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WHATSOEVER is not of faith is sin." man to imagine that he can do the works need to know how it is done, since we do Rom. xiv. 23. of the Almighty. not have it to do. The fact is enough for us. We can no more understand how THEREFORE it is that " being justified " GOODNESS is not an abstract thing; it is God does His works, than we can do those —made righteous—" by works. So the Christian life faith, we have peace with is always a mystery, even to God through our Lord Jesus the Christian himself. It is Christ." Rom. v. 1. a life hidden with Christ in God. Col. iii. 3. It is hid-

FAITH, not works, is that den even from the Christian's through which men are own sight. Christ in man, saved. " For by grace are the hope of glory, is the My faith looks up to thee, ye saved, through faith; and Thou Lamb of Calvary, mystery of the Gospel. Col. Saviour divine! i. 27. that not of yourselves; it is Now hear me While I pray, the gift of God ; not of Take all my guilt away, 0, let me from this day works, lest any man should Be wholly thine! IN Christ we are created boast." Eph. ii. 8, 9. unto good works which God has already prepared .for

" WHERE is boasting, then ? It is ex- action, and action is found only in living us. We have only to accept them by eluded. By what law? of works? Nay; beings. And since God alone is good, only faith. The acceptance of those good works but by the law of faith. Therefore we His works are of any account. Only the is the acceptance of Christ. How long conclude that a man is justified by faith man who has God's works is righteous. " before " did God prepare those good without the deeds of the law." Rom. iii. But since no man can do God's works, it works for us ?—" The works were finished 27, 28. necessarily follows that God must give from the foundation of the world. For them to us, if we are saved. This is just He spake in a certain place of the seventh THE Gospel excludes boasting, and what He does for all who believe. day on this wise, And God did rest the boasting is a natural consequence of all seventh day from all His works. And in attempts at justification by works; yet the WHEN the Jews in their self-sufficiency this place again, If they shall "—i.e. they, Gospel does not exclude works. On the asked, " What shall we do that we might the unbelieving, shall not—" enter into My contrary, works—good works—are the one work the works of God ? " Jesus replied, rest." Heb. iv. 3-5. But " we which grand object of the Gospel. " For we are " This is the work of God, that ye believe have believed do enter into rest." His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus on Him whom- He hath sent." John vi. unto good works which God hath before 28, 29. Faith works. Gal. v. 6 ; 1 Thess. THH Sabbath, theiefore,—the seventh prepared that we should walk in them." i. 3. It brings God's works into the be- day of the week,—is God's rest. God Eph. ii. 10, with margin. lieving one, since it brings Christ into the gave the Sabbath as a sign by which men heart (Eph. iii. 17), and in Him is all the might know that He is God, and that He THERE is not the slightest contradiction fulness of God. Col. ii. 9. Jesus Christ sanctifies. Eze. xx. 12, 20. Sabbath- here. The difference is between our works is " the same yesterday, and to-day, and keeping has nothing whatever to do with 370 THE PRESENT TRUTH. No. 24. justification by works, but is, on the con- By force a man's fears may he so wrought ness rules, inordinate desires fill the mind trary, the sign and seal of justification by upon that he may say he believes, and he and occupy the ambition, insanity de- faith; it is a sign that man gives up his may act as though he believed. That is to velops. own sinful works and accepts God's per- say, a man who fears man rather than But it is not in the last development of fect works. Since the Sabbath is not a God may he forced to lie. But "no lie is actual insanity where the greatest and work, but a rest, it is the mark of rest in of the truth." Therefore since the Sabbath most widespread harm is done,—it is in God through faith in our Lord Jesus is the sign of perfect faith, it is the sign of the intermediate stages of selfish lives, Christ. perfect liberty—" the glorious liberty of the hardened hearts, and the drying of the children of God "—the liberty which the very sources of the milk of human kind- No other day than the seventh day of Spirit gives ; for the Sabbath, as a part of ness, so that a man's foes are found to be the week can stand as the mark of perfect God's law, is spiritual. And so, finally, those of his own household. Thus the rest in God, because on that day alone did let no one deceive himself with the thought corrupt nature of man conspires with the God rest from all His works. It is the that an outward observance of even God's originator of all evil to dethrone human rest of the seventh day, into which He appointed rest-day—the seventh day— reason, and bring about the eternal de- says the unbelieving, cannot enter. It without faith and trust in God's Word struction of as many of the human race as alone of all the _days of the week is the alone, is the keeping of God's Sabbath. will yield themselves servants to sin and rest day, and it is inseparably connected " For whatsoever is not of faith is sin." Satan. with God's perfect work. In the nature of things the continuance of this is unavoidable so long as Satan DOES THE WORLD GROW BETTER? ON the other six days, including the lives and the nature of man remains cor- rupt. Man has made every possible pre- first day of the week, God worked. On Is THE world growing better, and will it paration for continuing his part of the those days we also may and ought to work. continue to improve ? There are men who Yet on every one of them we also may and Satanic work. Will Satan himself be be- profess what they think to be a happy ought to rest in God. This will be the hind man in the furthering of his own Christian optimism, who think and teach case if our works are " wrought in God." purposes ? Certainly not. The only es- that this is so. They make a mistake in John iii. 21. So men should rest in God cape, then, from the continued develop- the fact, and they are in error, too, in every day in the week; but the seventh ment of evil is the Divine intervention. thinking their view the highest optimism. day alone can be the sign of that rest. God will intervene. He has said so. He To prove them wrong in the fact, it is only will remove all evil and the author of all necessary to go to the Scriptures and the evil out of existence. Righteousness will Two things may be noted as self-evident sure Word of prophecy. Here we are as- reign. It is the highest optimism to be- conclusions of the truths already set forth. sured that the wheat and the tares shall lieve this as God has said it, and to do His One is that the setting apart of another grow together until the end, and that will awaiting that glorious consummation. day than the seventh, as a sign of accept- " evil men and seducers shall wax worse ance of Christ and of rest in God through and worse." Him, is in reality a sign of rejection of This, in itself, is enough to show that Priests In Politics.—The Roman Catho- Him. Since it is the substitution of man's men will not become better as the world lic Church has a hold upon the politics of way for God's way, it is in reality the sign grows older. Wickedness will not only her subjects such as must be a cause of of man's assumption of superiority above exist, and continue to exist, but it will in- envy to those Protestants who are begin- God, and of the idea that man can save crease, and continue to increase until the ning to rival Rome itself in forcing religion himself by his own works. Not every one end. Where there are wicked men and se- into the political arena. In Canada the who observes another day has that assump- ducers there will necessarily be violence Catholics are determined to secure State- tion, by any means. There are many who and conflict,—those, then, who look for supported Catholic schools for Manitoba, love the Lord in sincerity and who accept universal peace are indulging a futile hope. and the bishops have issued an order to Him in humility, who observe another day To know that this is so they need only to their flocks to vote only for candidates who than that which God has given as the sign read the prophecies of the wars that are to are pledged to their cause. They say that of rest in Him. They simply have not come in the last days. a Catholic " is not permitted " " to have two learned the full and proper expression of But Scripture is corroborated by history lines of conduct in a religious point of faith. But their sincerity, and the fact and by. facts. The evidence to be drawn view—one for private and one for public that God accepts their unfeigned faith, from present facts in the light of the past life." The introduction of these questions does not •alter the fact that the day which history of man shows conclusively, that, into the State is sure to lead to bloodshed they observe is the sign of exaltation above in the natural order of things, nothing one of these days. Protestants do not God. When such hear God's gracious else can be true as regards the condition want the Catholic " religious State," and warning they will forsake the sign of apos- of man, than just that which the Bible Catholics do not want the Protestant tasy as they would a plague-stricken house. predicts. Men indulge more and more variety. It is a fight for the supremacy. in the pleasures of the senses. Right THE other point is that people cannot be reason is lost through intemperance and WITHOUT devotion to something nobler forced to keep the Sabbath, inasmuch as it excessive sensual indulgences. The grati- and more abiding than the present no great is a sign of faith, and no man can be fication of personal desire is made the achievement is possible, no lofty thought forced to believe. Faith comes spontane- aim and end of existence. Increased attainable. One must think and work in ously as the result of hearing God's Word. facilities for worldly enjoyment multiply the present but for the future. That is the No man can even force himself to believe, the numbers of the devotees and slaves of whole purpose of our possession of the much less can he compel somebody else. pleasure. Mental balance is lost, selfish- present, June II THE PRESENT TRUTH. 371

one by a bondwoman, and the other by a freewoman ; one born after the flesh, and the other horn after the Spirit. Hence the confusion with respect to the " literal " and the " spiritual " seed of Abraham. People talk as though the word " spiritual" were opposed to " literal." But this is not the case. " Spiritual " is opposed only to " fleshly," or carnal. Isaac was born after the Spirit, yet he was as real and literal a child as Ishmael was. So the true seed of Abraham are only those who are spiritual, but that does not make them any the less real. God is Spirit, yet He is a real God. Christ had a spiritual body after His resurrection, yet He was a real, literal being, and could be handled the same as' other bodies. So the THE FLESH AGAINST THE SPIRIT. possible for her to have children it was very bodies of the saints after the resurrection evident that He intended that they should will be spiritual, yet they will be real. " Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no use some other means of bringing it about. Spiritual things are not imaginary things. children ; and she had an handmaid, an Thus it is that human reason deals with Indeed, that which is spiritual is more real Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. And the promises of God. than that which is fleshly, because only Sarai said unto Abram, behold now, the Yet how shortsighted the whole thing that which is spiritual will endure for ever. Lord hath restrained me from bearing ; I was. 'God had made the promise ; there- From this case, therefore, we learn most pray thee go in unto my maid; it may be fore He alone could fulfil it. If a man conclusively that the seed which God that I may obtain children by her. And makes a promise, the thing promised may promised to Abraham, which should be as Abram hearkened unto the voice of Sarai." be performed by another, but in that case the sand of the sea and the stars of heaven Gen. xvi. 1, 2. the one who made the promise fails to carry for number, and which should inherit the This was the great mistake of Abraham's out his word. So even though that which land, is only a spiritual seed. That is, it life ; but he learned a lesson from his the Lord had promised could have been is a seed which comes through the agency mistake, and it was recorded to teach that gained by the device which was adopted, of the Spirit of God. The birth of Isaac, lesson to all. We will presume that the the result would have been to shut the like that of the Lord Jesus, was miraculous. reader is acquainted with the sequel,—how Lord out from fulfilling His word. They It was supernatural. Both were brought that the Lord told Abraham that Ishmael, were therefore working against God. But about through the agency of the Spirit. the son of Hagar was not the heir that He His promises cannot be performed by man. In both we have an illustration of the had promised, but that Sarah his wife In Christ alone can they be performed. It power by which we are to become sons of should bear him a son, and how after Isaac is easy enough for us all to see this in the God, and thus heirs of the promise. was born Hagar and Ishmael were sent case before us ; yet how often, in our own The seed of Abraham after the flesh are away. So we may proceed at once to some experience, instead of waiting for the Lord Ishmaelites. He was a wild man, or, as of the important lessons that are suggested to do what He has promised, we become the Revised Version has it, "A wild ass by this transaction. tired of waiting, and try to do it for Him, among men." Gen. xvi. 12. Moreover, In the first place, we should learn the and thus make failures. he was the son of a bondwoman, and folly of man's trying to fulfil the promises therefore not a freeborn son. Now the of God. God had promised to Abraham an SPIRITUAL AND LITERAL. Lord had already signified, in the case of • innumerable seed. When the promise was YEARS afterward the promise was ful- Eliezer, Abraham's servant, that the seed made, it was beyond all human possibility filled in God's own way, but it was not of Abraham were to be free. Therefore if that Abraham should have a son by his until both AbrahaA and his wife fully be- Abraham had only thought of the words wife, but he accepted the word of the Lord, lieved the Lord. " Through faith also of the Lord, instead of hearkening to the and his faith was counted to him for right- Sara herself received strength to conceive voice of his wife, he might have been eousness. This in itself was evidence that seed, and was delivered of a child when saved much trouble. the seed was not to be an ordinary seed, she was past age, because she judged Him It is worth while dwelling at length upon but that it was to be a seed of faith. faithful who had promised." Heb. xi. 11. this-phase of the subject, for if it is rightly But his wife had not the faith that he Isaac was the fruit of faith. " For it is understood it will save much confusion as had. And yet she thought that she had written that Abraham had two sons, the to the true seed of Abraham, and the true faith, and even Abraham doubtless thought one by a bondmaid, the other by a free- Israel. Let the points he stated once that in carrying out her advice he was woman. But he who was of the bond- more. working in harmony with._ the word of the woman was born after the flesh ; but he of Ishmael was born after the flesh, and Lord. The trouble is that he hearkened to the freewoman was by promise." Gal. iv. could not be the seed. Therefore those the voice of his wife, instead of to the Lord. 22, 23. who are only of the flesh cannot be the They reasoned that God had promised them Many people seem to forget this fact. children of Abraham, and heirs according a large family, but that since it was irn- They forget that Abraham had two sons, to, the promise.

