p. 103 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 1, No. 13. (1/14/1875)

Earlier text: Every-Day Life in Palestine

Force.

By W. M. Healey

"For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right." Jer. 23: 10.

Nothing is accomplished without the application of some force. See one of the large woolen or cotton mills of the East, with its many looms and spindles all in motion, weaving hundreds of yards of cloth each day. What is it that keeps these spindles in motion? It is force derived from the water that comes tumbling down upon the great water-wheel, which, being forced to turn, in its turn forces other wheels around, and thus the force goes from wheel to wheel until the whole complicated machinery is set in motion.

We move westward until we find ourselves crossing the continent upon the great Pacific Rail Road. As we wend our way up the Sierra Nevada mountains, take a look from that car window, just as we are rounding a curve in the road, and you will see two beautiful engines moving gracefully around the curve, puffing away as they drag behind them the long train of cars, at the rate of twenty miles an hour, and the whole train seems almost a thing of life. Surely there is beauty in this manifestation of force, and it seems to be right. But as we descend the mountains suppose a brake gives way and the whole train comes dashing down the grade to certain ruin. Here is force that is not right; that is, it does not accomplish a good or desirable object.

Suppose, again, that we are standing upon the wharf in San Francisco, and looking out upon the Bay toward the Golden Gate, we see a noble ship that has come across the ocean. How majestically she glides upon the water, driven by the force of wind. But imagine that same ship far out at sea; a sudden storm arises, her sails are torn, her masts broken, and she, laden with human life, is fast being driven on toward destruction. In this case that force, whose work we were just admiring, becomes a thing of dread.

We might go on with these observations to almost any length, but let us bring them to man. Man has force, physical and mental, or force of body and force of mind, or rather these are the channels through which his force is manifested, and this force is brought into action in all he does. It seems to represent the amount of active, real life which he possesses, and is supplied by the air he breathes, and the food he eats.

The prophecy from which our text is taken looks forward to a time when prophets and pastors seem to be plenty in the land, and the Lord finds no fault here with their lack of energy, or force, but says, "Their force is not right." They ran, but God had not sent them. They prophesied, but God had not spoken. See verse 21. In their prophecy they say, "The Lord hath said, ye shall have peace." See verse 17. What is this but the cry of many in our day. If we preach the Lord is soon coming they cry, "Peace, peace; do not be alarmed, the world is to be converted and there will be a thousand years of peace before the Lord comes." And does not God say in verses 5, 6, that he will raise up a King to execute judgment, and justice in the earth, and in his days Judah shall be saved? Yes, and he also says in the same connection, that this King shall be "The Lord our righteousness." Lo the Lord is to come before that reign of peace.

God also says that these very persons who are prophesying peace, peace, shall be cast out of his presence. See verses 39, 40.

What else do they say in their prophecy? "They say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you." Verse 17. How often we hear this doctrine taught. If we urge upon the people the necessity of studying God's word, and tell them they are breaking the law of God by violating the fourth commandment, in not keeping the seventh day, which is the Sabbath of the Lord, instead of the first day which is commanded only by men.

These prophets say, "Oh! it makes no difference, your father and mother kept the first day and taught you to do the same. You are doing as well as you know how; you live according to your conscience (imagination of your own heart), no evil shall come upon you." Dear reader, be careful how you take these sleepy medicines, for "there is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." Prov. 16: 25.

But to return to our text. Verse 10: "Their force is not right." The prophets and priests, as well as the people, were using their force but not right. They were full of adulteries and profanity. How well this is fulfilled in our day I need not stop to argue. For the first, I have only to point you to the newspapers of the time; and for the second, you have only to go among men almost anywhere in our broad land. Now these profane and adulterous persons have force, but it is not right. Some persons do not have sufficient force to accomplish much of anything in life. They are born deficient in life elements, or these elements have been destroyed by improper living. But the great trouble is not want of force in man, but his force is wrongly directed. The highwayman has sufficient force, but he uses it to accomplish a wrong end. The same amount of force used in the service of God would be of great use in the cause.

Thus we see the reason why some of the worst men, when converted to God, become the brightest lights in his service. There are no new faculties created, but the great force which places them beyond their fellows in wickedness, has been applied to a new purpose and is telling, with the same effect. The apostle Paul is a good example of this kind.

