p. 686 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 43. (11/12/1885)

Earlier text: Our Good Meeting in Basel.

Unnecessary Work of Women.

By Elizabeth Cummings

I AM convinced that at least one quarter of the work performed by women is unnecessary, and that the world would get on quite as well without it. It is like the ottoman cover I once saw a lady work. She was all bent up, and was putting her eyes out counting stitches. “I don’t get any time for reading,” she said plaintively, as she picked up some beads on a needle. “You must have a great deal of leisure.” And yet she had spent more time embroidering a ridiculous dog on a piece of broadcloth than would have sufficed to read twenty good books. It did not have the poor merit of being economical, for the price of the materials would have bought enough handsome damask for two covers. A friend of mine tells of seeing a squaw seat herself by the town pump, unroll a bundle of calico, cut out a dress, make it, put it on, and walk off, all in about two hours. I have always regretted that he did not continue the story by telling me that the squaw spent her abundant leisure beautifully. I would not have women reduce their sewing to quite so simple a performance; but a good deal would be gained if they thought more about living and less about its accidents.

The transcendent fact is what we are, not what we accumulate or possess. Even knowledge may be so used that it is merely an ornament which keeps up a twinkling about the mind, like bright jewels in pretty ears, and is only a possession, and not a part of ourselves. To fill time, to pass it busily, is not to use it. Labor in itself is not worthy. The meanest work that makes home a lovely, sacred place is consecrated, and fit for the hands of a queen; but delicate work that ministers to no human need, even if it has artistic merit to recommend it, if it consumes the hours a woman ought to use training her mind to think, and her eyes to see, and making her brain something more than a mere filling for her skull, is but busy idleness and a waste of time. I hope the day will come when every woman who can read will be ashamed of the “column for ladies” printed in some of our papers, and which tells with more sarcastic emphasis than any words of mine how some women choose to spend their leisure. Surely, if they have time to follow intricate directions for making all sorts of trimming, not so good as that sold in the shops at two cents a yard, they may, if they will, find a few moments in which to read a book.—Elizabeth Cummings.

Choose Wisdom’s Way

REMEMBER, young people, in life's early day, Now Heaven invites you to choose the right way; Thy heart and thine all to thy Maker be given, Creator of all things in earth and in Heaven. In yielding obedience in youth to the Lord, The way to be happy you'll learn from his word; Days lengthen to age, and a bounteous store Of happiness pure shall be thine evermore; Thy time to gain Heaven grows less by delay, Youth, be sure! O be sure! to choose wisdom's way.

SECULAR

—Copious showers of rain fell last week throughout California.

—San Quentin, one of California’s State Prisons, has 1,200 prisoners.

—A retail liquor license in Fulton County, Ga., now costs $2,500.

—President Cleveland has proclaimed November 26 a day for thanksgiving and prayer.

—A nine-year-old girl took the first prize for oil paintings at the recent fair at Los Angeles, Cal.

—The expenses of the Canadian Government this year will be $35,300,000, and the revenues only $33,000,000.

—From little over thirty tons of ore from the Oro Fino mine, in Owyhee County, Idaho, $27,000 were lately extracted.

—A cyclone struck the village of Brownsville, Sumpter County, Ala., October 6, and almost totally destroyed the town, but killed no one.

—The recommendation of the pope that Spain be allowed control of the Carolinas, is understood to be accepted with some slight modifications.

—Dirty streets, unclean water, neglected sewers, and anti-vaccination ideas are said to be the causes of the visitation of small-pox in Montreal.

—In the past fifteen years the British Government has expended $217,000,000 upon its navy, and since 1867 the German navy has cost $140,000,000.

—October 5, a cyclone passed ten miles south of Dangerfield, Texas, and blew down the house of Hard R. Pitman, killing Pitman, his wife, and four children.

—A strike of considerable magnitude was started last week by the Knights of Labor, among the long-shoremen and employees of the railroads at Galveston, Texas.

—A monster cannon has just been cast at Boston, Mass., weighing about 100 tons. With a charge of 265 pounds of powder, it will throw an 800-pound projectile.

—The cathedral of Moscow, intended to commemorate the defeat of Napoleon I., has just been completed after the labor of fifty years, and at a cost of $10,000,000.

