SIAM is one of the out-of-the way countries of the world. None of the great steamship lines of the Pacific or of the Indian Ocean stop at it. Few globe trotters visit it, and it is about 1,500 miles out of the regular line of travel around the world. The great Siamese peninsula juts down from the east coast of China. It contains half a dozen different countries, the chief of which are Burmah, Siam, and the French States of China. Siam itself is at the lower end of the peninsula, and it bounds the greater part of the mighty body of water known as the Gulf of Siam. It is 1,300 miles long, and at its widest part it is 450 miles wide. It is almost as flat as your hand, though it has here and there a few mountain chains. It has many big rivers, and the country is as much cut up with canals as is Holland. During the rainy season it becomes a mighty lake, and the people move here and there from one city to another in boats, on the River Menam.
The greatest river is the Menam, which the Siamese know by the same name as the Indians knew the Mississippi. It is "the father of waters," and it forms the great highway of the kingdom. This river flows into the Gulf of Siam at its head, and it is about forty miles from its mouth that I sit here on its banks and write this letter in this floating city of Bangkok. Imagine a city as large as Chicago, of which ninety-nine-hundredths of the people live on the water. There are fifteen miles of floating houses on the two sides of this river, and these, with the king’s palaces and a few foreign buildings on the land, make up the capital of the Siamese people.
There are six millions and more of these Siamese, and their country covers a territory of about twice the size of Colorado, four times the size of New York, and it is about five times as big as Ohio. The cocoanut and the palm tree line the banks of this Menam River, and the boats flit in and out of jungles which remind one of the swamps of Florida.
I wish I could give you a picture of our ride up the Menam to Bangkok. The sides of the river are lined with these small floating houses. They are anchored to piles and they lie half hidden by the great palm trees on the banks. Here and there a canal juts off into the jungle and the houses on it make this a floating street. These houses are made of bamboo, with their sides and their roofs thatched with palm leaves. They are sometimes on piles high above the water, but more often they rest on its surface. They are tied to poles driven into the bed of the river, and they rise and fall with the tide. Their average height is not more than ten feet, and each looks like two large dog-kennels fastened together and covered with palm leaves.
The river is winding. It is perhaps a quarter of a mile wide, and every turn brings new surprises. As we near Bangkok the waters are alive with craft of all kinds. Little naked, brown, shock-headed youngsters paddle long canoes not over two feet wide, and so sharp that the least balance would unseat the rower. There are half-naked women with great hats of straw, which look like inverted work-baskets, sitting, bare-legged and bare-breasted, in boats which they paddle along, and boats of all sizes are worked by all ages and sexes, from babies of six to wrinkled old men and short, gray-haired women of sixty. As you enter Bangkok the crowd increases. Instead of one line of floating houses along the banks there are three and sometimes four. The whole river is alive, and you turn your eyes this way and that, meeting a maze of new objects at every turn.
The king of Siam is supposed to own the people, and each man in the realm has to serve for three, six, or nine months as a servant of the Government. At a certain time of the year the entire population is marked off to particular noblemen or Government masters. These masters, whenever the Government demands anything of them, can compel the men marked off to them, to serve. All kinds of work are demanded, and the various marks put upon the men indicate their trades or profession. Some men are required to give all their time to the Government, and in this case they get nominal salaries. Those who give half their time, work for the king fifteen days, and then have fifteen days off. The three-months subjects get no pay, and during the time they are in Bangkok they have to find themselves in food and lodging. This work practically enslaves the whole population of males, and slavery is common in Siam. Criminals convicted often become slaves, and they are sometimes marked or branded on the forehead. I have seen many men in chains during my stay here, and just outside the walls of the palace there are at least twoscore of men, bright-eyed, good-looking, lusty fellows, who have great iron collars about their necks and chains about their legs and arms, who are making basket-work, and who offered to sell me their wares as I passed. The debtor who does not pay in Siam must become the slave of his creditor, who charges him from fifteen to thirty per cent. a year, puts him in chains, and takes his work as the interest on the debt.
