—During the week ending April 28, 90,290,700 two-cent postage stamps were sold in this country.
—The New York City ice trust has advanced the price 100 per cent, and Chicago may ship ice there, to compete.
—Strikers are suspected of having caused a $500,000 fire in the Standard Oil Co.’s docks, at Constable Hook, N. J., May 8.
—A dispatch from Borkum Island, North Sea, says that the laying of the German-American cable was begun there May 4.
—C. F. W. Neely, late postal clerk at Havana, Cuba, was arrested May 9, on the charge of embezzling $36,000 of United States funds.
—A surgeon in the Philippines says that there is “danger of communication of smallpox through josi and pina cloth sent home by soldiers.”
—Richard Yates was nominated the Republican candidate for governor of Illinois, at Peoria, Ill., May 9. It was a great surprise to his competitors, Messrs. Reeves, Hancey, Carter.
—Queen Victoria will have returned to her the chocolate box which she sent to an English private, Humphrey. The box has a Boer bullet imbedded in it, and was the means of saving his life.
—In view of what has happened, and what is likely to happen, one is led to exclaim, “Why didn’t Dewey sink the island as well as the Spanish fleet, while he was at it?” —Detroit Christian Herald.
—May 3, General de Gallifet, French minister of war, prohibited the sale of spirits, absinthe, and vermuth in the barracks and camps of the French army. Wine, beer, and cider are allowed, as innocuous beverages.
—One of the leading papers of Tokio, Japan, has just published the names of 130 school-teachers, all of whom, it declares, are suffering from consumption. It calls on the authorities to dismiss them at once, lest they infect the children under their care.
—As a result of the American operations in the Philippines during April, according to General Otis’s report, 1,721 Filipinos were killed, wounded, and captured, and thirty pieces of artillery, 1,209 rifles, and large stores of ammunition, etc., were taken. The American losses were 13-killed, and 27 wounded.
—The British forces in South Africa are advancing slowly, but steadily, northward, toward Pretoria, the Boers harassing them as much as they are able. General Pole-Carew, in the center, has forced a passage of the Vet River, below Smaldool station. On the right, General Hamilton has occupied Winburg, inflicting serious loss on a Boer force on the Little Vet River.
—A dispatch from London, England, dated May 9, says that “Lord Salisbury made to-day a most uncompromising speech at Albert Hall, before the Primrose League, condemning Mr. Gladstone’s home rule policy both in South Africa and in Ireland. . . . He warned Irishmen that recent events in South Africa proved that there could not be practical independence anywhere in the empire, with opportunities for arranging hostile forces against the imperial government. It was a trenchant but acrid speech.”14
—The plague has disappeared from Honolulu, H. I.
—A Russian Chamber of Commerce has been established at Paris, France.
—In the Hawaiian Islands, according to latest reports, there are 21,616 Chinese.
—The monopoly enjoyed by the Berlin Street Railway (Germany) has been extended to the year 1950.
—The Ecumenical Missions Conference now being held in New York City, began its business April 23.
—The king of Sweden and Norway offers to reward persons who find relics of the André polar expedition.
—Five Pullman cars, in sections, were recently shipped to Japan, to be used on the government railroad there.
—It is stated that “the United States may be compelled to intervene to preserve neutrality at the Isthmus of Panama.”
—A shipment of seventeen carloads of cotton cloth, for points in the Chinese empire, was recently made from Birmingham, Ala.
—An English firm, by outbidding American and other foreign firms, has secured the Formosa camphor monopoly for ten years.
—Within ten days $50,000 worth of automobiles have been shipped from Chicago to the Hawaiian Islands, and more than 10,000 bicycles.
—The price of white pine and spruce lumber will be advanced, on account of the great fire at Ottawa, Ontario, a large quantity having been destroyed there.
—It is reported that “the negotiations between Denmark and the United States, relative to the purchase of the Danish West Indies, have been definitely broken off.”
—The Board of Agriculture, London, England, has ordered cattle from America to be slaughtered within five days, and those from South Africa within thirty-six hours, of landing.
—By a canvass of a western city, made on a certain Sunday, it was found that 18,000 people were in church and 38,000 were attending ball games and were in dives and places of sin.
—Australian news “chronicles the discovery of rich placer ground at Wedderburn, Victoria. The first man to stake ground unearthed a sixty-one-ounce nugget at twenty-two-feet depth.”
