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Religious Miscellany.

EFFECT OF THE REVIVAL.—The Vallejo Chronicle says: “The result of the late religious revival was not great so far as expressed in the number of those who have joined the church. Six persons have united with the Presbyterian society, four with the Methodist, and two or three will probably join the [first-day] Adventists. There have been no additions to the Congregational or Baptist churches.” We were informed that not all the ten who joined were the fruit of the revival, as some united by letter. The union meetings in San Francisco shrunk to small proportions when Mr. Hammond left. The Oakland Tribune noticing this said their religion needed constant “boosting.” These “great revivals” are merely sensational, and depend for success on the stimulus of a great name or of good acting. When the man is gone the power is gone, and the excitement dies.

MEXICO ON ROMANISM.—The law recently passed by the Mexican Congress contains the following provisions: All the Roman Catholic Church buildings are made the property of the State, and only a certain number are allowed to persons of the Roman Catholic faith in each city or town. Sunday is made a legal day of rest; public feast-days are abolished; the Sisters of Charity banished, and in future no man or woman can wear a religious habit in the street.

—The Pacific Advocate says: Dr. H. Barber, of Lower Lake, has been driven to insanity by spiritism. He was sent to the asylum on Tuesday.

—The Universalists twenty-five years ago had five churches in Boston, and now they have but two.

—The Annual Report of the Missionary Society of the M. E. Church shows that the total receipts of that Society from 1853 to 1873 was $10,131,046.51, more than one third of which has been spent upon home missions. Its receipts for the last year were $688,000.

—The Congregationalist Quarterly says that the membership of that denomination is 330,391. Last year they lost in Vermont, once the stronghold of that church, 506; in Illinois 113; and in New Hampshire 68. But they gained in other fields. Their contributions fell off $25,000.

THE FIRST AMERICAN CARDINAL.

Bishop McCloskey of New York, has just been elevated to the rank of a Cardinal by the Pope of Rome. As he is the first one in America who has ever received that high honor, it has naturally attracted much attention. Some assert that is done with a view to prepare the way for the pope to remove to this country.

A Cardinal occupies the highest rank in the Roman church next to the pope, who must always be elected from the Cardinals. Hence the way is now open for McCloskey to the popedom.

At the ceremony of bestowing the red hat upon Bishop McCloskey, representatives were present from all parts of the Union. A number of front seats were reserved for the invited guests, and among those seated in them were Chief Justice Daly, Judge Donohoe, District Attorney Phelps, Sinclair Toucey, Collector Arthur, Hon. Thomas Murphy, and many other well-known citizens.

Thus this old persecuting power is steadily and rapidly gaining numbers, influence, and popularity in our government. Its influence will soon be felt.

MONASTIC INSTITUTIONS AND THE CIVIL LAW.

In Portugal monasteries have been abolished; in Sweden and Norway they are not tolerated. The Spanish Cortez, in 1868, suppressed the monasteries, but in 1872 they were sanctioned again. Since 1864 in Russia, the entry into monastic orders and the admission of novices cannot take place without the consent of the local civil authorities. In Austria recent legislation has greatly limited the independence which monastic institutions formerly enjoyed. In Switzerland they have been put under strict surveillance, and in some cantons suppressed. In Italy their property has been confiscated, and the members pensioned as a compensation for the loss of their livings. In Germany the Jesuits and other kindred orders have been dissolved, and the members banished. There is no Imperial law affecting the orders generally. The French government is disposed to be tolerant in its supervision of monastic orders, and yet does keep them under its observation.—N. Y. Methodist.

FOREIGN.

GERMANY—BERLIN, April 30.—The Emperor has given his assent to the introduction of a bill abolishing religious orders in Prussia.

—One of the issues between Germany and the Pope is that Germany wants the State to be permitted to nominate Bishops, but the pope doesn’t acquiesce.

—Moody and Sankey continue to draw large crowds to their revival meeting in London.

—The criminal part of the Catholic population in Scotland is over 37 per 1,000; and that of the rest of the population is a little over 7 per 1,000.

—According to statistics obtained from Protestant sources, 30,000 Spaniards have been converted to Protestantism since 1868. The Protestant chapels in Madrid and elsewhere in the country remain open.

