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WE are living, we are dwelling, in a grand and awful time, In an age on ages telling to be living is sublime. Hark ! the waking up of nations, Gog and Magog to the fray. Hark ! what soundeth ?—'Tis creation groaning for its latter day. Will ye play, then, will ye dally, with your music and your wine ? Up, it is Jehovah's rally ; God's own arm hath need of thine. , Hark ! the onset, will ye fold your faith-clad arms • - in lazy lock ? Up, oh up, thou drowsy soldier ! Worlds are charging to the shock. Worlds are charging—heaven beholding ; thou • hast but an hour to fight ; Now the blazoned cross unfolding, on—right on- ward for the right. On ! let all the soul within you for the truth's sake go abroad. Strike ! let every nerve and sinew tell on ages, tell for God. —Bishop Coxe.

ON THE ROCK OR ON THE SAND.

THE people had been deeply moved by the words of Christ (in His sermon on the mount). 'The Divine beauty of the princi- ples of truth attracted them ; and Christ's solemn warnings had come to them as the voice of the heart-searching God. His words had struck at the very root of their former ideas and opinions; to obey His teaching would require a change in all their habits of thought and action. It would bring them into collision with their religious teachers; for it would involve the overthrow of the whole structure which for generations the rabbis had been rear- ing. Therefore while the hearts of the people responded to His words, few were ready to accept them as the guide of life. 4 Jesus ended His teaching on the mount with an illustration that presented with start- "AND GREAT WAS THE FALL OF IT." ling vividness the importance of putting in times overspreading the valleys, and bear- plain. But they were founded upon the practice the words He had spoken. ing everything away on their resistless rock; and wind and flood and tempest Among the crowds that thronged about the flood. Often then, the hovels reared by beat upon them in vain. Saviour were many who had spent their the peasants on the grassy plain, appar- Like the builders, of these houses on the lives about the Sea of Galilee. As they sat ently beyond the reach of danger, were rock, said Jesus, is he who shall receive upon the hillside, listening to the words of swept away. But high upon the hills were the words that I have spoken to you, Christ, they could see valleys and ravines houses built upon the rock. In some parts and make them the foundation of his through which mountain streams found of the land were dwellings built wholly of character and life. Centuries before, their way to the sea. In summer these rock, and many of them had withstood the the prophet Isaiah had written, " The streams often wholly disappeared, leaving tempests of a thousand years. These houses Word of our God shall stand for ever ; "

Library 1:00.r;r; so THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN. AUGUST, 1898. and Peter, long after the sermon on the Christ, the true foundation, is a living Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the mount was given, quoting these words of stone ; His life is imparted to all that are earth." " Fear thou not, for I am with Isaiah, added, " This is the Word which by built upon Him. " Ye also, as living thee ; be not dismayed, for I am thy God : the Gospel is preached unto you. " Isa. stones, are built up a spiritual house." I will strengthen thee ; yea, I will help xl. 8 ; t Peter i. 25. The Word of God is "Each several building, fitly framed to- thee ; yea, I will uphold thee with the right the only steadfast thing our world knows. gether, groweth into a holy temple in the hand of my righteousness." " Ye shall It is the sure foundation. " Heaven and earth Lord." I Peter ii. 5, R.V. ; Eph. ii. 21, not be ashamed nor confounded world shall pass away, " said Jesus, " but My R. V. The stones become one with the without end." Isa. xxviii. 16, R. V. ; xlv. words shall not pass away." Matt. xxiv. 35. foundation; for a cortimon life dwells in 22 ; xli. IO ; xlv. 17. all. That building, no tempest can over- MRS. E G. WHITE. The Sure Foundation. throw, for— THE great principles of the law, of the " That which shares the life of God ---0 very nature of God, are embodied in the With Him surviveth all." SPAIN'S DECAY. words of Christ on the mount. Whoever builds upon them, is building upon Christ, The Testing Time Which all Must Meet. THE history of all the countries that shut the Rock of Ages. In receiving the Word, BUT every building erected on other out the light of the Reformation conveys a we receive Christ. And only those who foundation than God's word will fall. He lesson that ought to be thought of more thus receive His words are building upon who, like the Jews in Christ's day, builds than it is in these days. The idea of en- Him. " Other foundation can no man lay on the foundation of human ideas and forced uniformity, and of the mingling of than that is laid, which is Jesus opinions, of forms and ceremonies of man's religion and politics is taking possession Christ. " " There is none other name invention, or on any works that he can do in many quarters of professed Protest- under heaven, given among men, whereby independently of the grace of Christ, is antism, and the spirit of the Papacy is be- we must be saved. " Christ, the Word, the erecting his structure of character upon ing drunk in by all nations, just as the revelation of God,—the manifestation of the shifting sand. The fierce tempests of Revelation predicted of the last times. A His character, His law, His love, His life, temptation will sweep away the sandy writer in the London Echo tells the cause —is the only foundation upon which we foundation, and leave his house a wreck of Spain's decay in these words :— can build a character that will endure. on the shores of time. " When Ferdinand and Isabella had made We build on Christ by obeying His Spain politically one, put down the infamous Word. It is not he who merely enjoys "Therefore, thus saith the Lord God : power on the nobles, and, in a measure, enfran- righteousness, but he who does righteous. . . . Judgment also will I lay to the line, chised the burghers, they, under the inspiration and righteousness to the plummet: and of papal priests, determined to have equal unity ness. Holiness is not rapture ; it is the in faith and worship. Then emerged that monster result of surrendering all to God ; it is the hail shall sweep away the refuge of of all time, Torquemada, the Chief of the Inqui- doing the will of our heavenly Father. lies, and the waters shall overflow the sition. And years afterwards, arose the Jesuits, When the children of Israel were encamped hiding place." Isa. xxviii. I f., 17. more subtle, more refined, and, possibly, more devout than Torquemada, but not one whit less cruel. on the borders of the promised land, it was But to-day mercy pleads with the sinner. Unity in faith came by the suppression of thought, not enough for them to have a knowledge " As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no and with unity not only intellectual degradation, of Canaan, or to sing the songs of Canaan. pleasure in the death of the wicked ; but but moral atrophy. The unity was almost perfect. This alone would not bring them into that the wicked turn from his way and Spain has had no Protestantism, no Nonconfor- possession of the vineyards and olive live : turn ye, turn ye from your evil mity worthy of the name. The priests have both reigned and ruled. Spain is of their making, or groves of the goodly land. They ways, for why will ye die?" Eze. xxxiii. rather unmaking, and standing amidst the mental could make it theirs in truth only by occu- 1. The voice that speaks to the impeni- decadence, the moral decay, the religious degra- pation, by complying with the conditions, tent to-day is the voice of Him who in heart- dation of Spain, the priests might say, when asked by exercising living faith in God, by ap- anguish exclaimed as He beheld the city to show the world the monument of their genius propriating His promises to themselves, of His love, " 0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, and skill,—Look around." while they obeyed His instruction. which killeth the prophets, and stoneth —0 Religion consists in doing the words of them that are sent unto her ! how often THE FRETFUL TEMPER. Christ, not doing to earn God's favour, but would I have gathered thy children to- It is said that there was once a clergy- because, all undeserving, we have received gether, even as a hen gathereth her own man who was of nervous temperament, the gift of His love. Christ places the brood under her wings, and ye would not ! and often became quite vexed by finding salvation of man not upon profession Behold your house is left unto you deso- his little grandchildren in his study. The merely, but upon faith that is made mani- late !" Luke xiii. 34, 34, R. V. In Jeru- mother was one day talking to one of these fest in works of righteousness. Doing, salem, Jesus beheld a symbol of the world little ones of heaven. not saying merely, is required of the fol- that had rejected and despised His grace. " Mamma," he said, " I don't want to go lowers of Christ. It is through action that He was weeping, 0 stubborn heart, for to heaven." character is built. " As many as are led you. Even when Jesus' tears were shed " Do not want to go to heaven, my son ? " by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of upon the mount, Jerusalem might yet have " No, I am sure I don't." " Why not, God." Rom. viii. 14. Not those whose repented, and escaped her doom. For pray." " Why, grandpa will be there, hearts are touched by the Spirit, not those a little space the gift of heaven still waited won't he?" " Why, yes, I hope he will." who now and then yield to its power, but her acceptance. So, 0 heart, to you, " Well, as soon as he sees us, he will they that are led by the Spirit, are the sons Christ is still speaking in accents of love, come scolding along and say, 'Whew, of God. " Behold, I stand at the door, and knock : whew, what are these boys here for.' I Do you desire to become a follower of if any man hear My voice, and open the don't want to go to heaven." Christ, yet know not how to begin ? Are door, I will come in to him, and will sup you in darkness, and know not how to with him, and he with Me." " Now is the A BURGLAR-PROOF BIBLE. find the light ? Follow the light you have. accepted time ; behold, now is the day of Set your heart to obey what you do know salvation." Rev. iii. 20 j 2 Cor. vi. 2. THE Bible is burglar-proof against all of the Word of God. His power, His You who are resting your hope on self, unsanctified learning. It repeatedly very life, dwells in His Word. As you re- are building on the san. But it is not yet suffers at the hands of scholars, and the ceive the Word in faith, it will give you too late to escape the impending ruin. violent seek to take it by force. But the power to obey. As you give heed to the Before the tempest breaks, flee to the sure Holy Spirit alone holds the key to it. He light you have, greater light will come. foundation. " Thus saith the Lord, be- only knows the combinations of faith and You are building on God's Word, and your hold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a study by which it can be unlocked, and character will be builded after the simili- stone, a tried stone, a precious corner all its hid treasures of knowledge appro- tude of the character of Christ. stone, of sure foundation." " Look unto priated.—A. 7. Gordon. 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proposition than this. But those people were like too many others, and thought their own way the best, and refused to believe the Lord, that it might be well with them and that they might so abide in peace; and so they were obliged by sor- rowful experience to learn that they had better have believed the Lord, and in their sorrowful experience continually wish that they had believed the Lord. Even Jeru- 4.704' 111- 6i salem, the Lord's chosen city, and Judah, ifte evg,t. , to iliaLOat . the Lord's own people, refused to believe Allgi(e44. r • kigoe the word of the Lord, and so refused to yield to the dominion of Nebuchadnezzar. They rebelled, joined in alliance with Egypt, and sustained a long and terrible NS untoctii?ht siege before they would submit. But by f r es-..1)10P4 that sip ncrfi in a. Jeremiah the Lord repeated to them His so- C Y , 4,>.rk purpose with the king of Babylon, and c. go ‘' w lityGint° til the 4j dawn. continually called upon them peaceably to un submit, and assured them that Egypt and 4 AO+ the clay Jt&r ,11 th-eo= lc&_ ht cl , every other resource would be absolutely 1,eVrt. in 7 Ayr 110.71; unavailing. For thus saith the Lord, j d " Behold Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt, into their own land. And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire. Thus saith the Lord : Deceive not your- selves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us : for they shall not depart. For though 'De Eastern uestion. ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans WHAT ITS SOLUTION MEANS TO ALL THE WORLD. that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire." Jer. xxxvii. 8-1o. THE TURKISH POWER IN not put their neck under the yoke of the king of PROPHECY. Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the Lord, God's Overruling purposes in the Affairs with the sword, and wth the famine, and with the of Nations. No Respect of Nations with God. pestilence, until I have consumed them by his ONE point in the great purpose of God hand. Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, in bringing all nations under the sway of " THERE is no respect of persons with nor to your diviners, nor t) your dreamers, nor God." And there is likewise no respect to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which Nebuchadnezzar, was that He might the of nations with God. There being no res- speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the better bring to them the knowledge of king of Babylon ; for they prophesy a lie unto you, pect of persons with God, and nations Himself and His great power and wisdom to remove you far from your land ; and that I to lead men in the right way. For after being composed only of persons, it is im- should drive you out. and ye should perish. But possible that there should be respect of the nations that bring their neck under the yoke Nebuchadnezzar had subdued all the king- nations with God. Now everybody who of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will doms and nations unto himself, he pub- has ever read the Bible knows full well I let remain still in their own land. with the Lord ; lished to "all people, nations and lan- and they shall till it, and dwell therein." Jer. guages, that dwell in all the earth " " the that in ancient times God dealt with na- xxvii. —1 I. tions, calling them by name, and sending sings and wonders which the high God" them direct and special messages. Who There are no less than five nations dis- had wrought toward him. Read Daniel iv. does not know the story of Jonah and tinctly called by name, and a definite God knew long before, to what point Nineveh ? But Nineveh was the great capi- message sent to each one as to His pur- Nebuchadnezzar would come in the know- tal of the mighty nation of the Assyrians. poses concerning them and a sixth nation, ledge of Himself, and what use He could Babylon. And no one can deny that in make of this king in spreading to the na- Read carefully the following passage:— these messages the Lord, the God of Israel, tions the knowledge of God. And for this " IN the beginning of the reign of jehoiakim the made a perfectly fair proposition. He cause He brought the nations in subjection son of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto to him. The nations (lid not know this, Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, Thus saith the having made all things, His is the right to Lord to me ; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put bestow any or all as seems best to Him. but God knew it, and the nations should them upon thy neck, and send them to the king And now in the wisdom of His own coun- have believed the message of the Lord of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the sels, for the accomplishment of His own when He sent to them the word that even king of the Ammonites, and to the king of for their own temporal good they should Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of great purpose, He had given all the nations the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto to the control of Nebuchadnezzar, king of willingly submit to the authority of the Zedekiah king of Judah ; and command them to Babylon. Accordingly He sends to the king of Babylon. In all this God was say unto their masters, Thus saith the Lord of people concerned the announcement of showing to the nations in that time, and it hosts, the God of Israel ; thus shall ye say unto this fact, and calls upon them for their is written to show to the nations in all your masters ; I have made the earth, the man and time, that " God rules in the kingdom of the beast that are upon the ground, by My great own good to accept this arrangement. power and by my outstretched arm, and have He tells them that if they will willingly men, and giveth it to whomsoever He given it unto whom it seemed meet unto Me. accept it and voluntarily submit to the will ; " and that God has His own wise And now have I given all these land; into the government of the king of Babylon, it will purpose to accomplish with the nations and hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My kingdoms, even though the people may not servant ; and the beasts of the field have I given be well with them,—they can remain in him also to serve him. And all nations shall serve their own land in peace. But if they know it, and though theyiwill not believe it. him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very refuse to submit, then they will not only Now it is impossible to think that God time of his land come : and then many nations be subdued by the power of Nebuchad- dealt so personally with the nations of old, and great kings shall serve themselves of him. nezzar, but will be carried away from their and yet that He has nothing to do with And it shall come to pass, that the nation and the nations now. It is certainly true that, kingdom which will not serve the same Nebu- own native country into a strange land. chadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will Certainly no one could ask for a fairer as God is no respecter of persons, He is AUGUST, 1898. 52 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN. no respecter of nations, and He has His else than the first world-power to be dealt cannot fail to see that the history is but thought upon the nations of to-day, and with by the Lord, and in the nature of the complement of the prophecy, especially has His purposes concerning these, as things next the nations which should fol- Rev. ix. 4 and Gibbon, chapter li. par. to. really as of old, or at any other time in the low it to the end of time. This portion of the Scripture, it will be world's history. God's ways have not God had in old time foretold the fall of seen, views the rise of Mohammedanism changed ; but the people and nations have Babylon and the succession of Medo- and the time when they had a king over forgotten or will not believe that God still Persia to her place of power in the world. them, and then there is appointed a period rules in the kingdoms of men and works He had told of the passing of this power of " five months "—one hundred and fifty out through them His own deep counsels from Persia and Media to Grecia and from days, and each day for a year (as used in and wondrous purpose. Grecia to Rome. And now, before closing the symbolic prophecy, Eze. iv. 6), one hun- And now the Government and people of book of His counsels He would tell of dred and fifty years—in which they were England, yes, of all the nations of Europe the fall of Rome and the passing of power to hurt men. And from this time when and even America, have, and have long from her to others who should succeed. they had a king over them they take on a had, their attention fixed upon the Govern- In the line of the Seven Trumpets of the specially destructive character, for the ment of Turkey.. This Government is a book of Revelation is given the breaking Word says, " They had a king over them perplexity to the powers of Europe ; and up of the mighty empire and power . . . whose name in the Hebrew tongue the powers of Europe are a puzzle to the of Rome. There are three great lines is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath people in their dealings with this per- of prophecy in the book of Revela- his name Apollyon." Verse t 1. The margin plexity. Is it true then that in this great tion, that run by sevens, and all extend to of the verse gives the meaning of this question that vexes the mightiest powers the end of time—the Seven Churches, the name in both tongues, which is " A and puzzles the peoples of the world, God Seven Seals, and the Seven Trumpets. Destroyer." And as the Roman Empire has no part? Is it true that this world- The line of the Seven Churches is the is the leading thing contemplated in the absorbing question is outside the attention Lord's messages to the seven stages of the prophecy, it is this, or what remained of of God who of old time always ruled in church to the end of time, and treats only it, which was to be destroyed by this de- the affairs of men? No; it is not true. of the church. The line of the Seven stroyer. God is " the same yesterday and to-day Trumpets marks the great events in the In speaking of the events preceding the and for ever." With Him " is no variable- ruin of the Roman power, and what should time when these men " had a king over ness, neither shadow of turning." His follow to the end of time, and thus treats them " the historian says :— love and care is as great for the great na- only of the world ; while the line of the In this shipwreck of nations, some surprise may be excited over the escape of the Roman tions of to-day as it ever was for nations Seven Seals treats of the church and the Empire, whose relics . . . were dismembered great or small in all time. His particular world as they would be related to the end by the Greeks and Latins.—Chap. lxiv. par. 13. attention is not slacked with reference to of time, and thus treats of both. But now that they have a king over these now any more than with those of The Trumpet itself is the symbol of them, and take upon them more than ever old. In the words by His prophets were war. And in this alone is a suggestion the character of a destroyer, the empire His counsels made known concerning the that the seven trumpets would announce can no longer escape. Consequently, in nations of old, and in these likewise are wars. But as the Roman power was the the very next paragraph, the historian His counsels concerning the nations of to- centre of all, it would have to announce continues in the following important day. And His purposes with the nations wars with Rome. The first four trumpets words :— of to-day can be read in the books of the give the fall of the Western Empire of It was on the 27th day of July, in the year prophets of God, as certainly as they can Rome. The fifth and sixth trumpets give 1299 of the Christian era, that ()Litman first in- be read there concerning the nations of old. the fall of the Eastern Empire of Rome. vaded the territory of Nicomedia and the sin- gular accuracy of the date seems to disclose some And the seventh trumpet gives foresight of the rapid and destructive growth of The Breaking up of the Roman Empire. the fall of all nations and of the world the monster.—Chap. lxiv. par. 14. THREE distinct portions of Scripture itself. Let anyone read Rev. chapters Several points in this quotation must be are devoted to the Turkish power. Let us viii. and ix. and chaps. xi. 15-19 ; xvi. noticed. carefully and candidly examine these, that 18-2o, and he can see for himself that the t. Othman was the man who succeeded we may see what word the Lord has for seventh trumpet ends all things of earth. in bringing the disjointed elements of the us in this our day. The only organised The best exposition of the first six of Mohammedan power into compact and nation within the bounds of history when the seven trumpets is Gibbon's " Decline distinctly organised governmental shape. the Bible record was closed—A.D. 98—was and Fall of the Roman Empire," in the From him consequently comes the term the Roman Empire. The only one nation accounts of the Goths, the Vandals and which still attaches to the Government of therefore above all others that could be the Huns ; and of the Mohammedan Arabs the Turks, namely, the Ottoman Empire. considered first of all was the Roman Em- and the Turks. By reading of the first From him dates the time when as never pire and the Roman power. This power trumpets in the eighth chapter it will be before " they had a king over them." and such as might succeed it in the course seen that a dreadful state of things is 2. Note the expression of the history— of time were the only ones that could be contemplated. Yet the last three are so " the destructive growth " of this monster, directly dealt with, because Rome was not much worse than the first ones that "Woe" thus distinguishing the very characteristic only the one great power of the world, is the chief characteristic of these. " I which is the one given in the Scripture but within its bounds was also the very beheld and heard an angel flying through concerning this very power of the destroyer. centre and pivot of God's work and pur- the midst of heaven, saying with a loud 3. The historian emphasises "the singu- pose concerning the whole world for all voice, Woe woe, woe, to the inhabitants of lar accuracy of the date" —a thing almost time. The Roman Caesar Augustus had the earth, by reason of the other voices, of if not altogether without parallel in histori- decreed that " all the world should be the trumpets of the three angels which cal writing. In the original documents taxed," when Christ the Saviour of the are yet to sound." Rev. viii. t3. from which the historian drew his material, world was born. By the authority of The Rise of the Turkish Power in Pro- he found this date made so specific that he Rome in the Roman governor of Judea Cnrist phecy and History. himself is forced to remark its " singular was delivered to be crucified. Roman THE fifth trumpet, the first woe, marks accuracy." Yet to those who recognise soldiers watched the tomb, and the Roman the rise and spread of the Mohammedan God's dealings with the nations and king- seal was upon the tomb, that was burst at the power ; and the history that most clearly doms, and who consider that from the resurrection of the Prince of Life. Rome shows the fulfilment of the prophecy is time when these had a king over them a therefore being the great power of the found in chapters I. and li. of Gibbon's period of a hundred and fifty years is given world, and being also the centre of God's " Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." in which to do a certain work, it is not cause and purpose in the world for all Anyone reading together Rev. ix. 1-4, 7, surprising that the date should be signified time, it could not possibly be anything 8, and these two chapters of the history, with such singular accuracy as to excite AUGUST, 1898. THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN. 53