There are those who use nearly all their force physically. They take great pride in their strength, but they take no pains to cultivate their minds; they seldom read, and I might say, scarcely think. They have very little relish for study of any kind, and yet they often have good, natural, mental ability; but they have allowed it to become dwarfed by using all their force through the body, leaving their mind unsupplied.

Again, we see those who spend nearly all their force through the mind leaving their body weak and nervous. One man spends his force in animal pleasure, another in seeking wealth, another in trying to gain the honor and vain glory of the world. But how few there are who are using their force according to all the laws of God, both natural and revealed. Reader, would you be among those who shall hear the welcome plaudit, "Well done good and faithful servant," then be careful how you use your force.

There are those who know their duty in many things yet fail to do it, many who cannot deny the obligation they are under to keep God's commandments, but do not keep them. Some are convinced that the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord and the only one he has commanded us to keep, do not keep it, but hold back from doing what they know is right. What is the matter with these persons? Evidently they lack force, or their force is not right; the latter I think is usually the case, for if we were to follow them to the ball-room, the card, or billiard table, or to some church festival, we would not think they lacked force. But, alas! there is more force in the festivals of many a church than there is in her prayer meetings. Are they not "lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God?" Paul says such shall live in the last days. See 2 Timothy 3: 1-5.

My dear reader, whoever you are, stop and think, how are you spending your force? Are you spending it as you would were you to render an account to God at this time for all your actions? Would you not pray instead of cursing? Ah! how much force is used in profaning God's name, that ought to be used in seeking his favor.

Many a man spends more force in a fit of anger than he ever spent in prayer. Many a woman spends more force in fashionable dress, or gossiping about some other woman, than she ever spent in trying to elevate her own sex; and more time and force in reading the latest novel than she does in reading her Bible, and more time in talking about her beaux than she does in trying to refine her own mind. Young men, yes, and old men too, how are you using your force? Is it in lounging around stores, hotels, or billiard rooms? Is it in drinking intoxicating drinks or using that filthy weed tobacco, or is it in trying to do right? May God help us all to see that our force is "right."

W. M. HEALEY.

News and Miscellany.

By Editor

"MEN'S hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth." Luke 21:26.

DISTRESS OF NATIONS.

WHILE some other nations who have been perplexed with internal strife are becoming more tranquil, the United States is threatened with serious trouble in the State of Louisiana. From our various exchanges we learn that the ground of difficulty is respecting the legality or illegality of the election of certain legislators.

The S. F. Chronicle of Jan. 1, says: "It is evident that an overwhelming majority of the people of Louisiana are opposed to Kellogg. These are good citizens, men of property, business and social position, and it is hard to say that a whole community is wrong and a faction right."

In its issue of Jan. 3, the same paper says: "The Courts, exercising the authority confided to them by the State Constitution and laws, declared Kellogg to be the rightfully elected Governor of Louisiana."

"The opponents of the Kellogg administration formed themselves into a military organization; formed companies, regiments, and battalions; armed themselves, drilled and paraded, and proclaimed it their intention to overthrow the legal government. They carried their intentions into effect, and in the city of New Orleans gave battle with ball and bayonet to the forces of law and order. They triumphed. McEnery came forth from his hiding-place with proclamations, and assumed the functions of the gubernatorial office. The President was called upon to interfere; he did so, and restored the government the Courts had ordained; recognized the government of Kellogg simply because he was the Governor pronounced by the law. The President has since referred the matter to Congress. In the meantime, the minority party organized the Legislature by a trick, it is said, after having kidnapped at least three colored members of the majority. While this crime was being consummated, and in order to prevent it, and at the request of the legal Government, troops were marched into the corridors of the Hall of Assembly to maintain order and support the laws."

STILL LATER.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—Governor Ames, of Mississippi, telegraphed to the President on Monday, asking that a company of troops be sent to Vicksburg to preserve order. The dispatch was referred to the Secretary of War, who ordered the troops as requested.

General Sheridan, it seems, is at New Orleans, making arrests and endeavoring to maintain the Kellogg government. The New Orleans Times of Jan. 5, says: "We have no government, legal or illegal, and have not had for the last two years." It then calls this proceeding of the government "a riot, an insurrection." The New York Tribune says of it, that it is "the greatest outrage that ever, in the history of the country, has been practiced upon the citizens of a State." The N. Y. Sun calls it "the crowning outrage."

