Earlier text: MRS. E. G. WHITE“IT MAY BE YE SHALL BE HID.”
By Wm. J. Boynton
WM. J. BOYNTON. (Newark, N. Y.) Ofttimes while reading this scripture, this clause seems to hang all our hopes on a brittle thread — that after all our struggles in the work of overcoming, there will be only a chance of our being saved. We might possibly pass the test, and we might not. Is this the meaning of this passage? In the light of the doctrine of justification by faith, I have come to a different view of its meaning. God says He is “able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think” (Eph. 3:20); and that “where sin abounded, grace did much more abound” (Rom. 5:20); also that “the peace of God . . . shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus” (Phil. 4:7); and again: “Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son.” Col. 1:12, 13. Then in the end shall all this be a failure? — No! no! this cannot be. It seems clear to me now that the expression in Zeph. 2:3, “It may be ye shall be hid,” is a statement showing that by complying with the condition, it is our privilege to be hid. The qualities of meekness and righteousness we must possess to be like Jesus. For “when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is.” Righteousness was the girdle of His loins, and faithfulness the girdle of His reins. Isa. 11:5. He says: “Learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.” Matt. 11:29. The home of the saved is a place “wherein dwelleth righteousness” (2 Peter 3:13) and meekness. Ps. 37:11. Thus this test in Zephaniah is not only a command, but a kind invitation from a loving Father to cause us to seek for those heavenly qualities so necessary to a work of faithfulness here, and also that we may be among the “hidden ones” in the day of His fierce anger. Take another text with a parallel expression: “And this is the will of Him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on Him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise Him up at the last day.” John 6:40. Then it is His will that every one should be saved. So it is His will that I should be saved. We may have salvation if we will. O blessed assurance! Brother, sister, let us look up and rejoice. ITEMS OF INTEREST.
By A. J. B.
— Paul Kruger's visit to Holland has cost that government about $80,000. — Mrs. Roosevelt will attend service at St. John's Episcopal Church, Washington, D. C. — The president of Venezuela “desires peace, but wishes overtures to come from Colombia.” — Lansing Warren, editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel, died the 13th inst., in Milwaukee, Wis. — President Roosevelt has appointed Charles Hartzell, of Colorado, Secretary of Porto Rico. — Joseph F. Smith is elected president of the Mormon Church, to succeed the late Lorenzo Snow. — The State Department denies that this country has offered to arbitrate between Venezuela and Colombia. — The revenues of France showed a deficit of about $27,000,000 for the first nine months of the present year. — Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, is ordered to leave Italy “for fear of compromising the government with Spain.” — French, the British general who so far has not made a blunder in his campaign in South Africa, recently captured the Boer commandant Scheeper. — The Boer commander Lotter has been executed, by order of Kitchener, and “two farmers who had twice joined the Boers have been hung at Vyburg; and eighteen Boer officers captured since September 15 have been permanently banished.” — A dispatch from Albany, N. Y., dated the 15th inst., states that Warden Mead, of Auburn prison, has received over 1,000 requests for permission to witness the electrocution of Czolgosz. Only twenty-six persons will be allowed to see the sentence executed. — Herr Rosenthal, a German, was kidnapped by Bulgarian brigands the 16th inst. Rumania has sent a protest to Sofia, and Bulgarian troops are in pursuit of the brigands. It is declared that “the Macedonian committee has decided to capture every foreigner within reach, in order to attract European attention to the bad state of public security in Macedonia.” — In a recent letter to the ministers of the Powers, Prince Ching requests “a withdrawal from Peking of the foreign business establishments, on the ground that Peking is not a treaty port, that foreign business houses have been illegally established there, and that all such should be moved to treaty ports.” Unquestionably China has the right to make such a demand, if she sees fit. — A dispatch from Manchester, England, dated the 15th, states that Dr. Joseph Parker, chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales, “proposed to-day the establishment of a federation of Congregationalism throughout the world, under the title of the United Congregationalist Church. The assembly voted that a committee should take steps immediately to bring the subject before the subordinate unions.” — Florida's orange season began last week. Steven