Earlier text: THE LOGIC AND OBJECT OF SUNDAY-LAWSUPSIDE DOWN.
By Susan T. Perry
"You've put that sleeve in upside down, Henrietta," said Helen Marcy. "What is the difference? They will never know it; it is finished; throw it into the box," the young girl replied. "Nobody will know who made it." "Yes, Henrietta, but when they open the box at the mission, somebody will have to rip it out and put it in again before it can be worn." "They ought to be glad to get anything to put onto those little vandals. Do you suppose they would know whether a sleeve was put in upside down, or even wrong side out, Helen?" Helen Marcy made no reply, as she saw her companion throw the gingham shirt-waist into the box that stood in the middle of the floor where the finished garments were deposited. She would have taken the sleeve out and put it in again herself, but she had promised to finish off some other work that evening, as the box was going in the morning. These two young girls belonged to the "Busy Workers Sewing Society." They had been preparing a box for a charitable institution in the city. Henrietta Fassett was one of those persons who always did things, as her Aunt Jerusha expressed it, "in a whew." She did not think it worth while to baste the pieces of her garments together, for that took too much time; so when she sewed under her mother's or her aunt's supervision, she was oftentimes obliged to rip out the stitches, and do the work over again. She had heard her aunt say a hundred times, "Lazy folks always take the most pains, Henrietta." That afternoon she was responsible to no one, so the upside-down sleeve was allowed to be sent off, and that was all she thought about it. Helen Marcy was entirely different in that respect from her intimate friend, Henrietta Fassett. It took her longer to finish her work, but it never had to be done over again. She was responsible to herself and her own honor in such matters. If she had made the mistake that her friend made, she would have sat up all night, if needs be, to rectify it. She always aimed to do well whatever she did, and even in the very best manner of which she was capable. The matron at the charitable institution was very glad to get the box. There were fifteen little boys in ragged garments waiting to put on the fifteen new gingham shirt-waists. It was such a help, she thought, to have them all ready to put on—no buttons to be sewed, and no fitting to be done, and no running up of seams. Those new, clean, pretty gingham waists all ready to be slipped over the boys shoulders. How good and kind the "Busy Workers" had been. Mrs. Leavenworth, a friend of Mrs. Marcy's, was there to see the box opened, and she was very proud to say that the box came from the young girls of the town where she spent her summers. One boy after another stepped up to the matron and had a new waist put on, and marched off with a smiling face. Fourteen boys had been equipped and sent off happy. Then the fifteenth boy came up, he was a thin, pale boy, with the saddest of faces. The matron said he had a very sad history, and sometime she would tell Mrs. Leavenworth all about it. Martin Beers stood by the box with a smile lighting up his face, he was going to have a new waist, probably the first bright, fresh, new garment he had ever had. His right arm went into the sleeve, but there was something wrong with the set of it. "What's the matter with this sleeve?" queried the matron. "O, I see, it is put in upside down; somebody's made a mistake. It will have to go to the sewing-room and be ripped out. The sewing-girl is gone, too, this afternoon." Mrs. Leavenworth saw the disappointed look on the little fellow's face. All the other boys were in the play-room with new waists on, and he would have to go back again with his old, torn shirt on. The lady laid aside her bonnet and wrap, and said, "Wait a few minutes, Martin, and I will fix the sleeve;" and so the boy sat down on a stool by her side, and watched her rip out the sleeve and put it in again. It took a half hour to do the work, but she told Martin some pretty stories while she was at work. Then he marched off to join the brigade with new gingham waists. Henrietta had forgotten all about the "upside down sleeve," until the president of the society rapped on the table a fortnight afterwards, and called the "Busy Workers" and talkers to order. Then she read the letter Mrs. Leavenworth had written about the box. She wrote how needy the boys were, and how pleased they all were with the new garments. But this lady thought best to tell the whole truth as well as part of it, and so she added one waist had to be fixed before the boy could wear it, as somebody made a mistake, and put the right sleeve in upside down. She only mentioned it because she knew that the waist would not have been sent so unless it was a mistake. She also