the particular attention and remarks of the the Ottoman Empire since 1840 has not ex- merely be the danger that would threaten the territories of which that empire consists ; it would historian. isted by its own power, but wholly by the be the danger that the fire there lit should spread action of the other Powers. to other nations, and should involve all that is Fulfilled to the Very Day. In accordance with this fact this pamphlet most powerful and civilised in Europe in a dan- truly says :— gerous and calamitous contest. That was a dan- JULY 27, 1299, then, this period in this ger that was present to the minds of our fathers " woe " began. One hundred and fifty " It is impossible to talk of the Ottoman Empire when they resolved to make the integrity and years from this singularly accurate date, as if it were a nation like the United States or like independence of the Ottoman Empire a matter extends to July 27, 1449. Then the Word Holland. It is an artificial . . . creation of treaties of European treaty, and that is a danger WHICH that is kept in existence by the Powers for their own HAS NOT PASSED AWAY. continues, " One woe is past and behold convenience. there come two woes more hereafter." Thus on the 11th day of August 1840, No more plain, positive, and emphatic And now yet other elements of destruction the time set by the Scripture for the exist- fulfilment of prophecy could be given, are to be let loose. " And the sixth angel ence and work of the Ottoman Empire than is thus given in that speech, that the sounded, and I heard a voice from the four as such, expired ; on that day the sixth world stands trembling in the times of the horns of the golden altar which is before trumpet ceased to sound, and the second seventh trumpet, when " the nations are God, saying to the sixth angel which had woe ended ; and of the seventh trumpet— angry." And while, in the presence of the trumpt, Loose the four angels which the third woe—we read :— this appalling danger, rulers, kings, and are bound in the great river Euphrates. " The second woe is past, and behold the third emperors are earnestly endeavouring by And the four angels were loosed, which woe cometh quickly. And the seventh angel every possible means to maintain the were prepared for an hour, and a day, and sounded ; and there were great voices in heaven, peace of the world, what blundering blind- saying, The kingdoms of this world are become ness it is, what fatuous blindness it is, .a month, and a year, for to slay the third the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ ; and part of men." He shall reign for ever and ever. And the four that the churches and the pulpits and the An hour, and day, and a month, and a and twenty elders, which sat before God on their religious press should, all during the year. Counting thirty days to the month, seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, Armenian troubles and at the time of the a year is 36o days, and " each day for a saying, We give Thee thanks, 0 Lord God Cretan revolt, have been exciting and Almighty. which art, and wast, and art to come ; year" is 36o years. A month-3o days— because Thou hast taken to Thee Thy great power, stirring up the spirit and elements of war, is 3o years. A day is one year. These to- and hast reigned. And the nations were angry, calling for armies and navies to wipe out gether give 391 years. From July 27, and Thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, suddenly and without further consideration 1449, the 391 years reach to July 27, 1840. that they should be judged, and that Thou should- the Ottoman Government, and thus to est give reward unto Thy servants the prophets, break down the bulwark which the Powers But there is "an hour" yet. An hour is and to the saints, and them that fear Thy name, the twenty-fourth part of a day. And (a small and great ; and shouldest destroy them have set up against the horrible flood of a day for a year) this would be the twenty- which destroy the earth. And the temple of God universal war. Read also the following fourth part of a year, or fifteen days. was opened in heaven, and there was seen in His words from the speech just referred to:— Fifteen days from July 27 extends to temple the ark of His testament : and there were Throughout these negotiations nothing has lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an pressed itself more strongly on my mind than the August it. Therefore on August t t, 1840, earthquake, and great hail." this period of an hour, and a day, and a disposition of the Great Powers to act together, month, and a year, would expire. For and their profound sense of the appalling dan- The Impending Conflict. gers which any separation of their action might this length or time and to this date, the produce. Even those among them who in popular power of the Ottoman Empire was to con- EVERY expression in this record of the report have the reputation of being restless, have tinue. And on that very day, the actual sounding of the seventh trumpet, pro- vied with the others in anxiety to conduct this power of the Turkish Government passed claims the end of all things of this world. great difficulty to a favourable issue, and to con- Look at them again in detail :— duct it in a manner that shall keep all the Powers into the hands of the Great Powers of together in line, moved by the common motive and I. The kingdoms of this world become Europe, and from that day to this, the very with the common aim, THE NOBLE AIM, of the existence of the Ottoman Empire has been, the kingdoms of Christ ; His reign begins, peace of Christendom as the one spirit Chit go- and is now, solely by the support of these in His own kingdom, upon His own throne, verns their action. Great Powers. Several times since 1840 by His own power; of which kingdom and But it is not only that the nations are the Turkish Government would have ceased reign there shall be no end. angry and that war must come dreadful to be, had it not been upheld specifically by 2. " The nations are angry: " the nations and universal; this is not all. What is to those other powers. In a little pamphlet and rulers admit this, and each one is con- be the end of it ? Read on in the events on the Turkish-Armenian question, publish- stantly fearful of any move on the part of of the seventh trumpet. Rev. xi. 18. ed by the Armenian Society in London, we the others, and is continually making its find the following statement concerning power stronger against the time when war The World's Crisis. will begin, which they are all sure must England's connection with this matter :— 3. " THY wrath is come." The wrath " We are responsible for Turkey. We saved the come soon. And they all dread the slight- of God is defined (Rev. xv. 1) as " the Turk twice at least from the doom which he richly est step that might involve actual hostilities, merited. The Duke of Wellington sixty years seven last plagues." The nature and because of the danger that if war is actually effects of these are recorded in Rev. xvi. ago lamented that the Russians had not entered begun at any spot, it will suddenly spread Constantinople in 1829 and brought the Ottoman 1-21 ; and they end precisely at the point Empire to an end. We have much more reason to and involve all in one horrible and univer- and in the very things that are marked in lament that it was not destroyed in 1853 and again sal war, of which no one can see any end chapter xi. 19 as the ending of the seventh in 1878. On both these occasions we interfered to except in universal ruin. trumpet, and which indeed is nothing less save it. But for us there would be no Sultan on Indeed, it is plainly stated by one of the the Bosphorus. "—Page 17. than the ending of all things. leading authorities of the world that it is Again, on the same page is a quotation 4. " And the time of the dead that they from an article by the Duke of Argyle in as a bulwark against this great danger of should be judged." And therefore in this universal war that the Ottoman Govern- the Times in which the Duke says :— time the proclamation not of war, but of ment has been maintained " It is not too much to say that England has these last fifty the " everlasting Gospel " of peace is to be years. Read now the following lines from -twice saved Turkey from complete subjection since made " to every nation and kindred and 1853. It is largely—mainly—due to our action that the speech of Lord Salisbury, at the Man- she now exists at all as an independent Power. On tongue and people, saying with a loud sion House, November 9, 1895:— voice, Fear God and give glory to Him, both these occasions we dragged the Powers of Turkey is in that remarkable condition that it Europe along with us in maintaining the Ottoman has now stood for half a century, mainly because for the hour of His judgment is come, and 'Government. ' the Great Powers of the world have resolved that worship Him that made heaven and earth We do not reproduce these statements for the peace of Christendom it is necessary that and the sea and the fountains of water." for the purpose of attaching blame to Eng- the Ottoman Empire should stand. They came Rev. xiv. 6, 7. to that conclusion nearly half a century ago. I land or to any other Power; but solely for do not think they have altered it now. The dan- 5. " And that Thou shouldest give re- the purpose of making clear the fact that ger, if the Ottoman Empire fall, would not ward unto Thy servants the prophets, 54 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN. AUGUST, 1898. and to the saints, and to them that fear " In the third year of Cyrus, king of three kings in Persia [Cambyses, Smerdis, Thy name, small and great; and shouldest Persia," B.C. 538, Daniel was greatly trou- and Darius Hystaspes], and the fourth destroy them that destroy the earth." It bled for the work and cause of God in the [Xerxes, the Ahasuerus of the book of is at the resurrection of the just that the world. Dan. x. 1. In the first year of Cyrus Esther shall be far- richer than they all, saints are to be rewarded, and this is by that king had issued a decree for the re- and by his strength through his riches he the coming of the Lord in glory. For He turn of Israel to their own land and to re- shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia." says, "Behold, I come quickly, and My re- build the temple of God in Jerusalem. Xerxes led an army of five millions across ward is with Me to give every man accord- When the heathen who were in the land the Hellespont and attacked Greece. ing as his work shall be." Rev. xxii. 12. were not allowed for their own bad pur- As soon as the angel mentions Grecia And them that are wicked will be " destroy- poses to join in the building of the house he skips the remaining history of Persia ed by the brightness of His coming." 2 and the city, they hired counsellors at the and sketches Greece, saying. " And a Thess. i. 7-10; ii. 8. For "the heaven court of Cyrus to prevent the building of mighty king shall stand up [Alexander departed as a scroll when it is rolled the temple at all. And these counsellors the Great] and shall rule with great domi together; and every mountain and island were kept at the court of Persia all the nion and do according to his will [See Dan. were moved out of their places. And the days of Cyrus. See Ezra iv. viii. 20, 2t]. And when he shall stand kings of the earth, and the great men, and Daniel himself was a principal officer in up, his kingdom shall he broken, and shall the rich men, and the chief captains, the Government of Cyrus ; and soon dis- be divided toward the four winds of hea- and the mighty men, and every bondman, covered these intriguers and their purposes ven [See Dan. viii. 22] ; and not to his and every freeman, hid themselves in the there. But instead of beginning any posterity, nor according to his dominion dens and rocks of the mountains; and said counter-intrigue, he set his heart to seek which he ruled ; for his kingdom shall be to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and God and to know His counsels, and have plucked up, even for others beside hide us from the face of Him that sitteth him frustrate the intriguers and make His those. " on the throne, and from the wrath of the own cause a success in the world. Three At Alexander's death there was a period Lamb ; for the great day of His wrath is full weeks was Daniel engaged in seeking, of confusion for about twenty years among come ; and who shall be able to stand ?" by fasting and prayer and supplication, a the many able governors and generals of his 6. " And the temple of God was opened knowledge of the will of the God of heaven great dominion. Finally, a four-fold di- in heaven, and there was seen in His in the difficulties of the time. When three vision was accomplished, as in the words temple the ark of His testament ; and there weeks were expired, the angel Gabriel came of the angel " toward the four winds of were lightnings, and voices, and thunder- to him in vision, and said: " Fear not, heaven "—the east, the west, the north, ings, and an earthquake, and great hail." Daniel, for from the first day that thou didst and the south. Seleucus secured the eas- The complement of this expression as to set thine heart to understand, and to chasten tern portion extending from Syria to the. the thunderings, etc., is found in Rev. thyself before God, thy words were river Indus. Cassander obtained Macedon xvi. 17-21 :— heard, and I am come for thy words." and other Greek territory on the west. " And the seventh angel poured out his vial Verse 12. Lysimachus held Thrace and Bithynia on into the air ; and there came a great voice out of As Daniel had been at this three full the north—territory of which Byzantium the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It weeks, and yet " the first day " his words was then, and Constantinople is now, the is done, And there were voices, and thunders, were heard and the angel was sent, what centre. And Ptolemy had Egypt on the and lightnings ; and there was a great earthquake, south. such as was not since men were upon the earth, had delayed the angel all this time ? The so mighty an earthquake, and so great. And next verse tells why. " But the Prince of the great city was divided into three parts, and the kingdom of Persia withstood me one " At the Time of the End." the cities of the nations fell : and great Babylon and twenty days." came in remembrance before God, to give unto AFTER stating how Alexander's domin- her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His This is precisely the three full weeks. ion should thus be divided into its four wrath. And every island fled away, and the To answer Daniel's prayer the angel had parts, he turns his attention to the two mountains were not found. And there fell upon to go to the court of Cyrus and deal with kingdoms—" the king of the south, " and men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the king in his counsels, against those the weight of a talent : and men blasphemed God "the king of the