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Isaac was born after the Spirit, and was and the seas swarm with iron-clad navies and found it all very good, all the natural the true seed. " In Isaac shall thy seed to whose numbers I am forced to admit forces were in their proper equilibrium, England has been obliged in self-defence be called." Therefore all the children of to add her modest quota. Even in the and there was no possibility, under the Abraham are they who are born of the remotest East the passion for military ex- then existing conditions, of their breaking Spirit.. " We, brethren, as Isaac was, are pansion has displayed an unexpected de- forth in violent and disastrous exhibitions velopment. In fact, thanks to the tele- of their irresistible power. But sin made its the children of promise." Gal. iv. 28. graph, the globe itself has become a mere Isaac was freeborn; and none but those bundle of nerves, and the slightest distur- appearance and the evenly-balanced ad- who are free are the children of Abraham. bance at any one point of the system sends justment of natural forces became more " So, then, brethren, we are not children a portentous tremor through its morbidly and more disturbed until at last " the earth sensitive surface. of the bondwoman, but of the free." Gal. " We are told by the poets of old that was filled with violence,"—the earth was iv. 31. What this freedom is, the Lord when Zeus nodded the golden halls of his corrupt and man was corrupt. At last the showed in His talk to the Jews, recorded Olympus shook to their foundation. To- disorder, moral and physical, culminated day it would suffice for any one of half-a in the eighth of John. " If ye abide in dozen august personages to speak above in that greatest storm of all the ages in My word, then are ye truly My disciples ; his breath or unwittingly to raise his little which the vast flood of waters swept the and ye shall know the truth, and the truth finger, and like heaven overcharged with whole earth and destroyed all life except electricity, the existing condition of un- shall make you free. They answered unto stable equilibrium which sustains the that of the one just man and those with Him, We are Abraham's seed, and have European political system would be over- him. never yet been in bondage to any man ; set, and war waged under circumstances This was a logical result. As in greater how sayest Thou, Ye shall be made free ? of greater horror than has been hitherto and greater degree the laws which the known to the experience of mankind, Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say might eventually envelop not Europe alone, Creator had established were ignored, de- unto you, Every one that committeth sin but two, nay, all the four continents at fied, and violated;—so it might he expected is the bondservant of sin. And the bond- once, since in every one of them repre- that His beneficent controlling influence sentatives and offshoots of the contending servant abideth not in the house for ever ; nations would of necessity be brought into over the forces of nature would be propor- but the son abideth for ever. If therefore collision. Well, ladies and gentlemen, tionately withdrawn. Such was the result, the son shall make you free, ye shall be it is to prevent catastrophes of this kind and the climax swept the whale world that we meek, civil-spoken, and mild-man- clean with the besom of destruction. free indeed." Verses 31-36, R.V. And nered persons have been invented. Look- later He said to them that if they were ing at us, you will perhaps say that we are For many years Noah was occupied in really the children of Abraham, they would but a poor and feeble folk and our calling building the ark, and in explaining its pur- a sorry preservative against such, dangers, pose to men and warning them to repent do the works of Abraham. Verse 39. but such as it is it is the best.device that Here again we see that which we learned human ingenuity has been able to dis- from their wickedness and escape the de- from the promise in the fifteenth chapter cover." struction which was to come. No doubt of Genesis, that the promised seed was to Noah was called a foolish and fanatical be a righteous seed, since it was promised THE WORK OF THE DESTROYER. alarmist ;—but was he? Was he not, only through Christ, and was sure to rather, the calmest-minded and clearest- Abraham only through his faith. "And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, headed man of his time ? The event, The sum of the whole matter is that in and famines, and pestilenoes ; and fearful sights." though seemingly long delayed, proved Luke xxi. 11. the promise to Abraham there is the Gos- him to have been wise and the others HE who calls attention to existing facts pel, and only the Gospel ; and any attempt foolish. It is not unwise to depend upon does not deserve to be called an alarmist, to make the promises apply to any other the sure Word of prophecy. It is not although it may he a very serious condition than those who are Christ's through the folly to repeat its warnings. which he points out. The Physician who Spirit, is an attempt to nullify the promises Again, for thousands of years man has candidly gives his patient a truthful state- of the Gospel of God. " If ye are Christ's, corrupted himself and the earth. Through ment of his case is not an alarmist. It then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs ac- systematic disobedience to the law of God, may be that the symptoms are alarming, cording to the promise." Gal. iii. 29. and obedience to Satan, he has caused the yet for all that very likely it is the wisest " Now if any man have not the Spirit of Creator and Preserver to withdraw more possible thing to state them frankly to the Christ, he is none of His." Rom. viii. 9. and more His beneficent influence and patient, that, if possible, he may be warned So if any man have not the Spirit of control ; and has placed himself and all in time. The Great Physician was not an Christ, the Spirit by which Isaac was born, things in increasing degree under the con- alarmist, and took no pessimistic view of he is not a child of Abraham, and has no trol of the destroyer—the " prince of the the final outcome of all things, yet the claim to any part of the promise. power of the air." And now the most twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew contains casual observer—if he only will—may the skeleton of what must have been a A DIPLOMATIST ON THE realise the truth of this which a writer upon most dramatic narration indeed of events SITUATION. this subject some years ago put with so which were, and are, to befall the world. much directness and force*:— SPEAKING in Paris last week, Lord In the beginning God saw that all Satan works through the elements also to garner Dufferin sketched the general conditions created nature which He had made was his harvest of unprepared souls. He has studied amongst the nations, as they appear to a very good. This unqualified approval the secrets of the laboratories of nature, and he veteran diplomatist. He said :— must have been fully deserved. To have uses all his power to control the elements as far as God allows. When he was suffered to afflict Job, " What do we see around us? The been worthy of this expression of Divine how quickly flocks and herds, servants, houses, whole of Europe is little better than a satisfaction it must have been free from all • standing camp, numbering millions of natural convulsions and displays of de- From " the Great Controversy between Christ armed men, while a double row of frown- and Satan," by Mrs. E. G. White, International structive forces. In the day when the Traot Society, Ltd. The work is sold by sub- ing and opposing fortresses bristles along scription, and may be obtained from any of our every frontier. Our harbours are stuffed, Creator looked upon the work of His hands own agents, June IT THE PRESENT TRUTH. 373

children, were swept away, one trouble succeeding thereof ; because they have transgressed the laws, wipe away all tears from their eyes ; and another as in a moment. It is God that shields changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting there shall be no more death, neither His creatures, and hedges them in from the power covenant." Tea. xxiv. 4, 5. of the destroyer. But the Christian world have sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be shown contempt for the law of Jehovah ; and the The end and outcome of this which must any more pain ; for the former things are Lord will do just what He has declared that He 'mild, He will withdraw His blessings from the shortly come to pass is revealed in " The passed away. And He that sat upon the earth, and remove His protecting care from those Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave throne said, Behold I make all things new. who are rebelling against His law, and teaching unto Him, to show unto His servants And He said unto me, Write : for these and forcing others to do the same. Satan has con- trol of all whom God does not especially guard. things which must shortly come to pass ; words are true and faithful. And He said He will favour and prosper some, in order to and He sent and signified it by His angel unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end." Rev. xxi. 1, 3-6.

