—The police have discovered a $10,000 illicit still in South Boston, and have arrested the owner.
—Cardinal Satolli, ex-papal representative to the United States, sailed for Europe on the 17th inst. Such a demonstration as greeted his departure down New York Harbor could not have been secured for any Protestant clergyman in the United States.
—The great sugar trust, it is said, is about to have a rival, the new institution being another trust composed of Wall Street speculators.
—The New Orleans grand jury has indicted eleven directors of the Bank of Commerce, which closed up last month, with a loss of $310,000.
—Beginning November 1, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Co. will reëstablish its fast train service between California and Chicago.
—Fire in a large winery near Guerneville, Cal., on the 15th inst., caused a loss of $40,000. The fire was caused by heated pomace in the fermenting tanks.
—By the burning of the house of J. E. Miller, at Lynden, Wash., three children and a man named Boies were burned to death, and a girl aged 16 was seriously injured by the flames.
—Justice Clift, of this city, has decided that George A. Blank is entitled to $200 damage against the S. P. Railroad Co., because the company's agent refused to accept five copper cents in part payment for a fare ticket.
—Little Ferdinand Hoffman, aged 6 years, of this city, chewed and swallowed the brown wrapping paper that came from a baker's shop, and died on the 15th inst. The doctors say it was the poison in the paper that caused the child's death.
—The telegraph reports that among the business men of Yankton, S. D., an organized and general effort is being made to boycott the hard coal combine throughout the northwest by inducing as many consumers as possible to substitute corn for fuel.
—Fire at Corning, Iowa, on the 9th inst., caused a loss of property to the amount of $150,000. At Peoria, Ill., on the 7th inst., a conflagration in the Ide Manufacturing Company's buildings and the Parsons Horological Institute resulted in a loss of $124,000.
—Between Pacific Grove and Salinas, Cal., on the night of the 12th inst., a wagon and four horses carrying the Pacific Grove football team, were plunged over a precipice to the bottom of a gulch forty feet deep. One young man and all the horses were killed, and eight young men were seriously injured.
—By a trolley car accident at Hazleton, Pa., on the 14th inst., three men were killed and a score of others injured. These trolley car disasters are becoming as frequent as were river steamboat accidents until the government took in hand the matter of inspecting engines and boilers, and licensing engineers and pilots.
—Three Mexicans, one of them a lieutenant, members of the band of revolutionists who attacked Palomis, Mexico, a few weeks ago, have been convicted in the U. S. Court, at El Paso, Texas, of violation of the neutrality laws. They were each sentenced to two years' imprisonment in the government prison at Fort Leavenworth.
—The California state convention of the W. C. T. U., in session at Petaluma, decided that the 31st inst., and the day immediately preceding the election, should be observed as days of fasting and prayer, and that the ministers of the various churches in the state be requested to preach on the suffrage question on the Sunday preceding election day.
—It is claimed by the state board of examiners that nearly three-fourths of the coyote scalps presented for bounty money in the state have been shipped from other states and territories. During the last quarter 17,000 scalps had been presented, whereas the number per quarter previous to that time had been 3,000 to 5,000. At $5.00 a scalp, the run is quite heavy.
—Even the government of the United States is afflicted by hard times. The first half of October shows a deficit of $5,739,873, and for the fiscal year to date of $30,934,000. The total receipts for the fiscal year to date have been $91,175,670, and the expenditures have aggregated $122,509,679. The receipts for the month of October to date have been $12,400,120, and the expenditures $18,140,000.
—A despatch of the 14th inst. says that Governor McIntire, of Colorado, had been in Leadville two days, holding conferences with the officers of the Miners' Union, with mine managers, and with delegations of leading citizens. The stagnation of business, owing to the long-continued strike, together with the damage to mining property, is disastrous to the interests of all parties concerned.
—General Greeley, chief signal officer of the U. S. army, in his annual report of military telegraph lines, gives this interesting item: "A very superior system of using the lines at once for both telegraph and telephone has been perfected by Captain Allen, of the Signal Corps, and with instruments weighing only sixteen pounds, including a battery, one soldier may be telegraphing a message in Morse, while another is telephoning another message over the same line. This system has been severely tested up to a distance of 625 miles with perfect results. With these instruments the operators were also able to establish communication over a grounded cable in San Francisco Bay over which no ordinary Morse system would work, a most valuable feature for military purposes."
