It was no less a personage than the Master Himself who said, “Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature.” Following this divine command He also gives the promise, “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.” And after this inspiring promise comes the necessary sentence, “He that believeth not shall be damned.”
If you are a Christian, the Master is saying to you, “Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature.” It may be that He wants you to go in person to tell the blessed, hope-inspiring, and joy-begetting story of the cross. Or it may be that He wants you to give that boy or girl that is the brightest light of your home. Your heart may shudder at the thought of sending him to the jungles of Africa, or to the sun-scorched plains of India, or into the heathen darkness and dangers of China, but still the Master says, “Go.” But if it is perfectly clear that you are not to go yourself, nor to send your son or daughter, still does the Lord’s command reach you. He has something for you to do. He needs your money and your sympathetic prayers for those who are called upon to enter those benighted fields.
So, from whatever standpoint you view the matter, the Lord’s call for missionary volunteers is a personal matter to you direct.
Emphasis should be placed upon the fact that the Gospel is to be preached “to every creature.” Every one is to have the opportunity of receiving salvation.
So far as this country is concerned, as well as such other countries as Great Britain, Germany, etc., the Gospel message has been given in its fulness. Every one has the opportunity before him of knowing of Christ and His power. It is true that much that passes for Christianity in these countries is nothing more than a hollow form. But still there are many in these fields who know Christ, and are able to make Him known to every inquiring soul.
But such is not the case in the heathen lands of China, Japan, India, etc. These lands should demand our especial attention. Many more individuals should hear the call from the Master, “Go ye into all the world.” A part of the world has been worked and worked again. But how about those regions in which the gentle tones of the Lord’s gracious words have never been heard? Have you, as a professed follower of Christ, given the thought to this matter that you should? Have you really felt the necessity of heeding the Saviour’s words, and of making a practical application of them to yourself personally?
When we think of the sad hearts in those lands, it should set our souls on fire to go to them with the joys of the Gospel message. A returned missionary said a day or so ago that it is a common saying in India that “the only happy-appearing creature in that country is a goat.” The faces of the people wear a sad look, and when they see any one whose countenance is beaming with joy, they ask at once, “What makes you so happy?” They do not seem to understand how any one can be full of joy and contentment. The sweetness of life has all been drained away from them, and all they have left is a melancholy sense of foreboding evil. Superstition holds the mind, and every little deviation from the ordinary course of nature is looked upon by them as a visitation of the vengeance of the gods.
A Famine-stricken Relief Camp in India.
Saved—by two cents a day.
As we look upon the misery and suffering depicted in the illustrations on this page, we say that famine is a terrible thing. Yet these pictures show nothing more than the results of a want of physical food. But how greatly is this suffering heightened by the lack of the bread of life! If these souls only knew of the Gospel of Christ, how much easier would be their suffering! Indeed, if the Gospel had been allowed to do its work in that field, it is quite strongly probable that such a famine would not be in existence. For as man is brought into harmony with the spiritual law of Christ, it also gives him such a grasp of the physical laws of the same Being that the causes of famine are largely removed, or else some way is provided to bridge over them. If there is famine in one part of the country there is a land of Goshen in another to furnish all that is needed.
Indian girls, orphans from the famine of 1897, pupils of an American school in Bombay, showing the happiness and contentment that may be written by the Gospel upon these one-time heathen faces.
Famine is not in God’s order. It is not a thing of the Lord’s devising. It is the hand of an enemy that has brought in this state of things. The famine for spiritual food is the worst famine of all; for it is in departing from what the Lord would have us know of Him and His ways that makes it possible for the course of nature to be set aside and the famine for bread come as a calamity upon the world. The mental torture of the superstitious mind that does not know God, is a keener suffering than anything that can be brought upon him by famine, or sickness, or anything of the kind; for who has not seen the soul suffering untold pains from disease, and yet there was a calm joy in the countenance, that shone thru the pain; a joy that made one feel that he was in the presence of the bliss of heaven rather than in the chamber of distress?