HOW TO KNOW THAT THE BIBLE IS THE WORD OF GOD.

THE Bible comes to men as the Word of God. In every part it speaks to men as from God and upon the authority of God. But how shall men who do not know God know that it is the Word of God ? This is the question that thousands of people ask. They ask, " What proof is there, where is the evidence that it is the Word of God ? " There is evidence—evidence that every man can have—evidence that is convincing and satisfactory. Where is it, then ? Let us see.

WHOM SHALL W ASK? BEING the Word of God, where could evidence be found that it is such ? Where should we expect to find such evidence? Is there anyone of greater knowledge than God, or of greater authority than He, of whom we may inquire ?—Certainly not. For whoever God may be, there can be no higher authority, there can be none of greater knowledge. Suppose, then, we were to ask God whether this is His Word, and suppose He should tell us in just so many words, "The Bible is My Word," we should have His word for it. But we have that already, over and over; so that even then we should have no more evidence than we now have' in abundance; and the evidence would be MODERN CYCLONE. in nowise different ; for it would be the evidence of His word, and that we already further his own designs, and he will bring trouble unto His servant John : who bare record upon others, and lead men to believe that it is have. God who is afflicting them. of the Word of God, and of the testimony The Word of God bears in itself the evi- While appearing to the children of men as a of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he dence that it is the Word of God. It is great physician who can heal all their maladies, saw. Blessed is he that readeth, and they he will bring disease and disaster, until populous impossible that it could be otherwise. If cities are reduced to ruin and desolation. Even that hear the words of this prophecy, and God had never yet spoken a word to the now he is at work. In accidents and calamities keep those things which are written human family, and should this day send by sea and by land, in great conflagrations, in therein : for the time is at hand." Rev. fierce tornadoes and terrific hail-storms, in tem- a message to all people at once and in their pests, floods, cyclones, tidal waves, and earth- i. 1, 2, 3. own native tongues, that word, being the quakes, in every place and in a thousand forms, word of God, would have to bear in itself Satan is exercising his power. He sweeps away "And I saw a new heaven And a new the ripening harvest, and famine and distress earth ; for the first heaven and the first the evidence of its being the word of God ; follow. He imparts to the air a deadly taint, and earth were passed away ; . . . Behold the for the people could not possibly inquire of thousands perish by the pestilence. These visita- any other, because there is no other person tions are to become nu re and more frequent and tabernacle of God is with men, and He will disastrous. Destruction will be upon both man dwell with them, and they shall he His whose knowledge or authority is equal to and beast. " The earth mourneth and fadeth people, and God Himself shall be with this. Bearing in itself the evidence of its away," "the haughty people . . . do languish. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants them, and be their God. And God shall being the word of God, all the people could 3/4 THE PRESENT TRUTH/ No. 24. obtain this evidence by accepting it as the will get the evidence. The evidence will fine it, should be taught by the State. word of God. Each one who did this be plain to him who believes the Word. How they have thus helped Rome and would know that it was the word of God, A. T. JONES. Ritualism into power is a matter of recent for he would have the evidence in the word, history. If Dr. Parker's is the only voice and by accepting it, also in himself. THE " REGENERATED " STATE. in popular Nonconformity that is raised against the " regenerated " State theory in HOW TO GET THE EVIDENCE. THE bishops in the fourth century con- England, it is so much the worse for both THIS is precisely the position that the ceived the idea of regenerating the State by religion and the State in England. When Bible occupies toward the people of this gaining control in political affairs. They the fourth-century bishops, losing confi- world. It comes as the Word of God. thought great things would come of it ; but dence in the power of the Gospel to save As such it must bear the evidence in it led to the darkness and immorality of sinners, turned to what they thought would itself, for there can be no higher, no better the Dark Ages. When the Church forsook be a short way of saving the State, they evidence. Whoever receives it as the the power of God and the Word for political ruined both Church and State. And they Word of God, receives in it and in him- power there was left nothing to hold back began—just as Methodism and other re- self the evidence that it is the Word of the elements of evil. Now again a large ligious bodies in America have done—by God. And so it is written, " When ye re- portion of the religious world is .infatuated getting the State committed to Sunday ceived the word of God which ye heard of with the same idea—they will bring the laws, and pushing it on deeper and deeper us, ye received it not as the word of men, nations to righteousness by securing con- into religious controversy and strife. When but as it is in truth, the word of God, trol of politics in the interests of a re- modern States are made " Christian" after which effectually worketh also in you that ligiously ordered State. this plan, the hardest place in this world believe." 1 Thess. ii. 13 ; Acts xvii. 1, '2. The Methodist Times reports the annual for citizens of the kingdom of heaven will And again : "A new commandment I write meeting of the great Methodist body in be in " Christendom," even as it was in the unto you, which thing is true in Him and America, and enthusiastically welcomes Dark Ages. And the whole current is in you." 1 John ii. 8. And again : " My that portion of the Address which revives setting in that direction. doctrine is not Mine, but his that sent this fourth-century programme. It says :— History furnishes many examples of the Me. If any man will [is willing to] do "The purpose of Christ in this world," adds the religious-State theory in practice. Even His will, he shall know of the doctrine, Address, "is not merely the regeneratiuu of the now we have only to look to Russia, or individual. He also desires the regeneration of whether it be of God, or whether I speak the State. The State is as truly Divine as the Austria, or some of the South American of Myself." John vii. 16, 17. Thus he Church. Nay, the State is the designed outcome States to see the Roman Catholic ideal of who accepts the Word as the Word of of the perfected Church. A man may be as much a religious State. " But these," our Pro- a missionary of God in the politics of America as God, gets the evidence that it is the Word in the 'forests of Africa." This is first rate, and testant champions would say, " are but ex- of God. He who will not accept the shows that the detestable doctrine, which has amples of States with the wrong religion. Word cannot have the evidence; in re- scarcely any religious supporter left in England Let us make the State religious after the except Dr. Parker, that the State is purely secular, jecting the Word, he rejects the evidence, is now being rejected by the adherents of all great proper religion, and all will be well." because the evidence is in the Word. Churches even in Amerioa. That is just where they have always erred. To make this yet plainer if possible, When men wanted to make Christ king The sin is in turning aside from the preach- especially to those who doubt that the by force, He eluded them ; for His king- ing of the Gospel of the kingdom of heaven Bible is the Word of God, we may for the dom is not of this world. When men now to trying to manage the kingdoms of this sake of the case suppose that it were not, try to enthrone Him king of an earthly world, and to make people religious by law. and that the God of the Bible were not kingdom it is only their own perverse wills Whether priest or presbyter has mattered the true God. Suppose then that we that they enthrone; and that has meant not a whit ; when churches want civil should find the true God and ask Him, tyranny, and woe, and wickedness through- power, they want it to use, and they have and suppose He should say, " It is not the out all history. It is of the Papacy, always used it as the world uses power. Word of God." We should then have through and through; but men get so in- When the Puritans fled to America to only His word; and the only way that we toxicated with the wine of the papal escape Episcopacy in power, they, founded could know that this answer were true Babylon, and so fascinated by the idea of a State " regenerated " after their ideal ; would be by believing it, by accepting it getting power to " run things " according but they soon made it worse for the Quaker as the word of God. to their own way, that they forget Divine and the Baptist than it had been for them- So that the only way in which any per- principles, and the power of the Gospel, selves under Episcopacy, and their severity son could surely know that the Bible is not and the nature of true morality, and the in the New England shocked their former the Word of God, would be by the Word loud cry of history and of prophecy. Under persecutors in Old England. Religion in of God. And even though they had the the plea of saving the State, Christ's death power in the State never can be the religion word of God to this effect, the only way was decided upon (John xi. 49, 50), and of Jesus Christ ; for His kingdom is not of that they could be sure of it—the only He has been crucified afresh and put to. this world, nor do His servants fight. evidence they could have—would be by be- shame whenever His professed followers But the moment the State is made religious lieving that word. But there is no word have sought earthly power with which to that moment religious power seizes the of God that the Scriptures are not the honour Him. sword, and sooner or later the logic of Word of God, while there is the word of events will bring the use of it. Even now, N ON CONFORMITY'S ERROR. God that the Scriptures are the Word of in America, the professedly Protestant God. That Word of God bears in itself DR. PARKER has lately been pointing out churches—misguided, and ignorant of what the evidence that it is the Word of God. to Nonconformists the fatal error they have they are doing, we must allow—have made And every soul who will receive it as it is, made in insisting that religion, as they de- such malignant use of Sunday laws against

