THREE hundred years ago, beyond the memory of the very oldest person you ever knew, there ruled over the great empire of Russia a czar, known amongst his people as the “Good Ivan.” They called him “good,” for he took more interest than many of their rulers had done in the welfare and wants of his people, and he would not trust for information as to their needs to the lords and councillors who surrounded his throne, or to the rulers who sent in their reports from the provinces, but he was glad of dressing himself up in various disguises and wandering here and there amongst the peasantry, and in this way he learned what was thought of himself and his method of government, in a manner that his people little suspected.
One cold winter’s night, when few ventured abroad, the czar, dressed like a miserable beggar, wandered through the streets of a small village, not far from Moscow. He leant on a staff, as though footsore and weary, and begged for bread in a dolorous whine. Although he tried cottage after cottage, no one gave it him; he was so poor and shabby that they scarcely gave him a civil answer.
Tired out at last, he turned to leave for the night, when he spied a miserable hut with a single rush-light in the window, and resolved to try once more; he begged for a night’s lodging and a few broken victuals. The peasant bade him enter and share his meal, “Although,” he added, “you have come at a rare bad time; the wife is ill, a newborn babe lies by her side, and there are five other hungry mouths to feed.”
The czar entered, and ate with them the coarse, unpalatable fare, and watched the peasant put his children to bed and tend his poor sick wife.
He asked to see the baby, and held it awhile in his arms, and then went to sleep as best he could on the rough, mud-plastered floor. Don’t you wonder how he slept, and whether he wished himself back in the purple-curtained royal bed in the magnificent palace of Moscow?
However, he was awake with the dawn, and said to the peasant ere he left: “Wait in the cottage for three or four hours; I know a rich man in the city, and I will hobble in and tell him your case; I think he’ll stand god-father to this little babe of yours, and then he will give you a present, and reward you for all you have done for me.”
The peasant thought very little of this promise from a shabby beggar-man, but, as his wife was weak and ailing, and there was not much work to do, he readily promised not to leave the house all the morning.
By and by, when a couple of hours had passed, a great shouting and rumbling was heard in the streets of the tiny village, and the children ran in from the road and called their father, telling him the czar’s grand carriage and prancing horses were passing by, and begging him to come and look at them. The poor peasant rose wearily, caring little to see the grandeur, which so painfully contrasted with his own miserable poverty; but as he reached the door, he stood terrified and amazed to see the royal carriage standing still, and the great czar, in his richly-furred robes, advancing towards him.
“Good-morrow, friend,” said the czar, smiling graciously. “How is the good wife now, and where is the little babe that is to be my godchild?”
The poor peasant stammered and bent to the ground in great confusion, but Ivan raised him, and insisted on fulfilling his promise, and claiming the infant as his godchild.
“I must enrich the little one with a gift,” he said, “and I will by and by take him into my palace, and train him for my service. He shall grow up in my presence, and learn to behave as my son.”
And I need scarcely tell you that with the “Good Ivan” a promise was a promise, and was fulfilled to the very letter.
Does not this true story of the Russian king carry you back in thought to that other King who—more, far more than three hundred years ago—came in the garb of a carpenter’s son, to visit His people, and to help them in their needs, their sorrows, and their temptations?—Selected.
UMBRELLA ANTS.
By Santa Claus
IN Mexico they have some queer ants. Eleanor P. Allen says that as she was walking along a Mexican road that was overhung with a great many bushes, she came to a stone bridge across a narrow stream. A diagonal stripe of dark green, more than a foot wide, lay across the solid low stone parapet that protected the bridge, and wandered off beyond into the roadway. The children with us were amused and delighted to see a vast army of tiny ants come marching over the wall and down into the road.
Each one of the little creatures carried in a fore-paw(?) up over its head a circular bit of leaf about the size of a very small pea.
