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BREAD OR GOLD? has been seen the in- An'Age of Trusts—Rusting crease of poverty on the Treasures—The Cry of Pov- other. erty—Bread for His People —The Coming King. True it is that indo- THIS little Italian lence, want of tact, bad beggar is not the "ab- habits of life, wrong sent minded beggar" plans in education, or that figures so largely no education at all, has in the world's thoughts had much to do with to-day, but he repre- the poverty of many. sents a somewhat large But, on the other hand, and continually increas- the most industrious ing division of the hu- poverty has no possi- man family—those who bility of coping with the -- depend for their subsist- iron hand of the mighty ence upon the habit or "trusts" that threaten business of begging. the financial features of The heaping together our day. of the vast stores of The one point in the wealth that has made financial world to-day the millionaires of our that should mostly in- century is, no doubt, terest the people of largely responsible for God, is the fact that the poverty that keeps the time when these step with the march of great portions a n d civilisation. Within the stores of treasure are last few years the for- being heaped together mation of gigantic syn- is known in the Scrip- dicates and " trusts " ture as the "last days." has still further intensi- The hire of the labour- fied the contrasts that ers has been kept back mark the closing days by fraud so that the of our century. With great trusts and the the increase of wealth great men might reap on the one hand,, there A Penny, Please, For Bread. their golden harvest. 522 (2) THE BIBLE ECHO AUGUST 13, 1900

But the gathering will be too late, to teach the lesson that the liberation HEIRS WITH HIM. for they " have heaped treasures to- of the soul which finds its expression gether in the last days." James 5 : 3, in joyful Christian praise is the pre- He who receives Christ by faith Revised Version. lude of every other form of liberty. is a member of the royal family, a Men may not regard the cry of —Henry Grattan Guinness. child of the heavenly King, an heir poverty that is still increasing, but of God and a joint heir with Christ. it has entered into the ears of His lot is a part of the cross of Jehovah, and He proposes to settle Christ. He is bound up with Christ the account speedily. for life and for death in the great The great wealth of men will not SOLDIERS OP THE CROSS. plan of redemption. The full and save them in that day of sad revela- entire renunciation of self that ap- tions. Their treasured gold will be TELL me no tale of glory, peared in Christ appears in him. Sing me no battle hymn, He shows Christlike gentleness by cast out as an unholy thing. See Of cannon's roar, of human gore Isa. 2 :17-2I. The idols of gold and Shed in the conflict grim. speaking kind, compassionate words, words which are full of comfort, and silver that have taken up so much of Name not the illustrious heroes, man's attention will then be aban- Swelling war's crimson train; hope, and love. He is filled with doned as a helpless, nay, worthless No martial fire can they inspire, solicitude for human souls. His thing. The tocsin sounds in vain. watchword is, " I live, yet not I, but God would have His people read, I see a mightier Conqueror, Christ liveth in me." He is willing to, "Immanuel" His name, make any sacrifice to draw lost, per- even in the great contrast that con- His cause, "the right," His fight the fight tinually deepens between wealth and Of faith and holy aim. ishing souls to the cross of Calvary. poverty, that most solemn procla- A church separate and distinct Emblazoned on His banner see from the world is, in the estimation mation—" The coming of the Lord The symbol of a cross, draweth nigh." James 5 : 7, 8. To worldly fame unknown by name, of heaven, the object of greatest The treasures of the great are His soldiers suffer loss. value in all the world. The mem- " rusting " for want of use, while They call no man their foeman, bers are pledged to consecrate their poverty walks through the earth But as each moment flies, service to one Master, Jesus Christ. They strive to win, o'er self and sin, They are to show that they have begging for bread. And the cry for The overcomer's prize. gold and the clamour for bread chosen Christ as their leader. In Their Captain goes before them, the Scriptures the members of the reach even now unto heaven. God He cheers, He guides, He wards. has promised His people bread; No demon foe can overthrow, church of God are represented as they have no need to fear. Isa. 33 The battle is the Lord's. striving, labouring, working, fighting the good fight of faith, and praying 16, 17. When the last foe is conquered, Then will their conflict cease, in faith, ever ready to unsheath the Then clad in white, they reign in light " sword of the Spirit." With Jesus, " Prince of Peace." The blessing of grace is given to T. WHITTLE. CHRISTIANITY THE ONLY RELIGION men that the heavenly universe and OF SONG. the fallen world may see as they could not otherwise see, the perfec- tion of Christ's character. The THE Christian religion is the only "BE STRONG IN THE LORD." religion of joy in the world, and great Teacher came to our world to hence the only religion of song. No show men and women how to live, hymns are sung in Hindu temples, No one has anything beyond that so that in the great day of God it Buddhist pagodas, or Mohammedan which God gives him. All that we may be said to them, " Ye are corn- mosques. Even in Jewish syna- have, time, ability, strength, has plete,in Him." We are to be strong gogues the tendency of the music, been bought with a costly price. A in the Lord and in the power of His as I have observed, is to drop into ransom which includes every son might. When we feel that we are the minor. It was a Christian and daughter of Adam has been paid strong in our own strength, then apostle who said : " Be filled with for the human race. The precious comes defeat. Trusting in God we the Holy Ghost, singing." Real blood of Christ has been shed to shall be victorious. Entire confi- Christian praise is the beginning redeem man from earthliness, from dence in God brings success and of celestial and eternal psalmody. all spiritual and physical unclean- victory. The Lord Jehovah is our Such was the song of Paul and Silas ness. This is the covenant God has strength and our shield. in the prison at Philippi, when, made with His people. They are to A WARNING MESSAGE. as their biographer tells us, " the be His chosen ones. Those who prisoners heard them," the poor truly receive Christ will not yield The truth is to be given to those captives, loaded with chains, raising to any claim, even for a moment, who are ready to perish. Call the themselves up from the cold ground which would strengthen the powers attention of the people to the signs to listen with wonder to the un- hostile to righteousness and truth. of the times. There are wars and wonted sound of those two voices They put on the yoke of Christ, de- rumors of wars. Nation is rising pealing forth the praises of Christ voting themselves unreservedly to against nation. Selfishness and in the midnight darkness of the the Saviour for all time. They pledge covetousness lead to violence, dungeon. Heaven, too, listened to themselves to obey God's command- crime, and all kinds of wickedness. hat song, and answered with the ments, even should every other mem- Nation is watching nation to see if arthquake, which opened every door ber of the human family become there is not some advantage ,to be nd set every captive free, as though disloyal. gained. A concession made by one AUGUST 13, 1960 THE BIBLE ECHO CD- 523 - nation to another only opens the one will be excused for neglecting "AMEN." way for another concession to be his own work . because his friend or called for. The presumptuous, dar- neighbour has failed to do the work A RUSTLE of robes as the anthem ing deeds of unholy ambition done the Lord has marked out. Each Soared gently away on the air— The Sabbath morn's service was over, to gain power by robbing others, will be called upon to give an in- And briskly I stepped down the stair; show that men do not realise that dividual account for the way in When close in a half lighted corner, those who " take the sword shall which he has performed the work of Where the tall pulpit stairway came down, Asleep crouched a tender, wee maiden, perish with the sword." giving the message of warning to With hair like a shadowy crown. The signs of Christ's coming are the world. At the hand of the un- fulfilling. Time is precious, too faithful servant God will require the Quite puzzled was I by the vision, But gently to wake her I spoke ; precious to be frittered away. God blood of those who might have been When, at the first word, the small damsel needs men who will give the warn- saved had he done his duty faithfully. With one little gasp, straight awoke. ing message. He needs men who Paul sums up his instruction to " What brought you here, fair little angel? " She answered with voice like a bell : will sell and give alms, that the the Ephesians by saying, " Finally, " I tum tos I've dot a sick mama, work of warning the world may.not my brethren, be strong in the Lord And want 'oo to please pray her well ! be hindered. The aggressive -war- (not in self) and in the power of " Who told you ? " began I ; she stopped me. fare is to be carried forward with His might," not in self-confidence "Don't nobody told me at all; firmness and determination; for and self-sufficiency. " Put on the And papa can't see, tos he's cryin', Satan has come down with great whole armour of God that ye may And 'sides, sir, I isn't so small ; I'se been here before with my maina, power to work with all deceivable- be able to stand against the wiles of We tummed when you ringed the big bell ; ness of unrighteousness in them the devil. For we wrestle not against And ev'ry time I'se heard you prayin' that perish. flesh and blood, but against princi- For lots o' sick folks to dit well." THE CHRIST LIFE. palities, against powers, against the Together we knelt on the stairway, rulers of the darkness of this world, As humbly I asked the great Power Christians are to reveal the attri against spiritual wickedness in high To give back health to the mother, butes of Christ, steadfastly persever- And banish bereavement's dark hour. places." I finished the simple petition, ing in the work God has given them And paused for a moment ; and then to do. To those who do this work DIVINE STRENGTH. A sweet little voice at my elbow in faithfulness, angels are commis- Lisped softly and gently, " Amen 1 " sioned to give enlarged views