We returned to this place April 16, after an absence of four weeks. All who had embraced the truth remained firm. The Sabbath-school was doing well. We held seven meetings, and the interest seemed to increase, the last two being the largest of any since we first came to the place. Three more have joined this church, making, in all, seventeen. S. AND L. A. THURSTON.
WOODLAND TEMPERANCE CLUB.
By Sarah Mason
The Woodland H. and T. Club held its second monthly meeting on the evening of May 8, 1880. As we had no reason to suppose we should be favored with the presence of any of our ministerial brethren, and as the public were expecting something choice in the way of an entertainment, we had some misgivings about venturing alone; but our neighbors kindly assisted us, and those attending expressed themselves highly pleased, and edified. Mr. Stuart, pastor of the Methodist church, offered a fervent prayer for our success in the task we had undertaken, and for all kindred associations. The leader, J. G. Overshiner, then made some appropriate introductory remarks, when Mr. D. F. Howell, pastor of the Baptist church, delivered a stirring address, showing he had devoted considerable thought to the subject. Mr. W. C. Winchester, a prominent good templar, came with a wagon load of friends from Knight's Landing, a distance of ten miles, to assist in making the meetings a success; he presented some startling statistics, and evinced much love for fallen humanity. Miss Lena Jacobs read a well prepared essay on the Evils of Intemperance, strenuously urging the girls to avoid the companionship of intemperate young men.
We were especially grateful for the able assistance of our friends, and hope opportunities will be afforded of engaging with them again in the same good work.
The musical portion of the programme was selected from "Song Anchor," and "Gospel Songs," and was well received. Five of our juvenile members took part in the entertainment, giving recitations, and in singing. Several of our church members made remarks very much to the point while the pledge papers were being circulated, and 21 names were added to the Club, as follows: Anti-Rum and Tobacco, 15; Anti-Whiskey, 2; Teetotal, 4: Total, 21.
SARAH MASON.
Bad Habits Formed in Youth
A YOUNG man who thinks he can lead a reckless and profligate life until he becomes a middle-aged man, and then repent and make a good citizen, is deluded. He thinks that people are fools, destitute of memory. He concludes that if he repent everybody will forget that he was a dissipated fellow. This is not the case; people remember your bad deeds and forget your good ones. Besides, it is no easy thing to break off in middle life bad habits that have been formed in youth. When a horse contracts the habit of balking, he generally retains it through life. He will often perform well enough till the wheel gets into a deep hole, and then he stops and holds back. Just so it is with the boys who contract bad habits. They will sometimes leave off their bad tricks and do well enough till they get into a tight place, and then they return to the old habit.
Discontent and Cowardice Find Ruin
In the bottle, discontent seeks for comfort, and cowardice for courage, but all find RUIN.
A UNIVERSAL CURSE.
THERE is no civilized nation on the face of the globe that does not surround the liquor traffic with precautions and subject it to conditions peculiar to itself. It is a thing that cannot be allowed to regulate itself. And even where the attempt is made to regulate it best, it makes for itself always a bad name. The liquor traffic will damage the best community in which it can be located. Open a place for the sale of strong drink in the most quiet and orderly neighborhood, even in a quiet country town, and soon you will see the bad results. The establishment will have its customers. These customers will drink to excess. Young men will become dissipated. There will be carousals and disturbances, and the business will become a curse to the community. This ideal traffic, where there shall be no drunken men and no damage, and only where well-behaved people shall ever patronize the bar, is the purest fiction. There is no such thing. There never was and never will be. And, whatever you may say in its defense, the American people do not regard liquor selling as a respectable business.
HELPS IN WORRIED WEEK DAY LIFE.
By J. R. Miller
I WRITE to help you, if I can, in your personal life. You are cast in the midst of experiences that continually worry and vex you. Those about you, either wittingly or unwittingly, annoy and try you greatly. Especially since you became a Christian, and made a confession of your love for Christ, have they made it hard for you. Perhaps I can help you.
The question is this: How can you get through the tangled briers and thorns which grow along your path without having your poor hands and feet torn? How can you live sweetly amid the vexatious things, the irritating things, the multitude of little worries and frets, which lie all along your way and which you cannot evade? You do not want merely to get through in any sort of way; you want to live a beautiful Christian life.
