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

VOLUME 9. OAKLAND; CALIFORNIA, FIFTH—DAY, JUNE 14, 1883. NUMBER 23.

of her ambitious leaders, that the Bible had been tion. But was rallying his forces to con- withheld from them. ' trol. the minds of the people and maintain the ke in:5 of tht Tetzel sets up his traffic in the church, and as- traffic .in the grace of God. He aroused such PUBLISHED WEEKLY, FOR THE tending the pulpit, he with great vehemence ex- hatred against Luther that many were ready to tots indulgences as the most precious gifts of God. silence his opposition; even by taking his life. S. D. A. MISSIONARY SOCIETY. "Draw near," he cries, " and I will give you let- Thus the great controversy between the Prince of (For Terms, etc., See Last Page.) ters, duly 'sealed, by which the sins you hereafter light and the prince` of darkness, went steadily desire to commit shall be all forgiven you." ".Even forward. ntered at the Post-Office in Oakland, Cal. repentance is not indispensable." " But more About this time the elector Frederic had a than all this, _indulgences save not only the living dream which made a deep impression. upon' his but the dead." " The very moment that the mind, and which seemed in a remarkable manner .IVEY money clinks against the bottom of this chest, the 'to foreshadow the work of the Reformation. [These lines were written by Ellen L. Goveh, a Brahmin of the highest soul escapes from purgatory, and flies to Heaven." " The feast of All-Saints was at hand, and. the caste, adopted daughter of Rev. W. T. Stone, of Bradford, England.] With such Heaven-daring blasphemy spoke this elector, having retired to rest, lay musing how he IN the secret of his presence how my soul delights to hide, agent of Satan. should keep the. festival, and was praying for the Oh how precious are the lessons which I learn at Jesus' side! When Simon Magus offered to purchase of the poor souls in purgatory, and beseeching Divine Earthly cares can never vex me, neither trials lay me low, apostles the power to work , Peter guidance for himself, his counselors, and his peo- For when Satan comes to tempt me, to the "secret place" answered him, " Thy money perish with thee, be- pie. Thus engaged, he fell asleep, and dreamed I go. cause thou hast thought that the gift of God may that a monk, a true son of the apostle Paul, was When my soul is faint and thirsty,'neath the shadow of His be purchased with money." But Tetzel's offer sent to him; and that all the saints accompanied. wing was grasped by eager thousands. Gold and silver him, for the purpose of testifying that he was di- There. is cool and pleasant shelter, and a fresh and crystal spring; flowed into his treasury. A salvation that could vinelyy commissioned. They asked of the elector, And my Saviour rests beside me, as we hold communion be bought with money was more easily obtained that the monk might be allowed to write some- sweet; than that which required repentance, faith and thing on the church door at Wittenberg. The If I tried, I could not utter what he says when thus we meet. diligent effort to resist and overcome sin. They monk began to write, and the characters were so Only this I know: . I tell him all my doubts and griefs and could sin as they pleased, and money would pur- large and brilliant that they. could be read at a fears; chase their pardon. great distance; and the pen he used was so long Oh how patiently he listens, and my drooping soul he cheers. The doctrine of indulgences had Ion been op- that its extremity reached even to Rome, and Do you think he ne'er reproves me ? What a false friend he posed by men.of learning and piety in the Romish wounded the ears of a lion which was crouching would be, If he never told me of the sins which he must surely see. Church, and there were many who had no faith in there, and shook the triple crown on the pope's pretensions so contrary to both reason and reve- head. All the cardinals and princes ran to sup- Do you think that I could love him half so well as I ought lation. Yet no bishop dared to lift his voice port it; and, as the dreamer himself joined in the If he did not tell me plainly of each sinful word and thought? No! he is so very faithful, and that makes me trust him against. the fraud and corruption of this iniquitous effort to support the pope's crown, he awoke in more: • traffic. The minds of men were becoming dis- great alarm, and angry with the monk who had ForI know that he does love me, though he wounds me very turbed and uneasy, and they eagerly inquired if used his pen so awkwardly. Presently he fell sore. God would not work through some' instrumental- asleep again, and his strange dream continued; Would you like to know the sweetness of the secret of the ity for the purification of his church. the disturbed lion began to roar, and Rome and Lord ? The traffic in indulgences, subversive as it was all the surrounding States ran to make inquiry; Go and hide beneath his shadow; this shall then be your of the very foundation principles of the gospel, and the pope demanded that the monk be re- reward; And whene'er you leave the silence of that happy meeting- could not fail to arouse determined opposition on strained, and demanded this especially of the elec- place, the part of Luther. Though still a papist of the tor, as the plonk dwelt in his dominions. You must mind and bear the image of your Master in your straitest sort, he was filled with horror at the " Once more the elector awoke from his dream, face. blasphemous assumptions of Tetzel and his associ- besought God to preserve the holy father, the You*will surely lose the blessing and the fullness of your joy, ates. Many of his own congregation had pur- pope, and slept again. And still his strange dream If you let dark clouds distress you, and your inward chased certificates of pardon, and they soon be-, continued, and he saw all the princes of the em- peace destroy. gan to come to Luther confessing their various pire crowding to Rome, and all striving to break You may always be abiding, if you will rest at jesus' side.e; In tlese cret of his presence you may e very moment hid sins, and expecting absolution, not because they the mysterious pen. Yet the more they,endeav- were penitent and wished to reform, but on the ored to break it, the stiffer it became; and when ground of the indulgence. Luther refused them they asked the monk where he found it, and why absolution, and warned them that unless they it was so strong, he replied that he' secured it 05t1thal should repent, and reform their lives, they must from one of his old schoolmasters; that it belonged perish in their sins. In great perplexity, they to a Bohemian goose* a hundred years old; and sought out Tetzel, and informed him that Luther, that it was strong because no man could take the The First Blow of the Reformation. an Augustine monk, had treated his letters with pith out of it. 'Suddenly the dreamer heard an contempt. The friar was filled with rage. He outcry, and lo, a great number of pens had issued BY MRS. E. G. WHITE. uttered the most terrible curses, caused fires to be from te long pen of the monk!" lighted in the publid square, and declared that he The festival of All-Saints was an important day year 1517 marked the beginning of a new had orders from the pope to burn the heretics who for Wittenberg. The costly relics of the church eraera for the church and the world. It was a period should dare to oppose his most holy indulgences. were then displayed before the people, and a full of great excitement in Germany. To replenish Luther now enters boldly upon his work as a remission of sin was granted to all who visited her treasuries, the Roman Church had opened a champion of the truth, fighting not against flesh the church and made confession. Accordingly on vast market on earth, and made merchandise of and blood, but against principalities, and powers, this day the people in great numbers flocked to the grace of God. Indulgences was the name and spiritual wickedness in high places. His Wittenberg. given to this merchandise. As the dealer entered voice is heard from the pulpit, in earnest, solemn On the 31st of October, the day preceding the a town, one went before him, crying, " The grace warning. He sets before the people the offensive festival, a monk went boldly to the church, to of God and of the Holy Father is at your gates." character of sin, and teaches them that it is impos- which a crowd of worshipers was already repair- And the people welcomed the blasphemous pre- sible for man by his own works to lessen its guilt ing, and affixed to the door ninety-five proposi- tender as if he were God himself come down from or evade its punishment. Nothing but repentance tions against the doctrine of indulgences. That Heaven to them. toward God and faith in Christ can save the sin - monk was Martin Luther. He went alone; not Tetzel, the leader in this infamous traffic, had ner. The grace of Christ cannot be purchased. one of his most intimate friends knew of his de- been convicted of the basest offenses against soci- It is a free gift. He counsels the people not to sign. As he fastened his theses upon the door of ety and against the law of God; but having es- buy the indulgences, but to look in faith to their the church, he proclaimed himself' ready to defend caped the punishment due to his crimes, he was crucified . He relates his own painful, them the next day at the university itself against now employed to flirther the mercenary and un- experience in vainly seeking by humiliation and all opposers. . scrupulous projects of the Romish Church. With penance to secure salvation, and assures his hear- These propositions attracted universal atten- shameless effrontery he framed the most glaring ers that it was by looking away from himself and tion. They were read and re-read and repeated falsehoods, and related all manner of marvelous believing in Christ that he found peace and joy tales to deceive an ignorant, credulous, and super- unspeakable. He urges them to obtain, if possi- - John Huss, whose surname in the Bohemian language signifies goose, Huss proclaimed the truth a century before the time of Luther, and when stitious people. Had they possessed the word of ble, a copy of the Bible, and to study it diligently. assailed by persecution, he declared : "The wick6d have begun by pre- God, the unerring detester of sin and Satanic de- It is those who do not learn and obey its sacred paring a treacherous snare for the goose. But if even the goose, which is a domestic bird, a. peaceful animal, and whose flight is not very high lusions, they could not have been thus deceived. truths that are deceived by Satan, and left to 0,1y,il)trhe e air, has nevertheless broken through their tails, other birds, soaring It was to ,keep them under the control of the pa- perish in their iniquity. boldly toward the sky, will break through them with still greater force. instead of a feeble goose, the truth will send forth eagles and pacy, that they might swell the power and,wealth A bold blow had loden struck for .the Reforma- keen-eyed vultures." 266 SIG iNS TI-11-1: TIMES. VOL. 9, No. 23. in every direction. Great excitement was created Luther's theses; but they soon saw that the ac- in the university and in the whole city. Whence the upward tendency? This involves ceptance of these truths woiild involve great a law which enters into the whole construction. By these these4 the doctrine of indulgences was changes. To enlighten and reform the people fearlessly opposed. It was shown that the power The survival of the fittest cannot account for it. would be virtually tOundermine the papal author- The lower orders were the -most ancient. Man did to grant th.e pardon of sin, and to remit its pen- ity, to stop millions of streams now flowing into alty, had never been committed to the pope, or to not survive. He came. And be came naked, her treasury, and thus greatly curtail the extrav- weaponless, relatively feeble, surrounded by sav- any other- man. The whole scheme was a farce, agance and luxury of the Romish leaders. Fur- age beasts, and least fitted to survive. Their idea an artifice to extort money by playing upon the thermore, to teach the people to think and act as superstitions of the people, a device of Satan to of the survival of the fittest is the survival of the responsible beings, looking to Christ alone for sal- strongest. Sow wheat and Canada thistles to- destroy. the souls of all who should trust to its ly- vation, would overthrow the pontiff's throne, and gether, and which will survive ? Which is fit- ing pretensions. It was also clearly shown that eventually destroy their own authority. For this the gospel of Christ was the most valuable treas- test? The ground brings forth fruits, seeds, reason they refused the knowledge tendered them thorns, thistles. It is only by the sweat of the ure of the church, and that the grace of God, of God, and arrayed themselves against Christ brow that the survival of the fittest for man is therein revealed, was freely bestowed upon all and the truth by their opposition to the man secured. Why do not lions, tigers, and wolves who should seek it by repentance and faith. whom he had sent to enlighten them. dominate the more useful animals for man ? Why, God was directing the labors of this fearless but in that law by which the weaker animals are builder, and the work he wrought was firm and Made more numerous and prolific? sure. He had faithfully presented the doctrine of Dr. Hopkins on Evolution. grace, which would destroy the assumptions of Evolution cannot account for the movement [The Bev. Mark Hopkins, D. D., LL.D., Ex-President of Williams Col- upwards. Darwin's theory of the origin of the pope as a mediator, and lead the people to lege, is delivering a course of lectures in Princeton Seminary, in the first species is supposed to give support to evolution. Christ alone as the sinner's sacrifice and interces- of which he discusses evolution. The following is the substance of this lecture.1 (1) It may do so if there be a propagation of one sor. Thus was the elector's dream already begin- THE grandest description ever given of man is species for another. The variety of pigeons is ning to be fulfilled. The pen which wrote upon in the first chapter of Genesis. We see there im- great: but no pigeon has ever been changed to an the church door extended to Rome, disturbing the plied the sonship of man and the fatherhood of lion in his lair, and jostling the pope's diadem. eagle. (2) The change must be from lower to God. This sonship is truly apprehended only in higher. Species often degenerate. Men degen- The sin-loving and superstitious multitudes Christ. Man was not formed in the image of a erate. Here is evolution downwards. were. terrified as the sophistries that had soothed god, but of God, the God of the first chapter of Evolution is essentially atheistic. It does not their fears were rudely swept away. Crafty Genesis, the Creator of the heavens and the earth. account for the origin of man. ecclesiastics, interrupted in their hellish work of In man as created by him and in his image we Herbert Spencer admits the power of the un- sanctioning crime, and seeing their gains endan- have a being worthy of redemption. We have known and the unknowable as the agency by gered, were enraged, and rallied to uphold the herein a congruity essential to the unity of the which evolution is brought about. If he main- pope. Scriptures. We care little whether you take tains that this power is inherent in matter, then Luther's theses challenged discussion; but not creation in the higher or lower sense of the term. he is an evolutionist; but if separate from matter, one dared to accept the challenge. By the grace In looking at the marvelous • distribution of then he is not an evolutionist. There are as of God, the blow struck by the monk of Witten- oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, and their great differences among evolutionists as among berg shook the very foundation of the papacy, nice adjustments in quantity and quality, we can- theologians. Professor Fiske ranks among his stunned and terrified its supporters, and awakened not repress the conviction, "He weighed the ablest disciples. He speaks of the unknowable; thousands from the slumber of error and super- mountains in scales and te hills in a balance." but he knows it to be, and that it is inde- stition. The questions which he proposed in his We think we are safe in supposing that matter pendent of matter. TO this power there is no theses had in a few days spread throughout Ger- had its origin in time, rather than that it existed limit in time or space. All the phenomena of many, and in a few weeks they bad sounded from eternity. Do you deny the fact of man's the universe are referable to this infinite and eter- throughout Christendom. Many devoted Roman- original creation ? Did man come to be man by nal power. It is the author of the moral law. ist's, who had seen and lamented the terrible in- creation ? or evolution ? or what is tile same thing, To holiness it gives the divine sanction; to sin iquity prevailing in the church, but had not known by a process of development? Evolution and the divine condemnation. It is an infinite and how to arrest its progress, read the propositions development imply involution and envelopment. eternal being, capable of effort (and enormous with great joy, recognizing in them the voice of Mr. Tyndall assumes the existence of matter in effort too) through the ages. Evolution knows God. They felt that had graciously set the sun in a nebulous state. There were shut up that this power is not a person, that it has no his hand to arrest the rapidly swelling tide of in matter certain potentialities, certain forces. selfconsciousness, that it does not contrive; it corruption that was issuing fromn the see of Rome. Man was developed.upward from below. If it be knows naught o the unknowable, nor of the Princes and magistrates secretly rejoiced that a admitted that in certain aspects the language of dogmas handed down by priests. And that is check was to 'be put upon the arrogant power the Bible favors evolution, it is no less true that it what they style scientific knowledge. When front which there was no appeal. represents God as a personal God commanding they introduce the terms sins, holiness, moral law, Yet there were some who doubted and feared. those processes. But in making man there is no we recognize the livery of Heaven to clothe evo- The prior of Luther's order, frightened by Tet- affinity with evolution. Was he created by God, lution in. zel, came to