AFTER all, I think it must be merely a matter of disposition," sighed Mrs. Ames, dismally. She and her friend Mrs. Walters were discussing the subject of contentment, and how they were best to impart that beautiful quality of heart and mind to their children.
"Wilfred used to be the most good-natured, contented child I ever saw when he was small. Why, I've known that child to sit and play with a little basket of clothes-pins for an hour, as happy as you please; but now, since he has grown older—he is five this month—I can't do a thing with him, he just teases and teases for something all day. Really, Mrs. Walters, I don't know what I am to do, the boy is never contented. There's Walter, now," continued Mrs. Ames, "he's a real comfort,—so contented and good-natured; I think the two qualities go together. It was his birthday yesterday, you know, and his father gave him a new garden hoe and rake; he's getting to be a great gardener. Will you believe me, little Wilfred cried because he wanted them; he wanted to work in the garden, too. Just think of a little tot only five years old working in the garden!" and Mrs. Ames laughed heartily at the bare idea. "Yesterday," she continued, "he cried all day for a needle and thread and scissors; he wanted to sew like Susan."
"Now, Mrs. Ames," replied her friend, "I don't agree with you that it is wholly a matter of disposition. I think training has very much to do with the conduct of our children—perhaps as much or more than the natural disposition. I believe you should gratify your little one's desire for work to do, and for tools to work with."
"Why, Mrs. Walters! do you think we should give our children everything they cry for?"
"By no means. But you say that your little boy used to be very good-natured and contented, which to my mind proves that he is not by nature discontented. What the child needs, evidently, is employment. When he was a babe, he busied himself with the clothes-pins, now he has grown beyond the clothes-pin stage, and you should give him real work to do, and let him feel that he is expected to do it. Give him a tiny corner of the garden to plant and tend as his own, and, my word for it, he will be as content and happy as his older brother."
The next few months proved that Mrs. Walter's words were true. Little Wilfred was given a corner of the garden, and, young as he was, he raised and sold enough of his own vegetables to disprove forever the notion that very little boys can not be useful. And as his usefulness grew, his contentment grew in double ratio. Rarely ill-natured or peevish, he was the joy of the household.
I tell you there is nothing for old or young that will so effectually cure a case of "the blues"—which is only another name for discontentment—as useful employment of some kind. Let the boys and the girls learn to "lend a hand" when they see any one in need of assistance. But, alas and alas! there are parents who seem to think their children belong so exclusively to themselves that they are hardly willing to allow them to do a deed of kindness for any one outside their own family. Who can wonder that the sowing of such seeds of selfishness rarely fails to yield a harvest of regret and sorrow.
Has the spirit of disquietude and discontent entered your family? Is Mary's brow clouded from morning till night? Has John forgotten his cheerful whistle? Is baby Jane in mischief constantly? You may be sure that one of the best remedies in the world is simply useful employment. Give John a little piece of land, father, or a share of the crops he has helped to garner; give him a calf or a colt or a sheep that he may call his own; and then, I warn you, don't forget yourself and sell them and pocket the money. Don't!
"Well," says some discouraged mother, "my Ella has enough to do I'll guarantee, but she finds time to worry and fret because her clothes are not quite as fine as Mrs. Grey's daughter's; and even little Alice is unhappy because I can't afford to buy her as fine a set of doll dishes as Julie Brown has, while it was by using the closest economy that I was able to buy her those she has now. So what can I do to teach my girls contentment?"
Well, mother, yours is a hard question. In the first place I think you were very foolish, under the circumstances, to have bought little Alice any doll dishes at all; or to have striven to bring Ella's wardrobe up to the standard of that of your wealthier friends. Young people who are troubled with this phase of discontentment need to be taught both by precept and by example that "godliness with contentment is great gain." To my mind, children were a great deal happier when they had fewer expensive toys, and when there was not so much time and attention paid to their wardrobes. Honestly, don't you agree with me?
If the little girls were taught to manufacture rag dolls, and the older girls were encouraged to give that ten cents to missions instead of spending it for a gay ribbon which can only be worn once before it is spoiled, how much better it would be! O, if this motto could be framed and hung up in a conspicuous part of the house—"Be ye content with such things as ye have"—I believe many a dollar might be kept to do good with, and many a soul saved from death. Let the girls learn to do their own sewing. "O but," you say, "I tried that to my sorrow, and as a result Susie has ruined her new suit." Evidently Susie did not learn to sew on cheap material. But better spoil the dress than the girl.
