Earlier text: A Cake Not TurnedTEMPERANCE PACKAGES.
By Editor
We have put up in packages three different assortments of our health and temperance works which we will furnish, post-paid, at the prices named. The smallest package contains 100 pages in thirteen tracts, as follows:— True Temperance—Alcohol, What is it?—Our Nation's Curse—Cause and Cure of Intemperance—Effects of Intemperance—The Drunkard's Arguments Answered—Alcoholic Medication—Alcoholic Poison—Tobacco Poisoning—Tobacco-Using a Cause of Disease—Tobacco-Using a Relic of Barbarism—Evil Effects of Tea and Coffee—Ten Arguments on Tea and Coffee. The second package, costing forty cents, post-paid, contains the above list and the following in addition:— Pork, the Dangers of its Use—Diphtheria, Its Causes, Prevention, and Proper Treatment. By J. H. Kellogg, M. D. This book should be in every household. Its instructions, if faithfully carried out, will save many a precious life. The third package, costing $1.00, post-paid, contains in addition to the above:— Proper Diet for Man, price 15c—The Uses of Water, price 25c—Dyspepsia, Its Cause and Cure, price 25c. The object in arranging these packages is to get them in a convenient form for sale and for selection. Address SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. BIBLE SANCTIFICATION:
By Editor
This is a pamphlet of only 54 pages, but its value is not to be judged by its size. It is just what its title indicates: a faithful presentation of Bible truth on this important subject, and an exposure of the false theories prevailing in regard to it. Every believer in Bible truth should read it. Buy it, read it, and lend it to your neighbor. Price, 10 cents. Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal.
Or, REVIEW AND HERALD, Battle Creek, Mich. —The entire town of Pinos Altos, Mexico, has been destroyed by fire. —Russia will soon build an 11,000-ton iron-clad war ship, at a cost of $3,250,000. —No shut down of a brewery has yet been reported as an outcome of the hard times. —The police of New York City recently arrested sixteen persons who were indulging in opium-smoking in a room ten feet square. —The banks of New York have an abundance of surplus funds on hand. It is asserted that there is more idle money there at this time than was ever known before. —The late severe cold froze and ruined for market $20,000 worth of oysters in Prince's Bay, N. Y. —Four persons have been arrested in London, who it is thought were connected with the late conspiracy to blow up the English Parliament. —The United States now stands third among the silk manufacturing countries of the world, its last annual production amounting to $35,000,000. —Dr. Peter Collier, formerly chemist of the Agricultural Bureau at Washington, recently declared that sugar can be produced from sorghum at one cent per pound. —Dispatches from points on the British Coast say that severe storms have prevailed there recently, causing the wreck of a number of vessels and the loss of many lives. —The snowfall on the Italian Alps is said to be the heaviest within the memory of man. Many villages have been destroyed, and so far as known 300 lives have been lost. —Sixty tons of rock are reported to have fallen from the Natural Bridge, in Virginia, the other afternoon, with deafening roar, but the curved lines of the bridge were not disturbed. —A fire in the rear of the Indiana Insane Asylum the morning of Jan. 27, destroyed the engine room, laundry, bakery, and some smaller apartments. Loss to the institution, $75,000. No one was injured. —The London News says that the American Government has advanced claims to land in the Fiji Islands in behalf of its subjects who had settled there before the annexation of the territory by the British. —A severe storm was reported Jan. 28, on the west coast of New Foundland, which did much damage to the fishing vessels. At last account, twenty-three boats were missing, whose crews aggregate about fifty men. —General Grant's health is much improved. He contemplates writing his recollections of his period from the fall of Sumpter to the close of his presidential career, including the secret history of his dealings with Andrew Johnson. —A fire was discovered the morning of Jan. 26, at the National Capitol, in the collection of books and records stored under the roof of the House of Representatives. The fire was soon extinguished and the damage done was trifling. —Two islands that were thrown up by the great Java earthquake last year have again sunk out of sight and below the deep water line of navigation. The volcano Merapi, which started the previous disturbance, is once more unusually active. —The Committee on Post-office Matters will, it is understood, favorably report a bill to Congress to reduce newspaper postage from two cents to one cent per pound, when the papers are sent from the office of publication, or