Earlier text: THE COMING OF THE KINGDrilling for the Great Boycott.
By C. M. S.
Those who have been following the trend of labor unionism during the past few years, have been forced to acknowledge danger in the deep plan of the organization. They have been forced to the conclusion that the plan led inevitably to the consolidation of all labor unions under one general head or management, and that this mighty force would then be used to enforce demands, just or unjust, by crushing with its ponderous weight whatever stood in its way. We have had strikes and sympathetic strikes for years, the strikers sometimes winning and sometimes losing; but the general trend has been toward a unification on the part of the labor organizations. They have seen that if the unification was so complete that each labor union could depend upon the entire strength of organized labor to back up its demands, the demands of labor would have perhaps a hundred-fold the force they could have while each union depended simply upon its own strength. So from sympathetic strikes there has come the spirit of the welding together of the different labor unions; and new plans are on foot for a systematic consolidation of all the various trade unions, and we are informed that this plan will soon be completed and worked out in its details. How will the plan work when in operation? The brick-layers, for instance, who are engaged in the erection of a certain building, will strike on account of some grievance, fancied or real. If their demands are not acceded to, the carpenters will refuse to go on with their work; the plumbers will refuse to put in the plumbing for water or gas; the glaziers will put no glass in the building. If the employer is obstinate and seeks to have the work done by non-union men, then the teamsters refuse to draw the brick or stone or lumber. If a mill attempts to fill its contract and supply the necessary lumber, the mill-hands strike; if the stone contractors attempt to deliver stone, the stone-cutters will strike; if the brick contractors attempt to deliver brick, the brick-handlers will strike. If the lime purveyors supply the material for mortar, the masons will refuse to work it or do the plastering; or if the lath have not been laid, the lathers cease their work. Thus by all working together who have to do with the handling of material or construction of the building, the erection of the building is stopped. The reason that strikes of this nature have not been more uniformly successful in the past is that the different unions had not been working harmoniously together. But now, with the prospect that all the elements will be harmonized, we may expect to see rapid and striking developments. At the present time there is a strike in progress between the Cooks and Waiters' Alliance of San Francisco and the owners of restaurants, and this very plan of operation is being carried out, members of other unions whose work is in any way connected with that of the cooks and waiters promising to join in the strike if the employers will not come to terms. Thus the butchers threaten to go out in a body rather than continue to cut up meat for a non-union restaurant. Then the teamsters will refuse to draw supplies to these restaurants, and the hack-drivers refuse to take customers either to or from such places. The bakers' union will refuse to supply bread to the non-union restaurants, and members of other unions will be fined $5 for eating at such restaurants. Union laborers parade in front of non-union restaurants, warning all against entering or eating there. How far the boycott will extend, we can not tell. How many other unions will declare strikes on account of this one, we do not know. Whether this particular strike will be a success for the strikers is uncertain. In fact, with the immediate result of this strike we are not particularly concerned. But in the growing spirit of consolidation of labor unions, in the terrible power to be wielded by these forces when the organization is completed, we see great reason for concern. The strikes and lockouts and agitations in all parts of the world are simply a preparatory school, a drill room, where these forces are learning to work in harmony, to keep step, and to charge the enemy so that when the battle comes, they may be able to use their power in the most effective manner possible. They are testing their powers all along the line, and strengthening the weak places. By continually coming in contact with organized capital, they are learning its vulnerable points. Now we are not thus developing this point simply to show that a struggle between labor and capital is inevitable. We know that is coming. But there is coming a time when unionism and the boycott will be universal—when one class will say that another class shall neither buy nor sell. It was predicted more than eighteen hundred years ago, and men have questioned how this could ever occur—how the whole world could be schooled or disciplined to such a point that by a single decree a class of people, thruout the whole world could be shut off from the privilege of buying or selling. The prophecy reads like this:— “He causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads; and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” Rev. 13:16, 17. We are not claiming that labor unionism is “the beast,” nor that belonging to a union is receiving the “mark” of the beast. But the schooling, discipline, and organization which labor federation and the boycott are bringing about, will make possible the carrying out of that decree when the “man of sin” gets ready to make it. That decree will be issued against the people of God. It is not for them, however, that we are concerned, but for those who seek to enforce the decree, and are therein found to be fighting against God by oppressing His people and seeking to hinder His work. That decree is to be issued just prior to the second coming of Christ, and the elements are now at work preparing for the proclamation. We are concerned as we see these things; but our concern is for those who will be deceived at that time. God will take care of the others. It is no time to question now. We see the fulfilment of the Word before our eyes, and God will not hold guiltless those who refuse to heed the warning and to warn the people sitting in darkness. LUXURY, EXTRAVAGANCE, AND WEALTH-WORSHIP.
