If to hold fast to the teachings of the word of God and be guided in all things by it, to hate whatever is mean and wicked, to seek after all that is lovely and beautiful, and of good report—if this is to be "puritanical," let us be Puritans to the end of time, and glory in the title.—Examiner and Chronicle.
One Cross the Less
“ONE cross the less remains for me to bear; Already borne is that of yesterday; That of to-day shall no to-morrow share; To-morrow’s with itself, shall pass away. The storm that yesterday plowed up the sea Is buried now beneath its level blue; One storm the fewer now remains for me, Ere sky and earth are made forever new.”
"GO."
By Wm. Penniman
BY WM. PENNIMAN.
Our Saviour says: "Go ye therefore and teach all nations," etc. Rev. Sia Sek Ong, one of the native pastors, preached at a recent Methodist Conference at Foochow, China (so says the Christian Advocate), from the single word "go." "Leave father, mother, friends, fields, preachers go thus; world-men don't like to go in that fashion. Where must we go? To the sea, for the fish. They are not on the surface; they are in the depths. We may find shrimps in shallow water, but we must go to the deep water for the large fish. Go to the mountains to seek the lost sheep. There are lions and tigers and snakes in the mountains, but we must go, not to find sport, but to find the sheep. Go to the vineyard, to work, to watch, to plant, to water. Go to the field to sow seed. Study the soil and sow accordingly. Field-work is not play. Go to the market place, and bid guests to the Master's feast. Go into the army, to fight, to wrestle with the devil, to put forth your strength, and to come home singing songs of victory. Ask the Master for Peter's hook to bring up the right fish: for David's crook to guide the sheep aright; for Gideon's torch to light up the dark places; for gospel seed without any tares in it; for Moses' guiding rod; for the brazen serpent, to cure the bites of the world's snakes; for David's sling to prostrate your giant foe; for the armor inventoried by Paul in the last chapter of Ephesians; but above all, for the wonderful Holy Spirit to help at all times. If we have all these it is no matter where we go. We will come with rejoicing to conference next year, with songs and shouts of victory."
WOODLAND, ARBUCKLE, AND FRESHWATER, CAL.
By John Norton Loughborough
I have been visiting the above churches the past few weeks, preaching several times at the first two places. One who had been seriously considering these things for several years, took a decided stand to keep all the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
At Arbuckle we organized a church from the companies at that place and at Freshwater. Bro. Philander Grinnell was elected leader, and Sr. Mary E. Ward, clerk. Others who are keeping the Sabbath, some of whom are to be baptized, will probably unite soon. We expect to see prosperity attend this young church. If they will live humbly before God and study to reflect his image, continually having a living connection with Heaven, holding the standard high, and letting their light shine bright and clear in their lives and labors, such will be added to them from time to time as shall be saved, and the decisions of the Judgment will well reward their faithfulness.
The brethren generally seemed to be of good courage in the Lord and his work, expressing a desire to get nearer the Lord and manifesting a readiness to assist in carrying forward his work. Several subscribers were obtained for the Review and Signs. A sufficient number of the Testimony for the Church, No. 30, were ordered from each place to supply every family in the church, and liberal donations and pledges made towards the club of missionary Signs to Eld. Loughborough.
J. D. RICE.
Williams, Cal. March 14, 1881.
NEVADA CITY AND GRASS VALLEY, CAL.
By M. C. Israel
DURING the last ten days I visited these places where Bro. Briggs has been laboring. Found twelve keeping the Sabbath at Nevada. After visiting the friends at their homes and holding a meeting at each place, we appointed a general meeting at Nevada City where the brethren and friends of both places met at an early hour last Sabbath. It was a good day for the church, and all the friends present. Had a very interesting Sabbath-school in the morning, followed by preaching, after which five willing souls went forward in baptism. These joined the church, also two others who had been baptized before.
In the afternoon the ordinances were celebrated for the first time here. The Lord came very near and we had an excellent social meeting. There are eight or ten others who we hope will soon decide to unite in church fellowship with us. Bro. Briggs spoke in the evening from 1 Tim. 1:5, 6, to an appreciative audience. He has held about a dozen meetings at Newcastle near Auburn, where eight have already signed the covenant to keep all the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
M. C. ISRAEL.
Masters of What We Despise
WE masters grow of all that we despise.