The value of the joys and blessedness of the Gospel can never be told. They are beyond the powers of description. They must be experienced in order to be known, and when they are really known, they supply the one thing that humanity is always and everywhere in need of; and where it is lacking, joy is withering away from the sons of men. He who has this bliss of heaven stands ready to go anywhere that the Master suggests and give the message to the sorrowing sons of earth. If you do not have a burning desire in the soul to carry the Gospel to some one else, it is a sure sign that you do not really possess it yourself, no matter what you may profess.
Then let us hear the Saviour’s message, “Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature,” so that all who desire to believe and be baptized may be saved. T.
God’s Rest Around Our Restlessness
By Browning
God’s greatness
Flows around our incompleteness;
Round our restlessness, His rest.
—Browning.
WISDOM'S WAYS.
By J. W. Stein
“Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.” Prov. 3:17.
DIVERSIONS, splendors, throngs of earth
No solid joys impart;
In every worldly pleasure, mirth,
There is a secret smart.
One yawns beneath their lethargy,
Sighs often for release;
But wisdom’s ways bring pleasantness,
And all her paths are peace.
The just, in every clime and age,
Triumph ’mid floods and flames;
Their vict’ries brighten every page;
Immortal are their names.
Tho earth may trouble and distress,
Heaven brings them sweet release;
Her ways are ways of pleasantness,
And all her paths are peace.
What is the prison, rack, or rod,
If right but reigns within,
With conscience pure toward man and God,
Heart purged from every sin?
Tho worldly friends no more caress,
And worldly pleasures cease,
Still wisdom’s ways yield pleasantness,
And all her paths are peace.
Commit thy life, then, to the Lord;
He will direct thy ways,
Thy thoughts be molded by His Word,
Thy soul be filled with praise.
Thy works be wrought in righteousness,
Thy joys for aye increase.
His ways are ways of pleasantness,
And all His paths are peace.
With God’s law written in thy heart,
Thy steps shall never slide—
This life and that to come thy part,
And God Himself thy guide.
Thru Christ’s sufficient righteousness
The sin-sick find release;
His ways are paths of pleasantness,
And all His paths are peace.
Will not eternity reward
Thy wise and noble choice?
The Lord thy goings will regard,
And saints with thee rejoice.
The New Jerusalem will bless,
Thy new earth life, increase.
“Her ways are ways of pleasantness,
And all her paths are peace.”
1. “The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. 2. “I have loved you, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, Wherein hast Thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith 3. the Lord; yet I loved Jacob; but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals 4. of the wilderness. Whereas Edom saith, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places; thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and men shall call them The border of wickedness, and The people against whom the Lord hath indignation for 5. ever. And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The Lord be magnified beyond the border of Israel. 6. “A son honoreth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honor? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise My name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised Thy name? Ye offer polluted bread upon Mine altar. 7. And ye say, Wherein have we polluted Thee? In that ye say, The table of the Lord is contemptible. 8. And when ye offer the blind for sacrifice, it is no evil! and when ye offer the lame and sick, it is no evil! Present it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee? or will he accept thy person? saith the Lord of hosts. 9. And now, I pray you, entreat the favor of God, that He may be gracious unto us; this hath been by your means: will He accept any of your persons? saith the Lord of hosts. 10. O that there were one among you that would shut the doors, that ye might not kindle fire on mine altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand. 11. For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same My name is great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense is offered unto My name, and a pure offering: for My name is great among the Gentiles; saith the Lord of hosts. 12. But ye profane it, in that ye say, The table of the Lord is polluted, and the fruit thereof, even His meat, is contemptible. 13. Ye say also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the Lord of hosts; and ye have brought that which was taken by violence, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye bring the offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the Lord. 14. But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a blemished thing: for I am a great king, saith the Lord of hosts, and My name is terrible among the Gentiles.”
NOTE.—The name Malachi is a contraction of Malachijah, meaning “Messenger of Jehovah.” The term indicates the prophet’s office rather than his name. He was Jehovah’s last inspired messenger among the prophets of that age to announce the coming of God’s great messenger. He reproves certain sins in the close of that age, which are paralleled by the same sins in the close of this age. The date was about B.C. 420 to 390. His work followed that of Nehemiah. The grand scope of the book will be developed in our study of its lessons.
QUESTIONS.
