It is not possible to properly conduct services, or to enjoy the worship of God, in a house of worship that is not thoroughly ventilated between the services held in that house.
The Methodist says some sharp things, and gives some startling results of a case of common ignorance upon the subject of ventilation, taken from the Elmira Advertiser, under the caption of
“A WARNING.
“We have tried to preach the gospel of pure air, and shall continue to do so, though well aware of the small proportion of our readers who will ever be influenced by anything which can be said or written on the subject. Hot-air furnaces, or stoves, with listed doors and windows, which are opened as seldom as possible, are the order of the day, and will remain so probably through our generation, and until it can no longer be said with truth that ‘the fools are not all dead yet.’ The following is taken from the Elmira Advertiser. We are glad to see it. Startling examples are sometimes needed. It is seldom that such marked effects from poisoned air are experienced; but the most insidious effects are constantly produced, and there are few churches or lecture-halls in the land where the aggregate life of the congregation is not greatly shortened by every attendance. We have frequently entered churches on Sunday morning, where the poison of the previous Sunday was plainly perceptible in the air; and yet, through two long services, no window has been raised, nor a door allowed to remain open, except when it was unavoidable. Our recollections are too painful to permit us to speak of lecture-rooms, and low-ceiled, under-ground vestries. At some crowded prayer-meetings, we have fancied the lights burned blue, and have only wondered that they burned at all. But to our story:
“‘On Sunday morning, a few young men, comprising the Praying Band of the First M. E. Church, assembled in their room for their usual meeting, before the morning services. Finding the room cold, they attempted to light a fire; but the matches would not burn. Finally, after exhausting their own supply, they borrowed a fresh lot at the parsonage, and coaxed some shavings into a feeble blaze. These, however, soon refused to do their duty, and the young men gave up the idea of having a fire. They decided, however, to have a short meeting, and then disperse. Soon they had peculiar feelings. One, who attempted to sing, said his throat seemed to choke. Others felt headache and throbbing pains. But each, ignorant that others were affected peculiarly, tried to master himself, and share in the meeting. However, on kneeling in prayer, these sensations became too dangerous for repression. One left the room. Just then another fainted. His companions dragged him out. One by one they emerged into the open air with flushed faces, trembling limbs, and racking pains. Sympathizing friends conducted some into the parsonage, and others to their homes. Physicians were called, and all finally recovered. Some were very near death, and all will feel the effects of this fearful trial for days. Such is a plain statement of the facts. What could be the cause?
“‘The room was used for meeting on Friday evening. Afterward it was closed, and the impure air confined to breed poison and disease until Sabbath morning. Then the door and windows were opened. But these are in one corner of the room, and there was no fire to start a draft. So the bad air remained, and the carbonic acid from the last assemblage, reinforced by the effluvia so long confined, was ready to do its work of death. The boys tried to start a fire, but the fuel would not burn—even a match could not find oxygen enough to support combustion. But ignorant of chemistry, as are thousands of people, they remained and tried to compel their bodies to live where fire would not. There was a broken pane of glass in the solitary window. Through this, the bad air ran out from the upper part of the room, but below this level it was dense and deadly. They kneeled down for prayer, and so came under its influence more directly. The carbonic acid crept through the arteries and veins, stopping the flow of blood, dulling the pulse, flushing the cheek, clogging all the channels of circulation, and threatening life itself. The pestilential effluvia of the breath, kept bottled up in a room for thirty-six hours, was inhaled, and swept through, poisoning their whole bodies. Thus we have here one of the most natural results of the want of ventilation. There was no smoke or gas from the chimney. There was no odor strong enough to attract the attention of any one not sensitive to bad air. All was the straightforward effect of supposing that a window raised will of itself ventilate a cold room.’”
“Heaven and Earth Shall Pass Away, but my Words Shall not Pass Away.”
By S. M.
Who of us has not known of the fearful fires in the West? Who has not thought, even the poorest among us, of something we could send to the suffering? Who has not almost held his breath while reading the graphic accounts—the fire roaring furiously, making such a noise with the wind that the bells of the great city could not be heard? Who has not been moved, through and through, to pity, as well as horror, in hearing of the many villages which have fallen in the flames, with so many precious lives, each one freighted with its many joys and sorrows, hopes and fears? Who of us can imagine the fearful sight of living sheets of fire, sweeping along with the noise of Niagara, leaping from house to house, sometimes jumping a quarter of a mile in its mad course, to catch hold of some new material for its fury? Oh, what a sight! what a story! And who of us, in our quiet homes, when hearing the wind roar at night, will not offer a prayer for our own safety, lest the rushing elements combined destroy all that is dear to us?
