p. 368 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 46. (12/4/1879)

Earlier text: Has Man an Immortal Nature?

Drinkers and Smokers Need not Apply.

By Editor

THE New York Herald of a recent date contained the following advertisement:—

“Wanted—a few young men lately landed, to work in a distillery store; those who smoke, chew, or drink, need not apply. Wages $15 a month and board. Apply—, West— Street.”

We think this is the best commentary that we have met with upon all the blatant nonsense talked and written by liquor dealers and their advocates, including the N. H. Union, about the folly and fanaticism of teetotalers and prohibitionists, and the necessity for men to use stimulants. When distillers want employees themselves, “those who smoke, chew, or drink, need not apply.”

How soon will this be the rule in the church, the Sunday-school, the Christian ministry, business houses, banking and insurance companies, and State and nation? How soon? —Commonwealth.

Fruit Sirup.

FREQUENT and alarming cases of poisoning have recently been noticed in Brussels, and on investigation the causes were discovered to be the use of raspberry, currant, and other fruit sirups. The Belgian chemists have analyzed these sirups, and assert that none of them contained a trace of the fruit of which the sirup is named. Many consisted of a solution of glucose, covered with analine red mixed with tartaric or citric acid and a few drops of fruit essences. Fuchsine, the form of analine red used, it is stated, is frequently combined with arsenic.—Ledger.

Religious News and Notes.

By Editor

—An Old Catholic church at New Orleans is said to be in process of formation by ex-priest Vaudry.

—The Watchman admits the “judgment of the most learned Biblical critics, that the words [1 John 5:7] are spurious.”

—The San Francisco Pacific (Congregationalist) severely criticises Gen. Grant for his disregard of the “Christian Sabbath.”

—Prof. A. E. Main in the Sabbath Recorder says a man had better be an Adventist than an unbeliever. We are gratified at the decision.

—At the Presbyterian Chinese mission Church in San Francisco, ten were admitted to membership Nov. 16. They have long been members of a Bible class.

—The first negro convert in Surinam, Dutch Guiana, was baptized by a Moravian missionary, a hundred years ago. Now, the mission numbers 22,130 adherents.

—The California Christian Advocate says: “The California Advocate has uniformly had the widest circulation of the religious papers on the Pacific Coast,” of which we more than stand in doubt.

—Dr. William Ives Buddington, for many years pastor of Clinton Avenue Congregational church, New York, died Nov. 29, from exhaustion in consequence of a cancer of the chin, from which he was long a sufferer.

—Rev. Baldwin Brown, ex-President of the Congregational Union of Great Britain, has written a letter of sympathy to Rev. David Macrae, approving his repudiation of the confessional doctrine of future punishment, and exhorting him to stand firm for God's truth.

—The Independent chides the Congregationalist for seeming to deny that Edwards and other New England theologians taught that the sufferings of the lost would increase the happiness of the saints. Better to repudiate than try to cover up or excuse such theology.

—A German Jewish paper thinks the Zulus are descendants of Ishmael. Among other reasons, these are given: They practice circumcision, Abraham is a common name among them, they dislike pork, and their laws respecting individual purity are very similar to those given in the book of Leviticus.

—President Hayes, in his message just delivered, recommends more decisive measures for the suppression of polygamy in Utah. If other means do not avail he thinks it will be well to deprive polygamists of the rights of citizenship. If they were not allowed to vote the Territory would soon fall under a better rule.

—Rev. Dr. Dabney of Virginia, author of an incisive article in the last number of the Princeton Review on “Secularized Education,” says “it is a mistaken expectation that American opinion will compel the State schools to go back to a Christian character. The most of them are going rapidly in the opposite direction.”

—There are seven missionaries at Uganda, Africa, laboring with the approval of King Mtesa. To Stanley, who revealed his Empire to the world, he said, “Say to the white people I am like a man sitting in darkness or born blind, and that all I ask is that I may be taught how to see, and I shall continue a Christian while I live.”

