Earlier text: THE FOURTH COMMANDMENTA boy who went with his father on a voyage to South America, was anxious to see the equatorial line, and said to an old sailor, "Jack, will you show me the line when we cross it?" After a few days the boy asked whether they had crossed the line. The old tar said, "Yes, my lad." "Why didn't you tell me, and show it to me?" The sailor replied, "O my lad, we always cross the line in the dark." Moderate drinker, you always cross the line between the moderate and immoderate in the dark. Mental and moral night settles down on you as you cross the line between moderate drinking and inebriety, blinding you to the awful facts of ruin and death only a little way farther on in the road you are traveling.—Christian Advocate. A Public Nuisance
By Editor
A PUBLIC NUISANCE.—Many years ago a city ordinance was enacted in Boston, Mass., forbidding smoking in the public streets, and making the offender subject to arrest and fine. Although the law has never been repealed, still standing on the statute books, it is rarely enforced now-a-days, though a Boston gentleman informed us some time since that a few years ago he saw a man arrested and fined for smoking on the streets. The law is a good one, and ought to be enforced everywhere. "Come on quick, Hal Strong! there's fun ahead. You know Tom, the fisher? Well, he's going out this afternoon, and he says if we boys will promise not to bother, he'll take us along. There'll be six of us, counting you, if you'll hurry up and come. Say, Hal, will you?" Ned Green delivered himself of the above with hardly a pause for breath; and then wiping his warm face with a very moist handkerchief, stood looking up at the window from which Harry was leaning, and impatiently awaited a reply. Harry, meanwhile, had been considering. "It'll be a jolly lark—no end of fun. Ned," he said; "but, you see, there's part of a load of wood to be piled in the back yard, and I promised mother to do it sure before dark." "Cut the wood!" cried Ned, "it will keep till to-morrow; and you never have time for a frolic, seems to me. I say, Hal, it's a shame." Harry laughed. "Cut the wood, eh? That's been already done, but not in the way you mean, old fellow. But hold on, I'll see what mother says." And the bright young face disappeared from the window, while Ned waited at the gate, anxious to be off, and yet too loyal to his friend to leave him in the lurch. In a few minutes, however, Harry came bounding from the doorway. "It's all right, Ned; mother's good as pie. She says the wood may wait, and so here I am. Whoop! hufrah!" Off they went, boy fashion—leaping, capering, and shouting; and as they go I'll say a few words of Hal. It was seldom the boy had a whole afternoon to play, although he loved a frolic as well as his fellows. But his widowed mother earned her living by her needle, and Harry was obliged to seek such odd jobs as would help her to fill the family purse. So his hours of play were few and far between, but perhaps all the more merry and enjoyable when they came than would otherwise have been the case. A thoroughly good fellow was Harry Strong, and the boys liked him well enough to include him in all their sports whenever it was possible for him to join them. "I say, Ned Green," said he, as the two went speedily on the road to the beach, "I'm jolly glad for this afternoon of fun. I've just been crazy for a boat ride for ever so long, and now here's the chance. I'm much obliged for your thinking of me." "Guess we wouldn't like to go without you, Hal," was Ned's answer, heartily given, and just then the beach shone white and broad before them, while out beyond danced the rippling waters, inviting indeed to those who were gathered there waiting till Tom should dip the water out of his lumbering old boat, and make her ready for passengers. A cross old chap was Tom, the fisherman, and not often would he allow himself to be bothered by the boys. But once in awhile he gathered a few sunbeams within his heart, and warmed a little to the usual entreaties of the coaxing fellows who loved to haunt the beach. So it had happened that on this afternoon he had proven graciously inclined, and ere-long the boat was full of little fellows ready and impatient for the "shove-off." Tom had just bent himself to that effort, and was preparing to jump aboard himself, when a small voice was heard at a little distance which arrested the attention of all. Presently the owner of the voice appeared upon the scene, flushed and eager. Only a small boy to match the voice, but his words came fast as he paused on the beach before the merry crew of the "Nancy." "Oh, please, my little brother