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EDUCATION IN THE HOME. NO. 8.

By Mrs. L. D. Avery-Stuttle

BY MRS. L. D. AVERY-STUTTLE.

"JUST read that once more, please, Mr. Jones. Are you sure the psalmist doesn't say nine of the commandments?"

'Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto ALL Thy commandments.' I suppose that means all ten of them, Mr. Hartman," smiled Mr. Jones.

"Well, but," objected Mrs. Wilbur, "I am quite sure that the apostle Paul must have made the change, being instructed to do so by Christ."

"Perhaps it would be well for you to take time to look this up, Mrs. Wilbur," smiled Brother Hartman, "and report at our next meeting. We may be sure if there was any change in the Sabbath, Paul has mentioned it, because he assures us that he has 'not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.'"

"I am willing to try," said Mrs. Wilbur, "and I shall certainly tell you what I find."

"But I would like to know if there is anything in favor of keeping the old Jewish Sabbath in the New Testament," said Mr. Jones.

"May be you can answer the question, Elsie, you or John."

"Brother and I were studying that point this afternoon together, and we found that the last verse of Luke 23, and the first verse of the next chapter, is pretty plain on that point. John will read it."

"It is speaking of the burial of Christ. The holy women wanted to prepare the body of their Lord for the tomb according to the custom of the times. 'And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment. Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulcher, bringing the spices which they had prepared.'"

"Where did you say that was found?" asked Mrs. Wilbur. "Queer I don't remember reading that verse."

"Luke 23:56 and 24:1," responded John.

"They 'rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment,'" repeated Brother Hartman. "Now, Beth, you will have to repeat the commandment again, I guess, to tell us which day the commandment says is the Sabbath."

And little Beth, glad of another opportunity to answer some of the questions, repeated the sacred command which the Almighty has placed in the very heart of His holy law, solemnly and with great emphasis.

"So it was the seventh day that the holy women observed so carefully that they would not even prepare the body of their Lord for burial. What day comes 'in the morning' after the seventh day, or the Sabbath? Josie, will you answer?"

"Why, the first day, or Sunday," smiled Josie.

"What day comes just before the first day, Beth?"

"Saturday, papa, or the seventh."

"Well, then, it is very evident, is it not, that the day before the first day is the one observed by the holy women, even after the death of Christ. What is your opinion, Mr. Wilbur?"

"Well, to be candid, neighbor, I should suppose Christ would have told them before His death, that He was about to change the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day, because He would arise on that day, and that they were to observe it ever after."

"Your idea is reasonable, quite so," said Sister Hartman; while Mrs. Wilbur exchanged glances with Mrs. Jones, who seemed somewhat troubled.

"The first day of the week is mentioned barely eight times in the New Testament," continued Brother Hartman, "and if there is any sacredness attached to it, I suppose it will be mentioned in connection somewhere. But I think we will find that not in one of these instances is it spoken of as a holy day. Josie, will you please turn to Matt. 28:1, because this is the first time the day is mentioned in the New Testament."

Josie turned to the passage, and read:

'In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary to see the sepulcher.'

"Why mother," exclaimed Josie, "don't you see by this verse that instead of finding anything for Sunday keeping, it plainly says that the day before the first day of the week is the Sabbath?"

"Let me read that verse again; it's strange I never noticed it before," and Mrs. Wilbur read once again the word of inspiration.

"Now, Mr. Wilbur, you will please read the next instance in which the first day is mentioned. Turn to Mark 16:2."

'And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulcher, at the rising of the sun?'

"Well, Neighbor Jones, I see nothing so far for Sunday observance, can you?"

HOW DOES THE ROBIN KNOW?