—A Catholic hackman, of Holyoke, Mass., has obtained a verdict of $3,433 damages against a priest, for ruining his business. The court held that the priest had a right to excommunicate him, with which action they could not interfere; but beyond that a priest has no right to use his clerical office as a means to ruin a man's business.

—The engineer of a Sunday camp-meeting excursion train was arrested in Baltimore and fined for violating the Sunday laws. On appeal the decision was reversed, on the ground that it was necessary to purposes of worship. The court said the tolling of bells, lighting of lamps, the blowing of organs, instrumental music, and paid choristers, might be stopped with equal propriety.

—Mr. Spurgeon propounded to one of his candidates for baptism and church membership, the following question: “Well, if you are received into this church, what individual work are you going to take up and carry on for the Lord?” The Religious Herald thinks that “many such questions should be asked of new comers. Let them understand the church is a workshop, and is no place for idlers.”

—A dispatch from Geneva says: The Swiss Federal Council, having received pressing memorials from several quarters urging it to stop the propaganda of Mormon missionaries in divers parts of Switzerland, has decided, in view of the powers possessed by the Cantonal Governments for the punishment of polygamy, and the efforts being made by the United States Government to suppress the institution in Utah, not to take any general action, but to act only in special cases.

—The New York Christian Advocate (Methodist North) says: “we claim the South because the churches on the ground have failed to do the church work demanded of them. Intemperance, licentiousness, murder and oppression, riot and revel with such undisputed freedom that it is hard to trace the lines between the churches and the world. The blight of generations of cruelty and corruption is upon the land.” Of course the southern church does not take this kindly, and the prospect for Methodist union is not favorable.

Secular News.

—California is having an abundance of rain.

—Copper mines in Hancock county, Maine, are paying well.

—Gen. J. C. Davis of the U. S. army, died Nov. 30, in Chicago.

—The Erie R. R. depot at Hornellsville, N. Y., was burned Nov. 29.

—Several districts of India are being severely scourged by malarious fever.

—A mill and 30,000 bushels of wheat were burned at St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 25.

—The floors of a building in Naples, Italy, fell upon a dancing party, killing twenty.

—Cattle are dying of starvation in Humbolt Co., Cal.; cause—drought and grasshoppers.

—A movement is on foot to place Gen. Grant again at the head of the United States army.

—Dispatches from Cape Town, South Africa, report the attitude of the Boers as very threatening.

—A snow storm in the Canton of Ticino, Switzerland, has interrupted traffic and destroyed thousands of vines.

—The Ute Commission are becoming fearful that they can accomplish nothing. Ouray says the hostiles are arming.

—The Pacific Mail pier at Aspinwall has been carried away by a storm. Several colliers lying in the dock were sunk.

—The winter has set in on the North Pacific early and severe. Loss of whalers is reported. No late news from the Jeannette.

—The signal office reports that the sky at sunset on Monday, Nov. 24, was without a cloud from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

—Half the town of Owensberg, Green Co., Ind., was burned, Nov. 26. The greater part of the mercantile establishments was destroyed.

—The Grand Opera House in Toronto, one of the finest on the continent, was burned Nov. 29. The janitor and his wife and daughter were burned. Money loss, $200,000.

—Two hundred and thirty-six fishermen have been lost from Gloucester, Mass., during the past twelve months, and it is feared that others will be added to the list, as several vessels are now missing.

—A disastrous fire occurred in New York, Nov. 25. The stables of the Eighth Avenue Horse Car Railroad, in a four story brick building, were burned, and over 100 horses were lost, with an immense quantity of hay.

—At an inquest reported in the London Telegraph, of Oct. 30, a boy aged fourteen testified: "I cannot read or write. I have never been to school or chapel. I never knew it was wrong to tell a lie. I never heard of 'God."

—Dr. Collyer, Chemist of the Agricultural Department, says that since the method of chrystalization is understood, one-tenth of the land of Illinois suitable to sorghum culture would supply the United States with sugar.

—Secretary Schurz makes an appeal in behalf of the groves of "big trees" in California, and recommends that the President be authorized to withdraw from sale, or from any other disposition, certain townships on the Nevada range.