By T.
Speaking of present-day conditions, a recent New York World editorial says:— “It is a moment of luxury and craze for luxury, of extravagance and craze for extravagance, of ostentation and craze for ostentation, of wealth and wealth-worship. The few thousands constituting the ‘triumphant classes,’ and their intimates and retainers who live at their fringes and upon their crumbs, are in a high fever of money-madness. They are drunk with the strong wine of prosperity. The work-a-day millions—small merchants, farmers, small-salaried men, wage-earners, and the like—have a share in the good times which permits comfort and saving against lean years and bony years, but does not permit prodigality. They are infected with the current frenzy, are being made dizzy by the sight and the fumes of the wine that drips and trickles from the banquet-board and rivulets along the floor. Is not this a time when optimism needs the restraint of prudence, when loosening moral obligations call for the salutary contrast of rigid principle?” Any one can not have the ordinary amount of intelligence and live in this world anywhere, without being aware of the fact that the foregoing paragraph9 does not overdraw the real facts in the case. Indeed, it would be difficult for the facts to be overdrawn by any truthful language that it is within the power of man to use. Leaving the subject of Bible prophecy out of the question altogether, it should be apparent that these conditions of “wealth-worship,” this craze for luxury, extravagance, and ostentation, must of necessity bring the ruin of the world. No nation has ever been able to resist it. In the very nature of things it can not be done. Wealth-worship, extravagance, ostentation, and luxury, are great breeders of dishonesty and every form of corrupting vice. There are noble examples of wealthy men and women who rise above the sordid and the base, and who use their influence and their money in doing good. But they are the exception, and the great ruling mass of wealth is turned in the downward direction. The men who have these great fortunes are usually very careful what they do directly, but too often their money is used to corrupt officials, defeat justice, and generally to advance the wrong. The standard is too low. Money is sought for its own sake. Money becomes a god, and is worshiped. In this way “wealth-worship” has in it all the debasements of any other form of idolatry. Men ought to be thinking about the purport of these things to-day, and not allow themselves to be swept along with the hilarious throng into the abyss of ruin. Children and the Spirit of War
THERE is perhaps no item of news which appears in the daily press with more regularity, or frequency, than the announcement that some ten-year-old has shot his brother or sister to death. It is generally only the fatal shootings that are thus recorded; how many children are shot without being killed we can only imagine; and there is frequently more than one such fatal shooting recorded in a single day. It is almost always the boy that fires the gun; it is almost always the boy’s sister that is killed or wounded, and quite frequently for refusing to obey some childish demand. For instance, in Port Townsend, Wash., recently a ten-year-old boy commanded his six-year-old sister to halt, accompanying his command with a threat to kill her if she did not obey. The little girl continued her scamper. Picking up an old gun, the boy aimed it and pulled the trigger. There was a terrible explosion, and the threat had been carried out. The little girl’s head was blown off. On the same day at Fair Oaks, Cal., an eleven-year-old boy took up a rifle which he supposed was not loaded, aimed it at his eight-year-old sister, and fired, fatally wounding her. These are but samples of what is continually occurring, and show the fearful prevalence of that spirit of “going gunning” for something, a spirit that is fostered and encouraged by the almost universal war spirit of the times. War is glorified in the histories of our country, the heroes of war are held up to the admiration of the people, and war stories are an ever-present theme in many a household. The gun is the weapon of war; and the child, fired with the war spirit, and soon learning the use of the gun, imagines he is a soldier, and makes war on the younger members of his own household. Parents cannot be guiltless who put such temptations before their children and such weapons within reach of their hands. “The increased cost of fuel in France is turning the attention of engineers to the water power running to waste in the French Alps as a source of relief. It is represented that there is at least 3,000,000 horse-power now flowing idly in this chain of mountains, all