—The Chinese are engaging in the retail grocery business at Augusta, Ga., so numerously that the native dealers have petitioned the city government to “abate the nuisance.”

—The Gilroy Record states that it has positive knowledge that certain parties are shipping diseased beef to the San Francisco market. The matter is to be laid before the grand jury for investigation.

—The Englishman with his Chinese wife and six children, denied admittance at San Francisco, arrived at Victoria, B. C., October 5, and was admitted on the payment of $50 head tax on his wife and each child.

—Atchison, Kan., arrests her saloon-keepers once a month and fines them $25 each, and permits them to go on with their business until the time comes when another fine of $25 is due. This is equal to a license of $300 a year.

—It is claimed that the General Land Office at Washington has received sufficient evidence of land frauds in Utah, dating from Brigham Young’s administration, to cause the annulment of fraudulent titles to about 30,000 acres in Cache Valley.

—At a meeting, November 5, of about fifty of the leading and influential citizens of St. Louis, resolutions were passed favoring the building of a ship-railway across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, according to plans proposed by Capt. James B. Eads.

—Alexander Ramsey, Chairman of the Utah Commission, reports eighty-three arrests for polygamy, twenty-three convictions, and forty-three cases where the trial is pending; he also warns the Government against putting confidence in any rumor of change for the better taking place among Mormons.

—The business of raising ostriches for their feathers has been commenced at Anaheim, Cal. About two years and a half ago twenty-one adult ostriches were brought from South Africa. There are now sixty-one birds, twenty of the old ones (one having been kicked to death by its mate) and forty-one natives.

—Last week Capt. R. Bussius, in the mail service of the North German Lloyd Line, completed his eleven-hundredth trip across the Atlantic Ocean. The captain has conveyed 60,000 passengers across the ocean in safety, and upon his arrival at Southampton, he was presented with an appropriate medal by the German Consul.

—A correspondent of the Christian Union, writing from Monastir, Macedonia, where brigandage flourishes and is carried on systematically and boldly, says: “These things are so common that no one seems to be disturbed, save the victims. I am assured that the number of men in this city is not small who dare not go out of it a distance of two or three miles.”

—A conspiracy was formed some time since to dethrone Prince Alexander, and unite Bulgaria, eastern Roumelia, old Servia, and Macedonia, under one sceptre. The conspiracy was recently discovered and six of the conspirators were arrested. While Servia with but one-eighth of the territory California has, is supporting a standing army of 210,000, and Bulgaria with but a very little larger territory is supporting an army of 52,000, there is not much hopes of peace.

—Watson C. Squire, Governor of Washington Territory, recently addressed a proclamation to the people of that Territory, warning them not to molest the Chinamen, and calling on all good citizens to aid in carrying out the laws. The above proclamation was undoubtedly issued in view of the recent action of the people of Tacoma, where the Chinese were driven from town, and in anticipation of trouble of a similar character at Seattle, W. T. The President has issued a similar proclamation.

News and Notes.

RELIGIOUS.

—King Leopold of Belgium is spending $400,000 a year out of his own private purse in the work of civilizing and evangelizing Africa.

—It is proposed to open a training-school in Chicago to prepare persons for engaging in all kinds of missionary work, home and foreign.

—A Free Will Baptist missionary at Orissa, India, states that there has never been such a demand in Bengal for good reading matter in English as now.

—The Rev. Mr. Tennant died at Evansville, Ark., November 2, aged 115. He was the oldest gospel minister in the United States, and had preached for 90 years.

—When the American Board commenced its mission work among the Dakota Indians, they only numbered 25,000; now there are over 40,000 of them. Last year 117 new members were received into their churches.

—The vital statistics of Massachusetts for 1884, just made public, include some interesting facts about divorce. During the year, 614 divorces were granted; this is 41 less than in 1883, but 144 more than the yearly average for the past twenty years. Sixty-seven per cent. of the number were granted on complaint of the wife. The proportion of divorces to marriages is one divorce to 28.2 marriages.

