THE Christian world has long been guessing what Paul's thorn in the flesh was. We have a book that in ten pages tries to show what Paul's thorn was not, and in another ten pages tries to show what it was.
Many of the theological doctors have felt Paul's pulse to see what was the matter with him. We suppose the reason he did not tell us what it was, may have been because he did not want us to know. He knew that if he stated what it was, there would have been a great many people from Corinth bothering him with prescriptions as to how he might cure it.
Some say that it was diseased eyes, some that it was a humped back. It may have been neuralgia. Perhaps it was gout, although his active habits and a sparse diet throw doubt on the supposition. Suffice it to say it was a thorn—that is, it stuck him. It was sharp.
It was probably of not much account in the eyes of the world. It was not a trouble that could be compared to a lion, or a boisterous sea. It was like a thorn that you may have in your hand or foot, and no one know it. Thus we see that it becomes a type of those little nettlesome worries of life that exasperate the spirit.
Every one has a thorn sticking him. The housekeeper finds it in unfaithful domestics; or an inmate who keeps things disordered; or a house too small for convenience, or too large to be kept cleanly. The professional man finds it in perpetual interruptions or calls for “more copy.” The Sabbath-school teacher finds it in inattentive scholars or neighboring teachers that talk loudly and make a great noise in giving a little instruction. One man has a rheumatic joint, which, when the wind is north-east, lifts the storm signal. Another, a business partner who takes full half the profits, but does not help earn them. These trials are the more nettlesome because like Paul's thorn they are not to be mentioned. Men get sympathy for broken bones, and mashed feet, but not for the end of sharp thorns that have been broken off in the fingers.
Let us start out with the idea that we must have annoyances. It seems to take a certain number of them to keep us humble, wakeful, and prayerful. To Paul, the thorn was disciplinary, as the shipwreck. If it is not one thing, it is another. If the stove does not smoke, the boiler must leak. If the pen is good, the ink must be poor. If the thorn does not pierce the knee, it must take you in the back. Life must have sharp things in it. We cannot make up our robe of Christian character without pins and needles.
We want what Paul got: grace to bear these things. Without it, we become cross, censorious, and irascible. We get in the habit of sticking our thorns into other people's fingers. But, God helping us, we place these annoyances in the category of the “all things work together for good.” We see how much shorter thorns are than the spikes that stuck through the palms of Christ's hands, and, remembering that he had on his head a whole crown of thorns, we take to ourselves the consolation that if we suffer with him on earth, we shall be glorified with him in Heaven.
But how could Paul positively rejoice in these infirmities? The school of Christ has three classes of scholars; in the first class, we learn how to be stuck with thorns without losing our patience; in the second class, we learn how to make the sting positively advantageous; in the third class of this school, we learn how even to rejoice in being pierced and wounded: but that is the senior class, and when we get to that, we are near graduation into glory.—Christian at Work.
Luther’s Unselfishness.
DISINTERESTEDNESS was a leading feature in the character of Luther; superior to all selfish considerations, he left the honors and emoluments of this world to those who delighted in them. The poverty of this great man did not arise from wanting the means of acquiring riches, for few men have had it in their power more easily to obtain them. The Elector of Saxony offered him the produce of a mine at Soeberg; but he nobly refused it, “lest,” said he, “I should tempt the devil, who is lord of these subterraneous treasures, to tempt.” The enemies of Luther were no strangers to his contempt for gold. When one of the popes asked a certain cardinal why they did not stop that man’s mouth with silver and gold, his Eminence replied, “That German beast regards not money!” It may easily be supposed that the liberality of such a man would often exceed his means. A poor student once telling him of his poverty, he desired his wife to give him a sum of money; and when she informed him they had none left, he immediately seized a cup of some value, which accidentally stood within his reach, and giving it to the poor man, bade him go and sell it, and keep the money to supply his wants. In one of his epistles, Luther says, “I have received one hundred guilders from Tauberheim; and Schartts has given me fifty; so that I begin to fear lest God should reward me in this life. But I will not be satisfied with it. What have I to do with so much money? I gave half of it to P. Priorus, and made the man glad.”
