ELDER A. had given out in the morning that the sermon in the evening would be to the mothers especially; and "if any of the fathers were present, and could feel their need of any of the crumbs that fell from the table, they would be welcome to fill as many baskets as they had a mind to carry home with them." So it came about that the place of meeting for the Jasper church was well filled the evening after Sabbath, January 19, 1889. A good many came out of curiosity; some came because they always came, rain or shine, unless sickness prevented, because they really loved the house of God and its services, and always had a hunger within, and received some good meat to feed upon, and who, if there was prayer and social meeting, were always ready with their prayers and with cheery, encouraging testimony. Of the latter class were Brother James Jewett and wife and their two daughters, Ruth and Rachel; Ruth played the organ, and Rachel had charge of the kindergarten division of the Sabbath-school, "real pillars" of the Jasper church they were considered to be, each one filling an important position, and felt by all (themselves included, though they did not know it, to do them justice) to be necessary to its life, growth, and prosperity.
Elder A. began his sermon by reading two texts, "one," he said, "for warning notes, and one for comfort and encouragement—so that the sound of the trumpet calling to war would not send any in fear away to tend flocks in the shelter of past good works, who should be ready at a moment's notice to volunteer to fight the enemy to the death.
"My first," said he, "you will find in Jer. 17:9, 10: 'The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.'"
He read these verses slowly, three times, and a hush fell on the congregation that was not all born of desire to hear every word the minister said. Some felt that it was the Spirit of God, and prayed in their hearts for its continuance throughout the entire meeting.
The minister then turned to Micah 7:18, 19: "'Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger forever, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities'"—a pause; then again, "'He will subdue our iniquities'"—another pause, and in louder voice, and with smiling face upturned, with glistening eye fixed as if upon the Father's own face, once more, "'HE WILL SUBDUE OUR INIQUITIES; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.'" Who wants to run away from the rising up of the foes within when such help as this is promised? Who of this congregation will fearlessly unite to conquer the foes that their own deceitful hearts hide and harbor; who will be of the number to whom it is said, "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame and am set down with my Father in his throne"?
"Many a good mother, who by her husband and children is thought to be perfect, who is faithful as a wife, who is a loving, wise, and tender mother, kind and considerate in her own home, patient to a wonderful degree, a good manager of her household, punctual and fervent in her daily family devotion, and who is the envy of many a neighbor, is yet encased in such a heavy coat of mail, composed of self-love and self-approval, of pride and conceit, that the angel of God who hovers around her to record her doings reports with sorrow the record he makes of her daily life. And why?—Because her own heart has deceived her, and unconsciously she makes of her husband, her children, her home, even her household duties, idols before whom she worships much more constantly and sincerely than she worships Him who says, 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself;' and she forgets for days together that it is as much her duty to love her neighbor as herself, as to yield homage to God in other things.
"Mothers, will you throw down your household gods? will you extend your usefulness? will you help your neighbors instead of hindering them by making yourselves stumbling-blocks in their way by your daily sins of omission rather than of commission? though both sins are chronicled against you in the books of Heaven, will you ask God for wisdom to direct you, and love to impel you, to the right deed of kindness, to the helpful hint that will assist your neighbors to bring about the same order and thrift they so often admire in your homes? Will you not remember that He 'from whom cometh every good and perfect gift' has said to you, 'Freely ye have received, freely give'? Oh, do not give that Pharisaical spirit room in your hearts any longer, that will lead you to survey your tidy house, your obedient sons or daughters, your well-cooked food and
tastefully-arranged table, your well-ordered home, with feelings of pride and secret exultation that yours is more perfect than your neighbor's. God loves order, and well-ordered households are well pleasing in his sight; he loves obedient children, but he would have you reverence the Source of all ability to bring about such a state of things; he would have you remember, if it be so, truly, that yours is a better ordered household than your neighbors, that it was he that vouchsafed to you good early training, that gave you calculative powers, love of order and neatness, tact to make the best use of all you have to do with, and he would have you be thankful for the gift, realizing it is a gift from God, given you to use for others than yourselves and your own families.
