A GREAT stir is being made in religious circles by the trial of Prof. Henry P. Smith, a clergyman of Cincinnati, belonging to the Presbyterian Church, for alleged heresy. He is charged with publishing that holy men were not so fully inspired but that mistakes can be found in the word of God. While Professor Smith's position may be deserving of censure, still his sentiments, although the charge against him may be substantiated, are in perfect keeping with the policy of the teaching not only of the Presbyterian, but all other so-called orthodox churches of the land.
Doctrines are sacredly held in their creeds that have no foundation whatever in plenary inspiration, and to an outside observer it appears a little inconsistent to reign up one minister for heresy, when all the rest quibble and crook around plain statements of Scripture. To illustrate: God says: "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." Every minister, nearly, in the land will tell you that this seventh means first day, by a certain line of curious reasoning. Didn't the Lord say the seventh day?—Yes, he did. Do you not suppose God knew what he said? Think you he could not as easily have said the first day "is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God" if he wished to make it so, as to say the seventh day? If we are to square our belief by plenary inspiration, let us do it, and be consistent and sincere.
Rev. Johnston Myres, a Baptist clergyman of the same city of the prosecution, in preaching about the trial, is reported as saying:—
A great many so-called liberal men have asked why so much should be made about so trifling a matter. But it is not a trifling matter. The inspiration of this word of God is at the very foundation of the religion of Christ. If this word is inspired only in part, if even some parts of it are false, then we have no authority. If one man can teach that some parts which he cannot harmonize or understand are false, then another man has the same right, and what is the word of God becomes merely a matter of human opinion. If the Presbytery were to put before the world the assertion that this Bible is in part fallible, that it contains errors in the thought which it intends to convey, then the power of every Presbyterian pulpit in this city is weakened. Doubt and uncertainty would spread in every congregation as it never has before. I believe that we can trust them, and that lovingly and kindly they will remove from the ranks of their instructors one whose views have unfitted him for a religious teacher.
If this loving wish of Rev. Myres should be executed justly, according to the premises here laid down, a vast army of religious teachers would lose their credentials, and, with Professor Smith, be judged as unqualified for the position of religious teachers. This would be inevitable, unless there was a mighty revolution among creeds which contradict the plain truths and thoughts inspiration "intends to convey" by the words used. To virtually say one statement is false, by teaching another doctrine that contradicts it, is to make the word "a matter of human opinion." Then why not take it as it is? Why not be consistent, and stand in a consistent light before a sinful world? If God has spoken, why not listen to what he says? If we take the Bible as the foundation of religion, why not stand upon it? If God says plainly the seventh day is the Sabbath he claims as his, why quibble around to make it mean the first day? When God says of a man who dies that he is dead, and "in that very day his thoughts perish" (Ps. 146:4), why spend so much valuable time in explaining (or trying to explain) how his soul is immortal, and therefore he cannot die? Who knows best the thoughts inspiration intended to convey, man or God?
There are many other points in which plenary inspiration does not accord with religious teaching, yet the fact remains that we have a complete inspiration. Let us believe it and rest upon it. Instead of the prevailing custom of trimming Scripture to fit our beliefs, may God grant we shall have wisdom enough to trim our theories by his sure and living word. Remember Jesus has said: "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets [Old Testament]; I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in nowise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." Matt. 5:17, 18.
THE POSSIBILITIES OF LIFE.
By M. A. G. Greenhalgh
BY M. A. G. GREENHALGH.
LIFE is power to know, but the profoundest knowledge of all is the knowledge of eternity and of our eternal destinies; it is to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom he hath sent.
Life is power to develop; therefore he is but half alive whose soul never grows, whose spirit is deprived of the destiny, and the purposes of its being; he is like a seed forgotten in a drawer.
Life is power to love; but the deepest of all fountains from which love can flow is the story of Christ crucified and enthroned—of the sacrifice and the priest.
Life is self-control and activity. Death is the complete absence of all self-control and energy.
Christ comes to souls which are helpless, as to the grave of Lazarus, and calls, and he that was dead comes forth.