thought it would be a good thing to tell the young girls, so they would be more particular in future. "Who could have made that mistake?" asked the president, as she stopped in the midst of her reading. No one answered, and Helen Marcy would not betray her friend. But Henrietta, after a few moments' consideration, spoke out clearly, "I made that mistake, girls, and I did not remedy it, but threw the waist into the box. I think I shall be more particular after this. I really did not think it would make much difference." Mrs. Leavenworth concluded her letter by giving the sad facts connected with Martin Beers' young life, and the account touched the hearts of all the Busy Workers and brought tears to their eyes. Henrietta seemed to be completely overcome as she listened to Mrs. Leavenworth's letter. When she went home she stopped at the store and bought material enough to make two waists for Martin Beers, and when she cut them out the next morning, she was so deliberate and particular about her work, that her mother said, "Seems to me you are taking more pains than usual with your work Henrietta." "Yes, mother, I've got through doing my work upside down. I begin to realize how careless and thoughtless I've been all my life. I have done so many things in such an upside down sort of a way, and I've let them go without remedying the wrong either. I begin to realize it all now. I may sometimes thoughtlessly do more of my work upside down, but if I do, dear mother, I will stop and take it out, and do it over again until it is right. One can do a great deal of work in life "upside down," and I hope hereafter God will help me to have all that I do finished up square and true and lasting, and right side up." "My dear, I cannot tell you how happy you've made me," the mother replied, as she put her arms around her daughter and kissed her.—Susan T. Perry, in N. Y. Evangelist. "My mother's teachings," said an old lady one day, "were always so plain, so practical, and so scriptural, that they were unalterably fixed in my memory and heart. They have gone with me through all my life, and have helped me in my teachings of others. "I never wash hands and face to this day, that I do not recall her performing the motherly duty for me as a child; she would end with a kiss, and say, 'There, darling, you can run now; your face and hands are clean; Jesus only can cleanse the heart.' "When robed with extra care for the Sabbath or for visiting, and I asked, 'Am I all right now, mamma?' she would answer, 'All right outside, dear; and I hope inside, too.' "If I was set to do any little household service, she was sure to overlook it to see if I had done it thoroughly; if the rounds of the chairs, the panels of the doors, and every corner were well dusted, if the tines of the forks and the ends of the spoons were properly cleaned, time and time again saying, 'He that is faithful in that which is least, is faithful also in much.' "If I wished for anything beyond our money-reach, she was sure to remind me that557 'a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of things he possesseth.' "If someone called whom I disliked, the grimace on my face would call out the gentle reproof, 'My dear, you need the love of God shed abroad in your heart by the Holy Ghost.' "When we sat at table, her simple prayer, 'Lord, we thank thee for our daily bread; be pleased to feed our souls with the bread of life,' I never forgot. "When I went out to visit friends, her uniform injunction was, 'My dear, be circumspect.' So sure was this to come, that I often laughingly prevented the utterance by saying, 'Oh, you needn't say what you were going to; I know my charge.' 'Well, then,' she would reply gently, 'to him who knoweth to do good, and doth it not, to him it is sin.' "In every phase of life she circumvented me with Bible truth, till, older grown, my proud heart sometimes resisted, and I would say, 'It is Bible, Bible always; nothing but Bible!' She would answer, 'How can it be anything else? The Bible is our authoritative rule of faith and practice, given to us for our guidance every day and every moment.' "She was never offensive in her presentation of truth; her pleasant, affectionate, and appropriate words never hurt. But they were enduring teachings, and since she departed this life, they have come with a sweet and holy unction, that has made them as precious as gold-dust to my thought and life."—Faithful Witness. The Home Circle.
By Charles Mackey
TIME to me this truth hath taught,
'Tis a truth that's worth revealing:
More offend from want of thought,
Than from any want of feeling.
If advice we would convey,
There's a time we should convey it;
If we've but a word to say,
There's a time in which to say it!
Many a beauteous flower decays,
Though we tend it e'er so much:
Something secret on it preys,
Which no human aid can touch!