"I see those in this congregation whom I esteem highly for their Christian zeal and practice, whom I have heard extolled as model mothers, model housekeepers, model Christians, but of whom I am persuaded to believe if such were to-day 'weighed in the balance they would have been found wanting.' Why wanting?—Because opportunities to make 'covenant with God by sacrifice,' through tiny deeds of kindness for or toward their neighbor, have been let pass unnoticed or unheeded, thus bearing witness against themselves that of one part of the two commandments of love, upon which the whole law hangs, they were disobedient, and consequently not yet sealed as one of the company who in the day soon to come shall be found of Christ 'keeping the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.'
"Will you awaken, mothers, and cultivate more patiently in your own hearts, and in the hearts of your children, the plant of love to man, which must bud and blossom, and produce perfect and ripened fruitage before the seal of God's acceptance can be set upon your foreheads? Do you believe the time is short, and that in a few short years at most (God alone knows how few) the Judge of all the earth will show his face upon the earth again? If you believe it, go home to-night and set yourselves resolutely to the task of watching every secret motive of every act; do this for one solitary day, and see if you will not yourselves discern myriads of self-admiring, self-satisfying emotions, that, like the locusts of Pharaoh's day, 'are ready to eat up every herb of the land, and fruit of the trees,' and are quite as fateful and disastrous to the fruits of the Spirit, and as unlike humility as night is to day.
"Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.' Don't think any of you that I mean Sister A, or B, or C, or any other sister, think only, What is for me? Do not try to fit any of these garments of filthy rags that I have been holding up to-night for the rightful owners to see and take from my hands, to anyone but your own self; try every one on your own shoulders; if you find any one or more that fits, wear it home, and until God in his mercy shows you how to grow so much in the grace and knowledge of Jesus that it falls off, never to fit again; and till in its place you shall have a robe of Christ's own righteousness. And, my sisters in Christ Jesus, don't forget who is to aid you in it all; who it is that 'will subdue our iniquities,'221and by and by, when the great work of atonement is finished, 'will cast all our sins into the depth of the sea.'
"We are told by one among us, to whom God deigns to sometimes speak for our benefit, 'that discouragement is of the devil,' so tomorrow if any, by turning the eye within, should find they had been snared by their evil, deceitful heart, don't let discouragement find room to set a foot for a moment. Think of what God has done for you; what his promises are to all who ask with faith believing; remember that 'this is his will concerning you, even your sanctification;' and know always, and at all times, and in all cases, that because of your misdoings he will not change his essence, which is love always, and continually, toward all alike who turn unto him. No motion of repentance in your heart but what is faithfully noted and approved by him; no attempt at reform of any kind, however feeble, made in humility and love, is left unaided by him; and you should rejoice rather than faint at every new consciousness of a fault; it is not the consciousness thereof that makes you more wicked, but it offers an opportunity for repentance and reform that never could become yours without it; consciousness of sin is but the glorious light of the Spirit of God shining into the darkened corners of your souls, and showing you the cobwebs of sin, that you may hasten to cleanse them away and leave purity and cleanliness in their stead.
"I see tear-stained cheeks in this congregation before me now, and I am sure angels will witness vigorous effort at self-examination in many a heart among this people; and may the Holy Spirit assist in the cleansing of the soul temples of all filthiness of both flesh and spirit.
"My sisters, arise! the time is short; set yourselves to the work of purifying yourselves 'even as He is pure' as you have never done. 'Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones; strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.' 'The night cometh when no man can work,' and that night is just upon us! May God's blessing be upon you all. Amen!"
As one in a dream did Sister James Jewett go out of the house; for once she forgot to shake hands with old Auntie Stimson, the dear old lame soul, whose lamp was so well trimmed and burning that of all the garments the elder held out for owners, she never found one to fit her bent and tottering form; and so, joyful as ever, she waited for Sister Jewett's welcome, and could scarcely believe her ears when someone told her she had gone home.
"Suthin's wrong at home or Anna Jewett never'd ha' gone home without saying howdy to me; it does me good a whole week to get her warm hand-shake and greeting. Why, bless your heart, I never hear them two, James nor her, speak or sing but it makes me think I'm back to the good old times of '44, when we looked for the blessed Lord to come sure, and he didn't; but he's coming quickly now. Them notes of Elder A.'s sermon rung out sharp and clear, just as they made 'em ring who preached the Lord's coming them days, praise the Lord!" And more than one heart caught the strain, and praised the Lord too as they went home, more thoughtful than they came.