They marched in perfect order, and were marshaled by outside guards, who did not carry the little green leaf, but, instead, attended to the procession. They were umbrella ants. They cut these circular plates with their nippers from the leaves of certain trees, and these ants were in the act of carrying them to their nests. There they paste them (with a secretion of their own) one above another, like fish-scales, to their walls, and so make a firm and dry lining to their sand houses.—Santa Claus.
MAIL CARRIED BY A DOG.
By Ohio Farmer
ONE day the postmaster of a small suburb of Bismarck, S. D., wanted to send word to his brother in town, but did not want to make the trip. It occurred to him to try the dog. He wrote a letter and tied it around the dog's neck, pointing the dog's nose toward Bismarck, and then told him to go. He trotted off a short distance and then turned about to see what else was wanted. Some of the small boys showered stones at him, and he ran on to Bismarck. Next day he returned with an answer tied on his neck, and he showed that he had been well treated. The experiment was repeated, each time with success and additional dignity on the part of the dog.
As soon as it became known that Dorsey could be depended upon, requests were constantly made by the miners to send their mail by him. The loads soon increased, and it became evident that they could not tie on all the letters. The miners then ordered a handsome little mail-bag and fitted it to the dog's shoulders. It is fastened around his chest by one strap and around his body, back of the forelegs, by another. He has never349missed a trip for about three years or lost a letter. Now, when the stage comes in, he gets up, stretches himself, walks to the post-office, waits to have the mail strapped on him, and starts off as soon as he is told all is ready. He will go a long way around to avoid meeting a stranger, seeming to realize the importance of his mission.—Ohio Farmer.
The Home Circle.
By E. G. Cheverton
LOVE IS LIGHT.
“AT EVENTIDE IT SHALL BE LIGHT.”
My little girl so brave by day
Grows timid as the shadows fall—
I cannot charm her fears away;
My reasons have no force at all.
She pleads, with all her childish might,
That she may have a light.
I calm her fears, and stroke her hair;
I tell her of the angels near—
Of God, whose love is everywhere,
And Christ, to whom each child is dear.
She hears, but only clasps me tight,
And begs me for a light.
But when I say it cannot be,
And strive to make her understand
Just why, she makes another plea—
That I will stay and hold her hand.
She whispers, as we kiss good-night,
“That’s better than a light.”
And thus content, she falls asleep.
My clasp grows closer on her hand—
Musing, God doth his wisdom keep
In childish lips. I understand
That, in that other, darker night,
’Tis love that makes it light.
I, too, have shrunk in childish dread
From that dumb darkness that doth creep
And thicken round the dying bed,
And, fearful, felt I could not sleep
Without a light. I understand
’Tis light to hold Love’s hand.
—E. G. Cheverton.
AN EASY OCCUPATION.
HERE is a suggestion which those who are helping poor women to help themselves may find useful: Any woman in the United States who will take the trouble to write to the silk bureau of the Department of Agriculture in April, with a request for silk-worm eggs, will receive a quarter of an ounce of them, which will contain about 9,000, in a little box. The department will also furnish information as to the best and most approved method for preparing and raising the cocoons. Cocoons are now worth over $1.00 a pound. When the great demand for cocoons arrives, as it surely will before long, some of those interested in the matter at the Department of Agriculture seem to think that more than 100,000 women will find very profitable employment in supplying these cocoons to the silk factories in this country. In France every farmer’s wife raises a few pounds of cocoons every spring, and makes money by selling them, and in this way mainly is the silk crop in that country grown. There are few occupations more easy or agreeable for a woman than the raising of cocoons. We have already pointed out the possible moral benefit of introducing cocoon culture into our women’s reformatories,—the humanizing effect of an interest in living creatures. The refining and elevating influence upon women who have committed no crime, yet who are hardly less rigidly shut in by poverty from all uplifting influences, is a consideration worth thinking of.—Exchange.
Health and Temperance.
FERMENTED OR UNFERMENTED WINE AT COMMUNION?