—Some idea may be obtained of the amount of freight moving this fall from the fact that a break down of a freight train on the Pennsylvania road recently brought twenty freight trains to a stop, and made a blockade ten miles long.

—The village of Randalia, Fayette county, Iowa, containing a population of 200 or 300, was almost entirely destroyed by fire Nov. 25. There is scarcely any insurance. It is believed that the fire originated in the spite of a saloon-keeper, who set fire to a rival's premises.

—A recent telegram announces that 7500 tons of rails—mostly steel—have been bought in England and Wales to be laid down next spring and summer on the southern bank of the Columbia river, from Ainsworth, a new town just above the mouth of the Snake, to the head of the upper fall of the Columbia.

—A company has been organized in San Francisco to engage in coffee raising, in Colima, Mexico. A plantation of 6000 acres is purchased, on which are nearly 50,000 trees planted, and about a million in the nursery. It is 60 miles from the port of Manzanillo, on the Pacific, and is described as a locality well suited to coffee culture.

—Several special correspondents of the London papers call attention to the serious financial distress at Constantinople. The Telegraph's Vienna correspondent says the purveyors of the Sultan's palace have suspended the daily supplies, owing to the non-payment of long-standing bills, but that Osman Pasha is still able to draw his enormous salary.

—Excitement in Ireland increases. A government engineer has surveyed the districts bordering on the Shannon river, with a view to the commencement by the Government of a scheme for their drainage, which is to cost £20,000. The prospect of employment for laborers is regarded with satisfaction. The worst feeling exists in Mayo and Sligo.

—The Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad Company has let a contract for the excavation of a tunnel through the main range of the Rocky Mountains, at Alpine Pass, one-third of a mile long, and 11,000 feet above the sea level. The entire work on the road to the anthracite coal-fields in Elk Mountains and the waters of Gunison is to be completed by the first of September next.

Brain-work, Alcohol and Tobacco.

James Parton concludes a recent very suggestive article upon the habits and death of Bayard Taylor, whom he had, as a personal friend, warned against the danger of wine and beer drinking and smoking, as follows:—

“Mental labor is not hostile to health and life; but I am more than ever convinced that a man who lives by his brain is of all men bound to avoid stimulating his brain. In this climate, to stimulate the brain by alcohol and tobacco is only a slow kind of suicide. Even the most moderate use of the mildest wine is not without danger, because the peculiar exhaustion caused by severe mental labor is a constant and urgent temptation to increase the quantity and strength of the potation. I would say to every young man in the United States, if I could reach him, if you mean to attain one of the prizes of your profession and live a cheerful life to the age of eighty, throw away your dirty old pipe, put your cigars in the stove, never buy any more, become an absolute teetotaler, take your dinner in the middle of the day, and rest one day in seven.”

Anti-Christian Prejudice.

By Editor

IN the “dark ages” the worst iniquities and the most relentless persecutions were carried on in the name of Christianity. It is a pity that people will not profit by history, and that Protestants will not avoid the rocks on which the Romanists wrecked the brightest hopes. Eld. Ray, editor of a Baptist paper in St. Louis, was recently sent for to oppose Bro. Wood in Windsor, Mo. His statement in his paper is thus refuted by citizens who heard it all:—

"SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISM."

The undersigned have read an article under the above heading in the American Baptist Flag of Oct. 8, 1879, edited by Eld. D. B. Ray, in which Eld. Wood is represented as an “oily-tongued hypocrite and deceiver.” Again, as we understand Eld. Wood, he is misrepresented in some points of doctrine. Eld. Wood is charged with a “cowardly back-down.” A number of persons were present, and heard what passed between Elds. Ray and Wood at the Baptist church, and those of us who heard it do not consider that Eld. Wood “backed down” from a single proposition of his faith; but, on the contrary, in a Christian-like spirit, and with more meekness than most men possess, he proposed to discuss the points in dispute,—each to affirm the doctrine he teaches, and he (Wood) would bear half the expense of a reporter; and the discussion should be published in their respective denominational papers; these propositions Eld. Ray would not accept.