So, in many a loving breast,
Lies some canker-grief concealed,
That, if touched, is more oppressed,
Left unto itself—is healed.
Oft, unknowingly, the tongue
Touches on a chord so aching,
That a word or accent wrong
Pains the heart almost to breaking.
Many a tear of wounded pride,
Many a fault of human blindness,
Had been soothed or turned aside,
By a quiet voice of kindness!
Time to me this truth hath taught,
'Tis a truth that's worth revealing:
More offend from want of thought,
Than from any want of feeling.
—Charles Mackey. MEN and women take to stimulants not only to overcome exhaustion, but to drive away sorrow and care, even to drive away dullness and stupidity; but would men and women be dull, exhausted, and stupid if they were full of animal vigor and overflowing with strength? So I repeat what I said before: That the greatest foe to intemperance is the sanitarian, the health reformer, and especially the sanitary cook, who leads people into healthful habits of eating and drinking, of working and sleeping, of recreation and study. Every nutritious and healthful meal, neatly spread and partaken with thankfulness, is a temperance lesson. Every well-built house, with conveniences for doing work easily and without waste of force, with well-arranged kitchen, bath-room, sunny windows and good ventilation, is a temperance sermon. Every vegetable garden, rich with nutritious food, and every fruit farm abounding in luscious apples, grapes, peaches and pears is a foe to intemperance. Every school where there is no overcrowding, where the brain is properly taken care of, so that it shall not be deranged, promotes temperance. On the other hand, everything that tends to lower human vitality: overwork, overstudy, too little sleep, too little work, and especially bad food—all prolong the time when intemperance will produce its evil effects. Every bad cook who prepares unsavory, indigestible meals creates a demand for stimulants. Dr. Brunton, in a work of great originality and extensive research on "The Physiology of Digestion," says what will be applauded by all: "Good cooking is one of the most effective means of stifling the craving for drink, which is the root of so much evil. Drink craving, in truth, depends as often as not on causes of a purely physical nature. Bad cooking is one of the causes of unequal thirst, and the 'demand' thus created leads very naturally to 'supply' in the shape of alcoholics. The mental phase of contentment which supervenes on the digestion of food which has been savory and well cooked is a powerful stimulus to temperance; just as the opposite condition of badly cooked meals suggests a remedy in the shape of liquor, which is often consumed under such circumstances greatly in excess of any needs the body may physiologically exhibit for alcohol. This is well seen in Switzerland, where, when the food is by no means of a savory kind, a glass of 'schnapps' is resorted to for the purpose of 'tempering' the meal, and of rendering it more appetizing. There is probably a mental effect produced by a pleasant, well-cooked meal, which affects the brain and nervous system in an appreciable manner, but one at the same time difficult to explain. Be this as it may, there seems no reason to doubt that cookery and temperance are sworn allies; carelessness in preparing food, and, it may be added, in feeding at large, is the equally stanch ally of intemperance and excess."—Dr. M. L. Holbrook, in "Eating for Strength." DR. JOHN MURPHY, in 1888, received, at the commencement of the Ohio Medical College, a gold medal for excellence in all departments. He was one of the brightest of men and one of the best of students. On the 25th day of last month he was in a cell at the police station among the vilest wretches whom the police of Cincinnati take in. He had become an opium-eater, beginning its use to give sleep after over-taxing his nerves. Opium is worse than alcohol in its effects upon the mind and body. The effects of excessive use are pernicious and permanent. It is a dangerous medicine, often prescribed merely to give ease from pain which would be endured if the deadener of the sensibilities were not at hand. Dr. Murphy's name is now telegraphed all over the world on account of the sensation created by his arrest and subsequent conduct. Man's effort to gain powers denied him by nature, or to procure immunity by the use of drugs from the consequences of violated law, is ever a failure. To be all we can be normally is a noble ambition; but he who takes opium, cocaine, alcohol, or even quinine to stimulate himself beyond nature, invites a whole troop of devils to banquet with him. The strength he exerts is not his own strength, but Satan's. The rest he obtains is not "Gentle sleep, nature's sweet restorer," but poisoned dreams or the stupor of palsied nerves.—Christian Advocate. WHEN A MINISTER MAY CHEW AND SMOKE.