of which can be made available. There are at present in the range forty-eight factories operated by electrical power, generated by the Alpine streams. A French engineer is proposing to transform the lower reaches of the Rhone River into a gigantic hydraulic stairway for manufacturing and agricultural purposes, and a committee of government engineers especially appointed by the minister of public works is studying the feasibility of the plan.” The nations of Europe are planning to present a joint note to the Sultan of Turkey, protesting against the Turkish Government interfering with or handling the mail from their various embassies in Constantinople. Some of these governments have placed their mail in the hands of special carriers who have carried it to and from the frontier, to avoid Turkish inspection. The plan of each foreign embassy in Constantinople having a post-office of its own originated when the Turkish mail facilities were very poor; but with modern facilities at the present time, Turkey claims the right to handle all mail leaving the capital as all other governments do; and it is to this that the European nations object. THE War Department is now having constructed at the Watervliet, New York, arsenal what will be the largest gun in the world. The gun will weigh 130 tons, and will throw a projectile weighing 2,370 pounds a distance of 21 miles. The bore of this great weapon will measure 18 inches in diameter, while the entire length of the gun will be 49 feet. Each shot will consume a charge of 576 pounds of smokeless powder. If this gun proves a success, 40 will be built, of which number it is said 8 will be placed in New York harbor, 10 at San Francisco, 8 at Boston, and 4 at Hampton Roads. GENERAL DEWET, the Boer commander, is reported to have resumed active operations, having crossed into the Transvaal with 2,000 men. It is reported that General Kitchener proposes to try the plan of burning the veldt in order to cut off the supplies of the Boers and force them to surrender. Only two minor engagements are reported from South Africa during the week. England is preparing to use three small islands of the Bermuda group as detention camps for the Boer prisoners. ON MAY 13, the kings of Greece and Roumania met to discuss affairs of state on the Greek warship Psara. Greece and Roumania are the two non-Slavonic states of the Balkans, and an effort is being made now for these two states to come to an understanding, in opposition to the pan-Slavonic states of Servia and Bulgaria, on the Macedonian and other questions. PRESIDENT McKINLEY with his wife and party are now in the State of California, and enthusiastic crowds are giving them hearty receptions in all the cities or towns thru which they pass or in which they stop. The city of San Francisco has subscribed $31,000 to meet the expenses of the presidential reception. SERIOUS rioting is again reported from Barcelona, Spain, in which a considerable number have been killed and wounded. Troops were called to the scene of the disturbance, and frequent collisions occurred between them and the rioters who were seeking to stop work in the factories. THE Hawaiian Legislature has passed a resolution asking President McKinley to remove Sanford B. Dole from the position of governor of the islands. This memorial to the president has been entrusted to the Hawaiian representative at Washington. A PETITION signed by Filipino Catholics is now on its way to the Pope, protesting against the return to the islands of Archbishop Chapelle, because of his declared policy of supplying the Catholic churches of the islands with American priests. REPORTS continue to indicate that the great ship-building trust is in process of organization. The capitalization of this company will be $65,000,000. The largest ship-building concerns of the country are reported to be in the combination. A LARGE meteor fell at Hyndman, Maryland, on the night of May 8, exploding when about 100 feet from the ground, making apparent daylight for a moment. Many fragments and small particles of the meteor were picked up. THE revolutionary movement among the Russian working classes is said to be still spreading, and the Russian police continue to make many arrests. THE influence that attends and emanates from the church which allows itself to participate in the pleasures of the world is well exemplified in the case of a certain New York church into which a spirit of division has come thru church theatricals. The Young People’s Dramatic Society of the church recently produced a play under the management of their Sunday-school superintendent. Some of the officers of the church declared the play immoral, and the pastor asked the superintendent to resign. The superintendent refused