—It has been the policy of the Mormons to extend their influence into other Territories around Utah; but their efforts in this direction have been checked. In Arizona, where large numbers of Mormons have settled, the laws have been maintained, and polygamists have had to suffer the penalty of their crime. In a single week, recently, the United States grand jury in Idaho found indictments against twenty-nine polygamists, including a bishop, who has been convicted. But the final, crushing blow for the Mormons has been the decision of the Chief Justice that the test-oath act, under which the recent convictions were secured, is constitutional.

—In Europe the Sunday agitation is reaching even those nations where Sunday has brought no cessation from labor. At the demand of the workingmen, Prince Bismarck has ordered an investigation into the question of Sunday labor throughout the German Empire. Austria has passed a law suspending various kinds of work on that day. In Italy men of influence are urging the necessity of Sunday rest from a hygienic, moral, and social point of view. “These and other similar movements,” says a leading Christian paper, “betoken the coming of the day when the name ‘Continental Sabbath’ will lose its obnoxious meaning.”

—The Synod of New York, which met in Troy, October 20 to 23, is described as an “intelligent, wide-awake, and admirably working body,” representing churches that have on their rolls 137,000 members. This influential body passed two resolutions bearing on the Sunday question; one “condemning in the strongest terms the making, selling, buying, or reading of Sunday newspapers;” and a second one as strongly condemning “Sunday excursion trains on our leading railroads, and calling upon all friends of the Christian Sabbath to discountenance the custom, and upon Christian railroad officers and directors to refuse to permit such trains.”

—The semi-centennial anniversary of Cardinal McCloskey’s ordination to the priesthood was celebrated in New York, January 31, 1884. On that occasion, Monsignor Quinn presented the following facts indicative of the rapid growth of Catholicism in this country: “Fifty years ago there were but six churches; now there are sixty. There were but twenty priests in the diocese; now there are three hundred and eighty. At that time there were in the whole United States only nine bishops; now there are fifty-nine. Then, there was but one arch-bishop; now, there are eleven, one of whom [Cardinal McCloskey] has been raised to the great senate of the universal church.”

—The Christian at Work has the following to say about the Salvation Army, which will apply equally well to the greater portion of modern revival effort: “The reiterated invitation, ‘Come to Jesus,’ has grown to be just a little suggestive of the ‘Lord! Lord!’ of the Bible hypocrite, and is taken by the sinner invited only as a hint to sing at the top of his voice, ‘I am so glad that Jesus loves me,’ which he is perfectly willing to do so long as nobody compels him to leave off lying and cheating, and drinking and swearing, the first two having been his business, and the last two his pleasure. . . . Isn’t there such a thing as dwelling too exclusively on the ‘all-cleansing blood of Jesus,’ leaving out of view the ensample of godliness given us by his life of good works? When the Salvation Army, in its zeal for saving souls, shall begin to wage direct war on the sins we see around us, and inculcate a practical religion that crops out in conscientiousness, truthfulness, honesty, and sobriety, then all lovers of law and order will bid the Salvation Army Godspeed.” We would say, When they begin to preach the law of God, then we can bid them Godspeed.

The Mail in China.

BUT as regards letters, a considerable proportion of the 400,000,000 Chinamen do occasionally exchange letters, those who cannot write for themselves hiring scribes to do so. These letters are consigned to firms which have houses in all the large towns, where letters are forwarded to distant ports, to be there distributed by special agents, who generally collect the postage from the receiver. There was certainly something comic in the fact that when China was no longer able to exclude foreigners from Pekin, our British postal arrangements were no sooner established than some of the imperial officials came to ask Sir Frederick Bruce to forward certain State documents for them between Pekin and Canton. On the death of the emperor Hien-fung, which occurred just at that time, intimation thereof was sent from his country palace (a distance of 600 li., which is upward of 200 miles) in twenty-four hours, which is the highest speed attainable in China. But the placid celestials, to whom hurry appears a form of vulgar impatience, and to whom telegraphs are an abomination, are content that all ordinary communications should be conveyed either by slow paddling or poling-boats, or else by foot-runners, whose high-sounding title of “the thousand-mile horse” does not quicken their pace beyond about twelve miles in twenty-four hours. They carry a paper lantern and a paper umbrella, and their letter-bag is secured on their back by a cloth knotted across the chest.

—Cassell’s Family Magazine.