—Three robbers entered the bank at Meeker, Colo., on the 14th inst., held up a number of men, and helped themselves to the cash in sight. But when they attempted to leave the building they found their way of escape blocked by a posse of armed citizens, and in the fight which ensued all the robbers were killed and two of the posse were wounded. The robbers had fired two shots in the bank to intimidate the men inside, and this piece of bravado sounded the alarm on the outside.
—Mining in Alaska is, at best, fraught with hardship and a degree of exposure to which few men are inured. The season in which active work can be prosecuted at all is very short, the remainder of the year being a time of dreary monotony and heavy expense. A member of the Alaska Commercial Company, who recently returned to San Francisco, says: "Ambitious miners who entertain ideas of going to the Yukon River in search of gold should not attempt the expedition unless they have money enough to keep themselves out of want for at least two years."
—A single bandit managed to hold up a train near Unitah Station, Utah, early in the morning of the 14th inst., and got away with the registered letter packages in the mail car. He compelled the engineer and fireman to stop the train and uncouple all the cars back of the baggage car, and then, taking the fireman with him, he himself ran the engine some distance ahead. He attempted to break open the express safe, but finally gave it up. Strangely enough, no one attempted to interfere with him, as they seemed to think he must have unseen accomplices somewhere near.
—By party combinations it is now deemed beyond doubt that ex-Congressman Breckinridge, of Kentucky, whom the women of his district defeated at the last Congressional election on account of scandalous conduct, will be successful at the coming election. His return will add what strength he possesses to the Sunday law force in Congress, as he was once the author and champion of a bill for enforced Sunday observance in the District of Columbia. It is quite probable that an ardent advocacy of the Bureau of Reform measures will do much toward redeeming his sullied reputation in certain religious circles.
—The end of the highbinders among the Chinese in San Francisco seems to have come, for a time at least. A dozen headquarters of the hatchetmen were destroyed by Chinese police on the 14th inst. These agents of the consul-general overthrew the josses, broke down the signs, and dismantled the headquarters, until now, where the hatchetmen have been wont to meet is desolate, and the desperadoes are homeless and hunted. The work was done on the following order from the Chinese minister at Washington, to the consul-general at San Francisco: "Instructions have been issued to have bond of good behaviour given within limited period. Said period has expired without compliance on the part of those concerned, whose conduct is very disrespectful. You are to dissolve the highbinder societies and the See Yup Association without delay. Non-compliance will subject you to impeachment and degradation from office."
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—The insurgent Greeks and Turks fought all day on the 3d inst., near Greavena, Macedonia, both sides sustaining heavy losses.
—An expedition to Spitzbergen reports having discovered a mountain nearly 5,000 feet high, which is apparently almost wholly composed of marble.
—A special from Bombay announces that a bucket of tar was poured over the statue of Queen Victoria there during the night, and a pair of old sandals tied around the neck.
—The Philippine Islands insurgents are said to have given the Spanish troops a severe defeat, and more reinforcements are to be forwarded from Spain. The captain-general himself sends home the news of the defeat.
—The French Government has declined the request of Great Britain for the surrender of Tynan, the Irish-American alleged dynamite plotter, arrested at Boulogne some weeks ago, and the prisoner has been released.
—The minister of agriculture of India says that distress is expected in various parts of the country as a result of drought, and a consequent rise in the price of wheat. This is one of the causes of the rise in the price of wheat in America.
—A special despatch from Kingston, Jamaica, says: "Serious riots are reported from Georgetown, the capital of British Guiana. The police, in trying to restore order, were obliged to fire on the mob. Three rioters were killed and many were wounded."
—United States Minister Terrell has lodged with the Turkish Government a claim for $40,000 indemnity on behalf of Mrs. Lenz, mother of Frank Lenz, the Pittsburg bicyclist who was murdered by Kurds while traveling through Asiatic Turkey in 1895.
—The coming winter in Cornwall, it is feared, will be a time of severe trial, the depression in the mining districts having reached an acute stage. The price of tin is lower than it has been in twenty years, and in consequence miners are leaving Cornwall in thousands.
—It is estimated that about fifty women and children will profit by the concession made by the Turkish Government, at the request of Minister Terrell, permitting the departure for the United States, with safe conduct to the seaports, of all native Armenian women and children whose husbands and fathers are in the United States.