Let Tommy learn to drive nails and to saw boards. And above everything else, if you see that Mary and John have a special talent for any line of work—sewing or drawing or music or literature or mechanics or just plain, ordinary housework—no matter what, encourage them in their special line. I shall always affirm, and I believe rightly, that it is too bad to insist upon a child's spending weary hours trying to master something so utterly distasteful to him that he will never make a success of it. It is too bad for a natural musician to throw away his time trying to learn to paint! too bad for one whose whole heart and soul long for the field of literature, to waste his moments trying to master higher mathematics.
It is the duty, and should be the pleasure, of every parent to find out what particular line of employment is suited to each child, and then to encourage him to follow it. Then I am quite certain there would be left little time or inclination for discontent.
MRS. L. D. AVERY-STUTTLE.
A PILLAR OF STRENGTH.
By Sara H. Henton
So few persons seem to value their eyesight until they lose it, yet of all blessings that we are heir to, this is among the greatest. The care of the eyes should be studied, as great danger results from carelessness.
My father, being a physician, always advised us to bathe our eyes if they felt weak, sore, or inflamed, in this most excellent and effective lotion: "Put a teaspoonful of boracic-acid into a quart of warm water, dissolve thoroughly, and bathe the eyes frequently in this solution." The best oculists and11doctors now prescribe it for infants, and no mother need fear to use it for her children.
This time of the year when little folks begin to go to school, I get numerous requests to help in this direction as they seem to contract colds, and sore eyes result. I use the boracic-acid solution myself, and it is very soothing and healing to one's eyes. If you put off caring for your eyes, it becomes quite expensive oftentimes, and this pillar of strength costs but little.
SARA H. HENTON.
WHAT IS A FRIEND?
A WELL-KNOWN physician killed himself in a thriving little western city the other night. He had been drinking late with a party of friends, the despatches say, and when the friends went home he took a pistol out of his desk and shot himself through the heart. He left a note saying: "I've tried to stop this whisky business, but it's no use; a man can't be a good fellow and ride the water wagon, and I'd rather be dead than to disappoint my friends. Good-by."
Now that man was young and handsome; he had money, and he had a beautiful young wife and a pleasant home. But he left all these things and sank into a suicide's grave rather than to disappoint some one or some collection of some ones whom he was pleased to call, poor fool, his friends.
I know a woman whose husband is serving a term in the penitentiary to-day because she was determined not to disappoint her friends. The other day a college girl killed herself to escape from the small debts she had brought upon herself rather than be behindhand in entertaining her friends.
Friends! I wonder if the man who lies dying in a sun-beaten field calls the vultures who swoop above him his friends. Friends! Why, I wouldn't give one look from a pair of devoted eyes that shine in a certain wrinkled old black face I know for all the endearments that such friends could lavish upon me in a million years. What is a friend, anyhow? A friend is a man or woman who loves you for what you are, not for what can be bled out of you, but for your real self. He knows your faults, and maybe he doesn't like them, either; but he likes you in spite of the faults; and when he sees you making a fool of yourself he'll tell you of it in good, plain English.
The world is full of friends, real friends, friends who will stand by you through thick and thin, friends who love you and forgive you and look at the best side of you. Friends who remember you when you are dead and gone and your children need some one to give them a little boost in the world. Friends who don't care the rattle of an old tin can whether you are rich or handsome or successful or not.
How shall a man get real friends? There is just one way—he must be a real friend himself. The little varnish of good manners we put on over our selfishness doesn't deceive anybody in the world. The stupidest man and the most unwordly woman knows right down in the heart's depths how much you really mean and how much is mere pretense.
When you like a man, tell him so, and tell everybody else so, too. If you think a woman is good and honest-hearted, don't miss a chance to let her see that you think so. Why, one real smile, the kind of smile that means honest appreciation, will win you the most priceless thing on earth—a real friend—when all the flattery and flubdub on earth won't do a thing for you.
Here's to friends, real friends, true friends, the friends that will laugh at you to your face if you've got to be laughed at for your own good, and fight for you behind your back.—Winifred Black.
LITERARY NOTICES.
By Editor
“The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible,” by James Strong, S. T. D., LL. D. 1810 large pages, 8½x11½. Bound in cloth, half-leather and whole leather bindings; prices respectively six, eight, and ten dollars. Eaton & Mains, New York.