There are hundreds of such slaves in Bangkok, and many of the men become slaves by gambling away their living. The nation, all told, seems addicted to vice rather than to virtue, and it is nearer akin to pure heathenism than any other I have yet seen. Still it claims to be progressive, and its king has made some steps to the front. The whole, however, compares more to the colored republic of Hayti or to the blacks of San Domingo than to any other civilization. The people are devoted to Buddhism, and the priests are numbered by thousands.—Frank G. Carpenter.
THE FRENCH CENTENNIAL.
By Interior
With the close of the centennial ceremonies in this country, those of the French republic have begun. It was on May 5, 1789, that Louis XVI. convened the States-General, and last week the French people celebrated at Versailles the centenary of that event as the first of the important series which led to the establishment of the constitutional system. The last meeting of the Three Estates, consisting of representatives of the nobility, the clergy, and the third estate, or middle classes, and constituting a sort of national legislature, had occurred in 1614, during the reign of Louis XIII. The latter monarch and his two successors, however, believing that an assembly of nobles would be more tractable, dispensed with the services of the estates, and it was not until the reign of Louis XVI., the last of the French Bourbon sovereigns of the eighteenth century, that the assembly was revived. When it convened on May 5, 1789, as the result of financial burdens caused by foreign campaigns, the profligacy of the nobles, and the abuses of privilege which laid the main burden of taxation on the third estate, and the growth of republican ideas among the commons, France was ready for revolution.381
From that date events marched rapidly, and six weeks after, when the king had refused to grant their demands, and the nobles to sit in the same hall and vote by poll, the commons proclaimed themselves to be the National Assembly and the governing force in the kingdom. It was the solemn oath not to separate until they had established the constitution of France upon as permanent foundations as had been laid in the United States, that eventually brought the king to terms, and forced him to direct the representatives of the privileged classes to take part in the assembly. But first came the attempt to disperse the self-constituted legislature, which led to the famous message of Mirabeau: "We are here by the power of the people, and we will not be driven hence save by the power of the bayonet."
Then came the bloodshed of July 12, the calling out of the national guard, constituted but a few days before largely through the energy of Mirabeau, and the attack upon, and demolition of, the Bastile on July 14. To the people of Paris the latter will doubtless be the great anniversary of the year, though there were so many other conspicuous events during that memorable summer that nothing but a continuous celebration would adequately commemorate them. On the 4th of August the National Assembly abolished all feudal privileges and decreed the freedom of religion and the press, and on the 18th came the Declaration of the Rights of Man, an embodiment of our own charter of liberty. Indeed, there are many dates which might be chosen for remembrance of some sort, as steps in the movement which resulted in the greatest social upheaval in human history, the overthrow of monarchy, and a new era of republicanism and constitutional progress.
In after years came scenes of blood and carnage and violence, of the very memory of which monarchical Europe still stands in awe, and which the founders of our own republic were among the first to condemn. But the work of 1789 is little subject to censure, and although ambassadors of the various courts refrained from attending the celebration at Versailles, Americans at least could join heartily in the commemoration. The French revolution was closely and logically connected with our own, and American interest in the French centennial will be quickened by the traditions of the French-American alliance, and pride in the success of republican institutions.—Interior.
The Home Circle.
By Christian World
THE TWO ANGELS.
GOD has two angels whom he sends
Amongst his children here;
They come, as all his angels come,
To strengthen and to cheer.
But they seem often stern and cold,
We think them cruel foes,
And turn away and strive to hide,
Or shrink beneath their blows.
That dark, grim form and piercing glance—
I tremble and I cry,
“Withhold thy hand so pitiless,
Oh, strike not, lest I die.”
And thou, so grave and full of care,
No brightness gilds thy brow,
Wilt thou not bid me rest awhile?
Let joy possess me now.
They will not heed, but calmly take
My trembling hands, and press
Upon my lips a kiss so soft,
It has no bitterness.
Tearful and faint, I, yielding, trust,
And, trusting, learn to see
Those dreaded forms hide God himself,
Grace veiled in mystery.
