WHO can estimate the value of a chance word, in the sense in which there is such a thing as chance? Upon the silence occasioned by the sudden stopping of a street-car, there fell these words: “So long as you can contribute to the pleasure, happiness, or comfort of any human being, you are of importance in the world—and no longer.” Whatever may have been the object of these words, the thought reached the hearts of a dozen or more passengers, and it was interesting to note the changed expression on some listless faces.
In utter unconsciousness of any effect of her words, the lady from whose lips they fell passed out into the street. Perhaps, in the great day, it may be her happiness to know that the Lord then used her tongue for a blessing to some heart which had as yet failed to comprehend the meaning of its life struggle; for the truth she emphasized was a truth which all of us need to realize. Not our personal enjoyment, nor yet our seeming success in life, but our part in God’s plan for others, is the measure of our importance in the world. —S. S. Times.
LINCOLN AND THE LITTLE GIRL.
WILL the world ever know what depth of tenderness there was in the heart of Abraham Lincoln? An anecdote, which has never been published, brings out one more instance in which his sympathies, awakened by a little child, nobly controlled his action. In one of the first skirmishes of the civil war, a young Union soldier was so severely wounded in the leg that the limb had to be amputated. On leaving the hospital the young soldier, by the aid of influential gentlemen, obtained a position as government weigher of hay and grain. Not long after he had entered upon his duties his superior officer said to him:—
"See here, Mr. M., this hay weighs so much on these scales; but to the Government it weighs so much more."
"I do not understand, sir, that way of doing business. I can enter but one weight, and that is the correct one," answered the young weigher.
His superior walked away uttering threats. The young man from that day suffered from many petty persecutions for his honesty, and it was not long before he received notice that the Government had no further need for his service. The summary dismissal made him so downhearted that when he told the story to his family he seemed a man without hope.
"Father," replied the eldest daughter, a girl of thirteen, "cheer up! I am going to see President Lincoln. I know he will be all right."
Her father and mother tried to turn her purpose, saying it would be useless to see the President, as he would not attend to such a petty matter as the dismissal of a weigher of grain. But her faith in the President's sense of justice was so strong that she went to the White House, and, after three days of patient waiting in the anteroom, was admitted to Mr. Lincoln's presence.
The hour for receiving visitors had nearly expired, and as she entered the room the President, throwing himself on a lounge, said, wearily, "Well, my little girl, what can I do for you?"
She told her artless story. Mr. Lincoln listened attentively, and with a smile asked, "But how, my dear, do I know that your statement is true?"
"Mr. President," answered the girl, with energy, "you must take my word for it."
"I do," replied the President, rising and taking her hand. "Come with me to Mr. Stanton."
"Stanton," said Mr. Lincoln, as they entered the office of the great War Secretary, "I wish you would hear this child's story."
"I have no time," answered the overworked man.
"But you must," replied Mr. Lincoln.
"I have not a moment to spare to-day, Mr. President."
"Come again, my dear, to-morrow, and Mr. Stanton will hear you then," said the President, leading her away.
The next day she was admitted at once to the President, who took her over to Mr. Stanton's office. The Secretary listened to the child's simple story, and was so moved by it that he indignantly exclaimed, before she had finished: "The infernal rascal!" He went to his desk and wrote an immediate dismissal of the dishonest official and appointed the little girl's father to the vacant place.
Mr. Lincoln never forgot the child. He told her story to several Congressmen, and through her influence her two brothers were enrolled among the pages of the House of Representatives.—Youth's Companion.
ANECDOTE OF CHARLES X.
CHARLES X., of France, when a child, was one day playing in an apartment of the palace while a peasant from Auvergne was busily employed in scrubbing the floor. The latter, encouraged by the gayety and playfulness of the young count, entered familiarly into conversation with him, and to amuse him told him a number of diverting stories and anecdotes of his province. The prince, with all the ingenuousness of childhood, expressed his commiseration for the narrator's poverty and for the labor he was obliged to undergo in order to obtain a scanty livelihood. "Ah!" said the man, "my wife and five children often go supperless to bed." "Well, then," replied the prince, with tears in his eyes, "I must manage for you. My governor every month gives me some pocket money, for which, after all, I have no occasion, since I want for nothing. You shall take the money and give it to your wife and children; but be sure not to mention the matter to a living soul, or you will be finely scolded."