—John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil Company associates are reported to have secured an exclusive copper-mining concession from the Dominion government, on mines in Alaska.
—Twelve sacks of mail for Francis Truth, the alleged Boston divine healer now under arrest, have been seized by the authorities, who will return all money to the senders whose names and addresses are given.
—Congress is to be petitioned by Polish societies to appropriate $120,000 for a monument for General Pulaski, a measure that was approved by the Continental Congress, Nov. 29, 1779, but has never been carried out.
—The Chinese viceroy, Li Hung Chang, has legalized big lotteries at Canton, by licensing them. They will furnish a revenue of nearly 1,000,000 taels yearly, which amount he proposes to use in suppressing piracy.
—A dispatch from Washington says that “the three new battle ships to be constructed for the United States will excel anything in the world’s navies, in speed, armament and power combined. The ships will be enlarged ‘Iowas’ in type.”
—The recent Cuban census shows a population of 1,572,797, of whom 443,426 can read and write. Fifty-eight per cent are native whites, and thirty-two per cent, negroes. Havana’s population is 235,981. The elections will be held June 16.
—The verdict of the Prussian minister of railways upon the American locomotives that were tried in Bavaria is that, “notwithstanding their faultless construction, they cost considerably less than locomotives of similar style of Prussian make.”
—A. A. Putnam, an electrical engineer of Rochester, N. Y., talked his last will and testament into a phonograph, a few days ago. Then, with a hot copper wire he signed his name on the wax roll of the phonograph, the witnesses doing likewise, and the “document” was thereupon completed.
—A part of the 30,000 Finnish immigrants promised America this season, recently reached Houghton, Mich., which has now upwards of 15,000 residents of Finnish birth and parentage. Of the 10,000 population of Ironwood, Mich., 6,000 are Finnish. Two more carloads were added to the town recently, and a like number to Calumet, Mich.
—The Daily Express, the new London paper, prints the following message from Emperor William, sent through the German ambassador in London: “Tell the British people that my first hope, now and always, is the preservation of international peace, and my second, the consolidation and maintenance of good relations between Germany and Great Britain. Between these two nations no essential cause of difference exists. Nor should one arise between them. There should be no rivalry other than friendly competition in furthering the economic and social progress of their peoples.”
—It is stated upon good authority that “probably no young woman in the world receives so many letters as Miss Helen Gould, which, if she were to read and answer personally, would require at least ten hours’ work every day in the week, including Sunday. Yet every epistle is carefully gone over by two secretaries employed for that purpose, and, if the case is worthy, some response is made. During a recent week 1,303 letters were received, including requests for everything, from false teeth to cows for a farm, and $1,000,000 to form a colony in Cuba.”
Dedication Poem of the Bethel (Wis.) School.
In the days when ancient Israel
Passed from Egypt’s plague-scourged shore;
When the hosts of God were marching
To the promised land before; When they gathered at Mount Sinai,
Where the thunder tones were heard
Of Jehovah’s voice proclaiming
Their redemption through his word,—
It was then God gave to Moses
What his children should be taught,—
How the lessons they were learning
Should with heaven’s truth be fraught,—
Gave the tribe of Levi wisdom,
Turned this sacred trust their way,
That they might thus teach the wisdom
Of their God from day to day.
Israel had her schools of prophets,
Where the youth were taught of God,
On the hills of old Judea,
Where the greensward stretched its sod;
Where the cedars of Mount Lebanon
Spread their shade o’er hill and plain;
Where the fig and fir and olive
Drank of heaven’s dew and rain.
Not in crowded schools and classrooms,
Not amid the city’s noise,
Not where sin vaunts its corruption
Would God rear his girls and boys;
Not from heathen works of wisdom
Would he have his children learn;
But from earth’s great book of nature,
That their hearts for him might yearn.
You remember how Elisha
Taught on Gilgal’s quiet slope,
Back amid the trees and flowers,
Where, of God, all nature spoke;
How he showed each opening petal,
Every branch and leaf above,
Every bursting bud about them
Said, so plainly, “God is love.”
Every night the vaulted heavens
Of his glory did declare,
While the firmament beneath them
Showed his handiwork was there.
Thus their youth were taught from nature,
In that quiet country place,
How to say, “Thou art my Father,—
I behold thee face to face.”