Would'st know what are these spirits' names
Whose ministry we prove?
Patience and Pain we call them now,
God calls them PEACE and LOVE.
—Christian World.
A BOY'S RELIGION.
If a boy is a lover of the Lord Jesus Christ, though he can't lead a prayer-meeting or be a church officer or a preacher, he can be a godly boy, in a boy's way and a boy's place. He ought not to be too solemn or too quiet for a boy. He need not cease to be a boy because he is a Christian. He ought to run, jump, play, climb, and yell like a real boy. But in it all he ought to be free from vulgarity and profanity. He ought to eschew tobacco in every form, and have a horror of intoxicating drinks. He ought to be peaceable, gentle, merciful, generous. He ought to take the part of small boys against larger ones. He ought to discourage fighting. He ought to refuse to be a party to mischief, to persecution, to deceit. And, above all things, he ought now and then to show his colors. He need not always be interrupting a game to say that he is a Christian, but he ought not to be ashamed to say that he refuses to do something because it is wrong and wicked, or because he fears God, or is a Christian. He ought to take no part in the ridicule of sacred things, but meet the ridicule of others with a bold statement that for the things of God he feels the deepest reverence.—Selected.
Health and Temperance.
A MEDICAL JOURNAL ON TOBACCO.
A YOUNG Chicago woman is reported as having been made insane by smoking cigarettes. The New York Medical Journal, after describing the evil effect of nicotine on the system, gives these facts:—
“In an experimental observation of thirty-eight boys of all classes of society and of average health, who have been using tobacco for periods ranging from two months to two years, twenty-seven showed severe injury to the constitution and insufficient growth; thirty-two showed the existence of irregularity of the heart's action, disordered stomachs, cough, and a craving for alcohol; thirteen had intermittency of the pulse, and one had consumption. After they had abandoned the use of tobacco, within six months one-half were free from all their former symptoms, and the remainder had recovered by the end of the year.
“A great majority of men go far beyond what may be called the temperate use of tobacco, and evidences of injury are easily found. It is only necessary to have some record of what the general health was previous to the taking up of the habit, and to have observation cover a long enough time. The history of tobacco in the island of New Zealand furnishes a quite suggestive illustration for our purpose, and one on a large scale. When Europeans first visited New Zealand they found in the native Maoris the most finely developed and powerful men of any of the tribes inhabiting the islands of the Pacific. Since the introduction of tobacco, for which the Maoris developed a passionate liking, they have, from this cause alone, it is said, become decimated in numbers, and at the same time reduced in stature and in physical well-being so as to be an altogether inferior type of men.”
That men who themselves smoke should allow their growing boys to indulge in the habit is a marvel. That men who have sons and daughters should be willing themselves to smoke is a glaring proof of the weakness and selfishness of human nature, and goes far to prove the doctrine of total depravity.—Independent.
EFFECTS OF CLOSE SHAVING.
"Do you know what a close shave means ?" says a writer in an exchange. "I never did until I looked at a face the other day, through a microscope, which had been treated to this luxurious process. Why, the entire skin resembled a piece of raw beef. To make the face perfectly smooth requires not only the removal of the hair, but also a portion of the cuticle; and a close shave means the removal of a layer of skin all around. The blood-vessels thus exposed are not visible to the eye, but under the microscope each little quivering mouth holding a minute blood drop protests against such treatment. The nerve tips are also uncovered and the pores are left unprotected, which makes the skin tender and unhealthy. This sudden exposure of the inner layer of the skin renders a person liable to have colds, hoarseness, and sore throat."—Selected.
NO DRINKING MAN IS SAFE.
By John Ellis, M. D.
