p. 112 | Review and Herald, Vol. 38, No. 14. (9/19/1871)

A Good Minister.

WHEN a minister walks conscientiously and exemplary before his flock, his doctrine gains a mighty advantage to work upon them by his life. This is building up the church of Christ with both hands, showing them both the equity and the easiness of that holiness which he persuades them to, by his own practice. When he reproves, his reproofs break in upon the consciences of his hearers with conviction and authority; and if they do not reform, yet at least daunt and terrify them, and make them self-accused, and self-condemned. Here is one reproves me for sin, who believes it to be as evil as he represents it, by his own eschewing it. Here is one that denounces wrath if I repent not, who doubtless believes it to be as terrible as he declares it, by his own carefulness to escape it. Certainly, preaching never comes with such power and energy into the conscience as when the minister preacheth as well by his works as by his words; and to induce the people to it, is first obedient himself to the truths which he teacheth them. Men are easier led by examples than by precepts; for though precepts are more exact, yet examples are the more easy way of teaching. And he is a perfect workman who joineth both together, neither teaching what he will not do, nor doing what he dares not teach; and therefore it is observed of our Lord Jesus Christ, the great teacher of his church, that he began both to do and teach. Acts 1: 1.—Bishop Hopkins of Londonderry.

The Blessing of the Lord.

By Susan Elmer

THE psalmist says, “Thy blessing is upon thy people.” What a comforting thought, that, if we keep the commandments of the Lord, his blessing will ever rest upon us, whether at home or abroad, in sickness or in health, in life or in death! How it cheers the heart of the weary pilgrim! How it buoys him up amid the toils and cares which he may be called to encounter here. I have thought much upon it of late. I would not exchange this blessing for pearls or rubies, or all the gold and silver of earth. We can never prize it too highly. And yet how many will exchange it for things of little worth. But how bitter will be their reflections in that day when every earthly hope shall fail them. Now they can insure the Lord’s blessing. But they must keep all his commandments, the fourth as well as the rest; for all stand fast forever and ever.

How consoling the thought that we may, when brought into ever so strait or tried a situation, carry our troubles to our Heavenly Father with the blessed assurance that he will not turn us away; that his promises cannot fail; that his grace is sufficient for us; and that ere long we shall bid adieu to this world of sin and sorrow and reach that better land where all will be one continued sunshine, where we shall experience amid all the glories of Heaven that happiness which will never end. SUSAN ELMER.

Ashfield, Mass.

The Lord not Slack.

By H. S. ZOLLER

The Lord will have his house filled. His work must and will be done; and it must and will be done in time. There is no haphazard as to when it will be done. The signs are fulfilling. God will not delay the consummation. There is a fixed day and hour in which the elements shall melt with fervent heat. There is an appointed time wherein the vials of wrath will be poured upon the ungodly. There is a special period in which the mark will be given. Probation still holds out; but God's work will be finished in time. That we do not know the time is no evidence that the work is not being hurried up. A remnant shall be saved; for he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness; because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. Rom. 9: 27, 28.

H. S. ZOLLER.

Kilbourn City, Wis.

Maxims on Dislike and Wealth

WHEN a man is not liked, whatever he does is amiss.

WEALTH is not his who gets it, but his who enjoys it.

Obituary Notices.

Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.

Died, in Monterey, Allegan Co., Mich., Sept. 9, 1871, of brain fever, at the age of four years, six months, and eighteen days, Freddie W., only child of Charles A. and Julia A. Russell. Funeral discourse by the writer. W. H. Littlejohn.

Died, in Huntington, Ind., Aug. 31, 1871, Ada E. McGuire, daughter of T. M. and Martha C. Morris, aged five months and fifteen days. Funeral services by Eld. Greenman, pastor of the M. E. church. We lay our little Ada away, without any fears of her future welfare. T. M. Morris.