the Reformer in great alarm, saying. or was he evoked by forces inherent in matter ? Now some evolutionists attempt to reconcile " Pray do not bring disgrace upon your order." We take Genesis. science and religion. The phantom of hostility Luther had great respect for this man, and was The author of Genesis proclaims the unity of (say they) between religion and science must be deeply affected by his words, but rallying he re- God; monotheism. Was this an inference drawn exorcised now and forever. What does this plied, " Dear father, if the thing is not of God, it from the unity of his works ? That unity could amount to ? By religion do they mean Christian- will come to naught. If it is, let it go forward." not then have been known. There was no sci- ity ? No. Is eternal life embraced in (their) But the Reformer had more bitter accusers to ence to help man to this conclusion. Indeed, as science? No. It is unknown and unknowable. meet. Some charged him with acting hastily and he looked at earth, air, and water, and their deep The unknowableness is that we cannot find out from impulse. Others accused him of presump- commotions, he might naturally have inferred him whom we call " Our Father; " that he is not tion, declaring that he was not directed of God, the very opposite. Whence this idea of man's a person. They deny to him every attribute of but was acting from pride and forwardness. creation in the image of God, and ,with domin- Father. He cannot work miracles, he cannot " Who does not know," he responds, " that we ion over every living thing ? Nature must have make a ; cannot answer prayer; is not can seldom advance a new idea witout an ap- been established when man was created. And to be worshiped, nor to be loved. Evolution can pearance of pride, and without being accused of how, but through revelation, was he to get an consort with Christianity only by destroying it. seeking quarrels ? Why were Christ and all the idea of chaos? Evolution does not account for In fact evolution is reconciled with no religion martyrs put to death ? Because they appeared the origin of anything. It assumes the existence which recognizes a personal God.. proud despisers of the wisdom of the times in of nebulous matter. It puts itself on the same Scripture statement: Man was created. Is which they lived, and because they brought for- plane with the author of Genesis. How was there more mystery connected with this state- ward new truths without having first consulted the matter there ? To the brutes and to many ment -than with the declarations of evolution"? the oracles of the old opinions." persons most things seem a mere matter of course. A matured man stands before me, one of full Again he declares: " What I am doing will not They are surprised merely at what is new. But stature and perfect in form. Twenty-six years be effected by th.e prudence of man; but by the to wonder belongs not to a being evolved from an. ago where was the material out of which he was counsel of God. If the work is of God, who shall ape. And wonder increases instead of diminish- made ? His carbon perhaps lay in the rocks, stop it? If it is not, who can forward it? Not ing by reason of familiarity. The future life un- and his -oxygen and nitrogen were floating over my will, not theirs, not ours; but thy will, thine, der a different form is not stranger than the pres- the Himalayas. We simply say, " He grew." holy Father who art in Heaven! " ent life under its present form. A personal God Custom blinds us. No one wonders. Evolution Luther had been urged on by the Spirit of God is no stranger than a personal self. Existence of says that man is evolved, when not one particle to begin his work; but he was not to carry it for- all kinds is wonderful. Evolution has no advan- of .matter in him was in the original. Is it any ward without severe conflicts. The reproaches tages. The one assumption is not worse than the more strange to bring together these particles of his enemies their misrepresentation of his pur- other. the assumption of matter, the assumption instantly than in twenty-six years? What great poses, and their unjust and malicious reflections of God.' Evolution requires new assumptions all distinction is there between evolution and growth? upon his character and motives, came in upon the time. Let us concede to nebulous matter an inook at a field the first of April and then the him like an overwhelming flood; and they were existence. Whence life? Whence organism ? first of July. Whence the four tons of clover on not without effect. He had felt confident that Tyndall speaks of an organism sensitive all over. it ? Yes; we know all about it. " It grew."• the leaders in the church, and the philosophers of Whence organs? Why, the organs have been Life and organization did not always exist. the nation, would gladly unite with him in efforts differentiated. Differentiated by .what? By There must have been a beginning. We gain for reform. Words of encouragement from those differentiation. This surely ought to be satisfac- nothing philosophically by these fine-spun theo, in high position had inspired him with joy and tory. The eye was formed. This formation be- ries of " science falsely so called." hope. Already in anticipation he saw a brighter gan by rays of light falling on pigment cells Even thus it stands: " So God created man in day dawning for the church. But encourage- vaguely sensitive all over. What of propagation ? his own image, in the image of God created 'he ment had turned to reproach and condemnation. of the sexual relations ? How were two individ- him; male and female created he them." Many of the dignitaries both of the church and of uals of different sexes to reach the same stage of the State were convicted of the truthfulness of development, and at the same time? " BEFORE honor is humility." JUNE 14, 1883. TIC Fi; SIGNS OF TH F TIMES. 267

pincers; then, in mercy, his head was cut off and has been performed in a slovenly manner is fit to Justice ,under Romanism. thrown into the fire. So died the Chevalier de present before the infinitely glorious One? ' A La Barre. He was nineteen years of age. [Long high respect for the Lord God should be the lead- ON the occasion of the one-hundredth anniver- and profound sensation.]" ing motive for holy carefulness in every service, sary of the death of Voltaire, Victor Hugo de- We have always had a feeling of sympathy but next to this, self-respect ought to urge us to thoroughness. Let us do nothing unworthy of livered an oration in which he gave the following for Voltaire thig fir: in opposing Christianity he instances to show how justice was administered servants of the Lord Jesus. We treat ourselves opposed it as it was presented to him in the with contempt when we perform inferior work; under papal.rule, in the days of Voltaire:— Roman . Could he be blamed we ought not to condescend to such drudgery.— " At Toulouse, October 13, 1761, there was for this? But he was to be blamed for speaking C. H. Spurgeon. found in a. lower story of a house, a young man of the Bible as be did, actuated by his prejudices, hanged. The crowd gathered, the clergy fulmi- Strong Foundations. nated, the magistracy investigated. - it was a and saying things which were not true. But in suicide; they made of it an assassination. In the last great day it will be found that the papal A STORY is told of LepauX, a member of the what interest? In the interest of religion. And church—a monstrous travesty on Christianity French Directory, that with much thought and Who was accused ? The father. He was a Hu- and justice—is responsible for a large share of study he had invented a new religion, to be called guenot, and he wished to hinder his son from be- the infidelity which has cursed the earth during " Theophilanthropy," a kind of organized Rous- coming a Catholic. There was here a moral this dispensation. EDITOR SIGNS. • seauism, and that, being disappointed in its not monstrosity and a material impossibility; no mat- being readily approved and adopted, he com- ter ! This father had killed his son; this old plained to Talleyrand of the difficulty he found in man had hanged this young man. Justice trav- Aim at Your Best Every Time. introducing it. ailed and this was the result. On the month of "I am not surprised," said Talleyrand, at the March, 1762, a man with white hair, Jean Calas, SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS was one of the most dis- difficulty you find in your effort. It is no easy was conducted to a public place, stripped naked, tinguished painters of his day; and in answer to matter to introduce a new religion. But there stretched upon a wheel, the members bound upon the inquiry, how he attained to such excellence, is one thing I Would advise you to do, and then, it, the bead hanging. Three men are there upon he replied, "By observing one simple rule, viz., perhaps, you might succeed." a scaffold, a magistrate named David, charged to to make each painting the best." Depend upon it " What is it? what is it ?" asked the other superintend the punishment, a priest to hold the that the same thing is true in the service of God. with eagerness. crucifix, and the executioner with a bar of iron He who wishes to preach well should endeavor It is this," said Talleyrand, " go and be cru- in his hand. The patient, stupefied arid terrible-, each time to preach his best. The audience may cified, and then be buried, and then rise again on regards not the priest and, looks at the execu- be small, and the hearers illiterate; but the best the third day, and then go working miracles, rais- tioner. The executioner lifts the bar of iron, possible sermon will not be thrown away upon ing the dead, and healing all manner of diseases, and breaks one of his arms. The victim groans them: It may be that the minister is invited to and casting out devils, and then it is possible that and swoons. The magistrate comes forward; make one among several speakers at a tea-meet- you might accomplish your end! " And the phi- they make, the condemned inhale salts; he re- ing. Never let him talk mere nonsense to fill up losopher, crestfallen and confounded, went away turns to life. Then another stroke of the bar; the time, as so many have done in days past; .but silent. another groan. Calas loses consciousness; they let him use the occasion as an opportunity for The anecdote shows, in a fresh and striking revive him, and the executioner begins again; quietly uttering most important truths. It is for tight, bow firm the foundation on which Chris- and, as each limb before being broken in two the preacher's own good that he should never tianity and the faith of the Christian rest. places receives two blows, that makes eight pun- descend into mere dribble. Beyond all expecta- "Ransack_all history," says an able writer, " and ishments. After the eighth swooning the priest tions, he may be accomplishing a great work, you cannot find a, single event more satisfactorily offers him the crucifix to kiss; Calas turns away when his only idea is that he is doing a little one coup and clearly proved than the resurrection of his bead, and the executioner gives him the as well as he can. Our firm opinion is that we Christ from the dead." And says another, a dis- de grace; that is to say, crushes in his chest with often accomplish most when the occasion appears tinguished jurist, "If human evidence ever has the thick end of the bar of iron. So died Jean to be the least favorable. proved, or ever can lirove anything, then the Calas. Well do we remember a young man who was miracles of Christ are proved beyond a shadow " That lasted two hours. After his death, the called to, preach on a certain week-day morning, of a doubt." And yet the miracles and resurrec- evidence of the suicide came to light. But an at the anniversary of a village. chapel. He was tion of Christ prove his divinity; and as Napo- assassination bad been committed. By whom? somewhat surprised to find that only eight persons leon said, His divinity once admitted, Christian-- By the judges. [Great sensation. Applause.] were present in a .spacious edifice; but he gave ity appears with the precision and clearness of " Another fact. After the old man, the young himself up, heart and soul, to the service as thor- algebra; it has the connection and unity of a sci- man. Three years later, in 1765, at Abbeville, oughly as if eight thousand had been gathered to- ence." the day after a night Of storm and high wind, gether. It was the time of refreshing to the And on this strong foundation it is that Chris- there was found upon the pavement of a bridge eight, and to the preacher himself, and so nine tianity and .the Christian faith rest. And how an old crucifix of worm-eaten wood, which for were benefited! What was the result? In the absolutely immovable that foundation is, how three centuries had been fastened to the parapet. evening the audience filled the place; the rumor absolutely convincing the evidence from this Who had thrown down this crucifix? •_Who com-: of the morning sermon had been industriously source, we hardly realize until, like Talleyrand, mittedthis sacrilege? It is not known. Perhaps spread by the• villagers, the scantiness of the we call on the objector himself to be 'crucified, a passer-by. Perhaps the wind. Who is the audience. being a factor in the singularity of the himself to rise from the dead, and himself to guilty one? The bishop of Amiens launches a news; and every available person was mustered work miracles, as Christ did throughout Jerusa- ?nonitoire. Note what a mOnitoire was: it was to cheer the poor young man who was such a. lem and all judea, in the presence sof thousands an order to the faithful, on pain of hell, to declare singular preacher. What was far better, there and tens of thousands, both enemies and friends. what they knew or believed they knew of such were memorials of good having been accomplished It is a most assuring as well as comforting 'or such a fact; a murderous injunction, when ad- in the salvation of souls. A brother minister, thought, that this external evidence from with-' dressed by fanaticism to igfiorance. The moni- who was present in the morning because he was out can never be shaken while human testimony toire of the Bishop of Amiens does its work; the the preacher of the afternoon, remarked that if it has value or meaning. And when we add to town gossip assumes the character "of the crime had been his lot to couduct that morning service this the internal evidence—the fact that thou- charged. Justice discovers, or believes it discov- the slender congregation would have taken all the sands and millions of Christians have felt, in ers, that on the night when the crucifix was life out of him, but that he saw the wisdom of their own experience, that the gospel is true, thrown down, two men, two officers, one named always doing one's best under all sorts of circum- just as the hungry man knows when he is fed, or La Barre, the other d'Etallonde, passed over the stances, for it would be sure to lead up to some- the thirsty when he has drank; just as we know bridge of Abbeville, that they were. drunk, and thing larger by and. by. Let every young speaker the existence of. the sun because we see its light that they sang a guard-room song. The tribunal think of this, and throw all his energies into a and feel its heat—then the foundation on which as was the Seneschalcy of Abbeville. The Series- discourse in a cottage to a dozen old ladies. It is Christians we rest, stands doubly sure to the soul. chalcy of Abbeville was equivalent to the court an old saying that when the farrier's name is up, Heaven and earth may pass away, but God's of the Capitouls of Toulouse. It was not less he need not take care how he makes .his horse- word and all that rests upon it shall abide for- just. Tivo orders for arrest were issued. .D'Etal- shoes; but it is a gross and wicked falsehood; for ever.—American Messenger. londe escaped, La Barre was taken. Him they the more a man has succeeded, the more it is in- cumbent upon him to do better, and still better, delivered to judicial examination. He denied in speaking of Spain, thus points having crossed the bridge; he confessed to having that his reputation may not become a falsehood, THE Interior, sung the song. The Seneschalcy of Abbeville and that younger men may not find in his exam- out some of the beauties of Romanism: " The most ignorant, illiterate, and superstitious nation condemned him; he appealed to the Parliament ple an excuse for trifling: He 'who can do best of Paris. He was conducted to Paris; the sen- should still do his best; the best of the best is no in the world, which claims to rank as a civilized power, is the only one in which is tence was found good and confirmed. He was better than our God deserves. conducted back to Abbeville in chains. I abridge. Perhaps there is no greater evil under the sun prohibited by law, and in which Romanism has The monstrous hour arrives. .They begin by than "a great sermon," which people speak of as exclusive control of education. The last census of Spain shows that there are 11,800,000 persons in subjecting the Chevalier de La Barre to the tort- " quite an intellectual treat;" and yet, in another ure, ordinary and extraordinary, to make him `Sense, every sermon should be great, and every a population of 16,500,000 who are unable to read. address should be solid. The toleration of slight Lazy priests live there in palaces and fatten at reveal his ,accomplice. Accomplices in what? the expense of the laboring poor. The war on the In having crossed a bridge and sung a song? work in the service of God shows a want of rever- common schools of America is waged in the-vain During the torture one of his knees was broken; ence for.his holy name. If Dr. Johnson was right his confessor, on hearing the bones crack, fainted in his proverbial saying, that " Whatever is worth hopethat this land also may be made a paradise of imposters, and this great people be reduced to a away. The next day, June 5, 1766, La Barre doing at all, is worth doing well," with what was drawn to the great square of Abbeville, emphasis should we accept the sentence if the mass of timid and obsequious slaves." where flamed a penitential fire; the sentence was work is to be done for the Lord of hosts. How dare read to La, Barre; then they cut off one of his we offer to him that which costs us nothing ? Never punish your child for a fault to which hands; then they'tore out his tongue with iron How dare we think that any workmanship which you are addicted yourself. 268 TI-1 F SIGNS OF THE TIM Fi.S. VoL. 9, No. 23.

