Earlier text: A PHASE OF LAST-DAY IDOLATRY“GOOD-BYE, little mother,” said Harry Carter, a tall, fine-looking fisherman, as he folded in a close embrace the woman who had taught his infant lips to lisp the word “mother,” and who now was nearing the end of life’s pathway. Mrs. Carter had, all her life, lived on the banks of the beautiful river that could be seen from the open door. Out of a large family, all of her sons had been fishermen, and all of her daughters had married men who followed the same calling. Henry, the youngest of the family, was the only one who had wished to go out into the world, beyond the mouth of their busy river, on to the stormy and restless ocean. Before, however, these thoughts and wishes were formed into a definite plan, he had encountered a pair of bright, laughing eyes that had held him captive where he was, and the little home he made for himself, with those same bright eyes by his side, became the dearest spot on earth to him. Now those eyes were closed in death, the little home was a home no longer, and once more the desire had come to try a more extended trip on the bosom of the ocean; and with this desire had come the opportunity; for a large vessel had entered the river in distress for a sailor to supply the place of one who had just died. Henry at once presented himself before the captain, who, liking his looks, engaged him, and now the time for leaving had come, and he had only a moment in which to say a word of farewell to his aged mother. “My son,” said the old lady, “a sailor’s life is full of temptations. What safeguard are you taking with you?” “The little Testament you gave me when a boy, the only letter my wife ever wrote me, and in my heart love for you, for my departed wife, and for Him who gave me such priceless blessings.” A few words more of tender farewell and mother and son were parted—she, in the solitude of her own room, to offer up a prayer for him who was about to enter a life of danger, hardship, and temptation; he to appear before the captain of the vessel that was even then awaiting him. It was not long before Henry Carter became convinced that the life he had chosen suited him. He had no fears of death, and in the wildest storm, as in the most intense calm, he went about his duties in a quiet, cheerful way that won the respect of those about him. The captain of the vessel was a man who, so long as everything went as he wished, was kind and indulgent to his crew; but when a storm overtook him, and more than usual care and exertion were needed to manage the vessel, he seemed to be completely transformed, cursing and swearing at those around him in a way that made Henry shudder. It was one of the things to which he could not make up his mind to listen, and one day, after a more than usually violent storm, he sought the captain, and quietly informed him that when they next landed, he must find some one to take his place. “Tired of the life already?” said the captain. “No,” was the reply, “I like it better than I thought I should.” “You do not like the vessel, then?” “O, yes; she is much more to my liking, too, than I expected.” “Then the fault must be in me, your captain?” Henry did not reply, and was asked again: “Well, what is it?” “I have only one fault to find with you as my superior officer. I have discovered that you do not speak with respect of your own Master, and it is only good servants who make good masters.” The captain sprang to his feet, and with a horrible oath demanded:— “How dare you speak so to me? How dare you call me a servant. I am owner and master of my vessel.” Quietly and in a tone and manner that had a certain amount of solemnity in them, Henry said:— “But who is Master of the waves on which your vessel rides, of the winds that toss it about as you would a feather? Who is Master of the storms that make you tremble for its safety, of the thunder and lightning of the earth on which you live and have your being? It is One”—pointing upward—“Who has said, ‘Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.’” For a moment the two men looked at each other, and then they parted without a word. For three days the vessel went on her way without any sight of land, but on the fourth an outline appeared on the horizon, that broadened and widened as they approached, until unmistakable signs of active life were visible. Then Henry Carter was summoned to the presence of the captain, who directed his attention to a square piece of pasteboard on the wall, on which were painted in large letters the words that had been so solemnly repeated only a few days before: “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.” “Do you think,” said the captain, “that with that ever before a man who earnestly wishes to live up to it, he might in time become a good servant?” “Not in his own strength, but with the aid of Him who gave the command, he might.” “Would you be willing to continue in the service of a man who sought that