In a napkin smooth and white,
Hidden from all mortal sight,
My one talent lies to-night.
Mine to hoard, or mine to use,
Mine to keep, or mine to lose;
May not I do what I choose?
Ah! the gift was only lent,
With the Giver's known intent
That it should be wisely spent.
And I know he will demand
Every farthing at my hand,
When I in his presence stand.
What will be my grief and shame
When I hear my humble name
And cannot repay his claim!
Some will double what they hold;
Others add to it tenfold,
And pay back in shining gold.
Lord, oh, teach me what to do!
Make me faithful, make me true,
And the sacred trust renew.
Help me, ere too late it be,
Something now to do for thee—
Thou who hast done all for me.
—Observer.
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There were over four hundred who encamped on the ground, the Sabbath school the last Sabbath numbering, we believe, 464. Collections were taken for the religious liberty work and first-day offerings, the amount of which we cannot now state. The Baptists kindly loaned their font for baptism, and Sabbath afternoon Elder Andross baptized eighty, forty-one males and thirty-nine females. Sixty or more of these were baptized into the message. There were many hopeful conversions of children, youth, and adults, on the ground. It was a good meeting, and the blessings were a foretaste of what lie beyond. May God help our brethren and sisters to "go forward."
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International S. S. Lessons.
"So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading." —Neh. 8:8
LESSON V.—SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1893.
ABSTINENCE FOR THE SAKE OF OTHERS.
[NOTE.—The questions which follow are merely suggestive for the student on the leading points of the lesson; it is presumed that the thorough student will think of many more as he studies the subject. References, where verses alone are given, always refer to the lesson scripture printed above. All other references are given in book, chapter, and verse. The text printed is that of the Revised Version, not because it is especially preferred, but because it is not found in every family, as is the common version.]
Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
If any man thinketh that he knoweth anything, he knoweth not yet as he ought to know;
But if any man loveth God, the same is known of him.
Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no God but one.
For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth; as there are gods many, and lords many;
Yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.
Howbeit in all men there is not that knowledge; but some, being used until now to the idol, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
But meat will not commend us to God; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.
But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak.
For if a man see thee which hast knowledge sitting at meat in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
For through thy knowledge he that is weak perisheth, the brother for whose sake Christ died.
And thus, sinning against the brethren, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, ye sin against Christ.
Wherefore, if meat maketh my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh forever more, that I make not my brother to stumble.
Golden Text: "We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves." Rom. 15:1.
SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.
Of what had the Corinthian church knowledge? Verse 1.
What does knowledge do?
Of what benefit is love?
What is said of him who thinks he knows anything? Verse 2.
Who is known of God? Verse 3.
What is said of the gods of the world? Verses 4, 5.
Who is the one only God of the believer? Verses 4, 5.
Of how much are the Father and Son the source? Verse 6.
Is the knowledge of this truth universal? Verse 7.
How did some partake of the sacrifices to idols?
What is the effect of thus doing?
How does meat (food) affect our relation to God? Verse 8.
To what should we take heed? Verse 9.
What influence might our liberty have on others? Verse 10.
What disastrous results might ensue? Verse 11.
In thus wounding our brother's conscience what do we do against him? Verse 12.
How does it affect our relation toward Christ?
What would be a safe standard to adopt? Verse 13. See note.
NOTE.
Meats Offered to Idols.—Among the heathen it was customary to take portions of the sacrifices which had been laid on the altar of some idol and eat them at feasts. Sometimes these were sold in the market. Devotees of the idol thought that peculiar sanctity attached to these things, hence they partook of them not only in reverence to their god, but expecting to receive themselves a special blessing. The Christians, in their intercourse with their heathen neighbors, were constantly brought into positions requiring wisdom and discretion. The offering of anything to the idol did not affect its value as food. It might be partaken of as ordinary food, without any relation whatever to its having previously been offered to an idol, and there would be no sin in the act, considered of itself alone. The sin would be in the influence growing out of that act. A weak brother might deem that the one thus eating was partaking, as did the heathen, in honor of the idol. And from this example the weak brother might take license to do other things in and of themselves sinful. The principle is broad in its application. There are many things which we today might do, and perhaps of themselves those things would not be sin; but others might misinterpret our motives, or take liberty from our course to do that which would be positively heinous. We are our brother's keeper, "For none of us liveth unto himself, and no man dieth to himself." Rom. 14:7. Every act of our lives should be done with respect to its influence upon others. "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God." 1 Cor. 10:31.