(1) To whom is the prophecy addressed? How much does Israel include? Verse 1. Note 1. (2) Of what does the Lord assure them? Verse 2. (3) What proof does He give of His love? Verses 2, 3. Note 2. (4) What does rebellious Edom declare? How does the Lord reply? Verse 4. (5) What will the faithful see and acknowledge? Verse 5. (6) What common truth does the Lord state? Verse 6, first part. (7) What class does He reprove? How does He reprove them? What do they in their blindness reply? Verse 6. (8) How had God’s name been despised? What did they virtually say by this? What had His table become to them? Verses 7, 12. Note 3. (9) What further proof does the Lord give of His people’s unfaithfulness? By what common facts does He appeal to them? Verse 8. (10) What had the Lord’s service become? How had they regarded it? How did they show their feeling? Should the Lord accept such service? Verse 13. (11) Upon whom rests the curse? What does the Lord declare Himself to be? Verse 14. (12) What appeal does the messenger make to these sinful people? How earnestly does he press it home upon them? Verse 9. Note 4. (13) What is the longing of his heart? What is the Lord’s final sentence upon those who continue to regard Him with such disrespect? Verse 10. Note 5. (14) Where does the Lord declare His name will be honored? Verse 11. Note 6.
NOTES.
1. Israel.—Israel is a comprehensive term, including all God’s people. The study of the book will show that the general term at the beginning includes not alone the people of the kingdoms of Judah and Israel, but all who have come in among God’s people from the Gentiles. See Rom. 9:6-8; Eph. 2:11, 12, 19, 20; 3:6.
2. Jacob—Esau.—It is not of the individual men, but of the characters represented by these men, that the prophet speaks. Despite all Jacob’s imperfections, he believed God, and longed to be like Him. He finally obtained the victory, and became prevailer with God. His character was manifest in his descendants. God hated the selfish character of Esau, who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage, whose descendants exercised intense hatred toward their brethren and rejoiced in their downfall. God loves the sinner, that He may save him, but He hates of necessity the sin and the character that is formed by cherishing sin. These men stand as types of characters in all ages—the one of the imperfect man who desires to reform, and does so by God’s grace; the other of those who despise God’s blessings, reject His character, and identify themselves with sin.
3. In that ye say.—They probably did not say it in words, but their deeds spoke more loudly. If it was worthy only of their poorest offering, of their unclean bread, surely it was contemptible and unclean. We have considered some of these verses out of order, so as not to repeat the same thoughts, but it is well to note the repetition. It shows how emphatically and clearly the Lord reveals their sin. (See article “Put No Difference,” in another column.)
4. Entreat the favor of God.—God reproved that they might repent. It was not in His plan that they had failed and their trouble had come upon them. It was all by their means, and God could not accept of half-hearted service. The repentance must be deep and lasting.
5. O, that there were one among you!—The Lord longed for one brave man, according to the Revised Version, who would rise up and close the house of God against the unholy, polluted, imperfect offerings, which were degrading God before the eyes of all that saw. God did not accept the imperfect, cheap offerings, and the fire upon His altar was kindled in vain.
6. My name shall be great (margin).—God’s name will be honored. He desires that it shall be honored by the holy, faithful, earnest, true lives of His people. If they will not do this, His name will not the less be honored. He will get honor from their unfaithfulness. He desired to be honored by Pharaoh’s conversion, but Pharaoh would not have it thus, so God used his overthrow to honor Him. He longs to get honor and spread abroad His name through His people’s success, but if He can not do this, He will get glory through their downfall.
SUPPLEMENTARY QUESTIONS.
When was it that Edom was beaten down? What kind of offering does the Lord desire? What kind of offering did He make for us? If we have only the lame, yet give our best, will He not accept it? What is the state of our piety when the regular service of God becomes a “weariness”?
THE DUTCH EAST INDIES.
In South and East Borneo, the field of the Rhenish Mission, there were 55 baptisms from heathenism during the year 1899, so that the total Christian community (including children) is now 1,900. In Sumatra the same mission had 2,352 baptisms in 1899. Of these about 2,150 were from heathenism, and 200 from Islam. The total Christian community of the Rhenish Mission in Sumatra has now reached about 43,600.
