Earlier text: THE COMMASETTING IT IN THE SUNSHINE.
By Sydney Dayre
"WHAT a poor little dark room!" said Faith, as, with her mother, she came out of a house in which she had been visiting an invalid girl. "Yes; poor and dark and gloomy," said her mother with a sigh. "And so dreadfully dirty!" "Yes. I have said as much as I dared to Mrs. Ray about keeping clean, but it seems to have done no good as yet." "Not a book, not a paper, not a picture, not a flower. Dear me! how can people live so! What if I were poor Ruth!" A sober thought of the difference between her own cheerful home and the dreary one of the young girl who lay in the comfortless room kept her silent for a while. "I wish I could do something for Ruth!" she said presently. "But we have so little to give away!" "So very little," repeated her mother, except kind words and a trifle now and then! But if we had more, Mrs. Ray is not one who thinks herself an object of charity." Arrived at home, Faith bent lovingly over the plants which had smiled her a welcome from the window. "This little rose bush is full of buds, mamma. And one is just opening—do come and see!" Her mother came to look at the lovely petals which were beginning to unfold in the winter sunshine. "It looks as if it were waking up to thank the sun for the weeks and weeks of shining it has done, for it," said Faith, caressingly touching the green leaves. "O mamma, what if I should give my rose bush to Ruth?" "Why! I thought you were so fond of it, Faith!" "So I am; but I have so little to give. It would be hard to give it; so all the more I ought to." "Take time to think about it before you make up your mind, dear," said her mother. Faith did take time, and one day, a week later, she wrapped a paper about the beautiful bush, for careful protection against the sharp wind, and took her way to Ruth's home. "See what I've brought you!" she said, placing the rose bush, with its glory of half-opened buds, on the window-sill, within reach of the sick girl's hand. "For me? O Miss Faith, how could you!" The flush of delight which arose to the pale face was a sufficient assurance that the gift which had cost so much self-denial would not be thrown away on her. "You must give it the very tenderest care," said Faith, half jestingly, motioning toward the flower, as, after a half-hour's talk, she arose to take leave. "A little tepid water every second morning." "And a good sprinkling once a week, or oftener, with water with the chill just off." "And it must have fresh air on mild days, and be set back from the window on frosty nights. And most of all, let it have sunshine. You have such a nice south window it ought to do well here." A good deal of brightness went away with Faith's face, but there was plenty left as Ruth turned with ever-growing delight to the lovely plant on the window-sill to count its buds and blossoms, and rejoice in the delicate beauty of the pink petals. "You look as if you were smiling at me, you beauty," she said, touching with her lips one of the flowers. "Sunshine? Yes, you shall have all you want." But as she moved it nearer the pane, in order to catch the rays of the afternoon sun, it struck her, as never before, that the sunlight seemed to linger outside, as if afraid of venturing through the dust-covered window. "Dear me!" said Ruth. "I never noticed how dirty that window is. The sun can't get in. That won't do. What will Miss Faith say if her rose tree droop here?" Raising herself by a little effort, she rubbed the dust from one pane, feeling well rewarded by the kindly rays which seemed glad to beam in upon her. "Look!" she said, pointing triumphantly to the rose as her mother entered on her return from her day's work an hour later. "Miss Faith brought it to me. And I'm glad you're home so early before the sun is quite down. Doesn't the sun shine in beautifully?" "Yes," said her mother, well pleased at anything which pleased her daughter. "But how dirty them other panes is! It didn't show so before." "No," said Ruth. "I rubbed that one clean, cause Miss Faith says the rose must have sunshine." " 'Twouldn't take long to clean the whole of it." She was weary with the hard day's work, and always before fancied herself too weary to clean things at home, besides having, poor soul, little courage for it. But the new interest and the new light in Ruth's face were inspiring, and a little later the farewell beams of the sinking sun shone in through twelve brightly polished panes. In her first bending over her new treasure, the next morning, Ruth's eye wandered to the shelf on which it stood. The sunbeams seemed to be pointing out the dust which lay thick upon it, varied by stains which had come from setting medicine bottles