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Sabbath-keepers that even Roman Catholic useful life is that which lives to go about do- the Sabbath day ? " For eighteen years journals have protested. ing good in the present time at the present Satan had held his victim in this bondage. ••• place. There is no redeeming virtue in Christ came to destroy " the works of the AN IMAGE TO THE PAPACY. always seeking some great opportunities devil," and therefore He released the far removed in time and place, while woman from her bond, and the Sabbath THE moment a people determine to make neglected ones lie waiting at our hands. day was especially a fitting time when she a State policy religious, that moment, in a The man or woman ever seeking for some- should enter into His rest, and be released mixed population, begins the struggle to thing beyond the homely duties and privi- from her physical infirmities. see whose religion shall be supreme. This leges of to-day, spends a lifetime in the Satan might have released that woman very struggle that is now attending the desert of unrealised expectations. Those also had he been so disposed. He who who recognise the ever-present opportunities has power to bind has also power to re- world-wide revival of the religio-political of the moment, live in the fragrance of a lease, but it is not generally his method to question, is adding bitterness to public life garden of flowers. Suppose we look for release his victims; otherwise he would be day by day. Compromises only hold the the flowers close to life's pathway. binding in vain. Nevertheless when it elements in check temporarily, and when South Africa. J. C. ROGERS. suits his purpose to do so he certainly can next the strife breaks out it is harsher than do so. But there is no credit due to him ever. Cannot every one see that the result NOT FAR. for the act of release. A man who is over- will be strife and bitterness to the end? come by a stronger man than himself and NOT far, not far from the kingdom, kept in " durance vile " unlawfully, during In Catholic countries the question is settled; Yet in the shadow of sin, the pleasure of his captor, gives him no T in professedly Protestant countries the How many are coming and going ; thanks when he releases him. He had no How many are entering in I strife is but beginning, so far as the modern right in the first place to bind him, and development of the idea is concerned. Not far from the golden gateway, therefore the captive, when he is released, Where voices whisper and wait ; returns him no thanks for the release. The religious State that will suit one sec- Fearing to enter in boldly, tion will not please another. And even So lingering still at the gate! Similarly Satan had no right in the first though compromising Protestantism were place to introduce sin, with its attendant Catching the strain of the music woes and miseries, into this world ; and if able to settle some basis for the religious Floating so sweetly along, he removes some of its terrible results be- State, what would it be but a very likeness Knowing the song they are singing, Yet joining not in the song 1 fore the end we may be sure it is only to of the Papacy ? It will be human law in further his own ends and draw the world place of God's law, and man enthroned in Seeing the warmth and the beauty, The infinite love and the light; into a closer embrace, for which no thanks the place of God. It will be but the image Yet weary, and lonely, and waiting, are due to him. to the papal beast of prophecy (Rev. Out in the desolate night I That some will be deceived by this won- der-working power of Satan's (when he itself the triumph of papal principles over Out in the dark and the danger, will work with " all power and signs and the grand old Protestant doctrine, of the Out in the night and the cold ; Though He is longing to lead them lying wonders, and with all deceivableness non-interference of the magistrate and the Tenderly into the fold. of unrighteousness in them that perish ; State in the realm of religion. And that Not far, not far from the kingdom, because they received not the love of the doctrine is the doctrine of Jesus Christ, 'Tis only a little space ; truth that they might be saved ") is clearly who when He was offered all the kingdoms But it may be at last, and for ever, taught in the following words, describing a of this world and the glory of them by the Out of the resting-place. scene which will take place one day: —Selected. god of this world, refused the gift, leaving " Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, an example of loyalty to the kingdom of Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy SPIRITUALISM. name ? and in Thy name have cast out heaven which His followers must imitate. devils ? and in Thy name done many won- No. 6.—SPIRIT HEALING. derful works ? And then will I profess FLOWERS BY THE WAYSIDE. " FOB Satan himself is transformed into unto them, I never knew you: depart from an angel of light. Therefore it is no great Me, ye that work iniquity." Matt. vii. RIDING in a railway carriage the other thing if his ministers also be transformed 22, 23. The real test is not in the appar- day, I saw sloping hillsides in the distance, as the ministers of righteousness ; whose ently mighty works that are wrought, but apparently covered with flowers. end shall be according to their works." in the character of the individual through Having been passing over the Karroo, 2 Cor. xi. 14, 15. whom the works are done. These were the sight now before me gave a sense of All sickness and disease, of whatever " workers of iniquity," and that was all pleasure and satisfaction, and a desire to nature, has found its entrance into this that it was necessary to know, in order to see the flowers more plainly. A field glass world because sin has entered. The works be able to identify them with their father was quickly brought to my aid, and I was of Satan are manifest in the great multi- the devil. quite surprised to learn that what I saw in tude of the blind, and lame, and deaf, and Towards the close of last year an in- the distance was the same little plant that dumb, and those who suffer from internal dividual named Francis Schlalter made his was growing in abundance along the road- diseases. This is not the work of God— appearance at Denver, Colorado, U. S. A., side, almost under my feet. " an enemy hath done this." He created professing, it is said, to be Christ. He We are accustomed to " go hunting for a perfect man, but disease followed in the was known, as " The Healer," and the flowers," while ofttimes they grow plenti- wake of sin and marred His perfect work. crowds flocked to him from all parts. fully close by our own pathway, while we When Christ healed the woman who From two to five thousand people a day are wandering in a fruitless search for had " a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, passed before him suffering from all man- them abroad. and was bowed together, and could in no ner of diseases, passing along a gangway Such is the experience of many lives. wise lift up herself," He said to the ruler that was erected for the purpose of allow- We go far away to search for the flowers of the synagogue in justification of His act ing one individual to approach him at a which are growing unnoticed about our in doing this on the Sabbath day : " Ought time. Here is a description of the scene pathway. Opportunities for doing good, not this woman, being a daughter of Abra- from the Denver Evening Post, Friday, like the poet's rose, often " waste their ham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these Nov. 8th :— sweetness on the desert air." The most eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on He comes out and, standing at one t.nd of this 376 THE PRESENT TRUTH. Na 24. gangway in full sight of the crowd, receives each We need not be surprised at such events miracles of Jesus, and many other like one passing through, and without asking questions as these taking place in the nineteenth events plainly recorded in the Bible. They seizes the individual's hands in 'his own crossed century, for the words of Christ find their hands for a longer or shorter period, nearly always forget that " with God all things are poe. closing his eyes or raising them aloft and mutter- fulfilment in them : " Then if any man sible," and therefore, like the unbelieving ing a brief, silent supplication for Divine grace. shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or Jews, " limit the Holy One of Israel."— He stands there hatless and without a• coat six there ; believe it not. For there shall Bible Echo. hours every day, treating the afflicted. Some arise false Christs and false prophets, and come day after day and stand with the crowd in shall show great signs and wonders ; inso- the street before they are able to reach him. Often THE RIGHTS OF SELF AND OTHERS. by daylight there is a crowd in front of the cottage much that, if it were possible, they shall in North Denver, a suburb of the city, where he Is deceive the very elect. Behold I have told the guest of a man whom he cured of deafness be- you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto WHAT great rule of right is applicable to fore he came up to Denver. Before dismissing you, Behold He is in the desert ; go not all people in every place ?—The golden the multitude each morning and afternoon, he forth : behold, He is in the secret cham- rule, which says, " Whatsoever ye would goes down among the carriages and treats the afflicted who have thus been brought to him, bers ; believe it nat. For as the lightning that men should do to you, do ye evErL so and who are unable to approach him by the gang- cometh out of the east, and shineth even to them." Matt. vii. 12, first part. way. His manner is serene and sympathetic and unto the west ; so shall also the coming of To what is this equivalent ?—" This is he affects no oddity whatever, save that he wears the Son of man be. For wheresoever the the law and the prophets." Last part of his abundant hair parted woman fashion an& falling carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered in long loose curls upon his shoulders. This gives same verse. to his face, in repose, (but only in repose) a strik- together." Matt. xxiv. 23-28. Upon what principle is the rule based ? ing resemblance to many of the favourite pictures The ministers of Satan are " transformed —Upon love. See Matt. xxii. 37-40; Rom. of Christ. This probably affects the imagination as the ministers of righteousness ; " but xiii. 8. of many. those who are standing on the Word of What prevents its fulfilment by the chil- Such is one description, out of the many, God will not be deceived by their apparent dren of men ?—Selfishness. " For I say, of the man and his work, and after due al- regard for the sick and the afflicted. The through the grace given unto rrte, to every lowance is made for exaggeration in the healing of the body is not all—there is the man that is among you, not to think of reports it must be admitted that there is soul to be dealt with. " What shall a himself more highly than he ought to think." something in it. Mr. Stead publishes in man give in exchange for his soul ? " Rom. xii. 3. An undue regard for self will the January number of the Borderland Many will be prepared to barter away their hinder one from properly esteeming the copies of testimonials from individuals who souls for the health of the body, but those rights of others. " In lowliness of mind have been cured, and certainly if their who are looking to the Lord alone for heal- let each esteem other better than them- words are to be credited, there is something ing will be content to have " the thorn in selves." Phil. ii. 3. "Submitting your- more than imagination in the matter. A the flesh " remain, if it be His will, rather selves one to another in the fear of the person might imagine that a pain had left than seek healing from Satan through Lord." Eph. v. 21. " All of you be sub- him, but a person who was blind knows Spiritualism, and " lose their own souls." ject one to another, and be clothed with when he can see. Two testimonials from humility." 1 Peter v. 5. " In honour pre- It matters not that Schlatter did not persons who were previously blind are as ferring one another." Rom. xii. 10. profess to be a Spiritualist. The work follows : A young lady says : " I was done by him is the same that Spiritualists Why will there be trouble in the laSt blind, now I can tell the colour of your are now professing to be able to do, only days ?—" This know also, that in the last eyes." And of a wood-sawyer it is said ; they have not yet gone to the same ex- days perilous times shall come. For men " Totally blind, now can distinguish treme. The work of Satan is one, under shall be lovers of their own selves." 