p. 490 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 41. (11/4/1880)

Earlier text: EARLY FIRST-DAY OBSERVANCE

"ENSAMPLES TO THE FLOCK."—1 Peter 5:3.

By Puritan

"Your church has always seemed to me like one that desired to avoid an excess of piety in its ministers."

"And don't you think we have succeeded pretty well in gratifying our desires? Our present minister seems to be ready to preach to us about as we wish him to do it, and does not trouble us with disagreeable topics. I have never heard a word from him on temperance, and he smokes. I hope my boys won't see him with his cigar, for somehow they have learned to associate smoking with drinking and swearing. My youngest boy is particularly earnest in his prayers for help against these vices. He sometimes says, 'O Lord, do keep us, and don't let us smoke and drink and swear.'"

Are these boys far astray in their induction? How many men fond of strong tobacco do not find themselves fond, also, of strong drink, strong language and strong stories? What is in the atmosphere of smoking rooms and smoking cars? And what are one's thoughts when he sees these places frequented by the "Ensamples to the flock"?

—Puritan.

The Poison in the Cup

By John Wesley

THERE is poison in the cup! Throw it away. If you say, "It is not poison to me, though it may be to others," then I say throw it away for thy brother's sake, lest thou embolden him to drink also. Why should thy strength occasion thy weak brother to perish, for whom Christ died?

As a Man Lives, So Shall He Die

As a man lives, so shall he die.

WHAT TO DO WITH THE BOY.

By George T. Dowling

I know a Christian woman, pure and consistent, and yet that woman, unwittingly, by her traditions made void the commandment of God. One day, from the breast of her dead daughter she lifted a little child, fatherless and motherless. The child grew. She fed him; she clothed him; she loved him; she sent him to the Sunday-school and the day-school. But she forgot that she was seventy years old, and he was only seven. She forgot that he, with his youthful restlessness, wanted something besides the primer and the Bible. And when he grew older, and brought home his little games she didn't believe in them. And what was the result? He said to me when I talked to him, "Mr. Dowling, I must have amusement. If I bring those things home they are put in the fire." And when he found he could not have these things at home, he did just what your son is doing, though you may not know it. He went where he could have them. And ere long it was the old story; Sunday-school forgotten; church forgotten; and the very woman who would have given her heart's blood for him, forgotten. And when she came tottering to me on her staff, her head bent, and the gray locks falling upon her temples, throbbing in sorrow, and said—"What shall I do for my boy?" how I longed to tell her of her mistakes; but it was too late.—George T. Dowling.

WARNING TO BOYS.

MR. J. H. WELLS, of Riverhead, L. I., and his wife went to church, leaving their two sons at home. About half an hour afterward the younger boy, having got hold of an old pistol that was thought to be unloaded, went out with his brother to the front of the house, when the younger boy mounted the car-block, and, pointing the pistol at his brother, said, in a jocular manner, "Stand, villain, or I will shoot." He then snapped the trigger, as he had often done before, and continued to do so several times. Suddenly, to his surprise, the pistol exploded, and he saw his brother throw up his arms and fall to the ground.

Realizing what he had done, the boy dropped the smoking pistol, and, throwing himself on the prostrate form of his brother, cried frantically. The elder brother was shot through the heart. Those who were the first to arrive at the scene had the body carried into the house. The news of the tragedy was then conveyed to the parents in church. The boy who caused his brother's death is fifteen years of age, and always showed a warm affection for his brother. The old pistol had been handled by the boys at different times previous to Sunday night, and no one suspected that it was loaded.

The Home Circle.

WHAT MAKES A MAN?

A TRUTHFUL spirit, a loving mind; Full of affection for its kind; A spirit firm, erect and free, That never basely bends a knee; That will not bend a feather's weight Of slavery's chance for small or great; That truly speaks from God within, That never makes a league with sin; That snaps the fetters despots make, And loves the truth for its own sake; That worships God, and him alone, And bows no more than at his throne, And trembles at no tyrant's nod; A soul that fears no one but God, And thus can smile at curse or ban— This is the soul that makes a man.

WHAT MAKES A WOMAN?

Nor costly dress nor queenly air; Not jeweled hand, complexion fair; Not graceful form nor lofty tread; Not paint, nor curls, nor splendid head; Not pearly teeth nor sparkling eyes; Not voice that nightingale outvies; Not breath as sweet as eglantine; Not gaudy gems nor fabrics fine; Not all the stores of fashion's mart, Nor yet the blandishment of art; Not one, nor all of these combined, Can make one woman true, refined. 'Tis not the casket that we prize, But that which in the casket lies! These outward charms that please the sight, Are naught unless the heart is right.