On leaving the apartment, the honest dependent acquainted the governor of the young prince with the conversation that had taken place. The latter, after praising the servant highly for his scrupulous integrity, desired him to accept the money, and keep the affair a profound secret; adding, that he should have no cause to repent of his discretion. At the end of the month, the young count d'Artois received his allowance as usual, and watching the moment when he was unobserved, hastily slipped the whole sum into the hands of his protégé.
On the same evening a child's lottery was proposed, for the amusement of the young princes, by the governor, who had purposely distributed among the prizes such objects as were most likely to tempt a boy of the count's age. Each of his brothers eagerly hazarded his little store, but the Count d'Artois kept aloof from his favorite amusement. The governor, feigning astonishment, at last demanded the reason of his prudence; still no answer from the count. One of the princes, his brother, next testified his surprise, and at length pressed the count so hard that in a moment of childish impatience he exclaimed: "This may be very well for you; but what would you do if, like me, you had a wife and five children to support?"—Selected.
KING LOG OF THE COMMONS.
MANY persons have seen, while standing in the lobby of the British House of Commons, Mr. Speaker, in his robes, enter, preceded by a tall gentleman with a bag-wig and a sword by his side, carrying on his shoulder a heavy gilt club surmounted by a crown—in short, a mace; but few people are cognizant of how important this toy is to the operations of government. Without it the House of Commons does not exist. It is as essential that the mace should be present at the deliberations of the House, as that Mr. Speaker should be there himself. Without a speaker, the House never proceeds to business, and without his mace Mr. Speaker cannot take the chair.
At the commencement of a session, and before the election of a speaker, this valuable emblem of his dignity is hidden under the table of the House, while the clerk of the table presides during the election; but no sooner is the speaker elected than it is drawn from its hiding-place and deposited on the table, where it ever after remains during the sitting of the House; at its rising, Mr. Speaker carries it away with him, and never trusts it out of his keeping.
This important question of the speaker's duty in retaining constant possession of this, which may be called his gilt walking-stick, was most gravely decided in the year 1763, as appears by the journals of the House of Commons. On that occasion, Sir John Cust, the speaker, being taken ill, sent to tell the House, by the clerk at the table, that he could not take the chair. It appears that there was considerable discussion whether the mace ought not to have been in the House when this important communication was made. No one, however, presumed to say that it ought to have been on the table; but many maintained that it ought, for the dignity of the House, to have been underneath it. It was decided, however, that Mr. Speaker had done quite right not to part with his "bauble," and the House accordingly, as the journals inform us, "adjourned themselves without the mace."
For a member to cross between the chair and the mace when it is taken from the table by the sergeant-at-arms, is an offense which it is the speaker's duty to reprimand. If, however, a prisoner is brought to the bar to give evidence or receive judgment, he is attended by the sergeant-at-arms with the mace on his shoulder, and however desirous any member may be to ask the prisoner a question, he cannot do so, because the mace is not on the table; he must therefore write down his125questions before the prisoner appears, and propose them through the speaker, who is the only person allowed to speak when his "bauble" is away.
If the House resolves itself into a committee, the mace is thrust under the table, and Mr. Speaker leaves the chair. In short, much of the deliberative proceedings of this branch of the Legislature are regulated by the position in which this important piece of furniture is placed; to use the words of the learned Hansell, "When the mace lies upon the table it is a House; when under, it is a committee. When the mace is out of the House no business can be done; when from the table and upon the sergeant's shoulder, the speaker alone manages." The mace, then, may be called the household god of the House of Commons, without the presence of which, good fortune could hardly attend its deliberations:—Selected.
The Home Circle.
By Eben E. Rexford
SPEAK KIND WORDS.
Oh! speak kind words to one and all,
As through the world you go;
Let helpful deeds beside your path
Like flowers of beauty grow.
The fragrance of a loving word
Will linger in the heart,
As sweetness haunts the flower we prize
When summer days depart.
As we go journeying on through life,
Perhaps we may not know
The good our loving words have done
To those who come and go.
But God will know; and surely he,
In his good time and way,
The giver of each kindly word
Will royally repay.
So speak kind words to one and all;
This life is all too brief
To waste in discord and in strife,
And fill the heart with grief.
With sunshine born of loving words
Let's scatter clouds of pain,
And thus make bright the sorrowing face,
As skies are, after rain.
—Eben E. Rexford.
Health and Temperance.
By C. P. B.
DISEASED CATTLE.
