Earlier text: THE LITTLE HORN OF DANIEL 7The Missionary.
By William Ings
IMPORTANT TO THE MEMBERS OF OUR CALIFORNIA TRACT AND MISSIONARY SOCIETIES.
THE managers of the American Sentinel have been forced by circumstances to begin the publication of the paper weekly instead of monthly as heretofore. During the last few months much has been developed which demands that this valuable journal should appear oftener, and that its influence should be extended. The promoters of the Blair Bills force us, as a people, to take active and decided measures to counteract the influence exerted by them. There are thousands of good, honest men and women that have not had the opportunity of learning the true character of the work now being pushed by the advocates of these bills. The Sentinel is well adapted to educate the people and prepare them for the pending issue. We have been greatly favored of late in obtaining signatures to the remonstrance to the Sunday Rest Bill, as well as to the one against a change in the Constitution. People out side of our faith have showed a commendable spirit in assisting us in our work by willingly attaching their names to the remonstrances. Is this not an indication that God has gone before us, and given us favor with the people? and would it not grieve the Holy Spirit should the work stop, and not follow in this opening providence? The experience that has been gained by the late canvass is too precious to be lost. As we moved out in duty the Lord came very near to his people, and the influence of his Spirit caused many to be glad. But greater blessings await those who will faithfully follow up this work by obtaining subscriptions for the Sentinel. By the late canvass the minds of the people have been aroused to the facts in connection with the movements of the Constitutional Amendment party, and could they have an opportunity, thousands would subscribe for the Sentinel. This would place in their hands such information as they need. Then when the measure shall become more prominent and be submitted to the people, we shall have friends, and as a result many will be found on the Lord's side. Every true follower of Christ should realize the emergency of our time, and be at their post of duty. There is a battle to be fought, and it will require every available soldier to accomplish the work. The cause of God demands active measures, and every man and woman that professes present truth should have their hearts filled with the love of the message and be ready to make an advance movement. There never was a time in the history of our work when activity was required more than now. Every household should be visited, and every person within our Conference should be solicited to subscribe for the Sentinel. If all the workers would move out in duty there could be thousands of subscriptions obtained by the time the second number is ready to be sent out, the first of February. The subscription price is nominal, being only one dollar for forty-eight numbers. Let each director see that a thorough canvass is made in his district. If there is territory out of the reach of the society, perhaps agents can be found who would work for the percentage offered by the managers. Librarians should see that every member subscribes for himself and also for his friends, besides securing a club for the use of the society. Every available worker should be encouraged to push out into the field, and thus going forth, let him be wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove in approaching the people. There may be news dealers and others who favor our work that could be induced to obtain subscriptions, for the percentage offered by the office; if so, they ought to have an opportunity to assist. We should embrace every opening to assist in the work. We have no time to idle away; every moment of time is precious. The image is forming, and the message is closing. Let every heart be lifted to God for his divine aid, and the blessing of God will follow. Send your subscriptions to Anna L. Ingels, Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal., as often as once per week.
WM. INGS,
Vice-President T. and M. Society. Peace with God Through Faith
By Todd
It is only when through faith in Jesus Christ one is justified by the great atonement (Rom. 3: 24, 25; 8: 1), and finds himself at peace with God (Rom. 5: 1), and has received the spirit of adoption (Rom. 8: 15), that the law of God ceases to be a hard master (Gal. 3: 24, 25), and the terrors of Sinai are exchanged for the glories of the gospel.—Todd. I SPENT a few days with the Petaluma church, and was with them at their quarterly meeting. Unity and love prevails. The week of prayer has proved a blessing to this company. Two members were added to the church by baptism. This company are of good courage, and have taken hold of the missionary work with a will. They see the necessity of action, and will enter upon a canvass for the Sentinel, covering the same ground as they did with the petition against the Blair Bill. We hope that the same spirit will extend throughout the district, until all realize the responsibilities that rest upon them, and become like a well drilled army of workers, ready for every good work. WM. INGS. THE following reports have been received since those last published. There are quite a number of churches which we have not yet heard from. Brother Bahler, writing from this church, says that they had an excellent meeting. Their offerings amounted to $45.35. From this place Brother Banta writes that, notwithstanding the rainy weather and muddy roads, all attended the meetings, which were held in a hall rented for that purpose. All are much encouraged and are advancing spiritually. Brother Horace Pinkney and wife were with them during the week of prayer. The offerings amounted