MOTHER.

By Mrs. Charlotte E. Fisher

BY MRS. CHARLOTTE E. FISHER.

MOTHER! What a world of tenderness there is in the simple word! What hosts of recollections are clinging about it! The first dear word our baby lips framed; the one word that fell as music all through our childhood; the rich soprano of the home melody, linking all the other cords together.

Dear, loving mother! The little child clings trustingly to the helping hand, and falls to sweetest slumbers in the protecting arms. The boy, treading out and on to the farther bounds of childhood's enchanted land, tosses aside books and ball whenever a shadow dims his sky, and goes to mother for comfort. She can dispel the clouds; she can brighten every pleasure a thousand fold; she holds the magic key that unlocks all of life's most secret springs. The man, grown weary with all his striving with the world, all his battling with wrong, all his hopes, and fears, and aspirations, comes back to mother—comes with the old trust, as in other years, to lay his fevered head, safe and sheltered, in those dear arms, and be comforted as only mother can comfort. The woman—"my girl," mother always says, be she young or old, maiden or wife—comes to fall into many of the old-fashioned thoughts and ways for mother's sake. And when overburdened, sad, and heart-sick, when all adrift, shadowed over and shut in by clouds of doubt and fear, whose hand can soothe and smooth life's ills away but mother's? Whose eye can see beyond the clouds? Whose voice can sing to our souls, that above it all God's blessed sunlight is always burning with steady radiance? Who but mother?

Precious name! Speak it gently, aye, reverently—mother! She has suffered much, loved and waited long, ever hopeful, prayerful; "our household angel." Pray God that time's silver be sparingly sprinkled among the tresses we love so well. Pray God always and ever to bless and keep mother.—Arthur's Home Magazine.

THE LITTLE DRAWER.

"Where did you get your orderly habits?" I asked of a lady who never had to waste a moment in hunting for things out of their place.

"When I was four years old," she answered, "mother gave me a little drawer to put my clothes in." 'Make it your business, my dear child,' she said, 'to keep that drawer neat and tidy. Let me never find it in disorder.'

"Once she sent for me to come home from a party of little girls, in order to put away a pair of stockings carelessly left on the floor; and I used sometimes to think mother was hard on me; but now I see I owe my good habits to the care I was made to take of that little drawer when I was four years old."

You see how early habits are formed. It is never too soon to begin a good one. —Child's Paper.

WAIT.

WAIT, husband, before you wonder audibly why your wife don't get on with the household affairs "as your mother did;" she is doing her best, and no woman can endure at best to be slighted. Remember the long weary nights she sat up with the little babe that died; remember the love and care she bestowed upon you when you had that long spell of sickness. Do you think she is made of cast iron? Wait—wait in silence and forbearance, and the light will come back to her eyes—the old light of the old days. Wait, wife, before you speak reproachfully to your husband when he comes home late, weary, and "out of sorts." He worked hard for you all day—perhaps far into the night; he has wrestled, hand in hand with care, and selfishness, and greed, and all the demons that follow in the train of money-making. Let home be another atmosphere entirely. Let him feel that there is one place in the wide world where he can find peace, quiet, and perfect love.

CORRECT SPEECH.

PERHAPS there is nothing that more fully indicates the true lady and gentleman than the habitual use of pure and correct language. Those who would appear genteel in society, should cultivate good English in conversation. Unclean speech is in keeping with a smutty face, unclean hands, and soiled clothes. It is wonderful how easy and almost imperceptibly one glides into a careless and vulgar way of talking. And that, too, by those who are familiar with the rules of grammar, and in writing exercise good orthography and syntax, and use pure and chaste words. Yet in conversation, through neglect, they use improper language in a confused and desultory manner.

Early culture and association with refined society, are essential to the attainment of this accomplishment, but if one has been unfortunately deprived of these, much may be gained by carefully watching his own words and manner of speech, until he contracts the habit of correct speech, of using his mother tongue in sound and accurate language. Nothing so strongly marks one's bearing in society as his speech. No matter how admirably he is attired, his grade in good and refined society will be guaged by his speech.

THE WIDOWS OF INDIA.