Died, of congestion of the lungs and brain, May 13, 1871, near Mannsville, N. Y., my beloved father aged fifty-nine years and seven months. He leaves a companion, one son, four daughters, and many other friends, to mourn his loss. We believe he has gone to his rest to rise again when Jesus, the life-giver, shall appear. Ellen R. W. Brigham.

Died, in South Sutton, N. H., Aug. 20, 1871, sister Etta C., wife of Bro. Albert F. Ball, aged twenty years and eleven months. Her husband and friends deeply mourn their loss, yet sorrow not as those without hope. Discourse to a large circle of friends from 1 Thess. 4: 13–19. S. N. Haskell.

Died, in Ervin township, Howard Co., Ind., July 29, 1871, of sore throat, my dear nephew, James Henry, son of John W. and Ellen N. Jutts, aged five years, eleven months and twenty-seven days. We believe he sleeps in Jesus. Susan A. Harrell.

Died, in Lake Belt, Martin Co., Minn., sister Lucy F., wife of Bro. R. S. Johnson, aged thirty-five years and three months. Sister Johnson has been a consistent Sabbath-keeper for about twenty years, and died in the full consolation of having a part in the first resurrection. As a faithful wife and mother, she labored to bring up her children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. A husband, five children, and a large circle of friends, mourn her loss. Words of consolation were spoken from Rev. 14: 13. F. W. Morse.

News and Miscellany.

“Can ye not discern the signs of the times?”

Persia.—The Levant Herald says the deaths at Tabreez, Persia, still average 240 per day. The Christians and Mussulmen are camped in the mountains, and business is entirely stopped. The Persian army has been disbanded. Storms and inundations have almost entirely destroyed the bazars and gardens in the vicinity of Tabreez.

The West Indies.—The hurricane of the 21st ult. occasioned immense damage. In the island of Antigua every estate was damaged. In the island of Tortola, five churches were blown down or shattered by the hurricane. In the island of St. Kitts, 800 houses were destroyed, and 40 estates were nearly ruined. In the island of Saba, the growing crops were destroyed.

From Rome we learn that the Clerical party are preparing for a demonstration on the 20th inst., and that the “Reds” are resolved to make a counter demonstration. Trouble is anticipated. The Alfier Society threatens to burn the Vatican. Precautions have been taken against the execution of the design; but, in case an attempt should be made and anarchy should ensue, the residence of the pope will be protected by the flags of the foreign ambassadors. . . . The pope has sent a letter to M. Thiers congratulating him upon the continuance of his term of office. . . . The papal journals contain severe criticisms upon Napoleonism.

The Susquehanna Valley Home, an institution for orphan children at Binghamton, N. Y., has been brought into questionable repute. On Tuesday, August 29, Elijah Castle, a citizen of Binghamton, discovered a boy about nine years old on Oak St., walking slowly along, his motion being impeded by a heavy piece of wood, which was chained to his neck. The boy was taken to the city jail, where the rivets were filed away and his neck released. The superintendent of the Home is the Rev. Mr. Van Epps. Two committees, one of nine gentlemen and the other of ten ladies, are now engaged in examining the affairs of the Home. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Van Epps, who is in Boston. The principal charges are made by a respectable widow, Mrs. Mary Backnam, who worked at the Home for a month, and then left because she could not endure to see the inmates abused as they were.

Judge Bedford, in his charge to the Grand Jury on Wednesday, denounced emphatically the crime of abortion, which recent developments show to be rife in the community, exhorting the jury to deal with it in the most uncompromising way. “Let the warning word this day go forth, and may it be scattered broadcast throughout the land, that from this hour the authorities, one and all, shall put forth every effort and shall strain every nerve until these professional abortionists, these traffickers in human life, shall be exterminated and driven from existence, and the majesty of the law be fully vindicated in all cases of this fiendish character.”