A little child when once asked what it was for her to be a Christian, replied, "It is to live as Jesus would live, and to behave as he would behave, if he were a little girl, and lived at our house." That is it precisely. And you want to bear yourself just as Jesus would do if he were standing all day where you stand, mingling with the same people with whom you have to mingle, and exposed to the same annoyances, trials, and irritations to which you are exposed. You want to live a life that will please God, and that will bear witness on its face to the genuineness of your piety. How can you do this? Let me suggest a few things for your prayerful, thoughtful pondering.
First, your life is to be lived in just the circumstances in which you now find yourself. You cannot, at present, change your surroundings. Whatever kind of life you are to live, must be lived amid precisely the experiences in which you are now moving. Here you must win your victories or suffer your defeats. You may think your lot is hard; may wish it were otherwise, that you had a life of ease and luxury, amid softer scenes, with no briers or thorns. Then you would be gentle, patient, serene, trustful, happy. Vain dreaming! Whatever your life is to be made, beautiful or marred, you must make it where you are. No restlessness or discontent can change your lot. Others may have other circumstances surrounding them, but here are yours. You had better make up your mind to accept what you cannot alter.
The second thing for you to ponder is that this is the place in which your Master desires you to live your life.
"Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident;
It is the very place God meant for thee."
There is no hap-hazard in this world. God leads every one by the right way. He knows where your particular life will ripen best. One tree grows best in the sheltered valley, and another on the bald, bleak mountain top, swept by storms. And there is always adaptation in nature. Every tree or plant is found in the locality where the conditions of its growth exist. And do you think God cares more for trees than for his children? He has planted you amid the experiences and circumstances in which your life will grow and ripen the best. The discipline to which you are subjected in your lot is the discipline you need to bring out in you the beauties and graces of true spiritual character. You are in the right school. You may think you would ripen better in a more easy and luxurious life, but God makes no mistakes.
There is a little fable which says that a primrose growing away off by itself, in a shady corner of the garden, became discontented as it saw the other flowers in their gay beds in the sunshine, and begged to be removed into a more beautiful and conspicuous place. Its prayer was granted. The gardener transplanted it to a more showy and sunny spot. It was greatly pleased, but its blossoms were not nearly so beautiful as before. They were pale and dim. The hot sun made them faint and wither. So it prayed again to be taken back to its old place in the shade. The lesson lies on the surface, and need not be written.
The next thing for you to ponder is that you can live a beautiful life in the midst of your present circumstances. When God put you into them, he meant to see you through. He had no intention that you should fail. I know it seems hard to you at times, but Christ is with you. You say, "Oh, if I had such a lot in life as this one, or that one, I should be so different." No, I remind you, again that you must be yourself, and not some other one, and that your life is to be lived amid your own peculiar experiences. But God adapts his help to our circumstances. There is a text that says, "Thy shoes shall be iron." That means that if you have stony paths to walk over, God is not going to send you forth with paper-soled slippers on, but with shoes strong and enduring, equal to the need of the journey. Or in simple words, Christ is just as able to help you to live a truly beautiful life, in your peculiar circumstances, as if you were in the easiest and most sheltered position possible on earth. And he will, if you but learn to trust him.
Then the last thought in this little sermonette is that you must resolve, through God's grace, that you will live a sweet, lowly, Christ-like life in your allotted place. Every life must grow up in this world amidst antagonisms. But you will overcome. You are at school now, and you will be a good, apt scholar. Processes are unimportant; it is results we want. If a tree grows into majesty and strength, it matters not whether it be in the deep vale or on the bald peak. If character develops into Christ-like beauty and symmetry, what matters it whether it be in ease and luxury or through hardship and sharp attrition? The important thing is not the means, but the end—spiritual loveliness. To be made truly noble and God-like, we should be willing to submit to any training and discipline.
You must resolve, then, that you will use every experience to help to develop in you the likeness of your Lord; that you will regard your provocations, annoyances, and all your hardships and trials, as practice-lessons in the application of your Christian knowledge. The tree that grows where storms sweep is stronger and grander than the one that grows in the quiet vale. There is no heroism to live patiently where there is nothing to disturb.
Not the hermit's cave, but the heart of busy life, tests character. If you can live gently, patiently, unmurmuringly, amid all your frets and irritations, day after day, that is heroism. That is your task. You are to resolve to do it. No one, not even God, will do it for you. Heaven does not put features of beauty in our lives, as the jeweler sets gems in clusters. The unlovely elements are not drawn out and replaced by lovely ones, like slides in the stereopticon. You must win your way through struggles to all noble attainment. It is he that overcometh that is made a pillar in God's temple. You must accept the task. You will fail more than once. Many a night you will go to your lonely room to weep at Christ's feet over painful defeats. But never give up.
