THE fact that God is in Heaven is often used to indicate his power and majesty. The expression occurring in the model prayer indicates that whoever prays should recognize the greatness of the Being whom he addresses. "He that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." Heb. 11:6. We quote a few texts to show the comprehensiveness of the expression, "Who art in Heaven."
Ps. 103:19: "The Lord hath prepared his throne in the Heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all." Ps. 115:3: "But our God is in the Heavens; he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased." These texts show the power of God. The same thing is found in 2 Chron. 20:6: "O Lord God of our fathers, art not thou God in Heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?" Whenever it is designed to indicate the power and majesty of God, his dwelling-place in Heaven is mentioned.
Ps. 11:4: "The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord's throne is in Heaven; his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men." Here God's dwelling-place in Heaven is mentioned to show his omniscience.
Jer. 23:24: "Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill Heaven and earth? saith the Lord." Here the omnipresence of God is indicated, as also in 1 Kings 8:27: "But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the Heaven and Heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded." And also Isa. 66:1: "Thus saith the Lord, The Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?"
Eccl. 5:2: "Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in Heaven, and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few." Here the fact that God is in Heaven is given as a reason for sobriety and carefulness of speech.
Thus we find that the expression in the Lord's Prayer, "Who art in Heaven," stands for a recognition of the power, the majesty, the omnipotence, and the omniscience of God. All these things should be borne in mind when we approach the throne of grace. This thought will tend to produce reverence and awe. Multiplication of words and "vain repetitions," for which Christ condemned the heathen, arise from the fact that the petitioner thinks more of himself than he does of the one whom he is addressing. The heathen gods were so contemptible that the heathen worshiper could not help thinking more of himself than of his god; for heathen worship, in its inception, was self-worship. See Rom. 1:21-23. But the God whom we worship sits upon the circle of the heavens, and he who has a just sense of his greatness will come with reverence into his presence, and will confine his words to just the things which he needs.
"HALLOWED BE THY NAME."
This follows as a natural consequence of that which precedes. The one who remembers the words, "There is none like unto the God of Jeshuron, who rideth upon the heavens in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky" (Deut. 33:26), will of necessity "fear that glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD."
W.
A HERO OF DUTY.
In the north of Holland, over an extent of three leagues, the country is not protected from the incursions of the sea by any natural barrier. Some two hundred years ago, the Dutch undertook the gigantic task of erecting enormous dykes of granite blocks and clay to resist the force of their terrible invader. Behind this shelter numerous villages arose, which flourish to the present day. Alkmond, in particular, which numbers 10,000 inhabitants, is built a little below the dyke, which is kept in constant repair by two hundred workmen under the direction of an engineer.
One afternoon in November, about a century ago, a furious wind was blowing from the northwest, increasing every moment. The engineer in charge was a young man, engaged to be married, whose friends and family lived in Amsterdam. He was to go to Amsterdam that very evening to join a great festival, long looked forward to and eagerly desired. His preparations were all made and he was in high spirits, ready to set out. Suddenly the sound of the rising wind struck upon his ear, and he remembered with a pang of anxiety that it was the time of the high tides. He thought of his dyke and of all that depended on it. It would be a dreadful disappointment not to go. But the dyke! His friends would be all expecting him, watching for him. What would they think? But the dyke! There was a fierce conflict between inclination and duty.
It is six o'clock. The sea is rising. But at seven he must set out for Amsterdam. Shall he go? His heart says, Yes; duty says, No. Again he looks at the sea, watches the rising storm, and decides to remain at his post.
He then runs to the dyke. It is a scene of the utmost confusion. His two hundred men are aghast, bewildered. The storm has become a hurricane. The supply of tow and mortar is exhausted! They are at their wits' end to know how to repair the breaches—how to defend the place against the terrible enemy which is every moment gaining upon them. But as soon as the young engineer appears a joyous cry bursts from every breast, "Here is the master! God be praised! Now all will be well!"
The master places each workman at his post and a desperate battle begins between man and the furious ocean. About half-past eleven there is a cry from the center—
"Help! help!"
"What is the matter?"
"Four stones carried away at a blow!"
