THE interest in the Tract and Missionary work in our State is increasing with some. Canvassing for the SIGNS is proving a success. There are those all around us that have an ear to hear, and some precious souls are thirsting for the truth and are willing to read and search to know if these things are so.
The work of warning the world of the coming judgment is a solemn and important work, and but few of us realize the solemn hours in which we are living. Could we sense the fact as we should, that in a short time we shall stand before God in judgment to give an account of every act of our lives, and that our works will decide our eternal destiny, we should be very careful to maintain good works. A living faith in the Third Angel's Message is what is needed, and without it we shall not succeed in overcoming the world the flesh and the devil. Money put into the cause to help spread this truth and prepare a people for the time of trouble which will soon come upon those that reject light, and will not obey the message which is sent from Heaven to do them good, will finally bring about greater results to the donor than money at interest; for one soul saved is of more value than all the world besides.
The spirit of sacrifice and to live to do others good is too much overlooked. When we think of Jesus and his life of sacrifice, can we not make a stronger effort to deny self and to deprive ourselves of a few luxuries that do us no good, that we may put a few dollars into the cause to help another to see the truth? The religion of the Bible is unselfish; there is but one pure kind in the world and that is founded upon the principle of divine love. James says: It is to visit the widows and fatherless in their affliction and to keep ourselves unspotted from the world; in other words, it is to love our neighbor as ourselves, and as we would that men should do to us, to do even so to them. This principle carried out will lead us to become interested for the salvation of those that are in danger of being consumed in the fire of the last day.
It is the real missionary spirit that we very much need in this time of danger when so few feel the burden for souls to enable them to put forth the effort that they should to rescue the perishing. May the Lord help us to do our whole duty and work while it is yet day for when the night cometh no man can work.
Hartland, June 20. J. B. GOODRICH.
United Effort in Missionary Work.
By Maria L. Huntley
The strength of every organized body lies in unity of action and purpose, and unless this exists, a large membership becomes an element of weakness rather than of strength. This principle is recognized in the political and numerous other powerful organizations throughout the country; and stringent measures are taken to secure harmonious action in all their several parts. Under no circumstances, perhaps, is this more fully illustrated than in an army. It matters not of how many men or how many subdivisions it is composed, when the time for action arrives, all, as one man, move forward to secure the desired object. In each division every man recognizes the fact that orders from head-quarters to that division are intended for him as really as if sent to him directly.
The great controversy between Christ and Satan draws near to its close, and the truths of the Bible are arrayed against the wickedness, unbelief, and errors of the present day. The followers of Christ are represented as his soldiers, and as contending against the powers of darkness,—foes more powerful and wily than were ever human foes. The objects to be secured in this warfare far exceed in importance any for which patriots and soldiers ever fought. Here, then, if anywhere, is needed that which gives strength and efficiency.
Well-founded and encouraging testimony has been borne respecting the power exerted by the tract and missionary societies, but as yet only a small part of the strength of these societies has been developed. The remark has been made, and that truthfully, that our system of missionary labor places a gun in every man's hands; but if only one or two out of every ten make use of it, they might as well not have a weapon, and are like soldiers who in battle lay down their arms, or run panic-stricken from the field. Should this course be pursued by any considerable number, the defeat of the army would be certain.
MARIA L. HUNTLEY.
St. Paul's Reformed Catholic Church of Newark, N. J.
By Stephen Dekins
FOR THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES: We pitched our gospel tent in this city over three years ago, antagonized by Rome, and from the day we entered Rome has felt our labors.
The priests of the city are forbidding their people from attending the services held in my church, but still they come. At the present a lady who has renounced Romanism takes shelter under my roof, as some of her relatives threaten to kill her.
The number of converts during our labors in this city is 84. We ask your prayers that God may aid us in every way to hold up the gospel of Jesus Christ, which is the bulwark and cornerstone of the American nation. Yours in the gospel.
STEPHEN DEKINS, Pastor.
13 Cottage Street, Newark, N. J.
Our Own Mothers.
By Mrs. Annie A. Preston
"WHO does the horrid ugly creetur belong to, anyway?"
At sound of the shrill voice I glanced from my phaeton in front of the post-office, where I was waiting for the morning mail to be distributed, across the white, dusty, country road to the top of a picket fence, where was perched a queer little old woman in quaint black dress and funny black bonnet, from which floated a long, voluminous black veil. She was talking rapidly and brandishing a crutch toward a peaceable looking horse that was feeding quietly by the roadside.