2 colours." whatever name it may be done; but those Tim. iii. 1. Schlatter announced that he would leave who are bringing all things to the test of Instead of being so selfish, what does the Denver on the 16th November, but on the the Word of God will not be deluded by Lord enjoin?—" Thou shalt love thy neigh- morning of the 14th no sound was to be the " spirits of devils working miracles." bour as thyself." Matt. xxii. 39. heard in his room. The individual in HARRY CHAMPNESS. What relation does love have to the law whose house he was staying, named Mr. of God ?—" Love worketh no ill to his Fox, went to call him, but found the room neighbour : therefore love is the fulfilling empty. On the pillow of the bed was LIMITING GOD. of the law." Rom. xiii. 10. found a blank envelope which contained a Why do not men love their neighbours slip of paper and on it was written : " Mr. THE Sadducees were a sect of the Jews as themselves ?—Because they love them- Fox. My mission is finished, and Father who stoutly denied the resurrection of the selves too well. takes me away. Good-bye. Francis body. But Christ told them they greatly How much do selfish men lack of being Schlatter, Nov. 13." erred, not knowing the Scriptures nor the happy ?—They lack the difference between The scene outside the house that day, power of God. He proved the resurrection what they have and that which they desire when the news became known, was terrible. by the words of God to Moses at the bush, to have. The populace was wrathful to think that " I am the God of Abraham, the God of If all people were wholly given to selfish- they had been deceived. They hastily or- Isaac, and the God of Jacob." The Jewish ness, how many would each one have to ganised a search party to bring him back translation of Dan. xii. 13 distinctly teaches make him happy ?—Just one person, and and compel him to continue his work until it. It reads, " But thou, go thy way that one, himself. the time he had stated he would remain, toward the end ; and thou shalt rest, and In that case, how many would there be but he was nowhere to be found and the arise again for thy lot at the end of the to pull against him ?—The remainder of the disappointed people had to return to their days." human family. homes in the same condition that they had How many to-day, like the ancient Sad- If all obeyed the golden rule, how many left them. ducees, are clinging to error through lack persons would each one have to help make The last that was heard of Schlatter was of a knowledge of the Scriptures and the life a pleasure ?—He would have all man- that he was " seen in the Far West work- power of God. Because of this we find kind. ing in the chain-gang as a punishment for men denying the creation of the heavens In this case, how many times greater his sins. Why he got there, what sin it and earth in six days, the universality of would his happiness be than as if all was that entailed this punishment, or when the deluge, the miraculous preservation of were selfish ?—As many times as the num- he was to be released, is not stated." --Jonah in the sea and the fish's belly, the ber which denotes the difference between June II THE PRESENT TRUTH. 377 himself and all other people—say about safe path resist the first approach of sin. God's promises are bank-bills. They are 1,400,000,000 times. Take no strolls with the devil. " Enter cheques and drafts upon the bank on high, What reason did Cain assign for his un- not into the path of the wicked, and go not We look at them, read them, admire them ; happy state of mind ?—He cited the fact in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not we think of the love that prompted God to that his brother Abel did not worship as he by it, turn from it, and pass away."—Bible make them, and give them to us. We did, as the principal reason why he was so Echo. imagine circumstances in which they would distressed. be peculiarly and exceedingly precious and What course did this man take, that he " LOOKING FOR THAT SLASHED HOPE." helpful. Then we shut the Bible, and might correct the situation ?—He murdered leave them there, and go out to face the his brother. Gen. iv. 3-8. ARE you looking for His coming, poverty and destitution of life. We do not Wherein did the real trouble lie ?—Cain's Who so long has been away? use them, spend them, buy with them, live Are your eyes in expectation upon them as we might and ought. Yet " own works were evil, and his brother's Watching for the dawn of day ? righteous." 1 John iii. 12. Do you catch some ray of glory the mistake is ours, not God's. He has Whose faults do selfish people first dis- Flashing through the clouds of night ? given them to us. He means that they cover ?—Those of their best friends and Are you looking past earth's shadows should be used as the " coin of the realm." their neighbours. See Matt. vii. 1-5. For the resurrection light ? He is not to blame if we persist in seeing only the pictures in them and upon them. Why cannot men see their own eyes ?— Are you longing for His ooming Because these members always look away With a yearning unexpressed? What are the promises to you,—" pictures," from self. Longing for the life immortal or bank-notes ?—Golden Rule. In the land of perfect rest ? To whom should people look ?—Unto For the mansions He hath promised Jesus. In the saints' eternal home ? Instead of doing this, to what do they Are you longing to behold Him ? VISITING JESUS. often look ?—To the real or the supposed Is your prayer, "Come, quickly come ? " faults of others. JOHN, in the opening of his gospel, tells Are you ready for His coming ? of his introduction to Jesus Christ. He What do they obtain from such a view ? Is your lamp well trimmed and bright? —The faults which they claim to see in Have you on the wedding garment? and Andrew were with John the Baptist others. Men would be happier if they did Is it spotless in His sight ? when, Jesus passing by, the Baptist gave not expect so much of others. All could Could you join in that glad chorus his testimony : " Behold the Lamb of more nearly realise their demands if they The redeemed alone shall sing ? God." The two disciples, aroused to Are you ready now to crown Him ? keenest interest, followed the Stranger, should make them less. When every per- Are you ready for your King ? son shall regard the rights of others as Mas. E. E. MILES. and when He turned and asked, " What fully as he would ask his own to be re- seek ye ? " they said, just as we would garded, there will be no need of reformation nowadays when we wish to have an intro- or reformers. All would then be right, and PICTURES OR BANK NOTES? duction blossom into an acquaintance : in such a case there would truly be a " Where do you live ? " He answered, Christian people in every land. Until this AN old woman in Scotland was living in " Come and see." They went with Him is so, there can be no such thing as a the most abject poverty. Her neighbours and sat down with Him and stayed the Christian nation. WM. COVERT. thought it strange, knowing that she had a rest of that day. What the visit was son in America reputed to lee in comfortable about we do not know, but it was so im- circumstances. One day one of them ven- pressed on John's memory that, writing TRIFLING WITH SIN. tured to ask her about the matter. about it many years after when an old " Does your son ever send you money ? " man, he remembered the very hour when I SHALL never forget standing, eleven " No," reluctantly answered the mother; he went to visit with Jesus Christ. He years ago, near a dam on a large river, and but, eager to defend him against the im- records that it was about four o'clock in seeing two men in a boat row down near plied charge of forgetfulness and ingrati- the afternoon.—Jennie Bingham. the dam and then row back. This they re- tude, she quickly added, " but he writes peated several times, each time coming a me nice long letters, and sends me a pretty little nearer the dam. The experiment was picture in almost every one of them." THE PROTESTANT ROCK. a dangerous one, as the river was high, " Where are the pictures ? " queried the and the current strong. They finally ven- visitor ; " may I see them ? " THE Bible, I say, the Bible only, is the tured too near, and being unable to row " Why, certainly," was the answer. religion of the Protestants. Nor is it of back, went over and were drowned. And the old woman went to the shelf, and any account in the estimation of the genuine Instead of keeping away from danger, they took, down the old Bible ; and there, be- Protestant, how early a doctrine originated, sought to get as near to it as possible. tween the leaves, lay the " pictures " that if it is not found in the Bible. . . . He But the experiment cost them their lives. her son had been sending her from America who receives a single doctrine upon the So it is with many in their dealing with through all the years. mere authority of tradition, let him be sin. Instead of fleeing from it, they allow What were they ?—Nothing more or less called by what name he will, by so doing themselves to linger near it. They per- than bank-notes, each for a considerable steps down from the Protestant rock, passes haps at first have no idea of committing amount. During all this time of need the over the line which separates Protestantism the sin, but they venture to tread on for- woman had had under her hand a sum of from popery, and can give no valid reason bidden ground. They try to see how near money sufficient to satisfy her every want; why he should not receive all the earlier they can come to touching the forbidden and she did not know it. She had looked doctrines and ceremonies of Romanism fruit and not eat it,—how near they can at the pictures ; they had been to her re- upon the same authority.—Dowling's His- come to the brink and not go over. But minders of her far-off son, and evidence tory of Romanism. it is a dangerous experiment. The nearer that he had not forgotten her ; and that they go, the stronger they find the temp- was all. tation ; and finally, as the result of not Of what does the little story remind you? To HAVE been a thousand years wrong, resisting the temptation at the first, they Are you not often like this woman, finding will not make us right for one single hour ! are engulfed and ruined. " pictures " in the Book where we should or else the pagans should have kept to Therefore, let all who would keep in the find wealth for the supply of all our needs? their creed.—D'Aubigne's Reformation. 378 THE PRESENT TRUTH. No. 24.