Each day of our lives brings new possibilities, new light, new inspirations, new opportunities of doing good, getting good, and being good, and, if we are faithful to these possibilities, life will enrich us beyond all imagination. Each morning is a bright angel coming from the presence of God, bearing to us spiritual, immortal treasure, and we cannot afford to lose the gift of one radiant visitor. Each day is designed to add something to our knowledge and sanctity.
The indifferent, the selfish, and the sensual soon find the charm of living vanish, and they grumble, saying, "I have reached far over to the tree of promise, and have eaten of all, but it tastes like ashes and gall." But the true137children of God give another description of life than this. Our Father in heaven gives them a pure heart, and a new song is put into their lips. Their white robe never becomes threadbare; their garlands are never withering flowers. The riches, the glories, of Christ's life pass into the life of the faithful, and become a new joy in their heart; and this resemblance to Christ will continue through time and eternity. So when we are shrinking from religion as from a burden, Christ, who sees us, knows we are refusing to live. He says, "Ye will not come unto me, that ye might have life."
When one does put himself frankly into the Master's hand, his existence is changed as completely as when a pestilential swamp is covered with bright and clear waters, in which living creatures rejoice, and on which the sun-beams dance. His dry and thirsty soul is flooded with the pure water of life, clear as crystal, which proceeds from the throne of God, and of the Lamb.
There is nothing in religion to rebel against, except on principles which would rend the world asunder, and make life impossible, or as barren as the sands of an African desert. Is it any wonder that the divine life calls upon us to dare to make the grand venture of Peter, who fixed his eye on Christ, sprang from the deck of the vessel upon the abyss of water, into which, nevertheless, he did not sink?
TO WHOM DOES THE CHILD BELONG?
By Mary Wood Allen, M.D.
I. TO HIMSELF.
THE parents look upon the newborn child and say, "This is my child. He belongs to me." They anticipate the pleasure they will take in his development; they look forward to the time when he will be a support to their old age; they admire themselves in his features; they prophesy their own talents reproduced in him; they love themselves in him; they amuse themselves with him. He is tickled and played with, that they may smile; he is stimulated to walk, or to manifest awakening intellect, that they may feel pride; his sleep is disturbed, that they may receive flattery of friends; he is dressed to please their fancy, regardless of his health or comfort. In truth, they act as if they thought that his existence was chiefly, if not solely, for them. He belongs to them.
If this feeling is not founded on a right understanding of things, it might be well to ask seriously, "If this child does not so entirely belong to his parents, to whom does he belong?" Upon the answer to this question depends his right education. If he belongs to the parents, then their feelings, fancies, pleasures, might decide his training. If he primarily belongs to someone else, the interests of that other one should be consulted, and that other one is the child himself. In the first place, the child belongs to himself, then he belongs to God, then to humanity, of whom his parents form a part.
Someone may ask in horrified amazement, "Does not the child belong to God first of all?" In a certain sense he does, and yet God himself recognizes the inherent individuality of each one, his right to himself, when he says, "My son, give me thine heart." God has claims to love and obedience, as have the parents, but it depends upon the individual whether he shall recognize those claims. He has the power to choose, and, by recognizing this power, God himself grants to each his right to himself. The value of belonging to God consists in its being a voluntary surrender of self. If, then, we admit that the child's first right is himself, we see clearly that all training must have for its object the interest of the child, therefore must vary with his temperament and constitution. And this consideration of the child's good must be the underlying motive in every act of the parent, in which the child is concerned.
