Earlier text: Scriptural Meaning of the Word SoulLetter from Brother Drew.
By George R. Drew
50 SILVESTER ST., HULL, ENGLAND, Nov. 18, 1882. DEAR BRO. WAGGONER: Would you insert these few lines to express our gratitude to those who so kindly are sending us such a good club of Signs? We are getting 156 copies every week, and can account for 81 copies, but the rest are coming from a source that we know nothing about. We are now in a position to use a good supply of all reading matter, not excepting the Good Health, which is a great favorite here. Anything sent to Battle Creek will be forwarded from there to us free. Our work here in the English, Scandinavian, and German languages is very encouraging, and we feel of good courage, and thankful that we can work among so many nationalities. I have many warm friends and helpers among the English, Russian, Scandinavian, and German captains, and it would do our friends in America good who are sending the publications over here for distribution, to see the eagerness and the joy expressed in getting them; frequently they are received with tears of joy. The Judgment alone will show all the good accomplished. All missionary workers should read 2 Chron. 16:9; Ps. 126:5, 6; Isa. 55:11. I am happy to say that we are increasing in courage every day, for we see the hand of God in bringing us here. We get perfect freedom to visit all the ships in Hull, even during the working hours. We pray daily for the cause in America, and we will consecrate our spirit, soul, and body anew to the good cause. Your brother in Christ, Geo. R. Drew. Work with a will, and also with your hands and head. It is such that achieve the great things of the world. Nothing is easy that has value. Laziness and sloth never raised a man above the grade of a monkey. Work does the thing, the right thing, and the whole thing. The soul must have a clear footing, as well as the foot. The Beginning and the End.
By Temperance Banner
It began in this way: Two boys came to the city from the country. They left home with kindly words of advice ringing in their ears. Their parents bade them remember the good counsel given them in youth, and earnestly entreated them to resist the many temptations which the city would place before them. And they promised to remember the words of loving counsel, and went out from the hearthstone of home to face the world and fight the battle of life, brave of heart, and hopeful of overcoming in the strife. One day they were going by a saloon. On the screen, which stood a little way back from the open doors, hiding from passers-by what took place within, was displayed a card on which was written: "Fresh lemonade. Only 5 cents a glass." "A glass of cool lemonade would taste good this hot day," said John. "Let's go in and get some." "I'd like the lemonade well enough," said Philip, "but I don't really fancy the idea of going to a saloon to get it." "Pshaw!" laughed John. "What difference does it make whether you buy your lemonade here or somewhere else? We needn't drink anything else if we don't want to." "I know that," answered Philip hesitatingly. "I was thinking that father wouldn't like it if he knew. He's opposed to saloons, you know." "Yes, but how's he to know anything about it?" urged John. "Come on; I'll pay for the lemonade." And he drew his companion into the saloon. They drank their lemonade. The proprietor exerted himself to make their call pleasant, and when they were going he urged them to have another drink. "Better have a little something in it to give it the right kind of flavor," he said smilingly. "All right," said John; and the man poured some of the contents of a long-necked bottle into each glass. The boys drank it down. The liquor was strong enough to produce considerable effect upon them. It made them 'jolly' they told each other; but I do not think either of them would have called the effect that if they could have foreseen what the end would be. Well, they went to that saloon again. It was not long before they felt a kind of contempt for a man who would drink anything as mild as lemonade. That might do for boys, but they were men, and they could drink whisky and brandy and gin. And they could smoke and play cards and billiards, and talk slang. This kind of an education is acquired with wonderful rapidity. In six months they were good scholars in the school of ruin. The end came to one two years ago. In a drunken brawl he was stabbed to the heart. To the other the end came only last week. "Died of delirium tremens," a friend said. It is sad to think that boys are daily beginning this kind of life, and sadder to think what the end may be. Oh, boys! be careful, be careful!—Temperance Banner. Women and Tobacco
By Editor