Sister Jewett forgot the extra shawl she always carried cold evenings to wrap baby James Jr. in, and was obliged to send back to her seat for it after they were otherwise all ready for the four and a half miles' ride home, but she had not forgotten the many garments that fitted her exactly, so she said in low tones to James as they rode along, "I am guilty, guilty, guilty; of what am I not guilty?"
"So am I! How many baskets full of crumbs I am carrying home! I wonder you know me, Anna, in these 'filthy rags' the elder threw over my shoulders; or have you seen them all the time?"
"Why, James, the sermon was to me, not you; I cannot wait, it seems to me, for to-morrow to come and bring me possible opportunity for removing one block of stumbling I threw in Mrs. Adkin's path yesterday afternoon just before the Sabbath began; one unheeded opportunity for covenanting with God by sacrifice, I may perhaps catch again; but for that one family I have let hundreds pass, I am certain. James, you do not know your wife at all; she is just beginning to know herself. God grant my case was not pending to-day, for I am 'wanting' everywhere."
"No, Anna, not in everything. Give God praise for all the help he has rendered you; and as the elder told you, 'take courage for the rest.' It was only yesterday I as good as lied to John Adkins. He wanted to know how I came always to have good potatoes and he never, only in an occasional hill. I told him, 'Oh, I guess you imagine I am more successful than you, that is all;' when, Anna, I am sure, and was then, that it lies in his manner of seeding and cultivating, and I wouldn't tell him lest he should catch up to me and come out as well as I. And this is but one instance of many similar cases with other neighbors than John. Then, I am proud as Lucifer of my wife, my daughters, of your management inside, of my own outside; and I am crowing inside half the time over the whole business, and taking all the credit to myself. If you are guilty, what am I?"
"James, we are both shamefully at fault; but thank God that time remains to turn new leaves, and, with his help, we will begin to-morrow by humble confessions at home first, for the girls' sake and each other, and then 'extend our usefulness' to our neighbors as much as possible."
On the back seat Ruth and Rachel sat silent; but when they had reached home and the lamp was lighted, both faces showed traces of tears, and when, on kissing them good-night, with one arm round each, Mrs. Jewett said, 'My girlies, sleep to-night, and come down early to help your father and mother begin the work of living new lives tomorrow,' Rachel said:—
"O mother, how do I dare to sleep when I have been so deceived and am so sinful! Won't you please ask God first to forgive me so I can sleep?"
"Ask him for me, too, do, mother; I am the worst of all," Ruth sobbed out.
And when Mr. Jewett came in from putting out the horses, he found his wife pleading with God, as he had never heard her before, for them all; and beside them he knelt too.
The Home Circle.
By Marianne Farningham
THE BURDEN.
To everyone on earth
God gives a burden, to be carried down
The road that lies between the cross and crown;
No lot is wholly free,
He giveth one to thee.
Thy burden is God's gift,
And it will make the bearer calm and strong;
Yet, lest it press too heavily and long,
He says, "Cast it on Me,
And it shall easy be."
And those who heed His voice,
And seek to give it back in trustful prayer,
Have quiet hearts that never can despair;
And hope lights up the way
Upon the darkest day.
Take thou thy burden thus
Into thy hands, and lay it at his feet;
And whether it be sorrow or defeat,
Or pain, or sin, or care,
Oh, leave it calmly there.
It is the lonely load
That crushes out the life and light of Heaven!
But, borne with Him, the soul, restored, forgiven,
Sings out through all the days
Her joy, and God's high praise.
—Marianne Farningham.
A BOY'S RESOLVE.
ADMIRAL FARRAGUT, one of the naval heroes in our Civil War, tells the following anecdote of his boyhood:—
When I was ten years old I was with my father on board of a man-of-war. I had some qualities that, I thought, made a man of me. I could swear like an old salt, could drink as stiff a glass of grog as if I had doubled Cape Horn, and could smoke like a locomotive. I was great at cards, and fond of gaming in every shape. At the close of dinner one day my father turned everybody out of the cabin, locked the door, and said to me, "David, what do you mean to be?"
"I mean to follow the sea."