there. "I wonder if Miss Faith noticed it? I hope not. The sun didn't shine in there. But she might have noticed the window—dear me! If I could only help mother a bit with things!" She gave a discouraged glance around the disorderly room. She had thought little of it before, but now the sun seemed jealously to penetrate to every corner, as if taking pleasure in calling attention to the lack of care and neatness which would have struck horror to any cleanly soul. Ruth tried to look at it as other eyes might look, and it shamed her. "Mother can't do much more than she does now, but perhaps I could do a little myself." She had felt no worse from her effort of yesterday, and the new ambitions aroused in her seemed to give new strength. She brought a little warm water and cleaned the shelf; then took a needle and thread from a bag which hung near her and mended some holes in the old curtain. "Now I'll get mother to wash this next Monday, and it'll look as neat as a pin." Mother took silent heed of what was going on. It would have been impossible for her to tell all the thoughts awakened by the presence of the rose tree, but certain it is that the memories it called out softened and cheered her burdened heart. It was always there, always beautiful in its perfection of bloom, smiling a greeting to her as she came back from her daily toil. And something within her uttered a loud protest against allowing the lovely flowers to bloom amid surroundings of dirt and disorder. Poverty there must be, but poverty did not necessarily mean dirt, as she in her less discouraged days had proved. So there came a day when the window was thrown wide open, and, in the sweet breath of the early spring, the floor was scrubbed and the walls cleaned and whitewashed; and it was impossible, of course, that the improved state of things should not extend to other portions of the tiny house. "What an astonishing change!" said Faith one day, when she had been with her mother to see Ruth. "I am going to take a picture from my room to hang on the wall in Ruth's room. It can be seen now." One day not long afterwards Ruth told Faith the whole story, saying, as she finished, "I've been looking in the Bible for the text: 'Cleanliness is next to godliness,' but I can't find it. Can you tell me where it is?" "Oh!" said Faith with a merry laugh, "that isn't in the Bible; but it's a very good text for all that. There are good things outside the Bible you know." "Yes," said Ruth, looking at her with an affectionate smile, "you are outside of it." —Sydney Dayre, in Congregationalist. THE BOY HERO OF JOHNSTOWN.
SOME of us may say that the lad whose heroism is told of in the following from the Philadelphia Times, should rank higher in the temple of fame than all the Paul Reveres of the Johnstown flood: "Among the heroes of the disaster—and some of them swept off in525 the flood will never be known—John Stitt, the boy hero of the bridge, should have a brass plate memorial set in its stone. He was seventeen, and worked in the Pennsylvania Railroad machine shop at Blairsville. After helping to pull several people out at the bridge, that black and awful Friday night, he went to the shops and came back with a lighted locomotive headlight. Standing on the bridge he turned it this way and that, not only saving many from being dashed against the bridge, or caught in the houses that cracked like egg-shells against it, but enabling the others to get to the shore. Several times he was urged not to stay, but he still kept his place and held the light, occasionally taking off his cap and sending up a cheer as he saw one after another safely reach the bank. Then a wave larger than the others came, there was a crash, and noble little John, still with his saving headlight, was washed away." Cast your bread upon the water;
Pleading, hungry at your feet,
High or humble, king or cotter,—
Charity's returns are sweet.
By a word, if fitly spoken,
Howe'er simple it may be,
Oft a chain of sin is broken
And the fettered slave is free. Every tear that's stayed from falling,
Is a diamond for your crown;
O the ceaseless, ceaseless calling
Of the dear ones trampled down!
But, for those whose strength is given
To the shielding of the weak,
Storms are stilled; the clouds are riven;
Zephyrs chant and sunbeams speak. Every stream of kindness flowing
Stays some feet that sin-ward roam;
Every lamp of mercy glowing
Guides some straying brother home;
Nature opes her veins to nourish
Vines of truth where'er they run,
And a thousand blossoms flourish
Pressing in the track of one. Cast your bread upon the waters,
Moaning sea or dimpled burn—
These are all His sons and daughters,
Give! nor question the return. FAMILY WORSHIP—AN INCIDENT.