to do so, and the pastor suspended him, whereupon the entire membership of the school walked out of the church, declaring that they would not return until the superintendent was reinstated. The teachers range themselves on the side of the superintendent, and the church is threatened with disruption. In the first place, the young people of the church should have been engaged in more spiritual work than the production of a play, and especially one with a low moral tone; in the second place, the Christian has no right to confederate for the purpose of striking against moral restraint. Any church that takes the world into its bosom may expect trouble, for it will surely come. THE Chinese peace plenipotentiaries are said to be much surprised and disappointed at the size of the indemnity which the powers have demanded. The amount of the indemnity is officially stated to be 450,000,000 taels, which is now equivalent to about $337,000,000, as the value of the tael depends upon the price of silver bullion. The Chinese envoys propose to pay the indemnity in thirty annual instalments, which will be raised from the tax known as the likin tax and from the salt tax and native customs. They also ask the consent of the powers to an increase of the maritime customs and the import and export duties. It is reported from St. Petersburg, that the Russian admiral on the Chinese station has asked for two more battle-ships and four cruisers to re-enforce his fleet, in anticipation of serious trouble. The report states that the government is sending the cruisers. THE strike of San Francisco restaurant waiters and cooks is still in progress, and several other unions are threatening to strike for the purpose of helping the cooks and waiters. In addition to this strike and the sympathetic strikes threatened in consequence of it, the blacksmiths, wagon makers, and carriage makers of San Francisco are planning a combination strike; and the national machinists union is planning to strike on May 20. The spirit of dissatisfaction is abroad, and is growing. It is due to the uncontrolled desire of moneyed men to make their business pay them a larger profit, and a desire on the part of the working people at the same time to share in the wealth of their employers. The demands are becoming sharper and more insistent on both sides, and the spirit of irritation, and oftentimes exasperation, is increasing in consequence. THE press of Germany and Austria are again taking up the question of a European alliance against America. The Cologne Gazette, which often voices the views of the German Foreign Office, has the following to say in a leading editorial: “As matters stand for Europe to-day, the struggle for existence demands that the exceptional position of the United States be abolished. The United States is a most dangerous competitor for Germany, and Germany’s tariff policy must be arranged accordingly.” The Gazette advocates an understanding with Russia, which would be but one of the initiatory steps in a general tariff war against America. The Austrian press asserts that Germany and Austria are now negotiating with a view to the formation of a European league to resist American competition. THE bubonic plague is still active at Cape Town, South Africa, and the chief medical officer of the colony declares that he can not eradicate it until the rats have been exterminated. Hundreds of rats are still dying daily. THE notorious German murderer, who has assaulted, murdered, and mutilated eighteen women, has been caught red-handed by two detectives in the city of Ludwigshafen. He was known as the German “Jack the Ripper.” THE superintendent of the National Starch Manufacturing Company has announced that all the factories of the company will be closed on account of the corner in corn, which has forced the price too high for the business. THE Russian Government has issued an order for a loan of $84,800,000 to meet the expenditures for the current year. This great loan is made necessary by the heavy expenses of the Russian war preparations. A NUMBER of Filipino officers have surrendered recently, with the men under their immediate command, and others are preparing to do so. The Filipino leader in Laguna Province is being closely pursued. THE steamer City of Paducah was wrecked and sunk at Brunkhorst Landing, Illinois, on the Mississippi River, on the night of May 12, and 15 of her crew and passengers were drowned. MGR. MARTINELLI, cardinal elect, was crowned with the red hat at Baltimore, on May 8, during a ceremony which would have been elaborate enough for the crowning of a king. A DISASTROUS fire occurred at Delray, near Detroit, Michigan, on May 12, destroying property to the value of about $800,000. DOES PROHIBITION PROHIBIT?