His first needs are physical, therefore he must be fed, bathed, dressed, exercised, or quieted with regard to ultimate results, and not in accordance with his unreasoning whims, nor the injudicious love of the parent. The child's physical development demands activity; the pride of the mother would clothe him in laces and embroideries, to protect which he must be deprived of active sports. No textile fabric is of equal value to the wonderful physical garment which the vital forces, in that active little body, are weaving as a visible clothing for the invisible spirit. If "silk attire" in any sense interferes with truest development, it must be discarded. The physical individuality must control. All children cannot be dressed or fed alike. The delicate, feeble child must receive a care and attention not needed by the vigorous one, in fact, which might be detrimental to him. And the danger perhaps is that the weakling will be coddled until he is made still more feeble. Great wisdom is needed to know just how to do best for the bodily welfare of our children, and the majority of men and women marry and enter upon the duty of educating these wonderful little beings without one particle of especial training for the work; and, acting upon the supposition that the child belongs to them, their methods are not always calculated to produce the most desirable results.
Fathers too often imagine that the child training is to be done by the mother; that when the father comes home everything about the household must conduce to his comfort. If the child is a little noisy in his play, the father harshly checks him, never for one moment considering that the child has any right in the matter. This sounds on the surface as if the child should be allowed to rule the household, but that is not the thought intended to be conveyed. The father is weary, and desires quiet, and that is right. The only question is, How shall he obtain his needs and at the same time consult the best interest of the child? The sharp, quick reprimand, the box on the ear, the shoulder shaking, may secure quiet, but does it by tyranny, a triumph of brute force. The only feeling aroused in the mind of the child is one of rebellion and of disinclination to regard the rights of others. Obedience is not the primary object of discipline. If it were, it would matter little in what way obedience were secured. The great underlying principle of all true training is development of character.
If obedience were the primary object, then when the child is scolded, boxed, or shaken to silence, the desired result is obtained. If development is the object, the securing of silence by those means is a failure.
What shall be the process by which the needs of the father and the good of the child shall be accomplished? That depends upon the individuality of the child; but training in a care for the rights of others should be begun in infancy, and by the time the child is old enough to be whipped into obedience, he will have learned the lesson of thoughtfulness, so that, voluntarily, he will keep quiet in order that the parent may rest. A little boy of two years, who had observed that the rest of any member of the family was con138sidered sacred by the other members, never saw anyone lie down for a nap that he did not go to cover a shawl over the sleeper, and with his finger on his lip intimate to everyone who came in the room that silence must be maintained. There was in his mind no feeling of irritation that his activity was lessened, because he obeyed the rule of quietness through his own volition, and that constitutes the value of obedience. God himself recognizes this, and gives his children the opportunity to choose obedience or disobedience, and the results of each.
If the child, clearly knowing that punishment will follow disobedience, chooses to disobey, he will not accept the penalty as just, but will rebel at the injustice which leaves him no power of choice, but compels obedience through superior strength. The thoughtful parent looking upon the "bundle of capabilities" which he calls his child, and recognizing that the child primarily belongs to himself, will have an incentive to work out the problem of that child's training with "fear and trembling," lest he shall fail under the responsibility.
One of the most imperative rights of the child is a strong, unbroken will. In the struggle of life he will need all the will power that he can command. It must not be an ungoverned will, but the governing power must be in the child himself. The duty of the parent is not to break the child's will, but to teach him to wisely use it. His value as an individual may be measured by his will power. Willfulness is not an evidence of strong will, but rather of undisciplined will and weakness of character. The man will need to decide between different courses of conduct. If choice has always been denied him as a child, he will thereby be deprived of experience, and will vacillate in his decisions. He must be trained to obedience, for during his whole life he must be under law; but he should be trained to a voluntary obedience rather than submission through coercion. Herbert Spencer says, "Whoso is to rule his passions in maturity, must be practiced in ruling them in youth. He must be induced to fix the boundaries of his own actions and voluntarily confine himself within them." A contest of will between parent and child is to be avoided as a "conflict of brute force."
The wise parent will avoid a contest, even in those cases where he does not intend to give the child an opportunity of choice. A gentleman writing at his desk told his little son to shut the outer door. The boy could not open the door when it was latched, therefore he only closed it, leaving it unfastened. The wind blew it open, and again he was told to shut it, and again left it unlatched, so that he could run in and out. After the third time of this half obedience, the father rose, gave the boy his cap, opened the door, and said: "Ward, you like the cool air; I don't. You can go out; I will shut the door and stay in; then we will both be suited." The boy recognized that this act of his father was a direct result of his own conduct, and could feel no injustice. But supposing the child had said he did not want to go outdoors? Then the father could have said, "You will have to choose between going out or staying in with the door shut." As it was, there was no contest of wills, and yet the father invaded no right of the child, nor did he suffer his own rights to be invaded, nor did he allow the child to have supremacy.