aid, and who was endeavoring to make a good servant as well as a good master?” Henry Carter looked his companion in the face a moment, a look that was understood as well as words, and the captain held out his hand, and taking that of the sailor in a hearty grasp, said:— “You are, from the time we reach land, the mate of this vessel; but, as you look to me for orders regarding it, so I shall look to you for help in the guidance of my own life; and as you will be the instrument in God’s hand for the saving of my soul, so we together will work for those around us. Your words the other day have carried me back to the days of my boyhood, and you, who have a mother, know what that means.” It was not long before the sailors found that not only had the captain given up the use of profane language, but that he expected it to be given up by those about him. Nor was it all effected suddenly, but gradually, by example and by a word in season here and there, that did much for the saving of souls and the glory of God—Selected. A GREAT deal has been written on the preservation of cut flowers, but the matter is still imperfectly understood by most people. It is important to know, not only how to take care of them after being cut, but how to cut them. On this latter point a practical hint may be of service to our readers. It might not occur to them that it made any serious difference whether the stems were broken off or cut with the knife or scissors. A sharp knife is the right tool for this purpose, as it leaves the sap vessels of the stems open for the absorption of water, while scissors crush and compress these vessels so that their absorptive power is more or less destroyed. Like injury may be done by breaking off the stems, especially if they are tough. If the flowers are put into water immediately the ends of the stems should be cut with a sharp knife, as the sap vessels will probably have become clogged with coagulated matter.445 Cut flowers often suffer from too dry atmosphere. It is difficult to avoid this in our artificially-heated rooms, but we may at least put the blossoms in the coolest part of the room. Near a window, and especially in a bay-window, the temperature is generally several degrees lower than in other parts of the room, as you will see if you test it with a thermometer. The best authorities say, moreover, that the flowers should have the benefit of light, and even of sunshine in most cases, though there is popular prejudice against exposing them to the latter. On the other hand they suffer, as plants do, from sudden alterations of temperature and from draughts. In the case of the blossoms that fall to pieces easily, it is a good idea to let fall a drop of gum or mucilage into the center, which will keep the petals together at the base. To prevent this from running out before it hardens, the flowers should be kept upright by putting their stems through the bottom of a sieve or sticking them in sand. With the aid of a camel's hair brush or a pointed stick a large number of flowers may be gummed in a short time. When flowers have been carried a long distance in close boxes or cases, they often appear withered and worthless, but with proper treatment they may be revived and restored to their original beauty. Instead of at once being put into vases and exposed to the hot dry air of the parlor, they should either be spread out on wet flannel or moss and covered with a dish cover or inverted box, or else put in pans containing moss and water or wet sand, in which they can be set upright, and then be shut up in the dark for a few hours. If they do not regain their freshness under this nursing there is no hope for them, but in all ordinary cases their recovery is certain.—Journal of Chemistry. The Home Circle.
By Independent
COMFORT one another;
For the way is growing dreary,
The feet are often weary,
And the heart is very sad.
There is heavy burden-bearing,
When it seems that none are caring,
And we half forget that ever we were glad. Comfort one another;
With the hand-clasp close and tender,
With sweetness love can render,
And looks of friendly eyes.
Do not wait with grace unspoken,
While life's daily bread is broken;
Gentle speech is oft like manna from the skies. Comfort one another;
There are words of music ringing
Down the ages, sweet as singing
Of the happy choirs above.
Ransomed saint and mighty angel,
Lift the grand, deep-voiced evangel,
Where forever they are praising the eternal love. Comfort one another;
By the hope of Him who sought us
In our peril—Him who bought us,
Paying with his precious blood;
By the faith that will not alter,
Trusting strength that will not falter,
Leaning on the One divinely good. Comfort one another;
Let the grave-gloom lie beyond you,
While the Spirit's words remind you
Of the home beyond the tomb,
Where no more is pain or parting,
Fever's flush or tear-drop starting,
But the presence of the Lord and for all his people
room. WHERE THE DIMES GO.
