p. 16 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 38. (9/19/1900)

Earlier text: THE NEW OVERCOAT AND WHAT CAME OF IT

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NOTES BY THE WAY. No. 3.

By Merritt C. Wilcox

WE arrived in New York City from the Richmond camp-meeting August 17. Here I met Mr. W. A. Reaser and planned the illustrations for the World's Outlook number of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. These illustrations are not yet drawn, but we know that they will, in striking originality and object lesson, exceed anything we have hitherto presented to our readers.

SABBATH DAY, August 18, we met in the forenoon with the First S. D. A. English Church of Brooklyn. The weather was extremely warm, and the attendance was therefore not large. Nevertheless, a goodly company of about seventy-five assembled for the study of the Word in Sabbath-school and sermon, followed by a social service. We spoke from John 10:1-16 as to how we may know the true Shepherd's voice, and the importance of knowing it. After the good social meeting which followed, the papers for missionary work were laid before the Lord and His blessing was asked upon them.

In the afternoon, eleven miles away, we met with the New York church. Here the attendance was considerably larger, and excellent attention was given, as the practical, positive truths of the great threefold message of Rev. 14:6-12 were presented. We were not in time to be present at the interesting Sabbath-school here, but it is a live, working company, and we are sure the Sabbath-school must be of interest.

WE were in New York City in 1884. It seemed then and for some time after that it was well-nigh impossible for the truth of the last message to get a foothold in this great rushing, driving, hurrying city. But it was good now to find five churches in this great city. The one in New York numbers about 200 members. The First Church of Brooklyn, about the same. Besides this there are the Second Brooklyn English Church, a German and a Scandinavian Church, and the work is onward. We praise God for what He has wrought through His servants in this great city. These churches are called to great responsibility. God has set them as lights in that great, dark city. They will meet this responsibility by unitedly seeking God's glory, and laboring with singleness of heart to bring souls unto Him.

WE visited our brethren of the Foreign Mission Board and International Tract Society, who are putting forth earnest effort not alone in their own work but locally. The two days we were in this great city, which now numbers its population as over 3,437,000, we were glad of the privilege of stopping at the hospitable homes of Brethren Place and Curtiss, old co-laborers in the work—the former now president of Atlantic Conference; the latter, manager of the New York branch of the Pacific Press. Great burdens rest upon those bearing responsibilities in this important center. They need our prayers and our hearty support.

THE city life is seen in New York in all its fulness of evil. The present census shows that within a radius of twenty miles from the city hall, the distance which the city now extends in some directions, there are four and one-half million of people. Some of these live under conditions which are almost insufferable. For instance, one block of the city contains over 3,900 inhabitants. In some cases whole families live in one room. In the great, hot, over-crowded tenement houses, the inner rooms of which receive no light or ventilation, save by inner air-shafts, the atmosphere becomes indescribably foul and unwholesome; and during the intensely-heated term through which we have just passed, hundreds of little ones sickened, and many died. The nervous wear of city life here is terrific. It is one continual rush all the time. The street-cars run for twenty-four hours, and are nearly always crowded by people going—where? The cost of living is increasing as the commodities of life are controlled by the great trusts. The spirits of the people continually grow more and more intense and mercurial, and the merest pretext excites the mob spirit, as was manifest a few days since. How one's heart goes out for this great seething, unrestful mass of humanity, that they may know the rest there is in Christ Jesus! M. C. W.

A CLEAN UNIVERSE.

By Editor

THAT such is the purpose of God, is manifest in the fact that all creation came from His hand "very good," and when sin had marred a portion of it, He gave His well-beloved Son, that through His blood it might be cleansed. We have in hand a series of four articles on this subject, by William Penniman.

No. 1. "Sheol, Hades, Tartarus, and Gehenna."

No. 2. "The Destiny of Satan, Evil Angels, Sin, and Death."

No. 3. "Why Was Not Satan Destroyed at Once, before He Was Cast Out of Heaven?"

No. 4. "No More Curse."

THE LATE MRS. S. M. I. HENRY.

Those who were acquainted with Mrs. S. M. I. Henry during her lifetime, either through her writings or from personal contact, do not fail to recognize that she was a most remarkable woman, and that she possessed a spiritual power and divine enlightenment that were unusually strong and deep.

Her sympathies with the suffering or with the distressed, under all the varied conditions in which these things come, were most remarkable. None were too degraded to receive a kindly word from her and a helpful suggestion, and none could be too refined to find in her presence an atmosphere of spiritual purity and Christian courtesy that were at once a stimulus to nobler purposes and to desires to live on a higher plane of true nobility and goodness. She never dwelt upon the dark side, but what she had to say filled the spiritual atmosphere around her with courage, hope, and joy.

While in contact with such a life as this a person is not apt to stop to reason upon it. Yet if any reasoning were done it must be evident that a person living along such a plane as this has met and conquered many sorrows, trials, difficulties, and perplexities, and, knowing the sting of pain and being in touch with the sympathetic principles of heaven, is desirous of relieving the distress of others who are undergoing similar afflictions and trials.

No one would have imagined through coming in contact with Mrs. Henry in her life-work that there had ever been any dark clouds hovering across her pathway. She made no mention of any such experiences. But in some of her leisure moments she made some autobiographical sketches of her early experiences,—the influence of her father and their Bible studies together; her conflicts while struggling in deepest poverty as a widow to keep her little family together and train them for God, and other trying experiences. Her daughter, Mrs. Mary Henry Rossiter, has added to these manuscripts other interesting matter, and the whole is published in a neat book, the retail price of which is $1.50. No person can read this book without being greatly helped thereby, and it is especially valuable to wives and mothers.

We feel sure that the many acquaintances of Mrs. Henry will be anxious to get this volume. Orders should be sent to Mrs. Grace Durland Mace, 271 West Main Street, Battle Creek, Mich. T.

CONTAINED IN THIS NUMBER.

By Editor

Poetry.

Because Thou Knowest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Catch the Sunshine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Not Thrown Away . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 The Song of Your Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

General.

Stephen, the Martyr, G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Need of Unity, MRS. E. G. WHITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 The End Draweth Near, CLARENCE SANTEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The Cynic, Is It I? M. H. BROWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 How Much Redemption Includes, MRS. H. HURD HASKELL . . . . . . . . . . 4 No More Curse, G. B. THOMPSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Some Sound Reasons Cited, T. E. BOWEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 "I Am the Resurrection and the Life," OTHO C. GODSMARK . . . . . . . . . . 5 The Peace-offering, G. E. FIFIELD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Prayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Souls or Sovereignty? C. M. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 "I Am in the Midst" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Question Corner.—No. 1082 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Outlook.—"Pain-killers"—The Deadly Cocain—The Farmer's Lot and Prospect—A Significant Fact—A Murmur in Egypt—The Chinese Situation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 9

Missions.—The Convert Communities of India, W. A. SPICER—Native Martyrs in China—Our India Famine Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 11

The Home.—The New Overcoat and What Came of It, A. SMITH—"The Quality of Mercy"—Some Points Regarding Food, DAVID PAULSON, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 13

International Sabbath-school and Sunday-school Lessons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Publishers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

New Voice Leaflets Denied Second-Class Mail

The Post-office Department has ruled out the New Voice Leaflets (a temperance periodical) from the privileges of second-class mail matter. The publishers claim that every objection has been fully met, and that the cut is solely for campaign political purposes. They say that the "strained and harsh construction of the rules" would also operate against many Sunday-school and political publications that go out in clubs, and are largely circulated gratuitously.

The Word of God

"All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness; that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works." Then the most profitable resource for any one is a knowledge of, and obedience to, the Word of God. When one is "thoroughly furnished unto all good works," what more does he need?

People's Bible School

By Editor

Note the advertisement, on page 14, of the pamphlet, "People's Bible School." It contains 21 lessons, in catechetical form, on important topics, together with a prophetic chart.

California Conference Camp-Meeting

By Editor

The California Conference will hold a local camp-meeting at Napa, September 27 to October 7, for the benefit of the churches in Napa and adjoining counties. Special rates will be obtained on the certificate plan if fifty or more persons go to the meeting by rail. Orders for tents, chairs, and wire mattresses should be sent to J. J. Ireland, 1059 Castro Street, Oakland, Cal.

The Real Paramount Issue

By Editor

The Indicator, of Rome, N. Y., has this pointed item: "Much time and energy are being devoted to the discussion of what constitutes the 'paramount issue.' The 'paramount issue' is the coming of the Lord in power and great glory. The devil is pleased when he can get professed Christians down working in the cesspool of politics, and thus be unprepared for the real 'paramount issue.' 'What I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.'"

Wealth, Dyspepsia, and Contentment

Mr. John D. Rockefeller has an income of $20,000,000 a year, it is said, but he must live on a diet that many a poor laboring man would think was starvation. He can eat no cream, no butter, no meat, no pastry of any kind, no fresh bread, no white bread. He has the dyspepsia. Some one remarks that he would probably give of his $200,000,000 fortune, what he is reputed to be worth, not less than $199,000,000 for a new stomach. How much more blessed is a daily wage, sufficient for daily needs, with a clear conscience and good digestion!

Whisky Does Not Aid Digestion

One of the leaders of the Catholic Total Abstinence Society says, "I don't blame a man for getting a drink of whisky to aid in digesting a badly-prepared meal." Then where is the virtue of total abstinence? But this clerical abstainer ought to know that whisky is a digestion destroyer, and could not possibly help to digest anything. He ought to know that a stomach laden with a "badly-prepared meal" is in a worse condition for resisting the evil effects of a drink of whisky than a stomach properly fed. The "badly-prepared meal" is enough imposition on the stomach, without adding the poison contained in a drink of whisky.