The Tahitians, as the natives of the Society Islands are called, are members of the brown race. In some respects they resemble the aborigines of North America. Like the white races, some have curly hair and some straight; but it is always black, and the eyes are dark.
They are an easy-going people, and are not inclined to do any more work than is positively necessary. They subsist mainly upon the foods which grow spontaneously, tho they might have, and would enjoy, a much greater variety in diet, if they would but do more in the line of cultivation. Plantain grows wild in the mountains, and is free to any one who will go after it. Carrying it home is not very light work, as it is often several miles, and they carry from three to eight bunches at a time, according to the size of the bunches. Breadfruit serves as a vegetable, and is plentiful in its season, and coconuts can be had all the year round.
Yams, taro, and sweet potatoes are vegetables that must be cultivated, so they are not so plentiful as breadfruit and plantain. Of the fruits, oranges and guavas grow wild and are abundant in their respective seasons. The oranges are delicious, and more juicy and sweet than those usually obtainable in the United States. They are in season from March to October; and when they are gone, the mango comes as a substitute, tho it cannot quite fill their place.
A Tahitian Girl.
Bananas and pineapples are native fruits in this climate, and require but little cultivation. The pineapple has two seasons a year, but the banana bears at all times. There are many varieties of the banana, some species being used only when cooked. Other foods, that are scarce, and can seldom be obtained in abundance, are the grape, custard-apple, sour-sop, alligator-pear, sapotin melon, and green vegetables. The climate is adapted to the growing of these fruits and vegetables; and there might be a good supply of them if the people were only more energetic in planting them.
In these islands but little clothing is needed for warmth. The most universal garment is the “pareu,” a sort of loin-cloth, made of two widths of calico sewed together. The calico is either Turkey-red or navy-blue, with large figures of yellow or white. It is worn by the women as an undergarment, or as an apron; and the men wear it instead of trousers. In country places it is often the only article of apparel worn; but in towns a shirt is worn also, and pants are often substituted for the “pareu.”
The women’s dress is a Mother Hubbard; but this, when tastily made, is as neat and becoming as a tight-fitting dress. Shoes are worn but little, except on holiday occasions. The women make their own hats, and also those of the men. The materials used for hats are sugar-cane, bamboo, pandanus palm, ferns, and a coarse grass. They do some very fine work in hat-braids, and have a great variety of plats.
When the men have no regular employment, they take the responsibility of the cooking; but as a rule there is not much work done in that line. The menu is usually composed of one vegetable, eaten with fish or coconut sauce. Sometimes they have beef, or some other flesh-meat, to eat with the vegetable. All kinds of shell-fish, and nearly every live thing to be found in the sea, is eaten, often in a raw state. Canned salmon is commonly used.
For special occasions, different preparations of a dish called “poi” are made. This is made from almost any of the more substantial fruits and vegetables. After the material is grated, coconut milk and a starch made from manioca are added, and it is wrapped in leaves and baked. To us it is not a very palatable food, but by them it is considered quite a delicacy.
In towns where bread can be obtained from the bakery, it is quite customary for those who have the money to make their morning meal of bread and coffee. The coffee is bought, already made and sweetened, at a Chinaman’s store, and carried home in a tin pail. The natives do not use cow’s milk in their coffee, but sometimes use coconut milk. They often use honey in sweetening their coffee, and always want it about as sweet as syrup. Honey is also eaten with vegetables, when they have no bread to use it with.
The islanders are quite intemperate in eating, and on that account have a great deal of sickness, tho many of the conditions by which they are surrounded are conducive to health. They know but little about the laws of health, and have many erroneous ideas in regard to the treatment of disease; but they gladly welcome help in the care of the sick, and we need help in this line for our mission there.
B. J. CADY.
THE LEEWARD ISLANDS.
THESE are a number of small islands of the West Indies, east and southeast of Porto Rico. They are tropical, often fertile, and some of them mountainous with picturesque scenery. All are subject to fierce heat and storms. During a portion of the year destructive hurricanes, or cyclones, are common, and earthquakes are not infrequent. Sugar is a standard crop; but cotton, tobacco, dyestuffs, rare woods, and tropical fruits are exported. Brother A. J. Haysmer, who is laboring on these islands, writes of them:—
“During the past two years these islands have been visited by several destructive hurricanes, followed by floods, droughts, and earthquakes. Then followed a fall in the price of sugar and other crops; and these calamities have left the islands in a deplorable condition. For instance, the island of Monserrat in one year had 500 earthquakes, a flood, and a hurricane, and now there is a drought. All the churches and nearly all the houses in the island were blown down.
