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angels. He complained continually of God's ing to the impressions made upon their Compromise. Z40-,fil(po', of tit* Biolto severity, just as children sometimes com- minds, and according to, the light they pos- ,8 ISSHBD;WEEELY BY THE plain of their parents' severity, in restraining sessed, " Jesus answered and said, This voice 1VIncif is couched in the term compro- them from carrying out plans destructive to came not because of me, but for your sakes." .1161#6 ,g6Y011111416Y 1/11V6111161 13111111611111g iissodatiol, mise. It has decided the destiny of many the family government. Rather than submit It was the crowning evidence of his Messiah- individuals and nations. When righteously EL)). JAME4, WHITE, PHigIDENT. to the will of God he turned from the light of ship, the signal of the Father that Jesus had used, it has resulted in untold peace, happi- , reason, and set himself in opposition to the uttered the truth, and was the Son of God. 1- 137' TERMS ; Two".)orlalans a year in adVance fel. a ness and prosperity. It is a mighty lever in i volume of 4S, numbers. When paid by Tract Societies, divine plans. Would the Jews turn from this testimony of adjusting differences that no legislation could t or by inelividuals for their friends, $1.50. In the warfare ensuing, Satan for a time high Heaven ? They had once asked the affect. " Yielding pacifies great offenses." seemed to hold the advantage. He could Saviour, What sign showeth thou that we We should find a pleasure in yielding to [(Mice,. 1A59" Castro St:, bet; 11th and 12th lie ; God could not lie. He could move 'in a may see and believe ? Innumerable signs i; 4ddresa, SIGNS O TEE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. others when it can be done without com- thousand crooked and deceiving ways to had been given all through the ministry of promising principle or justice; but my friend l• , ' gain a desired object; God must pursue the Christ. Yet they had closed their eyes and asks too much when he wants me to com- Deserted straightforward course of truth and right- hardened their hearts lest they should be promise the, word of God. eousness. For a time Satan triumphed in convinced. The crowning miracle of the We may be called bigoted, conservative, p/Av.'s no guest-chamber to offer, Lord, an apparent victory. But God would un- resurrection of Lazarus did not remove their No furnished upper room to bid thee to ; and fanatical; be it so. 'These epithets we mask the enemy and reveal him in his true unbelief, but filled them with increased mal- can bear, but we cannot endure the frowns Ole dwelling that I have:might be abhorred,' character. Christ, in taking the nature of If Other 'eyes its wretchedness should view. ice; and now that the Father had spoken, of Him, one jot or title of whose word will man, was divinity clothed in humanity. He and they could ask for no further sign, their not fall to the ground till all be fulfilled. iwould not scorn the building—it is thine, came as the light to the world, to shine upon hearts were not softened and they still re- Then mad'st it for thyself, and mad'st it fair ; Take as we would another book, just as it , and scatter the thick darkness of Satan's fused to believe. reads, and all is plain. ravenous beasts, through carelessness of mine, deception and reveal his workings to the Jesus now resumed his discourse where he sefz,ed aid used it for their unclean lair. Men have changed the law, broken the children of 'men. Christ practiced the most had left it : " Now is the judgment of this everlasting covenant, and their children and ,lie vvallsAllatIglerious pictures should adorn; rigid self-denial in 'resisting the manifold world; now shall the prince of this world be children's children have done what Ezekiel ',Are„well,nighliki with worthless imagery ; temptations of the adversary. He conquered cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the said they would do. " One built up a wall, The silken Curtains droop forlorn— Satan in the long fast of the wilderness, and earth will draw all men unto me. This he 41as i-that soiled,and tittered they should.be and lo, others daubed it with untempered when he came to him as an angel of light, said, signifying what death he should die." mortar." Read Ezekiel, 13th chapter, and dqd Overlaid with rabbiSh and with dust offering the dominion of the world in ex- In the act of Christ dying for the salvation learn what became of the wall and those who Is tbe White beauty ofitainarble floor; " change for his worship ; he made sacrifices of man, heaven was not only made accessible daubed it. Many boast of their large charity it might d,ll trangcr with disgust, that will never be required of man,' as man to man, but God and his Son were justified feet have trod it o'er and o'er. and Christian tolerance, while they abate not can never attain to his exalted character. before all heaven in dealing with the rebell- a, jot of their sectarian prejudices. Excuse Vie windoWs. that thou mad'st like diamonds'pUre, His whole earthly life was a demonstration ion of Satan, and in his expulsion. The blot me if my cloak of charity will not cover so TO adMlt imelutaged the, pure and spotless light, of perfect submission to his Father's will. which Satan had placed upon heaven itself much. A permanent, solid structure cannot are dim, and pleaded, and'olleurp, The course of Christ and that of Satan pre- was thus to be washed away; and no sin 'Tie hard sometimes to know the day from night. be expected from such incohesive particles. . , sent the complete contrast of the life of an could ever more enter there to all eternity. While one says, " I am of Paul; and I of .khaye vaguest-chamber to offer, Lord, obedient with that of a disloyal son. The holy angels, and all created intelli- Apollos ; I of Cephas ; and I of Christ," 7 * iariaished upper room to bid thee tol, The " final triumph of Christ over Satan gences of the worlds where sin had not en- are we not carnal, and walk as men We Unless thou wilt thyself the power afford :` could only be perfected through the death of tered, in hallelujahs to the judicial sentence are exhorted to be of one mind and of one To sweep its goer, and deck its walls anew: the former. Ile thus opened free salvation pronounced upon Satan, applauding the act judgment, and all to speak, the same thing. tarth's meanest hOvel *Mild With glory shine to man, taking, ;upon himself the, stigma of of Christ which removed the mortgage Satan when we heed; this counsel, the building If thoti wertiliere—would be with sOenitor gut ; the curse, and in laying down his precious held upon the souls of men. The holy an- will go up without the sound of a hammer; Filled with thy presence, it would grow diyine,t ' life, wrested from Satan's hand the last gels as well as those who are washed by the and all the parts fitly joined together, will hen how Much' more should this whicli thou halt weapon by which he could gain the king- blood of Christ, are drawn to him by his grow ,up into a perfect building in Christ. t,gel. doms of the world. Man might then be free crowning act of giving his life for the sins of from the power of evil through his Saviour the world. Christ, in being lifted up upon Jesus said he came not to destroy the law Jesus Christ. the cross to die, opened the way of life to or the prophets, but to fulfill. lie kept turval rtivIto. As the Son of God meditated upon these both Jews and Gentiles, to all nations, his Father's commandments, and said that things, and the whole burden of his mission tongues, and people. he said and did what his Father told him. But, says my friend, do you suppose none ,EVIDENCES OF MESSIARSI7IIP. passed before his mind's eye, he lifted his Alas for the haughty Jews who knew not head and said, "Father, glorify, thy name." the day of their visitation ! Slowly and will be saved only those who keep the sev- BY MRS. E. G. •VilliTE. He thought it not robbery to be equal with regretfully, Christ with his disciples, left for- enth day Paul says, "I was alive once God, and called upon him to glorify himself ever the precincts of the temple. without the law, but when the command- AmoNG the chief rulers were many who in his Son. A response came from the ment came, sin revived, and I died." here were convinced that Christ was indeed the cloud which had hovered above' the head of The Memory. there is no law, there is no transgression; Messiah'; but, 'iii face of the angry priests Jesus : " I have both glorified it, and will but when its claims are brought home, we and Pharisees, they ,dared not confess, their glorify it again." " FOE if any be a hearer of the word, and have no excuse; we know our y.ut faith, lest they shauld be turned out of the A light darted from the cloud, 'as the not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding "Blessed are they that do his eommand- synagogue. They loved the praise of men voice was heard, and encircled Christ, as if his natural face in a glass ; for he beholdeth ments, that they may have right to the tree more than the approval of God; and to save the arms of Infinite Power were thrown himself, and goeth his way, and straightway of life, and may enter through the gates into themselves from reproach and shame, denied about him like a wall of fire. The people forgetteth what manner of man he was. But the city.,' Christ, and lost their only chance of eternal 'behold this scene with terror and amaze- whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, It is a good thing to be established, but life.: Tee this class'the words of, Christ were ment. No one ventured to utter a word. and continueth therein, he being not a for- always in the truth. There should always specially applicable : "He that loveth = his With silent lips and bated breath they stood getful hearer, but a doer of the work, this be room to pray, life shall lose it: with eves riveted upon Jeans. The testi- man shall be blessed in his deed." James " If I am right, thy grace impart, The message'nf the Greeks, indicating as it mony Of Almighty. God having been given, Still in the right to stay ; 1 : 23-25. If I am wrong, Oh, teach my heart did the breaking doWn of the partition. wall the cloud lifted and scattered in the heavens. So it appears that the memory is helped To find that better way." between Jew and Gentile, brought 'before The visible communion between the Father by doing the will of God, while it is de- Jesus his entire mission;, from the time when and the Son was ended for that time. God will bless the honest seeker after stroyed (at least in this direction) by hearing truth. A. P. LA.wToN. it was first decided in heaven that he should The spectators now began to breathe more and neglecting to do his will. How mnch come to earth as man's Redeemer, to the freely and exchange opinions upon what the memory and all the powers of the mind death that he knew awaited him in the im- they had seen and heard. Some solemnly are affected by habits of living and principles Personal,Effort. mediate future, A mysterious cloud seemed declared their faith in Jesus as the Son of of action, is well known to enlightened per- to enshroud the Son 'of God. It ,was a God, while others tried to explain away the sons. The Bible is a rule of life • it affects THERE are a great many of us who are gloom, that was felt by those who were in close remarkable scene they had just witnessed. our every act. " Whether therefore ye eat willing to do great things for the Lord, but contact with him. He sat wrapped in 'The. people, therefore, that stood by, and or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the few of us willing to do little things. The thought. At last the silence was broken by heard it, said that it thundered • others said glory of God." mighty sermon on regeneration was preached his-mournftil Voice : "Now is my soul trouh: An angel spoke to him." But the inquiring It is surprising to witness the failure of to one main. There are many who are will- lea; and what shall I say' I Father, save me Greeks saw the cloud, heard the voice, com- memory upon those subjects upon which ing to preach to thousands, but are not will- from this hmir ; but for this cause came I prehended its meaning, and discerned Christ there is felt no interest, and its power, on ing to take their seat beside one' soul, and unto this hour;:" 'A foreboding of his,coming indeed ; Jesus was revealed to their under- the other hand, to retain those things upon point that soul to the blessed Saviour. We conflict with the powers of darkness, by rea- standing as the Messiah. which affection and interest demand place must get down to personal effort, this bring- son of the position he had voluntarily taken The voice of God had been heard at the and attention. The man who loves this ing one by one. to the Son of God. We can in regard to bearing the guilt of fallen man baptism of Jesus at the commencement of world will retain his memory of his favorite find no better example of this than in the and taking upon himself the, Father's wrath his ministry, and again at his transfigura- objects of pursuit; but the words of the Lord life of Christ himself. Look at that wonder- because of , sin, caused the spirit of Jesus to tion on the mount; and now, at the close of are forgotten or seem distant and mystical. ful sermon he preached to that one woman faint,, and the pallor of death to 'overspread his ministry, it was heard for the third time, On the other hand, the man who loves and at the well of Samaria. He was tired and his countenance. and on this occasion by a larger number of fears God, and obeys him in ever respect, weary/but he had the time and the heart to He remembered the persistence and mai- persons and under peculiar circumstances. will retain religious impressions and facts, preach to her. 'This is but one of many -ice of Satan, who, had boldly contended with He had just uttered the most solemn truths and at the same time his memory will be instances in the life of the Master, from the angels in heaven that his sentence was regarding the condition of the Jews. He good on other points, necessary to this life which we may learn a precious lesson. If unjust, maintaining that there was no self- had made his last appeal, and pronounced yet not religious in their nature. the Son of God had time to preach to one denial with God, and 'that Satan, in strug- their doom. The wall of partition between Dear reader, if you would retain your soul, cannot every one of us go and do the gling to carry out his purposes and have his Jew and Gentile was tottering and ready to memory, live out all the principles of reform same ? Look at the work of John Wesley ; own Way, was only imitating the example of fall at the death of Christ. and live near to God. See John 14: 26. the world never saw a hundred such men God. If God' followed his own will perfectly The thoughts of the Saviour now returned J. O. living at the same time. The trouble is, we and -continiially, Why should not the first from contemplating the past and future. are afraid to speak to men about their souls. song :created his image do se r-BY this While the people were endeavoring to ex- IF we cannot go to God with a broken heart Let us ask God to give us grace to overcome argunaent Satan deeeilred wany of the holy plain what they had seen and heard accord- let us go to him for one. this man-fearing spirit.—D. L. Moody. 146 THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. Vol, 4, No. 19.