from news agents to actual subscribers. —The silver vaults at the Sub-Treasury of San Francisco are taxed to the fullest capacity, and the Secretary of the Treasury is considering the question of transferring from them about $40,000,000 in standard dollars to the new silver vault in the Treasury Department. —It has been estimated that there were 16,000,000 centals, or 800,000 tons of wheat in California on Jan. 1. This is rapidly diminishing, however, through the activity of the wheat shippers. The wharves at Nevada Dock, Port Costa, and Wheatport, are now crowded with ships waiting to be loaded. —Successful experiments lately tried in England have demonstrated a method of slaughtering domestic animals for food, which relieves the victim from all pain. Carbonic acid, generated from charcoal, is administered, which produces stupefaction, and, it is claimed, does not in the slightest degree affect the meat. —A strange freak of nature has come to light in Cleveland, Ohio. A two-year-old girl of that city has two tongues. The second one has grown from the root, and on top of the first, and is nearly the size of the real tongue. The child is reported as suffering no inconvenience from the unnatural production. —A farmer in Berkley County, West Virginia, whose chickens mysteriously disappeared at certain times, placed some dynamite torpedoes on his premises. The following night an explosion occurred, arousing the family. Upon going out, they found the hen-house completely destroyed, and the dead body of a neighboring negro, lying by, horribly mangled.95 —Information has been received by the Home Secretary at London, that the dynamiters design to blow up the British Museum. —Forty persons were killed and many injured by a collision last week on the railroad near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. —Iron and brass mills in Ohio are starting up, and there is a more favorable outlook in the metal trade than has existed for many months. —Another negro exodus from North Carolina has begun. Reports say that the people are leaving by hundreds. Arkansas is the objective point. —The cylinder-head of the engine at the Dobson Carpet Mills in Philadelphia, burst last Friday, throwing 1,500 operatives out of employment, and causing a loss to the firm of $20,000. —An express train of four coaches on the Reading Railroad was wrecked Jan. 30, near Greenville, N. J. Seventy passengers were on the train, of whom twenty-five were wounded, some very seriously. —A natural gas explosion occurred last week in Pittsburg, entirely demolishing a saloon, and badly wrecking four other buildings. Twenty-four persons are reported wounded, five of whom it is thought will die. —The uproar and violence provoked by the work of Mormon missionaries in North Carolina has led to the introduction of a bill in the State Legislature making it a felony to preach or teach the doctrine of polygamy. "Home Hand-Book."
By Editor
THE following is a sample of some of the letters which we receive from our agents:— "I have really enjoyed working for the 'Hand-Book.' It has proved to be a 'God-send' in several cases of dangerous disease,—smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, etc.,—among my brethren, and friends. Have sold a goodly number of volumes, and obtained some choice testimonials from physicians, merchants, farmers, etc." Breakfast, Dinner, and Supper.
VIRGINIA BURTON, journalist, Kansas City, Mo., says: "I congratulate you upon your recent work, entitled, 'Breakfast, Dinner, and Supper,' as I consider it one of the best books for house-keepers published. It is interesting to read, and valuable as a book for reference, embracing as it does, not only the ethics of eating and the etiquette of the home, but sanitary science in relation to the home, with a very suggestive department upon house-keeping." A Golden Opportunity.
By Editor
WHILE the subject of health reform,—right living, temperance, etc.,—is being so thoroughly agitated in the Pacific Coast States, it affords a golden opportunity for agents to introduce such valuable works as the "Home Hand-Book of Domestic Hygiene," by J. H. Kellogg, M. D., and "Breakfast, Dinner, and Supper—How, What, and When," by J. E. White, M. D., and Mrs. M. L. Wanless. SOLD ONLY BY SUBSCRIPTION. Five hundred more agents wanted in the States and Territories west of Colorado. For circulars, terms to agents, etc., address, PACIFIC PRESS, Oakland, Cal. —There is no such thing as religious toleration in Turkey, and fresh tidings from there show that the empire is determined not to have Christianity within its borders. —The average contributions from the Japanese Christians last year were $4.99 for each of the 2,000 or more church members. This among a people whose average earnings are fifty cents per day. —The M. E. Church is about to establish a university somewhere in the Southwest. The