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This Week's Paper
By James White
One issue of the SIGNS is necessarily omitted in consequence of the Biblical Lectures which have been given in this city during the last two weeks by Elder Uriah Smith, of Battle Creek, Mich. These have been given rapidly, two or three each day, and as most of our helpers in the Office have attended them, it has been very convenient and even necessary to omit one number of the SIGNS. We have labored, however, to get the present number out one day ahead of time, and to make up as far as possible for the disappointment by the excellence of the present issue.
We bespeak a close and careful reading of the second and third pages of this paper. We speak pointedly upon the Sabbath question, and we doubt not that the candid and patient reader will excuse us for great plainness of speech under existing circumstances. Let each point be thoroughly examined by the reader.
The rapidly increasing patronage of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, the place that is given it in the wide field, and the hold it is obtaining upon the minds and hearts of its numerous readers, induce its conductors to spare neither labor, means nor care to make the paper what it should be. The general interest taken in the SIGNS is strongly indicated by the receipts in this number. J. W.
The Biblical Institute has exceeded our expectations. Elder Smith has a good class who study hard, and are doing well. One feature is most pleasing; students think closely, and manifest a desire to go to the foundation of important subjects, without manifesting a desire to show themselves especial critics. God bless this class. A score of them should enter the field at once, as Bible readers, Scripture comparers, and publication circulators. J. W.
One instance that shows how the SIGNS is prized by the old friends of the cause abroad we will here state. We received an order the 15th, from the church at Battle Creek, Mich., for 153 copies weekly for one year, for which they pay $229.50. These are to be used in tract and missionary work, as has been explained in the SIGNS, and in the Review and Herald. If all our churches would follow the example of the Battle Creek church we should soon have the pleasure of sending out 20,000 copies of the SIGNS. J. W.
Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Day.
Frequent reference having been made in these columns to the wholesale slaughter of Protestants on this day as well as other persecutions by the Romanists, the following facts recorded in the Cottage Bible will be appreciated:—
Charles IX. of France, a Roman Catholic prince, laid a snare for the destruction of the Protestants, by offering his sister in marriage to a Huguenot (a Protestant) prince of Navarre. All the chief men of the Huguenots were assembled in Paris at the nuptials; when on the eve of St. Bartholomew’s day, August 24, 1572, at the ringing of a bell, the massacre commenced. An unparalleled scene of horror ensued. The Roman Catholics rushed upon the defenseless Protestants. Above five hundred men of distinction, and about ten thousand others, that night slept in Paris the sleep of death.
A general destruction was immediately ordered through France, and a horrid carnage was soon witnessed at Rouen, Lyons, Orleans, and other cities. Sixty thousand perished—and when the news of this event reached Rome, Pope Gregory XIII. instituted the most solemn rejoicing, giving thanks to Almighty God for this glorious victory over the heretics! According to the calculation of some, about two hundred thousand suffered death in seven years, under Pope Julian; no less than a hundred thousand were massacred by the French in the space of three months; the Waldenses who perished, amounted to one million; within thirty years the Jesuits destroyed nine hundred thousand; under the Duke of Alva, thirty-six thousand were executed by the common hangmen; one hundred and fifty thousand perished in the inquisition; and a hundred and fifty thousand by the Irish massacre: besides the vast multitude of whom the world could never be particularly informed, who were proscribed, banished, starved, burned, buried alive, smothered, suffocated, drowned, assassinated, chained to the galleys for life, or immured within the horrid walls of the Bastille, or others of their church or State prisons. According to some, the whole number of persons massacred since the rise of Papacy, amounts to fifty millions.
That Fatal Limb.
A man who thought himself quite wise,
Climbed up a tree towards the skies,
And as he meant the tree to trim,
Just placed himself upon a limb,
And trimmed away and worked so good,
He cut the limb on which he stood;
When to his great surprise he found
That he was sprawling on the ground.
And thus it is with those who say
Man cannot keep God's holy day;
For round the earth the thing don't chime;
All cannot keep it at one time,
And if around the earth we go,
We gain or lose a day or so.
Or should we go north to the pole,
The Sabbath day would be so droll,
Or rather it would be so queer,
One Sabbath day most half a year.
And thus they write, and preach, and say,
No one can keep the seventh day;
And yet they think themselves quite just
To urge on man to keep the first;
As though they thought 'twould make all strait
If they for first-day legislate.
And yet for all they might fare slim,
Since they have cut away their limb.
But still in God they place their hope,
Make void his law and serve the Pope.
Oroville, Cal., Religionists.
The Mercury of that town it is presumed is the organ of the prevailing public sentiment. In a recent issue the editor gives a racy report of a dance: “It was gotten up to raise money to pay up the church debt, and it partook rather of the religious sort than otherwise.” “A ring-cake cut into many pieces offered an opportunity to enter into a harmless kind of gambling, and was soon disposed of.” “A post-office, presided over by Miss W. and Miss G., raised quite a revenue.” “All the principal citizens of Oroville were there and entered into the dance with a relish.” “We never saw a company enjoy themselves more.”
“Oroville is not much of a church-going place. Religious matters do not trouble them much, and as a natural result they are all united, live harmoniously and peaceably, and float down the stream of time without ever thinking of, or attempting to blacken the characters of their fellow-beings. To build good school-houses, to employ good teachers, to cultivate the friendship of the worthy, and to live in peace with God and man seems to be about the average desire of an Orovillean. Hence we never put spies on the track of our ministers when they go below, nor do we send far and near for witnesses to testify against them.”
The above are specimens of the report, and give some idea of the status of the church in that town. That the gospel should be preached there none will question; and that proper measures should be used to obtain material support, all will admit. But if the alternative is to lower the standard and bring the church into conformity with the world, or abandon the field, let the latter alternative be chosen. A church that creeps in the dirt can never command respect. It is a thousand-fold worse than none.—Cal. Christian Advocate.
The Dumb Taught to Speak.
ONE who has visited Whipple's Home School for Deaf Mutes located on the Mystic River, Conn., the first school in this country at which deaf mutes were taught to speak, makes the following interesting remarks in the Christian Union, concerning his visit: “Conversing with those scholars who have enjoyed Mr. Whipple's mode of instruction for some time, one would not suspect that they ever labored under any defect of hearing. The pleasure which the scholars take in being thus able to talk with others is very great. It seems to them like breaking out into a new life. The late Jonathan Whipple, grandfather of the present principal, taught his own deaf son to speak orally, and to converse; this was the first successful experiment of the kind known in this country, and out of it has sprung the present institution. The wonderful art of teaching the dumb to speak consists in training the pupil to observe and imitate the motions of the lips and other organs of speech of the person speaking to him. Mr. Whipple has also invented a hieroglyphic alphabet, showing the position of the mouth, in articulating each of the elementary sounds. A reproduction of the position by the pupil with his own mouth accompanied with voice, produces the word. The advancement of the scholar, by means of this training, is more rapid and his articulation more perfect than one would think possible. I doubt not that a deaf mute may thus be taught to address an audience in such a manner as scarcely to awaken the suspicion that he was ever a mute though still entirely destitute of hearing.”