We instructed our Unions in this work among mothers to organize what we called “Mothers’ Circles” to meet once a week if possible. First, in order, was to district the village or city, and make a canvass of all homes. We were to go to rich and cultured who might be totally unconscious of any lack in themselves, and arouse them to interest in the poor, the ignorant and degraded. By this means two purposes would be served; the poor would have friends raised up for them, and the rich might be led to discover their own hearts and their own needs.
I could draw from many experiences to illustrate how this worked, and will select one notable case.
I had held an institute in an eastern city and given this plan of work, and a year or so later was recalled to continue it by a series of evangelistic services in the churches. I was met at the depot by the president of the leading Union, and she said: “I came for you myself because I have something to tell you at once. We have carried out this plan of work which you gave us, and as a result one of the wealthiest ladies of the city is waiting with such eagerness for your coming that I expect she will be at your home to meet you before you will get your lunch eaten. It came about in such a way that we all see that God was in it. The member of the Union to whom the district was given in which this lady lives is not such a very able woman, nor very courageous, but good and true as gold. She was very timid about calling on this rich lady but she came to the visitor of another district and said ‘I want to borrow your drunkard’s family with the crippled child for a lady in my district. I don’t know of any other way to approach her.’
“This lady is literary, artistic, beautiful; has always been in society, and seems absolutely beyond us, but this funny borrowing was agreed to, and our little timid visitor called on her rich lady, and without any preliminaries began to tell her about our work for mothers and children, and about the poor little baby who had been crippled by its father in a drunken outbreak. The child needed many things that would cost money, and which the Union would not be able to provide. There was hope that its condition might be greatly bettered by treatment if it could be provided. She told the story with all the earnestness of a thoroughly aroused motherly woman, and the Spirit of God helped her. Before she got to the end the eyes of her listener were full of tears, and she began to express herself by saying,
“‘I thank you for coming to me with this. I did not suppose any one would have so much confidence in me; no one ever did before. I will be glad to help. I am thoroughly sick of the selfish life I have lived. I will order the carriage and we will go at once to see this poor baby.’
“So the carriage with the coachman in livery was called and the two went together to the drunkard’s home.
“The interest aroused in this woman did not stop in one child, but reached out to all the sin-cursed children of the city, and the result was a plan for many things by which it was hoped to alleviate the distress of the victims of vice and poverty. Among the plans which she is hoping to realize is a free kindergarten, and it is about this that she is so anxious to see and talk with you.”
I was still at my lunch when she came. She was as full of projected good works as an egg is of meat, and eager for information as to how to proceed. She said:
“This work has been such a blessing to me that I wish to give everybody a chance to help in it, and will it be too much to ask you to mention it in your meetings, and tell every one who would like to assist that they can have an opportunity by handing their contribution to the Treasurer of the W. C. T. U.”
She did not dream of the delight and wonder with which I looked at her and listened, nor of how more than glad I was to say “it will be no trouble. I will gladly aid you all I can in every meeting. Please write out a statement of what you would like to have me present and I will use it as a mark for my Bible lesson, so I will never forget it.”
This she did, and was then so interested to know just how I would present her plan that she came to every service following the meeting from church to church all over the city, and before we had finished she came and said:
“I want to join you and put on the white ribbon. I will banish the wine from my home forever.”
This she did and soon added thereto the consecration of herself to Christ and work for his neglected poor.
“GOD has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.”
THE country is at war. It has been at war for two months and more; but now that heavy fighting has begun between the armies on Cuban soil, and many are falling in battle, the terrible fact of war becomes far more real to the public mind than it could be made by reports from the blockade around Havana. The fighting spirit of the people is aroused, and war and fighting are glorified in the popular sentiment of the day.
The tendency of the age is to lose individual identity in the mass. The teaching which comes from sources regarded as authoritative says that individual judgment must be sacrificed to that of the majority, for the general good. This is quite proper in all matters which do not involve questions of moral right or wrong. But it is now said that public morality is paramount to individual morality; that there is a State conscience, and that to this the individual conscience must give way. And let no one imagine that these are questions which do not personally concern him. The issue may arise at any time which will oblige you to choose whether you will stand with the crowd upon their convictions, or against the crowd upon your own convictions; and the decision will depend upon the nature of the elements you are putting into your character to-day.
No man who leans upon the masses can tower above426the masses. History bears no record of such persons as individuals. And not only do they fail of true success in this life, but they lack the faith to lay hold upon the greater life to gain which all sacrifice in this life is but cheaply made.