“The island that I am now visiting [St. Christopher] is wholly sugar producing. All the land is13the property of estate-owners, and the rest of the inhabitants are dependent on them. The people, with tears in their eyes, tell me that they can not get sufficient food to sustain their weak bodies. By working hard they realize from thirty-six to forty-eight cents a week, and with this small sum they have to provide food and shelter for themselves and families. This state of things is driving our self-supporting workers from the field; and the great question is, How are we to reach this poor but reading people with the truth for this time? I am convinced that the SIGNS OF THE TIMES is the best medium we have to enlighten this people; but we have no means to pay for the clubs of the paper, and we can not expect the people to pay for it, when themselves and families are destitute of food and clothing.”
No more the riot of the waves shall jar
The cliffs in thund’rous din thruout the age;
No more the ocean’s sheen shall redden far
Round battling ships in war’s tumultuous rage.
But doves of peace, white, cooing to and fro,
Shall wing with messages from land to land,
While on the hurrying breeze shall kindness go,
And clasps of friendship reach from hand to hand.
No more the reptiles of the marsh and fen
Shall wait for victims by the reedy shore,
Nor sharks in sullen hunger watch for men
Round the brave ships that sail the surges o’er.
But every ripple of the pool or bay
Shall tinge with health the soft winds whistling by,
And joy shall ride the wavelets day by day
Under eternal summer’s azure sky.
No more shall wrecks death-laden float at will
O’er tropic seas or where the freezing gale
Congeals the waves in ice fields, broad and still,
Castled with crystal bergs sea-green and pale.
But from the lakelet’s sedgy brim shall sound
The piping music of the wading birds,
While swimming thousands float at ease around
And murmur love-notes sweet as happy words.
The time of wrath shall be forever past;
Then no more need of ocean’s storm-wrecked plain,
That severs land from land with tempests vast,
And makes wild weapons of the wind and rain.
There shall be plashy ponds, and rivers fine,
And lakes of beauty ’neath the silver moon,
And Neptune’s breakers nevermore shall join
In grim destructiveness and deafening tone.
There shall be fields and hills and glorious heights
All populated o’er with busy throngs;
Labor thru rapturous days and holy nights
Shall join with kings in praiseful, godly songs.
Oakland, Cal. T. R. WILLIAMSON.
THE CALMNESS OF PEACE
By J. R. Miller
THE people in all lines of duty who do the most work are the calmest, most unhurried people in the community. Duties never wildly chase each other in their lives. One task never crowds another out, nor ever compels hurried, and therefore imperfect, doing. The calm spirit works methodically, doing one thing at a time and doing it well, and it therefore works swiftly, tho never appearing to be in haste.
We need the peace of God in our heart just as really for the doing well of the little things of our secular life as for the doing of the greatest duties of Christ’s kingdom. Our face ought to shine, and our spirit ought to be tranquil, and our eye ought to be clear, and our nerves ought to be steady, as we press thru the tasks of our commonest day. Then we shall do them all well, slurring nothing, marring nothing. We want heart-peace before we begin any day’s duties, and we should wait at Christ’s feet ere we go forth.—J. R. Miller.
OUR WORK AND WORKERS.
TWO MEMBERS were added to the church in Camden, N. J., March 2.
THE brethren at Williamstown, N. Y., have about completed a new house of worship.
AT Hutchins, Texas, Brother J. B. Becker was recently granted the free use of the Christian church for a series of meetings.
THE result of labor at Clinton, Mont., by Brethren L. A. Gibson and R. D. Quinn, is that ten adult persons are keeping the Sabbath of the Lord.
SABBATH, March 9, three candidates were baptized in the church in this city. Several others had applied for baptism, but were unable to be present on that occasion.
A new church edifice at Parkersburg, Iowa, was dedicated February 10, and six candidates were baptized March 3, as a result of meetings held by Brother L. F. Trubey.
AS in earlier ages, the special truths for this time are found, not with the ecclesiastical authorities, but with the men and women who are not too learned or too wise to believe the Word of God.—“Christ's Object Lessons.”
ONE of our exchanges tells of a lady who picked up one of our tracts that some one had thrown into the woodbox. She was attracted by the title, read the tract, began searching the Scriptures, and now rejoices in the truth.
MEETINGS held in a school-house near Davis City, Iowa, by Brother F. L. Moody, in February, created quite an interest in other near-by places. A Baptist church a few miles distant has been offered him in which to hold meetings.