The men grouped about the little railway station near by, and those standing in front of the village store laughed heartily at the queer spectacle which was, indeed, ludicrous in the extreme.
"That ugly creetur don't belong to nobody, auntie," called a rude boy from the top of a load of cord wood. "He is an escape from that circus advertisement over yonder on the blacksmith shop, and it is not a horse at all, but a widow eating ryosonos."
"Look out for him, black bonnet and crutches are his regular diet," shouted another young fellow who was loading lumber.
"For shame!" exclaimed a third young man, who then called politely to the old woman on the fence: "The horse is perfectly gentle madam, he will not hurt you."
Thus reassured, the poor woman clambered down, and still holding her crutch in a defensive attitude, shouted:--
"How long is he going to be round here?"
"All day, I presume," replied another man, mischievously.
"Then how am I to get home, anyway?"
"We don't know, grandma."
The bystanders laughed with evident enjoyment. The poor woman looked perplexed enough, until the gentlemanly youth, who had reassured her before, said:--
"I will go with you, if you would like to have me."
"Oh, thank you! thank you!" cried the woman. "I left bread in the oven, and Nancy Jane is sick, and I've got medicine here for her; and I ought to be at home this minute."
The young man crossed the road, picked up her parcels from the damp, dewy grass, and walked beside her as she swung herself rapidly along, her black veil streaming back like a banner.
"I would pitch into anybody who called me a coward," said one of the railroad boys, doubling his fist in a pugilistic way; "but I wouldn't have gone over there and walked across the bridge with that old woman for fifty dollars."
"I don't know as I would," said a middle-aged man who had lost an arm at Antietam; "but I suppose no one disputes that moral courage goes far ahead of physical courage. I do not think I am lacking in the last."
They were still talking upon this point when the young man returned, evidently expecting to be chaffed by all hands. He blushed a little at the remark of one of the older men.
"We should all have been glad to have done just what you have done, but we were afraid of the laugh."
"I was as foolishly afraid of that as any of you in the first place," he replied, frankly; "but, in my mind, I changed the saying, 'Do as you would be done by,' so that it ran, Do as you would have your own mother done by, and then, of course, I went right along with the poor, nervous, timid old woman, as any of you would have done had you put it in that way."
"That is so," chorused the men, and one said, solemnly:--
"I don't care how rough a fellow may be, he always keeps a soft place in his heart for his own mother."
"I think we should all get along better if we would always make a point of following our best impulses," said the gentlemanly young man.
The locomotive sent out its shrill call, and the young freight hands ran to take their places on top of the long sinuous line of smoky cars, each one, I was sure, with a softened heart under his rough, begrimmed jacket.--Mrs. Annie A. Preston.
The Gold Double-Eagle.
By Young Reaper
A GOOD many years ago, a merchant missed from his cash-drawer a gold double-eagle, which is worth twenty dollars. No one had been to the drawer, it was proved, except a young clerk whose name was Weston. The merchant had sent him there to make change for a customer, and the next time the drawer was opened the gold had disappeared. Naturally, Weston was suspected of having stolen it, and more especially as he appeared a few days after the occurrence in a new suit of clothes. Being asked where he had bought the clothes, he gave the name of the tailor without hesitation; and the merchant, going privately to make inquiries, discovered that Weston had paid for the suit with a twenty-dollar gold piece.
That afternoon the young clerk was called into the merchant's private room and charged with the theft.
"It is needless to deny it," the merchant said. "You have betrayed yourself with these new clothes, and now the only thing you can do is to make a full confession of your fault."
Weston listened with amazement; he could hardly believe at first that such an accusation could be brought against him, but when he saw that his employer was in earnest, he denied it indignantly, and declared that the money he had spent for the clothes was his own, given him as a Christmas gift a year ago. The merchant sneered at such an explanation, and asked for the proof.
"Who was the person that gave it to you? Produce him," he demanded.
"It was a lady," answered Weston, "and I can't produce her, for she died last spring. I can tell you her name."
"Can you bring me anybody that saw her give you the money, or knew of your having it?" asked the merchant.
"No, I can't do that," Weston had to answer. "I never told any one about the gift, for she did not wish me to. But I have a letter from her somewhere, if I haven't lost it, that she sent with the money, and in which she speaks of it."
