Earlier text: Old Testament History—The German Reichstag adjourned without day on the 8th inst. —The question of the jurisdiction of Behring Sea is to be referred. —The United States steamer Mohican has been ordered to Samoa. —Scarlet fever has made its appearance among the students at Cornell. —The Emperor of Japan has promulgated a constitution for the empire. —There were $1,200,000,000 deposits in the savings banks of the United States in 1887. —Count William Bismark has been appointed President of the province of Hanover. —It will cost Pennsylvania $250,000 to submit the prohibition amendment to the people. —The Panama Canal Company has been dissolved and its affairs placed in the hands of a receiver. —A large part of the business portion of Steelville, Mo., was burned on the morning of the 7th inst. —A Paris dispatch states that the microbe of diphtheria has been discovered by two disciples of Pasteur. —The Denmark Temperance Society is reported to have 408 local societies affiliated, with a total membership of 17,500. —Heidelberg, the noted German university city, has, according to late statistics, one saloon for every eighty-seven inhabitants. —The longest street railway in the world is near Buenos Ayres, connecting a number of towns, and has a total length of 200 miles. —In Mexico, says Bishop Hurst, of the Methodist Church, “the Sunday newspaper is as thoroughly domesticated as the bull fight.” —The Spanish mail steamer Remus foundered recently off the Philippines, and all the passengers are supposed to have been drowned. —The total number of failures in the United States for the calendar year 1888 is 10,587, against 9,740 in 1887, an increase of 9.7 per cent. —February 5, the Massachusetts House of Representatives adopted the proposed constitutional prohibitory amendment by a vote of 161 to 69. —There is in the United States a dog for every three inhabitants. The cost of keeping twenty million dogs is at least $200,000,000 per annum. —Heavy gales were reported on the coasts of Ireland, Scotland, and England, on the 8th inst. Vessels were wrecked, boats capsized, and lives lost. —The Government is about to send 3,000 tons of anthracite coal to the United States coaling station in Samoa. It will be shipped from Philadelphia. —A few Baltimore hunters have purchased 50,000 bushels of corn from a damaged cargo to be used in baiting wild ducks in the marshes of the Chesapeake Bay. —There are said to be thirty rum shops to every school throughout Western Siberia, and thirty-five rum shops to every school throughout Eastern Siberia. —The late street-car strike in New York, though of short duration, cost the companies $200,000 and the men $60,000, besides some 2,000 men are out of employment. —Recent advices from Hanoi, Tonquin, say that the French troops attacked the villages of Dinbeintong and Chochu and routed the rebels. Three Europeans were wounded. —According to the papers of that country, Great Britain has 1,000,000 less cattle than one year ago. One hundred thousand calves less were raised last year than the year before. —Typhus fever has broken out in Doboka, Hungary, and is rapidly spreading. In addition to the fever, the inhabitants are suffering greatly through the failure of the potato crop. —It is stated that the severity of the winter is increasing the distress caused by the famine in Shan and Manchuria, China. It is estimated that 250,000 persons are starving in Chin Kiang. —A Paris firm of glass-makers has produced some porous glass, to be used for window-panes. The makers claim that the pores are too fine to permit of draught, but cause a pleasant and healthy ventilation in a room. —“It is certain,” says the Berlin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, “that the German Consul at Samoa will be removed. Prince Bismarck is extremely annoyed by the Consul exceeding his instructions.” —Thirty-two United States Senators are millionaires. Gen. W. D. Washburn, recently elected to succeed Sabin from Minnesota, is a railroad president, is worth $5,000,000, and lives in a $1,000,000 house at Minneapolis. —Seventeen men were drowned on the 5th inst., by the breaking of the ice on Pine Lake, New York. The victims were driving teams engaged in hauling logs across the ice, when the ice broke and the men and horses were all lost. —February 4th the steamer Nereid collided with the ship Killochan, off Dungeness, England, and both went to the bottom. Twenty-four persons were drowned. Nine members of the crews were rescued, one of whom afterward died. —The Constitution of Costa Rica prescribes hospitality to strangers as a sacred duty, and declares citizenship to be forfeited by ingratitude to parents, abandonment of wife or children, and neglect of the obligations due to the family. —Maine farmers are making loud complaints against having the juice of the apple included in the law