I recently observed a robin boring for grubs in a country dooryard. It is a common enough sight to witness one seize an angleworm, and drag it from its burrow in the turf, but I am not sure that I ever before saw one drill for grubs, and bring the big white morsel to the surface. The robin I am speaking of had a nest of young in a maple near by, and she worked the neighborhood very industriously for food. She would run along over the short grass after the manner of robins, stopping every few feet, her form stiff and erect. Now and then she would suddenly bend her head toward the ground, and bring eye or ear for a moment to bear intently upon it. Then she would spring to boring the turf vigorously with her bill, changing her attitude at each stroke, alert and watchful, throwing up the grass roots and little jets of soil, stabbing deeper and deeper, growing every moment more and more excited, till finally a fat grub is seized, and brought forth. Time after time, during several days, I saw her mine for grubs in this way, and drag them forth. How did she know where to drill? The insect was in every case an inch below the surface. Did she hear it gnawing the roots of the grasses, or did she see a movement in the turf beneath which the grub was at work?—I know not. I only know that she struck her game unerringly each time. Only twice did I see her make a few thrusts, and then desist, as if she had been for the moment deceived.—Outing.

SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS

LESSON 3.—JULY 16.—THE SUFFERING SAVIOUR.

Lesson Scripture.—Isa. 52:13 to 53:12, A. R. V.

(13) "BEHOLD, My Servant shall deal wisely, He shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high. (14) Like as many were astonished at Thee (His visage was so marred more than any man, and His form more than the sons of men), (15) so shall He sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths at Him; for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they understand.

(1) "Who hath believed our message? and to whom hath the arm of Jehovah been revealed? (2) For He grew up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground; He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. (3) He was despised, and rejected of men; a Man of Sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their face He was despised; and we esteemed Him not.

(4) "Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. (5) But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed. (6) All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

(7) "He was oppressed, yet when He was afflicted He opened not His mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth. (8) By oppression and judgment He was taken away; and as for His generation, who among them considered that He was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of My people to whom the stroke was due? (9) And they made His grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death; altho He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth.

(10) "Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise Him; He hath put Him

to grief; when Thou shalt make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of Jehovah shall prosper in His hand. (11) He shall see of the travail of His soul, and shall be satisfied; by the knowledge of Himself shall My righteous Servant justify many; and He shall bear their iniquities. (12) Therefore will I divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong; because He poured out His soul unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet He bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors."

Golden Text.—"The Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all." Chapter 53:6.

SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.

(1) What does the Lord say of His Servant? To what Servant does this refer? Verse 13. Note 1. (2) At what were many astonished concerning Him? Verse 14. Note 2. (3) What contrast with this condition does the prophet also see? Verse 15. Note 3. (4) What pointed questions are asked in verse 1 of chapter 53? Note 4. (5) What is said of the human life of Christ? Verse 2; also John 1:46. (6) How was He treated of men? What was His general experience as a man on earth? Verse 3; also Luke 18:31-34. (7) What hath He done for us? And how has He been esteemed? Verse 4. Note 5. (8) For what was He wounded and bruised? Whose chastisement was upon Him? And why did He suffer stripes? Verse 5. (9) To what is sinful mankind compared? And on whom has our sin been laid? Verse 6. (10) With what patience and fortitude did He bear his affliction? Verse 7. (11) By what was He taken away? Who was there who fully appreciated Him at the time? For what was He taken out of the land of the living? Verse 8. Note 6. (12) With whom was He accounted in His death? Yet what was His true character? Verse 9; also Mark 15:27, 28; Matt. 27:57-60; 1 Peter 2:20-25. (13) Who was specially pleased with Christ's faithfulness to the end? Why? Verse 10. Note 7. (14) What is to be the full satisfaction of Christ for His great sacrifice? Through what shall He justify many, or make them righteous? To this end what shall He do for them? Verse 11; also John 17:3. Note 8. (15) Because of Christ's great service, what shall be done for Him? Verse 12. Note 9.

NOTES.

1. The expression, "My Servant," refers to Christ. In Isa. 42:1 we also read: "Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold; My Chosen, in whom My soul delighteth; I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles." His exaltation is also noted in Phil. 2:9, where, after noting His humility, it is said, "Wherefore also God highly exalted Him, and gave unto Him the name which is above every name."

2. Men were astonished that Christ should have been so outrageously mistreated and abused, as He was at His trial and crucifixion. The astonishment was twofold: (1) That so good a Man should be thus treated by those whom He designed only to benefit; and (2) that One who had manifested so much power should have submitted to such indignity.