north." And from verse because of the plague of the hail ; for the plague hired counsellors there. The angel con- 5 to verse 14 he treats solely of the suc- thereof was exceeding great." tinues :— cession of the principal events occurring All these things which we have traced " But to ! Michael one of the chief princes came between these two. At verse 14 the Ro- by these numbered points—all these things to help me, and I remained there with the kings man power—" the children of robbers, " were by the Word of God to "come of Persia. Now I am come to make thee under- stand what shall befall thy people in the latter margin—enters the field and occupies the quickly" after Aug. I I, 184o ; quickly after days : for yet the vision is for many day,. . . . angel's attention for a large space and for the date when the time of the rule of the Then said he : Knowest thou wherefore I am come a long time "even to the time of the end." Ottoman Empire by its own power passed unto thee ? and now will I return to fight with the Verse 35. Finally, in verse 40 he comes away ; quickly after that Empire was by prince of Persia ; and when I am gone forth, lo ! again, and " at the time of the end," too, the Great Powers set as a bulwark against the prince of Grecia shall come. But I will show thee that which is noted in the Scripture of truth ; to " the king of the south " and " the king the anger of the nations breaking out in and there is none that holdeth with me in these of the north. " The territories of the an " appalling" and universal war. Half things but Michael your prince. " northern and of the southern division of a century has passed since that time ; and Alexander's dominion remain respectively now in view of the undeniable facts and From Darius to Alexander. the kingdoms of the north and the south dangers that, are vexing the governments THESE are the last verses of Daniel x., unto the end, and from beginning to and puzzling the people,—in view of all and in chapter xi. the angel gives his mes- end, whatever power might occupy these these things that are hanging over the sage concerning what should come " in the respective territories would be the king of world—how much more certainly is it now latter days." In doing this the angel be- the north or of the south. Whatever true that, it assuredly " cometh quickly " ! gins at the time where he and Daniel then power therefore which, at the time of the Get ready, get ready, get ready ! Who were, and follows events straight through end, occupies the territory of Thrace and will be ready ? Who is ready ? to the end of the world and the resurrection and Bithynia, originally held by Lysima- of the dead. The eleventh chapter of chus, will be the king of the north as cer- How Daniel's Prayer was Answered. Daniel is all the words of the angel. He tainly as was the power of Lysimachus HOLDING in view now the field which we says :— itself. have so far surveyed, let us turn to 'another " Also I in the first year of Darius the It is not necessary to repeat here the portion of the Word of God and inquire Mede, even I stood to confirm and to evidence so fully given previously, that concerning the present time, and the place strengthen him. And now will I show thee we are now, and the world has been since of Turkey and the nations. the truth. Behold there shall stand up yet 1840, in " the time of the end." And AUGUST, 1898. THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN. 55

now, as Constantinople is the centre of When He Comes to His End. from beginning to end, is the Lord's the territory originally held by Lysimachus YET this is not all. The angel did not record of the seven last plagues in which the first " king of the north ; " and as the end his discourse here. No, no, he con- " is filled up the wrath of God " to be power that now reigns in Constantinople tinues : " And at that time shall Michael poured upon the earth, and which in itself holds the identical territory held by Ly- stand up, the great Prince which standeth is the greatest element of this time of simachus himself ; it is plain enough that for the children of thy people ; and there trouble such as never was since there was this power is " the king of the north " of shall be a time of trouble such as never a nation. the last verses of the eleventh chapter of was since there was a nation, even to that In this chapter, the story of the sixth Daniel, and of our own day And as it is same time ; and at that time Thy people plague is this : " And the sixth angel the Turkish Power that now occupies Con- shall be delivered, every one that shall he poured out his vial upon the great river stantinople and holds the territory origi- found written in the book. And many of Euphrates and the water thereof was dried nally held by Lysimachus, the first king of them that sleep in the dust of the earth up, that the way of the kings of the east the north, it is also plain enough that the shall awake." Dan. xii. r, 2. might be prepared." Turkish Power is the power referred to in Whether the Turkish Power shall leave Now, as for the real flowing river the words " the king of the north " in the Constantinople, and when; whether it Euphrates, which rises in the mountains last five verses of Daniel xi. shall be wiped out, and if so, when; these of Armenia and empties into the Persian questions are being anxiously studied by gulf, kings both of east and west have The King of the North and his End. many. Yet great and interesting as crossed and re-crossed it at will from the IN the 44th verse the angel says of this these questions are in many ways, there is days of Chedorlaomer until now, without king of the north,—the Turkish Power,— yet beyond all these the infinitely greater its ever having to be dried up that they " tidings out of the east and out of the question of what comes when these things might pass. This expression therefore north shall trouble him and he shall go are done, of what shall come at that cannot refer to the water of the literal forth with fury to destroy and utterly to time. river. What then ? In the next chapter, make away many." This was accomplished The Word of God is that "at that time" verse 15, it is stated that " waters are in the Crimean war when Russia from the there shall be such a time of trouble upon peoples." The water of the Euphrates, north and east warred against the Ottoman the earth as never was since there has then, being dried up that the way of the Empire, and the Turkish Power was saved been a nation. This very thing we have kings of the east might be prepared, is only by the support and power of Great seen by positive and highest proofs, is the clearly the ending of the power and people Britain and other allies. very thing which the great nations are that occupies the country of the Euphrates. And now the last verse of Daniel xi. dreading; and against this universal woe What power is this?—The Turkish Po wer tells of the two events that all Europe is of world-wide war and tumult, these Great alone. constantly expecting to see; the events Powers are holding the Ottoman Power as This, then, is another plain declaration that many people in mass meetings and long as possible as a bulwark, knowing of the Word of God announcing the certain other assemblies were not long ago loudly that when that bulwark shall have been ending of the Turkish Power. And ac- calling for; the events which are certain broken down this appalling torrent must cording to this scripture, what comes at the soon to take place; namely, the expulsion spread over all. In this matter the Word ending of that power ? What are the kings of the Turkish Power from Constantinople of God and the word of the Great Powers of the east going to do when the way and the wiping out of the Ottoman Empire. of the world, are in exact and perfect for them shall be thus prepared ? Read on. These are the words of the angel as to this accord. " And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of looked-for event : " And he shall plant the Who is ready for this "time of trouble the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of tabernacles of his palace between the seas, such as never was since there was a the false prophet. For they ai e the spirits of devils, in the glorious holy mountain ; yet lze shall nation" ? Who ? Whoever on the earth working miracles, which go forth unto the kings come to his end and none shall help hinz." is not ready for the spreading over all of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Constantinople itself is " between the nations of such a time of trouble as never Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is seas." But this does not meet the word was since there was a nation—whoever on he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest of the angel. No, but he shall plant the earth is not ready for this, is not ready for he walk naked, and they see his shame. And he tabernacles of his palace between the seas the wiping out of the Ottoman Power. gathered them together into a place called in the "in the glorious holy mountain." This can Hebrew tongue Armageddon. And the seventh Therefore instead of churches and pulpits angel poured out his vial into the air; and there be no other place than Jerusalem ; even as and religious papers calling for war, and came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, Jerusalem is even now called in the urging the wiping of the Turkish Power off from the throne, saying, It is done. Turkish and Arabic " The Holy." It is the earth, they would better, far better, be " And there were voices, and thunders, and certain therefore that the seat of the preaching the Gospel of peace, which they lightnings: and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, Ottoman Power will be removed from profess, and which they are so basely per- so mighty an earthquake and so great. And the Constantinople, and will finally be planted verting ; and by the sincere preaching of great city was divided into three parts, and the in Jerusalem, and then it is just as certain the Gospel of peace be preparing to stand cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the that that power comes to an end. in peace and quietness in God when this Yea, " he shall come to his end and none cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath. time of trouble shall break upon the world And every island fled away, and the mountains shall help him." This expression shows at the time of the ending of the Ottoman were not found. And there tell upon men a great that he would before have come to his end Empire. Who is doing this work ? Who hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight unless somebody had helped him. We is ready for the time of trouble ? of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of have seen how fully this has been so since the plague of the hail ; for the plague thereof was 184o. We have again and again seen that exceeding great " The Plagues of God's Wrath. power standing for months on the very Need for Watching and Praying. brink of explusion from Constantinople. FOR this is not simply a great time of But in each crisis somebody has helped trouble by war amongst the nations ; it is WE have now considered the three por- him, and he still abides in his place. But even more than this. It is a time of tions of Scripture which treat of the Turkish the day is certain to come, and to come trouble caused by this, and also by the Power. We have seen that in all three of soon, when the Ottoman Power will be re- judgments of God upon the earth, and the them the end of that power is announced moved from Constantinople and will be coming of the Lord, the resurrection of the by the sure Word of God. We also see that planted in Jerusalem, and then he shall dead, and the end of all things. This is in all three places not only is the end of come to his end and none shall help him— emphasised by the other portion of Scrip- that power marked, but with this, and and indeed he will come to his end sim- ture which treats of the Ottoman Power. following swiftly upon it, there is also marked in unmistakable language ply because none will help him. In the sixteenth chapter of Revelation, universal