of the God stands ready to furnish His children with light, and grace, and Hand in hand we turned our steps homeward, character and work of Christ, and The little maid's tongue knew no rest ; of His power, and grace, and love. power. Every soldier in the army She prattled, and mimicked, and carolled ; Thus they become partakers of His of the Lord is to stand firm in the The shadow was gone from her breast ; faith, working out his own salvation And lo ! when we reached the fair dwelling, image, and day by day grow up to The nest of my golden-haired waif, the full stature of men and women with fear and trembling, knowing We found that the dearly loved mother in Christ. It is the privilege of the that God is working with him and Was past the dread crisis, and safe. for him. God's soldiers are ever to children of God to have a constantly They listened, amazed at my story, enlarging comprehension of the be ready with the word, " It is writ- And wept o'er their darling's strange quest ; truth, that they may bring love for ten." When assailed by the enemy While the arms of the pale, loving mother they are not to use words of human Drew the brave little head to her breast. God and heaven into their work, With eyes that were brimming and grateful, and draw from others praise and wisdom, but words of Divine wis- They thanked me again and again; dom, keeping the eyes fixed on the Yet I know in my heart that the blessing thanksgiving to God because of the Was won by that gentle " Amen." richness of His grace. Saviour. As they work to press back the powers of darkness they —Expositor. The Lord is in earnest with us. are to pray always, " with all prayer His promises are given us on con- and supplication in the Spirit, and dition that we faithfully do His will. watching thereunto with all perse- He said to Solomon,— verance and supplication for all THE FULNESS OF GOD. " As for thee, if thou wilt walk before saints." Me as David thy father walked, and do The only security against falling capacities of the human according to all that I have commanded THE thee, and shalt observe all My statutes into sin is to keep ourselves con- mind need to be enlarged by the and My judgments, then will I establish stantly under the moulding influence Spirit of God in order to compre- the throne of thy kingdom according as I of the Holy Spirit, at the same time hend His fulness. It is so vast in have covenanted with David thy father, working actively in the cause of extent, and so sublime in character, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel. But if ye turn away truth and holiness, discharging every that it must needs create the recep- and forsake My statutes and My com- God-given duty, but taking no bur- tacle to hold itself, and also impart mandments which I have set before you, den that God has not laid upon us. the ability to grasp its awe-inspiring and shall go and serve other gods and Christians must stand firmly under personality. worship them, then will I pluck thee up by banner of Christ, fighting the the roots out of the land which I have the , Eternity contains the Infinite in given thee: and this house which I have good fight of faith perseveringly and its limitless bounds, but still He sanctified for My name will I cast out of successfully, relying not on their wishes to be understood by His My sight, and will make it a proverb and a own wisdom, but on the wisdom of creatures, and to cultivate their byword among all nations." God, never forgetting that they have acquaintance. While "He filleth God's government is a govern- a Leader who never has been, and all and in all" by virtue of His exclu- ment of personal responsibility. No never can be, overcome by evil. sive prerogative, yet especially, by one can do his neighbour's work. No MRS. E. G. WHITE. grateful consent on their part, He St4 (4) '''HE BIBLE ECHO AUGUST 13 1900 desires enthronement in human surroundings have weaned many a nothing so beneficial, healthful, and hearts. youth from his first wild impulse to helpful for your daughter as practical This were a vain attainment go to sea or cross the continent, housework with you as her com- under the abnormal conditions im- and made him a docile, contented, panion ? The simplest of domestic posed by sin. Notwithstanding that obedient and happy lingerer by the duties faithfully done, brings with the whole creation is affected thereby, parental fireside. In a family, how- it a satisfaction and a blessing and consequently oppressed by the ever rich or poor, no other good is which nothing else can. That is taint of the curse, yet, doubtless, so cheap or so precious as thoughtful, just why God has given us this it is to man we must look to see in watchful love."—H. Greeley. work in the sacred realm of the most pronounced form its appalling home. MRS. W. S. SADLER. issues, expressed in mental and phy- sical deterioration. But so far from this being a reason to justify a THE JOY OF JOYS. policy of isolation, it has become instead an incentive to every gra- OF worldly joy I've had my share, "DOGS OF WAR." Mixed with earth's strife and din ; cious impulse of Divinity, demons- None other can with this compare,— trated in the most active measures, " The joy of pardoned sin." NOWADAYS, in the legions of the Kaiser, " dogs of war " vie with their and at the greatest personal Yes, tears of joy may well run down sacrifice. When sweet hope enters in ; time-honoured brethren of St. Bern- When it pleased the Father that And we no longer fear love's frown, ard in the service of stricken hu- in Him (Christ) should all fulness For joy of pardoned sin. manity, for since 1888 nearly all the dwell (Col. i : 19), He chose to veil Dear Lord, remove all fear and doubt ; Jager battalions of the Prussian Himself in human flesh, and thus Dispel the gloom within ; army have had canine comrades. In death give me. Thy praise to shout, incarnate, to reveal the glory of the For joy of pardoned sin. Almost every company now pos- Lord. The fulness of God personi- C. SOUTHON. sesses two dogs,—either short-haired fied in a life filled full of Godlike German pointers, poodles or sheep- qualities was characteristic of the dogs,—and each dog has a special Lord Jesus, and manifested in a keeper. constant delight to render cheerful A WARNING TO INDULGENT The dogs must become quite ac- submission to every Divine principle, MOTHERS. customed to be taken on the leash, and also the faithful performance of and must learn absolute obedience. every duty. He inculcated the " MY mother scrubbed while I Then they are trained to fetch things supplication both by prayer and studied Shakespeare !" These words from a given place, and at the word practice,—" Thy will be done on were spoken recently by a bright of command either to bark, lie down, earth as it is done in heaven." young woman, with whom we came or remain beside an object until the The point of all this, however, is in contact in our work. After she keeper relieves them of their charge. missed when we reject these appeals had finished Shakespeare, and had They are frequently taken out into to our intelligence and emotions. come face to face with the stern the country and taught to "find In Him (Christ) dwelleth the fulness realities of life, she found herself in things," articles purposely dropped. of the Godhead bodily (Col. 2 : 9), a strange and wicked city, and This is the first step toward dispatch so that we may come to the stature compelled to earn her own liveli- duty, one of the war-dog's most im- of the fulness of Christ (Eph. 4 : 13), hood. We questioned her concern- portant functions, to which a young and the fact is a present one, " Of ing her knowledge of practical work, dog is trained in company with an His fulness have we received." John and her answer was : " My mother older instructed one. : 16. But to be appreciated, it must never taught me to work ; I grew A dog is taken some distance from be appropriated. We are slow to up with the idea that I should never his own keeper, then a card or letter enter upon our possessions, made be called upon to perform menial is placed in a little case fastened secure to us by the provisions of labour. I loved my books, and round the animal's neck, and he is grace and truth; yet the writer joins mother permitted me to become let loose to run " home," closely every reader with himself in the wholly absorbed in them. She followed by the young one. When prayer " that we may be filled with scrubbed while I studied Shakespeare. he reaches his master, the latter all the fulness of God. Eph. 3 :19. Was I to blame ? Was she ? How removes the missive—a process WM. KNIGHT. often in the home we see the mother which a dog of ordinary intelligence rising early, to prepare the breakfast soon learns to understand. for the father and brothers, and The next step in his eda 2ation is after they are off to work, calling to learn to carry cartridges. As soon GOOD BOOKS. the daughter just in time to make as an engagement begins, the keep- preparations for school, and then ers take their dogs to the ammunition " A SMALL library of well-selected congratulating herself that her waggons, where each one is loaded books in his home has saved many a daughter, " dear bright girl, she with one hundred and fifty cartridges youth from wandering into the baleful shall, not be taxed with household cares —seventy-five being packed in each ways of the prodigal son. Where and duties, but shall save all her pocket of his little saddle. paternal strictness and severity would strength for her studies." Oh, Once in possession of this precious have bred nothing but dislike and a mother, do you not know that freight, the dog starts off to find his fixed- resolve to abscond at the first while the mind is being taxed with own company in the line of fire ; `opportunity, good-books and pleasant the problems of school life, there is and as soon as he has been relieved AUGUST 13, 1900 THE BIBLE ECHO (s) 525 of his burden, he returns to his ahead into the smoker. Nobody got gathering up her jewels when she keeper for a fresh supply. in there, so he didn't come into the should have been' fleeing from the It has been frequently remarked smoker again, and I saved my ticket doomed city. Multitudes are mak- that although the dog may make a —great scheme, wasn't it ? " and ing the same mistake to-day. But mistake and go to the wrong division, father and mother laughed heartily ; in trying to serve God and the he absolutely refuses to allow any but a sober face looked up and the world, they will lose both. but those of his own company or boy asked, battalion to remove the cartridges " Don't you have to pay unless from his saddle-bags, so perfectly the conductor asks you ? " and again do the animals