Children are often supposed to be stubborn, when they are unable to do that which is required of them. Especially is this the case where fear is brought in as an element of coercion. A little boy was trying to learn to count. His father believed in driving in knowledge with the whip. He had learned as far as fifteen, and then stubbornly, as the father thought, refused to learn sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen, and the more he was whipped the more obstinate he became. When asked the reason, he replied, "I don't know, but I can't think when papa whips me." The mother decided that he should be helped without knowing how it was done. So in the evening, while undressing the baby, she began to sing a little rhyme in which these three numbers had a large place. The boy became interested, and in ten minutes had learned the numbers, and also had learned their connection with the numbers that preceded them. The father had been trying to break the boy's will, and in reality the boy had been willing, as hard as fear would let him, to do what the father desired.
H. Clay Trumbull, in his excellent book on child training, in the chapter on training the will, points out that God's way is to permit his children to choose, that is, to have freedom of the will, and take the consequences of their choice, and suggests that a wise parent will study this divine plan and endeavor to apply it in the guidance of his own household.—The Advance.
WHY ASK FOR JESUS?
By M. E. Steward
BY M. E. STEWARD.
"God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." God gave us Jesus long ago. Why, then, do we not thank him instead of praying the Lord to give him now?
How much of Christ did God give us? Answer—How much did the Saviour leave in heaven? He left only the transcendent, infinite brightness of his glory which he had with the Father before the world was. John 17:5. When he came to earth he brought his divinity with him "veiled with humanity," that he might make us "partakers of the divine nature." He came in his "righteousness, mighty to save," that he might be "the Lord our righteousness." Jer. 23:6. All that Jesus was on earth God gave to us, and we have only to reach out our hand, and take him. This we must do or we cannot have him.
Is there any condition? Christ gave but one, "that whosoever believeth in him should not perish." This belief is not a mere assent of the mind, but it is believing unto righteousness. Rom. 10:10.
WHERE THE BIRDS GO.
By far the most disastrous of the many destructive agencies that have ever played havoc with our feathered hosts, are the emissaries of the milliner's craft, who, to supply the demands created by the behests of fashion, spare nothing wearing feathers that comes within their reach. The dull-colored flycatchers, the wrens, and even the plainest of the sparrows, as well as the more showy warblers, and the gaily-attired orioles, grosbeaks, and tanagers, are almost equally in quest, while the smaller owls and hawks, various water birds, and especially the plume-bearing egrets and herons, and the snowy, graceful terns, afford a harvest too rich to be neglected.—Our Animal Friends.
The Home Circle.
"Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."—Phil. 4:8.
"LESS THAN COST."
By Mrs. M. A. Kidder
BY MRS. M. A. KIDDER.
We often see as on we jog,
Through street or road, down court or lane,
This trite announcement, "Less than cost,"
Upon some door or window pane.
And then we muse on many things
That men have gained, and men have lost,
And wonder at the foolish souls
Who sell themselves for "less than cost."
The young man, stout of heart and limb,
His bright eye fixed upon the goal,
Starts out in quest of fortune's gifts,
Strong purpose in his honest soul.
Ah! brave is he, and grand, and high,
If on life's ocean, tempest tossed,
He keeps the beacon star in sight,
Nor sells himself for "less than cost."
And you, fair, youthful, budding lass,
Now scattering smiles on all around—
As violets shed their sweet perfume,
And rose leaves drop upon the ground—
Be careful, darling; too much sun
Is sometimes worse than too much frost;
Better to stand back in the shade
Than sell your name for "less than cost."
"What may a human being cost?"
You ask us, maybe, with a frown;
A mother's pains, a mother's tears,
Alone might weigh the balance down.