THERE are in India to-day, 80,000 widows between the ages of six and sixteen! From the custom of early marriages in India arise the worst features of Hindoo widowhood; for many a child becomes a widow before she reaches the age of seven years. It may be that the child has never lived with her husband, and yet custom forbids her ever marrying again. From the hour of her widowhood her life becomes one of misery. She has no sympathy from her friends, not even from her own family. She is bereft of all her ornaments; her hair is cut off. She is clothed in the commonest apparel, and acts in the capacity of a menial for all the household. Her jewels, which she valued so much in the days of her pride, are no longer upon her person. She can never wear them again, never wear a nice dress, or eat other than a given quantity of poor food. She seldom mingles, or is allowed to mingle in the company of her more fortunate sisters. Her presence is considered a contamination. We cannot depict her misery. Her condition is almost hopeless. A childless widow, herself perhaps a child, drinks to the dregs the bitterest cup of a soulless heathenism, whose only fate is law.

How different the teachings of Christianity. "Ye shall not afflict the widow." "Let thy widows trust in me."—Christian Observer.

WHAT KILLED THE OYSTER?

Pick up that oyster shell. Do you see a little hole in the hard roof of the oyster's house? That explains why there is a shell but no oyster. A little creature called the whelk, living in a spiral shell, dropped one day on the roof of the oyster's house. "The little innocents," some one has called the whelk. "The little villains," an oyster would call them, for the whelk has an auger, and bores and bores and bores until he reaches the oyster itself, and the poor oyster finds he is going up through his own roof. He goes up, but he never comes down.

A writer speaks of noticing on the shores of Brittany the holes in the oyster bored by its enemy, both burglar and murderer we should call him.

"A little sin, a little sin!" cries a boy who may have been caught saying a profane word, or strolling with a bad associate, or reading a bad book, or sipping a glass of beer. "Don't make too much of it!" he says.

Young friend, that is the whelk on the oyster's back. You have given the tempter a chance to use his auger, and he will bore and bore till he reaches the center of all moral worth in the soul, and draws your very life away.

I WON'T.

By Presbyterian

THE other day a little boy burst out crying in school, and he cried as if his heart would break. Did another boy pinch or hurt him? No. Was his spelling lesson too hard? No. What were those tears for? His teacher called him to her side, and asked Freddie what the matter was. "I want to go home. Oh, do let me go," sobbed Freddie, "I said 'I won't' to my mother before school and I want to go home and tell her how sorry I am, and ask her to forgive me."

They were penitent tears, then, the best tears a child can shed. But then you must remember, 'Tis not enough to say We're sorry and repent, And still go on from day to day Just as we always went. Repentance is to leave The sins we loved before, And show that we in earnest grieve By doing so no more.

Yes, no more, I hope Freddie had no more "I won'ts" for his mother.—Presbyterian.

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ITEMS OF NEWS.

—Joseph Cook is in London.

—Mexico is taking measures for the expulsion of the Jesuits.

—Fifteen thousand troops in Cuba are to be disbanded shortly.

—An international congress of electricians is appointed for Sept. 15, 1881, at Paris.

—The inhabitants of China are rioting among themselves, and at the same time, arming to fight Russia.

—The Czar of Russia is said to be suffering from physical and mental prostration, and his recovery is pronounced doubtful.

—The number of immigrants arriving in this country during the months of August and September was over one hundred thousand.

—Serious damage is reported in Italy by floods. Seventeen persons were killed the 28th, by their cottages being swept down.

—The new French consul, M. De Mean, arrived in San Francisco last Thursday. For the last three years he has filled the position of consul at Bombay.

—It is computed that in the last ten years there have been 2,352 labor strikes in Great Britain, the largest number being in 1872, when there were 365.

—News comes that the Ameer whom the English seated on the Afghan throne after a long struggle, has been murdered. Now the British will have their work to do over again. Is not this rather a costly class of friends for the British?

—Joseph Taylor, the father of the late Bayard Taylor, recently celebrated the eighty-fifth anniversary of his birthday in a quiet way at Kennet Square, Pennsylvania.

—A Chinese invasion is threatened from Cuba to Louisiana. There are 150,000 of them on the island, and 10,000 wish to come where they can get better wages.

—The recent Burial Act which gives Nonconformists the right to bury their own dead has gone into operation in England without any of the threats previously made being executed.

—Brigham T. Young, a grandson of the Prophet, wound up a drunken spree last Tuesday night, by taking a fatal dose of morphine. He left one wife and two children. He was thirty years old.

—The value of ordinary postage stamps issued by our government last year was $22,414,918, of postal cards $2,753,470, of stamped envelopes nearly $5,000,000, and of other stamps about $1,800,000.