"Where is that?"
"Here to the left."
The master does not lose a moment. He fastens a rope around his body; four workmen do the same; and four arms seize the ropes, while the five brave fellows throw themselves into the waves to repair the damage. The mad waves struggle with them, dash them about, blind them. No matter; they do their duty and then are hauled on land again.
But the cry, "Help! help!" soon rises from all parts.
"Stones!" cries one.
"There are no more."
"Mortar!"
"There is no more."
"Take off your clothes!" cries the master, tearing off his own; "stop the holes with them!"
What will men not do for a noble leader in a great cause? Cheerfully, without a murmur, straining every nerve, the gallant two hundred toil on, half-naked, exposed to all the fury of a November tempest.
It wants a quarter to midnight. A few inches more and the sea will have burst over the dyke and spread furiously over the defenseless country. To-morrow there will not be a living soul in all those flourishing villages. The clothes are all used up, but the danger increases; the tide will rise till midnight.
"Now, my men," said the clear, thrilling voice of the master, "we can do nothing more. On your knees, all of you, and let us each cry mightily to God for help."
And there, in the midnight darkness, on the dyke, which shook and trembled beneath the fury of the tempest, the brave two hundred knelt, lifting their hands and their hearts to Him who can say to the winds and waves, "Peace; be still." And as upon the sea of Galilee, so now he heard his children cry and delivered them in their distresses.
Meanwhile the people of Alkmond ate and drank, sang and danced, little thinking that there were but a few inches of mason work between them and death. Thousands of lives had been saved because one man had done his duty.—British Messenger.
HINTS ON READING.
THE readers, Coleridge has divided into four classes. He says: "The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass; their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything and returns it in nearly the same state. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gems." It is to be feared that in the present day the greatest number of readers belong to the first of these classes. The amount read is sometimes almost fabulous, but the results are comparatively trifling. Volume after volume is perused; pamphlets and papers are mentally consumed, but the stores of knowledge are not perceptibly increased.
This charge lies not only against those who read secular works; it applies to a great extent to those who read the Scriptures and other treatises upon things divine. Lord Bacon once said that "reading makes a full man." He could not have meant the kind of reading that is now too prevalent. The omnivorous readers, the readers who skim through page after page; the butterfly readers, who taste some flowers of literature here and there, but never settle down to a resolute extraction of the sweets, are found at the year's end, after all their reading, not more "full" intellectually, but often more foolish than before. Why is this? Because in these express days the reading has been done as quickly as possible, and because what is read one hour is buried beneath a heap of multifarious matter the next hour. But if a man read upon a prudent plan, if he digest what he mentally receives, his reading will become a delightful source of very extensive information and sound wisdom.
Reading should be in moderation. It is possible to devour whole libraries and yet learn nothing. It is said that Miss Martineau often read in one hour no more than a single page of a good book. An eminent divine and author is said to have had but three books—the Bible, Josephus's works, and Cruden's Concordance. A celebrated French author being laughed at because of the smallness of his library, replied, "Ah, when I want a book I make it." On the other hand, Madame de Stael-Holstein is said to have devoured six hundred novels. Louis XVI., whilst imprisoned for a period of five months and seven days, read one hundred and fifty-seven volumes, or one book a day. Such literary gluttony could have left little good result. Too much reading is as injurious to the mind as too much feeding is to the body.—The Quiver, for September.
SIMPLICITY IN DRESS.
By Josiah W. Leeds
SOME weeks ago, having occasion to cross from Jersey City to New York, I observed on the opposite side of the ladies' cabin of the ferry-boat, in which I was seated, two young women of probably eighteen years of age, who appeared to derive excessive entertainment from scanning and criticising the apparel of those of their own sex who successively entered the cabin. Each lady, as she came inside the door, was rapidly "looked over" by the two giddy watchers, who would then exchange meaning glances, arch their eyebrows, and give way to a remark, giggle, or laugh. Evidently, dress was in all their thoughts. In noting their general demeanor, it seemed to me that those girls were such as would surrender everything that they might themselves become the recipients of the favors and bestowments of that fickle, and withall merciless, goddess—Fashion. For, I have not forgotten what was said to me some years ago by a friend who had just returned from the city of Washington, when, in referring to the frivolity and the licentiousness prevailing there, he repeated the remark of a high official—that it was not in most cases mere "badness" that led so many young women astray, as it was the craving to be richly and fashionably dressed, to gratify their love of adornment and display.