But much more precious far than these
The spark divine God called a soul;
Then let us keep the jewel bright
As months and years shall onward roll.
TEA AND COFFEE AND INTEMPERANCE.
By John Harvey Kellogg
THE use of tea and coffee is one of the chief causes of intemperance.
It has been urged in favor of the use of these beverages that they prevent intemperance by furnishing a means of mild stimulation. It is indeed amazing what loose logic, what fallacious reasoning, men will employ on subjects in which the gratification of their perverted appetites and tastes is involved. What would be thought of a ruler who should abolish all laws relative to petty larceny so that thieves and robbers would have an opportunity to gratify their propensity for crime without resorting to burglary and highway robbery? Does not everyone know that it is by degrees that the bank robber is made,139and that little abstractions, petty thefts, are the stepping-stones to the criminal eminence of the highwayman?
Just so it is in the present case. Tea and coffee, with mild stimulation, are at one end of the drunkard's course, while rum, gin, and brandy, with delirium tremens, are at the other end. The great crime of drunkenness is not in the act of drinking the fiery draught; it is in the gratification of the desire for artificial stimulation. The sin is the same in kind, whatever may be the agent employed, although it may differ in degree as the individual indulges in tea, coffee, tobacco, alcohol, hasheesh, or opium.
At first, the mild stimulation of coffee or tea is satisfactory. After a little time this is found insufficient, even when made as strong as practicable, to excite to the desired degree the exhausted nerves. Something stronger is called for, and tobacco and alcohol gradually obtain a foothold where once they would have been spurned with disgust.—Dr. J. H. Kellogg.
THE SLEEP OF CHILDREN.
Young children need much sleep, and from the very first should be put to bed alone and in a dark room, and allowed to sleep until nature awakens them. A glare of light should never be permitted upon their faces as they sleep, for it seriously affects the optic nerve and produces various diseases of the sight. They should never be suddenly aroused, nor taken up before they are fairly awake, and should be covered lightly, and always undressed when taking a nap in the daytime.
A child who is accustomed to being rocked may be easily broken of the habit. It may cost the mother a little effort, but in a week she will be able to conquer by the gentlest means. The baby will cry, of course, for he has learned that he can get almost anything by crying for it, but when he finds that no attention is paid to his plaint, he will cease after a while to make it, and resign himself to the inevitable.—Jenness Miller Monthly.
NOT FROM MY BOTTLE.
By Hattie Horner
BY HATTIE HORNER.
"Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken." Hab. 2:15.
"WE must be polite," and "sometimes we must treat"—
Not from my bottle, oh, no!
And some men "will have it" whenever they meet—
Not from my bottle, oh, no!
The saloon may go on and my vote may be lost,
My influence, too, may not count with the host,
And liquor be bought at whatever the cost—
But not from my bottle—no, no!
"But all men are free, sir, to drink if they choose"—
Not from my bottle, oh, no!
"'Twill be sold on the sly and the license we'll lose"—
But not from my bottle, oh, no!
The ladies may sip and the boys learn to drink,
And men stagger down into hell's awful brink,
And rum may flow on till all Christendom sink—
Not from my bottle, no, no!
"It will always be drunk though a few may oppose"—
Not from my bottle, oh, no!
"There is more sold than ever as each season goes"—
Not from my bottle, oh, no!
"'Tis useless," they say; "you're a fraction so slight."
Perhaps. But the fraction at least will be right,
And God will reward him who all through the fight,
Cried, "Not from my bottle, oh, no!"
—The Voice.
EXCESSES.
By Mrs. A. R. Aldrich
Intemperate eating and drinking are not the only intemperate habits that seem to be part of our social fabric. There is an incalculable waste of feeling, of emotion, and will; and the power lost in these various channels of life tells the whole story, if we would trace it back, of the undirected or misdirected energy at the outset. A child whose habits of eating, of sleeping, of dressing, and of talking are controlled by the real needs of life, and regulated with taste and discretion, will never need the good offices of a temperance society nor legislation to save him from ruin. His salvation was a foregone conclusion, because all the possibilities of his life were led in orderly activity to the threshold of his conscious personality.