fell down and hurt himself, and—and I can't lift him, and he's crying and crying, and I don't know what I shall do. Please come and help me take him home!" There were tears in the blue eyes of the speaker, and his voice trembled a little, but he did not break down until the last word was spoken, and then with a sob he turned his white, frightened face aside. Harry Strong had started to his feet in generous and speedy response to the call for help, but five voices cried, "Sit down, Hal, don't bother. It may be only a little hurt, and the chap will get home all right, of course." "But it may be something else besides a little thing," replied Harry. "And I say, fellows, I can't let a boy like that suffer—such a little fellow! I guess I'd better go on shore; eh, Tom?" Tom growled out his reply, "Shan't wait for you if ye do, Hal Strong. Tide's right now, and I've work to do. Better let the chap go elsewhere for help. Don't believe it's anything but a cry-baby affair, anyhow. Gents' sons are allers such babies! Sarves 'em right to get hurt now and then. Come, I can't wait here any longer. Here goes!" But Harry's mind was made up. Disappointed as he would be, yet his noble heart was too full of mother-love and mother-teaching to turn his face from the duty of helping any one, friend or stranger, in time of trouble. So with a spring he left the boat and called good-by to the boys, who were so vexed with him, and yet who in their hearts honored him for his conduct. "Now then, come on, little chap!" cried Harry, as he started on a run up the road, followed by the small boy, whose face brightened wonderfully as he slipped his hand within Harry's. "What's your name?" "Archie Brown," was the reply. "And me and my brother—we're twin boys, you know—were playin', and a stone fell out of the bank and struck Dick in his leg; and it's a pretty big stone, so I can't lift him up." The "stone" proved to be a good-sized piece of rock, which had become loosened from the bank above where Archie and Dick had been playing, and had fallen against and upon the latter's little leg, breaking the limb, and keeping the child a prisoner until Harry's strong arms came to the rescue. The twins were strangers in the village, sons of a wealthy man who had recently moved from the city. But, save the fact that they were strangers to him, our brave-hearted Harry knew nothing about them, nor did he care to know anything more than where to carry the suffering child. Little Archie gave directions and led the way, and presently the sick boy was lifted from Harry's arms by the father, who also invited Harry to enter the cool, handsome parlor and rest. A little explanation ensued, and then Harry returned to his home—and went to work at the woodpile, after telling his mother all that had happened. "I almost wish you had gotten away before the little boy came to the beach," said sympathetic mamma, regretting the loss of her boy's sport; but, after all, you did the right thing, darling, and I'm glad you are so unselfish." It seemed a very long and unusually tiresome afternoon to Harry, although the minutes and hours were all employed usefully. He couldn't keep the feeling of disappointment out of his heart, try as he might; and besides all that, he wasn't by any means sure that he would have another such chance for a good time. But "there's no use crying after spilled milk," quoted Hal to himself at last; and so his face was bright and happy again when, about sunset, he went to the store for his mother on an errand. There he found Tom and the boys, who had returned a few minutes before, and the latter gathered about Harry, eager to tell the fun they had had and the fish they had caught. And they rallied Harry considerably, too, about "being such a goose as to give up such fun for the sake of helping a chap he didn't even know!" After he and his companions had left the store, a gentleman who had been making purchases stepped up to the desk and asked a few questions concerning Harry Strong. The store-keeper very willingly answered them all, telling of Harry's kind heart and generous nature, his love for his widowed mother, their straitened circumstances, and all. And when the gentleman had gone, the man, with a good-natured smile to the few loungers in the store, said:— "'Twas that gent's son that Hal Strong helped to-day when he got hurt. Shouldn't wonder, now, if he did something handsome by the lad in return. Anyhow, I thought I would speak a good word for Hal." Whether it was because Harry, continuing his acquaintance with little Archie and Dick, grew into the father's favor by his good conduct and entire unconsciousness that he had done any