know to which the father answered, STILL LIVING. detachment they belong. " Of course not, you little goose." During the last two years their Another day the father came home duties have been elaborated by their and told with a chuckle how in NEARLY fifty years ago Longfellow being taught to search for the paying a small account the man had visited the Ojibway tribe of Indians, wounded, dying, and dead. If the by accident handed him back the bill in the land of Hiawatha, on the dog finds a man lying, either half- he gave in addition to the change shores of Lake Superior, and was concealed in brushwood or out in required. And our little inquisitor the guest of the chief, Bukwujjinene. the open, he sits down beside him asked, Last month Wabunosa, the grand- and begins to bark, for the purpose " Did you keep it papa ? " son of the chief, and Kabaoosa, his of attracting his keeper or anyone And was answered by— nephew, visited the home of Long- else who can give the needful succour " Sure ; it isn't my business to fellow, in Cambridge, Mass., and to his charge. keep accounts for other people, I were the guests of the poet's If this plan fails, and the injured look out for Number One." daughters, Mrs. Dana, Mrs., Thorp, man is too far gone to give him This father is a professing, Chris- and Miss Longfellow. Kabaoosa a token of distress, the dog gently tian, attends church regularly, and sang two Indian songs for his manages to get possession of some would be amazed and indignant if hostesses, one a love song and the part of his stricken comrade's uni- any one should call him dishonest. other a war song, which his grand- form,—his cap by preference,—and With training like this is it any father had composed after the victory trots off with it between his teeth wonder the child grew into young which his tribe, as allies of the British, to tell his keeper that he has found manhood with an ingrained convic- gained over another tribe allied with an urgent case.—Pearson's Magazine. tion that a falsehood undetected was the colonists at the battle of Queens- not a sin ? But the words of. God town Heights in the War of 1812. never fail, and " Be sure your sin This is a translation of an invita- will find you out " proved true. tion which they extended to their The boy, now a young man, finds hostesses:— BEING HONEST.. that friends and employers alike say, " Ladies : We loved your father. " He's a nice fellow, but he'll bear The memory of our people will " PAPA, please give me my money," watching ; he doesn't see straight never die as long as your father's said a little fellow as he stood, cap without somebody's eye is on him." song lives, and that will live forever. in hand, ready for Sunday-school. Who is to blame ? Do you say, " Will you and your husbands and The father drew a handful of coins "He is old enough to see for himself Miss Longfellow come and see us from his pocket, and selected one, and to do right ? " True; but habits and stay in our royal wigwams on handed it to the boy. of deceit weaken the will power as an island in Hiawatha's playground, " Why papa ! " he exclaimed with well as darken the moral vision, and in the' land of the Ojibways ? The delight, " did you mean it ? It's a our young man, though often morti- friend who came with us, whose nickel." fied by detection, only tosses his address you have, will make all the " Yes," replied the father with a head and says, " What a fuss about arrangements. We want you to laugh, " it's a punched one, but a little thing ! " and the parents see us live over again the life of nobody'll know the difference in a wonder why their boy can't be Hiawatha in his own country. collection." trusted. Is it surprising that with " KABAOOSA, The boy stood a moment in thought training like this in thousands of " WABUNOSA. and then said slowly, homes our young men are so often " Boston (Onahbaunegises), the " Don't it make any difference spoken of as "schemers" and " slip- Month of Crusts on the Snow."— unless folks know ? " pery fellows "?—" Honesty is the N. Y. Tribune. " Of course not, you little goose," best policy " may be true enough, answered the father ; and the boy but the sentiment is poor foundation IT may not be possible to eat your- went to Sunday-school. for character building. Absolute self into the kingdom of God, but it A few days later the father said honesty is the only true principle. is possible to eat yourself out of it with an air of satisfaction, Be honest with God and your- as Adam and Eve ate themselves " It didn't cost me anything to self, and you cannot fail to be hon- out of Eden. come up on the train to-night." est with the world.—Emma Graves " How was that ? " asked his wife. Dietrick. IT is stated by Professor Latlin, " Oh, the train was full, and be- that in 1879 there were but 900,000 fore the conductor got to me we IN the ruins of Pompeii there was cigarettes manufactured, and that in came to a station, and he went to once found the form of a petrified 1894 the number had increased by see if anyone got on, and I slipped woman. She was in the act of 1,333 times-1,200,000,000. 52_6 (6) THE BIBLE ECHO AUGUST 13, 1900

spectacles, but she will not need glasses for many years to come. God made all the bright little eyes and faces that smile and laugh in the children's land, and He wants them all to get ready for the " Bet- ter Land."

TEMPERANCE.

" WHAT WOULD YOU TAKE FOR ME?" see the ECHO, so that they also may DOES any little boy or girl know- read the interesting stories and im- what temperance means? Does it SHE was ready to sleep, and she lay on my arm, portant lessons that will always be mean just to leave off drinking wine In her little frilled cap so fine, With her golden hair falling out at the edge, found, in the little ones' part of the and whisky ? Like a circle of noon sunshine ; paper. And then if little Willie, No; temperance means a lot more And I humm'd the old tune of "Banbury Cross," who lives• across the way or down than that. We are to be tem- And " Three Men Who Put Out to Sea," When she sleepily said, as she closed her blue eyes, the street, wants one all for his own, perate in everything. In eating, "Papa, what would you take for me?" sleeping, or reading. And I answered, "A dollar, dear little heart." Now, children know that And she slept, baby weary with play ; But I held her warm in my loving, strong arms, if they eat too much food And I rocked her and rocked away. at once, that it gives the 0, the dollar meant all the world to me, digestive organs too The land and the sea and the sky, The lowest depth of the lowest place, much work to do; then The higest of all that's high ! the brain has to be called All the cities, with streets and palaces, to help digest the food With their people and stores of art, by alloWing the blood to I would not take for one low, soft throb Of my little one's loving heart ; go to the stomach, just Nor all the gold that was ever found, the same as a man, if he In the busy wealth-finding past, has too much work to Would I take for a smile of my darling's face, Did I know it must be the last. do, will call another to So I rocked my baby, and rocked away, help him. This makes And I felt such a sweet content ; the brain dull and stupid For the words of the song expressed more to me so that the person can- Than they ever before had meant. And the night crept on, and I slept and dream'd not think clearly. Of things far too gladsome to be, But did you ever think And I waken'd with lips saying close in my ear, "Papa, what would you take for me ?" that children could read —Eugene Field. too much? Well, yes, they can. It is not the number or the piles of books that we read, but TO OUR LITTLE FRIENDS. the thoughts that we get, that do us good. Now, THE publishers of the ECHO have if you read a story, it for some time contemplated the makes the brain think introduction of a "Children's Page." hard and fast, and it This step has now been taken, and wears out, because the the Editor sends a happy greeting mind ought to work to all the little ones in the many steadily to be any good homes where the BIBLE ECHO pays at all. One page from a its weekly visits. Good Morning' Little7Friends:1 good book will often All home life should be sweet and teach you more than a beautiful, but this is especially true o that he could always keep the whole pile of useless stories. of the life of childhood. Its happy nice pictures and stories, perhaps So you see that if we want to be memories should link their golden you could get his papa or mama to healthy, strong,"and active in mind chain with all the hours of after send for the ECHO, so that they and body, we must be temperate in years. If we can add but a little could have it come for Willie every all things. ETHEL PARKINSON. sunshine to the hours of child-life, week. this will make us glad, and the chil- We must close now, but we dren will be made glad, so we shall promise our " little friends " lots of " LITTLE Willie from his mirror all be glad because of the bright and Licked the mercury all off, pictures, and stories, and lessons as Thinking in his childish error beautiful things that the " Children's the weeks go by. The little girl on It would cure his whooping-cough. Page" will tell from week to week. this page is saying, " Good morn- At the funeral Willie's mother If you have little friends living Smartly said to Mrs. Brown, ing," and wishing you all a happy ' Twas a chilly day for Willie near to you, be sure and let them time. She is wearing grandmother's When the mercury went down." AUGUST 13, 1900 THE BIBLE ECHO (7) 527

