As the management of the Reformer is confided to us, assisted by sister E. R. Fairfield, for the current year, we determine to leave no means untried to raise this journal in interest and usefulness, and to extend its circulation. We call especial attention to the following points:
1. It will contain thirty-two pages of reading matter. Those not pleased with Dr. Trall's department, will find pages enough besides his, where they can read tenfold their money's worth. And no one need feel disturbed with the doctor's extreme positions, as he alone is responsible for his views. The very term of “Special Department” shows this.
2. Mrs. White will have a special department in the Reformer, and will cheerfully free all from responsibility relative to what she may teach. We anticipate much interest in her department.
3. We shall treat the subject of health reform upon the authority of the sacred Scriptures, and well authenticated facts in the experiences of those who have shared the inestimable benefits of health reform. With our people, the Bible is the highest and safest authority, and that good old book is full of hygiene. The Book of books is also the highest authority with a large share of the masses whom we hope to reach with the simple, yet powerful facts which demand changes from the common habits of life. Here we hope to reach the people.
4. We shall enrich the columns of the Health Reformer with selections from the ablest and best works on life and health, and from the numerous health journals which come forth fresh from the press month after month.
Finally, with all the advantages within our reach we determine that the Reformer shall be the very best health journal in all the land.
CIRCULATE THE REFORMER.
By James White
We call for subscribers. Let all the friends of the reform take hold of the work of gathering up subscribers for the Reformer. Try it. Bro. J. F. Carman of Potterville, Mich., tried this work only one afternoon, and he obtained seven new subscribers for the Reformer; and Bro. A. H. Robinson of Pulaski, N. Y., sends eleven new subscribers, accompanied with the cash. Try it, friends.
And we earnestly invite every subscriber of the REVIEW AND HERALD to also take the Health Reformer. We shall print two thousand extra copies of the March number of the Reformer, and send it to those of our readers who do not now receive it. We do this with an earnest plea that they will inform themselves on the great questions of how to live, save doctors' bills, get improved health, and also help us in the great work of doing good. J. W.
Religion in Texas.
An Episcopalian clergyman in Texas writes to the Independent, giving a rather dark picture of religious affairs in that State. With the exception of the four cities of Galveston, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio, he says that State may be considered vacant. Not that there are not plenty of preachers and no lack of churches, but the apathy that prevails is fearful. As a member of the M. E. church, South, said: “We went our whole religious strength on the Confederate side, and failed; and our religion failed too.” Society was unsettled by the war, and it is difficult to get the people settled and united in anything. Our friend speaks in strong terms of the deplorable condition of the freed people—ignorant, superstitious, and unstable, without fixed principles of morality, and following preachers as ignorant as themselves. Almost every tenth man is a preacher; and their performances are indescribably ludicrous, of which some specimens are given, which we do not care to print. Mr. J. C. Campbell, a Baptist elder (colored), of Galveston, is highly spoken of for his fidelity and usefulness, and he “ought to be helped from the North.” “Unless there are active steps taken to educate these people, they will certainly fall into the hands of the Roman Catholics.” It is only for Protestants to continue doing nothing a few years, and it will be seen. The writer says that “freedom has only enlarged the bounds of their vision for signs and wonders, and renders them an easy prey to whatever wind blows next.” We hope time will prove that our friend is too much alarmed by things immediately around him, and that deliverance may arise for Texas from some quarter.—N. Y. Independent.
Pride and the Gospel
Some are proud of what they are, others of what they are not.
As the first step heavenward is humility, so the first step hellward is pride.
Pride counts the gospel foolishness, but the gospel always shows pride to be so.
Pride is a sin that will rise out of the ashes of other sins.
News and Miscellany.
“Can ye not discern the signs of the times?”
BERLIN, Feb. 21.—Official returns received at the War Office here show that during the month of January the French lost 850 pieces of artillery and 350,000 men. Of the latter, Chanzy lost 25,000, Raye 12,000, Faidherbe 11,000, Bourbaki 30,000, the Army of Paris 150,000, and the Army of the East 80,000 who entered Switzerland. The loss of the Germans during the same month was 10,000.
VERSAILLES, Feb. 22, via LONDON, Feb. 23, 5:30 A. M.—The emperor received M. Thiers to-day, and Gen. Chanzy was present at the interview. A peace is considered as concluded, though it has not yet been signed. The Germans will probably enter Paris on Sunday next, but without triumphal ceremony, and they will not remain long in the city.
LONDON, Feb. 23.—A Paris dispatch of the 22d says that nothing is known of the Prussian terms of peace. The Figaro says the terms are conciliatory.
PARIS, Feb. 23.—Information has been received from Versailles that it is determined that a portion of the German army shall march through Paris on their return home. M. Thiers continues vigorously to oppose this, warning the Germans of the responsibility they will incur. A placard was posted on Monday in the students’ quarter, appealing to the inhabitants to make a last struggle should the Prussians enter the city.
PARIS, Feb. 23.—Nothing positive is known as to the condition of peace. A financial journal says it is materially impossible for France to pay an indemnity of eighty milliards of francs, or half that sum. Thiers and Favre are at Versailles to-day. M. Leon, they say, will probably be appointed Prefect of the Seine.
NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—A letter from Neisse, in Prussian Silesia, states that the French prisoners have been compelled, during the cold weather, to sleep in the country under small canvas tents, and it appears that the sufferings caused thereby have been intense. It appears, from the writer’s statement, that over 500 of the unfortunate men were recently frozen to death in a single night.
BERLIN, Feb. 23.—The Prussian Cross Gazette says that Emperor William will return to Berlin as soon as the preliminaries of peace are settled, and Bismarck, Moltke, and Roon, will follow at a later day.
SPIRITUALISM has lost its chief apostle in the defection of Andrew Jackson Davis, who discards the term medium as applied to himself, and claims that all revelations made by him have been made solely by means of clairvoyance.
THE TERMS OF PEACE.
We have only rumors yet of the terms of peace determined upon by the representatives of Germany and France; and as they differ so much, it will be necessary to wait for an official announcement from Versailles or Berlin. The French have probably made up their minds to yield territory, either by ceding it directly to Germany, or allowing Alsace and Lorraine, Nice and Savoy, to be neutralized.—Detroit Post.
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