You are one of the people. The events which are transpiring upon the fields where the honor, prestige, and power of the Government are being put to the test, have an effect upon you, as they do upon others. The nation is developing national character, and this must affect, sooner or later, the fortunes of every individual under its jurisdiction; but more important to you is the fact that you are developing individual character, either through the influence of public sentiment around you, or from some other source. No one is an idle spectator of the great change that is in progress in national policy and sentiment. It affects in some way every person who dwells under the national flag.
THE question is, Do you realize what duties and responsibilities are brought to you by the swift procession of events? Do you stand as an individual? or do you stand as one of the mass? To do the former means more than to do the latter. Do you act upon your own judgment? or upon the judgment embodied in public sentiment? Are you willing to stand, if necessary, upon your own convictions of right, against a multitude who hold different views? These are questions that an individual may properly propound and answer to himself at any time after he has arrived at years of discretion.
It is not intended that you should lean upon public sentiment. Public sentiment is not an argument,—at least not a conclusive one. And in questions relating to moral right and wrong it is to be remembered that public sentiment is most often in the wrong. That public sentiment now glorifies war and demands an expansion of military power and of territory, does not settle the question for you. The decisions of other people do not settle any question of moral right for you. You must settle such questions for yourself; not of yourself, but by your own judgment, your own conscience, and that Word which is the divine standard of righteousness. Anything less than this is popery, and will if continued result in failure to form that character which is the all-important thing to be gained in this present life.
THE first step in the formation of a proper character is independence. The national character began with the Declaration of Independence; and that was a result of the individual independence which ruled in the breasts of its signers. Independence means simply cutting loose from unnecessary supports. It was not intended that you should lean mentally upon some one else, any more than that you should lean upon some one for physical support. The child learns early to stand alone, and then to walk alone; and to the mind is due the like degree of development. Some people never get beyond the creeping period, mentally, and must depend all their lives upon others for mental support; but this is a terrible misfortune. The mind, no less than the body, was endowed by the Creator with the capacity for independent action; and it is an important moment in the life of an individual when he stands for the first time—mentally—alone; even more so than when he first stands alone or takes his first step unsupported, physically.
CHARACTER is the essential thing; not the character of a state or government, or of a body of men taken together, but individual character. Upon individual character depends national character. But whether politicians and legislators recognize this truth or not, it is important for you to recognize that your own character is, for you, more important than all things else. It is more important for you, that your own character should be upright, than that the like character should belong to the nation.
SENTIMENT against the new policy of imperialism upon which the nation is entering was voiced in a recent mass-meeting in Fanueil Hall, Boston, at which a large number were present. Mr. Moorfield Story was the principal speaker, and presented the following among other reasons against the annexation of Hawaii and the Philippines:—
“We are here to insist that a war begun in the cause of humanity shall not be turned into a war for empire, that an attempt to win for Cubans the right to govern themselves shall not be made an excuse for extending our sway over alien people without their consent. It is said that the people are unfit for self-government. Not such the spirit of our fathers. There was no exception in their generous statement that all men are equal before the law and have equal political rights.
“Nothing can wipe from our flag the disgrace if it floats over any but a free people. It should be enough that if we adopt this policy of conquest we are false to our principles and false to our express promises.
“But this case does not end here. We not only disregard that wise policy of non-intervention in European troubles which Washington preached and which until now we have followed. We become a military power, burdened with a standing army and an enormous navy, threatened with complications thousands of miles away, and exposed to constant apprehension. We take up the burden which is crushing Europe. Our domestic difficulties will be neglected, for our attention must be divided.
“When we undertake to govern subject peoples separated from us by half the world, let us remember how we despoiled the Indians at our doors, and how impossible it has been to keep that service pure. Let us not forget the carpetbag governments of our Southern brothers, whose complaints fell on deaf ears, though they spoke our language and we heard them every day. What, think you, shall we hear of wrong in Manila or the Ladrones, and how can we reform abuses there? Such a system means great increase of wealth and fresh fields for corruption. It means a growth of a class little accustomed to respect the rights of their inferiors. It means the spoils system enormously extended.”
There are some people who see the injustice and the danger to the nation involved in the new policy, but they are in a hopeless minority. The sentiment of the majority will prevail, and the ship of state will set sail upon the untried seas where so many nations before her have followed after glory and met shipwreck.