against the manufacture and sale of liquor, and a vigorous effort will be made to have the cider clause repealed by the Legislature. —February 4th the Glen Line steamer, Glencoe, a three-masted screw steamer of 1901 tons, carrying a crew of fifty-two persons but no passengers, came in collision with the bark Largo Bay, off Beachy Head, England, and sunk with all on board. —The Samoan war cloud has cleared away. Germany has proposed a conference of the three Governments interested, namely, the United States, England, and Germany, and the matters of difference will no doubt be amicably adjusted without resort to arms. —The largest Catholic school in the West, the one at Terre Haute, Ind., was burned on the 7th inst. The loss is over $100,000. The same day a large blanket mill was burned at Cleveland, Ohio, loss, $100,000; the nail works at Tiffin were also destroyed, loss, $50,000. —The Authorities at Rome are alarmed on account of the activity of the socialists, who are busily engaged in spreading their doctrines among the working classes, and especially among those out of employment. It is feared the agitation will result in riotous demonstrations. —February 7 a severe snow-storm swept over Canada and the Middle States, Maryland and Virginia. Two men were found frozen to death in western New York and other losses of life by the excessively cold weather are reported. Trains were snow bound on several different railroads. —The joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution, declaring that the right to vote shall not be abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex, was favorably reported on the 7th inst. by Senator Blair from the select Senate Committee on Woman suffrage. —In the Colorado Desert, near Idaho, there is a large bed of rock salt, and the Southern Pacific Railroad, in laying the track to the salt bed, has been obliged to grade the road for 1,200 feet with blocks of these crystals. This is the only instance where a road-bed is laid and ballasted on salt. —A Washington dispatch says that if the Oklahoma bill is not passed by this Congress, no less than 50,000 people will enter the Territory within thirty days, and to dislodge them would require a force of soldiers, and cause an amount of bloodshed for which no Administration would dare assume the responsibility. —A Cleveland firm which was boycotted by the Bricklayers’ Union of that city, sued the officers and members of the organizations, and has just been awarded $2,700 damages. There have been a number of criminal actions growing out of boycotts, but this is the first instance where a civil suit of this nature has been carried to a successful issue. —The December report of the Department of Agriculture, which publishes in detail estimates of some of the more important crops, makes the product of corn 1,987,790,000 bushels, grown on 75,672,763 acres, valued on the farm at $677,561,580, or 34.1 cents per bushel, against 44.4 for the crop of 1887, a decrease of 23 per cent.; the product of 1887 being 27 per cent. less in volume than that of 1888. The wheat aggregate is 414,868,000 bushels, grown on 37,366,158 acres, valued at $384,248,030. The aggregate for oats is 701,737,000 bushels, grown on 26,998,282 acres, and valued at $195,420,249. A comparison of aggregate value shows that the present corn crop is worth only $31,000,000 more than the previous one, wheat $74,000,000 more, oats $5,000,000 less. —A Chicago paper states that at Senator Hearst’s Washington dinner all the wine was imported, and advises Kate Field that if she can’t induce California senators to use California wine, she should go out of the liquor business and enter the tobacco trade. It will be remembered that Miss Field is the paid advocate of California wine-growers and dealers. —It is stated that all the money which the world possesses to-day would only purchase one-third of its railways, since the railroads in the world are worth nearly $30,000,000,000, or about one-tenth of the total monetary wealth of the civilized nations, and over one-quarter of their invested capital. In comparison with this sum the amount of money invested in banking throughout the entire world is but a trifle. —On the 7th inst., Senator Chandler introduced the proposed amendment to the Naval Appropriation bill, authorizing the construction by contract of two harbor rams of steel, to cost, without armament, not exceeding $1,500,000 each, and of fifteen gunboats or cruisers, each not to exceed 1,700 tons displacement or $500,000 in cost. It appropriates $5,000,000 to begin the construction of the vessels, and $3,000,000 for the armament. —A heavy gale did considerable damage in various parts of Nebraska on the 4th inst. At Omaha a wall was blown down and six persons were killed; at Hastings, the Central School was wrecked, three persons being so severely injured that their