"Follow the sea! Yes, to be a poor, miserable, drunken sailor before the mast; be kicked and cuffed about the world, and die in some fever hospital in a foreign land. No, David; no boy ever trod the quarter-deck with such principles as you have, and such habits as you exhibit. You'll have to change your whole course of life if you ever become a man."
My father left me and went on deck. I was stunned by the rebuke, and overwhelmed with mortification.
"A poor, miserable, drunken sailor before the mast. Be kicked and cuffed about the world, and die in some fever hospital. That is to be my fate," thought I. "I'll change my life, and change it at once. I'll never utter another oath; I will never drink another drop of intoxicating liquor; I will never gamble." I have kept these three vows ever since. Shortly after I had made them I became a Christian. That act was the turning-point in my destiny.
A GIGANTIC SCHEME.
Two years ago Heman Clark, the well-known contractor, broached a scheme for a great system of tunnels under New York City and the East and North Rivers, connecting the city with the suburban points. Little attention was paid to the plan, as it was considered too expensive to be practicable. Today Mr. Clark announces the completion of the arrangements for carrying out the great work. A capital of $150,000,000 has been guaranteed, of which $30,000,000 is considered sufficient to do the tunneling. The tunnels will be 150 feet below the surface, thus avoiding all buried wires, gas pipes, etc., and avoiding any difficulty with the rivers. The main tunnel will extend from the City Hall in New York to Fleetwood Park on the north, under Brooklyn to Coney Island on the east, and under Jersey City to Newark. There will be four tracks. Freight and passengers will be carried. The passenger trains will run at full express speed. Elevators will convey freight and passengers between the street stations and the tunnel. The plan for carrying freight will relieve the city streets of much trucking. Cars will be brought under the larger stores, and freight can be lowered directly to them. Negotiations are now pending with the city government for the required permission to begin work.—Sel.
Faithfulness in Little Things
"FAITHFULNESS in little things fits one for heroism when the great trials come."
SECULAR.
—Switzerland will fortify St. Gothard.
—France has doubled the duty on rye and rye meal.
—White Caps have begun operations in West Virginia.
—A new plot against the life of the Czar has been discovered.
—Emperor Francis Joseph will visit the Emperor William at Berlin soon.
—Black knot is devastating the blue plum orchards in some parts of Ohio.
—A fire at Ashton, Ill., destroyed twenty-one business houses on the 28th ult.
—It is estimated that the Riverside orange crop this year will be worth $1,000,000.
—The king of Holland is insane and has been declared incapable of doing business.
—Yellow fever and small-pox are doing deadly work at Rio Janeiro, South America.
—Within a year 12,000 patients have been treated free at the German Poliklinik, New York.
—All work on the Panama Canal has ceased and the laborers have quietly left the isthmus.
—President Harrison's proclamation declaring Behring Sea a closed sea was a surprise to Canada.
—Emperor William has contributed $150 to the new city hospital which is being erected in Baltimore.
—Street-cars will soon be running in the venerable city of Damascus, and the town will be lighted by gas.
—A piece of redwood bark three feet thick was brought to Visalia, this State, recently from the Frazer mill.
—The National Geographical Society puts down the population of Africa at about eighteen to the square mile.
—A number of coal mines near Pittsburg, Pa., have been shut down, throwing thousands of men out of employment.
—Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is recovering her health, but her mind is shattered and mentally she is no more than a child.
—The destruction of 3,000,000 pounds of tea, in Chicago, a few days since, has caused an advance in prices of the lower grades.
—Another Cabinet crisis is imminent in France. The new Ministry, it is feared, will go to pieces over the discussion of the budget.
—Last year Iowa raised, on 7,797,090 acres, 321,629,962 bushels of Indian corn, the commercial value of which is placed at $73,974,891.
—Five Chinese were landed at New York on the 28th ult., for the purpose of crossing the continent on their way to China. They came from Cuba.
—Col. Robert Lincoln has been appointed minister to Great Britain. The appointment gives general satisfaction both in this country and in England.
—The news from Hayti shows that disorder and violence still reign on the island. It is reported that another town has been bombarded and much property and many lives destroyed.
—March 26 the Spanish mail steamer Mindanio was sunk by a collision with the Spanish steamer Visavas. Thirty of the crew and passengers were drowned.
—March 26 the steamer Ocotolan foundered on Lake Chapala, near Guadalajara, Mexico, with a large excursion party on board. Over fifty lives were lost.