Powers, secretary of the State Agricultural Society, estimates that 1,100,000 boxes will cover the crop. It is thought that “the rehabilitation of the orange industry in Florida since the fatal freeze of 1896 has shown more progress in the last year than in the five years previous.” Mr. Powers says that “this year the trees have made a wonderful growth. The crop is fine, and there is wide-spread encouragement. Probably 1,000,000 trees were sold last winter, largely for planting in Florida. There is little fear of any effective West Indian competition. The Florida orange, backed by American will and energy, cannot be displaced.” — The meaning of the phrase “the pacification of the islands” (Philippines), according to the Christian Advocate, of New York, “may be obtained from the dictionary, but not from a study of the islands themselves.” To support this statement it states that “a new branch of the Katipunan, a Filipino secret society, has been discovered at Tarlac, capital of the province of that name. The object of the society is the slaughter of the whites. The president of Banoang is the chief of the new branch, and an alarming element in the situation is that it includes numbers of the native constables who were recently armed. A policeman admits that he was taxed a dollar, and was ordered to make bolos. Besides this, the conditions in Tayabas and Batangas are not reassuring. The worst form of guerrilla warfare prevails there. The insurgent forces are hovering under cover along every road and trail. Caballos, who formerly belonged to the command of General Cailles, but who would not surrender with him, is retreating to the mountains. Rifles have been buried all over the province, and whenever the insurgents find an opportunity to use them, they dig them up. The assassination at Balangiga is the worst thing that has happened, but all that has occurred should have been expected.” — On the 18th inst. the steamship “Commonwealth” arrived at Boston; the “Augusta Victoria” at Cherbourg; the “Corean” at Glasgow; the “Belgravia” at Hamburg; the “Rhynland” and the “Cufic” at Liverpool; the “Furst Bismarck,” “Patria,” and “Sicilia” at New York; and the “Miowera” at Sydney. On the same day the “Furnessia” and “Pretorian” sailed from Moville; and the “Deutschland” from Southampton. — The land and buildings of the Ruskin Commonwealth Colony, Commonwealth, Ga., were recently sold by the sheriff. At the time of its founding, two years ago, there were in the colony 300 souls. At the time of the break-up there were but twenty left. The printing plant of the Coming Nation, the organ of the colony, was sold to satisfy a mortgage of $300. There are many excellent and devoted Christians connected with these Christian Socialist colonies in various parts of the country, and some of their ideas and ideals are most commendable. THE STUDY OF THE FIELD.
By Estella Houser
Our study this week on the field covers a wide range of territory and subjects. It will be impossible, however, to derive any benefit from it without having access to the Missionary Magazine, as the entire study is based upon this journal. To decide whether such a study is profitable, one has only to analyze his own interest in missionary work, when he finds that it centers about those lands with which he is best acquainted. An intelligent interest is always stimulated by an increase of knowledge. The last message of mercy is to reach earth’s remotest bounds before the appearing of our Saviour. Every report of progress is one step nearer that event. These reports appear month by month in the Missionary Magazine, and the reading circle is arranged as an aid in becoming acquainted with them. This month the study brings tidings from almost a score of fields, besides others that are mentioned in the Magazine, but not embraced in the study. The situation in Africa alone will inspire every true heart to activity, if God’s Spirit is allowed to do its work, for it outlines the experience of our brethren who are being compelled to do now, in troublous times, the work which the Lord has plainly stated should have been done in times of peace and comparative prosperity. The same conditions prevail in Colombia, and how soon all nations will be involved in war is known only by Him before whom the nations are as nothing. The article has its lesson for each of us. A brief study will reveal it. From Porto Rico comes a message of courage and good cheer, but our two laborers in that island plead that help may be sent them now while conditions are so favorable. Out of the seventy towns in this island, fifty have not been entered by the gospel worker. The present is our opportunity. Soon others will go in, and then we shall be compelled to follow them, and our labors will be far more difficult. The article will bear studying. The report from the Orient, another topic for study, is inspiring, since it shows the progress of the truth notwithstanding the most bitter opposition. Brethren in one