It was then God blessed his people,
For we read how this school grew
Till the students asked the prophet
If they might not build anew—
If they might not go to Jordan,
Where more timber could be found,
Where they there could fell the forests,
And might cultivate the ground.
So they took their tools and hammers,
Borrowed axes, as we read,
For they did not have sufficient
To supply the students’ need;
And we’re told how one, while chopping,
Lost his ax ’neath Jordan’s wave;
How this borrowed tool was rescued
From its dark and watery grave.
And, again, we’re told in Scripture,
How, when lacked these students bread,
How the brethren sent provisions,
That the hundred might be fed;
For although they toiled and labored,
Each to do with willing heart,
Yet God gave these brethren ’round them,
Thus, a chance to do their part.
So, to-day, back here in Bethel,—
Here amid these forests grand,
Like those hills of old Judea,
Like that sacred Holy Land,
Here, amid these streams and hill-slopes,
Far from any city’s strife,
Are these students daily learning
Lessons of the higher life.
God has placed this school in Bethel—
God has placed these scholars here;
God has given us these teachers
That we all hold doubly dear.
How our hearts did burn within us,
As last night these students told
How they’d found the Saviour precious,
Nearer far to them than gold.
Brethren, God hath wrought this wonder,
And ’tis marv’lous in our sight;
May he help us, brethren,—help us,
Now to use this gift aright.
As we go among our churches,
Let us gather in the young,
Let us tell them of the praises
That last night these pupils sung.
Let us tell again the story,
Till our youth shall fill each hall,
Till, for still another college
There shall come a mighty call;
Till, as in the days of Israel,
Schools shall be on every hand,
And the glory of this message
Shall be seen through all our land.
Father, to thy care and keeping,
Do we dedicate this school.
Wilt thou take it, Father, take it,
And be thine the right to rule.
May thine angels ever linger
In these halls by night and day,
May thy Spirit guide these teachers,
Guide each scholar, day by day.
And at last when thou shalt gather
All thy people to thy home;
When the exile captives hasten,
Here on earth no more to roam;
When our Saviour crowns his servants,
When the school in heaven shall call,—
May we then each hear thy welcome,
“Teachers, scholars, parents, all.”
Thoughts Gleaned from the Address of Professor Tenney at the Dedication, Sunday, May 6.
“When our sons shall be as plants grown up in their youth; and our daughters as corner stones hewn after the fashion of a palace; when our garners are full, affording all manner of store; and our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields; when our oxen are well laden; when there is no breaking in, and no going forth, and no outcry in our streets; happy is the people, that is in such a case; yea, happy is the people, whose God is the Lord.” Ps. 144:12-15, R. V.
God never places before man ideals that can not be reached. Yet “God's ideals for us are higher than any human thought can reach.”
“The sacrifice on Calvary was not salvation, but it opened the way and made salvation possible.
Man was to be raised to a higher life by first accepting the sacrifice; then by the power thus received living a godly life.
Education has to do with this attainment of a higher life; hence there is no true education apart from Christ.
Adam and Eve were God's ideal man and woman, created in “his image, after his likeness.”
Through sin man descended to his present low position; through Christ man can regain what he lost by sin.
Education is a new growth and not a development. Rom. 12:2. God is the creator of mind, and only through him can it be renewed.
Every faculty of the mind is exercised through power from God. It is therefore absurd to attempt an education that leaves out God.
When all our faculties and strength are consecrated to God, he gives his Spirit to comfort, to teach, and to lead into all truth.
The careful study of God's word prepares the way for the operations of the Spirit. The Bible is therefore an essential factor in education.
It is absurd to speak of sacrifice that we may avail ourselves of the benefits of Christian education. We should, on the contrary, not cease to praise God for the precious truth he has given us in it.
Let us heed these principles of truth. Our salvation depends upon the place we give to them in our lives.
To these principles of eternal truth, this building and all that pertains to it, these students and teachers are to-day sacredly dedicated.
So may it be said that all who accept these truths and are led by them, are taught of God; and our sons will be like plants grown up in their youth, and our daughters will be like corner stones polished after the similitude of a palace.
MICHIGAN SABBATH-KEEPERS, NOTICE!
THE Michigan Sabbath-school Association is planning to open a Sabbath-school Home Department, and desires the names and addresses of all our people who for any reason are not able to attend the Sabbath-school regularly. Will you kindly send the names of all such persons that you know of? Address, Kate L. Macey, Grand Rapids, Mich.