You spoiled many a quire of paper before you could write well. So you will make many poor efforts, crooked lines, and many a page will be blotted and blistered with tears of regret. But, through all keep a brave heart and an unfaltering purpose.
Endurance and continuance will accomplish anything. And Christ will help you. Trust him. Let every failure or defeat only cause you to lean on him more perfectly. Heaven is on the side of every one who is struggling to do the divine will. And that means victory.—Rev. J. R. Miller, Sunday School Times.
HOPE.
We speak with the lip, and we dream in the soul,
Of some better and fairer day;
And our days, meanwhile, to that golden goal
Are gliding and sliding away.
Now the world becomes old, now again it is young,
But "The Better" 's forever the word on the tongue.
At the threshold of life Hope leads us all in—
Hope plays round the mirthful boy;
Though the best of its charms may with youth begin,
Yet for age it reserves its toy.
When we sink at the grave, why, the grave has scope,
And over the coffin man planteth—Hope!
And it is not a dream of a fancy proud,
With a fool for its dull begetter;
There's a voice at the heart that proclaims aloud—
"Ye were born to possess the better!
And that voice of the heart, to those who believe,
Will never the Hope of the soul deceive!
Estimate of Life
ESTIMATE OF LIFE.—Measure not life by the hopes and enjoyments of this world, but by the preparation it makes for another; looking to what you shall be, rather than to what you may have been.
FIDELITY IN LITTLE THINGS.
By François Fénelon
GREAT virtues are rare, as are their occasions. When the latter occur, the very crisis may rouse us to the former. We may be excited to the deed by the grandeur of the effort, by the sense of its splendor in the eyes of the world, or by the self-complacency we feel in the performance of so uncommon an action. Great things we anticipate, and for them are thus prepared; but little things are unfoṛseen, and they are forever about us—coming every moment in contact with our pride, our indolence, our haughtiness, and our readiness to take offense; clashing with all our passions and inclinations continually. Often might we be willing to make great sacrifices to God, sacrifices severe and painful, if by so doing we might be at liberty to follow our own wishes and habits in the details, in the little things of life. But it is only by fidelity in little things, that a true and constant love to God can be distinguished from the actings of mere impulse, or passing fervor of spirit.
All great things are but the sum total—the added number of small ones; and as he that loses nothing will soon be rich, so he that is faithful in that which is least, will be faithful also in much. We should remember also that what the world may esteem little things, God may deem great. He looks beyond our actions to the motive; and though the world may judge us by appearances, he esteems as nothing that which is often most dazzling to men. What he desires is purity of intention, true docility, and self-renunciation. And all this may be exercised more frequently, and in a way that tries us more severely, on common than on great occasions. Sometimes we cling more tenaciously to a trifle than to a matter of far greater moment. It may be more trying to us to give up a prejudice or an amusement, than to bestow a large sum in charity. We are more in danger, too, from little things, because we think them less injurious, and imagine we are less attached to them than to great; though, when called to forsake them, often do we find how strong and inexcusable was our fondness for them, and that we are almost willing to cling to them at the sacrifice of duty and of God. Often by the neglect of minor duties, is the sincerity of our piety rendered questionable, for there is no probability of our making great sacrifices when we shrink from those that are slight. But what is more dangerous to the mind in little neglects or errors, is, that through them it acquires the habit of unfaithfulness. True love to God thinks nothing small. Every thing that can please or displease him it deems great. It does not lead to constraint and weak scrupulosity, but it sets no limits to its fidelity. It acts with simplicity, and as it is not embarrassed with things that God has not commanded, it never for a moment hesitates as to what he does command, whether it be great or small.
Persons who by nature are less exact, ought to be stern with themselves as to trifles. They have the habit of thinking them of no consequence. They realize not how mighty the power which the passions soon acquire by an insensible growth. They forget even their own past and sad experience. They trust for the strength of their fidelity, to an intended but delusive purpose, which often fails them in the very hour of need. "It is only a trifle," say they, "it is nothing." But beware! That "nothing" may be every thing to you! And that "trifle" which you prefer to the will of God, is a trifle that will be your ruin!