And further, both in words and actions he treated Eld. Wood with indignities that we conceive to be unbecoming in one who professes to be a follower of the meek and lowly Saviour.

Eld. Wood has been preaching at this place some seven weeks, and his Christian deportment has been such as to command the respect of the good citizens who have attended his meetings.

J. C. BEEDY, President of Bank. Jas. P. ALLEN, Atty. at Law. GEO. J. SHELTON, Lumberman, and Bank Director. J. R. CHAPPEL, Bank Director.

The Sabbath was Abolished

By Editor

IF ever the opposers of the Sabbath of the Lord shall agree upon anything in favor of their theories, we shall hasten to record it, and perhaps be able to fill out the blank in the head of this article, at least to their satisfaction. We cannot possibly do it at present, for, although they are positive and well agreed in their belief that the Sabbath was changed, abolished, superseded, or left indefinite, at some time and by some authority, they are not at all agreed as to the time when, the manner, the means, or the persons, by which, this change or something else was effected.

We have been authoritatively informed that the Sabbath was abolished by the early church (see Eusebius), by the apostles in their letters, on the day of pentecost, at the resurrection of Jesus, at the time of his temptation and conversation with Satan, at his baptism, and by the preaching of John the Baptist. We had supposed that if it did not receive its death blow in some of these many assaults, it would be suffered to live in peace. But it appears that the root of the matter remained to be struck. We have miscalculated—not the resources of the opposers of the Sabbath, for these are easily measured, but—the fertility of their imaginations.

The "latest returns" on this subject may be found in Messiah's Herald, Boston, in a communication from Mr. B. D. Haskell. The following paragraphs develop this theory:—

"The tables of stone containing the law of Sinai were in the ark in the time of Solomon, but nothing definite is known of either the ark or its contents since the reign of Manasseh, B. C. 646. The covenant Jehovah made with Israel, of which the Hebrew Sabbath was the sign,—was abrogated during the reign of this fearfully wicked prince. See 2 Kings 24:3, 4, and 2 Chron. 36:15-17. The covenant being abrogated, the sign or affix went with the instrument.

"After the return from Babylon the seventh-day rest was observed, but not specifically enjoined."

It seems hardly necessary to call the attention of any reader to the fact that the texts cited have no relation whatever to the abrogation of any covenant. What was peculiar to the covenant with Israel that passed away, was nailed to the cross of Messiah.

If the authority of the Sabbath ceased in the days of Manasseh, on what authority, precept, or Scripture rests the "Christian Sabbath?" But we will not ask questions uselessly, knowing that we will never get a definite answer. It every day becomes more evident that the opposers of the Sabbath of the Lord are not only much confused, but greatly troubled to find plausible pretexts wherewith to help the failing cause of the Roman Sun-day.

A Good Sign.

By Editor

Eld. Butler, in reporting the Texas camp-meeting, speaks thus of the gathering and uniting power of the present truth. It is a cheering illustration of our Saviour's words in John 13:35, and while true brotherly love continues it is sure to bear fruit to the honor of the Saviour.

"I never more fully realized the power of this great truth to unite hearts and break down suspicious and sectional feelings, than at this meeting. How wonderful it is that this doctrine can bring together foreigners, members of different churches and of no church, Northern and Southern men, so that they will all feel perfectly united as a band of brethren. I know of no other doctrine in the world that will do this to the same extent. We well know the feelings of bitterness and suspicion which have existed between Northern and Southern people, yet I have never seen a people seem to think more of a brother minister than these native Southern men do of Eld. Kilgore. He was a captain in the Union army, and many of them fought on the other side. I have never left a camp-meeting in all my experience with greater evidences of love from the people than I received from these Texans, though I am a Yankee of the extremest type. No special efforts were made on either side to bring about this result. The present truth breaks down these sectional lines, and unites the hearts of those looking for the Lord."

Look out for Danger.

A PAPER in San Francisco records the murder of a wife by a drunken husband. It appeared in evidence that he was accustomed to maltreat his wife when he was drunk.