Abounding Wickedness.
THE Standard, a Baptist newspaper in Chicago, says—“Whether are we drifting? From all parts of the country, and from all sorts of public officials, legislative, judicial, and executive, come up reports of fraud, corruption, defalcation, breaches of trust, robberies of public funds, and other malfeasances, to an extent never known in our country in any former period of its history. The evil seems to be general, almost a radical element in official life. Investigation by legislative and congressional committees, and by the courts, are the order of the day. The sacredness of the elective franchise is violated; political rights are ignored; usurpations are tolerated in high places; in short, everything appears to be out of joint. We are either coming to the end of this, by a sweeping and all-pervading moral and political reaction, or, we are coming to the end of our liberties and our republican form of government. While we are aware that this country can bear a terrible strain, there is a point beyond which it cannot go and survive; and at the rate of our downward progress for the past ten years in this direction, it would not take long to reach this point.
“Bribery and corruption, beginning at the political fountain-head, are doing their work. The individual sells his vote at the polls; the legislator barters his away for a consideration; and the member of congress, or senator, having expended largely to secure his place, reimburses himself out of the public treasury, by becoming the paid agent of some subsidized enterprise, or a party to a Credit Mobilier—stealing, on a larger or smaller scale. Judges sell their influence, and administrative officers combine to swindle the government to contracts. So we go on until distrust of the honesty of our public servants has crept in everywhere. The haste to be rich, to possess power and place, lie at the bottom of the whole of it.”
It is to be hoped that the result of the investigations at Washington, and elsewhere, will be to arouse and quicken the attention of the country to the dangers which threaten, as they reveal the fact that we have already made a fearful plunge into the maelstrom of corruption, and that we exhibit a decadence in public morals fearful to contemplate.—Signs of Our Times.
Serenity as a Testimony of Faith
REMEMBER that serenity recommends your faith and religion. If you are serene only when surrounded by the comforts of life, men will say: “It is easy to be happy when one has health, and friends, and wealth.” But when a man stands in darkness, and never loses courage, and is sweet-tempered as ever, there is a testimony to his religion which the world cannot mistake.
THE prodigal robs his heir, the miser robs himself.
Wit, Good Nature, and Borrowed Wealth
THE triumph of wit is to make your good nature subdue your censure; to be quick in seeing faults, and slow in exposing them.
THE reason why more homage is paid to wealth than wisdom, says a Russian poet, is because one can borrow wealth, but not wisdom.
T. & M. Meetings in Michigan
Appointments.
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand
** Services in Chicago, every Sabbath (seventh day), at 296 West Erie St. All Sabbath-keepers spending a Sabbath in Chicago, are invited to attend.
T. & M. Meetings in Michigan.
I now expect to meet with the friends at the quarterly meeting at Wright, Nov. 29 and 30. At Alaiedon, Dec. 6 and 7, also at the general quarterly meeting at Battle Creek, Dec. 13 and 14. At this last-mentioned meeting there should be a report from every district in the State, and it is expected that there will not only be a general turnout of the friends in the vicinity of Battle Creek, but that every director or district secretary as far as practicable will be present. Bring your books which contain your tract and missionary business. Come prepared to stay until you can have an opportunity of having every point connected with the system explained that is not now fully understood. This will be a meeting of importance, therefore we speak for a general attendance of those interested in the tract and missionary work. S. N. Haskell.
The General Quarterly Meeting in Warren County, N. Y., Dec. 6 and 7.
As the President of our T. & M. Society has seen fit to favor us with a meeting of this character in this section, we are anxious that it should be made a profitable occasion to the cause. In order to this, a general attendance of the friends of the cause in this part of the State is requisite; and all should feel the responsibility resting upon them to improve such an opportunity. Let us seek God as never before, and come together with a spirit to receive and obey instruction. Friends from a distance will be more than welcome. Those coming on the cars will take tickets for North Creek, unless notified otherwise by letter. As there is but one train on the Adirondack R. R., and that leaves Saratoga about 9, A. M., it will be necessary to arrive in Saratoga early Friday morning in order to reach the meeting. In behalf of the church, S. B. Whitney.