city in Turkey are imprisoned for possessing a copy of the REVIEW AND HERALD, and at another place in the Sultan’s territory they have been arrested because they assembled together for worship on the Sabbath. In Egypt a minister of the gospel has accepted the message, and is devoting his time to its promulgation. That the Lord is choosing out a people for His name from many nations is illustrated by the discovery of a brother in this land of the Nile who, alone, for a number of years, notwithstanding great persecution, has observed the Sabbath because he saw that its sacredness was taught in God’s word. In Palestine difficulties only serve as stepping-stones for the advancement of God’s word. In Mexico a new feature has been developed in the work — that of selling our Spanish paper. The people are eager for reading-matter, and buy the papers willingly, something which the workers thought could never be accomplished. The developing of workers through mission schools in Argentine, Brazil, and Rhodesia, and the progress of the message in these lands, as well as in Finland, Puerto Cortez, Raratonga, Iceland, and Jamaica, all make a part of this month’s study. Who can afford to be ignorant of these things? One cannot better look upon the field intelligently than through the reports of those who are on the ground, and these from month to month are found in the Missionary Magazine, and made the basis of the study of the field. The command, “Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He would send forth laborers into His harvest,” can best be carried out in an intelligent manner in connection with a study of the field. This is a work that God enjoins upon every one of us. We have no record of any other method by which we may select workers other than “Pray ye . . . the Lord of the harvest, that He will send forth laborers.” If you do not have the Missionary Magazine, the first step necessary in the study will be to procure one, and then with heart imbued with the Spirit of God, note how rapidly this message is being carried to every nation, and what God would have you do that it may go more quickly. “Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.” OCTOBER STUDY OF THE FIELD.
Articles on Africa, Porto Rico, Lesser Antilles, Bocas del Toro, Jamaica, and Letters and Reports in the November issue of the Missionary Magazine. (Second Week — November 3-9.) 1. Tell something of the situation in Africa. 2. To what points is the work there restricted? What success has followed the efforts in that field? What prophecy is being fulfilled there? 3. What is the population of Porto Rico? Out of the seventy towns in this island, how many have been entered by Protestant workers? 4. How many workers, all told, are there in the island? How many Seventh-day Adventist workers? 5. What need is especially suggested? Why is Porto Rico a good location for a sanitarium? 6. What is the condition of the work in Egypt? What encouraging report comes from that field? 7. What is the experience of some of our brethren in Turkey? What progress is reported from Jerusalem? Mention some of the needs of these fields. 8. Through what experiences are our laborers passing in Bocas del Toro? 9. Tell something of the progress and needs in the Lesser Antilles. 10. What items of encouragement come from Finland? Mexico? Jaffa? Puerto Cortez? Argentine? Brazil? Raratonga? Rhodesia, South Africa? Iceland? Northeastern Jamaica? STORIES FOR THE LITTLE ONES.
By Lillien Sartain
LILLIEN SARTAIN. (Helena, Mont.) THE childish mind is highly imaginative, and seems to have an insatiable demand for stories. The world answers this demand with a flood of fairy tales and fictitious stories containing more or less error. The Mother Goose rhymes, rehearsed in almost every nursery in America, are received with delight by the little ones, but are of no benefit to them, and often give them an unreal idea of things. Why not turn the little minds into a different channel, and teach them truth instead of fables? There is an inexhaustible fund of interesting incidents in the Bible which can be utilized by the story-teller, and with a little judicious word coloring, one can hold the child's interest just as well as with “Cinderella,” or “Jack and the Beanstalk.” These fictitious tales interest the mind, but lay the foundation for novel-reading. Once formed, this habit is difficult to overcome. Many a bright young man or woman has been ruined by the pernicious habit. The novel fiend lives in another world than the practical, every-day world, and the petty annoyances of, and the economies daily practiced in, the home make him long for the luxury and ease described in his books, and thus unfit him for any sphere of usefulness. Bring up the child with a pure mind, unsullied by the vain imaginings of some one who might expend his mental energies in a better cause, and much discouragement and unhappiness will be avoided when he gets from under the parental care. WHO WAS TO BLAME?