AT Canaan, Me., five persons are rejoicing in the light of truth thru the instrumentality of Bro. C. W. Richmond. Others are reported to be moved to seek the Lord for the forgiveness of their sins, as the result of recent meetings.
THE Sacramento Record-Union gives a lengthy report of a Sabbath-school convention held in that city on the 23d ult. Judging from the report, the convention was an interesting and instructive occasion. Three sessions were held.
A CHURCH was organized at Chester, W. Va., March 3, by Brother S. M. Cobb, president of the Conference, and Brother J. W. Lair, under whose efforts the company had been gathered. Three members have since been added by baptism.
OF the work at Belleville, Mich., Field Echoes says: “Twenty-nine have accepted the present truth during the fall and winter, and others are interested. Means have been provided to build a church, which will be erected during the coming summer.”
A NEW church building has been erected at Stevensville, Mont., and is to be formally dedicated May 2. At Red Lodge, in the same State, a house of worship has been erected in advance of a church organization. But a Sabbath-school and tract society are being conducted with success.
THE Correspondence Department of the Sanitarium Medical Missionary Training School, Battle Creek, Mich., is organizing a new class this month. This work has been successfully conducted for over two years, and many have thereby gained much useful knowledge. It embraces studies on eleven different subjects, and lessons are sent to students by mail every week. If you are interested, send for circular. Address as above.
A GENTLEMAN who had bought a copy of “Christ's Object Lessons” of one of our brethren and was greatly pleased with it, on meeting this same brother, a few days later, on a load of hay, thus accosted him, “Ah, Mr. ——, you ought to be out canvassing for that book instead of hauling hay.” The one relating this adds, “If this is the advice of one who knows not the truth, what should our attitude be?”—Workers' Bulletin.
ON account of a call to take charge of the tract society work in North Pacific Conference, Professor Starbuck has resigned his position in Walla Walla College, and has removed to Portland, Oregon. The Bible classes formerly taught by him are now in charge of Prof. W. W. Steward. So we learn from the Workers' Educator for March.
A LETTER in the Worker's Bulletin from Brother S. M. Jacobs, superintendent of Oakwood Industrial School, near Huntsville, Ala., says: “This has been the pleasantest year of our work here. We have sent one young lady, who has been with us four years, into Montgomery, Alabama, as a teacher. She and another young lady have eighty-four students. We have several calls for teachers, which we expect to fill in the near future.”
APROPOS of the article, “The Leeward Islands,” no doubt there are those who would be glad to help in the matter of furnishing literature for loaning or for free distribution. Brother A. J. Haysmer, who has charge of the work in that field, says that this is the only way in which the truth can be circulated at present, as times are too hard for the canvassing work to succeed. His address is “Charlotte Amelia, St. Thomas, Danish West Indies.” Literature for him sent (prepaid) by freight or mail to the S. D. A. Foreign Mission Board, 150 Nassau Street, New York City, will be forwarded.
IN the Dakota Worker of March 15 is an encouraging report of labor from Brother Edward Leoppke, at Anamoose, N. D. He says: “In spite of the cold and storms we held twenty-eight good meetings, which were well attended by the people, who are mainly Lutherans and Baptists. We had many pleasant visits with them between the preaching services, and gave several Bible-readings each day. We also distributed many pages of tracts and Hausfreund. Many with tears and earnest prayers gave evidence that the seed was sown in good and honest hearts. . . . Here, where a few months ago there was not a believer, we now have a church of thirty-eight members.”
A CHURCH has been secured at the corner of Kneeland and Tyler Streets, Boston, Mass., where the writer is conducting a series of Gospel meetings. These services are held every evening except Monday and Saturday evenings. Meetings are also held Sabbath at 12 M. and Sunday afternoons at 2:30. We would suggest to our people who may have friends or relatives residing in Boston or vicinity, to improve this opportunity of having them hear the message by writing them, extending an invitation to attend the services. We shall also be pleased to welcome any of our people at the meetings who may perchance be in the city. K. C. Russell, Cor. Hollis St. and Bunough Place, Boston, Mass.
A NOTE from Brother Joseph Clark, of Galveston, Texas, informs us that meetings are again being held by a few Adventists whom he has gathered together. He gives a rather gloomy account of moral conditions in the city, and says: “As many workmen came here after the flood to help rebuild the city, it may interest your readers to know that the work is done, and many are now out of employment. There is no city mission here, and one is much needed. The city papers admit that twice as much liquor is sold now as before the city was destroyed, and crime has increased. A large per cent of the laboring people do not attend any church or read the Bible. The place is a noted seaport, and a pleasure resort in both summer and winter.”