Study of . many that they are insuperable. We deny it. he who calmed the tempestuous ocean will stretch Of course the Bible does not make us. prophets. his kingly hand over all creation, and there shall " WE have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto The interpreters of prophecy do not assume to be an everlasting- and unbroken calm. He will ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in be so. We are interpreters of what God has come, in the language of the angel sent to tell a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts."-2 Pet. 1 : 19. written, not prophets of what he has not written. the sorrowing disciples upon Olivet, when they' The books of Isaiah, Daniel, Revelation—the pre- mourned his departure from them: " This same PETER records in his epistles the scene . he wit- dictions scattered through the epistles--are part Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, nessed on Tabor. Deep and lasting must have and parcel of the inspired word. What is a book shall so come—so come—in like manner as ye been the impression it made upon his mind. He written for ? To be read. And what is the ob- have seen him go into heaven." Can words be makes a deduction from the scene witnessed on ject of reading? To understand. Is it likely that plainer? He rose in the air, the cloud his char- the mount. On it I intend to ground illustra- God Almighty would give us a book that we are iot, the shechinah his , and he disappeared; tions of the future, so far as delineated in -the not to read, or if we read it that it will be impos- the cloud will be his chariot again, and he will sacred volume. sible for us to understand ? Let us refer to the come, in his own language, " in the clouds of But I feel it necessary to explain the words of most difficult and mysterious book in the New heaven, with power and great glory; " or as the Peter. The common reading of the passage is, Testament--the Apocalypse—how does it open? apostle says, " behold he cometh with clouds and " until the day-star. arise in your hearts." Such, Does if say, Don't cross the threshold; don't vent- every eye shall see him." " The Lord himself however, is not the meaning of the apostle—"a ure to read this book, for you will never be able shall descend from heaven "—the Lord himself day-star " arising in a believer's heart, is not to understand it; cease reading the New Testa- shall descend from heaven. These are weighty a Scriptural idea. The true construction of the ment at the end of the Epistle of J ude, and words; we don't appreciate them as we ought. passage, and in perfect accordance with the leave the book of the Revelation for perusal after We think too much of death, too little of Him Greek, is this: " Ye do well that ye take heed [as its visions have hardened into history ? No such who is the Lord of life and the destroyer of death. unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until preliminary warning is given. On the contrary We have nothing to-do with death, but to ignore the day dawn, and the day-star arise];" there it opens saying, "Blessed is he that readeth," it; we have everything to do. with the Lord of we close the brackets, and then the words, " in not. unfortunate, or mistaken, or fanatical is he the living, the destroyer of death, and to look your hearts," refer back to the words, " take that readeth; but "Blessed is he that readeth, for him, worship and adore him. heed." Therefore the true reading of the words and they that hear the words of this prophecy, And certainly in recent time this subject has is, " We have also a more sure word of proph- and keep those things which are written therein." been investigated by pious, learned, and studious ecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed in That there may be no mistake about the possibil- minds, to an extent and with a success with your hearts, as unto a light that shineth in a ity of understanding this book, it is further called which it never was investigated before. The dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Evangelical party in the Church of England gen- arise." unto him, to show unto his servants things which erally concur in the duty of studying the sure Peter speaks in language which many in this must shortly come to pass; and he sent and sig- word of prophecy. Growing numbers in other generation certainly do not accept. " We have nified it by his angel unto his servant John." churches agree with them. But if none accepted also a more sure word of prophecy ; " and he Peter says, " We have a sure word of prophecy;" the study it would be no matter except a source adds, " Ye do"--ill ?, No. " Ye do "---wrong ? as sure a prediction as facts in history are real-. of sorrow. We are to call no man " Master; " No; but " Ye do well to take heed." Too many And he says, "Ye do," not ill, but " ye do well to for our rule of belief is not what the most men excellent Christians repudiate every discussion take heed unto it, as unto "—what ? A meteor say, or the best men think, or the fathers have whiche touches the skirts, or trenches on the in the swamp, that misleads ? a will-o'-the-wisp, written, or popes have fulminated, but to the merest outlines, of prophetic investigation. Let that will drive or draw you you know not whither? law and the testimony; what say the Scriptures ? us show that such an attitude i.s not Scriptural, it No; but as unto " a LIGHT that shineth in a dark if they speak not according to them, it is because is not even rational, and certainly it is not prof- place; " and you are to take heed to it until the there is no truth in them. itable to our souls or conducive to our happiness. bright and morning star appear upon the brow Let this great truth sink deep into our hearts, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, all have of night, and the Sun of Righteousness, that set that He who came personally to die, will come written , some portions of which have amidst the clouds of Calvary, rise amidst the personally to reign. It is no dispute as to the been translated into facts, while some of their splendors of everlasting day, with healing under meaning of the second advent; if language has writings remain still for the future to illustrate, his wings. any sense, if grammar is capable of construction, and the historian to record. The last discourse The Saviour's longest discourse was the ser- it must be accepted as a literal and a personal of Jesus to his disciples was a portrait of the mon on the mount of beatitudes, and his next advent. How will that sublime scene, it may be things that were to come on the earth. The dis- longest sermon was that which he pronounced very near, startle a world that has no thought of ciple who loved most, called the disciple of love, upon the mount overlooking Jerusalem, when it, and no care about it. A glory in comparison was chosen while an exile on Patmos, to pre- he predicted distress of nations, perplexity, the with which Tabor's light was dimness, will flash write th,e events of the future. Before him fall of Jerusalem, the dispersion of the Jews, and to every eye, for " every eye shall see him," and swept past the apocalyptic visions that are every all the lights and shadows of that futurity into the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all day being translated into facts. The objection we which we have long ago entered. It is in the flesh shall see—some departing like a for- hear constantly urged, sometimes by Christians, course of this prophecy that the disciples said to ever; others embracing it with joy unutterable always by the profane, is this: Have there not him, What shall be the sign of thy personal ad- and full of glory, the salvation of our God. But been so many misinterpretations, mistakes, and vent; the sign of thy coming, and of the end of whatever be the contrasting effects, his coming miscalculations, that we are compelled to shrink the world? What did the Saviour answer? Did draweth near.—Dr. Cumming. from all effort to explain those prediCtions that he rebuke them? Did he say, You have no busi- relate to the future, until the future is lost in the ness with such subjects? Did he say, Go, and G-RIFF A FRIEND. present, and the predictions are known to be practice righteousness, and charity, and love, and true by our seeing their fulfillment? What, I truth, but crush all desire to know aught of fu- WHEN Grief shall come to thee, ask, would be the use of such a theory? When turity ? Certainly not; he at once proceeded, in Think not to flee; the whole earth shall be covered with the glory For Grief, with steady pace, a chapter as sublime as it is rich in comfort and Will win the race. of Tabor, we shall not need evidence that God is thought, to tell them what signs should precede Nor crowd her forth with Mirth; God, or that the New Testament is true. We his advent, what circumstances should usher it in, For at thy hearth, shall then read its magnificent pages in the orig- what shadows and clouds should lie broad, cold, When Mirth is tired and gone, inal splendor in which they were once written, Will Grief sit on. and dark, upon the bosom of the earth, until the But make of her thy friend, and we ,shall have the evidence of our senses brightness of his advent came to strike them And in the end that all God ever revealed is true. But the mis- through with glory. " There shall," he said, Her counsels will grow sweet; interpretations of the past ought not to be dis- " be signs in the sun, and in the moon and in the And with swift feet. suasives from our attempting what we can prove Three lovelier than she stars, and upon the earth distress of nations, Will come to thee— to .be a clear and an obvious duty. In the laying with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring; Calm Patience, Courage strong, of, the Atlantic telegraph, the failures of the past men's hearts failing them for fear of the things And Hope—erelong. serve to stimulate better efforts for the future, as that are coming on the earth. And then "— —Henrietta 1?. Elliott. well' as contain the elementS of future success. when ? just when you see these things—" then Failures are not losses. Every buoy we see shall appear the sign of the .Son of man in Woman's Sunny Temper. floating in the channel over sandbank or ship- heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the earth wreck makes past disaster the ground of future mourn, and they shall see the Son of man com- WHAT a blessing to a household is a, merry, safety. The wrecks of the past make the voy- ing in the clouds of heaven with power and great cheerful woman--one whose spirits are not ages of the present only more certain, and less glory." Let us .not try to be wiser than the affected by wet days, or little disappointments, or liable to peril. But if the misinterpretation of Master; read these words ,and see if they only whose milk of human kindness does not sour in predictions be a valid reason for not attempting are the fanatics who try to understand them; or the sunshine of prosperity! Such a woman, in to understand them, will. not such objection strike whether there be not some ground for suspicion the darkest hour, brightens the house like a piece much further ? The Bible has been misinter- that they are the fools that cast ridicule and dis- of sunshiny weather. The magnetism of her preted; are we therefore . to put a padlock upon credit on them. it? smiles, the electrical brightness of her looks and The words of God have been. perverted; are- The Saviour has assured his people that he movements affects every one. The children go to we therefore never to' read them ? Christianity will come again. He has not left us finally; we school with a sense of something great to be has been turned into dark and overshadowing are in an interim condition, between the Christ achieved, her husband goes into the world in a superstition; is Christianity therefore to be ab- that was crucified 1850 years ago, and the Christ conqueror's spirit. No matter how people worry jured, and its sublime hopes and prospects to be that will come in the glory of his Father and and annoy. him all day, far off her presence shines, put in abeyance? The abuse of a thingsis no with his holy angels. All Christians that repeat and he whispers to himself, " At home I shall find valid- argument against its use. The mistakes of the apostles' creed believe that Jesus will come rest." So, day by day she literally renews his the past ought to be reasons for grsater care, personally to our world—that he who breathed strength and energy; and if you know a man more ardent prayer, but not for neglect of the our atmosphere before shall breathe it again— with a beaming face, a kind heart, and a prosper- subject altogether. that he who raised the dead in Palestine shall ous business, in nine cases out of ten you will find It has been urged that the difficulties are so raise the dead throughout the. whole globe—that he has a wife of this kind.—Selected. 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even at the very time the house was built it 11. -,T1- - Tetiwislor- Reading the Scriptures. Otte c*abbath-c*cliciol. been implied in the prayer of David, and in the dedication prayer of Solomon, that " the Most The Voice of Truth gives the following Direc- Stephen's Defense. High dwelleth not in temples made with hands." And to guard against the dangerous superstition tions for Reading the Scriptures, of which M. M. THE following, from Farrar's " Life and Work into which the reverence paid to material places, 0. of that paper says that it was appended by of Paul," is an excellent statement, in brief, of is apt to degenerate—to obviate the trust in Tyndale to his version of the New Testament, the object and scope of Stephen's address to the lying words which thought it sufficient to ex- first printed in English in 1525. He was. mar- claim, " The temple of the Lord, the temple of tyred at Valvoord, near Brussels, in 1536:— Sanhedrim :— the Lord, the temple of the Lord are these "— Since the charge brought against St. Stephen the great Prophet had cried, in God's name, To THE READER—Give diligence, reader [I. ex- was partly false and partly true, it was his object " Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool; hort thee], that thou come with a pure mind, and to rebut what was false, and justify himself what . house will ye build for me, saith the Lord, as the Scripture saith, with a single eye' unto the against all blame for what was true. Hence or what is the place of my abiding ? Did not my words of health, and of eternal life ; by the apology and demonstration are subtly blended hand make all these things ?" The inference which [if we repent and believe them] we are throuAbout his appeal, but the apology is only from thisL-that the day must come, of which born anew, created afresh, and enjoy the fruits of secondary, and the demonstration is mainly Jesus had prophesied to the woman of Samaria, the blood of Christ; which blood crieth not for meant to rouse the dormant consciences of his in which neither in Gerizim.nor yet in Jerusalem vengeance as the blood of Abel, but bath pur- bearers. Charged with blasphemous words, hp should men worship the Father, constituted a chased life, favor, grace, blessing, and whatso- contents himself with the incidental refutation of perfect defense against the charge that anything ever is promised in the Scriptures to those that this charge by the entire tenor of the lan- which he had said could In regarded as a blas- believe and obey God ; and standeth between us guage which he employs. After his courteous re- phemy against the temple. and wrath, vengeance, curse, and whatsoever the quest for attention, his very first words are to Scripture threateneth_ against the unbelievers and speak of God under one of his most awful titles disobedient, which resist, and consent not in their of majesty, as the God of the Shechinah. On the Personal Work With Scholars. hearts to the law of God, that it is holy, just, history of - he dwells with all the enthusi- and ought so, to be. Mark the plain and manifest asm of patriotic admiration. To the temple he WE hope that every Sabbath-school teacher places of the Scriptures, and in doubtful places alludes with entire reverence. Of Sinai and the will read the following item from the Christian at see thou add no interpretation contrary to them; living oracles be uses language as full of solem- Work. The object of the Sabbath-school is not but [as Paul saith] let all be conformable and agreeing to the faith.' nity as the most devoted rabbi could desire. to amuse the children for an hour a week, but to Note the difference of the law and the gospel. But while he thus shows how impossible it must teach them the Bible, and lead them to Christ. have been for him to have uttered the language 'The-one asketh and requireth, the other pardon- of a blasphemer, he is all the while aiming at The teacher may not be able in every case to eth and forgiveth. The one threateneth, the the establishment of facts far deeper than the accomplish all that is desired, but if no effort is other promiseth all good things to them that set proof of his own innocence. The consummate made in that direction, of what value is the teach- their trust in Christ only. The gospel signifieth glad tidings, and is nothing but the promise of art of his speech consists in the circumstance ing ? And the teacher must remember that he is that while he seems to be engaged in a calm, his- good things. All is not gospel that is written in torical review, to which any Jewish patriot not merely to teach about the Bible, but to teach the gospel book. For if the law were away, thou might listen with delight and pride, he is step by the Bible itself; not to teach about Christ, but to couldst not know what the gospel meant ; even step leading up to conclusions which told with teach Christ. as thou couldst not see pardon, favor, and grace, irresistible force against the opinions of his A Sunday.-school scholar was recently beard to except the law rebuked thee, and declared unto judges. While he only seems to be reviewing the make this confession: She had attended Sunday- thee thy sin, misdeed, and trespass. Repent and various migrations of Abraham, and the cheq- school for six years, and in all that time no per- believe the gospel, as saith Christ in the first of uered fortunes of the patriarchs, he is really sonal appeal of any kind bad been addressed to Mark. Apply always the law to thy deeds, showing that the covenants of God,with his chosen her by her teacher to become a Christian. Finally whether thou find lust in the bottom of thine heart to the lawward; and so shalt thou no doubt people, having been made in Ur and Haran one summer her teacher was away, and for six repent, and feel in thyself a certain sorrow, pain, and Egypt, were all parts of one progressive pur- weeks another teacher occupied the teacher's pose, which was so little dependent on ceremo- chair. This teacher's method was as different as and grief to thine heart, because thou canst not with full lust [i. e., nials or places as to have been anterior not only it well could be; there was a practical application desire] do the deeds of the to the existence of the tabernacle and temple, law. Apply the gospel, that is to say, the prom- of the lesson, followed by what.some would call ises, unto the deserving of Christ, and to the mercy not only to the possession of the Holy Land, but " leading questions." But the result was that of God and his truth, and so shalt thou not de- even to the rite of circumcision itself. While before the old teacher had returned two scholars sketching the career of Joseph, he is pointing in the class had determined to confess their spair, but shall feel God as a kind and merciful Father. And his Spirit shall dwell in thee; and allusively to the similar rejection of a deliverer Saviour, which they did, and shortly afterwards greater than Joseph. While passing in review shall be strong in-thee; and the promises shall be united with the church. This incident fairly given thee at the last [though not by and by, lest the triple periods of forty years which made up illustrates the worthlessness of much of the Sun- thou shouldst forget thyself and be negligent], the life of Moses, he is again sketching the min- day-school instruction of the day, which consists and all threatenings shall be forgiven thee for istry of Christ, and silently pointing to the fact wholly in teaching the naked facts of the lesson, Christ's blood's sake, to whom commit thyself that the Hebrew race had at every stage been utterly ignoring their practical bearing upon the false alike to Moses and to God. This is why he altogether, without respect either of thy good daily life. Now it goes without saying that Sun- deeds or thy bad. narrates the way in which, on the first appear- day-school teaching of this kind is not worth all WILLIAM TYNDALE. ance of Moses to help his suffering countrymen, the trouble it costs. The paraphernalia and ap- they rudely spurned his interference; and how pointnients of the Sunday-schools, the responsive TALKING lately with a young man, who is a in spite of their rejection he was chosen to lead readings and waltzing tunes, the blackboard and splendid specimen of Christian manhood—" Do them out of the house of bondage. In defiance the mottoes, picture cards, papers and books,p/us you remember " he asked, " a Miss K., who, of this special commission—and it is well worth the services of the teachers—all these and more, many years ago, was a Sunday-school teacher in notice how, in order to conciliate their deeper instituted that the scholar may receive a half- your church in Philadelphia ? " attention, this palmary point in his favor is not hour's instruction once a week on the bare facts "Right well do we remember her, with 'her triumphantly paraded, but quietly introduced as of the lesson—well positively it does not pay. sheer Scotch grit, and her abundant Christian an incident in his historic summary—Moses had The Sunday-school is. called the nursery• of the grace." " Well," he continued, " she was just himself taught them to regard his own legislation church; there is sarcasm in the phrase, for it is to the best woman that I ever saw. She was my as provisional, by bidding them listen to a be feared that many Sunday-school chapels are teacher, and not only my teacher, but my friend Prophet like unto himself who should come here- little else than religious play-rooms for the chil- and confidant. And not only mine, but such she after. dren. A teacher- who teaches the Sunday-school was to all her boys. And she. would have us But the history of Moses, whom they trusted, lesson, and yet who fails to say one word to the often at her house, and interested herself in' was fatal to their pretense of allegiance. Even scholar as to the duty of right living, and the everything that interested us. I shall never for- when he was on Sinai they had been disloyal to solemn obligation of discharging his duty to God get how, when you were raising money to build him, and spoken of him as "this Moses," and as one — utterly fails in his first and most imperative your new church, she gave the money she had who had gone they knew not where. And, false duty. The highest power is not in the realm of saved for a bonnet, and wore the old one another to Moses, they had been yet more false to God. the purely natural, but inheres in the domain of season. I tell you, she was a Christian, through 4 The Levitical sacrifices had been abandoned, from the spiritual, and the trend of the teaching must and through." the very time of their institution, for sacrifices to be in that direction to rightly be " teaching" at He believed in that teacher before he believed the host of Heaven; and the tabernacle of Mo- all. You might as well expect to make flesh for in Christ. It would not be too much to say that, loch, and the star of Remphan, bad been dearer your children by feeding them with naked bone, just because he believed in that teacher, he came to them than the tabernacle of Witness and the as to build up the spiritual nature or bring a boy to believe in Christ. He is now a successful pas- Shechinah of God. At last a Jesus—for, in order or girl to better living by drawing a picture of a tor in'the far West; and she, in her humble little that he might be heard to due purpose, Stephen fortress of Machmrus or speculating as to whether sphere, is plodding along in the far East, little- suppresses the name of that Jesus of whom his the soul of Lazarus was in the same place during dreaming bow long are the lines in which she is thoughts were full--led them and their taber- his first funeral as at his second. projecting her power. Possibly she may read nacle into the land of which he dispossessed the these little lines; if so, she will not be unduly Gentiles. That tabernacle, after an obscure and lifted up, but only in gratitude and praise. And dishonored history, had passed away, and it may THE time spent by many persons in profitless desultory reading, if concentrated upon a single let other teachers' who may read this record, perhaps be intimated that this was due to their learn a lesson as to which way lies the secret of indifference and neglect. David—their own line of study, would make them masters of an entire literature or science.—Matthews. success in the Sunday-school teacher's life-work. David—had indeed desired to replace it by —Baptist Teacher. another, but the actual building of the house was Never exhibit anger, impatience, or excitement carried out by the less faithful Solomon. But when an accident happens. BY doing nothing we learn to do ill,