BATTLE CREEK COLLEGE offers, as an inducement, to a limited number of persons who have had experience as typesetters or press feeders, and who desire to fit themselves for active work in the field, the privilege of working for their board, room, and tuition. Address the undersigned, stating amount of experience, and sending references. J. W. Collie, Battle Creek College, Battle Creek, Mich.
Wanted: Names of Review Subscribers
WANTED, at once, the name and address of every Seventh-day Adventist in your church who does not take the REVIEW. Address the editors.
Cedar Lake Academy Correspondence
By J. G. Lamson
BEING no longer the principal of Cedar Lake Industrial Academy, no correspondence relative to the school should be addressed to me. J. G. LAMSON.
Message for Public-School Teachers
BATTLE CREEK COLLEGE has something to send every Seventh-day Adventist public-school teacher. If you are a teacher, send your address. Some teachers may not see this notice; so if you are acquainted with teachers, send their names to E. A. Sutherland, College, Battle Creek, Mich.
ONTARIO CONFERENCE.
By F. D. Starr
The first annual session of the Ontario Conference will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Guelph, Ontario, June 14-24, 1900. Let all the churches see that delegates are elected, one for each church, with the addition of one for each fifteen members. First session will be held Friday, June 15, at 10 A. M. More will be given in reference to the meeting later. F. D. STARR, Pres.
TEACHERS' INSTITUTE AND SUMMER SCHOOL.
Those wishing to attend the Institute or the Summer School beginning June 20, should send names AT ONCE. If you fear you can not meet the expense, write anyway. A way may be provided for you to attend. CHURCH-SCHOOL TEACHERS HAVE ROOM AND TUITION FREE DURING THE INSTITUTE. Write for particulars. The announcement, giving program for Institute and course of instruction for Summer School is now ready. Send for a copy. Address, E. A. Sutherland, College, Battle Creek, Mich.
MICHIGAN, NOTICE!
By B. F. Stureman
A GENERAL meeting of District 11 will be held at Mesick, May 24-27. All the surrounding churches are invited to attend. The dedication of the church will take place at this time. Elders Gowell, Horton, and Soule are expected to be with us. The first meeting will be Thursday evening, May 24, at 7:30.
B. F. STUREMAN.
Meeting at Gaylord
By B. F. Stureman
NOTHING preventing, I will meet with the church at Gaylord, May 31 to June 5. B. F. STUREMAN.
ONTARIO SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION.
By P. M. Howe
The Ontario camp-meeting will be held at Guelph, Ontario, beginning June 14, and continuing ten days. We know that the Lord will be with us at this annual gathering of his people. Much of his blessing has been enjoyed at every camp-meeting held in Ontario. This will be the fourth meeting, and may we not expect a larger attendance, and, consequently, a greater manifestation of the Holy Spirit than before?
For another year the Lord of the harvest has held the winds that we might have time to work for him. The case of Brother Shork, of Albuna, which went to the Supreme Court of Ontario nearly a year ago, is still pending. If the hand of the Lord should be withdrawn for one month, the way would be opened to prosecute our farming brethren for Sunday work, and take their property to pay fines and costs. What will you offer to the Lord, dear brethren, to show your appreciation of this year of peace and rest from the enemy of the truth? The dragon is none the less wroth, but Christ is holding him back. Would it not please the Lord if we and our wives and children would come up to the camp-meeting and unitedly praise him for this great deliverance? Remember this case, if decided against Brother Shork, imperils every Sabbath-keeper in Ontario. At a meeting held in —, Ontario, a few weeks ago, it was voted by the Lord’s Day Alliance to invite the Catholic father of the city to unite with the Protestant ministers in the next meeting. It was boastingly declared that the way is all clear before them, the only obstruction being a small sect of Saturday Sabbath-keepers. “These,” said the speaker, with a wave of the hand, “we will pass by as too contemptible to notice.”
Is it not time now, just now, to raise our eyes and look upon the great harvest field of Ontario, all ready before us for the harvest? Or will we fasten our eyes on our farms, our houses and lots, and see no way to leave them to go up to the gathering of God’s remnant people?
The interest our Sabbath-school officers take in arranging to come to this meeting, and also to encourage and help the children and those too poor to help themselves, will tell for the salvation of many souls, and do much to advance the truth in this new Conference.