local church at Topeka, Kansas, offers to furnish a site, and a rich citizen of that State is willing to donate $500,000. —The Methodists meet with success in Australia. The M. E. Church has, in Tasmania, New Zealand, and Australia, 1,309 churches with a membership of 34,151. Other branches of the Methodist family swell the number of members to more than 300,000. —The island of Erromanga, one of the Hebrides group containing 2,000 people, was one of the hardest to establish Christianity upon, because of the fierceness of its inhabitants. Now every part of the island is accessible to mission work. The Presbyterians have a church there numbering 196 members. —It is reported that the Buddhist priests of Kioto, Japan, have appointed a committee to go to Europe to study Christianity. If upon investigation the committee decides it to be a better religion than Buddhism, the priests say they will adopt it. The inducement to this step is said to be because of the inroads Christianity has already made upon Buddhism in that country. —There is but one Italian Protestant primary school in Rome. This is sustained by the Free Church of Italy. To destroy its influence, the Romish Church has formed about it a circle of seven schools, which not only furnish school books and instruction free, but meat, bread, and potatoes also, to their pupils. And yet it is said that the Protestant school flourishes. In its ardor to thrust down all others, the church of Rome may be forced to confer benefits she has never proposed to bestow. The best way to make others do good is to set about that work ourselves. —In some parts of Ohio, circulars have been peddled among the "faithful" to the effect that all who would repeat a certain prayer (contained in the circular) once each day, or hear it read, or keep it about the person, should be exempt from sudden death either by poison or otherwise. The prayer, the circular sets forth, was found in the grave of our Lord Jesus Christ in the year 1003, and was sent from the pope to the Emperor Charles as a safeguard when going to battle. Its appeals to Mary betray its papal birth, and show the vast amount of superstition still cherished among the ignorant of the Catholic Church, and the advantage taken of that ignorance by the leaders to carry certain ends. —Ever since the opening of the New Orleans Exposition, considerable effort has been put forth by certain ones to have it closed on Sundays. The Sunday League of Louisiana at last appealed to Secretary of State Frelinghuysen, and to President Arthur. In response Mr. Frelinghuysen said that the necessary order would be issued, requiring the Government exhibit to be closed on Sundays, and then adds that the President expressed the hope that the management would see the propriety of closing all other branches of the exposition on that day, and thus adhere to an observance established in the United States by custom and religious principle. It is wonderful how devout certain ones become on public occasions. NOTICE.—The change of figures on the address labels will be in all cases a sufficient receipt for money sent for the paper. If these changes do not appear in due time, and if books ordered by mail are not received, please notify us. All other business is acknowledged below. CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE FUND.—Petaluma $3, Geo H Heald $1.60, W Harper 35.35. CHURCH DEBT FUND.—Fred Haub $50. CASH RECEIVED ON ACCOUNT.—Minnesota T and M Society $1,000, Indiana T and M Society $2.70, Kansas T and M Society $200.90, Missouri T and M Society $5.70. CALIFORNIA PUBLISHING FUND.— A friend $1. CHICAGO MISSION.—W Harper $10. CALIFORNIA T. AND M. SOCIETY.— District No 1, per Alice Morrison $294.75, District No 3 per Sarah McEnterfer $30.70, District No 7, per Geo H Derrick $66.50, Oakland Rivulet Society per Sarah McEnterfer 20c, Hesperian Literary Society per Miss Addie Lunt 35c, Luella Hail 90c, Wm Kaerth $1.50, F L Holmes $2, A friend $2, Fred Haub $2.35, Geo Roth $2, Chas Driver $3, Emma Boyd $2. BOOKS SENT BY EXPRESS.—Geo H Heald, A O Tait, L T Ayers, H Sturdevant, J D Rice, C C Ramsey, Mrs G W Colcord, Eld J H Dortch, M M Taylor, Isaac G Knight. BOOKS SENT BY MAIL.