—The Bible Society of England issued last year 10,101 Hebrew New Testaments, for Poland 89,413 Irish New Testaments, 1,627,517 Welsh Bibles, 98,224 Arabic, 379,526 Spanish, 4,383,527 French, and 1,175,118 Swedish.

—The Seventh-day Baptists of America have decided to send Eld. Wardner, one of their ablest men, as a missionary to Scotland in the interest of the Sabbath cause.

EUROPEAN SITUATION.

“Four years have passed since the treaty of Versailles, and what do we see? All Europe is a vast camp of preparation for war. Every great nation on the continent enrolls its whole male population, and counts its available troops by millions. Every one feels that war is only a question of time, and that when war comes it will be on such a scale that all Europe will be drenched in blood. And what is the cause that impels one nation after another to thus assume almost intolerable burdens in preparation for what is in itself one of the greatest of calamities? It is France’s unquenchable desire for revenge on Germany. That passion is now so strong and so deep, that the one condition exacted of every French Government is that it shall prepare the nation for attacking Germany; the one thing in which no Administration dares fail is in augmenting the military force. Germany, in counter preparation, decrees larger levies and heavier taxes; Austria takes the alarm and follows the example; so does Russia; so does Italy. The young men of the whole continent are being trained to butcher each other. National wealth is diverted from peaceful industry to be swallowed up in wholesale destruction. Liberty and social progress are postponed to military exigencies. And, in due time, sufferings unspeakable will fall on soldiers in the field and families at home. And all to satiate the flame of national hate.”

So says the Christian Union of March 10, 1875, and so say all the papers. The nations are all preparing for war on a gigantic scale. In this we see a fulfillment of Rev. 11:18; Joel 3:9–12. D. M. CANRIGHT.

News and Miscellany.

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—The army worm has made its appearance in the vicinity of Sacramento.

—During the month of April the the Central Pacific Railroad carried 10,649 passengers, of which 8,206 were westward bound, and 2,443 eastward.

—A gentleman left a small valise containing a large sum of money in one of the Oakland and Brooklyn street cars. It was returned by John Shay, the driver, who refused reward. He seems to be as modest as he is honest.

—In reply to a recent anti-Papal manifesto on Karl Blind, Garibaldi writes: "I believe there is not in all the world a country less Catholic than Italy. Government and the upper classes affect a Catholic devotion which they do not feel. As to the masses of the people they neither do believe in Catholicism; and in the Popish churches one only sees bigoted old women."

New York, May 7.—A Washington dispatch says the rapid increase of silver coinage within a short time causes some Treasury officers to think that the Secretary will begin paying out silver in lieu of fractional currency before the meeting of Congress in December next. It is estimated that by the last of June (the end of the present fiscal year) there will be about six million dollars in silver coin in the Treasury, and that by the 1st of September there will be fully ten millions. With this amount it is believed that the Secretary will feel that he can safely begin to put into operation the law authorizing silver coin to be paid out and fractional currency withdrawn.

The Russian Tartars.—It is reported from St. Petersburg that the wholesale emigration of Tartars from the Crimea, on account of the new law of universal military service, has been checked by a decree from the Czar, ordering that the Tartars who have been recruited this year shall be formed into a special squadron. The order has satisfied the Tartars, whose chief objection to military service was that they were drafted into regiments of Russians, where they were not enabled to hold Mohammedan religious services. According to the census of 1870, Russia has 2,364,034 Mohammedan subjects, of whom 127,682 live in the Crimea. The Jews of Podolia and Volhynia have sent a petition to the government to attach synagogues to the barracks where the Jewish soldiers live.

Girls' School in Egypt.—The school for girls lately established by the third wife of the Khedive of Egypt, which is one of the greatest innovations the country of the Pharaohs has ever seen, is turning out a great success. The lady bought a large house in a thickly peopled locality, near the dancing dervishes, erected around it a quadrangle of spacious buildings, handed them over to the Education Department, but she defrays the whole cost of maintenance. The school is free to all, and when it had been open only four months there were two hundred and six boarders and one hundred day scholars, all Arabs or slaves. They discard the Oriental veil, and are dressed in frocks, pinafores, and shoes, English fashion, and they sit, not squatting on the ground, but at desks.