—The working of miracles is beginning to be ascribed to the remains of the late Pius IX., before the resting-place of which, in the Vatican Basilica, persons may be found at all times in the attitude of prayer.

—A terrific storm visited the English coast last Friday. Fifty vessels were wrecked between Spurn Head and Harsea, and twelve were stranded near Winchelsea. Great loss of life is reported on various parts of the coast.

—Rev. Dr. Geikie, whose Life of Christ has made his name so widely known, is about to relinquish his ministerial charge in Paris, and will return to London. He was originally an independent minister at Islington. He went over a few years ago to the Anglican church.

—The Chicago Tribune estimated that during the great storm of the 16th on the lakes, over half a million dollars' worth of damage was done to vessels and cargoes. Ninety-three persons perished. Seventeen vessels were totally wrecked, and sixty-six considerably damaged.

—A dispatch from Chicago, dated Oct. 31, says: "Sitting Bull has delayed his surrender, awaiting the result of his negotiations for a trip in which he is to be placed on exhibition through the Eastern States. Five hundred of his braves to-day surrendered to General Miles."

—A special from St. Petersburg, Oct. 30, says that the most important Nihilist trials are approaching. They are those of the authors of the Moscow explosion, the designer of the dynamite mine, and the Nihilist Congressman from Lipetsk and Tamboff, who resolved on taking the Czar's life.

—One of the most complete watch and clock factories in the country was burned in Brooklyn, the 27th. By this fire 12,000 persons are thrown out of employment: half of these are young women and girls. The building covered fifty city lots, and the machinery had only been in operation about fourteen months.

—"We are asked why," says the French minister of Public Instruction, "in consolidating the Republic, we seek new struggles? Oh," said he, "what would you say to the man who, having recovered his house, left the key with his adversary? The key of the future of our Republic is the education of our youth."

—It is estimated by the American Exchange in London, that not less than $180,000,000 were spent by the 60,000 of our countrymen who went abroad this year. This would be $3,000 per person. Is it any wonder that "foreigners give their heartiest welcome to the American traveler and his long purse"?

—For the last ten years Mount Everest, in Nepaul, has been considered the highest mountain in the world, reaching the respectable height of 29,002 feet. Recently a peak has been discovered on the little-known island of Guinea, which has appropriately been called Mount Hercules. Its elevation has been fixed at 32,789 feet above the level of the sea.

—A London special says that the situation in Ireland is becoming more exciting hourly. Monday afternoon was the time appointed when Healy and Walsh, the Land-leaguers who were arrested for intimidating a farmer named Manning, were to be granted a preliminary hearing by the Magistrates. This meeting is only a prelude to the many State trials soon to be commenced.

SILENT INFLUENCE.

"I HAVE no influence," said Elsie Lee to her friend, Miss Tomsin. "Why, I am so timid when in company with others that I hardly dare raise my eyes or open my lips."

"That may be," replied the other lady, "and yet you are always exerting influence wherever you go. You cannot help yourself. An hour ago I bought a little bunch of violets from a German flower-girl, and I set them on yonder shelf, beside my dear mother's picture. It is a very tiny bunch, and a person entering the room would very likely not see them, for they do not challenge attention. But every nook and corner of the apartment feels their presence, for their fragrance is pervading the atmosphere. So it is with you, my dear. You love your Saviour, and you try to serve him. You think you cannot speak for him, but if you live for him, and with him, in gentleness, patience, and self-denial, that is better than talking. It does more good. The other evening Jerry Halcomb, who is thoughtless and giddy, made a jest of a verse of Scripture in your hearing. You wished to protest against his act, and tried to do so, but the words would not come. Yet your pained look, your quick blush, your instinctive indignant gesture, spoke for you, and the young man turned and said, 'I beg your pardon, Miss Elsie.' Was not this a proof that he saw and felt your condemnation?"

Silent influence is stronger than we sometimes think for good and for evil. Let us not underestimate it.—Christian at Work.

GOOD-MORNING.

Don't forget to say "Good-morning!" Say it to your parents, your brothers and sisters, your school-mates, your teachers—and say it cheerfully and with a smile; it will do your friends good. There's a kind of inspiration in every "good-morning," heartily and smilingly spoken, that helps to make hope fresher and work lighter. It really seems to make the morning good, and to be a prophecy of a good day to come after it. Such greetings cheer the discouraged, rest the tired one, and somehow make the wheels of life run more smoothly.