very unselfish or noble thing on that particular afternoon when he gave up his own pleasure for another, or whether it was because of the store-keeper's "good word for Hal," cannot be determined exactly; but at any rate, one morning, about three weeks after Dick's accident, Archie called, and begged Harry to go "just a moment" to the beach with him. When the two reached there, what should Harry see but a beautiful little boat dancing up and down on the silvery ripples of the tide, and ready in every particular for a race over the waters so soon as the chain which tied her fast to shore should be loosened. "Oh, what a beauty!" cried Hal, delightedly. "Is she yours, Archie? May I go out in her some day?" "Look and see whose she is," replied Archie, jumping about in his endeavor to keep a secret safe within his little lips. So Harry went closer, and then he too jumped up and down; for there, in gold letters, was the name "Harry Strong," plain enough for anybody to read without glasses. "Papa gave it to you," explained Archie then, "'cause he thinks you're a noble fellow. He told mamma so—I heard him; and now you have a boat of your own, and Dick won't get hurt again, so you won't lose another sail for us." Boys are not given to kissing, else Hal would have kissed little Archie; but he took his hand very closely in his own, and together the two ran off to find Archie's father. The boys of Harry's acquaintance met that afternoon and voted thanks, in Harry's name, to the giver of the boat; and so, after all, out of the afternoon of disappointment, sprang much pleasure and kind feeling for all.—The Churchman. "THE WORLD OWES ME A LIVING."
A FEW days ago, as two boys passed by where I was sitting under a tree, I heard one of them say to the other:— "I tell you what 'tis, Jim, I ain't going to work. It wasn't my choosing coming into the world. But, now I'm here, I'm bound to have a good time, and not have to work for it, either. The world owes me a living." When I heard Tom Jones say this, I couldn't help wondering what he had ever done to make the world in debt to him. He has been fed and clothed and taken care of, from the time he was a baby till he became old enough to do something for himself; but he has always been an idle boy, and instead of being a help to his parents he is a burden to them. I've heard some men make the same remark that he did, but I never could quite understand it, for I noticed that they were always idle and miserable persons, who never did anything to benefit anybody. When I look around me, and notice how many things have been done, before any of us were born, to provide for our comfort and enjoyment, I don't see how any one like Tom Jones can say the world owes him anything. There are roads and bridges and railroads which have been built for our use, canals cut, and steamboats and sailing vessels crossing all the bodies of water, to carry us wherever we want to go. There are stores of all kinds where we may get food and clothing and everything else we need; schools where we can be educated, and libraries where we may learn many curious and wonderful facts. Some of these things have been done by the people who have lived before us, and many things by those who are now living. When so much is done by others for us to enjoy, why isn't it a duty for us to do our share for the419 good of all? If everybody followed Tom Jones' example, I'm afraid the world would be very different from what it is now. I remember at one time hearing a lecturer speak of the great debt of the world to the inventors of printing, of the steam-engine and of the telegraph, but I have not heard that these inventors ever called for their pay. It doesn't seem to be the way for people who do great benefits to the world to ask to be paid for it. It is always those who are idle, and who want to get something for nothing, who make such a demand. We cannot all become inventors, but we can do what we have to do well, and we can all add something to the happiness of those around us. It appears to me that instead of the world owing us a living, we are the ones who are in debt to the world. If this is true, we ought to live and work so that we may, in part at least, pay up our debt, and so that the world may be richer and better for our having lived in it.—Golden Days. The Home Circle.
By Mrs. M. F. Butts
Were this the last of earth,
This very day,
How should I think and act?
What should I say?
Would not I guard my heart
With earnest prayer?
Would not I serve my friends
With loving care? How tender every word
As the hours wane!
"Like this we shall not sit
And talk again."
How soft the beating heart
That soon must cease!