What we most need is to be saved from ourselves, or, better to express the same thing, to be lifted into our best selves by adjusting the emotions, appetites, and tendencies when they are plastic and can be moulded.—Mrs. A. R. Aldrich, in Harper's Bazar.
The Strength of Resisted Temptation
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
EVERY evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor. As the Sandwich islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills, passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.—Emerson.
REGENERATION OF THE PARROT.
ONE day a man who had considerable experience of parrots happened to come in, says W. L. Alden in the Idler, and when I complained of the bird's loquacity, he said: "Why don't you get an owl? You get an owl and hang it up close to that parrot's cage, and in about two days you'll find that your bird's dead sick of unprofitable conversation."
Well, I got a small owl and put him into a cage close to that parrot's cage. The parrot began by trying to dazzle the owl with his conversation, but it wouldn't work. The owl sat and looked at the parrot just as solemn as a minister whose salary has been cut down, and after a while the parrot tried him with Spanish. It wasn't of any use. Not a word would the owl let on to understand. Then the parrot tried bragging, and laid himself out to make the owl believe that of all the parrots he was the ablest. But he couldn't turn a feather of the owl. The noble bird sat silent as the grave, and looked at the parrot as if to say, "This is indeed a melancholy exhibition of imbecility."
Well, before night that parrot was so ashamed of himself that he closed for repairs, and from that day forth he never spoke an unnecessary word. Such, gentlemen, is the force of example in the worst of birds.—Sel.
GREEK CHURCH CUSTOMS IN ALASKA.
A LADY writes from Western Alaska concerning the Easter observances by the Greek Church as follows:—
“I attended the Russian Easter service, which lasted from twelve o'clock at night until five in the morning, and, although it filled my heart with pity for them, it was quite interesting. They have a box set in the center of the church, which is supposed to be Christ's coffin. As they go in they go up to it and kneel and touch their foreheads to the floor, and then they stand and cross themselves for a while and kiss the box, which I think has a picture of Christ on it, when they again kneel and go through the same performance three times, and then they go back and stand with the rest of the congregation. They have no seats in the church, but always stand through the long services.
“In a few moments the priest came out, in his finest robe, and, after singing a few moments, they took the crosses and candlesticks and quite a number of the pictures of the saints, and left the church to go and bless the former priest's grave, and to march around the church and bless it; they then returned, and, after singing and reading about an hour and a half, the priest and deacons came forward, the deacons carrying the pictures of Christ and the Virgin Mary, which they held for each one to kiss. The people then went forward, and, after kissing Christ's picture, they kissed the priest, and passed on to the deacons, whom they kissed three times each. Returning to their places they again commenced to sing and read. They kept the old church bells ringing for three days, and, dressed in their best, went calling from house to house as long as they could walk straight enough to get to the right house.
“The second deacon received a black eye140from the priest's son, and now he wears a handkerchief tied over it. The chief singer in the choir turned his family out-of-doors while drunk, and, altogether, they had what they call a good time. I think that about one-sixth of the people in — have died since we came here. They often have three or four funerals a week, but it is mostly the old beer-soaked ones that die. The only hope for them is that, by educating the children, they will understand what beer does for them, and with the help of Christ will be able to let it alone. Some of the boys are quite interested in temperance physiology, and each day when reciting their lessons will try to think of someone that has just died, and will add, ‘He drank lots of beer, too.’”—Sel.
GOOD.
By National Temperance Advocate
THERE is a great need of a revival of old-fashioned temperance. The antique in other things has become fashionable; old-fashioned houses are in great demand, and old-fashioned furniture is much sought for. Old-fashioned temperance laid great stress upon individual appeal for total abstinence. One by one the pioneer temperance army was recruited as pledged total abstainers. These pledged recruits were obtained in large numbers in meetings, held in churches, halls, school-houses, and lodge rooms, wherein the reason for total abstinence was given by a careful and thorough analysis of the evil nature and effects of strong drink itself. In this respect the old-fashioned temperance meetings were a most helpful school of education to multitudes by whom they were attended. Let them be revived.