One of the first books to come to our table since our fire is the one named above. It is welcome; for after careful and exhaustive examination, with strong friendship for other like works, we freely pronounce it the best concordance printed. Cruden’s unabridged is a good text-finder, with suggestive and useful definitions. Cruden’s abridged concordances have been useful as text-finders. Young’s Concordance is a weary disappointment in that respect, tho disappointingly helpful in the study of original terms. Strong’s Concordance has all the worth of Cruden’s as a text-finder, and is of far greater worth as a lexicon than Young’s. It possesses the excellencies of all others and the defects of none. This great concordance is a work of many years’ labor. It contains every word of the common English Version of the canonical books, and every occurrence of every word in regular order; a comparative concordance of the Common and Revised Versions, including the American variations; dictionaries of the Hebrew and Greek words of the original, with references to the English words. Opposite each word in the concordance is a number referring to the original word in the Hebrew or Greek dictionary. By that means you can trace the original of the same English word, as for instance, “judge,” which comes from a half-dozen different words in the Hebrew, and half as many in the Greek. On the other hand, the lexicons, or dictionaries, give us the different words into which the original word is rendered, as for instance the Hebrew bow, a primitive root, meaning to go or come, and translated, “abide, apply, attain, be, befall,” and more than a score of other words, which may be found in the concordance. There is no Bible help equal to it; it puts in possession of the earnest intelligent student a complete English, Hebrew, and Greek concordance, as well as a Hebrew and Greek dictionary. It may be ordered through the SIGNS OF THE TIMES office.
The American Standard Revised Version of the Holy Bible, in all kinds of bindings, and ranging in prices from $1.00 to $10.00. Printed on good book paper and on thin India paper; bound in stiff covers, fine black cloth, in morocco, in levant, in sealskin; with reference and without reference; with no helps and with the finest helps. Thomas Nelson & Sons, 37 East 18th Street, New York City.
There was a feeling on the part of many scholars that when the Revised Version was published in 1885, the preferences of the American revisers were superior to those of the English. But the decisive vote rested with the latter, with the agreement that the American preferences should be published in every volume printed by the English University Presses for fourteen years after the above date. As soon as the Revised Version was published, the English revisers disbanded. The American Committee, however, held together, continued their study and research, and decided to give the world the benefit of their longer study and riper work. The result of their labors is the American Standard Revised Version, which includes more than is expressed in the appendix to the Revised Version. To our mind it is vastly superior to the English Version. Because
1. It embodies the results and benefits of all the years of scholarly criticism upon the work of the Revised Version.
2. It has longer time to revise and compare with the oldest extant Hebrew and Greek copies of the Scriptures.
3. It is more uniform in its renderings.
4. While it eliminates some of the obsolete terms used in the other versions, it seems to us that it preserves more of the sweetness of our common version.
5. It is not in any way a sectarian or denominational work; it represents thirty years devoted, earnest work of the best American scholars in all denominations.
6. The Common, or so-called “Authorized” Version of the Bible was completed in six years, with limitations placed upon the translators by the rules under which they did their work; by the original manuscripts they possessed; and by the environments around them. The American Standard Revised Version was the work of thirty years’ study.
7. It follows the paragraph form, the form of the original manuscripts, thus presenting the thought more clearly.
In short, the American Standard Revised Version is “the most accurate in translation, the most thorough in method, simplest in expression” of any translation yet produced. It has received the approval of the leading ministers of all denominations, presidents of colleges, of theological seminaries, of Bible training schools, great religious papers, and of devout students generally. It ought to be in every family; in the possession of every English reader.
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EXPRESSIONS OF SYMPATHY.
By Editor
WE give in this issue a few more of the many expressions of sympathy which have come to us from our friends and subscribers in different parts of the world. This is probably the last instalment which we will publish, but it is typical of many others. We would like to say, also, in connection with it that those who have written these letters have not written them for publication, but simply to express to those who are directly connected with the loss their sympathy in the calamity which came to our publishing house.
From Isadore L. Green, M. D., director of Black River Sanitarium, Watertown, N. Y., come these words:
“I am very sad over the recent loss of our institution at Mountain View, but I believe that God is leading His people. Some day the veil will be lifted and we shall understand more of His providence. I am glad that we are nearing home and the work is soon to close victoriously. May God give wisdom and courage to you in all your present difficulties.”
R. C. Pettingell, Germantown, Philadelphia, writes:
“I am very sorry for your misfortune. I certainly admire your courage and faith to take up the work and start all over again. May the good Lord bless your efforts and cause you to have great success.”
A. C. Brown, of Albany, N. Y., says:
“You have my sincere sympathy in your recent calamity. May the Lord sustain and give you wisdom in your future plans.”
