EDITOR: On page 13, July 24, of THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES, is an article on “Fruit and the Liquor Appetite,” and it is a fine article, dealing as it does with the symptom or effect, like drug doctors.
I would like to point out the cause of drunkenness, and suggest that when this cause is removed, that symptom or effect—craving for liquor or tobacco or lewd women or other devilry—will disappear.
This cause is wrong living, principally wrong eating. Stop all stimulating or irritating substances like spices, drugs, vinegar, flesh, tea, coffee, etc., and use non-stimulating foods, such as whole-wheat bread, fruits, unseasoned vegetables, and drink nothing but water (between meals).
In a short time the person will want nothing else, every desire will be satisfied, the body calm and comfortable, cool in summer and warm in winter, with muscle strength and endurance superior to any former experience, and the vitality free to support life and combat any attacks from without.
This vital force can do just about so much; but if given a stomach full of rubbish to dispose of three or more times each day, it will give out after a while, and turn its full attention to the single effort of throwing out the rubbish, leaving the building up of the body in neglect.
One job at a time seems to be the rule inside, and we would do well to heed it.
CUMMINGS D. WHITCOMB.
182 Henry St., Detroit, Mich.
STORIES OF THE IMAGINATION.
By Editor
Such may be called many of the wonderful things told about in the press. For instance, here is what on the face of it seems to be a detailed story of a wonderful mirage, which was sent to us by some friend the first of the year.
Toledo, December 22.—A mirage appeared over Lake Erie, near the lower bay shore, to-day, which was witnessed by a number of reputable citizens. A large city appeared, in which the streets, buildings, and many people could be seen distinctly. It lasted fully thirty minutes, during which time the citizens saw flames burst from one of the large buildings and then saw fire apparatus, horses, and people pouring out of different portions of the city. The buildings were remarkably plain, and the entire crowd stood in amazement for about half an hour, when the haze seemed to lift, and slowly the strange sight faded away.
The men who witnessed this strange sight said that fully 2,000 buildings were very plainly to be seen, but that only for a few minutes, when the fire broke out, did the people and horses show distinctly. None of the party could recognize what city it was whose reflection was shown.
But the facts indicate rather a wonderful story of a common mirage. The Signs of the Times, in order to ascertain the truth, wrote to the Toledo Blade, and Mr. Knabenshue, the editor-in-chief, kindly replies as follows:—
My dear Sir: The account is absurdly overdrawn. It was simply a case of "looming," in which, by refraction, distant shores appear much higher than they really are. Such phenomena are common on all the lakes. I have frequently seen them. There was no "city," no fire, no firemen. What really was seen on that occasion was the shore of Cedar Point, the eastern cape of Maumee Bay, some six miles from the point of observation; through looming, it appeared higher, and the Cedar Point clubhouse and a half-dozen summer cottages were plainly visible. Ordinarily they are not, owing to the earth’s curvature. These are the cold facts in the case. It happens so frequently that this paper made no mention of it. Some enterprising correspondent, anxious to earn a dollar, drew on his imagination for the details with which he embellished a somewhat frequent natural phenomenon.
Yours very truly, S. S. KNABENSHUE.
NOT NATURAL CHRISTIANS.
By Mrs. Wm. Gibb
CHILDREN are not born Christians. They may pray with you at the family altar. Let them keep up the practise taught them from their babyhood, but remember there comes a time when God calls for the hearts of your children, and unless a definite step is taken then, and a definite surrender made, you have no right to look upon them as Christians.
A view of the ruins of the Sanitarium after the great fire of February 18. The building in the distance is the dormitory, now, together with the three large buildings formerly owned by the college, used as a Sanitarium. It is said that notwithstanding the fire, the Sanitarium was able to care for more than one hundred of its three hundred guests. Workers are taking hold of the work of rebuilding nobly. The employees are each giving all they earn, except sufficient for board and room. Many souls are responding with liberal offerings for the continuation of the noble philanthropic work of the institution. Photographs of this scene may be obtained by addressing B. O. Bacheller, Battle Creek, Mich.