By Editor
The Missionary and Gleaner has hit upon some good rules for a minister who is so addicted to the use of tobacco that he cannot reform:— - Never chew or smoke in the presence of children.
- Never chew or smoke in the presence of ladies.
- Never chew or smoke in the presence of an unconverted person.
- Never chew or smoke in the presence of any one who does not also do the same thing.
- Never chew or smoke in church or about a church house.
Yes, sir; we would lay down these rules and we would live by them—or die. It is our deliberate conviction that no Christian minister should allow anyone to see him indulge in a habit so filthy. If he can't quit the practice, let him hide it. And if he must cling to the habit says the Signs of the Times, let him quit preaching. Morality and Faith in Christ
By Garret Smith
THE great mistake of my life has been that I have tried to be moral without faith in Christ; but I have learned that true morality can only keep pace with trust in Christ as the only Saviour.—Garret Smith. THE OLD-FASHIONED GIRL.
By Bishop Cosgrove
SHE was a little girl until she was fifteen years old, and then she helped her mother in her household duties. She had her hours to play, and enjoyed herself to the fullest extent. She never said to her mother, "I don't want to," for obedience was to her a cherished virtue. She arose in the morning when she was called, and we do not suppose she had her hair done up in curling papers and crimping pins, or banged over her forehead. She did not grow into a young lady and talk about her beau before she was in her teens, and she did not read dime novels, nor was she fancying a hero in every boy she met. The old-fashioned girl was modest in her demeanor, and she never talked slang nor used by-words. She did not laugh at old people nor make fun of cripples. She had respect for her elders, and was not above listening to words of counsel from those older than herself. She did not know as much as her mother, nor did she think her judgment was as good as that of her grandmother. She did not go to parties by the time she was ten years old and stay till after midnight, dancing with chance young men who happened to be present. She went to bed in season, and doubtless she said her prayers and slept the sleep of innocence, rose in the morning happy and capable of giving happiness. And now, if there is an old-fashioned girl in the world to-day, may Heaven bless and keep her and raise up others like her.—Bishop Cosgrove. GOOD USE FOR THE WINE-GRAPE.
DRIED wine-grapes are proving good property. There is an offer of $70 a ton for all produced in this valley this year on board the cars at Livermore. Loose Muscatels are worth $100 a ton in San Francisco. The wine-grapes are to be stemmed and cleaned and put into cotton sacks; the Muscatels are also stemmed and cleaned and packed in twenty-pound boxes each. The cost of sacks and boxes each is about eight cents. The cost of cleaning and stemming is a mere trifle. Ruling and Preventing Anger
To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.—Edwards. —The premium on gold has advanced to 125 per cent. in Buenos Ayres. —Parliament has been prorogued by Queen Victoria until November 16. —Lightning instantly killed four boys at Matamoras, Mexico, August 27. —The Florida orange crop is estimated to be fifty per cent. short owing to drought. —In the German army 30 per cent. of the deaths of the private soldiers are from suicide. —Brown, Steese, & Clark, a heavy wool firm of Boston, Mass., have failed for $1,180,000. —Half the town of Dubno, Russia, was destroyed by fire the 26th ult., with enormous loss. —The water-works at San Diego, Cal., have been sold to an English Syndicate for $1,400,000. —Five men were killed by the explosion of a boiler in a nail factory at Towanda, Pa., August 27. —The United States sloop-of-war Galena sailed from the Brooklyn navy yard for Hayti, August 25. —Fire in the Ohio State prison, August 27, destroyed buildings and property to the extent of $100,000. —Twelve colored persons were poisoned in Chattanooga, Tenn., recently by the use of decaying meat. —It is reported that the German army will be re-organized and largely increased by the coming Reichstag. —Tacoma, W. T., had a $50,000 fire the 29th ult. Only the absence of wind saved the city from entire destruction. —It is reported that at the urgent request of his friends, Boulanger will go to Paris and stand trial before the elections. —Oliver Wendell Holmes celebrated his eightieth birthday the 29th ult. Many presents and congratulations were received. —It is reported from Brussels that King Leopold has definitely decided to abdicate the sovereignty of the Congo Free State in Africa. —Henry Shaw, the philanthropist of St. Louis, Mo., who died the 25th ult., left to that city his entire estate, amounting to $2,500,000. —Two contractors on the State