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ing tglis abundant mercy bath begotten us again unto The language of the commission does not justify a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from three immersions. It is contrary to the analogies of VIC 115 Of itge EDW. the dead. What hope ? Why, that the Spirit will • Scripture language to make such a claim as the trine raise or change us in that day when Jesus makes up his immersionists do. We read that Jesus will come in his "Can ye not discern the signs of the times ?" jev..els. You have sinned against God and his Son, but if you sin against the Holy Ghost it will not be forgiven. own glory, and in the glory of his Father, and of the J. H. WAGGONER, EDITOR. How plain the work of the three. holy angels. How many comings are foretold in that " Rom. 6:4. This text is supposed to teach the de- E. J. WAGGONER, ASSISTANT EDITOR. text? According to their theory he will come once in sign of baptism, that it symbolizes the death, burial, his own glory; he will come once in the glory of the J. N. ANDREWS, CORRESPONDING EDITORS. and resurrection of Christ, and nothing more. As URIAli SMITH, Christ died once, and was buried once, and rose once, Father; and he will come once in the glory of the holy so we should die to sin, be buried in the water once, and angels. There are three comings as unmistakably as OAKLAND, CAL., FIFTH-DAY, JUNE 14, 1883. rise once. Those who teach single immersion in the 'there are three baptisms in the commission. Again, three names claim this text also, and offer the same ar- we ask how many Gods are mentioned in Ex. 3:6 ? gument; but to show the inconsistency of this claim, we Trine Immersion., need but to mention that we cannot be buried into the "The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the death of Christ, into the name of the Father who never God of Jacob." Will our trine-immersion advocates THE doctrine of trine immersion, or of three baptisms, died. To say that baptism into the three names sym- answer this ? has been examined at length in this paper. Our views bolizes the death of Christ is virtually to indorse the The position of W. R. P. on Rom. 6, should li:Ardly of its claims are contained in our.pamphlet on baptism, Catholic dogma of a triune God, and that when Christ died they all died. Bear in mind the text reads, We are be dignified with the title of an argument. He says our which is advertised in this week's SIGNS. We have no buried with him—not with them; for they were never claim that, the rite is a burial into the likeness of Christ's confidence in that doctrine. We have carefully exam- buried into death. Therefore it' the name of the Father death, is defective because it includes the name of the ined its historical argument, and find it lacking; it is is to be used, and the name of the Holy Spirit, it must Father, who never died! This would answer very well not at all what they claim for it. And a lack on that be by another than single immersion. " Eph. 4:5: One Lord, one faith, one baptism. This for those who made baptism a mixed ordinance as the point is fatal to it, for its historical argument, defective text is quoted to prove that single immersion is baptism, early sprinklers did.. It would better suit his argument as it is, is its strongest argument; its argument from the and, that baptism is immersion; and that therefore im- to sprinkle in the name of the Father, and bury in the Scriptures is weaker still. Perhaps one reason why this mersion is gospel baptism. Nothing can be more far- name of the Son! But he buries once for each. The appears so is this: History, church history, is not daily fetchedthan this, as Paul is not speaking of the mode of baptism but of the rite; read Eph. 2:11. He tells the truth is that we do not get the full force of the Scripture before us, and many intelligent readers are not ready to Gentiles that they were without hope, and without or the full intent of the ordinance from one text. It is determine whether or not their claims on history are Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, possible that but one baptism should be required into just. But the Bible is in every man's hands, and all. and strangers from the covenants of promise, and with- the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, may. read it every day; and therefore the fallacy of out God in the world; but now they are brought nigh and that that one baptism should be in the likeness of by the blood of Christ and made one with Israel, hence their Scripture argument becomes more apparent. one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and father of the burial and resurrection of our Saviour. It certainly It is also a fact that trine immersion was introduced. all, and not one for the Jew and another for the Gentile is not required to have three forms of baptism, as the into the church at an early age; on this fact they rest (see Emphatic Diaglott). Grove defines baptismos, a argument of W. R. P. would demand, because the Fa- - with great confidence. But to us this amounts to washing, ablution, purification; baptism the Christian ther was not buried or raised. doctrine, depth of affliction or distress." nothing, inasmuch as we yield nothing in favor of mere His doctrine of repentance is faulty in the extreme. tradition. It cannot be traced, as they often affirm that REMARKS. 1. No one can possibly draw anything He says we are baptized in the name of the Father unto it can, to the days of the apostles. Neither did they who from the doctrine of the atonement in favor of three repentance, and that we have sinned against the Fa- first practiced it derive it from the Scriptures. They baptisms, or three immersions. But an individual with ther and the Son. If we have sinned against both we did not make any such claim, though the claim is made prepossessed opinions or a strong bias will always be should repent toward both. But the special error/is in for them now. In this respect it stands with the Sun- able to strengthen his prejudices from any imaginable the intimation that our sins are against the Father and -people would day. They who introduced Sunday into the church did source. We heartily join in the wish that the Son, but not against the Holy Ghost, or else we not even pretend to found it upon any Scripture author- lay aside prejudice and candidly reason, with the firm could not be forgiven. There is no Scripture to justify ity; that pretense was invented long after its observ- conviction that such a course would speedily do away such a declaration. Every sin committed while the ance came into use. Whenever a practice becomes with this trine-immersion fallacy. We have always Spirit is striving with a man, is a sin against the Holy marked this strange mixing up of things in their pro- popular in the church, no matter what its origin may Ghost as much as it is a sin against the Son of God. If fessed reasoning on John's baptism, or the baptism unto have: been, somebody rises up and professes to find a no sin against the Holy Ghost could be forgiven, we do repentance. We raise the inquiry, Was John's baptism warrant for it in Scripture. not believe anybody, or any Aidult, would ever be saved. a complete or only a partial baptism ? In other words, The trine immersionists (some of them) have persist- We do not believe any one sins against the Father who the rite of baptism unto repent- ently declared that our remarks on that doctrine, in our Did he at all perform does not sin against the Holy Ghost. But the Saviour ance ? If he did, then, according to the theory we are pamphlet, do not touch the point. If that is so it is be- said that blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not cause " the point " is not contained in their own writings. calling in question, he immersed three times, for its be forgiven. This was said because they called the work We thoroughly reviewed the publications which were advocates claim that the rite is never complete without of the Spirit of God the work of Beelzebub. But not sent to us for that purpose, and not an argument, or three immersions. Again, were the disciples at Ephesus, every sin against the Spirit of God is blasphemy. Such anything claiming to be an- argument, was left unno- Acts 19, completely or only partially baptized ? The random declarations show a lack of careful considera- record says they were baptized. Our trine-immer- ticed. We have received the following, entitled a tion of the Scriptures. " Statement of Faith," with a request to notice it. We sionist friends tell us this was the complement of John's The inference of all trine-immersionists on John baptism; John's was the first, and Paul's the last part publish it entire—not because of any merit as an argu- 4 : 1, 2, is altogether without warrant. No Version of the one same work. But in both operationS, how ment which it contains, but—that we may not be ac- contains such an idea; no writer worthy of the name of were bap- cused of doing it any injustice. Coming to us all the many times were the persons immersed? They a critic ever hinted it. The reference t( ;hap. 3:22 does on two different occasions. W. R. P. makes a dis- way from Florida it is expected that we shall give it tized not help their case, because the second vc 'se of chapter 4 baptism and immersion—between the attention:— tinction betWeen can explain or qualify that verse (3:22) as easily as it rite and the form of the action—and so do all of his be- " I did not fully understand trine immersion until I does the verse preceding (4: 1). Notice the construction received light on the commandments of God. I accepted lief. We deny the distinction. But if they are right, John of the language: " Though Jesus himself baptized_ not, it because I believed the commission taught it. Matt. must have immersed them three times unto repentance; 28:19. BLit when I understood the atonement, I saw but his disciples." The contrast is not of the persons how utterly impossible it was to receive the benefit of without this they would not have been baptized. And who were and who were not baptized, but of the persons the dip in the likeness of Christ's death, Rom. 6: 5, be- Paul must have had them immersed three times in the who did and who did not baptize. fore I had received the dip unto repentance in the name name of the Lord Jesus, without which they were not But this point needs no argument; it is simply a mat- of the Father, as set forth in John 3:22-28, which Jesus baptized.' Do they now follow this example ? Are ter of fact which needs only to be stated. In verse 1, confirms when he says (John 4: 1, 2) that he baptized not they baptized (three times dipped) in the name of (or none, McKnight) but John's disciples._ Please no- in the Greek, the word disciples is in the accusative, as tice John 3: 22—And he baptized. Verse 23, and John the Father unto repentance ? And are they baptized it must be when speaking of those who were baptized. was also baptizing. Also the Jews' false charge, verse (three times dipped) into the likeness V the burial and Now if verse 2 speaks of John's disciples, or of those who 26, and John's answer, verse 27, that a man can receive resurrection of Christ ? We are able to answer for them: were baptized, the word would also be in the accusative. nothing except it be given him from Heaven. Also they are not. Remember that Paul says we are bap- John 6: 37, 38, 44, 45, 65. But it is not; it is in the nominative, thus showing pos- " There is no chance without John's work, and that tized into the likeness of his death. By making a dis- itively that it refers to those disciples who did the bap- and the act of im- was tAito repentance, Acts 19: 4, Matt. 3: 2, for John tinction between the rite of baptism tizing, not to those who were baptized. We do not wish says, I am not the Christ, hut I am sent before him. three acts of sin- mersion, and claiming that it takes to accuse the trine-immersionists of either ignorance or Some try to make it appear that Jesus did not -baptize mnersing to once per the rite of baptism, they make but his disciples did. But this is not true as you will willfulness in this matter, but if they persist in placing find by comparing the verses under consideration, for it it necessary to be three times immersed or buried to be such a false construction on this text we cannot tell in reads, he did baptize; but it was only John's disciples, baptized into the death of Christ. But that is an error. what other light to hold them: those who repented to God and were pointed to the Son. The difference in the two baptisms was not in regard The statement of W. R. P. that chap. 3 :26 contains The Ome- in Acts 19:1-5. Paul baptized John's disci- to one being unto repentance, and the other not, for ples; not that John's work was invalid, but it was not a " false charge, " made by the Jews against Christ, sufficient in itself for reasons stated. Jesus inculcated repentance as directly as John did, is most singular. Theie is no charge in it, and the "I would to God that men would lay down their Mark 1:15, and so did his apostles, for Peter on the day reply of John shows that there was no falsehood in it. prejudice and reason together. Let us read the com- of Pentecost prefaced his commandment to be baptized mission. Matt. 28:19. Go ye therefore and teach all John's answer, " He must increase, but I must de- with that to repent. But John baptized in the faith of crease," is pertinent to the fact that Jesus then had nations, baptizing them in (into) the name of the Fa- come; that he had come those disciples ther, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Not names him who was to more followers than John. The latter was on the but the name of each. In the name of the Father unto at Ephesus were not informed; they had not heard of wane. He understood that he was but the forerunner; repentance, and in the likeness of Christ's death, and in the descent- of the Spirit on that day of Pentecost, or destined to drop out of sight as the claims of the Messiah the name of the Holy Ghat, that Spirit which will lead that it was yet given. They were not at all believers -into the kingdom if we were recognized. We cannot imagine why it should be us into all truth, and finally in the risen and glorified Saviour. They needed to be keep it abiding with us. 1 Peter 1: 3. Blessed be the called a- " false charge," or a charge in any sense, that God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who accord- baptized according to the terms of the commission. Jesus made disciples or had followers. 271 JUNE 14, 1883. 1'11 1I SIGHTS THE the grandeur, sublimity, and importance, of the scenes When we commenced the publication of the articles for yourselves ? " Zech. 7:6. This language implies that we should eat and drink to the glory of God. It is which are made to pass, in fascinating array, before the on trine immersion which were afterward placed in our mind. Themes of thrilling and impressive interest, book, " Thoughts on Baptism," the organ of the trine- the very doctrine of St.. Paul: " Whether therefore ye eat, or-drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of grand and lofty conceptions, sublime and magnificent immerionists promised a review of them. We carefully description, the whole enhanced by the fact that these watched the paper for a long time but saw no review. God." 1 Cor. 10:31. Our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit, and we are not our own. 1 Cor. take hold upon the issues of the eternal world, are here We are sure that the argument contained in that book, calculated to awaken in the mind of- the reader the both on Scripture and history, cannot be overthrown. We must not eat unwholesome food to gratify our appe- tite. Nor may we eat an undue quantity even of that most absorbing interest., We are happy to say that some have renounced the doc- And the question that will first arise, is, For whose trine of a triple baptism on reading that book. Many which is wholesome. If we seek the glory of God in that which we eat and drink, we shall use that food benefit are these scenes described? Can we ascertain others would do so if they would renounce their preju- our relation to them, or possibly our part in them ? dice, and be guided by fair argument and correct reason- which will best preserve our health and strength for the service of God. Christian temperance consists in the Can they be understood ? ing. We answer, Yes; or the title of the book is itself a moderate use of that, which is good, and in total absti- deception: yes; or God has declared his purpose to ac- nence from that which-is evil. There can be no tem- Remarks upon the Seventh Chapter of Zech- complish a work which he foresaw could never be ful- perance in the use of tobacco. ariah. The Nature of a True Fast. filled: yes; or he has solemnly pronounced a blessing In verse 7 the prophet calls the attention 'of the peo- upon an impossibility. ple to the words of the former prophets on this subject. IN this chapter we have the record of a question pro- The book is called a revelation. A revelation is posed by the Jews concerning -the continuation of the He must therefore refer particularly to the words of Isaiah which we have already examined. He also re- something which is revealed or made known. Moses custom of fasting, which they had followed during the has said, Deut. 29: 20, that " the secret things belong captivity at Babylon. We have also the answer of the fers no doubt to the warnings of the prophets, given unto the Lord. our God; but the things which are re- Lord given at some length, and accompanied by admon- while Jerusalem was yet in prosperity, that that city vealed, belong unto us and our children forever." The ition and reproof. There is a lesson in this chapter would`be destroyed if the inhabitants did not turn from very title of the book, then, is a clear refutation of a quite as important for us as it was for the Jews to whom their sins. Jer. 7:1-16; 17: 19-27; Micah 3: 8-12. But the Lord does not leave the subject here. He view which is, alas! too popular at the present day, that it was directly addressed. this book is a part of the hidden mysteries of God, and Sherezer and Regem-melech and their men were sent sets forth the works, meet for repentance, which should cannot be understood. A revealed mystery is a contra- to the house of God to pray before the Lord, and to accompany their fasting. His language implies that the sins which he names were the sins that had caused him diction both of ideas and terms. A revelation is not speak unto the priests [Joshua and his fellows, Zech. 3: something hidden and concealed; and if this is the na- 8j, and to the prophets [Haggai and Zechariah, Eze. 5: to liunish the nation, and that though the Jews had fasted they had not forsaken these sins. Thus he says: ture of the book, it should have been called The Mystery, 1; Hag. 1:1; Zech. 7:11, and to propound this question : or the Hidden Book; certainly not, The Revelation. "Shouldl weep in the fifth month, separating myself, " Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true It is declared that God gave this revelation to as I have done, these so many years ? " Zech. 7: 1.-3. judgment, and show mercy and compassion every man Christ, to show unto his servants things which must The fast in the fifth month was in commemoration of to his brother; and oppress not the widow, nor the shortly come to pass. The expression "his servants," the burning of the temple and of the city by the king fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of is very comprehensive. It includes all the followers of of Babylon. 2 Kings 25:8, 9; Jer. 52: 12, 13. The sec- you imagine evil against his brother in your heart." Christ in all time. And wherever and whenever there _ ond temple was at this time built in part, and therefore Zech. 7: 8-10. Will any Christian man say that one of are any persons who are the servants of Christ, the Rev- the Jews thought that their fasting might now cease. these duties can be neglected by us because we are jus- elation is for them, designed to be a lamp unto their The answer of the Lord implies that he had never tified by the blood of Christ ? Zechariah, speaking in the name of the Lord, tells the feet, and a light unto their path. But how can it show been pleased with their fasting. They mentioned the vs how their fathers had acted in resisting this in- anything to Christ's followers if it cannot be understood ? fast of the fifth month which they had observed because Jell- struction, and what ruin came upon them in conse- If, as some contend, it is an unfathomable mystery, the temple and the city were burned in that month. dark and incomprehensible, so that all search for its But the Lord speaks also of the fast of the seventh quence. Thus he says: " But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, • and stopped their ears, meaning is labor lost, how does it show to the seeker month which they had observed because of the assassin- that they should not bear. Yea, they made their hearts after truth what is coming to pass? It would be worse ation of Gedaliah at Mizpeh, and of the dispersion of than useless; for it would only create an anxiety which the remnant of the Jews that had been left by the king as an adamante stone, lest they should hear the law, it would do nothing to relieve. Human tyrants have of Babylon. Jer. 41:1-18. The Jews had fasted in and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his been known to post their laws so high that the people these, two months during seventy years, and the ques- Spirit by the former prophets; therefore came a great could not read them, and then punish mercilessly their tion which they propounded to the Lord implied that in wrath from the Lord of hosts." Verses 10, 11. violation. But God does not act thus. Would he un- their judgment they had done something meritorious. During all the period that the Lord offered mercy on dertake to make known to mankind some important Zech. 7:2-5. Their spirit was like that of the Pharisee condition of repentance, they would not listen, but went oh in their sins. When the wrath of God came upon truths, and yet fall into the worse than earthly folly of in the temple. Luke 18: 9-14. them then they prayed, but it was too late. Thus the clothing them in language or in figures which human The Lord graciously revealed to the Jews the serious Lord speaks: " Therefore it is come to pass, that as he minds could not comprehend ? Would he command a errors which they had committed in the celebration of cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I personsto behold some distinct object, and then erect these fasts during the long period of seventy years. would not hear, saith the Lord of hosts; but I scattered some impenetrable barrier between him and the object When they had fasted they had not done it to the glory them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom at which he was bidden .to look ? Would he give his of God. They had fasted to be seen. of men, and to re_ they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them; servants a light to guide them through the gloom of ceive praise one of another for their great piety. Matt. that no man passed through nor returned; for they laid night, and then throw over that light a pall so thick 6: 16-18. Or they had fasted to relieve their own minds the pleasant land desolate." Zech. 7:13, 14. Sin was and heavy that not a ray of its brightness could be dis- of distress because of the sins which they had committed, the ruin of the Jews, as it will be our ruin if - we persist covered through the obscuring folds ? If he has dealt while at the same time they intended to return to those in it. The captivity in Babylon and the dispersion of thus with us in the Revelation, then the expressly de- sins again as soon as the fast was ended. • the Jews by the Romans were caused by rebellion. clared object of the book never can be attained, and he This conduct was the more inexcusable in the Jews Had the Jews been faithful to God they might have re- knew it never could be attained, when he. solemnly put because that Isaiah, about 100 years before that they mained in their own land to this day, and have been upon record that it was to show to his servants things were carried to Babylon, had set before them the folly of the most honored of all the nations Upon the face of the which must shortly come to pass. He does not thus pretending to fast on account of sin, while they had no earth. J. N. A. trifle, either with himself or us. intention of forsaking their sins. Isa. 58:1-7. The The third verse of the first chapter reads: " Blessed words of Isaiah are often quoted to show that God does The Book of Revelation. is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this not approve of abstinence from food and of actual hu- prophecy, and keep those things which are written miliation. But we find the prophet Daniel at Babylon, IS IT SEALED ? OR CAN IT BE UNDERSTOOD ? therein: for the time is at hand." A blessing pro- about 160 years after the time of this prophecy of Isaiah, last book in the inspired volume is entitled, nounced upon the reading of this prophecy, when the actually humbling himself before God with fasting, THE time spent upon it would be thrown away ? A blessing " The Revelation of Jesus Christ." Our translators in -sackcloth, and ashes. And we find that God regarded upon hearing it when no man can comprehend it? A styling it " The Revelation of St. John, the Divine," the humiliation of Daniel. See Dan. 9:3, 4, 20, 21. blessing upon a man'who will understand it, when it is contradict the very first words of the book itself, which Daniel was familiar with the prophecy of Isaiah con- impossible that - any one can understand it ? This , declare it to be "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which cerning fasting, and he knew that God was not dis- would be charging God with folly. Men may assert as pleased with humiliation when the heart of man repents God gave unto him, to show unto his servants things some have asserted,- that " the study of the Revelation of sin. On the contrary he believed such humiliation which must shortly come to pass; " and Christ, it is added, " sent and signified it by his angel unto his serv- either finds or leaves a man mad." This is a specimen of to be acceptable to God when men mean to turn from man's judgment; but the word itself assures us that ant John." :their sins, as. in the case of the Ninevites, who