We are told many times that prohibition can not be made effectual, and the prohibition State of Maine is pointed out as an example of this. But here are some statements from Mr. Samuel F. Pearson, Portland's sheriff, made before the Pine Tree Club, Boston, as to how effectual prohibition may be when rightly enforced:— “Since 1846 the prohibitory law has been on the statute books. Why has it not been effectual? I will tell you how it is to-day. Three-fourths of the territory of the State of Maine is perfectly free from liquor-selling. I will tell you how I know my territory is free from it. I paid a man $3. per day to drive from Portland to Lewiston, 36 miles, and try his best to purchase intoxicants. He used his best skill, for I had paid him for that, and found not a drop. I know of a time when on the same route he traversed 47 places were open where for three cents one could buy rum and molasses. Who can say that prohibition does not prohibit in this territory?” “Till 1856 Portland drank up every 20 years the whole assessed valuation of the city. There used to be 71 distilleries and 19 breweries, and now there are none. Does not prohibition prohibit?” “There are fewer saloons in Maine than in any State where the traffic is controlled rather than prohibited. I consider my present work, compared with my services in the Union army, as an eagle to an English sparrow. I cry shame upon the United States for receiving an income from the liquor licenses which stimulate the vice of its people. “But do the results show that prohibition prohibits? If it does not, why do they offer me $40,000 to let four men sell freely for nine months?” “A clothing dealer said his January trade was $800 better than that of the year before, his February trade $1,300 better than that of February, 1900, and his March trade $1,800 better than a year ago. “Even a good old Irish woman who keeps a little store said to me, ‘Sheriff, I'm doing double the business I was. A year ago I had from $40 to $60 on my books every Saturday, and last Saturday only $3.20.’” “This means something. I love Portland, and I'm helping, not hurting it. “Let us, before singing about the land of the free and the home of the brave, consider the fact that no other land under heaven has so many slaves to drink per million of population as the United States, where every eleventh man is a drunkard.” PHYSICAL PREPARATION FOR “THE PLAGUES.”
By David Paulson
As imbibing error and adopting erroneous habits of life results in the bondage of ill health and disease, so it is equally true that accepting truth and adopting right habits will have a tendency to produce the liberty and freedom that accompany health. So it is not simply in a mystical or vague sense that the Word of God declares: “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” God purposes to have His people protected by a covering during the time of trouble, and He is drawing that cover over them now by giving them an opportunity to embrace the living principles relating to physical health. Small instalments of the plagues are already abroad in the land, and the way we are able to cope with them now, is at least a suggestion as to how we should be able to meet the seven last plagues, were they being poured out. “If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? And if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?” Jer. 12:5. He who carries out in his daily life physical habits which give him such impure blood that upon the least provocation he secures a crop of boils or ulcers, may settle it beyond a shadow of doubt that he has some truth yet to accept and adopt before he is prepared successfully to meet the first plague. The individual who takes no precaution as to whether he is drinking infected water, or who deliberately contaminates it by adding tea, coffee, or liquor, is laying the surest kind of foundation to become poisoned, and to succumb under the second plague, when the ordinary sources of water supply become as infected as the blood of a dead man. In fact, the man who ignores the danger lurking in drinking ordinary contaminated water now, will probably by that time become so calloused, so indifferent with reference to this matter, that he may not consider even the water under the second plague very dangerous after all. The man who is camping so near the disease line that the slightest indiscretion or unusual exposure produces a fever or a scorching heat in the body, is not at all prepared to survive, when there is a scorching heat from without under the fourth plague. It is true there are many, who, like Naaman of old, expect that when that time comes, the Lord will suddenly strike upon them (2 Kings 5:11), and enable them to resist on a large scale the very things that, because of a lack of interest that would lead them to adopt right habits of life, they have not been able to rise above on a smaller scale. They have neglected the preparation so needful, and at the very time when God was drawing a covering of truth over His people, they have been turning away their ears from hearing life-saving truth. So when the plagues begin to fall, they will find that their prayers even are an abomination (Prov. 28:9) just as truly as the guilty inhabitants of the old world discovered, that there came a time when it was too late to secure admittance into the ark. It is not enough to be simply baptized in truth as it were; the spirit of truth must get inside, and create a disposition on the part of the individual which will lead him enthusiastically to adopt reformatory principles, and to make radical changes in his habits of life. If a man was imprisoned, and was given a key to the door of his cell, it would not set him free until he used it; so it is not the truth that is accepted theoretically, but that which is carried out practically in the life, that sets humanity free from the thraldom of either spiritual or physical disease. A TRUE STORY OF ONE WOMAN’S LIFE.