capital building of Texas were recently fined $64,000 and costs for importing skilled laborers from Europe. —Nine men were terribly burned at Pittsburg, Penn., recently by molten steel. Only four of them were expected to survive at last accounts. —The sealing schooner Black Diamond, which escaped from the United States revenue cutter Rush some time ago, has again sailed for Behring Sea. —The village of Tscherlach, Switzerland, was destroyed August 29 by the fall of a portion of Mount Ruldisberg. The inhabitants fortunately escaped. —W. E. Selement, a post-office clerk of St. Paul, Minn., has been arrested for robbing the mails. It is estimated that his stealings will amount to $100,000. —Heavy earthquakes were reported from Greece and Russia, under date of the 27th ult. In the village of Khenzonik, Russia, 100 persons were buried alive. —A locomotive and twenty cars were burned by breaking through a burning bridge on the Union Pacific Railroad near Laramie City, Wy. T., the 31st ult. —A terrible negro riot occurred at a colored picnic recently at Jordan Brook, Ark., in which a number of men were killed, and several others seriously wounded. Whisky was the cause. —It is estimated that 35,000 men took part in the parade of the Grand Army of the Republic at their recent annual encampment in Milwaukee, Wis. Over 100,000 strangers were in attendance. —A disastrous fire occurred at Port Costa, Cal., August 26, consuming a large warehouse filled with wheat, together with two or three ocean ships lying alongside. The total loss is estimated at $750,000. —White Horse, the chief of the Crow Indian tribe, was recently murdered by unknown persons near the Yellowstone River, in which stream his body was afterward found. The tribe threaten vengeance. —Several of the agents of the counterfeiters recently raided at Dayton, Ohio, were arrested at St. Joseph, Mo., the 28th ult. They confessed that $50,000 in counterfeit $10 bills had been distributed at that point. —The steamship City of Paris arrived in New York the 28th ult., having made the run from Queenstown in five days, nineteen hours, and eighteen minutes, beating her own best time by three hours and forty-nine minutes. —A vestibule train filled with Grand Army veterans bound for Milwaukee, Wis., was thrown down a forty-foot embankment near Kinsman, Ill., the 26th ult. Fifty persons were injured in all, several of whom have since died. —The official report of the cruiser Boston shows the accident to that vessel to be even more serious than was at first supposed. One hundred thousand dollars and six months labor will be required to put the vessel in condition for sea service again. —The London strike continues unchanged in situation so far as concessions are concerned, both sides remaining firm at this writing. The strikers, at last accounts, numbered 110,000, while fully 75,000 other laborers were thrown out of work in consequence. —China and Japan have been recently visited by a series of typhoons of almost unprecedented violence. According to the latest intelligence from Japan the number of persons who have lost their lives by drowning in consequence of floods is at the lowest estimate 5,000. —Twenty thousand persons gathered at Manchester, N. H., on the 29th ult., to witness the marriage of a young couple of that place. The interesting feature of the case was, however, that they were married in a balloon, and immediately sailed off toward the clouds on their bridal trip. —The Chinese consul-general at San Francisco, has been accused by his countrymen of swindling them out of several hundred thousand dollars. Investigations are in progress, and it is likely suits will be brought against him in the United States court for the recovery of the money. —A. J. Drexel, the Philadelphia banker, has announced his intention of establishing in that city an industrial institute where 2,000 girls and boys will be taught free of charge by a full corps of teachers. The entire outlay for the erection and endowment of the institution will reach, $1,500,000. —Recent dispatches from Egypt say that a terrible famine prevails at Khartoum, Kassala, Tokar, and other river towns, and natives are dying by the hundreds. The survivors are said to be feeding upon the bodies of the dead. About twenty deaths from starvation daily are reported at Tokar. —Claus Spreckels, the sugar king, is said to have discovered a process of hardening sugar by which it becomes almost stonelike, and is unaffected by wind or rain. He offers to build an addition to the White House, guaranteeing the material to be whiter than the whitest marble and costing only one-half as much. He also provides that if after the structure has been completed, any objection is found, he will remove all traces of his work free of charge to the government. —There can no longer be any doubt of the value of the method of treating hydrophobia discovered by M. Pasteur. Up to the 31st of May, M. Pasteur had treated 6,950 patients. Of these 1,187 had been bitten by dogs suspected but not positively known to be mad, and about 1 per cent. of whom died. There were 4,686 who had been bitten by dogs pronounced mad by competent veterinarians, and of these less than 1 per cent. died. The remaining 1,077 were bitten by dogs, about the madness of which there could be no doubt, as they were secured and inoculation from their bodies to other animals proved fatal. Of these considerably less than 1 1/2 per cent. died.