What glances carry love—
What heavenly peace! And yet this fleeting life
Is one last day;
How long soe'er its hours,
They will not stay.
O heart, be soft and true
While thou dost beat;
O hands, be swift to do,
O lips, be sweet. —Mrs. M. F. Butts, in Christian Union. —Rev. Wm. Adams, D. D., LL. D., President of Union Theological Seminary, New York City, died Aug. 31, aged 73 years. —The stone light-house on the first point of Tanging Koelinge, on the west coast of Java, has been thrown down by a violent earthquake. —Dr. John Buchanan, the bogus diploma vendor, of Philadelphia, was arrested in St. Clair, Mich., and has been locked up in Moyamensing Prison. —Rev. Dr. Cyrus Hamlin, of Boston, estimates the rum business in the United States at $1,000,000,000 a year, by far the largest industry in the country. —Manhattan market, in New York, together with several surrounding stores, was totally destroyed by fire on the 9th. The loss was about two million dollars. —The train from Waterloo Station, London, for Hampton Court (England), came in collision with an engine, Sept. 11. Four persons were killed, and thirty injured. —On the Island of Dominica, continuous rains and high winds prevailed from August 15 to the 19th, putting the whole island under water. The crops were rotted and destroyed. —Joseph Tapson, formerly Secretary of the Metropolitan Railway Company's Provident Savings Bank of England, was arrested in Philadelphia, Sept. 11, on a charge of appropriating $50,000. —Mr. and Mrs. Hayes went to hear Bishop Simpson preach last Sunday, in San Francisco. The Bishop was taken violently sick soon after commencing his discourse, which he could not finish. —Oakland was in holiday attire on admission day, to welcome President Hayes. An enthusiastic reception was given him. This is the first time California was ever visited by a President of the United States during his term of office. —On the morning of the 8th, a terrible explosion occurred at Seaham pit, Durham county, England, where over two hundred men were at work. The Government Inspector has officially announced that the number dead is one hundred and sixty-five. —The Galindo House, the largest hotel in Oakland, was burned early in the morning of the 8th. The walls were left standing, but very little of the contents of the rooms was saved, many of the guests barely escaping with their lives. The loss was about $75,000. —The Meriden, Miss., Mercury, indulges itself in prophesying in the following manner: "We would like to engrave a prophecy on stone to be read of generations in the future. The negro in these States will be slave again, or cease to be. His sole refuge from extinction will be in slavery to the white man." Whereat we should not be at all surprised. —The Protestant Episcopal Diocesan Convention of Connecticut has adopted a resolution disapproving of "candidating." It urges parishes needing a rector to adopt some other method of becoming acquainted with a clergyman, and advises clergymen not to accept an invitation to officiate in any church as a candidate for the rectorship. —The Year Book of the Young Men's Christian Association has just been issued by the International Committee. It contains reports of 825 associations in North America, 285 in Great Britain and Ireland, 65 in France, 15 in Belgium, 293 in Germany, 406 in Holland, 504 in Switzerland, 79 in Sweden, 6 in Italy, 8 in Spain, 1 in Austria, 13 in Australia, 5 in India, 4 in Syria, 3 in South Africa, 2 in Japan, and 1 each in Madagascar and the Sandwich Islands. —A report from Long Branch, of Sept. 9, says that for twelve hours the coast has been swept by a northeast gale, blowing at the rate of 60 miles an hour. Old surf men say it is the severest September gale that has visited the place since 1854. The damage along the shore is great. The track of the New Jersey Southern Railway between Highlands Station and Seabright has been washed away, suspending all travel from New York via. Sandy Hook. —A very large number of laborers have been brought from the Eastern States and Canada this season, to work on the various railroad extensions in Colorado, of which there are nine in progress, yet the work is delayed by the scarcity of labor. The Denver and Rio Grande Company alone require at least five thousand more men than they are at present able to secure. Laborers are receiving from $1.75 to $2.50 per day. The mines draw away more than half the number imported. —The new liquor law in Maine is of a thoroughly stringent character. The act against saloons was evaded by private clubs, and the law against