3. The contrast drawn in verses 14 and 15 is expressed in Cheyne's translation as follows: "Deeply marred was His appearance, out of all human likeness, And His form out of semblance to sons of man, But as deep will be the obeisance of many, Before Him kings will be awe-struck in silence." The prophet seems to see the Saviour in the awful agonies attending His trial and crucifixion, and in the same view beholds Him as the great High Priest that stands for the cleansing of His people, and a final victor, over all earthly powers. "Kings shall shut their mouths at [margin, "because of"] Him."

4. Jesus quoted verse 1 of chapter 53 as fulfilled in the unbelief of the Jews, when He presented to them the Gospel of salvation (John 12:37, 38); and Paul makes a like application in Rom. 10:16. The "Arm of Jehovah" is Christ. See Isa. 51:9 and 52:10.

5. Among the Jews, any afflicted one was esteemed smitten of God, as a result of sin (John 9:1-3), and even Christ's own disciples doubted that He was the Son of God, because He was permitted to be thus chastised. They thought that they had been deceived in their belief in Him as the Messiah, when He expired on the cross; and that therefore He must have been an imposter.

6. The answer to the question of verse 8 is, No one considered Him cut off for the transgression of the people. They esteemed Him smitten of God, because of His own sins. It is well to note the difference in construction between the A. R. V., which we use in these lessons, and the Common Version.

7. The pleasure that Jehovah had in the sufferings of Christ was that He proved faithful throughout the trying ordeal; that He was obedient even unto death. Phil. 2:8. It was through His death that His numerous seed was manifest. In this lay the assurance of God's promises to the faithful. But the Father's heartfelt sympathy with his agonizing Son was none the less acute. It was simply Jehovah's will that Christ should make the sacrifice of His life for fallen man, and the purpose was faithfully carried out.

8. "The travail of His soul" is equivalent to the pains preceding the birth of the "many" whom He should "justify" through their faith in His atonement for their "iniquities."

9. Christ will divide the spoil with Satan. All mankind will be raised from the dead by virtue of His resurrection (John 5:28, 29; 1 Cor. 15:22). But there will be two resurrections—first, that of the righteous at His coming (1 Thess. 4:15-18); and the other class a thousand years later (Revelation 20). Christ takes the first class for His own, and the second class are destroyed with their "strong" tempter in the lake of fire.

THE QUIET HOUR.

By Harold Begbie

We have girded on His armor, we have buckled on His sword, And the earth is glad with music as we raise with one accord The great hymn of those rejoicing that they serve the living Lord—Alleluia!

In the mercy of His greatness He has made His service sweet; There is rapture in the burden, there is gladness in the heat, And the goal that makes life joyous is the Lord's great Judgment Seat—Alleluia!

To the Lord who spread the heavens through the boundless fields of space; To the Lord who calls the weary to His Calvary of grace, Raise the hymn of grateful triumph—we shall see Him face to face—Alleluia! —Harold Begbie.

Rats' Ingenious Escape

By Henry W. Warren

DO ANIMALS REASON? HOW ELSE DID RATS DO THIS?

IN 1874-77 I lived in the parsonage of St. John's Church, in Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn. Suddenly the lower story and cellar were invaded by a small army of rats. After several preliminary skirmishes in which they suffered somewhat in killed and wounded, they took possession of the brick incasement of the furnace as a fort, through a passage made by one brick in the obscure back part being left out for circulation of air. They provisioned the fort with a peck of sweet potatoes, ready to stand siege or make depredatory excursions through the sally port.

Discovering the situation, I slipped a brick into the aperture. I gleefully said, "In the morning I will come down, and make a Sedan for the whole army."

They appreciated the situation as well as I, and communicated it to their fellow marauders outside. The cellar floor was perfectly cemented, except a little hole where the water pipe came up in a corner twelve feet diagonally away. Between those inside and outside they agreed on the following plan: Each party of sappers and miners should excavate a tunnel under the cement, and meet half way from the furnace inclosure and the water-pipe hole. This they did, and every last rat escaped, the dirt being about equally thrown out at each end.

