who can cite an BY ELDER FRANCIS HOPE. poor families are huddled away in dark gar- instance in the Bible where Jesus Christ ever ONE of the many signs that plainly show we rets and damp cellars, hunting dogs have pa- asked for civil power to enforce his teachings? are living in the last days, is the accumula- latial residences lighted by electricity. Here, And when they did try to make him a tempo- tion of wealth by rich men. In James. 5 we where the poor man is not allowed land ral prince, so that he might have that power, enough to raise a cabbage, there are 14,700,000 read: "Go to now, ye rich men, weep and he repudiated their efforts. howl for your miseries that shall come upon acres of waste land kept only for a game pre- Again ; this act puts into the hands of all you. Your riches are corrupted, and your serve and shooting ground for "my lord." unprincipled persons the power of " wiping garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and sil- These are some of the facts of the case, facts out old scores ". in a manner that is revolting ver is cankered ; and the rust of them shall which the word of God record ed eigh teen centu- to civilized society. Section 5 says :— be a witness against you, and shall eat your ries ago. And from these facts God wants us SEC. 5. That it shall be unlawful to pay or to receive payment flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasures to learn that the end of all things is at hand, or wages in any manner for service rendered, or for labor per- and the time has come for the saints to take formed, or for the transportation of persons or property, in vio- together for the last days." Notice, the con- lation of the provisions of this act, nor shall any action lie for demnation is not for the mere possession of the land, and dwell every man under his own the recovery thereof, and when so paid, whether in advance or vine, and under his own fig tree. otherwise, the same may be recovered back by whoever shall wealth, but for heaping it together and hoard- first sue for the same. "Suffer with patience, therefore, brethren, unto ing it away till it is rusted and cankered, while the coming of the Lord. . . . Stablish your Let us, for the sake of example, suppose a at the same time the cries of the laboring men, hearts, for the coming of the Lord drawetb nigh." case: Here are two firms, both engaged in who have reaped down their fields, are "en- James 5 : 7, 8. the manufacture of threshing machines. Firm tering into the ears of the Lord of Saboath." Belfast, Ireland. A makes better machines than firm B, • Verse 4. PARADISE—HOW REGAINED. consequently A gets more orders for ma- There never was a time when these words chines. The prices of both firms are alike. were fulfilled as they are now. There never BY ELDER H. A. ST. JOHN. The directors of A see that they cannot was such a plethora of wealth, and yet at the produce a sufficient number of machines, same time so much grinding poverty. Since WE have found that Paradise was lost by running six days per week, to meet the de- the discovery of California and Australia the disobedience. God's moral law was trans- mand, so they decide to run on Sunday also. world has been deluged with gold. Califor- gressed, and the transgressors, for that reason, They employ 300 hands. Then B com- nia alone produced one thousand million and that reason only, were obliged to abandon mences to reason like this: Our trade is dollars of gold in twenty years. The wealth their Eden home. Hence it is obvious that light; we cannot compete with A, but the produced in England was only £42,000,000 in God could not be consistent in his dealings law provides— 1664, while for the year 1889 it was £1,350,- with his creatures to allow man to return to that it shall be unlawful to pay or to receive payment 000,000. Paradise in the same condition which fur- or wages in any manner for service rendered, or for labor per- The question comes, Where -is all this gold? nished the reason for his banishment. He formed, or for the transportation of persons or property, in vio- lation of the provisions of this act, nor shall any action lie for for money seems as scarce as ever, and the went out disloyal, he cannot return disloyal. the recovery thereof, and-when so paid, whether in advance He went out a sinner, he, cannot return a or otherwise, the same may be recovered back by whoever poor even poorer than before. The only shall first sue for the same. answer is the one given by James, it is hoarded sinner. So we will enter suit against all men work- away and lies rusting and cankered. Not only Has God devised a plan whereby sinful ing for A, and recover the wages paid to all in America and Europe, but in every other man may again become. sinless and pure? for last Sunday's work. We will make about country. In India there is said to be $16,- May the disloyal again becomeloyal to the holy $1,000, and cause them an infinite amount of 500,000 of treasure hidden in temples and law of God? To these intensely interesting trouble. shrines. questions we are happy to be able to return an Now this is no improbable case. It is a It is estimated that 30,000 men-hold half the affirmative answer. Through Jesus, the prom- fair illustration of what would happen under entire wealth of the United States. One man ised seed, this perfect pardon, purity, and such a law. alone possesses more than the assessed value loyalty, may be obtained. And by the Further, it will be an accepted axiom with of four States, another has an income of $20,- strength and grace that he ever after is ready all fair-minded men that an increase of hypoc- 000,000. Of the £1,350,000,000 produced by and willing to give, it may be retained, in spite risy is always the inevitable result of connect- England in 1889, only £300,000,000 went to -of all opposition. Free and full pardon for ing any description of penalty vlith the pro- the workers who produced it; the rest was sin is obtained by repentance toward God fession of particular opinions. Sunday work appropriated by the idle. That is, out of every and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. This is the outward expression of an opinion. sovereign only six shillings and eight pence faith in Christ embraces obedience to the gos- " Whatever may be the case with individuals, went to the laborer, while thirteen shillings pel. When freedom of our sin is thus se- it is certain that the majority of men find an and four pence went to the rich man, to be cured, it is retained by the same faith and extreme difficulty in long resisting constant hoarded away. Surely then the words of consecration that secure it. It is this main- temptation. And when the temptation comes James are fulfilled; the rich are growing richer; tenance of a life of purity and obedience that to them in the shape of honor. and emolu- the poor are becoming poorer, and the coming constituted the Christian warfare. Gaining ment, they are too often ready to profess the of the Lord hastens. the victory in the conflicts with the powers of dominant opinions, and abandon, not, indeed, God also condemns modern rich men on an- evil, is overcoming. He who endures and their belief, but the external marks by which other point; not only havethey defrauded the comes off victor in the end of the warfare, is a that belief is made public. Every man who laborers,-but James writes, "Ye have lived in complete overcomer; and to such Jesus has takes this step is a hypocrite; and every gov- pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye promised that they shall eat of the tree of life, ernment which encourages this step to be have nourished your hearts, as in a day of which is in the midst of the Paradise of God. taken, is an abettor of hypocrisy, and a cre- slaughter." Verse 5. In spiteofalltheboasted Again, Jesus has promised, " Blessed are ator of hypocrites. Well, therefore, may we Christianity and benevolence of to-day, this they that do his commandments, that they say that when a government holds out as a witness is true. Here in England, at a recent may have right to the tree of life, and may bait that those who profess certain opinions drawing room held by the queen, there was enter in through the gates into the city." Rev. shall enjoy certain privileges, it plays the $7,500,000- worth of jewels on the few ladies 22:14. On the opening pages of God's great part of the tempter of old, and, like the evil present. The Baroness Gustave de 'Roth- progressive revelation we learn that man one, basely offers the good things of this childs boasts of a pearl necklace worth $200,000, was driven out of Paradise because of sin, or world to him who will change his worship and recently Mrs. Mackay wore a dress the disobedience to the commandments .of God. and deny his faith."—Buckle. trimmings-of which were alone worth $50,000. Further on in that sacred volume we learn But a nation of hypocrites means national And right in the same great city were to be how he may find pardon for sin—have the ruin, inevitably. And to national ruin the heard the piteous cries of little children starv- spiritual mind, or true spirit of obedience, re- 38 [ei THE SIGNS OP THE Vol. 20, No. 3. stored to his soul, and again obtain and re- outrageous bondage and an unwarrantable so much on the lips nowadays, too often tain the purest loyalty to his loving Heavenly interference when thrust before the flushed steal between us and a simple willingness. Father. All this through the mediatorial face of lawless lust. We are too prone," the daily task forgetting," work of the promised seed—the world's Re- When the Scripture speaks of the bondage to look too .eagerly beyond to some great deemer. And then on the last page of the of the letter, it describes the man who wants work we should love to perform for the Master, same glorious revelation we learn that such to sin, but who is held by the law, as a police- while we count as" common" the work he him- loyal commandment-keeping ones shall have man holds a prisoner. The freedom of the self has laid upon our hands. We pant to right to the tree of life and enter in--yes, enter spirit comes when love secures glad obedi- serve him in the throng, when he calls us to in—to the Paradise of God. ence to the letter. There is no bondage in a desert place. And it should be noticed that they do not the letter when the soul is willing to obey. " Donot pray forstrength to bear the tortures enter into the long-lost Paradise as the man en- When it is not, the letter grips with the grasp of the Inquisition," says Spurgeon, "when ters the World's Fair, to see hurriedly, and then of a giant.—Evangel and Sabbath Outlook. what you need may be grace to darn the fam- depart, never to view again—no, no. The ily hose uncomplainingly." saints, because of their characters of loving loy- AFTERWARDS. We may fondly think how well we might ally to God, will have a perfect right to admis- serve the Master "in such and such a place." sion, and aperfect and eternal right when BY MARY ROWLES JARVIS. " If I were free from such heavy, homely admitted to remain. It will be all theirs, and GOD'S ways are equal ; storm or calm, cares," sighs one. " If I had only my once always theirs. "The redeemed of the Lord will Long nights of peril and of rest, firm health," moans another. come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy The hurtling dart, the healing balm, But what we may need for service any- Are all apportioned as is best ; where is the simple willingness to "do the upon theirheads." It is true that this earth will In judgment oft misunderstood, be made new, the curse entirely removed, and In ways mysterious and obscure, next thing," whatever that may be. the Paradise of God, the New Jerusalem, come He brings from evil lasting good, , How would the church—aye, the world down and again rest upon a beautiful new earth, And makes the final gladness sure; —grow in grace if the servants of Christ but the saints will come too,and with the freest By many a fiery test of strength more frequently and sincerely lifted and He bids our faith and hope increase, 1—Selected. access to Paradise restored in their midst, they And gives the chastened soul at length practiced this beautiful petition will have recovered their first estate. Yea, so His afterward of peace. s transcendently beautiful and glorious will that new heavens and new earth and New Jerusa- When the dread forces of the gale CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. His sterner purposes perform, lem be, that the redeemed will seem to have And human skill can naught avail BY THE REV. A. C. DIXON. gone beyond their first estate, and attained even Against the fury of the storm, unto the first estate of the angels that fell. Let The toiler, well-nigh losing heart, IN 1866 Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, of Boston, us be ready to hail that happy day. Low bending to his baffled oar, The watcher in her harder part thought she discovered that " Divine Mind is Of helpless waiting at the door, the only reality," and that "matter and mor- THAT TERRIBLE ENSLAVING LETTER!! Are still beneath his tender care, tal body are the illusions of human belief." And he can make the tempest cease, Upon this foundation Mrs. Eddy began to LULING, Texas, June 23, 1893. And give them, for the anguish there, erect a philosophy, and to establish an insti- To Rev. A. H. Lewis, D. D., Editor of the " Evangel and Sabbath An afterward of peace. Outlook"— tution of healing without medicine. Accord- DEAR BROTHER : . . . I have given much study The very waves that now appall, ing to her philosophy, there is no such thing to the Sabbath question, and my mind has long As in their wrath they plunge and roar, as sickness. All disease is illusion. If you been fixed on the subject. While admiring the Some other day shall lightly fall candor -and ability displayed by you on your side In sunlit ripples on the shore; have a toothache, in the first place, there is of the question, I am neither in sympathy with The cloudy chariots of the skies, really no tooth; and, in the second place, it your views nor with those who bank on Sunday as That threaten death o'er sea and land, does not ache; both the tooth and the ache the day for Sabbath observance. I am not willing Are filled with many a sweet surprise are illusions of "human belief." Convince for any man to "judge me in meat or drink or a Of goodness, from his lavish hand; yourself that they do not exist, and you are Sabbath day." The