From Elder O. S. Hadley, Indianapolis, Ind., come these words of cheer:
“I can but express my appreciation of your energy, faith, and trust in getting the messenger, the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, on its way again, for I confess that my heart went down a little when the earthquake ‘hit’ you, but when the awful fire burned you out entirely, my heart was down sure enough, for how could the dear brethren get on their feet again? But after all, only one issue was missed, and here comes the SIGNS better than ever—if possible—in fine, plain, large type, bearing the straight, sweet, and saving message as usual. I am glad that you are made of the ‘sterner stuff,’ and that you look unto God as your sufficiency. Brethren, God will bless, is blessing, such efforts and faith. I am more than pleased with the ‘new’ SIGNS—right up out of the fire. I want to read it as long as it bears the message. May God be with you all, brethren.”
Sister Hannah Mott, one of our old California workers, secretary for some time of our state tract society, writes from Estherville, Iowa:
“Since reading of the destruction of property at Mountain View, and especially of the stock of books and valuable libraries, and that notwithstanding all this God is putting it into your hearts to rise above every hindrance and to continue the spread of the Third Angel’s Message, I feel impelled to let you know that my heart is knit with yours in this glorious work. My prayer is that in following the guidance of the ‘still small voice’ we may be blessed with such a pouring out of the latter rain as our present situation seems to demand.”
Alice E. Culver, Yale, Iowa, writes:
“I am so sorry for the loss you have sustained in having to see the publishing house burn to the ground and could not save it. How cruel it must have seemed, but there must be a lesson in it all which I believe all will be anxious to learn, and as ‘all things work together for good to them that love God,’ may we all take it. I truly sympathize with you all, and pray God to richly bless you all, and may such assistance be rendered quickly that you may build a still better office, and with better equipments for work than before.”
From Mrs. Eakley, Roseville, N. J., come these good words:
“As I was reading in the SIGNS OF THE TIMES of your great disaster, it seemed as if my eyes were turned into a fountain of tears. I lifted my heart to God and said, ‘Thy word is sure, Thy word, O God, will not return unto Thee void, but it shall accomplish that whereunto it is sent. Tho fires may devour Thy word, earthquakes may plant it beneath, tornadoes may hurl it hither and thither, yet Thy word will live forever.’
“These are three lessons; I would write
The words as with a burning pen,
In tracings of eternal light,
Upon the hearts of men:
“Have hope. The clouds environ now,
And gladness hides her face in scorn;
Put thou the shadow from thy brow,
No night but hath its morn.
“Have faith. Where’er thy bark is driven,
The calms disport, the tempest’s mirth,
Know this, God rules the host of heaven,
The inhabitants of earth.
“Thus grave these lessons on thy soul,
Hope, Faith, and Love, and thou shalt find
Strength when life’s surges cease to roll,
Light where thou else wert blind.”
From our brethren in Lima, Peru, comes the following letter to Elder W. T. Knox, president of the California Conference and ex-president of our publishing company:
Lima, August 25, 1906.
“Mr. W. T. Knox, President California Conference, Mountain View.
“Dear brother in the glorious hope of the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,—The peace and the compassion of our heavenly Father be with you and with all of our brethren in the Lord, for we are fellow-servants through the love of God.
“We, brethren, who subscribe our names, were appointed by our congregation of Seventh-day Adventists to express our sentiments of brotherly love toward our brethren in North America.
“Beloved brethren in Christ our Lord, we confess our lukewarmness in not being more solicitous under the circumstances of the great tribulations, found in the terrible warning of our All-powerful Lord, which has fallen upon San Francisco and adjacent towns. All our congregation unite in their prayers, calling on our Lord and Redeemer, that He may crown us with abundant grace to repent of all our sins.
“We unite in sympathy with our brethren in North America, remembering the inspiring words of the apostle: ‘Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or hunger, or nakedness, or the sword?’ And may we be firm in the faith of our loving Lord and Master.
“Your brethren in Christ. Amen.
(Signed) Pastor F. L. Perry,
Superintendent.
Bernard Aguilar,
Secretary.
Isolina Hinojosa,
Elder of Church.
Julius Espinoza.”
From Pastor Chas. T. Everson, in charge of our work in Italy, come the following excellent words:
“My dear Brother,—You can well imagine that the burning of the Pacific Press came to us as a great shock as we supposed that the calamities for you were over, at least for the time being. And then to think that the publishing house that was doing the most aggressive work of the denomination should be stopped in the midst of its greatest activity seemed a great mystery. But may it not be that your famous text about the earthquake and the fire has also an application here? ‘After the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a still, small voice.’ Now you have passed through the earthquake and fire experience, and from this time forth you will enter in a special way into the still-small-voice experience where God can speak to you in a new way. You will remember that this still-small-voice experience for Elijah worked wonders, for it removed his discouragements and gave him power to go forth into a new experience that culminated in his translation. And may we not believe that it shall be so also with you of the Pacific Press and California? First the earthquake, then the fire, followed by the still small voice which prepares for greater usefulness and culminates in translation. I am sure that we all here at Rome feel deeply your loss, which we reckon also our loss, and we wish to send you our heartfelt sympathy and love to encourage you amid the severe trials through which you are passing.”