WHETHER fermented or unfermented wine shall be used at the Lord's Supper has been the subject of much discussion, and does not seem to be settled yet. If men had let reason prevail over appetite in this discussion, there would have been no difficulty; but, as is usually the case, they have sought to find proof that would coincide with their desires. No man likes to live under condemnation for any practice; therefore if he is determined to follow it, he will at once prove, to his own satisfaction at least, that the practice is correct, and will try to persuade others to the same idea. Their earnestness in defending their theory leads them to believe that they are honest; and many well-meaning persons accept their assertions unquestioningly, on account of their apparent sincerity.
It is claimed that all the wines mentioned in the Bible were intoxicating, and that no such thing as unfermented wine is known in the East, even to the present day. Instances are not few where a poor inebriate who has gained a partial victory over his appetite for drink, has been cast down to a more degraded position than ever before, because his slumbering appetite was aroused by the taste of fermented wine at the Lord's Supper. That which should be the "cup of blessing" is, in such a case, the "cup of devils."
Now it does not require a lengthy dissertation on Bible wines to prove that at the Lord's Supper unfermented wine was used. Indeed, it can be easily shown that any other than this would be highly improper. In the first place, in all the accounts of this supper, "wine" is not mentioned. That which they drank is stated by our Lord to be the "fruit of the vine." Matt. 26:29; Mark 14:25; Luke 22:18. By this we must understand that they had "the pure blood of the grape" (Deut. 32:14), for the fruit of the vine is unfermented.
That the ancients used this as a drink may be seen from Gen. 40:11. But more positive proof can be given that only unfermented wine was used at the Lord's Supper. Christ was celebrating the passover with his disciples. The passover was termed the feast of the unleavened. (The term bread is not found in the original.) In Ex. 12:19 we read, "Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses;" "for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel." The word "leaven" means simply "ferment," and the command was, therefore, that during the passover feast nothing that was fermented should be found in their houses. Christ and his disciples were Jews, and were celebrating this feast in accordance with Jewish custom; and, therefore, it is not possible that fermented wine could have been used at this time, even had they desired to use it.
But one more thought will show the impropriety of using fermented wine in connection with this ordinance. In presenting the cup to his disciples, Christ said, "This is my blood of the New Testament which is shed for many for the remission of sins." Matt. 26:28. The wine represents "the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot." 1 Peter 1:19. The offering that was made was perfectly "pure" and "without blemish," and should be represented by that which is the most pure. Now fermentation is simply a process of decomposition. That which has been fermented has commenced to decay, and therefore fermented wine is decomposed wine. Fermented wine could under no circumstances be called "the fruit of the vine," unless it were made from rotten grapes. Would it not be sacrilege to represent so pure a thing as Christ's blood by that which has decayed? This view of the subject will not be considered "insignificant and worthless" except by those whose reason is blinded by a perverted appetite. If it is of any importance at all whether we follow an ordinance of the Lord or not, it is of importance that we do it in the proper manner. "He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked."
DRYING VS. CANNING.
THE judgment of the leading fruit dealers seems to be that it is better to evaporate the surplus peaches than to can them. Evaporated fruit is growing more popular every year. 'Tis the very opposite of the cheap canning process. The cheap canner takes 100 pounds of peaches, and by adding water, tin, and weeds, makes it weigh 250 pounds. The evaporator takes 100 pounds of peaches, evaporates the weight to eight pounds, or at most ten pounds. The eight pounds have all there is of food in 100 pounds, and the 100 pounds have no more. The eight pounds are wholesome beyond doubt, and there is some doubt about cheap canned goods being wholesome, especially if they stand long in cheap cans, where the tin and solder are not as pure as they ought to be. The survival of the fittest comes in here. Cheap canning is not the fittest, and it might as well make its will and depart in peace. Its days are numbered, "the handwriting is on the wall." Conscientious, honest canning will survive. Peaches, apricots, plums, cherries, and berries put up as they can be, and are by the best packers, are delicious. 'Tis doubted that in any other way can such luxury be enjoyed.—Los Angeles Times.