TEN years ago I boarded in the family of a pious woman whose husband was not a Christian. There was a daughter of nineteen, another of fourteen, and a son of ten. Every morning I heard that humble woman gather her family in the kitchen, and read with them a chapter, verse about, in the Bible. Then, as I could not help listening, there was a peculiarity of service that mystified me. At last I asked one day if I might remain. She hesitated; her daughter blushed, but she said I could do so if I really desired it. So I sat down with the rest. They gave me a Testament, and we read a verse in turn. Then kneeling on the floor, that mother began her prayer audibly, for her dear ones there, her husband, and herself; and then pausing a moment, as if to gather energy or wing her faith, uttered a tender, affectionate supplication for me. She closed, and her daughter began to pray. Poor girl; she was afraid of me. I was from college; I was her teacher; but she tremulously asked for a blessing as usual. Then came the other daughter, and at last the son, the youngest of that circle, who only repeated the Lord's Prayer, with one petition of his own. His amen was said, but no one arose. I knew on the instant they were waiting for me. And I, poor prayerless I, had no word to say. It almost broke my heart. I hurried from the room, desolate and guilty. A few weeks only passed, when I asked their permission to come in once more; and then I prayed, too, and thanked my dear, patient Saviour for the hope in my heart and the new song on my lips.—Selected. It is now a well-settled fact that diseases of various kinds may be conveyed to human beings through the agency of that most useful article of diet, milk. The disease may be transmitted by a feverish or tuberculous cow, or through absorption, as in a well-known case of scarlet fever in England. It is in most cases impossible for consumers to discover the danger to which they are exposed, and hence, as the case now stands, they are almost completely at the mercy of the producer. Officers of the law stand ready to dump into the river or otherwise dispose of milk that will not stand the test of the lactometer; but there is far too little investigation of herds remote from cities, where cattle are sometimes as badly housed and sorely diseased as in the close quarters of city milk-stables. Here, for example, is what a western agricultural writer has to say on the subject in the Prairie Farmer:— "Milch cattle are often afflicted with tumorous excrescences and blood disorders. The milk is so immediately connected with the blood that the quality of the one gauges the other; hence it is a moral crime, if no worse, to sell milk drawn from animals showing any permanent health defects, or temporary maladies. The producer is a transgressor in this way: He has, say, a dairy of twenty cows, and the cream that their milk yields is daily gathered up by the manufacturer's wagon. One or more animals in his herd have gargety teats, or tumorous blood affections. When he reserves a portion for family use he does not take it from the common mess, but is careful to save it from the yield of one of the healthiest cows. The residue, good, bad, and indifferent, is turned over to the mercy of the buttermaker and the charity of the public. We do not intend this for a sweeping accusation, but there are so many of such mercenary transactions going on that they call for condemnation from honest dairymen."—Baptist Examiner. ON THE TRAINING OF GIRLS.
Did girls get from childhood the same business training as boys, and were it clearly understood in all families that it is no credit, but rather a discredit, for women to hang helpless on the men instead of doing their own work, and, if necessary, earning their own living, I believe society would be not the worse, but the better, for the change. Men would find out that the more they elevate women the greater use they get out of them. If, instead of a man working himself to death for his unmarried daughters, and then leaving them ignominiously dependent upon male relatives, he would educate them to independence, making them able both to maintain and protect themselves, it would save him and them a world of unhappiness. They would cease to be either the rivals—a very hopeless rivalry—or the playthings first and afterward the slaves of men; and become, as was originally intended, their co-mates equal and yet different.—Selected. THE DANGER OF USING THE FERMENTED ARTICLE
A CLERICAL correspondent of the New Christianity writes to that journal a warning against the use of intoxicating wine for communion purposes, and cites an illustration from his own pastoral experience. He was called to officiate at the funeral of a child whose parents were non-professors, but who subsequently became members of his church. The father, formerly a drinking man, had become an abstainer. The majority of the members of the church favored intoxicating wine for the communion service. The new member, after two years of faithful abstinence expressed a desire to take the Lord's Supper. His pastor writes:— "I did not dissuade him; for as he had abstained so long and faithfully, I felt sure he would continue. He presented himself with the communicants. Upon receiving the cup he took a sip, and moved to return the cup to me; but suddenly, the old appetite being touched by the alcoholic spark, he returned the cup to his lips—it was about two-thirds full—and nearly drained it as though urged on by demons. Poor man! Realizing what he had done, and evidently feeling disgraced, he at once arose and left the temple. From that time he returned to drink, and I have been unable to regain sufficient influence over him to effect his return to our services." He adds: "Another man in my society formerly drank to excess. I dare not encourage him to come to the communion." How can members of Christian churches continue to insist upon the use of intoxicating wine for communion purposes after their attention has been called by such illustrations to its obvious perils for such of their members as may have been previously addicted to the use of intoxicants?—National Temperance Advocate. EXCUSES FOR ALCOHOL.