In the same column is recorded the arrest of a man who rigged himself up in a fantastic manner, as a means of advertising, whereby teams were frightened and the lives of passengers were endangered. The paper says:—

"He says he is a family man, and must work; but the authorities should not permit him to earn his livelihood by endangering the lives and properties of citizens."

All right; but the same rule would stop the traffic of the men who sold liquor to the man who became drunk and murdered his wife. That is no new freak in the history of alcohol. It "is wont to do so in time past." See Ex. 21:29.

The Era of Good Will.

By Editor

THE millennium is supposed to be near, in which time "good will to men" will be universal. As proof of the already dawning of that day we copy the following words from the letter of a California Methodist minister to the Advocate, referring to a preacher of another denomination:—

"Brother Carey, the no-soul preacher, had just left here and left some of the people in a bad dilemma. These ecclesiastical nuisances and pious frauds are worse in a community than the north wind, the potato bug, or the epizooty. They set whole communities in an uproar. These professional iconoclasts increase the price of derringers and strychnine. Suicide and social disaster follow in their wake. Let the people beware of these school-house scavengers."

We profess no sympathy for the teachings of the man thus reviled. But we think the preacher who wrote the above has none of the spirit of the exalted one who would not bring a "railing accusation" against even Satan himself.

Last-Day Wonders.

By Editor

MANY stories have been told of amusing incidents occasioned by the wonderful progress of this century. Railroads and telegraphs have in turn taxed the credulity of those not acquainted with their principles. The latest is the telephone. The story hails from a mining town in California.

A Chinaman wished to speak to a friend in another town, and had him called to the telephone office for that purpose. Chinaman No. 2 knew his friend was not in that house, nor in that town, yet he recognized his voice speaking to him. A moment he looked in wonder, and then ran from the house, crying, "Too muchee devil!"

He who has lived barely half a century can realize the wonderful improvements of the age. They whose memories do not carry them back half that time cannot have any just idea of the change that has been wrought, or how people lived without the modern improvements.

The articles now being published in the SIGNS on the "United States in Prophecy," have given some of the evidences of the marvelous growth and progress of this country. These articles are all worthy of careful consideration.

We were much struck with a remark made by Sojourner Truth, the last time we heard her. She was speaking of the condition of the country as far back in time as her memory reached, which was about one hundred years. Not only all the improvements and inventions but all the great cities have sprung up in her day. In her own quaint style she said, "What was there in this country a hundred years ago? Nothing but me!"

It is even so; there is little in this country which she could recognize, of one hundred years ago, except herself. How reasonable it appears that this nation occupies an important and prominent place in prophecy, as it confessedly does in the current history of the world, though it is but a youth among the nations.

Reform in Spelling

The N. Y. Independent is publishing articles by Dr. March in favor of reform in spelling. The articles are written in fonetic style. A partial reform is adopted by the New York Home Journal, Utica Herald, and Chicago Tribune. Their rules are to drop ue in words like dialogue; drop final e in such words as definite; drop final te in words like quartette; drop final me in words like programme; change ph to f in such words as phantom, telegraph, &c.

Appointments.

By J. H. Waggoner

OAKLAND—Services at the Seventh-day Adventist church, corner of Thirteenth and Clay streets, every Sabbath (Saturday) at 11 A. M., and Sunday evening at 7:30. Prayer-meeting every Tuesday evening at 7:30. Sabbath-school at 9:30 o'clock Sabbath morning.

SAN FRANCISCO—Services at the Seventh-day Adventist church, on Laguna street, between Tyler and McAllister, every Sabbath (Saturday), at 11 A. M., and Sunday evening at 7:30. Prayer-meeting every Wednesday evening at 7:30. The Hayes Valley cars of Market street and the Lone Mountain cars of the Central railroad, cross Laguna street near the church.

OAKLAND—The first and third Sabbath, and the second and fourth Sunday evening of each month.

SAN FRANCISCO—The second and fourth Sabbath and the first and third Sunday evenings of each month. J. H. WAGGONER.

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