18. Little children, it is the last hour; and as ye heard that antichrist cometh, even now have there arisen many antichrists; whereby ye know that it is the last hour.
19. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out, that they might be made manifest how that they all are not of us.
20. And ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
21. I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
22. Who is the liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, even he that denieth the Father and the Son.
23. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father; he that confesseth the Son hath the Father also.
24. As for you, let that abide in you which ye heard from the beginning. If that which ye heard from the beginning abide in you, ye also shall abide in the Son, and in the Father.
25. And this is the promise which he promised us, even the life eternal.
To what time does our lesson especially apply? Verse 18.
Whose coming is foretold?
How fully has this prediction been fulfilled?
Of what is this the proof?
With whom have these antichrists been nominally connected? Verse 19.
Was the fellowship real?
What makes this plain?
Why do they withdraw?
What is given to the believers? Verse 20.
With what result?
What was the real reason for writing the epistle? Verse 21.
Who is a liar? Verse 22.
Who is antichrist?
How close is the relationship between the Father and the Son? Verse 23.
What is to abide in the believers? Verse 24.
What experience will follow?
What has been promised to them? Verse 25.
NOTES.
1. VERSES 18-20.—Apostasy is a characteristic of the last time (or hour, R. V.). The Saviour predicted this (Matt. 24:11, 12), and the church has been warned of it more than once (1 Tim. 4:1; 2 Tim. 3:1-5). The incarnation is the testing truth (2 John 7), and this really means the union of divinity and humanity in the believer (Col. 1:27). This experience involves the death of self (Rom. 6:6), and giving up all things temporal (Luke 14:33), and hence many, like Demas (2 Tim. 4:10), fail to endure the test. The power of God in the church is the best agency for relieving it of unworthy members (Isa. 52:1), as is shown in the early church (Acts 5:1-14). Jesus was anointed by the Father (Acts 10:38), and so are his followers (2 Cor. 1:21), and they are thus enabled to comprehend the things of God (Eph. 1:17-19), which are spiritually discerned (1 Cor. 2:12-14).
2. VERSES 22, 23.—Christ being the image of God (2 Cor. 4:4), one with the Father (John 10:30), through whom alone the Father could be known (Matt. 11:27), to see one was to see the other (John 12:45), and a denial of one includes the rejection of the other (compare 2 Peter 2:1 with Jude 4).
3. VERSES 24, 25.—Love to one another was the command from the beginning (2 John 5), and this involves the new birth (1 John 4:7), which results in the indwelling presence of both the Father and the Son (John 14:23). Christ is the life (John 11:25), and is from eternity (Micah 5:2, margin), and so is called the eternal life (1 John 1:2), which was promised before man fell (Titus 1:2), and announced to him before he was driven from the Garden of Eden (Gen. 3:15). To believe on Christ is to receive him (John 1:12), who is life (Col. 3:4), and so believers have everlasting life (John 3:36). When God gave Christ to the world, he poured out all the treasure of heaven in one gift (Col. 2:9), and it will be our constant study to all eternity to learn what we have in Christ.
WORD THOUGHTS.—Antichrist (v. 18), from the Greek antichristos, against Christ. Not necessarily professedly against him, but really against him.—Anointing (v. 20), a chrisma (common version “unction”). The root word is chrio, to anoint; from this christos, anointed, ho Christos, the Christ. What made Jesus the Christ was the anointing of the Holy Ghost (Luke 4:18; Acts 10:38). The anointing of the same Holy One will be upon all those who are Christ’s, in abundant measure in the last days; and those professing to be his and having it not will be against Christ. The anointing, the Spirit of God, leads into all truth. See John 14:16, 17; 16:13, 14.
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—The old firm of A. Lusk & Co., San Francisco, received the highest award for canned fruits at the World's Fair.
—A dispatch from Little Rock says that the town of Fulton, Ark., was almost entirely destroyed by fire on the 6th inst.
—A commercial house in Denver, Colorado, has contracted to send 5,000 tons of hay to Liverpool, via Galveston, Texas.
—The San Francisco papers note the fact that six children in the family of the county clerk are down with diphtheria.
—Leading men in Paris have opened an office with twenty-five clerks to begin preparations for another World's Fair in 1900.
—It is reported from Buffalo, Wyo., that the Sioux Indians at Pine Ridge Agency have left the reservation and gone on the warpath.
—During the recent bombardment of Rio Janeiro by the rebel gunboats, a British citizen was killed while standing at the window of his hotel.