SEVERAL times within the last two years the SIGNS has had occasion to warn its readers against diseased meat and dairy products, and notwithstanding it is a most unpleasant subject, fidelity to the public again compels us to assist in sounding the alarm. Last fall the papers in this city and in San Francisco called the attention of the public to the fact that large numbers of animals suffering from the most contagious diseases were being slaughtered in San Francisco, and their flesh sold for food in the markets of that and neighboring cities. The publication of the facts caused quite a sensation at the time, but in a few weeks the matter was forgotten and the nefarious business went on about as usual.
The San Francisco Examiner has, however, been investigating the matter anew, and in its issue of February 11, publishes some most alarming facts, relative to the sale of diseased meats. Reverting to some of the facts developed last fall, it says:—
"Even human beings were not exempt from the plague, and many deaths were reported as the result of eating the meat of the diseased animals. Workmen employed in skinning the dead animals were inoculated with the poison with fatal results in many cases, and in others slow recovery followed a lingering illness only by reason of the most careful medical treatment. Within a few hours' time from its first appearance in a herd of cattle, hundreds died without showing the least symptom of the disease until they fell to the ground in their dying struggles. As the epidemic spread, the stock ranchers became alarmed, and to save themselves from absolute ruin, hurried their dying herds beneath the butcher's ax. Meat literally alive with myriads of the deadly bacilli was sold in the markets of San Francisco, and the lives of thousands endangered."
Of the present condition of affairs the Examiner says:—
"Many pieces of meat which come from the slaughter-houses of Butchertown to-day, reek with the germs of pestilence and disease. Cattle and sheep dying with consumption, Texas fever, and the deadly malignant tumor known as 'big-jaw,' are butchered and sent on their mission, sowing the seeds of death through the city."
But while all will admit that the idea of eating the flesh of diseased animals is by no means pleasant, the impression very generally prevails that the actual danger of contracting disease is very small, nothing, indeed, if the meat is properly cooked. This idea is, however, erroneous, as will appear from the following relative to the germs of anthrax (Texas fever), one of the most common cattle diseases in this State. The Examiner says:—
"These bacilli are practically immortal. When the animal in whose blood they exist dies, the parasites dry up and drop into nearly invisible dust. The dust collects into little round masses, which acquire a very hard skin of such a character that though the masses should be boiled for hours or days the boiling will not kill the germs. At any time, under suitable conditions, they will become revivified and ready for death-dealing. Thus they are, to all intents and purposes, immortal and indestructible. Many attacks of anthrax are attributable to the indiscriminate handling of animals which have died from this contagion, as well as to their careless burial. In the latter case the bacilli will be brought to the surface by earth-worms, sometimes a year after the carcass has been buried. There are cases on record of dogs, after feeding on anthrax meat, biting sheep and thus inoculating them. Flies fed on anthrax blood have absorbed enough in their proboscides to convey the germ to the blood of other animals."
This extract makes no direct mention of the danger of contagion to human beings, but, speaking to an Examiner reporter of the danger of eating the flesh of diseased animals, Dr. William F. Egan, veterinary surgeon to the Board of Health, said:—
"There is no doubt in my mind that great numbers of persons are killed by diseases contracted in this manner, yet ascribed to other causes. Who, for instance, would think that a person dying of consumption had contracted the disease from a piece of steak? yet a post-mortem examination would disclose the same tubercles and the same bacilli as are found in a consumptive cow."
This introduces to our notice another grave danger, namely, that of contracting consumption from using milk from animals suffering from disease. Again we quote from the Examiner:—
"It is the dairy-fed cattle which are nearly all found in different stages of tuberculosis. They, it seems, are not sold to the butchers until they are in an almost dying condition and no longer fit for dairy use. Of a single band of cattle brought from the dairies, it is not at all unusual for the inspectors to seize three-fourths. Such numbers have been condemned that the butchers are loth to take the chances of loss in buying dairy-fed stock, but the dairymen who prefer to take the risk of the cattle being condemned rather than the certainty of a death from natural causes, have their stock killed on commission. In that case if any are condemned the loss falls on the producer."
The great question with the cattle-men seems to be how to avoid financial loss, but what shall be said of those who use the milk and eat the flesh of these diseased cows? The danger of contagion from diseased milk is even greater than from eating of cooked flesh, for a large part of the milk used, especially by children, is consumed without cooking, while meat is generally subjected to sufficient heat to destroy the germs of any disease, except it be anthrax. Certainly it is not putting it too strong to say that it is the duty of every man to see that his family uses neither meat nor dairy products except such as are above suspicion of disease. To enforce a rule of this kind may require some denial of appetite for a time, but a wise Creator has so bountifully provided us with fruits, grains, and vegetables, that none would suffer even if the supply of animal food were entirely cut off.