spirit of the law fulfilled in Beneath their soft and gentle rain Christ has released me from the bondage of the The buds shall open and increase, well. Diet and exercise are of no use; medi- letter. I try to do good every day. And field and wood shall know again cines are hindrances, for they lead one to Yours in Christ, T. C. GREENWOOD. His afterward of peace. think of these illusory diseases. What a mistake God made when he ex- Look up, sad heart, no trial can last "A Christian Scientist," says Mrs. Eddy, . pressed his laws in words! Words some- Beyond the limits God hath set; " never gives medicine, never recommends how reveal man's obligation to obey, and obe- When its appointed work is past hygiene, never manipulates." The less one dience is such a bondage I Thou shalt in joy forget; knows about the laws of health, the better. Where grief's sharp plowshare bath swept through, These laws are illusions, because they deal "Come unto me all ye that labor and are Thy fairest flowers of life shall spring, heavy laden, and I will give you rest." The For God shall clothe thy world anew, with illusive diseases. There is no attempt "spirit" of that is beautiful, but the " letter" And all its wastes shall laugh and sing; to influence mind by means of mind. She —think of the bondage it forces upon the Hope thou in him; his plan for thee discards Magnetism and all hypnotic in- sinner ! If he wants rest he has got to come Must end in triumph and release ; fluences. She simply seeks to convince sick Fear not, and thou shalt surely see to Christ, he must submit to the hateful " let- His afterward of peace. people that they are well. ter." If it were not for the letter, he might —Sunday at Home. One who is not a disciple of Mrs. Eddy, is drift along in the "spirit," and come to Plato, at a .disadvantage, because, according to her or Swedenborg, or himself, and find rest. SIMPLE WILLINGNESS. claim, he cannot really understand the meta- But Christ said, "Come unto me;" evidently physical and spiritual subtleties of her phi- Christ was much like his Father. He had "A SIMPLE willingness to serve the Master." losophy, unless he is refined enough to accept not learned how to dispense with the "letter." It was a petition in a good man's prayer, her theories. She urges her devotees not to He was old-fashioned; indeed, we half sus- which, falling on the ears of the writer, has listen to opposition. If one of them should pect he was a "Judaizer." Our correspondent long dwelt in her memory. be told that this article does not fully indorse from Texas could have given Christ several In this busy, hurrying age, when so many "Christian Science," he will, of course, not good points in the matter of the letter. are working at fever heat, in the church as read it. The great thing is to keep within "Thou shalt not kill." That is a " horrid well as out of it—when our books and papers, the charmed circle of faith in the fact that letter" when 'a man is mad and has his the sermons we hear, even our intercourse the Divine Mind is the only reality ; that revolver in his hip pocket and his hand on with friends, all seem to stimulate to yet matter and mortal body do not really exist. the revolver. Take the "letter" of that com- greater activity—that prayer for simple will- It is evident, however, to one who reads mand away, and the angry man could say: ingness falls like soothing balm upon the and thinks, that "Christian Science " is neither "The spirit of that law is all right, but the overwrought. Christian nor scientific. It is not Christian, letter tendeth to bondage. I have no use for There are some of us—just a few—whose because it denies the existence of a personal ' it until I get the drop on the man who has hands are not idle, but who chafe and God, and that there is such a thing as sin. insulted me." fret against the bounds of our appointed The Divine Mind is everywhere and every- Men never complain of the "letter" of a place, and look longingly to what we deem a thing; there is nothing else. We are a part law until they want to disobey it. " Thou nobler, larger work. The words " mission," of it. This sounds like pantheism, and. was shalt not commit adultery," is certainly an " vocation," i` a higher sphere of activity, " not discovered in this century. We read November 20, 1893 THE SIGNS OF THE 111 39

much of it in the writings of pagan philoso- have to do, according to this fascinating sci- promise, " I will come again," or, rather, " I phers. If Christianity teaches any one thing •ence, to save our grocery bills, is to wake up to come again," or, better still, " I am coming clearly, it is that sin is a tremendous fact. the fact that the immaterial body does not again," like a father calling to his frightened Jesus came to seek and save the lost; he was really need immaterial food. " Besiege siekness children, "I am coining," and so quieting the "friend of sinners; " he put away sin by and death," says one of theirhigh authorities, their fears. But Satan is a cunning rogue, the sacrifice of himself. Calvary became a " with these principles and all will disappear." and he has robbed nearly all Christians of the fact, because sin was a fact. Now "Christian Old age is an illusion; there need be no such comfort these words were designed to give, by Science " asserts that all this is a blunder. thing as gray hairs and decrepitude. People leading them to suppose that when the Sav- Those who think they are sinners are simply lose their sight and hearing because they be- iour said, "I am coming," he really intended under an illusion. They may be4ionest in lieve in such things. A man at ninety ought to say, " You must die." . . . The only their belief, but are sadly mistaken.- All men to look as if be were only nineteen. Some question is, Did our Saviour wish the disci- need is to be convinced that they are not sin- of them read their lectures through gold- ples to understand that he is literally and ners, and they are righteous. A more seduc- rimmed glasses, declaring that loss of sight is personally coming again, or did he teach them tive fallacy was never invented; it panders an illusion. The fact that animals take cold, and us that we must die? to our self-righteousness, and is calculated to become intoxicated, and are affected as if they 1. When we read his wonderful words, it manufacture Pharisees by the million. really had bodies, does not make a Christian is wise to infer that he used language cor- It is not scientific, because it denies evident Scientist swerve from his position. He asserts rectly; that he knew what he purposed to say, facts, and claims for facts what universal ex- that an animal can be a sort of Christian and, hence, that we are to take his statements perience proves to be false. Someone. has Scientist. The horse takes cold when the in their natural and obvious sense, unless it said, " If you claim that there is no matter, blanket is left off, because there is a sort of is apparent at a glance that they are figura- it is no matter what you claim." But such a universal horse conviction that such will take tive or symbolical. It is a sound and incon- claim has a great fascination for certain mys- place. Dogs can get drunk on alcohol, be- trovertible principle of exposition which tical minds. They prefer the mysterious to cause, the dog mind has a lingering belief in "the judicious Hooker" lays down when he the plain. The more absurd a proposition, intoxication'. says; "I hold it as a most infallible rule in the more likely they are to receive it. That It is now time for a definition, and the fol- ,the interpretation of sacred 'Scripture that there is matter. and mortal body every scien- lowing strikes me as eminently fair:— where a literal construction will stand, the tist knows. So real, indeed, is,matter that it CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IS THE ART OF MAKING farthest from the letter is commonly the is now well-nigh universally accepted that SANE PEOPLE THINK AND FEEL AS IF THEY WERE worst." It was as easy for our Lord to say, not one particle of it has ever been destroyed. INSANE. Our lunatic asylums are full of " If I go away you shall die," or, " You will It may change forms, but goes not out of ex- patients who are suffering from illusions. join 'me soon in my Father's house," as it was istence. Even Christian Scientists treat their They believe that things are not as they are. 'to say, " I am coming again; " and it is cer- bodies as if they were real; they give them A notion seizes one that brick and stone walls tain, that he said what he meant and meant water and food, and protect them with cloth- are nothing, and he tries to go through them. what'he said. . . ing; they can be bled and bruised. Through In the effort his head is apt to yield, and for 2. Our Lord was not unfamiliar with the the body they suffer pain, howevervehemently his accommodation padded walls are fur- word "death." He often spoke of his own they may declaim against its existence. nished. Others imagine that they are not death ; and not long after he said Co the dis- "She was a pretty Christian Scientist; human beings, but anger's. or deinops. I have ciples, "I am coming," he plainly told Peter `There is nothing real,' said she, seen one who declared that, she was the that he must die. "This spake he, signify- `Except the soul—my body is not real ; ' queen of heaven, and tried to act accordingly. ing by what death he should glorify God." `And that's too bad,' thought he. If I mistake not, most cases of insanity are John .21 :19. . Why the change? Why did " ' Pain is not real—this hammock is not real, • the result of such hallucinations. The differ- he not inform the others that they, too, must Wherein you think I sit.' ence between patients in the asylum, how- die ? Why did he 'single out one for death, Lo ! as she spoke the hammock's fastening broke, And threw her out of it. ever, and Mrs. Eddy, is this: With her it is a and address the remaining ten in language so theory; with them it is theory and practice; entirely different, saying to them, "If I go "Full hard she bumped her immaterial form; they carry out their convictions. When one Who could but sympathize? and 'prepare a place for you, I am coming He begged that she would let a heretic of them decides that clothing is not necessary, again " ? Is it not 'clear that his coming Pretend to help her rise. he steadfastly refuses to wear it. If he is again was unlike the dying of Peter, espe- "Then, oh! the scorn of her rejection was convinced that eating is of no use, he .will not cially as Peter was one of the eleven who heard A something wholly real. eat. Mrs. Eddy, on the other hand, holds the promise, "I am coming again," and then And, oh ! the limp with which she walked away, tenaciously to the theory, and practices it afterwards learned that he was to die? Proclaimed that she could feel." only so far as convenient. Her teaching is 3. It is certain that he left a wrong impre's- A Christian Scientist who goes the whole insanity reduced to a fine art, advocated in sion upon their minds if by the promise of length of his convictions must believe and elegant language, studied by refined people, his coming again, he purposed to set forth the advocate some very silly absurdities. One of accepted by a class of metaphysical minds, fact of their death, about which they needed them sagely tells us that alcohol' intoxicates and practiced fully by none of them.—The no revelatidn, as the history of the world and because such is the universal belief. If all Independent. their own observation taught them that "it is men believed that alcohol nourished, like appointed unto men once to die." Heb. 9: 27. milk, we might feed our babies only on I AM COMING." If a beloved friend is about to leave a house- whisky; and if all men believed that milk hold at the close of a delightful visit, and, intoxicated, it would make us drunk. If it WITH these words our Lord sought to cheer perceiving the sorrow caused by his an- was the universal belief that a bunion on the the sad hearts of his disciples. He had just nounced departure;.says to the circle mourn- foot caused derangement, it would affect us announced that one of them would betray ing his expected absence, "I am coming like a tumor on the brain. If, on the other him, and that all of them would forsake him, again," and they subsequently learn that he hand, all men agreed that a tumor on the while the cruel and shameful cross loomed up only hid under figurative language the truth brain simply worried you and made you feel distinctly in his view. Seeing their look of that they must die, they would have very like keeping your friends at a distance, such sorrow and surprise, he said, as if forgetful of little respect for his candor, or very little con- would be the effect. There is no such thing his own approaching agony: "Let not your fidence in the interpreters of his language as cold or heat. Though every thermometer heart be troubled ; ye believe in God, believe who could put such a gloss upon the mean- in Christendom should declare that the tem- also in me. In my Father's house are many ing of his words. . . . perature was ten degrees below zero, it need mansions; if it were not so, I would have 5. It is often said that He is spiritually not affect a consistent Christian Scientist; he told you." He could not deceive nor mislead present with his people at death. This is need not change his clothing between summer them, nor withhold the exact truth, nor keep certainly true, and it is equally true that he and winter. One of their practicing physi-' them in ignorance of his precise meaning. is spirituallypresent with them all the time. cians in Baltimore remarked to a friend of "I go to prepare a place for you. And if I "Lo, I am with you alway; even unto the mine: "What a blessing it would be to the go' and prepare a place for you, will come end of the world." Matt. 28: 20. "For he poor if they would all accept our teaching! again, and receive you unto myself; that bath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake It would save Outlays in change of clothing where I am, there ye may be also." John 14: thee." Heb. 13:5. There is no sense, there- and in fuel for the winter." 1-3. fore, in which he is spiritually present with Indeed, hunger is an illusion; all that we The consolation he imparts turns upon the believers at death differing from that in-which 40 1x1 THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. Vol. 20, No. 3.