By John Ellis, M. D.
THE world over, those who love and use wine and intoxicating drinks, who partake of "the social cup," are the men who often prescribe them for patients, and strive to justify their use; and it is wonderful, and very interesting, to see to what shifts they have been driven by the advancing science of this age. It retards the metamorphoses or wasting and repair, or renewal of the structures of the body, they tell us, when every school-boy in physiology, and every man and woman who has ever felt the invigorating effects of active exercise, can see clearly that to retard such changes is the last thing to be desired, if we wish health and strength. The use of opium, and the torpor of hibernating animals, and the sluggishness of lazy and indolent men and women, retard much more fully the metamorphoses of the tissues; but is such a life to be desired when happiness and health depend on activity? Again, we are told that a small portion of the alcohol taken into the system is actually appropriated to some useful purpose, and is, consequently, actually food—"yes, food, gentlemen." The same is true of a much larger proportion of the opium, tobacco, or deadly nightshade, which can safely be taken into the stomach; but who would think of attempting to justify the use of these poisons by any such argument? These straws are fast being submerged. Go the world over and the physicians who have either never used wine and alcoholic drinks, or having used, have repented and put away their use, will be found to totally condemn their use during health, and rarely, if ever, to prescribe them as medicine. Need more be said?—John Ellis, M. D. - Eighty nihilists have been arrested at Kharkof, Russia.
- Toledo, Ohio, has struck a gas well which yields 20,000,000 feet per day.
- A natural gas company with a capital of $750,000 has recently been organized in San Diego, Cal.
- The New York Sun has forwarded a check for $10,000 to Mayor Grant, for the World's Exposition Fund.
- Privy Councillor Kruger of Germany has been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in naval frauds.
- A law school for women is being organized in New York City. It is expected to open about October 1.
- A fire broke out in Sachsenburg, Prussia, the 10th inst., and burned for three days, entirely destroying the town.
- Forest fires are raging in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon. There has been no rain there for two months.
- The Oregon Short Line and a number of roads in Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and Nevada have been consolidated.
- In the recent State election, Kentucky increased the Democratic plurality vote of two years ago by 100 per cent.
- The walls of a building recently destroyed by fire in Chicago, collapsed on the 14th inst., burying three men in the ruins.
- A workman at Louisville, Ky., recently sustained a shock of twenty-two hundred volts of electricity without serious injury.
- King Humbert, of Italy, has sent a special decoration to Edison, the inventor, and has conferred the title of Count upon him.
- The water in the upper Mississippi is lower than it has been for many years, and navigation is being seriously interfered with.
- The whole army corps guards paraded before the emperor of Austria, at Berlin, the 13th inst., making a brilliant display.
- Senator Evarts is suffering from serious eye trouble. He expects to shortly go to Europe to consult with leading specialists there.
- The Orphan Asylum at Augusta, Georgia, a handsome five-story building, costing $100,000, was entirely destroyed by fire August 11.
- The constitutional conventions of North Dakota and Montana each completed their respective work the 17th inst., and adjourned sine die.
- The report is current in foreign countries, that the Russian Government is urging the Regents of Servia to expel ex-King Milan from that country.
- General Boulanger has been found guilty of conspiracy by the French court. Dillon and Rochefort are also indicted for complicity in the plot with him.
- It is reported that owing to timely rains, the harvest in Scotland will be unusually abundant this year. Great gladness prevails in agricultural regions.
- Large bodies of colored people, aggregating many thousands, are preparing to emigrate from North Carolina to Western and Southwestern States during the coming fall.
- Signor Benedetti Cairoli, the distinguished Italian statesman, is dead. He will be remembered as the man who saved King Humbert from the dirk of an assassin in 1878.
- An expedition in which Henry Villard is considerably interested, is to be fitted out with two vessels to start on a voyage of discovery toward the South Pole next spring.
- It is stated that the Sultan of Turkey has notified Greece that if she attempts to land troops in Crete or to incite any further rebellion there, it will be considered a cause for war.
- Blondin, the celebrated tight-rope performer, has wagered $20,000 that he can walk a cable from the top of the Eiffel Tower to the central dome of the exposition building in less than five minutes.