The engineers at the Mont Cenis tunnel did not make the French and Italian approaches meet exactly in the center. A traveler can feel the shunt of the car as he rides through. But these engineers communicated their thought, made their plan, did the work, and made no such blunder. Did they think?—Bishop Henry W. Warren.

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Worth of a Religion of Sense.

There is a good example of the unworth of a religion of sense in the fourteenth chapter of Acts. The people of Lystra saw a cripple healed. Without regard to the principles of righteousness involved, the people at once concluded that the workers of the miracle were divine, and proceeded with much pomp to render them worship. This, of course, the true messengers of God refused. A little later some shrewd enemies of these men of God came to Lystra, circulated evil reports, and then these men of Lystra stoned the healer, and he was dragged out of the city supposed to be dead. Such is ever likely to be the fruits of a religion of sense,—of feeling and appearance. There will yet be seen in these days of multiplying delusions manifestations of this sort of sense religion. Those who have accepted of the true religion from the emotional side will in times of trial, when principle only will hold, see greater manifestations or appearances of power among the false religion, and will yield as tumultuously as did the people of Lystra; and many of those who have been deceived by the healings of "Hypnotism" or "Christian Science," believing it to be "the great power of God," will as readily yield to some other delusions. Many stand as did the Jews to whom Jesus said, "Except ye see signs and wonders ye will not believe." The only religion which will hold in these days is that which is founded in the simple truth of God, entirely apart from all manifestations, save the fruits of the Spirit, implicit obedience to God.

CONTAINED IN THIS NUMBER.

Poetry. Drift-wood, ELIZA H. MORTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 The Days in Which We Live, FRANCES E. BOLTON . . . . . . . . . 13 The Quiet Hour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Editorial.—The Man, the Person, the Individual—To Our Fellow Citizens—What Fourth of July Stands For—Battles for Two Great Principles—"Time's Noblest Offspring" —The "Pursuit of Happiness" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-8

Outlook.—A Bid for Religious Intolerance—Union of Church and State—A Common Failure in Civil Government . . . . . . 8, 9

General. Perils of Our Country, MRS. E. G. WHITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 In the Lap of Luxury, GEO. W. RINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11, 12 The Last-Day Church Reproved (Bible Reading) . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

The Home.—Education in the Home, No. 8, MRS. L. D. AVERY-STUTTLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

International Sunday-School Lesson.—The Suffering Saviour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

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Religious Liberty and Home Missions

He who believes in true religious liberty believes in it primarily not for himself, but for the other man.

True Christianity will never seek to entrench itself in civil law; and true democracy will never uphold or support a religion or church which seeks support from the state.

He only knows true liberty, he only works for the permanent conservation of his own liberties, who grants to the other man—be he his most bitter and restless, religious and political opposer—the rights he asks for himself.

The sole object of the founders of this government was the protection of each person in his rights, which God gave to every one equally. In so protecting the individual, incivility and violence on the part of those who disregard others' rights are restrained; and the result is the greatest good to the greatest number.

It is estimated by immigration officials that the number of immigrants who enter the United States this year will reach a round million. What an opportunity this will afford for genuine foreign mission work—at home! The selfish and the mercenary will hold up their pallid hands in horror at the thought of so many aliens coming to the United States. The Christian might better thank God for bringing the heathen to our doors for evangelization than seek to shut the door in his face, and deny him the privileges which we enjoy. If Christians had carried the Gospel into these darkened lands as they should, much of that darkness and degradation would have been dissipated, conditions would have been bettered in those lands, and their inhabitants would not now be flocking from their own country to ours, as they are to-day. They will be much more likely to come in contact with the Gospel here than there. It is more important that this world be evangelized in the shortest possible time, than that a certain portion of its surface be restricted to the educated, the prosperous, and the wealthy.

JEFFERSON'S PROPHECY

By Thomas Jefferson

BESIDES, the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt; our people careless. A single zealot may commence persecution, and better men be his victims. It can not too often be repeated that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united. From the conclusion of this war we shall be going down hill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves, but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore, which shall not be knocked off at the conclusion of this war, will remain on us long; will be made heavier and heavier, till our rights shall revive, or expire in a convulsion.—Notes on Virginia, Query XVII.