A LETTER FOUND.
NEARLY thirty years ago a young Englishman named Robert Brown left his native Surrey and came to America. For several years he corresponded with his sister at home, then the letters grew infrequent, and finally ceased. When last heard from he was in Boston. The sister wrote, only to have her letters returned through the Dead Letter Office, marked, "Not found." Finally, in despair, as a last resort, she addressed a letter to "President Harrison, Washington, D. C., U. S. A.," relating these facts, and imploring his aid in finding her brother. This letter found its address a few weeks ago.
Instead of going to the waste-basket, it was forwarded to Mayor Hart, of Boston, with a request that he look Mr. Brown up. In a short time response came that Robert Brown was dead, leaving two sons, both prosperous young business men in Boston, and the news was sent to their aunt in Surrey last week.—Washington Post.
CLEANSING MIXTURE.
A good cleansing mixture may be made with two ounces liquid ammonia, two ounces bar soap finely shaved, and two teaspoonfuls powdered saltpeter. Put these ingredients into a large open-mouthed bottle, and add one and one-half pints warm water. It will be ready for use in two or three days. It is well adapted for washing delicate-colored articles, also to add to the water for shampooing the head. Mixed with water and sprayed upon plants, it will kill any insects infesting them, and also act as a fertilizer.
"TO ARMS! TO ARMS!"
By W. N. Glenn
If some foreign foe were assuming as formidable an attitude toward the government of the United States as is presented by the domestic foe, intemperance, the cry, "To arms! To arms!" would ring throughout the length and breadth of the republic, and a million of men would be ready at once to respond to the call, with their "lives, fortunes, and sacred honor." Here are a few statistics over which even a national sand-lot agitation might be pardonable.
There are 600,000 drunkards in the United States.
Intemperance kills 60,000 persons every year.
Intoxicating drink sends more than 100,000 persons to prison annually.
The same cause furnishes the poor-houses and other charitable institutions with over 200,000 inmates per annum.
The frenzy of intoxication causes 500 murders, and leads to probably 400 of each year's suicides.
The proportion of deaths of intemperate people to those of temperate livers is as four to one.
Magistrates, chaplains, and prison-keepers testify that four-fifths of all the crimes have their origin in intoxicating liquors.
Seven-eighths of all the pauperism in the Union has arisen from the same cause.
It costs the country $60,000,000 a year to support pauperism and crime.
The United States makes for home consumption 250,000,000 gallons of fermented and brewed liquors annually—about five gallons to each man, woman, and child. And of distilled liquors, about 85,000,000. Besides these amounts, 25,000,000 gallons are imported for consumption, and probably millions of gallons are made of which there is no statistical account.
The whole cost of the liquor drank in the United States is not less than $700,000,000; and the total revenue to the government is but 50,000,000. The balance, $650,000,000, is total loss in cash, to say nothing of the loss of life, of happiness, of morals, of time, and of material productions of a legitimate nature—the aggregate of which, figures fail to compute.
In view of all these facts, relating both to time and eternity, what is the duty of every loyal citizen—Jew or Gentile, Christian or Pagan? W. N. GLENN.
SECULAR.
—The bey of Tunis has decreed that every negro domestic in his dominion shall be given a certificate of freedom.
—Madame Devere, a clairvoyant, found guilty of forgery, has been sentenced to ten years' hard labor in the Ohio penitentiary.
—A pickle factory covering five acres of ground at Bowmanville, near Chicago, was destroyed by fire on the 28th ult. Loss, $200,000.
—A farm hand near Cordoba, Spain, recently killed his employer and four other persons because he was not permitted to attend a bull-fight.
—A revenue agent and posse of nine men captured and destroyed five illicit distilleries in Burke County, N. C., about three weeks ago.
—Sixty-eight election officers have been indicted for election frauds by the Hudson County, N. J., grand jury. The charge is conspiracy.