—An American traveler named David Garrick Longworth has sent forward the type and presses for the establishment of an English newspaper in Cairo, Egypt.
—At Parangariento, State of Michoacan, Mexico, on the 1st inst., ten persons were killed and a large number injured as the result of a panic caused by a fire in a church.
—A cyclone is said to have struck a portion of South Union County, Ark., on the 6th inst., destroying scores of houses, and killing several people, mostly colored.
—The engineers, firemen, trainmen, and telegraph operators of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad have agreed to accept ten per cent reduction of wages until January.
—A dispatch from Sunderland, England, a port on the North Sea, says there is much excitement there owing to the United States coal merchants entering into competition with those of England.
—The police of Prague have discovered a plot to assassinate several high officials of the Bohemian Government. Three hundred Czechs were arrested, but the leader had escaped and gone to Paris.
—About $40,000,000 of Northern Pacific Railroad bonds are held in Germany, and the recent embarrassment of the company and factional disagreement has brought over German representatives to look after their interests.
—The Baptist Gleaner office at Fulton, Ky., has been completely destroyed by fire, and it is generally believed that the fire was set at the instigation of the saloon men and corrupt officials, whose disgraceful acts have been severely criticised in the paper.
—Although the rebellion in Brazil is spreading in the country, it is stated that foreign war ships will prevent further bombarding of the city of Rio Janeiro by the rebel fleet. Such action may eventually thwart the entire purpose of the revolutionists for the present.
—In the United States District Court of Alaska the British steamer Coquitiam, and also over 6,000 sealskins, valued at nearly $100,000, which were found on board the vessel, have been forfeited to the government. So says a Port Townsend dispatch of the 4th inst.
—The work of pulling down the World's Fair buildings will begin promptly after October 31. Customhouse officials will virtually take possession of the foreign displays the day the Fair closes. This is to prevent the sale of any of the goods without first paying duty.
—It is reported that the English Government has decided to act as mediator between the striking coal miners and the mine owners, provided such mediation is acceptable. Soldiers have been sent to Newhall, where there has been a fight between the police and strikers.
—The Ethnological Department of the World's Fair has decided that the children of this city (Oakland, Cal.) are the finest, mentally and physically, in America. The test was on this: 6,000 children were examined by taking length and breadth of face, breadth and length of head, weight, height, and other details involving thirty or more measurements. The comparison was with like examinations of children in Boston, New York, Chicago, and other leading cities.
—The carpenters' union of San Francisco is endeavoring to compel certain contractors for the Midwinter Fair to recognize an eight-hour day. The contractors say that they pay for the over time, and that extra work is necessary in order to complete their contract on time.
—The military barracks at Roslay, Russia, were burned on the 4th inst. Sixty men were driven to a roof, and obliged to jump. Eleven were killed and eight fatally injured. Twenty-eight men were suffocated by smoke and burned to death, and still others were reported missing.
—According to the Treasury statement issued by Secretary Carlisle, the total amount of money in circulation in the United States on October 1 was $1,701,939,918, about $25 per capita. This represents the aggregate wealth of about 200 of the richest persons in this country.
—Late London advices announce that England has formally declared war against King Lobengula, of Matabeleland, South Africa. The native population numbers about 300,000, and the colonists are comparatively few in number, and until reinforced they are said to be in a precarious position.
—The people crowded into Chicago last Sunday in such numbers, to be on hand for "Chicago day" on Monday, that many could not find sleeping places. Thousands sat up all night in restaurants, booths, and in doorways. The number of visitors at the Fair was double that on any previous Sunday.
—The buildings under construction for the Midwinter Fair in San Francisco are as follows: Manufactures' and Liberal Arts Building, 450x200 feet; Agricultural and Horticultural Building, 460x160 feet; Mechanical Arts Building, 320x140 feet; Fine Arts Building, 124x64 feet; and the Administration Building, 80x55.
—The latest reports of the effects of the great storm and tidal wave along the gulf coast of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama foot up the loss of human life at about 2,000 persons, and the property loss goes into the millions. Besides this there is much suffering and want among the thousands who are left destitute.
—U. S. District Attorney Garter, of San Francisco, says that all the money expended in attempting to enforce deportation of the Chinese is simply thrown away. He says, "No one doubts that Congress will eventually extend the time for registration under the Geary Act, and all cases prior to such action will be appealed to the Supreme Court.