By M. C. W.
One morning a neighbor’s boy came to my house after some soap for his mother. As I went upstairs for the soap, I remembered that there was two dollars in small change lying on the table in the room where I had left Harry. I wondered if it would tempt Harry, but thought, “No, surely he will not touch it.” When Harry went home, he dropped something on the walk. It had a ring like silver. I immediately went to the door and said, “What is the matter, Harry, did you drop something?” The moment I spoke, I spied a ten-cent piece. Harry saw it at the same time, and instantly put his foot over it. I was confident that something was wrong, and waited to see what the child would do. He talked about everything, but made no move to go home. At last I said, “I’m afraid mama is waiting for you, so you would better run home now. Did you find what you dropped?” “No;” then, as he moved around, “why, here it is, ten cents.” Asking him to wait a minute, I went into the house and counted the money, and found ten cents gone. When I went out, I asked Harry where he got the money. Papa gave it to him to buy mama a birthday present. He thought he should get her a handkerchief. I asked him to think a minute and see if he was perfectly sure about it. Yes, he was; but in my heart I doubted him. After relating the circumstance to my husband, he said, “You would better go and see his mother.” I knew I ought to, but I shrank from it. I was in hopes my husband would say something to ease my conscience; instead he made the load heavier. I went to the Great Father; He gave me no help until I promised to go to the mother, and leave the results with Him. Then freedom came. The next morning, although very busy, I went to Harry’s home. How I dreaded to knock on the door! But in my heart was the assurance from the Lord that the mother would not be angry with me for telling her. After I went in, the words that I had planned to say were gone; I could not think of one of them, so, hardly knowing what I said, I told the mother. I told her perhaps I was the one who had made the mistake in counting, but to be sure I thought it best to see her about it. I never shall forget the look that came over her face as I told her all about it. Tears rolled down her cheeks, as she said, “My Harry stealing! His father gave him no money.” Then she unburdened her heart to me, and told me how wild Harry was getting, and how his father would whip him hard whenever he found out anything that he had done. For that reason she had shielded him. After pointing her to Jesus, I left her. That afternoon Harry and his mother called. As they came in, the mother said that Harry wanted to see me, by way of explanation. We sat in silence waiting for Harry to speak. After a little, Harry came to me and said, “Here is your ten cents, and—I’m so sorry, and—” The sobs came; he could say no more. Putting my arm around him, I drew him to me and told him it was not the money I cared for, but it was his future life that I was thinking of. If he began by taking a little, the devil wouldn’t let him alone until he had taken a great deal. Jesus could and would help him to be a noble man, if he would only let Him. After a few more words with Harry, I went to the mother, who was sobbing. I put my arm around her neck; for a moment all was still. Then I offered a few words of prayer. After that she went home, her heart too full to speak. The Lord was there with us. How thankful I was that I had gone to her with the circumstance, instead of telling some one else, and after a time letting it reach the mother that way. That spring and summer I kept track of Harry. Through vacation he and three of the smaller children spent an hour each day with me. We would have prayer, then a Bible story. I was always particular to stop where the story was the most interesting. It would do you good to see how eager they were the next day for the rest of the story. After the story came games and music. The hour passed by too quickly for the children. Late in the summer, business called me from home for about two months. When I returned, my work was such that I could be with the children but little. Three years have passed. What has become of Harry?—Why, he went a little deeper into sin, and now is in the reform school. What was the trouble? Who was to blame? His downward course was helped along in the home, for father and mother were not united in the government of the child. Prayer was not heard in the home. A continual jangling took its place, thereby lessening the visits of the angels. The mother let go of God’s hand. Did it pay? Many boys are going just where Harry has gone, unless fathers and mothers arouse to their duty. The Lord says to us, “The burden is upon you, whether you are sensible of it or not, to train these children for God,—to watch with jealous care the first approach of the wily foe, and be prepared to raise a standard against him.” From whom did Harry take his first lessons in stealing? Could it have been from father or mother? Now I see a look of indignation upon your faces, as you exclaim, Indeed not; no Sabbath-keeping mother would teach her child to steal. Just listen. A short time ago I went into a large