LIFE SKETCHES, in declaring that the coming of the Lord was nigh, discern or appreciate the motives that led me in that when the time passed, he was despondent and my feebleness, to travel and bear my testimony to CH.APTER V--CONTINUED. did nothing to encourage the disappointed people, the people. Those who had little interest for the who were like sheep without a shepherd, left to be salvation of souls, and whose hearts had turned PARENTAGE AND EARLY LIFE. devoured by wolves. from the work of preparation, could not compre- " The case of Jonah was presented before me. hend the love of God in my soul that quickened " AT this time Brother Wm. Hyde was very sick God commanded him to go into Nineveh and my desire to help those in darkness to the same with bloody dysentery. His symptoms were alarm- deliver the message that he gave him. Jonah light that cheered my path. Could they also have ing, and the physician pronounced his case almost obeyed, and for the space of three days and nights seen what had been revealed to me of God's match- hopeless. We visited him and prayed with him, the solemn cry was heard throughout the streets of less love for men, manifested in giving his only Son but he had come under the influence of certain the wicked city, " Yet forty days and Nineveh to die for them, they would not have doubted my fanatical persons, who were bringing dishonor upon shall be overthrown t" The city was a marvel of sincerity. our cause. We wished to remove him from their wealth and magnificence; yet the king believed the ," I believed all that had been shown me in vision. midst, and petitioned the Lord to give him strength warning and humbled himself and his people before Truth was to me a living reality, and my labor was to leave that place. He was strengthened and the Lord in fasting and sackcloth. for eternity. However others might view my blessed in answer to our prayers, and rode four "A merciful God accepted their repentance and work, the weight of its importance was heavy on miles to the house of Brother Patten. But after lengthened the days of their probation. He turned my soul. In feeble health I was toiling to do good arriving there he seemed to be rapidly sinking. away his fierce anger and awaited the fruits of " The fanaticism and errors into which he had to others unto eternal life. Moments seemed pre- Nineveh's humiliation. But Jonah dreaded being cious to me, delays dangerous." J. W. fallen through evil influence seemed to hinder the called a false prophet. He murmured at the com- exercise of his faith. He gratefully received the passion of God in sparing the people whom he had plain testimony borne him, and made humble con- warned of destruction by the mouth of his prophet. THE TWO COVENANTS. fession of his fault. Only a few who were strong He could not bear the thought of standing before in faith were permitted to enter the sick room. the people as a deceiver. He overlooked the great "Fox finding fault with them, he saith, Behold the days The fanatics whose influence over him had been come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with mercy of God toward the repentant city, in the the house of Israel and with the house of Judah." Heb. 8 :8. so injurious, and who had persistently followed him personal humiliation of seeing his prophecy unful- to Brother Patten's, were positively forbidden to filled. It may be asked, how the ten command- come into his presence, while we prayed fervently " Elder Morse was in a similar condition to that ments can be called " the covenant." We answer, for his restoration to health. I have seldom known of the disappointed prophet. He had proclaimed That is just where the people are misled. They are such a reaching out to claim the promises of God. that the Lord would come in 1844. The time had never called " the " covenant, referring to the first The salvation of the Holy Spirit was revealed, and passed. The check of fear that had partially held or old covenant. That the ten commandments are power from on high rested upon our sick brother the people was removed, and they indulged in called " a " covenant, we admit ; but what kind of and upon all present. derision of those who had lookd in vain for Jesus. a covenant ?. and in what sense are they so called ? " Brother Hyde immediately dressed and walked Elder Morse felt that he was a bye-word among his Please read again Ex. 19 : 5 : "Now therefore, if ye out of the room praising God, with the light of neighbors, an object of jest. He could not be rec- will obey my voice indeed, and keep my cove- heaven shining upon his countenance. A farmer's onciled to his position. He did not consider the nant," &c. Then God had something which he dinner was ready upon the table. Said he, If I mercy of God in granting the world a longer time called his covenant, which antedated the covenant were well I should partake of this food ; and as I to prepare for his coming; that the warning of his made with Israel. It was already in existence, be- believe God has healed me, I shall carry out my judgment might be heard more widely, and the fore any formal agreement whatever was made with faith.' He sat down to dinner with the rest and people tested with greater light. He only thought that people. And this explains Deut. 4 :13. Those ate heartily without injury. His recovery was of the humiliation of God's servants. who read that verse should be critical enough to perfect and lasting. " I was shown that although the event so sol- observe that Moses does not call the ten command- "From Topsham we returned to Portland and emnly proclaimed did not occur,'as in the case of ments the covenant, nor a covenant, but his (God's) found there quite a number of our faith from the Jonah, ,the message was none the less of God, and covenant. " And he declared unto you his cove- East. Among them were the very fanatics to accomplished the purpose that he designed it nant, which he commanded you to perform, even whom I had borne my testimony at Exeter, declar- should. Subsequent light upon the prophecies ten commandments." These, then, are what God ing that it was not their duty to visit Portland. revealed the event which did take place, in the referred to in Ex. 19 : 5, in the words, my covenant ; These persons had laid aside reason and judgment; High Priest entering the most holy place of the and these were already in existence when the cove- they trusted every impression of their excitable mil sanctuary in heaven to finish the atonement for the nant was made with Israel. It should be noticed, over-wrought minds. Their demonstrative exer- sins of man. Nevertheless God willed for a wise further that the covenant of Deut. 4 :13, is not a cises, while claiming to be under the Spirit of God, purpose that his servants should proclaim the covenant made ; but a covenant commanded ; and were unworthy of their exalted profession. We approaching end of time. surely any one can see the difference between an trembled for the church that was to be subjected " Instead of being discouraged at his disappoint- arrangement established upon the voluntary and to this spirit of fanaticism. My heart ached for ment, as was Jonah, Elder Morse should gather up mutual promises of two parties, and that which one God's people. Must they be deceived and led away the rays of precious light that God had given his party has power to enjoin with authority upon an- by this false enthusiasm ? - I faithfully pronounced people and cast aside his selfish sorrow. He should ether party. But the covenant here mentioned, the warnings given me of the Lord; but they rejoice that the world was granted a reprieve, and God did thus enjoin upon them Without regard to seemed to have little effect except, to make these be ready to aid in carrying forward the great work any action on their part. persons of extreme views jealous`of int yet to be done upon the earth, in bringing sinners It is now easy to be seen why the ten command- " These false impressions of theirs might have to repentance and salvation. ments are called a covenant, and what kind of a turned me from my duty, had not the Lord pre- " It has been reported that on the occasion of covenant they were. They were simply the basis of viously showed me where to go and what to do. this vision I declared that in forty days the end of that agreement recorded in Ex. 19 : 3-8. For the Although so young and inexperienced, I was pre- the world would come. No such words were very first condition God proposed was, " If ye will served from falling into the snare of the enemy, uttered by me. I had no light concerning the end keep my covenant." In this sense, and this only, through the mercy of God, in giving me special of time. The subject of Nineveh, her lengthened are the ten commandments ever called a covenant. instructions whom to fear and whom to trust. Had probation, and the consequent grief of Jonah, was And this brings us to the secondary definition of it not been for this protection I now see many presented to me as a parallel case with our own dis- the term covenant ; which is, " a writing containing times when I might have been led from the path appointment in 1844. The case of Elder Morse was the terms of agreement between parties. Thus the of duty. presented to me as one that represented the condi- conditions upon which an agreement or covenant " About this time I was shown that it was my tion of a large class of our people at that time. rests, are in a secondary sense called also a cove- duty to visit our people in New Hampshire. My Their duty was plainly marked ; it was to trust in nant. This may be illustrated by the relation which constant and faithful companion at this time was the wisdom and mercy of God and patiently labor all good citizens sustain to their respective States. Sister Louisa Foss, the sister of my brother-in-law. as his providence opened the way before them. They are all in covenant relation with the State. She has been dead several years ; but I can never " It was difficult to accomplish much good in The State says, If you will obey the laws of this forget her kind and sisterly attention to me in my New Hampshire. We found little spirituality commonwealth, you shall be protected in your life, journeyings. We were also accompanied by Elder there. Many pronounced their experience in the liberty, and property. The citizens respond, We Files and his wife, who were old and valued friends movement of 1844 a delusion ; in was hard to reach will obey. This is the mutual agreement, the cov- of my family, Brother Ralph Haskins and Elder this class, for we could not accept the position they enant, virtually existing everywhere between the White. ventured to take. A number who were active citizen and the State. But when we speak of the " We were cordially received ; but there were preachers and exhorters in 1844, now seemed to State alone, its covenant would be its laws which wrongs existing in that field which burdened me have lost their moorings, and did not know where it commands its citizens to perform. These are the much. We had to meet a spirit of self-righteous- we were in prophetic time ; they were fast uniting conditions of the agreement, and hence may be ness that was very depressing. I had previously with the spirit of the world. called the covenant of the State, because upon been shown the pride and exaltation of certain, ones Upon one occasion when I was delivering the obedience to these are suspended all the blessings whom we visited, but had not the courage to meet message that the Lord had given me for the encour- which, it proposes to confer. them with my testimony. Had I done so, the Lord agement of his people, I was interrupted several Such was the relation established between the would have sustained me in doing my duty. times by a certain minister. He had been very Lord and his people. He had a law which the " While visiting at the house of Elder Morse, the active in preaching definite time ; but when the very circumstances of our existence bind us to burden did not leave me, but I did not yet feel appointed period passed, his faith utterly failed, keep ; yet he graciously annexed a promise to the sufficiently strong to relieve my mind and place the and he wandered in darkness, doubting and ques- keeping of it. Obey my law, and, I will secure you oppressive burden upon those to whom it belonged. tioning everything. He was ever ready to array in the possession of certain blessings above all peo- During our stay at this house I was very ill. himself against any one who claimed more light ple. The people accepted the offer. The matter Prayer was offered in my behalf, the Spirit of God than he possessed. The Spirit of the Lord rested then stood thus : The people said, We will keep rested upon me, and I was taken off in vision. upon me, as I related what he had shown me. This God's law. God said, Then I will make you a king- While in this state, some things were shown me minister interrupted me several consecutive times ; dom of priests, a peculiar treasure unto myself. concerning the disappointment of 1844, in connec- but I continued speaking, when he became very This was the agreement or covenant made between tion with the case of Elder Morse. He had been a angry and excited, violently opposing what I said. them. But so far as God was concerned his law firm and consistent believer that the Lord would He raised his voice to a high key, and abused me was his covenant, because it was the basis of the come, at that time. He was bitterly disappointed till he was forced to stop from sheer exhaustion. •whole arrangement, and upon the keeping of that when the period passed without bringing the event In a few moments he left the house, being seized by the people, all the blessings were suspended that was expected. He was perplexed and unable with hemorrhage of the lungs. He rapidly failed which he proposed to confer. to explain the delay. from that time, and died not long after. 1 Kings 8 : 21, may still present a difficulty to " He did not renounce his faith as some did, call- " Our testimony was welcomed by some ; but some minds. Does not Solomon here say that in ing it a fanatical delusion ; ebut he was bewildered, many received us suspiciously. Fanaticism and the ark, where the ten commandments alone were, and could not understand the pogition of God's spiritual magnetism seemed to have destroyed the was the covenant which God made with the fath- people on prophetic time. He had been so earnest spirit of true godliness. Many appeared unable to ers of his people, when he brought them out of the