—It has been the shame of the United States that railroad disasters have been proportionally far more frequent than in any other country. But a London paper says that "railway accidents have been unusually frequent in England this summer." It would seem that British railroad corporations are becoming reckless as well as those of America.
—A press correspondent at Cadiz, Spain, accredits the following expression to a Spanish army official: "If Spain has not put down the insurrection in Cuba by the first of next March, it is the intention of the government to give up the struggle and let the island go." In the meantime, filibustering expeditions continue to make successful landings of material aid for the insurgents.
—The enormity of the failure of the Panama canal scheme may be partially realized by the contemplating the fact that over a million tons of machinery—engines, dredgers, locomotives, etc.—are rusting and rotting along the line. Yet this is but as dust in the balances compared with the final collapse of all earthly enterprises, when the earth shall be melted and "the works that are therein shall be burned up."
—A Buluwayo despatch of the 13th inst., gives the following important information: Cecil Rhodes, Earl Grey, administrator for the British South African Company, and the other chief officials have held a final indaba with the Matabele chiefs. Mr. Rhodes announced to them that, after yielding up their arms and those of their number who had been guilty of murdering whites, the Matabeles must locate themselves in specified districts of the country. The principal chiefs would be held responsible and would receive monthly salaries from the British Chartered South African Company. The chiefs all agreed to this proposition, and it is believed that the whole Matabele trouble is now at an end.
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The history of many of the interesting island groups of the Pacific are comparatively unknown to ordinary readers except through the writings of missionaries. When international complications arise, as a year ago at Samoa, or, more lately, at Ponape, so little is known of the locality or the people that it is like showing pictures to the blind. This little volume gives something of the history of the Tongas, the Hervey group, and the Marquesas Islands, before they were visited by the missionaries, and indeed were hardly known to the first navigators of those seas. The habits of the people, their government, the vegetable wonders on shore, and the great wonders of the sea about them, are graphically told in a manner that cannot fail to entertain and instruct young readers.—The Christian Cynosure.
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"I would certainly 'give my hand and my heart' to vote for a Sunday law, if for no other reason than that it would be educational in its nature."
What a plea for Christian men in a "Christian nation"! We have many laws against theft, and rape, and incest, and murder, and many other crimes, yet the educating power of these laws is not sufficient to check the enormous increase of any of these crimes. The murders of last year in the United States were sufficient to utterly depopulate a city like Fresno. And many, if not the great majority, of these crimes are committed by persons who have had the "educational" influence of law. It may be different with respect to Sunday. It has no moral basis back of it. It is a tree of human planting, existing only by human authority, a rival to God's Sabbath. That which has behind it the power of God's law manifest through the Gospel and life of Jesus Christ does not need human or civil law. The appeal to civil law for Sunday is a confession that its origin is not divine. O brethren, come back to the Gospel of the word!
CHANCELLOR YORKE, of San Francisco, has frequently said of late that the Church of Rome, or her priests, are not in politics, but the late letter of Archbishop Ireland, and the utterances of Priests Phelan and Nugent, prove that she takes quite an interest in politics after all. Archbishop Ireland joins with others in denouncing as anarchy those who criticise a decision of the Supreme Court. So it has been declared by many of our Sunday-law friends concerning criticisms of the Supreme Court relative to the "Christian nation" decision. The parallel to the Supreme Court in religious affairs as held by Roman Catholics is the Pope and his cabinet. How long will it be ere it will be called anarchy, both religious and political, to question the decision of the Vatican?
Training of Lay Workers.
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On a "Lay Workers' Training Course" the Pacific Theological Seminary (Congregational), in the Seminary News Letter of September, has the following to say with reference to the needs of such a course:—
"It is designed for students of both sexes who seek increased efficiency in other work than the ordained ministry. The home missionary societies call for young women trained to evangelistic work. The Sunday-school and Christian Endeavor need officers and teachers with better knowledge of the Bible and of practical methods. There are youths whose usefulness in the lay work of their own church would be manifolded by a year or two of proper instruction. There are men determined upon the ministry, perhaps urged into it by friends or churches, who could not be persuaded to take a college course, or even a full theological course, who may not have the necessary preparatory education for the higher study, who may yet be greatly benefited for life by this shorter course."