By Sunday Afternoon
ASIDE from the moral view of the question, any sensible man or woman can see what a heavy drag the drinking habit is, on the prosperity of the drinker, the community, and the nation. It is estimated that but fifteen per cent. of the young men of this country attend church with any regularity, that only five per cent. are church members, and that seventy-five per cent. never go to church at all. The attendance of young men at church, prayer-meeting, or Sunday-school is very small indeed. On the other hand the countless saloons, billiard-rooms, dance-halls, and other even worse places of vice, that are to be found in all our towns and cities, depend for their support almost entirely upon the patronage of young men. Our jails and reformatory institutions are full of young men. In one house of correction in a Western city, the records show 1,773 inmates, 1,172 of whom were young men between the ages of sixteen and thirty-two. In an Eastern State penitentiary, where there are no boys, the average age of its 1,900 inmates is less than twenty-four years. The cost to a certain county of trying and convicting one of these criminals (twenty-six years old), was over $10,000; and upon another $30,000 was expended before he was executed. To maintain the liquor saloons of the United States—a prominent agency for ruining young men—over $900,000,000 annually, or $2,000,000 daily, are expended.—Sunday Afternoon. I WANT to say a word about nervous children. Never scold or make fun of them. They suffer enough without your threats or sarcasm. Don't let them know you see their awkwardness when in company, nor their grimaces when alone. A case was reported by the Boston Globe, of a boy ten years old who, on being vexed, and often without any apparent provocation, will clench his hands and make the most frightful contortions of the muscles of his face and head, till his poor mother fears he is idiotic. By no means. He is the brightest boy in his class at school, fond of reading and of natural history, but he is of a highly nervous temperament, and has not been taught to control the little wires, so to speak, on which he is strung. This is no single case. There are thousands of children who give way to their nerves in similar fashion. Never whip them, but talk to them about these curious little strings that should be made their servants, not their masters. A prominent physician in this city says the man or woman who whips a nervous child should for every blow given receive five, and is on a level with brutes that have no reason. It is our duty to encourage and help them. Be patient with them. They are the making of our future successful men and women, for they will work hard at whatever they undertake. Brace up your own nerves first, and then be indulgent toward the capers of your over-nervous children.—Christian Union. APROPOS of the death of the heroic Damien, the leper priest of Molakai, we may mention that outside the walls of Jerusalem is a lepers' hospital tended by deaconesses from the German religious houses. Year after year these heroic women, without pretentiousness, without any trumpeting of their work, almost unknown to the world, have waited upon lepers, while themselves literally dying by inches. Their courage and constancy have only come to light by the chance notice of travelers.—The Churchman. YOUR RIGHTS AND THE OTHER MAN'S.
A MAN may say, "Have not I a right to drink what I please?" Undoubtedly, but if he "pleases" to drink that which dethrones reason and reduces him to the level of a beast—which fires the passion, and fits him for any deed of crime—then the law has a right to interpose its strong arm and restrain him from acts of violence; and if the law has a right to punish a man for crimes committed under the influence of strong drink, surely it has a right to prohibit the common sale of that which produces the temporary madness. So a man may say, "Have not I a right to sell what I please?" Granted; but if he "pleases" to sell that which robs another of his manhood, which impoverishes families, which reduces the affluent to beggary, which sends broken-hearted wives and starving children to beg or do worse, then there need be no surprise if the law regards the business as an enemy to public peace and well-being, and prohibits it altogether. It should be remembered that others have rights as well as the liquor-seller, and that these must be protected. No man can have a right to do that which interferes with the happiness or well-being of others. And what, after all, is the nature of this "right" about which so much is said? It is simply a legal right; that is, the law permits a man, under certain restrictions, to sell intoxicating drinks. But if the law gave this permission it can take it away. If Government has authority to regulate the traffic, it has authority to suppress it altogether.—Selected. DRINKERS AND YELLOW-FEVER.