“YE cannot hear my word,” said Jesus to the angry Pharisees. The voice of prejudice and the clamor of self made it impossible for them to hear the simple truths which the common people heard gladly. He was speaking of life and righteousness, and simple souls who wanted help and strength for right living hung upon his words. The proud and worldly leaders of the church, to427whom religion was unconnected with life, heard the same sound of words, but the words of life fell on deaf ears.—The Oriental Watchman.
The Constitution of the United States provides that no slavery nor involuntary servitude, save as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the territory or under the jurisdiction of the United States.
This is in harmony with and demanded by the idea of “government of the people, by the people and for the people.” It means that no people shall be governed by the United States without their consent.
But it is now proposed to annex the Hawaiian and Philippine Islands and to extend over the inhabitants of the same the jurisdiction of the Government, independently of their consent. The case of Hawaii is especially prominent at this time. The question of annexation has long been before the peoples of both countries, and the Hawaiians have never signified that they desired it. Their attitude, on the contrary, has been distinctly against it. By annexation, therefore, they will be brought involuntarily into subjection to the American Government.
But the experiment of involuntary subjection has already been tried by this Government, and the result was such as should never be forgotten by the American people. For many years after the establishment of the Constitution involuntary servitude was maintained in many of the States, and was sanctioned by the Federal authority. And the final result was the terrible civil war.
With that warning lesson before their eyes, the American people may well hesitate to approve that which will again violate the spirit if not the letter of the Constitution, and set up the ensign of liberty and union over a people held in subjugation.
This nation was established to proclaim to the world liberty in government; and when it ceases to do this, by annexing to itself a conquered territory and people, it becomes useless for the purpose for which it was divinely ordained and may no longer count upon a favoring Providence.
DANIEL WEBSTER gave utterance to these forcible words: “If clergymen in our day would return to the simplicity of gospel truth and preach more to individuals and less to the crowd, there would not be so much complaint of the decline of true religion. Many of the ministers of the present day take their text from St. Paul and preach from the newspapers. When they do so, I prefer to enjoy my own thoughts rather than listen. I want my pastor to come to me in the spirit of the gospel, saying: ‘You are mortal. Your probation is brief. Your work must be done speedily. . . . You are hastening to the bar of God. The Judge standeth before the door.’”
Studies in French History—29.
By MRS. L. D. AVERY-STUTTLE.
“Who was the Duke of Bedford?” asked Charlie White, as the scholars took their places in the pleasant class room. “Rob and I both got a little mixed over that point.”
“Can any of my girls or boys help him out? if so, don’t be afraid to speak,” replied the teacher.
“I was a little uncertain on this very point, and so I asked Aunt Eunice,” said Julia March. “She said that the Duke of Bedford was the man whom the king of England—Henry Fifth—before he died, appointed to act as ruler in France till the baby king of England grew up big enough.”
“That is quite good, Julia. I’m glad you care enough about these lessons to ask questions about them. Now we will go on with our lesson about Jeanne Darc, or Joan of Arc, as she is sometimes called.
“Charles VII. was an extremely selfish and ungrateful fellow, for he made no effort to do anything for the poor creature who had done so much for him,—not even offering a ransom for the devoted maid, who had risked all for love of her country and her king. The English duke dared not put her to death, for he feared as well as hated her. So he did a contemptible thing; he set human blood-hounds,—the bishops of the church,—upon her track.”
“I don’t see what right the bishops had to meddle with the matter,” protested Joe Palmeter, indignantly.
“They ought not to have had anything to do with it, Joseph, but alas! they did,—they did; and they pretended to find some trouble with her religious belief. At least they did not agree with her in every particular, and this was sufficient to send her to the stake.”
“You don’t mean to say, professor, that this is the reason she was burned,” said Florence Ray.
“They made it an excuse, and over her head the cruel bishop wrote the words, ‘Heretic, Apostate, Idolator.’ The work of the Maid of Orleans, as she was also called, did not stop at her death,” continued the teacher, “but it was taken up by others,—the Count of Richmond taking a prominent part, until the country was all retaken from the English, and Charles the Victorious, as he was called, marched into Paris a proud conqueror.”
“Who was the Count of Richmond, professor?” asked Will Palmeter. “You say he acted a prominent part in the retaking of France from England.”
“He had been Constable of France, but on account of some jealousies had been banished. Charles finally sent for him and made him prime minister.”
“I can’t see how France could prosper enough to become free while the Burgundians and Armagnacs were quarreling among themselves,” commented Julia March.