There will be a quarterly meeting of the T. and M. Society for Dist. No. 2, Maine, in connection with the quarterly meeting to be held at Allen’s Corner, Deering, Sabbath and first-day, Jan. 3 and 4, 1874. Meeting will commence Sabbath eve, Jan. 2. Let there be a general gathering at this meeting, as we hope to enjoy the labors of Eld. S. N. Haskell. Send your reports to me at least one week before the meeting. Wm. E. Morton, Director.
The next quarterly meeting for Little Prairie, Oakland, and Johnstown, Wis., will be held at Oakland on Sabbath and Sunday, Dec. 6 and 7, 1873. A. Olson.
The quarterly meeting of the T. and M. Society of Dist. No. 7, Wis., will be held in Ordino, at the school-house near W. Farrar’s, Dec. 6, 7, in connection with the quarterly meeting of the Fish Lake church. A general attendance is expected at this meeting. Bring your reports of work done in the missionary cause. The Plainfield church is invited. We invite Eld. Cady of Poy Sippi to attend this meeting. P. S. Thurston, Pres.
The next general quarterly meeting for the Tract and Missionary Society in Ohio, will be held at Clyde, Dec. 20 and 21. We hope there will be a general attendance at this meeting. We expect each director will hold his quarterly meeting Dec. 6 and 7, two weeks previous, so that a report can be sent to the Secretary, Miss. M. E. Reynolds, Mesopotamia, Ohio, or brought to the meeting at Clyde. It is hoped that each member will take an interest in sending the Review on trial to their friends. The money and names can be given to the Director and a report be made at this meeting: Eld. S. N. Haskell is expected to attend. O. Mears, Pres.
Quincy, Branch Co., Mich., commencing evening of Nov. 25th, and continuing each evening during the week, and over Sabbath and first-day. H. M. Kenyon.
There will be a quarterly meeting of the T. and M. Society at Quincy, Branch Co., Mich., Nov. 30. Will the brethren at Coldwater attend this meeting? At Hastings, Barry Co., Dec. 7, at Sister Owen’s. A general attendance is desired. I. A. Olmstead, Director.
The next quarterly meeting for Allegan Co., Mich., will be held at Otsego, Dec. 6 and 7. The quarterly meeting of the T. and M. Society, Dist. No. 4, will be held in connection with this meeting. J. L. Rumery, Director.
The Next Term of School.
By Geo. I. Butler
It is now time to speak in the paper to those who are anxious to attend the next term of school. As this is the winter term, and as that season of the year is the one when persons can best find time to devote to study, we expect a large number will desire to attend. We are most happy to say that one of our greatest difficulties will now be obviated. Heretofore we have been obliged to convene our school in the meeting-house, a building not well adapted to school purposes, but which was the best we could do under the circumstances. This has been furnished for several terms by the kindness of the church here.
But now that the new Office building has been completed, we can enter much more suitable quarters. We have seated the two main rooms, and we do not see how we could have more pleasant quarters. They will comfortably seat 125 scholars, and there are several smaller rooms, also, which can be used if necessary. Our present term ends Dec. 14, and the next term will commence soon after, we are not prepared to state the exact time in this article. We expect religious lectures will be connected with the next term. Opportunity will be given for the study of the languages as well as for all the branches usually taught in our high schools. We expect to have a first-class school, in which there will be a high tone of moral sentiment, and great opportunities for mental discipline. We are determined it shall be second to none. There are many of our young men who are busy in the summer season who could profitably spend a few months in school, to prepare them for greater usefulness in the cause of God, as well as the business of this world.
Board will be reasonable. We will give more particulars next week.
GEO. I. BUTLER.
Battle Creek, Mich., Nov. 23, 1873.
News and Miscellany.
“Can ye not discern the signs of the times?”
Cuban Affairs.
