p. 360 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 45. (11/27/1879)

The Two Cups.

At a recent communion service, before passing the cup, over which thanks had been given, the pastor said, "There is a cup of which we read in the Scriptures, concerning which it is said, 'Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it moveth itself aright, when it giveth its color in the cup. At the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder!' That cup through a terr'ble mistake has frequently found its way to the Lord's table! The cup which we now pass to you, my brethren, contains no alcohol, no serpent, no adder. This liquid which you now put to your lips is the unfermented juice of the grape, similar to that which our Saviour used when he instituted this sacred ordinance, and which he called, as if to avoid mistake, 'the fruit of the vine.' The other cup we would not dare to offer you. It contains alcohol, poison, death; and is no fit symbol of the Saviour's blood, which has life in it; nor did our Lord intend that such wine should be supped by his followers at his table or any where else. Some of you have been reclaimed from intemperate habits. You need not fear as you put this cup to your lips. It is the cup of blessing! In it there is no alcohol to set your veins on fire, and awaken the appetite which divine grace has conquered."—National Baptist.

Office Work.

By Editor

The office of the Pacific Press is well supplied with work, and our presses are obliged to run day and night. The people of this coast have found that in no place can they get work done in a better style, and their patronage shows that they appreciate that fact. Every department is kept busy.

We are happy to announce that Bro. Glenn, who was sometime absent from the Office, has returned, and is laboring with renewed courage.

Characteristic.

THE news from Belgium, for some time past, has appeared to be somewhat surprising. The Roman bishops persistently opposed the school law, and the life of the king was threatened, if he did not yield to their demands. On the other hand the authorities were assured that the Pope did not approve of the course pursued by the bishops. But why, then, did they persist in their course? The latest reports say that it has been ascertained that the papal nuncio has been sustaining the bishops in their course, at the same time that he was assuring the king that their course was not approved. Such a work of duplicity would bring any other power but the papal power into contempt; but it will not have that effect in this case, because the world has become so well acquainted with the tactics of the Jesuits that duplicity is expected.

Tyndall on Evolution

By Prof. Tyndall

I SHARE Verchow’s opinion that the theory of evolution, in its complete form, involves the assumption that, at some period or other of the earth’s history, there occurred what would be now called spontaneous generation. I agree with him that the proofs of it are still wanting. I hold with Verchow that the failures have been lamentable; that the doctrine is utterly discredited.—Prof. Tyndall, in the Fortnightly Review.

A Good Government.

By Editor

IN Madagascar, the government adopted a system of compulsory education, requiring the attendance at school of every native child above the age of seven years. The following Proclamation by the Queen has since been received. It cannot fail to be read with interest, coming from an island that only a few years since was in a state of barbarism:—

I, Queen Ranavalona, by the grace of God and the will of the people Queen of Madagascar, and defender of the laws of my country, etc., thus I say to you of Iboina: I am glad because the gospel of Jesus Christ has come to my country and my kingdom, to make wise my people in the knowledge of the true God. But it is not those here in Imerina only who receive it, for it has reached yourselves in Iboina also, and on that account I thank God especially. And now I send you the numbers of the scholars in each of your towns. I have had them printed that they may all be seen by you, lest you should imagine that I do not see or hear; for I do see and hear, because my subjects are every one eyes and ears to me. And when I examine the numbers of these your children at school, I observed that they are only as yet very few, and not in proportion to the largeness of your Iboina population. Therefore send your children to get knowledge, for the good of it will be a good to you and themselves—a means of keeping account of your cattle and your money and all your property, and also a means of advancement; for I am a Sovereign who rewards the deserving with good. And you fathers and mothers also be diligent, for it makes glad to see my subjects wise. It is a thing which will benefit you that I command to be done, for if it were something that would injure you I would not do so; but I know that it will cause you to prosper, and for that reason I insist upon all of you learning. And so be all of you diligent, for although you do not now know the sweetness of knowledge and wisdom, you will discover it when they become yours,

Saith Queen Ranavalona, Queen of Madagascar.

Business Department.

By Editor

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A Sad Complaint.

THE Indians are treated as savages having "no rights which white men are bound to respect." Not seldom do we receive evidence that many of the chiefs are sensible, politic men, having the welfare of their people in view, and feeling keenly the injustice which they suffer at the hands of the whites. Chief William, of British Columbia, says, "We are not stones." But the hearts of his oppressors must be stones if they are not touched by the following message which he had translated and sent to the authorities. How much bloodshedding, how many atrocities might have been prevented if the white men had shown some regard for truth and justice in their dealings with the Indians.

"I am an Indian Chief, and my people are threatened by starvation. The white men have taken all the land and all the fish. A vast country was ours. It is all gone. The noise of the threshing machine and the wagon has frightened the deer and the beaver. We have nothing to eat. We cannot live on the air and we must die. My people are sick. My young men are angry. All the Indians from Canoe Creek to the headwaters of the Frazer, say William is an old woman; he sleeps and starves in silence. I am old and feeble, and my authority diminishes every day. I am sorely puzzled. I do not know what to say next week when the Chiefs are assembled in council. A war with the white man will end in our destruction, but death in war is not so bad as death by starvation. The land on which my people lived for 500 years was taken by a white man. He has piles of wealth and herds of cattle; we have nothing—not an acre.

Another white man has enclosed the graves in which the ashes of our fathers rest and we may live to see their bones turned over by his plough. Any white man can take 320 acres of our land, and the Indian dare not touch an acre. Her Majesty sent me a coat, two ploughs, and some turnips. The coat will not keep the hunger, the ploughs are idle, and the seed is useless, because we have no land. All my people are willing to work, because they know they must work like the white men or die. They work for the white men. Mr. Bates was a good friend. He would not have a white man if he could get an Indian. My young men can plough and mow and cut corn with a cradle. Now, what I want to say is this: There will be trouble, sure. The whites have taken all the salmon and all the land, and my people will not starve in peace. Good friends to the Indian say that Her Majesty loves her Indian subjects and will do justice. Justice is of no use to a dead Indian. They say: 'Mr. Sproat is coming to give you land.' We hear he is a very good man, but he has no horse. He was at Hope last June, and he has not yet arrived here. Her Majesty ought to give him a horse, and let justice come fast to the starving Indians. Land, land, a little of our own land—that is all we ask from Her Majesty. If we had the deer and the salmon, we could live by hunting and fishing. We have nothing now, and here comes the cold and the snow. Maybe the white man thinks we can live on snow. We can make fires to make people warm. That is what we can do. Wood will burn. We are not stones."

WILLIAM, Chief of William's Lake Indians.