to $23.65. IN 1778 Captain Cook, on a voyage of exploration, discovered a small group of islands between the nineteenth and twenty-second degrees of north latitude. He called them the Sandwich Islands, in honor of Lord Sandwich, one of the principal patrons of this expedition. Cook was killed in the following year by a native chief, for inhumanly abusing his hospitality and murdering several of the natives for committing trivial thefts. A fine monument has been erected to his memory on the island of Hawaii, over the spot where he was killed. The group is always called the Hawaiian Islands by the natives and residents, being so named by the great chief Kamehameha I. Previous to his time each island was ruled by a chief of its own choosing. These Aliis were constantly at war with each other, and, true to their savage instinct, all prisoners were brutally tortured and sometimes eaten. Kamehameha, who was then ruler of the island of Hawaii, conceived the idea of conquering all the other islands and uniting them under one head. After a great deal of hard fighting he succeeded and became ruler. Two white men were with him throughout these troublesome times. To their intelligence and experience he owed his success, both on the battle-field and in the council. By their vigilance his life was preserved several times from the knife of the assassin, and they assisted him in framing just laws for the government of his newly-acquired territory. The name of Kamehameha I. is held in great reverence by all the natives, and his birthday, the 11th of June, is celebrated as a national holiday throughout the kingdom. The crown was successively worn by a line of four lineal descendants. Upon the demise of Kamehameha V., the royal strain having run out, David Kalakaua was elected king. He is a large, corpulent man, of commanding appearance, very dark, and with black, curly hair and side-whiskers. His consort, Queen Kapiolani, is also very stout and dark. She is one year his senior. The king being childless, the next to succeed him is his sister, Princess Lilinokalani, who is married to Governor J. O. Dominis, an Englishman. The next in line of succession after Mrs. Dominis is the twelve-year-old Princess Kaiulani, daughter of the king's deceased younger sister, Princess Likelike, who was married to Archibald Cleghorn, a Scotchman. The royal palace is the finest building on the islands. It is three stories high, with cool verandas on all sides, and surrounded by beautiful grounds covering several acres, where can be seen tropical trees, shrubs, and flowers of every variety. The principal products of these islands are sugar, rice, bananas, cocoanuts, wool, and hides. No country in the world is better adapted to the production of sugar than these islands. Louisiana, our great sugar-producing State, yields an average of little over one ton to the acre, while Hawaii Nei leads with five tons. The cane is produced from cuttings and not from seed as some may suppose. It takes from nine to eighteen months to mature, and requires a great deal of water. When ready for the mill it is cut with a chopping-knife by coolie or Japanese laborers, and requires a great many men, as it is all cut by hand. It is then thrown on to bullock carts or a train of cars and drawn to the mill. Here it passes between two immense iron rollers weighing about four tons each, the juice running into large troughs, whence it passes into the vacuum pan, a large iron boiler heated by steam, and from which, as the name suggests, all air is excluded. It is here boiled till it becomes a thick, black-looking liquid, when it is transferred to the centrifugals. These revolve with terrific speed, separating the sugar from the molasses, the latter passing through a screen to the bottom of the centrifugal, where it is drawn off and barreled. The sugar is yet in a raw state and has to be shipped to the United States, where it is refined. The machinery of a sugar mill is very expensive, $100,000 not being too high an estimate for the cost of a complete mill. The yearly production of sugar is about 100,000 tons, representing an annual revenue of $10,000,000. The plantation of the Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company, controlled by Claus Spreckels, and situated on the island of Maui, is the second largest in the world. The form of government is a limited constitutional monarchy, under three heads—the executive, represented by the king and four cabinet ministers; the legislative, consisting of the house of nobles and representatives. This body frames all the laws of the kingdom and appropriates all monies for Government expenses. In fact, it is a counterpart of our own Congress. Under the third head is the judicial department, consisting of a chief justice and four associate justices. All the cabinet ministers, justices, and heads of departments are white men. Until the revolution of June 30, 1887, the king had power enough to keep at least two Kanakas in the cabinet, but since that time the Hawaiian has about as much to say how his country shall be governed as the American Indian has about that of the United States. This may seem hard at first thought, but it is nevertheless right. The foreigners, by their capital and energy, have acquired and developed all the resources of Hawaii. They represent nine-tenths of all its wealth, and ten-tenths of its intelligence. To have their most cherished schemes for the enlightenment of the country ignored, the revenues which they paid into the treasury for the support and internal improvement of the country frittered away in needless trifles, and corruption pervading every department of the Government, was more than they could stand. The king himself was corrupt, accepting a bribe from a Chinaman of $71,000 in lieu of a license for the sole privilege of selling opium, and which he promised to obtain for that person. The Legislature has since compelled the king to refund this sum to the Chinaman. The purchase of the Kaimiloa is another example of extravagance and corruption. She was purchased by the Government and remodeled and fitted up as a royal yacht and gunboat at an expense, including the purchase price, of $65,000. Last year she was sold at auction for $2,500. These and various other grievances brought on the revolution of June 30, 1887. A league composed of about 1,000 whites, ably supported by the Honolulu Rifles 300 strong, and well armed and equipped, took possession of Honolulu, the seat of government. A new constitution was drawn up, which the king was compelled to sign, thus legalizing the rebellion. The reform party was victorious without striking a blow, since which time it has ably conducted the affairs of the Government. The native Hawaiian has many noble qualities to commend him to us. Warm-hearted, kind, and gentle, and as a rule strictly honest, he will divide his last dime or share his calabash with a stranger. His first salutation to the foreigner is, "Aloha nui ce," meaning, All my love to you. His last act when the tourist stands on the deck of the steamer, about to leave this beautiful spot, is to envelop himself with leis, or wreaths and garlands of beautiful flowers and fragrant herbs. Tears fill his eyes as he looks for the last time on those who, ere, perhaps, another day has passed, will laugh as they recall his simple-heartedness. Of course the Kanaka has his vices, but they can nearly all be laid at the door of the foreigner. His love for liquor, especially gin, is great, and for this most of his earnings are spent. Then again he is very lazy and will lie all day on a grass mat under the shade of a tamarind or mango tree, until perhaps the sting of a scorpion or centipede arouses him from his dreams. In the water he is perfectly at home, swimming and diving in thorough enjoyment of the clear waters of the Pacific, warmed by the tropical sun, through the surf which breaks and foams on the coral reef surrounding the islands. His mate, the wahine, is tall, good-looking, and finely developed. Dressed only in a holoku of calico, greatly resembling the Mother Hubbard garment, barefooted, and wearing a straw hat of her own weaving, she strides through the streets or country roads, careless of everything and everybody. She rides horses astride like a man, smokes cigarettes when young, and a pipe as she grows old, and she is addicted to all the vices of the sterner sex, with a few added. In the water she is as much at home as her brother or husband.61 The islands are of volcanic formation, the decomposed lava forming the soil, which is very rich and productive. On the hills and mountains the native grass grows luxuriantly, furnishing pasturage for numerous herds of cattle, while in the valleys thrive the opia, or mountain apple, the kukui, or candle-nut tree, the guava, cocoanut, banana, tamarind, water lemon, alligator pear, custard apple, papaia, pomegranate, orange, lemon, and numerous other trees, while beautiful palms, ferns, and shrubs, and sweet-smelling flowers, surround the houses. Honolulu, a town of 20,000 people, is the metropolis. It has a fine, open harbor, protected from the ocean by a coral reef, through which a narrow channel leads to the bay. Here all the business of the Government is transacted, and it is the distributing-point for all the other islands. It is situated on the island of Oahu, one of the most rugged of all the group, and most replete with all that appeals to the eye of the sight-seer. Within six miles of Honolulu is the famous Pali, a cliff from 600 to 1,500 feet in height, and on the brink of which the tourist stands, gazing upon the plantations and fertile country hundreds of feet below, and down which he must descend by a zigzag road to reach the northern half of the island. Kamehameha fought a battle here and drove the enemy over this cliff. About 600 perished, and until a few years ago the bleached bones of the victims lay at the foot of the Pali Punchbowl hill. One-half a mile from the city is another sight well worth seeing. It is an extinct volcano, about 400 feet high, the top or crater being concave in form and resembling a huge bowl. Where once the solid rock was melted, boiling and bubbling until it ran over and inundated the surrounding country with a liquid fire, now grows the algeroba, while horses and cattle feed on its succulent grasses. Diamond Head, another extinct volcano, and a prominent headland for mariners, resembles a huge sleeping lion, sculptured by the hand of nature. The beautiful Waikiki beach lying at its base, fringed with the feathery cocoanut palm and a beautiful sandy beach, on which the warm, clear rollers of the Pacific break and tumble, is the country home of the Honolulu business man. Surrounded on all sides by an ocean whose breezes temper the climate, blessed with copious rains which keep the vegetation ever verdant, enriched with a productive soil, removed from a bustling and noisy world, and inhabited by people who always extend the hand of friendship to the stranger, the tourist and the invalid will always look back with unalloyed pleasure to his visit to Hawaii Nei. —Oakland Evening Tribune. WHEN the spirit, worn and weary,
'Neath its daily load of care,
Finds the pathway long and dreary,
And the burden hard to bear,
Tired with hoping, faint with fearing,
Sighs to reach the golden gate,
Then, in accents soft and cheering,
Patience whispers, "Only wait;
For a brighter day is dawning,
Joy awaits us in the morning—
In the beauty of the morning—
Only wait." O sad hearts, whose soundless sorrow
Dares not let a murmur fall,
Only wait and trust the morrow—
God's great love is over all.
Only wait, O wounded spirit,
By the cross of life weighed down;
Thou shalt surely earth inherit—
Bear the cross, and win the crown;
For a brighter day is dawning,
Joy awaits us in the morning—
In the beauty of the morning—
Only wait. THE GOVERNOR OF IOWA ON PROHIBITION.
GOVERNOR LARABEE, of Iowa, recently paid a visit to the Nebraska Legislature and was invited to address the House. This he did, and among other things spoke thus on the subject of prohibition:— I will say in regard to the passage of a prohibitory amendment, that if you once place it upon your statute books you will never want it erased. In Iowa we are decidedly in favor of sustaining this most salutary law. Prohibition for us has been a marked success. Half of our jails are empty, and our criminal business in many of the counties has decreased one-half since the enforcement of this law. The number of convicts in our penitentiaries has decreased rapidly. Poor people are better fed, better clothed, and better provided for than ever before. I assure you that all the reported damage to business as a result of the enforcement of this law is all a mistake. Des Moines has been pointed to as being very much depressed by the enforcement of the prohibition law. I will say that there is but one city in the State which is more prosperous than the city of Des Moines, that one is Sioux City. The natural location of Sioux City of course makes it the most prosperous in our State at present. But we have learned that grass and cattle do just as well now as before we had the prohibition law. People spend their money for those things which do them the most good. I have nothing but good words for the prohibitory law. WIDE open throw the shutters, and
The curtains throw aside;
Let in the sun's bright messengers
In all their golden pride.
What matter if from costly rug
They take the rainbow bloom?
They'll shower gems on it instead,
And glorify the room. Glad are the tidings that they bring
From wood, and field, and hill,
From singing bird and humming-bee,
And the little dancing rill.
Before them many shadows fly;
They banish thoughts of gloom;
Then with a welcome let them in
To glorify the room. With them comes health; upon the weak
They many blessings shed;
Their kisses strengthen tired eyes,
And touch pale cheeks with red;
No place too dear for them to seek,
Its darkness to illumine;
Thank God that we can let them in
To glorify the room! The quinine habit is gaining strength every day. Dizziness, that you hear innumerable people complaining of in these days, can be traced to excess in the use of quinine. The good effects, that it is nearly always certain of, are lost by excessive doses. Too much quinine will also produce congestion of the ear and vibration of the auditory nerve. The growing habit of taking quinine for neuralgia and other like ailments, without consulting a physician, is altogether reprehensible, and may lead to very serious results. Many cases of deafness are produced by overdoses and long-continued use of the drug.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. LIGHT IN THE SICK-ROOM.
By Florence Nightingale
It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick, that second only to their need of fresh air is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room, and it is not only light but direct sunlight they want. You might better carry your patient about after sun, according to the aspect of rooms, if circumstances permit, than let him linger in a room when the sun is off. People think that the effect is on the spirits only. This is by no means the case. Who has not observed the purifying effects of light, and especially of direct sunlight, upon the air of a room? Here is an observation within everybody's experience. Go into a room where the shutters are always closed, and though the room be uninhabited, though the air has never been polluted by the breathing of human beings, you will observe a close, musty smell of corrupt air—of air unpurified by the effect of the sun's rays. The mustiness of dark rooms and corners, indeed, is proverbial. The cheerfulness of a room, the usefulness of light in treating disease, is all-important. It is a curious thing to observe how almost all the patients lie with their faces turned to the light, exactly as plants always make their way towards the light.—Florence Nightingale's Notes of Nursing. Sympathy and Knowledge
By S. S. Times
SYMPATHY is both the forerunner and the follower of knowledge, in the study of any character which is worth being acquainted with. Unless we are in sympathy with such a character, we can never understand it; and only as we understand it can we have fullness of sympathy with it. This is true in the sphere of human friendship; it is true, also, in the highest sphere of spiritual affinity and attainment. Only he who loves God can know anything of God; and the more one knows of God, the more he will love God.—S. S. Times. Oil Rub for Children’s Colds
When a child has taken cold it is a good plan to spend five or ten minutes two or three times a day in rubbing into the whole breast, with a soft, warm hand, about ten drops of common sweet-oil. Dr. Hall thinks if such a course were promptly taken the moment a child is observed not to be as well as usual, nine-tenths of the ailments of children would be averted. It has a powerful influence in helping nature to cure the very worst forms of diseases to which childhood is liable. HOW MUCH OUGHT IT TO BE?
By Editor
DR. LYMAN ABBOTT justifies High License by saying that "the saloon should be made to pay fully for the wrong it does," and this is part of the wrong which he says it does:— "As a deceiver and a liar it swindles the poor and rich; it creates the base and horrible appetite on which it lives; it is a breeder of crime and poverty beyond anything else; it corrupts juries and courts of justice; it fills almshouses and idiot and insane asylums; it makes orphans of children and widows of wives, breaks up homes innumerable, robs men of their mental and spiritual worth; slavery never so robbed the workingman of his wages; Mormonism never so debauched womanhood, and struck so fatal blows at the home; it is a corrupter of the nation at the very source of its power," etc. Now will Dr. Abbott take pencil and paper and figure up for us just how high the license should be for the saloons "to pay fully" in dollars and cents for these wrongs which it inflicts on society? Come, Doctor, try your hand at it.—The Voice (New York). —Russia closed 80,000 dram shops by law last year. —White Caps are still committing outrages in Indiana. —Mrs. Jay Gould died at her residence in New York on the 13th inst. —The Danube is frozen over solidly for a distance of eighteen miles below Vienna. —Three girls were burned to death in a New York cigar box factory on the 15th inst. —There are but two Russian-Greek churches in America, one in San Francisco and one in Sitka. —January 19 Dewitt C. Davis, a respectable citizen of Sparker, N. Y., was horsewhipped by White Caps. —On the 18th inst. riotous strikers set fire to one factory and seriously damaged others at Orgony, France. —Thirteen White Caps who had whipped a man in North Salem, N. H., were fined $15 each on the 16th inst. —January 16 Anthony Higgins, Republican, was elected to the United States Senate by the Delaware Legislature. —It is feared that a revolution is imminent on the Isthmus of Panama. Should work cease on the canal 10,000 men will be thrown out of employment, and trouble will be almost sure to follow. —The yield of gold in Queensland, Australia, for 1888, was 426,000 ounces, an increase of 27,000 ounces over the yield of 1887. —The steamer Phyapeket was sunk by a collision near Singapore, India, on the 15th inst., and forty-two persons were drowned. —An explosion of fire-damp occurred on the 18th inst. in the Hyde Colliery, near Manchester, England. Thirty persons were killed. —Heavy snow-storms are reported in Eastern Europe. The railways in Galicia and Roumania were blocked by snow-drifts. —A letter has been received from Henry M. Stanley, and his safety up to last August, the time the letter was written, is assured. —Last year our imports from Japan, including raw silk, teas, fans, handkerchiefs, bamboo, and the like, amounted to nearly $16,000,000. —It is thought that Congress will make an appropriation for the establishment of a relief station at Point Barrow, in the Arctic Ocean. —The Anarchists in attendance at the peace congress held in Milan recently, decided to foment a revolution in Europe in the event of war. —Doctor Kruss, a chemist, has succeeded in decomposing cobalt and nickel. Both have hitherto been supposed to be elementary substances. —One man was fatally shot and one child and a woman were trampled to death in a row between circus men and citizens at Live Oak, Fla., on the 19th inst. —It is said that a mountain of iron ore has been discovered in Lower California, about forty miles below Ensenada, and not over half a mile from the ocean beach. —Admiral Kimberly, with the frigate Trenton, has been ordered to Samoa to protect American interests there, and to resent any violation of treaty rights by the Germans. —It is stated that ripe tomatoes, green corn, and new potatoes were on exhibition in San Jose this State, since New Year's day, all grown in the open air in that vicinity. —The bill appropriating $800,000 for the purchase of a post-office site in San Francisco passed the Senate on the 16th inst. It had previously been approved by the House. —According to Bradstreet's, the visible supply of wheat December 29, 1888, was 38,301,447 bushels, against 44,421,130 bushels a year ago, and 62,729,869 bushels two years ago. —The New White Star steamer, Teutonic, which was launched at Belfast on the 19th inst., is the largest vessel afloat. She is 582 feet in length and is of nearly 10,000 tons burden. —The Royal College of Surgeons in London, by a vote of 21 to 2, has adopted a resolution censuring Dr. Morell Mackenzie for publishing his book on the case of the late Emperor Frederick, of Germany. —Alexander T. McGill, D. D., LL.D., Professor of Ecclesiastical Homiletics and Pastoral Theology at the Princeton Theological Seminary, died at Princeton, N. J., on the morning of the 13th inst., aged ninety-two years. —Lieutenant Zalinski's dynamite gun was successfully tested at New York on the 18th inst. A shell containing 180 pounds of the explosive was thrown 1,400 yards and exploded with a force that no vessel afloat could have withstood. —Assistant Sergeant-at-arms Isaac Bassett, of the Senate, is the oldest employe in the service of our Government. Fifty-eight years ago he was appointed a page in the United States Senate through the influence of Daniel Webster. —A report from the Secret Service division of the treasury shows that during the past year there have been 407 arrests for counterfeiting. About one-half of the persons arrested were Americans; of the remainder nearly one-half were Italians. —The general offices of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Road at St. Paul, Minn., were partially destroyed by fire on the 18th inst. Several clerks jumped from the second story and were quite severely injured. Loss, about $40,000. —Owing to the negligence of a flagman a passenger train running at the rate of fifty miles per hour ran into a freight train at Tallmadge, Ohio, on the 14th inst., wrecking both trains and killing ten persons. Fourteen passengers were seriously injured. —A recent dispatch from Philadelphia says that all hope for the safety of the Austrian ship Lord Warden, now out 108 days on route from Montevideo to Philadelphia, has been given up, and there is no longer any doubt that she has gone to the bottom. Her crew consisted of eighteen men. —A society has been organized in Boston called the "Massachusetts Society for Promoting Good Citizenship." It proposes a course of lectures this winter. Edward Everett Hale, the President of the society, will begin with an address on "Possible Boston." —The largest mortgage ever placed on record in this country was that of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company, made to the Central Mortgage Company of New York, and placed upon record on the 16th inst. It is for $30,000,000, and is on the property of the road. —Arabs have destroyed the German missionary station at Tugu, fifteen miles west of Dar-es-Salem. A majority of the slaves were captured by the German man-of-war Leipsic and lodged at the station. One missionary escaped and eight were massacred. Three bodies, one of a woman, were found mutilated barbarously. —It is asserted that robust young men and boys are employed by labor agencies and sent aboard oyster vessels on Chesapeake Bay, and there held and compelled to labor as slaves. Some who have escaped report that all the boys sent to the oyster sloops are treated like slaves, beaten horribly, and given vile food. —Two serious railroad accidents took place on the 19th inst., one at Elmwood Station, Michigan, and the other at Twenty-ninth Street, Chicago. In the former accident some three men were killed, one of them being the Lieutenant Governor of the State; in the latter one man was fatally injured and two others seriously. —Great excitement was occasioned on the 19th inst. at Midlothian, Texas, by the sinking, at that place, of a strip of territory some 200 yards long, over which runs the Fort Worth and New Orleans Railway. Forty car loads of gravel failed to raise the grade and trains could not cross the sunken territory. The cause of the phenomenon is a mystery. —The population of the United States in 1790 amounted to 3,929,214, and the cost of the census was $44,377. This represents a cost per capita of 1.12 cents. In 1880 the population amounted to 50,155,783, and the cost of the census was $5,862,750, showing a cost per capita of 11.68 cents, or more than ten times the cost per capita of the census of 1790. —A Chicago judge has decided that the police of that city have no right to forbid Anarchist meetings. The judge said: "Members of the society may seek to disseminate views or principles which in the opinion of the great majority of our citizens are opposed to the public welfare, but they have the right to publicly meet and discuss them in a quiet and peaceable manner and make converts to their views if they are able to do so." —Concerning the end of the Burlington strike the Chicago Journal says: "It will be a great relief to the treasury of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, which has been literally drained to support the strikers in idleness. The fact that the strikers have gained nothing, but have lost a year's wages, and that the brotherhood has been heavily taxed meantime for their benefit, should serve as a lesson against embarking hastily or obstinately in strikes. As a rule, with very few exceptions, strikes are a losing game." Obituary.
By B. H. Bodwell
SWADEN.—Died Sabbath evening, September 28, 1888, in the city of Dallas, Texas, of a complication of diseases, Brother A. Swaden, aged sixty-four years. He was born in Sweden, and some twenty-seven years ago settled in Dallas. For several years he was a consistent and valued member of the Lamar Street Methodist Church. In the winter of 1875-76 Elder Cornell brought the present truth to this place, and Brother Swaden was among the first to receive it. A church was organized soon afterward, and Brother Swaden's name was second on the list. All through the years of trial without and within, he has stood firm and unshaken, always ready to aid, either by means or with humble labor, to advance the cause. His house was ever open to the brethren. He served faithfully as elder of the church some two or three years. His final sickness lasted about four weeks. He bore his sufferings with meekness and patience. He leaves a companion and one son, who are bowed under the deep affliction. May they and we so obey that we may meet our dear brother in the first resurrection. A large concourse of friends attended the funeral; and in the absence of any of our ministers, by request of the family, the writer conducted the services, reading from Job 14; 1 Cor. 15, etc., as a foundation for his remarks. One brother sleeps by the side of his son who died some five years ago. B. H. BODWELL. —The United States has 10,000 Woman's Christian Temperance Unions, comprising a membership of 150,000. —In Scotland there are 750,000 people who have no church connection of any kind, and a Glasgow clergyman says that the want of sociability among the members is one of the chief causes that keep people away from church. —The Gustavus Adolphus Society, of Germany, which aims specially to establish Protestant churches in Roman Catholic countries, has erected 1,398 churches and 701 school buildings during the last fifty-six years. It reports immediate need of 314 more church buildings. —The seventy-second report of the American Bible Society shows that the cash disbursements for the year 1888 were $506,453.46, for general purposes. The cash receipts for general purposes were $557,340.18. In addition to this $4,971.28 was received for permanent investment. —A conference was recently held in Chicago to consider the question of how to secure enough ministers and those who were good enough. The conference was composed of home missionary superintendents, college presidents, and prominent ministers of the Congregational Church. —According to the report of the Utah Commission, during the past year different denominations have had in operation in that Territory 90 schools, attended by 7,442 pupils. Of this number the Presbyterian Church conducted 33 schools, the Congregational 22, the Methodist 20, the Catholic 7, Episcopalians 5, Baptist 2, Swedish 1. —The Synod of Missouri, belonging to the Southern Presbyterian Church, at its late meeting declared that in its opinion the action of the Southern General Assembly at Baltimore declining further negotiations touching the union of the Church North and South was not "for the best interests of Presbyterian Christianity in Missouri and in the country at large." —It is stated that Pandita Ramabai, the Hindoo woman who came to the United States two years ago to raise money to build a college for the education of Indian women, has returned to her home with upward of $80,000. She was accompanied by Dr. Emma B. R. Ryder, who will have charge of the women's hospital connected with the college, and will lecture in the regular college course. —The three Roman Catholic cardinals in England are all over eighty years of age. Cardinal Newman is the famous Dr. Newman, who left the Anglican Church more than forty years ago to become a priest of Rome. Dr. Manning, of Westminster, is also a convert from the Established Church of England, and is a great power in the Papal councils. Cardinal Howard is also an Englishman, but by birth a member of the Romish Church. He is a member of the powerful English family of which the Duke of Norfolk is the head. THE WEEKLY SENTINEL.
By Editor
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