Do not say, “I can not,” but say, “By the help of the Lord, I can and will go.” He will help you, and a way will be provided for you to “come up to the help of the Lord against the mighty.” P. M. HOWE, Pres. Ontario S. S. A.
ADDRESSES.
The address of Elder E. L. Sanford is Greensboro, N. C.
The address of G. W. Morse is Echo Pub. Co., North Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia.
PUBLICATIONS WANTED.
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The following persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, postpaid:—
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NOTICES.
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WANTED.—Employment with Sabbath-keepers on farm, within 100 miles of New York City, by Danish man. Address, Jens. Nelson, 440 E. Sixtieth St., New York City.
CAMP-MEETINGS FOR 1900.
By L. A. Hoopes
DISTRICT ONE.
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, — June 7-17
New England, Arlington, Greater Boston, Maine, — June 14-25
Chesapeake, Baltimore, Md., — June 21 to July 2
DISTRICT TWO.
Louisiana, — July 13-22
Mississippi, — July 24-31
DISTRICT THREE.
Wisconsin, Eau Claire, — June 5-17
Ontario, Guelph, — June 14-24
DISTRICT FOUR.
Iowa, Ames, — May 31 to June 10
Minnesota, Anoka, — June 7-17
South Dakota, Sioux Falls, — June 12-24
North Dakota, — June 29 to July 8
Manitoba, Morden, — June 28 to July 8
Nebraska (local), Dannebrog, — May 29 to June 3
Nebraska (local), Morrillville, — June 6-13
Nebraska (local), Southeastern, — June 27 to July 2
Nebraska (local), Hot Springs, S. D., — July 13-23
Kansas (local), Great Bend, — May 31 to June 10
Kansas (local), Wellington, — July 12-22
Kansas (local), Stockton, — July 26 to Aug. 5
DISTRICT FIVE.
Texas, Dallas, — Aug. 2-12
Texas (local), Houston, — June 1-11
Texas (local), Marshall, — July 13-23
DISTRICT SIX.
North Pacific, Portland, Ore., — May 17-27
Upper Columbia, Walla Walla, Wash., — May 24 to June 3
Upper Columbia (local), Spokane, Wash., — June 14-24
California, San Jose, — June 5-17
Montana (local), Great Falls, — June 21 to July 1
Montana (local), Bozeman, — July 5-15
Announcement of later meetings will be published in due time. Particulars as to the time and place of holding State and local camp-meetings should be sent to the undersigned as soon as definitely planned. L. A. Hoopes, Sec. Gen. Conf.
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It is the purpose of the author of this book to set forth Jesus Christ as the one in whom every longing of the soul may be satisfied.
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Berean Library No. 4.
“CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES”
BY MRS. S. M. I. HENRY
Contains twenty-one Bible studies, or lessons, on the great principles emanating from God, the harmonious relation of which make up his character. They are revealed to the human family by the expression of the Father’s love, in the gift of his only begotten Son to redeem the fallen race, also in the Book of books and in nature.
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In this pamphlet the author, in her usual clear and forcible manner, treats those subjects which affect the home and everyday life, and are worthy of your careful consideration.
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Revelation Versus Evolution
By Editor
Zion’s Herald is one of the leading papers of the Methodist Episcopal Church. And on the question of the Bible as the revelation of God, it says, “The progress of Christian scholarship has revealed the untenability of the traditional view of the method of revelation. The real method was not so simple. . . . In place of the dictation of a book we have the historic evolution of a divine truth.” Thus the so-called Christian scholarship has substituted evolution for revelation as well as for creation. But in both it is wrong. In creation God “spake, and it was;” and so “the worlds were framed by the word of God.” In revelation also God spoke: for “holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost;” and “the Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.” “God . . . spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,” and “in these last days,” “unto us by his Son.” Ps. 36 : 9; Heb. 11 : 3; 2 Sam. 23 : 2; 2 Peter 1 : 21; Heb. 1 : 1, 2.
Accounts of robberies, murders, society sensations, etc., etc., usual and unusual, continue to fill the columns of the daily newspapers. But of such happenings as reported in the dailies, we make no mention in our news columns. On this we hold with Thoreau, who has well said: “If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, we never need read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad of instances and applications?”