MAYOR ARCHIBALD, of Jacksonville, Florida, speaking recently of the ravages of yellow fever in that city, said:— It strikes persons of alcoholic habits fatally. The fever is of a very mild form. The mortality is only about fifteen per cent., and taking out the deaths of men addicted to the use of alcoholic beverages, the mortality would not exceed five per cent. Two-thirds of the fatality is due to the fact that persons have been accustomed to the use of strong drink before they are attacked by the fever, and in every such case the patient invariably dies, and without reaction. It is a frequent remark on the Jacksonville streets that yellow fever is the best temperance lecture the city ever had. It is a decree that while civilized man cannot live without dining, he might live a great deal longer without so much dining, or rather without dining so extensively. Sir Henry Thompson says that he has been compelled by facts to think that more mischief in the form of disease has accrued to civilized man from erroneous habits in eating than from the use of alcoholic drink. He also declared himself in doubt whether improper and inordinate eating were not as great moral evil as inordinate drinking. Many of our best physicians say that the habit of over-eating is at the bottom of most troublesome diseases. Doubtless this habit is most often laid in childhood. How many mothers feed their babies as often as they cry, taking it for granted in the most imbecile manner that the baby cries for food, when more often the helpless little victim cries because it already has had too much food. When the stomach once becomes accustomed to being crowded with food, if the supply is cut short there is at first a gnawing sensation that is frequently mistaken for hunger. Persevere a little longer in your abstinence, and you will find yourself benefited by it.—Hall's Journal of Health. THE following homely paragraph may help some honest soul to see the evil of tobacco using, and thus help him quit the disgusting habit:— "Tobacco chewers who persist in chewing tobacco during church service and spitting on the floor, should remember the advice given by a lecturer, who, touching upon tobacco-chewing in church, said: 'Take your quid of tobacco out of your mouth on entering the house of God, and gently lay it on the outer edge of the sidewalk or on the fence. It will positively be there when you come out, for a rat won't take it, a cat won't take it, a dog won't take it, neither will a hog. You are certain of your quid when you go after it. Not the filthiest vermin on earth would touch it.'" Bessbrook’s Liquor-Free Success
In the town of Bessbrook, Ireland, where John G. Richardson employs 3,000 people in the manufacture of Irish linen, no liquor has been sold for forty years; and as a result there is neither policeman, prison, pawnshop, nor pauper in the town. —The Empress Augusta Victoria, of Germany, has been converted to the Catholic faith. —Fresno, Cal., had a $250,000 fire the 12th inst. It was mainly in the business portion of the city. —The National Educational Association convened in Nashville, Tenn., the 16th inst., for its annual session. —The Pope has been petitioned to canonize Christopher Columbus on the anniversary of the discovery of America. —The Otis Iron and Steel Works of Cleveland, Ohio, has been purchased by an English syndicate for $4,500,000. —It is rumored in Berlin that Prince Ferdinand intends to assume the title of King of Bulgaria on the 14th proximo. —It is rumored in diplomatic circles that Blaine has handed in his resignation, to take effect the 1st of next September. —The widow of ex-President Tyler died from the effects of a congestive chill at Richmond, Va., July 10. She was 69 years of age. —Rev. Henry C. Bowen, editor of the New York Independent, was badly bruised by a carriage accident at Putnam, Conn., the 12th inst. —Two bridges and several miles of track on the Santa Fe railroad near Wallace, N. M., were washed away by a cloud-burst the night of the 9th inst. —Eight persons were killed and eleven injured by the Frankfort express running into an open switch near Rochemoos, Germany, the 7th inst. —The general shops of the Union Pacific Railroad in course of construction at Cheyenne, Wyo. T., will cover five acres of ground and employ 2500 men. —Dispatches from the scene of hostilities in Egypt report that sixty dervishes were cut off from the main body and killed by the Egyptian forces recently. —Twenty-five passengers were injured and several lives lost by a wash-out north of Chihuahua, Mexico, on the line of the Mexican Central railroad, the 9th inst. —A severe hail and wind-storm passed over parts of New York and Vermont adjacent to Lake Champlain July 13. Much damage was done to grain and fruit. —The committee of the High Court of