The printing plant is only a part of our publishing work. The sympathy, the support, the prayers, the union of our fellow-workers throughout the field are mighty assets in our work. We thank them, and pray that God may speedily give that experience of which Brother Everson writes. We are of good courage, for God is blessing. Where He leads we may safely follow.
OUR WORK AND WORKERS.
The Review notes two new tracts printed in India,—one in Hindi, the other in the running script of the Urdu language, which resembles the Arabic.
During the East Michigan camp-meeting at Holly, ten persons were baptized in Shiawassee River, by Brother O. F. Butcher, of Detroit. Others were to be baptized later.
The West Michigan Sanitarium has been transferred from Grand Rapids to Berrien Springs, where it will be conducted in connection with the Emmanuel Missionary College.
By moonlight on the evening of September 26, seven candidates were baptized in the lake at Mahtowa, Minn.,13by Brother Fred Johnson. His associate in the work which brought about this result was Brother O. J. Nerlund.
A special collection is to be taken in all the churches, November 3, for the benefit of the International Publishing Association, at College View, Neb. This association publishes books, papers, and tracts in foreign languages—two papers in German, one in Swedish, and one in Danish-Norwegian. Send for catalog and price-list.
The Maritime Conference has chosen for president, Wm. Guthrie; secretary and treasurer, Alberta McLeod; auditor, E. E. Gardener. This conference expects soon to have a band of good workers from the Williamsdale Academy.
Reporting to the Northern Union Reaper, Brethren G. L. Budd and A. C. Gilbert note that as a result of their work at Osage, Minn., twelve persons are ready for baptism. Three others who had accepted the truth have moved away.
At the last quarterly-meeting of the church in Amboy, Minn., three members were added. Two were baptized by Brother Andrew Mead, one having been previously baptized. One of these new acquisitions will attend Maplewood Academy this year.
Recent labors conducted by Brother E. H. Huntley, at Egeland, N. D., resulted in six converts to the faith. Two of them are already at Sheyenne River Academy, and two others are contemplating active missionary work as soon as circumstances permit. So the prospect for the results at Egeland being multiplied is very good.
The Danish church recently organized at Denmark, Neb., by Brother Lewis Johnson, has made a good start toward the building of a new house of worship. A room for a church school will be one feature. Another item in Brother Johnson's letter to the Reporter is the baptism of two ladies at a country place five miles north of Florence, where a large company of various nationalities and complexions had been gathered by invitation of a Brother Gunnerson to hear the discourse and witness the baptism. Brethren and sisters also came from churches in surrounding towns.
In announcing the New York State Sabbath (Sunday) Convention, to be held at Elmira, October 28 to 31, Brother John S. Wightman calls for a supply of religious liberty tracts; of our periodical, Liberty; and of SIGNS of recent date (clean copies), for distribution in the city. This is an important matter, as there will be a gathering of earnest Sunday-law champions from all over the state, and they ought to be well informed, and the people well informed, concerning the iniquity of the movement they are (many of them unwittingly) advocating. Send matter to John S. Wightman, Secretary Religious Liberty Bureau, 507 Herrick Street, Elmira, N. Y. He ought to be well supplied. Don't forget to prepay postage, and send immediately.
At the late annual session of New York Conference, it was decided to effect a division, the boundary between being the eastern lines of Cayuga, Tompkins, and Tioga Counties. The following officers were elected for the eastern division: President, F. H. DeVinney; secretary and treasurer, T. E. Bowen; conference committee, F. H. DeVinney, T. E. Bowen, Courtland D. Green, H. D. Church, John R. Calkins, C. S. Coon, Chas. C. Harris; secretary of tract society, T. E. Bowen; secretary religious liberty department, J. S. Wightman; secretary educational department, Bessie L. Jackson; secretary Sabbath-school department, Mrs. L. M. Calkins. For the western conference, officers were chosen as follows: President, H. W. Carr; vice-president, J. W. Raymond; secretary religious liberty department, J. S. Wightman; secretary young people's and Sabbath-school work, Mrs. H. W. Carr; field canvassing agent, Allen Maury. The conferences are known as the New York Conference and the Western New York Conference, respectively. The Indicator will be continued as the organ of both conferences.
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