COMPENSATION

Life bitter is, and sweet; God doth not to his children mete Out grief alone. He gives a song for every moan The heart doth make; He sends a balm for each heart-ache, And tears and smiles come aye together Like rain and sun in April weather.

E. W. WHITNEY

By E. W. Whitney

Obituary.

BOWES.—Died of cancer, Sept. 23, 1885, at Turin, N. Y., Mrs. Henrietta Bowes, aged 47 years and 5 months. Sister Bowes had lived from childhood in the town where she died, and was loved and respected by a large circle of acquaintances. Though by early training and in belief she had been a Universalist, about two years ago she gladly accepted the truths of the Third Angel's Message under the labors of Brethren T. M. Lane, W. S. Hyatt, and J. F. Stureman, was baptized a few weeks later, and continued faithful and zealous in living them out until her death. She was a great sufferer for several months; yet she felt, especially toward the last, that her suffering had all been for her good; and she died peacefully, and with a calm though strong hope of a part in the first resurrection. With others who are called to mourn, she leaves an only son, for whom she felt the deepest solicitude, and by whom, we trust, a mother's prayers and life will be remembered with profit. The funeral services were held in the Presbyterian church in Turin, and were conducted by the writer, assisted by Elder Webber, pastor of the church. A brief discourse was given from 2 Cor. 4: 17, 18.

E. W. WHITNEY

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“Liberal Christianity.”

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Notices and Corrections

By Editor

AN article which we promised for this week is necessarily laid over till next week.

THE Indiana Book and Tract Depository, W. A. Young, Secretary, is now located at 32 Cherry St., Indianapolis, Ind.

IN the Sabbath-school Notes last week, fourth paragraph from the bottom, last column, last line of the paragraph, the reader will please read A. D. in place of B. O. This mortifying error escaped our notice until the paper had come from the press. The connection is such, however, that we think few, if any, would be misled by the error.

BROTHER G. K. OWEN writes thus from New Orleans: “The New Orleans Mission is now located at 732 Magazine St., corner of Third St., New Orleans, La. We have rented a nice hall 23x72 feet, and three other rooms connected with it. The hall is just the thing for a reading and lecture room, and the location is very favorable for that purpose.”

Heber Newton Against Ingersoll

THE newest book against the frothings of Ingersoll is by Heber Newton, of New York. The book is the substance of a series of sermons to the young people of his church, to keep them from being carried away by the eloquence of the noted atheist, who was at the time doing a great deal in New York. The plan of the author may be stated in few words. It is substantially this: He accepts nearly all the theories of evolutionism, and agrees with Ingersoll in most of his objections to the Bible, but claims that after all the “objectionable” portions of the Bible have been expunged, it will still be a better book than any other. Almost any infidel would subscribe to that creed; and therefore, by the same token, there is no such thing as infidelity. How easy it is for some people to overthrow error!

The Year-Day Principle in Prophecy

IN the “Notes” this week, in considering the “year-day” standard of prophetic time, we state that “the interpretation of a given prophetic symbol, in one place, must be the interpretation of the same symbol in every place.” By this we do not mean that, as is sometimes expressed, “a day in prophecy means a year;” for that is not necessarily true. The word “day” may be used in a prophecy in the sense of a twenty-four-hour day, or it may mean a year. What we do say, is that when a day is used in prophecy as a symbol, it invariably means a year. A day was given to Ezekiel as a symbol of a year; and therefore wherever in the Bible we find days that are evidently symbolic, we know that they mean years. This principle must be followed, else the prophecies could not be interpreted consistently with one another.

The Australian Mails.

By Editor

WE are glad to be able to announce that from this time forward there will be regular steamers carrying mail, freight, and passengers between San Francisco and New Zealand and Australia. A satisfactory arrangement has been made, the contract being for three years' service. The subsidy from the New Zealand Government is £20,000 a year, from New South Wales, £10,000, and from the United States, £4,000. Any one wishing to correspond with the friends in Australia, can now mail their letters direct, via San Francisco. Following is the time table for the next fourteen months:—

Leave San Francisco—November 21, December 19, January 16, February 13, March 13, April 10, May 8, June 5, July 3, July 31, August 28, September 25, October 23, November 20, December 18.