A CHICAGO paper says that it is getting to be quite common for ladies in that city to smoke, not cigarettes merely, but real cigars. It says: "Cigarette smoking is very common, and not alone among the fashionables. Women and school-girls, book-keepers, amanuenses, and shop-girls indulge in it. And they smoke not alone at home, but in private rooms of restaurants, where in threes and fours they regularly take their dinners." Well, why should they not smoke as well as men? If smoking is beneficial, an aid to digestion, soothing to the nerves, and generally indispensable, why should women be deprived of its benefits? They certainly are as liable to dyspepsia as men are, and are commonly supposed to almost monopolize nervousness. If there is any good to be got out of it, we say let them have it, by all means. The paper, however, says further: "There is nothing unladylike in the conduct or demeanor of these girls." Opinions differ. He, and he only, is safe from a drunkard's death, who never tastes a drop of anything that can intoxicate. "Mary," said Mr. Norris to his wife, as he entered his snug little home one evening, "we are to have company to supper to-morrow. I met my old friend Henry Ard in the street to-day, and asked him to come out." "Isn't he the Ard who has grown so wealthy in the last few years?" asked Mrs. Norris, as she stepped briskly around, intent on the laying of the tea-table. "Yes; but I don't think his wealth has spoiled him. He was as cordial to me as ever, regretted that I was still only a clerk in Holden's, and wondered how I could get along on such a poor salary. He doesn't put on any airs at all. So wear your prettiest dress to-morrow, Mary, and have a good supper." "He shall have no reason to complain, I'll promise that," said Mrs. Norris, who was an excellent cook and a capable housekeeper. It was to her careful management that her husband owed his freedom from debt; for only the most systematic and judicious economy would have made his small salary adequate for the support of his large family. While several of his friends, among them Henry Ard, had risen rapidly, through fortunate speculations, to positions of affluence, Mr. Norris had remained poor, a clerk only in the house in which he had started as an errand boy. But, by means of the most rigid economy and numberless sacrifices, he had been able to purchase a small cottage on the outskirts of the city, and he declared that the day he made the last payment on it was the happiest of his life. It had been the dream of many years to own a home; and, in his enjoyment of it, he forgot the sacrifices he had made, which at the time seemed very hard. His wife had worked nobly to beautify the grounds, planting rose-bushes with her own hands, and training vines over the cottage. A prettier place in summer it would have been hard to find. Mrs. Norris was dressed in her best, and the children looked as fresh and sweet as could be, when Mr. Norris reached home next evening, accompanied by Mr. Ard. The gentleman was cordial in his manner, it is true; but his coming cast a gloom over the household, for he began at once to complain of the tedious ride he had had from the city, commiserated them on living so far out, and averred that he had heard that land was cheap in this section because it was said to be unhealthy. He asked Mrs. Norris if she did not think her children looked pale; and he advised Mr. Norris to sell out, and buy somewhere else. He dwelt earnestly upon the fact of there being so few neighbors, and no doctor within a mile or two; and he succeeded in filling the breast of his hostess with anxiety and alarm. At table, he spoke of the elegant silver tea-service he had given his wife, a few weeks previously; of the delicious tea he had drunk at the house of a friend the evening before; of the rare old china which had been used, and the dozens of luxuries which had been heaped upon the table in his honor. Mrs. Norris listened and sighed. Her china set, used for many years, began to look poor and mean in her sight, as she imagined the beauty of Mrs. Ard's silver; the tea tasted bitter and she had no appetite for the salad, jelly, and cake she had prepared so carefully, and with so much pleasure, anticipating, as she had, some compliments from her guest on her cooking. After supper, the whole family gathered about the stove, and listened enviously as Mr. Ard dilated on the delights of an open grate; of the actual necessity of a home library, where there were growing children; of the rare pictures and elegant furniture in the houses of his friends; of the fine society in which his wife moved, of her jewelry, her costly dresses, and the number of servants he found it incumbent on him to keep, in order to secure comfort; of the convenience of gas, and the danger of using kerosene; and of twenty other things that the host, of whose hospitality he was partaking, did not and could not possess. Yet he was neither boastful nor ill-tempered, and gave no occasion for offense in anything he said. But, when he rose to depart, neither Mr. Norris nor his wife felt any regret to have him go so early, nor did they urge him to come again. They felt sad and discontented. The little home in which they had taken such genuine comfort now looked shabby and mean. The small rooms seemed more cramped than ever, and they felt ashamed of the poverty which prevented their living as Mr. Ard and his friends lived. Mary put her children to bed and then went to bed herself, where, after thinking over her lot in life, and recalling the many sacrifices she had made, and