- A passenger train on the Western Pennsylvania Railroad jumped the track and went over an embankment at Carver's Station the 16th inst., killing three persons outright and injuring some twenty-five others.
- Heavy rains in southeastern Nebraska recently, have interrupted railway traffic and have swelled the streams of that section to such an extent that hundreds of houses have been flooded. Four hundred destitute people are being cared for at Lincoln.
- The Paragon Oil Company, an independent organization outside of the oil ring, with headquarters and refinery at Toledo, Ohio, has just perfected a discovery by which the sulphur in coal oil can be completely taken out. The Standard Oil Company offers $2,000,000 for the control of the process.
- The Home Secretary of England has announced his concurrence in the opinion of Justice Stephen, who recently sentenced Mrs. Maybrick to death for poisoning her husband. The friends of the condemned woman have given up hope, unless the executive interference of the Queen shall be exercised.
- An explosion of gas in a crockery house in New York City the 16th inst., blew the contents of the building out through the front of the store, killing two persons almost instantly, and injuring about thirty others. Evidence shows that the explosion was not the result of an accident but had been planned beforehand.
- An experiment recently made in Kentucky by a physician who tried the effect of the new Brown-Sequard elixir of life upon an aged negro resulted fatally. Unfavorable reports are coming in from other sections of the country also, so it is not likely that the new discovery will prove to be an unmixed benefit, whatever its virtues are.
- The steamer Allianir, with 140 passengers which arrived at New York the 16th inst., had a narrow escape from destruction by fire during her recent voyage from Brazil. The flames raged for several hours before they were at last brought under control. Three hundred bales of cotton were burned, and seven hundred more bales were thrown overboard.
- The Temperance Educational Society is the name of a new society recently organized in Chicago, and incorporated under the laws of the State. The first experiment it is trying is that of placing in the street-cars, on advertising placards, in display type, where they cannot fail to be seen, a few most telling facts and figures. The managers propose to be sure of their facts, so that however startling, they shall be incontrovertibly true.
- Dr. Gradenigo, professor of ophthalmic surgery in the University of Padua, has just succeeded in transplanting the cornea from the eye of a barn fowl into the eye of a patient under his care. On the eighth day after the operation the transplanted cornea presented a quite pellucid and convex appearance. Such a result has never before been recorded in the annals of Continental surgery.—London Lancet.
- A new process in the production of steel, which if successful will practically revolutionize the manufacture, is now being perfected by John W. Brookwalter, of Ohio. In eight to nine minutes, it is claimed, pig iron can be converted into steel at a cost less than by any other known process.
- It is reported that three negroes, acting upon the direction of a colored man who claims to be Daniel the prophet, threw themselves into a blazing blast furnace near Birmingham, Alabama, the 10th inst., under the impression that, like the three Hebrew children, they would suffer no injury. Jackson, the prophet, declared that he saw them ascend to Heaven, accompanied by angels, and that in a few days they would return again. The negroes of that vicinity have great confidence in his pretensions.
- The municipal authorities of Paris recently gave a dinner at the Palais de l'Industrie in honor of the provincial mayors of France, which can lay claim to being the largest banquet in the history of the world. The invited guests numbered 15,000, whose wants were supplied by over 1,000 waiters. For days previous to the grand event, 200 cooks were engaged, and the amount of provisions required was enormous. The number of plates was 80,000, which, if piled one on top of another, would make a stack more than a mile in height.
- David S. Terry, ex-judge of the California Supreme Court, was shot and instantly killed at Lathrop, Cal., August 14, by Deputy United States Marshal Neagle. Considerable bitterness had existed for some time between Judge Terry and Stephen J. Field, associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, on account of the ruling of the latter individual in the celebrated Hill-Sharon-Terry case, and because of this Neagle had been appointed as a body-guard to protect Justice Field. On the occasion in question, as Field and Neagle were eating their breakfast in the railroad dining room at Lathrop, Judge Terry approached and slapped Justice Field in the face with his hand, when he was instantly shot through the heart as above stated. Both Neagle and Field were arrested, although Field afterwards was released on a writ of habeas corpus. Intense excitement prevails on the Western coast on account of the murder.