A mass meeting was held in New York, Nov. 17, to give expression to the public feeling in regard to the recent executions in Cuba, in which Hon. Wm. M. Evarts and S. S. Cox made speeches. The following preamble and resolutions were adopted:—
“Whereas, The war for the suppression of the Cuban rebellion and the perpetuation of human slavery has been going on for over five years without any visible evidence that it will be successful, and
“Whereas, This war has from the beginning been conducted by the Spanish volunteers by methods abhorrent to humanity and the usages of civilized conflicts, and
“Whereas, The Spanish volunteers have repeatedly outraged the rights and persons of American citizens without any redress or security against future outrages being given, and
“Whereas, For years past the Spanish Government has shown itself impotent to restrain, punish, or prevent, the cruelties and barbarities of its agents in Cuba, or to enforce its own liberal legislation, and
“Whereas, The culminating horrors of the successive executions of the captives taken from the Virginius have shown a deliberate purpose on the part of the Spanish volunteers to disobey or anticipate any orders from Madrid, and a determination to insult and defy our own Government and people, and
“Whereas, The Government of Spain has neither submitted to the assumption that she was prosecuting a war in Cuba, nor tolerated its recognition by our Government, but has acted with unlicensed self-will, both in the conduct of the war and in her treatment of our Government, availing herself of all the irresponsibility of illegitimate warfare, and claiming all the immunities of lawful warfare, and
“Whereas, It has become evident to all the world that Cuba is now a part of the outlying realm of Spain which has so completely lapsed into anarchy and is so entirely uncontrollable by Spain that the nearest civilized power has the right and is in duty bound, in the interests of civilization and humanity, and for the protection of its own citizens, to use forcible means to obtain from the real masters of the situation in Cuba ‘indemnity for the past and security for the future,’ provided the power of Spain be not immediately put forth successfully to redress past wrongs, and guarantee the world, and the United States especially, against their repetition; therefore,
“Resolved, That the people of the United States look to the great soldier who now presides over our Government to take the promptest and most decisive action that is consistent with the dignity and with the past precedents of our Government; that we adopt the language of Thomas Jefferson in 1793, when he, as Secretary of State, wrote to the Spanish representatives in regard to outrages committed by Creek Indians, in the then Spanish territory of Florida, upon American Citizens:—
“If we are disappointed in this appeal, if we are to be forced into a contrary order of things, our mind is made up. We shall meet it with firmness. The necessity of our position will supersede all appeal to calculation now, as it has done heretofore. We confide in our own strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others without fearing it. If we cannot otherwise prevail on the Creeks to discontinue their depredations, we will attack them in force. If Spain chooses to consider our defense against savage butchery as a cause of war to her, we must meet her also in war, with regret, but without fear.”
Great excitement exists in England as well as the United States. It is reported that several of the passengers of the Virginius, who were executed, were British subjects. The London Daily Telegraph of Nov. 18 says:—
“Considerations of policy and humanity would lead England to view favorably the annexation of Cuba to the United States. That the American Government will wait the assembling of Congress before taking action on the Virginius matter is evidence that its policy will not be governed by popular clamor. We do not despair of a peaceful solution of the question. In view of the difficulty the United States would experience in retaining possession of Cuba if annexed, we would advise the Government of that country to acknowledge the belligerency of the insurgents, and ultimately guarantee the independence of the island, asking in return the abolition of slavery.”
Paris, Nov. 16.—The Italian Parliament was opened yesterday by King Victor Emanuel in person. In his speech from the throne, the king said he hoped “for a continuance of the work of internal organization, that thus Italy might increase her prosperity amid order and safety, the two indispensable conditions of industry and progress. It had been shown that Rome might become the capital without encroaching upon the independence of the pope or the exercise of the spiritual functions and relations of the Catholic world. We will respect his religious sentiments and his liberty, but will not permit attacks upon the nation and its institutions.”
“Our relations with all foreign powers are friendly. Testimonials of the affection of the emperors and peoples of Austria and Germany have been addressed to Italy, which has conquered her rightful place among the nations. Since the causes of war between Austria and Italy have disappeared, there remains nothing but the confidence of mutual interests and a sure friendship, in harmony with those family affections which an imperious duty has made me subdue, but cannot extinguish. We wish to live in harmony with all nations, but we will firmly guard the rights and dignity of our own.”