—The labor agitations at Pilsen, Austria, have been renewed. The strikers have pillaged stores, inns, and vicarages. Many rioters have been arrested at Trophan.
—Vicksburg, Miss., was crowded, May 26, with visitors to the Blue and Gray reunion, which opened at noon with a national salute. A large number of delegates were present.
—Sixteen flouring-mills in southern Illinois and eastern Missouri have formed a combination, and are said to practically control the flour market of the South and Southwest.
—The new non-partisan W. C. T. U. organization has attained a membership of over forty-seven thousand. It bids fair to become a large and influential body of temperance workers.
—Fifteen persons, charged with being engaged in a plot to assassinate the Russian czar, were arrested in Paris May 20. A lot of incriminating documents and a quantity of explosives were found in their possession.
—Seattle, Wash., had another big fire early in the morning of May 29, which destroyed a whole block of buildings, mostly lodging-houses. Five persons perished, and many others barely escaped in their night-clothes.
—A Lincoln, Ill., dispatch of May 28 says: "Twelve men indicted for selling their votes at the last April election were remanded to jail this morning in default of bail. Warrants are out for twelve more. The wildest excitement prevails."
—The village of Repahie, Armenia, was destroyed by an earthquake May 27. Mineral springs spouted from the crevices made in the earth, and the adjacent fields were flooded. The earthquake was preceded by rumblings, which caused the inhabitants to flee. No lives were lost.
—During the last week in May there was held in Indianapolis a meeting of representatives of all the different brotherhoods of railroad employes. The object is the federation of all these orders, by which they hope to secure an association over which the railroad companies will be powerless.
—The vineyards in the valley of the Rhine are being devastated by worms, which infest the vines in such numbers that their extermination is impossible. It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of vines have already been destroyed, and the destruction of the entire crop is threatened.
—A fire occurred on the night of May 30, in the Texas Spring Palace, and in a short time it was a mass of ruins. The Spring Palace was erected at Fort Worth, and was intended to exhibit the products of the State. It is supposed that sixteen persons who are missing perished in the flames.
—During a circus performance at Ann Arbor, Mich., May 27, about three hundred State University students had a fight with the showmen. It is said that ten students and about as many showmen were considerably injured. College morals have become proverbially bad, and are growing worse and worse.
—Renegade Apaches have committed another murder in Arizona. The last victim was Robert Hardie, a lawyer, who was killed in Buckland Canyon. President Harrison has sent a sharp note to the War Department in regard to the matter. A companion of Hardie had his horse killed, but himself escaped.
—Mr. Blaine has devised, and the President indorses, a plan for the establishment of an American international bank. The object is that American merchants may not be dependent upon European banks in their financial transactions with their American neighbors. The scheme had also the indorsement of the Pan-American Congress.
—The dangers to which unsophisticated immigrants are subjected on landing in New York, was recently illustrated in the case of a young Irish girl. She was to have been met at the landing by her uncle, but when he arrived, someone had been ahead of him, and, personating him, had carried off the girl. When subsequently found, she was insane, having been brutally treated and deserted.
—It is said by a Brussels correspondent that the slave trade is openly carried on in the Congo Free State, Africa. "Slaves," he says, are put to work under the lash, with armed guards to prevent their escape. Nor is this the worst feature of the situation. It is credibly affirmed that an extensive traffic in women and girls is openly conducted. The victims are shipped to the cities in all parts of the world, a considerable number of them coming to Belgium and Holland.
—The telegraph announces that the base-ball craze is fast dying out in the East. This might be considered an omen of returning reason on the part of the giddy masses, were it not for the fact that the appetite which has become satiated on this particular article of foolish diet, will needs be fed on something of a like stimulating nature. The gambling spirit manifested in these last days is on the increase, and we may expect that eselong some new sensation will be recognized as the "national game" for a time.
