SKIEN.—Brn. Jasperson and Roseqvist have made a good beginning in Skien. Skien is a city of some over 5,000 inhabitants. It is half a day's journey from Christiana by steamer. When the railroad is finished the distance will be much shorter. Skien is a central trading place, and is known in Norway as a principal place for all kinds of dissenters. Several other towns are situated near by along the bay; so that it is an excellent station for missionary operations, if the truth can be planted there.
Bro. J. found every door closed when he came, and a renowned preacher from Christiana in full operation to hinder the work if possible. Bro. J. succeeded, however, in doing the only thing that could be done,—renting a dwelling-house for half a year. He has seated three large rooms, and occupies the fourth also for meetings. He has provided seats for 300 persons.
The Lord has helped, and blessed his endeavors. All the rooms were crowded the first night, and many stood in the street and listened. Tuesday and Thursday evenings it was not so crowded, but Saturday evening the house was filled again, and there were still more hearers in the street. The people would stand up and listen for more than an hour without showing the least sign of weariness. Bro J. said it did his heart good.
Tracts are taken freely, and are also scattered in the surrounding country. These strangers and their doctrine have become a general theme of conversation on the street and in the stores. The rumors of the work in Christiana have awakened the curiosity of the people all over the country; and although our brethren find many opposers in Skien, yet they have also already some friends and defenders. Last Sabbath three persons kept the Sabbath with them.
DENMARK.—Sister Renlef writes from the vicinity of Ribe (the place where Bro. Brorsen was born, and where he has labored some this fall) that another person has commenced to obey the truth, and that many have become convinced of our faith. Bro. Brorsen writes that he preached in the last part of September among the friends in Nortvig and Ring to interested hearers. Three more have commenced to obey the Lord, and others are on the way.
In October he held meetings in the vicinity of Aarhus. Here he found a brother who had been brought to the Lord in a remarkable way. He was sick last winter, and sent to his neighbor for some novels to read. In place of this he sent him Advent Tidende, which a friend from Wisconsin had been sending to him for some time. The paper led the sick man to seek the Lord and to embrace the truth. He subscribed for Tidernes Tegn, and is much interested to spread the truth. Here Bro. B. had a long discussion with a priest and three teachers about regeneration, baptism, and the Sabbath. The priest acknowledged the truth on several points. A number of the hearers were convinced that we had the truth on our side.
The brethren in northern Julland are firm in the truth, and the work is prospering among them. They are commencing to labor375in the tract work, and are helping to increase our list of subscribers. The brethren are paying systematic benevolence. Bro. B. has labored with great self-denial and diligence. The mission in Denmark can now sustain him in his labors.
SWEDEN.—Bro. L. G. Olson has left Christiana, and is trying to labor in his own country. He held meetings one week at Amot. Many were willing to hear. He found two friends keeping the Sabbath, and he says that they are God-fearing people. Many were convinced of the truth by reading. Bro. O. is now in Herresta, where a dear family has been long waiting for help to spread the truth. Bro. Sandgren writes from Sundsval that they have formed a small church there with six members, and asks for Bro. O. to came and help them.
CHRISTIANA.—The tract society held their quarterly meeting Oct. 16. This society was formed July 24, this year. It now numbers 57 members. They have bought tracts during the year for kroner 224.87, and obtained by donations and sales of tracts kr. 206.05, or about $55.00. Besides this, they have tracts worth about kr. 50.00. They donated Swedish tracts to Bro. Olsen to the value of kr. 20.00, and Norwegian tracts to Bro. Jasperson to about the same amount. They ordered 50 copies of Tidernes Tegn.
The building society read their report at this meeting. Expenses on our property in Akersveien No. 2 for repairs and running expenses amounted to Kr. 1,977.00; interest and semi-annual payment were Kr. 1,837.50; in all Kr. 3,814.50 ($1,017.20). Receipts were: house rent Kr. 1,555.18; shares and donations, Kr. 1,654.00; together, Kr. 3,-209.00. The balance, Kr. 605.50, was put into the hands of the treasurer by members of the society eight days before the payments were due. A sister who has earned what she owns by her own hands, and lives very economically, occupying only a room 14x8 feet, under the roof in the third story, came to me before the meeting with Kr. 800.00—400 for shares and 400 to be loaned without interest.
Our friends in America have no idea of the difficulties which we meet in this country in obtaining places for meetings. Our opponents are determined to crowd us out, and have a good chance to do so, because property and rent are very high. It has cost us a great deal to get our building in good order. We have now a very respectable hall for meetings, which can seat about five hundred persons, and it is none too large for our Sunday meetings. Our expenses the coming term will not be so high. Still it will be quite a task to meet them. We have, however, used no means from our brethren in America for this purpose. The means sent by our brethren in the distant West are used exclusively for the printing work and for missionary work, and we try to use the strictest economy in every direction.
At this meeting Bro. L. G. Olsen was unanimously chosen by the church to act as evangelist in Sweden, Bro. G. Johansen was chosen for exhorter, and Brn. O. Johansen and L. Hansen for deacons. The Sabbath following, these four brethren were ordained by prayer and the laying on of hands for their respective offices. The Lord came very near to us at this meeting.
J. G. MATTESON.
Nov. 6, 1879.
The Home Circle.
By Eleanor Kirk
HIS JEWELS.
WHEN the Lord makes up his jewels,
Choosing gems of every hue,
Pearls and diamonds, rubies, sapphires,
Showing flawless through and through,
Could I be the least among them,
Smallest gem that love could see,
And his eye detect the brightness,
That would be enough for me.
Precious stones are cut and polished
By the lapidary's skill;
Cruel knife and rasping friction
Work on each the master's will,
Not until the sparkling facets
With an equal lustre glow,
Does the artist choose a setting
For the gem perfected so.
Thus I wait the royal pleasure,
And, when trouble comes to me,
Smile, to think he may be working
On the gem, though small it be.
All I ask is strength to bear it,
Faith and patience to be still,
Held by him, no knife can slay me;
Loving him, no anguish kill.
—By Eleanor Kirk.
Grant, Iowa.
By C. A. Washburn; A. W. H. Millard
Nov. 2-5 we held meetings in Grant township, Ringgold Co., where our tent was last pitched this season. As the result of these meetings, eight signed the covenant. These, with four who had previously signed it, will keep up prayer-meetings. We hope they will let their "light shine" that others, who are almost persuaded, will embrace the truths of the Bible.
C. A. WASHBURN.
A. W. H. MILLARD.
Secular News.
-A strong temperance movement has been inaugurated in Atlanta, Georgia.
-Polish residents celebrated the centenary of the death of Pulaski, Dec. 6, in New York.
-War has broken out in New Calabar, West Africa, between some powerful tribes of natives.
-A colored exodus is taking place from North Carolina. Strong efforts are being made in the State to hinder it.
-Since the first of Jannary, 28,758 German emigrants landed at Castle Gardens, against 21,506 the corresponding period last year.
-During the recent cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, a storm wave swept over Monkishal Island, drowning several hundred persons.
-December 3 the weather was reported very cold in Great Britain and on the Continent. Despatches from Rome and Madrid report a heavy snowfall.
A London writer says a man paid his gas bill for one month, and then shut up his house for the next month, but his gas bill was just the same at the end of the month
-The London Times, in its financial article, says: "United States Government bonds are hardly to be got here now, and their prices are a mere reflex on those of New York.
-A Berlin correspondent states that the last St. Petersburg newspapers received there contain no articles on the attempt on the Czar's life, as they had not received permission to publish them.
-The London Times, in its financial article, says: "The Industry Cotton Spinning Company, the owners of large mills at Oldham, have gone into liquidation in consequence of the depression of trade.
-Storms continue in Europe. In Spain grave apprehensions are felt of more floods, and much damage is reported further from Switzerland from snow storms. Snow storms in Hungary have also been heavy.
-The Lower House of the Austrian Reichstag rejected the motion for a reduction of the standing army, and adopted the first clause of the Government's bill fixing the strength of the army on a war footing at 800,000.
-Berlin despatches say the famine in Upper Silesia has become so serious that, in many villages, over one-third the population are starving. Famine distress is appearing in Saxony, among peasants and weavers.
-It is now rumored that Gen. Grant's visit to Mexico is in reference to some overtures on the part of the better class of Mexicans who are looking to annexation to the United States as a solution of their chronic difficulties.
-Northern California is having its floods. In Humbold t county nearly four inches of rain fell in eighteen hours, and all the streams were impassable; at Shasta the Sacramento rose 17 feet on the 5th, and the rain continued.
-A New York telegram of Dec. 5, says: "The Tribune, on Sunday, will make a new departure, and hereafter publish a Sunday edition. This will be the first appearance of the Tribune on Sunday since the fall of Napoleon, in 1870."
-Germany and Russia are again on loving terms, and the St. Petersburg Golos has been suppressed for a long account of its severe language on Germany. Outside parties seem to appreciate the great national farce of peace overtures.
-A St. Petersburg correspondent states that the Golos was suspended for its outspoken articles upon the widespread misery and poverty in the interior provinces, the university question, agricultural schools, and the dishonesty and barbarism of the Communal authorities.
-An attempt was made upon the life of the Czar, Dec. 2. First reports seemed doubtful, but they are confirmed. The Czar's train left a station half an hour behind a baggage train, but passed the latter, which was blown up at another station, being mistaken for that of the Czar. The train was wrecked, though few were injured. It has produced a great sensation in the capitals of Europe.
-The resolution prepared by the Ways and Means Committee, for the distribution of the President's Message, proposed to refer the portion on polygamy to the Committee on Territories, but the House amended it by referring this subject to the Judiciary Committee. This changed reference is in the line of preparation for the enactment of more stringent measures, which the Judiciary Committee is known to favor.
-American politics are getting mixed. A. H. Stephens, of Georgia, writes: "In relation to Grant and the next President, I have said and now repeat that the South might go further and fare worse than to take him. I have said that I entertained for him personally very high regard and esteem. I have said and now repeat that I prefer him to Tilden for President. This is no change of opinion on my part. I am a Democrat of the strictest sect of the Jefferson School."
A despatch from Glasgow, Missouri, Dec. 6, says: "The Chicago, Alton and Denver passenger and express train, west-bound, due here at 5:10 this morning, jumped the track while running at a rapid rate, running a frightful wreck. The engine turned over completely, rolling down a five-foot embankment, and is badly damaged. The baggage car ran on the down track. The express was crushed against the engine, and five other cars were thrown off the track, none, however, being overturned. Three coaches, including the sleeper, kept the track. The express and baggage cars and the engine are almost totally demolished. The recovery of the engineer from injuries received is doubtful; not many others were injured.
-The ropemakers in two ropewalks in Brooklyn, N. Y., recently struck for higher wages. One of the proprietors in an interview said: "It is folly for men to expect higher wages; reduction is more to be thought of. In years past we used to supply the California market from the East. Now matters are being reversed, and unless there shall be a change of some sort, Pacific Coast manufacturers may very soon drive us out of the market and supplant us by means of cheaper labor. They now have all the improved machinery, the same as here, and, besides, employ Chinese for ninety cents a day. Our workmen do not seem to realize that we may be forced to close our factories through their demands for more wages, and that the ultimate result may be that they will have to seek employment elsewhere."
Chico, Cal.
By J. D. Rice
WE have our tent still standing. It has been raining since last Friday morning; have had only Sabbath meeting since then. It is yet raining, without any appearance of ceasing soon. Of course we will not be able to take down the tent soon.
There are 37 names now on the covenant, and we hope for others. We think of building, but have not fully decided. Bro. Morton is spending a week in Nevada City.
We are of good courage. The people seem to take hold in earnest, as if they meant to go through. May the Lord help them.
Chico, Dec. 2. J. D. RICE.
Star Valley, Kansas.
By L. D. Santee
I CAME back to this place, in Cherokee Co., soon after camp-meeting, and have continued up to this time, Nov. 25. The interest is deeper now than at any time before. Several have commenced keeping the Sabbath, among whom are the class-leader of the United Brethren church and his family. Next Sabbath we have Sabbath service.
L. D. SANTEE.
Coopersburg, Rice Co., Kan.
By R. F. Barton
SINCE my last report, a Methodist minister has been here to defend Sunday. I reviewed him before the largest congregation we have had, and by the help of the Lord, the truth gained a complete victory.
Twenty-two have signed the covenant. We have organized a Sabbath-school, which takes twelve copies of the weekly Instructor. The penny contribution was adopted. Yesterday another good family kept their first Sabbath, and two were buried with their Lord in baptism. We praise God for what we see done here. R. F. BARTON.
Good Health.
Benefits of Vegetable Diet.
Not long since we received a pamphlet advocating a vegetable diet as a cure for alcoholism. We beg the pardon of the author for having mislaid his tract; but we have a strong belief that the only cure for alcoholism is to refrain from the use of alcohol. We would not, however, disparage vegetarianism; it is one of the coming reforms. Should civilization succeed—we shall make an end of wars, famines and pestilences; and then we shall want room on the earth for the people who now perish in these barbaric calamities. With a vegetable diet, twice as many people can subsist from the same soil as from a mixed diet; and there is very little doubt that people can live happily on vegetable food. . . . We have met with some sensible suggestions on this subject in the London Spectator. It points out that great progress has been made by the vegetarians. “Not so very long ago, vegetarians were regarded as a kind of gentle monomaniacs, whose one objectionable characteristic was the illogical advocacy of an inoffensive crotchet. Now, under the mask of enlightened dietetics, their tenets are preached far and wide by the high-priests of science, and the cultured classes, without knowing it, are gradually being imbued with the doctrines of the vegetable-feeders. How long the fashion will last, or how far the process of conversion will go, cannot as yet very well be estimated.” Physicians are increasing who say that flesh is not necessary to nutrition and is often decidedly unwholesome.—Methodist.
Juvenile Smoking.
THERE is no valid excuse for juvenile smoking. A man pleads habit, the soothing effects of tobacco, and so on. But a boy smokes because he sees others do so; and because he looks upon smoking as a manly practice. He knows that it does him no good; indeed, in the majority of cases, boys know that their first attempts at smoking made them very ill, and the tolerance of the effects of tobacco was obtained only after long practice and many disagreeable sensations. The mental power of many a boy is certainly weakened by tobacco-smoking. The brain under its influence can do less work, and the dreamy feeling which is produced tends directly to idleness. For all reasons it is desirable that our rising generation should be abstainers from tobacco.
—Dublin University Magazine.
Whisky Good in Its Place.
The late Dr. Guthrie, of Scotland, was once maintaining the proposition that everything in the world had its uses, and was good in its place. A gentleman present, knowing that the good doctor was a firm teetotaler, asked him how he would apply that to whisky.
“Why,” said he, “there is nothing like whisky for preserving a man when he is dead, but on the other hand, it is one of the worst things in the world for preserving a live man. It kills the living and keeps the dead. The only trouble is that many of the living don’t understand this distinction and use whisky at the wrong time. They should wait till they are dead.”
The Dangers of Arsenic
A SINGLE pound of arsenic is sufficient to poison fatally nearly 3,000 persons; yet more than 2,000,000 pounds of this deadly article are annually imported into this country, some of which is used in killing potato-bugs and other vermin, but the great portion of which is employed in the manufacture of wall-paper, enameled paper collars, colored dress goods, window curtains, pigments, and a great variety of other things, nearly all of which endanger human life. The evil has become so great that there ought to be interference on the part of the civil authorities.
Religious News and Notes.
By Editor
—It costs $30,000 a year to keep St. Peter's at Rome in repair.
—It takes $58,000,000 a year to support the State Church in England.
—A sermon recently preached by Mr. Spurgeon was his fifteenth hundred. The sermons have all been published.
—The difficulty of procuring suitable sites for churches is beginning to be felt in London, land fetching fabulous prices.
—A new law has been promulgated in Russia, giving to Baptists liberty to worship in houses set apart by the authorities.
—During the last year the Gospel was preached in 1,000 towns and cities in China where it had not been previously heard.
—The "Old Catholics" are henceforth to be called "Christ Catholics." To distinguish them, we suppose, from the "Anti-Christ."
—A London clergyman advises Dean Stanley, after his recent article on "Baptism," either to join the Baptists or go over to the Quakers.
—The Christian at Work thinks that some doctrines would be nicely fitted with the theory that Noah's was not the only ark afloat at that time.
—Clergy and others of the Church of England are joining the Romish church in consequence of steps which have been taken to suppress Ritualism. They will find their own place.
—Rev. Charles Beecher, twenty-two years pastor in Georgetown, Mass., has resigned. Of his resignation Messiah's Herald says, "Whether his adoption of Spiritualism has led to it or not, we have not learned."
—The Boston Journal announces that "Rev. Gershom F. Cox died at his residence in Salem, Nov. 16." Dr. Cox was a co-laborer with William Miller in the early proclamation of the advent near. His writings on the subject were able and influential.
—In the Louisville Christian Observer of the 12th inst., is the notice of the death of the widow of the Rev. W. N. Peacock, a Presbyterian clergyman of North Carolina, "who died in obscurity and great destitution." We trust there are few such cases, but one is one too many.
—The National Baptist says, "The man who preaches for a church gratuitously does them a harm, fosters in them a spirit of niggardliness, and defrauds the pastor who comes after him. All over the country are churches who have been ruined by cheap or gratuitous preaching. They give nothing; they do nothing."
—The statistics of the Protestant Church in Berlin for 1878 reveal some curious facts. Only 69 per centum of the Protestant children born there in the year were baptized; only 35 per centum of the marriages of Protestant couples were solemnized by a minister, and only 4,774 of the 9,535 Protestants who died were buried with religious services.
—The Catholic Family Almanac for 1880 says that there are 7,000,000 Roman Catholics in the United States. In 1840, there were but 1,500,000. The rapid increase has been mainly caused by emigration from Ireland, Germany, France, and Italy—the four sources from which the United States has drawn most largely for its population within the periods named.
—Fifty-nine students have been graduated from the college at Beyrout, an institution established by American Protestants, during the past ten years. Four of the graduates are now engaged in the college, ten are practicing medicine, two are druggists, eleven are medical students, while eighteen are missionary teachers, preachers, and translators. From the medical department, forty-six students have been graduated, and from the pharmaceutical, five. At the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the College an alumni association was formed.
—The San Francisco Pacific Methodist commends to the attention of its readers the Thanksgiving sermon of Rev. Dr. Henderson, the new pastor of St. Paul's M. E. Church, South, in which he calls attention to the political degeneracy of the times, and says: "Vice can now outvote virtue. There never was a greater blasphemy than 'Vox populi, vox Dei.' This would be true if the people were virtuous; but, being vicious (the majority), the true maxim would be, 'Vox populi, vox Diablo.'"
Anti-Baptism Prejudices.
By Editor
If any one doubts that this is a world of mixed good and evil he should take the N. Y. Independent to be convinced. No paper in the country, professing the Christian faith, can say things more entirely subversive of genuine Christianity than the Independent. Yet in many things it seems to have a keen sense of justice and right, and often deals with both friends and foes in a manner worthy of its name. Lately it has had considerable to say on the subject of baptism, of course opposing what it holds to be the exclusiveness of immersionists. But the following is a very nice reproof of those who complain of immersers for “making too much of immersion,” and who are themselves building the barrier between Christians. We have seen many such as are here described;—
“Baptist churches make a difference between immersion and sprinkling; but in the principles of other churches no such difference exists. The two ceremonies stand on a level. Each one is regarded as true baptism. Neither one is regarded as baptism to the exclusion of the other. Therefore, the ministers of other churches should be just as willing to immerse candidates as to sprinkle them. A minister’s refusal to administer immersion springs, often we fear, not from a true comprehension of the principles of his church; but simply from a bigoted aversion to the ceremony because it is used in a sister church. One may make too much of immersion by an obstinate refusal to practice it, as well as by rejecting everything else. If a minister will show that he is above all narrowness in regard to ceremonies, let him be as willing to administer immersion as he is to give aspersion or affusion.”
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Addresses Wanted
By Editor
WE wish the address of the following names: Joseph B. Locke, J. N. Bunch, H. C. Goodwin, Washington Morse, D. S. Stephens, J. L. Lewis, J. W. McReynolds, J. C. Cole, Charles Miller, M. P. West, G. W. Bennett, A. D. Morgan, H. D. Banks.
General Conference
By Editor
JUST as we are going to press we receive the Review and Herald of Dec. 4, giving additional proceedings of the late session of the General Conference. Some important business is reported, and some resolutions adopted which we shall copy in our next. We think they should reach all our readers. The report, however, is not concluded.
The Real Sabbath.
By Editor
WE trust that not only the Woodland S. D. A. church, by reason of whom we received the communication, but all our readers, will be interested in the letter and article from Dr. Messing, in this paper. The reader must bear in mind that this was written by a Rabbi who has but just become acquainted with the fact that such a body of people exist as the Seventh-day Adventists. We would that he and his people could see as clearly the value and necessity of the Gospel of Jesus, as we apprehend the value of the law of Jehovah.