It seems to me that the reason our churches are filled with young people who know little or nothing of the joy of the Lord is that back in their lives somewhere they were encouraged to do as Christians do without coming to Christ as a sinner and receiving a sinner’s pardon. A mistake made here may not only rob them of years of blessing, as it did me, but it may rob them of life eternal.—Mrs. Wm. Gibb.
TOO LATE!
It was the minister's dinner hour. As usual, he had callers. At the second response to the bell there were ushered into the parsonage parlor an elderly man and one younger. The minister read their errand in their faces. There was to be a funeral. His surmise was correct. The younger man's father had met a violent death.
The minister consented to serve the strangers. To be sure, he had more work than he could see his way through, but such an opportunity for service must not be lost. Some people never hear the Gospel unless it be at a funeral.
The son referred the preacher to the father's sister for information concerning her brother. It was a sad tale, made sadder by the solemn thought that it might have been otherwise.
The dead man, nearly threescore and ten years of age, had been employed painting a house. The scaffolding had been insecurely fastened. Without a moment's warning the aged painter and a fellow-workman had been hurled to the stone pavement below. One hour of agony, and the old man had passed away.
"Two years ago," said his sister, "one Sunday evening I was starting for church, and I invited my brother to accompany me. To my surprise, he consented. We passed the church nearest home, for it was early.
" 'Isn't the Methodist church open to-night?' he inquired. 'Let's go there.' On the way home he said, 'I liked that sermon. That church is pleasant. I'm going there again.' And that was two years ago, and he's never been since."
Tearful were her eyes, as also her voice. There were words unspoken, but thoughts clearly implied by the woman's manner. She believed her brother had been wakened by God's Spirit. He had determined on a wiser walk in life. Incidents had intervened to weaken the determination. The Spirit of God had been dismissed. And now it was too late! "Too late, too late! ye can not enter now."
Botany for Children
“A GROUP of young people were seated on the steps of Mr. Stone’s piazza. They were sisters and brothers, and cousins, and—one aunt. But Aunt Mary was a host in herself. One look into her face, and you would agree with her brother, who often declared that, ‘Everywhere Aunt Mary went, the girls were sure to go.’ Boys, too, he might have added, and even the unruly ones seemed to find a place in her heart and grow better there. Walks and talks with Aunt Mary were the reward of duty well done.”
This is the way this book opens up, and the studies in botany are all taken during the walks with Aunt Mary. It is just as profitable as interesting, and this is saying much.
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Tobacco Blamed for Declining Army Height
THREE times France has lowered the standard of height in her armies. Scientific men who have given the matter impartial investigation, declare that the use of tobacco is one of the chief causes.
THE REFRESHING.
By I. E. Kimball
THERE is a gracious and glorious promise of a refreshing to be given to the people of God, in which time they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine; and a rich spiritual harvest will be given. Then the pastures of the wilderness shall spring; "for the tree beareth her fruit, and the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength." Through a prophet the Lord says, "I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground." Rivers are "opened on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys." The wilderness becomes "a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water." God's people are then like a well-watered garden, and as springs which fail not.
Such gracious promises are given to all the poor and needy ones, who are seeking the waters of life, whose very tongues are failing them for thirst,—that thirst for the living God so beautifully set forth in the forty-second and sixty-third psalms. And it is also evident that those only who thirst indeed, whose souls are drawn out in unspeakable and unconquerable desire for God, and to be made partakers of His holiness, will attain unto the promise. Those whose interests center in temporal affairs, as houses and lands, can never receive the gift of all gifts,—that gift to which nothing may be added, the gift of the Spirit of God; for this is just what is embraced in these promises.
Christ spoke of rivers of living waters which were to flow forth from His followers, and John declares that Christ spoke this of the Spirit, which they that believed on Him were to receive. John 7:39. There is, therefore, in the refreshing the life-giving power of God. And the promise is to all who are needy. The weakest of all the weak may share in the gift. It is synonymous with the promise made through Joel, the prophet: "It shall be in the last days, saith God, I will pour forth of My Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams."