—The Coinage of the San Francisco Mint since January 1, amounts to $10,036,000, of the following descriptions: double eagles, $7,900,000; half eagles, $20,000; trade dollars, $1,486,000; half dollars, $356,000; dimes, $274,000. The total coinage of the Mint since the beginning of the fiscal year aggregates $26,622,000, of which $23,320,000, was in gold coin, and $1,619,000 in trade dollars.

—"Have you ever read the 'Ancient Mariner?'" asked Rev. Mr. Spurgeon one day, of his congregation. "I dare say you thought it one of the strangest imaginations ever put together, especially that part where the mariner represents the corpses of all dead men rising to man the ship; dead men pulling the ropes; dead men steering; dead men spreading the sails. I thought what a strange idea that was. But do you know that I have lived to see it done? I have gone into churches; I have seen a dead man in the pulpit; a dead man as a deacon; a dead man handing the plate; and dead men sitting to hear."

—"I am missionary in my nursery," once observed a Christian mother. "Six pairs of little eyes are daily watching mamma's looks, as well as listening to her words; and I wish my children never to see in me that which they may not imitate."

—Here is one of President Porter's sermons to the Yale students. He could not have made more of it if he had preached an hour: "Don't drink. Don't chew. Don't smoke. Don't swear. Don't deceive. Don't read novels. Don't marry until you can support a wife. Be earnest. Be self-reliant. Be generous. Be civil. Read the papers. Advertise your business. Make money and do good with it. Love God and your fellow-men."

—Prof. Kedzie, of the Agricultural College, has recently been engaged in investigating syrups. He explained to the editor of the Leslie Herald a few days since that golden and silver drips and other choice syrups could be made of starch, copperas, lime, and other similar ingredients, and said that out of seventeen different specimens of best syrups purchased of Jackson dealers, "all but two contained abominations."

—The Queen Dowager of Bavaria, who recently joined the Roman Catholic church, has ordered the construction, at her own expense, of a new Catholic church at Munich, which will cost 340,000 marks (£17,000). The Municipal Council of Munich had refused previously to construct the church, as the town has already quite sufficient church accommodations.

—It is estimated that a million and a half illustrated tracts, defending Hindooism and abusing Christianity are in circulation in Upper India.

—A wood-cutter employed on the farm of Mr. Knowles, of Seneca township, Canada, recently discovered a polished stone tomahawk embedded in the wood of an oak tree. It is supposed to have been accidentally left in the side of an oak tree, when it was a sapling, and its growth into a tree finally covered the weapon. From the rings counted on the tree, it was stuck there 101 years ago.

—Mr. Samuel R. Wells, the well known founder and publisher of the Phrenological Journal, and the writer and publisher of a number of books on physiological and sanitary topics, died in New York of typhoid fever on the 14th instant. He was an ardent advocate of vegetarianism and tetotalism, and had lectured on these and other subjects.

What American Children Eat.—A correspondent writes: "While visiting a school in Montreal, I asked the teacher 'if there were any American children there?' She said, 'Yes, and she could tell them by their pale faces, bright eyes, and nervousness. They learned quickly, but lost so many days during the term that they did not get on as fast as those who were able to be at school regularly.' He also took occasion to examine their luncheon baskets, and found the American fare to consist of a piece of mince pie, a piece of pound cake, two doughnuts, a pickle, and a cold sausage; while the English, Irish, and Scotch children had either two days' old bread, with meat, or bread and butter, or bread and apple with nothing else."—Herald of Health.

Finding and Doing Life’s Work

WHETHER I am happy or unhappy is not my chief affair; what most and first concerns me is to find my work in life, to recognise it, and to do it.

A Mystery.

By James White

In the World's Crisis, of April 21, is a notice by "M. G." of the great union revival meetings in San Francisco, under Mr. Hammond. In this report "M. G." says :—

"The denominational walls are as flat as were those of Jericho, when they fell in the time of Joshua. Every Christian is now allowed to unite with every other Christian in the glorious work of leading sinners to Christ. There is no sacrifice of any peculiar theological views, but a sweet loving union of hearts."

A lay brother once spoke in a "union meeting" in San Francisco, of his love for Jesus, and the "blessed hope" of soon seeing him at his coming in glory, and he brought three ministers to their feet who in an excited and indignant manner said, "We must ignore this doctrine—we cannot permit such things in our meetings."