repented whoever undertakes the study of this book with a calm The source from which this revelation comes is thus at the preaching of Jonah. See Jonah 3:1-10. But and teachable spirit, and with a sincere desire to know plainly given. God, the author of all things, makes it when men who oppress the poor, or who are extortion- the truth, that he may glorify God therewith, will find known to Jesus Christ; Christ, through the ministry of ers, how down their heads like a bulrush (ISa. 58:5, 6) himself, at length, not mad, but in the rich possession in the act of fasting, but make no restitution of their the heavenly angels, his divine assistants, signifies it to his servant John; and John, evangeliSt and apostle, and of a heavenly blessing. unjust gain, and have no intention of forsaking their Yes, the Revelation may be understood. We may now prophet, acting as amanuensis, makes it known to covetous practices, their fasting is an abomination be- drink into the spirit of its soul-stirr'ing themes till our fore God. the church. understandings are enlightened to comprehend and ap- The book itself has been described to be a "panorama But God teaches the Jews another lesson, which was preciate them. We may gaze upon its scenes Of glory of the glory of Christ." Certainly whoever reads it with probably a greater surprise to them than was the lesson till our hearts glow with the foretaste of their blessed- any effort to form a mental conception of the imagery on fasting. He says: " And when ye did eat and when ness. We may listen to the invitation so tenderly given ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink which it introduces, can but be deeply impressed with 272 r111-1 SIGNS OF TFIR TIMES. VoL. 9, No. 23. by the Spirit and the bride, when they say to all, Come, till our beings are fired with new zeal and new deter- h mionart): ishing mortals, and conversing with them, praying minations to be with that enraptured throng that shall for them, and seeking to lead them to Christ, that make heaven ring at last with ascriptions of blessing we can, do the most good and receive the great- and honor and glory to God and the Lamb. "NV OUT." est blessing. Let us study with new interest the sacred word ; and, The reward of our labor is not measured so much "WEAR Oat!" but never let the rust by the amount we do as by the disposition and having laid hold upon the blessed hope which it sets be- Of idleness corrode the trust spirit with which we labor. If we are looking fore us, let us be very thorough'in the work of purify- Your Maker gave; your part to play In the great drama of "To-day " - for opportunities to do great things only, those ing our hearts and lives, that this hope may in due time Is to deal justly; aid the weak; opportunities may never come. But we may per- " change to glad fruition, Ever for right and freedom speak; haps overlook lesser opportunities and circum- Faith to sight, and prayer to praise." Keep burning clear Truth's beacon light, That its soft radiance through the night stances where a vast amount of good might be U. S. Be to the lost on life's bleak moor accomplished. Like Bethlehem's star that shone of yore, No opportunity or circumstance presented for Disguised Infidelity. Guiding the shepherds on their way - doing good should be overlooked, for we often see f To where the child Redeemer lay. great results from those things which, in them- As a hypocritical professor of religion is worse than "Wear out! " though stern your features grow, selves, might appear, at first sight, to be insignif- though he made no profession, so infidelity, under a Though raven locks be turned to snow, icant. It was only last week that I learned of a On to the front! nor laggard be. person embracing the third angel's message, profession of faith in the word of God, is worse in its With sturdy blows comes victory! influence than an open rejection of that word. Avowed Shame on the weak and nerveless hand whose interest was first awakened by readingso infidelity would be feared and avoided by many a mind That cannot grasp Truth's shining brand; part of a torn leaf of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, and- that would listen to the insiduous attacts upon revela- That shrinks when from fair freedom's tower the leaf was badly soiled at that. If such results The tocsin sounds the trial hour; are accomplished by a soiled piece of paper, we tion from one who professes to believe it. That fails, when justice calls, to go With battle-ax and "beaded bow," certainly have abundant encouragement to take To illustrate the idea, I will say that I once heard, And prove, upon his native sod, clean and whole copies and distribute them as from a professed preacher of the gospel of Jesus Christ, His fealty to man and God! —Selected. freely as our tracts. Shall we arouse to the im- three lectures, in which he attempted to prove that portance of the time and "work while it is day." Adam was not the first man of the human race, but Work While the Day Lasts. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH. that men had existed upon the earth hundreds of thous- ands of years before him, and that he was born of par- OUR Saviour said, " I must work the works of Report of Labor. ents, as others are at the present day. He ridiculed Him that sent me, while it is day; the night. co m- the idea that " God formed man of the dust of the eth, when no man can work." John 9 : 4. VALLEJO, WOODLAND, LAFAYETTE, AND FERN- ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of The period of Christ's public ministry and mi r- DALE.—After the general meetings at Oakland and life; and min became a living soul;" and that God took acles among the Jews was by the Saviour him Healdsburg, we visited the friends at Vallejo. a rib from Adam, and of it made a woman, and brought self emphatically called their day. When as a Here we found a sister who had recently em- her to the man. He did not believe any such absurd- nation they had rejected Christ, their night cam e, braced the truth through reading the SIGNS and ity. But did 'he not believe the book ? Oh! yes; but and we behold the Saviour lamenting their fa to other publications sent her by Eastern friends. as he wept for Jerusalem and said, We organized a Sabbath-school of ten members, all this was allegorical; it meant that man was then , " 0 Jerusalem Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, an with a club of five Instructors. We went from raised to a higher state of development than he had d stonest them which are sent unto thee, how ofte here to Woodland, expecting to accomplish some- enjoyed during the previous hundreds of thousands of would I have gathered thy children together, thing for the Sabbath-school and H. and T. So- years of his existence. He thanked God for the book even as a lien gathereth her chickens under he ciety, but heavy rains hindered our meeting and of Genesis; but if there was anything in it that con wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house i we were able to do but little. flicted with the sure light of geological science, it was left unto you desolate." Matt. 23 : 37, 38. At Lafayette we found a little company for no revelation to him—he did not believe it. He also In the public mission of our Saviour we have r whom the truth has accomplished much. We thanked God for giving to the world such .a man as most striking illustration of a life of activity an d labored to set forth the necessity of continued toil, of journeying from place to place, endurin growth in grace and in the knowledge of Jesus Charles Darwin, a devout believer in God, who had g done so much for the advancement of science among hardships and privations. Weary, faint, hungr our Lord. We held twelve meetings in all. We mankind. One would think from the encomium of the —" not where to lay bis head"—but imbue d were told that the public interest in our meetings was the best ever known in the place. The priv- speaker that the man, who holds that man was evolved with a sense of the magnitude and importance o his mission, he was ever active, improving ever ilege of requesting subjects for sermons was used or developed from the monkey, was truly one of the opportunity of doing good: How his time wa by several who were anxious to bear on special greatest benefactors of mankind. • employed is expressed by this one sentence, He points of faith, and most of the preaching was Most Christian readers will wonder that such infidel- " went abOut doing good." done on subjects about which inquiry had been ity should be held forth by a professed believer in the made. A husband and wife embraced the truth If we study his life we shall see him watchin g Bible and a preacher of salvation through Christ. for opportunities to do good, taking advantage o f as far as presented, and several others bought But let me tell you that all who favor the mystical the golden opportunities as they present them works, and are deeply interested. The missionary mode of interpreting the Scriptures are accomplices in selves, and adapting his discourses and labors t 0 work received a new impetus, as also the Sabbath- this work of helping in the progress of infidelity, and the condition and circumstances of those he woul school work, and nearly all the brethren and sis*- benefit. tern promised not .to be negligent in assisting to are in ,a degree responsible for the prevailing and in- support the ministry. Better,days are in store for creasing skepticism of our times. The Bible is a reve- We are to learn from the life and example o f our Saviour that "it is enough for the discipl e the work in Lafayette. Continued consecration to lation to mankind, or it is not. If it is, its plain state- that he be as his Master." During the whole gos the cause of God is the one thing necessary to an- ments of facts, its promises, and its threatenings, are to pel day the Lord has demanded activity on th e tidote the spirit of negligence. May God bless be taken at par—they mean what they say. But if part of his servants; but now, in these last times and encourage the friends of truth there. these things are to be allegorized, spiritualized, ration- when fulfilling signs show unmistakably that the May 23 we took steamer for Humboldt County. alized, and mysterized, the Bible is not a revelation, end of all things is at hand, our energies should The passage was very rough and tedious. We but a riddle. All have an equal right to guess at its be wholly devoted to the cause and work of God. were forty-nine hours on the way, the usual time meaning; and, as a consequence, there may be as many While the last message of truth is being pro- being twenty-two to twenty-six hours. But we creeds as there are persons. To make such a book a claimed, and the world is being warned of its have been brought safely oil our mission thus far, revelation, another one is necessary to tell us what this doom, how important that we work while it is and we feel that the prospering hand of the Lord • one means. day. When the solemn mandate shall be uttered has been with us all the way. Our new 40-foot tent is pitched in the best place in - You may wonder that any one should allegorize the in Heaven, "He which is filthy, let him be filthy the town of still; and he that is righteous, let him be righteous Ferndale, and nicely seated for 250 people. The plain statements concerning the creation of man as still.; and he that is holy, let him be holy still," it interest to hear seems to be deepening and spread- described above, so as to deny that he was formed of will be too late to change their condition. Then, ing among the people. The SIGNS sent to this dust, while we see him turning to dust again; but if though they may " wander from sea to sea, and county have not been sent in vain. An interest you make the threatening of death, in case of man's from the north even to the east, to seek the word has been aroused that could not have been other- disobedience, to mean eternal life in torment, or some- of the Lord," they "shall not find it." Then wise. And we believe the natural spirit of preju- thing besides what God defined it to be—a returning night will indeed have come upon this generation, dice against new things has been broken by its again to • the dust out of which he was taken—you are a night in which no man can work. influence. Our meetings begin to-night. Breth- n a like position, and are aiding in the work of de_ Now it.is day. Now the fields are open every- ren and sisters, do not forget to pray for your stroying faith, and building up infidelity. And this where, and now we have the golden opportunity ministers and for the spread of the work. Ferndale, Cal., June 6. remark applies to every interpretation which takes the to labor for the salvation of our fellowina en. Now, G. D. BALLOU. license of setting aside acoramandment of God, or an with our plan for missionary labor, there is an ordinance of the gospel. opportunity for every one to do something. Shall we have our hearts imbued with the Spirit of the Napa and St. Helena. The fault of factions and false doctrines is not in Master ? and shall we feel that we "MUST work" IN the Bible, but in this huge license of interpretation compliance with the resolution adopted at while it is day ? If we have a disposition to labor the recent annual meeting of the stockholders of This is the pillar and support of infidelity. If the in this cause there is no lack of opportunities. If Healdsburg College, that as far as possible during Bible be thus assailed by its professed friends, what we are ever on the alert and awake to observe the summer vacation, the teachers visit the shall we not expect from its open enemies ? the circumstances surrounding us, we may find churches in the California Conference in the in- R. F. COTTRELL. opportunities to do goad. It is not in debating terests of the College, I met with the Napa with everybody we meet, whether they wish to Church, Sabbath June 2. In the forenoon the THE income of the Church of England is $22,625,- learn or not, but it is in speaking a kind word to Sabbath-school, and the usual religious service 000. those in affliction and distress and caring for them, were held. In the afternoon there was a special having hearts full of sympathy and love for per- meeting in the interests of the College. JUNE 14, 1883. TH 1-+, SIGNS OF THE TIM Fi,S. 273

On the day following I visited several families. Proud of His Work. I spent the following Sabbath, June 9, with g.euttienutte. the church at St. Helena. As the families compos- DURING a discussion of the temperance question ing this church live from one to seven miles dis- in the Canadian Parliament, Mr. Ford, of Queens tant from the place of meeting, and the weather False Ideas of Liberty. County, referred to a member of one of the fam- was exceedingly hot, it was thought best to hold SUPPOSE before the missionaries went to the Fiji ilies in the province, who had not long before but one meeting; accordingly the time for the Islands, a man from that island bad drifted over been laid in a pauper's grave in consequence of usual service was devoted to the college. and located in the city of Des Moines. You rec- being addicted to intoxicating drink, and re- I am satisfied that the resolution referred to ollect that the Fiji Islanders were cannibals. Four marked that such a circumstance was " a tem- above is a wise one, and if carried out with the missionaries went there the first time. They perance lecture in a nut-shell." spirit in which it was first recommended, it can- preached the first time and then the natives got Mr. Pugh, member from Halifax, immediately not fail to give a new impetus to the work on this mad, killed three of them, roasted and ate them. arose, and in opposition to Mr. Ford stated that coast. An intimate relation should be formed The other one they didn't eat because he chewed he was a liquor-seller, and that the business was and maintained between the Missionary field and tobacco. I admire their taste. Well, before that just as honorable and legitimate as a carriage the College, and the Church should be well in- period, suppose this Fiji Islander had come. Now, builder's. • formed in regard to it. he is a different man from you. His teeth are This remark called up Mr. Ford again, and he The College must be made a recruiting station different, his head is especially different He has said: "I build carriages, and when I turn out a for the missionary field, and to this end it needs different passions, different appetites, different fine wagon, and point to it, rolling along the the sympathy, co-operation, and prayers of the ideas. For a time he retains his inclinations, but streets, I say, that is my work.' I would ask chWeh. at last, the old appetite- in him being aroused, he the honorable member from Halifax, if he is I expect to be with the church at Vacaville Sab- makes a raid on your home, catches your fat baby proud of his work when he sees it rolling along bath, June 16. S. BROWNSBERGER. boy, kills him, dresses him, cooks him, and puts the street." St. Helena, Cal., June 11, 1883. him on the table for a meal. You get your shot- There was no answer to this question; it was gun and go up to interview him. Don't kill him a question that answered itself. Los Angeles and Downey, Cal. on sight. When you see what he is doing, you The rum-seller can easily find his work. It say: " What have you done? " can be seen in dark alleys, filthy garrets, damp cellars, squalid homes, haunts of vice, dens of 'WE stopped at Los Angeles after the general "Why," he says, "Nothing, only killed a boy." " But you have committed murder." infamy, and houses of .shame. Want, poverty, meeting, and held several preaching services and sickness, hunger, rags, wretchedness, beggary, Bible readings, visiting the brethren and sisters He says, "I don't understand." insanity, pauperism, violence, crime, murder—all at their homes in the meanwhile. Four were "Why, you have killled this child. You had things may be directly traced to the liquor- baptized; three, a father and two sons, united no right to kill him. You have no right to do these. seller and his deadly traffic. Reeling inebriates, with the Los Angeles church. what you are dding." intoxicated women, fighting, brawling parents, We came to Downey June 4th. Our 50-foot "I thought this was a free country!" he ex- claims. paupers in almshouses, lunatics in asylums, crimi- tent arrived here the same day. Commenced nals in prison, starved and vicious children, living meetings on the evening of the 6th, with a fair "It is a free country, but it is not a free country to commit murder in." in wretchedness and growing up for ruin---all these attendance. The village has a population of may be pointed out as specimens of the dram-sel- about 300. The surrounding country is thickly "But," he says, "I used to eat babies over in the Fiji Islands. Have not I got a right to eat ler's work. settled, the land being divided into small farms, Is the drunkard-maker proud of his work ? and dotted with school houses in every direction. them here? " What would be the answer? "Sir, the govern- An honest man is the work of God; a drunkard We hope a good work may be done here. Pray is the work of the drain-seller. Is .he proud of for us. ment of the United States is not the government E. A. BRIGGS, his work ? Why, not make a model of a com- M. C. ISRAEL. of the Fiji Islands. Your social customs have de- veloped your form of government, our social cus- pleted specimen of the rum-seller's work, put it toms developed our form of government. When in a glass cash, exhibit it in the drinking saloon, Let Me Share in the Work. you leave that government you must leave every and write over it, " A specimen of my work—I custom that is inimical to this government or de- am proud of it"?—The Morning. THE Lord, as I verily believe, is doing a great structive to its institutions, for we have no desire and infinitely important work in the earth. By to 'have introduced here the customs that propa- A Total Abstainer as a Good Samaritan. the last merciful warning be is drawing a line be- gated the governments of your native island." tween the righteous and the wicked, between Suppose the ex-Khedive of Egypt, when he BEV. A. J. GORDON, D. D., of Boston, thus writes those, whatever be their profession, that serve was desposed, instead of moving to Italy, had in the current number of the Watchman: " And God and those who serve him not. And it is my moved over here with his wives and children and it came to pass as a certain man journeyed from heart's desire and prayer to God that I may have gone to housekeeping 'in Des Moines. An officer the cradle to the grave, he fell among saloon- some humble part in his work. For this I pray, takes him by the shoulder and says, " Hold on, sir, keepers, who robbed him of his money, ruined his and for this I labor; and I believe. my prayer what are you doing?" good name, destroyed his reason, and then kicked will be heard, and my labor will not be in vain. "I am keeping house." him out worse than dead. A moderate drinker No greater 'honor can one attain than to be a "You are my prisoner." came that way, and when he saw him he said, humble servant of the Lord, have his approv- " What for?" Let him die, be is a curse to his family. And ing smiles, and be owned of him as a helper in " Bigamy." also a license-voter came that way, and when his work. This honor all may have who will "What is bigamy?" he saw him he said: The brute! Put a ball and seek it by yielding themselves to God to do his "Having more than one wife." chain on his leg and work him on the street. will in all things. Those, and those only, who "I thought this was a free country!" And a fanatic teetotaler came that way, and when make a covenant with God by sacrifice, can share "It is." he saw him he had compassion on him, and in this glorious work and in the special honors " I used to have these wives in Egypt. Have raised him up, assisted him to his home, and 'min- that will soon be conferred on those who have not I the right to have them here?" istered to his wants and the wants of his family; fully overcome and endured to the end. I seek What would you say to him? "Sir, this-gov- got him to sign the pledge, and started him on no higher honor, but I feel that I must have a ernment is a different government from the gov- his journey in comfort and happiness. Whom part in the work of the Lord. And since it is ernment of Egypt. This government is a product think you, was the greatest friend to humanity possible to all, I hope in the mercy of God to be of our social institutions. Consequently when —the saloon-keeper, the moderate-drinker, the accepted of him. We sing:— you come to this country you must leave every license-voter or the fanatic-teetotaler? " "Oh, give me a part in thy kingdom." custom that would be injurious to the welfare of And I would as earnestly pray for apart in the this country and the perpetuity of this govern- Can It Be Exaggerated? labor and the crosses and struggles that lie be- menC' The idea that American freedom means universal license is the dangerous idea in this MR. GOUGH says that there are many persons tween us and the kingdom. Brethren, pray for who talk about temperance men as being fanatics. me. And let us country. In my State a young woman recently from They tell us that we are rabid on the subject of " Toil on till the sheaves of the Lord are bound, Europe was brought into our court charged with temperance 1 ask any reformed drunkard if it And joyfully borne from the harvest ground." the murder of her infant child. When the indict- is not right to be rabid against an evil that has F. COTTRELL. ment was read, and she was asked, through an scorched and blasted, scathed and scarred us till interpreter, to plead, her answer was: "I thought we carry the marks of it to the grave? - BE MODEST AND SENSIBLE.—do not be above this was a free country." Young men sometimes have an idea that a man your buisness, no matter what that may be, but The idea that this country has no forms, no can sow his wild oats and get over it. You put 11, strive to be the best in that line. He who turns. customs, no laws, no institutions, which immi- your hand in the hand of a giant and he crushes up his nose at his work quarrels with his bread grants are bound to respect; that men have the it. Still it may be healed, and by' and by in some . and butter. He is a poor smith who quarrels right to come here and follow any customs, any way it may be a useful one, but it is a mutilated with his own sparks; there's no shame about any ideas, any theories,- and any practices, is an idea hand; its beauty and symmetry have gone for- honest calling; don't be afraid of soiling your utterly antagonistic to American institutions, and ever. We who have passed through this fire hands, there's plenty of soap to be bad. You if carried out will ultimately build on the chaos know something of its awful scourge, we know cannot get honey if you are frightened at' bees, of our liberties the worst despotism that the world something of the terrible struggle to get out of it. nor plant corn if you are afraid of getting mud ever saw.—The People vs. the Liquor Traffic. I think we ought to be what they call fanatics. on your boots. Above all avoid laziness. There They tell us that we exaggerate the evil of drunk- is plenty to do in this world for every pair of IN reply to addresses of welcome from various enness. Do we ? Let me appeal to the intelli- hands placed in it, and we must so work that the temperance societies in the north of England, gent and ask the question: Do we exaggerate the world will be richer because of our having- lived Bishop Wilberforce, of Newcastle, said that he is evil of drunkenness ? in it. thankful every day that he is a total abstainer. No sir, we cannot. God never gave a man a He is better in health, lighter in head, and heav- mind capable of grasping the extent of the awful A GOOD friend is my nearest relation. ier in purse for it. evil of drunkenness for time and eternity. 274 THE SIGNS OF TIT TIMES. Vol,. 9, No. 23.