No man living can enter upon the use of intoxicating drinks with the slightest reasonable assurance that he will not become a drunkard, and the one who feels the most assurance is most likely to fall. The writer well remembers, more than half a century ago, standing upon his native New England hills, working upon the highway, conversing with a young neighbor in regard to the danger of using intoxicating drinks, the strong assurance with which the young man exclaimed, "The man is a fool who cannot control his appetite! If you ever hear of my getting drunk, tell me and I will quit drinking." Alas! alas! not many years passed before that young man became a drunkard; the kindly warning voices of friends and neighbors were unheeded; he spent the fine farm left him by his father; his wife was said to have died broken-hearted, and his children were scattered among friends and strangers.—John Ellis, M. D.
Looking Unto Jesus
By Charles Haddon Spurgeon
We shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul. If we would at once overcome Satan and have peace with God, it must be by "looking unto Jesus." Keep thine eye simply on him; let his death, his sufferings, his merits, his glories, his intercessions, be fresh upon thy mind; when thou wakest in the morning, look to him; when thou liest down at night, look to him. Oh, let not thy hopes or fears come between thee and Jesus; follow hard after him, and he will never fail thee!—Spurgeon.
Cheerfulness
CHEERFULNESS is an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the fair weather of the heart.—Smiles.
Prohibition Does Not Prohibit
The Iowa Messenger says:—
"The prohibitory law of Kansas does not prohibit. Of course it does not. Nobody expects it to. But, somehow or other, the liquor sellers despise it. Two of the don't-prohibit kind were fined $300 each and sent to jail for ninety days, recently, at Leavenworth. They told the judge they would quit the business entirely if he would let up. The judge mildly informed them that they would pay the fine and go to jail for ninety days, and then they might quit or go to jail another ninety. At present they are in jail meditating on 'Prohibition doesn't prohibit.'"
If prohibition is a humbug, how does it happen that the Bay State liquor tax is $1.05 to each person, and Maine's tax is only four cents to each person?—The Issue.
Emotional Excitement in Children
Dr. Taylor says: "In my large practice among children I am certain that scores are literally killed by the excessive amount of emotional excitement which they are forced to endure. All this hugging and kissing and talking to them is to excite responses of the same emotional nature in the child for the pleasure and gratification of the parents and friends." And again he says: "I believe that three-fifths of the spinal diseases which occur in children are directly traceable to mental overaction. And this because a large proportion of these cases get well without other treatment than a withdrawal from the exciting cause of emotional disturbance."
Liquor Manufacture and Wages
The sum of $3,500, if invested in the manufacture of liquor, employs one man, and pays $447 in wages. The same amount, if invested in the manufacture of boots and shoes, would employ eight men, and pay $3,387 in wages. In no other branch of manufacture can capital be invested so as to employ so small a number of men, and put into circulation so little money for wage hire.—California Prohibitionist.
Adulterated Maple Syrup
"MAPLE syrup" is manufactured in Indianapolis, according to Prof. J. P. Stelle, of "a good quality of glucose molasses flavored up a little with hickory bark." The glucose is made by treating starch with sulphuric acid.
SECULAR.
—Yellow fever has made its appearance at Vera Cruz, Mexico.
—Forty Chinamen from a school in Baltimore called on the President June 10.
—The king of Servia will be crowned at the convent of Sitchia on the 26th inst.
—Fierce fires have been reported as raging among the forests and logging camps in Eastern Minnesota recently.
—Fire destroyed over forty buildings in Grinnell, Iowa, June 12. The loss is estimated at $200,000.
—Lord A. P. Cecil, the English evangelist, was drowned the 12th inst., in the Bay of Quinte, Ontario.
—The town of Sebataz, in Austrian Galicia, was almost entirely destroyed by fire the 10th inst. Many lives were lost.
—The present class of West Point cadets, numbering forty-eight, have graduated, having passed the examination creditably.
—The 9th inst. was oppressively hot in New York City. A number of cases of sunstroke and one death are reported as the result.
—Much damage was done to shipping and traffic at London, June 10, by a severe gale which prevailed at the mouth of the Thames.
—Alexander Sullivan, who was recently arrested in Chicago for complicity in the Cronin murder, was released on $20,000 bail the 14th inst.