The principal studies of the course adopted by the above institution we condense from the News Letter: "The principal study is the English Bible; five recitations a week in each Testament. The aim is to teach the pupil how to study the Bible so as to know its truth and impart it to others. The remainder of the course consists of a number of short studies, such as The Life of Christ; Evidences of Christianity; Fundamental Doctrines; Sunday-school Work; How to Conduct Meetings; Methods of Personal Work; Use of Blackboard and Object Lessons; Home and Foreign Mission Work; Practical Difficulties of Romanism; Preparation of Bible Addresses." This is a good course and highly suggestive. And yet we often wish that such a school could include whole churches, that all of the Lord's children were Bible students and workers in the Master's vineyard. However, this shall not prevent us from being glad that Bible study is extended. May it lead the students into the larger light and liberty and freedom of the Gospel of Christ. Only so can they be blessings to others.
CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER.
By Editor
Editorial.
The Hope of the Poor (notes)....................................................1, 2
The Controversy of the Ages, No. 3...........................................2
The Sabbath and the Sunday, No. 6 .........................................4
Answers to Questions—No. 432, Abstaining from Meats, etc..4
Poetry.
Glimpses of "Home," ANNA AGEE.........................................5
Boys That Are Wanted.............................................................9
More Like Thee, A. R. WILCOX ............................................11
General Articles.
The Source of Strength, MRS. E. G WHITE............................5
Catholicism vs. Christianity, No. 4, ALONZO T. JONES........6
God's Law in Christ, and in Us, R. C. PORTER ....................7
Chapters in United States History, No. 3, PROF. CHAS. MORRIS.......................................................................................7
The Outlook.—The Press and the Roman Church, W. N. G.—
United States Courts in a New Role.........................................9
The Fireside.—A Separated Life—Lean Meat Diet Unsafe—
The Quilt's Message—Dont's for Mothers—Tea-tasting, J. H.
KELLOGG, M.D.—To Clean a Brussels Carpet....................9, 10
Missions.—Persia and the Persians—Mohurrum Celebrations—Arabian Missions—Our Work and Workers............11
International Sabbath School Lesson.—Questions Concerning Christ and His Work (Lesson 6, Sabbath, November 7, 1896)....................................................................................12, 13
International Sunday School Lesson.—The Temple Dedicated (Lesson 6, Sunday, November 8, 1896) .......................13
News and Notes.........................................................................14
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Superstition
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Superstition.—A brother in Shreveport, La., sends us a copy of the Progress, a newspaper, containing a letter under the caption, "A Letter from Jesus Christ." It commands the keeping of the Sunday from six o'clock Saturday afternoon; commands persons to cause their servants to go to church and to be baptized, and says that a copy of this letter in the house will insure against all sorts of ills. This hardly agrees with the letter which the Lord was said to have sent down in the year 1201, which commanded Sunday to be kept from three P. M. Saturday. But the whole thing to the instructed Christian is a piece of nonsense. As the brother who sends it truly says: "We have not to go to foreign countries to find superstition, but we find it right in this land of Bibles." True; it will be found in every place that man wants his own way, instead of God's way.
The Rising Power of Russia.
The Literary Digest of October 10 says that "the long-smoldering resentment of the Continental nations against our British cousins has given place to all but open hostility, and Russia is given to understand that they will not interfere if hostilities break out between Russia and Great Britain," and quotes the following from a prominent English journal, the St. James Gazette:—
"Whether over Crete or over other and larger matters, it is said we should come to a 'frank understanding' with Russia. Let us table our cards, define what we want, and what we can forego; and then, by a sort of mutual arrangement, divide the European and Asiatic worlds between us. The idea is fascinating in many ways. It would be an inestimable benefit to us if we could abandon our sixty years' rivalry with Russia, and enter into a cordial alliance for mutual advantage. But unluckily the proposal comes rather late in the day. When we were really keeping Russia back, no doubt our complacency was worth buying. Now, however, that Russia is steadily getting all she wants, she can do without us. Russia's recent policy of quietly placing herself at the head of the Continental powers, and ignoring us, has succeeded so uncommonly well for her, that her statesmen may very well be content to let it go on. Even if the Russians believe in our good faith—which they do not—it may be extremely difficult to convince them that they could have got more by our favor these past three years than they have contrived to secure very comfortably without it."
What to expect among the nations of earth we know but little, except that there will be strife, turmoil, confusion, and war, and finally utter wreck. Out of it all God will make the wrath of man to praise him, and that which can not be made to do this he will restrain. When his servants have done their work, and the kingdoms of earth rebel against his righteous rule, he will set them all aside and reign forever. Till that time comes he bids his people wait with patience.