—A Chicago dispatch says that R. Dorris, a saloon keeper of Benton, Ill., sued A. C. Terhume, of the same place, for a liquor bill of $60. Terhume filed a counter claim of $350 for days' labor lost, fines paid, and Keeley treatment taken, all due to whisky furnished by Dorris. The justice of the peace allowed the claims against the saloon keeper.
—Spain is sending 8,000 troops to Morocco, with instructions to attack the Moors with the utmost vigor. Other troops will also be held in readiness. Dispatches from Mellilla say that 27,000 Moors are surrounding that place, and are determined to prevent the erection of a Spanish fort at Guartach. Spanish gunboats were shelling Moorish forts along the coast at last accounts.
—The English Consul General at Shanghai has sent the foreign office an interesting report of the silver question as affecting China. He gives his conclusions, after an exhaustive investigation, and says China never has been an absorber of silver. Between 1870 and 1880 she took about £3,000,000 yearly, but since 1880 the process has ceased, and recently she has even exported a small amount of silver.
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RELIGIOUS.
—The Indiana Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Church has resolved not to vote for a man nor a party which sustains liquor license.
—M. Clemenceau, the recently defeated French Radical Statesman, says “the Roman Catholic Church is the greatest political force in existence.” And he ought to know.
—A church at Fostoria, Ohio, has decided to purchase 400 little wine glasses, that each communicant may receive the wine out of a glass which no other person has used, for the purpose of cleanliness and in order to avoid microbes.
—One more minister has gone on record as a practical sympathizer with his congregation in the prevalent hard times. This is Rev. John P. Coyle (Congregationalist), of North Adams, who has informed the trustees of his church that he will accept but half salary until times are better.
—The saying, “Like priest, like people,” is well illustrated in the following confession of Rev. A. W. Momerie, a Protestant clergyman of London: “The clergy are to blame for the bigotry of the laity. We have been bigoted, partly from ignorance and partly from supercilious, priestly pride. We have transferred our bigotry to the laity, and kindled it to a flame.”
—Rev. Madison C. Peters, pastor of the Bloomingdale Reformed Church, of New York City, has inaugurated a system of relief for destitute persons. He has established business relations with a coal and wood company, and is hiring men out of work to saw and split wood. He has a bureau for second-hand clothing, and arrangements for the sale of groceries to the very poor at reduced rates.
—A Topeka, Kan., minister says it looks bad to see those Christians who were loudest in their protestations against the opening of the gates of the Columbian Exposition on Sunday, now being the first to take the Sunday train for that place. Inconsistency always “looks bad,” but how could anyone be expected to act consistently with no higher religious motive than the maintenance of an inconsistent institution.
—On September 13 the corner stone of a new Methodist building was laid in the city of Rome. The building is to occupy the site of a former Catholic Church, which had been built on the ruins of a pagan temple. The structure, when completed, will include a church, offices of the Methodist Episcopal Publishing House, residence of the superintendent of missions of Italy, a theological school, and a boys' school.
—The Living Age (Protestant Episcopal) well says: “When people talk of accepting Christ alone, without the church, they are separating what he himself has joined together. It is a marriage in which there can be no divorce. We shall do well to read and ponder in this connection the latter part of the fifth chapter of the Epistle to the Ephesians.” But when we are asked to accept the P. E. structure as the only true church, that is another question.
—A New York dispatch of the 6th inst. says that missionaries are in that city endeavoring to spread the faith of Mohammed. Moslem headquarters have been opened at 458 West Twentieth Street, and every Friday evening and Sunday afternoon lectures will be delivered on the doctrines and customs of Islam. Mr. Webb, who is an Englishman converted to Islamism, told his hearers that he did not expect to make converts of them at once. The object of his propaganda at present is simply to educate. He wants Americans to learn something of Mohammed and the doctrines he taught before they make a comparison of Islamism and Christianity and decide which system is the better.
—It is probable that some of the representatives of heathen religions will go home from the World’s Parliament of Religions at Chicago with the impression that they accomplished a world of good at the great religious show. It is on record that one Catholic bishop felt constrained to thank some of them for their criticism of Christian methods. And they were often applauded by the audiences. Of course these men were deluded by the supposition that everything they saw in “a Christian nation” was Christian,—slaughterhouses, breweries, saloons, and all the forms of dishonesty and revelry. They were even led to suppose that Christianity was represented by the various and conflicting forms of sectarianism, Protestant and Catholic, on outward display at the great contest, and went home with a lower estimate of Christianity than they had when they came. It is a pity, but what else could have been expected. Satan could not have perpetrated a greater deception upon the already blinded heathen than to palm off America’s religious display as Christianity.