—Two drunken boatmen while attempting to cross the Niagara River, June 9, lost control of their boat, and were carried over the Horseshoe Falls.
—State Senator S. E. Field was shot and killed at Dalton, Ga., the 11th inst., by his step-son, Dennis Taylor, whom he was attempting to chastise.
—At a Democratic National Committee meeting in New York, June 12, Calvin S. Brice was chosen as successor to Chairman W. H. Barnum, recently deceased.
—At last accounts, anti-ministerial riots were still occurring in Belgium. Many of the rioters are reported as having been wounded in conflicts with the police.
—The Russian authorities have sentenced forty-one students of the Cracow University to three days' imprisonment and a fine of 500 florins for singing Polish airs.
—A destructive cyclone swept through Arkansas City, Ark., the night of the 8th inst. Churches, stores, and residences were badly wrecked, and several lives were lost.
—Engineers are at work surveying another overland line to the Pacific Coast. Pierre, Dak., will be its eastern terminus. The road is believed to be backed by the Illinois Central.
—A severe wind and thunder-storm visited Brooklyn and New York the 11th inst. Considerable damage was done by lightning, several buildings being wrecked and some lives lost.
—The United States Grand Jury at Memphis, Tenn., has returned indictments against nearly two hundred judges and clerks of the last election in the tenth congressional district for violation of the election laws.
—Secretary Tracy has ordered the Kearsarge to proceed at once to Hayti. There are hints of renewed fighting between the factions of the island, and it is thought that a dangerous state of affairs still exists there.
—The British schooner City of Nassau ran into a large quantity of logs and cut lumber, drifting about on the open sea about seventy-five miles south of Cape Hatteras recently. The vessel's progress was impeded for several miles by the floating timber.
—At South Berwick, Maine, the Berwick Academy, erected in 1792, was struck by lightning the 12th inst. Fifty-three persons were affected, some of them remaining unconscious for hours. Only one person among their entire number was able to go out for medical aid.
—The impression is increasing in Germany that owing to the hostile attitude of the Czar there are diminished hopes of maintaining peace between Germany, Austria, and Russia. The continued strengthening of Russian armaments on the Western frontier gives the same idea also.
—The Shah of Persia is visiting in England. It is said that the Czar of Russia told him that if any concessions unfavorable to Russia should be made while in England, 100,000 Russian soldiers now on the frontier would be commanded to march into the Shah's dominions in Persia at once.
—Recent advices from China report that three-fourths of the city of Lu-Chow has been destroyed by fire. The conflagration raged for two days, and the loss of life is reported as something frightful. It is estimated that not less than ten thousand persons were burned and trampled to death.
—A letter from Eururi, on the southeastern shore of Victoria Nyanza, was recently received at Zanzibar, and reports the arrival there of Stanley with a number of invalid members of his force, December 2. The explorer had lost large numbers of men from disease and famine. Further news is expected soon.
—On the Bound Brook Railroad in Pennsylvania, recently, eight miles were covered at the rate of thirty-nine seconds per mile. This record is probably the fastest ever made in this part of the country, and is equivalent to over ninety miles an hour.
—It is now proposed to connect the Straits of Magellan with Valparaiso, South America, by submarine cable. When this is accomplished cable communication will be possible all the way from Canada to Cape Horn, a distance of nearly 10,000 miles.
—An excursion train from Armagh, Ireland, containing a company of 1,200 persons, composed largely of Sunday-school scholars, was wrecked near Dublin the 12th inst. Over seventy dead bodies have been recovered, and many persons are seriously injured. The disaster is unparalleled in the railroad history of Ireland.
—Three of Boulanger's prominent supporters and thirty accomplices were arrested at Angouleme, France, June 9. The action of the authorities in the case caused quite a scene in the Chamber of Deputies the 11th inst. Public opinion seems to be considerably divided in regard to the Boulangist sympathizers.
—Now that American enterprise has taken hold of the Nicaraguan Canal scheme, the stockholders of the Panama Canal are thoroughly aroused, and it is possible that further steps may be immediately taken in regard to the completion of De Lessep's effort. The French have by no means lost faith in the enterprise.