A worthy woman said to my wife, when discoursing upon this subject in connection with benevolent work among the poor and the outcast, that upon a certain occasion, dressed in elegant attire, she had made a visit to a home for the fallen. Upon leaving the house, she felt decidedly pleased with herself at the orderly behavior of the inmates, and the seemingly respectful attention with which they had received her moral remarks. Afterward, however, when the matron observed that "the girls were so glad to have you come, for indeed it did their eyes good to feast on so fine a dress and to see the latest fashion," she said that she felt humbled to the dust, and as141though she could sink through the floor. The lesson was never forgotten, for she has always since then been careful to dress with simplicity when duty called her to such places.
Corroborative of the above is the following: A repentant female convict in one of our penitentiaries, pleadingly said to a benevolent woman visitor, that she wished the ladies who come to the prison to speak and pray with them, would dress more simply; for the prisoners' thoughts were often so drawn away to the visitor's fine or fashionable attire, that they received no good impressions whatever, but rather the reverse. Her own fall had been caused by dress. A visitor to our county prison, looking upon a number of young women who had been locked up over night for disorderly conduct, wondered that she should see females so finely dressed in such a place. She was given to understand that it was the love of gay attire which, more than aught else, had been the cause of their downfall.
It is not, therefore, simply against sensuous or indecent attire that I plead, but against such attire in general as is out of conformity with what the apostle commends in his well known remarks to Timothy, that the apparel of those professing godliness needs to be of that modest character which properly accords with the "shamefacedness and sobriety" of Christian women. Probably it may seem to some that it may be a rather tame, and not a particularly direct and heroic, method of combatting the social evil—this of going counter to the generally accepted styles of dressing and adorning, and so appearing in a way which might cause one to be mistaken for a primitive Methodist or even a Quaker. Some may even deem it to be ridiculous or despicable. Nevertheless, unless there is a breaking away from this enslaving spirit of fashion, it seems to me there can be no permanent progress made in the direction of social purity reform.—Josiah W. Leeds.
The Home Circle.
TYING GRANDPAPA.
No music for fully ten minutes!
How quiet the children both keep;
I wonder what games they are playing,
Or if they have fallen asleep.
So softly I creep to the doorway,
The rogues full of mischief are there;
They have a stout cord, and are tying
Dear grandpapa into his chair.
And while he pretends to be sleeping,
They draw every knot firm and tight;
And now they are screaming with laughter
And jumping with childish delight.
They next tie his feet both together,
In mischief both rogues have a share;
"Now grandpa can't go to the office,
For grandpa is tied to the chair."
But see, he is waking and yawning,
Now grandpa has opened his eyes!
The rogues run and hide 'neath the table
To watch him and see his surprise.
Ah, childhood, so merry and happy,
Such freedom from sorrow and pain!
We live it all o'er in our children,
And thus become children again.
—Selected.
EXPERIENCE IN EATING.
"As with reading, so with eating. It is not what a person reads or eats that benefits him; it is what he digests."
This was an eminent physiologist's reply to a reporter's questionings, when approached on the subject of the great American complaint.
"In the matter of diet," he said, "every person should be guided by his own experience, and not rely on the experience of others. I know a newspaper man in this city who lives on brown bread and apples and drinks nothing but water, and there is no man of my acquaintance who enjoys more robust or perfect health. I have heard also of a composer and dramatic author whose favorite dish is a compound of potato, oatmeal, and Spanish onion, on which he thrives and does much good work."