Christ is the everlasting fountain of life-giving waters.13Let us now consider how we may attain to the fulness of these promises. Those who thirst are to go unto Christ to drink, and they have the promise that they shall never-more thirst. They abide at the fountain, always to partake of the life-giving stream. The Lord in ancient times reproved His people for forsaking Him, the fountain of living waters. Jer. 2:13. Their broken, empty cisterns could not supply their necessities. They were therefore compelled to go thirsting and desolate. Now, we must abide perpetually in Christ, else our thirst will be unsatisfied.
Christ's words to the Samaritan woman at the well of Sychar explain it all. The water of life which He gives becomes in each one as a life-giving fountain, springing up unto eternal life. It is the abiding presence of God in the soul. Christ sought to put Himself into the heart of that woman by putting His thoughts and purposes within her, through the words He spoke.
Thus the pure teaching of the Word of God becomes spirit and power to us, and we revive and grow under its influence. David told how Christ through the Word would "come down like rain upon the mown grass, as showers that water the earth." Ps. 72:6. And Moses said: "My doctrine shall drop as the rain, My speech shall distil as the dew; as the small rain upon the tender grass, and as the showers upon the herb." Deut. 32:2, R.V. "As the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, and giveth seed to the sower and bread to the eater; so shall My Word be that goeth forth out of My mouth," etc. Isa. 55:10, 11, R.V.
It is therefore sufficiently evident that the dispensation of the Word in its purity is the means of the refreshing. That Word received in the heart becomes spirit, and life, and power within, and more and more, day after day, the life of God is experienced in the soul.
This is beautifully shown in Isaiah 28, R.V., where the question is asked, "Whom will He [God] teach knowledge? and whom will He make to understand the message?" This is answered by showing that those who will know the message of God must come to feed on something stronger than milk, which is the food for babes: "For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little." "To whom He [God] said: This is the rest, give ye rest to him that is weary; and this is the refreshing." R.V. Thus the refreshing comes to us personally, in the acceptance of line upon line, precept upon precept, until we grow into the fulness of fruit-bearing. Surely the Lord has been visiting us with this refreshing for many years. And this is the rest proclaimed to the weary, and received by daily communion with God, through drinking from the fountain-head of truth.
Those who are careless and indifferent, and have been so these many years, should now awaken to know that the refreshing is indeed being graciously given, and their present indifference to it and to God's rest is the result of not carefully treasuring every word of God. They have not been growing. They have been like the heath in the desert, not recognizing the good when it came; and now they inhabit the parched places, while those who have delighted in the Word are like trees planted by the rivers of waters. Your indifference to the Word is the measure of your indifference to the latter rain, which is now fast ripening the harvest.
Isaiah speaks of the Gospel day when "with joy shall ye draw waters out of the wells of salvation." The water Christ gives becomes in our souls as wells of living water, springing up, gushing forth, for thirsting, dying men. O then, thou who namest the name of Christ, why does your well go dry? Why these dry testimonies? Why no tribute of praise to the Saviour? Why those formal prayers? Why so little interest in the salvation of those about you? You were called to the rest of Christ; but you have not found it. Why?—Because you have been so inattentive to God, and now you can not point others to the rest of which you yourself are ignorant. Rivers of life-giving waters should be flowing forth through that lovely influence which looks through the eyes, and speaks through the mouth, and should ever be working in the life.
But here is the trouble. Your well is shallow. You have not yet pierced through the hard-pan of selfishness, pride, covetousness, and self-love, which mar the perfect working of the Spirit of God, and so shut Christ out of your life. Then dig and dig, until every selfish principle is taken away, and Christ has become the all in all, the first, and last, and best. Then no sacrifice will be accounted too great; Christ will be every possible good to you, and with Paul you will say, "To live is Christ." You will then be willing to labor in obscurity, unknown, unappreciated of men, unrecognized. Anywhere, everywhere, His presence becomes the light, and joy, and life of the soul.