"I dare say you have lost it," the merchant sneered. "When you have found it, sir, you bring it to me, and then I will believe your story."
Weston went home with a heavy heart. He had no idea where the letter was; he could not be sure that he had not destroyed it; and it was the only means of proving his innocence. Unless he could produce it his character was ruined, for he saw that the merchant was fully convinced of his guilt, and appearances were, indeed, sadly against him. He went to work, however, in the right way. He knelt down and prayed to God for help to prove that he was innocent, and then he began to overhaul the contents of his desk and trunk and closet.
He kept his papers neatly, and it did not take long to see that the letter was not among them. He sat down with a sense of despair when he was convinced of this. What else could he do? Nothing, but pray again for help and guidance, and strength to endure whatever trouble God might choose to send upon him. Skeptics may sneer at such prayers as this, but Weston, who is a middle-aged man now, prosperous, respected by all men, and deserving of respect, would smile and say: "Let them sneer."
"When I rose from my knees," he said, telling me the story years afterward, "I happened to catch my foot in an old rug that I had nailed down to the carpet because it was always curling at the edges. The nail at the corner had come out, and stooping down to straighten the rug I saw a bit of paper peeping out. I pulled it from its hiding place, and it was the letter."
"How it got there I don't know. The fact that I had found it was enough for me, and if I hadn't gone on my knees again to give thanks for such a deliverance, I should be ashamed to tell you the story now."
"I brought that letter to my employer. It proved my innocence, and he apologized. A month afterward the gold piece was found in Mr. Finch's overcoat. He had never put it in the cash drawer at all, though he thought he had."
He raised my salary on the spot to pay for his unjust suspicions; and I have never yet repented of trusting the Lord in my trouble.
The Home Circle.
By Christian Register
MAKE CHILDHOOD SWEET.
WAIT not until little hands are at rest
Ere you fill them full of flowers;
Wait not for the crowning tuberose
To make sweet the last sad hours;
But while in the busy household band,
Your darlings still need your guiding hand,
Oh, fill their lives with sweetness!
Wait not till the hearts are still,
For the loving look and phrase;
But while you gently chide a fault
The good deed kindly praise.
The word you would speak beside the bier
Falls sweeter far on the living ear;
Oh, fill your lives with sweetness!
Ah! what are kisses on clay-cold lips
To the rosy mouth we press,
When our wee one flies to its mother's arms
For love's tenderest caress?
Let never a worldly bauble keep
Your heart from the joy each day should reap,
Circling your lives with sweetness.
Give thanks each morn for the sturdy boys,
Give thanks for the fairy girls;
With a dower of wealth like this of home,
Would you rifle the earth for pearls?
Wait not for death to gem love's crown,
But daily shower life's blessings down,
And fill young hearts with sweetness.
Remember the homes whence the life has fled,
Where the rose has faded away;
And the love that glows in youthful hearts,
Oh, cherish it while you may!
And make your home a garden of flowers,
Where joy shall bloom through childhood's hours
And fill young lives with sweetness.
—Christian Register.
"If I Had Only Spoke Him Fair at the Last."
In the recent terrible colliery accident in England, by which so many families were bereaved, one little story came to light which conveys its own lesson.
A tender-hearted woman who went round among the bereaved homes on a mission of consolation, found a wife whose grief seemed to her of a different nature from that of the others. Some of them mourned their bread-winner, the father of their children; and the cry of "What shall I do now?" went up from almost every desolate house.
This one young wife uttered no cry. She only sat swaying herself to and fro, with no tears in her eyes, but with a look of set, white anguish on her face, a thousand times more pitiful than sobs and tears.
The visitor could not bear to go away and leave her to her silent anguish. She lingered beside her and tried to comfort her. She spoke of the grief of some of the women, who were left helpless with large families to provide for.
"That's not the worst," said the woman gloomily.
"You mean that you could bear it better, if you had children to take up your thoughts?"
"No, no!" the wife cried in a sort of despair; "nothing could help me now. Nothing ever can help me, but I could have borne it all, if I'd only spoken him fair at the end." And then at last, the story came. They had been married a year, she and Jim; and they both "had tempers;" but Jim, he was always the first to make up, because he had the best heart. And this very morning they had had trouble.