—W T Ross, W N King, Libbie Saunders, Ellen Simons, A L Tunison, T J Frost, John Chasby, Mrs S R Beckwith, Mrs G A Weeks, Mrs J J Getty, Mrs Crawford, Clara O True, Mrs E E Light, N P Mack, Cyrus Nolan, Lexington (Ky) Library, Viola Bishop, Mary McCollum, Mrs P C Bramhall, Mrs Elizabeth Cooley, Mrs C C Higby, H A Rucker, C C Ramsey, Mrs C Hepler, J P Philpott, Mrs R P Stewart, J M McElhany, Dr J H Osborne, A T Fox, Sarah A Cardell, Eld W M Baldwin, Gilbert C Jenkins, N B England, Wm E Tyrel, Helen Cowles, Jas Bolitho, Asa T Robinson, W T Ross, Mrs C G Himebaugh, Mrs G W Colcord, Nellie M Bar, Wm Fierbaugh, Zerah Brooks, Mrs J E McDowell, R H Cadwalader, F F Lewis, G P Sanford, Alice Morrison, Ella G Daily, Laura Newman, Zach Thorp, W A Culbertson, Miss Eva Bandy, Mrs E J Church, F Travellian. If there is a habit more annoying than that of whining and continual crying by young children, it is not universally known. This habit is acquired frequently by children because it always brings them a pleasure or gift which cannot be obtained by simply asking. As soon as a child finds that success comes if it only cries long and loud, it will not hesitate to put its lungs in use. A little girl, with a mother more indulgent than wise, was asked by a friend at Christmas-time to see some of the stores. She persisted in handling the things on the several counters, when she was told if she did that again the friend would take her directly home. At the next counter a large doll was picked up by the child; the friend took her by the hand and said, "Now we will go home at once." The little girl threw herself on the dirty floor of the store, screaming and kicking; the lady walked quietly toward the door without speaking, and the child, seeing that she was in earnest, got up and ran after her. The child, who was elegantly dressed, found her coat covered with dirt from the floor, and asked to have the dirt brushed off. "No; you must go home that way; and please do not speak to me again, for I should feel ashamed to know so dirty a little girl. No one that you meet will think that you left home in perfect order; they will decide that you are not a clean child." It is over a year since that occurred, and the child has never thrown herself on the floor since that time. Being by nature clean and proud, the mortification she endured during that ride cured her of a disagreeable and annoying habit. A mother who found her little daughter would cry when denied any request, cured her by adopting the following method: "Well, Florence, screaming won't make me alter my decision; but if you care to scream, I don't know that I object greatly, because it develops the lungs and is healthy. As you are generally a quiet child, I presume it is necessary that something should be done to expand your lungs. So far, you have my permission." The noise stopped immediately. She did not care to be doing something useful while in a passion. After that, whenever the crying began, a quiet remark that screaming was healthy brought silence at once.—Christian Union. Satan Chooses the Idle
By Farendon
Satan selects his disciples when they are idle, but Christ chose his while they were busy at work, either mending their nets or casting them into the sea.—Farendon. An Evil Tendency.
By Dr. Prime
It cannot be truthfully denied that there is a tendency in our civilization toward the enjoyment of cruel and bloody games. If true, it is a bad sign. The decline of Roman strength and power was signalized by such exhibitions, where the lives of men and beasts were flung away in horrid combats to make sport for the people. Reverence for life is one of the highest types of Christian civilization; not human life only, but for everything that lives. And our gentle poet Cowper was not morbid when he said he would not have for a friend the man who would needlessly tread on a worm. Sensitiveness to the feelings of other people is a mark of high birth and breeding, and only the low, coarse, and brutal despise the sentiment. Gentleness is one of the attributes of real greatness.—Dr. Prime. International Tract and Missionary Society.
By Stephen N. Haskell
THE International Tract and Missionary Society was organized Aug. 13, 1874. It has furnished health and religious publications to co-operative missions and individuals in every State and Territory in the United States, and to every civilized nation on the globe. During 1883-84 it placed in free public libraries in this country over 10,000 volumes of standard religious books, at a cost of over $10,000, two-thirds of which was donated by other funds and the publishers. It has also placed valuable books in many libraries in England, Australia, the United States, and supplied reading-rooms with health and religious periodicals. Free reading and lecture-room, 914 Laguna Street, San Francisco, Cal., from which place all ships are visited which enter that harbor. Andrew Brorsen and H. C. Palmer, city missionaries. C. R. Robbins, ship missionary. Book and tract depository at 1059 Castro Street, Oakland, Cal., where will be kept constantly on hand Health and Temperance publications to furnish co-operative missions and branch offices on the Pacific Coast, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia. Address, Anna L. Ingels, care of Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal. Free reading-room on L Street, near corner of Fifth, East Portland, Oregon. H. W. Reed, ship missionary. Free reading-room, 113 Pearl Street, Portland, Maine. Elder S. J. Hersum, superintendent. It has a free reading