STILTS.
I wonder if the boys who love to walk about on stilts, know how necessary they are in some places in France. In the southwest part of that country are large plains called the Lands, which are often flooded in parts with water. In crossing these plains, where the water is not generally deep enough for boats, high stilts are worn most of the time by both men and women, who thus are able to keep their feet dry. They are not held by the hands, like the stilts used by boys, but are firmly strapped on the side of the leg, and the person wearing them carries a long pole in the hand, to balance himself and to aid him in walking. This pole usually has a cross-piece on the upper end, like the head of a crutch, and by putting it at a slant on the ground behind him, the person on stilts can sit down on it and rest, looking in this position much like a tripod or three-legged stool.
Men and women may often be seen in that country perched upon high stilts, and knitting, while they watch their sheep. They wear their stilts all day long, putting them on when they go out in the morning, and taking them off only when they return home at night. So used are they to them that they can travel long distances on them without getting tired; and as they are able to take very long steps, they can go much faster than a man on foot.—Selected.
WHEN YOU STUDY, STUDY.
By Young Churchman
LORD MACAULAY, the celebrated English historian, was a great student, and when he studied, he studied. He used to get up at five o'clock, and study till nine or ten. He got so that he could read Latin and Greek right off-hand, the same as you can this. He had the power of putting his whole mind on his book. Many people put part of the mind on their work, and the rest on something else. But all this is wrong. Play when you play; and when you study, study. In study, all the faculties are needed; reason, to judge of what you read; memory, to recollect it, and so with all the rest. Macaulay became one of the most distinguished writers of his times, and it was mainly by dint of this early habit of his, of putting his entire mind at the disposal of the work before him. All cannot study alike, but we can all be deeply in earnest in whatever it is that we do, and only downright earnestness will cause us to succeed in life.—Young Churchman.
The Printer Who Saved His Drinking Money
A NEW ORLEANS paper tells of a printer who, when his fellow-workmen went out to drink beer, during the working hours, put in the bank the exact amount which he would have spent if he had gone out to drink. He thus kept his resolution for five years. He then examined his bank account and found he had on deposit $521.86. In the five years he had not lost a day from ill-health. Three out of five of his fellow-workmen had in the meantime become drunkards, were worthless, and were discharged.
SECULAR.
—A bill to amend the naturalization laws has been favorably reported in the House of Representatives.
—The New York News says that New York has but 450 labor unions out of 600 in existence a year ago.
—The tension between the police and the people in Ireland is becoming more dangerous from day to day.
—It is alleged that the Ameer of Afghanistan is beheading 300 people daily for interfering with frontier traffic.
—February 15 one of the public-school buildings in Woodland, this State, was destroyed by fire. The loss was $12,000.
—It is said that General Boulanger, in a recent interview, expresses great liking for the Constitution of the United States.
—The United States wear out annually 160,000,000 pairs of shoes, of which New England makes and sells 100,000,000.
—A boot and shoe manufacturing company, with a capital stock of $100,000, was organized in Los Angeles, on the 15th inst.
—There is no truth in the rumor that seventeen men were drowned by teams breaking through the ice on the Scandago River, N. Y.
—A petition praying for the enactment of a Sunday law "in Oakland" was presented to the California State Senate on the 14th inst.
—February 12, the eightieth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln was very generally celebrated throughout the country by the Grand Army Posts.
—Klein, the Samoa correspondent of the San Francisco Examiner, arrived in San Francisco on the 16th inst., having been compelled to leave Samoa to avoid arrest and court-martial by the Germans.
—News has been received at Winnipeg, Manitoba, of the breaking out of an epidemic of a most virulent character among the Indians of Cold Lake. The complete extermination of the tribe is feared.
—It now seems certain that work on the Panama Canal will be entirely suspended soon. Whether the canal is ever to be finished or not is a question nobody seems to be able to answer at present.
—There are 17,000 men on the pay-roll of the Pacific system of the Southern Pacific, not including the Oregon and California employees. This is a large number of employees, but it is less than for any time during the past year.
—A special agent of the Government who has been investigating the Indian training school at Genoa, Neb., has reported to Washington that gross irregularities have been discovered in the accounts of Horace R. Chase, superintendent.