Every one should dispense the pure, living waters. Who desires to drink from a shallow, muddy well, where the waters are contaminated with earthy material? But our conversation is earthly; many times it savors of earth more than of heaven. Surely this must not be. "Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well." Another's well can not suffice for you. Come into close communion with Christ, and turn not away; for he who turns aside for an hour's self-pleasing, is a troubled fountain, a corrupted spring.
Then do not depend on being revived and helped along by the testimony of the brethren, who may do their best to fill up your well. The result in the end will be unsatisfactory. Dig for yourself, dig until you strike the waters. Then pure, sparkling waters will be poured forth in pure, life-giving words and righteous acts. Many will then stop to drink, yea, they will drink, and drink again, and praise God for the fountain of the waters of life so freely given.
I. E. KIMBALL.
THE JAPANESE FOX.
By B. O. WADE
The Mikado's empire, like an artless king of old, has so completely opened its treasures to the man with a book and a pencil that the suggestion of anything Japanese fails to carry with it any features that are novel or astonishing, but tends rather to awaken incredulity. Nevertheless there are many incidents connected with the Japanese fox that make the place he occupies in Japanese "lore" and in fact of especial interest to the Gospel worker, and aid in throwing light upon demon possession in the time of our Saviour.
The superstitious fear and reverence paid to the fox is "partly because it is considered the messenger of one of the gods—Inari Sama, the rice god—and still more because it is supposed to bewitch people. Many persons are thought to be victims of fox possession. They bark like a fox, jump about, and move their bodies in a curious way."
Near my home there are several large temples dedicated to Inari Sama. Stone images of foxes are set in the courts and in sacred places of the shrines. These temples are resorted to by possessed people, who perform certain Buddhist ceremonies, hoping thus to rid themselves of the evil spirit. Every fifth night a festival is held in honor of Inari Sama. One instance will suffice to show the zeal of the worshipers. Ten years ago a lonely waste containing a small cave, situated about six miles from Tokyo, was purchased by a designing speculator, who erected a temple at the mouth of the cave and dedicated it to the fox god. To-day the thriving city of Kawasaki surrounds this cave, and owes its existence to the fox temple and its devotees.
Interior of a Japanese Temple.
The conditions of a possessed person according to Dr. Baelz, is stated in "Things Japanese" as follows:—
Possession by foxes is a form of nervous disorder or delusion not uncommonly observed in Japan. Having entered a human being, sometimes through the breast, more often through the space between the finger nails and the flesh, the fox lives a life of his own, apart from the proper self of the person who is harboring him. There thus results a sort of double entity, or double consciousness. The person possessed hears and understands everything that the fox inside says or thinks, and the two often engage in a loud and violent dispute, the fox speaking in a voice altogether different from that which is natural to the individual. The only difference between the cases of possession mentioned in the Bible and those noticed in Japan is that here it is almost exclusively women who are attacked—mostly women of the lower classes. Possession never occurs except in such subjects as have heard of it already, and believe in the reality of its existence.
To mention one among several cases. I was once called in to see a girl with typhoid fever. She recovered; but during her convalescence, she heard the women around her talk of another woman who had a fox, and who would doubtless do her best to pass it on to some one else, in order to be rid of it. At that moment the girl experienced an extraordinary sensation. The fox had taken possession of her. All her efforts to get rid of him were vain. "He is coming! he is coming!" she would cry, as a fit of the fox drew near. "O, what shall I do? Here he is!" And then in a strange, dry, cracked voice, the fox would speak, and mock its unfortunate hostess. Thus matters continued for three weeks, till a priest of the Nichiren sect was sent for. The priest upbraided the fox sternly. The fox (always, of course, speaking through the girl's mouth) argued on the other side. At last he said, "I am tired of her. I ask no better than to leave her. What will you give me for doing so?" The priest asked what he would take. The fox replied, naming certain cakes and other things, which, said he, must be placed before the altar of such and such a temple at 4 P. M. on such and such a day.