and lecture-room, 744 Broadway, New York City, where it will keep constantly on hand Health and Temperance publications to furnish co-operating missions and branch offices on the Atlantic Coast and in Europe. Ships visiting this harbor are supplied with reading matter. William J. Boynton, manager and city missionary. Free reading and lecture-room, 21 Boylston Place, Boston, Mass. J. R. Israel and A. T. Robinson, city missionaries. Ship missionary, C. W. Priest, 191 Atlantic Avenue. Parlor reading and lecture-rooms at 13 West Huron Street, Buffalo, N. Y., open from 2:30 to 9 P. M. Alex. Gleason, superintendent. Parlor reading and lecture-rooms, 52 Crouse Building, Warren Street, Syracuse, N. Y. N. J. Walsworth, resident manager. Free reading-room at 219 West Madison Street, Chicago; Room 2, second floor. Eld. Geo. B. Starr and James Sawyer, managers. Mission and free reading-room at 2339 Chestnut Street, St. Louis, Mo., N. W. Allen, superintendent. Free reading-room and book depository, 422 N. East Street, Indianapolis, Ind. A. W. Bartlett, superintendent. The ship work at Liverpool, England, is under the charge of Geo. R. Drew, 32 Grange Road, Birkenhead, Cheshire; J. H. Durland, Southampton. Tract and book depository, 72 Heneage Street, Great Grimsby, Eng., in charge of Miss Jennie Thayer. Free reading-room, tract and book depository, at 189 Nuuanu Avenue, Honolulu, H. I. L. A. Scott, city missionary; A. LaRue, ship missionary. Branch societies are being organized in all parts of the United States and Europe. The New York State branch has its offices and depository at Rome, N. Y. E. W. Whitney, President; Miss May Taylor, Secretary. At the above-mentioned places the public are cordially invited. The society is sustained by the liberalities of friends of missions. Donations by draft or otherwise will be thankfully received and gratefully acknowledged by any of the above-mentioned agents, or Miss M. L. Huntley, Secretary, South Lancaster, Mass., U. S. A. OAKLAND.—House of worship, northeast corner of Clay and Thirteenth Streets. Sabbath-school every Sabbath at 9:30 A. M. Preaching at 11 A. M. Prayer and missionary meeting every Tuesday evening at 7:00. Seats free. Preaching every Sunday evening at 7:30. SAN FRANCISCO.—House of worship, 912 Laguna Street, between McAllister and Tyler Streets. Sabbath-school every Sabbath at 9:45 A. M. Preaching at 11 A. M. Prayer and missionary meeting every Wednesday evening at 7:45. Preaching every Sunday evening at 7:30. Mission Reading-rooms at the church. Assorted Package No. 1. Price, 10c.
Which Day Do You Keep, and Why—Who Changed the Sabbath—The Sabbath in the New Testament—Elihu on the Sabbath—God's Memorial—Sunday Not the Sabbath—Why Not Found Out Before—One Hundred Bible Facts about the Sabbath. Assorted Package No. 2. Price, 25c.
This package contains all the tracts in package No. 1, and the following in addition:—
Seven Reasons for Sunday-keeping Examined—The Ten Commandments Not Abolished—The Seventh Part of Time—The Definite Seventh Day—Perfection of the Ten Commandments—Address to the Baptists—The Sunday Law. OTHER WORKS ON THE SABBATH.
The Truth Found.—A comprehensive exposition of the nature and obligation of the Sabbath of the fourth commandment. 64 pp................................................10c Sunday Seventh-day Examined.—A critical examination of the claim that Sunday is the true seventh day of the fourth commandment. 88 pp................................................10c Brown's Review of Gilfillan on the Sabbath Question. 64 pp................................................10c Appeal to the Baptists.—An address from the Seventh-day Baptists to their first-day Baptist brethren, urging a restoration of the Bible Sabbath from the stand-point of Baptist principles of argument and interpretation. 48 pp................................................10c Vindication of the True Sabbath.—By a former missionary of the Presbyterian Church................................................10c Morality of the Sabbath.—Showing that the Sabbath commandment, being found in the midst of the nine acknowledged moral precepts, is, like the others, moral in its nature. 96 pp................................................15c Testimony of the Fathers of the first three centuries concerning the Sabbath and First-day. A candid examination of both sides of the question. 112 pp................................................15c Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. THE SECOND ADVENT
By Editor
Assorted Package No. 3. Price, 10c. The Coming of the Lord—Is the End Near—Can We Know—The Signs of the Times—The Judgment—The Second Advent. Assorted Package No. 4. Price, 25c. Containing package No. 3, and the following in addition:— The Millennium—The Present Truth—The Third Angel's Message—Exposition of Matthew Twenty-four. OTHER WORKS ON THE SECOND ADVENT.