—February 14 the French ministry was defeated in the Chambers, on a vote to indefinitely postpone the debate on the revision of the Constitution, and immediately resigned. General Boulanger regards this as a great victory for his party.
—The bill for the creation of a new executive department, to be called the Department of Agriculture, has passed both branches of Congress and been approved by the President. Simultaneously with his approval, the President sent to the Senate the name of Norman J. Colman as Secretary of Agriculture.
—It is announced that the U. S. postal authorities have made arrangements to have mail matter carried on the vestibule train, now running weekly between San Francisco and Council Bluffs. The train will carry two letter pouches, one for Chicago and one for New York, and by this arrangement letters will be carried once a week from San Francisco to New York in 113 hours.
—The National Prohibition Conference met at Louisville, Ky., on the 13th inst. About 300 delegates from abroad were present, including ex-Governor St. John, Rev. D. Brooks, lately the party nominee for Vice-President, Miss Frances Willard, and other party leaders. After a long discussion it was voted to retain the woman suffrage plank of the Indianapolis platform.
—Whole provinces in China are suffering from famine, and half a million people are said to be on the verge of starvation. The Chinese Government is doing all that it can to afford relief, but the famine is of such magnitude that an appeal has been made to the whole civilized world. Already a committee has been appointed in New York to take charge of the work of securing and forwarding supplies for the suffering people.
—Severe fighting is reported from Hayti. A battle occurred January 25. Confederate Prophete was driven back with a loss of 150 killed and 300 wounded. The dead were put in a heap and burned, as the defeated had no time to bury the bodies. Every battle the Minister of War has taken part in has resulted disastrously to the cause of Legitime. The Minister of Finance states publicly that the treasury is empty. Money is getting scarce, and the premium on gold is going up daily. The premium now is 29 per cent.
—California is now threatened with a dry season, something especially dreaded in this State. During the late fall and early winter, the rainfall was unusually heavy, but for a number of weeks there has been practically no rain in this State, and very little on the Pacific Coast, and fears are expressed that crops of all kinds will be seriously affected. Usually at this season there is in the mountains of Northern California over six feet of snow; this year, however, there has been scarcely any snow. This of itself is a serious matter in a mining country.
—Judge Redmond, of Chicago, lost his little girl a little over a year ago, and in his fruitless search for her, became insane. The other day the little girl was found in the Home for the Friendless, where she had been taken by an officer of the Humane Society, to whom the neighbors of the child's abductors made complaint. The father was brought from the asylum to see his child, in the hope that it would affect his mind for good. Says the report: "When he discovered his child, he was overcome with joy, lifting her in his arms, kissing her a hundred times; and his sanity was restored."
—The Mikado has granted Japan a constitution. This constitution establishes a House of Peers, the members of which are to be partly hereditary, partly elective, and partly nominated by the Mikado, and a House of Commons of 300 members. The right of suffrage is given to all men of the age of 25 years and over, who pay taxes to the amount of $25 yearly. Liberty of religion, freedom of speech, and right of public meetings are established. Parliament will possess legislative functions and control of the finances under limitations. Judges cannot be removed except by special legislation.
—The details of the recent earthquakes in Costa Rica, as published in the Costa Rican papers, corroborate the reports sent out in the Associated Press dispatches several weeks ago. San Jose and other cities were terribly damaged. Whole streets are blocked with ruins, railroads blockaded, churches closed, etc. For weeks people living in the cities have camped in the streets and public squares, fearing to enter their shattered houses on account of the constantly recurring shocks. The monetary loss in the city of San Jose alone is over $2,000,000. The loss of life is not yet accurately estimated, but is believed to be great.
News and Notes.
By Editor
RELIGIOUS.
—A Second Baptist Church is about to be formed in Paris, France.
—Kansas comprises three dioceses—Leavenworth, Concordia, and Wichita, with a population of 86,000 Catholics and 167 priests.
—The American Baptist Missionary Union calls for eighty men to fill vacancies and to open new work in various mission fields.
—The International Convention of the Young Men's Christian Associations of the United States and Canada will be held May 8-12 in Philadelphia.
—Eighty-five per cent. of the whole number of churches in the State of New York now use unfermented wine, an advance of 15 per cent. over last year.
—The receipts of the board of home missions of the Presbyterian Church up to December 31, the close of the ninth month of the fiscal year, were $405,397.39, a falling off for the same time during the previous year of $17,175.23.