he is spiritually present before death ; and Testament. But many of our religious jour- A CHURCH FAIR. the same chapter that contains the promise, nals, sad to remark, approve of the parliament. "I am coming again," also contains the prom- Of this we shall have more to say hereafter. AN Eastern contemporary of recent date ise to the sinner who trusts him and keeps Below are some of the characteristic utterances contains a lengthy and interesting coin u ni- his word, that the Father and he " will come (the Italics are ours) :— cation from a subscriber, who details, with unto him, and snake our abode with him." For ourselves we desire to express our gratitude to great particularity, how he was, as he -ex- John 14: 23. But this .is not his coming ' Dr. Barrows and Mr. Bonney for giving the world pressed it," taken in "at a church fair. Hav- again to receive us unto himself, and to abide this Parliament of Religions. —The Congregationalist. ing been invited to this entertainment, he where he is in the Father's house. It will give the Christian people a wider outlook concluded, although a man of limited means, 6. If his ,coming is death, then he comes upon the world of religious thought, and will tend that he could afford to go, the twenty-five again at the death of unbelievers and the un- to strengthen the bonds of human brotherhood.— cents admission fee seeming; in his untu- Buffalo Christian Advocate. godly, for they, too, die. Think of the Lord tored opinion, to cover the entire expense of coining again every time the unsaved and the Many addresses have been made by prominent clergymen and advocates of several faiths, and with the entertainment. He dressed himself in wicked die, that is, every second of time, and one or two exceptions the harmony of the gathering is his best, paid the fee at the door, and went in. it will be easy to see what confusion and non- remarkable.—St. Louis Christian Advocate. Immediately after his entrance he was ap- sense such exegesis makes of one of the most 'There never before has been on so broad a scale so proached by a young lady with a number of blessed promises of the word of God. Is the signal an exhibition of the essential brotherhood of tickets in her hands, and lie was solicited to promise, " I am coming," fulfilled every time all men. If anyone object to thinking of it as a "take a chance " in a raffle for a cabinet or- "brotherhood of religions," it has at all events been an ungodly man dies? Why not if the com- ga.n,the chances being $1.00 each. an impressive manifestation of the peculiar kinship ing of Christ means death? that belongs to all deeply and devoutly thoughtful relig- As the young lady was a personal acqUaint- 7. But our Lord himself clearly shows that ious men of every nationality and clime, speech or ance, belonging to the same church as him- his coming and death do- not mean the same race.—The Advance. self, he felt, he said, ashamed to refuse, thing. He predicted Peter's death, and then The most significant religious event of the century although he would gladly have declined, directed the apostle to follow him. John, is marked by the spirit of sobriety, of charity, of rever- scarcely feeling able to make the expendi- unbidden, but drawn by •the cords of love, ence, and of loyalty to the truth. It was possible to ture. The chance was taken and paid for, sneer at its proposals. One who fears God and loves •also started to follow, and Peter said, " Lord, his fellow-men must rejoice at its achievement. —The and a moment later a couple of girls carrying and what shall this man do? Jesus saith unto Examiner. a flower basket importuned him to buy a but- him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is All together they constitute the greatest religious tonhole boquet. Again was lie coerced, and that to thee? Follow thou me. Then went gathering the world has ever seen. Too much can- fifty cents was extracted from his unwilling this saying abroad among the brethren, that not be said in praise of President C. C. Bonney and pocket for an article which he declared be that disciple should not die; yet Jesus said Chairman Dr. John H. Barrows for their titanic and felt ashamed to wear. Escaping from the successful labors in preparing this "more than impe- not unto him, He shall not die; but, If I will rial feast."—Central Christian Advocate. flower girls he ran into the arms, metaphor- that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?" The scene presented upon this platform is one that ically speaking, of course,•of two young ladies, John 21 :22, 23. .So far is it, therefore, from every beholder will carry with him through life. Its who hinted that refreshments were in order. the truth that the coming of the Lord and cosmopolitan and unique character may be accepted He went with them, and, duly "refreshed," death are the same that they are directly'op- as symbolic of a new period of civilization, when all then tendered the cashier, in payment of a posed to each other. The coming of the the nations of the world shall be as one.—Methodist Re- seventy-five cent check, a $2.00 bill. The corder. Lord prevents death. lady placed the bill in a drawer, and turned Nor can his coming mean the descent of the This is the platform of the parliament—the father- hood of God and the brotherhood of man. Fortu- her attention to the next customer, where- Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost,. nor the nately, the rules of the parliament preclude discus- upon he ventured to remind her that she had destruction of Jerusalem, nor any providen- sion, but the greatest benefit will result from forgotten the change. "We give no change," tial occurrence, because in neither of these comparison of creeds and systems. —Zion' s Herald. was the cool rejoinder, and the unfortunate events did he, nor does he, receive the disci- The first world's Parliament of Religions will prove, youth, with such comfort as this bit of in- ples to himself. . we believe, a mighty factor in the winning of religious formation afforded, retired. At this point he It is quite common to say that -there have thought the world over, in the gathering of truth and would fain have gotten out, but this was only been a great many .comings of. Christ, all the scattering.of error, thus aiding in bringing about the great consummation—the union of God and man, the beginning. He seems to have been rec- pointing to his final and literal coming, and of heaven and earth. —Union Signal. ognized as a good subject, and passed from in this way his promise is divested of all It is only by way of our sense of shame that one set of schemers to another, only to find power and sweetness. There are 7,959 verses Christianity will be honored and magnified by this that each was intent solely on extracting in the New Testament, and of these 330, or parliament. If Dr. Momerie's brilliant epigram, from his pocketbook the last possible cent. one in twenty-five, directly refer to his second "All religions are fundamentally more or less true, He finally did escape, but only after expend- coming, nor is there any subject but faith and all religions are superficially more or less false," ing, as lie says, the sum of $16.25, or a little needs to be taken, like most epigrams, with some that is mentioned more frequently. In all of qualifications, it is none the less true that we are over half of the monthly salary which lie had these verses, without a single exception, his learning from this parliament that our religion cannot that day received. coming means his coming, and nothing elSe; be the perfect manifestation of the relations of God and It is safe to say that this much-beleag- the flawless sphere of truth, until it includes and we are no more at liberty to give to the men, uered young man will not soon again darken the Orient as well as the Occident —New York Evan- word some other import than we are to gelist. the doors of a church festival, and his expe- change the significance of the . statement, The first effect of this Parliament of Religions must rience may serve as a warning to more than " Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou be to correct the opinion too often entertained, and one of his acquaintances who might possibly shalt be saved."— Truth. sometimes even sedulously cultivated, that all forms be tempted to give encouragement, under the of religion but our own are but a mixture of ignorance name of charity, to similar enterprises.—Se- and superstition. There is as little ground for the ECHOES FROM THE PARLIAMENT OF RELIGIONS. Christian charge that all foreign priests are self- /Med. - ., • • seekers, as for the analagous Protestant charge THERE is probably no occurrence of this cen- against all Roman Catholic priests, or for the similar INSTANT IN PRAYER. —Stonewall Jackson, tury which will have a greater effect on the infidel charge against all Christian ministers. The when once using the phrase "instant' in future of the religious world than the recent ecclesiastic's coat is no sure preventive against self- prayer," was asked what he meant,by it. " I ishness; the ecclesiastical spectacles are no guarantee Parliament of Religions held in connection of the truth. But whatever other impression the have so fixed the habit in my own mind," lie with the World's Fair at Chicago. That its various speakers at the Parliament of Religions replied, ." that I never raise a glass of water effect will be beneficial the great mass of the may have left on the minds of their audiences, to my lips without a moment asking God's people believe; but that it marks an advance there is no doubt that they left one of profound blessing; I never seal a letter without putting spiritual earnestness.— The Outlook. stage in the malady which now afflicts Chris- a prayer under the seal;. I never take a letter tendom is also believed by many thoughtful • 4 from the post without a brief Sending of my men scattered through all denominations. It REMEMBER that the mind of your child is thought heavenward; I neverchang,e my classes is distinctly a compromise -on the part of like a mirror, reflecting all around it. The in the lecture room without a minute's peti- Protestantism, and this must be evident to wanton oath, the angry exclamation, the ob- tion on the cadets who go out and those who every candid mind who will compare the scene jest, may operate upon the young heart come in." "And don't you sometimes forget .spirit, the utterances, and the personnel of like the careless drop of water on the pol- to do this?" "I can scarcely say that I do," that gathering with the Protestantism of the ished steel, leaving a rust which no after was the answer; " the habit has become as Reformation and the treachings of the New cleansing can wholly efface. fixed almost as breathing."—Selected. November 20, 1893. THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. (91 41

Since coming to Tahiti we have been in- "And don't you see," said her mother, ome and terested to observe the peculiar custom of "those very words describe attributes of God, the people here in this respect, and I have and are very improper words to use in such collected a lot of names which are odd be- a trivial fashion?" "Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, what- cause of their simplicity. Our Brother. Paul "I never did think of it before," said Hope, soever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; Dean has ten names by which lie is known "but I mean to break myself of the habit as if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."—Phil. 4:8. in different districts. He has a family name soon as, I can." of Teinaore, which means " brother none;" Hope took her schoolbooks to a table to this was given him because a younger brother prepare her lessons, but uttered almost' im- NOVEMBER. died. Again somebody lost-a child and hon- mediately an exclamation of impatience. ored him with a name which means "taken Mrs. Manton looked up reprovingly. BY MARIANNE FARNINGRAM. away," and by this name he is forever called " I forgot, ma !ulna., but I was so provoked." WINDS sighing drearily, by the people of that neighborhood. Po- " What about, dear ? " Rain beating eerily, mare, "cough in the night," was the name of " Why, we are getting up a present for Fog in the city, the old chief of Tahiti. Old Grandma Deane Miss Carleton you know. She is to be mar- And mist on the sea; is called Aivi, " hill," because a grandchild ried soon, and' go West, and we hoped to give Skies frowning scornfully, was buried on a hill. Queen Pomare IV. was her something handsome.. All of the class Flowers dying mournfully, called Hdaopo meaning "lame in the thigh." did real well except Gertrude Fletcher, and These of November One of Henry 'Deane's daughters was named she was so mean, she wouldn't give a penny. Attendants must be. after aypain in the back,". while one of the We needed - only $2.00 to get just what we Fires that burn merrily, Arue people is called " bad disease." Still wanted, but the rest of us had all given all Lips that smile cheerily, another of the royal family is named " eaten we could, so we had' to get a less expensive Homes that are happy, eyes." present. Don't you think it was a shame?" Love-lighted and fair, These names amount to little, and are soon "I am sorry you were disappointed, but Childhood's gay revelry, to pass away, but there is a new name that what you have got will no doubt express your Youth's singing gleefully, is to be given to all overcomers by our Lord appreciation as well as a more costly gift." Even November and Master, that will abide forever, for he " But it was so mean in . Gertrude not to With these is not bare. says, "I will write upon him my new name." give. She is the proudest girl in school, and Dark places brightened, Rev. 3:12. Let us all make sure of being when I asked her she said, in her most su- And griefs that are lightened, among the happy company who "shall see perior way, should like to give Miss Carle- Wants that are satisfied, his face; and his name shall be in their fore- ton something, but I can't do it.' I had all Help for the sad, heads." Rev. 22 :4. I could do to keep from giving her my opin- Love made perpetual, ion of her. She dresses nicer than any of us, Pity all merciful— and she is.a good scholar, and if she wasn't Dullest November "AN UNEXPECTED PRIZE." so stuck up,'she would be a favorite." By these is made glad. "Perhaps, my dear, you had better reserve Hearts that in loneliness BY MRS. F. A. REYNOLDS. your condemnation until you know 'more Long for more holiness, about her. Tlk ere is danger that in your haste Loyalty, hope, CHAPTER VIII.