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land of Egypt ? The key to the explanation of covenant meaning the same thing, being from the means to set apart to a sacred or religious use. this passage lies in the antecedent of the word where- same original word. And to what scene does Paul This could not refer to past time, but to the seventh in. Solomon, speaking of the temple, says, "And I refer ? To the very one recorded in Ex. 24 : 8, just day for time to come. And it was to be used in have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the described. Moses says, Behold the blood of the this sacred or religious manner, not by the Lord ; covenant of the Lord." Does the word, wherein, covenant ; and Paul says that the covenant then for he does not need it; but by man, for whom, mean in which ark, or in which place ? Hebraists and there ratified was the first, or old covenant. says Christ, the Sabbath was made. Mark 2 : 27. tell us that the grammatical construction refers it Now to settle the fact, once and forever, that this How, then, we ask, could the Sabbath be thus unquestionably to the place. " I have set there a covenant was not the ten commandments, we have sanctified for man's use, or be set apart to be used place for the ark, in which place, not in the ark, only to remark that neither Moses nor the people in a holy or sacred manner by him'? Only by tell- is the covenant of the Lord," &c. Was the covenant had a copy of the ten commandments of any kind ing man to use it in this manner. But just as soon always in the place where the ark was ? See Dent. in their hands at that time. This will appear from as the Lord had told Adam to use the Sabbath in 31 : 26 : " Take this book of the law, and put it in the further record of Ex. 24. In verse 12, we read, a sacred or religious manner, he had given hiim a the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your " And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me command for its observance. The record in Gen- God." That this book of the law is the same as the into the mount, and be there, and I will give thee esis is therefore plain that a Sabbath command- book of the covenant, see 2 Kings 22 : 8, and chap- tables of stone, and a law and commandments which ment was 'given in Eden. And we should do no ter 23 : 2. And the expression, in the side of the I have written, that thou mayest teach them." The violence to the text if we should read it, And God ark, means in a coffer or receptacle expressly pre- idea that God had already caused Moses to write blessed the seventh-day, and commanded Adam to pared for it and placed by the side of the ark. See out a copy of these commandments, and that sacredly observe it. But a command given to Prideaux, vol. 1, p. 152. Wherever the ark was he had begun ta, teach them by having spoken Adam under these circumstances, was a command there was this book of the covenant by its side. them and read them in the ears of the people, verses through him to all his posterity. Hence Solomon could say, referring to the place 3 and 4, is utterly inconsistent with this statement, No more need be said to show to all who respect where the ark was, that there, in that place, was that God was about to put into his hands a law the testimony of God's word, that the ten com- also the covenant which the Lord made with that containing commandments that he had written, in mandments were known through all the ages before people when he led them out of 'Egypt. order that Moses might teach them. But before the time of Moses, and that men were held under Thus the strongest texts claimed to prove that the Moses was called up to receive this law of ten com- obligations to obey them. Therefore, these com- ten commandments constituted the old covenant, mandments which God had written, the first cove- mandments were not the covenant made with Israel are found to contain not one shade of evidence in nant had been made, closed up, finished, and ratified at Horeb, which covenant had no existence previous that direction. We have found in what sense the by the shedding of blood. to that time. u. S. ten commandments are called a covenant, simply These facts throw a fortification around this point (To be continued.) because they are God's covenant, the basis of the which it is not possible either to break or scale. agreement which he entered into with Israel. In The first covenant was dedicated with blood. But Scripture References. the same sense the tables are called the tables of when that dedication took place, the ten command- THE SABBATH. the covenant, and the ark, the ark of the covenant, ments, in visible form, had not been put into the 1. THE word Sabbath is found in the Scriptures (in its because they contained this covenant; but none of possession of the people; they had no copy of them; singular and plural forms) 166 times ; 106 times in the Old these expressions refer to the covenant made with hence they were not dedicated with blood. There- Testament, and 60 times in the New Testament. In the Old Israel by the mutual pledges to each other of the fore, the ten commandments were not the old cov- Testament the word refers as many as 81 times to the weekly Sabbath, called the Sabbath of the Lord, and the remaining Lord and that people, as recorded in Ex. 19. enant. 25 times it is used in reference to festival days, and sab- We now return to that chapter and resume the Another line of thought Showing just as clearly baths of the land. In the New Testament, the Sabbath of examination of the covenant then made. When that the ten commandments were not the first, or the Lord is mentioned 59 times, and those local sabbaths, the people agreed to obey God's voice, verses 5, 8, old, covenant, is based on Deut. 5 : 2, 3, a passage which expired by limitation and ceased at the cross, are men- tioned once. they had not heard his voice, and knew not what to which our opponents appeal with such seeming THE SABBATH OF THE LORD, conditions it might impose. But on the third day assurance : " The Lord our God made a covenant 2. The Sabbath in the Old Testament. Ex. xvi, 23, 25, after this, the Lord came down in fearful majesty, with us in Horeb. The Lord made' not this cove- 26, 29 ; xx, 8, 10, 11; xxxi, 13, 14, 15, twice; 16, twice; and with a voice that shook the solid earth from nant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who xxxv, 2, 3; Lev. xix, 3, 30; xxiii, 3, twice, 11, 15, twice, 16, pole to pole declared the ten commandments. Here are all of us here alive this day." Having assumed 38; xxiv, 8 ; xxvi, 2 ; Num. xv, 32 ; xxviii, 9, 10 ; Deut. v, that the ten commandments were the old covenant, 12, 14, 15 ; 2 Kings xi, 5, 7, 9, twice ; xvi, 18 ; 1 Chron. ix, for the first time the people heard God's voice which 32 ; 2 Chron. xxiii, 4, 8, twice ; Neh. ix, 14 ; x, 31, twice ; they were to obey. Then the Lord took Moses into these verses are appealed to, to show that these xiii, 15, twice, 16, 17, 18, 19, thrice, 21, 22 ; Isa. lvi, 2, 4, 6 ; a private interview with himself and gave him some commandments were here for the first time intro- lviii, 13, twice; lxvi, 23 ; Jer. xvii, 21, 22, twice, 24, twice, instructions which the people were to follow in civil duced, and hence came to an end with that dis- 27, twice • Eze. xx, 12, 13, 16, 20, 21, 24 ; xxii, 8, 26 ; xxiii, and religious matters, under this arrangement. This pensation. But the quotation is fatal to the as- 38 ; xliv, '24 ; xlvi, 1, 4, 12 ; Amos 5. Total, 81. 3. The Sabbath in the New Testament. Matt. xii, 1, 2, instruction is found in the latter part of Ex. 20, sumption ; for the ten commandments did exist be- 5, twice, 8, 10, 11, 12 ; xxiv, 20 ; xxviii, 1; Mark i, 21 •' ii, and chapters 21, 22, and 23 entire, and is an epitome fore this time.; hence they were not the covenant at 23, 24, 27, twice, 28 ; iii, 2, 4 ; vi, 2 ; xv, 42 ; xvi, 1 ; Luke a the civil and ceremonial laws given to that that time made. iv, 16, 31; vi, 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 9 ; xiii, 10, 14, twice, 15, 16 ; The book of Genesis, though so brief in its rec- xiv, 1, 3, 5 ; xxiii, 54, 56 •' John v, 9, 10, 16, 18 ; vii, 22, 23, people. twice ; ix, 14, 16; xix, 31, twice ; Acts i, 12 ; xiii, 14, 27, In chapter 24 is resumed the narrative of the ord that its fifty short chapters cover a period of 42, 44 ; xv, 21 ; xvi, 13 ; xvii, 2 ; xviii, 4. Total, 59. steps taken in the formation of this covenant. Mo- over 2300 years; nevertheless abounds with indica- 4. Remarks on the New Tstament. It was written by ses appeared before the people a second time, and tions that the principles of the ten commandments inspiration of God, in the Christian age, for the instruction rehearsed in their hearing all the words which the were well understood and acted upon, even from of those who should live in this age ; hence the inspired name of the seventh day of the week, in the Christian dispensation, Lord had communicated to him. And here the the creation down. Why was Cain condemned for is the Sabbath, while the next day following is simply called people, after having heard for themselves God's killing his brother, if the law against murder did the first day of the week. voice, and being told all that he had said to Moses, not exist ? " Where no law is, there is no transgres- 5. The Sabbath was instituted at creation. Gen. ii, 1-3 ; had an opportunity to answer again whether they sion ;" and, " sin is not imputed when there is no Ex. xx, 11 ; Mark ii, 27 • Heb. iv, 4. law." By what standard was it shown that Noah 6. It was pointed out and enforced before the law was would enter into this arrangement or not. At their given at Sinai. Ex. xvi, 4, 22, 23, 25-30. first answer, Ex. 19 : 8, they did not know what and his house alone were righteous, while all the 7. The Sabbath law is recognized in the New Testament. would be required of them ; now they understood rest of mankind were only evil and that continually, Matt. xii, 12 ; Luke xxiii, 56. all the conditions ; and what will they answer now? if there was no law for a standard in such matters ? 8. Apostolic example for the Sabbath. Acts xvii, 2 ; xvi, To be righteous is to be living in conformity with 13 ; xviii, 3, 4, 11 ; xiii, 42, 44. Ex. 24: 3 : " And all the people answered with one 9. The above texts, and also Acts xiii, 14, 15, 27 ; xv, 21, voice, and said, All the words which the Lord hath a standard of righteousness or right doing. " By show that the apostles and evangelists acknowledged the name said, will we do." the law is the knowledge of sin." On what ground of the Sabbath as'belonging to the seventh day in this dispen- It would seem that this was all-sufficient, But were the inhabitants of the wicked cities of the sation. the Lord moved very carefully in the matter, so plain given over to the vengeance of eternal fire CEREMONIAL SABBATHS. that the people might have no opportunity to plead on account of their vileness, if there was no law Old Testament. Lev. xvi, 31; xxiii, 32, twice ; xxv twice, 6, 8, twice ; xxvi, 34, twice, 35, 43 ; 2 Kings , 2, in after years that they did not know what they against unchastity ? There was such a law ; and 1 Chron. xxiii, 31 • 2 Chron. ii, 4 ; viii, 13 ; xxxi, / • iv, 23 were doing in entering into this covenant with him. Peter makes a statement which shows that it was 21 ; Neh. x, 33 ; Isa. i, 13 ; Lam. ii, 6 ; Eze. xl XXXV1) So he caused Moses to write out in a book all the as well understood then as now. He says that 3 ; Hosea ii, 11 ; Lev. xxiii, 24, 39, twice. To' 4 17; xlvii New Testament. Col. ii, 16. The " days " 4. 28. words he had told him, that all points might be those cities were made an ensample unto all that Mentioned in again carefully considered, and then to read it all should after live ungodly. This covers all time Rom. xiv, 5, 6, are annual feast-days. Coy xxiii, 24-41. .dare with Lev. over to the people. Verse 7 : "And he took the from that day to this, and onward to the end. And TIME TO COMMENCE THE S.L. book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the ungodly of to-day may look back to Sodom, and -.BEATH. 1. The Sabbath is a•memorial of Je the people." Here they had opportunity for the learn how God will deal with them unless they re- enth day, after he had created all ,novah's re,st:on the sev- third time to reconsider the matter and change pent. Are there moral principles binding on them it begins with the evening, accord' Aings in six days ; hence Ang to the first division of their decision if they so desired. And what was now ? So there were then, if their case is an exam- time, tnwizty-efoguinrs-hwou_ their answer this time ? " And they said, All that ple. Do men understand these laws now ? So 2. TEhveereyve begins with the evening. the Lord hath said will we do and be obedient." they did then. Is it an acknowledged principle Gen. i, 5, 8, 13, 19 23, 31 ; T ...eciAva.31xxiii, 32 ; Leh. xiii, 19. Moses then took blood which had been offered now that a man cannot be justly punished who arth the setting of the sun. Lev. for the purpose, verses 5, 6, and sprinkled it on does not know or has not had an opportunity to /..1 ; Auk. xiv, 12, 18 ; Josh, viii, the people and said, " Behold the blood of the cove- know, the law ? So it was then. We have heard 2x194ii;.'xC6,11,2rii?;;t2Dhlr.e taledxtxhifiii'siick at even, or sunset. Matt. viii, nant which the Lord bath made with you concern- of tyrants who posted their laws so high that no 16, compare with Le iv, 40; Mark i, 32. ing all these words." Verse 8. Here the covenant one could read them, and then struck off the head FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK. wa'i closed up, sealed and ratified, by the shedding of every transgressor; but God does not so deal 1. The first da of the week is mentioned only eight times of blood. with his creatures. No ; the law of God was in ex- in the New Teo: amemt, and not in a single instance is it referredto as a holy/ day, or Sabbath. Matt. xxvfii, 1 ; Mark Keep this scene in mind while we pass down istence and understood in ancient Sodom, as well as xvi, 2,; Luke XX1V 1 •2 John xx, 1, 19 ; Acts xx, 7. 1 Cor. fifteen hundred and fifty-five years to the days of in the numberless Sodoms of to-day. xvi, 2. Paul, and notice his remarks upon this event. Heb. But some may be ready to suppose that even if 2•: In contrast with the above, we find the Sabbath of the 9 :17-20 : " For a testament is of force after men the principles of the other commandments were Mrd mentioned fifty-nine times in the New Testament, are dead ; otherwise it is of no force at all while known, surely the Sabbath was neither known nor besides'Rev. i, 10, which speaks of the " Lord's Day," which is proved by x. xx, 10 ; Isa. Iviii, 13 ; Mark 27, to be the testator liveth. Whereupon neither the first regarded before the time of Moses. We answer the seventh day. testament was dedicated without blood. For when that if it can be shown that any other command- 3. As ' the testimony of the "Fathers " is invariably Moses had spoken every precept to all the people ment was known, tenfold more proof can be given referred to in support of the first day of the week, it would according to the law, he took the blood of calves that the Sabbath was known, and a commandment not be amiss to give the opinion of and Dr. Clarke on these writings. and of goats, with water and scarlet wool and hys- given for its observance. In proof of this it is only " We should be cautious how we appeal to heathens, how- sop, and sprinkled both the book and all the people, necessary to refer to the record kf Genesis 2 : 2, 3, ever eminent, in behalf of morality ; because much may be saying, This is the blood of the testament which which records the origin of the Sabbatic institution collected from them on the other side. In like manner we God hath enjoined unto you." in Eden. God rested on the seventh day. He then should take heed how we quote the fathers in proof of the Paul here plainly states that the first covenant blessed the day ; not the day past, but the day for doctrines of the gospel ; because he who knows them best, was dedicated with blood, the words testament and time to come. Then he sanctified it. Sanctify knows that on many of those subjects they blow hot and cold." -.Autobiography of Adam Clarke, p. 134, book III. 148 THE SIGHS OF THE TIMES. Vol. 4, No. 19.

Thoughts on the Book of Daniel. Germany, Spain, and elsewhere ; but France The Order of Events in the Judgment. Zits iono of Me Vino stands apart in the world's history as the sin- CHAPTER XI—CONTINUED. gle State which, by the decree of her legislative NUMBER NINE. " Can ye not discern the signs of the times?" assembly, pronounced that there was no God,, VERSE 35. And some of them of under- and of which the entire population of the capi- THE investigative judgment, the finishing of OAKLAND, CAL., FIRTH-DAY5, MAY 16, 1878. standing shall fall, to try them, and to purge, tal, and a vast majority elsewhere, women as the work of human probation, the close of and to make them white, even to the time of well as men, danced and sang with joy in ac- JAMES WHITE, the end ; because it is yet for a time appointed. cepting the announcement." Christ's priesthood, and his coronation upon his J. N. ANDREWS, . . EDITORS. own throne, are events which transpire in the VRIAII SMITH, Though restrained, the spirit of persecution But there are other more striking specifica- days of the voice of the seventh angel when he was not destroyed. It broke out wherever there tions still fulfilled in this power. begins to sound. They precede the revelation Colorado. was opportunity. Especially was this the case Verse 37. Neither shall he regard the God of Christ in the clouds of heaven, and are pre- in England. The religious state of that king- of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor SOME Weeks since we suggested through the paratory to that grand event. The field of vis- dom was fluctuating, it being sometimes under regard any god ; for he shall magnify himself SIGNS that a mission to the new State of Colo- above all. ion during this closing period of human proba- Protestant, and sometimes under papal jurisdic- rado be immediately opened. We suggested The word for woman and wife are in the orig- tion is not simply the earth, where indeed the tion, according to the religion of the ruling Elder Canright as the leading laborer, and urged inal the same ; and Bishop Newton observes fierce battle between truth and error is being house. The bloody queen Mary was a mortal that it was highly proper for him to take his that this passage would be more properly rend- fought, but the temple of God in heaven is enemy to the Protestant cause, and multitudes feeble wife to that more healthful climate. ered " the desire of wives." This would seem opened to our view, and becomes the theme of fell victims to her relentless persecutions. And Our suggestions have called out from Brother to indicate that this government, at the same prophetic discourse. Rev. 11 : 19 ; 15 : 5. this condition of affairs was to last more or less Canright the following statement :— time it declared that God did not exist, would to the time of the end. The natural conclusion We have learned that the priesthood of Christ DEAR BROTHER WHITE : The SIGNS with your trample under foot the law which that God would be that when the time of the end should must continue until he has secured the acquit- proposition about Colorado is just at hand. I had given to regulate the marriage institu- come, this power which the church of Rome had tal of his people at the tribunal of his Father, had made all my arrangements for the summer. tion. And we find that the historian has, un- possessed to punish heretics, which had been the where their sins are blotted out, and themselves I was to attend the Minnesota and Wisconsin consciously perhaps, and if so, all the more cause of so much persecution, and which had for accounted worthy of eternal life. It is at this camp-meetings, and then strike for a big effort significantly, coupled together the atheism a time been restrained, would now be taken en- very time and place that the Saviour changes at Detroit. I never saw a better prospect for and licentiousness of this government in the tirely away; and the conclusion would be from his priestly,, to his kingly, office. Hence, an opening in my life, than in Detroit. We same order in which they are presented in the equally evident that this taking away of the pa- wherever our Lord closes his priestly office, secured the most beautiful place you can imag- prophecy.' He says :— there must be the place of the judgment session ine, right in the heart of the city. If the whole pal supremacy would mark the commencement of the period here called the time of the end. " Intimately connected with these laws affect- described in Dan, 7. thing had been laid out on purpose for us, it ing religion, was that which reduced the union If this application is correct, the time of the end The finishing of the mystery of God involves could not have been better. of marriage—the most sacred engagement which the opening of the second apartment of the commenced in 1798 ; for there, as already no- human beings can form, and the permanence But on coming home I found that my wife temple in heaven, wherein is the ark of God's is in a very bad condition. The fact is, she ticed, the papacy was overthrown by the French, of which leads most strongly to the consolida- and has never since been able to wield the power tion of society—to the state of a mere civil con- testament. This is the place, where our Lord is going right down with consumption; and tract of a transitory character, which any two finishes his priesthood, and hence this apart- it before possessed. unless something is done pretty quick, she never persons might engage in, and cast loose at pleas- ment of the heavenly temple must be the place Verse 36. And the king shall do according ure when their taste was changed, or their appetite will get well. She is beginning to get anxious of that tribunal at which the righteous are ac- about it herself for the first time. She pro- to his will ; and he shall exalt himself, and mag- gratified. If fiends had set themselves to work nify himself above every god, and shall speak to discover a mode of most effectually destroy- quitted, their sins blotted out, and themselves posed that we go to Minnesota, Colorado, or marvelous things against the God of gods, and ing whatever is venerable, graceful, or perma- accounted worthy of the kingdom of God. The somewhere, and spend the • summer, and see if shall prosper till the indignation be accom- nent in domestic life, and obtaining at the same temple of God in heaven, and especially its she could not get better. I was very strongly time an assurance that the mischief which it plished ; for that that is determined shall be done. second apartment, is therefore worthy of our inclined to throw up all my summer's meetings, was their object to create should be perpetu- The king here introduced cannot denote the same ated from one generation to another, they could most attentive study. The Scriptures contain and go with her. She is just able to be around. power which was last noticed, namely, the papal not have invented a more effectual plan than many explicit testimonies to the existence of the I don't know how she would stand the journey, power ; for the specifications will not hold good, the degradation of marriage into a state of mere heavenly temple. nor how it will effect her when she gets there ; occasional cohabitation or licensed concubinage. if applied to that power. Take a declaration in Ps. 11 : 4 : " The Lord is in his holy temple, but I think we had better try it. I was much Sophie Arnoult, an actress famous for the witty the next verse : "Nor regard any god." This things she said, described the republican mar- the Lord's throne is in heaven ; his eyes behold, pleased to see your proposition. I hope it is has never been true of the papacy. God and riage as the sacrament of adultery. These his eyelids try, the children of men." in the order of the Lord. I don't know just Christ, though often placed in a false position,• anti-religious and anti-social regulations did not 2 Sam. 22 : 7, 8: " In my distress I called answer the purpose of the frantic and inconsid- what to do, to bring everything around in have never been set aside and rejected from that upon the Lord, and cried to my God ; and he order, but— erate zealots, by whom they had been urged system of religion. The only difficulty in apply- forward."—Scott's Napoleon, Vol. i, p. 173. did hear my voice out of his temple, and my t We must have a tent. It must be ing it to a new power lies in the definite article , shipped by freight, which will take a good " Nor regard any god." In addition to the cry did enter into his ears. Then the earth " the" ; for, it is urged, the expression " the shook and trembled the foundations of heaven while; hence it should be shipped immedi- testimony already presented, to show the utter, king " would identify this as the one last spoken moved and shook, because he was wroth." See ately. But where shall we get this tent ? atheism of the nation at this time, the following of. If it could be properly translated a king, How shall it be paid for '1 How large shall it fearful language of madness and presumption is also Ps. 18 : 6, 7. there would be no difficulty ; and it is said that Isa. 6 :1-4 " In the year that king Uzziah be? Shall it be larger than 60-feet? some of the best Biblical critics give it this ren- to be recorded :— "The fear of. God is so ,far from being the died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, 2. I can have the books shipped there by dering, Mede, Wintle, Boothroyd, and others, freight in time. beginning of -wisdom, that it is the beginning high and lifted up, and his train filled the tem- translating the passage, " A certain king shall do of folly. Modesty is only an invention of re- ple. Above it stood. the seraphims ; each one 3. I am glad you and Sister White are going according to his will," thus clearly introducing fined voluptuousness. The supreme King, the to Colorado. I think it will be a good thing had six wings ; with twain he covered his face, a new power upon the stage of action. God of the Jews and the Christians, is but a for you. And then you can be there to coun- and with twain he, covered his feet, and with Three particulars must be shown in the power phantom. Jesus Christ is an imposter. sel us, and perhaps help us some. I shall be twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, which fulfills this prophecy: 1. It must assume Another writer says ;— very glad of anything you can do. and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts ; the character here delineated near the com- `" In August 26, 1792, an open profession of 4. I shall want Brother Stone to go with me. the whole earth is full of 'his glory. And the mencement of the time of the end, to which we atheism was made by the National Convention ; He can help in almost any way. It is a great and corresponding societies and atheistical posts of the door moved at the voice of him that were brought down in the preceding verse. 2. It help to our meetings to have first class music clubs were everywhere fearlessly held in the cried, and the house was filled with smoke." must be a willful power. 3. It must bean atheist- French nation. Massacres and. the reign of, with a good organ. Brother Stone is a good Micah 1 ; 2, 3 " Hear, all ye people ; hearken, ical power. Or perhaps the two latter might be terror became the most horrid."—Smith's Key musician, and then he can preach whenever it 0 earth, and all that therein is ; and let the united by saying that its willfulness would be to Revelation, p. 323. is necessary, pray, or write, or visit. Hence, I " Herbert, Chaumette, and their associates, Lord God be witness against-you ; the Lord from manifested in the direction of atheism. A revo- shall want him to go, unless you raise same appeared at the bar and declared that God did his holy temple. For, behold the Lord cometh lution exactly answering to this description did not exist."—Alison, Vol. i, p. 150. objection to it. Mrs. Canright must have some- forth out of his place, and will come down and take place in France at the time indicated in the body to go with her, and take care of her. Of At this juncture, all religious worship was tread upon the high places of the earth." prophecy. course I can't do it, and run a tent-meeting. prohibited, except that of liberty and the coun- Rev. 11 :19 ; "And the temple of God was The historian thus describes this great relig- Sistep Stone is a good hand to do this. Brother try. The gold and silver plate of the churches opened in heaven, and there was seen in his ious change :— Stotie'thinks that his wife would be willing to was seized upon and desecrated. The churches temple the ark of his testament ; and there go. Nowthis is the way the thing is in my " It was not enough, they said, for a regener- were closed. The bells were broken and cast were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, ate nation to have dethroned earthly kings, into cannon. The Bible was publicly burned. mind. Yon are so far away that we shall not unless she stretched out the arm of defiance and an earthquake, and great hail." have much time to advise about things before toward those powers which superstition had The sacramental vessels were paraded through Rev. 14 :17, 18 : "And another angel came we start. D. M. CANRIGHT. represented as reigning over boundless space."— the streets on an ass, in token of contempt. out of the temple which is in heaven, he also We briefly notice the several points in their Scott's Napoleon, Vol. i., p. 72. The Sabbath was abolished, and death was having a sharp sickle. And another angel came order. Again he says :— declared, in conspicuous letters posted over out from the altar, which had power over fire." 1. A 60-foot tent would probably be large "The constitutional bishop of Paris was their burial places, to be an eternal sleep. Rev. 15 : 5 : " And after that I looked, and enough for that field. 'As we first stated the brought forward to play the principal part in the But the crowning blasphemy, if these orgies of behold, the temple of the tabernacle of 'the General Conference will pay for the tent, and most impudent and scandalous farce ever en- hell admit of degrees, remained to be performed testimony in heaven was opened." the publishing association is able to give all acted in the face of a national representation. by the comedian Monvel;' who as a priest of . . . , . . He was brought forward in full pro- Rev. 16 :17 : "And the seventh angel poured the books that could be judieiously used the cession, to declare to the convention that the Illuminism said :— out his vial into the air ; and there came a great first year. Elders White, Canright and Has- religion which he had taught so many years was, " God, if you exist, avenge your injured voice out of, the temple of heaven from the in every respect, a piece of priesteraft, which had name. I bid you defiance ! You remain silent. kell are the General Conference 'Committee. . throne, saying, It is done." As early as it is decided to open that mission no foundation either in history or sacred truth. You dare not launch your thunders ! Who, Many other texts :might be quoted in which He disowned, in solemn and explicit terms, the after this, will believe in your existence ' the tent should be ordered from Chicago and existence of the Deity to whose worship he had The whole ecclesiastical, establishment was de- this building is mentioned either as God's tem- immediately shipped. As this campaign depends been consecrated, and devoted himself in future stroyed."—Scott's Napoleon, Vol. i, p. 173. ple, tabernacle, sanctuary, or holy habitation. wholly on the course Brother Canright shall take, to the homage of Liberty, Equality, Virtue and Behold what man is when left to himself, To some of these texts we shall refer, in the he can order the tent as soon as he pleasha and MOrality. He then laid on the table his Epis- further study of this Subject. copal \decorations, and received a fraternal em- and what infidelity is when the restraints of Elders White and Haskell will sustain him. brace 'from the president of the convention. law are thrown off, and it has the power in its The heavenly temple consists of two holy 2. Elder Canright can order the books so that Seireral\apostate priegts followed the example, of own hands I Can it be doubted that these, places. , This is proYed by many conclusive they can be shipped with the tent as common this prelate The world for the first scenes are what. the omniscient eye foresaw and arguments. nip first of these is drawn from heaid, an assembly of men, born and edu- freight. noted on the sacred page when it pointed out a the statements respecting the tabernacle erected 3. Mrs. White has been able to perform a catechin civilization, and assuming the right to govern one oftherfinest of the European nations, kingdom to arise which should• exalt itself, above by Moses. 'When God called Moses into the great amount of labor since she came to Cal- uplift their united s•oice to deny the most solemn every god and disregard them all ? u. S. mount to, receive the tables of the law (Ex. 24 : ifornia, and is not as well as usual at •the pres- truth which man's ecazil receives, and renounce 12), he.first bade him make a sanctuary that he ent time. Then she has her fourth Volume to unanimously the belief. and worship of Deity." A ZEALOUS reformer was pUshing an unpop- might dwell ainong them, and that the priests write, but should the mission be open and we —Ibid., Vol. i, p. 173. ular but a just measure. His,friends urged him might minister in his presence. Ex. 25 ; 26 ; conclude to spend the warmer months in Col- A late writer in BlaCkwood's Magazine says to desist, assuring him. that all the world was 27,; 28. He also bade him make an ark to con- orado, we hope that both of us would be able to " France is the only nation in the world con- against him. " Then/' said, he, " I am against tain the tables of the law, td be placed in the give some assistance. cerning which the authentic record survives, all the world ! " That man was a moral her-o. second apartment of the sanctuary. This build- 4. We fully agree with Elder Canright that that as a nation she lifted her lte,nd in open ing consisted of two holy places (Ex. 26), and rebellion against the Author of, the universe. There is a scarcity of the royal and most import- Brother and Sister Stone should accompany Plenty of blasphemers, plenty of infidels, there ant quality of Christian character—moral both itself and its sacred vessels were made like him to Colorado. J. W. have been, and still continue to be,-in England, courage., the pattern showed in the mount. MAY 16, 1878. THE SIGHS OP THE TIME& 149