Arrive—December 28, January 25, February 22, March 22, April 19, May 17, June 14, July 12, August 9, September 6, October 4, November 1, November 29, December 27.

Copy this schedule, so that you will not forget the dates of sailing. Then by allowing sufficient time for your letters to reach San Francisco, there need be no loss of time.

When Will They See It?

By Editor

LAST week we made note of the fact that in Arkansas several conscientious Sabbath-keepers have been arrested for laboring on Sunday, the clause in the law making an exception in the case of such individuals having been repealed. It was also stated that there was intense feeling in the State, and that there was a prospect that many more arrests would be made. Two days later we received a copy of the Bible Banner, published in Philadelphia, in which the editor, speaking of the position taken by Seventh-day Adventists on the “National Reform” movement, said that it would “utterly fail in an important particular,” even if Sunday should be legalized, because, said he,—

“Nobody who keeps Saturday conscientiously will be persecuted, as S. D. Adventists expect, just as people are not persecuted for not swearing or bearing arms. In this age and land, every Sunday law will respect and provide for the conscience of Jews and Sabbatarians, and concede them the right of agitation—the liberty of the press and of speech.”

This paragraph, and similar asseverations, would have a great deal more weight if facts had not many times contradicted them. The above statement was made in a rather inopportune time, because the recent developments make quite a contrast with it. It is remarkable that when such instances of religious intolerance are multiplying, people will still blindly assert that the success of the “National Reform” movement would not entail any persecution for conscience’ sake. If under existing laws persecution for religious faith and practice is possible, what would not be done with laws entirely favorable to such procedure?

As for us, these outbursts of bigotry do not make the final result any more clearly to be seen than it was before. The “sure word of prophecy” is explicit; these instances only turn faith into sight. Our earnest hope is that while some of our brethren may suffer loss by these preliminary persecutions, many may be led by them to see the force of the prophecy, and thereby be led to heed the warning message.

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“A CHRISTIAN daily paper,” that shall be “independent of party, sect, or ring,” is thought to be one of the needs of the hour as a means of supplanting the Sunday paper.

Prayers to Order.

By Editor

THE Archbishop of Canterbury has set forth some “prayers for the approaching election,” and has expressed a wish that they be used in his diocese. The Churchman commends them as excellent, “reverent and devout in spirit and in form, and perfectly appropriate to public use.” In this very adaptability, however, it finds a very valid objection to them, because they may be used with any political intention that the worshiper may cherish. “To the Conservative they will be a devout petition for the defeat of the Liberals. To the Liberal they will seem to ask for the success of his own party. Each will read into them his own party hopes and fears, and will employ them for the confusion of his adversaries.”

This is indeed a dilemma. It leads the Churchman to question whether such use of public prayer is desirable. We don’t wonder; yet we think it would hardly say that a national election in a great country like England is not worth praying about. If it is worth praying about, and if it is also necessary that people have their prayers ready made, we see no other course for the Archbishop to pursue than to write two prayers, one specially adapted to each party,—and then he cannot be accused of partiality, nor will it be necessary to make one prayer call for directly opposite things.

That is one way out, but we imagine that the Churchman would hardly think it an improvement on the first plan. Then the only alternative seems to be to allow each individual who wishes to pray to express just the desires of his heart. This is real prayer; and we are fully persuaded that the Lord will listen to such petitions, even though they be offered in uncouth language, just as readily as he will to the well-rounded, rhetorical sentences of an archbishop.

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LIFE OF WILLIAM MILLER, WITH PORTRAIT.

This book contains sketches of the Christian experience and public labors of this remarkable man. No other man in this century has been more widely spoken of, and more generally misunderstood. These sketches were prepared by those who were his co-laborers, and are a true presentation of the leading events of his life and labors. In addition to the life and character of the man, the character of the Great Advent Movement, in which he acted so prominent a part, is clearly set forth. It is shown that Mr. Miller was no mere enthusiast, but a man of calm judgment, and his interpretation of the prophecies was mainly correct, his only mistake being in regard to the nature of the event to take place at the close of the 2300 days, in 1844. No one can consider himself well versed in the history of the advent movement in this country who has not read this book.

408 pp. Price, $1.00.

Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. Or, REVIEW AND HERALD, Battle Creek, Mich