But this fire has been stopped. The blessed rain quenched the flames, and although desolation reigns, yet safety also reigns, and the scattered families may again group themselves together, and commending themselves in thankfulness to God, may still retrieve their blighted fortunes. The fire is stayed; thank God for that!
But there is a time coming, certainly coming, though we know not the day, when there will be a fire which cannot be put out, when not one city alone, but hundreds and thousands of cities will be flaming, when not one village, but the whole country, yea, the whole world, will be on fire. It will come when the sons of men are eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, when all things will be as they are now, as they were to the slumbering inhabitants of Peshtigo, when they, unconscious and fearless, awoke to death. The winds will roar, the cities will fall, humanity will shriek, helpless and despairing of shelter, and crash after crash will tell the story. The air will be on fire, the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth, and all things therein, shall be burnt up. No escape, no running to the prairies, no fleeing for shelter to cellars, no hiding place from the fire, for it will be everywhere; from the bowels of the earth it will come, from fissures and caves it will pour forth. The waters of the sea will be dried up, and in their place will be waves of fire rolling and tossing in the raging wind. No help, no escape; voices will be drowned in the roar of the monster as he rushes for his doomed prey. Mothers will call to their children, husbands to their wives, brothers to sisters, all will rush frantically, seeking for refuge, but in vain. It will soon be over.
Am I drawing a horrible picture without truth? Is there any foundation for such fearful forebodings? Listen to God's own words: “The heavens and the earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment, and perdition of ungodly men.” “The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth, also, and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens, being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?”
I leave these few thoughts, only repeating the question, and commending it to the thoughtful, prayerful consideration of every rational being. —S. M. in Advocate and Guardian.
IS YOUR LAMP BURNING?
SAY, is your lamp burning, my brother?
I pray you look quickly and see;
For if it were burning, then surely
Some beams would fall brightly on me.
Strait, strait is the road, but I falter,
And often fall out by the way;
Then raise your lamp higher, my brother,
Lest I make a fatal delay.
There are many and many around you,
Who follow wherever you go;
If you thought they walked in a shadow,
Your lamp would burn brighter I know.
Upon the dark mountains they stumble,
They are bruised on the rocks, and they lie,
With their white faces pleading, turned upward
To the clouds of the pitiful sky.
There is many a lamp that is lighted,
We behold them near and afar;
But not many of them, my brother,
Shines steadily on like a star.
I think were they trimmed night and morning,
They would never burn down or go out,
Though from the four quarters of heaven,
The winds were all blowing about.
If once all the lamps that are lighted
Should steadily blaze in a line,
Wide over the land and ocean,
What a girdle of glory would shine.
Say, is your lamp burning, my brother?
I pray you look quickly and see;
For if it were burning, then surely
Some beams would fall brightly on me.
The Angry Man Shoots His Own Hens
A PERSON in a passion very frequently jumps at conclusions so suddenly as to jerk his own head off, as they say:
“I say, neighbor Snobs, if you don’t keep your hens out of my garden, I will shoot them.”
“Very well, Doolittle, shoot away; only if you kill any of my hens, throw them into my yard.”
Crack went the fowling-piece, morning after morning, and large fat hens were pitched into neighbor Snobs’ yard. They cooked well. After a fortnight or so, Doolittle discovered that Snobs never had any hens, and that he had been shooting his own, which broke out of his own coop-
Parental Authority and Obedience
“I CAN’T MAKE YOU MIND.”—Such were the words that fell from the lips of a mother, after having made several fruitless attempts to secure obedience from her little child! And yet that mother ponders what can be the reason her child will not mind. Does she not know that the very utterance of those words before her child is a virtual surrender of parental authority.
Fruit and Disease.
—An eminent French physician says the decrease of dyspepsia and bilious affections in Paris is owing to the increased consumption of apples, which fruit, he maintains, is an admirable prophylactic and tonic, as well as very nourishing and easily digested.
Obituary Notices.
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.
DIED, in Riverton, Mason Co., Mich., Sept. 9, 1871, Jane A. Hoyt, wife of A. T. Hoyt, and daughter of David J. and Sybil Burroughs, aged thirty-six years. She leaves a large circle of friends to mourn her loss, and a large family to miss her care. She was a true wife and a tender mother. She embraced the advent faith some ten years ago, and continued firm in it till her death. M. M. Hoyt.