THE OSTRICH. terrible. She felt her strength SOME ONE AT HOME. giving way, but she knew that to THE ostrich, you know, is a native. let go was certain death. She IN New York City a bright-eyed, of Africa and Arabia. It is a very breathed an earnest prayer for help ; bare-footed, shabby littlerfellow was large bird, from six to ten feet high. and thinking of her bonnet, she working his way through a crowded It has a long, nearly featherless succeeded in placing it on the car, offering his papers in every di- neck, long strong legs, with two ostrich's head, completely blind- rection, in a way that showed him toes, and short wings. Its pretty folding him. Then she fell fainting well used to his business, and of plumes are often used to adorn to the ground. a temperament not easily daunted. ladies' hats. One of the servants soon came to The train started while he was mak- It is very fierce at times, especially the field, expecting to find- the little ing change, and the conductor, pass- t o strangers, a n d ing him laughed. often with one stroke "Caught this time, of its powerful leg Joe!" he said. and claw will kill a "You'll have to run man. But it is afraid to Fourteenth of a little dog, and Street." will never attack a "Don't care," person if he has a laughed Joe in re- branch from a cer- turn. " I can sell all tain kind of bush in the way back again." his hand. The male bird is A white-haired old black, and has the gentleman seemed most beautiful plum- interested in the boy, age; while the female and questioned him is grey, much the col- concerning his way of our of sand-hill living and his earn- cranes. ings. There was a But you want to younger brother to hear the story. It is be supported, it ap- one -I read in the peared. " Jimmy " paper the other day, was lame, and and it came from "couldn't earn much such good authority hisself." that I know it is true. " Ah, I see. That On a certain farm makes it hard; you down here in Africa could do better is a very large male alone." ostrich. One day two The shabby little little girls went out figure was erect in a walking on this moment, and the farm, and grew so denial was prompt busy that they quite and somewhat in- forgot about this old dignant. "No I ostrich, though they couldn't! Jim's had often been somebody to go warned against him. home to; he's lots of Presently they looked help. What would up and saw him run- Hunting The Ostrich be the good of havin' ning towards them. " Run ! run !" maiden a mangled corpse. But luck, if nobody was glad? or of cried the older girl to her little sis- imagine his surprise to find her gettin' things, if there was nobody ter; "run for your life! It is quite unhurt, except that she was a little to divide with ?" enough that one of us should be bruised, and her clothes were torn " Fourteenth Street !" called the killed." to shreds. The old ostrich was conductor, and as the newsboy The little one ran to the house, plunged out into the gathering dusk, wandering about quite at a loss to the old gentleman remarked, to no- wild with terror, and could only know where he was, or what was gasp out, " Look there ! look there ! body in particular, " I've heard many the trouble. He was easily captured, a poorer sermon than that !"—Sel. look there ! " and we trust never allowed to The elder girl had hidden behind wander at large again. This affords LITTLE eyes that sleep too long, a bush, which the old ostrich blun- one example of the loving care of All their play forgetting, dered over. He was about to strike our heavenly Father for those who Should pop early into bed, her a blow with his powerful leg, Ere the sun is setting. when she sprang- and caught him would unselfishly risk their lives to Early rising bringeth health ; about the neck. The struggle was save others. MRS. IRA J. HANKINS, And this to all is more than wealth. 528 (8) THE BIBLE ECHO AUGUST 13, 1900

fails, he successfully tries another. smwaisr.::€4,71, ; aTAX:Mizilcg35.:i.si.w.reid•WIAZAZIgna.:6‘13::.65.-:?..:s fz...;,.;,:pf.ii:-f.itt,REZ.4.'• .: .,,j !?..aiggf.ii 2o4'.a99 But everything that he offers belongs % .4.1 to this present perishing state— .., things that are seen, but "the things r.i • ,, L '" that are not seen are eternal." He cannot touch one feature in God's Finance Studies. ON eternal plan, and all his boasted —No. 3. ownership only reaches to the crea- tions of the human hand, and his GOD'S OWNERSHIP. there will not be one being in heaven own degrading perversions of nature. or on earth but what will recognise Jehovah still claims ownership to WHEN the Spirit of God had taken God's rightful title to this world. the earth and all the mystery of its possession of the minds of the dis- At the time of the temptation, treasures; but that there might be ciples at the time of Pentecost, every Satan offered this world's kingdoms no question in the mind of any loyal earthly aspect changed, and we read to Christ on condition that the Son subject in all Heaven's great domin- concerning them, " Neither said any of God should recognise the "son of ion, He has planned to redeem it from of them that aught of the things perdition" as His superior. Matt. the hand of the usurper at an infinite which he possessed was his own." 4: 8, 9. But the offer that Satan cost—the life of His Son. I Pet. Acts 4 : 32. made was only the offer of a bandit I: 18, 19. Had man always walked with God over his stolen property. Satan is Satan rules in this world truly, but this would have been the plan of his frequently called the " prince of this it is over the " kingdom of darkness," life, but just in proportion to the world," he is also called the " god of and his great object is to keep man distance that man departs from God this world." But he is prince of from recognising the authority and and becomes divested of the Holy this world only in the same way as ownership of God. It is because of Spirit, just so far does he deem the he is god of this world—because men this that nations fight for territory things of the world his own. It is choose to worship according to his and men fight for spoil. Inspired in this way that men are led to "call direction and willingly obey his un- by the thought of obtaining posses- their lands after their own names," holy will. From God's standpoint sions for self the miser seeks his and to think that "their houses shall Satan has no right or title to this gold, and the thief lays hold upon continue forever." Ps. 49 : II. earth. the possessions of his fellow-man. The mind controlled by the Holy The " kingdoms and the glory of If God's ownership were recognised Spirit must recognise God's owner- them " that Satan offered to Christ, truly by all, these things could ship over all in the world, and even were not creations of God. They never be. over the man himself. "Ye are not were things that human hands had The world in its present condition your own, for ye are bought with a made, and there was no more true is not the one that God designed to price." I Cor. 6: 19, 20. reality about them than there was give to His people. The Christian Men frequently spend their lives about the boasted "knowledge " that is a pilgrim here, and all the efforts in getting money to obtain a title to Satan offered man with the forbidden made to accumulate treasure or ob- some small portion of the earth's fruit. Satan first appealed to appe- tain worldly greatness are not of God surface, but the best title-deed that tite, then to presumption, and lastly nor for God. The divine exhorta- can be given by any earthly power to ambition; but Christ was not tion is:— is, for the most part, fictitious, and controlled by any of these. All these " Lay not up for yourselves treasures will not endure, for the Lord declares, upon earth, where moth and rust doth cor- bear on the point of selfishness, but rupt, and where thieves break through and " The land shall not be sold forever; Christ had suppressed all selfishness, steal. But lay up for yourselves treasures for the land is Mine." Lev. 25: 23. and would not be controlled by it, so in heaven. . . . For where your treasure is, David writes of God's ownership the temptation failed. there will your heart be also." Matt. 6 :19-21. thus, " The earth is the Lord's, and Had there been selfishness in the John Bunyan pictures a man rak- the fulness thereof; the world, and mind of Christ, the " kingdoms and they that dwell therein." Ps. 24: I. ing with his muck-rake for treasures their glory" would have inspired His in the earth, while an angel-hand And again the Lord speaks through ambition, and He would have desired the prophet:— holds out a crown of gold just above to possess them. But Christ had his head, but the downcast eyes see "Every beast of the forest is Mine, and made Himself of "no reputation ; " not the heavenly messenger or the the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know He walked in humility, living upon all the fowls of the mountains: and the gift he brings. It is even so with wild beasts of the field are Mine. If I the word of God, and so the tempta- those who make the earth their were hungry, I would not tell thee ; for the tion failed. And that, too, just as it home. Its hurries and struggles world is. Mine, and the fulness thereof." must fail for all those who truly eclipse all heavenly visions. Failing Ps. 50: 10-12. follow Christ. to recognise God's ownership and Through man's rebellion in the The temptations presented to God's supervision, this life becomes beginning the earth was betrayed Christ, Satan has continued to pre- one long struggle for the very things into the hand of an enemy, and God sent to every human soul. Through that God has promised to "add" to has undertaken the controversy of appetite, presumption, and ambition those who "seek first the kingdom the ages to demonstrate to the aston- to possess the kingdoms and their of God, and His righteousness." ished worlds of a universe that the glory, he has led millions into his Matt. 6:33. earth rightfully belongs to Him. service, and he is leading millions Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Baby- When that controversy is finished more. When one of these points lon, once owned the treasures of AUGUST 13, 1900 THE BIBLE ECHO (9) 529 earth's mightiest empire, but both The record concerning this pious as monstrous as they were untrue. the man and his treasures are gone. fraud is true, and may be found in A woman in Lincolnshire, who The ages have folded their mantle the writings of Roger Hoveden, an endeavoured to bake after the ninth of dust over the "glory of kingdoms," historian of the twelfth century hour on Saturday, placed her bread and even the tomb of its king is (Hoveclen's Annals, vol. 2., pp. 526-528) in the oven, and though it was at a unknown. and also in the history written by great heat the bread, after a long This is all the ownership of either Matthew Paris, a man that was baking, came out raw. Another man or Satan amounts to. The recognised as the best historian of woman who refrained from baking mantle of dust will yet cover all. the middle ages. (Matthew Paris's because it was past the ninth hour, But this will not end all, for the Historia Major, p. 201.) found her bread the next day " meek shall inherit the earth." Matt. It was in the year 1200 that Eustace, already baked by the Divine will 5 : 5• Those who walk with Christ the abbot of Flaye in Normandy, without being near the fire. through this world as strangers and came into England to preach. He A man who went ploughing after pilgrims, recognising God's owner- was a very zealous advocate of the ninth hour, when stooping down ship, will share in the inheritance Sunday sacredness, and when in to clean his plough, had the iron when it is finally redeemed. But London he found the day devoted instrument with which he was this inheritance will only be given to to general markets and holiday cleaning