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11 “But Mary was standing without at the tomb weeping; so, as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb; and she beholdeth two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid Him. When she had thus said, she turned herself back, and beholdeth Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing Him to be the gardener, saith unto Him, Sir, if Thou hast borne Him hence, tell me where Thou hast laid Him, and I will take Him away. Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turneth herself, and saith unto Him in Hebrew, Rabboni; which is to say, Master. Jesus saith to her, Touch Me not; for I am not yet ascended unto the Father: but go unto My brethren, and say to them, I ascend unto My Father and your Father, and My God and your God. Mary Magdalene cometh and telleth the disciples, I have seen the Lord; and how that He had said these things unto her.”
Golden Text: “Behold, I am alive forevermore.” Rev. 1:18.
SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.
(1) What was the attitude of Mary at the sepulcher? Verse 11. Note 1. (2) As she looked into the sepulcher, whom did she see? What was their position? Verse 12. Note 2. (3) What question did the angels ask? What was Mary's reply? Verse 13. Note 3. (4) What then did Mary do? and whom did she see? Verse 14. (5) What question did Jesus ask? who did Mary suppose Him to be? and what was her reply to His question? Verse 15. Note 4. (6) What did Jesus then say to her? and what was Mary's response? Verse 16. Note 5. (7) What did Jesus forbid her to do? Why? What message did He entrust her with? Verse 17. Note 6. (8) How faithfully did she obey His command? Verse 18. Note 7.
NOTES.
1. The Mary referred to in verse 11 was Mary Magdalene, whom Jesus had seven times healed of demoniacal affliction. She had gone to the tomb very early, and finding it empty had run to tell Peter and John. She had evidently returned to the sepulcher immediately after telling them. They both ran to the place, but after seeing the empty tomb for themselves, had returned to their home; but Mary remained.
2. Why at the Tomb?—There could be but one object of the angels' watch over the empty sepulcher, and that was to tell the joyful news to the disciples. It would certainly be a comforting message for the sorrowing friends of Jesus. “Are they [the angels] not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?” Heb. 1:14.
3. A Token of Sympathy.—The question, “Why weepest thou?” shows the sympathetic nature of the angels of God, in common with that of their Master. Jesus always manifested an intense sympathy with the sorrowing ones, and the heavenly angels have always shown the deepest interest in His work for sinners. This is just as true to-day as it ever was.
4. A Test of Faith.—Jesus repeated the question of the angel, “Why weepest thou?” and added, “Whom seekest thou?” He sought for a spark of faith. He did not say, “I am the One you seek.” He wants to be known by faith, and not by sight. See 2 Cor. 5:7. Had Mary been in faith expecting to see Him alive, she would have recognized Him at a glance. All thru His course of teaching His disciples He had sought to inspire them with faith in His word. “How is it that ye have no faith?” Mark 4:40.
5. “Mary.”—It was not until some natural sense was touched, till a familiar sound broke upon her ear, that the Master was recognized. Then the sight was satisfied, and the living Saviour was acknowledged. Many are yet doomed to be deceived by false christs and false teachers because of their dependence upon the satisfaction of the natural senses instead of the Word of God. Mary's recognition proved all right because she had met the Lord Himself. But had she met a shrewd deceiver, such as are to be expected in the last days, she would have had no protection. The “elect” who will stand against the deceptive wiles of the enemy, will be those who stand the test of faith in the Word, regardless of sights and sounds. Matt. 24:23-27; 2 Thess. 2:7-12.
6. “I am not yet ascended.”—This assertion of Jesus' is a sufficient answer to those who claim that He went to heaven on the day of His death. And the message sent to the other disciples by Mary is a further proof that He had not yet ascended. But the meeting with other women a short time afterward, when they were allowed to touch Him (Matt. 28:9), would indicate that in a very short time He did ascend to His Father and return. It was necessary for Him to ascend to present the offering of His blood at the heavenly altar, and to be accepted as the atonement for sinners.
7. Mary Magdalene was the first at the tomb on the morning of the resurrection, and the first human messenger employed by the risen Saviour to announce the good news to His mourning disciples.