Richard A. Proctor, the astronomer, suffered for many years with sick headaches, and after trying every remedy under the sun he set to work experimenting upon himself. Exercise or rest had no effect upon his malady. They availed him nothing against persistent attacks. Then he tried stopping his customary glass of wine or beer, which he took with his dinner. This produced no change. Pastry was next taken off his food list, and he seemed to be benefited by the omission. Then he cut down on his tea and coffee. Still he did not get the desired relief. Finally he stopped taking sugar in his drink, but the effect of this abstinence was unfavorable. At last he determined to let butter alone. The effect of this change was instantaneous and decisive. He had no more headaches, and to this day you cannot prevail upon him to eat butter or anything that he knows contains the article.—New York Mail and Express.
ELOPING LOVERS.
By Thomas De Witt Talmage
THE modern novel is responsible for many of these abscondings. Do you think that young women would sit up half a night reading novels in which the hero and heroine get acquainted in the usual way, and carry on their increased friendliness until, with the consent of parents, the day of marriage is appointed, and amid the surrounding group of kindred the vows are taken? Oh, no! There must be flight, and pursuit, and narrow escape, and drawn dagger, all ending in sunshine and parental forgiveness, and bliss unalloyed and gorgeous. In many of the cases of escapade the idea was implanted in the hot brain of the woman by a cheap novel—ten cents' worth of unadulterated perdition.
These evasions of the ordinary modes of marriage are to be deplored for the reason that nearly all of them are proposed by bad men. If the man behave well he has a character to which he can refer, and he can say: "If you want to inquire about me, there is a list of names of people in the town or neighborhood where I live." No; the heroes of escapades are nearly all either bigamists, or libertines, or drunkards, or defaulters, or first-class scoundrels of some sort. They have no character to lose. They may be dressed in the height of fashion, may be cologned, and pomatumed, and padded, and diamond-ringed, and flamboyant-cravated, until they bewitch the eye and intoxicate the olfactories; but they are double-distilled extracts of villainy, moral dirt, and blasphemy. Beware of them. "Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. But he knoweth not that the dead are there."—T. De Witt Talmage, D. D.
Health and Temperance.
By Medical News
HAIR RESTORERS.
FOR the hair no dressing has been found to cause the desired gradual darkening without the aid of lead. Either it is mixed with sulphur in the bottle, or trusted to find enough in the hair to form there a deposit of the black sulphide of lead. The change of gray hair to something nearer the color of youth takes place so slowly that the user is easily duped by the assurance on the label on the bottle that the fluid is not a dye, but a tonic and restorative of hair vigor. If this were merely a case of deception it would scarcely merit the attention we have given it. But the deceiver is also a thief and a poisoner, stealing away the health that is the basis of natural beauty and daily increasing the need for artifice to make up an appearance for the, thing stolen.
From recent periodicals and works on toxicology a list of some length could be made of cases of all degrees of slow poisoning from lead hair dyes. The lead itself has even been recovered from the body after death in two cases of which we know. Doubtless if all the persons who have experienced harm from lead hair dyes could be counted, the number would be sensational enough to meet the wants of the most zealous sanitarian. The effects are often so vague that the cause is not suspected. Most physicians would not assign to a cosmetic, of the use of which they are presumably ignorant, the causation of such vague symptoms as dry and sallow skin, falling hair, dyspepsia, debility, low spirits, neuralgias and other usual phenomena of confirmed ill health. Yet these accompany and may exist apart from the sharp attack of colic or wrist drop, or joint pains, or brain trouble that would first direct the physician's suspicion to lead poisoning.
In this connection two important facts are now well established: First, that serious disease may be induced by the long continued use of lead "hair restorers." Second, that the most popular, if not all the "hair restorers," vegetable and other, contain lead.—Medical News.
HOW IT DESTROYS.
Speaking of the effects of alcohol, the New York Pharmaceutical Record says:—
"Alcohol does not destroy its victims, in most cases, suddenly, as in the dead sleep of profound intoxication or in the wild, maniacal ravings of delirium tremens. It is usually by slow and measured steps, by inducing cirrhosis of the liver, Bright's disease of the kidneys, ascites, rheumatism, rheumatic gout, defective vision, fatty degeneration of the heart, arteries, and muscular system, which finally end in paralysis, imbecility, and insanity, alcohol encircles its victims in irremediable and everlasting ruin. Without doubt alcohol occasions a vast amount of disease over the face of this mighty republic, and carries death, destruction, dishonor, and shame into thousands of happy homes. Alcohol is at the bottom of a large proportion of the crime committed in the United States. Alcohol dethrones reason and poisons the fountains of sentiment and morals, and is even more destructive upon the moral and intellectual nature than upon the physical nature of man."