—MORE LESSONS. you may break the ninth commandment." And a trust that makes calm, " DEAR me, mamma 1 " cried Hope, corn- "`Thou shalt not bear false witness against Faith in God's Fatherhood, ing in from school one day, " it does seem thy neighbor,'" repeated Hope. " I thought Love for the brotherhood— to me that things have happened just to il- These change November that meant in court, mamma," she said won- To music and psalm. lustrate the ten commandments since we be- deringly. —Christian World. gan to study them. .Doesn't it seem so to " Does it make any difference where you you? give a false impression of your neighbor? " Now I was thinking only this morning In fact, doesn't neighborhood gossip do more MEANING IN A NAME. of what we had seen and heard, and I said to injure one than any false swearing in court? BY ELLIOTT C. CHAPMAN. to myself, `Well, I haven't heard the third It would be kinder •in you not to say any- commandment broken.' Of course I've heard thing against Gertrude even if you know her to SINCE the time when the great Creator of what I call swearing, but not a real taking be stingy, but as y6u know nothing- of,her cir- all breathed into man's nostrils the breath of the name of God in vain. Just a few min- .7..cumstances, you had better not even condemn life, and gave to the masterpiece of his handi- utes afterwards I heard a man using most her in your thoughts until you do know." work the name of Adam—:-which' is said to awful oaths because his team balked. Now, "Why, mamma, she lives in that large, signify red earth, probably referring to the isn't it odd that so much should happen in just beautiful house next to Mrs. Stoughton, and dust from which he was created—it has been a few weeks? " she dresses so nicely." the custom to a great extent among the "I think," said Mrs. Manton, "that these "They are strangers here," observed Mrs. children of men• to give to their offspring happenings, as you call them, are around us Manton thoughtfully, "and I have never names which bear in themselves a depth of all the time, but your attention was never called. I ought to, and I will. You may go meaning. before called to the fact that God's law is be- with me, if you wish, to-morrow evening." Abraham, Isaac, and Israel were given ing constantly broken. You know your ob- "All right, mamma," said Hope, "I shall names by the Creator which were well suited servations have not been in the order of the like to go." to their characters and positions. Samuel commandments, you have seen first one and So after school the next evening Mrs. Man- means "asked of God ;" Solomon, " the peace- then another violation, just as events have ton and Hope started to call on the Meta- ful one ;" and thus we find an undercurrent occurred." em. of interest attached to many of the Scripture "Well, perhaps that's so," assented Hope Arrived at the house, they rang the bell, Dames. as she hung up her hat, " but about swear- and a servant man showed them into an ele- Among the heathen nations of Assyria and ing, mamma, do you think those only are gant little reception room, opening from a Babylon the same custom prevailed as among - breaking the third commandment that take large, lofty hall. Hope gave her mother a the chosen people of God, of giving their God's name in vain, or do you think all of meaning look, which said, " You see I was children names which bore such meaning as this bad, rough language breaks it, too? " right ; they are rich." the force of circumstances or the fancy of tine "Applying Christ's test to it, I should say In a short time the lady of the house. Made parents should indicate. Daniel signified in that bad language that is used under the her appearance. She was a stately, hand- the Hebrew," God is my judge;" Hananiah, same circumstances that oaths are used,—in some woman, richly and tastefully dressed, Mishael, and Azariah each were names that anger, under strong excittnent, or even as a very cool and ceremonious in her manners. had reference to the true God. These were babit,—is breaking the third coin ma nd men t," Mrs. Manton, however, was not at ali over- changed, when the men were taken to the said her mother. "I am aware that men awed, and after a. few minutes' chat said :— who use this rough language "will not ac- court of Babylon, to have reference to the " My little girl would like to see your knowledge they swear, but many of the gods of the heathen. daughter, Miss Gertrude." In our own day, among the civilized na- words they use are well understood to mean Mrs. Fletcher hesitated, then said indif- tions of the world, we do not see much of the same as taking God's mune in vain in a this style of naming, but people in general modified form. ferently:— are content with some sound that serves the " Christ said, Let your communications be "Gertrude is not my daughter ; she is Mr. purpose just as well, and has perhaps been Yea, yea, and Nay, nay ; for whatsoever is Fletcher's brother's child, and when her fa- worn by some worthy of the past. more than this cometh of evil.' Bywords ther died she was brought here—against my The American Indians were wont to name are silly and useless, and some of them desire, I must say"—and the lady's lips their braves according to their idea of what wicked. Plain, straightforward language is tightened disagreeably, " but Mr. Fletcher is noble, and such terms as Ha wk-eye .and the most forcible." would have it so. He insists on dressing -Lightfoot appear within the pages of their " Well," said Hope, blushing, " I do say her well and sending her to school. She is history. `mercy,' goodness,"gracious,' etc." a peculiar girl. She had no money, only 42 THE SIGNS OF" THE TIMES. Vol. 20, No. g. about ten dollars a month, and she gives that hold I There is no lubricator that can set to her brother to help him through college. the domestic machinery running better and ission Of course I didn't countenance it, and the smoother than cheerfulness and unselfishness, consequence is she has no pocket money. while anger and impatience are the worst "Cast thy bread upon the water; for thou shalt find it after Her clothes don't cost so very much, made kind of rust on the wheels. A smile is an many days."—Eccl. 11:1. over from mine, but I don't. like anyone in excellent specific for most household ills. These habits of self-control and thought- the house in her position. Certainly, dear, "VOICES." ISA. 66:6. I'll ring to have her sent down." fulness cultivated at home will soon become Mrs. Fletcher touched a bell, and said to parts of our nature, and when we go out A VOICE of noise from the city, the servant who appeared, "Tell Miss Ger- among men, we will wear them, not as a nose- From its haunts of sin and pain, trude to come to me here." gay put on for the occasion, but as the very The groan of a mighty multitude Soon a tall, slender girl of thirteen entered garment of our souls.—The Voice. Oh I shall they plead in vain? the room. She bowed to Hope, who rose, and, A voice of the little children taking her hand, led her to her mother, TO GIVE AWAY. Beginning their lifelong woe; saying, "This is my classmate, Gertrude A voice from the lonely dying, Fletcher, mamma." " I WISH I had something to give away," 'Not knowing where they go. Mrs.ton an met her cordially, and then said a dear little woman with a large heart Oh, silently appealing Gertrude said and a very contracted purse to me. Is the cry of that mighty throng, May I take Hope into the library, Aunt That voice of noise from the city— Kate ? " " Try flowers," said I, "a little can of them, and you can be as generous as you please." "How long, 0 Lord, how long?" "Yes, anywhere you please," returned Mrs. Fletcher. Perhaps one of your neighbors has had to A voice from the midst of the temple, As the girls left the room, she added to put on her pincushion, "Welcome, little A voice of doubt and fear,— stranger." Never mind if yOu do not know "How long shall evil triumph? Mrs. Manton :— O God, the Father, hear ! " " I can't repress a feeling of impatience in her very well; you may be assured she will her presence. I never could bear her mother." appreciate even one flower. Again, there A voice of widespread error, may be crape on the door, sad hearts within; Mrs. Manton hastily introduced a new A voice of those that say, - while she formed an cut your choicest flowers—they have a lan- " There should be wider entrance topic of conversation, guage of their own, and may be more com- inward resolution to try to be a true friend To this too `narrow way.' " forting than words of sympathy. to this friendless, orphan girl. Is anything more lovely than sweet peas ? A voice of the plenteous harvest When she rose to go, the girls appeared in That few men go to reap, They are made to give away, for the more the hall from the room opposite, and she was Though the enemy's softly sowing, you pick the more they come. Stand at the Whilst the weary watchers sleep. pleased to see them apparently good friends. gate and give a bunch to the schoolchildren As they were walking home, Hope began, as they pass. Instead of saying to that strange So, through the lonely waiting with trembling tones:— Of these years of care and wrong, rude boy, " Get off that fence !" or, " Don't —. "I'll never judge from appearances again, swing on my gate !" give him a flower or per- That ceaseless voice from the temple mamma. That girl hasn't a friend. She is "How haps a rooted slip. This little kindness may long, 0 Lord, how long?" a dependent. She didn't complain, but I save you a very choice plant or a chance to A voice of the Lord that speaketh could see, after hearing Mrs. Fletcher talk. taste your own rare fruit. To those who watch and wait; Supposing I had told everybody what I told Why not have a "give-away bed"? Gera- Toil on a little longer, you, what I believed to be true, it would have His step is at the gate. been—would it have been bearing false wit- niums, petunias, ageratums slip so easily, you wouldn't miss a dozen or two. As for seeds, ness, mamma ? " See how the shadows lengthen they should not be, kept any more than Athwart the evening sky ; "I think so, dear." money. Better exchange, for it's funny, but Lift up your heads, 0 children I (To be continued.) true, plants like a new place. Haven't you Your redemption draweth nigh. • noticed your petunias and asters from your And, through the unknown distance, CHURLISHNESS AT HOME. own seeds are not as nice, but give them to In an echo deep and strong, the woman around the corner, and in her Is the voice of the Lord proclaiming, "He that is slow to anger is letter than the mighty; yard they will flourish mightily.— Vick's Mag- "I will not tarry long." and he that ruleth his spirit than he that takethia azine. —Selected. city."—Proverbs. • • The fittest and most practicable place for the con- A MODERN FABLE(?). INCIDENTS IN ALASKA LIFE. quest of anger, selfishness, impatience, is a man's own home. Be a saint there; it does not matter so much what you are elsewhere. —P. C. Mozoomdar. A CERTAIN farmer, imagining that he would THE American Missionary Association es- make money out of it, married him a wife. tablished a mission at Cape Prince of Wales, What peculiar psychological fact is it that Then he caused her to do the cooking and is responsible for our churlishness at home? Alaska, some time ago under the charge of washing for a half dozen hired hands. He Mr. H. R. Thornton. On the night of August Is the statement too sweeping ? T,o be more also referred to her the small jobs, like cutting exact, why do so many of us find it harder wood, milking the cows, herding the hogs, 19 last Mr. Thornton was cruelly murdered to be gentle and courteous to those at home and tending the poultry. This farmer made by native desperadoes. Two of these the than to the stranger we meet on the street, money. But one of his boys went to Texas, natives afterward killed, while the supposed or the friend, in his parlor ? It is not be- and one went to the penitentiary, and his caufie we love our own less than strangers. instigator of the affair escaped to the moun- *girl ran away with a man who peddled gro- tains. The last named had been expelled It is due, no doubt, principally to thought- ceries. His useful wife has a front room in lessness. We are, as it were a little off our the insane asylum, and there is a place pre- from the school taught by.Mr. Thornton. guard, resting on our oars while at home, and pared for the farmer to which he will shortly The following article from Mr. Thornton to a bit careless.• Bnt home is, or should be, go. This story plainly teaches that a will be of interest to the place of all places to us, the pivot upon the American Missionary farmer should be careful when he gets those studying Alaskan life :--- which our lives revolve; .and why should we married.— Topeka Capital. be careless there? Our conduct at home is The year has passed tolerably well for us, more than likely, it is almost certain, to be a notwithstanding some drawbacks that we hope true reflection of our personalities. We gen- RAISING BREAD. will not affect us so much in future years. erally are really what those at home find us, We had a new house in a new situation to get and it is there we exert our greatest influ- WHAT is meant by "raising " bread is worth accustomed to. It was built of lumber that ence. We see our friends once or twice a a few words. The introduction of the yeast had been lying on the beach a year, and was week, perhaps, our family every day, and our into the moist dough and the addition of thoroughly wet, consequently it shrunk so influence for good or evil will tell in just that heat when the pan is placed near the fire pro- that before Christmas we could thrust a proportion. duce an enormous growth of the yeast fungi knife between the boards. We suffered very Then, again, our span of life is so brief at —the yeast "germ," in other words. These much with cold, used to sit up with all our its longest that we have not time to be cross fungi effect a destructive fermentation of a furs on as if we were in a blizzard, but we or selfish. Life is only just long enough to portion of the starchy matter of the flour— soon retreated to the innermost room, which be pleasant in, and where better than in the one of the most valuable nutrient elements in we managed to make quite comfortable by pa- home? The simplest little courtesies, " Good- the flour. The fermentation produces car- pering with newspaper and manilla paper. night," "God guard the night," " Good-morn- bonic acid gas, and this, having its origin in Our house is built on the side of the moun- ing," " If you please," " Thank you," passing every little particle of the starch, which is it- tain, giving us a delightful view, but with one another's lts,au and striving to al-b self everywhere in the flour, pushes aside the counterbalancing disadvantages. The south ways wear a cheerful countenance and say a particles of the dough to give itself room. ends blowing over and down the mountain kind word—these seem small matters, it may That is what is called "raising the bread."— side came downour chimney, almost stifling us be, but, oh, how they brighten up the house- Harper's Bazaar. with smoke and covering everything with soot, November-20,1893. THE SIGNS OF 'THE es.. Ill) 43