sick-room when any of the numerous brood were " laid by " for a day or two. So Bess ittOasoever and I worked on placidly, I washing the thins— are true, think p ee,0,40.0drepoet window, she scrubbing the broad shelf. ant se trnds. Wallie, his father's helper, as she is - ' ----- mine, came through into the kitchen with a great basket of plaster. " We're having fun," said he, " tearing the house down." " And we're having fun," rejoined Bess, " cleaning the house up." Fun of both sorts lasted for some time, but not monotonously enough to transform it into drudgery, until we, in the kitchen, adjourned to prepare a hasty dinner, to which they, in the next room, together with the little ones from their play, did ample justice. And the simple incident made me think about children's fun, and about the mistake made by parents who plan it for their chil- dren as something entirely extraneous to ordinary living. Mere play in unlimited quantities does the children as much good as sugar candy administered after the same ICREEPING UP THE STAIRS. " If you are a Christian, auntie—are rule. you ? ' I knew a little girl, not quite seven years IN the softly falling twilight old, whose mother picked out the coarse Of a weary, weary day, " I hope so dear.' With a quiet step I entered " But you never speak of Jesus. If things from a washing and allowed her to Where the children were at play. you loved Him very much, would you not iron them. Fun !—No amount of dollies I was brooding o'er some trouble talk about Him sometimes ? ' and tea dishes could have inspired the Which had met me unawares, " We may love a person without speak- proud glow of eye and tone of voice with When a little voice came ringing, which she told me what a " big pile " she " Me is creepin' up the stairs." ing of him,' I replied. " May we ? I did not know that. You had ironed. Ah 1 it touched the tenderest heart strings love to talk of your brothers and sisters, Mothers, the more your children's play With a breath and force divine, can approach to real work without being And such melodies awakened and your papa and mamma, don't you, As no wording can define. auntie ? ' tiresome, the more " fun " they will have. And I turned to see our darling, " Yes.' I speak whereof I know. Try it, won't All forgetful of my cares, " And then you speak of other people you ?—Motherhood. When I saw the little creature and things you like ; but you speak no Slowly creeping up the stairs. word of Jesus. Don't you love Him, Step by step she bravely clambered auntie ? ' A SIMPLE ELECTRICAL MACHINE. On her little hands and knees, , " Yes.' Keeping up a constant chattering THAT yellow amber, when rubbed, ac- Like a magpie in the trees, " Then I should think you could not help speaking of Him sometimes.' "— quires the property of attracting light ob- Till at last she reached the topmost, jects, was known as long as forty centuries When o'er all her world's affairs Selected. She delighted stood a victor, ago. This first experiment in electricity After creeping up the stairs. was destined for a splendid future, but a HAYING FUN. distant one, since it is from yesterday only Fainting heart I behold an image that date the truly serious applications of Of man's brief and struggling life ; SCHOOL was over for the week, and Bess Whose best prizes must be captured this science. With a noble, earnest strife; was at home. Bess is my ten-year-old We shall now endeavour to show how Onward, upward, reaching ever, "right-hand man" in running the house- the fundamental experiments of electricity Bending to the weight of cares, hold machinery. My girl, for a variety of may' be performed with as reduced a ma- Hoping, fearing, still expecting, reasons, had left me unexpectedly the week We go creeping up the stairs. terial as possible. A sheet of paper will before, and a half-cleaned pantry was her suffice us in the first place for a few in- On their steps may be no carpet, memento. teresting experiments. Heat a piece of By their side may be no rail ; " Bess," I said, " let's finish that pantry Hands and knees may often pain us, ordinary paper in front of a brisk fire or And the heart may almost fail; as soon as we get the breakfast dishes done." over a lamp chimney until it begins to Still above there is tht, glory " All right," said Bess, and we were soon redden. Afterward rub it smartly with the Which no sinfulness impairs, at it. While we were deep in the mysteries, hand, or better, with a brush, and it will With its rest and joy for ever, a sound of sawing, hammering, dropping, then be capable of attracting small, light After creeping up life s stairs. —Christian Repository. crashing came from the interior of the objects, such as fragments of thin paper house. It wasn't that the house was tum- and the web of feathers. If the sheet of bling down, neither did the uproar create paper be brought near a wall, table, or any SPEAKING OF JESUS. any excitement or hinder our work even stationary object whatever, it will be " I WAS visiting at my brother's at one momentarily, for we knew what it meant. strongly attracted. Finally, if one places time," says a lady, " when Richard, his The " paterfamilias," with the help of the it above his head, his hair will be attracted, little boy, stopped suddenly in his play, oldest boy, was tearing down the partition while at the same time he will experience and looked steadily at me for a minute." between two small rooms, in order to con- a sensation comparable to a slight tickling. " What are you thinking about ? ' I vert them into one commodious sleeping But more remarkable results still are asked. room, which might serve as a downstairs reached upon improving the apparatus. June II iTHE PRESENT TRUTH. 379

Take a glass, expose it to the fire so that it possible moment, for during infancy the draught no one has ever been able to un- shall be perfectly dry, and place it upside bones are soft and yielding and capable of derstand. down upon a table. Afterward take a tray, being moulded into proper form with little The father sank white and trembling perfectly dry, and place it upon the glass or no discomfort to the child. into a chair. in such a way that it shall preserve its • In the case of older children, in whom The mother caught the child from him, equilibrium. Finally, take a sheet'of paper the bones have become thoroughly hard- and shook her violently to waken her, but slightly smaller than the tray, heat it, and ened, where the degree of curvature is in vain. The head fell back, and the arms rub it rapidly with a brush, and it will be- considerable, a skilful' surgeon should be dropped heavily. come quickly electrified. Then place it called.—Selected. " We can do nothing. We must have a upon the tray. doctor," she cried. An electrical machine will thus have been He staggered to his feet and reached for constructed without any expense. If the THAT MEDICINE FLASK. his hat. " We will take her to one, not finger be brought near the tray, a spark will wait for one to come," he said. appear. This spark will be so much the IN a pleasant little home sat a happy The still sleeping baby was hastily given brighter and the series of sparks will be so young mother with her two children, a into the care of a neighbour, and, wrapping much the longer in proportion as the glass little girl of four years and a baby boy. little Mary in a shawl, they rushed into and tray are dry. The father, who was a small tradesman, the street. They met a policeman, who If, while the sparks are being drawn was away taking orders, but he was ex- told them the quickest help was in the from the tray, the room in which the ex- pected home the next day, and with a glad hospital, and thither they hastened. periment is performed be darkened, these heart she held her daughter on her knee The child was carried into the baby sparks will appear extremely brilliant.— and told her papa would be home in the ward, and the fight for life began. All day Science Illustree. morning. And the little one laughed and doctors and nurses worked over the little prattled sweetly till the " sandman " came form, while the sorrowing parents looked around, and as she knelt to say her " Now helplessly on. A physician came and sat BOW-LEGS. I lay me," added, " P'ease Dod tate care by the bed, murmuring :— of papa and b'ing him safe home." " This is too bad, too bad," and racked BOW-LEGS are usually an acquired de- The mother tucked her up and gave her his brain to think of remedies. formity ; not always, for some children are a good-night kiss, smiling to see the eye- It was by his order that electricity was born bow-legged. They are caused when lids droop upon the rosy cheeks, then sat applied, and oxygen gas poured into the acquired by allowing a child to stand or to down to finish a little dress for her, hum- lungs, in the vain hope of preventing the walk too .early, before the bones have be- ming a happy song. deadly paralysis, which had involved all come sufficiently hardened ; but generally Meanwhile the train sped over the rails, the rest of the brain, from extending to the there are to be found indications of sys- bringing the husband homeward. In the motor centres which controlled the muscles temic weakness as well. early morning he hurried with joyous steps of the chest and heart. But the red cor- In some cases an absence. of chalky or to greet his wife and children. puscles of the blood were too far affected phosphatic material in the system is re- The trip had been a success. A goodly by the alcohol to be able to take up the sponsible for the trouble. Whatever the number of orders had been secured. There oxygen. The breath grew fainter, and the cause may be, the heavier the child, the was nothing to mar the pleasure of the heart beat more feebly through the night. more apt is the weight of the body to bend home coming. In the morning they ceased, and the very the bone. His wife met him at the door with up- doctors turned tearfully from the bed. It is not uncommon, especially in appar- lifted finger. " Hush," she said, " the Hospital rules had been set aside, and ently mild cases of the difficulty, to find children are not awake yet. Come into the mother asked to remain by her child knockknee combined with bow-legs. From the kitchen and let us have a good talk all night. The father, who had gone home the hip to the knee the bones are curved before Mary is up." to care for the baby, came in just after the inward, while from the knee downward He set down his bag and hung his over- end. But over their sorrow let a veil be they are bowed outward. This is called a coat on a chair, first taking a travelling drawn. " compensating " curve, and makes the flask from the pocket and setting it on the But even this was not the end for them. yielding bones appear less affected than table. There remained not only the desolate they really are. A double bend of this " Have you needed that ? " asked his home going and laying away of the dead, kind should be looked for by parents when wife. but the ordeal of a coroner's jury. It was there is reason to fear a degree "ofcurvature "Ah, no " was the answer. " Have a poison case, and no doctor could give a sufficient to call for medical intervention. been perfectly well, but it is a good thing certificate. The little form had to be Of course, the earlier the period of the to have in case of trouble. Can do no given up to the knife, to prove that death child's life at which treatment is instituted, harm, and may be very useful." had really been caused by alcohol. But the more easily will the desired result be They passed through into the kitchen no trace of any other poison could be obtained. and were soon absorbed in happy chat. found. When the child begins to stand, the legs How long it lasted they never knew. Little Mary had died of one drink of should be carefully inspected, to note It was interrupted by a dull thud in the whisky from the medicine flask which the whether there is any bending of the bones dining-room, and looking in they saw Mary father had set down, saying, " It is a good beneath the weight. Should such be the senseless upon the floor. thing to have in case of trouble. Can do case, restrictions should be placed upon " What can be the matter ? " cried the no harm, and may be very useful." the child's activity. His weight should be father, catching up the little white figure. So ended the happy 'home coming.— kept off his legs, until they are found to " See, she has on one shoe and stocking. Union. Signal. sustain it without bending. If the strength She was dressing and heard my voice and of the limbs does not rapidly increase, the started to come to me." doctor should be consulted with a view to " 0 John," gasped the wife, "the whisky! WHEN a black silk gown is shiny or obtaining a suitable apparatus for keeping -Look " and she held up the flask, from rusty from too constant wear, it may the legs in their normal position when the which three or four ounces were gone. easily be made to look again like new. All weight is thrown upon them. The glittering glass had evidently caught that is necessary is to sponge the silk care- Deformity of the limbs, when present at Mary's eye, and, childlike, she had stopped fully with Scrubb's cloudy household birth, should receive attention at the earliest to taste, though how she swallowed such a ammonia. 38o THE PRESENT TRUTH. No 24.