LESSON 3.—APRIL 20.—POSITION OF OUR HIGH PRIEST
[Note to the Student.—These lessons are not designed to be exhaustive, but suggestive. In references to the “Desire of Ages,” in the lessons, the subscription edition is referred to. Those who have only the trade edition will find the matter in chapters 1, 4, 11, 27, 71, 77, 78; also read “Patriarchs and Prophets,” chapters 5 and 30. “Christ Our Advocate,” Bible Students’ Library No. 129 (price, 10 cents), and “Looking unto Jesus” (price, $1.00) will be found a great help. The SIGNS OF THE TIMES will have an article on the subject of each lesson this quarter by J. O. Corliss. Read these articles in connection with the study of the lesson. We have not space to print all the Scriptures. Let the student study them carefully from the Bible. Those printed are from the Revised Version.]
LESSON 3.—APRIL 20.—POSITION OF OUR HIGH PRIEST.
SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.
1. What is the position of our High Priest? “For I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins will I remember no more.” Heb. 8:12. (Col. 3:1; Heb. 10:12; 12:2; Eph. 1:19–21.)
2. Who placed Him in this position? When? “And what is the exceeding greatness of His power to usward who believe, according to that working of the strength of His might which He wrought in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and made Him to sit at His right hand in the heavenly places.” Eph. 1:19, 20. (Phil. 2:9–11; Heb. 1:3, 5; Ps. 2:6, 7; Acts 13:33; Rom. 1:3, 4. Note .)
3. Of what is He the head? “And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fulness of Him that filleth all in all.” Eph. 1:22, 23.
4. Where does this place the church? “But God, being rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead thru our trespasses, quickened us together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved), and raised us up with Him, and made us to sit with Him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus.” Eph. 2:4–6. (Eph. 1:5, 6. Note .)
5. How long will Christ occupy this position? “The Lord saith unto my Lord, Sit Thou at My right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool.” “But each in his own order: Christ the first-fruits; then they that are Christ’s, at His coming. Then cometh the end, when He shall deliver up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when He shall have abolished all rule and all authority and power. For He must reign, till He hath put all His enemies under His feet.” Ps. 110:1; 1 Cor. 15:23–25.
6. What is one of Christ’s greatest enemies? “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.” 1 John 2:15, 16. (James 4:1–4. Note .)
7. What delays the time when Christ will conquer all His foes? “O that My people would hearken unto Me, that Israel would walk in My ways! I should soon subdue their enemies, and turn My hand against their adversaries.” Ps. 81:13, 14. (Isa. 43:24. Note .)
8. What part have we to act in conquering our foes? “For whatsoever is begotten of God overcometh the world; and this is the victory that hath overcome the world, even our faith.” 1 John 5:4. (Isa. 30:15.)
9. Thru whom is the victory gained? “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Even as it is written, ‘For Thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.’ Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors thru Him that loved us.” Rom. 8:35–37. (1 Cor. 15:57.)
NOTES.
1. Just at the time when men could endure Christ no longer, and took counsel together and put Him to death, declaring they had no king but Cæsar, God, by the power of the resurrection, declares Him to be His Son and His King, and places Him at His own right hand, giving Him all power and dominion. And for what purpose? “Having collected the riches of the universe, and laid open the resources of infinite power, He gives them all into the hands of Christ, and says, All these are for man. Use these gifts to convince him that there is no greater love than Mine in earth or heaven. His greatest happiness will be found in loving Me.”—Desire of Ages, p. 57.
2. “God has adopted human nature in the person of His Son, and has carried this same into the highest heaven. It is the Son of man who shares the throne of the universe. . . . Heaven is enshrined in humanity, and humanity is enfolded in the bosom of infinite love.”—Desire of Ages, p. 25.
3. If we belong to Christ, our foes and Christ’s foes are the same. They are the sins of our own heart.
4. While we cling to our sins, He can not put them under His feet without putting us there with them, and so He waits for us to give them over into His hands. We are to sit where He sits, and in quietness and confidence give over all our enemies into His hands, and we have the promise that the God of peace shall “bruise Satan under your feet shortly.”
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Just think of it! $1.50 worth of Battle Creek Sanitarium Food Co.'s and Sanitas Nut Food Co.'s cereal and nut foods, and other household necessities, and a year's subscription to Good Health, a 64-page magazine, 800 pages a year, all for $1.00. We could not do this only that the manufacturers have made us a present of these articles to use for this purpose, well knowing that the merits of the foods will secure for them sufficient trade to pay their expense. Cut out this clipping and send to us with $1.00 and we will do the rest.
N. B.—We do not pay freight or express charges. Have the goods go by freight. One Family Box weighs 14 pounds. Get six persons to join with you, which will make 100 pounds. Have all shipped to one address, and the expense will be but a few cents each.