recovery is impossible. One of the scholars in the Hastings School building was killed outright, one other injured so that he will probably die, and the teacher, Miss Aldrich, was fatally injured. The storm was widespread. —A Chicago Times New Orleans dispatch of the 9th inst. says that from 600 to 1,000 white men at Lafayette, La., have organized themselves into a body of vigilantes for the purpose of regulating local affairs in places where they reside. A number of bands have been commissioned to visit the homes of all colored people and enquire into their employment. Those who have not been able to obtain work for the ensuing year will be requested to leave the parish, under penalty of castigation. —The railroad business in this country is one which is increasing at an almost incredible rate of speed. In 1875 the world’s railways aggregated 185,000 miles, while in 1885 there were over 300,000 miles of railroad; thus showing an increase of 115,000 miles in ten years, or on an average upwards of 11,000 miles a year. When it is considered that this would mean the laying, each year, of railway enough to reach nearly half around the earth, the magnitude of the increase can be in a measure appreciated. —The Austrian Handels-Museum gives the following interesting figures respecting the position of British cotton manufactures as compared with that of the rest of the world. The figures relate to 1887. The number of spindles in England is 42,740,000; in the rest of Europe 23,180,000; in America, 13,500,000; in India, 2,420,000; total, 81,840,000. The quantity of cotton consumed is: in England, 1,314,521,000 pounds weight; in the rest of Europe, 1,459,119,000 pounds; in America, 944,758,000 pounds; in India, 300,000,000 pounds. —The fears entertained by the authorities of Rome that an outbreak would occur among the thousands of unemployed men in that city, were realized on the 8th inst. A great crowd of unemployed workingmen assembled and marched through the Via Condotti and other streets of the city, blackening the shop fronts as they went, and, in some cases, entering stores and carrying off whatever plunder they could secure. Street lamps and windows were smashed by the mob, and on the Via Frattina a number of buildings were partly wrecked. Thirty persons, mostly policemen, were dangerously wounded during the riot. Obituary: Ralph Earnest Nye
By Isaac Morrison
NYE.—Ralph Earnest, son of B. F. and Sarah E. Nye, died of pneumonia, near Carrollton, W. T., January 31, 1889, aged 4 years, 11 months, and 19 days. Little Earnest’s suffering, which lasted only thirty-six hours, was severe. Although there will be a vacancy in the home of Brother and Sister Nye since their little one is gone, they do not mourn as do those who have no hope; but have placed him in his little bed in the grave to rest there through the time of trouble till the Lord shall wake him on the morning of the resurrection, to embrace them again in glory. Words of comfort were spoken from Rev. 14:13, to a company of sympathizing friends. ISAAC MORRISON. Alabama—D. Graber, 723, 22nd St. South, Birmingham, Ala. Arkansas Tract Society—W. G. Smith, Sec., lock box 249, Little Rock, Ark. Australia—Echo Publishing House, North Fitzroy, Victoria. Canada Tract Society—Mrs. R. S. Owen, South Stukely, P. Q. China and Japan—A. LaRue, International Tract Society, Queens Road 219, Hongkong, China. Colorado Tract Society—S. E. Whiteis, Sec., 812 Nineteenth Ave., Denver, Col. Dakota Tract Society—A. H. Beaumont, Sec., Vilas, Miner Co., Dakota. District of Columbia—Mr. W. H. Saxby, 1831 Vermont Ave. N. W., Washington, D. C. England—International Tract Society, 48 Paternoster Row, London, E. C. Georgia and Florida—Charles F. Curtis, cor. S. Boulevard and Bryan Sts., Atlanta, Ga. Illinois Tract Society—Lillie E. Froom, Sec., 26 and 28 College Place, Chicago. Indiana Tract Society—J. W. Moore, Sec., 175 Central Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. Iowa Tract Society—Leroy T. Nicola, Sec., 603 East 12th St., Des Moines, Iowa. Kansas Tract Society—L. Dyo Chambers, Sec., No. 821 West Fifth St., Topeka, Kan. Louisiana—A. F. Harrison, 633 Western Ave., Shreveport, La. Maine Tract Society—M. Russell, Sec., No. 110 State St., Bangor, Me. Michigan Tract Society—Hattie House, Sec., Review and Herald Office, Battle Creek, Mich. Minnesota Tract Society—C. N. Woodward, 336 East Lake St., Minneapolis, Minn., P. O. Box 1058. Mississippi—Oscar Hill, Booneville, Miss. Missouri Tract Society—Mrs. Clara Jones, Sec., 606 Ohio St., Sedalia Mo. Nebraska Tract Society—Mrs. N. H. Druillard, Sec., 1505 E St., Lincoln, Neb. New England—N. E. Tract Society, Mrs. E. T. Palmer, Sec., South Lancaster, Mass. New York City and Brooklyn, N. Y.