—The German Government has notified the Swiss authorities that it cannot possibly agree to the proposal they make for a settlement of the question arising from the expulsion from Switzerland of Herr Wohlgemuth, the German police inspector, and has informed the latter country that it reserves the right to take action in the matter.
—The Samoan treaty question has reached its final solution, and the agreement has been signed. It is generally conceded that the results are favorable for the United States. The Samoans are to have the right of self-government, under the joint control of Germany and America, England acting as arbitrator in the event of any differences which may arise.
—Francis Normand, a miser 74 years old, was horribly tortured for his money at the little hamlet of St. Jacques, Canada, a short time ago. His ears were cut off and his body subjected to burning and other atrocious indignities by the robbers, until they were frightened off by outside noise without having obtained the coveted treasure. Normand died of his injuries the 2d inst.
—Hundreds of people were crushed by the falling of the great roof of the market in the City of Mexico the 15th inst. The building was crowded at the time with busy dealers and their customers. Forty-five of the wounded have been taken out and eight dead bodies removed. Numbers of the victims remained in the wreckage at last accounts so that the total loss of life cannot be determined at present.
—Later reports from Seattle, W. T., show that over 100 acres were ravaged by the flames. Thousands of men, however, are busy at work clearing away the debris and laying foundations for substantial structures which are to take the place of the buildings destroyed. About $75,000 has been subscribed for the relief of the sufferers. It is now thought that there was little if any loss of life during the fire.
—Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, sustained serious damage on the 12th inst., by the caving in of the mines underneath the surface upon which the city is located. One of the principal thoroughfares is filled with crevices from which gas is constantly escaping, and owners of houses are greatly alarmed. The loss to the mine owners will be over $100,000, and that of the property owners on the surface will be double that amount.
Obituary.
Butler.—Died at Brentwood, Contra Costa County, Cal., May 10, 1889, Mrs. Samantha Jane Butler, aged 70 years and 7 months. Deceased became interested in the Seventh-day Adventist faith by reading the Signs of the Times, and afterward, on application, was furnished with some tracts. Although a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and never having had an opportunity to attend a Seventh-day Adventist Church, she had been a strict observer of the Sabbath of the Lord for about one year at the time of her death, and died firm in the present truth.
News and Notes.
RELIGIOUS.
—Reports show that last year 47 Protestant Jewish missionary societies spent in their work nearly $500,000.
—The Jewish population of the world is about 6,000,400, and there is laboring in their behalf one missionary for every 16,976.
—It is said that the Protestant churches of the United States contribute $11,250,000 annually for foreign missionary enterprises.
—The first missions in Japan were begun just thirty years ago. Of the twenty-six Protestant missionary societies which are laboring in that field, twenty are American, including two Canadian societies. It is therefore in an especial sense an American mission field.
—Notwithstanding all the missionary work which has been done in Burmah, there is in that country one district inhabited by 600,000 people which has only a single place of Christian worship. The force of workers consists of two missionaries with their wives and two native helpers.
—The Mormon Church in Utah now numbers 12 apostles, 70 patriarchs, 3,719 high priests, 11,805 elders, 2,069 priests, 2,292 teachers, 11,610 deacons, 81,899 families, 115,915 officers and members, and 49,302 children under eight years of age; a total Mormon population of 153,911.
—The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church South has again passed upon the theory of evolution, and is emphatic in declaring its belief that Adam was made from the dust of the earth, as taught in Genesis, and that God breathed in the man the breath of life, that he became a living soul, and was not developed from the anthropoid ape or any other creature.
—The Scribner's for June contains an article by Prof. Henry Drummond in which he says: "Do not let it be supposed that this horror is over, that this day of tribulation is at an end. This horror and this day are now. It is not even abating. Slavery is on the increase. Time, civilization, Christianity, are not really touching it. No fact in relation to the slave trade is more appalling than this."