The king asks for bills to perfect the organization of the army and navy, and to improve the finances. In concluding his speech, the king said: “I have confidence in the nation, and feel that the nation has confidence in me.” The speech was greeted with frequent and enthusiastic demonstrations of approval.
A LADY who had charge of a young ladies’ Bible-class, speaking of defective home training, said that her best pupil, eighteen years of age, had caused her the most acute anxiety. Rain or shine, she was always at her post. The girl’s whole soul seemed to be absorbed in the straightening out of intricate theological problems; “and yet,” said the teacher, “the girl was so pale and wan that I was afraid every Sabbath would be her last in the class. One day she fainted, and in trying to restore her I loosened her dress, and what do you think I found? Corsets so tightly drawn that a full respiration was impossible. I removed them, and found that her ribs actually lapped! I took her to her mother, a very prominent and useful church member, and stated the case, without reserve.” “Well, you see,” said the parent, “Fanny never had any figure. I should not be surprised if the lacings were drawn a little too tight. Her waist is naturally so large that it is almost impossible to make anything fit genteelly on her. How is your class prospering, Miss ——? I hope you are drawing many souls to Christ.”
THE Savannah (Ga.) News has the following report of the run on the Savannah banks: “A remarkable feature of the occasion—amounting, indeed, to almost a phenomenon—was the strange manner in which men who had been successful in drawing their money were affected. They would wait calmly in the crush and heat, sweating serenely till their turn came, and then, after getting their deposits, they would fall to shaking and trembling as though they had been stricken with the palsy. One man, rather coarsely dressed, who drew out quite a large amount, seemed to be particularly affected. He shook and trembled from head to foot, put his money in his pocket, and then took it out again, and finally tied it up in his handkerchief, his hand shaking all the while as though he had an ague.”
Conference Statistics.
By Gen. Conf. Secretary
We are not able to present statistics showing the present standing of the General Conference from the fact that some of the State Conference secretaries have failed to report. Ever since organization was adopted, we have labored under this difficulty, that those whose duty it was to make the reports called for by the Conference constitutions, have, from some cause, more or less neglected to make them. This has been a crying evil from the very commencement. It has increased every year, till now it would be difficult to find an epithet that would fitly describe it. Will the secretaries of the following Conferences forward to the REVIEW AND HERALD, immediately, the statistics of their respective Conferences, so that the General Conference report can be completed; namely, Maine, New England, Vermont, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, and California. The shortness of the notice may be a partial excuse in the present instance; but whatever the cause of the failure, the statistics are wanted forthwith.
GEN. CONF. SECRETARY.
N. B.
By Joseph Harvey Waggoner
In 1858, a call was made for donations to assist me, in erecting a dwelling-house. It is my desire to return them to the donors. I therefore request every one who sent means for that purpose to inform me immediately. Those who consecrated these gifts to the cause of the Lord need not hesitate to comply with this request, as the means can be appropriated to any department of the work they may indicate.
J. H. WAGGONER.
Battle Creek, Mich., Nov. 22, 1873.
Testimony No. 23 Endorsed by R. F. Cottrell
By R. F. Cottrell
Testimony No. 23.
I have carefully and prayerfully read this work a second time. It is instructive; and it commends itself to my judgment. It faithfully points out our dangers; and we should be thankful for its admonitions. The only thing to be regretted is that there should exist the necessity of such rebukes and chastenings. But they are for our salvation, if we will heed them. “As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten; be zealous, therefore, and repent.” To heed these warnings is my settled purpose. By the help of God, I will be an overcomer.
I would recommend to all to read these reproofs; and if you find them distasteful to you—if you find a disposition in yourself to repel them—you may be sure that you are out of harmony with the spirit of the work of the Lord, and need a new conversion to the truth for these perilous times. Let us humbly heed the timely admonitions, and engage with renewed zeal in the solemn work of the last message.
R. F. Cottrell.
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