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woe, world-destroying trouble, the coming earth's remotest limits that the world anciently—and He says the same thing to- of the Lord in glory, and the end of all may be prepared and fully ready His people now—" Believe in the Lord things of this world. for that which by every evidence on the your God, so shall ye be established ; be- This cannot be denied. It may not be question is hanging ready to burst in fury lieve His prophets, so shall ye prosper. " believed ; but it cannot be denied. No upon a devoted world! Here again we see that prosperity is in the man therefore is ready for the ending of A. T. JONES. Word ; so by receiving the Word in sim- the Ottoman Empire who is not ready for plicity we allow the prosperity to come the end of the world. And who is ready All Losses But One Made Good in Christ. which the Lord desires us to have. Where for this? Oh! let every one who names His Word is permitted to enter, there is the name of Christ turn his whole attention MOSES was once an heir to Egypt's throne, prosperity, for He hath declared, " It shall to this. Let all such be sure that they Wealth, lore, and praise in fulness he possessed; prosper in the thing where to I sent it. " themselves are ready for all these things, When Pharaoh frowned, he wandered poor and But we are not to estimate prosperity- lone, and then let them never rest, let them never from what appears on the surface. The hold their peace, till the warning of it is But Christ had been preferred ; the meek was man who permits the Word of God to blest. sounded to all people that whosoever will abide and abound in his heart has prosperi- Consider Stephen, strong in manhood's prime, ty, because where that Word is there is may come, whosover will may be ready Yielding with prayer his life, his all of earth ; also, and that all may be watching and Eternity will more than equal time, the power to do all that needs to be done. praying always " that ye may be accounted And Christ, his portion, more than earth is We read that Joseph worthy to escape all these things that shall worth! " was sold for a servant. Whose feet they Mary, the contrite, innocence had lost ; hurt with fetters ; he was laid in iron ; until the come to pass, and to stand before the Son time that His word came ; the word of the Lord of man." Luke xxi. 36. Her tears fell fast on Jesus' blessed feet ; He spoke the pardon which His life would cost ; tried him. The king sent and loosed him ; even We see that the sure Word of God an- Christ was her hope, her righteousness com- the ruler of the people, and and let him go free. nounces that upon the ending of the plete! He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all, Ottoman Empire there comes—" at that his substance ; to bind his princes at his pleasure ; Wealth, health, life, virtue may be lost and and teach his senators wisdom. " time "—a time of universal war, woe, and found, The Word of God tried Joseph, and he trouble such as never was since there was For God in Christ makes up for every loss ; stood the trial. He was willing to suffer a nation even to that same time. We see Through endless years let Jesus' praise resound,— We have the kingdom from His blood-stained unjust imprisonment, to let his reputation also the Great Powers of earth—the very go to the winds, but he was unwilling to ones which have this question to deal with cross. There is a loss,—half told it cannot be, yield himself a servant of sin. His ad- —expecting and dreading the "appalling God's grace in Christ,—the soul, if unforgiven, herence to the Word of God led him into danger" of this very thing, and in their Once lost, not found to all eternity. prison, but it was his adherence to that uneasy expectancy doing everything in their Yield to God's love, be won to Christ and same Word which brought him out again. power to hold back as long as possible the heaven. N. W. VINCENT. He went from the dungeon to the throne tide of woe which they know must come. and occupied a place second only to that There is yet one other element to be 0 TRUE PROSPERITY. of the king himself. The Lord was with noticed in this connection. And that is --- hi.a through it all, and Joseph knew this. that the Turks themselves expect this very But how significant it is that of all the The Turks themselves expect DAVID declared that he was envious at thing also. points in this interesting career that one to be removed from Constantinople. They the foolish when he saw the prosperity of which was specially singled out by the expect then the seat of their power to be the wicked until he understood their end. Word of God to show that the Lord was in Jerusalem. They expect then that the As the world goes, a man may have all with him was the experience in the Egyp- nations will come even there to war the prosperity that is possible ; he may tian prison. He was in prison on a false against them, and that then the end of all heap up riches ; he may make to himself charge, but " the Lord was with him, and things comes. a great name and leave behind monuments that which he did the Lord made it to While in Constantinople not long ago, I of his greatness and his prosperity, but, prosper. " met a reliable Christian man, who told me after all, this is not real prosperity. The Therefore, through whatever experience that in a conversation which he had with a riches he heaped together he " knoweth the Lord'; servant is called to pass, the Turkish Judge, the judge told him that not who shall gather them." The great goes with him. Joseph trusted in God they expected as the outcome of the deal- name he secured is written only in the Lord and He made what he did 'to prosper. ings of the Powers that they would be sand ; for " the memory of the just is Now, since He is " the same yesterday, dispossessed of Constantinople ; that after blessed ; but the name of the wicked shall that their capital would be Jerusalem ; that rot," and the monuments left will crumble and to-day, and for ever," and since He is against them there at last they expec- and decay and pass away. no respecter of persons, He will make to ted the "Christian nations" to come to According to the common standard of prosper all that men do to day who yield fight ; and that then Messiah and Mahomet prosperity and security " the tabernacles themselves as did Joseph. D. A. R. would come. With the exception of of robbers prosper and they that provoke —0— Mahomet, this explanation as stated by God are secure." Everybody desires GOSSI PING the Turkish judge is precisely the thing prosperity, and the Lord Himself desires that is spoken of this same time in the —n-iore than men can desire it—that all IN Lev, xix. i6, we read, "Thou shalt Scripture of truth. And the time of trou- should be prosperous ; and He has given not go up and down as a talebearer among ble thus brought as described in the Word us the secret of true prosperity. Here thy people: neither shalt thou stand of God, is precisely the "appalling danger" it is :— against the blood of thy neighbour : I am " Blessed is the man that walketh not in the that is dreaded by the Great Powers, and counsel of the ungodly, nor standtth in the way the Lord " Again, " Where no wood is, against which they agree in holding the of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. there the fire goeth out : so where there is Ottoman Empire as a bulwark. But his delight is in the law of the Lord ; and in no talebearer, the strife ceaseth." Prov. When the Word of God three times His law doth he meditate day and night. And XXVI 20. declares it; and when the Turks them- he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season ; It has been said that if men knew what selves, as well as all the other Powers his leaf also shall not wither ; and whatsoever he others have said of them, there would not concerned, are expecting and dreading it; doeth shall prosper. " be four friends in the world. A person, is it not high time that all the people What more can we ask for than this ? after talking of his friend's defects, and should believe it? May the Lord in His Prosperity lies only in the line of be- showing him up in the worst possible light, mercy help all the people to hear it, lieving what the Lord says. Through will meet him as friendly and good- to believe it, and then to proclaim it to Jehoshaphat the Lord said to His people naturedly as ever, thus adding the sin of AUGUST, 1898. THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN. 57 hypocrisy to that of backbiting. This is him ask in faith." How does faith come ?— of course, between husband and wife]; not as it should be, especially among those By hearing. Hearing what ?—The Word that, even if any obey not the word, they who profess to be Christians—Christ-like. of God. Rom. x. 17. Let him ask, then, may without the word be gained by the When the habit of gossiping is once according to the Word of God. behaviour [manner of life, margin] of their really formed, no man can break it in his E. J. WAGGONER. wives ; beholding your chaste behaviour own strength. Thus his so-called freedom coupled with fear. Whose adorning let of speech makes him a slave. This lack The Worker's Prayer. it not be the outward adorning of plaiting of power is stated in Rom. vii. 15, 18. the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or The only way to overcome this is to have of putting on apparel ; but let it be the LORD, speak to me, that I may speak hidden man of the heart, in the incorrup- the heart so filled with the love of Christ In living echoes of Thy tone ; that we shall have no time for criticising As Thou hast sought, so let me seek tible apparel of a meek and quiet spirit, others. Thine erring children, lost and lone. which is in the sight of God of great We are to see the workmanship of God price." I Pet. iii. 1-4, R. V. O,'lead me, Lord, that I may lead in each human being, and recognise and The wandering and the wavering feet ! Sisters, obey the word of God for your treat each individual as God's property. 0, feed me, L9rd, that I may feed husbands' sake, and in faith that God Ivil 1 The soul of every person is as precious in Thy hungering ones with manna sweet ! win them through your efforts. Let them the sight of the Lord as our own; for the 0, strengthen me, that while I stand read the word in your life. same price has been paid for both. There- Firm on the rock, and strong in Thee, G. B. STARR. fore, when we mistrust our fellow men, I may streteh out a loving hand --0-- and talk about them, we are doing despite To wrestle with the troubled sea ! D IS AGREEMENT. to Him who is our common Master. As 0, teach me, Lord, that I may teach The precious things Thou dost impart, we are merciful and kind to others, so God A MAN is no worse because he disagrees will be to us. L. MAY BENTELEY. And wing my words, that they may reach The hidden depths of many a heart ! with me. His agreeing with me makes him no better. It is his relation to right 0, give Thine own sweet rest to me, HOW SOLOMON GOT HIS WISDOM. That I may speak with soothing power and good and truth which affects his A word in season as from Thee, character, not his relation to me. More- SOLOMON was the wisest man that the To weary ones in needful hour ! over, a man is not less my friend if he dis- agree with me. His disagreement with me world ever saw. There was none like him 0, fill me with Thy fulness, Lord, before or after. How did he get his wis- Until my very heart o'erflows may be the best proof of his friendship ; dom ?—God gave it to him. Did he go to In kindling thought and glowing word his expressed agreement with me in all Thy love to tell, Thy praise to show ! bed one night, and wake up next morning things may be a matter of policy. a wise man ? He himself has told us how 0, use me, Lord--use even me, " I have learned that a friend who is worth Just as Thou wilt, and when and where, the having he got his wisdom, and how we may get it. Until Thy blessed face I see, Solomon was a king and he has given us Is a friend that will hurt you now and Thy rest, Thy joy, Thy glory share ! then ; the royal way to wisdom. And this is not simply Solomon's opinion. It is the Spirit D. L. HAYWARD. That • will turn to ice at your sickly craving of God speaking through Solomon, and VOICES OF GRACE. what the Spirit of God spoke to Solomon, For sympathy uttered by word or pen ; Will tear you with brave, rough hands He speaks to us:— IT is marvellous and beautiful to observe " My son, if thou wilt receive My words, away how various are the voices of free grace. From the altars you build to your gods and hide My commandments with thee ; so " I am thirsty, " says one. " Come ye to that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, of clay, the waters, " she cries. And break them down ere you kneel and apply thine heart to understanding; " I am hungry," says another. " Then if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest again." eat ye that which is good," she says, " and M.C. WiLcox. up thy voice for understanding ; if thou let your soul delight itself in fatness. " seekest her as silver, and searchest for her " But I am poor, and have nothing to 0 as for hid treasures; then shalt thou under- buy with." " Come, buy wine and milk THE END OF THE LAW. stand the fear of the Lord, and find the without money and without price. " knowledge of God. For the Lord giveth " We are weary," sigh the labourers in IN Christ Jesus the end of the command- wisdom : out of His mouth cometh know- the sun-beaten fields. " Come unto Me, " ment is love out of a pure heart, and a ledge and understanding. He layeth up breathes her answer, like a breeze from good conscience, and faith unfeigned. sound wisdom for the righteous." the waters, " and I will give you rest. " Nothing can exceed the absolute plainness, How did Solomon get his understand- " Cast thy burden on the Lord, and He the reiterated simplicity of Christ's teach- ing ?—He dug for it. He cried for it day will sustain thee," she whispers to the ing. A child, a wayfaring man, a fool, can and night. That is the way men seek pilgrim ready to faint on the highway. understand it. " If ye love Me," He says silver and gold. That is the way the " Behold the fountain !" she cries to the —what ? go into the desert ? shut yourself millionaires get their money. They put guilty, " the fountain opened for sin and up in a monastery ? spend your days in their minds on that one thing to the exclu- uncleanness. "—The Myrtle. the vain repetition of formal prayers ? No ! sion of every other thing day and night, —o — but—" If ye love Me, keep My command- because they would rather have money than WON WITHOUT THE WORD. ments." anything else. Now, we would rather --- " How commonplace !" you will say; have wisdom than anything else, because A LADY whose husband, on account of " how elementary ! how extremely ordinary ! the wisdom of God is salvation, his teaching, refused to read the Word of Why, I learned all that years ago by my and the salvation of God is everything. God called one day, and in great anxiety mother's knee ; I have got quite beyond all Solomon studied, and the Lord gave him for the salvation of her husband inquired, that." Ah ! but have you ? Like the Phari- light. He studied God's Word, "for " Is there any hope of a man who will not see, you may not be an extortioner, unjust, the Lord giveth wisdom, out of His read the Bible ? " " Oh, yes, " was the an adulterer ; but have you, even in man's mouth cometh understanding." We desire reply, " great hope. " " Oh, where, " judgment, kept, in all their Divine breadth, -wisdom, too. How shall we get it?—" If asked the anxious woman, " where is the law of kindness the law of purity, the law any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God there any statement of encouragement ?" of honesty, the law of truth, the law of who giveth to all liberally, and upbraideth In Peter's chapter to godly wives : " In contentment ? Have you loved God with not, and it shall be given him." But let like manner, ye wives, be in subjection all the heart ? Have you loved your neigh- him be watchful about one thing. " Let to your own husbands [in the relations, bour as yourself—Canon Farrar. 58 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN. AUGUST, 1898.