bakery. As I was waiting, a woman and two children came in. The boy, evidently about three and one-half years of age, ran to a barrel of vanilla cakes, and was just ready to take one when the mother said, “No, no; mustn’t touch.” After a few minutes, she walked to the barrel, took out a cake and ate it. The boy saw her; to keep him quiet she gave him one, then sister must have a pretty cake. That was the beginning, they were eating when I left the shop. Well, you say, what harm was done? Can you not hear a voice say, “Thou shalt not steal”? The mother was giving her children their first lessons in stealing. It may be Harry took his first lessons the same way. I know not, but I am afraid that at the last great day more than one mother will be found guilty.703 Some one is saying, “Now that is going a little too far. Dealers want us to sample their goods.” There may be times when they do, but they are few and far between. Let me give you my experience: One day I stopped in front of a fruit store, to buy some peaches. Thoughtlessly, I felt of one to see if it was nice and ripe. I was about to try another when some one said, “Stop that!” and a little man rushed out, saying, “You are spoiling my fruit; let it alone.” I did not know what the man meant by talking so. I felt as though I had been accused of stealing. I told him I wanted to buy some fruit, and was feeling of the peaches to find a good ripe one. Then he explained to me why he came out as he did. He said he had that morning been obliged to throw away a basket of peaches because they had been handled by customers, and that he was going to try to stop it if he could. I thanked him for the lesson he taught me, and I have always remembered it. Then again: a man and two women walked into a store. The man turned to the women and said, “Don’t you want some bananas?” Without waiting for a reply, he cut three from a bunch, and passed them to the women. One of them exclaimed, “O Mr. B——, you ought not to do that.” His answer was a laugh. Supposing Harry had been there, what influence would that man’s example have had upon the boy? Would he have been allowed to do the same thing unmolested?—No, indeed! and had the owner of the store expressed his opinion, I know the bananas would have been paid for immediately. That man would be very indignant if he were called a thief, but what else was he? In a Testimony on economy and strict honesty the Lord says: “Employees have no right to help themselves to crackers, nuts, raisins, dates, sugar, oranges, or fruit of any kind; for, in the first place, in eating these things between meals, as is generally done, they are injuring the digestive organs; and again, those that partake of those things are taking that which is not theirs. . . .” “One may reason, the little I have taken does not amount to much; but the question comes home, Did the smallness of the amount lessen the sin of the act? . . . Many littles make much in the end. But the greatest loss is sustained by the ones who digress; for they are violating the principles of right, and learning to look upon transgression in small matters as no transgression at all. . . . But God looks upon all these things as theft, and so the record is carried up to heaven.” Yes, God looks upon all these things as theft. Is it not time for us to look at things as God does? Then again: can we lead our children any higher than we go ourselves? Their minds are plastic, and impressions are easily made. “Children are the heritage of the Lord, and we are answerable to Him for our management of His property.” In a sense we stand in the place of God to our children. Think of the responsibility resting upon you, father, mother. The little ones get their ideas of right and wrong from us, and our example will mold their future life. Let us not neglect our home duties, lest our children rise up in the Judgment and condemn us. In speaking to a young man about his accepting Christ as his personal Saviour, his reply was this: “If religion does for the home what my mother’s religion has done for our home, I do not care for it. Mother is rarely at home when we boys are; she must go to this meeting or that. It is the Lord’s work, and of course she must go. She will talk and pray in meeting,—I’ve heard her,—but she never has time to do anything for us boys at home; never has time to mend our clothes; and no time to spend with father, and you know how he is going. He drinks oftener than he used to; but what is there to keep him at home? If mother had done a little less talking in meeting, and spent more time in her family, things might have been different. You know every word I have spoken is true.” Yes, it was all true. All I could do was to point him to Jesus for his example. You can see that his ideas of God and His love were what he received from the life of his mother, who, in a sense, stood in the place of God to him. What will that mother have to meet in the Judgment? What shall we have to meet? The following beautiful lines were written by a young lady in Nova Scotia, an invalid for many years:— My life is a wearisome journey;
I'm sick with the dust and the heat;
The rays of the sun beat upon me,
The briers are wounding my feet.