o But one day, the boys, quite a little crowd of of the strong man, "you cannot undo the past. ghe trine trrit them, found Cap'n Sam on the rocks at the beach. You may do much to atone for it, do much to There were breakers that afternoon, and particu- make the rough path smooth., but you never can TELE ROUND 01-' larly at such times it was a favorite diversion straighten out the old furrows my laddies; re- with the seafaring man to sit high -on the rocky member that. Two children down by the shining strand, beach and watch his " second love," the sound- " Guess I'll go and chop some wood mother With eyes as blue as the summer sea, ing sea. spoke of, I'd 'most forgotten," said lively Jimmy While the sinking sun fills all the land It was at times like these the boys delighted Hollis, in a strangely quiet tone for him. With the glow of a golden mystery; in finding their old friend, and coaxing him for Laughing aloud at the sea-mew's cry, " Yes, and I've got some errands to do " sud-• Gazing with joy on its snowy breast, one of their " heart's delights," which he well denly remembered Billy Bowles. Till the first star looks from the evening sky, knew meant a story of tempestuous seas or for- " Touched and taken !" sad the kindly captain And the amber bars stretch over the West. eign lands. to himself, as the boys tramped off keeping step A soft green dell by the breezy shore, But on this particular afternoon the captain in a thoughtful, soldier-like way. A sailor lad and a maiden fair; was brooding somberly, a habit he often had And Mrs. Bowles declared a fortnight after- Hand clasped in hand, while the tale of yore when by himself, and this time he couldn't throw ward, that Billy was "really - getting to be a Is borne again on the listening air, off the mood, even at the approach of the merry comfort instead of a pest; guessed he was copy- For love is young though love be old, And love alone the heart can fill; boys. ing the captain, trying to be good to his ma; And the dear old tale that has been told In vain the better reared of them bantered, Lord bless the dear good man ! " in the days gone by is spoken still. declaring " he'd bad a jilting, but never mind, Then Mrs. Hollis, meeting the captain aliciit they expected to be jilted themselves in time to A trim built home on the sheltered bay; this time, remarked that Jimmy always meant to.- A wife looking out on a glistening sea; come;" while the less mannerly Billy Bowles be a good boy, but he was actually being one A prayer for the loved one far away, guessed " there'd been a Caudle lecture at borne." now-a-days. "Guess your • stories they like so And prattling ones 'neath the old roof-tree; At length, partly emerged from his brown much have morals to them now and then," added A lifted latch and a radiant face study, the captain said soberly:— By the open door in the falling night; the gratified mother with a smile. A welcome home and a warm embrace " Boys, do you know what I've been trying to As Mrs. Hollis passed on, Captain Sam with From the love of his youth and his children bright. do every day for the last two years?" folded arms and head bent down said softly to Oh, why, for certain they knew all about it An aged man in an old arm-chair; himself:— A golden light from the western sky, they—the merry youngsters of the town. " Well, I shall be thankful enough if word of His wife by his bide, with her silvered hair, "Been a-courtin' chiefly," Jimmy Hollis ob- mine will help the dear boys to keep the fUrrows And the open Book of God close by; served, while Freddie Hollis remarked, " he'd away from their mothers' brow; for once there, Sweet on the bay the gloaming falls, worn himself all out a-pettin' his sweetheart."- And bright is the glow of the evening star;* it is a difficult task straightening out the fur- But dearer to them are the jasper walls That last opinion evidently struck the tender rows ! "—Illustrated Christian Weekly. And the golden streets of the land afar. spot, and the boys found out that for once Cap'n Sam was in no mood for jokes or banter, and, be- An old churchyard on a green hillside, ing very quick to see which way the wind blew, Be Punctual. T o lying still in their peaceful rest; the kind sailor a few minutes later addressed to The fishermen's boats going out with the tide THERE In the fiery glow of the amber West a row of very serious young faces what one boy are some people who are systematically Children's laughter and old men's sighs, afterwards termed " a perfec' brick of -a sermon." late for everything, irritating their households The night that follows the morning clear, "Boys," he said, " rve been trying every day in a remarkable degree, and always finding them- A rainbow bridging our darkened skies, of my life for the last two years to straighten selves in a flurry and bustle. The newspapers Are the round of our lives from year to year! are full of accidents, heedlessness being the cause, —Chambers' Journal. out furrows—and I can't do it !" One boy turned his head in surprise towards and as often as not, unpunctuality merely in min- the captain's neatly-kept place. utes. There is no virtue so necessary in the young Straightening Furrows. "Oh, I don't mean that kind, lad. I don't as punctuality. Habits grow upon people; and it. mean land furrows," continued the captain, so is as easy to cultivate habits of regularity and ex- "WELL, I never saw anything like that Ca,pt. soberly that the attention of the boys became actness with regard to time as it is to cultivate Crofts round that old lady in all my life. He's breathless as he went • cleanliness or honesty. A young lady staying dancing attendance from morning till night, and " When I was a lad, about the age of you boys, at a friend's house in the country was amazed to sakes alive ! if he isn't tying on her sunbonnet was what they called .a hard case,' not ex- find that the eldest daughter of the house never for her. Well I never ! Wonder what 'twould actly bad or vicious but waywaid and wild. came down in time for breakfast, but alWays half seem like to have my Billy grow up to be as at- Well, my dear old mother used to coax, pray, an hour late. Her astonishment was increased tentive as that!" And the voice half scornful at and punish—my father was dead, making it all when she discovered that the too indulgent first, took on a longing yearning expression, sug- the harder for her, .but she never got impatient. mother, instead of remonstrating with her daugh- gestive of tearful eyes, at the mention of " my How in the world. she bore with all my stubborn, ter on this unpleasant habit, actually rose from Billy." vexing ways so patiently will always be to me her easy-chair as the girl came dwadling down The speaker, Mrs. Bowles, lived in Seaport, one of the mysteries in life. I knew it was and offered it to her! usually spoken of as a fishing village, owing to troubling her, knew it was changing - herpretty Upon being asked the reason of this curious the fact that many fishermen had lived there in face, making it look anxious and old. After a leniency, the mother said that it was "no use years gone by; but the town was an old one, while, tiring of all restraint, I ran away—went finding fault with Maria; of course she would and, possessing great natural attractions, and be- off to sea; and a rough time I had of it at first. grow out of it !" ing a suburban town, many fine residences now Still I liked the water, and liked journeying around At the age of thirty, Maria still comes down graced its winding avenues. from place to place. Then I settled down to bus- late for breakfast, and the soft-hearted mother— About two years before, a weather-beaten, sun- iness in a foreign land, and soon became prosper- now sixty-five—still rises when her daughter burned• man, unmistakably a sailor, had bought ous, and now began sending her something beside enters, and offers her the chair! In our opinion, a tasteful little cottage near the beach. This he empty letters. And such beautiful letters as she silliness could not go farther, and we feel sorry had fitted up, beautified and embellished, until always wrote me during those years of cruel ab- for both mother and daughter—the last a slave Mrs. Harris declared it to be a "perfect pink of sence. At length I noticed how longing they to habit the first a slave to her own offspring. a place." grew; longing for the presence of the son who Reverence has long ceased to be a feature of Over this pretty house, Cap'n Sam, as the boys used to try her so; and it awoke a corresponding the age; but we would counsel parents to culti- had learned to call the genial man, had installed longing in my own heart to go back to the dear vate by every means in their power habits of his white-haired mother as mistress and chief, waiting soul. punctuality in their children from very early and a more attentive, loving son, it would appear "So, when I could stand it no longer, I came years.—Chambers' Journal. had never lived. back; and such a welcome, and such a surprise ! In a small barn at the rear of the cottage was My mother is not a very old lady, boys, but the Card-playing. kept a fine, steady horse, and a low basket car- first thing I noticed was the whiteness of her riage, and every fair day the captain and his hair, and the deep furrows on her.brow; and I THAT accomplished writer, the late Dr. Hollond, mother " went abroad," as Mrs. Bowles ex- knew I had helped blanch. that hair to its snowy of Springfield, Massachusetts, said: "I have all pressed it, on long, pleasant drives. whiteness, and had drawn those lines in that my days had a card-playing community open to As we have hinted, Cap'n Sam was a great smooth forehead. And those are the furrows my observation, and I am yet to be made to 'be- favorite among the boys of the place. Who else I've been trying to straighten out. lieve that that which is the universal resort of would harness up the sturdy horse into a big "But last night while mother was sleeping in the starved in soul and intellect, which has never wagon, and give them such grand drives upon her chair, I- sat thinking it all over, •and looked in any way linked to itself tender, elevating, or occasion? Then the great hickory and chestnut to see what progress I had made. • beautiful associations—the tendency of which is trees at the foot of .his lot were free for the boys " Her face was very peaceful, and the expres- to unduly absorb the attention from more weighty . to visit as often as they liked, only they must sion contented as possible, but the furrows were matters—can recommend itself to the favor of never damage in any way the fine old branches; still there ! I hadn't straightened them out-- Christ's disciples. The presence of culture and but when it came to spinning a yarn, ah, then! and—I—never--shall ! never ! genius may embellish, but it can never dignify it. who so beguiling, nay, so perfectly bewitching as " When they lay my mother--my fair old " I have this moment," said Dr. Holland, "ring- the sea-bronzed man ? sweetheart--in her casket, there will be furrows ing in my ears the dying injunction of my father's It bad long ago become a subject for harmless in her brow; and I think it a wholesome lesson early friend, Keep your son from cards. Over bantering among the boys and rather relished to teach you, that the neglect you offer your par- them I have murdered time and lost Heaven.' " than otherwise by the captain, that he was gal- ents' counsels now, and the trouble you cause Fathers and mothers, keep your sons from cards lant and unceasingly attentive to his " sweet- them, will abide, my lads, it will abide ! " in the home circle. What must a good angel heart," " my fair old sweetheart," he had once " But," broke in Freddie Hollis with great think of a mother at the prayer-meeting asking in their hearing called his mother, and they of troubled eyes, " I should think if you're so kind prayers for the conversion of her son whom she course, lively little wretches that they were, and good now, it needn't matter so much ! " allowed to remain at home playing cards for would never forget it. "Ah, Freddie, my boy," said the quavery voice "pastime."—Maxwell P. Caddis. JUNE 14, 1883. THE SIGNS OF TH TIMJS. 275

--The Rev. Bradley Abbott, vicar of Clapham, Eng., —Great damage was done by a tornado in the vicin- Iteli9jous Notes. one of the most prominent of the English ritualistic ity of Dallas. Texas, on the 2d inst. Near Hutchins' party, is in San Francisco. In answer to a question as Station, south of Dallas, the destruction was so complete —There are 165,000 teachers and scholars in the to the similarity of the ritualistic practices to those of as to dishearten the people. Some of them have given Protestant Sun day-schools of Philadelphia. the Romish Church, he enumerated the different vessels, up farming and turned their attention to working at The number of students in the various Presbyte- etc., and said: " Mass. of course, is said in English, but day labor. Wheat standing in shocks was scattered to rian theological seminaries during the past year was I think that perhaps Latin would be more desirable for the wind; water in huge streams ploughed up the fields 446. the sake of uniformity. We have, of course, auricular and cut jagged ruts through What had been model —The Chicago Tribune receives Beecher's Sunday confession, and have all the seven of Catho- stands of cotton and grain. Many animals in the fields sermon by telegraph, and publishes it in its Monday lic truth. With reference to doctrine, I think we are were killed. Fifteen miles west of Dallas great trees morning issue. at one with the Romish Church, with the exception, of were torn up and carried long distances; orchards were twisted and stripped of their branches and young fruit —Rev. Gilbert Reid in a letter from China to, the course, of the dogmas of immaculate conception and the papal infallibility." He says that ritualism has gained strewn on the ground. Another cyclone, in Collin Christian at Work, says: " I realize that the Chinese County, on the 10th, destroyed everything in its path. have unsurpassed memories, and I learn that many of greatly within the last twenty years, at which, we doubt the children can repeat the whole of the New Testa- not, the pope greatly rejoices. ment." —The Congregationalist tells the following little News and Notes. Obituar. story: " In the primary class last Sunday, the teacher asked what was meant by Then had the churches rest'? —The Government is considering certain changes in and got response from one of the smallest boys: 'I the navy yards, which if made, will result in a saving DROULLARD.—Died of consumption, near Lincoln, loose they didn't haVe any preaching.' " We have of nearly $500 daily. Neb., May 12, 1883, my dear wife, Eliza Droullard, aged no' doubt that that small boy voiced the sentiment of forty-six years one month, and seven days. She had a many older members of the congregation. —Advices received from Sierra Leone, under date of May 24, say that fifty persons were roasted alive for strong hope in God, which did not fail her while pass- ing through her affliction. She is gone; but if faithful, —Dr. Lionel Beale, of London, is authority all over witchcraft, in Sheboa district. the world on physiology, and ought to know whereof in a little while we shall meet again, never to part. be speaks when he says of Herbert Spencer's books The first case of sunstroke ever recorded in Califor- Oh, blessed hope! Words of comfort were spoken by that they " contain so much false physiology that they nia, occurred in San .Jose, on the 7th inst. Another Brother Brookins to quite a large congregation, from will not be read ten years after his death, except as case occurred the same day at Livermore. John 11. ALMA DROULLARD. literary curiosities." But this will not hinder the It is announced with some natural surprise that progress of evolution. It is one of the glories of all the Brooklyn Bridge was honestly built, and so econom- forms of opposition to the truth of the Bible, including ically that it could not now be duplicated at the same THE SPIRIT OP PROPHECY; OR THE " science falsely so-called," that they exist entirely in- cost. dependent of such old-fashioned things as hard facts. —A thunder-storm at Albany, N. Y., on the afternoon GREAT CONTROVERSY BETWEEN Many persons in this country, speaking of the of the 6th inst., caused damage amounting to $500,000. CHRIST AND SATAN. missionary work in India, ask, "Are the native Chris- Houses were undermined, cellars flooded, and streets tians truly converted ? " The Standard says that the torn up. BY MRS. E. G. WHITE. one item of benevolence affords pretty good evidence as —Peter Cooper left $100,000 as a permanent endow- to the genuineness of conversion, and that the con- ment to Cooper Union Institute, and the heirs have de- THIS is a series of four volumes, covering the entire period from the -1 verted natives of that country, although poor, contrib- cided to double the amount. So unusual an occurrence creation and fall of man to his final redemption. Volume One is devoted ute yearly for religious work one dollar per member, is worthy of note. to Old Testament history. It is not merely a narrative of the leading and aptly inquires: "But what now, if our new breth- There is a monster orange tree near Fort Harley, events in the lives of the patriarchs and prophets; but moral lessons are ren abroad should learn how little we bestow in pro- drawn therefrom, in such away as to snake the book practically useful Fla.. that measures nine feet one inch in circumference. to the men and women of to-day. Volume Two commences with the life portion to the wealth we enjoy, would not there be It is over fifty years old, and some seasons has over 9,000 a and mission of John the Baptist, and considers the first advent of Christ, ground for the query on their part: 'Are the Christians oranges on it.—.Ex. his life and mission, as manifested by his miracles and teachings, and the of America truly converted ' " —A young man in Cape Girardeau, Mo., recently nature and necessity of his life-work. It closes with Christ's triumphal —Rev. G. W. Knox, of the American Presbyterian died from the effects of a playful bite of a young wo- entry into Jerusalem. Volume Three takes up the subject at :this point, Mission in Japan, says: " I find there are more than man; and in St. Joseph, same State, a man suffers with and brings to view the most thrillingly interesting portion of Christ's 1,100 communicants in Presbyterian Churches in this earthly career—his betrayal, trial, crucifixion, and resurrection. It closes I a poisoned arm from the same cause. one city of Tokio alone. Ten years ago the work was —George M. Willing, of St. Louis, has commenced with a brief history of the early church, including ,,the missionary labors not begun. He cites this as proof that mission work is suit to secure a tract of 2,700 square miles of land along of Peter and Paul. Voluslie Four (in press) contains a history of the church from that time to the end, closing with the coming-of Christ, the not a failure. But we will not believe that missionary the Gila River, which was deeded to his son in 1874 by work is a failure, even if we cannot see any results at resurrection of the dead, and the establishment of the everlasting kingdom a Spaniard. The value of the grant is estimated at of Christ on earth. all. The reflex influence of the work yields a good $10,000,000. • income on the investment. People must have some- These books are not argumentative, but they throw a vast flood of thing to call out their energies and develop their benev- —The notorious Barber boys were captured on the light upon the sacred page. They are written in a clear, simple style, olence, or they will lose their own religion. Mission- 7th inst., near Waverly, Iowa, by five unarmed Ger- and are of absorbing interest to both young and old. They offer special encouragement and instruction to Christians; and there is nothing better ary enterprises work in two ways. mans, of whom one was killed, and all the rest wounded. The desperadoes were taken from jail two days later by to place in the hands of skeptics, to convince them of the truth of the —The Young Men's Christian Association is receiv- a mob, and hung. Bihle. 400 pp. Price per volume $1. ing blows from all quarters. Dr. Potter, of the Sixth Address, SIGNS or THE TOMS, Oakland, Cal. Ward Baptist Church, New York, recently declared in The Chinese Minister says his Government is satis- the Baptist Ministers' Conference, that the grandest fied with the working of the restriction law, adding that humbug in New York is the Association palace at the the people of California will find before ten years pass A MINE OF INFORMATION. corner of Thirty-third Street and Fourth Avenue. In that the Chinese are needed and will ask for a repeal an interview with a. Sun reporter he described the As- of the existing law. sociation " as a great, splendid, aristocratic organiza- —Much damage was done to small fruit in California HISTORY OF THE SABBATH AND FIRST tion, which gets from young men a fee of five dollars, by the hot weather of last week. It is stated that the DAY OF THE WEEK. and gives them the worth of their money in a bowling- loss to the fruit-raisers in Alameda County, in the single alley, library, and gymnasium." He says that it does item of currants, will not be less than $60,000. The BY Es.D. J. N. ANDREWS. incalculable injury to the church. fruit was literally cooked on the bushes. Tins Bible record of the Sabbath ; the secular history concerning it; the Dr. Cuyler thinks that it is a humiliating confession —The hot weather last week was unprecedented in successive steps by which the change to the first day was made, and the of weakness fora pastor to send for a professional reviv- California. Even on the bay the thermometer regis- work of restoration, are given in detail. alist to conduct a revival in his church. And he does tered as high as 108° in the shade, and in some places EVERY TEXT OF SCRIPTURE concerning the Sabbath is commented not put much confidence in revivals so conducted. He it was warmer. In some places flowers were blighted ;in at length ; and the COMPLETE TESTIMONY OF THE FATHERS in relates the following: " A somewhat noted evangelist by the hot north wind, as though by a frost. regard to the Sabbath and first day is given. The comparative merits of once held special services in a Brooklyn church for three In New Haven, Conn., members of the Salvation she seventh and the first-day Sabbaths are fully shown. A copious Index weeks, and at the end of the time said to me, I have Army have been notified by the Chief of Police that uables the reader to find any text, or the statement of any historian. brought one hundred souls to Christ.' At the end of the they must stop street singing in future, under penalty Should be read by everybody. 528 pp. Price, $1.25. year I inquired of the pastor, How many of those of arrest. Captain Palmer, the chief of the Salvation- Address. SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland. Cal. hundred can you put your hands on to-day as appar- ists, says it is their intention to sing until they are ently genuine Christians ?' His sad reply was, could stopped by the Mayor, as that official gave them per- THE BIBLICAL INSTITUTE. count them all.on my ten fingers.'" mission to hold meetings in the city. —A short time before his death, Bishop Peck, of the In Pittsburg, Pa., recently, during a performance M. E. Church, gave all his property to the Syracuse Tills book is a synopsis of the lectures delivered at the Biblical In- in the Academy of Music, an unknown man, who was stitute in Oakland, April, 1877, by Elders James White and U. Smith. University, wisely preferring to dispose of it during his somewhat under the influence of liquor, was mesmer- life-time, rather than leave it by a will. Speaking of it It covers the principal points of doctrine held by Seventh-day Adventists, ized by Kennedy Brothers, and at the conclusion of treating of the Millennium, Second Coming of Christ, the Prophecies of to a friend, he said: "I have an ambition to die with- their act they were unable to restore him to conscious- out anything, for I am going where I shall have infi- Daniel 2, 7, and 8, the Messages of Rev. 14, Two-horned Beast of Rev. ness. Several physicians were called, but up to mid- 13, Sanctuary, the Seven Churches and the Seven Seals of Rev. 2-8, nite riches of a kind that will suit me better than any night all efforts to revive him were unsuccessful. Seven Last Plagues, .Nature and Destiny of Man, Saints' Inheritance, of these material things." We wish there were more Bible View of the Sabbath, Examination of alleged reasons for Sunday- of the same mind; and we are glad to know that when —Preparations for war between France and China keeping, etc. Although the book contains only 352 pages, these dif- the good bishop gets to heaven, he will find that the are progressing rapidly, and are on a large scale. There ferent subjects ate treated at sufficient length to make them very plain. riches there are not immaterial, but are a more "endur- is a strong war party in China, who are anxious to The book may be used to good advantage in class recitations, as questions ing substance " than anything that he possessed on demonstrate the great improvements that that country are appended to each lecture. It is just the thing for those new in the earth. • has made in the modern arts and sciences, and in then. faith, or those who wish to inve4t1zate. Ps-ice, $1.00. —Rev. W. F. Crafts speaking of the New Criticism, art of war. China has recently ordered a number of ironcl ads and steel-plated vessels from England and which, we may explain, is Rationalism in a Christian THE NATURE AND TENDENCY OF dress, says: " While welcoming all the valuable results Germany, and if war ensues, some heavy fighting is ex- pected. of critical Bible study, we hardly need to reshape our MODERN SPIRITUALISM. theology to it, until its nebulous hypotheses are cooled —A recent dispatch from Raleigh, North Carolina, into scientific certainties." And Dr. Delitzch says: says: "Mormon missionaries are again at work in the BY ELD. J. H. WAGGONER. " Many of the former results of the critical school are western part of the State. They have induced a large now out of fashion. Its present results contradict number of women to join their church. Tbe ceremony Tens is a thorough expose of the system of spiritualism. The author each other. In reality we know little and imagine of baptism of the new converts was attended by most has carefully studied the subject, and has given such copious extracts that we know much." And all this time the Bible horrible orgies. All that was previously known of the from a large library of spiritualist publications, as to fully condemn them holds its own, and tells the same story that it did eight- abominations of Mormonism was surpassed by the scenes in their teachings and in their practices:by their own testimony. een centuries ago. The trouble is with the readers, that took place on this occasion. The Mormons will It is also shown from the prophetic scriptures that spiritualism is one not with the Book. All these difficulties in harmoniz- probably be driven out of the State. Public indignation of the most impressive signs of the times. 184 pp. Price, 20 cents. ing the Bible arise from " an evil heart of unbelief."' is so great that lynching is feared," Address, SIGNS OP THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. 276 TILE SIGNS OF TEE 1-1, TIMES. VoL. 9, No. 23.

paper. Paper covers, 75 cents. Boards, embossethin County will not be found large enough to greatly swell Eke ($ign5 of Of Eime5, gold, $1.25. Printed at the office of the Pacific Press, the ranks of the Alliance. But this is the tendency of Oakland, Cal., where they may be obtained. Also for the age—to ally the church with the world, and call it OAKLAND, CAL., FIFTH-DAY, JUNE 14, 1883. sale by James T. White & Co., 23 Dupont St., San " advanced Christianity." Francisco, and by the publisher at Pasadena. Our Country's Growth. Time of Camp-Meetings. Looking Down the Ages. To ANY one who is acquainted with Chicago and the NORTH PACIFIC, Beaverton, Or., June 20-26 THE publisher, John Burns, St, Louis, Mo., has favored surrounding country, the following description of the MICHIGAN, Alma, " 20-26 us with a copy of a book of 160 pages .with the above Chicago post-office fifty years ago cannot fail to be of MINNAOTA, Minneapolis, " 21-26 title, by J. T. Walsh. Years ago we knew something DAKOTA, Parker, Turner Co., June 27 to July 2 interest. The postmaster of 1832 is still living, and TEXAS, Waxahachie, July 13-23 of Mr. Walsh as a vigorous writer, whom we considered gave the following facts to an Inter-Ocean reporter:— VIRGINIA, New Market, Aug. 2-7 sometimes rather erratic. But we have lost sight of his " In 1832 the post-office was situated in an upper 01-Ho, Galion, Crawford Co., " 15-21 name for a score of years, until its appearance in this room of a log building which stood on Lake Street. The MASSACHUSETTS, " 23-28 book. We shall give the book a careful reading as soon building was partly occupied by an Indian trader, and VERMONT, Aug. 30 to Sept. 4 in the other part, the smallest corner, was the post-office. MAINE, Waterville, Sept. 6-11 as possible. From the Introduction we copy the follow- Jonathan V. Bailey was the postmaster, and I was his ILLINOIS, " 11-18 ing paragraphs,. which ought to receive the hearty in- deputy. There was not much for either of us to do, but NEBRASKA, " 19-25 dorsement of every lover of the Bible and its truths:— while we'kept the office I bought hides and traded wial, "Some claim that the Prophecies .cannot be under- the Indians. When the Black Hawk War broke out 7.1. stood until they "are fulfilled, and, indeed, that they 1832, Bailey's wife, who was delicate, became so fright- MRs. E. 0. B.—Examine the contents of the SIGNS, ened that he had to take her away, and I was left in and you will soon see an answer to your question. were never intended to be understood until accomplished. There are prophecies difficult td understand, and which charge of the office. Bailey never returned, and as dep- in all their details may not be fully understood until uty postmaster I kept the office for three years. At College Catalogue. fulfilled; but God has given us grand outlines of future first there was not more than 1% pounds in the whole events, and these, as well as some of their details, can collection of letters and papers that came to the place; THE first Annual Catalogue of Healdsburg College is be understood by the diligent student of prophecy. but before the end of my term it increased until it now ready for circulation. " A chief reason why the prophecies have not been weighed about 100 pounds. A good part of the time I All the friends of the College should make a com- better understood, is, they have been ignored—they have kept the office in a candle box. When any one called for a letter I took down the box and looked over the , mendable effort to give it a judicious distribution. If not been read, much less studied. This is true, even of many preachers of the gospel, who ought to be pre- whole collection. I knew very well whether there were you are acquainted with worthy young people that you pared to bring out of the sacred treasures of God's word, any letters or not, but I liked to be accommodating to think might be persuaded to attend the, College, give things new and old.' the people, and would let them see for themselves that them a catalogue, and use your influence in helping " A. large portion of the Bible is prophetic, and to ig- none of the letters in the box belonged to them. A Frenchman came once a week from Niles, Mich., and in them to decide aright. nore that portion, or to neglect to study it with all dili- gence, is to treat its divine author with irreverence and a pair of saddle-bags thrown over his horse carried all Persons desiring catalogues will please send their or- disrespect. The prophecies were intended to be under- the mail that came to Chicago. This was the office for ders to Pacific Press, Oakland, as those who usually stood. and hence we read: Blessed is he that readeth, all the northern counties in this State and about half attend to College correspondence will be away from and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep of Wisconsin. The people of Cook, DuPage, Will, Mc- Henry, and La Salle Counties, and all the territory be- Healdsburg during much of the vacation. those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.' Rev. 1:3. And what is said of the tween here and the Mississippi River, came into Chicago. The catalogue is for free distribution. Send stamp blessedness of the reader and hearer of Revelation, I suppose is for their mail. They did not come very often—once in for postage. equally true of other prophecies. two or three weeks—and then one man would come in " All Scripture given by inspiration of God is profit- from a county and inquire for all his neighbors. There Heat in California. able.'Holy men spoke as they were moved by the were little settlements scattered about, a few families in Holy Spirit.' Let us then with humble hearts, and a place. Up where Milwaukee now is there was one prayerful spirits, free from all bias and prejudice, care- man living, but at Green Bay there was a settlement, THE glory of California—of hiving "the best cli- fully study the prophetic map spread out before us, and and an Indian came down for the mail. I was paid off mate in the world "—is in great danger of passing learn the deep things of God.' for my services in having the honor of serving the Gov- away. Last week the thermometer passed just above "The prophecies of the Old Testament must be stud- ernment. Gen. Jackson was President and W. T. Barry was Postmaster-General. I remember both of them 1000 in San Francisco, while in Oakland it varied in ied in connection with the New Testament, where many of them are repeated, thus throwing additional light on —that is, in my official relations." different localities from 102 to 108. Heavy rains con- the prophetic chart of the ages and events yet to come." tinued in the spring as late as May 16. A few more through lines of railroad, and a corresponding increase ppoinfmnti- 5, of telegraph lines, may enable San Francisco to inter- Theological Nihilism. change climates with New York. It is hoped here DR. RANKIN, in a paper read before the American I WILL meet with the church at Vacaville, Sabbath, that iron will prove a non-conductor of cyclones. Congregational Club in New York, made some apt re- June 16, at Woodland, June 23, and at Arbuckle, June 30. marks about Henry Ward Beecher. He said there "is S. BROWNSBERGER. Age of Santa Fe. a movement in religious thought that corresponds to the Providence permitting, I will be in San Juan, San movement in civil thought, which is known as nihil- Benito Co., Cal., Sabbath, June 16. I shall expect to THERE has been some conjecture as to the age of the ism." Of an article of Beecher's in the North Ameri- see all the Sabbath-keepers in that section of country. city of the holy faith, but we have learned what its C. C. RAMSEY. can Review he said "he blew sky high his eminent 11...... 11.14 citizens think by receiving a card of admittance to the father and his theology,itogether with the theology of a " Tertio-Millennial Anniversary Celebration," to be large family of brothers and thousands of his brother THOUGHTS ON BAPTISM. held at Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 2 to August 3. ministers (not to speak of that of a long series of ser- Be- ELD. J. We 'would be pleased to attend. H. WAGGONER. mons from the 'Plymouth pulpit') " and characterized Lest some should think, as we did at first sight, that AN it " as of the dynamite order. All the arts of rhetoric, EXAMINATION OF THE ACTION, SUBJECTS, AND RELATIONS " Tertio-Millennial " has to do with a. new religious OF THE ORDINANCE OF BAPTISM. poetry, and ridicule, all the invective of old time infi- movement, we will state that the managers of the cele- Also, a Brief Refutation of the delity and atheism, all the probabilities and possibili- bration mean by it "the third of a millennium," it HISTORICAL CLAIMS FOR TRINE IMMERSION. ties of modern science were put into the compound, the being claimed that the city was founded 333 years ago. fuse lighted and the skies have rained fragments of SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED. bodies of divinity from that day to this." A Southern California Paradise. Beecher is no doubt entitled to the name of the great Prices, post-paid,—In flexible cloth, 35 cents ; paper covers, 25 cents. " theological nihilist " of the age. •And his purpose is Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. THIS, is the title of a book of 132 double-column as aimless as that of his cousins in Russia. He tears pages, published by R. W. C. Farnsworth, Pasadena, down everything, and builds up nothing, leaving a sort EARLY WRITINGS OF MRS. WHITE. Los Angeles Co., Cal. It is " a historic and descriptive of theological anarchy behind him. It is a pity that account of Pasadena, San Gabriel, Sierra Madre, and such an erratic man should have received so great hom- Comprising " Experience and Views" and "Spiritual Gifts Volume- La Caliada," suburbs of Los Angeles. The title will One," bound in one volume. This makes a neat and attractive book of age, and been permitted to undermine the aith of so not be considered inappropriate by those who have nearly 200 pages, and should be read by old ana young. The matter and many in the truths of the gospel of Christ. He bas the style in which it is presented are so interesting that no one who has. looked upon the orchards, the vineyards, the orange done far more than Ingersoll to destroy genuine faith in read one chapter will forego the pleasure and profit of reading the remain- groves, the " gardens and pleasant walks " of the places der. Price, 75 cents. the Bible. described in this book. The articles on the various Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal- subjects are written by residents of the several places, THEY have a " Christian Alliance " in Tulare County. THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES, and they have succeeded as well as it seems possible to Its organ, the Alliance Messenger, says that it is " an PUBLISHED do in attempting to make those appreciate the natural unsectarian organization of Christian people with the WEEKLY, Ar OAKLAND,. CAL., 'FOR. 'ELIE advantages and splendid improvements of the country threefold object: to fight infidelity in all its varied Missionary Society of Seventh-day Adventists.. who have never seen anything resembling it. It has a forms; to elevate the standard of personal piety.in the A twelve-page Religious Family Paper, devoted to a discussion of the' lovely climate, is capable of producing fruits and grains churches; and to work together in the cause of temper- Prophecies, Signs of the Times, Second Coming of Christ, Harmony of the- , with Departments devoted to Temperance, The Home native to both a ten4erate and semi-tropical climate. ance." " It embraces Catholics as well as Protestants, Circle, the Missionary Work, and the Sabbath-school. Added to this the complete system' of water supply, in its membership, and does not make church member- Price Per Year, - - ----- - $2.00 and the neatness "of the lots, farms, and dwellings, ship requisite for admission." In Clubs of five or more copies to one address, to be used in Mis- sionary Work, - - - - - - - - 1.50 make it as nearly a paradise as anything we can well We are aware that there are many in the churches Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. imagine. — OR— who are not Christians, and we cannot say that some Review AND HERALD, Battle Creek, ELD. J. N. LOUGLIBOROU011, RAVENS- The book is got up in a style worthy of the subject. who are Christians may not be found outside the Michigan. wood, Shirley Road, Southamp- Fine illustrations, excellent print on heavy tinted Mits. ELizA PALMER, Sec. N. E. Tract ton, England. churches. But we fear the number of such in Tulare Society, South Lancaster, Mass. MRs. C. C. Bove, Salem, Oregon. THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES.-SUPPLEMENT.