Great Britain.—A terrible explosion occurred on Wednesday morning in a coal mine near the town of Wigan, in Lancashire. Some fifty persons who were in a seam of the mine at the time of the catastrophe were cut off from communication with the outer world, and suffocated by foul air. A party sent down to ascertain the condition of the men who had been buried alive, also perished.

Mrs. Margaret Finley, living near Wabash, Ind., murdered her three children on the 6th inst. She took her babe by the feet and beat its brains out on a stone, and cut the throats of her two eldest children, aged nine and eight years respectively. The woman was arrested and lodged in jail. She is a widow, her husband having died last winter. She seems perfectly sane, and says she killed the children to get rid of them.

The northern forts around Paris are about to be evacuated by the German troops, after which the Army of Occupation will be withdrawn from French territory at the rate of 3,000 per day; the Department of the Seine alone remaining in possession of the Germans until the third half milliard francs of indemnity is paid. . . . An interview has been arranged between M. Thiers and Prince Gortschakoff, to take place soon, at Lausanne, in Switzerland. . . . The Assembly has adopted a bill laying the burden of the losses caused by the war on the whole nation, and providing for the immediate distribution of 106,000,000 francs among the sufferers by the insurrection of the Commune. Several of the females engaged in firing buildings in Paris during the last days of the Commune have been sentenced to death, while others have received sentences to solitary imprisonment in a fortress.

The Tammany Ring of N. Y. city has, at last, broken up and come to grief. Last week Judge Barnard granted a temporary injunction against their further use of the city treasury; and a motion for making the injunction perpetual is now being argued, with a fair prospect that it will be granted. In the meantime, there is dire consternation among the Ring Officials. Some of them are placing their property out of their hands; the mayor has officially called on the comptroller to resign his office; and the amazing announcement is made that the comptroller’s office has been robbed of many important vouchers, which were to be used in the pending suits against them.

Our Commerce.—The Bureau of Statistics has compiled tables of the foreign trade of the United States during the year 1870 as compared with former years. An examination of them shows that over seventy-three per cent of our entire foreign trade in 1869 and over seventy-nine per cent in 1870 were carried in foreign bottoms; that the excess in value of imports over exports was, in 1869, $68,692,422; while last year it was only $2,214,493; and that the value of foreign commodities remaining in warehouse December 31, 1870, was $55,620,635, as compared with $51,763,412 in 1869.

On the Other Side of the Water.

SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

Dr. John Lord writes to the New York Observer under date of July 10, in the following strain. How long can things go on in this fashion? He says:—

It is not the fashion in London to appeal to the intellect. Everything is in the way of amusement. The whole city seems sensualized. Of course, there are grand exceptions; but no man, except in Parliament, or in the court, or universities, rises to fame, in the popular sense, unless he amuses. The novelists are sensational. Music is sensational. Preaching is sensational. Everything is sensational. More and more are all classes assimilating in intellect with no towering men of genius. He who expects to be lifted up by profound thought and lofty, impassioned eloquence, will be disappointed here; as in Antioch, or Carthage, or Rome in the third century, men live for the present hour. An intense epicureanism is the only vitality, aside, of course, from machinery. Society is conventional when not luxurious.

NOT IN EARNEST.

I am, however, amazed at so much honesty, propriety, civility, and decorum, when there appears to be so little of earnest thought or religious life. It is not preaching or reading that keeps the English people so respectable. It is moral machinery—custom, decency, public opinion. Yet I cannot see how public opinion or conventional life can long be sound when there is so little interest in those subjects which pertain to intellectual growth and moral improvement. I anticipate a decline of those virtues in which the strength of man is located. I see no sources of renovation. And when I examine the heart of common life, I am amazed at the extent of demoralizing amusements. The shops shut at 6. Philanthropy—mechanical philanthropy—has effected this. But the clerks spend their evenings at low theaters, still lower saloons of vulgar pleasure, in coffee houses, in drinking and smoking. The gin palaces are still more splendid in gas than ever; the tobacco shops are greatly multiplied, and the streets as ever, disgraced by the class who walk in them till nearly morning with mincing eyes and outstretched necks, and where no stern prophet arises to rebuke the degeneracy. When and how will retribution come?—for come it must, or the God of Moses and David and Isaiah is not the same to-day, yesterday and forever.