—T. A. Kilgore, No. 43 Bond St., New York. New York State—J. V. Willson, Sec., N. Y. Tract Society, 317 West Bloomfield St., Rome, N. Y. New Zealand—International Tract Society, Turner St., off Upper Queen St., Auckland, N. Z. North Carolina—N. B. England, Newton, Catawba Co., N. C. North Pacific—N. P. Tract Society, Charles A. Wyman, Sec., Box 18, East Portland, Or. Norway—Sundhedsbladet, 74 Akersgaden, Christiania, Nor. Ohio Tract Society—L. T. Dysert, Sec., 440 Floyd St., Toledo. Pennsylvania Tract Society—L. C. Chadwick, Sec., Cor. Hepburn and Fifth Streets, Williamsport, Penn., Box 2716. South Africa—International Tract Society, No. 5 Scott St., Cape Town. Switzerland—Imprimerie Polyglotte, 48 Weiherweg, Basel. Tennessee—J. H. Dortch, Springville, Henry Co., Tenn. Texas Tract Society—T. T. Stevenson, Sec., Denton, Texas. Upper Columbia—U. C. Tract Society, Mrs. L. A. Fero, Sec., Box 523, Walla Walla, W. T. Vancouver Island—Bernard Robb, 14 Third St., Victoria, B. C. Vermont—Lizzie A. Stone, 409 South Union St., Burlington. Virginia—Amy A. Neff, Quicksburgh, Shenandoah Co., Va. West Virginia—Mrs. Nella M. Stone, Clarksburg, W. Va. Wisconsin Tract Society—S. D. Hartwell, 1029 Jenifer St., Madison, Wis. EUROPEAN MISSION.—A Cook Placerville $10. STATE CAMP-MEETING FUND.—A S Carmichael $20. CALIFORNIA CITY MISSIONS.—Mrs M A Stewart $2.50, Etta Heald $10.25. FOREIGN MISSIONS.—Callahan 50 cents, Reno $17.50, Susanville $1.35, St Helena $9, H N Stone $7, Norwalk $13.28. LONDON MISSION.—Mrs R W Myers $2.50, Mrs N E De Yoe $3, Frank Hope $10, Etta Heald $10.30, Lena Harmon $5. RECEIVED ON ACCOUNT.—Mich Tract Society $1,000, N C Tract Society $5.97, Ill Tract Society $1,000, Mo Tract Society $100.35, North Pacific Tract Society $500. CALIFORNIA TRACT SOCIETY.—Dist No 1 St Helena $43.10, Crystal Springs $32.90, Healdsburg $142, Dist No 2 Oro Fino 50 cents, Dist No 3 Oakland $65.60, Dist No 5 Toll House $22.65, Fresno $20, Lemoore $32.30, Dist No 6 Santa Barbara $15.95, Norwalk $6.75, San Diego $10, Dist No 7 Susanville $21, Dist No 8 Hanson $5.87, A J Osborne $7, C H Peach $3.25, Etta Heald $5, Walter Harper $50.72, E A Boles $5, E A Brown $4.20, T J Frost $3, Mrs A J Hutchins $3.40. CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE FUND.—F L McClure $3.50, Newton Converse 35 cents, Arroyo Grande by Julia A Owen $2.60, Los Angeles $55.45, Los Angeles Free will offering $2.60, Grangeville $21.75, Callahan $5.65, Arthur Morton $10.05, Santa Rosa $10.75, Mrs A Bullock Sedalia Cal $25, E F Hutchins Merced Cal $6.40, Reno by F Hope $37.75, St Helena $357.40, Ora Peoples $1.75, A Friend Trespass Offering $1, J H McDonald Virginia City $20, Mrs A J Hutchins $3, F A Hutchins $1, L Hammond $149.75. REDEEMER AND REDEEMED;
By James White
The Plan of Redemption through Christ. The plan of salvation, concisely presented as revealed by the Scriptures. Paper covers, forty-eight pages, sent post-paid for ten cents. PACIFIC PRESS, Oakland, Cal. Fathers of the Catholic Church,
By Ellet Joseph Waggoner
Because human nature is the same in all ages of the world. Hence he who would know how to avoid error in the future must know how errors have developed in the past. The “FATHERS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH” shows the condition of the heathen world at the time of Christ, briefly states the principles of ancient heathen philosophy, which was largely responsible for the immorality of that time, and shows how the adoption of these principles by prominent men in the church, and the incautious lowering of the standard of pure Christianity to accommodate the heathen element, developed the Papacy, which was simply a new phase of Paganism. It shows that by the time of Constantine every phase of the Papacy was fully developed, and was only waiting for supreme power. The chapter on Is alone worth the price of the book. The chapter on “The Apostolic Church” consists largely of quotations from Scripture, showing that grave errors both of faith and practice existed in the church even in the days of the apostles, so that the early existence of a practice proves nothing as to its correctness. Then a chapter is devoted to each of the Fathers, and to his writings. The Sunday argument, so far as it is drawn from the Fathers, is completely demolished by the citation of other testimony from them in favor of some of the grossest evils of the Catholic Church. Lastly, several chapters are devoted to “The Great Apostasy,” in which are traced the logical results of the teachings of the Fathers. Everybody Should Have this Book
As all are constantly meeting quotations from the Fathers in behalf of Sunday. In these cases it is only necessary to show that the same Fathers believed in purgatory and prayers for the dead, to nullify their testimony. The book is printed on fine tinted paper, neatly bound in cloth, with gilt side stamp, and contains 392 pages. Price, Post Paid, $1.00. Pacific Press Publishing Company,
OAKLAND, CAL. The Abiding Sabbath and the Lord's Day.