You may imagine how trying it was to a very women standing around had said the man particular little New England housekeeper like was only asserting his legal rights according Mrs. Thornton. At first I tied an old sack to native customs. The mairdragged the weep- around the south side of the open work under ing and struggling girl across the snow, took 1311311E the chimney cap, but it would persist in her up bodily, and dropped her down the en- catching fire. An old five-gallon oil can with trance to his underground house. Finally it bottom and one side cut out clapped over the occurred to me to ransom her. In an hour cap succeeded better, but I have to run up Mr. Lopp and I had done this, and she was OtItJECT on the roof and turn it around every time the installed as Mr. Lopp's servant. wind changes. Such occurrences are rare, but illustrate Our natives are improving, but we find it a the need of our example and precepts. LESSONS much slower and more laborious business than Mrs. Thornton has the honor of being prob- we expected to turn a savage Eskimo into a ably the first American woman to drive be- comparatively civilized Christian. Think hind a pair of 'half wild reindeer from the gov- SONGS FOR LITTLE ONES. how long it would take to make the very lowest ernment herd fifty miles south of us. The class of people in your neighborhood clean, deer are doing finely, and the enterprise should FOR THE HOME AND SCHOOL. truthful, self-reliant, economical, virtuous, and be encouraged in every way as the only means With Illustrations and Special Instruction for MOTHERS God fearing. Meanwhile, we are sowing the of saving the Eskimos from not improbable AND TEACHERS. seed with what patience we ma,y, encouraaed by starvation.—American Missionary. seeing gradual improvement among the na- BY LILLIE E. AFFOLTER AND F. E. BELDEN. tives in intelligence, cleanliness, self-help, A TELLING TRIBUTE TO THE BIBLE. truthfulness, and other virtues that make AT the close' of a lecture by Dr. Chamber- toward godliness. BOOK 1. • After Mr. and Mrs. Lopp were married, we lain, of the American Arcot Mission, when agreed to divide the house, they taking three nearly two hundred Brahmans, farmers, arti- rooms and we three,—a conclusion that all sans, officials, and students were present, a THE LIFE AND WORDS OF CHRIST whoknow anything about attempts at combin- Brahman politely asked permission to address The first of a Series of Three Books covering a ing two families in one domestic establishment the meeting, and then said:— Three Years' Course of Graded Scriptural will agree to have been wise and prudent. The " I have watched the missionaries, and Instruction for Children. kitchen and storeroom, already furnished with seen what they are. What have they come "BIBLE OBJECT LESSONS," NO. 1, CONTAINS cupboards and shelves, fell to the Lopps' sh are, to this country for? What tempts them to so I had to turn myself into a carpenter. Im- leave their parents, friends, and country, and ISO PAGES, EMBRACING agine my numerous works of art in that di- come to an unhealthy clime ? Is it for gain 52 Lessons--one for each Sabbath in the Year. rection. I point with pride to a door cut in or profit they come? Some of us country 30 Original Hymns and Songs, the attic, steps leading up to it; some fifty or clerks in government offices, receive larger Written for the Lessons. sixty square feet of cupboard; numerous salaries than they. Is it for an easy life? shelves; a cooler on the outside of the house See how they work, and then tell me. Look 36 Beautiful Full.page Illustrations, with Col- communicating by a half door with the at this missionary. He came here a few ored Plate. kitchen, where we keep our frozen meats in years ago, leaving all and seeking only 52 Original Pen Drawings, showing how to use winter and fresh meats in summer; two book- our good. He was met with cold looks and the Kindergarten Material when Teaching cases made out of a redwood packing case; two suspicious glances, and was shunned and the Lessons. lockers, with compartments for flour, meals, maligned. He sought to talk with us of canned meats, fruits, and vegetables, as well as what, he told us, was the matter of most im- dried crackers, coffee, and other groceries; a portance in heaven and earth ; but we would Sold by Subscription closet for powder; lead, cloth, and other goods not listen. He opened a dispensary, and we In the following styles of binding. Orders by mail will be we have to barter our meats and fur clothes said, Let the pariahs [lowest class] take his filled postpaid at prices given below. with ; and a storm-house—not to speak of medicines, we won't;' but in the time of our ROYAL EDITION, 9x113 inches, with Colored Plate. Ex-rue. CLOTH, panel sides, green and gold, printed my efforts as .a painter, solderer, locksmith, sickness and distress and fear we were glad to on enameled paper, gilt edges - $3 75 stove mender, etc. go to him, and he welcomed us. We com- COMMON CLOTH, aluminum and brown, calendered Housekeeping in the Arctics has its peculiar plained at first if he walked through our paper, lemon edges 2 75 difficulties. Every drop of water must be Brahman streets; but erelong when our wives PLAIN EDITION, 134E10 inches without Colored Plate, plain edges, ink titles - - - 2 00 melted from snow for seven months of the and our daughters were in sickness and an- BOARD COVERS, paper sides, 81 50 fear, and we must thaw out our canned goods guish, we went and begged him to come, even When the Kindergarten Material (set of three boxes) in winter before coking. We ate our last po- into our inner apartments; and he came, and is ordered with the book in either style of binding, purchasei tato January 31. We should not have had our wives and our daughters now smile upon will receive a beautiful premium " Portfolio of Blackboard us in health. Has he made any money by Sketches on the life of Christ," to aid mothers, teachers and any after October if we had not obtained some children in drawing. from a wrecked vessel. On the other hand, it? Even the cost of the medicine he has there is no trouble about keeping meats fresh; given has not been returned to him. after dressing ptarrnagan we have them frozen Now what is it that makes him do all this and piled up like so many chips, in which con- for us?--/t is his Bible. I have looked into Special Kindergarten Material dition they keep perfectly well for the whole it a good deal, at one time and another, in winter, and we cut our bear or reindeer meat the different languages I chance to know ; it To Accompany " Bible Object Lessons and Songs for with a hatchet. is just the same in all languages—the Bible. Little Ones." If you think about these things carefully, "There is nothing to compare with it in all Boox 1.--The Life and Words of Christ. you will see that mission work is not always our sacred books, for goodness, and purity, •• ** • " easy and pleasant. We have not only the dif- and holiness, and love, and for motives of The material for this book consists of three boxes: (1) ficulties attending such work among the most action. Where did the English people get Cubes and Triangles; (2) Squares and Oblongs; (3) Miscel- all their intelligence, and energy, and clever= laneous Supplies; two Cones and two Domes; ten 1-inch and ignorant and degraded whites, but also other twenty 2-inch Mounted Orange Sticks, to represent people; difficulties due to our necessarily imper- ness, and power ? It is their Bible that gives thirty-six 2-inch and twenty-four 1-inch Unmounted Green fect understanding of the language, habits, and it to them. And now they bring it to us, Sticks for Outline and Tree Building; ten Miniature Sheep; character of the natives, and to their imperfect and say, ' That is what raised us ; take it and and Crumpled Green French Tissue Paper, to represent understanding of us. They demand unrea- raise yourselves.' They do not force it upon water. sonable things of us, are sometimes offended us as did the Mohammedans their Koran; Boxes 1 and 2 are made of finished cherry, 3x3x3 inches, with locked corners and sliding top. The blocks are of hard if we do not comply, as, for instance, to fur- but they bring it in love, and translate it into maple. Box 3 is of pasteboard with double sides. our languages, and lay it before us, and nish the whole community with matches, nails, Price of the three boxes, by mail - . - . 81 75 -of such things is say, `Look at it, read it, examine it, and see boards, etc., when their lack Discount to schools when ordered in quantities. generally due to their own lack of industry if it is not good.' Of one thing I am con- Prices on Special Round Kindergarten Tables and Small and forethought, or to interrupt us at our vinced,—do what we will, oppose it as we may, Chairs on application. meals or in our sleep (if we would allow it) to it is the Christians' Bible that will, sooner or AGENTS WANTED. trade with them for food, clothes, etc. How- later, work the regeneration of our land. " Parties in California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, "I could not," adds Dr. Chamberlain, "but Idaho, Montana, Arizona and New Mexico, address Oakland ever, we are training them to more civilized House. Ways. be surprised at this testimony. Some time Those in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, March 25, as Mrs. Thornton and I were ago I had attended, in his zenana, his second New Jersey, Delaware, Long Island and New York City, coming out of school about dark, we found a wife, a beautiful girl, through a dangerous ill- address New York House. man trying to carry off by force one of our ness, and I knew that he was very grateful; schoolgirls about sixteen years old, who had but I was not prepared to hear him, before PACIFIC PRESS PUB. CO., been sold to him by an older sister as a wife. such an -audience, give such a powerful testi- OAKLAND, CAL. I was strongly tempted to take her away by mony to the power and excellence of the Bi- Or 43 Bond St., New York, force, but desisted, as a crowd of men and ble. "—Missionary Helper. 44 f]2) • THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. Vo1.-20,'No. 3.

tice being on our bulletin with all the others. The people upon the -island, and they have no ork and Tforkers. meetings are near the Bowery; the audience con- teacher for themselves or for their children, Sur Ul sists mainly of men, not only those on the streets, and requested us to stay here, we felt it our but those in an adjacent hotel, who raise their win- duty to do so. "Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters." "They that dows and listen. Several speakers, each taking about sow in tears shall reap in joy." They are now building us a house, the size five minutes, we find the best arrangement. Our ladies twenty by sixty feet, one end to be used for a speak, holding the interest and generally maki ng the school until they can get a schoolhouse built. "I WILL SOW HER UNTO ME IN•THE EARTH." deepest impression. Audience is always quiet for them." It will be made mostly of native material, a thatched roof, and woven bamboo for the BY ELIZA H. MORTON. We have been acquainted with tent and sides. When we are settled in the house, we open-air meetings for a half-score of years, and As THE farmer sows his seed shall begin to teach the children. The chil- In the spot to grow, believe when properly conducted they are pro- dren cannot read, and are sadly in need of So the Lord will plant his church ductive of good. Butit is a mistake to thi nk that help, for there has beetl no school upon this Where its light will glow. anyone can conduct an open-air meeting. part of the island for several years. Though the people here are very faulty and Every member will be placed As good.talent and ability are needed to inter- Where he best can toil, est an audience out-of-doors, with a great deal far from what they ought to be, yet when we For he knoweth every heart, more tact, as to interest one in a church. We compare them with tile people of civilized countries, who have had such great light and And he knows the soil. have had as attentive audiences on the streets privileges, we believe that these are no worse Does the seed refuse to fall of this city as we ever had in a church. Talks than others. And since we ourselves are but From the sower's hand? should be short, pithy,- pointed, and full of sinners, and if anything good is done by us, Shall the child neglect to go God's grace. Good singing is a great help. we know that it is Christ"working through us At the first command? who does it, so he is just as willing to clothe Is the work not of your choice ? these people with his righteousness. Trembling one, be strong. RAIATEA, SOCIETY ISLANDS, SOUTH PACIFIC We believe that there are many of our peo- Well the Master knows his own, OCEAN. ple in the United States who are situated so Sing a thankful song. that they might move to these islands and THE readers of the SIGNS have doubtless act as educators. Teachers are quite scarce It is sweet to simply trust; seen reports of our work until up to the time in this part of the world, and a number of It is sweet to know that our ship left us here at Raiatea, and went Every saint upon the earth islands have no schools at all. Wherever we Unto Him he'll sow. on its way to other islands. We have now have been with the ship, there has been a call been here two months, which is not long for teachers. enough to make much of a beginning, since Though the ways of the people are very OPEN-AIR MEETINGS. we have to first learn the Tahitian language different from what we have been accustomed before we can begin active work for the na- to in time United States, we can enjoy working THE old methods seem to commend them- tives, as they understand but the one language. for them, for the better acquainted we be- selves to some people even in this over-boastful, So we are studying and trying to help the come with them, the more interested we feel last-day generation. One of the old methods people in every way that we can. By means in their welfare. We can but believe that in the gospel work is that of proclaiming the of an interpreter, we are able to do a little God will do a great work for them, and that gospel to souls wherever they may be found, teaching now, but not very thorough work many will follow the Lord Jesus Christ. in open air as well as in temples. All the old can be done in this way. • B. J. CADY. prophets used it;' our Lord himself taught on There are but few Europeans here, the most of the inhabitants being natives and the mountain slope, by the seaside, from the FIELD NOTES. half casts. The population of this island and shallop on the lake, in the green valleys, by the Tahaa, which lies three miles away in the THE church in St. Louis, Mo., is-moving -in wayside. So did his apostles, and so did the same group, is about four thousand. the matter of building a new house of wor- Reformers. There is now in this country the There is one church here, the Episcopal, ship. Open Air Workers' Association of America, and most of the grown people of the island ELDER E. G. OLSEN reports the baptism of formed last spring to conduct open air and are members. These include but few un- two persons each at Deloit, Bayard, and Pilot tent meetings in the propagation of the gospel. married people, but as soon as they are mar- Mound, Iowa. A conference was held on this subject in Chi- ried, the leading people call on -them, and present before them -the advantages of being ON the 22d of October, at Jersey City, N. J., cago, October 10, in the Memorial Art Palace. church members, and persuade them to unite Elder E. E. Franke baptized seventeen souls Prof. Graham Taylor, D.D., of Chicago The- with the church. But though this would in Newark Bay. ological Seminary, said:— now be called a Christian land, the condition CHILDREN'S meetings in connection with the Open-air preaching is indispensable to the entire of the people is very far from Christlike. Sioux City, Iowa, Sabbath