THE Manufacturer's Gazette says that "the increasing use of opiates and other drugs intended to either allay or excite nervous activity is an evil in this country equal to, if not worse than, the excessive use of intoxicating liquors. Comparatively little is said of it in public journals, and there is no such crusade against it as there is against intemperance. The insidiousness of the drug habit makes it the more dangerous.
"The great majority of those who begin the use of opium, morphine, and chloral do it under prescription of physicians, and often without being allowed to know what they are taking until the habit is thoroughly fastened upon them. Such trifling with life and health by physicians should be made a criminal offense, and its victim or his friends should prosecute for malpractice to the full extent of the law.
"It is a safe rule to take no medicines from any except those known to be trustworthy; and no physician is trustworthy who refuses to inform patients of possible danger from the drugs he may prescribe. So many have been wrecked in this way that the old secrecy about the composition of medicines is out of place, at least to the extent of informing patients that they are taking nothing liable to bind them in the hopeless slavery of some drug habit."
DEPLORABLE STATISTICS.—Archdeacon Farrar, in an address at the Westminster town hall lately, said that much of the present distress in London, and much of the very bitterest and the most intolerable part of it, was caused by drink, not always by drunkenness, but by drinking habits. It was a remarkable fact that one person out of every five in London died either in the hospital or in the workhouse. One person in every three belonging to the poorer classes died either in the hospital or in the workhouse.—Philadelphia Press.
SECULAR.
—A slight earthquake was felt in South Carolina, February 26.
—The Russians have assembled a large squadron in Japanese waters.
—Ten thousand men are daily at work on a navy dock-yard in Japan.
—A new Congress hall is to be built in Buenos Ayres, costing $10,000,000.
—Three hundred divorces were recently granted in one day in the city of Paris.
—Cholera has appeared in Eszek, Salvonia, Austria. The deaths averaged eight daily.
—According to a recent decision of the District Court, the last distillery in Iowa is to be closed.
—Nearly one hundred lives were lost by the sinking of a Chinese man-of-war by the steamship Nepalu.
—The Supreme Court of Washington Territory has decided that the bill granting suffrage to women is unconstitutional.
—Some of the French papers think that the result of the election in Germany is an indication that Germans wish for peace.
—There are at present throughout France some 40,000 bureaux de tabac, or licensed dealers in tobacco.
—There are 4,008,907 farms in the United States, Illinois having the largest number, 255,741, and Rhode Island the smallest, 6,216.
—Reports about cattle in Victoria, Australia, continue unfavorable. It is thought that fully 40,000 will perish before the spring feed comes.
—Authorities have permitted boating on Sunday on all waters of the London parks. Another Sunday observance controversy is imminent.
—The Academy of Music and adjacent property in Adelaide, Australia, were burned not long since. Loss, £60,000. There was some loss of life.
—The Military Committee of the House at Washington have agreed upon the bill appropriating $5,000,000 for the construction of gun factories.
—A Turkish imperial decree is in preparation, calling out, for military service, the entire male population of the empire between the ages of 17 and 40.
—French and German Government agents are visiting all the horse-fairs in the north of England, making large purchases of horses suitable for military purposes.
—Reports received by the Colorado Cattlegrowers' Association at Denver indicate that cattle have wintered well on the ranges from Southern Montana to the Gulf of Mexico.
—The London Socialists have taken to visiting the churches, where they disturb the services by hissing whenever the name of the queen is mentioned, either in the litany or in the prayers.
—An extensive plot has been discovered in Odessa for a Polish rising in the event of a Russo-Austrian or Russo-German war. Twenty arrests have been made, and many imperial officials are implicated.
—Last month the floods in Queensland, Australia, were more severe than was at first realized. The damage to the crops is enormous; large numbers of live stock and sixty human beings have perished.