RISING suddenly in the meeting, she spoke as follows: “Married to a drunkard? Yes; I was married to a drunkard. Look at me! I am talking to the girls.” We all turned and looked at her. She was a wan woman with dark, sad eyes, and white hair placed smoothly over a brow that denoted intellect. “When I married a drunkard, I reached the acme of misery,” she continued. “I was young, and O, so happy! I married the man I loved, and who professed to love me. He was a drunkard, and I knew it—knew it, but did not understand it. There is not a young girl in this building that does understand it unless she has a drunkard in her family; then, perhaps, she knows how deeply the iron enters the soul of a woman when she loves and is allied to a drunkard—whether father, husband, brother, or son. Girls, believe me, when I tell you that to marry a drunkard is the crown of all misery. I have gone thru the deep waters, and know. I have gained the fearful knowledge at the expense of happiness, sanity, almost life itself. Do you wonder my hair is white? It turned white in a night, bleached by sorrow, as Marie Antoinette said of her hair. I am not forty years old, yet the snow of seventy rests on my head and upon my heart. Ah! I can not begin to count the winters resting there,” she said, with unutterable pathos in her voice. “My husband was a professional man. His calling took him from home frequently at night, and when he returned, he returned drunk. Gradually he gave way to temptation in the day, until he was rarely sober. I had two lovely girls and one boy.” Here her voice faltered, and we sat in deep silence listening to her story. “My husband had been drinking deeply, I had not seen him for two days; he had kept away from his home. One night I was seated by my sick boy; the two little girls were sleeping in the next room, while beyond was another room, into which I heard my husband go as he entered the house. The room communicated with the one in which my little girls were sleeping. I do not know why, but a feeling of terror took possession of me, and I felt that my little girls were in danger. I arose and went to the room. The door was locked. I knocked on it frantically, but no answer came. I seemed to be endowed with superhuman strength, and throwing myself with all my force against the door, it gave way and flew open. O, the sight! the terrible sight!” she wailed out in a voice that haunts me now; and she covered her face with her hands, and when she removed them it was whiter and sadder than ever. “Delirium tremens! You have never seen it, girls; God grant that you never may. My husband stood behind the bed, his eyes gleaming with insanity. ‘Take them away!’ he screamed, ‘the horrible things; they are crawling all over me! Take them away, I say!’ and he flourished the knife in the air. Regardless of danger I rushed to the bed, and my heart seemed suddenly to cease beating. There lay my children, covered with their life-blood, slain by their own father! For a moment I could not utter a sound. I was utterly dumb in the presence of my terrible sorrow. I scarcely heeded the maniac at my side—the man who had brought me all the woe. Then I uttered a loud scream, and my wailing filled the air. The servants heard me and hastened to the room, and when my husband saw them he suddenly drew the knife across his own throat. I knew nothing more. I was borne senseless from the room that contained the bodies of my slaughtered children and the body of my husband. The next day my hair was white, and my mind was so shattered that I knew no one.” She ceased. Our eyes were riveted upon her wan face. Some of the women sobbed aloud, while there was scarcely a dry eye in that temperance meeting. We saw that she had not done speaking, and was only waiting to subdue her emotion to resume her story. “For two years,” she continued, “I was a mental wreck. Then I recovered from the shock and absorbed myself in the care of my boy. But the sin of the father was visited upon the child, and six months ago my boy of eighteen was placed in a drunkard’s grave; and as I, his loving mother, stood and saw the sod heaped over him, I said, ‘Thank God! I’d rather see him there than have him live a drunkard,’ and I turned unto my desolate home a childless woman—one upon whom the hand of affliction had rested heavily.” “Girls, it is you I wish to rescue from the fate that overtook me. Do not blast your lives as I have blasted mine; do not be drawn into the madness of marrying a drunkard. You love him! So much the worse for you; for married to him, the greater will be your misery because of your love. You will marry and then reform him, you say? Ah! a woman sadly overrates her strength when she undertakes to do this. You are no match for him, I say. What is your puny strength beside his gigantic force? He will crush you, too. It is to save you, girls, from the sorrows that wrecked my happiness that I have unfolded my history to you. I am a stranger in this great city. I am merely passing thru it; and I have a message to every girl—never marry a drunkard!” I can see her now as she stood there amid the hushed audience, her dark eyes glowing, and her frame quivering with emotion, as she uttered her impassioned appeal. Then she hurried out, and we never saw her again. Her words, “fitly spoken,” were not without effect, however, and because of them there is at least one girl single now.—The American Issue. CLOTHING FOR CHILDREN.