THE $500 AND $1,000 PRIZE ESSAYS.
The above is the title of a pamphlet recently issued. In its pages the author reviews the two most recent and without doubt the best contributions to the defense of Sunday, popularly called the “Lord's Day.” The first of these essays was written by Rev. George Elliott, and took the $500 “Fletcher Prize,” offered by the trustees of Dartmouth College for the best essay on the “Perpetual Obligation of the Lord's Day.” The other essay was written by A. E. Waffle, M. A., and was awarded a $1,000 prize by the Committee of Publication of the American Sunday-school Union. We state thus definitely the source of the essays reviewed that all may see their importance. Certainly if there was any argument in favor of Sunday, we should expect to find it in these prize essays. Elder Jones in his Review takes up their arguments and assertions, and shows very plainly how several times the authors have proved what they did not want to prove at all—namely: The Seventh-day Sabbath is still as binding on all as when the law was given. This Review will be read with interest and profit by all, and those who have friends that are interested in the Sabbath Question should see that one of these pamphlets is placed in their hands. Elder R. A. Underwood, President Ohio Conference, says:— “The 'Abiding Sabbath' should find its way to every home in the land. It certainly will have a wide circulation. May God bless it on its mission. The quotations from Mr. Elliott's essays set forth the divine origin of the Sabbath, its object, universality, and inseparable relation to the moral law of ten commandments, of which it is a part, and its binding obligation upon all mankind; also the clear distinction between the Sabbath and the ceremonial rites, or laws, in words of sublime, convincing power. Yet he, like all who feel it their duty to prop up the Sunday-sabbath with the fourth commandment, contradicts his own position. Elder Jones has made a clean-cut, sound argument.” Elder J. N. Loughborough, President California Conference, says:— “I have just completed a careful reading of Elder Jones' Review. In this he attacks the main pillars of their argument for a Sunday-sabbath, and at the same time he gives an epitome of the argument for the true Bible Sabbath. He shows clearly that notwithstanding all the efforts of the $500 and $1,000 essay men to establish Sunday as the Sabbath, it stands, according to their own admissions, without any Scripture command, or any divine warrant. This Review clearly shows what is the true 'Abiding Sabbath,' the day of God's own appointment. This book of Elder Jones' should have a very wide circulation, and be read by all.” 176 pages, price, postpaid, 20 Cents. Address orders to PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING CO., The Blair Sunday-Rest Bill.