France has recommended that Boulanger, Dillon, and Rochefort be arrested on a charge of conspiracy against the State. —A 2500 ton vessel has ascended the Congo River in Africa as far as Matadi. Hitherto it has been assumed that the river was not navigable to that point. —Such is the feeling between Germany and France, that the Emperor William has forbidden officers of the German army from attending the Paris exposition. —Trouble is still brewing between Germany and Switzerland. Bismarck has been advised by the Emperor to modify his tone and thus avoid aggravating the difficulty. —The present condition of affairs in the East is such that Europe is virtually sleeping on her arms from month to month and war could be precipitated at almost any time. —The entire business portion of Bakersfield, Cal., together with about forty dwellings, was burned on the afternoon of the 7th inst. Loss, $1,250,000, with very small insurance. —Fifteen persons were killed and many injured by the collision of two trains near Ciulnita, Roumania, July 9. The accident was caused by the mistake of a switchman. —The entire Avon Valley, one of the most promising mineral districts in Wales, has been purchased by a British firm, who expect to make several immense fortunes out of its management. —The river Indus has overflowed its banks, and the adjacent country is under ten feet of water. Many lives have been lost in the flood, 40 persons having been drowned at Larkhana alone. —India has an area of 1,600,000 square miles. The extreme length is 1,900 miles and the breadth 1,700 miles. It is made up of a number of nations, and twenty-three different languages are spoken. —The climate in the Darling River District, New South Wales, is so sultry as to make it almost impossible to use horses. The manager of a line of mail coaches proposes to introduce camels instead. —During the last century there have been twenty-seven cases of insanity in the Bavarian royal family. The present king is a lunatic, and several of his relatives have been attacked by the same disease. —A large codfish bank has been discovered near Cape Lookout on the Oregon Coast, about thirty-five miles south of the Columbia River. The cod are said to be very abundant and of excellent quality. —The Mikado of Japan gave his people constitutional freedom, and by Imperial edict declared the empire a republican nation, July 11. Henceforth, the people make their own laws, and govern themselves. —Leprosy is increasing in Russia. During the last ten years forty-nine patients were treated in the St. Petersburg hospitals, half of whom were natives of the city. The Baltic provinces suffer most from the disease. —Recent dispatches from London state that a division has occurred among the British Liberals. Nearly eighty of Gladstone's followers in the House of Commons have deserted him, and are organizing a new party. —Of the eleven million square miles of Africa, only about four and a half million remain which have not been claimed by some European power, and more than half of this area lies within the Desert of Sahara. —The bitter religious controversy now raging in Canada has occasioned a renewal of the agitation for annexation to the United States. It is thought by some that it will result in Canada becoming a part of this country. This is, however, improbable. —Recent dispatches from Vienna, Austria, reported that fifty Russian officers had passed through Roumania on their way to Servia, and that the Russian Government was sending war material and pontoons to Bessarabia and the mouth of the Danube. —Counterfeiters have recently been actively engaged on the Pacific Coast, and several cities and towns have been flooded with their bogus productions. The spurious coins are mostly halves and dollars, the latter being regarded as especially dangerous. —A memorial from the Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church was presented in the Montana Constitutional Convention the 10th inst., praying the convention to incorporate in the Constitution of the new State a clause providing for the strict observance of Sunday. —The number of miles of railroad in the United States and Territories is now about 150,000, or more than the mileage of all Europe. A force of about 800,000 men is employed in various capacities on these lines, being at the rate of a trifle over five men to the mile. —Heavy rains followed by a cloud-burst in the Cayadutta Valley, did considerable damage in Johnstown, N. Y., the 9th inst. Nine bridges and two dams were swept away, mills and other property destroyed, and half a score of lives are thought to have been lost. The name of Johnstown seems to be associated with calamitous events at present. —On account of the denunciations by the radicals against the expenditures of Queen Victoria, the English