GIVEN TO PLEASURE.

There seems to be a greater devotion to pleasure in London than with us. The lower classes, after their day's work, frequent the low places of amusement. With the upper classes, it is a perpetual round of banquets and fetes and operas—after the duties of the day are discharged. The day does not begin till 9 o'clock with scarcely any class, and sometimes much later, even when the sun rises at 4 or 5. At 7 in the morning the streets are deserted, except by hucksters and market people. The gayest hours are from 5 to 12 P. M. The streets are all animation at 12 o'clock. One is hungry in a country town in America at 2 o'clock, in New York at 6, in London not till 7 or 8. The upper classes seldom dine till 7 1-2. The Queen gave a public breakfast the other day, from 4 to 6 P. M.! It is an old story for Parliament to sit till 2 in the morning; but it is not till 11 or 12 that balls or parties begin. Still I suppose there are thousands who do not bow the knee to Baal of fashion, but retire in good season, and commence work at 10 in the morning. The courts open at 10, and lunch at 1.

Appointments.

And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand

Providence permitting, we will hold meetings as follows: At Thorn Bottom, Tioga Co., Pa., Thursday evening, Sept. 28; Catlin, Friday evening, Sept. 29; Beaver Dam, Oct. 1. J. LINDSEY. S. A. H. LINDSEY.

QUARTERLY meeting for the church of Avon, Wis., Sept. 16 and 17, 1871. Cannot Bro. Sanborn meet with us? Other churches are invited. GEORGE McDOWELL.

QUARTERLY meeting of the church at Hundred Mile Grove, Wis., Sabbath and first-day, Oct. 7 and 8, Providence permitting. We hope to see a general gathering of the friends of the cause. N. M. JORDON.

MONTHLY meeting at Jackson, Mich., Sabbath, Oct. 7. D. R. PALMER.

HOLLY, Sabbath and first-day, Sept. 30–Oct. 1; Spring Brook, where the brethren there may meet; at this point, Tuesday evening, Oct. 4; Ithaca, 7 and 8. Let this be a general meeting for Gratiot. Williamstown, Bay Co., 14 and 15. R. J. LAWRENCE.

CEDAR SPRINGS, Sabbath and Sunday, Sept. 30 and Oct. 1; Greenville, 7, 8; Bushnell, 11, 12; Orleans, 15, 16; Orange, 22, 23. JOSEPH BATES.

The Lord willing, I will meet with the friends of the cause in Mercer Co., Ill., at the Marsh school-house, west of Aledo, Sabbath and first-day, Sept. 30 and Oct. 1; and continue over Sabbath and first-day, Oct. 7 and 8. There will be a meeting Sabbath evening, and prayer-meeting at nine o'clock A. M.

Sabbath morning, preaching 10:30 A. M., and in the evening Sabbaths and first-days.

There will be an opportunity for baptism during the meeting. We sincerely hope that those who should go forward in this ordinance, will not let this opportunity pass.

We want all the friends in this section to attend and bring their friends with them.

Let us all try and draw near to God, and seek his presence and blessing upon our meeting. R. F. ANDREWS.

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A Natural Question and a Singular Answer.

By Uriah Smith

In a column headed “Questions and Answers” in the Christian Union, of Sept. 13, 1871, we find the following:—

Is this continent or our country anywhere referred to in the Bible?

Not that we know of. A very good description of “Young America,” restless, dashing, and progressive, may be had from Paul’s pen:—

“In the last days perilous times shall come. Men shall be lovers of their own selves; covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy; without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good; traitors, heady, high-minded; lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof.”