—An Ohio church presented a memorial to the Presbyterian General Assembly at its recent session, complaining that it cannot conscientiously contribute money to any organization the funds of which are employed in supporting congregations which use organs in aid of sacred songs. The Congregationalist remarks, "What a conscience these people have, and what a pity that it could not be put to more intelligent use."
—The three leading societies engaged in missionary work in China are the English Presbyterian Mission, the American Presbyterian Church Mission, and the China Inland Mission. The work of the English Presbyterians began forty years ago, and was entirely barren of tangible results during the first six years. There are now three presbyteries in China, embracing an aggregate membership of 3,528 adult communicants.
—A number of Catholic congresses were held at various points in Europe at the close of April and the beginning of May, and a notable unanimity of feeling was evident at Oporto, Madrid, Vienna, and Malines. Indeed, so definite and concerted was the action of these bodies that previous agreement must be suspected. All the congresses seem to have represented ultramontane sentiment of the most decided kind, and their action must be accepted, therefore, with some reserve. It certainly expresses the conviction of the ultramontane section, but it may not express the conviction of European Catholics as a whole. The point on which all these congresses agreed was the restoration of complete sovereignty to the Pope, which was declared to be necessary for the integrity and efficiency of his work as the spiritual head of the church.—Christian Union.
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Switzerland—Imprimerie Polyglotte, 48 Weiherweg, Basel.
Tennessee—J. H. Dortch, Springville, Henry Co., Tenn.
Texas Tract Society—T. T. Stevenson, Sec., Denton, Texas.
Upper Columbia—U. C. Tract Society, Mrs. L. A. Fero, Sec., Box 523, Walla Walla, Wash.
Vancouver Island—Bernard Robb, 14 Third St., Victoria, B. C.
Vermont—Lizzie A. Stone, Lock box 146, Essex Junction, Vt.
Virginia—Amy A. Neff, Quicksburg, Shenandoah Co., Va.
West Virginia.—Mrs. Nelia M. Stone, Clarksburg, W. Va.
Wisconsin Tract Society—S. D. Hartwell, 1029 Jenifer St., Madison, Wis.
TESTIMONY FOR THE CHURCH
Number 33.
Full of timely warnings in regard to the dangers of our times, and replete with encouragement for every Christian.
The following Table of Contents shows the scope of the work:
Unity and Love in the Church.
Behavior in the House of God.
Religion and Scientific Education.
The Education of our Children.
Dangers of the Young.
Suitable Reading for Children.
Advice to the Young.
Worldly Mindedness.
Practical Godliness.
Worldly Influences.
Needs of Our Institutions.
Our Institutions at Battle Creek.
Christian Influence in the Home and the Church.
An Impressive Dream.
Daily Study of the Bible Necessary.
Education of Workers.
Unholy Ambition.
"The Appearance of Evil."
Love for the Erring.
Church Duties.
A Letter.
God's Love for Sinners.
Acceptable Confession.
Erroneous Ideas of Confession.
God's Presence a Reality.
The Nature and Influence of the Testimonies.
Unfounded Reports.
A Miracle Counterfeited.
The Mysteries of the Bible a Proof of Its Inspiration.
The Impending Conflict.
The American Sentinel and Its Mission.
Workers in the Cause.
The Inestimable Gift.
The Character of God Revealed in Christ.
The Word Made Flesh.
God's Care for His Work.
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Civil Government and Religion
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This important work shows clearly the relation that should exist between Church and State at the present time, as proven by the Bible history of the past twenty-five centuries.
Chap. I distinguishes between "What Is Due to God and What to Cæsar;" Chap. II shows for what purpose "The Powers That Be" are ordained; Chap. III outlines vividly the relation that existed between "Christianity and the Roman Empire;" Chap. IV ably discusses "The Religious Attack upon the United States Constitution, and Those Who Are Making It;" Chap. V unmasks "Religious Legislation," calling special attention to the Blair Sunday Bill, now pending in Congress; Chap. VI is devoted to "The Sunday-law Movement in the Fourth Century, and its parallel in the Nineteenth."
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