Ex. 25:8, 9 : " And let them make me a dent from what he saw therein. Rev. 4 : 5. will the friends in America have shown us. Reports from the Field. sanctuary ; that I may dwell among them. " And out of the throne proceeded lightnings, May the Lord richly bless every good work, According to all that I show thee, after the and thunderings, and voices'; and there were and soon gather us to the eternal mansions. (Condensed from Review and Herald.) pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all seven lamps ,of fire burning before the throne; JOHN G. MATTESON. Massachusetts. the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make which are the seven Spirits of God." Here is a DilvvEns.—Elder Canright reports that he it." plain reference to the seven lamps which burned Did He Mean It ? returned to this place April 26, and spent five Heb. 8 : 5 : " Who serve unto the example in the first apartment of the earthly sanctuary. DID God mean what he said and wrote at days. Besides other meetings some excellent and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was Lev. 24 : 2-4. Sinai, as recorded in the 20th chapter of Exo- social meetings were held. Eleven were bap - admonished of God, when he was about to make And again, when the seven angels receive the dus, that man should "Remember the Sabbath tized and fifteen united with the church. Elder the tabernacle; for, See (saith he) that thou seven trumpets, the scene of vision is still the day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor C. writes : " Brother Haskell was with us over make all things according to the pattern first apartment of the heavenly sanctuary. and do all thy work ; but the seventh day is the Sabbath, and Brother Stone all the time. showed to thee in the mount." See also Ex. Thus we read :— Sabbath of the Lord thy God ; in it thou shalt Brother Haskell gave instruction on the tract 25:40 ; 26 :30 ; Acts 7 :44. Rev. 8 :2, 3 : "And I saw the seven angels not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy work, and also on systematic benevolence. The tabernacle thus constructed was a pat- which stood before God ; and to them were daughter, thy man-servant nor thy maid-servant, Wednesday evening we had our last meeting. tern of the heavenly temple. Thus Paul bears given seven trumpets. And another angel nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within After talking on various points, giving the best testimony :— came and stood at the altar, having a golden thy gates ; for in six days the Lord made advice I knew how to give, as I did not expect Heb. 9 : 23, 24 : " It was therefore necessary censer ; and there was given unto him much heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in to see them again for a long time, we elected that the patterns of things in the heavens should incense, that he should offer it with the prayers them is, and rested the seventh day ; wherefore the proper officers for the church. Brethren be purified with these ; but the heavenly things of all saints upon the golden altar which was the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed Stone and Haines have just closed an interest- themselves with better sacrifices than these. before the throne." it ? " ing meeting at Ipswich, where quite a number For Christ is not entered into the holy places The golden altar stood in the first apartment Dear reader, if God meant what he said, he have embraced the truth. We are now at South made with hands, which are the figures of the of the sanctury, i. e., in the same room with had a Sabbath day and it was the seventh day. Lancaster, to dedicate their new meeting-house." true [the images of the true holy places, Mac- the candlestick on which were the seven lamps. If he meant what he said, that day was set Iowa. knight's translation] ; but into heaven itself, Ex. 40 : 24-26. The place of God's throne at apart for a sacred use at the close of creation WAUKON, FAYETTE AND SIGOURNEY.—Elder now to appear in the presence, of God for us." the time when the book with the seven seals week. Gen. 2 : 2-3. The children of Israel were E. W. Farnsworth reports labor at these places. This establishes one plain, incontrovertible was delivered to Christ, and also when the reproved for going out to gather manna upon it. At Waukon a special effort was made for the argument that the heavenly temple has two seven trumpets were given to the seven angels, Exodus 16 : 27-30. Jerusalem was destroyed, conversion of the youth, eight of whom made holy places. The temple erected by Solomon is the first apartment of the heavenly sanctuary. partly for the reason that they did not keep the a public profession and were baptized. These furnishes the second argument, and it is of the But when the seven vials are delivered into the Sabbath. Neh. 13 :18. " Did not your fathers were young persons of promise. The church same character as that drawn from the taberna- hands of the seven angels who have the duty of thus, and did not our God bring all this evil was greatly encouraged. At Fayette nine were cle. The temple was a larger and grander pouring them out, the second apartment of the upon us, and upon this city ? yet ye bring more baptized. A good portion of them were grown , building than the tabernacle, and differed from heavenly temple is opened, and they come out wrath upon Israel by profaning the Sabbath." up sons and daughters of Sabbath-keepers. Al- it in being an immovable structure ; but it was from thence to execute the wrath of God upon The Israelites were to be scattered among the though the notice of this meeting was short, constructed on the same plan in that it was an men. This opening of the holiest takes place, heathen, and the Lord says one reason was be- yet the attendance was large. The meet- edifice consisting of two holy places, with sacred under the seventh trumpet. .J. N. A. cause they did not keep his Sabbaths. Eze. 28 : ing at Sigourney was not as well attended vessels of the same kind, and occupied with the 23-24. It was to be a sign by which the people very same ministration, as that which had pre- by the officers of the tract and missionary Denmark, who worship the true God were to be known. societies as was desired, thereby the business viously served in the tabernacle. 1 Kings 6; Eze. 20 : 20 ; Ex. 31 : 13. 7 ; 8 ; 2 Chron. 3 ; 4 ; 5. This building with its ALSTRUP, APRIL 8.—The past week has been meeting proved a failure. But much good was Paul says, "There are lords many and gods accomplished by the labor bestowed for the con- two holy places was a pattern of the heavenly an eventful one. The enemies to the truth many," almost everything in tho world has been temple, as the words of David and of Solomon have assailed us on many sides and in many version of old and young. Nineteen were bap- worshiped as a god. The city of Athens had tized and united with the church. Thus closes declare :- ways, but the word of God has, nevertheless, over thirty thousand gods at the time Paul 1 Chron. 28 :11, 12 : "Then; David gave to had success. The preaching of the word has the report of one weeks labor, in which time thirty visited it, and perhaps an equal number could six were baptized and united with the people of Solomon his son the pattern of the, porch, and caused great excitement, and some souls break be found among the heathen nations of to-day. of the houses thereof, and the treasuries thereof, through and find peace and joy in communion God. Nearly all of these were converted dur- By what mark or sign can those be known, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the with the Lord. ing this time. who worship the true God? How shall we inner parlors thereof, and of the place of the Georgia. Last Tuesday the parish priest; from 0. 13ren- know, which among so many, is the true God ? mercy-seat, and the pattern of all that he had REYNOLDS.—Elder C. 0. Taylor reports the derslev came to our meeting again at Norrehede. Paul to the Athenians defined him as the Crea- by the Spirit, of the courts of the house of the good work moving forward in this State. ' A hall Many were present. The conversation, which tor of all things. Acts 17 : 24. " God that made Lord, and. of all the chambers round about, of has been hired in the center of the village of lasted about two hours, was almost entirely on the world and all things therein, seeing that he the treasuries of the house of God, and of the Reynolds, where Sabbath meetings are now the subject of baptism. He made many impor- is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in treasuries of the dedicated things." held. Elder T. writes : " To those requesting tant admissions, which will serve to strengthen temples made with hands." Verse 19 : " All this, said David, the Lord names and addresses for the SIGNS, I would say,, our cause here. His defense of infant baptism The Sabbath was given that man might re- made me understand in writing by his hand I will send them as I get other names. I sent was very weak, his main point being that in member that his God was the one that created upon me, even all the works of this pattern." those I had to the first, that called for them. I infant baptism no promise is made from man's all things. The Sabbath as an institution was Wisdom of Solomon 9 :8 : "Thou hast com- am grateful for the interest the friends are side, thus trying to prove that there is no agree- given to commemorate God's creative work, and manded me [Solomon] to build a temple upon taking in the work South. The thousands of ment entered into in baptism ; this he advanced it came on the seventh day because God fin- thy holy mount, and an altar in the city wherein copies of the SIGNS, and the other reading mat- as proof for the statement that 1 Pet. 3 : 21 ished the work, and so rested on that day. thou dwellest, a resemblance of the' holy taber- ter sent South, are doing a silent work, of which does not apply to our time, but to the time, of Creative power is an attribute of only the true nacle which thou hast prepared from the begin- but few, if any, are aware." Peter and his cotemporaries. But there is a God. There is no other way given us to so ning." promise made in infant baptism, for the priest Tennessee. This is a second decisive argument that the fully acknowledge this power in God as by asks : Do you renounce the devil and all his keeping the Sabbath day. If God meant what NASHVILLE.—Brother 0. Soule writes that heavenly sanctuary has two holy places. The works ? To which the person who carries the another family have commenced the observance third is drawn from the fact that the plural he said, he requires us to keep that day holy. child, replies, Yes. The priest's argument Comparatively few, who claim to believe in the of the Sabbath. He has preached nine times at term " holy places" is used in the designation was therefore based on an entirely false state- a house some two miles away, and eight voted of the greater and more perfect tabernacle. Creator of all things keep his memorial. Most ment. of them, it is true, set apart a day each week for in favor of the Sabbath. His P. 0. address is Thus when Paul says, as expressed in our This week I have had the pleasure of bury- Eaton's Creek, Davidson County, Tennessee. common version (Heb. 8 : 2), "A minister of rest and recreation from their ordinary pursuits, ing nine souls in baptism. Men tried to hin- but the day thus set apart is usually Sunday, Kentucky. the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which der us ; but the Lord helped, so that we had or the first day of the week, and God worked GLOVER'S CREEK.—Elder S. Osborn writes : the Lord pitched, and not man," it is literally our baptism unmolested by the mob. Our that day. See Gen. 1 : 1-5. But the reason " Commenced meetings in this place Sabbath in the original, "A minister of the holy places." hearts were much encouraged. usually assigned for observing the first day is April 20. I found the Sabbath-keepers here And, thus also when we read respecting the I have received a letter from a friend in that Christ rose on that day. Then it is no had given up tobacco, coffee, and pork, and heavenly temple, " The Holy Ghost this signi- Christiana, Norway. He has for several years memorial of creation at all, but of Christ's res- were ready for organization. I continued my fying, that the way into the holiest of all was been convinced on many points of the truth. urrection. If God meant what he said, a bless- labors until the 25th. Organized a church of not yet made manifest, while as the first taber- He is general agent for the Union Steamship ing is to be bestowed upon those who keep the ten members, nine of whom I baptized. I go nacle was yet standing," it is literally in the Line, and runs a fish establishment. He writes Sabbath. "If thou turn away thy foot from from here to Bullith county, where another Greek, "the way of the holy places." Heb. 9 : that there are some who show an interest in the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my church is to be organized. I then design to go 8. So also where we read of the greater and the word of God, and that souls would come holy day ; and call the Sabbath a delight, the' to Tennessee, to start the tent." more perfect tabernacle in verse 12, that. Christ into the truth, if the word could be preached " entered in once into the holy place," it is also holy of the Lord, honorable ; and shalt honor Texas. there. him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding literally •holy places. Again in verse 24 we I have also received very urgent invitations TERRELL.