—At Marchiennes-au-Pont, Belgium, on the 23d ult. two immense fly-wheels in a flouring mill flew into fragments, totally wrecking the works, and injuring thirty-five workmen, three of whom have since died.
—Another extraordinary manner in which Queen Victoria celebrates her jubilee, is by using some $60,000 from a public charitable fund, to build in Windsor Park, an equestrian statue of her long-dead husband.
—The colonists of Topolobampo (Mexico) are leaving both by land and sea, they report seven deaths and sixty cases of small-pox in the colony. They also say that the water is impure, and the land worthless.
—February 21, a schooner was struck by a whirlwind on the St. John's River near Jacksonville, Fla., and, after being almost wholly lifted out of the water, was capsized and all on board, five men and several women and children were drowned.
—Though the results of the German election show in favor of the Government, the great vote given the Socialist candidates shows that Liberalism in its most progressive forms is swept aside and that Socialism is becoming popular in its most revolutionary forms.
—News is coming in of the damage done by the late snow-storm in Colorado and Nebraska. It is very great. Droves of cattle were seen by trainmen buried up to their heads in snow, and as hardly an animal was seen elsewhere, it is evident that many are entirely buried.
—An action is to be brought by the Old Dominion Steamship Company against the Master Workman and four of the Executive Committee of the Ocean Association, to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff through the unlawful action of defendants in the recent strike of longshoremen, and in their attempt to boycott the plaintiff in its business as common carriers. The five men have been arrested and each held in $5,000 bail.
—On February 24 the whole of Southern Europe was visited by a very severe earthquake. The most startling news comes from the Genoese Riviera, Italy, where over 1,500 persons perished. In the province of Porto Maurizio not one of the 160 communes escaped uninjured. The villages built on the hill-side terrace were almost all destroyed; in some cases nearly every house levelled. At Nice and other French pleasure resorts, the earthquake caused the greatest terror, fugitives fleeing in every direction; twenty thousand persons have already left Nice for Paris and other places, and the remainder are camping out in and about the city. Altogether 2,000 persons have been killed by the falling buildings. Monte Carlo, the celebrated gambling hell, escaped uninjured; the scientists say the reason of this is because it is built on a rock.
—Not long since a family in Wayne Co, Ill., ate some raw ham. Within a day or two they were all taken sick, and two young women died in great agony. A post-mortem examination of one of them, showed the body full of trichinæ and her stomach had the appearance of a honey-comb.
—To illustrate the rapidity of the telegraph service the following may be given: A message was sent from San Francisco to Yokohama, Japan, and in twenty-four hours the reply was received. The message of course went to New York, thence to London and by the Suez cable to China and then on to Japan, returning by the same route.
—Particulars in regard to the eruption of Mauna Loa, on the island of Hawaii, have been received. The eruption started on the morning of January 17, and continued till the 29th. During the first day 314 distinct shocks of earthquake were felt; these continued till midnight of the same day, only fewer in number. The eruption itself is said to have been grand and awful. At the start, a column of bright red smoke and steam shot up hundreds of feet, but no lava could at first be seen emerging from the crater, although the reflection showed that a small plain in the vicinity was being rapidly filled with it. Later on this plain overflowed and the lava rushed down the mountain in three large main streams, carrying destruction with them, until they reached the sea, into which they plunged, causing a dense volume of white steam, over a mile in width and three or four hundred feet high. On the morning of the 18th the red smoke gave way to huge masses of molten matter that was vomited out, giving the volcano the appearance of a fiery fountain, rising and falling incessantly. Fortunately the flow of lava was mostly over barren land, and no lives were lost, though many were scared, for during most of the time the earth was trembling and the sky blazing, and mysterious subterranean thunderings were heard. Kilauea, another crater on the same island, showed five lava lakes, but none of them active.
Obituary.
ANDREWS.—Sarah Jane Andrews, daughter of T. and M. J. Kindlespire, died of consumption, Feb. 24, 1887, at the home of her brother-in-law, Philip Kent, near Oakland, Cal. She was born in McLean Co., Ill., March 3, 1856, and was consequently 30 years, 11 months, and 21 days old at the time of her death. Something over six months before her death, she signed a covenant to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, and began to keep the Sabbath of the Lord. Like most sufferers with consumption, she was deceived with the idea that she was going to recover, and expressed a desire to do something to advance the cause of the Master. A husband and other relatives mourn her loss, but they have reason to believe that she rests in hope. Funeral services by the writer, February 26. w.