The Netherlands Missionary Union, which is working in West Java, has now 11 stations, with 26 churches. At the end of last year the number of native Christians had reached 1,660, being an increase of 178 on the previous year. The number of children taught in the schools of this mission is now 686. Since the work was begun, in 1863, 2,728 persons have been baptized in all.
The widow of Missionary Hendrich, who is continuing her husband's work among the Dyaks, in South Borneo, has had the joy of seeing the fruit of her labors. The small church has been gathered together at the place where she is living, and two out-stations have already been opened in the neighborhood. She has two native helpers working with her, and now and then Missionary Renken comes from the next station, Mandomai, to administer baptism and the Lord's Supper.—Exchange.
A NEW USE FOR TRACTS.
A NEW ENGLAND sea-captain made a voyage to India. While in port there a wealthy Malay merchant came on board, who asked him if he had any tracts he could part with. The captain was surprised at such a request from a heathen, and asked him:—
“What do you want with English tracts? You can not read them.”
“True; but I have use for them, nevertheless,” said the Malay, thru his interpreter. “Whenever one of your country or of England calls on me to trade I put a tract in his way and watch him. If he reads it with interest I infer that he will not cheat me. If he throws it aside with contempt or with an oath of profanity, I have no more to do with him. I can not trust him.”
Little as this man knew of Christianity, he had learned that a man who did not reverence the truth of God was not careful for the rights of man, and was a man to be avoided. And he had learned to distinguish between those who reverenced the things of God, and those for whose sake the name of God is blasphemed among the heathen, and by whose misconduct Christianity is misrepresented and disgraced.—Common People.
JESUS ONLY.
By Anon.
[An Indian chief's story.]
There once came a preacher who wished to show us that there is a God. We answered: “Do you think we don’t know that? Go back where you came from.”
Another came and said, “You must not steal; you must not get drunk; you must not lie.”
We answered: “You fool, do you think we don’t know that? Teach that first to the people you belong to; for who drink, steal, and lie more than your own nation?”
After that came Christian Henry Rauch to my hut, and said, “The Lord in heaven bids me say He will make you blessed, and deliver you from your misery; for this purpose He became man, and shed His own blood.”
As soon as he had done speaking, he lay down quietly by my bow and tomahawk, and slept as sweetly as a child.
“Ah,” I thought, “what a man that is! I could strike him dead, but he has no fear.” I could not forget his words. I dreamed in my sleep of the blood of Christ shed for me.
“Thus thru God’s grace the awakening among us began. Therefore I say, Brethren, preach Christ our Saviour and His sufferings if you would find an entrance among the heathen.”
The above incident occurred in 1740. The story was told by Tschoop, a great red Indian chief. Is it not a grand lesson for all missionaries?—Anon.
OUR WORK AND WORKERS.
Brother Richmond reports ten conversions at Canaan, Maine.
Brother A. L. Nay reports the organization of a Sabbath-school of twenty-one members at Mobile, Ala.
The work at Muncie, Indiana, is still progressing. Three more have taken their stand to keep the Lord’s Sabbath.
On Wednesday evening, February 6, twelve more were baptized and received into the Oakland, California, church. This in addition to the 46 that were baptized on January 20.
Pastor H. C. Basney writes that the church at Cliff Island has a new building for their church school about completed. He has been holding meetings with the church preparatory to the opening of the school, and as a result sixteen have given their hearts to the Lord.
Sister Lizzie Grainger and her daughter Gertrude have arrived in San Francisco from their mission field in Japan. It is altogether likely that they would not have returned had it not been for the sad fact that Brother Grainger was taken away by that great enemy, death.
Our New South Wales Conference was organized five years ago, and now has a church membership of 564. There are enough isolated Sabbath-keepers in the conference to bring the number up to full 600 if they were all enrolled in our churches. One hundred eight persons were baptized in the conference during the last year.
Late clean copies of the Review, Signs, Sentinel, Instructor, Little Friend, and Good Health, and any of our tracts, will be gladly received and distributed by the following if they are sent to them post-paid:—
Henry Block, Strathcona, Alberta Co., N. W. T., Canada.