There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things. It is, on the contrary, from too narrow and contracted views, that we often consider of little moment things which are really of immense and most extensive consequence. The more we are by nature prone to neglect little things, the more we should fear the effects of this neglect, and be watchful over ourselves, and place around us, if possible, some insurmountable barrier to our remissness. Do not let us be discouraged by this constant necessity for watchfulness as to trifles. To maintain the conflict, will at first require firmness; but it is a discipline that we have need of, and one that will at last bring self-control, and with it peace and security to our souls. God will gradually render it pleasant and easy to us; and like every way of duty, we shall find it in the end, blessedness and peace.—French of Fenelon.
The Power of Truth
By Shaftesbury
TRUTH is the most powerful thing in the world, since fiction can only please us by its resemblance to it.—Shaftesbury.
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ITEMS OF NEWS.
By Editor
-Illinois has been visited by another cyclone.
-Much damage was done by a storm at Tiflis, Russia, May 14.
-The difficulty between Germany and the Pope has not yet been settled.
-Indians are selling to the Government large tracts of land in Montana and Idaho.
-A boiler explosion in Rome, N. Y., May 10, killed five men, and injured four others.
-Thirteen fishermen recently lost their lives in a storm at the mouth of Columbia river.
-Bradford Co., Pa., has been visited with very destructive fires, both in oil tanks and forests.
-Silver money is accumulating in the Treasury to an uncomfortable extent. Nobody wants it.
-Fires throughout the United States for the last two weeks have been too numerous to specify.
-Within the past fifty years, 200,000 miles of railroad have been built, at a cost of $15,000,000,000.
-The Postmaster General has consented to not interfere with the Express company carrying letters.
-Over a thousand persons were left destitute by the burning of the town of Baumholder, Rheuish, Prussia, May 12.
-Mrs. Hopper, of Ventura Co., Cal., went on a hunting excursion, met a grizzly bear, and killed him at one shot.
-Altidor Pass, in Afghanistan, is held by 9000 men against the British. That war has cost England $65,000,000.
-Chief justice, Sanford E. Church, of New York, died May 14. He was prominent in the politics of that State.
-Eighteen were recently killed or wounded by the explosion of a dynamite magazine at Faido, Switzerland.
-The Board of Supervisors of San Francisco has commenced action in Court to impeach I. S. Kalloch, Mayor of that city.
-Dr. Wheeler, the last of the Mendocino bandits, was sentenced to death on the 13th, and committed suicide by poison, in jail.
-When all the new formations, planned and worked out on their minutest details by the German War Ministry, are completed, the total strength of the army will exceed 2,000,000 men.
-The Methodist General Conference passed a resolution highly complimentary of Mrs. President Hayes, and the social atmosphere of the White House.
-The destructive fires in Pennsylvania and New Jersey still continue. Great quantities of valuable timber, and other property have been destroyed.
-A shaft of an iron mine in Lake county, Mich., caved in May 14, burying sixteen miners. Thirteen were rescued, nearly suffocated; three were killed.
-The majority of the Board of Engineers recommend Port Orford, Oregon, to be improved as a Harbor of Refuge. The minority report favors Trinidad, Cal.
-A boiler explosion at the Birchill Iron Works, London, May 15, killed twenty-five persons. Sixty were taken to the hospital, some in a dying condition.
-Joking is a mania with newspapers. The N. Y. Herald, speaking of the probable impeachment of Mayor Kalloch, says that unless the charges are disproved, Kalloch cannot be saved from disgrace!
-Dr. Wm. M. Taylor has resigned his position as editor of the Christian at Work, finding it impossible to be pastor and editor at the same time. Yet the real work on the paper was ably performed by another.
-Bismarck is losing the confidence of the people. His speech has not produced a favorable feeling. No one believes he really wants to resign, but uses the idea as a threat—a sure way to destroy his own influence.
-A quite heavy storm extended over the northern and central part of California the night of May 10. Smart showers fell on May 12, followed by slight frost in some localities. Considerable damage was done by hail about Red Bluff.
-The Chinese are still learning civilized ways, says the New York Herald. The Celestials convicted recently of gambling, declared the game an innocent one and gotten up for a deserving object of charity—a sort of church fair, in short.
-Col. Thomas A. Scott, in the prime of his years, has had to dissolve all connection with the Pennsylvania Railroad, being completely broken down by overworking. He had received repeated admonitions to desist, but did not heed them.