---Elder R. M. Kilgore and L. thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own read in our common version the same thing, from Fyen and Sjalland (two of the islands of Caldwell write : " Since our last report, our words ; then shalt thou delight thyself in the literally rendered, " the holy places made with the Danish archipelago). It pains me that we tent has been blown down in a midnight gale, Lord ; and I will cause thee to ride upon the hands, the figures of the true," which last word cannot fill the calls that are niade. ripping some forty-four feet of canvass, but do- high places of the earth, and feed thee with the is plural in the original, showing that there are Yesterday I held a meeting in the Alstrup ing little other damage. The seat backs, being heritage of Jacob thy father ; for the mouth of holy places in the heavenly temple. And again meeting-house, which was filled, as usual. pivoted on bolts, fell forward with the center the Lord hath spoken it." If' God meant what in Heb., 10 : 19, the term holiest is not, in the One young brother from Svendstrup came pole without serious 'damage. We missed two he said ; the Sabbath wilt be kept by God's original, holy of holies as in chap. 9 : 3, but twenty-three miles to see me. He has kept evenings on aceount of the storm ; losing some people after they enter into their rewards. simply holyplaces. These passages form a the Sabbath for some time, and loves the truth, interest. *Sunday evening a large audience, Isaiah 65 : 22-23. most convincing argument that there must be although he has read malTasfew copies Of the, gave profound attention to a searching dis- "Blessed are they that do his command-. two holy places of the heavenly temple. A Tidende. He has suffered some for the truth's course on Matt. 5 :17-19 ; 15 :1-9 ; 19 :16-22 ; ments, that they may have right to the tree; of fourth argument is found in the fact that each, sake, but he has gained the victory over the Jas. 2 : 8-12. life, and may enter in through the gates into of the two holy places in 'the heavenly temple enemy and has net become weary. He received Kansas.' the City." Does God mean what he says, in is definitely set forth in the description of that a set of our tracts. We also gave a set to CrinnoiszE.—Brether Cook writes : "I held the above declarations and glorious promises? building not made with hands. another brother who wished to search the Script:- meetings with the brethren seven' miles from' Then let us be very circumspect in all that The first apartment is identified, by the things ures and become strengthened in the truth. this place. Had temporary organization of ten which the Lord our God hath commanded. which it contains. When John was called in To-day I send another package of books to members. We have now made a permanent W. M. IfEALEY. vision to ascend to the place of God's throne, Norway. There are many who wish to read organization. , Seven were baptized and the the heavenly temple, a door was opened in them, and we hope they may be a blessing, to A GREAT soul is known by its enlarged, strong, same number, added to the church." heaven, and the throne Of God was revealed them. and tender sympathies. True elevation of Nebraska. to his view. This is manifestly the door of the We long for our children and our brethren in mind does not take a being out of the circle of SAPPA CREEL—Brother Boyd reports meet- heavenly temple, for the throne of God which the fith, in the far West ; but we rejoice that those who are below him, but binds him faster ings at this place. A church of eighteen mem- it discloses to view is within that temple. Ps. we can be united in spirit, although we are to them, and gives them advantage for a closer bers was organized. Twelve were baptised, and 11 :4 ; Rev. 16 :17. That it was the first apart- abSent in body. We are grateful for Brother attachment and conformity to him.—Dr. Man- the exercises closed by Celebrating the ordi- ment of that temple into which he looked, is evi- White's encouraging words and for, all the good ning. nances of the Lords house. 150 T11.0 SIGHS OF THE TimEs. Vol. 4, No. 19.

These Ilea-artful "Years. afraid that I should ever drink too much ? " real good—to be derived from drinking wine Mr. Seaburn went to the room where the " That's not a fair question, Henry. I and brandy ? " patient lay, and looked at him. Surely he Oa, these beautiful years'l Teeming with hopes and fears ; was not thinking of that at all. But I will " As I said before, it is a social custom, never knew that man I " There must be Fraught with life and decay— answer it by and by. You have no fixed and has its charms." some mistake," he said. How fast they drift away. appetite for it now." " Ah there you have it, Henry. It does The invalid heard him, and opened his They were freighted with loss " Of course not." have its charms, as the deadly snake is said eyes—such blood-shot eyes ! To those that bear no cross ; to have, and as other vices have. But I see With golden fields unkept, " Then it would not cost you any effort to " Henry," he whispered, trying to lift Dispoil'd while idlers slept ; abstain from its use ? " you are in a hurry." himself up on his elbow; "is this Henry For others there are sheaves, " Not a particle." " It is time I was at the store." Seaburn ? " The crown that labor leaves, "And you only have it in your house, and " I will detain you but a moment longer, " That is my name." To cheer the bront of toil To tillers of life's soil. serve it to your friends and drink it yourself Henry. Just answer me a few more ques- " And don't you know me ? " Through slowly creeping years because it is fashionable I or, you do it be- tions. Now call to mind all the families of " I am sure I do not." And he would Recurring hopes and fears cause others do it I " your acquaintance ; think of all the domes- have said he did not wish to, only the man With life's dark mystery; " I do it because "—said Mr. Seaburn, tic circles you have known from your school- seemed so utterly miserable that he would We, too, shall drift away Along the wrecks of years, hesitating in his choice of language—" be- boy days to the present; run your thoughts not wound what little feelings .he might One light unfailing cheers cause it would appear very odd, and very through the various homes where you have have left. Earth's pathway, dark with sin, niggardly and very fanatical, not to do it." been intimate—do this, and tell me, if in " Have you forgotten your old playmate And gilds the world within ; any one instance you ever knew a single joy It falls with hallowed ray, This last was spoken emphatically. in boyhood, Harry—your friend in other O'er life's beclouded day : "But," pursued Mrs. Seaburn, with the to be planted by the hearth-stone from the years, your chum in college 1" The light, God's faithful love calmness and assurance of one who feels the wine cup ? Did you ever know one item " What I " gasped Seaburn, startling back To guide our steps above. sustaining influence of right, " you would not of good to flow to a family from its use ?" aghast, for a glimmer of the truth burst do what you was convinced were wrong, " No; I cannot say that I ever did—not upon him. " This is not Alec Lomberg I" THE HOME CIRCLE. out of respect to any such consideration, as you mean." " All that is left of him, my Hal," returned would you ? " " And now answer me again. Think of the poor fellow, putting forth his wasted, Home Influence. " You know I would not, Cora. This those homes once more—call to memory the skeleton hand, and smiling a faint, quiver- question of temperance, I know, is a good playmates of your childhood, of the homes, ing, dying smile. " Wno is that, I wonder I " said Mrs. Sea- one in the abstract, and I am willing to live think of the firesides where all you have " Alexander Lomberg I " said Henry, gaz- burn, as she heard a ring at the basement up to it as I understand it ; but I am not a known dwell—and tell me if you have seen ing into the bloated, disfigured face before door. teetotaler." any sorrows flow from the wine cup ? Have him. " Ah I it's Marshall," returned her husband " Henry," said his wife with an earnest you seen any great griefs planted by the " You wouldn't have know me, Hal I" who had looked out at the window and recog- look into his face, "will you answer me a intoxicating bowl upon the hearth-stone ?" " Indeed, no 1" nized the grocers cart. few questions I—answer them honestly and Henry Seaburn did not answer, for there " I know. I am altered." " And what have you sent home now truly, without equivocation or evasion I " passed before him such grim spectres of sor- " But, Alec," cried Seaburn, "how is this ? Henry ?" " Bless me, how methodically you put it, row and grief that he shuddered at the men- Why are you here ? " But before Mr. Seaburn could answer, the Cora But I will answer." tal vision. He saw the youth cut down in " Rum, my Hal—RUM ! I'm about done door of the sitting room was opened, and one "Then first—do you believe you, or your the hour of promise ; he saw the gray head for. But I wanted to see you. They told of .the domestics looked in and asked :— friends, are in any way benefited by the fall in dishonor; he saw hearts broken; he me you lived not far away, and I would look " What'll I do with the demijohns, ma'- drinking of intoxicating beverages at your saw homes made desolate ; he saw affection upon one friend before I died." am I" board I That is—do you derive any real wither and die; and saw noble intellect " But I heard you were practicing in your " Demijohns I" repeated Mrs. Seaburn. good from it ? " stricken down I Oh I what sights he saw as profession, Alec, and doing well." " Put them in the hall, and I'll attend to " No, I can't say that we do." he unrolled the canvas of his memory. " So I did do well when I practiced, Hal. them," interposed the husband. " Do you think the time has ever been " Henry," whispered his wife, moving to I have made some pleas, but I have given up " Henry, what jutve you sent home now 1" since we were married, when we actually his side, " We have two boys. They are all that." " And your father—where is he ?" the wife asked after the domestic was gone. needed wine in the house, either for our growing to be men. They are noble gener- " Some nice old brandy," replied Henry. ous, and tender. They love their home and " Don't mention him ; he taught me to health or comfort I " drink 1 Ay, he taught me and then Cora Seaburn glanced up at the clock, and " Why, I think it has added to our com- honor their parents. They are here to form then looked down upon- the floor. There was those characters, to receive those impressions, turned the cold shoulder upon me when I fort Cora." drank too much But I'm going, Hal— a cloud upon her fair brow, and it was very " How I" which shall be the basis upon which their evident that something lay heavily upon her future weal or woe must rest. Look at going, going I." " In many ways." Henry Seaburn gazed into heart. Presently she walked to the wall and " Name one of them." them—oh ! think of them. Think of them that terrible face, and remembered what its owner had pulled the bell cord, and the summons was " Why, in the enjoyment of our guests." doing battle in the great struggle of the life been—the son of wealthy parents; the idol answered by the chambermaid. " Ah ! But I am speaking of ourselves, before them. Shall they carry out from their of a fond mother; the favorite at school, at " Are George and Charles in their room I" Henry—of you, and of our own little fam- home our evil influence I Shall they in the " Yes, ma'am." time to come fall by the way-side, cut down play, and at college ; a light of intellect and ily. Has it ever ministered to our comfort?" physical beauty, and a noble, generous friend, "Tell them it is school time." " No, I can't say that it has." by the demon of the cup, and in their dying The girl went out, and in a little while two hour curse the example whence they derived And now, alas ! " Alec, can I help you ? " " And if it were banished from our house "Yes." And the poor fellow started boys entered the sitting room; with their forever, as a beverage, should we the appetite I Oh ! for our children—for to-day and higher up from his pillow, and something of books under their arms and their caps in suffer in consequence ?" those two boys—for the men we hope to see the light struggled for a moment in his eyes. their hands. They were bright, happy, " Certainly. What would our friends—" them—for the sweet memories we would " Pray for me, Hal. Pray for my soul! for healthy fellows, with goodness and truth " Ah but stop. I am only speaking of have them cherish of their home—for the my mother's sake. Oh 1 she was a good stamped upon their rosy faces, and the light our own affairs, shut out from the world, by good old age they may reap—let us cast this mother, Hal. Thank God she din n't live to of free consciences gleamed in their spark- our own fireside. I want all extraneous con- thing out now and forever ! " see this I Pray for me—pray—pray I " ling eyes. George was thirteen years of age, siderations left out of the question. Should Cora ceased speaking; and Henry, with- As the wasted man sank back he fell to and Charles eleven ; and certainly those two we, as a family, suffer in our moral, physical, out another word left the house and went to weeping, and in a moment more, one of his parents had reason to be proud of them, social or domestic affairs, in the total absti- his'store. paroxysms came on, and he began to rave. The boys kissed their mother, gave a happy nence of this beverage ?" How strangely did circumstances work to He thought Harry was his father, and he "good morning" to their father, and then " No, I don't know that we should." keep the idea his wife had given him alive cursed him; and cursed the habit that had went away to school.. " Then to you, as a husband and a father, in his mind ! That very morning he met a " Come," said Mr. Sekburn, some time and as a man, it is of no earthly use ?" youth, the son of one of his wealthy friends, been fastened upon him under that father's after the boys had gone, "what makes you " No." in a state of wild intoxication ; and during influence. But Henry could not stop to lis- so sober ?" " And it would cost you no effort, so far the forenoon he heard that Aaron Green had ten. With an aching heart he turned away " Sober I" repeated the wife, looking up. as you alone are concerned, to break clear died at sea. He knew that Aaron had been and left the hospital. He could not go home " Yes. You have been sober and mute from it?" sent away from home that he might be to dinner then; he went down town, and got ever since the grocer came." " Not a particle." reclaimed. dinner there. At night he went to the hos- "Do you want me to tell you why ?" " And now, Henry," pursued the wife, After the bank closed, and as Henry Sea- pital again. He would inquire after his " Of course I do." with increased earnestness, " I have a few burn was thinking of going to his dinner, he friend, if he did not see him. " Well, Henry, I am sorry you had that more questions to ask : Do you believe that received a note through the penny post. It " Poor fellow " said the physician, " he spirits brought into the house." the drinking of intoxicating beverages is an was from a medical friend, and contained a never came out of that fit ; he died in half an hour after you went out." " Oh, what's the use of talking so, Cora ! evil in this country 1" request that he would call at the hospital on You wouldn't have me do without it would " Why, as it is now going on, I certainly his way home. The hospital was not much It was dark when Henry Seaburn reached you I" do." out of the way, and he stopped there. home. " You didn't tell Bridget where to " Yes." "And isn't it an evil in society I " " There is a man in one of the lower wards put those demijohns, Henry," said his wife. " Why, what do you mean " " Yes." who wishes to see you," said the doctor. She had not noticed his face, for the gas was " I mean that I would cut clear of the stuff "Look over this city, and tell me if it is " Does he know me ?" asked Seaburn. burning but dimly. now and forever." not a terrible evil I" " He says he does." " Ah I I forgot. Come down with me, " But, Cora, you are wild. What should " A terrible evil grows out of the abuse of " What is his name ?" Cora, and we'll find a place for them." we do at our parties without wine 7 " it, Cora." "He won't tell us. He goes by the name His wife followed him down into the base- " Do as others who have it not." " And will you tell me what good grows of Smith ; but I am satisfied that such is not ment, and one by one he took the demijohns "But—mercy I—what would people say ?— out of the use of it I" hie true name. He is in the last stage of and carried them into the rear yard, there he Are you afraid—but no, I won't ask so " Really, when you come down to the consumption and delirium. He has lucid emptied their contents into the sewer. Then foolish a question." abstract point, you have the field. But peo- intervals, but they do not last long. He he broke the vessels in pieces with his foot, "Ask it, Henry. Let me say plainly, now ple should govern their appetites. All has, been here a week. He was picked up and bade Bridget have the dir' traan take the that we have fairly commenced." things may be abused." in the street and brought here. He heard fragments away in the morning. Not one " Well, I was about to ask if you were " Yes. But will you tell me the use—the your name, and said he knew you once." word had he spoken to his wife all the while,. /ifiky 16, 1878. THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 16'1