—Cleveland Leader. COLE.—Died of typhoid fever, at the home of her parents at Denver, Col., August 16, 1889, Mabel Elizabeth Cole, aged 13 years, youngest daughter of John and Angeline Cole. The funeral services were largely attended.
G. W. ANGLEBARGER. SMITH.—Died at Tacoma, W. T., August 1, 1889, of membranous croup, Arthur, the eldest son of Forest and Lizzie Smith, aged 7 years, 8 months, and 12 days. We laid him away, believing that he sleeps in Jesus, soon to come forth in the resurrection morn. Services were held by Rev. McMillen (Methodist), in the absence of any of our ministers.
F. H. AND L. SMITH. ACKERMAN.—Died in Santa Barbara, Cal., August 2, 1889, Chester, youngest son of Louis and Sister Belle Ackerman, aged 7 years, 1 month, and 22 days.
Little Chester was bitten by a rattlesnake at his home, sixteen miles in the country, at eleven o'clock, and was immediately brought to the city where medical aid was summoned and everything that human sympathy and loving hands could do, was done, but without avail, and the little sufferer passed away at seven o'clock. The bereaved family have the blessed assurance that little Chester will come again from the land of the enemy; and this we trust will help to sustain them in this their hour of deep trial and affliction. Words of comfort were spoken by Brother Charles Hicks, from 1 Cor. 15.
T. M. FRY. HISTORY OF THE SABBATH AND FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK.
THIS WORK CONTAINS A MINE OF INFORMATION. The Bible record of the Sabbath; the secular history concerning it, the successive steps by which the change to the first day was made, and the work of restoration, are given in detail. Every text of Scripture concerning the Sabbath is commented on at length; and the complete Testimony of the Fathers in regard to the Sabbath and first day is given. The comparative merits of the seventh and the first-day Sabbaths are fully shown. A copious index enables the reader to find any text, or the statement of any historian. Should be read by everybody. 548 pp. Price, $2.00. Address, PACIFIC PRESS, Oakland, Cal. —According to the Catholic Review, there are in the United States 7,762,108 Roman Catholics. —The religious convictions of the inhabitants of the globe are divided between more than one thousand creeds. —Twenty-one convicts in the State prison at San Quentin, Cal., were recently confirmed in the faith of the Episcopal Church. —There are still 40,000 wild Indians in the United States—12,000 in government and mission schools, 28,000 to whom no school opens, no missionary goes. —The Primitive Methodists in England have 4,232 Sunday-schools, 62,083 teachers, and 430,014 scholars, according to their last annual report just published. —The "Pilgrim's Progress" is being translated into Amharic. This, for the benefit of the Abyssinians, will be the eighty-fourth language in which it has appeared. —The sum of $53,145,420 has been expended in twelve of the Southern States since 1865 for the betterment of the colored people, religiously, intellectually, and otherwise. —On account of the ministers of Waterbury, Conn., being away on vacation a short time ago, a protestant minister could not be obtained to perform a marriage ceremony in the entire city of 30,000 inhabitants. —The archives of the Vatican which have been closed to inspection for so many years have at last been opened to the world. A large amount of valuable religious historical matter not hitherto known will, it is thought, be made public. —The Icelandic Lutheran Church in America is an organization of Icelanders holding Lutheran doctrines and polity. The fifth Annual Conference of this body has just been held at Argyle, in Manitoba. The denomination has twenty-two congregations. —According to the statistics of the United Presbyterian Church the average salary of its ministers is $998. The highest average attained was in 1875, when it was $1,012. In 1880 it was $896, since when it has been gradually rising. Last year it was $940. —The hostility to evangelical work in Austria is growing more intense. The Roman Catholic archbishop has called a conference to consider the question, "What means shall the priests employ in the hope of resisting successfully the further progress of the Free Reformed churches and the Baptists?" Publishers' Department.