A Japanese Heathen Religious Procession.
The girl was conscious of the words her lips were made to frame, but was powerless to say anything in her own person. When the day and hour arrived, the offerings bargained for were taken by the relatives to the place indicated, and the fox quitted the girl that very hour.
In the May (1900) number of the Japan Evangelist, Miss Harriet M. Brown gives her experience with a girl under the influence of a fox, whose actions coincide with those in the case referred to by Dr. Baelz; but the method adopted to relieve the possessed one is in all respects the antithesis of the bargain concluded by the Nichiren priest.
Miss Nishiyama Tsuji (the possessed girl), having a superstitious turn of mind, was repeatedly overcome by the power of the fox. One night when Miss Brown returned from prayer-meeting, she found the girl under the influence of the evil one. In her experience with the girl during former possessions, she had never been able to quiet her; but she listened while the evil spirits were commanded "in the name of Jesus to come out of her and never come again." This was followed by prayer and the reading of Scripture relating to demon possession.
During this time she stopped her talk and said, "I wonder what they are chattering about." As one of the girls went on reading the story of Jesus and the demons, she crept into the corner of the dark room she was in, as near to the reader as possible, pressing her face into the corner like a dog, listening intently. After a little she rose and took a few steps saying, "Let's go home," and fell rigid as at the close of each former attack, and as before, waked as if out of an ordinary sleep in less than five minutes.
Having been instructed to resist the power of the fox, the girl confessed "that very often some fearful thing would follow her and call out, 'Wait! Wait!' that when she paid no attention, it would disappear, but if it became disagreeably persistent, and she replied to it, she never could tell what happened afterward."
There will doubtless be enough in certain circles who will assert that the weapon used in this battle was not one of "precision," but it is not a matter of detail, rather of belief in a personal Creator who has power to hear the cry of the helpless; and we thank God that in this our day in the name of Him who trod the wine-press alone when "of the people there was none with Him," even weak girls spoil principalities and powers, openly triumphing continually over them, to the confusion of the materialistic, critical, fine-art school of the Japanese negation.
B. O. WADE.
MY WORK.
By Ada D. Wellman
So LITTLE to show for the work of this day!
My time seems but uselessly drifting away;
But no! I have sought to do what Jesus bade;
Why not trust results with Him, now, and be glad?
The few loaves and fishes a young boy supplied,
Fed thousands for whom no one else could provide;
And thus may my offerings, tho they may seem small,
Feed some souls who else would not be fed at all.
Ada D. Wellman.
OUR WORK AND WORKERS.
By Editor
A SESSION of the Lake Union Conference will be held in Chicago March 27 to April 6.
A HOUSE of worship is being erected at Meeker, Col., where Brother L. H. Proctor is laboring.
A SESSION of the Northwestern Union Conference will be held at Des Moines, Iowa, April 3-13.
As a result of labor by Brother M. Mackintosh in San Luis Valley, Col., eleven persons were recently baptized.
BROTHER C. H. BATES reports to Echoes from the Field that three persons were baptized at Pueblo, Col., on the 1st inst.
AFTER a recent visit to Poplar Bluff, Mo., Brother J. M. Rees, president of the Conference, reported five candidates for baptism.
THE Southwestern Union Conference will hold a biennial session in Topeka, Kansas, beginning April 16 and continuing until the 27th.
SPEAKING of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, the Nebraska Reporter says, "As a help in missionary effort nothing surpasses this valuable paper."
A CHURCH of twelve members, all Mexicans, was recently organized at Laredo, Texas, by Brother W. A. McCutcheon, president of Texas Conference.
OUR little company at Rena, Mo., are working hard to help supply clothing to poor people who are still suffering from the effects of the severe drought in that region last year. They say the demand is greater than the supply.
Reporting to the Monitor, Brother J. A. Fraugh notes that seven persons are keeping the Sabbath of the Lord as a result of labor at Belington, W. Va.