DO YOU WISH REAL FREEDOM?

Believe, Receive, and Know.

"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8: 32.

"If therefore the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." John 8: 36.

"For if, by the trespass of one, death reigned through the one; much more shall they that receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the One, even Jesus Christ." "The free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Rom. 5: 17; 6: 23.

"For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and death." Rom. 8: 2.

"For he that was called in the Lord being a bondservant, is the Lord's freedman; likewise he that was called being free, is Christ's bondservant." 1 Cor. 7: 22.

Liberty in God.

"Proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof." Lev. 25: 10.

"And I shall walk at liberty; for I have sought Thy precepts." Ps. 119: 45.

"The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon Me, because Jehovah hath anointed Me to . . . proclaim liberty to the captives." Isa. 61: 2.

"The creation also itself shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God." Rom. 8: 21.

"Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." 2 Cor. 3: 17.

"For freedom did Christ set us free; stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage." Gal. 5: 1.

"For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another." Gal. 5: 13.

"But he that looketh into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and so continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing." James 1: 25.

"So speak ye, and so do, as men that are to be judged by a law of liberty." James 2: 12.

The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number

"The greatest good of the greatest number" is often used by good men in an utter meaningless or pernicious way. It is an end sought, an object aimed at; and in this way it is wholly selfish. There has not been any oppressive system under the sun but what its devotees hoped sometime to have the greatest number, and for their own they have sought the greatest good. The only true purpose in the state is the jealous guarding of the rights of the minority, of the poorest, the weakest. The conservation of the rights of the one means the conservation of the rights of all, and its inevitable fruitage—result, outworking—is the greatest good to the greatest number.

Catholic Schools and Public Education

Two points to be discussed at the first annual convention of Roman Catholic educators to be held in New York early in July are "the results and progress of Catholic education in this country," and "what can be done to secure through legislation a part of the public school fund to support the Catholic schools." Priest Crowley of Chicago, who is persistently exposing and opposing Roman Catholic clerical corruption and un-Americanism, declares in his book on "The Parochial School" that "Catholic priests and prelates are determined to destroy the American public school," and that "the Catholic hierarchy offers the parochial school as a substitute for the public school." As a Roman Catholic he arraigns the parochial school as "a curse to the church" and "a menace to the nation." His book should be read by every one interested in the Roman Catholic question in this country.

United States Relations with Rome

There was diplomatic connection with the See of Rome on the part of the United States for a period of more than twenty years, according to the New York Evening Post. "It began in 1848 with J. L. Martin, of North Carolina, charge d'affaires," and "Lewis Cass, Jr., of Michigan, was the first minister resident, in 1857." But "after the absorption of the Papal States by Italy in 1871 there was no diplomatic connection with the See of Rome on the part of the United States." This information was given in answer to a correspondent who, regarding a statement he had seen in the Post that "Madame Waddington's brother was the last minister sent by the United States to the pope," inquired, "Has the United States ever sent such an official, and when was the first one sent?"

Cardinals and Governments

By Editor

It is reported from Rome that "Argentine bishops who are in that city trying to obtain the creation of a cardinal for Argentina are negotiating a concordat between Argentina and the Holy See. The Vatican is ready to make concessions to the Buenos Ayres Government as compensation for the delayed nomination of an Argentine cardinal." What right have Argentine bishops to represent the Argentine Government, and what right has the Argentine Government to be concerned with the creation of a cardinal for Argentina? But perhaps we ought not to be too critical, for there has been talk in recent years of the United States Government, or the chief executive, becoming active in the matter of the creation of another American cardinal.

Individual Responsibility Before God

In all the divine commands the monitor of duty singles out the human unit. He can not hide behind nations, or tribes, or cults, or guilds, or organizations of any sort; to the individual person comes the divine requirement clothed in the fire of Sinai, which he must meet at the bar of God in the judgment day.

EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER STATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL. JEFFERSON