—An industrial training school is to be opened at Patterson, New Jersey, for young men who desire to become expert weavers, dyers, or finishers of silk fabrics.
—It is announced that the French Government has decided to prosecute General Boulanger on a charge of conspiracy with the leaders of the Patriotic League to accomplish a revolution.
—The Central Warehouse in Chicago was destroyed by fire on the 26th ult., with its contents, which consisted mostly of stores of teas, coffees, and merchandise. The loss was nearly $1,500,000.
—According to the report of the statistician of the Agricultural Department there were produced in this country during 1888, 415,868,000 bushels of wheat, of which California raised 28,415,000 bushels.
—Murat Halstead, editor of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, nominated by the President for the position of minister to Germany, was, on the 30th ult., rejected by the Senate by a vote of 25 to 19.
—One of the torpedo boats of the French navy was sunk recently, and fifty-three more vessels of the same pattern have been ordered to stay in port until they have been reconstructed and proved seaworthy.
—After a careful investigation the New York Sun has come to the conclusion that 40,000 working-women of that city are receiving wages so low that they are compelled to accept charity, adopt lives of shame, or starve.
—Advices from Lima, Peru, state that the Verru-gas bridge, the most famous of the bridges on the Oroya Railway, has been swept away by a flood. The bridge was 108 feet high, and the original cost was 400,000 soles.
—The Canadian Parliament has decided by a vote of 175 to 13 to allow the act of the Quebec Legislature granting the Jesuits $160,000; Catholic Bishops, $100,000; Montreal University, $140,000 for property confiscated a century ago.
—The British sealing schooners seized three years ago in Behring Sea by United States revenue cutters for violation of treaty obligations, were sold at public auction by United States Marshal at Port Townsend, Washington, on the 26th ult.
—A late dispatch to the Cologne Gazette from Zanzibar says: "A party of 230 men landed from the German man-of-war Schwalbe and burned Kondutchi, after a conflict with the natives. Opposition to the Germans is everywhere decreasing."
—Aluminum is coming into use as a material for dental plates, for which it is especially adapted by reason of its lightness, its freedom from odor or taste, and the fact that it is not affected by food or the secretions of the mouth. It costs about one-sixth as much as silver.
—It is stated that the members of the Prussian imperial family have subscribed the cost of a present of several thousand American repeating rifles and a quantity of ammunition to the Prince of Montenegro. They are supposed to be intended for use against Servia and in favor of Prince Karageorgevics.
—The alligator of the South, like the buffalo of the West, it is said, is likely soon to become extinct. The slaughter of the alligator for its hide, like the slaughter of the buffaloes for their hides, has been so great that it will be only a few years before the lonely lagoon of Florida will have lost its last survivor.
—The cost of maintaining public schools in New York State last year was $14,980,841, an increase of $1,200,000 over 1887. This money was for the education of 1,772,058 children of school age, of whom 1,033,269 attended school. The number of teachers employed was 31,726, at an average annual salary of $419.75.
—Mrs. Lucy Parsons recently delivered an address to some 2,500 persons in Chicago, in which she said: "We want a revolution, whether peaceful or bloody makes no difference. A revolution must come." "I have but one object in life," said Mrs. Parsons, "and that is to make you discontented—to make rebels of you all."
—John Bright, the English statesman, died in London on the 27th ult. He was born at Greenbank, November 16, 1811, and was consequently in his seventy-eighth year. His public life did not begin until 1839, when he joined the Anti-Corn Law League and became one of its most brilliant supporters. He was eulogized in the House of Lords on the 28th by the Marquis of Salisbury.
—March 18 Chairman Britton, of the Inaugural Committee, handed to the commissioners of the district a check for $26,000, this being the amount received from the inauguration over and above all expenses. The fund is to be invested and the interest devoted to relieving the distress of the poor in the city.
—A number of New York and Western capitalists have organized a corporation under the title of the American Meat Company, which proposes to engage in all the branches of the cattle and beef industry, from the raising of stock to the retailing of the product. The capital is fixed at $25,000,000, of which $15,000,000 have been already issued.