WOODLAND HEALTH AND TEMPERANCE CLUB.
By J. G. Overshiner
THE Woodland H. and T. Club held its regular monthly meeting at Central Hall on Saturday evening, March 12. Although the weather was quite cold, a larger audience than usual was present. After the exercises were opened by singing, prayer, and reading of minutes, Rev. E. M. Stuart entertained the audience with a spicy and instructive temperance lecture. He introduced his lecture with humorous comparisons, in which he stated that the complaint is often made that temperance advocates are always harping on the old, worn-out tune—Temperance; that it might be facetiously compared to the interminable and monotonous strains produced by the “heathen Chinee” on his high-strung musical instruments, and which are so excruciating to the untutored and unappreciative ear of Americans who profess to have a talent for good music. He suggested that if the Americans had a better understanding of Celestial music, and had received thorough instruction in regard to the hidden meaning as taught by Chinese artists, his ear might recognize dulcet strains of melody, full of harmony and variety, which otherwise would require a severe stretch of his imagination to detect. So if those who complain of the monotony of the tune of temperance would become better acquainted with its meaning and objects they would discover more variety and melody in it than they are willing now to give it credit. He stated that the advocates of intemperance have, also, a tune they are always harping on, but the more it is understood the less melody and variety there is found in it; and that is “revenue.” They claim that the Government realizes an annual revenue of $50,000,000 from the liquor traffic, but close their eyes to the fact that expenses are entailed yearly by the same traffic to the amount of $700,000,000, not taking into consideration the multitude of souls drawn into the vortex of destruction; still like the indefatigable Chinese fiddler, they console themselves by interminable repetitions of the monotonous tune of “revenue.”
Mrs. L. Walker read the first number of “The Temperance Budget,” a bright and instructive little paper, of which she is “editor and publisher,” and which is promised to be one of the interesting features of future meetings of the club. Mabelle Peak, Henry Curran and Johnny Grant each delivered pleasing recitations. The exercises were interspersed with excellent music by the choir. While the solicitors were passing through the audience, M. C. Winchester, Esq., of Knights Landing, made a few encouraging and appropriate remarks. After the appointment of the committees on programme and music it was announced that 29 persons had signed the several pledges, making a total membership of the club of 161. Number of pages of temperance tracts distributed was 1420. Meeting closed with singing and a benediction by Mr. Stuart.
J. G. OVERSHINER, Sec.
GOV. LONG ON LIQUOR LEGISLATION.
By Editor
GOVERNOR LONG of Massachusetts, in his inaugural address before the general court of 1881, devotes considerable space to "liquor legislation," from which we make the following extract: "I cannot forbear to call your attention generally to the terrible evil of intemperance, and its devastation of crime, insanity and pauperism. The public mind is awakened afresh to its gravity, and ready to sustain any healthy movement for its suppression. There is a growing demand, shared by men of all shades of theoretical opinion, that whatever be the law in this matter it should be honestly enforced, and that just as far and as fast as possible, the dram shop should be rooted out, in the interest alike of good morals and of the material welfare of capital and labor.
The bureau of statistics has, during the year, added to its admirable work by conducting an original inquiry into the cause of crime. It has made personal investigation of every case in the nine criminal courts of Suffolk county, which were selected as a sample, and the result constitutes the strongest indictment against the use of intoxicating liquors that has been drawn. Of the 16,867 cases, more than 72 per cent were for the various grades of drunkenness; and in addition to these, more than 12 per cent were offenses committed by persons under the influence of liquor, leaving only some 15 per cent of crime to represent what would be the total amount but for the use of intoxicating liquors. These statistics are important, as presenting this subject in the economical light of its relation to the industrial interests of the commonwealth and as an appeal to those who depend upon them, whether as employers or employees. They will be laid before you in due course, and I trust, will receive your attention.
"They cannot fail to impress, not only the moralist, but, in view of the enormous waste they suggest, the economist, the manufacturer, and the workingman, also. The more sobriety the greater the dividend of capital and the wages of labor. Can it be that good morals, wise economy, the spirit of mutual help, the love of accumulation and the light of domestic happiness will not see their common interest in a more united effort to surpass this common evil?"
"THE GATES OF HELL."
In a sermon upon this subject, Mr. Talmage said: "Another gate of hell, and the chief gate, and as wide as all the others put together, is the gate of alcoholic beverages. On the night of exploration I found that everything was done under the enchantment of the wine cup; that was one of the chief attractions of the illuminated garden; that staggered the step of the patrons as they went home. The wine cup is the instigator of all impurity, and the patron of all uncleanness. So far as God may help me, I shall be its unending foe. It was the testimony of the officials on the night of the exploration, that those who frequent the house of death, go in intoxicated; the mental and spiritual abolished, the brute ascendant. Tell me a young man drinks, and I know the rest. Let him become a captive of the wine cup, and he is captive of all vices. No man ever runs drunkenness alone. That is one of the carrion crows that go in a flock. If that break is ahead, you may know the other breaks follow. In other words, it unbalances and dethrones and makes him a prey to all the appetites that choose to light on his soul."
"There is not a sin on this continent that does not find its chief abettor in the places of inebriety. There is a drinking bar before, behind, or a bar under it. The officers said to me that night, 'You see how these escape legal penalty; they are licensed to sell liquor.' Then I thought within myself, the court which licenses the sale of intoxicating liquors, gambling houses, licenses libertinism, licenses disease, licenses all crime, all sufferings, all woes. It is the legislature and the courts who swing wide this grinding, roaring, stupendous gate of the lost. But you say, you have shown us how these gates swing in to allow entrance for the doomed; please tell us how they swing out for the escape of the penitent. Let me answer, it is the exception when they come out. I think nine hundred and ninety-nine out of a thousand perish."
Duty Before Safety
In evil times it fares best with them that are most careful about duty, and least about safety.
THE AWKWARD CHILD.
By Margaret E. Sangster
"Do TURN out your toes, Maria," said Mrs. Ames, as Maria, her eleven-year-old daughter, came in from school, a great pile of books in her hands and a tired look on her face. "And do try to stand up straight and keep your shoulders back. Why can you not move and walk like other girls?"
The child's countenance took on a sullen expression, but she made no reply. Seating herself at the window she began to prepare her lessons for the ensuing day. Aunt Phebe, a benevolent old lady who was aunt to every one in the neighborhood, observed this, and said:—
"Maria, dear, do you need to study to-morrow's lessons immediately? Can you not be out-doors awhile, on this lovely afternoon?"
"I do take a walk about dusk," Maria answered pleasantly; indeed, everybody answered Aunt Phebe pleasantly, for good nature has a winning way of its own. "But I cannot afford to lose any of the light, and the days are growing so short."
Aunt Phebe said no more. Sixty years' experience had taught her the lesson which some of us are so very slow to learn, that nothing is so entirely wasted as unnecessary talk, advice, and admonition. But she thought a good deal, though she was silent, and once or twice as Mrs. Ames said querulously, "Do Maria, sit up! Do Maria, keep your feet still! Maria, I cannot endure such clumsiness; you must assume a more ladylike position," etc., a pained expression crossed her placid countenance. When at last the books were closed, and the little girl, for whom a companion had called, had departed to take her daily twilight exercise on the block and around the corner, the dear old lady ventured on a word of reproof to the mother.
"Elizabeth, you will pardon me, but I fear you are making Maria unhappy. And she is a very attractive child!"
"Attractive, Aunt Phebe! How can you say so? You see for yourself how big and ungainly she is growing, and she never knows what to do with her hands and feet. If I were her stepmother, people would say that was why I was so clear-sighted to her defects, but she is my own child, and a very great trial she is to me. I love her, but she mortifies me."
"She is obedient, truthful, and faithful to her duties, is she not?"
"O! yes, but then, Aunt Phebe, her disposition is so sullen. She pouts when I find fault with her, and that puts me quite out of patience."
"Well, dear, if you would find fault less frequently, and only in private, you might not have the sullenness to complain of. A sensitive nature cannot bear to be blamed in the presence of others. Another thing you must remember, your daughter is growing very rapidly, and some of her attitudes and angularities and her awkward changes of position must be set to that account. Nature suggests these movements, as easeful and reposing. Seriously, I would be more careful, if I were in your place, about wounding her by too constant criticism. As she emerges from the chrysalis of her awkwardness, many things will arrange themselves, and many ungraceful habits will drop away. Do not let Maria have the memory of an unhappy childhood."
Are not many who have laid upon them the responsibility of caring for young people making the mistake of Mrs. Ames? In their anxiety to do the very best things for their children, and have them excel in everything which is desirable, they keep up an incessant monotony of deprecation and reproach. Meanwhile the boys and girls, burdened with multiplied tasks, soul and body receptive together, and both developing every day, are perhaps petulant, and fractious, as they will not be in a few years, when the forces of their beings are more harmoniously adjusted. Perhaps they lack grace of movement and ease of manner. They are, quite probably, conceited and vain, or, it may be, touchy and sullen. Be patient and watchful, and always tenderly loving, dear mothers, and your reward will come by and by when the husks of the present hour fall away from the ripening fruit.—Margaret E. Sangster, in Christian Intelligencer.
WORK.
I've heard some glorious songs betimes,
Of love, and war, and wine,
Bright fancies woven into rhymes.
Another theme is mine—
'Tis work, and men of horny hands,
Creation's sovereigns true,
The nobles of their native lands,
And not the titled few.
Ere first from out chaotic sleep
Arose this nether world,
The Spirit moved along the deep,
And back the darkness furled;
And working with omniscient will
The superhuman plan,
A lesson taught, and teaches still,
That work is good for man!
When Adam was from Eden sent,
By the divine command,
Obedient at the word he went
To till the virgin land;
In exile toiling all his days,
Long lengthen'd out that ran,
Chanted his glorious Maker's praise,—
The primal workingman.
But when the sons of Adam grew,
And multiplied apace,
The way of Heaven no more they knew,
And ran a sinful race;
All, all save they of Noah's blood
Fell 'neath Jehovah's ban,
Who bore above the whelming flood
His own loved workingman.
When from the children-slayer's hand,
Fast from the Jordan side,
Away to Egypt's distant land
Where Nilus pours its tide,
Madonna with her infant fled,
To 'scape dire Herod's ban,
Who then the youthful Saviour led?
A simple workingman.
To sow the new-evangel seed,
To point the way to Heaven,
To heal the sick, to raise the dead--
To whom were these things given?
Not to the great ones of the earth!
The proud of purse or pen,—
To chosen ones of humble birth,
Poor, simple workingmen.
—N. Y. Tablet.
The Gospel’s Power to Save
By Arthur
The creation of saints out of sinners is the demonstration whereby the divinity of the gospel is most shortly and most convincingly displayed. Of all the Christian evidences it alone proves that our religion does save from sin.—Arthur.
HOW TO BE CHARMING.
EVERY young girl cannot be beautiful, for to every one God has not given a comely face nor a graceful figure. But every one can be attractive. Indeed, health and cleanliness go far in giving those bright eyes, blooming cheeks and clear skins which conduce to good looks, though some have plain and irregular features, and can easily see, by the testimony of the truth-telling mirror, that they are not remarkable for external graces. Let them comfort themselves by the thought that they may make very beautiful old ladies, if they cultivate sweetness of disposition and contentedness of mind, and trust in God's goodness and love.
How can the homely be charming? Well, true self-forgetfulness and kind thoughtfulness for the happiness of others is always winning. The vain, selfish beauty cannot compete with the homely maiden who is popular because she is so very lovable. Her father confides in her. Her mother leans on her. Her friends go to her for help and advice. The little girls bring her their broken toys, and the boys come for aid when the lessons are hard. By and by a marvelous thing happens. She is spoken of everywhere as "the interesting Miss Parker," or "the agreeable Miss Dornell," or the "captivating Miss St. Mark." She has grown interesting, agreeable and captivating, and each quality is far more valuable to a woman than the possession of mere beauty, without other winning personal characteristics.
The power to converse well is a very great charm. You think anybody can talk? How mistaken you are! Anybody can chatter. Anybody can exchange idle gossip. Anybody can recapitulate the troubles of the kitchen, the cost of the last new dress, and the probable doings of the neighbors. But to talk wisely, wittily, instructively, freshly, and delightfully, is an immense accomplishment. It implies exertion, observation, study of books and of people, and receptivity of impressions. No young girl can hope to shine in conversation as her mother does, but every girl can begin to acquire that graceful art which will draw intelligent men and women to her side, and enable her to retain them, because they are pleasantly entertained.—Christian at Work.
PUT THE BUTTON ON THE BOY.
A FRIEND of ours tells the following story. It was Sunday; all day long father, mother, and auntie had been kept busy caring for Jimmie. He had been forbidden again and again to go outside the gate, but the moment their backs were turned, out he would go to join the boys in the street.
A button had been put on the gate, to keep him in, but he had grown, and now was tall enough to reach up and turn it. "Ah, I see," said the indulgent father, "I must put another button on that gate."
"Hadn't you better put the button on the boy instead of the gate?" suggested his sister. "The time will come when you can't keep him in by buttons on the gate; a little wholesome restraint now, may keep the feet from straying when they get too big to be held back by a button on the gate."
KEEP YOUR TROUBLES SACRED.
By Editor
A worthy wife of forty years' standing, and whose life was made up of sunshine and peace, gave the following sensible and impressive advice to a married pair of her acquaintance. The advice is so good and so well suited to all married people, as well as those who intend entering that state, that we here publish it for the benefit of such persons:—
Preserve sacredly the privacies of your own house, your married state, and your heart. Let no father or mother, sister or brother, ever presume to come between you two, or to share the joys or sorrows that belong to you two alone. With God's help build your own quiet world, not allowing your dearest earthly friend to be the confidant of aught that concerns your domestic peace; let moments of alienation, if they occur, be healed at once. Never, no never, speak of it outside, but to each other confess, and all will come out right. Never let the morrow's sun find you at variance. Review and renew your vow; it will do you good, and thereby your souls will grow together, cemented in that love which is stronger than death, and you will become truly one.
HOME HAPPINESS.
PROBABLY nineteen-twentieths of the happiness you will ever have you will get at home. The independence that comes to a man when his work is over, and he feels he has run out of the storm into the quiet harbor of home where he can rest in peace with his family, is something real. It does not make much difference whether you own your house or whether you have one little room in that house, you can make that little room a true home to you. You can people it with such moods, you can turn to it with such sweet fancies, that it will be fairly luminous with their presence, and will be to you the very perfection of a home. Against this home none of you should ever transgress. You should always treat each other with courtesy. It is often not so difficult to love a person as it is to be courteous to them. Courtesy is of greater value and a more royal grace than some people seem to think. If you will but be courteous to each other you will soon learn to love each other more wisely, profoundly, not to say lastingly, than you ever did before.
DRESS OF INFANTS.
Dr. MERCY B. JACKSON says: “The special evil of which I now speak is the long skirts, dresses and cloaks which are now the fashion for babies. I feel the deepest commiseration for a delicate child that has hung upon its tender body a flannel skirt a yard long, and over that a cotton skirt equally as long, and over that a dress to cover both, often weighted with heavy embroidery, and, if the child is carried out, a double cloak longer than all, so that the skirts reach nearly to the floor as the infant is borne on the nurse’s arm. The longer the clothes the more aristocratic the baby, would seem to be the idea of the mother! Think of all this weight attached around the waist of the child, and hanging over the little feet, pressing down the toes and even forcing the feet out of their natural position! How much of deformity and suffering this fashion produces none can tell; but that it is a great discomfort to the baby, every thinking mother must perceive.”
Faith, Means, and God’s Blessing
Faith will teach thee to use means as God's ordinance, but rely on God to bless it.
ITEMS OF NEWS.
—The apricot crop has been injured by frost in Alameda county, Cal.
—A $300,000 fire occurred at Newburyport, Mass., on the night of March 18.
—It is stated that the Ambassadors have accepted the frontier line offered in the Turkish note of October, including Crete.
—The Governor of California has signed the bill appropriating $50,000 for the erection of a Normal School at Los Angeles.
—In Scotland, during the last five years, more new Baptist chapels have been built and more debts paid off than in the previous forty years.
—Cannon, the Mormon delegate to Congress, expresses his conviction that Campbell, the rival delegate, will retain his seat against all efforts to unseat him.
—A dispatch from Augusta, Georgia, March 18, says: “The Savannah River is higher than since 1865. It rose 24 feet in twelve hours. A portion of Augusta is flooded.”
—Gen. Upton, of the regular army, commanding the military post at the Presidio, San Francisco, committed suicide by shooting on the morning of March 16. No cause is known.
—Great satisfaction is felt at the tenor of the circular of the Russian Foreign Office. It is said to be strictly in conformity with the autograph letter of the Czar to the Emperor.
—The rice crop of China and the East Indies is annually 250,000,000,000 pounds. The crop of the United States last year was 150,000,000 pounds. The American article is the best.
—The Freeman’s Journal regards the appointment of the Papal Nuncio at the Court of St. James as one of the most dangerous intrigues ever attempted by England against the nation and faith of Catholic Ireland.
—The Nihilists seem to have grown more bold by the success of their attack on the Czar. They say: “Had the first shell missed the Emperor, three others would have been thrown before he reached the palace.”
—Rev. Lord John Thynne, D. D., sub-Dean of Westminster Abbey, is dead. He became Canon at Westminster in 1831, and assisted at two coronations—those of William IV. and Queen Victoria. He was 82 years old.
—Two locomotives and twenty cars were destroyed by the collision of two freight trains on a side track at Parsons, Kansas, March 18, and a brakeman and engineer were killed. The carelessness of a conductor was the cause.
—Thousands of cattle are reported killed by the recent severe winter on the plains, and over five hundred dead cattle were recently counted in sight of the railway from Ogallala to Big Springs, Neb., a distance of nineteen miles.
—The first overland train by the Southern route left San Francisco March 19, at 8:30, without any public demonstration being made over the opening of the line to the Eastern States. Through fares will be the same as by the Central route.
—A German man-of-war destroyed the habitations of the tribes on the coast of Liberia, who plundered the German merchant ship. One native was killed, and nine hostages were taken. Liberia agrees to pay $1000 as compensation for the plundering.
—On the 17th, the towns of Ineboli on the Black Sea, and Velden in Austria, were nearly destroyed by fire. In the former town, three hundred and fifteen houses, including the Custom House and Foreign Consulates, were burned. The houseless inhabitants are destitute.
—In a recent sermon in the temple, Mayor Kalloch said: “I see nothing in the present state of affairs to prevent me from preaching, nor my son, for that matter, and he probably will deliver a sermon here before long.” The last remark was greeted with loud and prolonged applause.
—It is said that Mrs. Senator Logan has never tasted wine. At a dinner given to Prince Arthur some years since she declined it, and at the recent lunch of a cabinet lady she was the only one of twenty-five who abstained. She has brought up her children to share her feelings on the abstinence question.
—On the 19th, a boy in attempting to jump off the front platform of an East Oakland street car, fell beneath the forward wheels, and received injuries from which he died the next day. In spite of this warning, boys will doubtless still continue to jump off from moving cars. Such recklessness should be restrained by a law vigorously enforced.
—From the warlike preparations of the Utes in Colorado, an outbreak is expected early in the spring. Their camp is located near White River, about twenty-five miles from the military post. A dispatch from that place says that they are “procuring all the guns and ammunition possible, for which they exchange horses, or anything else.”
—A firm of machinists at Springfield, Massachusetts, finding it difficult to get thoroughly qualified workmen, are making an effort to restore a good system of apprenticeship. Many trades are being left without good workmen, owing to failure to serve an apprenticeship. An “industrial school” is about to be opened in that city with a view to perfecting artizans in their trades.
—Recent investigations conducted in the laboratory of Harvard University, have led to the discovery of the fact that intense cold can deprive magnetized steel bars of nearly all the magnetism that may have been imparted to them. Doubtless, many of the supposed changes in the magnetic condition of the earth, as observed in the northern regions, can be traced to this fact.
—One of the bombs which would have been thrown at the Czar had the first one missed him, was found in the possession of Roussakoff, the assassin. “It was made in a zinc case containing glass tubes, two of which were filled with vitriol, and two with bartholdy salts, india-rubber tubes, with fulminating mercury, and a box holding nitro-glycerine and pyroxiline, the whole weighing six pounds and three quarters.”