By Lauretta Kress
A VERY important part of the mother's duty is to clothe her children so as to keep their bodies in health. This responsibility begins at the time the child is born, and increases as the days go on. We see there is much error being taught about the clothing of children, and as the result, sickness and disease increasing with remarkable rapidity, because of failure to understand the organization of the body. Mothers who are careful to have their own garments hygienic, are careless regarding their children. They place upon them ready-made clothing, bought at a very reasonable price at the shops. These have been made in large lots without any consideration as to the form of the body, and do not fit. They are tight in the arm-holes, often measuring the same in the front, back, and chest, leaving no room for expansion as the child stands erect, and takes a deep inspiration. All these particulars are very essential to the development of a healthy child. There must be an abundance of room in the chest, as well as about the waist. The proper way for each mother to do, in making garments for her children, is to allow sufficient cloth in seams, and about the chest and waist, so that they can be made larger as the child grows. Frequent measurements of the chest and waist should be taken11 as the child grows in years, so that the mother can be sure that the clothing is not binding or hindering the growth of the body, or displacing any organs. Great care should also be taken to have all parts of the body clothed evenly. The arms should not be left with a thin covering over them while the trunk of the body has many thicknesses. The legs and knees need, correspondingly, as much clothing as the thighs and the trunk. If these are not properly clothed, the blood on its way to the extremities and to the skin is chilled by contact with the air from both the morning and the evening breeze, and is driven internally, congesting the digestive organs, also the lungs, and other organs contained in the body. If the knees and legs are bare, a great deal of disturbance with the throat and nose will result. Physicians who are studying into these things have noticed for a number of years that there has been an increase in disease where the arms and legs of children have not been properly clothed, and many deaths occur that might not have been, had some heed been given to this great essential by the mothers. In the autumn and winter the limbs require to be clothed with two thicknesses of flannel or wool; long combination undersuits coming to the ankles and the wrists, with woolen stockings coming over the knees, will keep the hands and feet warm, and increase the assimilation of food very remarkably. If children have cold hands and feet, some disturbance of the digestion will surely follow. For colder weather it is quite necessary that the legs and arms should be well protected.—Lauretta Kress, M. D. THE BOY FOR MOTHER AND ME.
His cap is old, but his hair is gold,
And his face is as clear as the sky;
And whoever he meets, on lanes or streets,
He looks him straight in the eye,
With a fearless pride that has naught to hide,
Tho he bows like a little knight,
Quite debonair, to a lady fair,
With a smile that is swift as the light. Does his mother call? No kite nor ball
Nor the prettiest game, can stay
His eager feet as he hastes to greet
Whatever she has to say;
And the teachers depend on this little friend
At school in his place at nine,
With his lessons learned and his good marks earned,
All ready to toe the line. I wonder if you have seen him too,—
This boy, who is not too big
For a morning kiss from mother and sis,
Who isn't a bit of a prig?
He's gentle, and strong, and the whole day long
As merry as a boy can be,—
A gentleman, dears, in the coming years,
And at present the boy for me.—Anon. During our business year which closed recently, we sold on an average of of the tracts published in the Bible Students’ and Apples of Gold Libraries. In addition to this, we have sold 16,712 copies of “The Glad Tidings,” and 37,121 copies of “Marshaling of the Nations,” both of which are pamphlet numbers of the Bible Students’ Library. For the assistance of those who use tracts in quantities, we have issued and circulated 10,000 copies of a booklet entitled This booklet tells just how much you have to pay per hundred, including postage, for any tracts published in Library form. It also gives a subject index to the contents of these tracts, which is a great help to the missionary worker. We have also published an illustrated booklet, which we call As its name indicates, it is full of little suggestions, from those who have used tracts, as to the best methods of circulating them. Both of these booklets are free to applicants. For some time we have been offering to send complete sets of the Bible Students’ Library (not including pamphlets) and Apples of Gold Library, together with a year’s subscription to each Library during 1901 for This is a most liberal offer, and can not long be kept open. We will also furnish envelopes for package work, with a good form of introduction and greeting printed thereon, for 50 cents per hundred, post-paid. for use in depots, post-offices, hotels, and other public buildings. The price is $1.25 by express, not prepaid. _Pacific Press Publishing Company_ _OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA_ _11 W. 20th Street, New York City_ _18 W. 5th Street, Kansas City, Mo._