In the machine at present built, owing to its small size, the steam is not condensed, so that its flights are short. The total weight of the machine, including engines, is about 25/13., and the distance, from tip to tip, of the supporting surface, some 12ft. to 14ft. In the flights witnessed by Professor Bell the machine rose with re- markable steadiness in the face of the wind, afterwards swinging round in large curves of about 100 yards in diameter, until it reached a height of some 80ft. in about a minute and a-half, when the steam being exhausted the machine settled quietly down. The velocity of flight was about twenty-five miles an hour, the machine traversing during its flight some 3,000ft., or over half a mile. The three men who are most diligently at work on this problem are Professor Langley, Mr. Maxim in England, and Herr Lilienthal in Germany. All these men discard the balloon. They depend EXTENT OF A NEW INDUSTRY. sands of carcasses are drafted to the Meat upon broad wings, or aeroplanes, driven Market, and from the stores distributed either by human force or steam propellers. THE importation of frozen meat, espe- direct all over the kingdom. Mr. Maxim runs his flying machine down cially mutton, from colonial and foreign If these processes of freezing and thaw- a hill along an inclined track, until the ports, is, very large. Over six millions of ing are carried on so that no disorganisa- aeroplanes would lift it from the ground were it not held by an upper track. sheep and lambs were imported from vari- tion of tissue takes place, and no poisons Lilienthal balances his aeroplanes and ous ports last year, mostly from New are developed, in all probability this im- soars against the wind, also rising from a Zealand and Australia. Of these five- ported meat is just as good as any other. hill, and moving the wings with his arms. Professor Langley uses a propeller moved sixths were frozen carcasses. The Austra- It certainly is not a little remarkable that by steam with great rapidity. lian and New Zealand mutton comes so perishable an article can be brought a mostly direct to London. The following distance of eight thousand miles, part of interesting paragraph in reference to the the distance through equatorial heat, and PRINTERS' INK-ROLLERS. frozen meat industry, and the receipt of remain untouched by any effect of the IN days gone by, felt balls were used by the carcasses at Nelson's Wharf, Lam- passage of time or the changes of climate printers to ink their type. A Shropshire beth, is from an article in the London and temperature. printer was once unable to find the ball. Chronicle:— He was pressed for time, and caught up the first thing that seemed to him capable The history of New Zealand mutton and AERIAL NAVIGATION. beef is this : the animals are killed at the of serving his purpose. This happened to freezing factories of various parts of the be a piece of glue, which did the work so colonies, and then slowly frozen till they Mimi attention is now being given to effectively that he mentioned his improvisa- are as hard as boards and ring to the aerial navigation. It would seem that in- tion to his fellow-workmen. Experiments knock of the knuckles. When this stage ventors are on the point of reaching the followed, and it was soon discovered that is reached, as all the world knows by this long-sought success. All the military glue, mixed with molasses to give it the time, the carcasses are impervious to the touch of decay ; and remain sealed, as it powers are extremely desirous of possessing requisite consistency, was the best possible were, in their iron bands until their long an efficient balloon service in time of war. article for ink rollers.—Selected. voyage in cold chambers is completed, and It is said that much quiet and secret ex- they are thawed in London and the pro- vinces. From the docks they are brought perimentation has been done with this in THE men who work in the famous porce- up in barges by the thousands to Nelson's view, and that the military authorities of lain factories at Limoges are threatening to Wharf. A curious contrivance, very like several different countries have their own strike for higher wages. The furnaces in a dredger, is employed to lift them from dirigible balloons laid away among the which the porcelain is baked are kept up to the body of the barge to the topmost a terrible temperature, which, it is said, rest of their warlike impedimenta, hidden stories of the wharf. From this elevation cannot be .gauged by any instrument known they are sunk again by hydraulic lifts to from the casual eye and kodak of the to science. In this fearful heat the human the various storage chambers. traveller and the descriptive pen of the A section of the wharf would show its salamanders, clad in thick fireproof gar- large upper receiving floor, and below ready newspaper correspondent. ments, their heads and ears well protected, strata of cold chambers, loft. or so in However, the most successful flying work for 2s. a day. height. To descend into one of these is machine yet made, so far as known, has been to enter Iceland. The temperature is always 12deg. to 15deg. below freezing- constructed by Professor S. P. Langley, THE longest underground thoroughfare point, and is maintained there by the well- of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, in this country is in Central Derbyshire, known system of ammonia pipes. Among D. C., U.S.A., and has been thus de- where you can walk seven miles upon a these silent, dim and ghost-like corridors, road connecting several coal mines. with the breath of the North Pole in your scribed :— face, you may creep for miles, I was going The machine is built chiefly of steel, and to cay. Here is the depository of over is not supported in the air by any gas, or SOME of the Belgian coal mines are two millions of sheep annually, and you by any means but by its own steam engine, wonderfully deep. In a pit at Flenu coal V may inspect yourself to-day, if you have which is between one and two-horse power, is now being obtained 3,700 feet below the the inclination, something like 200,000 and weighs, including fire-grate, boilers, carcasses, all in thin cerements, " clothed and every moving part, less than 71b. This surface. In another pit, at Montigny-sur- in white samite, mystic, wonderful." Out engine is employed in turning aerial pro- Sambre, a coal seam is worked 3,000 feet of these chambers, day by day, the thou- pellers, which move the aerodrome forward. deep. June THE PRESENT TRUTH. 381

loved Margie Lane, not in spite of her " Handsome is that handsome does,'" beauty, but largely because of it, and she she said. tried sincerely not to be jealous. But she " What does that mean, mamma ? " yielded once, and ran to hide her face in " It is the comfort which I pass down to her mother's lap. you from my own girlhood. It seems to " 0 mamma, why wasn't I born pretty me I heard it every day when I was your like Margie ! Two ladies just passed us, age. Listen, dear little daughter. I was and one said : What a lovely girl ! ' a great deal plainer than you are." Then the other said : Yes, and what a " Honestly, mamma ? " Fanny inter- contrast ! ' Oh, dear, oh, dear ! " rupted. " Why, you're just beautiful Mrs. Price felt sorry for the little now." A CHILD'S PRAYER. daughter, but she lifted the pained face, " In your eyes, dear. Yes, honestly. and smiled into the tearful eyes. Your Aunt Anna was the beauty. So I JESUS, thou tender Shepherd, King, Thy little lambs are we; Oh, bend Thine ear down lovingly, As now we pray to Thee! Thy tender oare o'er us has been Through all the long, bright day, And we would thank Thee, blessed Lord ; Oh, hear us as we pray I We thank Thee for our daily bread, For home and garments warm, The loving friends that Thou didst give, And shelter from the storm. Oh, watoh us through the long, dark night, And all our sins forgive; EHOLD I when they saw the precious gifts of God And help us, blessed Lord, prepare In heaven with Thee to live I bring you to man all lost, and learned that man him- GERTRUDE E. JTJDSON. good tid- self must go back to dust because of his ings of sin. But when the plan of God to save TWO STORIES IN ONE. great joy." men was made known, that God Himself This is would come to earth, and take lost man's I HAVE heard two stories about two little what the place and die instead of him, they were girls, and I will tell them both to you. '" '13 angel of the filled with even greater gladness than in One little girl was very poor and very the beginning, because they now knew ill. She could not walk out in the bright Lord Tsaid to some shepherds who were sunshine at all, because she could not use watching their sheep in the fields at night. more of the great love of God than ever her feet and limbs. When he had told them the good news before. And so when the angel of God " Yet, though she had no pretty clothes, that he came to bring, " the shepherds said told the shepherds of the birth of Jesus, nor costly playthings, nor rich food, she one to another, Let us now go even to unable to keep in their joy, a great multi- always seemed happy. She loved every- Bethlehem, and see this great thing which tude of the heavenly host suddenly ap- body, and everybody seemed to love her. is come to pass." So they went with peared, " praising God, and saying, Glory She said she had many things to thank haste, and when they came to Bethlehem to God in the highest." God for, and when her friends did her kindness, she was sure to thank them with what did they find ? A babe lying in a The Word of God calls Jesus " the her very brightest smile. manger. Why, what was there about this second Adam." By taking the name of When some of her little mates put a little baby, lying there looking just like Adam, the meaning of which we learned wooden box on wheels and took her out any other babe,—what was there about last week, the Lord shows us that He be- into the pleasant sunshine, she thanked him so wonderful that God had sent an came dust, just like we are, and when He God over and over again in her dear little angel from heaven to tell the glad tidings was on earth He said, " I can of Mine own heart. of his birth to men ? The other little girl lived in a beautiful self do nothing." Instead of trying to be Listen to what the angel told the shep- house, and was well and strong. But she something Himself, as the first Adam did, was not happy. She always wanted some- herds, and see if you would not have done He was content to be what man was thing better than she had, and never just as they did : " Unto you is born this meant to be, a dwelling-place for God. thanked God for anything. day in the city of David, a Saviour, which All through the lifetime of Jesus on earth Which do you think pleased God?— is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a Satan tried to get Him into his power, as Selected. sign unto you ; ye shall find the babe. . . . he had the first Adam; but by the power lying in a manger." No wonder the shep- of God's life in Him He was kept from all FANNY PRICE'S PROVERB. herds ran to see " this great thing," to sin. Only sin can give Satan power over FANNY PRICE WaS what you might call worship the babe, and to tell the wonder- anyone ; and as Jesus never sinned, Satan plain-looking. Not ugly, but plain, de- ful news to all who would listen to them. never gained any power over Him. So cidedly. Her dearest dear friend, Marga- When God first created man and put when He laid down His life because of ret Lane, was a little beauty, as everybody him in the beautiful earth which He had our sins, so that He might save us from said. made, the angels were so glad as they saw Everybody wasn't discreet either, so that death, Satan could not hold Him in the His works that they " sang together, and Fanny often heard distinctions drawn, and grave, but He arose to give His own sin- oftener saw glances which said more than all the sons of God shouted for joy," be- less life to all who will be His children. words. cause they had a God who could do such She was a loyal maiden, however, and wonderful things. How sad they were E. E. A. .382 THE PRESENT TRUTH. No 24. constantly heard from unwise tongues such loving influence to bear upon their husbands things as have hurt you to-day ; they hurt to restrain their husbands from drinking. me, too, while Anna was in danger of grow- —Anthony Comstock. ing vain. Our wise mother held her back, and comforted me by the quaint old say- EATING BETWEEN MEALS. ing I repeated just now. She would say to Anna : You will never be loved or THIS is a gross breach of the require- respected, my child, if you are selfish, and ments of good digestion. The habit many proud of a pretty face.' And to me : have of eating fruit, confectionery, nuts, Never mind, sweetheart, if you are really sweetmeats, etc., between meals, is a cer- sweet-hearted, if you are kind and con- tain cause of dyspepsia. No stomach can siderate, people will like you, and they'll long endure such usage. Those who in- like your face, too. It's the " handsome dulge in this matter usually complain of a does " that tells.' So cheer up, my girlie. poor appetite, and wonder why they have --The Pope has written a letter to the King of You can have what Emerson calls the best no relish for their food, strangely over- Abyssinia asking for the release of the Italian beautifier—' the wish to scatter joy and looking the real cause, and utterly disre- soldiers held prisoners by him. c:ra• not pain around us.' "—Helen A. Hawley. garding one of the plainest laws of nature. —The Protestant Episcopal Church in the This harmful practice is often begun in United States is taking steps to establish a similar early childhood. Indeed, it is too often organisation to the Church Army in this country. cultivated by mothers and the would-be - -The temples of India are to be lighted with ce• friends of little ones, who seek to please electricity, the example having been set by the • • -se and gratify them by presents of confec- great shrine of Siva, at Kochicaddie, near Mutwal, in Ceylon. tionery and other tidbits of various sorts. Under such indulgence, it is not singular —The German universities are producing gradu- ates in law in such numbers that it has been that so many thousands of children an- found necessary to discourage professional study nually fall victims to stomach and intes- in this direction. tinal diseases of various forms. In great —Russia has a standing army of 1,698,000 men numbers of cases, early indiscretions of always under arms, with field reserves of 1,124,000; this sort are the real cause of fully de- first reserves amounting to 1,191,300 men, 4,000,- 000 in the second reserve, and a total of 7,914,000. wig 411; veloped dyspepsia in later years. What a sad thought that the lives of such persons —It is understood that the Government of New have been modified in their usefulness, and Zealand will introduce a measure for the exclusion their whole characters more or less de- of consumptive persons on the same lines as that dealing with small-pox, making masters of ships praved, by the morbid influence of dis- DRINKING HUSBANDS AND liable. ordered digestion.