A Brief Sketch of the Origin and Prog- Majesty in the Heavens." Heb. 8 : A. 0...A.MP 1, 2. The tabernacle erected by ress of Seventh-Day Adveitists. IVI:E=r1111\7"0- Moses in the wilderness of Sinai about 1500 years before Christ, Ex. Our field of inquiry leads us back 25 and onward, which was the sanct- only to the great Advent movement uary of the first covenant, Heb. 9 : of 1840-44. Respecting that move- 1, from that time till the first advent, ment it is presumed that the public was a type, figure, or pattern of this are more or less informed ; but they heavenly sanctuary of the new cov- may not be so well aware of the enant. Heb. 9: 9, 23, 24. The causes which have led since that time ministration of the sanctuary con- to the rise of a class of people call- sisted of two grand divisions, which ing themselves Seventh-day Advent- were accomplished every year ; the ists. • daily ministration, and a brief ser- vice in the most holy place, or sec- THE DISAPPOINTMENT. ond apartment of the sanctuary, Adventists looked for the end of which completed the yearly round of the world in 1844, because of the service. This latter work was called prophecy in Dan. 8 : 14, which says the cleansing of the sanctuary, and that at' the end of the•prophetic pe- was performed by the priest. So, ridd of .2300 days the sanctuary likewise, the cleansing of the heav- should. be cleansed. They computed enly sanctuary, Heb. 9 : 23, must be that time to end in that year. They 111111111111! 1111.1\1111.11. performed by Christ while yet a held that the earth was the sanctuary priest, before he takes his kingdom then to.. be cleansed, and that its and appears in his glory. cleansing was to be accomplished The view we take of the prophecy, with fire which would accompany the consequently, is that the termination manifestation of the Lord from of the 2300 days in 1844 brought us heaven. Hence they supposed the - to the commencement of this last Lord would then come. There were, portion of Christ's work as priest in of course, many other facts and ar- the true tabernacle above, called the guments in support of the view that cleansing of the sanctuary ; not a. the 'second comina of Christ was cleansing from physical impurities, near, but what web have stated was but from the presence of our sins, the principal argument for fixing -BY THE- imparted to it through the blood of upon that particular time for the oc2 Christ there ministered in our be- currence of the event. half. This explains at once the mis- The time passed, and the coming take in 1844, and shows our present of Christ did not take place as was SEVENTH - DAY ADVENTISTS position. We are now in the time expected. It then became apparent WILL BE HELD of the cleansing of the sanctuary. ; that amistake had been made in one a period of brief but indefinite dura- or both of the following points : tion, reaching to Christ's coming. either' the period of 2300 days did ON TH F IR G While, therefOre, we do not throw not end at that time, or the cleansing away the prophetic period, but be- of the sanctuary was not to be the AT— lieve they are to be understood, we burning of the earth by fire at the believe also that they have been cor- second coming of Christ. While rectly interpreted, and have all ter- there was a possibility of their being minated ; so that now. we have no mistaken on both these points, a WORCFSTV ASS. data from which to reason respecting mistake on either one would be suffi- a definite time for the Lord to come. cient to account for the fact that the CONTINUING FROM Lord did not then appear. THE SEVENTH DAY. A moVement which had enlisted the whole interest of thousands upon August 23 to 28, 1888. Two causes have operated to intro- thousands,' would not, of course, •be duce the observance of the seventh- day Sabbath among Adventists, and abandoned without reflection. The The following eminent speakers are announced for' the occasion : ground was looked over, and two thus to develop that class known as methods adopted for explaining the Seventh-day Adventists. disappointment. One class jumped First, a Seventh-day Baptist sis- Hader GI-410. I. BUTLIHR, ter, Mrs. Rachel D. Preston, from to the conclusion at once that they President General Conference. were wrong on time, and the pro- the State of New York, moved to phetic periods had not ended. An- Washington, N. H., where there was other• clasS, on a ea,reful survey of a church of Adventists. From them Elder I. D. VAN HORN, she received the doctrine of the soon- the whole field, impressed with the Formerly President North Pacific Conference, strength and harmony of the argu- coming of ChrM, and in return in- ment ou chronology, saw no ground structed them in reference to the to change their views upon that claims of the fourth commandment point,- but became satisfied that the 1-4:1der URIAH SMITH of the decalogue. This was in 1844. mistake lay in the subject of the Editor Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Battle Creek, Mich. Nearly that whole church immedi- sanctuary and its 'cleansing. This ately commenced the observance of class ,are the ones now known as. the seventh-day. Seventh-day Adventists. Mrs. 1H]. G. WHITE The Sabbath question began im- Oakland, Cal. mediately to be agitated among Ad- SEVENTH—DAY ADVENTISTS ventists, and, within a few months, SET NO TIME. . • . many from their ranks commenced They'd() not believe that any pro;- BIBLE TOPICS OF VITAL IA TERM its observance. phetic period given in - the Bible Secondly, another cause which has To all CLASSES and CREEDS will be presented. Above all, it is most earnestly desired reaches to the coming of Christ, or that the Spirit of God will be so shed down that many souls may tended to strengthen them in the was designed to. mark the day or be converted unto the Lord. . observance of the seventh-day Sab- year of that event. As already bath is the subject of the sanctuary, mentioned, they believe the chrono- A most cordial invitation is extended. to all the Citizens of Worcester and the sur- to which we have already alluded. logiCal argument of the great Advent rounding country to attend. Ample entertainment provided for man an beast, at reason- It was. seen at once that the central movement, of 1844 was all right, lo- able rates. objectin the sanctuary, in whichever. cating the termination of the longest dispensation we view it, is the ark prophetic period, the 2300 days, in FREE RETURN TICKETS of God, which was enshrined in the the ' autumn of that year. The most holy place. This. ark was pre- Can be had on the ground of the Secretary, for all who come on the 'Worcester & Nashua, prophecy said that then the sanctu- New York & Irel,Nr. England, rovidence & Worcester, Fitchburg, pared expressly as a receptacle for ary should be cleansed-. That sanct- Cheshire, and Boston Sr, Maine railroads. the tables of stone on which were nary.they. found to be, not the earth, • written the great moral precept's of which is never so called, but the God's government, the ten command- sanctuary of which Paul so fully and +Regular Services Daily, at 10,30 A. M., 2.30 and 7.30 P. 114.. - ments. Thus attention was called definitely treats in his. epistle to the to the law of God. It was also seen Hebrews,'"the sanctuary" and "true that if the law in the ark of the tabernacle" in Heaven, "which the THE BEST OF ORDER WILL BE INSISTED UPON. heavenly sanctuary, Rev. 11 :19, is Lord pitched and not man," of which the great original, and that deposited. Christ, .our great High Priest, is in the typical sanctuary was only a minister while "on the throne of the Let there be a General Attendance. copy, or transcript, that law must

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read the same now as it read' then, Increasing patronage 'demanding and the idea of any change is placed more facilities, a large' building 120 beyond the range of possibilities ; by 130 feet, four stories high above that heaven and earth, as Christ in the basement, provided with modern his first sermon declared, would. improvements, and opened for pa- sooner pass than one jot or tittle tients April 10, 1878. The old main would pass from the law ; and that building and seven cottages are also the fourth commandment requires of occupied by the • institution,. now the second' house of Israel what it known as the Medical 'and. Surgical required of the first, and. has re- Sanitarium. quired from Eden down, the obser- vande of the seventh day of the week as the grand and glorious me- morial of our creation at the hands :••*fgar. of God. Their •Publishing Work.

In November 1850, 'Eld. James White commenced the publication of - the' ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD, the first periodidal issued Sanitarium Building. by • the denomination ; and in 1861, a legally incorporated association, under the,name of the Seventh-Day The International Tract and lilisSionary Adventist Publishing Association, Society. " was organized in Battle reek. Mich. Besides a large list of English ill .The object of this organization) works, . forty-four are now issued which embraces twenty-eight State, from this office in the Danish lan- ...ma••••••1•01...., or branch societis, is first, to syste- „ guage, twenty-three in Swedish, 1.1 matically canvass the country with fifteen in French, and thirty-one in religions books,tracts and pamphlets, German. ANN* WWir-aIVL' to obtain subscribers for our various The different periodicals issued at P114156' periodicals, visit the sick, call upon,. the present time by the denomina- tihnlirgt#WIL converse and pray with families and tion, the titles of which are given individuals ; and second, in 4 more elsewhere, have an aggregate monthly general way, to seek. out openings circulation of from 150,000 to 200,- ,for reading matter, and fill them, in, '000 copies. all parts of the world. . Books on the prophecies and other Although of recent organization, Bible subjects have •been issued between two and, three hundred , largely from the beginning, and have - • -.•-t thousand dollars have been employed now reached an, aggregate' of about The Seventh-Day Adventist's Publishing House, Battle Creek, Mich. in carrying forward this -work.. three.hundred million of pages. Thousands of volumes, largely bound use of alcoholic drinks of all kinds. Nearly two hundred hands are Nebraska, Dakota, Missouri, Kentucky, books, have 'been placed in public Tobacco; in all its forms, is also discard- regularly employed in the work, and Tennessee, Kansas, Texas, California, libraries, on board vessels, etc. ed, 'none addicted' to its use being re- the capital invested is over two. Upper Columbia, North Pacific, Color- A: distribution of about six mil- ceived into the churches except upon the hundred thousand dollars. ado, Virginia-, Province of Quebec, Den- lion pages of readiUg matter, besides promise and expectation of its immediate mark, and Sweden. about five hundred thousand periodi- THEIR ORGANIZATION. abandonment. The next outward sweep from the State cals has been made annually for A society known as the American This is exceedingly simple. A Conference is the General Conference. several years in the past. The pres- Health and Temperance Association has body of believers associate together, This is composed of delegates, Ministers ent year their missionary operations been recently organized among this body taking the name of Seventh-day Ad- or laymen, from all the State Conferences. have more than doubled. Five of Adventists, which requires of its mem- ventists, and attaching their names This Conference alSo annually elects its thousand bound books alone have bers•to sign one of the following pledges : to a covenant simply to keep the executive committee of three, to have been presented to libraries. A large commandments of God and the faith charge of the doings of -the denomina-, TEETOTAL PLEDGE.—T do hereby solemnly affirm that with the help of God I will wholly abstain from number have been sold, also thous- of JeSus. The Bible is their only tion in all parts of the field. The presi- the voluntary use, as a beverage, or in any equivalent ands of subscribers have been ob- creed. A clerk is chosen to keep dent of the General Conference is the manner, of alcohol, tea and coflee, and from the'use of tobacco, opium, and all other.narcotics and stimulants. tained for periodicals„ in advance of 'the records of the church, and an highest officer in the body. The object .ANTI-Rum AND TOBACCO PLEDGE.-1 do hereby other years. Mission. and reading- . elder, elected by vote of the church, of the General Conference is to unify the solemnly affirm that with the help of God I will wholly abstain from the voluntary use of alcohol in any form, rooms have been opened in New is ordained to look after its spiritual work in all localities, equalize labor, and as a beverage, or in any equivalent manner, and from York, San Francisco, Liverpool, etc. interests. If the church is large, its supply destitute fields with help. Twenty- smoking, chewing, or snuffing tobacco, or using it in add other form, and from in any way encouraging the from which publications are sent to temporal affairs are assigned to one one annual meetings have been held by use of these poisons. every civilized nation. of more .deacons, chosen ,by vote of this organization. ANTI - ‘VHTSKY PLEDGE.-1. do hereby solemnly affirm that with the help of God I will totally abstain The work is successfully carried on the church for this purpose. from the voluntary use, zs a beverage, or in any among the Danes, Norwegians, Ger- THE HEALTH AND TEMPERANCE equivalent manner, of all liquors or substances .con- - .Evangelists are ordained ministers, REFORM. Wining alcohol. mans, Swedes and French in this , who travel from place to place to country;; also in England, .Switzer- At the present time the whole body of The Association hassubsidiary State preach the gospel, and are the only land,. Denmark, Sweden, Norway, ones competent to ordain local elders S. D. Adventists are abstainers from the societies and local ' clubs in nearly all parts of the United Germany; France, Italy, and the and deacons...... • ...... States. All S. D. Ad- West Indies. NUMBERS. ventists, with very few They now Dumber 660 churches, exceptions,are signers Periodicals issued by the Denomillaitiou. with an enrollment of 17,169 mem- to the teetotal, pledge. THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH bers, according to the returns made For the purpose of HERALD, sixteen pages, monthly, . . . $2.00 to the General Conference of Dec. THE GOOD HEALTH, thirty-six pages, inculcating the princi- monthly. A Journal of hygiene, devoted 1, 1882. But owing tope scattered ples of this reform and to physical, mental and moral culture, . . 1 00 condition of this people, a large pro- for the introduction of THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR, a four page portion of them are not so situated illustrated weekly, 75 ' improved methods of THE ADVENT TIDENDE, a Danish semi-, as to belong to any - of the church medical treatment, es- monthly, 1.00 organizations, single families being pecially for chronic in- ADVENT HAROLDEN,a SWedish monthly, sixteen pages, 75 scattered all the way from Maine to valids, the " Health STEMME DER WAHRHEIT, a German California and Oregon, in all the Reform Institute" was monthly, eight pages, 50 Northern States, and in many of the The above are published at Battle Creek, Mich. founded Sept. 5, 1866. *THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES, twelve • Southern. The' whole number is The institution was Pages, weekly, $2.00 estimated at thirty thousand. legally incorporated Published. at Oakland, Cal. LES SIGNES DES TEMPS, French, six- April 6, 1867. teen pages, 1 25 CONFERENCES. Published at Bine, Switzerland. A Subscription of The churches in a State combine TIDERNES TEGN, Danish, monthly, . . . .70 • twenty - six thousand 4 to forth a State Conference, of which SUNDHEASBLADET, " " dollar. was raised, HELSOOG SJUKVARD, Swedish, monthly, .70 there are twenty-seven, viz : Maine, which has since been Published ill Christiana, Norway. New England (including in this *An English edition is printed in Southamp, increased by addition- ton, England. Sample copies sent free. division only New Hampshire, Mas- al subscriptions, and sachusetts, Rhode Island, and Con- Headquarters for New England, the workings of . the ifecticu t) ,Vermont, NeW York, Penn- International Tract and Missionary Society, institution to over sylv,ania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, - SOUTH LANCASTER, MASS. sixty thousand. Catalogue of publications sent on application. Illinois,Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, The Seventh-Day Adventist's Tabernacle, Battle Creek, Mich.