purchasing liquor was thwarted by giving the liquor away, the receiver purchasing some other commodity at a proportionately higher price than usual. The new law makes the gift of liquor punishable, and enacts that any person found intoxicated even in his own house shall be imprisoned for thirty days for the first offense, and three months for the second. —The Southern Pacific road is advancing at the rate of two miles per day, and is now within 12 miles of the line of New Mexico, and 128 miles east of Tucson. The station at Sulphur Spring valley is named Wilcox. Excellent water in abundance is found at six feet. This will be the most important station east of Tucson, being the natural point of supply for Forts Grant, Bowie, Thomas and Rucker, San Carlos, Gila valley, Dos Cabesos, Merry District, and the Globe mining country. The altitude is over 4000 feet. —It has transpired that the members of the Chinese Embassy, who arrived in New York about six weeks ago on business, have met with such insults at the hands of the rabble that they have determined, when their business is finished, to betake themselves home as quickly as possible. The Embassy consists of His Excellency Chin Lan Pin, Chin, his Secretary; Messrs. Ho Shin Chi, Chang Lai, Pilg, and Tin, with Captain Marsh, a retired British officer, who acts as English Corresponding Secretary and general adviser, and it was stated that they came to establish a Consulate in that city. —The naval demonstration has been postponed for a few days, as the Ambassadors of the Powers recognize the good will of the Porte, and the difficulties besetting the surrender of Dulcigno. The Austrian and French Ambassadors pointed out to Abeddin Pasha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, the dangers for Turkey which might result from the naval demonstration and the consequent absolute necessity of the surrender of Dulcigno. Russia favored immediate action against Turkey, but was induced by England to share the more moderate views of Austria, and accede to a postponement of the demonstration. —The recent celebration by Belgium of the fiftieth anniversary of its independence took place in the midst of a conflict so bitter that the bishops refused to take part. The country is said to have made great progress in fifty years; and yet statistical reports have shown that out of 908,000 families in the kingdom, 373,000 were in straitened circumstances and 446,000 in a wretched condition, and that 226,000 received aid from the State. A terrible struggle is now going on between the church and the nation; and it may be safely said that Belgium would fly into fragments if the great Powers did not hold it together by external pressure. —The Oneida Community announced a year ago that in deference to public opinion the immoral practices and mode of life it had adopted would be discontinued. Since then Mr. Noyes, the founder of the community, has removed to Canada with a few of the members, and has settled near Niagara, where it is believed he intends starting a new community on the same principles as the one at Oneida. The sudden and unexpected submission of the community was not, it has been discovered, altogether voluntary and spontaneous. A number of young people in the Oneida establishment had been led to see the sinfulness of their lives, and were resolved to make an exposure if Noyes had not agreed to dissolve the community. 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By J. H. Waggoner
SEPTEMBER 15, in the Jewish calendar, was the day of atonement. In a lengthy article in the Alta upon that subject were the following words:— "The prayers recited are not for Israel alone, but also for the entire world, it being believed that on yom kippur the whole world receives judgment upon the acts of the preceding year." This is interesting, as giving the faith of Israel in regard to the intent of their chief solemnity. 1. It is the time of the Judgment. As the cleansing of the sanctuary by the blood of the sin-offering took place on this day, Lev. 16, it is evident that the prophecy of the cleansing of the sanctuary is nothing less than the announcement of the sitting of the Judgment. 2. That it relates altogether to "the acts of the preceding year." It refers to the past—not at all to the future. In the antitype where the service of the High Priest is "once for all," the day of atonement, or the sitting of the Judgment, closes up human probation, as there is no further priestly service after that. How solemn to reflect that we are in the time spoken of in Dan. 8: 13, 14. ANTI-TOBACCO TRACTS.