—Good Health. FATHERS. —Following immediately upon the terrible - - disaster at Moscow came the round of balls and I HAVE studied the laws of heredity, Caramel Custard — One quart milk, banquets, the festivities beginning on the very five eggs, one-half cup sugar. Boil the field of slaughter before 'all the bodies were re- practically and with hundreds of living moved. milk, keeping out one cupful; beat the illustrations, for twenty-two years, and I —The Swod, or Russian code, describes the Czar have reached a firm conviction that no eggs, and add them to the cold milk ; stir as an autocrat whose power is without limit: man is worthy to become a husband and the sugar in a small frying pan until it while in the Russian catechism, drawn up for father who is not always sober and clean. melts and begins to smoke ; then stir it into schools, it is said that every one of his subjects By sober, I mean a man who is not familiar the boiling milk; add the beaten eggs and owes him " adoration." with the red cup ; by clean, one whose cold milk, and stir constantly as it begins —Only one railway passenger among 28,000,000 body is pure and healthful. to thicken. When cold, serve in glasses. is annually killed in England; in France it is one in 19,000,000; in Germany, one in 10,000,000; I have sufficient evidence to encourage Italy, one in 6,000,000; America, one in 2,000,- me in my belief that any man who tipples Rhubarb Tart —Line a pie dish with 000 to 8,000,000; and Russia, one in 1,000,000. cannot be a good father ; not that the good pastry, and fill it with the following —A recent scientific traveller in Palestine says greatest wrong is to himself, but because mixture : One pint of stewed and sweet- that the Sea of Galilee is fast becoming like the of the wrong done his children. I find ened rhubarb, one egg, one tablespoonful Dead Sea, with dense water and salt formations on that nine out of every ten men who drink its banks. He believes that the bottom of the sea of cornflour. Beat the egg very light, add is sinking, and that greater changes in it are im- had drinking fathers or a drinking family to it the cornflour, mix smooth, add the pending. before them. The father says : " Oh, I rhubarb. Stir all well together, fill the —There are large districts in China where labour only drink a little, you know ; it never tart and bake without a cover. When is so cheap that it can hardly be reckoned on a affects me ! " But the father never knows cold, pile the whites of two eggs beaten money standard. Thousands of Chinese labourers what terrible effects of just drinking " a stiff and dry, with one tablespoonful of live on little more than a handful of rice or so a day, and yet even then there are thousands of un- little " may be revealed in his offspring ; powdered sugar on the top. employed practically starving. what awful influence it may have upon the * * —The Czar has no Civil List, but draws at dis- mind and habits of his child. THE best way to keep a cake fresh is to cretion upon the Imperial Treasury, every rouble You cannot enervate the mind and body put it in a tin canister; and if the cake is in which,is supposed to be absolutely at his own dis- posal, so that his resources are practically inex- and have strength and intellect remain. already stale, dip it in a basin of milk, and If you are a father, as you sow strength haustible. He is also the owner of immense es- place it in the oven to dry. It will then be tates in various parts of Russia. and intellect in yourself, so shall you reap found almost as nice as when first baked. strength and intellect in your children. If —The Bill for the consolidation of the city of * * New York with its suburbs to constitute what has drunkenness and licentiousness go hand in been called " The Greater New York," has now hand, if we are generating a drunken race, WHEN iron kitchen utensils get very become a law, and will go into effeot on Jan. 1, then we are producing at the same time an badly encrusted, put them, after heating 1898. The area of the city will then be three unclean race. Let thinking men and gradually, right into the furnace, and the hundred square miles, or about twioe that of women consider these cruel, hard facts ; sooty crust will burn off, and they will London. It may lay claim to the title of the Venice of the West, for within its limits it will and, above all, let the wives bring all their come out as good as new, number forty-five islands,

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shipping nations of the East they were to whose opposition was mainly selfish bluster, the present turn toward Jerusalem—to the west—in the applause was equally as great. It their worship. But the priests in Ezekiel's would seem that Dr. Parker has a great "I am the way, the truth, and the life." "And lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world." day had adopted the eastward position, educational task on his hands to bring his LONDON, JUNE 11, 1896. just as in the century after the apostles the confreres to a comprehension of the prin- corrupted church leaders again adopted it, ciples which he enunciates. FOR TERMS SEE FIRST PAGE. from the same heathen source. THE chief end of man's life and labour is THE PRESENT TRUTH may be obtained in South not bread, and house, and property. If Africa through the International Tract Society, " THE eastward position is now adopted," 28a Roeland-street, Cape Town. these things come to a man, plenteously, says a newspaper, " in nearly 6,000 in the line of his duty—well and good—if churches, an increase of nearly 1,000 since not, there are higher and nobler emolu- A ROMAN Catholic paper says that the 1894, and 3,500 use altar lights, more than nuns of a certain order have been praying three times as many as ten years ago, and ments which await him who faithfully " to Cardinal Manning himself," and they an increase of nearly 1,000 in two years. serves till the Lord of the vineyard returns. obtained their request ! In 1,632 churches the chasuble is used, The Popular Taste.—" However we against 509 in 1886, and 307 churches in may regard it, there is no denying the THE leaders of the Catholic party in the Church of England use incense." Germany are preparing a Bill to repeal the fact," says the Chronicle, " that the most anti-Jesuit laws, and they are hopeful of popular achievement of any man in this All the Angels.—The most important success. The Socialists promise to vote country is to secure for himself the three- work in the eyes of all heaven is the work year-old horse that can run a mile and a for the Bill. of saving men ; for do we not read : " Are half in the shortest time." they not all ministering spirits sent forth A SENTENCE in a late report of the British consul at Foochow is an unlooked-for cor- to minister for them who shall be heirs of IT seems that the seal of the corporation roboration of the fruitfulness of the blood salvation?" Not an angel in heaven, then, of Southampton, now in use, still bears of the martyrs. He says : " The result of but is engaged in rescuing the lost in this the ancient Latin inscription to the Virgin the massacre, strange to say, has been to sinful world. What a scene of activity with which it was impressed before the bring a large number of converts into the must be the courts of heaven ! the more so time of the Reformation, " Virgo Mater churches and to stimulate missionary effort as the end draws nearer, and the forces of Dei, misere nobis." This survival of in the province." Thus, in far away China, good and of evil prepare for the final con- Roman Catholicism, having been retained the wrath of the heathen is being made to flict. What a marvel that so many of the so long, will no doubt now remain until it perishing are themselves careless and in- will be no longer an incongruity. praise God. different to salvation, when all heaven is MR. GLADSTONE'S declaration in favour astir in their behalf ! There is not one un- The Sunday Law in Action.--One of of reunion with Rome, if the Vatican will employed angel ; they are all swift to " do our brethren in Canada is now serving a please recognise what is called the validity His commandments, hearkening unto the forty-day's sentence for not keeping Sunday. of Anglican " orders," probably surprised voice of His word." A Sunday-school committee visited the few. " The first Bishop of Christendom " place where he was quietly working and secured his conviction under the " Lord's is the title which he gives the Pope, and if A Protest on Principle.—At a large that be the mind of that larger portion of meeting, held at the City Temple last week, Day Act." In a private letter to a friend, written from Chatham gaol, Ontario, he the Church of England which Mr. Glad- for the purpose of voicing organised op- gives the following report of his first ex- stone represents, it is surely inconsistent on position to the Education Bill, Dr. Joseph perience with the gaoler their part not to submit themselves to Parker expressed some sound principles in him. "You teach the people that Saturday is Sunday." most unmistakable terms. He said :— "No, sir," I said, "we do not teach that Saturday The Bill must be so got rid of that it will never is Sunday, for it is not." This rather surprised The Eastward Position.—When the oome back again,—and so must be fought with the him, for he was sure that we did, and he said, Lord showed the prophet Ezekiel the central, vital, unchangeable principle that it is no " Don't you ? " " No," I replied, " we teach just business of the State to provide religious teaching what the Bible teaches,—that the seventh day of abominations committed by the priests in for old or young. If they did not believe that the week, and not the first, is the Sabbath." the temple, He said, " Thou shalt see fundamental doctrine they were by so much not " To — with the Bible," he said ; " you've got greater abominations," and showed him Nonconformists. I can understand a man being to be subject to the law of the land." " I am a moderate drinker ; I can understand a man subject to the law of the land in civil matters, the priests " with their backs toward the being a total abstainer ; but I defy him to be both. but it is impossible to make men religious by temple of the Lord, and their faces toward If I read my New Testament aright, I cannot be- the law of the land," I said. The search over, the east." Ezek. viii. 16. They had lieve that Jesus Christ would ever say, " Support he commanded me to follow him. Coming to My religion by taxation, and make My kingdom a a heavy iron door, which he unlocked and swung adopted this from the sun-worshipping na- branch of the civil service," and turn over His open, he said, " Get in there, now, and we'll see tions about them. To guard against seem- Cross to be a suppliant in the court of Caesar. if you won't keep Sunday." ing to participate in this custom of turning In the expression of these and similar The birds are a great comfort to me. I throw out bread to them through the bars. . . . I toward the east, the tabernacle in the wil- sentiments the Doctor did not shrink, am not lonely; for the most precious experiences derness, and afterward the temple in Jeru- as far as he went, from the logical principles of my life have been while locked in my cell. to be deduced from these expressions. He Instead of being shut in by bare walls, it seems salem, were set facing the east so that the like being shut in with Jesus. His presence cheers priests in ministering before the Lord seemed to carry with him the entire the gloomy hours. After communing with Him, should face the west, with backs to the audience ; yet when others followed who the hard bed seems soft, and my sleep is sweet ; and when I awake, it is with fresh praises upon east. And when the children of the cap- were ready to palter and compromise in my lips for all His blessings, and I feel a greater tivity were scattered among the sun-wor- fact, though dealing in brave words, and determination to serve Him, even unto death.