—News has been received in San Francisco that by the wrecking of the steamer Oneida on a reef on the Alaskan coast, April 26, sixty-seven Chinamen were drowned. The number rescued was thirty-three, who finally reached an island fifteen miles distant. The captain said that the Chinamen might have been saved had they not become panic-stricken and jumped overboard without trying to get hold of either boat or timber.
News and Notes.
By Editor
RELIGIOUS.
—Christians in the island of Crete complain of continued outrages by the Turks.
—The Presbyterian General Assembly, in session at Saratoga, favors the use of the Bible in the public schools.
—Rev. O. C. Wheeler, D.D., LL.D., the pioneer Baptist minister of California, is said to be almost blind from cataracts.
—The recent annual convention of Christian Scientists, held in New York City, was attended by about twelve hundred delegates. Reports were read from all parts of the country, showing a marvelous increase in the membership of the sect.
—The ex-priest, of Montreal, who recently assumed the role of prodigal son, renounced Protestantism and his home, and went back to "the best faith on earth," has returned to the bosom of his family, to the disgust of the archbishop.
—The Presbyterian General Assembly resolved to urge upon Congress the passage of the bill, now before the Senate, permitting the several States to prohibit or restrict the liquor traffic. Recent decisions of the Supreme Court are to the effect that a State cannot forbid or restrict the sale of anything brought in from another State, so long as the article remains in the original package.
—A German Catholic convention was recently held at Milwaukee to devise means for opposing the Bennett compulsory school law. Bishop Flasch upheld the right of the church to go into politics whenever its interests were attacked; and Bishop Katzer charged that the Bennett law was first suggested by the Masons, and was sustained by free-thinkers and others opposed to the Catholic Church.
—The Mormons are still importing converts from foreign lands to Utah. A party of missionaries recently arrived in San Francisco, bringing fourteen "neophytes" from New Zealand and Australia. Bishop King, in charge of Hawaiian missions, is shortly expected to bring home a party of native converts to the faith. In New York such immigrants are now frequently detained under the Contract Labor law, as most of the females are imported under pretense of being employed by persons in Utah. On the Pacific Coast, however, no effort has been made as yet to intercept them.
—A sensation occurred in a Jewish synagogue in Cleveland, Ohio, May 25, during the celebration of the Feast of Weeks. The preacher was Rabbi Werber, of Baltimore, editor of a Jewish journal, and there were about eight hundred persons in the audience. Manifest displeasure was shown by the audience as the speaker iterated sentiments not deemed orthodox, but they could no longer endure the heresy when he told them their ideas of the Messiah were ridiculous; that Christ had been on earth, and his second coming would be in the glare of a burning world. Pandemonium reigned, and Werber's friends had difficulty in protecting him from bodily harm until the police arrived and dispersed the congregation.
Obituary.
SANFORD.—Died at the residence of A. C. Morton, Fresno, Cal., of la grippe, February 1, 1890, Jane C., wife of Elias Sanford, aged 76 years. She was a native of Ireland; emigrated to America about 1835. She embraced the truth in 1866, while residing in Zumbrota, Minn., where she married my father in 1868. She was a consistent Christian, beloved by all who knew her, and many hearts were made sad by her death, though we sorrow not as those who have no hope, fully expecting to meet her in the earth made new, where death and parting will be no more. Words of comfort by M. J. Church.
MARY A. MORTON.
SANFORD.—Died at the residence of his son, E. Sanford, in Dodge Center, Minn., April 15, 1890, my beloved father, Elias Sanford, aged 81 years and 2 days. He was converted at an early age, embracing the truth under the preaching of Elder Joseph Bates, at Greenville, Ill., in 1853, when he, mother, and myself were baptized and joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church. He raised a family of eleven children, whom he strove to bring up "in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." He went from Illinois to Minnesota, Dodge County, in 1859. After spending most of the last six years of his life in Fresno, Cal., he returned to Dodge County, Minn. in April, arriving there the 7th; he died the 15th, in the full assurance of faith, and hope of having a part in the first resurrection.
MARY A. MORTON.