DIED, near New London, Henry Co., Iowa, of diphtheria, Dec. 17, 1871, Eddie Warren Elwood, only child of W. W. and M. F. Conklin, aged three years, six months, and twenty-one days, after a brief sickness of only four days. Words of consolation were spoken to the much afflicted parents, and numerous sympathizing friends and neighbors, from Jer. 31:15, 17: “They shall come again from the land of the enemy.” Blessed hope to those suffering so great a loss!
“So fades the lovely, blooming flower,
Frail, smiling solace of an hour.
So soon our transient comforts fly,
And pleasure only blooms to die.”
GEO. L. BUTLER.
The Bible.
“We won’t give up the Bible,
God’s blessed book of truth,
The blessed staff of hoary age,
The guide of early youth.”
Mr. Cecil, during a very severe illness, said to a person who spoke of it, “It is all Christ. I keep death in view. If God does not please to raise me up, he intends me better. I find everything but religion, only vanity. To recollect a promise of the Bible: this is substance! Nothing will do but the Bible. If I read authors, and hear different opinions, I cannot say, This is truth! I cannot grasp it as a substance; but the Bible gives something to hold. I have learned more within these curtains than from all the books I ever read.”
Appointments.
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
Bro. I. A. Olmstead will meet with the church in Parkville and vicinity, Sabbath, Jan. 13, 1872. Let there be a general attendance. Mich. Conf. Committee.
Monthly meeting for Western New York at Olcott, Jan. 13, 14, 1872. Horatio Lindsey, Clerk.
Quarterly meeting of the churches of Oneida, Charlotte and Potterville, at Potterville, Sabbath and first-day, Jan. 13 and 14, 1872. Bro. E. B. Lane will attend. Let all who can, be present. Mich. Conf. Committee.
Monthly meeting for Cattaraugus County, N. Y., in Cottage, third Sabbath and first-day in January, 1872. Cannot Bro. D. C. Phillips attend this meeting? B. B. Warren.
Quarterly meeting of the church of Bowersville, Ohio, Jan. 27 and 28, 1872. A general invitation is extended to the friends of the cause, and absent brethren are requested to report as usual. J. Q. A. Haughey, Clerk.
To Correspondents.
By Uriah Smith
M. G. CREASY: The revolutions of the earth can be marked as accurately in the frigid zone, as in the temperate or torrid. As far north as human beings have ever succeeded in going, they have no difficulty in numbering the days of the week; and that is all that is necessary to determine when the Sabbath comes. The objection arises from lack of information, or of consideration. During that portion of the year when the sun is for several weeks continuously above the horizon, its altitude is continually varying. At the close of the day the sun is nearest the horizon. So, when it is for a time continually below the horizon, at one point in each revolution it comes so near to it that its position can be easily determined, and so the transition from one day to another be definitely marked. Read the accounts of those who have traveled in northern latitudes.
I. SANBORN: The words in Matt. 5:18, “till all be fulfilled,” are from the Greek, ἕως ἂν πάντα γένηται (heose an panta geneetai), and may be literally translated, “till all things are accomplished.” The adjective, all (πάντα), is neuter plural. It does not agree with either law or prophets mentioned before, for they are both masculine, but with the word “things” understood, and must refer to all things which are of such a nature that the words “come to pass,” “take place,” “accomplish” (which are among the definitions of the verb γίνομαι), may be applied to them. These terms are applicable to the declarations of the prophets, but not to the law. There can be no question as to the import of Christ’s declaration on this point. It is that not one jot or tittle of the law should be annulled, or pass away, till all things written in the prophets, all things that enter into the purpose of God touching the redemption of our earth and race, should be accomplished.
We do not think that Heb. 4:10, refers to the keeping of the Sabbath in this state, but that it is a declaration showing that no one has yet entered into the rest of God which is mentioned in the previous verses, since we are not yet released from the work of faith by which that rest is to be gained. See article on this subject in Vol. 38, No. 7, of REVIEW.
U. S.
Contributions for “Advent Tidende.”
By John Matteson
We would be glad to receive contributions for the Danish paper from our American brethren and sisters. In many places you are surrounded by our countrymen, and you are often sorry that you cannot speak their language, when your heart is burdened for their salvation. If you really have any tender feeling for them, and burdens which are in harmony with the message, and can express them in plain English, send them to me, and I will turn them into plain Danish, and put them in the paper, if they are suitable. Then you can carry the paper to such as have a desire to read, and let them read the language of your heart.