—The Russian Government is considering a measure for increasing the number of vessels in the navy. The plans under consideration involve the expenditure of 120,000,000 roubles ($87,200,000). The plans include several additions to the Black Sea and Baltic defense fleets, as well as the strengthening of the cruising fleets. The work will probably be begun at an early day.
—It is reported that the emperor of Austria, whose health has been affected very seriously by the shock of his son's death, will soon seek rest and distraction from anxiety in foreign travel under the strictest incognito. He is expected to visit the queen regent of Spain and the Prince of Wales, who was Rudolph's most intimate friend, but no official notice of his presence will be taken.
—It is stated that a company has been formed in France, headed by a well-known Alsatian manufacturer, for the purpose of diverting the Guiers River to St. Christophe, where a fall of 200 meters would be thus obtained, representing a force of 4,000 horsepower, which would be utilized in developing electricity for the production of aluminum by a new process from the clay found in the district. It is asserted that by means of the process in question, aluminum, which is at present so costly, can be produced at a price that will very little exceed that of the cheapest metals.
—Probably the most remarkable bank robbery that ever took place was that perpetrated at the First National Bank of Denver on the 29th inst. The robber secured a private interview with the president of the bank and then compelled him to fill out a check for $21,000; the cashier was then called in and the check cashed, after which the robber took his departure, and, though the alarm was immediately given, no trace of the scoundrel has been obtained. Neither the cashier nor one of the twenty-one clerks in the bank had the least suspicion that anything was wrong, the president not daring to give the least sign.
—It is stated that the Canadian Government has decided to renew the issue of fishery licenses under the modus vivendi in connection with the fishery treaty negotiated at Washington last year. The Newfoundland Government recently sent word to Ottawa that it would co-operate with Canada in the matter, and licenses issued by either Government will be equally good in all British North American waters. The speech from the throne, read at the opening of Parliament, intimated that Canada would revert to the treaty of 1818, and what caused a change of policy is unknown, but it is rumored that it is the result of a desire to open negotiations for a settlement of the fisheries question.
News and Notes.
By Editor
RELIGIOUS.
—The first wedding that ever took place in the Northwest in strict accordance with ancient Jewish rites, occurred in Milwaukee on the 17th ult.
—The Jews' free school at Spitalfields, England, is said to be the largest school in the world. It numbers 3,500 pupils—2,250 boys and 1,250 girls.
—The Pope's income for 1888 amounted to £504,000, of which £373,000 came from Peter's pence, £132,000 from interest on moneys invested out of Italy. The outlay of the Vatican amounted to only £340,000.
—Some statistician asserts that the net gain of new churches in the United States during the year 1888 was 6,434, the increase in the number of ministers was 4,505, while the increase in church-members was 774,861. The average gain for each day of the year was 17 churches, 12 ministers, and 2,120 members. Such figures should be well authenticated to receive credence.
Obituary.
By Frank Hope
SCHNABEL.—Died, February 7, 1889, at her daughter's house (Sister Prosser), Reno, Nev., Sister Elizabeth Schnabel, aged 68 years, 3 months, and 21 days. In 1844 Sister Schnabel embraced the First Angel's Message under the preaching of William Miller. Since that time she has been living a consistent Christian life, and has walked out in the light as the study of God's word revealed it to her. About eleven years ago she accepted the Sabbath and all the truths of the Third Angel's Message, and joined the Rocklin church. Her death was very sudden, and without the least suffering; it can be literally said that "she fell asleep in Jesus." She leaves one son and two daughters, all married, to mourn their loss. The body was taken to Newcastle, Cal., and buried from the Congregationalist Church, Rev. N. R. Peck and J. L. Fisher officiating.
Frank Hope.
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STOCKHOLDERS' MEETING.
By John Norton Loughborough
THE first annual meeting of the stockholders of the Pacific Sabbatarian Association will be held at the office of the Pacific Press Publishing Company, at Oakland, Cal., on Tuesday, April 23, 1889, at 5 P. M., for the election of officers, and the transaction of such other business as may come before the meeting.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, Pres.
HEALDSBURG COLLEGE.
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Rural Health Retreat Association Annual Meeting
By John Norton Loughborough
The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Rural Health Retreat Association (a corporation) will be held at Crystal Springs Health Retreat, near St. Helena, Napa Co., Cal., on Thursday, April 25, 1889, at 2 o'clock P. M. At this meeting a board of seven directors will be elected, and such other business transacted as may properly come before the meeting.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, Pres.,
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BATTLE CREEK COLLEGE,
BATTLE CREEK, MICH.
AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION.
FOUNDED IN 1874.
SPECIAL ADVANTAGES.
Six Departments of Instruction: namely, Collegiate, Theological, English, Preparatory, Manual Training, and Primary and Intermediate. A large faculty of competent teachers. Thorough instruction. A reading-room, and a well-selected library. Good school appliances, apparatus, and chemical laboratory. Healthful and desirable location. High standard of scholarship and morals, and good religious influences.
SPECIAL FEATURES.
Thorough and judicious discipline. Industrial training. Biblical instruction. A Missionary Department. Physical and moral training.
EXPENSES.
In price of board, room-rent, and tuition, this College presents as great inducements as any institution of learning in the land.
For catalogues or further information, address,
BATTLE CREEK COLLEGE, Battle Creek, Mich.
SEVENTH-DAY · ADVENTIST
By Editor
YEAR · BOOK
OF · STATISTICS · FOR · 1889
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Civil Government and Religion.
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By A. T. JONES,
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Scriptural, Logical, Plain, and Forcible.
This important work shows clearly the relation that should exist between Church and State at the present time, as proven by the Bible and history of the past twenty-five centuries.
Chap. I distinguishes between "What Is Due to God and What to Cæsar;" Chap. II shows for what purpose "The Powers That Be" are ordained; Chap. III outlines vividly the relation that existed between "Christianity and the Roman Empire;" Chap. IV ably discusses "The Religious Attack upon the United States Constitution, and Those Who Are Making It;" Chap. V unmasks "Religious Legislation," calling special attention to the Blair Sunday Bill, now pending in Congress; Chap. VI is devoted to "The Sunday-law Movement in the Fourth Century, and Its Parallel in the Nineteenth."
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Christianity and the Drama
By Editor
SOME time since, in commenting upon the statement that religion and the drama were becoming intertwined, we said: ‘Religion and the drama may be becoming intertwined, but Christianity and the drama are not and never can. The drama is part and parcel of the world, and the Christian is commanded to ‘love not the world, neither the things that are in the world; if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.’’ This the Freethought, a liberal paper published in San Francisco, criticises as follows:—
‘We read in holy writ that God himself so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son for it, and the Son so loved the world that he gave his life to redeem it. We are, furthermore, enjoined to be perfect as the Father in Heaven is perfect. If man is to be as God, and if God loves the world, how can man leave the world outside his affections? Is it possible that there can be inconsistencies in religion?’
This criticism is merely a play upon words. God loves the world in one sense, while the unregenerate man loves it in quite another sense. God's love for the world is that of a parent for a child, a love that would elevate and save, and this is witnessed by the fact that he made an infinite sacrifice to make salvation possible. But the love of the natural man for the world is altogether selfish; he loves it that he may use it to gratify his unholy desires. Man's love of the world is really self-love; God's love for the world is a love for others. There are glaring inconsistencies in religion, so called, but none in genuine Christianity. Religion and Christianity are not synonymous, nor is everything Christian which bears that name.
Protest Against Sunday Newspapers
The London Christian World has entered a vigorous protest against the London Sunday edition of James Gordon Bennett's paper, the Herald. The World says that Mr. Bennett "will do well to recognize the general feeling against the publication of the new London edition of that paper on Sundays as well as week-days. It is an intensely unpleasant and dangerous, as well as an unnecessary, innovation."
Prominent ministers of almost all denominations, including Archdeacon Farrar, Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, the Bishop of Ripon, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, and Drs. Dale, Allan, and Parker, have also spoken against the innovation, but still the Sunday edition of the Herald is published. Referring to this matter the Christian at Work says: "We could wish Mr. Bennett would discontinue a publication which so greatly offends a pronounced public sentiment. But we fear there is as little probability of that as there is that the tide of the Indian Ocean will climb to the peaks of the Himalayas."
Punishment for a Fraudulent Divorce
By Editor
A CHICAGO lawyer who recently secured a fraudulent divorce for a client was a few days since found guilty of contempt of court and sentenced to the county jail for one year and to pay a fine of $500. If all divorce sharks were served in the same way it would do something towards solving the divorce problem.