A TOBACCO STORY.
A good story is told of Mr. Joseph Harper, one of the original "Harper Brothers." He was an excellent man, but a great tobacco chewer. Mr. Harper had a neighbor who was a notorious drunkard. A friend was one day laboring with the man, and entreating him to stop drinking. "Why, I could no more quit drinking," he replied, "than old Joe Harper could give up tobacco." When this remark was repeated to Mr. Harper, he exclaimed: "Does that old drunkard say that? I will show him that old Joe Harper can give up tobacco." And from that moment he never touched it again.—Standard.
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Mission Fields.
"Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days."—Eccl. 11:1.
THE YEARS.
By Marianne Farningham
BY MARIANNE FARNINGHAM.
"But the years will not stay."
WITH a buoyancy tempered by grace
And a pace
That is joyous and free,
Nor is heavy with tears,
Go the years,
When the best of the life is to be.
But they go with a rush too intent to be kind,
With the winter before and the summer behind.
The years do not hasten in youth;
Of a truth,
They appear to delay,
And creep gently along
To a song.
But, ah! how they speed on their way
When they all have departed excepting the last,
And the shadows of death cover those that are past!
Are you rich in the years of bright gold
Yet untold?
Do they leisurely go,
Like a dream that is fair,
Or a prayer?
Oh, be wise; use them well! You shall know
How the years, growing shorter, with good can increase,
And a life at the end be transfigured with peace.
Does the thought that so few years remain
Give you pain?
Oh, be glad that your quest
Brings you into the light
From the night,
And the worker at last has his rest!
In the home land above are no sorrows, no fears,
And the life they live there is not measured by years.
—Sel.
Adulterated Tea in England
DURING the single month of July, 1872, 183,000,000 pounds of tea passed through the English custom house, of which 10,000,000 pounds were found so badly adulterated as to be entirely unsafe for use. One specimen was nearly half iron, which was separated by means of a magnet.
The Evils of Liquor Traffic
I REGARD the liquor traffic as one of the worst; in view of the evils that follow in its train, the worst of all crimes. It destroys manhood; it breaks up families; it fills our jails and State prisons with criminals of every grade. It is the foe of progress, of industry, and of Christian civilization. The victim of the drink habit is more than his own enemy; he is a menace to society. Because of this it becomes the duty of the law to take the traffic that endangers his citizenship in hand and deal with it in the most effective manner possible. Certainly this cannot be done by giving it the dignity of the public sanction, and placing it upon the same footing with honorable and legitimate commerce.—Governor Burleigh, of Maine.
Wine Drinking and Strong Liquors
SAYS the New York Voice on wine-drinking countries: "A writer in La Reforme Sociale, August 1, according to Evening Post, furnishes statistics that show that the amount of spirituous liquor consumed in Marseilles, France, has increased from one and a half gallons per capita in 1875 to three and three-tenths gallons in 1891. That is, in the greatest wine-producing district of the world, the amount of strong liquors drunk has more than doubled in sixteen years. And yet Kate Field and her patrons, the California wine makers, insist that all that is needed to put a stop to drunkenness is to make wine drinking more common."
Alcohol as Medicine
"NEVER take the first glass" is the wise caution of temperance speakers, in view of its fascinating effects; but when the first glass may be prescribed by any physician, who is safe? The fact of a prescription will not do away with its fascinations, nor with its other physiological effects; indeed, the sick in their weak condition are peculiarly liable to fall into its power.—Alcohol As a Medicine.
The Legend of a Drunken Man
By John G. Wooley
I CAN see upon the face or the rags of every drunken man a legend like that you often see on packages of whisky: "Take notice, the manufacturer of this article has complied with all the requirements of the law, according to the statute in such cases made and provided."—John G. Wooley.
Women in Kentucky Penitentiary
THERE are only twenty-six women in Kentucky penitentiary to 1,314 men.