WINKLER.—E. G. Winkler, of Rosalia, Wash. Ter., died July 31, 1889, aged 37 years. His disease was sarcoma of the kidneys. He had been in failing health for some time, and thinking he might be benefited at the Sanitarium, spent a part of last year there. He returned to his home in Washington Territory in the early part of winter, but did not improve as it was hoped he would. He attended the camp-meeting at Colfax, and feeling the necessity of taking advanced steps, was rebaptized. Feeling the need of help he could not obtain at home, he returned to the Sanitarium, but there was no help. He was a great sufferer, but bore it with Christian patience. He was brother-in-law to Dr. Kate Lindsay, by whom the remains were taken to Wisconsin, the home of her father, where he was laid to rest until the Life-giver comes. None of his family were with him at the time of his death. He leaves a wife, six children, an aged mother, two brothers, and two sisters to mourn, but not without hope. Funeral services by the writer. (Review and Herald please copy.) Appointments.
By Frank Brown
MISSIONARY MEETINGS, DISTRICT NO. 4.
No preventing providence, I will fill the following appointments:—
JOLON, September 3-8.
SOLEDAD, Monday night, September 9.
SOQUEL, Tuesday night, September 10.
GILROY, Wednesday night, September 11.
HOLLISTER, Thursday night, September 12.
SAN JOSE, September 13, 14. Meetings at Jolon will begin on Tuesday night, and end on Sunday night. Hope to have meeting in daytime each day also. Meetings at San Jose will begin Friday night, and end evening after the Sabbath. Turn out, brethren, to these our last meetings before the camp-meeting. All business pertaining to the camp-meeting may be attended to. Opportunity for baptism. Pray the Lord to bless.
FRANK BROWN, Director. - Rome has already five Jewish synagogues and another is projected.
- Pennsylvania has a total of 1,088,083 Sunday-school scholars and teachers.
- The British and Foreign Bible Society prints the Bible in 300 different tongues.
- One hundred and eighty-two churches were burned in the United States last year.
- It is said that more than ten per cent. of the Indians in America are church members.
- A Young Men's Christian Association for French-speaking young men has been established in New York City.
- Of the 482 theological and religious books published in this country last year, 339 were the work of American authors.
- Last year the agents of the American Bible Society visited 5,668,000 families and found 370,000 of them with no Bibles.
- There are about one thousand Christian Chinamen in California and Oregon. They contribute $2,500 a year for Home Mission Work, and have sent two missionaries to China.
- In 1883 the population of India was 253,891,821. Of these nearly 188,000,000 were Hindus, 50,000,000 Mohammudans, more than 6,000,000 native worshipers, 1,863,000 Sikhs; while the Christians numbered 1,862,335.
- The Congress of Chili has failed to pass the Constitutional Reform bill, which would have disestablished the Roman Catholic Church; but has granted a charter to the Presbyterian Mission, which gives the right to worship and to hold property.
- The Presbytery of New Brunswick has answered the overture on "Revision of the Confession of Faith," as follows: "The Presbytery of New Brunswick, having carefully considered the overture in relation to the 'Revision of the Confession of Faith,' proposed by the General Assembly, respectfully replies as follows: This Presbytery does not desire any revision of the Confession of Faith." This represents the opinion of the Faculty of Princeton Theological Seminary.
Circulate It Now!
By Editor
This pamphlet contains the arguments in behalf of the rights of American citizens, and in opposition to the Blair Sunday-Rest Bill, which Mr. Jones presented before the Senate Committee on Education and Labor, December 13, 1888. Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts has pronounced the report as published "MIGHTY INTERESTING READING,"
And Mr. Jones's comments will make it more so. His argument is enlarged to what it would have been without Senator Blair's interruptions, objections, and counter-arguments, and is accompanied with answers to all of his objections and counter-arguments. Specimen page from "National Sunday Law." As the Sunday question is now a living issue, this treatise will be interesting to all classes, especially legislators, lawyers, judges, and other public men. The argument is Based on Scripture and History, Constitution and Law,
Showing the limits of the civil power, the unconstitutionality of the Sunday Bill, an analysis of the Sunday laws and other religious legislation of the different States, the Sunday-law movement of the fourth century, the Sunday-law movement of the nineteenth century, the methods used in securing indorsements to the petition for the Blair Bill, and the workings of such Sunday laws as are proposed for the United States. Address, AMERICAN SENTINEL, 1059 Castro St., Oakland, Cal.; 43 Bond St., New York. THE WORK CONTAINS 192 PAGES. PRICE, 25 CENTS.