Articles on the fundamental and peculiar doctrines of the message, you need not write. Such are already prepared, or will be prepared, by those who can better express your faith than you can yourself. But some living, fresh, heartfelt experience in the last message of mercy, is just what we want. Address Advent Tidende, Battle Creek, Mich. John Matteson.
The Loftiest Name
“Who would not be a Christian?
For ’t is the loftiest name the language bears,
And all the languages in all the worlds
Have none so sublime. It relates to Christ,
And breathes of God and holiness,
By the rich graces of the Holy Ghost,
To fit them for the paradise on high,
Where angels dwell, and perfect manhood shines
In the clear luster of redeeming love
Forever and forever; and implies
A son and heir of the eternal God.”
J. CLARKE
By J. Clarke
Items.
We may mistake wounded pride for repentance; but there is a vast difference between the two; for repentance humbles pride, and abases it; but wounded pride mourns that it has been touched, and like the viper, seeks a place and means of cure.
Never shut the door against yourself, nor let despondency color your thoughts with gloom. Too much sorrow of heart may overturn reason. It is better to think too well of our outward condition than to think too ill of it.
To imagine a man is your enemy, is the first step in making him hate you; to suppose a man your friend is often the means of turning an enemy into a friend.
David conquered his mortal enemy Saul, by waiting, and by eluding him in flight; but he overcame Goliath with his sling and smooth stone from the brook. “Circumstances alter cases;” what would be duty toward an erring brother would be folly in case of a burglar or highwayman.
J. CLARKE
Shall we Have War with Spain?
By Observer
It is said that a strong effort is actually made, at this moment, by parties of great influence, to involve the United States in war with Spain. The President and the Secretary of State are represented as unfavorable to the movement, but a clique of politicians, near the sources of power, think that they see in such a war the acquisition of Cuba and San Domingo.
We know how powerless often is the opinion of sober-minded and quiet people, aloof from political agitations and strifes, but such a national dishonor as war with Spain would incur, ought to be a motive strong enough to rouse the sensitiveness of the most indifferent. If we wish to be regarded by the world as having entered on a career of war for conquest, assuming the role of freebooters, preying upon the weak, and submitting to the strong, we shall go to war with Spain and take Cuba. We pray God to put it out of the hearts of politicians to do such iniquity.—Observer.
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When Chicago was burned, and the people all over the country were pouring out their offerings for the relief of the suffering, without regard to nationality or creed, the Romanists joined in the appeal, and collected largely. Of course the public expected their charities to go with the gifts of others for the common relief. But not so. An order goes out from the Hierarchy to send the gifts of Catholics to the bishops of Chicago for distribution, and for the rebuilding the Catholic houses and institutions. The Catholic poor by multitudes will share the general relief, and the Catholic contributions will go for church purposes. This is a plain commentary on the policy of that church. It indicates sharpness, and betrays the spirit of the priesthood in its truest colors.
We see it stated, says the Watchman and Reflector, that the other day, on the passage of a Roman Catholic bishop by one of our national forts, the flags were lowered and raised, and guns fired, as a complimentary salute. If this is true, the commanding officer should be cashiered. By what right, by what authority did he thus commit his government to a particular form of religion? By what right does he, as a United States officer, recognize any sect? This outrage upon decency, upon national honor, upon the vital principles of our civil institutions, would have been just as blameworthy if the ecclesiastic had been Episcopal, Baptist, Congregational, or Mormon. Such toadyism is disgraceful as well as illegal, and should be met with both public and official condemnation. A quasi or real official recognition of Roman Catholics is becoming quite too common with city and State authorities; of course in these cases conscience has nothing to do with it; it is a mere bidding for votes, but the practice is none the less vicious, and one to be promptly and forever put an end to. The practice is still more reprehensible when the national government is implicated.
Japan is rapidly becoming one of the most interesting countries on the globe. She is opening her shell and walking in and out before the people of the earth with a new sense of self respect in place of the old one of self-importance. Her Emperor has determined to send his daughters to the United States to learn what women are doing here—particularly, perhaps, in Wyoming Territory. The State is declaring its independence of the church, and bids the Buddhist priests prepare to serve, like JINKS, of the Horse Marines, as captains in the army.
A curious thing in regard to the Japanese has just been curiously confirmed. The existence of the peculiar civilization of the Aztecs in Mexico and the Incas in Peru has given rise to the hypothesis that America was peopled by the Asiatics who crossed the ferry at Bhering’s Straits. The chief obstacle to this notion was that the art of navigation was too crude ever to have furnished means of transportation. Last week some Japanese seamen arrived at San Francisco, whose junk was disabled on their own coast, but who were carried by the Ocean current twenty-five hundred miles, to the island of Adaho, off the Alaskan shore. They were nine months in making the voyage. Three out of twenty-six perished from hunger. The arrival of the remainder on these shores shows the possibility of like events having happened before.