Mrs. M. A. Carlock, Redding, Cal.
Mrs. A. D. Kelley, 807 S. Main St., Butte, Mont.
W. J. Hurdon, Peterboro, Ont., Canada.
E. F. Green, Jennings, Pawnee Co., Okla.
Worth of Note
THE British Government has decided to send to South Africa at once 30,000 more mounted men. Enlistments for this purpose are going on rapidly, and a contingent of 10,000 are expected to sail soon. The Boers seem to have concentrated most of their forces into two main bodies, one under Louis Botha and the other under Christian De Wett. Seven British columns have been endeavoring to surround and capture these commands for a number of weeks, but the Boers have evaded the traps set for them, and on the 6th nearly succeeded in capturing 700 of the British. The latter lost a considerable number of men and one quick-firing cannon. In a rush by the Boers upon Moddersfontein recently 200 of the British were captured and the number of killed and wounded amounted to 30. The Boers are now reported to be moving toward Portuguese territory, and are threatening Lourenzo Marquez. In an engagement at Orange Camp between Botha and Smith-Dorien, the British lost 24 killed and 53 wounded. The Boers left 20 dead and many wounded on the field. The British casualty list for the month of January shows a total of more than 800 deaths in action or from disease. The war has now continued 460 days and its cost to the British in men amounts to 12,989 dead and about 30,000 invalided.
THE foreign ministers and Chinese plenipotentiaries are in joint conference at Peking over the question of punishment of the Chinese who were responsible for the Boxer outrages. A definite list of these persons has been drawn up and submitted to the empress dowager, who objects seriously to the infliction of the death penalty in the case of several of those named by the ministers. It is feared by many that both the emperor and empress dowager will refuse the demands of the powers in this particular. The work of compiling the American claims for indemnity on account of the Chinese uprising has been practically completed. The total amount of the private claims is $801,000 in gold. The despatch indicates that about $500,000 of this amount is claimed by the various missionary boards whose property was destroyed by the Boxers.
MRS. CARRIE NATION'S crusade against the liquor traffic in Kansas continues unabated, and rather seems to be growing in volume. As a result of it the saloons of Topeka have been closed in obedience to a warning from the citizens' committee, which threatened them with destruction in case they did not close. More raids upon the saloon men of Wichita are promised, and the saloon men of Concordia have closed their places. About a thousand determined citizens of Holton, Kansas, raided the saloons of that town and put them out of business, making Holton what is known as a “dry town.” Twenty women raided the saloons of Clearwater, and the saloons of that place have been closed. In a raid on a Topeka saloon on February 5, Mrs. Nation was again arrested, and again released.
COURT proceedings are being instituted against the senior students of the Aurora, Illinois, High School by the parents of the junior students. In spite of the most stringent regulations by the school board, the seniors have been severely hazing the younger students. A young woman student of the Wichita, Kansas, High School, while being initiated into one of the high-school societies recently was branded for life. Across her forehead were written with nitric acid the initial letters of the society. The acid burned into the flesh, leaving the letters indelibly stamped upon her forehead.
A TERRIBLE mining disaster occurred at the San Andreas mine, in the western part of the State of Durango, Mexico, recently, in which eighty-seven men, women, and children lost their lives. Electric wires passing thru a part of the mine where dynamite was stored, caused a fearful explosion, which practically demolished the side of the mountain on which the mining village was situated. Men who were at work in the mine were uninjured. This mine is the most celebrated silver mine in Mexico, and has produced millions of dollars worth of ore.
AN attempt has been made by the liquor interests to break down the prohibitory law of Vermont. According to the law of that State, the possession of a national license is evidence of the breaking of the State prohibitory law, and this license from the government carries with it no permission to violate a State law. The liquor men attempted thru the Legislature to have the law referred to abolished, but the Vermont legislators refused to yield the point.
A BILL recently passed the House of Representatives providing that weekly newspapers which are deposited in their local post-offices for distribution by mail-carrier must each carry a one-cent stamp. If the paper weighs more than two ounces, it must carry a two-cent stamp. This measure, providing it becomes a law, would raise the postage on such periodicals from one cent a pound to eight cents a pound for local distribution.