A CANVASSERS' institute of one month's duration will be held at Johnstown, Pa., beginning May 5, to be followed by the State camp-meeting, June 5-16.
Meetings held at Kaycee, Wyo., by Brethren J. W. Beams and E. L. Cook, have so far resulted in six converts. Two of these, young ladies, have decided to attend Union College.
BROTHER W. H. WAKEHAM, the Bible teacher at Mount Vernon (Ohio) Academy, has been invited by the Mission Board to take the general superintendence of the work in Egypt, and he expects to start at the close of the present term of school.
Meetings held at Scotland, Ontario, by Brother W. A. Young, have created a good interest. His first meeting on the Sabbath day was attended by twenty adults and ten children, nearly all of whom expressed their intention to keep the Sabbath of the Lord henceforth.
THE death of Brother J. P. Henderson, at Springfield, Ill., February 18, takes away another faithful minister of the Word. His death was caused by congestion of the lungs. He had labored in several of the Western conferences, and led many people to a knowledge of the truth.
The April issue of the Life Boat is to be a special prisoner's number, and will be supplied in quantities at one cent per copy. This journal has the indorsement of all the leading prison officials in the country. Single subscriptions, 25 cents a year. Address 28 Thirty-third place, Chicago, Ill.
SISTER IONE V. CARR, formerly a Bible-worker in Pennsylvania Conference, has answered a call for the development of an industrial school near Barnwell, S. C., and now she is appealing to her former co-laborers to assist in the purchase of fifty acres of land, with buildings, which is well adapted to the purpose. The place can be had for $700.
The kingdom of Holland is now a separate conference, having been organized about two months ago. The membership is about two hundred, with two ordained ministers, two licentiates, three Bible-workers, and a dozen colporters. Brother J. Wabbens, who is located at Hoorn, says that place has 11,000 inhabitants, one-third Catholic and two-thirds irreligious, with few exceptions.
BROTHER L. V. FINSTER, formerly of Nebraska, is now in West Australia. He is laboring in "practically a new missionary field" about seventy miles from Perth, the capital, where he reports having found six persons who had begun to keep the Sabbath from reading books sold by some canvasser. Writing to the Nebraska Reporter, he says, "A few others have taken their stand with them, and we hope for a nice company here."
In making a house-to-house canvass of San Francisco, the Sunday-school Association's agents are compiling the relative percentage of attendance on the part of the various religious denominations. As far as computed, the Seventh-day Adventists lead, their percentage of attendance being 95. Of course this is their attendance at Sabbath-school, but in the census it is reckoned as Sunday-school attendance, the percentage meaning the percentage of children of church-members under the age of 17 years. The Scientists rank the lowest, being only 43 per cent.
AN IMPORTANT WORK.
By Editor
A METHODIST physician who is a missionary in China, has this to say of the importance of the medical work:—
The medical work reaches the great middle classes. A good physician has access to thousands of families that do not wish to have intercourse with other missionaries. They are anxious for themselves or friends, and this selfish interest often develops into a saving interest in the Gospel. When a patient comes into the hospital, we have an opportunity to come into personal touch with him, and come closer to his soul than in any other way. No one can come to us without hearing something of Jesus and His precious love. There is no better time to show real kindness, and to point people to the love of Christ, than when they are ailing and discouraged or downcast.
And who can measure works of love? Who can tell the results of suffering relieved, of bringing would-be suicides back to life, of hope renewed, of mothers restored to their families, of fathers saved to their homes, and children spared?
In all these works of love and mercy, Christ is revealed; and an influence is brought into the lives of the people that nothing can destroy.
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THE SANITARIUM CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL.
By Editor
The Correspondence Department of the Training School, mentioned in a recent issue of this paper, is still carrying on its work.
Our supplies were all saved from the late fire, and we are receiving students the same as ever. Send for circular giving full particulars, also testimonials.
Address, Correspondence Department, Sanitarium Medical Missionary Training School, Battle Creek, Michigan.