stick to his hand, and those who rightly recognise their pastimes he vigorously rebuked the remain there for two years, to his stewardship here, and hold the people, but having no Bible testi- great shame and inconvenience. things that they possess as "not mony on the matter, the people A miller at Wakefield, while grinding being their own." paid little heed. corn beyond the time specified in Leaving England for awhile, he the " roll," had a torrent of blood returned again in the year 12o1 with come forth from his mill instead the forged document described of flour. A PIOUS FRAUD. above. The sacred roll is said to It was by such tales as these that have fallen upon the altar of St. Rome and her emissaries undertook UNDER the above heading we Simeon in Jerusalem. It was taken to supplant the Sabbath, and estab- copy a short article which the Mel- by Eustace to Rome, where it was lish what the writer in the Globe bourne Argus of August 19, 1899, blessed by the Pope, Innocent III., truly calls a " pious fraud." credits to the Globe :— and armed with this impious fraud, The intelligent reader well knows Perhaps the most interesting point about the Abbot returned to England to that Sunday is not the Sabbath, the Rev. Father Thurston's article on take up his crusade against Sunday though men have worked many "The Medimval Sunday" is the evidence work. pious frauds in trying to make the it affords that the Saturday half-holiday movement, which we most of us have As stated by the writer quoted, human family accept it as such. probably regarded as quite a modern this epistle is both too long and too But the hail will sweep away the invention, is really only a return to a foolish to copy. It may be found in " refuge of lies " (Isa. 28 :17) that lapsed portion of an old "forty-hours Sun- the History of the Sabbath, pp. 388- deception has taken up in this day," instituted by means of a forged 390. By working on the superstitious matter, and Rome's work, and the letter from heaven, promulgated by Eustace, abbot of Flai. fears of the people through this work of those who have followed If, on the last day of each week, the forged document, Eustace was en- her in this "pious fraud," will be shop hand, and the hard-worked city abled to war against the remnants made manifest. clerk are able to get away for an afternoon of Sabbath observance that lingered of football, or cycling, or volunteering, in the minds of the people, and to A Curse to all. The power for they probably owe the privilege—at least evil that lies in the use of alcohol in part—to the eloquence and the repeated establish the plan of observing what miracles of the old Norman monk who they called a sacred day from Satur- is thus portrayed by J.W., Grosvenor, made his tour through England just seven day noon to Monday morning. M.D., in the Quarterly Yournal of centuries ago. In any case, Eustace of In Schaff's Encyclopmdia of Bib- Inebriety :— Flai, and the forger of the " letter fallen The quiet man when alcoholised becomes from heaven," may divide the honours lical, Historical, and Doctrinal Theol- animated and energetic ; the lively nature, between them. ogy, article, " Seventh-day Baptists," dull and morose ; the inoffensive spirit is The letter, says the writer of the article, vol. 3, p. 2166, the writer states :— made brutal ; the loving and tender mother is a great deal too long and too ridiculous grows hateful and harsh to her children ; to be reproduced here, but the practical " In the Western Church the seventh purity is transformed into licentiousness ; injunction which it embodies illustrates day continued to be observed quite gener- fraud and deceit take the place of the the maximum of time then insisted on, ally till the fifth century and later; and soul of honour; the truthful man becomes and it is useful for our purpose. traces of it were noticeable in some parts a liar ; he who has had a strict regard for " It is My will (Christ is, made to say) of Europe much later. In Scotland and the rights and property of his fellow man that from the hour of noon on the Satur- Ireland, as well as in England, the seventh is now a thief ; crime in varied forms walks day until sunrise on the Monday, no man day was regarded and observed as the abroad in the shoes of the citizen who do aught of labour, save that which is for Sabbath in the eleventh century and later. is upright and law abiding; the former good, and if anyone have transgressed, let In Skene's "Celtic Scotland," p. respecter of life, as a sacred trust, commits him atone for it by penance. And if ye do 35o, vol. 2, there is this statement : murder and suicide. not obey this, My commandment, Amen, I A power that can thus transform, say to you, and swear to you, by My seat "There was no want of veneration for and My throne, and by the cherubim who Sunday, though they held that Saturday or rather deform, all that is manly guard My holy seat, that I will never again was properly the Sabbath, on which they and true in the man and God-like admonish you by letter, but I will open the abstained from work. " in the character, has no blessing in heavens and will rain down upon you The fraud introduced by this it, and cannot be trusted, or ex- stones, and stocks, and ,scalding water in the night, and nothing shall stay me from sacred " roll " was carried out, and pected - to do anything but continue destroying all the corrupt race of men." enforced by the recital of miracles its work of cursing and degradation. 530 (so) THE BIBLE ECHO AUGUST 13, 1900

for any rift in the cloud that hangs like a pall over all the nationalities of Europe without exception. If we are to believe the forecast of the military attache who, the cable tells us, was accredited the unusual honour of being quoted in the House of Commons on Friday last, it will burst over Great Britain in November next. Lord Salisbury made light of the prophecy, and rebuked the prophet, as it was his duty to do, but on the other hand it needed only a glance at the political firmament to convince him that a storm is brewing, and ON THE STREET. time when all wisdom said they should be that his country was never so denuded of home. No false modesty or improper the means of averting the disastrous con- sense of delicacy should prevent us from sequences from her own shores. She has ONCE again we call attention to speaking on this question. over zoo,000 men in South Africa; she the danger that lies in parents per- has to send reinforcements to cope with a mitting their children to make, the The habit of street walking is serious situation in West Africa, and the easily cultivated in the young, and, Indian army is being weakened by large street their home, or even their play- drafts on its garrisons to meet a far graver ground. Juvenile street-life is very like every other wrong habit, it knows crisis in the Far East, where it has been largely a criminal recruiting-ground, of no diminution. The introduc- found necessary to increase the fleet by and parents should zealously guard tion to questionable society is an withdrawals that can ill be spared from their children from its influence. easy matter when life becomes an other stations. Some wise words on this question aimless street-wandering, and the The " Chinese puzzle " is at were spoken by the Lieutenant Gov- promiscuous intercourse of the present the all-absorbing question ernor of Victoria, Sir John Madden, sexes under the conditions of street among "the nations. And among at the annual meeting of the Cadton companionship affords unlimited op- the nations Turkey seems to be the Refuge held in the Melbourne Town portunities for evil. only one that sympathises with the In the New Zealand Legislative Hall on July 25. In referring to yellow sons of the Celestial Empire. young people frequenting the streets Council a bill known as " Young It is possible that this sympathy he said :— Persons Protection Bill " is being may lead to the disposal of the discussed. It provides that any boy " Sick Man of the East " as being Sure as he was of the existence of other or girl " loitering in the street " after causes, he felt that one of the most prom- the next question for international inent causes of girls going wrong was that P.M. will be under police supervision. settlement. That is if the spirit of girls not under control were allowed to go There is also a bill on the Victorian international diplomacy will con- abroad in the streets at night and mingle Parliamentary notice paper " to re- tinue that long. On this point the with the other sex; often with the least strict and prohibit children under desirable members of that sex.' In walking same article continues :— down prominent streets of the leading sub- the age of fourteen years being in the streets after nine o'clock." But the Chinese storm is to all appear- urbs, from dark until TO o'clock, he saw ance only just begun, and it would baffle girls, evidently not belonging to the same It is to be hoped that these bills the most weather-wise statesman to say position in society as the people we-spoke will become law, but this will not in when it is to end. The real danger-point of as habituating the streets; well dressed will be reached only after it is ended, for girls who had respectable parents, but any way lessen parental responsi- bility. The State cannot do the while the Chinese are able to offer any parents who had no control over them ; resistance to the forces of the combined girls whose presence in such places at such parents' work in this matter. If it is Powers, it will be their interest to act in times was undesirable in the very highest necessary for your children to be on concert and assume a friendship that they degree. The reason why they were there the street, see that some reliable are evidently very far from feeling towards was the lamentable fact that their parents person is with them. each other. For all of them have their could not control them. As a judge, adjudi- own several aims and ambitions to serve, cating in a certain class of cases, he had and each will select the most convenient asked parents: "How is it your girls go moment for asserting its paramountcy over abroad at night with young men who can- the rest. not hope to become their husbands ? " The reply was : " When they come home "TIDINGS OUT OF THE EAST." It seems truly that the. forces from business of an evening you cannot now controlling international rela- deny them the right of going out." The parents seemed to think that a sufficient LONG years ago, according to the tionships are growing weary of answer. As long as it was the answer prophetic prediction, tidings out of holding back the spirit of selfishness the evil would progress. As men and the north and out of the