THIEVES at Sioux City, Iowa, on February 9, carried off the express company's safe from the railway station, securing about $40,000. Some of the thieves, it is believed, have been captured.
QUEEN WILHELMINA, of Holland, was married, on February 7, to Duke Henry, of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, at The Hague. The husband of the queen becomes Prince Heinrich, of the Netherlands, by proclamation of the Netherlands Court. All Holland has been excited for weeks over the approaching event, and the wedding of the young queen was given the most hearty approval by her subjects.
THE Methodist Episcopal Church of the United States has selected Dr. Homer C. Stuntz, of Mt. Vernon, Iowa, as presiding elder of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the Philippines. He will sail for the islands about the 1st of April, taking with him a dozen or more missionaries to carry on the work there.
THE Federal Salt Company, a trust, has absorbed the entire product of the Carmen Salt Works, in Lower California, and already has within its grasp about ninety-five per cent. of all the salt works of the United States. As a result of this deal, salt has taken another upward move in the market.
THE West Point Academy hazing committee has made its report to the House of Representatives, severely denouncing the practise of hazing in that institution, and recommending the passage of a bill making stringent regulations against hazing, fighting, and all such brutal practises.
A LAWLESS gang known as the “Invincible Thieves” is levying blackmail upon wealthy farmers of Illinois. The band demands large sums of money from its victims, under threat of blowing up their buildings with dynamite. Several have yielded to the demands of the outlaws.
IN an engagement in the Sierra Mountains between Mexican troops and Yaqui Indians, the Mexicans were led into an ambush, and lost nearly 100. When the soldiers retreated, their dead and wounded were left behind, and the Indians killed all the wounded.
SIXTEEN dressmaking establishments of Paris are closed on account of the dressmakers' strike. A general strike is to be declared in case the employers do not yield to the demand for an eight-hour day and increased pay for the women employed.
THE cabinet officers of the new Italian king tendered their resignation on February 7, and the task of selecting a new ministry seems a very difficult one on account of the attitude of the different parties in the Chamber of Deputies.
THE dam across the River Nile at Assouan has finally been completed. Its construction was for the purpose of storing up the waters of the Nile against a time of drought, and thus solving the problem of providing corn in Egypt.
THE war revenue reduction measure passed the Senate on February 6. This repeals the tax on express receipts and telegrams, but not upon bank checks. It also materially reduces the tax on liquors.
THERE is indication now that the mammoth River and Harbor Bill, carrying an appropriation of nearly $80,000,000, will fail of passage in the Senate, on account of the great size of the appropriations.
ADVICES from Colombia show continued activity of the insurgents in many quarters. The insurgents are pressing on toward Panama and Colon in spite of the government re-enforcements.
THE United States transport Sheridan arrived in San Francisco from Manila on February 6, having on board the 37th Volunteer Infantry, 278 sick soldiers, and 41 insane.
THE English Government has decided to announce to the world that the bubonic plague exists at Cape Town, there being no longer any doubt of the nature of the disease.
THE friends of General Gomez have succeeded in introducing a clause into the new Cuban constitution making the general eligible to the presidency of the Cuban Republic.
MILAN, the former king of Servia, died in Vienna on February 11, a virtual exile from his country on account of his profligacy. His son Alexander is the present king.
THE steamer Empress of India, which arrived at Vancouver, B. C., on February 7, brings news of a fresh outbreak of the bubonic plague in the island of Formosa.
THE greatest glass-tumbler factory in the world, situated at Rochester, Penn., was entirely destroyed by fire on February 11. The loss is placed at about $1,500,000.
THE rebel Indians of Yucatan were defeated on February 10, in another engagement with the Mexican troops, and have fled in different directions.
A MOVEMENT has been started by the ministers of San Francisco to bring to an end the notorious traffic in Chinese slave women in that city.
THE War Department is preparing to send regular soldiers to Manila to take the place of the volunteers which are leaving for America.
A DESPATCH from Baku, Russia, states that 500 persons lost their lives in the great oil conflagration which occurred there recently.
THE attempt to fix a date for the final vote on the Ship Subsidy Bill has been again defeated.