ANTHONY.—Died of heart and lung disease, induced by whooping-cough, near St. Helena, Napa Co., Cal., Feb. 18, 1887, Willie L., youngest child of A. L. and Florence Anthony, aged 2 years, 4 months, and 5 days. Little Willie was of a remarkably quiet and good disposition, and bore his distressing affliction for thirteen weeks, with unusual patience for one so young.
While the parents deeply mourn their loss, they are comforted with the blessed hope of meeting their darling again when Jesus comes. Quite a large audience listened to words of truth and hope, Sabbath afternoon, February 19, from 2 Sam. 14:14. H. A. St. JOHN.
Appointments.
OAKLAND.—House of worship, southeast corner of Jefferson and Thirteenth Streets. Sabbath-School every Sabbath at 9:30 A. M. Preaching at 11. Prayer and missionary meeting every Tuesday evening at 7:15. Seats free.
EAST PORTLAND (Or.)—House of worship on G Street, between Tenth and Eleventh. Sabbath-school every Sabbath (Saturday), followed by services. Preaching or Bible-reading Sunday evening. Prayer-meeting Wednesday evening. The public cordially invited. Free public reading-room, corner of L and Fifth Streets.
SAN FRANCISCO.—House of worship, 914 Laguna Street, between McAllister and Tyler. Sabbath-school every Sabbath at 9:45, and preaching at 11 A. M.; also preaching every Sunday evening at 7:30. Sabbath-school classes in the English, German, and Scandinavian languages. Prayer and missionary meeting every Wednesday evening at 7:15. Mission reading-rooms at the church.
RELIGIOUS.
—The Church of England has nine mission stations along the Panama Canal.
—The Protestant Episcopal Church will hold its next congress in Louisville, Ky., next October.
—The Congregationalist denies that all the Chapel Church at Andover hold the new departure views.
—It is said that the action of the Porte, hostile to the Jesuit schools in Turkey, is due to Russian influence.
—The Swedish Lutherans of Salt Lake City, it is stated, have a Sunday-school with 300 children in attendance.
It is said that exclusive of Panama, there is only one ordained missionary in all the northwestern part of South America.
—Over two hundred petitions against the running of mail trains on Sunday were presented to the United States Senate one day not long since.
—It is said that a recent canvass of the lower grades of the schools of England reveals the fact that 95 per cent. of the pupils are members of the Bands of Hope.
—Cambridge University (England) has a new feature in the shape of a prayer-meeting at 6:45 o'clock Sunday morning. It is attended by nearly sixty under-graduates.
—The Christian at Work is authority for the statement that during the past two years, no less than six new Roman Catholic parishes have been organized in Jersey City and vicinity.
—Senator Hoar has introduced a resolution into the United States Senate, to amend the rules of that body, so as to require a quorum to be present when the chaplain makes his opening prayer.
—In a recent sermon on the Sunday question Rev. Dr. Frost, of Sacramento, Cal., gave it as his opinion that "fully 95 per cent. of the youth of our country are outside of religious and moral influence."
—The Chinese Young Men's Christian Association at Honolulu, H. I., has erected an association building in that city at a cost of $5,000. Two thousand of this was contributed by the Chinese themselves.
—The archbishop of Canterbury, has issued a call for a general conference of all the bishops of the Anglican communion throughout the world, to be held in London next year. Over two hundred and fifty bishops are expected to be present.
—Rev. Edward A. Lawrence writing to the New York Independent says: "There is no religious liberty in Corea. The fact may as well be frankly stated and fully understood. The recent attempt of France to provide by treaty for the toleration of Christianity was a failure."
—Recently two daily papers in Ohio, the Globe-Republic of Springfield, and the Times-Star of Cincinnati, have discontinued their Sunday editions, and the Congregationalist expresses the "wish that these examples might set a new and better fashion, and prove the beginning of the end of Sunday papers."
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