But the city to which I journey
Will more than my trials repay:
All the toils of the road will seem nothing
When I get to the end of the way. There are so many hills to climb upward,
I often am longing for rest:
But He who appoints me my pathway
Knows just what is needful and best.
I know in His word He has promised
That my strength shall be as my day;
And the toils of the road will seem nothing
When I get to the end of the way. He loves me too well to forsake me,
Or give me one trial too much;
All His people have been dearly purchased;
And Satan can never claim such.
By-and-by I shall see Him and praise Him,
In the city of unending day;
And the toils of the road will seem nothing
When I get to the end of the way. When the last feeble step has been taken,
And the gates of the city appear;
When the beautiful songs of the angels
Float out on my listening ear;
When all that now seems so mysterious
Shall be plain and as clear as the day,
Then the toils of the road will seem nothing—
As I get to the end of the way. Though now I am footsore and weary,
I shall rest when I'm safely at home;
I know I'll receive a glad welcome,
For the Saviour himself has said “Come.”
So, when I am weary in body,
And sinking in spirit, I say,
“All the toils of the road will seem nothing
When I get to the end of the way.” Cooling fountains are there for the thirsty,
There are cordials for those who are faint:
There are robes which are whiter and purer
Than any our fancy can paint.
So I'll try to press hopefully onward,
Thinking often, through each weary day,
“The toils of the road will seem nothing
When I get to the end of the way.” HOME AND HEALTH NOTES.
By A. J. B.
—The greatest curative agent is motion, or exercise. —According to the New York Tribune, there are no drunkards in the State of Kansas. —It is estimated that in this country alone the waste from bad cooking amounts to over $1,000,000,000 a year. —Milk is a good food; but it should always be boiled. The tubercular germs are easily killed by the boiling process. —Owing to the rigorous sanitary regulations enforced by the Americans in Cuba, yellow fever has almost disappeared from that island. —The total number of retail liquor dealers in the United States last year was 296,000. New York had the greatest number, Illinois the second greatest number, and Ohio the third. —The next session of the German Reichstag will witness the passing of a law conferring upon the women of that country the right of free speech in public, a privilege heretofore monopolized by the men. —Since it is true that all diseases are caused by the retention of impurities in the system, great care should be taken to induce and to compel regular action of the bowels. The use of drug sedatives should be avoided. An internal bath, or enema, is often beneficial, but vigorous physical exercise is better. —According to statistics compiled by the Marine Hospital Service, embracing some “1,190 cities and towns having a population of 1,000 or more,” the United States had, during the last calendar year, “an annual mortality of 17.47 per 1,000 of population.” North Dakota was the most healthy State, its death rate being only 6.95 per 1,000. —The New York Board of Health has issued “a manifesto declaring the long skirts worn by some women on the streets inimical to health because they carry disease germs into the homes.” Also the city of Pottsville, Pa., recently “ordered all women to wear short skirts on the streets.” What a pity that so many women, scrupulously clean in every other way, insist upon sweeping the streets with their skirts. Most municipalities are provided with men hired to do such jobs with brooms. —After repeated experiments, Dr. M. J. Rosenau, of the Marine Hospital Service, found that “the plague bacillus cannot live long in letter mail. In seven tests made with cultures of the organism on paper, we found that it usually died within twenty-four hours. At most it kept alive eight days on paper allowed to dry, and fourteen days on paper kept in a moist atmosphere. To live this long it must be kept cool, or, just as in all our other experiments, it died very quickly when dried at the body temperature. We had similar experiences with plague blood upon paper. Letter mail is therefore not apt to carry the infection of plague a long time, especially in warm weather.” A fortunate thing, indeed! However, the same physician succeeded in keeping the plague bacillus, or germ, alive seventeen days in cheese and seventy-two days in butter; but “on the surface of food products it usually died very quickly,” and “did not live twenty-four hours on orange peel.” He also obtained “similar results with figs and raisins and a large quantity of Chinese food products.” The germ was kept alive in rice eighteen days. —The annual report of Surgeon-General Sternberg shows that “deaths from all causes in the army during 1900 