east that threatens universal war. Angel women of the world, they all knew per- troubled the Turk. Dan. ii : 44. hands will soon let go of the winds, fectly -well the temptations which arose To-day tidings out of the east in such circumstances—temptations to and then the whirlwind will destroy. which both the young and the more ad- trouble all the world'. The remark- Rev. 7 : 1-3. Troublous " tidings vanced in years were subject, and which able prediction that styles the kings out of the East " is only a prelude probably would not be resisted. A great of the last days "kings of the east " to the thunderings of the world's many people there were who might be seems to be in the very process of Armageddon. trusted confidently; trusted with, untold gold, and not touch it; placed in a position fulfilment. Rev. 16 : 12. to do an injury or injustice to another per- Great national and international At the Wrong Time. From one son, but not dream of doing it. But, in changes are evidently at hand. We of our American exchanges we clip relation to the subject to which he was quote from a sub-leader in the Age addressing himself, there was always temp- the following :— tation, even among the old. The only way of July 3o :— A press item says that "hereafter the of avoiding this danger was to keep out of The International outlook continues to clergymen of Council Bluffs will not attend temptation. . . . Girls should be home at a be dark and threatening. We look in vain funerals on Sunday,. The people of that AUGUST 13, 1900 THE BIBLE ECHO ( ) 531 city will please govern themselves accord- to do within the past quarter of a a home where they are to enjoy an ingly, and postpone dying the latter part of century, and then think of what the week." "abundance of peace." And the China might do, once it, like Japan, time of their going over to that We might almost feel inclined to should be thoroughly wakened up. " land of peace" is near at hand. pass this as a mere ring of fancy, if Its swarming millions could overrun there had not lately appeared a still the world once they were imbued more determined effort in this with modern progress and the desire direction. In the Melbourne Age of conquest. Those who assume of June 27, it is stated that at the: that China will submit like another A DARK RECORD. annual meeting of the Victorian. India may be basing their conclu- Master Undertakers' Association, sionsupon false premises. The WHILE the war spirit dominates this question was discussed with the: question as to what China may do the powers of national life, the spirit following result :— if it awakes is a legitimate one, and of murder seems to have taken pos- " It was also decided that the trustees may soon disturb diplomats now session of the more private walks of of all metropolitan cemetries be urged to. dreaming of its dismemberment." social life. A few days ago a detec- close their cemeteries against all Sunday It seems to be improbable that tive was shot in one of the public funerals, and thus prevent a large ambunt of unnecessary extra labour, besides the the Chinese themselves will be able gardens of Melbourne. Within the unseemly rushing of funerals by the public,, to offer any very serious resistance week before, six persons were shot and trampling and desecration of graves." to the partition of the empire ; but by two Australian natives in New Why are people so thoughtless as it is doubtful if the Powers can South Wales. And now we have to die at the wrong time, and thus agree among themselves as to just news of the death of King Humbert necessitate Sunday work ? The how it shall be divided.—Sentinel of of Italy, who was shot by an assassin question is no doubt ludicrous, but: Liberty. on July 3o. it shows the extent to which the: A short time ago the Prince of idea of enforcing Sunday observance Wales narrowly escaped the shot fired by Sipido at Brussels, and, is taking hold of men. They desire " PREPARING WAR." their Sunday laws to control both, later, when the Prince intended the living and the dead. visiting the Paris Exhibition, he was SEVERAL prophetic descriptions told by the French authorities that depict the last days as a time that they would not take the responsibil- will be largely devoted to preparing ity of his life. Add to all this the war, and through that preparation " Boxer" depredations in China, and CAN CHINA BE DISMEMBERED? the weak nations will be enabled the record certainly grows dark. to say, " I am strong." Joel 3 : 9-13. King Humbert was a man greatly " IT has apparently been taken The Premier of New. Zealand is beloved by his subjects. When the for granted since the Japanese- quoted by the " press" as planning cholera visited Italy a few years ago Chinese war that China is to be great things for that colony in the he put off his kingly attire, and went partitioned among the European way of war preparations:— down to help the living and to weep Powers," says the Evening News over the dying and the dead. " He wants a reserve force to,000 strong, of June 14. " Every step since at an annual cost of L'io per man. The blow that deprived Italy of taken, every aggression or con- Then 18,000 volunteers are to be enrolled, her king was dealt by the hand of cession, has pointed to this ultimate .at a yearly expenditure of 4-72,000. On an anarchist, and it is stated by solution of the Chinese question.. camps of instruction -8o,000 are to be European newspapers that four Scarcely has any one questioned spent, and twelve batteries of artillery are to be equipped, at a cost of L'i000 each per other sovereigns have been threat- whether this is possible. The only annum. The total under these heads will ened with death through the problem seemed to be as to how come to a trifle of 4264,000. After this, anarchist fraternity. this partition of the most populous the items of L'I20,000 for 30,000 rifles, and If we have not reached the time empire of the world could be satis- b000 for ranges at which practice can be made with them, will hardly excite com- when it is to be " as it was in the factorily accomplished. ment. Nor is the democratic Premier less days of Noah," we must surely "But events in China the last few, magnificent in his views on naval defence, stand by the borderland of that weeks have already suggested to for he wants the Australian Squadron in- time, for the wickedness on the more than one thoughtful European creased by adding seven modern cruisers earth is great, and it is filled with to it; but the millions required for that, observer the difficulties that lie in we assume, are to be provided by the old violence. Gen. 6: 11-13. Christ said the way of the execution of this country. The tremendous outlay contem- that when the record became as scheme. The Paris Soleil, for plated by Mr. Seddon he intends to dark as it was in the days of Noah, instance, as quoted in the special provide for by asking the Imperial Gov- He would come to take away His ernment to underwrite a loan." - cable to the Daily News yesterday people. Luke 17 : 26-3o. says: France has every reason to Already the national debts agre- defend China's integrity. The idea gate a sum that would more than STATISTICS recently published by of the dismemberment of China is mortgage the whole world, but these the French meteorological bureau at one of the most extravagant notions are all being increased by the resist- Paris, gives Spain 3,000 hours of that ever entered the human brain.' less demands made in preparing for sunshine in the year ; Italy, 2,70o ; "-Is the notion extravagant ? war. France, 2,600 ; Germany, 1,7oo ; Think it over' a few minutes and This is the time that God's people while England has but 1,400. Lon- reflect what Japan, a pigmy nation should prepare for peace—yes, eter- don is said to have an average of 178 compared with China, has been able nal peace ; for God promises them rainy days in the year. 532 (rz) THE BIBLE ECHO AUGUST 13, '1900

" What ! do you drink water ? 0, laws a me, how do you live ? " Pure water as a beverage looks so simple to most people that they are actually hydrophobic over it. They fear it would be the death of them, whereas pure water is one of the principal ele- ments of natural life, and the chosen symbol of spiritual life. Nothing can improve water as a quencher of thirst. Water is the only substance in the eondueted By Q. C. TEINSEIV. world that will quench thirst. Seventy per cent. and more of our bodies is WHEN I HAVE TIME. unreliable ; but to see a man buying water (naturally). The exceptions are water, or paying for fresh air as he the dried up specimens of humanity WHEN I have time I'll think about my wife, does for gas, is certainly a strange who haven't tasted water since they Who long has toiled from early morn till night ; freak. And yet many people are as can remember, and the exceedingly I'll try to ease the burdems of her life, succulent beer-toper, who makes him- And make her sorrows yield to love's delight— parsimonious with them as though the When I have time ! Creator had placed a tariff upon their self ninety-three per cent. dirty water use. On the contrary, a high premium in order to get the other seven of bad When I have time, I'll see how many steps alcohol. I can contrive to save her weary feet, is placed upon their free use. The The latest labour-saving aids I'll get result of their use is that best of all People will poison themselves with To do the household duties quick and neat— earthly gifts—good health. beer, whisky, wine, ale, or tea, coffee, When I have time ! The principal wants of our bodies or cocoa, or fool their stomachs with a When I have time, I'll get her books to read, are good food, fresh air, and pure delusive substitute, when all they need And magazines and papers by the score ; water. Water is wanted both inside in the drinking line is water, pure I'll make her life by every word and deed and outside of our fleshly tabernacle. water. But the horrors of hydrophobia A joyous round of pleasure evermore— make a bugbear of God's beverage, When I have time ! Hydrophobia is likely to manifest itself early in life. The infant struggles, and men shun it as though it were the LATER. kicks, and squalls as if he were about plague. I'll get my late lamented wife a stone to be murdered, upon being introduced Suppose the water supply is bad ; That shall commemorate her pure, unselfish to his bath. When older, the symp- Well, don't make it worse by making a life ; poisonous decoction out of it. Boil it For now that I am left to grieve alone, toms change, but the fear of water I think how much I nnght have helped my wife. remains. A long spell of dry, hot to kill the animalcula it may contain ; I've lots of time. weather is likely to allay the hydro- filter