the pinching economy she was obliged to practice, she finally cried herself to sleep. A few days passed, and the cloud of discontent which had settled upon the family was still heavy, when, one evening, a visitor, Mr. Andrews, called just as they were about to sit down to supper. Mr. Norris invited him to the table; and Mrs. Norris began to apologize for the homely fare, wishing it were better. "No apologies are necessary, my dear madam," said the gentleman, as he threw off his coat and seated himself at the table. "I walked out from the city, and have acquired the sharpest kind of an appetite. I feel as if I could relish any and everything." "We live such a terrible distance from town," said Mrs. Norris, "it is a wonder to me that our friends ever find us at all. As it is, they come very seldom." "Why, I think your home most delightfully situated!" exclaimed Mr. Andrews, who was even wealthier than Mr. Ard, and lived in far greater style. "I drove past here one day last summer, and remember thinking how like a bower of beauty this cottage looked, almost covered with climbing roses, and surrounded by shrubs. And you couldn't have found a healthier spot anywhere. Your children show the effect of the pure air they breathe. It is a shame to shut children up in the city, where they have no chance to play out doors." "They certainly enjoy the garden and lawn," said Mrs. Norris, beginning to feel in a little better spirits. "I never knew how to amuse them when we lived in the city." "Property out here is rising in value every day," continued Mr. Andrews, who dealt largely in real estate. "You'd better lay your hands on all the land you can, Norris. You may realize a fortune out of these few acres in ten years' time." It was now Mr. Norris' turn to look pleased. He began to think he had made a profitable investment, after all, in buying the place. Mr. Andrews continued to talk in the same strain all the evening. He praised everything on the table, apologized for eating so much, but declared he could not help it, for everything tasted so well; admired the tea-set as looking "just like one mother used to have;" and, when Mrs. Norris regretted not having open grates, he told her that open grates were a mistake, unless there was a furnace in the house; that they never threw out half so much heat as a stove; and, as for a furnace, several doctors he knew had declared them unhealthy; and they were ruinous to house plants, of which Mrs. Norris had a great many. He observed, in answer to a remark of Mr. Norris', that gas was a convenience certainly, but that kerosene gave a much softer light, and was not nearly so trying to the eyes. When he at length rose to go, both Mr. and Mrs. Norris urged him strongly to come again; and he replied that he would be very glad to do so, for he could not remember when he had spent a more pleasant evening or had been made to feel more at home. When he had gone, the husband and wife felt satisfied with themselves and their home. The cloud which had been cast over them by Mr. Ard's visit had flown away with Mr. Andrews', and they forgot their poverty and many discomforts, and felt thankful to Heaven for the many blessings they enjoyed. Both Mr. Ard and Mr. Andrews were sincere in what they said; but you see there are two ways of looking at everything, and always a bright and a dark side. We can make ourselves contented with our lot by viewing it always from the bright side, or we can become very much discontented by comparing it with that of our richer neighbor. It lies with us to choose.—Sel. How shall the Word be preached with power?
Not with elaborate care and toil,
With wastings of the midnight oil,
With graceful gesture studied well,
And full intoned syllable;
With trope and simile, leading force
To subdivisions of discourse,
Or labored feeling framed to please—
The word of power is not in these. How shall the Word be preached with power?
Not by a separate holiness,
Which stands aloof to warn and bless,
Speaking as from a higher plane
Which common men may not attain;
Which treats of sin and want and strife
As things outside the priestly life;
And only draws anigh to chide,
Holding a saintly robe aside. How shall the Word be preached with power?
Ah, needless to debate and plan,
Heart answereth unto heart in man;
Out of the very life of each
Must come the power to heal or teach.
The life all eloquent may grieve,
The brain may subtly work and weave,
But if the heart take not its share,
The word of power is wanting there. How shall the Word be preached with power?
Go, preacher, search thy soul, and mark
Each want, each weakness, every dark
And painful dint where life and sin
Have beaten their hard impress in;
Apply the balm and test the cure,
And heal thyself, and be thou sure
That which helps thee has power again
To help the souls of other men. How shall the Word be preached with power?
Go ask the suffering and the poor,
Go ask the beggar at thy door,
Go to the sacred page and read
What served the old-time want and need;
The clasping hand, the kindling eye,
Virtue given out unconsciously,
The self-made selfless hour by hour—
In these is preached the Word with power!
—Congregationalist. CATS are generally thought to possess great cunning; but no one would look for that quality in pigeons. The other day, however, I saw something in the alley-way behind our store that proved one pigeon, at least, had sufficient craft to outwit a cat. The bird I am to speak of was busily engaged in picking up scatterings of grain, when our "tabby" came forth in the stealthy manner peculiar to her race, and prepared to capture him, he not seeming to suspect there was a cat within five miles. Gradually Miss Puss wriggled up to a place from which she could make her deadly spring. But just as she was going to jump, the pigeon gave a flying leap, landing some ten feet away, and then went on picking up grain, all the time not appearing to see his enemy. Not discouraged by her first failure, kitty again went through the crawling process, until near enough for a leap, only to see the pigeon quietly hop beyond her reach and continue his dinner. This performance was repeated several times. The bird, while not appearing to notice his pursuer, was really keeping a sharp look-out, and never allowed her to get quite near enough for a spring. At last, in his retreat he had reached the alley's end, where there was no chance to go any farther. "Now," thought I, "this fun must end. Mr. Pigeon will have to fly away altogether or get caught." Pussy was evidently of the same opinion, for she approached her intended victim with even more than usual caution. But the seemingly careless bird knew his business better than either of us, and picked away as though nothing was the matter. This time puss actually succeeded in making her spring, and landed just where she intended. But the pigeon wasn't there! He went into the air at exactly the right moment, and flying over the cat's head, alighted on the very spot from which she had just sprung. Our cat had neither courage nor patience to endure any more such trifling, and with a very dejected look, disappeared through a broken cellar window, leaving Mr. Pigeon to finish his dinner at his leisure.—Selected. Climbing Toward the Mountains
WE learn to climb by keeping our eyes, not on the valleys that lie behind, but on the mountains that rise before us. HOPE is like the sun, which as we journey toward it casts the shadow of our burdens behind us. -Governor Ordway, of Dakota, says that 100,000 emigrants have entered that Territory this year. -Arabi and his fellow-conspirators will spend the remainder of their lives in the island of Ceylon. -Five Russian dragoons have been condemned to fifteen years in the mines for engaging in the riots against the Jews. -The emigration to America, from the mountain districts of Hungary is so extensive that the authorities are attempting to check it. -It is calculated that the private and official embezzlements in Russia during the year amount to 26,000,000 roubles (about $20,000,000). -A bill is now before Congress to reduce letter postage from three to two cents for a half ounce. It will doubtless soon become a law, as the President and the Postmaster-General favor it. -The Boers, of South Africa, have driven the Caffres into caves. One cave has been destroyed by dynamite, and fifty natives were killed. -The passenger trains on the Texas Pacific Road are hereafter to carry a strong force of State Rangers between Fort Wort and El Paso. -The Russian Minister of Marine has asked for a grant of 5,000,000 roubles (nearly $4,000,000) for the construction of four men-of-war. -Arabi Pasha's associates also pleaded guilty and were sentenced to death, but the Khedive commuted their sentence to imprisonment for life. -An attempt has been made to assassinate the Sultan, and he is completely terror-stricken in consequence, hardly daring to show himself outside the harem. -A member of the Government Commission to inspect the Navy Yards says that those already visited cost about $50,000,000, and would not sell for $1,000,000. -While the Mississippi steamer Morning Star was racing with the Sunbeam, Dec. 6, her boilers exploded, and sixteen persons were either killed or fatally wounded. -The Prefect of St. Petersburg has ordered the police to expel all the Jews residing in the city without official permission. The Senate has decided that Jews are incapable of holding office in Russia. -An ostrich farm is to be started in California, about seventy-five miles south of San Francisco. The farm consists of 800 acres, and twenty-two birds have arrived from the East, with which to stock it. -The President of the First National Bank of Denver says that the banks of Colorado have lost paper to the value of a million and a half dollars, during the past year, through robberies of the mail. -A citizen of Oakland, who recently purchased a mountain near Los Gatos, Cal., for a stock range, accidentally discovered that it yields 96 per cent. pure sulphur, the market value of which is $20 per ton. -The total number of arrests made during the last fiscal year by secret service agents was 335, the majority being for counterfeiting money. The total fines assessed amounted to $10,664, and the total amount of counterfeit coin captured, $8,830,154 51. -The anti-Mormon population of Utah are very much disappointed with the President's message, because it practically ignores the Mormon question. The Mormons are correspondingly jubilant, and impiously say that God has interposed in their behalf. -Secretary-of-War Lincoln says in his report that sixteen per cent. of the United States army desert, and that every year a number of men enlist merely in order to secure free transportation to some point in the West, and desert as soon as they have reached it. -A band of Apaches from Arizona recently crossed the border into Chihuahua, Mexico, and sweeping down upon the town of Casa Grande, massacred seventy-five persons, and carried off several women and girls. A large quantity of stock and other property was stolen. -The new code of New York punishes attempted suicide. The first prosecution was a man who took laudanum, and who received, instead of death, two years in the penitentiary. This is as it should be. There is not much glory to be obtained in States Prison, and suicide may be expected to become unpopular. Religious Notes.
By Editor
- The Archbishop of Canterbury died in London, Dec. 3, aged seventy-one years.
- The four periodicals of the Salvation Army have a combined circulation of 400,000.
- The Catholic Examiner emphatically endorses church fairs with their attendant gambling.
- A new Congregational paper is to be started in Boston, and $100,000 has been secured as capital.
- There are 92,653 Protestant churches in the United States, with 71,662 ministers, and 9,003,030 members.
- The number of Congregational churches in the western part of the State of Pennsylvania has doubled during the last seven years.
- The first Monday in January has been appointed as a day of general fasting and prayer for the colleges and general interest of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
- There are now more than 4,000 Hindoo girls in mission-schools in Calcutta and its suburbs. The number of non-Christian females who can read and write has doubled in the last five years.
- At the installation of Dr. Newman Smith, Dr. Duryea made some severe strictures on the abuse of church choirs, and said: "Music is chiefly used in our churches as an aid to the publishers of sheet music."
- A fashionable church in New York has an "invalid room," a luxurious apartment near the pulpit, but out of sight of the congregation, where invalids can sit, lie down, walk around, leave or enter at any time without disturbing any one else, yet at the same time be able to hear the entire service.
- The American Baptist Flag, published in St. Louis, says: "Over one hundred firms in St. Joseph, Mo., have signed agreements not to pay off their help on Saturday. Monday in future will be the pay-day. Thus the business world recognizes the wisdom of keeping a Sabbath." And so the leaven is working.
- Rev. Dr. Hepworth, speaking of the "Passion Play," which Mr. Morse is trying to bring before the people of New York, says that in the little group which figure so prominently in the real passion week, there was only one man who was so mean and sordid as to make the crucifixion a matter of financial speculation, and that he had sufficient sense remaining after the deed was accomplished to go and hang himself.
- There is a great deal of discussion going on over the site of Paradise. Dr. Delitzsch claims that Paradise occupied the ground upon which Babylon was afterwards built, but Prof. Paine scouts the idea. As for ourselves, we are not troubled over the matter. A far more important matter engages our attention, namely, How shall we gain a home in it? If these Doctors would devote their talents to the solution of this question, they would do themselves and their hearers much more good.
- While we value the Sabbath-school very highly as a means of imparting religious instruction to children, we should not undervalue the importance of home training. Rev. A. R. Crandall, President of the Seventh-day Baptist General Conference, made the following remarks in his opening address: "There are truths of religion which can be planted in the mind and heart of the child only at home. No people can guard too vigilantly the truth that the primary school of the church is the home. Half a dozen towering truths wrought into the life of the child, at the hands of those to whom God has committed his tender years, are worth more all through life than the whole vast plain of Sabbath-school instruction."
- The corner-stone was recently laid in New York for a new convent for a strict order of nuns, called the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration. It is said that their fasts are very severe, that the nuns are compelled to arise every night at midnight for two hours' devotion in the chapel, that they can hold no communication whatever with the outside world, and that no fires are allowed in the building. The Independent justly says that the Board of Health ought to have something to say on the subject, in the name of humanity. Rome has plenty of dupes who are willing to sacrifice themselves at her beck, and no one can interfere so long as this self-sacrifice consists in being uselessly shut away from the world; but neither murder nor suicide should be allowed under the guise of religion.
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Early Writings of Mrs. White.
By Editor
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