amounted to 28.75 per 1,000, as against 30.58 in the previous year.” —Mrs. H. H. Foxton, of Ann Arbor, Mich., is selected by the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union “to go to the Philippines and work among the soldiers, and also to collect evidence against the canteen.” She will sail the 15th of next month, and will be gone two years. —The only true way to banish intemperance is to stop the unnatural physical conditions which create the appetite for strong drinks. Foods that do not contain sufficient nourishment often lead persons to crave stimulants. Spicy foods should also be avoided. There are many intemperate people who never touch liquor. —The westward march of Asiatic cholera began, according to Modern Medical Science, with its first appearance “in England at Sunderland, October, 1831, and in North America at Quebec, in June, 1832. It became epidemic in Bengal in 1817, spreading to Russia and Germany. In 1831 it carried off 900,000 persons. In 1832 it appeared in New York, and in 1834-49 and in ’66 it reappeared. In 1848 over 50,000 perished from cholera in England and Wales.” —As a result of thorough tests made by Dr. Doty, quarantine officer of the State of New York, it is proved that the dosing of ponds and marshes with crude oil is sufficient to destroy mosquitoes and malaria. His successful experiments have been carried on in “the worst mosquito-and-malaria-haunted parts of Staten Island.” Similar doses administered to rain barrels, outhouses, or stagnant water anywhere in the yard, will aid materially in ridding the neighborhood of both mosquitoes and malaria. —Marshall, the English economist, states that “$500,000,000 is spent annually by the British working classes for things that do nothing to make their lives nobler or truly happier,” and that “the simple item of food waste alone would justify the above-mentioned estimate. One potent cause of waste to-day is that very many of the women, having been practically brought up in factories, do not know how to buy economically, and are neither passable cooks nor good housekeepers.” The same principle applies in this country. —According to Popular Science, “an unexpected and dangerous method of manipulating candy has just been brought to notice. The candy is made to glitter by means of splinters of glass, so that it has the appearance of sparkling crystal sugar. There are some specimens of even high-class confectionery, said to be of French make, which contain a liberal sprinkling of glass splinters. When the candy is dissolved in warm water, the splinters tumble to the bottom of the fluid into a miniature heap of broken glass. The splinters present both sharp points and sharp edges, which are certain to cause injury to the walls of the digestive canal. It is difficult to imagine a more powerful mechanical irritant than jags of glass, which might easily cause laceration and hemorrhage.” All the candy that one’s system requires may easily be made at home. —There is more truth than fiction in the following contribution to a New York health journal by a lady writer: “It is a duty to study ourselves. Learn to interpret your natural instincts. Know yourself. We of this age have made wonderful progress in science, invention, and education; but what, as a nation, have we done for physical development in comparison to these? Look at our women, regardless of culture, education, or position; all worshiping at the shrine of the corset! crushing naturalness and freedom of action to satisfy the goddess of Fashion! Why do women of good common sense, in other ways, do this?—Because they are afraid to think for themselves; afraid of what society or the gossips may say. Sins against our bodies are sins against the Creator, and bring inevitable ruin upon us, and extend their influence even to the unborn generations. We strive, most of us, for money, admiration, and social position; neglecting God, our souls, our minds, and our bodies for these nothings of life. Will, energy, and continuity are necessary in order to acquire either spiritual, mental, or material treasures, and so is it with physical perfection. To live right, from the physical standpoint, is to, first of all, be cheerful and hopeful at all times, eat proper, wholesome foods, exercise daily, and bathe regularly, breathing fresh air at all times, and wearing loose, comfortable clothing. These admonitions, from the world, are well worth heeding by some who pretend to know all about health reform.” A. J. B. Stand Not Aloft Apart: Labor and Love
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
STAND not aloft apart;
Plunge in the thick of the fight.
There in the street and the mart,
That is the place to do right;
Not in some cloister or cave,
Not in some kingdom above;
Here on this side of the grave,
Here we should labor and love.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox.