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Signs of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 3.

Editorial
Earlier text: STRENGTH IN SOLITUDE

A PICTURE.

By Jennie Van Allen

BY JENNIE VAN ALLEN.
I WASN'T out slumming, although it was an ideal district for such a mission. Alas, I had no such laudable object in view, as I walked a couple of blocks through one of the most loathsome haunts in Chicago! The narrow street was quite deserted.
I was hurrying along with an armful of lilacs when suddenly appeared the most degraded creature who ever bore the stamp of woman. She was young in years, yet age clung about her hideously, for the worst human passions were imprinted upon her bloated, repulsive face. Her finery hung in foul rags around her lean, misshaped body. When she saw the great fragrant purple plumes, her whole expression changed; she stretched out her shriveled hands and came rapidly towards me, with her bloodshot eyes fastened hungrily upon the flowers. Another moment and she remembered; her arms dropped; her countenance grew hard and sullen. "Don't you want a few lilacs?" I asked just as she passed me. Her face ceased to be frightful; it grew almost womanly; then she said huskily, "Oh, ma'am, I ain't fit to touch 'em!" She trembled violently as I gave her the flowers, and the harsh voice was tremulous. "You won't believe me, but I used to be good; I'd forgotten all about it, but the lilacs make me think of the old times. I'm going to try again," pressing the flowers to her shrunken lips. "Oh, yes, misses, I'll try agin for the sake of the flowers!" Amen! God help all the women who are going to try again.—Womankind.

A SMALL BEGINNING.

FIFTY years ago seven shoemakers in a shop in the city of Hamburg said, "By the grace of God we will help to send the gospel to our destitute fellow-men." In twenty-five years they had established fifty self-supporting churches, had gathered out 10,000 converts, had distributed 400,000 Bibles and 80,000 tracts, and had carried the gospel to 50,000,000 of the race. It would take only 160 such men to carry the gospel to the whole world in twenty years.—Christian Standard.

THE ATONEMENT.

The author, in a book of 368 pages, takes up this great central doctrine of the gospel, and treats it in two parts. Part first,

An Atonement Consistent with Reason.

In this he shows that the doctrine of an atonement through the medium of a voluntary substitute is consistent with reason. Part second,

The Atonement as Revealed in the Bible.

In this is discussed the plan of redemption through Christ, by which every sinner who accepts Christ will be justified; sin will be turned back upon the head of its originator; the earth will be cleansed from the curse; God's righteous government will be restored over the entire universe; and all who will not become loyal subjects of that government will be destroyed.
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LABOR A DELIGHT.

By The Christian

"WHERE love is there is no labor, for love makes labor a delight." Labor for a loved object is not counted irksome. Jacob toiled patiently when Rachel was the prize to be won; and the mother counts it no hardship to toil for the babes she has borne. It is a privilege from which she would not be debarred.
The things which people love to do are usually the things they know how to do, and which bring to them satisfaction and reward when done. Persons are disgusted and disheartened with work which they are unable to perform skillfully and properly. They despise their own botchings and bunglings. A good cook exhibits taste and skill in the preparation of food; a poor cook spoils food and hates cooking. Those who have skill delight to exercise it. A man possessed of mighty muscles rejoices in his strength, grows weary of his idleness, and longs for vigorous exercise. Hence thorough training in any useful employment is a good preventive of discontent and an excellent preparation for delightful service.
There are things which money would not hire us to do for a stranger, but which we do most joyfully for the love we bear those who are dear to us, or to the Lord, who hath loved us and given himself for us. The great spring of Christian labor is Christian love. The "work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope," are the characteristics of those in whom God has wrought by his grace, working in them to will and to do his good pleasure. If we first love much, it will then be easy to labor much; we shall count ourselves debtors to Jews and Greeks, to wise and unwise, to barbarians, Scythians, bond and free; and so much as lieth in us we shall be ready to preach the gospel wherever the Lord may call us to labor, counting not our lives dear unto ourselves that we might finish our course with joy.—The Christian.

FIELD NOTES.

Brethren G. F. Watson and H. J. Schneppe report six accessions to the faith at Randolph, Iowa.
Mrs. Ruie Hill, 633 Troup Avenue, Kansas City, Kan., requests that clean, late copies of the Signs, Review, and Sentinel be sent to her address, postpaid, for use in missionary work.
In the Iowa Conference six companies have been brought out by tent labor the present season, which will probably be enrolled as organized churches before the next meeting of Conference.
Elder O. A. Olsen, president of the General Conference, is on a tour of the Pacific Coast Conferences. He arrived in Oakland from Walla Walla on the 14th inst., accompanied by Elder Dan. T. Jones.
Elder G. C. Tenney, editor of the Bible Echo, Melbourne, Australia, is now en route to America on a year's leave of absence. He comes by way of South Africa and England, and will attend the General Conference to be held at Battle Creek, Mich., in February next.
Elder F. J. Hutchins, missionary to the Bay Islands, Central America, reports encouragingly to the Review. At Bonacca a Sabbath school of twenty-six members was organized, nine were baptized, and four signed the covenant. He also reports the baptism of eight persons at a general meeting of all the believers in Ruatan.
Elder G. T. Wilson and wife, en route to New Zealand, arrived at Honolulu, Hawaii, Sabbath, October 22, and were met on board the steamer by Brother Burgess. They were just in time to attend the meeting of the little company there, and Elder Wilson spoke to them on the present development of the gospel. The travelers were enjoying their voyage, having had a pleasant trip thus far.
The College View Enterprise says: "The Mothers' Society of Seventh-day Adventists in Battle Creek, Mich., has been in existence for more than twenty years, and many families have been practically cared for under its auspices. During this time it has not been selfishly shut up to help members of its own denomination. Wherever there has been suffering or want, loving hands and sympathizing hearts have been ready to relieve, encourage, and bless, not only with food and clothing, but with kind counsel and prayers, as thousands could testify to-day."
The Pacific Press Publishing Company has reason for self-congratulation in the fact that its whilom employes find important places in other fields. Two of them are ministers, one on the Conference Committee, and one Conference treasurer of Atlantic Conference. In Tennessee they furnish two ministers, two Bible workers, and one prisoner "for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ." In Great Britain and Australia they hold ministerial and other positions, as also among the general laborers in the wide field. Pray for us, brethren, that those who remain here may have a deeper sense of the length and breadth and height and depth, not only of the love and mercy of God, but of the great work in hand for the last days.
Owing to a two weeks' drill by Brother E. M. Morrison, the canvassers in French Switzerland have been greatly encouraged, and are able to do far more efficient work. In every army, drill seems to be an essential prerequisite to efficiency, and it is especially true where one attempts to use the weapons of Christian warfare. The "sword of the Spirit," which is the word of God, is a very sharp instrument, and, unless handled with faith and skill, is apt to do more harm than good.
The Inquisition in Henry County, Tennessee, is still at work. Fourteen more Seventh-day Adventists have been indicted for performing farm labor on Sunday. As indictment in that benighted region means conviction, these brethren will probably be sent to prison about February 1, as we understand that will be the time of trial, and they are making their calculations accordingly. They are trusted to go on each other's bonds for their appearance. There are two reasons for this confidence: 1. They are known to be strictly honest. 2. The authorities would rather have them leave the State than to try them. Forcing them to leave is really the aim of their opponents.

Our Work and Workers.

"Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters." "They that sow in tears shall reap in joy."

SECLUDED PATHS.

RESTLESS and unsatisfied, "Of what use is life?" I cried; "All my wishes are denied. All my duties trivial seem; I have energies I deem. What I could be oft I dream, Yet I cannot see my way From this spot whereon I stay, So hope fadeth day by day."
Then a voice was at my side: "Let my conduct be thy guide." 'Twas his voice, the Crucified. "Law and prophets to fulfill Was my life devoted still, For I came to do His will; What that will? The Scriptures saith, Thirty years of Nazareth, Three years' public work, then death.
"Thirty years, unknown, I trod Galilee's sequestered sod. But my life was known to God; Daily work at Joseph's call; Daily life 'mid duties small. Yet I was the Lord of all. Daughter, if thy life be true, Thou a blessed work shall do, Though unseen to mortal view.
"I shall know it; I shall see When, with willing heart and free, Thou obedient art to me. All thy quiet life I know, For I planned it long ago. Wouldst thou that it were not so? I have given all for thee; Live thy quiet life for me, So it shall transfigured be."
Now on these sweet words I rest, And have ceased my anxious quest, For the Master knoweth best. —Selected.

CHRIST IN THE GOSPELS,

By James P. Cadman

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The Life of our Lord in the Words of the Evangelists,

BY JAMES P. CADMAN, A. M.
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THE LIFE OF CHRIST

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International S. S. Lessons.

"So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading." —Neh. 8:8

LESSON X.—DECEMBER 4, 1892.

WORK AMONG THE GENTILES.

[NOTE.—The questions which follow are merely suggestive for the student on the leading points of the lesson; it is presumed that the thorough student will think of many more as he studies the subject. References, where verses alone are given, always refer to the lesson scripture printed above. All other references are given in book, chapter, and verse. The text printed is that of the Revised Version, not because it is especially preferred, but because it is not found in every family, as is the common version.]

Lesson Scripture.—Acts 14: 8-22.

  1. And at Lystra there sat a certain man, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked.
  2. The same heard Paul speaking; who, fastening his eyes upon him, and seeing that he had faith to be made whole, said with a loud voice,
  3. Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped up and walked.
  4. And when the multitudes saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.
  5. And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercury, because he was the chief speaker.
  6. And the priest of Jupiter whose temple was before the city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the multitudes.
  7. But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they rent their garments, and sprang forth among the multitude,
  8. Crying out and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good tidings, that ye should turn from these vain things unto the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that in them is;
  9. Who in the generations gone by suffered all the nations to walk in their own ways.
  10. And yet he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave you from heaven rains and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.
  11. And with these sayings scarce restrained they the multitudes from doing sacrifice unto them.
  12. But there came Jews thither from Antioch and Iconium; and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
  13. But as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up and entered into the city; and on the morrow he went forth with Barnabas to Derbe.
  14. And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, and to Iconium, and to Antioch,
  15. Confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.
(MEMORY VERSES, 8-10.) Golden Text.—"In His name shall the Gentiles hope." Matt. 12:21.

SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.

  1. Trace the route of the missionary journey of Paul and Barnabas from Antioch in Syria to Antioch in Pisidia. Note 1.
  2. What did they do in Antioch?
  3. Where did they go next?
But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium. Acts 13:51. 4. When driven from there, where did they go? And when there was made an onset both of the Gentiles and of the Jews with their rulers, to entreat them shamefully, and to stone them, they became aware of it, and fled unto the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the region round about; and there they preached the gospel. Acts 14: 5-7.
  1. What afflicted man was in the congregation at Lystra? Verse 8. Note 2.
  2. What did Paul perceive in this man? Verse 9.
  3. What followed? Verse 10. Note 3.
  4. What did this cause the people to think? Verses 11, 12. Note 4.
  5. What did they proceed to do? Verse 13. Note 5.
  6. When the apostles learned what the people were about to do, what did they do and say? Verses 14, 15. Note 6.
  7. What evidence of himself has God always given to man, as a witness against their idolatry? Verses 16, 17.
  8. What may be learned of God from his works? Rom. 1: 19, 20.
  9. Where is the foolishness of worshiping idols most strikingly illustrated? Isa. 44: 9-20.
  10. As we meditate upon God's wonderful works, of what else are we reminded? Ps. 111: 3, 4.
  11. What effect did the apostles' words have on the excited crowd at Lystra? Acts 14: 18.
  12. What was more effective in causing a revulsion of feeling, and what was the result? Verse 19.
  1. What wonderful miracle followed? Verse 20.
  2. When the apostles returned to these cities where they had been persecuted, what did they do? Verses 21, 22. Note 7.
  3. What are the only references that Paul ever made to this fierce persecution?
Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep. 2 Cor. 11: 25. But thou didst follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, patience, persecutions, sufferings; what things befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured; and out of them all the Lord delivered me. Yea, and all that would live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. 2 Tim. 3: 10-12.

NOTES ON THE LESSON.

1. From Antioch to Antioch.—Paul and Barnabas started out from Antioch in Syria, being called by the Holy Spirit, taking with them John Mark. Acts 13: 1-3. The port from which they sailed was Seleucia, from which they went to the island of Cyprus. At Salamis, a populous mercantile port in the western part of the island, Paul preached in the synagogue. Acts 13: 4, 5. They went through the island to its western city and capital, Paphos, where Elymas, the sorcerer, was struck blind, and Sergius Paulus, the Roman proconsul, converted. Sailing from thence, northwesterly, they crossed to the mainland at Perga, the ancient port of Pamphylia. Here John Mark left them and returned home. From Perga they went to Antioch in Pisidia, "a central resting place, just over 'the pass,' where the great road from Ephesus into Asia intersected the southern road." This was a Roman city. Paul preached here, the first Sabbath to the Jews, the second to the Gentiles by request. Acts 13: 14-49.
2. Impotent in his feet.—The Greek word rendered "impotent" means, and is almost always rendered, "impossible." See Matt. 19:26. His feet had no power; it was utterly impossible for them to perform their office, even as it is impossible for the sinner to do good of himself. The case of the cripple well illustrates the impotency of sinful man, and it requires God's power to enable the sinner to do good, as much as it required his power to make the impotent man walk. Heard Paul.—"Was hearing Paul," says Vincent.
3. And he leaped up and walked.—He not only by the single act leaped up, but he continued to use his feet, he walked. Faith laid hold upon God, and placed God's life within him. "There is life in a look." "According to thy faith be it unto you."
4. Speech of Lycaonia.—Vincent suggests that their native speech was not understood by the apostles, and therefore they did not interfere with what the people were doing, till they saw the preparations made for sacrifice. They did not understand what the people said about their divine character. Or perhaps the people talked this among themselves. It was natural for them to express their wonder in their native tongue. In the likeness of men.—The pagans believed that the gods assumed the forms of men. Homer in the "Odyssey" says:— The gods Put on the form of strangers from afar, And walk our towns in many different shapes, To mark the good and evil deeds of men. Called Barnabas Jupiter and Paul Mercury.—The Greek name of Jupiter was Zeus, and of Mercury was Hermes. See margin of Revised Version. Jupiter and Mercury are Roman names. Jupiter was the supreme god, "the father of men and gods," applied to Barnabas, because, perhaps, of a more dignified, imposing appearance than Paul. Paul was called Mercury because he was chief speaker or leader in discourse. Mercury was the herald or messenger of the gods, and of Jupiter in particular. They are sometimes represented as coming together to earth. Mercury was the god of eloquence and speech, the patron of orators, and of all dishonest persons, thieves, travelers, and highways.
5. Of Jupiter.—The tutelary deity of the city seemed to be Jupiter, or a Jupiter. The gates.—The temple or city gates probably. The language is uncertain.
6. We are men of like passions with you.—Never once do we find the apostles exalting themselves, or permitting others to do it unrebuked. We are men of like nature as ye. We bear a mighty message of Divinity, but we are only messengers. Says John the Baptist: "Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him." And yet John was positive concerning his message. So were the apostles. They were nothing, but God's message could not be compromised, and it was also the message of life to the lost. The living God, who made heaven and the earth, etc.—It is by this truth, that of God's creative power, that Inspiration always distinguishes between the true God and all false gods. See Jer. 10: 10-12; Ps. 96: 5. God, the living God, has created all things. He has made these wonderful works of his wisdom, power, and love to be remembered. Ps. 111: 3, 4. This memorial, with his name Jehovah (the great I AM) endures forever. Ps. 135: 13. The memorial of his power, this distinguishing mark of his Deity, is the seventh-day Sabbath. Ex. 20: 8-11.
7. They returned to Lystra, and to Iconium, and to Antioch.—It was not because of fear that the apostles fled from one city to another when they were persecuted, as is shown by the fact that they returned over the same road. After Paul was stoned, he went back into the city, and when they had finished their missionary tour, they went back over every city that they had visited. They fled because they were driven away, and could not at that time do anything more in those places. The slight reference, also, that is made to the stoning of Paul contains a wonderful lesson, more expressive than anything else could be. What a rebuke for those of us who are inclined to make a great ado over even a little slight or reproach that comes to us in the line of our work! It can be explained only by remembering that Paul had in him the mind of Christ (see Phil. 2: 5-7; John 4: 34; 2 Cor. 8: 9; Heb. 12: 1, 2), and esteemed all these things as light afflictions (2 Cor. 4: 16-18.)

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THIRTY-SEVEN CHAPTERS.

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THE CLAIMS OF PHILOSOPHY,

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SECULAR.

—A sharp earthquake shock was felt in this city on the morning of the 12th inst. No damage reported.
—A strike among the cotton operatives at Manchester, England, has thrown 4,000 workers out of employment.
—Two members of the city council of Toledo, Ohio, have been convicted and two have pleaded guilty on charges of soliciting bribes for official favors.
—Two brothers named Leimer, one in Danbury, Conn., and one in Newark, N. J., dropped dead with heart disease about the same hour on the evening of the 3d inst.
—Baltimore is to have a system of free public night schools, intended solely to educate foreigners in English, and thus to pave the way for their rapid amalgamation.
—Germany's great internal trouble just now is the pending new army bill, with its increased burden of taxes. Belgium's trouble is a clamor for universal suffrage. Portugal is threatened with revolution. France's victory in Dahomey leaves an elephant on her hands, with the probability of trouble with Germany and England. There is also much unrest in Hungary, while Italy is about bankrupt.
—Thirty Belgian glass blowers en route to Pittsburg, Pa., under contract to take the places of striking workmen, were intercepted at New York, last week, and returned to their place of embarkation.
—Advices from Chile indicate that another war is imminent between that government and her old antagonist, Peru. If it should come to blows, however, Argentine will become an ally of Peru.
—The county almshouse, near Franklin, Pa., was burned on the 10th inst. The invalid inmates were rescued with difficulty, and suffered much from exposure to the cold, as the ground was covered with snow.
—There are 24 Chinamen at the county jail under sentence of deportation for trying to evade the Chinese Exclusion Act. They will soon be taken to San Francisco and placed on board the steamer for China.
—Governor Thomas, of Utah Territory, thinks that between the Mormons and anti-Mormons there is not that sympathy and harmony which are essential to the prosperity of a people under conditions of Statehood.
—The harvest in Southern Bessaralia, a Russian province bordering the Black Sea, has proved a complete failure. The inhabitants are without grain and the cattle are without fodder. Much suffering is certain to result.
—A cyclone 100 yards wide and 1 mile long swept over an island 7 miles from Galveston, Texas, on the 6th inst., leveling everything before it. A number of houses were demolished. One person was killed and 18 injured.
—The ex-chief, Geronimo, who, with other subjugated Apache Indians, is living near Mobile, Alabama, has been made a gardener at the military station where he is a captive, and is also a justice of the peace for the tribe.
—At Highland Center, Iowa, on the 9th inst., a collision occurred on the St. Paul Railroad. A caboose, in which several passengers were riding, took fire, and four persons were burned to death in the wreck and two others severely injured.
—A Camden, Maine, dispatch of the 11th inst. says: "All the drug stores, boot and shoe stores, millinery and dry goods stores, jewelry shops and furniture stores in the town have been wiped out by fires. Twenty-five families are homeless."
—The great sensation at a recent Catholic Church fair in Cincinnati was the presence of Pugilist Corbett. He was received by a company of Knights of St. Michael, who had waited for him till 11:30 o'clock P. M., and escorted to the audience room. An immense crowd was on hand.
—At one precinct in Anderson County, S. C., in a political row on election day, three men were killed and three wounded. At Hempstead, Texas, two men were killed. At Big Rock Creek, Mitchell County, N. C., over fourteen men were wounded with knives, six of them fatally.
—The forty-inch glass that was cast for the Los Angeles observatory has been purchased for the Yerkes telescope to be connected with the Chicago University. This purchase puts the work considerably ahead, and it is now thought the entire instrument will be completed in 18 months, and perhaps in less time.
—A curiously-shaped bomb was noticed near the entrance to the Carmaux Mining Company's office in Paris, on the morning of the 8th inst. It was carried to a police station, and as it was being examined, suddenly exploded, killing four men and mortally wounding the police inspector. The building was also badly wrecked.
—Just at this time, when the United States is embarrassed by the necessity of keeping Chinese laborers out of the country, the Brazilian Government has passed a bill for the encouragement of Chinese immigration. The Brazilian Minister says this will induce considerable Chinese immigration to that country.
—At the hour of morning mass at Holy Trinity Church, Milwaukee, Wis., on the 6th inst., the janitor of the building was discovered hanging just beneath the cross in the spire, 150 feet above the ground. He had been threatened with dismissal on account of drunkenness, and decided to end his life in this novel fashion.
—Kansas has elected a People's Party governor who is opposed to prohibition, and he says that hereafter the enforcement of the Prohibition law must depend upon local officers, as the State's power will not be used. On the strength of this declaration, it is said that saloons are rapidly springing up in all the principal cities and towns.
—The lone leper, who has for some time been isolated in a cabin a short distance from the county infirmary about ten miles from this city, committed suicide on the 10th inst. His name was Samuel Dutcher; he was a native of New York State and a soldier during the civil war, after which he spent several years in South America, where it is supposed he contracted the disease. He preferred death to isolation from the world.
—Another disturbance occurred at Homestead, Pa., on the 13th inst. a dispute arose between some colored non-union employees at the Carnegie works and white strikers; a fight ensued, a crowd gathered, and a number of pistol shots were fired. Three strikers and a boy were wounded by the shots, and three negroes were badly beaten.
—The result of the late election is to give the Federal Government into the hands of the Democratic Party. With comparatively few exceptions, the masses outside of those who hold political positions will not realize any difference. Those who acknowledge that their citizenship is in heaven have nothing either to rejoice or to grieve over.
—The great strike in New Orleans, which for a week or more stagnated every branch of business and threatened anarchy, was short lived. The governor's manifest determination to protect the city with the entire power of the State was too much for the strikers, and they have given up the contest. They are now eagerly seeking their old jobs.
—General Miles, having completed his annual inspection of Indian reservations, reports satisfaction everywhere excepting among the Cheyennes and Arapahoes. The latter tribe he expects will go on the war path unless the government takes steps immediately to relieve them from threatened starvation. Since their reservation has been opened to settlement their ignorance of agriculture, combined with the poor character of the soil and with the disinclination of the Indian to work, has resulted in bringing them to a condition verging upon starvation.
—The territorial Supreme Court of Utah has reversed the ruling of the master in chancery on the escheated personal property of the Mormon Church, amounting to $750,000. The master had ruled that this should go to the public schools, but the court overrules his decision, and awards it to the benevolent and charitable uses of the church, appointing trustees with heavy securities to carry out the decree. United States Attorney Varian gives notice of appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court.

News and Notes.

By Editor

FOR THE WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 14.

RELIGIOUS.