“I’m glad you spoke of that point, Julia, I was forgetting to mention that these two factions had about become tired of fighting each other, so the Burgundians became reconciled to their own king, and Charles forgave them. However, it is almost doubtful whether France would have recovered herself, had it not been for the help given to Charles by a very rich merchant, who helped him to large sums of money. But as was his disposition always, he was very ungrateful to him.
“This, you must remember, was in the fifteenth century.
“It seems almost impossible that only about 400 years ago there could have been such dreadful crimes committed and left unpunished as these were. The most horrible crimes were tolerated, provided the actors were only of noble blood,—and yet we can see something of the same condition of things to-day, not only in this country, but all over the world. Juries and judges are bribed, and money frees the greatest villains very often, even to-day; it seems to me indeed that truth has fallen in the streets. History tells us of a man who puts his own brother in prison and starved him to death; of an inhuman son who forced his old father to walk through the snow a long way, only to be imprisoned in a loathsome dungeon at his journey’s end; and of a wretch who cruelly murdered 100 innocent children. Although this man was executed finally, yet he was shown some clemency on account of his noble blood.”
“Well, Professor Carman, I very much prefer a noble character to all the noble blood in the world,” said Julia March.
“Was King Charles always just as lazy and indolent as he was when Jeanne Darc had to coax him to go to Rheims to be crowned?” asked Jennie Jacobs.
“No; he seemed to become quite an energetic fellow along in middle life, and it was well for the country that he did. The year 1453 saw the entire country taken from the English, only Calais and a little bit of land around it. So at last the hundred years’ war was over, and poor bleeding France might again breathe freely.
“But Charles now began to have trouble of a serious nature right in his own family. His oldest son, the Dauphin, Louis, tormented him in many ways, till at last the king became demented like his ill-fated father, Charles VI., and imagined that the dauphin was trying to poison him; so he refused to eat, and after a few days of suffering, died.
“Now,” continued the professor, earnestly, “as examination day is approaching, I must speak a word of warning. I hope none of you are studying simply to pass. If this is your highest motive, it would be better to stop where you are. I trust your object is the more noble one of so improving the talents given you that you may be better fitted for usefulness.”
Charlie White glanced a little uneasily at his friend Rob, who blushed deeply; and on the road home, if you and I had followed them, we would have heard him say:
“Look here, Charlie, I’m afraid I’m thinking more about that trip to Paris than any higher motive.”
“That’s so,” replied Charlie. “Say, Rob, let’s try to forget all about going, till after examination.”
MRS. L. D. AVERY-STUTTLE.
Sunday Closing in Brewer, Maine.
“Bangor Daily News,” June 27.
THERE is a strange condition of affairs in Brewer now, as a result of the effort to have all the stores, except drug stores, remain closed during Sundays.
A petition to the mayor last week, asking that the law against transacting unnecessary business on Sunday be enforced, resulted in City Marshal Fickets making a tour of the city on Saturday and notifying the dealers who have been keeping open shop on Sundays to close up in the future.
The dealers didn’t like it a little bit, but it was thought that they would obey the order and keep their doors locked on Sunday.
They didn’t close, however, for there was no time Sunday when a person could not have purchased anything that he wished in the way of ice cream, soda, cigars and groceries, and it must be said that many—yes, a great many Brewer people availed themselves of the opportunities, as they have for years past; and appeared glad that the order had not been obeyed.
It is understood that the signers of the petition are going to do their utmost to have the law enforced, while on the other hand the business men affected by the order say that they will make a fight.
Said one of the business men: “If they make us close our stores on Sunday, which is our best day, we’ll take a hand at having the old Blue Laws enforced. They’ve no right to say that the soda and cigar stores shall be closed, but that the drug stores can keep open. The law doesn’t give the drug stores the right to sell cigars and soda on Sunday, while the straight cigar and soda places must close.
“Another point if they persist in closing us up, we will see what we can do about closing business of all kinds, stables, drug stores, street cars, milk wagons and bakeries, and I guess we can stop Sunday pleasure riding and walking.
“Yes, sir; I think we can be able to give them all the Blue Laws they want.”
A CIGAR dealer of South Norwalk, Conn., was recently fined for selling cigars on Sunday, the judge of the court holding that tobacco is not a necessity of life, and hence cannot be included among the things exempt from the law. In this the judge has struck out one of the absurdities of the Sunday law,—that which allows the sale of tobacco and forbids the sale of bread—but the unjust principle of Sunday laws is not made any better by relieving them of their inconsistencies.