Alone with God

Christians need to spend more time alone with God. They are suffering weakness and poverty for want of it. Says the San Francisco Pacific:

"England's greatest engineer was said to be a man of no great natural talent, yet he performed wonders, bridged torrents, pierced mountains, etc. When he came to a difficulty that seemed insurmountable he would shut himself in his room, and neither eat nor drink that he might concentrate his mind on that difficulty. At the end of two or three days he would come out of the room with the look and step of a conqueror, and give orders to his men which seemed to them like inspiration. So it would be with Christians, if they spent more time alone with God. They would come from their closets, as Moses came from the mount, with shining faces; and having power with God, they would have power also with men."

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The Theater and Religion

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"Announcement is made," says the New York Christian at Work, "that a dramatic representation including scenes in the life of our Saviour, his death, resurrection and ascension, is to be given shortly at one of the theaters in this city. We trust our city will be spared any such sacrilegious exhibition. The stage itself, which does not at present represent the highest phase of morality, could scarcely descend into a lower depth than to travesty at the hands of comic actors and buffoons the passion and death of our Lord Jesus Christ. Every right-minded man and woman cannot but resent any attempt to thus degrade to the level of sensationalism and negro minstrelsy the grand story of human redemption. It would be an outrage beyond anything yet attempted in this city."

Much has been said of late by a certain class of religionists concerning the importance of elevating the moral standard of the theater so that its benefits (?) might be secured by professors of religion. The above we judge is one of the ways they have taken to bring this about, but it only confirms us in the opinion that any attempt to unite theater-going and religion will result in lowering the religion of Christ instead of elevating the theater. We pray to be delivered from all further efforts in this direction.

Californians will remember that some time since San Francisco refused admittance to this play. We await with interest the decision of New York in the matter.

THE RESURRECTION.

THE following from the Christian at Work, for Oct. 14, concerning the resurrection, is right to the point:

"Very queer and widely divergent views have prevailed touching the resurrection. The great Augustine held that all matter which had ever entered into the composition of the body from babyhood to death would be incorporated in the new body. As many hairs as have been shaved off, or nails cut, or warts or tumors as have disappeared, as much flesh as the body has ever had, and every particle of such flesh,—all shall be recovered and reincorporated in the new body; not, however, to produce excess in any member, but to be converted into a harmonious and perfect whole."

Thomas Aquinas was more moderate, holding that only the particles at death would be incorporated. Others assume that it is not necessary to the identity that all the particles should be included in the resurrection body; while Tertullian thought God had rendered the teeth indestructible in order to furnish material for the future body! Still others have held and many now believe that there is an indestructible germ in our present body which is to be developed in the future. Dr. Lange, whose imagination sometimes walks away with him, assumes that the soul is endowed with the power of gathering to itself a body as the seed gathers the forces necessary to make it a tree, and so the soul will gather its own body under spiritual conditions.

"Touching all of which a few remarks: 1. There is a resurrection of the body. 2. It is not necessary to this that every particle of the present body shall be reincorporated. 3. That body will not be miraculously bestowed—that is, as an event astounding and exceptional—but will be bestowed in accordance with a higher LAW, of which we are now ignorant. 4. It will be a spiritual body, not a spirit body, the former being a body adapted to the wants, functions and offices of a perfect spirit, tangible and visible, the latter being a non-tangible, unsubstantial spirit-body, for which there is no warrant in Scripture. 5. Beyond the two facts of the resurrection and an identity, we know little or nothing, and all speculation is vain."

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A False Christian Liberty

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H. W. Beecher, in the Christian Union, predicts that in the near future there is to be a great advance in Christian liberty and church life. The bondage to ordinances, such as baptism, the Lord's supper, and the Sabbath, will largely cease, he thinks, and Christians will generally come—as he says he has already come—not to disregard these ordinances altogether, indeed, but to sit loosely to them or consider them not of binding obligation or as necessary to salvation. Christians are coming, he says, to take a larger view of the Sabbath and to devote it more to social life and enjoyment. Those who take this enlarged and liberal view regard music and "amusements of all kinds" to be "as sacred as prayer or as baptism, if held in the right spirit, with a deep and profound sense of the divinity of things in human life." For himself, he adds, if he does not work in his field on Sunday, it is not because he thinks it would be "violating God's law" to do so, and if he abstains from wine, it is not because he considers it a sin to drink it. Is this the kind of liberality so much desired and talked about in our day?!

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