it to separate from it the dead —The Western Ploughman. phobic tendencies, especially if the matter; purify it by any and all means, water be warm and comfortable. But but do not adulterate it with that upon the return of chilly mornings it which renders it more unfit for use. takes a strong sense of duty and the Do not let us be hydrophobics any active proddings of a good con- more. HYDROPHOBICS. science to force the average man or woman into the bath-room. " Ow, it's HYDROPHOBIA is a much more com- co-oo-ld ! ! " is the usual cry of the mon disease than is generally supposed. sufferer from hydrophobia, which SUPERSTITION. About the only people who are sounds quite like a howl, accompanied comparatively immuned from it are the by a severe chattering of the teeth. It's WE are supposed to have outlived heathen islanders who live in warm a great misfortune that this disease the age of superstition, and are wont to latitudes. We take our warrant for should attack so many respectable laugh at the ghosts and witches of past the above remark from the literal people every winter. No one can tell ages. Ignorance is the parent of signification of the term. Hydropho- the extent of its ravages. About the superstition. Superstition fades away bia is, literally, the fear of water. The only remedy for extreme cases is a before the advance of knowledge like inhabitants of the South Seas seem good warm bath-room and a water darkness before the morning sun. But not to be troubled with the dread of heater ; and if it comes to that they there are some shadowy corners in water, as they are wont to spend a would better be provided. With some which superstition still lurks in our good share of their lives in that ele- people a little good sense and some day. The family doctor rules one of ment. We all ought to take a hint gumption applied to the spine, is all these uncanny nooks. Notwithstand- from the fact that, as the Irishman that is necessary to give them the full ing the extraordinary advancement of re'marked, " Three-quarthers of the land and great benefits of a daily bath. light and knowledge upon almost every is all wather." Surely it was not When once the patient has overcome other branch of useful information intended that we should be so troubled his fear, and glows with the grand that has been made in the past few with hydrophobia as to shun a good effects of his bath, he laughs at his decades, the mass of mankind are in bath at seasonable times. While hydrophobia. dense darkness as to their own bodies, water cannot well be said to be our But hydrophobia manifests itself in and how to preserve them in health. natural element, it ought not to be- -connection with the internal applica- For this purpose they employ doctors, come so unnatural to us as to give us tion of water even more than the even paying them by the week, whether the shivers to think of it. external application. Some people have sick or well, and into the doctor's Air and water are provided abso- not only a mortal dread of drink- hands they entirely resign the keeping lutely free by the great Architect of our ing a drop of pure water, they seem of their bodily health. earthly house. To be sure, the water also to have worked up quite a moral During the renowned Dark Ages works of some sections are rather sentiment in opposition to it as well. men committed the keeping of their AUGUST 13 1900 THE BIBLE ECHO (13) 533 souls into the hands of the priests, who cloth. Sponges, as is their nature, are shoe shop in the village, and broke a held a strict monopoly of spiritual absorptive, and it is very difficult to pane of glass. Somebody told mother-. interests. They vested themselves clean them properly. Hence the, body- She called me in and said, " You know with a halo of mystery so awful that wastes which were rubbed off by them what your father told you about throw- the poor souls who hung upon their during the bath were retained, to be ing stones in the street ? " Yes, I word did not dara look up to God and passed on to ,the next bather or the knew. " When he comes home, tell Christ for themselves. Superstition next bath, with all their bacteria and him at once what you have done, that took the place of faith, and dread of possible contagion. you are sorry, and that you will never priestcraft was about all file religion do so again." 0, the agony of that that the common people had. But the afternoon ! What would father say ? light of the Reformation has dispelled What wouldn't he do ! He would kill much of that darkness, and scattered a FATHER IN THE HOME. me. Ah, how little I knew him ! good deal of the superstition. Enough When at last he came, and I had man- remains yet, however. aged to sob out my poor story, his keen Then people ran to the priest with THIS was the man whom mother eyes softened with tears, he 4sTrapped their sins, public, private, or .secret. was always glad to see. This was the his strong arms about my shrinking What the priest prescribed, the people man who never came into the house little body, and lifted me tenderly into did unquestioningly, and thought it without stopping to put his arm about his lap. He told me that he would was well with their soul. her and kiss her and whisper something forgive me, that he was happy to know So now, one has some physical dis- in her ear. This was the man who that I had told the truth, that he order, and he makes straight for a drew me between his knees before would pay a man to set the glass ; and doctor, not to ascertain what ails him, breakfast, and called me" Little sonny " then his voice failed him, and he kissed or the cause of his trouble ; hot to and " Hen-o-ree-O-Nic-o-las," and pat- me upon the forehead. The memory question the doctor as to how he can ted a jig upon my back. He rode me of that kiss will go with me as a bene- avoid such consequences; not for a upon his shoulder, sat me upon his diction forever. I knew that day the definition of his symptoms, but to knee, and practised me on the joy of a pardoned sinner. obtain a dose that will suppress the sounds of the alphabet until I never But every day there was a time symptoms, and permit him to go on in mispronounced. when we missed him. I wondered his old sinful course. The doctor, of I was afraid of him just a little, about it at first ; but once or twice I course, volunteers but little informa- because he was so tall and strong, and found him in a room alone with a Bible tion on these points, partly because " a because everybody and all the animals before him, and once I found him upon little knowledge is a dangerous thing," I knew minded whatever he said. I his knees. I have that Bible now ; and also because it would be throwing used to think that mother was afraid of and when I turn to the twenty-third away his breath and time. him, too, because she used to blush psalm, and find the pages soiled and Most people, indeed, prefer to be whenever he came near her. And worn, or to the last chapters in John's humbugged and pay for it, rather than then, once when I was playing, and Gospel and his epistles, and find the take the trouble to cultivate enough said, " Wait a minute," twice, when leaves loose and brown and spotted as common sense in reference to the care mother asked me to put away my with tears, I know the secret of those of their own bodies to enable them to things and go to bed, he looked at me silent hours, and I know also the secret avoid the causes of illness. Ignorance and said, " Henry ! " in such a way of that perpetual joy, which like a is at the bottom of all this trouble. that I never forgot it. I imagine it fountain of living water overflowed People need to be educated. Doc- was the memory of that look that upon us all in prosperity or adversity, tors should, above all other things, be made my brother Fred ask mother to morning, noon, and night, every day of teachers. Instead of going to the punish him for some disobedience his life. doctor with something like this : " 0 rather than tell father about it ; or, per- He never made us boys a promise dear, doctor, I have such a headache ; haps, it might have been Fred's which he did not keep ; never deceived can you stop it ? " ; the inquiry should recollection of a punishment which I us ; when he wished us to obey him, be : " What causes it ? " or," How received for lying. " Is it possible my never spoke more than once; and can I avoid it ? " or, " What an'I doing first boy will tell a lie to his mother ? " never required the formation of an to bring on such pain ? " The intelli- my father had asked, with a piercing intellectual or moral habit which he gent, conscientious physician would look straight through me. He talked did not, himself exemplify. And yet welcome such inquiries, and gladly with me calmly, kindly, but to his he was not harsh or unkind, or even point out the errors which lie at the sorrow I persisted in my lies, defying inconsiderate in dealing with us. We foundation of the trouble. Then sensi- him and everybody else to make me were taught by example a reverence ble people will take steps to remove say anything I did not please to say. for sacred things, a respect for age, the causes. Thus, -by confiding in our " Then I shall have to punish you," and a thoughtful courtesy toward medical advisers, reading good books he said, and reached for a maple shoot women.—Henry Twiner Bailey. relating to health and how to preserve which I had been using upon my it, in- a little while we should be wooden horse. I have never forgotten A RUG is undoubtedly the only rejoicing in freedom from the ignorance that whipping,—the thrill of it which healthful floor covering. The sensible and superstition now so dense about took my breath away, the pain of it custom, so long prevalent abroad, of us. We should be enabled to save which surprised me beyond measure, using rugs that are easily carried from doctors a good deal of trouble, and the wonder that father's face could be the room when in need of shaking and save ourselves' from paying a good so calm through it all. He shut him- sweeping, has at last found a deserv- many fees. self into his bedroom afterward and edly firm footing in our own country. prayed to God with tears that his boy The number of rooms covered with THE day has been, and gone, when might never tell a lie again. I dis- woollen dust-gathering and dust hoard- sponges in the bathroom were consid- covered that day the heinousness of ing carpets nailed fast to the floor is ered a necessity. A more enlightened sin. fast diminishing in newly-established age has banished them, to make place Not long after, when father, was homes, and erelong the older ones must for the cleaner, more wholesome linen away, I was throwing stones near a fall in line.