It is very natural that the question should suggest itself to many minds whether or not our country, occupying so important and prominent a place in the world’s history, is a subject of prophecy. But it seems a little strange that the language of Paul in 2 Tim. 3: 1–5 should be taken as descriptive thereof. This application, if seriously made, is an acknowledgement that Paul’s prediction is fulfilled in our own day and our own land. Yet the Union would not doubtless wish any one to understand that we are now in the last days. Another feature of the extract is worthy of note, and that is the easy, smooth-it-away manner in which the Union speaks of this state of things. The picture Paul draws, if carefully considered, will be seen to be a fearful one; but how does this paper speak of it? Oh! as nothing very bad, only “restless, dashing, and progressive.” Nothing very bad in being restless, dashing, and progressive, as the world estimates moral worth; and if this is the estimate put upon the character Paul describes, it is no wonder if the masses readily come to assume that character. The most effectual way to cause sin to spread, is to destroy in the minds of the people the conviction that it is evil. We wonder in what direction the Union would consider a man “progressing,” when guilty of the sins which Paul enumerates? U. S.

Battle Creek, Mich., Sept. 13, 1871

By John Nevins Andrews

Explanation.

In consequence of the fact that I have been under the necessity of spending the past month in camp-meetings, the duties of which have engrossed my whole time, the articles in examination of Eld. Preble's “First-day Sabbath” have been necessarily delayed. They will be resumed just as soon as I can be relieved from these responsibilities.

J. N. Andrews.

Battle Creek, Mich., Sept. 13, 1871

Special Notice.

On the camp-ground in Amherst, N. H., when the pledges were taken for the Publishing Association and Health Institute, some paid their pledges, but the money received does not correspond with the pledges marked paid. Therefore will all those who paid their pledges to the Health Institute and Publishing Association please write me the amount they paid on the above-mentioned pledges, that I may have it properly credited in REVIEW.

S. N. HASKELL. South Lancaster, Mass., Sept. 7, 1871.

P. S. C.: Whatever questions you may be disposed to ask, shall be duly considered.

To Bro. COTTRELL: We shall be pleased to see the book to which you refer. J. H. W.

Roman Catholic Church Property.

A CASE in a Cleveland Court seems to show that the Roman Church property in the United States is not in a securely transmissible condition. The main features of the case are these: The title to the Church property is in the name of the bishop; not the bishop officially, nor in succession, nor in trust, but in Amadeus Rappe, who was the bishop, but resigned, and the diocese is now ruled by the Rev. Edward Hannin, “administrator” during the vacancy. We infer that the title to all the property that church is in the same manner in the name of the person who holds the office of bishop. The congregation of the parish of St. Bridget desired to rebuild and enlarge their church. In this they were encouraged by Bishop Rappe (pronounced Rap) They raised about eighteen thousand dollars, appointed a building committee and made a contract involving an expenditure of about twenty-eight thousand dollars, and the contractor began tearing down, when Father Hannin, claiming as administrator to hold the title to the lot, procured a temporary injunction. On a motion to dissolve this, the case was presented and argued at great length. It appears that all that Father Hannin could show for his title was the law of the Roman Church making such a succession to the title. The judge held that he could not recognize a law of the Roman Church as setting aside the laws of Ohio as to the conveyance of real estate. Therefore he dissolved the injunction, on the ground that Father Hannin, who applied for it, had no legal title to the property.

Roman Catholic Church in the United States.

A RECENT number of the Catholic World directs attention to the rapid growth of the Roman Catholics in the United States. It says: “Nowhere has the Catholic Church increased so prosperously within the last fifty years as in the United States of America. Two thousand churches and chapels were built, an increase of 1,800 clergymen; 160 schools established for the Catholic training of 18,000 boys and 34,000 girls. Moreover, there existed in 1857, 66 asylums, with 4,968 orphans of both sexes; 26 hospitals, with 3,000 beds; 4 insane asylums, besides many other charitable institutions, all supported by the private charity of Catholics.”

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