school have re- fulfillment of the church's mission to society. It is Babylon bas surely fallen. They have many sulted in the baptism of five. practicable. It is advantageous to both church and religious meetings, but a sad lack of rever- ELDER M. E. CORNELL, one of our pioneer community. It reaches non-churchgoers of our ence is manifested in all their services, and ministers, died in Battle Creek, Mich., on the large cities. Not many perhaps are converted at the religion is mostly outward, and not of 2d inst., of internal hemorrhage. the open-air service, but many do follow the preacher the heart. to the church, become interested, and scores are • They have a Sunday law here, though it IN connection with meetings held in Wind- thus brought to Christ. Once when preaching from ham, Vt., Elder Wm. Covert reports five ad- the rear of a gospel wagon, Professor Taylor invited seems quite incomplete. Yet I suppose it is his audience to come with him to an evangelistic as good as they care to keep the day. One ditions to the church and ten to the Sabbath meeting in the church. Instructing the driver to can wash clothes, bathe, or do most anything, school. proceed slowly along the street, he kept on preach- until ten o'clock in the morning. Then all ELDER S. J. HERSUM has been assigned to ing. The crowd followed, and when they reached can go to church, or stay at home and sleep, Washington, D. C., to look after the interests the church over one hundred men entered. Roman or gather around in groups and talk; but no of the cause, in place of Elder J. 0. Corliss, Catholics in large numbers attend. They seem to work can be done until about four o'clock, now en route to Australia. welcome and appreciate effort and message. Some when the meetings are finished for the day. are converted and become Protestants; others are THE brethren at Grant's Pass, Oregon, are The people are now allowed to sail around in building a new house of worship, and at Ash- blessed and stay in their own communion. No need their boats or canoes. When our ship was of trouble with police. If they are consulted pre- land they are about to do likewise. So we viously, their authority recognized, and their coop- here, the queen went out to time ship one Sun- learn from the Visitor, of Portland. day to meeting, and because she did this, the eration requested, they will prove friends. Congre- ON the 28th ult. a church of forty-four gations, including Romanists, will join in the Lord's people talked strongly of fining her. prayer, which often is very helpful and inspiring. There had been .no European missionary members was organized in Jersey City, N. J. It is good for country, as well as city. In one Con- of their church upon the island for some time, Several others are keeping the Sabbath of the necticut town a union open-air Sunday evening serv- until last May, when a French minister and Lord who are expected soon to unite with ice on the village green. drew out three hundred, his wife came here. .We called on him one the church. double the number who would have entered the day to get a large Tahitian Bible, and some THE difference between soliciting for the church on summer evenings. hymn books, but he refused to sell them to Lord's work and for worldly enterprises in Interest manifested in audience should be followed- us, saying that he had been ordered to have dull times is thus expressed by a Missouri up invariably in after meeting indoors or by personal nothing to do with. us. We obtained the canvasser. in the Record: " The very things address. that seem to hinder, God uses to advance his Rev. C. H. Tyndall, of Broome Street Tabernacle, books, however, through another source. By New York City, said : " We hold open-air meetings the way, we are not intruding upon the terri- work. Hard times have driven most other. the entire year and always have good audiences, tory of this man, for he cannot have access agents from time field, but time hard times cry even when it is so cold the speaker's overcoat must to this part of the island where we are labor- has no force before the Third Angel's Mes. be buttoned. It is a regular church service, the no- ing; and since this part includes most of the sage." November 20, 1893. THE SIGNS OF PrntE TIMES. rig) 45

THE trial' of Brother Price, of Church Hill, CHURCH SERVICES. SPECIAL HOLIDAY OFFER. Queen Anne's County, Md., for laboring on 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sunday, has been postponed till the April All of our churches, especially on this coast, who desire their regular weekly services announced in this column, may have it Having purchased several hundred copies of Illustrated Quarto term of court. Four candidates were recently done by reporting through the proper officers. Poems at a price BELOW COST we are able to offer to our customers an baptized there by Elder Hotta assortment of 25 different titles at the astonishingly low price of Oakland.—Church at corner of Twelfth and Brush Streets. THE Bible Echo of Melbourne, Australia, Regular preaching services or Bible study. Sunday at 7:30 P.M., 50 Cents Each, Postpaid. Friday at 7 P.M., and Sabbath at 11 A.M. Sabbath school at notes the addition of eight members to the 9:30 A.M. Sabbath. Pi ayer and missionary meeting Wednesday These are from the Fine•Art Publishers. Each poem is beauti• North Fitzroy church September 23, and the at 7:30 P.M. All are cordially invited. fully illustrated and bound in Antique Vellum or Embossed Silk Paper, baptism of two others (students) at the same San Francisco.—Church at 914 Laguna Street. Regular Padded, and make time who would unite with the Prahran preaching services at 7:30 P.M. Sunday and 11 A.M. Sabbath. Elegant Presentation Volumes. eh urch. Sabbath school at 9:45 A.M. Prayer meeting Wednesday 7:30 • P.M. Missionary meeting Thursday 7:30 P.M. Seats free. These are usually sold at 75 cents and jr.00, but our price 5o cents, while the stock lasts. A CLASS in healthful cooking is being con- Los Angeles.—Church at 143 Carr Street. Preaching service ducted in Portland, Oregon, by Sister J. Got- Sunday evening 7:30. Missionary meeting Wednesday even- Below we give the titles, with author's name following ing 7:30. Sabbath school on Sabbath at 9:45, and preaching Oriana—Keats. zian, formerly of this city, and an excellent service at 11 A.M. All are welcome. attendance and interest are reported. This is The Earl's Return—Owen Meredith. The Bugle Song—Tennyson. a matter that should receive more general at- Song of the River—Kingsley. tention in all families. LITERARY NOTICES. Fair' Ines—Hood. IT has been decided to establish a branch Lenore—Poe. [The SIGNS or THE TIMES holds itself under no obligation to Elegy in a Country Churchyard—Gray. of the Battle Creek (Mich.) Sanitarium at notice any publications sent it by publishers. Those consid- Rock Me to Sleep, Mother—Allen. ered worthy of notice, or which are deemed profitable to its Boulder, polo. Temporary buildings have subscribers, will receive such notice as time, space, and value Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner—Coleridge. been rented and are being arranged for the will permit.] Eve of St. Agnes—Keats. accommodation of boarders and invalids. Song of the Brook—Tennyson. The leading article in Worthington's, for November, Song of the Bell—Schiller. So says the daily Camera, of that city. is Mr. John H. Whitson's interesting paper upon the Songs from Faust—Goethe. "Ramona Indian School," located near Santa Fe, Annie's and Willie's Prayer—Snow. A NEW meetinghouse was dedicated at Wil- New Mexico. This, school was founded in 1885, and Bells across the Snow—Havergal. keson, Wash., October 15, and during the two is under the supervision of an efficient board of trus- Wreck of the Hesperus —Longfellow. days' meeting five persons gave themselves to trees, the governor of New Mexico being president. Village Blacksmith—Longfellow. the Lord. Elder D. T. Fero conducted the It is the embodied idea of that gifted woman, Helen Hark I the Herald Angels Sing—Kingsley. Hunt Jackson, who gave the last years of her life to services. Two weeks afterward three more Evening Hymn—Keble. an earnest effort to quicken the conscience of Amer- Pilgrims of the Night—Faber. were baptized and added to the church. icans in regard to their duties toward the Indians. Songs of Christmas—Havergal. The fundamental plan of the school work is practi- AT Saranac Junction, N. Y., Elder S. N. Sweet By and By—Bennett. cal industrial training which shall fit the Indian The Raven—Poe. Cobb recently baptized three persons in Clear child to become a useful, moral, self-respecting, self- Unknown Way—Bryant. Lake, and others are expected soon to follow. supporting citizen of the United States. The illus- Daisy Seekers. A faithful sister who for years held out the trations, which are numerous and from special pho- tographs, show what changes a few months of It will be well to make second and third choices, so that we may banner truth in that community by herself, thoughtful care and teaching will work even in the not disappoint you in case the book chosen is sold out. These cannot is now seeing the fruit of her godly example least promising of these little untutored wards of last long at this price, so ORDER NOW, before the stock is broken. and fidelity to the faith. the nation. $2.50 per year; 25 cents a single number. For sale by all news dealers. A. D. Worthington & Address, Pacific Press Publishing Co., ELDER C. W. FLAIZ reports a good work in Co., Hartford, Conn. . OAKLAND, CAL. the town of Hamiota, Manitoba. At the date " Chart of American Politics" is the name of a of his letter (October 31) sixteen had accepted sheet issued by Mr. Lloyd J. Caldwell, Battle Creek, the faith, including the editor of a paper pub- Mich., at five cents. It gives the presidential candi- dates from 1888, their parties, professed policy, both lished there. The ministerial labors of Elder successful and defeated, the various cabinets, chair- Flaiz had been preceded by a liberal distri- men of the Senate and speakers of the House, prom- pples of Gold bution of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. inent congressmen, chief justices, chief of army, and ministers to various countries, together with ACCOMPANYING the article of Elder B. J. important political events. The reverse side takes Cady, in another column, is a note which in- up the question of Immortal-Soulisin, and examines dicates that he is now " located " in Raiatea it in the light of Scripture. The chart contains an ENVELOPE !ERIES astonishing amount of information in small space. Library Island, and that the people are quite inter- Revised to 1893. Address as above. ested in the work in which he is engaged. The West Virginia Preparatory School sends us a Published monthly. Subscription price, 10 copies of He says: "I know of no better way to get the neat calendar announcing the school year of 1893-94. each number for one year, postpaid, p1.00. work started on these islands than to send The school is located at Newark, Wirt Co., W. Va. some good Christian men and women to act Copies we presume may be obtained by addressing Tins Library is designed especially for use in as educators, and from what I have seen and the president, D. C. Babcock, or the principal, D. N. daily, personal correspondence. Each number hear, I think they can do as well financially Meredith, as above. here as iii America." Childhood, for October, is an excellent number, will contain from four to eight pages, of a size con- containing many excellent hints to parents. 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3. The law of liberty.-Every citizen of every 2. VERSES 12-14.----Men cannot see God with the t ernabonal Zesson,s. commonwealth is a free citizen of that country, and natural eye, but they ought to see his character • 5. 5. the law of that country is a law of liberty to that wrought out in Christians. " Perhaps they do not read the Bible, or do not hear the voice that speaks "So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly and citizen so long as he observes God's law. So long as gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading." the child of God observes God's law, that law is to to them in its pages; they do not see the love of God -Neh. 8:8 him a law of liberty. David says, "I walk at lib- through his works. But if you are a true represent- erty; for I seek thy precepts." Ps. 119: 45. When ative of Jesus, it may be that through you they will LESSON X.-SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1893. that law is violated, man comes under its condem- be led to understand something of his goodness, and be won to love and serve him." The Spirit is given GRATEFUL OBEDIENCE. nation, appointed unto death. It is Christ and Christ only who can free from the condemnation of to those who ask for it (Luke 11 : 13), but the asking [NOTE.-The questions which follow are merely suggestive for the law, and furnish strength to walk in it at liberty, must be in the name of Jesus (John 16 : 23, 24). "But the student on the leading points of the lesson; it is presumed that the thorough student will think of many more as he observing its righteous requirements. Horn. 5: 1; to pray, in the name of Jesus is something more than studies the subject. References, where verses alone are given, Gal. 5 : 1. a mere mention of that name at the beginning and always refer to the lesson scripture printed above. All other references are given in book, chapter, and verse. The text ending of a prayer. It is to pray in the mind and printed is that of the Revised Version. not because it is espe- spirit of Jesus, while we believe his promises, rely cially preferred, but because it is not found in every family, as is the common version.] LESSON IX.-SABBATH, DECEMBER 2, 1893. upon his grace, and work his works." The purpose of Lesson Scripture, James 1 : 16-27. Christ in coming to this world was to save (Luke 19 : THE SOURCE OF LOVE. 10), not to judge (John 12 : 47), but rejection of his 18. Be not deceived, my beloved brethren. 17.Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above, work results in condemnation (John 3 : 18). The ,coming down from the Father of lights, with whom Can be no Lesson Scripture, 1 John 4 : 7-14. price paid was sufficient to redeem the world, but no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning. 7. Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; man is saved contrary to his own will and choice. 18.Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, and everyone that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth We can do nothing without him (John 15 : 5), and that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. God. he will do nothing without us. Christ sends his fol- 19.Ye know this, my beloved brethren. But let every man 8. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. lowers on the same errand which brought him to be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath ; 9. Herein was the love of God manifested in.us, that God 20. For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of bath sent his only-begotten Son into the world, that we earth (John 20 : 21), and has promised his presence God. might live through him. to them (Matt. 28 : 20). " As Jesus has revealed to 21. WherefOre putting away all filthiness and overflowing 10. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he us the true character of the Father, so we are to re- of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our veal Christ to a world that does not know his tender, which is able to save your souls. sins. pitying love." 22. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, de- 11. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one luding your own selves. another. 3. LOVE includes in its composition every element, 23. For if anyone is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he 12. No man bath beheld God at any time: if we love one every attribute of God's character. It does not ig- is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror ; another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us : nore justice or righteousness, but it comprehends 24. For he behoideth himself, and goeth away, and straight- 13. Hereby know we that we abide in him, and he in us, them as constituent elements. We cannot, therefore, way forgetteth what manner of man be was. because he hath given us of his Spirit. set love against righteousness, or judgment, or 26. But he that looketh into the perfect law, the law of lib- 14. And we have beheld and bare witness that the Father erty, and so continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth, but hath sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. justice ; for all are essentials of love. An illustra- a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing. tio,n of this is giVen in the light of the sun. When 26. If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS. it comes direct to us from that great luminary, it is bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man's re- 1. What are the " beloved " urged to do ? pure white. When shining through a prism, or ligion is vain. some similar object, it is separated into all the colors 27. Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is 2. Who is the source of love? this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and 3. Of what is the manif6station of love in an in- of the rainbow,-red, orange, yellow, indigo, violet, to keep himself unspotted from the world. dividual the proof? blue, and green. We may at times see only red or Golden Text: "We love him because he first loved us." 4. Of what is the lack of it evidence? blue, but these are part of the pure white light; so 1 John 4 : 19. 5. What proves this to be true? at times we may see a display of God's justice or SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS. 6. How has the love of God been manifested to- mercy alone, but these are essential elements of his 1. What admonition does the apostle give to the ward us? love. brethren? Verse 16. Note 1. 7. On whose part was this love shown? 8. In what way ? • +4....64.4104.44.4.•••••••••••-•*4-4-444-4464-4-* 2. In view of what is this admonition given? • Verses 12-15. 9. On what basis is brotherly love urged? ‘-0 3. What is the character of that which comes 10. Has God been seen of mortal eyes? a from God ? Verse 17. 11. What shows his indwelling presence and the Ceps to ehrtist. 4. How were we begotten? Verse 18. perfecting of his love? • • 12. How may we know that we are in union with 5. What do we thus become? BY MRS. E. G. WHITE.. 6. In view of all this, what disposition should him? 13. To what is testimony borne ? vita have much pleasure in announcing an im- we manifest ? Verse 19. portant and exceedingly helpful work,unde r 7. What reason is given for this? Verse 20. N OTES. the title of STEPS TO CHRIST, by MTS. E. G. White. The rare baiiy l t o f th e auth or in the presentationt t 8. What are we exhorted to receive? Verse 21. 1. VERSES 7-11. -" Whenever the life of God is in of Scripture truth has never been used to better 9. What is this word able to do for us? advantage than in this little work. STEPS TO the heart of men, it will flow out to others in love 1CHRIST is not alone suitable as a guide to the in- 10. What must we put away, before it will thus quirer and young convert, but is rich in thought and blessing." "Of God he hath been begotten and suggestion for the most mature Christian. work ? Note 2. Some idea of its scope and practical character and doth know God," is Dr. Young's rendering of may be gathered from the following table of con- 11. What relation should we sustain toward the the last clause of verse 7. Tile new birth is a past tents. word? Verse 22. experience, but knowing God is always a present ex- 1n El 12. To what is one likened who is but a hearer of ADDRESS, TABLE OP CONTENTS: perience. It is not only true that God loves and is I. The Sinner's Need of Christ. the word? Verses 23, 24. the source of love, but " God is love," and this is Pacific Press II. Repentance. 13. What is God's law called in verse 25? III. Confession. the essence of the whole gospel. There can be no Publishing IV. Consecration. 14. How and when is it a law of liberty? Note e V. Faith and Acceptance. discord in the home, the church, or the community Company, VI. The Test of Discipleship. 3. when the love of God abides in all hearts. God's VII. Growing up into Christ. 15. In the simile, what represents the law? Oakland, Cal. VIII. The Work and the Life. love for us is not simply an abstract thing, but it IX. Knowledge of God. 16. To reap benefit, how must one look into God's X. The Privilege of Prayer. was shown in a most practical way. John 3 : 16. 43 Bond St., XI. What to do with Doubt. moral mirror? Verse 25. Man lost his life by sin (Gen. 2 : 17), and Christ came 14 NEW YORK. XII. Rejoicing in the Lord. 17. What must be the relation of his outward life to restore life (John 10 : 10), which is wholly the gift to that law ? RTHPS TO CHRIST is issued in a rich, though of God (Horn. 6 : 23). 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—The new extradition treaty between the United —In Elyria, Ohio, on the 6th inst., a man named States and Sweden and Norway will go into effect Manning shot and killed his wife, who had com- L\rews and Yoes. December 9. menced divorce proceedings against him. He then shot and seriously wounded her sister, after which —The heads of the Berlin Jewish community will he killed himself. On the same day, in Dallas, FOR THE WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 13. send a petition to the emperor protesting against Texas, a wealthy young man named Martin shot to the anti-Semitic excesses. death a Miss Cole, and then committed suicide. RELIGIOUS. —Another small rebellion in Cuba has been very —The Brazilian Government is said to have an —The annual Convention of Christians at Work promptly. squelched, the participants having been agent in Baltimore enlisting men for the army of in the United States and Canada is now in session defeated in the first engagement. that country. The news from the rebellion is quite at Atlanta, Ga. conflicting, the latest being to the effect that the —At Fort Wayne, Ind., on the 12th inst., the rebel navy was again shelling Rio Janeiro, in hopes —Ministers of several denominations have united World's Museum building and Aldine Hotel were of making their success decisive before the arrival with the Massachusetts Sunday Protective League destroyed by fire. Loss, $100,000. of the new government squadron now being fitted in a protest against the Sunday papers of Boston. —U. S. Senator Jones, of Nevada, an extensive up at New York. —The Christian Endeavor movement is being in- owner of silver mines, is now investing heavily —An express train was robbed at Mayfield Trestle, troduced in the Chinese missions of California'by in North Carolina gold mines. So says a press' dis- Kentucky, on the 11th inst., by five masked men. all the denominations that uphold that movement. patch. The men had previously boarded the train, and, cov- —A Sunday-closing ordinance went into effect last —Colorado mining men are turning their atten- ering the engineer with a gun, he was compelled to week in Santa Barbara, Cal., which includes all tion to California. Quite a number are in the State stop and go with them to the express car. To save business houses except drug stores, bakeries, and now, quietly at work prospecting in the foothills of the engineer's life the messenger gave out two bags news stands. the Sierras. of money, something over $7,000. The engineer was then ordered to move'on. —A murderer who a few weeks ago fatally shot —A press correspondent reports that the period- ical revolution has again struck the government of =By way of Victoria, B. C., we have news of a two men in this city, and was himself seriously series of massacres of traders in the New Hebrides wounded, now professes penitence and has joined Haiti, the rebels having declared in favor of Gen- eral fanigat. Islands. The latest was a raid by bushmen on an the Catholic Church. American vessel's boat which lay on the beach of —A Cleveland Ohio, dispatch says that a confer- —The new U. S. cruiser Olympia, recently com- the island of Penticosti. The traders were exchang- ence of Liberal Presbyterian ministers has resulted pleted in San Francisco, has made her trial trip, ing merchandise for natives, to be hired out on, other in a decision to remain in the churches to which with a record of 21.26 knots per hour, the fastest islands of the group. Three men were killed, and they belong until forced out. record of any vessel in the navy. the others escaped to the ship. —The decision in the case of the city of Redlands, —A meeting of labor and trades unions in Phil- —When the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's Cal., against Captain Paine, of the Salvation Army, adelphia, last week, passed resolutions declaring in steamer Costa Rica, flying the U. S. flag, left the found guilty of disturbing the peace in violation of general terms that the Knights of Labor officers port of Amapala, Honduras, on the 6th inst., seven an ordinance forbidding the beating of drums on are corrupt and should not be reelected at the ap- cannon shots were fired after her by order of the the streets, has been sustained by the Supreme proaching convention. authorities. The reason was the refusal of the cap- Court, and the Salvation Army hereafter will be tain to surrender General Vasquez, the defeated rev- —Another battle between the British troops and olution leader, who was a passenger on the steamer. compelled to dispense with the drum in their street the Matabeles in South Africa, is reported. Fully a parades. The Honduran Government has since apologized for thousand Matabeles were killed, and they were the act. —Rev. Reams, who eloped from Fresno, Cal., completely routed. The British loss was only three killed and seven wounded. —The trouble with the Moors is demonstrating some two or three months ago, with a young girl of the weakness of Spain as a government. Although his flock, and afterward escaped from custody in —The Red Man, organ of the Indian Industrial there are 20,000 troops at Melilla, Morocco, they are Victoria after his arrest, was recently recognized in School at Carlisle, Pa., speaks out squarely against unable to break the siege thrown around them by Seattle, Wash., where he was engaged as a painter the principle of "specializing" Indian education the Moors, and the home efforts to reinforce the Me- under an assumed name, and had become quite through either the church or the State. It says : lilla garrison are notably slow for such an emer- prominent in church work. He suddenly left when "Massing tribes, massing races, Cahensleyizing, are gency. Besides this, the government finds it nec- he learned that a man from Vancouver had recog- un-Amencan principles." essary to take extra precautions to guard against nized him. —At Breslitovsk, Germany, on the 10th inst., an Anarchism at home. —Dr. Martin, of Missouri, the noted revivalist of explosion of chemicals wrecked a large building en- —Secretary of State Gresham has written a report the Christian denomination, is holding meetings in tirely and damaged several others. Twenty persons disavowing on the part of the government all the Stockton, Cal., and has collided with the other evan- were killed, and a large number injured. The dis- acts of Minister Stevens and Captain Wiltsa in gelical ministers. In reply to some of his asserva- aster is said to have been wholly the result of care- connection with the dethroning of the Hawaiian tions, they united in publishing him as sailing a lessness on the part of chemists. queen and the establishment of the provisional gov- pirate craft, flying the Christian flag. They also de- ernment. The new Minister, Mr. Willis, has not yet nounced him as an Ishmael and a Judas. Martin —Judge Morrow, of the U. S. District Court, San been heard from, and the modus operandi of the new retorts in kind, and tells how his accusers recently Francisco, has decided that a personal letter contain- policy is not yet fully understood in this country; attended a "purity meeting" of one Mrs. Teats, at ing obscenity, if securely sealed, sent through the but it is a subject of much and varied speculation. which "they themselves had made statements which- mails,does not constitute an indictable offense. This no paper had had the temerity to publish." A is a new ruling, and District Attorney Garter will —A London dispatch of the 12th inst. says : "All press dispatch says, "The spicy altercation is making appeal the case involved to a higher court. the horrors of famine are now raging in the mining the ungodly smile." districts. The newspapers are filled daily with an —The town of North Middleton, Ky., was terror- appalling story of death, destitution, and mute en- —Governor Pennoyer, of Oregon, is so tenacious ized on the 12th inst. by eight desperadoes riding durance. The terrible record of the London dock of his own prerogative in the State that he has is- into 'town and shooting promiscuously at citizens. strike of five years ago did not match the present sued a proclamation for a Thanksgiving day one It is supposed they were bent on robbery; but they truth about the English midlands. The newspapers week in advance of the time designated by the Pres- were finally driven out, with three of their number of to-day, for instance, tell about one community of ident. He hopes that the next Legislature will " des-. badly wounded. One citizen, an old colored man, 200 families which existed two or three weeks on ignate Thanksgiving day by statute, thus obviating was fatally wounded. two meals a week of plain bread, supplied by char- the necessity of any proclamation." Probably such —Disobedience of orders is accredited with an- ity. This pitiful ration has now been cut down to a measure is not improbable, as the religio-political other railroad collision, the time and place being the one meal a week." trend is all toward worship by legal compulsion. 