tenced to death if they refused to abjure greater part of that comforting chapter be- the faith and mode of worship so dear to ginning :— them, and conform to that of their op- " Let not your heart be troubled ; ye be- pressors. lieve in God, believe also in Me. In My On that bright May morning two wo- Father's house are many mansions ; if it men were sitting together in a narrow cell were not so, I would have told you. I go to of the roughly-built tolbooth, or goal, in the prepare a place for you. And if I go and town of Wigton. They were both named prepare a place for you, I will come again Margaret ; but while one was nearing her and receive you unto Myself, that where I threescore years and ten, the other, though am there ye may be also." her face wore a saddened look, had scar- Then, pausing a while, as if she were cely seen eighteen summers. turning the leaves of a book, she began She was full of life and energy, while again •.— her companion, although she had continu- " Who shall separate us from the love of 0 ed steadfast and faithful before the council, Christ ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or A Friendly Hand. was now cast down by many fears and forebodings as the time drew near for the peril, or sword? As it is written, For Thy execution of the sentence. For, in case sake we are killed all the day long, we are WHEN a man ain't got a copper, and he's feelin' they did not take the oath of abjuration, accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, kind blue, they were condemned to be fastened to in all these things we are more than con- An' the clouds hang dark an' heavy, an' won't let the sunshine through, stakes within tidemark of the sea, and querors through Him that loved us. For I It's a great thing, 0 my brethren, for a fellow slowly drowned by the incoming waves. am persuaded that neither death, nor life, just to lay The older woman, worn out by want of nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, His hand upon your shoulder in a friendly sort o' nor things present, nor things to come, nor way. rest and refreshment, had fallen into a light drowse, with her grey, uncovered head lean- height, nor depth, nor any other creature, It makes a man feel curious ; it makes the tear ing against the rough stone wall behind her. shall be able to separate us from the love of drops start, God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." And you sort o'feel a flutter in the region of the Suddenly she started to her feet with a The morning passed swiftly away. High heart. sharp, wailing cry. You can't look up an' meet his eyes ; you don't noon came, which was the time fixed for the know what to say, " 0 Johnnie, man, dinna lave me to drown execution of their sentence. The crowd When his hand is on your shoulder in a friendly alane, all alane ! Gin ye wad only gae wi' that had been gathering since early dawn, sort o'way. me, lad, and tak ' a strong grip o' my puir, now pressed nearer to the walls of the gaol ; Oh, the world's a curious compound, with its weak hand." for it was announced that the Provost had honey and its gall, " When thou passest through the waters, arrived, and, at the head of a party of dra- With its cares and bitter crosses ; 'tis a strange I will be with thee, and through the rivers, goons, he soon came clattering along the world after all. they shall not overflow thee. . . . For But a good God must have made it—leastways, principal street of the town. that's what I say— I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Then the two poor, defenceless women When a hand rests on my shoulder in a friendly Israel, thy Saviour,' " repeated the clear stepped meekly out, and being placed in sort o'way. —Anon. voice of the girl Margaret, as she gently the midst of the rude soldiery, who greet- forced her companion again on the low ed them with taunts and ribald jests, the bench, and, kneeling before her, embraced procession moved on in the direction of the THE TWO MARGARETS—MARTYRS and supported her with her strong young OF THE SOLWAY. sea. arms. Many were the expressions of sorrow and HERE is the story of the martyrs of the " Eh ! is it you, lassie ?—bonnie Margaret, sympathy from those who accompanied them Solway. Even those who know it will be as they co' ye. Alt, me ! I dreamed I was on their melancholy journey. Few had glad to read again the simple tale of back in the pleasant bit shieling on the green tasted a morsel of food that day, or even constancy in the days of old :— brae side, where I used to live lang syne kindled a fire in their habitations ; for the It was a beautiful morning in the month wi' my John and the wee bairnies that are a' hearts of the people were very sore at the of May. The sky was serene and without dead and Bane years ago. Then it seemed pitiful sight of the two Margarets walking a speck of a cloud, the orchards full of the as if a great flood came to drown me, and I calmly along as if they were "ganging to the scent of apple blossoms and the songs of cried out ; for the faces of the gruesome kirk " or a bright Sabbath morning. The birds. Far away the hills were all aflame sea monsters looked like the faces of the younger woman supported and aided her with purple heather and patches of yellow cruel men who threatened us and drove us companion's failing steps, golden locks gorse, while the little hamlets that nestled along with their pikes. 0 lassie, I'm sore mingling with the silver, both soon to wear in the shadow of the glens looked as if afraid." the martyr's crown. they were abodes of peace and happiness. " ' I, even I, am He that comforteth you ; When they reached the shore, over which But, alas, it was not so. This is a story who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid the tide had even then begun to rise, a free of Scotland's martyrs, nearly two hundred of man that shall die, and of the son of man pardon was offered to both prisoners on con- years ago. Then " The puir hill folk," as which shall be made as grass ?' " quoted dition that they would take an oath to ab- the Covenanters were called by their fri- " bonnie Margaret." jure all connection with the persecuted co- ends, were hunted from one rocky fast- " 0 lassie, ye do me a warld o' good. venant folk. But this they steadily refused ness to another, wandering " in deserts Canna ye tell me mair o' thae blessed words to do. and in mountains and in dens and caves that seem like honey and the honeycomb ?" we have no part with Christ's dear of the earth." Often the escapes of these said the poor creature, weeping gently, as she servants," they said, " we have no part with fugitives from their pursurers were so laid her head on her young companion's Him. And if we deny Him, He also will narrow as to appear miraculous—being, in shoulder. deny us." truth, singular interpositions of the pro- " I can." cried the girl, her eyes kindling. So they took the elder Margaret, and vidence of God in behalf of His persecuted " The troopers shied my precious wee Bible bound her to a stake set far out into the people. into the deep loch when they broke up our sea, so that the waves had already risen to Yet many were taken, chiefly in their conventicle, as they ca'd it, and took us pri- her knees, thinking to frighten her young hillside meetings for worship, and were soners. But they could na root the holy companion with the sight of her dying either shot at the time of their apprehen- texts out of my heart and memory." struggles. But before she was led away, sion or brought to a mock trial and sen- Still kneeling, she then repeated the bonnie Margaret embraced and kissed her, AUGUST; 1898. THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN. 59

praying God to be with her, according to Fathers, did it ever occur to you that a sudden crash ; it will be fully half an His gracious promise, and adding, as a some of you have so far neglected to live hour before the metal is completely parting benediction, these words of the out the first scripture that it is almost im- melted." Lord Jesus :— possible for your children to grasp the —0— " Be thou faithful unto death, and I will mercy and long-suffering of God as reveal- TM] MOTHER-LOVE. give thee a crown of life." ed in the second scripture ? She was then herself tied to a stake As you stop to think of it, is it not so? A NEWSPAPER reports the remarkably placed nearer the landmark, and her face Well, don't serve Satan one moment long- considerate action of a little girl who had forcibly set in a position to watch the body er by sitting still and mourning about it, just been presented with a beautiful new of her friend, now sinking, now rising till you ate an eyesore to yourself and every doll. with the surging waves, until the last one else; but let the Word of God, given in " As she sat holding it and singing to it, flutter of her garments had disappeared, the first scripture, convert you, now, into a her mother noticed that the old one was and all was over. But Margaret was in true father. Then will your children more not in sight. no wise daunted by the sight ; but, as the truly know God's care and love for them, " ' What has become of Beatrice ? ' ask- old chronicler tells us, sang in a clear, and your prayers for them will probably be ed the mother. loud voice several verses of the twenty- effectual, because accompanied by true " ' I've put her away, ' answered the little fifth Psalm :— faith,—that faith which works prove to be girl. If she saw me loving my new baby " To Thee I lift my soul, alive. Cannot mothers also profit by it might hurt her feelings.'" 0 Lord, I trust in Thee ; God's instruction on this point? Perhaps this little maiden had experi- My God, let me not be ashamed, W. W. WHEELER. enced the feeling of the little one who Nor foes triumph o'er me. finds herself supplanted in a measure by a " Turn unto me I'hy face, --o— — And to me mercy show ; new arrival in the household. It is neces- LIQUID AIR. sary that the mother should have the tact- Because that I am desolate, THE newest wonder of science is liquid And am brought very low." ful, loving mother heart in order that the air. It takes about Boo cubic feet of air imp of jealousy may not get into the fami- As she paused for breath, a woman's to furnish one cubic foot of the liquid air, ly circle when the other child finds that voice in the crowd arose with an exceed- and the temperature of this liquid is about the mother's time and care must be divid- ing bitter cry,— 312 degrees below zero. So intense is ed with a younger member. Perferences " 0 Margaret, my bonnie, bonnie Mar- this cold that a tin dipper used in handling the and favouritism find no place in the gen u- garet, gie in, gie in, my bairnie—dinna fluid is rendered as brittle as glass. A ine home heart. Little ones are quick to drown. Gie in and tak' the oath. " writer in the Cosmopolitan tells some detect a division of affection, and some- " Whisht, mither dear," replied the girl, interesting facts about this plaything of times learn envy and jealousy before they " dinna ye ken that if we be dead with science which may vet, however, be turned Christ, we shall also live with Him ? If to serious uses. He says :— learn that a mother's love is multiplied we suffer, we shall also reign with Him." unto all her children and not divided " If I throw Then another cried,— a small portion upon your among them, so that each one gets it all. coat sleeve, the cloth is not moistened, " Margaret, canna ye just say, God --o-- but is so chilled that it becomes white with save the king' ?" POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE. frost. An oyster dipped for a moment in A thrill ran through the fast-chilling a bowl of the liquid becomes as cold as if veins of the young martyr at the sound of " MY aunt was always saying to me, it had remained in a refrigerator for hours. that manly voice, but, after a moment's Don't talk so loud; your voice gets shriller This makes a very pretty dinner-table struggle with the ties of earthly love, she every day !' " said a pleasant-voiced friend. experiment; but if you leave the toothsome answered in low but firm tones,— " I became so nervous and irritated under morsel immersed too long, it becomes as " I pray God to save him of His great this chronic rebuke that my voice was more hard as the shell from which it was grace." uneven and harsh than ever, and I hardly extracted. Raw beefsteak may be frozen " She has said it, my Lord Provost ; she dared speak at home. until it rings, when struck, like a piece of has said, God save the king.' Let her " At last I visited my cousins in L— bell•metal. While in this condition, it go, " cried several voices. (they are noted for their sweet voices, you may be broken in fragments with a hammer The soldier bent his head and whispered know), and then suddenly I noticed the and pounded into powder. Butter, similarly in Margaret's ear,— wide difference, which I had never under- treated, may be reduced to a fine dry dust ; "Take the oath, foolish and obstinate stood before, between a rough voice, and a fruit and eggs may be pulverised in the same girl, and I will save you even now. " well-modulated one, and set myself, so to manner. But these are substances that Finding, however, that the heroic mai- speak, to catch the trick of their intonations may be frozen, though not to the same brittle den continued firm in her refusal, and and their tones. hardness, by the ordinary cold of winter. worn out by what they called her " contu- " In a month's time, really, I talked like Let us now try something more refractory. macy," they left her to die. Her voice a different girl. And when I came home " Mercury remains liquid at all familiar was still heard in prayer and praise until my aunt said: Well, I am glad to see that temperatures, but solidifies at about forty the water came up to her lips. then her at last my reproofs have made an impres- degrees below zero. I place half a pint of face seemed to shine with a glory not of sion upon you, Clara!' But they hadn't, it in a paper mould, and pour over the earth, and after a few more struggles, you know—the only impression she made surface a quantity of liquefied air. The Scotland's maiden martyr was numbered was to make me unhappy and nervous. 'quicksilver' forfeiting all atim to its name, with " those who were slain for the Word " I have never forgotten the lesson ; and is soon frozen into a rigid bar, resembling of God and for the testimony which they when I want my children to improve in a block of tin, but so cold that it would held. . . . For they loved not their any way, I give them an opportunity to almost blister your flesh to touch it. In lives unto the death." hear and see the right thing before I re- each end of the mould was inserted a large prove them for not following it."—Harper's screw-eye, and both these are now firmly Bazaar. WHICH DO YOU? fixed in the hardened metal. To one of * * these eyes I attach a cord, and suspend " FATHERS, provoke not your children to the bar like a plummet; to the other eye To DRIVE away rats, says one writer, wrath ; but bring them up in the nurture I fasten a weight of, say, fifty pounds. sprinkle caustic potash about their holes. and admonition of the Lord." Eph. 6: 4. Fifteen or twenty minutes will elapse It makes their feet sore, and by licking " Like as a father pitieth his children, so before the mass is sufficiently thawed to their feet their mouths are also made sore. the Lord pitieth them that fear Him. " Ps. allow the weight to pull out one of the it is said that they will leave a house where 103: 13. So reads the Word of God. screw-eyes, when it falls to the floor with their life is thus made miserable. 6o THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN. AUGUST, 1898.