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promise was fulfilled. There appeared Note 1. Christ healed many blind men separated tongues as of fire, that rested but this was a special case—the man had upon each of them, and they went out to been born blind. The disciples looked, speak with other tongues. upon this singular affliction as a punish- Some of those who heard the dis- 3. ment either for the man's sin or that of ciples speak, said they were drunken, and his parents. Christ took altogether another LESSON FOR SABBATH, spoke under the influence of new wine. August 18, 1900. But the tongue loosened by wine does not view of the matter, and showed that in this DAY OF PENTECOST, AND speak of the " wonderful works of God." case God was working to convince that GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT. 4. Some sixteen different nationalities nation of the Divine commission given to Acts 2 : 1-42, R.V. are here brought to view, and each of these His Son. And when the day of Pentecost was now come, they were all together in one place. could hear God's message in his own \ 2. All humanity wrestles with pain 2 And suddenly there came from heaven a tongue. The speakers were only Galilxans, and loss to-day, but this does not come as sound as of the rushing of a mighty wind,and but God could now use them as His in- punishment for Adam's sin, but rather as it filled all the house where they were sitting. struments, for self had been subdued. 3 And there appeared unto them tongues a consequence of that sin. We suffer parting asunder like as of fire ; and it sat 5. God has promised that this same 4 upon each one of them. And they were all much in consequence of our sin and trans. filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to Spirit will attend His work in the last days, gression of nature's law, but God does not speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave but it can only be given-to those who are send this pain upon us as punishment for them utterance. • of one mind—to those who have given up 5 Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem our wrong doing; it comes in the same way Jews, devout men, from every nation under all of self, and taken up all for Christ's as pain comes to the hand placed in the 6 heaven. And when this sound was heard, sake. fire. Sometimes God uses the rod of afflic- the multitude came together, and were con- founded, because that every man heard them tion to bring men to their senses, but 7 speaking in his own language. And they usually men suffer as a consequence of were all amazed and marvelled, saying, their own transgression of nature's law. Behold, are not all these which speak 8 Galilmans ? And how hear we, every man The case of this blind man was a special in our own language, wherein we were instance that God worked out with a pur- g born ? Parthians and Medes and Elamites, pose in view. and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, in Judma LESSON FOR SUNDAY, August 19, 1900. so and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia, in 3. Under ordinary circumstances a man Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the THE MAN BORN BLIND. parts of Libya about Cyrene, and sojourn- would object to having -clay placed upon ers from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, . John 9 : 1-17, R.V. his eyes. The effect would be both injuri- is Cretans and Arabians, we do hear them And as He passed by, He saw a man ous and painful. The healing did not lie speaking in our tongues the mighty works 2 blind from his birth. And His disciples 12 of God. And they were all amazed, and asked Him, saying, Rabbi, who did sin, this in the clay or anything connected with it, were perplexed, saying one to another, man, or his parents, that he should be born but in the word spoken by Christ—"Go, 13 What meaneth this ? But others mocking 3 blind ? Jesus answered, Neither did this wash in the pool of Siloam"—and in the said, They are filled with new wine. man sin, nor his parents : but that the 14 But Pester, standing up with the eleven, works of God should be made manifest in' faith and ready obedience of the man. lifted up his voice, and spake forth unto 4 him. We must work the works of Him Christ sent the man to a special pool— them, saying, Ye men of Judma, and all ye that sent Me, while it is day : the night " Siloam"— no other one would have that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto 5 cometh, when no man can work. When I 15 you, and give ear unto my words. For am in the world, I am the Light of the served the purpose. these are not drunken, as ye suppose ; see- 6 world. When He had thus spoken, He ing it is but the third hour of the day. spat on the ground, and made clay of the 4. This was done on the Sabbath day, spittle, and anointed his eyes with the clay, LESSON ANALYSIS. and therefore Christ was accused of break- 7 and said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of ing the Sabbath. This accusation was 1. Attitude of the disciples. Siloam (which is by interpretation, Sent). made by the men whose traditions had 2. The manifestations of the Spirit. He went away therefore, and washed, and 8 came seeing. The neighbours therefore, been disregarded, but it was not justified 3. The people present. and they which saw him aforetime, that he by any law or claim of God. It was a work 4. Preaching of Peter. was a beggar, said, Is not this he that sat of mercy, a work of healing, and all such 5. Effect upon the people. 9 and begged ? Others said, It is he : others said, No, but he is like him. He said, I am works are permitted by the divine law on Note I. The disciples were together ro he. They said therefore unto him, How xi then were thine eyes opened ? He answered, the Sabbath. with " one accord." Under the influence The man that is called Jesus made clay, and of God's Spirit their differences had all anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go 5. Christ did not try to justify His action disappeared. John and James no longer to Siloam, and wash : so I went away and by hinting at any change in the day of 12 washed, and I received sight. And they the Sabbath. He pointed the blind man to desired to have first place in the kingdom; said unto him, Where is he ? He saith-, I Peter had lost the spirit of fear that made know not. the pool of Siloam ; none other would do. him deny his Lord. About ten days had 13 They bring to the Pharisees him that As Lord of the Sabbath He still points to aforetime was blind. Now it was the the seventh day—none other will do. been spent in earnest prayer and supplica- Sabbath on the day when Jesus made the tion, and the time had now come to bestow clay, and opened his eyes. 6. The man who had his sight given the gifts of the Spirit that would make GOLDEN TEXT: " One thing I know, that, said of Jesus, " He is a prophet ; " but the them efficient labourers in all parts of the whereas I was blind, now I see." John 9 : 25. religious leaders, whose traditions had vineyard. LESSON ANALYSIS. been transgressed, said, "This Man is not 2. In :the sound of a rushing, mighty 1. A blind beggar by the way. of God." The man spoke out his honest wind, the Spirit came and filled all the 2. Reason for his blindness. convictions; the Pharisees expressed the house, so that the disciples were baptised 3. The mystery solved. opinion of their theology. Do not be in it, buried under .it, and filled with it. 4. Healing the blind man. guided by any opinions of theology or Christ had told them that they would be 5. Testimony of his friends. theologians; take Christ for what He is, baptised with the Holy Ghost, and now the 6. Christ accused of sin. and for all that He is.

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