Government has decided to make public all her accounts from her accession to the throne down to the present time. It is said that the expenditures, especially those of the civil list, have been very closely and accurately recorded. —A large mass meeting of citizens was held at Johnstown, Pa., July 13, to protest against the manner in which the relief fund is being distributed. It is claimed that the carelessness and gross extravagance of the State Committee is resulting in an unwise and needless waste of means, and that the local committee should have charge of the distribution of the funds. —According to the Financial News Circular of the 11th inst., a scheme is being formed for the consolidation of thirty-five leading railroads of this country into a gigantic railroad trust. These roads have 100,000 miles of track, and their combined capital is over $1,000,000,000. The Vanderbilts, Peabodys, Armours, and other heavy capitalists are interested in the scheme. —Rev. Jacob Freshman has opened a Jewish Mission in Jerusalem. —Four ministers and five ministers' families were among those who lost their lives in the Johnstown flood. —Thomas E. Sherman took the oath of the Jesuit priesthood, and was formally ordained by Archbishop Ryan at Philadelphia, July 7. —Russia has re-adopted the law which forbids heirs to the throne contracting marriage with persons not members of the Orthodox Greek Church. —Charles Randolph Uncles, a colored student of St. Joseph's Seminary, Baltimore, was recently ordained to the Catholic priesthood by Cardinal Gibbons. He is the first colored priest ever ordained in America. —Dr. Marcus Dods, of Glasgow, the man who said in the great Pan-Presbyterian Council in London, that "it is the duty of the church to make it plain that faith in Christ is not bound up with faith in the infallibility of Scriptures," has been elected by the General Assembly of the Scottish Free Church to the chair of New Testament Exegesis in its Edinburg College. —Among the decisions at the recent German Baptist Convention at Harrisburg, Va., were the following: "The question as to whether sisters should wear riding habits was taken up and the convention advised that no superfluities be worn. The question of whether gold watches could be worn was also taken up, and, after discussion, it was decided to be cause for expulsion from the church. It was also decided that attendance at places of amusement was wrong. No member who uses tobacco can be chosen as a delegate or put on the standing committee." —It is stated that at the Hawaiian Evangelical Association, recently held at Honolulu, there was a sharp arraignment of the methods of the Catholic priests who have charge of the leper children, and forbid the reading of the Bible, or attendance on the religious meetings of the two evangelical churches at the settlement. A committee was appointed to bring this matter to the notice of the Board of Health, and secure for the children religious training in the faith of their parents. It was proposed to raise $5,000 to build a new Children's Home, to be under more liberal management, and $500 were pledged at once. It was voted that the committee procure plans for building, and secure suitable persons to take charge. If none are to be found in America, it was said that competent persons could readily be secured in Germany. Obituary.
By George E. Hollister
SEMPLE.—Died in Santa Rosa, May 16, 1889, Sister Susan Semple, aged 71 years, 1 month, and 20 days. Sister Semple, whose maiden name was Cochran, was born in Scotland, where she lived until she was 23 years of age, when she married and came to America. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church till about fourteen years ago, when she embraced present truth. She died with perfect faith that when the Lord appears, she will also appear with him in glory. Funeral services were conducted in the Seventh-day Adventist Church at Santa Rosa by the writer. GEO. E. HOLLISTER. AS A CLASS TEXT-BOOK it is superior to any other in Unity, Brevity, Clearness, Logical Arrangement, and Suggestiveness. AS A REFERENCE BOOK it should be in the Library of every school-room in the country; every Student of History should possess a copy. In your Reading Circle or at home when you wish to consult an Atlas you need a map for a particular date. Your modern Atlas will not give it. This is the only Atlas which has a map for every period. A MAP for any particular date can instantly be found by anyone, each map having over it in figures, the year or period it covers. It is the only Atlas in which each nationality has, and always retains, its own distinctive color; hence every period has a map, and they are progressive, forming in themselves a panorama of events effective in the highest degree. NEW MAPS OF ANCIENT EMPIRES.