-The town of Milton, Northumberland Co., Pa., has been entirely destroyed by fire; 666 houses were burned; the inhabitants were left destitute and suffering; a few lives were lost. The fire was incendiary, and is supposed to have been set by tramps.
-For want of appropriations by Congress, the U. S. courts are dismissing the juries, and the Postoffice in Boston has ceased night work for want of money to pay gas bills. Very few men in Congress regard their oath of office; as a body they do not labor in the interest of the country, but only quarrel on politics, or plot to carry out personal schemes.
-Rev. George A. Peltz, Baptist, of Jamestown, N. Y., prominent as a Sunday-school worker, has confessed to immoral practices and vacated his pulpit.
-What can be believed? First comes a report of persecution of Jews in Russia. Then a denial, and statement that severe laws had been modified, or lay ungatory, the latest dispatch from St. Petersburg says that, instead of any amelioration of the position of the Jews, the police measures against them are enforced more stringently than formerly. Persons in business are required to quit the Capital on twenty-four hours' notice, and Jewish strangers arriving are ordered to depart in the same summary manner. From the known severity of Russia, the later report is probably the true one.
-The Christian Herald thus tersely remarks on the concession recently made by the Pope: "Married perverts may in future perform all the functions of the priest, with some exceptions. This is a satisfactory reform. Many clergymen, who, by the pathway of Ritualism, had arrived at a point where they were ready to take the final step of joining the Romish communion, but were deterred because they were married, will now join the Roman Catholic Communion, and true Protestants will be spared the pain of seeing men occupy Protestant pulpits and receive Protestant pay while preaching Romish doctrines and undermining the faith of their congregations. We trust that now, being let go, they will go to their own company."
-Here is a precious bit of news copied from the N. Y. Independent: Two ministers of the Philadelphia Methodist Conference, the Rev. Messrs. T. B. Miller, and Wm. Major, have been tried by an ecclesiastical court on the charge of selling bogus medical diplomas. It appears that these men, with some associates, bought out a bogus medical university, and ran it during the week, preaching, as usual, on Sundays. Mr. Miller was dean, and Mr. Major, secretary. Although there was no charter for the institution, the "faculty" gave diplomas. One man paid $25, and received a diploma from Dean Miller authorizing him to begin the practice of medicine immediately. The Conference committee tried Miller and Major, and expelled the former, and suspended the latter for one year.
GOOD HEALTH, FOR 1880.
By Editor
THIS POPULAR JOURNAL enters upon its fifteenth volume with the most flattering prospects not only of a continuance of the prosperity which has attended it in the past, but also of a great increase of patronage, although it already enjoys THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY HEALTH JOURNAL IN AMERICA.
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Books, Pamphlets, and Tracts
By Editor
ANY of the books, pamphlets and tracts issued at this Office, may be obtained of Eld. J. N. Loughborough, Ravenswood, Shirley Road, Southampton, England, who will furnish catalogues and prices in English money, and receive subscriptions for all our periodicals.
BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, AND TRACTS
By Editor
ISSUED BY THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION, AND FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.
The Sanctuary and the 2300 Days of Daniel 8:14. By Elder U. Smith. This question has developed the people known as Seventh-day Adventists, and is the pivotal doctrine upon which their applications of prophecy largely depend. 352 pages. $1.00
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ADDRESS, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, OAKLAND, CAL.
SUNDAY FOLLY.
SOME time since a minister, preaching against the Sabbath, made the following statements:—
"If a man should attempt to hallow a day that God has not hallowed, it is not only presumption, but folly." At another time he said: "We have a day [the first day] that is far superior to the seventh day as Christ is superior to Moses."
On this a listener, (a farmer, not a minister,) wrote the following brief but forcible argument:—
1. Moses was man; Christ is God, or equal with God. Then Christ's superiority over Moses is infinite, and the superiority of the first day over the seventh is infinite.
2. Moses was not responsible for the Sabbath; God sanctified and blessed it, and in the hearing of all the people commanded it to be kept holy, and then wrote the command on a tablet of stone (that the hand writing of God might be proof of its divine authority).
3. We have no evidence that God blessed, sanctified, or hallowed the first day. He did not command it to be kept holy. Christ did not command it to be kept. The apostles did not command it to be kept in any way different from the ordinary working days. Then when man attempts to hallow the first day of the week, he attempts to hallow what God has not hallowed; hence it is folly.
4. Conclusion: Man's folly is infinitely superior to God's wisdom.