The Millennium On Earth And In Heaven.
By F. B.
“WHERE do men get the idea of a millennium on earth, mama?”
“The only place where the word millennium is found in the Bible is the 20th chapter of Revelation, where it is translated ‘a thousand years.’”
“Yes, I have read the chapter,” said Charlie.
“Do you understand it?”
“No; not fully.”
“Hand me the Bible, then, and find the place.—Who have a part in the first resurrection?”
“The blessed and holy,” said Charlie.
“What is the resurrection of the blessed and holy, called?”
“The first resurrection.”
“How long before the rest of the dead are raised?”
Charlie read, “The rest of the dead lived not again till the thousand years were finished.”
“Then you see clearly that there is a millennium, or a thousand years, between the resurrection of the righteous and of the wicked?”
“Yes, mama.”
“Now when does the resurrection of the blessed and the holy take place?”
“When Christ comes. I remember reading, ‘The Lord himself shall descend . . . and the dead in Christ shall rise first.’” 1 Thess. 4:16.
“The next verse says, that those who are raised from the dead at that time will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air. Now if they are caught away to be with the Lord at the beginning of the thousand years, who will be left to have a millennium on earth?”
“The wicked dead, and Satan and his hosts.”
“That is right. And how do you think they will enjoy the millennium?”
“Not very much, mama. It says an angel comes down from heaven and lays hold on Satan, and binds him for a thousand years in the bottomless pit. Does that mean the earth?”
“Yes, it is the same word that is translated ‘deep’ in the first chapter of Genesis, where the earth is described in a state of chaos. Darkness, desolation, and death will surround him who has deceived the nations of the429dead. This is the kind of a millennium that will be on earth; but it is not the only millennium; for there is a millennium in heaven. How long do the saints reign with Christ?”
“And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.”
“This is the reign that Satan hates. He who hated and defied the law of God, and sought to set up a rival government, to make his authority supreme on earth, will have the bitter privilege of pondering on the results of rebellion against omnipotent love.”
“And mama, will it subdue him, and cause him to repent?”
“No Charlie. He repents his failure, and laments the results; but knows nothing but hatred against God and his law.”
“Then why does God let him live on?”
“For our sakes, for the sake of the universe. We are to judge the world, to judge the fallen angels. When the death-sentence is finally executed, the whole universe will cry, ‘True and righteous are thy judgments.’”
“At the end of the thousand years, the camp of the saints, the beloved city, the New Jerusalem, will be found on earth. Some day the glorious city, with walls of jasper, garnished with all manner of precious stones, will come glittering down from heaven. The chaos of earth will present one plain of order for the beautiful city. The saints of the most High will be within, the Lamb will be the light of it. Then the voice of the son of God will break the long silence of the grave and the hosts of the wicked will be raised that they may fully understand the malignity of evil, and the goodness of love. But this revelation, despised during probationary years, will not change their spirit after death and the resurrection, though it will compel them to acknowledge the love of God, and to assent to the vindication of the Most High.”
“As soon as they are raised from the dead, Satan is loosed out of his prison for a little season. And now, Charlie, what does he do?” Rev. 20:7,8.
“‘And when the thousand years are expired Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go out to deceive the nations, which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: The number of whom is as the sand of the sea.’”
“Whatever does he think he can do with the nations, mama?”
“He thinks, or at least, he makes the nations think, that they can still war against God, that they can still make the earth a kingdom of hell, capture the city and the saints of God, overcome Him who once was crucified for the world’s sin, and wrest from heaven the planet earth, so that never can God’s will be done on earth. Now read the first part of the ninth verse.”
“‘And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city.’”
“What a scene that will be, Charlie. Around that glorious city whose builder and maker is God, will stand the hosts of evil. The same contrast will be seen between them and the redeemed as will appear between the city and the desolated earth. Through the transparent walls of the New Jerusalem, the rebel armies will see the holy people, radiant in light and love. They will behold the king in his beauty. What a contrast will they present! Marked with evil, scarred with sin, sorrow, sickness and death, ruled by the tyrant king, the deception of hell will be masked, and the end of delusions be made manifest. Rage and horror will mingle in the acknowledgment of God’s justice and love; but the fire of heaven will fall upon the refuse of the kingdoms. Please finish the verse.”
“‘And fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.’”
“This will be the last event of the millennium. Then the universe will ring with untold praise and joy; for God’s kingdom will have come, his will be the law of all worlds, the will of every creature.” F. B.
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