This is the name of a 56-page pamphlet just issued by the Pacific Press Publishing Company. It is a clear, concise history of the attempts to secure national legislation in regard to Sunday, and especially of the causes which led to the introduction of the Blair bill. The bill is given in full, both in its original form, and with the changes desired by the “National Sabbath Association.” A brief analysis is also given, and an account of the formation of the “National Sabbath Committee,” and Union. Considerable space is devoted to showing the nature of the bill, and to a consideration of the effect it would have if it should become a law. The means by which the bill has been pushed, and the character of the work, are dwelt on at some length. Altogether the little pamphlet will be found to give a good outline of the rise and progress of the present Sunday agitation, and will afford a good basis from which to study the whole question. Numerous quotations are made, and the exact reference given in every instance, so that every fact stated may be fully verified. To those who are canvassing for the American Sentinel, or for signatures to petitions in behalf of religious liberty, or are engaged in any branch of anti-National Reform work, this pamphlet will be indispensable. Everybody who is interested in the matter of Sunday legislation, which is getting to be the great question of the day, should get the book and study it. Friends and enemies of the Blair Sunday-Rest Bill will alike find it useful in enabling them to understand the exact facts, so that they can argue intelligently upon it. This pamphlet is one of a regular series of semi-monthly publications issued by the Pacific Press Publishing Co., on the first and fifteenth of each month, commencing January 1, 1889, and treating upon the various phases of the National Reform Movement, the Union of Church and State, and Civil and Religious Liberty. The series will be issued under the general title of “The Sentinel Library,” and will be regularly entered at the post-office as second-class matter, so that News Agents can re-mail them at the regular pound rates. Each number will contain a telling treatise upon some branch or phase of the work. The Library will be uniform in size (page about 5x7½ inches), each number containing from 8 to 56 pages or more. Subscription price, 25 numbers, 75 cents per year, post-paid. Single numbers at the rate of one cent for each 8 pages, post-paid. The first five numbers are now ready. No. 1, entitled “The National Reformed Constitution,” gives a view of our Constitution as it will appear when amended to conform to the views of National Reformers, 24 pages, price three cents, post-paid. No. 2, entitled “Religious Liberty,” contains Senator Robert H. Crockett’s famous speech before the Arkansas Legislature, 8 pages, price one cent, post-paid. No. 3 is entitled, “The Evils of Religious Legislation,” 8 pages, price one cent, post-paid. No. 4 contains “The Blair Sunday-Rest Bill,” as noticed above, 56 pages, price seven cents, post-paid. No. 5 will contain “The Blair Educational Amendment Bill,” with comments, showing the tendency which the passage of this bill will have toward the establishment of a national religion. Orders for single numbers, or subscriptions for the year, should be addressed to Pacific Press Publishing Co., 12th and Castro Streets, Oakland, Cal., or 43 Bond Street, New York City. Christian Science Folly and the Dakota Child Incident
For some valuable suggestions, and practical instruction on the Sabbath-school lesson this week, read the article beginning on the first page, by Sister White. “In Winchester, Va., a man was tried for murder and convicted. His counsel took the case up on a number of points, all of which the Circuit Judge overruled except the one that, in making up the record, an extra initial had been inserted in the man’s name, and he was granted a new trial!” It is just such decisions as this that render so many trials mere farces and incite men to more violence. THE following, clipped from the Oakland Enquirer, illustrates the folly of that system of fatuity which has duped so many of the credulous, and for which Mrs. Eddy, of Boston, is largely responsible. But perhaps she is no more so than some of her learned dupes:— “Up in Dakota some Christian science people tried for two days to raise a child from the dead. But they did not succeed. They may convince themselves that sickness is all in the mind, but death is a reality which no sophistry can get over.” The fact of the case is, there is nothing Christian about it but the name. It is antichrist, and such things do more injury to true Christianity than all the infidelity in the land. Like all error, it has a minimum of truth and a maximum of falsehood. It has taken for its name two words,—Christian, from Christ, and science, which means knowledge; but it has neither Christianity nor knowledge. It has borrowed the livery of Heaven the better to serve the devil. A READER OF THE SIGNS asks for an explanation of Heb. 7: 12, which reads thus: “For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also in the law.” It is not difficult to understand this, if one considers what is the subject of the apostle’s discourse, namely the priesthood of Christ. The entire book of Hebrews is an exaltation of Christ, showing how he as Creator is superior to the angels, to Moses and to the house of Levi. The sixth chapter closes with the statement that Jesus is a high priest after the order of Melchizedek; but that is a priesthood of which Moses said nothing. Among the Jews it was death for any body not of the house of Aaron of the tribe of Levi, to come near the sanctuary to minister. Now if Christ is to be priest for that same people, it is evident, as the verse says, that there must be a change in the law—of the priesthood. In proof of this, he continues:— “For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe of which no man gave attendance at the altar. For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.” Heb. 7: 13, 14. To apply the text to the law of ten commandments, as some do, is to do violence to it, and to go contrary to all reason. To say that the law concerning which they ministered, should be changed because a new order of priesthood was instituted, would be no more in accordance with reason than to say that it should be changed every time a new priest came into office. But it is most natural and necessary that if a new order of priesthood was to be instituted, and a priest taken from another tribe, there must be a change in the law which made it a capital offense for one of that other tribe to minister at the altar.