9th inst., near Rising Sun, Ohio. The engineers of Such would be the natural result of the "Christian both trains, a fireman, and an express messenger nation" theory. The Ministerial Association of were killed. Another collision at Seventy-first Street Salem (the capital) and the faculty of the Willa- Station, Chicago, caused the death of four persons mette University have decided- to observe the day and the injury of thirty. appointed by the President. —A party of unemployed men numbering about —A late number of the Occident comments on the 100 camped near Colton, Cal., on the 11th inst. fact that a California city of 50,000 people has They are said to have been officered and well organ- BICYCLES. thirty-five organizations dispensing charity, many of ized. A committee of four went over to San Ber- GUARANTEED. which overlap each other, producing a great waste nardino in quest of raw food to last them till they of time and means. People with the best of mo- could get to Arizona. Their immediate wants were tives "impulsively start up some new enterprise supplied by the city marshal. with a high-sounding name, the object of which could be far more economically. and satisfactorily ac- —The New South Wales mineral exhibit at the complished through an organization already in ex- World's Fair has been attached by the Sells Circus istence." This evil is not only true of merely char- Co., on a suit for alleged damages while the show itable organizations, in the ordinary sense of the was in Australia last year. The N. S. W. Govern- term, but it is especially true in modern church ment appeals to the United States for protection, on Catalogue free on application to the nearest Columbhi the ground that the colony is the guest of this gov- Agent, or sent by mall for two 2-cent stamps. work. The tendency is to multiply special organi- POPE MFG. CO., £21 Columbus An., Boston, zations to do the work for which the church itself ernment for exhibition purposes. was organizedt all of which the one organization —In Barcelona, Spain, on the 8th inst., while could accomplish far more economically and harmo- 4,000 people were assembled in an opera house, two IF YOU ARE GOING EAST niously, and, therefore, more efficiently. Not only dynamite bombs were thrown from a gallery to the TAKE THE FAVORITE WINTER LINE! so, but this adding to the machinery is an insinua- lower floor. One of them exploded, causing the tion that the church is not sufficient for its legitimate death of thirty people and the injury of eighty oth- ARRANGE for your trip via the "Santa Fe Route" and you work, and that the Lord failed to foresee the neces- ers. Several Anarchists were arrested, and one is will be assured of a pleasant and comfortable journey. sities of his cause when lie set the machinery in said to have confessed his part in the crime. It is the most popular Overland Route, and cannot be ex- motion. —A late steamer arrival at Victoria, B. C., brings celled in the way of facilities and service. word from Alaska that there have been four earth- It is the only Line running Pullman Palace and Tourist SECULAR. quakes during the summer at St. Augustine Island Sleeping cars through to Chicago, every day, without change, :.--Three inches of snow fell' in Omaha, Neb., on (Chorna Borna), where the mountain is now emit- on the same train. the 11th inst. ting dense clouds of smoke, forewarning another Personally conducted Overland Excursions leave every Tues- eruption. The natives, remembering the devasta- day, baggage checked through to destination. —The census shows that 140,000 men in Georgia • tion caused by the eruption twelve years ago, are Steamship tickets sold to and from all European cities. Cannot read their votes. deserting the island in haste, abandoning all their For full information in regard to rates, berths, etc., write to —A Constantinople dispatch of the 10th inst. re- interests. The last eruption rendered useless all ex- or call on the undersigned. J. J. Warner, Agent, 972 Broad- ports a recurrence of the cholera, with fifty new isting charts of the neighboring waters, causing five way, Oakland, Cal., or W. A. Bissell, 0. P. A., 650 flarket cases. shipwrecks. Street, Chronicle Building, San Francisco, Cal. Vol. 20, No. 3. 48 [161 THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

"Signs of the Second Advent of Christ." Price, 5 preached on the Oakland camp ground, and pub- cents. The third is composed of seven Spanish lished in the SIGNS. 40 pages; price, 5 cents. *ign5 u f Mt- Zinus Bible readings on "The Inheritance of the Saints," The above are important numbers, and slmuld "The Millennial Reign," "The End of the Wicked," have an enormous circulation. The two will be sent postpaid to any address for ten cents. Address OAKLAND, CAL., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1893. " Immortality through Christ," "Importance of the Pacific Press, Oakland; Cal. Prophecies," "The Hope of the Christian," and " Views of National Reform," a 150-page pamphlet; AiirWe send no papers from this office wi thont pay in advance " The Judgment." Price, 5 cents May they have unless by special arrangement. When persons receive copies - price, 15 cents. It is a series of articles from differ- withon t ordering them, they are sent by other parties, and we a large sale. ent authors, treating upon the various phases of the can give no information in regard to them. Persons thus re- National Reform movement—just what should be ceiving copies of the SIGNS are not indebted to the office, and THE two great mainsprings of word and act read and circulated at the present time. will not be called upon for pay. Please read the papers and throughout the entire universe are the principles of "Civil Government and Religion, or Christianity hand them to your friends to read. love to God and man on one side, and love of self on and the American Constitution." A pamphlet of 175 the other. The first is the root of all good, the large pages; price, 25 cents. Address Pacific Press CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER; second of all evil. The exceeding breadth of these Pub. Co., Oakland, Cal. passes the comprehension of mortals, and yet God • -4* Editorial.—Notes and Comments—This Religious Age —Two Principles, Two Manifestations, Two Relig- has set them before us that we may choose the one "BIBLE STUDENTS' LIBRARY." ions—Sunday Work in Wisconsin—Roman Catholic and refuse the other. The reader may be helped Love of America—Prediction, Fulfillment 33-35, 48 in this study by a perusal of the article beginning No. 1. BIBLE SANCTIFICATION, by Mrs. E. G. White. General Articles.—" Whom the Lord Loveth" (po- on the first page, entitled "Two Principles," etc. A pamphlet of 84 pages, eleven chapters. etry)—The Good Shepherd's Estimate of a Lost' It is just what its name implies, and should Sheep—A Review of Sunday Legislation in Cen- be read and circulated everywhere. It is tury Nineteen, No. 3—A Sign of the Last Days— A WORD TO THE POOR. Paradise, How Regained—That Terrible Enslaving just what is needed to meet the claims of Letter—Afterwards (poetry)—Simple Willingness bogus sanctification. Price, 10 cents. —Christian Science—" I Am Coming "—Echoes THIS present financial depression throughout the No. 2. THE " ABIDING SABBATH " AND THE "LORD'S from the Parliament of Religions—A Church Fair.....36-40 world has brought about what may emphatically be DAY." A pamphlet of 174 pages, by A. T. Home and Health.—November (poetry)—Meaning called "hard times." And this is especially true in Jones. It is a review of a $500 and a $1,000 in a Name—An Unexpected Prize (chapter 8, More the large cities; and the poverty and distress will "prize essay" on the Sabbath. It contains Lessons)—Churlishness at Home—To Give Away— doubtless increase as the season advances. At such some mighty arguments, and should he A Modern Fable (1)—Raising Bread 40-42 times of depression many in the country flock to the widely circulated. Price, 20 cents. NlIssion leields.—" Voices," Isa. 66:6 (poetry)—Inci- dents in Alaska—A Telling Tribute to the Bible 42, 43 cities,—one of the worst things, generally speak • ng, No. 3. VIEWS OF NATIONAL REFORM. This num- ber is composed of 13 tracts of the Sentinel Our Work and Workers.—" I Will Sow Her unto they could possibly do; for the number of unem- Me in the Earth" (poetry)—Open-air Meetings— ployed in the cities is always greater in proportion Library bound together. 152 pages. Price, Raiatea, Society Islands, South Pacific Ocean—Field to the whole population than in the country. 15 cents. Notes—Church Services 44, 45 There are those of our faith, and others who pro- No. 4. THE SAINTS' INHERITANCE, a pamphlet of International S. S. Lessons.—Grateful Obedience fess to be for the loaves' sake, who seem to think 82 pages, by J. N. Loughborough. It tells (Lesson 10, Sunday, December 3)—The Source of that in times of depression, such as we are now of God's precious promise concerning our Love (Lesson 9, Sabbath, December 2) 46 earth, the future home of the redeemed. passing through, work or help may be obtained in a News and Notes.—Religions—Secular 47 Price, 10 cents. city like Oakland, where there are large churches. No. 10. SCRIPTURE REFERENCES, thoroughly revised, It is true that we have a fairly large church in Oak- READ, without fail, the article entitled " The with useless matter eliminated, and much of Good Shepherd's Estimate of a Lost Sheep." land, but most of its members are poor. Very few profit added. It is, indeed, a help to the indeed own the house in which they live. They are understanding of many subjects. Price, 4 dependent on their weekly wages for the support of NEXT week we give an article on "The Wisdom cents. Religion," or Theosophy, by one who has placed themselves and families. A large number of those No. 14. THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST, by Mrs. E. G. connected with our office of publication are appren- not a little thought on the subject. White. This tract portrays with vivid real- tices. Such a church has all the poor of its own it ity the last hours of the earth life of the can well provide for. Oakland church has not only world's Redeemer, the climax of his sacri- WE present the third of Professor Magan's arti- its own poor, but those who have come here from fice for man. Most valuable and interest- cles on the "Review of Sunday Legislation" in this other churches, till the burden is indeed heavy, be- ing. Price, 4 cents. century. Read it in connection with what has gone sides the constant calls for help from the outside No. 16. CHRIST IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, by James before. world. The advice of the SIGNS to everyone is, Do White. This is a good tract to hand to those not come to Oakland or San Francisco unless you are who think that Christ, the Son of God, had AN article on "Christian Science" which appears assured of work before coming, or are able to live little or nothing to do with the people of in another column will be found not only interest- God before the first advent. Price, 2 cents. ing reading, but profitable in showing the baseless- without work. The opportunities for working even for one's board are few indeed. No. 23. HONOR DUE TO GOD, by E. J. Waggoner. ness of that which claims so much, but is neither This little treatise shows how we may honor Another word: Economize. If you have useless Christian nor scientific. God, and the honor that is due him, by ren- or hurtful habits, leave them off. Do you drink ha- dering to him his own in tithes and offer- bitually, or at all? Leave it off for the sake of wife THE work entitled " The Parliament of Relig- ings. It is worthy of careful reading. Price, and children. Do you use tobacco ? Quit it ; it is 10 cents. ions," which we noticed last week, has, we have better for you and all around you. Tea and coffee been informed by Mr. F. T. Neely, ‘he publisher, Any of the above sent postpaid, on receipt of price, are- not foods; and you are better without them. undergone a change of title. It will be published by Pacific Press Publishing Co., Oakland, Cal. Purchase that which is good, wholesome, and cheap. in one volume (fully illustrated) under the title of Do your part as God bids ybu and he will do his. "The Parliament of Religions and Religious Con- Those S. S. Lesion Pamphlets for the first quar- And let all those who have abundance remember ter of 1894 are now ready and will be in the hands gresses." This work is compiled from original man- the poor. uscripts and stenographic reports. Terms as stated of the State tract societies by the time you read this notice. If you wish to get these quarterlies last week. F. T. Neely, publisher, Chicago. THOSE "MIRROR". ARTICLES. before the first Sabbath in the quarter, be sure to order them now. Bible Students' Library No. 116. Pacific HERE is the title of an article in the Prophetic News THE tract "The Christian Sabbath" from a Press, publishers. of October, which gives a good idea of the character Roman Catholic Standpoint, a reprint of the arti- of its " news " as relating to the interpretation of cles from the Catholic Mirror which appeared in the the prophetic word : " The Testing Date, Passover Sentinel, and which is No. 113 of the Bible Students' USEFUL AND INTERESTING BOOKS Day, April 21, 1894, expected to be the day of Napo- Library, is NOW ready. We regret that some "un- leon's seven years' Jewish covenant, IF Passover accountable delay" made our first notice, two weeks FOR BOTH OLD AND NEW SUBSCRIBERS. week, 1901, is to be the end of this age." This is ago, seem premature. But the tract is out, and all WE will send the SIGNS one year with your choice of indeed sweetly definite. This is true now if that orders, we trust, will be promptly filled. Price, 4 either one of the following books, postpaid, for $2.00: will be true seven years hence. What good will the cents. Address Pacific Press Pub. Co., Oakland, PROPHETIC LIGHTS, by E. J. Waggoner, Prophecies now do us then ? Cal.; or 43 Bond Street, New York ; or 18 W. Fifth of the Old and New Testaments, interpreted by the Bible k and history. Paper bound, 180 pages, handsomely illus- Street, Kansas City, Mo. trated. o FROM our office in Basel, Schweiz (Bale, Switzer- HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF FOREIGN MISSIONS land), we have received the following publications ; of the Seventh-Day Adventists, with maps showing loca- "A Catalogue of Publications in German, French, "RELIGIOUS LIBERTY LIBRARY." tion of churches, etc., 294 pages, paper binding. Holland, Italian, Russian-German, Spanish, Bohe- THE SIGHS OF THE TIMES mian, Polish, Armenia-Turkish, and Greco-Turk- No. 12, "The Columbian Year, and the Meaning of the Four Centuries." This tract is an address by is a 16-page weekly Religious Journal, and will be furnished ish, etc. We are glad to see publications in so many Alonzo T. Jones on Columbus' day, 1893. It is re- at the following languages. The second is "Los Angeles de Dios y vised to date. It is all that its name implies. It PRICES OF SUBSCRIPTION.: Otros Objectos," a little brochure in Spanish, which shows the grandest triumph of liberty in the history Single copy, one year, postpaid, - $1.50 put into English means "The Angels of God and In clubs of 10 and over to one address, @ 1.25 of nations, as well as the most shameful fall. 44 To foreign countries in Postal Union, ($2) Ss Other Subjects." The other subjects treated in this pages; price, 5i cents. little work are, "Satan and His Work," "Christ, No. 14 is entitled "Christ and the Sabbath," by Address, SIGNS Or THE TIMES, the Resurrection and the Life," "Daniel 2," and Professor Prescott. This is in substance the sermons 12th and Castro Sts., Oakland, Cal., U. S. A.