nor did she speak to him. He returned to Ruin. and 'rcrlbacoo. reader, throw away your tobacco and your —The Wesleyan Methodists have recently the sitting room, where his boys were at_ dedicated a new church at Durban, Natal, "And there shall in no wise enter therein anything pipe, and do it now, and resolve to be a free their books, and took a seat on the sofa. that defileth." man.—D. M. Canright. South Africa. It cost $25,000. He called his wife and children about him, Tux joy and the hope of a soul —Thirty-six Mexicans have professed re- and then he told them the 'story of Alexan- In this and the world to come ligion, and joined the Presbyterian church Are drowned by th' intoxicant bowl— GOOD HEALTH. in the city of Mexico. A number of Mex- der Lomberg. Are lost to the drinkers of rum. icans have been baptized. "And now, my loved ones," he added, lay- If we ask at the home of the poor Proper Diet for Man. —St. Isaac's church, St. Petersburg, which ing his hand upon the heads of his boys, " I Whence the ranks of the paupers do come, was nearly fifty years in building, is one of have made a solemn vow that henceforth my They will tell us they beggars become WHAT shall we eat ? is a question which When they knelt at the altar of rum. the most remarkable of modern temples. It children shall find no such influence at their at the present time seems to be asked with cost nearly as much as all the churches in home. They shall never have the occasion Then look through the prison-cell bars greater solicitude than almost any other England. At the wretch by transgression undone ; to curse the example of their father. I will And, despairing, he now will confess which has any bearing upon physical com- —The Methodist Episcopal church has touch the wine-cup no more forever! What He is lost through the drinking of rum. fort or enjoyment. Judging from the almost built in the last ten years 4978 church edi- say you, my boys—will you join me in that Ask the once happy, beautiful bride universal practice of people with reference fices, at a cost of $30,000,000. The value of its entire church property is $70,000,000, on pledge?" Who is wasted and wretched become, to diet, we are led to believe that this ques- which is an aggregate debt of about $5,000,- kipw a husband was changed to a fiend ; tion is usually answered, practically, at least, They joined him with glad willingness ; She will say 'twas by turning to rum. 000. for their hearts were full, and their sympa- by saying, in popular parlance, "Anything For the tendrils of love that were hers —The copy of the Bible which that tastes good ! " or, more truthfully, Martin thies all turned, by a mother's careful love, Were withered, his heartstrings were numb, Luther used daily, and the leaves of which to right. From the day he was false to his vow Anything that pleases a perverted taste and are covered with annotations made with his And you Cora I " And began to find pleasure in rum. pampered appetitite. The disastrous results own hand, is now in the Brandenburg mus- "Yes, yes !" she cried. " And may the Vile poison for body and soul of this unwise course are everywhere appa- eum, which gave for it about $450. The Is the breath and the bread of the slum ; Bible was rent in the numerous and direful maladies printed ,in Basle, in 1509, and is `holy lesson of this hour never be forgotten. Evil thoughts coming out of the month— bound in leather and is in good preservation. 0 God ! let it rest, as an angel of mercy, Going in are tobacco and rum. which arise from indigestion, torpid liver, etc., to which an immense army of dyspep- —In England and Wales there is one upon my boys ! Let it be a light to their The caverns of deepest despair clergyman to 718 of the population; in the feet in the time of temptation ; and so shall Will along bring conviction to some tics, rheumatics, hypochondriacs, can testify. United States there is one to each 879 ; in they bless through life the influence they That these are but steps down to hell : But let us attempt to answer the inquiry Russia there is a priest to each 323 of the Sipping beer, wine, gin, brandy, and rum. carry with them from their home ?"—Sel. in a more rational manner, by an investiga- population ; in France there is one priest, In the " Gardens of God "—blest abode ! monk or minister to 235 layme, ; In Italy Where nothing unclean can come— tion, the object of which shall be to deter- mine what there is one to 143 of the people, 'Md in Spain Boys Out After Night-fall. There will mingle with breath of the flowers should be eaten. We will not one to 54. No fumes of tobacco or. rum. stop here to consider the propriety of eating Is not this a serious evil which should —Is. S. C. inorganic substances, since it is generally commend itself for correction to parents admitted that man can subsist only upon SECULAR NEWS. and guardians ? asks a correspondent, who Tobacco an Idol. such substances as have been derived, directly has long been an observer, and is a sympa- THAT the use of tobacco is really an idol or indirectly, from the vegetable kingdom. —Pennsylvania has a population of 4,000,- thizing lover of boys, who likes to see them with many people, which they love more than The question then resolves itself into this 000 of whom 1,000,000 live in cities. happy, cheerful and gleesome, and is not will- all other gods, we often see proofs of wher- form : Which is the better food for man, —The St. Gothard tunnel, under the Hel- ing that they should be cheated out of their ever we go. Two gentlemen related to me anima/ pr vegetable food In treating this veltic. Alps, measures nearly ten miles in share of the pleasures of youth. Really, it is length, costing about $60,000,000. their cases, which well illustrate it. Many subject, we shall consider it from three difficult to understand how a hightened, use- years ago, when Minnesota was a new coun- standpoints; viz., 1. Anatomy; 2. Physiol- —Extreme destitution prevails in Labra- ful man, can be the ripened fruit of a boy try, and prices of everything high, flour ogy ; 3. Experience. dor, and fears are entertained that, unless who has not enjoyed a fair share of the glad assistance is promptly rendered, many people being twenty dollars per barrel, and the peo- ANATOMICAL EVIDENCES. privileges of youth. But while the friend of will die of starvation. ple very poor, one man went to Hutchinson The first question we will consider, then, the youth watches with a jealous eye all cus- —Until recently human as well as animal with twenty cents in his pocket. His fam- shall be, Does anatomy indicate ,that vegeta- toms which entrench upon their rights and bones were used in French sugar refineries; ily was out of flour. He expected to receive ble food is the most proper diet for man ? or privileges, he is equally fearful lest parents in fact the former were as lately as 1858 more money in town, but upon arriving does it indicate the reverse of this; viz., sent from Algeria to France. permit their sons indulgences which ruin their there did not succeed in obtaining it, so he that such is the case' with animal food I As morals in almost all instances, and knows of —May 8, the steamship Gaelic of, the Oc- laid out ten cents for tobacco, which left him all will be ready to admit that the natural cidental and Oriental steamship line, arrived none more dangerous than that of allowing ten cents with which to buy flour for his diet of man must be the proper diet, since he at San Francisco from Hongkong and Yoko- their sons to be in the streets after night-fall. family. The other one went to town with must have been created with appetites and hama with 549 Chinese passengers on board. There they will learn many evil practices, fifty cents in his pocket to buy seed corn. wants in perfect harmony with his nature, —It is estimated that the sugar crop of such as theft, drunkenness and profanity. It was all the money he had. He had been all we have to do in answer to this question Cuba will be 100,000 tons short this season. They acquire, under cover of night, an un- It is time the United States took effectual without tobacco for several days. When he is to determine by anatomy, if possible, healthy and excited state of mind, bad prac- means to inaugurate the extensive produc- reached town, he debated a long time which man's dietetic character. The only way in tion of beet sugar. tices, and criminal sentiments, which it will to buy, seed for his field, or tobacco for his which anatomy can throw any light upon take years of the most judicious training to —Postal statistics show that of all Euro- mouth. Appetite prevailed, and he laid out the subject is this : It acquaints us with the pean countries (Russia probably excepted) eradicate. Indeed it is ,in the street after his money for tobacco, and started home structure of the various classes of animals, the fewest letters are written in Spain. Thus night-fall that boys principally acquire the without his corn. These cases illustrate herbivorous, frugivorous, carnivorous, and in 1875-6 only 87,000,000 letters passed education that fits them, in after years, for what a mighty hold this habit will get on a omnivorous. In so doing it reveals the fact through the Postoffice, being but 5.49 to each becoming &solute, criminal men, and makes inhabitant. man, and how he will sacrifice everything that, as the character of the food of these them fit subjects for the penitentiary. else for it. several classes differs in being herbs, fruits, —Immigration to this country, ems to be A'Parents should adopt an inflexible rule slightly increasing again, as se$ from the Can this habit be overcome ? Most cer- flesh, or a mixture of all these, the structure never to permit their sons, under any circum- statistics of arrivals and from the reports of tainly, it can. I see good examples to.prove of their alimentary organs also differs corre- consuls in European ports, that laborers who stances, to go into the street after night-fall, this almost every week. In this vicinity, spondingly. Thus, the lion, tiger, cat, pan- went from America at the beginning of hard to engage in out-door sports, or to meet other not less than a score have given it up within ther, etc., all subsist upon flesh. An exam- times are begging for means to return. boys for the purpose of lounging around gro- the past few weeks. Some of these persons, ination of their organs of alimentation, the —There is a prospect of a large emigration ceries and saloons, but rather let them have who had used it long years, had tried many teeth, jaws, and alimentary canal, shows a of English people, discouraged by stagnation in business, resulting in strikes, etc., to the some innocent amusement in-doors, with times to abandon it, and had always failed remarkable similarity. The same is found plenty of juvenile books and papers. Many mineral and agricultural lands of Alabama, and settled down satisfied that they must to be true in the case of all known flesh- following the investment of English capital a young man has been ruined in health, busi- always be slaves to it. Now they have eating animals. Hence, all animals of this in the railroads of that State. ness and character, who can trace the com- given it up and readily conquered it, What character are called carnivorous. In this —There are now in the Massachusetts mencement of his ruin to the evenings spent wo- is the reason? There are just two. And way the principle is established that all men's prison three hundred and fifty-five in the street. now, if the reader is a slave to this filthy animals having alimentary organs of the female convicts, their ages ranging from six- habit, please listen, and I will tell you how same kind as those mentioned, are carnivor- teen to sixty-eight years. In the nursery at- tached there are forty-three babies, fourteen Education in Sacred Music. surely to overcome it without a failure. ous. In the same manner, it is established of whom were born in prison. The convicts 1. Make it a matter of conscience toward that all animals having alimentary organs are guarded, controlled and managed by wo- THE education of the young in sacred mu- God. Look at it in the light of a sin against like those of the ox, cow, sheep, horse, etc., men, and as a reformatory institution it is sic is an object of high importance; and yourself physically, mentally, morally, a sin are herbivorous. And so with each of the making a good record. every child, as is proved in the schools of against your family, a sin against society, and classes mentioned. —May 8, Charles Morgan died in New Prussia, may be taught to sing. Music, as, a sin against God. Viewed in this light, (To be continued.) York city. He was owner of Morgan's line well as the reading of our own language, which is the only correct light, ask God to of steamships running between New York and New Orleans and other vessels in the should be taught in our common-schools ; help you to conquer it. and our children accustomed to sing, as well RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.' Texas trade—twenty-one in all. He was 2. Then resolve that you will abandon the sole owner of the railroad running from New as to talk and read. habit immediately, once and forever, without —At the close of 1877 the Presbyterian Orleans to Morgan City and the railroad Sacred music should be cultivated in any provisions to the contrary. Do this, church in New Zealand numbered 41 congre- from Indianola to Victoria, Texas. His for- Christian families, and used in the seasons of and you will surely conquer it. If you start gations. tune was estimated at $13,000,000. morning and evening devotion. A more out with the idea that you will try to over- —Every workman on the Paris Exposi- —The Sydney correspondent of the Aus- delightful scene oann.ot be presented on this come it, but if the pressure is too hard you tion building has received a present of a Bible tralian and American Home News writes that in the French language. the loss in Australia by drouth in 1876 rep- side of heaven than when parents, with their will take a little now and then, or that resented about $10,000,000. It was with sons and daughters, surround the family —The value, over all incumbrances, of the you will taper off, you will never overcome. great difficulty that stockholders could be in- property belonging to the Church of England altar, and devoutly mite their voices in I have seen hundreds of people, young and is estimated at $600,000,000. duced to furnish statistics. The losses in sacred song. Such services will promote old, abandon it, many of these long, and most 1877 are known to be very much heavier. —The General Theological Library of Bos- domestic happiness and kind affections. Pi- inveterate, users of it, and yet I never saw Previous prosperous seasons have enabled ous feelings will be aided, and steps quick- ton now contains 11,938 volumes and 16,500 the colonies to bear up under this heavy any one injured by its discontinuance. It pamphlets. Its property is estimated at $39,- ened in the way to heaven. blow, but, of course, many individuals have does them good, and only good. Come, 992. gone under. 152 THE SIGHS OP THE TIMES. Vol. 4, No. 19.