—A religious house-to-house canvass of the city of New Haven is being carried on by theological students under the auspices of the City Mission, with a view to ascertaining what families not now under church influence may be reached by them. A similar canvass is in progress in Los Angeles, Cal.
—The majority of the four Southern synods having charge of the theological seminary at Columbia, S. C., have confirmed the action of the seminary trustees in electing to the vacant chairs in that institution two professors who are opposed to the evolution views of Professor Woodrow. "It is," says the Christian at Work, "probably too much to expect that the matter will rest here."
Obituary.
JONES.—William Jones, born in Wales, January 18, 1849, aged 40 years and 26 days, died, of consumption, at his home in San Francisco, Cal., February 13, 1889. He came to California six years ago, and resided in San Francisco until his death. Prior to coming to this State he spent some time in Battle Creek, Mich., working at the Sanitarium. He fully accepted of the religion of Jesus Christ, at a camp-meeting held at Monroe, Wis., in 1875, where he was baptized by Elder Isaac Sanborn, and united with the Seventh-day Adventist people, and ever maintained this connection with them. About one year ago he was obliged to give up daily labor on account of the encroachments of disease. A few months before his death he sought the Lord anew, came near to his brethren and the Lord, by humble confession and repentance, and was enabled to frequently rejoice in a consciousness of fullness of pardon and acceptance with God. At the close of a precious season of prayer, he fell asleep peacefully and sweetly, praising the Lord with his expiring breath. He leaves a wife and three small children to mourn, but not without a bright hope of soon greeting their loved one again, when the Life-giver comes.
Funeral services at the church were well attended by many sympathizing brethren and sisters. We laid him away to rest only a little while, till the trump of God shall sound, and the voice of Jesus calls his own to immortal life. Sermon by the writer from 2 Sam. 14:14. H. A. St. JOHN.
PRIEST.—Mrs. Mary L. Priest, aged 65 years and 10 months, died in South Lancaster, Mass., January 11, 1889. She embraced the Advent doctrine in 1842. Soon after the disappointment of 1844, when the Sabbath question began to be agitated in New England, she and her husband embraced it, and ever continued consistent observers of it. She had been in feeble health for a number of years, and from time to time, in answer to prayer, had apparently received a new lease of life. She knew how to exercise faith for herself and others. A number of years ago her husband died. Consumption was gradually preying upon her, until death relieved her from her sufferings. She looked forward to death with the composure of one who had made friends with Him who has conquered death, and has in His possession the keys of death and the grave. The first Vigilant Missionary Society ever organized among us as a people was established in June, 1869. At that time she was made secretary of it, and continued in that office until her death. Her books show that she had written about 6,000 letters to persons to whom she had been sending periodicals. One of the rules of the society, when first organized, was that each correspondent should offer a special prayer to God for assistance in writing, and she always followed that practice. There are many individuals now observing the Sabbath, both in the United States and Canada, who received the light through her correspondence, and the periodicals which she sent them. Some of these have never been visited by any of like faith. In one instance twenty-seven embraced the Sabbath, and so far as we know, are still observing it. Missionary labors had become so interwoven in her nature that a few hours before she died, as her mind occasionally wandered, she seemed to be replying to letters she had received from persons who were interested in the truth. In her extreme feebleness she would fall asleep while writing, and then, upon waking, would continue her letter. Attendance at the prayer and missionary meeting was her great delight. When too feeble to walk, she was carried in her chair to the church, which was only a few rods distant. She was always ready to bear testimony, and wondered how there could be a dry missionary meeting. For many years she was a Sabbath-school teacher, and retained her class to the last. To her scholars, some of whom are scattered throughout this country, and in Norway, Switzerland, England, and South Africa, she left this message: "Tell my Sabbath-school scholars that many nights when I could not sleep for coughing, I thought of every name, and prayed for every one, and I wondered if I had done all that the Lord would have me to for them, and if I had helped them to fit up characters to stand the test of the Judgment. Tell them to make thorough work for eternity; for I want to meet them there." During her last sickness, she sent for several who had backslidden, and appealed to them to return. Her last words, when she could not lift her head or speak aloud, were, "The anchor holds." It was her special request that the one who should preach her funeral sermon, should exhort all to be faithful. She fell asleep as quietly as a babe in its mother's arms. She longed to live to see the outpouring of the Spirit of God that would indicate the loud cry of the Third Angel's Message. But she was ready to be called by the Master at any time when he should say that her work was done. Words by the writer, from Rev. 14:13. S. N. H.
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