In Vallejo at the recent "union meetings," while the views of others, such as believe in the world's conversion, natural immortality, and endless torment were freely spoken, those Adventists who attended were obliged to exercise a care to keep their "peculiar theological views" in the back ground. All this gives an air of mystery to the report in the Crisis. In the San Francisco Chronicle, a short time before the Crisis' report was written, appeared the following interesting notice :—

Mr. Editor: Through the medium of your valuable paper I would ask what constitutes a union meeting? All orthodox churches have been invited to participate and take a part in the exercises. And one would suppose that a spirit of love such as actuated the Great Teacher, would be manifested. But a careful observer will not fail to notice the silence which they maintain to one of their number, who for mental ability, and biblical research, has not his equal on the Pacific Coast. And, as yet, no place has been assigned him; never called upon to pray or to speak. On several occasions when he has attempted to do so, Mr. Hammond has taken particular pains to call upon others (after he has heard his voice) to fill up the time, that he may not be heard. Is that Christian courtesy? It has become so notorious, and commented upon, in behalf of others I would ask, why is it? If they are honest and sincere, why this discrepancy? Truly, a casual observer will notice that this bond of unsectarian love that has, to a certain extent, prevailed throughout these meetings, is undergoing a very material change under the influence of a spirit which is the opposite of brotherly love. Surely, a spirit of unison, that should characterize these meetings from beginning to end, should have for its foundation, charity. Why ask a minister on the platform and then treat him with such indifference that he not only feels it, but the public discerns it. OBSERVER.

Who can "put that and that together" so as to relieve the mystery. It appears from this that an "eminent divine" has been snubbed by Mr. Hammond, and this so that "he feels it," and "the public discerns it," yet "M. G." reports no sacrifice of any one's peculiar views, but a sweet union of hearts in these meetings. Has he less discernment than "the public" in this particular case, or was the report in the Crisis "calculated for the latitude of Boston" and not that of San Francisco? Who can explain?

Personally or denominationally we have no interest in the case of the individual mentioned in the above notice, but we have an interest that the truth should be known; that people should understand that "the blessed hope" of the gospel is ignored in the so-called "union meetings." This will explain why Seventh-day Adventists have no part in them. It justifies our course and relieves us from the charge of sectarian exclusiveness; for while popular denominations fully speak their views in these meetings, we cannot do so without subjecting ourselves to open rebuke, even though our views are Scriptural, and the expression of them clothed in the very language of Scripture. True reformers have always preferred truth to "union." It was so with Jesus and his apostles; so with Luther; so with Wesley; and we are willing to follow their example. J. H. W.

San Francisco.

ALL will be gratified to learn that positive measures are being taken by the church in San Francisco, to secure a suitable place of worship. After considerable searching for a site, a lot 75 by 103 feet has been purchased for $6,000. It is in the best part of the city, being a little out of the din of business, and is yet easily accessible by two main street-car lines. It is but two or three blocks from where the tent stood last fall.

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A Personal God.

THERE are many people who hold what are called liberal views of religion, who can no longer pray. They have nobody to pray to since they have drifted away from all belief in the personality of God. Nobody can pray to a law of nature, or a force of nature, or to all the laws and forces of the universe together, if these laws and forces are to him impersonal. They do not hear, they cannot pity; they move on inexorably, and have neither knowledge nor love. If a man who has lost the sense of the personality of God tries to pray, the utterance is all on one side. There can be no response, no communion. Such prayer is a speech made at nothing; and so far an unreality and a pretence, that such praying is scarcely ever done in secret. The men who do not believe in the personality of God, and who yet conform to the custom of prayer, necessarily do their praying in public, where they can be heard by their fellow men.

Theological Seminaries.

In a lecture before the students of Union Theological Seminary in January last, on the Conditions of Success in Preaching without Notes, R. S. Storrs, D. D., spoke as follows in reference to the work of the ordinary theological seminary:—

"Theological seminaries at present threaten the destruction of sacred oratory. But few men in the pulpit learn how to preach until they have forgotten all they learned in their respective seminaries concerning the objects and methods of preaching. Commonly their teachers are eminently godly and discreet, but cold, precise, and technical. Having failed in catching or holding the popular ear, they have been themselves retired from pulpits to fill professional chairs. With a sanctified dullness and an immaculate formalism of authority, which compels submission to official dignity, these teachers of sacred oratory proceed along the old ruts, and educate ministers to write abstract essays, subjective disquisitions, and modulated platitudes which are, when written, nearly worthless as sermons. The granulated dust of Egyptian mummies is quite as vital with power as the sermons which the majority of theological students are taught to prepare and deliver."