dom sees a person who does not present The sovereign remedy for the evils re- opportunity for great improvement in his sulting from stair-climbing, is the mainte- style of walking as regards physical car- nance of a correct poise while ascending riage. But in stair-climbing there is one or descending stairs. In the case of serious and almost universal fault,—the persons whose muscles have not been upper part of the body is thrown forward developed by proper training, their move- so far as to bring a most unnatural and da- ments in going up and down stairs must maging strain upon the muscles of the back. be very deliberate. These two suggestions, WHY STAIR-CLIMBING IS IN- !,4,x Figure t illustrates our meaning. This if carefully followed, will protect any JURIOUS. picture is a reproduction from an instant- person able to go up and downstairs at all, from suffering any injury whatever thereby. From the Good Health Magazine. We have frequently startled women who have been suffering for years from ailments THAT climbing stairs injures a large which it was supposed wholly interdicted number of women and young girls, is a fact such an exercise as ascending a flight of to which thousands of weak-backed wo- stairs, by replying, in answer to their men are willing to testify ; nevertheless we question, " Doctor, do you think it would have long maintained, and still adhere to be possible for me to golup and down the proposition, unreasonable as it may stairs occasionally without injury ?" seem, that stair-climbing is healthful. " Certainly, by all means take a walk up Thousands of people are injured by eating and down stairs once or twice a day and yet it is a very necessary and very regularly. It would be a good exercise for healthful exercise of the organs of mas- you. " The poor woman who asks the tication. The injury comes from the mis- question has sometimes been utterly use of the organs, and it must be admitted that, as commonly practised, stair-climbing often leads to mischievous consequences. These consequences should not, however, be so directly attributed to stair climbing itself, perhaps, as to the unfitness of the stair-climbers for such vigorous exercise. The Swiss peasant girl who has been reared among mountain crags, thinks nothing of carrying upon her head half a hundred pounds while tripping nimbly from rock to rock along the steep moun- FIG. I, INCORRECT ATTITUDE. tain paths of her Alpine hills, and could aneous photograph, and fairly represents ascend, two steps at a time, a dozen the attitude which one almost universally flights of ordinary stairs twenty times a sees assumed in stair-climbing, though not day without the slightest physical injury. always to quite so extreme a degree. And these peasant girls, broad-shouldered, Women and girls who have reached an large waisted, are straight as arrows, and age at which they have adopted long their ruddy cheeks and bright eyes beam dresses, are almost certain to assume this with the highest health. attitude in ascending a flight of stairs. Back-aches are born, not of stair-climb- The damage which arises from this awk- ing, but of neglect of symmetrical muscu- ward and unnatural position is not con- lar development of the body from early fined to the internal muscles of the trunk. childhood. A young girl who has been There are internal muscular structures con- accustomed to such exercises as are calcu- nected with the support of various internal lated to develope the muscles of the trunk, organs, which suffer even more. A relaxa- specially those of the back and lower ab- tion of the abdominal muscles when the dominal region, finds no occasion to com- body is bent forward, allows not only the plain of back-ache from stair-climbing. organs of the lower abdomen, but the These complaints come from those who bowels, stomach, liver, and other organs have not had such exercise, and whose of the middle and upper portions of the FIG. 2, CORRECT ATTITUDE. bodies have been propped up by the bones abdomen, to hang pendent, while at the shocked at the assurance with which we or steels of fashionable corsets. same time there is an increased vigour of the recommended stair-climbing as a physical Nevertheless, there is something further respiratory movements, by which there is an means of grace. to be said respecting the mischiefs arising increase of the force with which the diaph- Really, going up and down stairs in a from stair climbing. A feeble woman may ragm presses downward, causing downward correct attitude, as shown in Fig. 2, is not ascend a stairway in such a manner as to displacement of the various organs. at all an unhealthful exercise ; the exercise suffer no injury to the muscles, or any in- The downward displacement of these is almost wholly confined to the legs. So jury to the back or trunk. Much of the organs is really the cause of the back-ache long as the body is kept correctly poised, evil arising from stair-climbing, is due to of which so many young women complain, and the muscles of the back are not the fact that those who climb stairs do not rather than the muscles of the back. Pain strained, the abdominal muscles, being know how to use their muscles in such a in the back is a local expression of an in- well contracted, hold the internal organs manner as to elevate their bodies along an ternal disorder, just as headache is often in position ; and, as the trunk is deliberate- inclined plane with the least expenditure an expression of a disordered state of the ly raised and moved forward by the action of energy, and the least exposure to un- stomach rather than of a diseased condition of the muscles of the legs, •the individual natural and harmful strain. of the head. A lady patient once des- slowly ascends, almost with unconscious In walking on a level surface, even bad cribed a back-ache as being '' headache in effort, and apparently with the expenditure walkers do not deviate so very greatly the back," a description which impressed of a small proportion of the energy usually from a correct attitude, although one sel- us as being very apt as well as original. employed in the same exercise. AUGUST, 1898. THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN.

" Riches profit not in the day of wrath ; brain sympathises with them when they but righteousness delivereth from death. " are sick. " Well, it is just too provoking to see How do you feel when the school-room that hateful Will Jones going about on his is too warm and close ? Do you not feel fine bicycle ; and he tries to make. me feel dull and sleepy and so stupid that you can as mean as he can." hardly study ? This is because the brain " Be not thou envious against evil men, needs good, pure blood to enable it to neither desire to be with them. " work well. So we must always be careful " Well, the next time I see him, he will to have plenty of pure air to breathe. get a piece of my mind, all the same. " What do we do when we want to " A fool uttereth all his mind ; but a POLITENESS. strengthen our muscles ? We make them wise man keepeth it in till afterwards." work hard every day, do we not ? The " I don't care, I have too much pride to exercise makes them grow large and BOYS, be polite, especially to those allow such a fellow as Will Jones to run strong. It is just the same with our Who've walked the path of life which now you tread. over me." brains. If we study -hard and learn our Ah, you can make their journey sweetly close " A man's pride shall bring him low : lessons well, then our brains grow strong By loving deeds, and words which may be but honour shall uphold the humble in and study becomes easy. But if we only said. spirit." half study, and do not learn our lessons Boys, help them on ; they have not far to go, " Never mind ; I can hold up my head perfectly, then the study does not do our But 0, they need your sympathy and love ! as high as anyone. " brains very much good--Dr. j. Kindly assist the form that's bending low; H. This deed of love shall heaven and earth " An high look, and a proud heart, and Kellogg. approve. the ploughing of the wicked, is sin. " --o Boys, be polite ; politeness ever pays, " There is no harm in talking any- " THIS HAND NEVER STRUCK ME." It is a debt which unto all we owe ; way. " The smiling sun with bright and gentle rays " In the multitude of words there want- WE recently heard the following touch- Shines out to help both wheat and tares to eth not sin ; but he that refraineth his ing incident : A little boy had died. His grow. lips is wise. " body was laid out in a darkened, retired Boys, be polite ; then when your path shall close, " Well, I hope I have the privilege of room, waiting to be laid away in a cold, You need not fear a retrospective view ; lone grave. His afflicted mother and be- Your life of love will end in sweet repose, thinking as I please." And God Himself shall seal it good and " Keep thy heart with all diligence ; for reaved little sister went in to look at the true. out of it are the issues of life." sweet face of the precious sleeper, for his HARRY ARMSTRONG. "That will do for old folks, but I am face was beautiful even in death. As they 0-- young now, and want to have a good time ; stood gazing on the face of one so beloved THE MODERN YOUTH AND THE perhaps when I am old, I will think of and cherished, the little girl asked to shake ANCIENT KING. religion." his hand. The mother at first did not " Remember now thy Creator in the think it best, but the child repeated the THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON. days of thy youth, while the evil days come request, and seemed very anxious about not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou it. She took the cold, bloodless hand of " I'm almost sixteen now, and I think I shalt say, I have no pleasure in them." her sleeping boy, and placed it in the hand of know a thing or two." " Well, I don't believe the Lord cares his weeping sister. The dear child looked " Hear counsel, and receive instruction, for me anyway ; for when I try to do at it a moment, caressed it fondly, and that thou mayest be wise in thy latter do right. everything seems to go against me then looked up to her mother through the end." all the time." tears of affliction and love, and said : " My parents are always lecturing me, " Whom the Lord loveth He correcteth ; " Mother, this hand never struck me." and seem to think I ought to stay tied to even as a father the son in whom he de- What could have been more touching and my mother's apron-strings for ever." I ighteth." lovely ?—Selected. " My son, hear the instruction of thy " Well, I have just about come to the father, and forsake not the law of thy conclusion that I don't know anything HOW GRANDPA BOILED THE EGGS. mother." about what my duty is, after all." " Well, I hate to be reproved and " Let us hear the conclusion of the " IT is half-past eleven," said grandpa, corrected for everything." whole matter : Fear God, and keep His "and the mason will not have the chim- " Correction is grievous unto him that commandments : for this is the whole duty ney fixed before three o'clock." forsaketh the way : and he that hateth re- of man. " " Then I suppose we must get along proof shall die." PARRIE L. H. ROBERSON. with a cold lunch," said grandma. " Yes ; but so much of it only makes me 0 " Well," said grandpa, after a moment, angry." THE BRAIN. " perhaps I can boil some eggs. I will " Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry : try it." for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. WHAT do you think a little boy or girl " But is n't it too windy to make a fire " If my father loved me, he wouldn't be would be good for without any brain or out of doors ?" asked grandma. so ready to punish for everything." nerves ? Such a boy or girl could not see, " I shall not need a fire," said grandpa. " He that spareth his rod hateth his hear, feel, talk, run about, or play, and " That sounds like a joke," said Edith. son: but he that loveth him chasteneth would not know any more than a cabbage " No joke at all," said grandpa. " Come him betimes." or potato knows. If the brain or nerves out and see. And bring the eggs," he " He doesn't allow me to have as much are sick, they cannot work well, and so added, " and a can with a tight cover." pleasure as other boys." are not worth as much as when they When a few moments after, grandma " He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor are healthy. and Edith went out in the back yard, man." Did you ever have a headache ? Did grandpa was putting some fresh lime into "Well, I think I know the right way, you feel happy and good-natured when an old pail. nevertheless?" your head ached hard, and could you He took the can of eggs they brought, " There is a way that seemeth right study and play as well as when you are and filled it nearly full of cold water. unto a man, but the end thereof are the well ? It is very important that we should Then fitting the lid on carefully, he set it ways of death." keep the brain and nerves healthy, and to in a hollow place he made in the lime. " I wish I were rich ; then I would be do this we must take good care of the sto- Edith watched him curiously. happy. " mach and all other organs, because the " Will the lime burn ?" she asked. 62 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN. AUGUST, 1898.

" Shall I bring the matches ?" thing south of Louisiana,—Mexico, Central also was the 4ft. of backing. The shell emerged " You forget," said grandpa, " I was not America, and South America to the ex- with so much remaining velocity—a sign that to use any fire. We'll start it with cold all its energy was being properly absorbed in work treme southern tip of the continent—was on the target—that it bored its way through the water." subject to Spain. For three hundred years earthwork and deviated from the horizontal line " Now I know you're joking ! " said Spain had derived almost incalculable of flight about 4ft. below the ground, eventually Edith. wealth from her American possessions; being found about Soft. away from the face of the " Wait a moment," said grandpa, " and but the history of her rule over them was a target. The projectile itself was undamaged, you'll see." story of almost continuous cruelty toward showing only a few scratches. He poured in the water and put a board the natives, and of greed and oppression * * over the pail. in her relations with her colonists. This * " Oh !" cried Edith, when in a very was the reason why, when Spain was in- An insect scourge.—According to an short time it began to bubble and steam vaded by Napoleon's armies early in the African traveller South Africa is thr eaten- as if a hot fire were burning under the present century, the Spanish-American ed with an invasion of the " jigger" flea, pail—and " Oh !" she cried a great deal colonies, in quick succession, took up arms which has long been a scourge in the Lake louder, when a white, creamy mass came against the mother country. There were district of Central Africa. This flea bur- pouring over the top and down the sides fourteen years of bloody war, now here, rows into the feet, and even boots fail to of the pail. now there, from 1810 to 1824, and by the be a complete protection. Their presence It did not last long. In six minutes year 1826 not a foot of territory was left to is often not known until deep ulcers are the bubbling had almost stopped, so grand- Spain on the American continent." formed. The traveller who has recently pa took a long iron dipper and gently * * written on the subject, Mr. Decle, says lifted out the can, all coated with the lime. THE fathers of the United States left the that he found in Uganda 72 native soldiers He rinsed it off, then opened it and tradition that the republic should for ever out of 16o incapacitated from this cause. took out the nice white eggs ; and when refuse to extend its dominions beyond In some villages of Uduhu (south of Lake they broke them at lunch, they found Victoria Nyanza), I found the people starving, as the American continent, thus avoiding get- they were so rotten with ulcers from jiggers, that them cooked just exactly right.—Delia ting entangled in the quarrels of European they had been unable to work at their fields, and Hart Stone. Powers. The annexation of the Hawaiian could not even go to cut the few bananas that had Islands is the first step away from this po- been growing. In many villages of Uganda things were almost as bad. Sir Henry Johnston inform- litical tradition, and others will doubtless ed me last summer that the jiggers had come be taken when the Spanish war is ended. down to Blantyre, having therefore travelled The United States will then be obliged to about 500 miles southward in two years time. I follow Europe in the race of arma- calculate, accordingly, that they will reach Ma- ments. shonaland in about two years' time, and with the * * railway communication they will be all over the * Cape Colony in a year or more. In fact, I feel WRITING in May from Alaska, a news- absolutely certain that they will invade the colony paper correspondent said that the thous- before the year two. Thoe only who have seen ands of men in camp, waiting for the what damages the jiggers cause can realise what A COMMERCIAL use for Alpine glaciers the prospect means for South Africa. breaking up of the ice, were busy at boat * * has been found. One glacier is being building, preparing for the rush on to the * Famine in Russia.—" The official operated as an ice quarry, blocks of ice Klondyke region. Old miners predict being supplied to Paris restaurants and account admits," says the Anglo-Russian, many disasters, as most of the people know hotels. " that nineteen provinces, with a popu- nothing of boat construction or the navi- lation of forty millions, are affected by the gation of dangerous rapids. The corres- bad crops of last year," and over large THE new Egyptian census—which gives pondent says :— areas there is want and starvation. The the population as nearly ten millions— That the probabilities are decidedly in that di- shows that over 50,000 persons derive rection almost everybody in the camp admit, journal named says of the cause of the their living from the traffic of the Suez though no one seems to think that he is indivi- chronic state of misery in which millions Canal. dually taking any risk. The whole situation in Russia exist :— strongly exemplifies the strange disposition of the mining enthusiast. He is an out-and-out gambler, It is the direct fruit of the cruellest tyranny exercised by the Government over the whole life MR. LEITER, the Chicago young man and he is willing to risk his all on the chance that he will be the one in a hundred to strike the gold- of the people, and of the numerous official and who sent up the price of wheat until bread en dust in payable quantities. artificial measures, which cut off and bar all ways riots almost overthrew the Italian Govern- * * to improvement and self-help. We do not remem- ment, found that he could not dispose of * ber ever having heard of great distress in Finland,. Armour Piercing Shell.—The latest Poland, and in the Baltic provinces. The bulk his stores without at once sending down improvement in armour-piercing shell is of the population in those parts being non-Russian prices ; and yet the new year's supply was an addition of a capsule containing oil for by origin, and non-Orthodox by religion, stands at hand from southern wheat countries. the purpose of lubricating the missile while generally on a higher level of civilisation, and still enjoys remnants of their old social institutions, So he sold at a loss, and is said to have it bores its way through the steel armour. paid over a million sterling for his brief which help them in an organised manner to combat Some idea of the fearful penetrating power the elements of nature, mitigate effects of drou- notoriety. But thousands in Europe will of the modern shell may be gathered from ghts, and generally be prepared to meet any long have cause to remember him as the the following description of a trial shot at possible calamity. The soil of the provinces now man who sent up the price of the loaf till affected by the famine is incomparably richer and armour-plate, reported in an English jour- more productive than that of Finland and the the children cried for bread that the father nal by the director of an arms manufactur- could not buy. Baltic region, but the population, thoroughly * * ing company :-- Russian, is more ignorant, entirely under the con- Quite recently we had the following very re- trol of the State Church, bearing on its weary Spain's Lost Empire.—"Ninety years markable trial, which, I believe, represents the shoulders all the terrible weight of a double sys- ago," says a journal, " nearly a third of the highest result yet accomplished with a projectile. tem which may be truly designated as that of The Hadfield projectile, a shell, not a shot, was Tsarism and Papacy combined, affiliated or ra- Western Hemisphere belonged to Spain. ther assimilated and absorbed into one another." min. calibre, and weighed 5ooths. It struck the * * The English owned the strip of seacoast plate at a velocity of 1,93o f-s, with a striking in Central America now known as British energy of about 13,000 foot tons. The plate of In Germany, it is said, paper floors are well Honduras ; the Guianas, on the northern recent and best manufacture, was I's in thick- liked because, having no joints, they are more coast of South American continent, were ness, very strongly backed up by iron plates and easily kept clean, they are poor conductors of heat and of sound, and they cost less than hard wood divided between England, France and framing, as well as loft. of earthwork. The plate was completely perforated (though, floors. They are put down in the form of a paste Holland; and Brazil was a dependency of as a proof of its excellent quality, it may be men- which is smoothed with rollers, and after it has, Portugal. With these exceptions, every- tioned that it showed no perceptible cracks), as hardened, painted of any desired pattern.;

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Zile Oriental Medium. astir in their behalf ! There is not one un- Word of God, especially to those who PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY employed angel ; they are all swift to " do teach it to the young, but the loss is his His commandments, hearkening unto the own. " For what if some did not believe ? THE INTERNATIONAL TRACT SOCIETY. voice of His word." shall their unbelief make the faith of God 154, Bow Bazar Street, Calcutta. without effect. God forbid : yea let God be THE anti-Jewish feeling in Austria is true, but every man a liar." Price of Subscription: showing itself more violently than ever Volume I. ( May to Dec., 1898). this year. In the province of Galicia, we Strength Now.—Some time you in- Post Free Re. 1. are told, nearly fifty towns have been tend to be strong, and do better; when given over to plunder of Jewish shops and this weakness is overcome the strength " CHRIST in you, the hope of glory,"— houses. will come. This thought that some time that, says the apostle is the mystery of the S the overcoming power will come makes Gospel. Rooted in Him.—The reason why many content to be weak. But God is many are not " rooted and built up in strong now. We are weak ; well, " He THE Gospel is not a mere theory about Him" is that they do not abide in Him giveth power to the faint; and to them a life. It is the power of God to enthrone sufficiently long to get rooted. No plant that have no might He increaseth strength." Jesus Christ within. And where He rules will root itself firmly in the soil if it is Isa. xl. 29. It is a wrong idea of how and lives the life will be after the Divine pulled up every day. Just so many who strength comes that leads one to go on in pattern, because Jesus will live it in the think they want to be rooted in Christ, are weakness expecting some day to get strong. believer. Is it not a glorious hope ? variable and changeable, here and there, " Be strong in the Lord, and in the power never settled and established in the truth, of His might," is God's comdland. It is WE give all of our Calcutta readers a and do not abide in Him so that they may not to the strong, but to the weak that He cordial invitation to attend the public ser- be rooted in Him. gives strength. Confess the weakness, not vices at the Dalhousie Institute, which are as an excuse for continuing in it, but as held every Sunday evening at 6-3o. The THE American papers give wide pub- the reason for laying hold of God's strength same lines of Bible study to which the licity to the fact that, of the volunteers for now. WATCHMAN is devoted will be presented the war rejected as medically unfit, nine in these services. out of every ten were cigarette smokers. MR. GLADSTONE was no misanthrope, and lie had a view of men and affairs, THE LIVING WORD OR A LIFE- over a long period, given to few men to WHEN the Romish theologian, Dr. Eck, LESS CREED? Luther's adversary, told Duke William, of have. And this is what he said in a recent Bavaria, that he could refute ttib Reformers THE following statements by Dr. George work, replying to the question as to with the Fathers, though not with the F. Pentecost, in " In the Volume of the whether human nature is improving or Scriptures, the Duke replied, " 1 am to Book," are worthy of consideration at understand, then, that the Lutherans are The cruelty of Christians is more cruel ; the this time when people are being called lust of Christians is more lustful ; the animal greed within the Scriptures, and we are on the upon to decide between the living Christ of Christians is ten-fold more greedy ; and the outside." and the lifeless creed :— pre Christian times afford us no panorama of The Church at the time of Christ's ministry on mammon worship to compare for a moment with THE notable thing about the German the earth had well nigh lost sight of the Scriptures our own. The luxury and worldiness of old were but child's play in relation to those of modern times. elections, which have just taken place, is by the accumulation of creeds, glosses, commen- taries, and the like, so that they were more given to As an exchange says, he should have the still further increase of the Centre, or creeds and traditions and doctrines of men than said professed Christians, for this loose Catholic, party in the Reichstag, and of they were to the Word of God. We are in the same use of the word Christian is responsible the Socialists. The Catholic party is so danger now. . . . It is a woeful evil to substitute for much evil. Those who are swayed by much of a power now in Germany that the the authority of creeds and confessions of faith for that of the Word of God, which is the only human nature are not Christians, for in Emperor has found it necessary to make rule of faith and practice for His people, and Christ the carnal nature is crucified and peace with the Vatican in order to carry the only writing that is of binding authority upon held down. Mr. Gladstone's words furnish through his legislative proposals. the conscience. . . . Whenever anyone yields obedience to the creeds of the churches, and a striking comment on the scripture, which, with special reference to the last days, WE entrusted the delivery of our Cal- surrenders the God-given right of personally searching the Scriptures to find out for himself the says, " Evil men and seducers shall wax cutta list last month to the Post Office, truth, then he indeed becomes a slave. . . . worse and worse, deceiving and being but have learned of a number of cases in Never surrender your conscience to any save deceived." ? 2 Tim. iii. 13. which the postman failed to do his duty. God, and that on the sole authority of His Word. --- In local districts where there are a large Let God be True.—What passes for " Keep it Holy."—THE command- number of subscribers we shall hereafter ment of the Lord says, " Remember the deliver by special messenger. But if at Bible teaching in certain circles is only a systematic undermining of confidence in Sabbath day to keep it holy." He who any time, in town or country, subscribers does not keep the Sabbath day holy, does do not receive the WATCHMAN promptly the Word. Thus the London Present Truth, just received, says : The Archbishop not keep the commandment at all. Further, we hope they will let us know and we will only he can keep the Sabbath holy who is send another copy. of Canterbury, presiding on Monday at the Diocesan Sunday-school Teachers' Festival himself holy. It therefore follows that civil law cannot, in the very nature of the case, All the Angels.—The most important in that city, said :— He had no doubt there were inaccuracies in the enforce Sabbath-keeping ; for only holy work in the eyes of all heaven is the work Old Testament narratives, but they must notice people, or Christians, can keep the Sab- of saving men ; for do we not read: " Are that throughout the book there was evidenced the bath holy. The law cannot make men they not all ministering spirits sent forth great desire of the writers to tell the truth as far holy, nor can it make unholy men keep the as they knew it. to minister for them who shall be heirs of holy Sabbath. It therefore follows again salvation ?" Not an angel in heaven, then, Seeing that " holy men of God spake as that civil Sabbath laws are folly ; for those but is engaged in rescuing the lost in this they were moved by the Holy Ghost," and who can and will obey God need no civil sinful world. What a scene of activity it was " God who spake in time past by law, and those who will not obey God can- must be the courts of heaven ! the more so the prophets," it is a good thing that we not be helped to obey God by civil law.— as the end draws nearer, and the forces of can rely not only on the great desire of the Signs of the Times. good and of evil prepare for the final con- Author of the Old Testament to tell the flict. What a marvel that so many of the truth, but on His power to do so. It is a THE article on the Eastern question in perishing are themselves careless and in- pity that the Archbishop should conceive it this number may be obtained in pamphlet different to salvation, when all heaven is in his province to cast any doubt on the form from this office. Price, one anna.

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