—The Episcopal Church has opened a theological school for colored students in Washington City.
—At the cardinal consistory to be held December 10 it is expected that the pope will appoint 13 new cardinals. There are now 17 vacancies.
—The Canadian Church Magazine says that the cost of firing one shot from one of our largest cannon would support a missionary two years in Japan.
—The pope is said to be greatly pleased with the cordial receptions accorded to Mgr. Satolli, the papal delegate, at the World's Fair dedication ceremonies.
—It is said that not a single infidel book is published in the Welsh language. As a notable coincidence, very few policemen are required, one county having none at all.
—It is said that one denominational institution in New England has among its students a young man respectively from Kioto, Japan; Thessalonica, Greece, and Iceland.
—It is said by statistical experts that there are 140 distinct religious denominations in the United States. Of these there are 15 sects of Methodists, 14 of Baptists, and 12 of Presbyterians.
—The present week is being observed as a time of prayer for young men of all lands. The arrangement was made by the World Committee of the Y. M. C. A., which is located at Geneva, Switzerland.
—It is remarkable how many clergymen declare against a union of Church and State, and at the same time advocate religious legislation in the form of Sunday laws, which is a direct invocation of State support of the church.
—On Sunday, the 6th inst., over 25,000 devotees were on their knees in the various Catholic cemeteries about Cincinnati. The occasion was All-souls' day, which is devoted to the dead, and is observed by prayers for the release of their souls from purgatory.
—Harper's Weekly says: "There was a curious Moslem religious ceremony at the opening of the Jaffa and Jerusalem Railway for traffic. The Jerusalem terminus of the road was decorated with palms, and when the Mohammedan priest had offered prayer, three sheep with snow-white fleece and gilded horns were dragged upon the rails and slaughtered. They were left there until the blood had run from their veins and reddened the ties, and then the locomotive, freed by this sacrifice from the evil genii, went puffing out of the Holy City."
—The New York Churchman (Protestant Episcopal) says: "By all means let the Roman Church have fair play; let all its just demands be granted. If she can persuade Americans to accept her dogmas, submit to her authority, and recognize the pope as 'father of princes and kings, ruler of the world,' well and good. Then there will be an end of American institutions, but liberty has often committed suicide during the course of history." This expression shows that Adventists are not alone in their predictions that religious liberty in this country is in danger. The danger, however, comes not so much from the encroachments of the Papacy itself as from the disposition of professed Protestantism to imitate her methods.

THE RESTORATION

From Eden to Eden

IN the twenty chapters into which this book is divided, the author discusses the unity of the divine plan and the continuity of God's purpose through all the ages, showing that in all dispensations the truths constantly impressed upon the minds of the people have tended to one end,—the elucidation of one central idea,

THE RESTORATION

of the dominion which was lost in Adam.
CHAPTER I is a brief discussion of the Creation of the World; Man's Dominion and How He Lost It; the Origin and Authorship of Sin, with the divine remedy for its consequences.
CHAPTER II treats of the "Promise of God to the Fathers," with all that it implied in heaven and on earth. In other chapters are discussed such subjects as "The Abrahamic Covenant;" "Righteousness through Faith;" "The Covenant with Israel," the reasons for it, and the universality of its application; "The Return of the Jews;" "The World's History in a Dream;" "The Setting Up of the Everlasting Kingdom;" "The Hour of Judgment;" "The Fall of Babylon;" "The Seal and the Mark;" "Signs of the Second Coming of Christ," and the responsibility of man in recognizing them; "The Resurrection of the Dead," and what the doctrine involves.
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Civil Enforcement of Sabbath Observance

SHOULD SABBATH OBSERVANCE BE ENFORCED BY CIVIL LAW? An able negative argument delivered at the annual contest of the Philomath and Adelphic Literary Societies of Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pa., June 1891. 24 pp.; 3 cents.

Bible Election

By Milton C. Wilcox

BIBLE ELECTION. By M. C. Wilcox. A brief presentation of God's plan and purpose concerning man, showing that the doctrine of election, or predestination, according to the Bible, is full of comfort and instruction. It throws new light on old controversies. Bible Students' Library, No. 67; 24 pp.; price 3 cents. Address Pacific Press Pub. Co., Oakland, Cal.
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