Our Faith and Hope.—A series of ten sermons on the coming and kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. 198 pp.........................25c Three Messages of Rev. 14.—Showing the nature and character of the warning messages designed to prepare the world for the last great Judgment. 96 pp.........................10c The Saints' Inheritance, or the Earth Made New. 82 pp.........................10c The Seven Trumpets. An exposition of the symbols of Rev. 8 and 9. 96 pp.........................10c Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. Assorted Package No. 5. Price, 10c. Is Man Immortal—Thoughts for the Candid—End of the Wicked—The Rich Man and Lazarus—Departing and Being with Christ—Milton on the State of the Dead. OTHER WORKS ON MAN'S NATURE.
The Hope of the Gospel.—What is it, and when will it be consummated? 80 pp..................10c Matter and Spirit.—An argument on the relation of matter and spirit, and the dependence of thought upon organization. 66 pp..................10c History of the Doctrine of the Soul.—The belief in its immortality traced among all races and peoples to the present time. 186 pp., cloth..............75c Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. Assorted Package No. 6. Price, 25c. The Plan of Redemption—The Sufferings of Christ—The Sanctuary of the Bible—Scripture References—The Spirit of Prophecy—Spiritualism a Satanic Delusion—Samuel and the Witch of Endor—The End of the Wicked—The Two Thrones. Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. Blind Leaders of the Blind.
By Editor
IN the Pacific (Congregationalist), of January 21, we find the following:— "DEAR PACIFIC: How you have delighted my heart and eased my conscience! I have several habits that have not seemed in harmony with religious things, and I have longed for some line of argument that would let me keep on without scruples. You have furnished it. A few weeks ago you published, without your dissent, Spurgeon's defense of his habit of smoking tobacco. He looked over the ten commandments, and found no one that said, 'Thou shalt not smoke.' Ten commandments are as many as he can keep, and he does not care to make eleven, so he smokes. This is just the thing. Ten commandments are enough for me, also. I look in vain for any that says, 'Thou shalt not bet at a horse-race, neither shalt thou play draw poker;' therefore, I keep on as I have been doing. Now, may I not join the church which the Pacific represents? LIBERTAS." Can it be that the Pacific endorses this position? It certainly appears so, as it printed Spurgeon's sermon without dissent, and now prints this, with not a word of comment. When such things are set forth from what is held as one of the most influential pulpits in the world, and are given further currency by pretendedly religious journals, it certainly is high time that the obligations of the ten commandments should be set forth as they are. When the spiritual discernment of religious teachers has become so dulled that they can see no more than that, in the holy, spiritual law of God, it surely is time to call attention to the Bible. We add two texts which we think decidedly applicable: "For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God." Heb. 5:12. "It is time for thee, Lord, to work; for they have made void thy law." Ps. 119:126. Growth of the Oakland Church
By Editor
FIVE more names were attached to the covenant last Sabbath in Oakland, making fourteen in the last three Sabbaths. Ten of these requested baptism and admission to the church. This will be attended to next Sabbath. The church here is growing strong numerically, and we desire that it may grow stronger spiritually with each additional member. "The Law Is Slacked."
By Editor
ON Thursday, Jan. 29, in New York City, three criminals were sentenced, as follows: One who had made a ferocious assault upon his wife and plunged a shoemaker's awl into each of her eyes, and who was shown on the trial to be a ruffian of the worst sort, yet was sentenced to only nine months' imprisonment. Another, a young man, who had stolen a penknife worth twenty-five cents, was sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment. And the third, who had armed himself with a loaded revolver, and had gone to a man's shop, where he found him at work and unarmed, had shot him five times, and had left him dead on the floor, for all this received a sentence of only seven years' imprisonment. Surely "judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off." Certainly "the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth." These inequalities have been widely commented upon by the newspapers and the public generally. How could it be otherwise, while there are any who have remaining any idea of justice? But how long can the courts retain the respect of men, when their decisions are an outrage upon every principle of equity? And when the courts have thus incurred the disrespect, not to say the contempt, of men, what is there to hinder men from taking the law into their own hands, and then whose life is safe anywhere? There is a practice, moreover, which is becoming too common, and which has the same tendency, but upon which we do not remember to have seen any comments; and this concerns our highest courts, the courts of last resort. We mean the practice of getting decisions of Supreme Courts reversed, by simply changing the political complexion of said courts. When the decisions of our highest courts are rendered according to the political opinions of the members thereof, rather than according to the law and justice of the case, they have gone a long way toward forfeiting the respect of all fair-minded men. "Justice, justice shalt thou follow." Deut. 16:20.