Tent in San. Francisco. almost worn out 'the Salutary impressions, and Rooks, Pamphlets, are,etts,1mte. thr cflotto of ,the "intro left the world imperfectly sensible of its sacred OUR meetings have now continued about four obligations. CRUDEN'S Concordance. $1.75, post-paid. weeks, and we have given forty discourses. Self-love has studied every art, and by every Dictionary of Bible. $1.75, post-paid. OAKLAND, CAL., FIFTH-DAY, MAY 16, 1878. subtlety has tried to explain away the force of We are at the most interesting point, where God's precepts, and 'to rernoVe every bar that• Hymn and Tune Book ; 537 hymns, 147 tunes. $1. souls are deciding to obey the truth. We have is a check to our corrupt inclinations. But PrOgressive Bible Lessons. 50 cts. Visit to San 161raneiseo. about one hundred interested hearers, and out Jesus Christ who, has assured us that not so " " for. Children. 35 ets. of these we shall have many accessions to the much as the least , tittle of this law can be The Way of Life; a beautiful engraving 19x24 SISTER ISABELLA MOORE was among the first altered, continues to be still the same God he numbers in San Francisco. inches, with key of explanations. $1.00. to embrace the abbath in San Francisco, very always was, and still exacts the same respectful On Sunday evenings our tent is well filled. The Game of Life (illustrated). Satan playing soon after the opening of the mission in Cali- obedience to his precepts. No length of time with man for his soul. In Board, 50 eta; in paper 30 etc Last Sunday evening Sister White gave an can prescribe against their force, and no fash- fornia by Elders Loughborough and Bourdeau. The History of the Sabbath and First Day of the earnest discourse from John 15 : 1-10, which ions of the age can make any change in the She has maintained a consistent firmness in Week. I. N. 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It is impossible been balancing in point of health and life, be- ent from the stiff-necked Israelites, who desired Life of William Miller, with likeness. $1.00. to draw them together to one concentrated tween hope and fear, more recently however God to speak no longer, lest their fears might The Sanctuary and its Cleansing. U. Smith. meeting at present. As expressed in one of the kill them, a 'Christian wishes to hear the voice $1.00. Condensed edition in paper, 30 Ms. the matter has seemed to he decided that her dailies last week, there is "no city in the of God or himself ; for he knows that, the stay on these mortal shores was very brief, and words of GOd are the words of life, and there- Life of Joseph Bates, with Likeness. Revised. nation, of double the number of inhabitants, Edited by James White. Tint, $1.00; plain, $1.25. agreeable to her request, as stated in the ,last fore begs him' to • abeolnpany them with the that spread over so much territory as San unction of his holy Spirit, that his yoke might The Nature and Destiny of Man. U. Smith. weeks SIGNS, we have this day, Sabbath, May 384 pp. $1.00. Francisco." To reach the people we must go be made sweet and his, burden light."—Reves 11, administered to her the Lord's supper. The Constitutional Amendment. A discussion where they are. Pray for us. Bible Theory, p. 107. , W. M. HEALEY. between W. H. Littlejohn and the Editor of the "Chris. Several of the earliest friends of the cause flan" Statesman." Bound, $1.00. Paper, 40 ets. First joined in this solemn ordinance at the house of J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, , part, 10 eta. W. M. HEALEY. klymns of Praise. Spirit of Prophecy, Vol. I. Mrs. E. G. White. her son-in-law, Gov. Holden. Mrs. Holden, 416 pp. $1.00. WE have just- issued a 64-page collection of the worthy daughter of Sister Moore is not a Red 331ufr, Tent No. 3. Spirit of Prophecy, Vol. II, Mrs. E. G. White, practical Seventh-day Adventist, but we were hymns and tunes adapted to use in religious 400 pp. $1.00. lectures, camp and tent-meetings, in social Spirit of Prophecy, Vol. III. Mrs. E. G. White. glad that she partook of the emblems, while TWENTY-SIX lectures have been given. Ten meetings and in the home circle. The hymns 400 pp. $1.00 tears flowed freely. Hers has been a sacred have signed the covenant. One of them was are all accompanied by music. Life of Christ,he: in seven Pamphlets, by Mrs. Ellen trust in so faithfully caring for one of God's " buried in baptism " to-day in the Sacramento The first part of the book is devoted to stand- , ard hymns and tunes. The remainder is filled No. 1. His First Advent and Ministry - 10 ets dear children, for which she will not lose her river, there was from four to five hundred per- No. 2. His Temptation in the Wilderness - 10 ots reward. ur with new, stirring, sacred songs, some of No. 3. His Teachings and Parables - - 15 cite sons present. The average attendance at our which appear for the first time in this book, No. 4. His Mighty Miracles — — 15 eta As we shook Sister Moore's hand and ex- meetings is about thirty. Pray for us. and any one of which is, worth more than the No. 5. His Sufferings and Crucifixion - 10 eta No. 6. His Resurrection and Ascension • - 10 chi pressed our last farewell she stated that she did M. C. ISRAEL, price of the book. Price, paper cover, 10 cents ; No. 7. The Apostles of Christ - - - 10 eta not expect to see us again ; to which we replied, May 12, 1878. B. A. STEPHENS. board covers, 15 cents ; cloth covers, 20 cents. Sabbath Readings for the Home Circle. In two probably not until we meet to eat bread in the Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, volumes. 75 cts. each, Oakland, Cal. kingdom of God. May we all prove faithful The State of the Dead and Destiny of the Wicked. 1Evaeheeo. U. Smith. 40 its. andmeet our dear sister with all the family of The United States in Prophecy. U. Smith. the redeemed around the supper table of the LAST Sabbath and Sunday, in company with APPOINTMENTS. Bound, 40 cts. Paper, 25 cts. Lamb. J. W. Sister White and Brother and Sister Baker, I A Word for the Sabbath, or False Theories Ex- attended meeting in Pacheco. Friday evening posed. (POEM.) U. Smith. Muslin, 30 eta.; paper, 15 ote Personal. at 7:30 quite a company were assembled to WE will speak at the tent in San Francisco Advent Keepsake. Muslin, 25 ets. Sabbath May 18, at 10:30 A. M. WE take pleasure in stating that Brother hear Sister White. She spoke over one hour J. N. 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Sermons on the Millen- nium, Second Advent, the Kingdom, the Judgment, the required by other builders. We recommend him took part. Nearly ever one expressed them- June 27, to ,July 2, 1878. The place of meet- Time, the Sanctuary, and Saving Faith. 20 cts. selves as having been greatly strengthened and ing will be on the land of Adam Stephens, to those who have buildings to erect as a faithful three miles north of Salem, on the line of the The Ministration of Angels, and the Origin, His- workman and master -of trade, a quiet Christian encouraged by the sermon, and more deter- 0. & C. railroad. tory, and. Destiny of Satan. D. M. C. 20 cts. gentleman, and one every way worthy of pat- mined than ever to press forward. The second annual session of the North Pa- The Atonement. J. H. Waggoner. 20 eta. ronage. J. W. This being one of the new churches, they had cific Conference will be held in connection with The Spirit of God. J. H. 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Fames White. 10 Ms. of a popular writer upon their mission :— Circulate the 44 Signs." Mi,ssonuf, Appleton City, it 30 cc cc cc The Saints' Inheritance, or the Earth made New. " It is my conviction that more will have to tt Gallatin, June 6-11 J. N. Loughborough. 10 cts. be done through the press. Tracts can go A BROTHER in this city, who has been sending MINNESOTA, Hutchinson, June 19-25 Sunday Seventh-day. A Refutation of ,Mede, Jennings, Akers and Fuller. J. N. A. 10 eta. everywhere. Tracts know no fear. Tracts the SIGNS to a friend in Bryantsville, Kentucky OREGON, Salem, June 27 to July 2 never ' tire. Tracts never die. Tracts can be has received a reply from which we are permit- The Truth Found. J. H. W. 10 eta. multiplied without end by the press. Tracts ted to extract the following : " The more I, The Two Covenants. • J. N. Andrews. 10 ots. can travel at little expense. They run up and read your paper the better I like it. The pa- BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. The Hope of the Gospel : What it is, and when it will be consummated. J. N. L. 10 eta. down like angels of God, blessing all, giving to per advocates a new doctrine to this part of the " Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord de- all, and asking no gift in return. They can country, and I can hardly keep it until I have ceitfully," (margin, negligently.) Jer. 48 :10. Review of Gilfillan on the Sabbath. 10 ots. talk to one as well as to a multitude ; and to a read it. An Adventist was never heard of in Vindication of the Sabbath. Morton. 10 ots. multitude as well as to one. They require no this part of the country until that paper found Received for the Signs. The Date of the Seventy Weeks of Dan. 9, estab- public room to tell their story in. They can $2.00 EAca. Geo F Gilson 5-19, W P Hammond 5-8, lished. J. N. Andrews. 10 cts. its way here. After reading it, and searching Joseph Mayhew 5-1% Mrs D At Prosser 5-19, H C Matthew Twenty-four. James White. 10 dB. tell it in the kitchen or the shop, the parlor or the Scriptures, I have Come to think that it Chrisman 5-19, Mrs Brothers 5-1, Geo Chitwood 5-19, Wm Leavitt 5-1, Mrs X E Blackerby 4-15, D J Bur- Review of Baird's Two Sermons on the Sabbath the closet, in the railway carriage -or in the comes nearer teaching the true light than any- roughs 5-16, F Peabody 5-16, Mrs F A Reed 5-19, Jonas and Law. J.'11. W. omnibus, on the broad highway or in the foot- Faruesworth 5-15, Bruce Graham 5-21, Emeline More thing I ever, read., I am not a member of any 5-19. The Ancient Sabbath. • Forty-four Objections path through the fields. They take no note of church and don't lean to any denomination, so Considered. 10 Ms. $1.50 EACH. Jessie Tullebright 5-19, Mark L Lowrey Milton on the State of the Dead. 5 cts. scoffs, or jeers, or taunts. 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