It contains, now made for the first time, maps of the Chaldean, Elamitic, Egyptian, Kossean, Armenian, Hittite, and Assyrian Empires. The text is brief, suggestive, fascinating, but gives in an attractive form the leading events in the history of the world (not a bundle of particular histories), free from unnecessary details. It has an index. Labberton's New Historical Atlas and General History is indispensable to Libraries, Reading Circles, School Officers, Teachers, Students, etc. It contains 198 Maps, printed in colors, 30 Genealogical Charts, and is complete in one volume, 4to. Cloth, 312 pages. Sent by Mail or Express, prepaid, for $2.50. Address, PACIFIC PRESS, Oakland, Cal. Publishers' Department.
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China and Japan—A. LaRue, International Tract Society. Queens Road 219, Hongkong, China.
Colorado Tract Society—S. E. Whiteis, Sec., 812 Nineteenth, Ave., Denver, Col.
Dakota Tract Society—A. H. Beaumont, Sec., Vilas, Miner Co., Dakota.
England—Wm. Saunders, 451 Holloway Road, London, N. Eng.
Georgia and Florida—Charles F. Curtis, cor. S. Boulevard and Bryan Sts., Atlanta, Ga.
Germany—L. R. Conradi, Sophienstr, 41 St. Pauli, Hamburg.
Illinois Tract Society—Lillie E. Froom, Sec., 28 College Place, Chicago.
Indiana Tract Society—J. W. Moore, Sec., 175 Central Ave., Indianapolis, Ind.
Iowa Tract Society—Leroy T. Nicola, Sec., 603 East 12th St., Des Moines, Iowa.
Kansas Tract Society—L. Dyo Chambers, Sec., No. 821 West Fifth St., Topeka, Kan.
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Maine Tract Society—M. Russell, Sec., No. 110 State St., Bangor, Me.
Michigan Tract Society—Hattie House, Sec., Review and Herald Office, Battle Creek, Mich.
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New York State—J. V. Willson, Sec., N. Y. Tract Society, 317 West Bloomfield St., Rome, N. Y.
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Tennessee—J. H. Dortch, Springville, Henry Co., Tenn.
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The above is the title of an important new pamphlet which we have just issued. The object of the work is "to defend the faith of Seventh-day Adventists on the single point of the change of the Sabbath, and who is responsible for that change." All the evidence is from those who favored the observance of Sunday. Here will be found a strong array of testimony against the idea that there is any Scriptural authority for Sunday keeping, and all this evidence is given by those who Believe in the Observance of Sunday.
In reading this pamphlet one cannot but wonder how any one will persist in keeping Sunday when its own friends give such overwhelming testimony against it. "The Origin and Growth of Sunday Observance" contains 96 pages, and has a neat cover. Price, POSTPAID, 10 CENTS. Buy it! Read it! Circulate it! Address.
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Or 43 Bond St., New York, Oakland, Cal. The Teachers' Outlook
By Editor
Published by the Teachers' Publishing Company, Des Moines, Iowa. A monthly magazine for teachers and pupils that proposes to supplement other school journals rather than to occupy the same field. It will seek to provide an OUTLOOK upon affairs of life and facts in science and nature which illustrate and test theories; to stimulate thought and give the teacher's mind a fresh source of inspiration. A review of current events, civil and industrial problems, inventors, discoveries, etc., will be an important feature of the magazine, and a complete review of current literature will also be given by competent critics. ANOTHER AND VERY IMPORTANT FEATURE of the magazine will be that all teachers and students are invited to join its circle of writers, out of which it proposes to draw its corps of future contributors. On this point it has some original plans of mutual helpfulness to carry out. WANTED, ESPECIALLY—Writers of short, realistic stories and articles on natural history and social science from the Pacific Coast on terms given in OUTLOOK. Sample copies 20c; none free.