Spirit of Persecution.

By James White

A CORRESPONDENT takes exception to the article of Bro. Lamson entitled, "I'm a Stiff Methodist." He thinks the spirit manifested by the individuals referred to is so seldom found among professed Christians that it is unjust to present them as evidence of its existence to any large extent. Had the objector been on the ground he would know that these were only examples, and hardly the worst manifestations of intolerant bigotry shown by church members; and they were publicly and privately backed up by more than one preacher. In truth, the instances, of courtesy, not to speak of Christian kindness, were the exceptions in the neighborhood, instead of the rule.

Many misjudge our statements as well as our motives when we record the unchristian course pursued by opposers of the commandments of God, because they have never come in conflict with the spirit of intolerance which is almost everywhere existing, though not always apparent. So the many prophets of Israel might have rebuked Elijah for so strongly condemning the course of Ahab and Jezebel. But had they placed themselves openly against popular wrongs as Elijah did, they would soon have learned to appreciate his work, and would have justified his words. We had no idea of the prevalence of religious bigotry until we endeavored to separate ourselves from popular errors. We recommend our friend more carefully to read Rev. 13 : 11-18. J. H. W.

A Riddle Solved.

By T. L. Hatch

'Tis said a sage in days of yore, Proud of the glossy cue he wore, Did wonder much, and sorrow more, Because it hung behind him.

And, musing on his hapless case, He vowed the cue should change its place, And hang before his handsome face, Not dangling there behind him.

Says he, "The way to do't I've found! I'll turn me round; he turned him round, And round, and round, and round, and round; But still it hung behind him,

And round, and round, and out and in, All day the puzzled sage did spin In vain; it mattered not a pin, His cue yet hung behind him.

And though his efforts never slack, And though he twist, and twirl, and tack, There in its place, upon his back, His cue still hangs behind him.

So reads the riddle; thus 'tis solved: The Puritan of yore resolved To make last, first; and then revolved To bring before behind him,

He was this sage, so wondrous wise, Who thought God's order to revise, And bring that round before his eyes, Which should be left behind him.

The Sabbath law he sought to change— With twist and turn, tried to arrange, To bring before him—O how strange! A day that was behind him.

To rest before his work begun! And turn a seven into one! He's whirled, and twisted, tacked and spun; But still he finds behind him,

The day he wants to find before; And seven is seven, forevermore, And one is one—and, as of yore, His cue still hangs behind him.

—T. L. Hatch, in Sabbath Recorder.

Three Reasons for Rejoicing.

By Joseph Clarke

First reason. That there is a consistent system of revealed truth. Such a system as is revealed in the Bible manifesting the goodness of God, vindicating his mercy as well as his justice, a system consistent with reason and equity, and a system clear and plain to the smallest capacity, yet too deep for the loftiest human intellect [unsanctified] revealing the character of Jehovah, and his intentions and plans in the future, and revealing too the character, and destiny, and obligations, as well as the perils of mankind.

Second reason. That God does in all ages raise up men to proclaim his messages to fallen man.

Amid the night of error and sin suddenly appear the messengers of Jehovah, impelled by the Spirit of truth, led and protected by the God of Abraham. No labor or toil disheartens them, no opposition or persecution avails to stop their onward course. God will do his work, though Satan and wicked men league to defeat.

Third reason. That some few at least have ears to hear.

A remnant, “as the gleaning of grapes when the vintage is done,” a few here and there. So God will have his witnesses. Praise his holy name! Who of us will endure unto the end? Who will stand the test? To such as go through to Mt. Zion, how glorious the reward! Let us try.

JOSEPH CLARKE.

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Bro. and Sister White left Oakland for the East, April 29. We suppose they arrived in Battle Creek, Mich., May 5. We were in hope to hear from them after their arrival before this paper went to press, but have received no tidings yet.