—Gladstone's strength is said to be giving way. He looks like a wreck of his former self. While speaking in the House of Commons he constantly rubs his hand slowly across his forehead as if suffering from pain, or trying to collect his thoughts. Obstructions seem to have made the House a bear garden, and it is nightly torture to him to conduct its so-called deliberations. The troubles which face him in India, Ireland, and the Transvaal, weigh heavily upon his unstrung nerves.
—The New York Herald says editorially: If the President will follow up the programme he has marked out on the threshold of his Administration, in reference to polygamy, he will have the support of all men, irrespective of party, whose support and good-will are worth having. We have been fooling and playing with this Mormon leprosy too long. It is idle to expect it can be destroyed by the civilizing forces of railroad, telegraph and newspapers, which, a few years ago, were counted upon so strongly for its extinction. It must be taken hold of by the strong arm of the law, and the sooner it is done the better.
—Another snow blockade is reported in the East. Chicago, March 19, midnight, the telegraph says: “Affairs in the streets have gone on from bad to worse on account of the storm, but at present the snow, which has been falling rapidly since 5:30 this morning, is beginning to come less heavily and will probably stop falling entirely soon. The result of to-day’s storm is from six to eight inches of exceedingly compact snow, which is so solid that pedestrians can walk on top of it without perceptibly reducing its height. The thermometer has been very near and but a trifle above freezing point all day, and is now slowly rising. The morning trains arrived very closely on time, but to-night there are serious delays on all lines. All freight trains are abandoned. The Northwestern road sent out only one train to Milwaukee, and no others except to the suburbs. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy trains are blocked. The Alton train arrived an hour late. Illinois Central trains are slow, but running with some regularity. The Michigan Central is far behind, and sent out only one train to-night. The Michigan Southern trains were delayed by a bad wreck fifty miles from the city, and incoming trains were six hours late.”
Daniel Newcomb
NEWCOMB.—Died in Perrysburg, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., Feb. 7, 1881, Daniel Newcomb, aged 65 years, 9 months, and 10 days. At the age of sixteen, he united with the Presbyterian church, of which he was a member until 1861, when he embraced the truths of the third angel's message under the labors of Eld. R. F. Cottrell. He has since labored zealously for his friends and neighbors. He fell asleep with the bright assurance of a part in the first resurrection. A wife and one son mourn their loss.
MRS. TERRESSA JANE NEWCOMB.
Henry Hoffer
By A. A. Bigelow
HOFFER.—Died of lung fever, at his residence in Liberty Center, Henry Co., Ohio, Henry Hoffer, aged 67 years, 11 months, and 3 days. Bro. Hoffer was born near Hagerstown, Washington Co., Md., and professed faith in Christ and joined the Church of God, in 1856. In 1861, he embraced the Sabbath, and became convinced of the near coming of the Lord, and united with the S. D. Adventists, and began to make a more earnest preparation for that event. There was a large attendance at the funeral. Sermon by the writer, from Num. 23:10. This text was used by request.
A. A. BIGELOW.
OBITUARIES.
By A. A. Bigelow
COLEMAN.—Died of consumption, at her home three miles west of Delta, Fulton Co., Ohio, Elizabeth Coleman, aged 69 years, 3 months, and 14 days. Sister Coleman was born in Green Co., Pa.; was converted and joined the Baptist church in 1836, of which church she was a member for 23 years. In the summer of 1859, she attended the tent meetings held by Eld. J. H. Waggoner, in Delta, Fulton Co., Ohio, and listened to the Bible arguments in favor of the seventh-day Sabbath, the second coming of Christ, nature and destiny of man, and other kindred truths. She became convinced that they were the precious truths of the Bible. She commenced at once to observe the Sabbath of the Lord, and continued its observance for the remainder of her life, a period of 22 years. During this time, she was the only one of the S. D. A. faith, in her neighborhood. She seldom saw one of like faith; she was truly a lonely one, but the grace of God was ever sufficient for her. There was a large attendance at the funeral. Sermon by the writer, from Ps. 146:5. A. A. BIGELOW.
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