To say the least of it, this Louisiana trouble is assuming serious aspects and savors strongly of civil war.

SPAIN.

The Republic of Spain and the war of Don Carlos and others has suddenly been brought to a stand still. Prince Alfonso, son of ex-Queen Isabella, has been proclaimed King. He is seventeen years of age. A Paris dispatch of Jan. 2, says Alfonso has granted complete amnesty to all Carlists. He desired to be the King of all Spaniards. The dispatch states that the recognition of the kingdom by most of the European cabinets is momentarily expected. The S. F. Chronicle of Jan. 8, says: "Alfonso proclaims a free Church and a free Press in a land where the Inquisition flourished and where freedom of speech and freedom of print has but feeble encouragement."

The telegraph announces that now Spain has a settled Government, the United States will press her claim for indemnity on the Virginia affair, which will make a little perplexity on that score.

FIRES.

JAN. 4, at Portland, Oregon; loss $8,000. Jan. 7, postal car burned on the Baltimore and Potomac road; loss $400,000 in bank notes and other documents. Jan. 9, Western Hotel burned in Sacramento; loss $100,000 and three lives lost. Same date, fire in Baltimore, Md. ; loss $350,000.

Jan. 5, a terrible fire-damp explosion at Rotherdam, Yorkshire, Eng. ; 90 persons reported killed,

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THIS WEEK'S PAPER.

By Editor

We come before our readers this week with a good variety of reading matter. In addition to the series of articles on Saints' Inheritance, Ministration of Angels, and Morality of the Sabbath, we commence this week an interesting series from the pen of Elder James White, on the Signs of the End, or an exposition of Matthew Twenty-four. The article from the pen of Bro. Wm. M. Jones of London, on Every Day Life in Palestine is good. It gives some important facts on the numbering and reckoning of the days of the week among the Arabs. These facts are full of meaning, as applied to the Sabbath question.

The article, Among the Nations, is full of interest, and speaks for itself. I will here say, in addition to statements there made, I received a letter a couple days since from South Africa, from a friend who went there from California, making anxious inquiries respecting our cause. He had been there three years, had heard but little of anything from the United States. Said he had sent half a sovereign to Battle Creek for the Review, and hoped to receive it.

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By John Norton Loughborough

Millennium.

The S. F. Chronicle of Jan. 11, thus speaks on the subject: About Christmas and New Year's our contemporaries indulged in a very general strain of gratulation over the blessed condition of things on this planet. Civilization was advancing; religion was extending her gentle sway; swords were being extensively metamorphosed into pruning-hooks, and the era was approaching when the nations should learn war no more. Meantime, it is pretty clear that most of the European nations have no abiding faith that the millennium is close at hand. Italy keeps up an army of 400,000 men; France 700,000; England 220,000; Austria 650,000, and Germany a bigger force than any of the others. This looks as if there may be a good deal of fighting to be done yet before the lion shall lie down with the lamb.

All the Christian sects together comprise a membership of 330,000,000, while heathen worshipers count over 1,000,000,000. The Roman Catholic church embraces 195,000,000 followers, and the Buddhists 340,000,000; while all the Protestant denominations combined number only 68,139,000.

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The inquiry has been raised, if we "need the funds that has been pledged for the publishing interests in California." I answer, Yes. If Bro. White comes as soon as we anticipate, we shall immediately take into consideration the matter of a permanent site for office buildings, and prepare for the reception of press, engine, &c., proposed to be furnished by our Eastern brethren. I presume the next State quarterly meeting at Napa will also be an extra session of our State Conference to take into consideration the subject of the publishing interests of this coast; but more of this hereafter. I will here say, let all pay up on their pledges to the publishing fund as fast as possible, that we may be prepared to move forward unembarrassed when the proper time comes to strike.

J. N. L.

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Chorus after last verse. I have a Friend in glory, I some time hope to see; My Saviour’s gone before me, And he will plead for me; Yes, he will plead for me; Yes, he will plead for me; My Saviour’s gone before me, And he will plead for me.

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