Thoughts on the Sea-Shore.
By Sel.
In every object here, I see
Something, O Lord! that points to thee;
Firm as the rock thy promise stands—
Thy mercies, countless as the sands—
Thy love, a sea immensely wide—
Thy grace, an ever-flowing tide.
In every object here, I see
Something, my heart! that points at thee;
Hard as the rock that bounds the strand—
Unfruitful as the barren sand—
Deep and deceitful as the ocean—
And like the tide in constant motion.
—Sel.
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Sermons on the Sabbath and Law; embracing an outline of the Biblical and Secular History of the Sabbath for 6000 years, and a refutation of the Sunday-seventh-day theories of Mede, Jennings, Akers, and Fuller. By J. N. Andrews. 25 cts.
Our Faith and Hope, No. 1. Sermons on the Millennium, Second Advent, the Kingdom, the Judgment, the Time, the Sanctuary, and Saving Faith. No. 2 will be ready soon. 20 cts. each.
The Atonement; an Examination of a Remedial System in the light of Nature and Revelation. By J. H. Waggoner. 20 cts.
The Nature and Tendency of Modern Spiritualism. By J. H. Waggoner. 20 cts.
The Bible from Heaven; or, a Dissertation on the Evidences of Christianity. 25 cts.
History of the Doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul. By D. M. Canright. 25 cts.
Review of Objections to the Visions. 20 cts.
Discussion on the Sabbath Question, between Elds. Grant and Cornell. 20 cts.
The Ministration of Angels: and the Origin, History, and Destiny, of Satan. By D. M. Canright. 15 cts.
The Three Messages of Rev. 14, and the Two-Horned Beast. By J. N. Andrews. 15 cts.
Which? Mortal or Immortal? an Inquiry into the Present Constitution and Future Condition of Man. By Uriah Smith. 15 cts.
The Resurrection of the Unjust; a Vindication of the Doctrine. By J. H. Waggoner. 15 cts.
The Seventh Part of Time; a Sermon on the Sabbath Question. By W. H. Littlejohn. 10 cts.
The Truth Found; the Nature and Obligation of the Sabbath of the Fourth Commandment. By J. H. Waggoner. 10 cts.
Review of Gillfillan, and other authors, on the Sabbath. By T. B. Brown. 10 cts.
Vindication of the True Sabbath. By J. W. Morton. 10 cts.
The Date of the Seventy Weeks of Dan. 9; an Explanation of the Commandment to Restore and Build Jerusalem. By J. N. Andrews. 10 cts.
The Seven Trumpets; an Exposition of Rev. 8 and 9. 10 cts.
Matthew Twenty-Four; a full Exposition of the chapter. By James White. 10 cts.
Key to Prophetic Chart. The symbols of Daniel and John explained, and the periods determined. 10 cts.
The Position and Work of the True People of God under the Third Angel's Message. By W. H. Littlejohn. 10 cts.
An Appeal to the Baptists, from the Seventh-day Baptists, for the Restoration of the Bible Sabbath. 5 cts.
Milton on the State of the Dead. 5 cts.
Three-Cent Tracts: The Second Advent—The Millennium—The Kingdom—The Law and the Gospel—The Seventh Part of Time—Much in Little—The Sin of Witchcraft—Perpetuity of Spiritual Gifts—Celestial Railroad—Scripture References.
Two-Cent Tracts: The Sufferings of Christ—Seven Reasons for Sunday-Keeping Examined—Who Changed the Sabbath?—Sabbath by Elihu—The Rich Man and Lazarus—Institution of the Sabbath—Popular Objections to the Resurrection of the Body—Positive Institutions.
One-Cent Tracts: Appeal on Immortality—Brief Thoughts on Immortality—Thoughts for the Candid—Judson on Dress—Personality of God—Sign of the Day of God—Time Lost; Old and New Style—The Two Laws—What is Truth?
Half-Cent Tracts: God's Answer to Man's Excuses for not Keeping His Sabbath—The Heavenly Meeting—Some Features of our Times—Which Day do You Keep, and Why?
CHARTS: The Prophetic and Law of God Charts, the size used by our preachers; varnished and mounted, each $2.00.
The two Charts, on cloth, by mail, with Key, without rollers, $2.50.