By Editor
A GOOD WORD FOR "FATHERS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH."
THE following appeared among the book reviews in the Christian at Work of August 22, 1889:— "This little volume is properly an account of the rise of the Papal Church built on the foundation of the so-called Fathers, the heathen philosopher Plato being the chief corner-stone. It shows how these Fathers, Irenæus, Justin Martyr, Ignatius, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Tertullian, and so on to the end, were so full of error and the teachings of heathen philosophy, and so misrepresented and perverted Christian truth as to degrade and bring it down to the level of the heathen philosophy of their time. To those familiar with the writings of the Fathers this might hardly seem necessary. But this work is designed especially for people who have not the time nor the means to become thoroughly informed in matters of church history, and also for such who, even though they be well-read, cannot carry a theological library with them from which to quote when they feel it necessary. In his manner of grouping subjects the author is quite effective, and throughout he writes with a bold and trenchant pen. Some will no doubt disagree with some of his points, but even they will respect the vigor and evident candor with which he enforces his convictions. We commend the book to our readers as one worthy of their attention and one from which they may gather much that is suggestive and instructive." SABBATH-SCHOOL LESSONS.
By C. H. Jones
A SERIES of lessons on the book of Hebrews has been written for use in the senior division of our Sabbath-schools. The first thirteen will be published in pamphlet form the same as heretofore, and will follow the present series on "Tithes and Offerings." The book of Hebrews is one of the most interesting and comprehensive of all the epistles. It is a masterly argument on the divinity of Christ, the perpetuity of the law, and the plan of salvation. These lessons are taken up in the form of a running commentary, bringing in parallel passages and followed by copious notes. They have been thoroughly examined and criticised by a large committee of ministers and Sabbath-school workers, and we anticipate much profit from their study. There are many advantages in having the lessons issued quarterly in advance in pamphlet form, and we trust that the officers of our State Associations will encourage all to procure these pamphlets, and to study the lesson from the pamphlet and from the Bible instead of reading it from the SIGNS or Review. This lesson pamphlet will contain 48 pages beside the covers, and will be issued as No. 20 of the "Bible Students' Library." Price seven cents per copy, post-paid. Address all orders to Pacific Press Publishing Co., Oakland, Cal., or to your State T. and M. Society. Order at once, so that the schools may all be supplied before the first of October. Views of National Reform.
By Editor
Series One, 151 pages; Size 4¾x7¼ inches; price 15 cents. This pamphlet contains thirteen treatises on the various phases of the National Reform Movement. The following are the subjects of the various chapters, each of which is complete in itself: Religious Liberty; National Reform Is Church and State; The Republic of Israel; Purity of National Religion; What Think Ye of Christ? Evils of Religious Legislation; The American Papacy; National Reform and Rights of Conscience; Bold and Base Avowal; National Reform Movement an Absurdity; The Salem Witchcraft; National Reformed Constitution and the American Hierarchy; National Reformed Presbyterianism. Address, AMERICAN SENTINEL,
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