By J. H. W.
WE have received from Rev. Albert Sims, Kelvin, Ontario, a package of tracts against the prevailing nuisance, tobacco. In a note Mr. Sims says of the tracts:— “I send them gratis to any one who will offer to read and distribute them to the best possible advantage. They are going at the rate of 10,000 pages per week. I ask no one for a cent, but look to God for means to carry on the work.” Mr. Sims is doing a work similar to that of the late Mr. Trask, of Fitchburg, Mass. We wish him abundant success in his praiseworthy undertaking and trust that the Lord will put it into the hearts of many of His people to circulate these tracts, and aid Mr. S. by their means, as it takes money to print them. One of these tracts, “Smoking and Chewing Tobacco Unclean Habits,” will be found in this week's SIGNS, and others will be used in like manner. J. H. W. THE New York Christian at Work says it is a startling fact that in New England to-day "marriage can be set aside for so many causes that it has practically ceased to exist, except as parties involved may desire." In four New England States, it is said, the reports show that the marital relations have been severed between 40,000 persons during the last twenty years, and divorces are nearly twice as numerous now as they were in 1860. The laws allowing divorce for so many causes (eight in Massachusetts) are arraigned on the ground of public morality, and as practically reducing the marriage state to that of a "legalized concubinage." OAKLAND has had another eventful day. September 9 was the thirtieth anniversary of the admission of California into the Union. On that day President Hayes and Mrs. Hayes, Secretary Ramsey, General Sherman, and others, arrived in this city, and a reception was given them which could not fail to be highly gratifying. All classes seemed to unite in giving honor to the first President who has visited the sunset of America. Mrs. Hayes was received by the "Ebell Society." There was much interest manifested to see the woman who dared to brave the customs of "high life," and banish wine from the Presidential mansion at the risk of offending the representatives of the nations, as she had been assured she would. But principle and consistency has for once triumphed in one of the highest places of earth. In the latter part of the day the honored party were received in San Francisco in like manner. The President expects to remain some time on this coast, and return east via the Southern Pacific Railroad line. TEMPERANCE SONG.
By Editor
WE have already noticed the book of Temperance and Gospel Songs, compiled by J. E. White and published by the American Health and Temperance Association. This week we give to our readers a piece of music from its pages. We have heard it, and admired it, as we believe all will. The authors of both words and music are known to the readers of the SIGNS by pieces which we have published from the "Song Anchor." A friend with a musical taste says we may "exhaust our adjectives" on this piece—"O Pure and Free." But it speaks for itself. This book of songs has many gems which cannot fail of becoming popular. REMAINING CAMP-MEETINGS FOR 1880.
By Editor
CALIFORNIA, Alameda....................Sept. 16-27.
INDIANA, Rochester......................." 23-27.
NEBRASKA, Central City..................." 23-28.
MISSOURI, Warrensburg..........Sept. 30-Oct. 5.
NORTH-WESTERN IOWA.................." 30-" 5.
MICHIGAN, Battle Creek......Sept. 28 to Oct. 11.
TEXAS..............................................Nov. 11-16. Business Department.
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY, AT OAKLAND, CAL., FOR THE MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS. Twelve-Page Edition.—A live Religious Family Paper, containing, in addition to the great variety of original articles, which make it a desirable prophetic journal, Departments devoted to Temperance, The Home Circle, News, The Missionary Work, and the Sabbath-school. PRICE PER YEAR, $2.00 In clubs of ten or more copies to one address, to be used for Missionary work, each 1.50 Eight-Page Edition.—Condensed from the above. Per Year, 1.25 In clubs of ten or more, each 1.00 Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. REVIEW AND HERALD, Battle Creek, Mich. MISS ELIZA THAYER, Secretary N. E. Tract Society, So. Lancaster, Mass. ELDER J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, Ravenswood, Shirley Road, Southampton, England. MRS. A. P. VAN HORN, Beaverton, Or.