KING.—Died at Lynden, Wash., May 14, 1890, B. F. King. Brother King was born at Groton, N. H., September 3, 1857, and June 25, 1879, he was united in marriage with Carrie R. Boyd. He first made public his profession of faith in Christ in Salem, Or., and was baptized by his brother-in-law, Elder C. L. Boyd, in June, 1882. Shortly afterward he removed to Lynden, Wash., and united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Nearly seven years have passed since his disease began to manifest itself. His sufferings were at times very great, especially during the latter part of his illness; but he bore them with meekness and resignation. He leaves a wife and three little ones to mourn his early death. Our small church has suffered loss in a faithful member. During all his suffering he expressed an abiding trust in God. Our brother has fallen under the power of the destroyer, and a sweet home is torn and desolated. How sad the ruins death makes; but, glory to God, Jesus is coming so soon! This night of sorrow shall then forever have passed away. Jesus has the keys of death and the grave, and the promise is, "I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death." "Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord."
G. M. O'NEIL.
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THAT NEW BOOK.
Your new work "From Eden to Eden," by Elder J. H. Waggoner, is now ready. The charts are elegant. The work has been printed with the greatest care. The maps are the latest and best that could be procured.
The book contains 264 pages, and is illustrated with 22 full-page charts and maps. It is written in a clear, forcible style. Words of commendation come to us from every part of the field. The Journal of Education, of Boston, the leading educational paper of New England, says it is a work of great research and ability, and speaks of it as one of the best books of the day. One of our prominent workers, who has already handled the book, says: "It is the best book for the sale of all that I have ever sold. I can sell it to people of all classes, and they are all interested in it."
Employment: We want a number of active, earnest men and women to sell this work in every state in the Union. Correspondence solicited. The Review and Herald, Battle Creek, Mich.
THAT NEW BOOK.
By C. A. Hall
Your new work "From Eden to Eden," by Elder Waggoner, was received in due time, and carefully read, and can say I am much pleased with the book and believe it is just the thing to place in the hands of those who are interested in Bible study. The clear and simple manner in which the subject is treated, is to me the great charm of the book; it holds the attention and increases the interest of the reader with every page, and I shall hope to see it receive a wide circulation. Yours in the work,
C. A. HALL,
Pres. Kan. Conference.
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A TEXT BOOK ON BIBLICAL HISTORY.
Especially prepared for the use of Students and
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CONTAINING
Maps, Plans, Review Charts, Colored Diagrams,
And Illustrated with Accurate Views of the Principal Cities
and Localities known to Bible History.
The following is a condensed Table of Contents:
Chart of Bible History. The Old Testament World. Ancient World, and Descendants of Noah. Physical Palestine. The Journeys of the Patriarchs. Palestine before the Conquest. Lands of the Sojourn and Wandering. The Conquest of Canaan. Palestine among the Twelve Tribes. Palestine under the Judges. The Kingdom of Saul. The Empire of David and Solomon. Ancient Jerusalem. Modern Jerusalem. The Environs of Jerusalem. The Division of Solomon's Empire. The Great Oriental Empires. The Roman Empire. New Testament Palestine. The Life of Christ. Early Apostolic History. Journeys of the Apostle Paul. The Isles of Greece and the Seven Churches. The Tabernacle. The Temple. Lessons in the Geography of Palestine. The Measures of the Bible.
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THE HOME OF THE SAVED.
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BY ELD. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.
This pamphlet gives the Bible evidence upon the interesting topic of the earth made new, as the inheritance of the saints. It contains 82 pages. Price, 10 cents.
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THIS book contains 216 pages, or over 40 pages more than the ordinary Sabbath-school song book. It is
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Notwithstanding the fact that this book is so much larger than other popular Sabbath-school song books, it will be furnished at the usual prices—50 cents per copy, post-paid; $5.00 per dozen, by freight or express. If to be sent by mail at dozen rates add five cents per copy for postage.
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