It began because breakfast wasn't ready, and the fire wouldn't burn; and they had said hard words, both of them. But at the very last, though breakfast was not fit to eat, Jim had turned round at the door and said:—
"Gi'e me a kiss, lass. You know you love me, and we won't part in ill blood;" and she had been in her temper still, and answered:—
"No, I don't know as I do love you," and had let him go, with never a kiss and never a fair word; and now—and there she stopped, and awful, tearless sobs shook her, and the visitor could only say:—
"Do not grieve so hopelessly." But the mourner's ears were deaf to all comfort, and the wailing cry came again:—
"Oh, if I had only spoke him fair at the last!"
It is not a common story, this. We quarrel with those we love, and part and meet and make up again; and death is merciful, and waits till we are at peace; and yet how possible is just such an experience to any one of us, who parts with some dear one in anger, or who lets the sun go down upon his wrath.
But it is always the noblest nature, the most loyal heart, which is the first to cry, "I was wrong, forgive me."—Youth's Companion.
Do Not Boast of Your Performances
Never speak much of your own performances.
News and Notes.
By Editor
—A heavy rain-storm, accompanied by thunder, lightning, and high wind, did great damage in northern Wisconsin, July 10.
—Seven passenger cars fell through a bridge fifty feet high, near Natchez, Miss., on the 10th inst. The conductor was killed, and several passengers were wounded.
—Advices from Venezuela state that locusts are making havoc in many parts of that country. In one night all the vegetation in the neighborhood of Moroon was destroyed.
—The effect of the High-license Law in Ohio has not been to reduce the number of saloons, as was claimed would be the case. In Cincinnati there are as many saloons as before.
—A special from Guaymas, Mexico, says: "A schooner from Trinidad Bay brings the news of a terrible wind-storm there on the 3d and 4th. One schooner and two sloops were lost. The crews were saved.
—Affairs in Crete, owing to the resistance of the people to the payment of taxes, are very grave. Committees are being formed throughout the island to resist the illegal measures of the Porte. An outbreak is expected.
—The steamer Niagara, of the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Line, was burned on the morning of the 12th, off the southern coast of Florida. All the passengers were saved, but the vessel and cargo were a total loss.
—Another tornado visited Kansas, July 11. At Soldier Creek many houses were destroyed, and great damage was done to crops. In Parkdale, a suburb of Topeka, nearly all the residences were filled with water. Some loss of life is reported.
—At a meeting held in Marseille, France, July 8, to protest against the sentence recently pronounced upon Louisa Michel, the noted communist, a resolution was adopted pledging those present to murder, at the first opportunity, the jurymen who convicted her.
—London, Ont., was the scene of a terrible flood, July 11. The storm came with scarcely any warning, and continued all night. The area of the storm did not extend over twenty miles, but the damage was over $500,000, and thirty lives were lost. About 200 dwellings were destroyed.
—There is considerable excitement in England over the statement that Admiral Pierre, the French commander in Madagascar, had caused the flags over all the foreign consulates in Tamatav to be hauled down, had ordered the British consul to leave, and had committed other unwarrantable acts.
—The cholera plague in Egypt is still spreading and increasing in severity. The deaths at Damietta average 120 a day. In Mansqurah the average is nearly as great. A physician, writing in the Pall Mall Gazette, predicts that before the close of the year the disease will be making ravages in every quarter of the globe.
—The Florida Legislature has granted a charter to a company which proposes to cut a ship’s canal across the State, to enable vessels to avoid the perils of the Florida Reefs, while gaining time. It grants to the company a strip of land a quarter of a mile wide entirely across the State, its breadth to be doubled at passing stations. The distance is about 160 miles.
—In the trial of the Jews at Nyrreghaza, Hungary, charged with the murder of a Christian girl in order to use her blood in the passover ceremonies, the perjury of the witnesses for the prosecution has been clearly proved. The public prosecutor in the trial intends to withdraw the indictment against the defendants, and the Hungarian Government will prosecute the concoctors of the case with the utmost severity.
—Although the prospect for fruit in California was favorable last spring for an immense crop, there is a scarcity. A retail dealer of twenty-five year’s experience in the business says that the California fruit crop was never so small and inferior. He ascribes as the chief cause of the short crop the extremely hot weather immediately after the earth and all vegetation had been thoroughly drenched by the copious late rains.
—The news of the week is scarce as to variety, but abundant in detail. The principal part could be summed in one word, “Tornadoes.” We cannot enumerate all the cases. Beside those already mentioned, there were destructive storms in Vermont, New Hampshire, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Dakota Territory. The record in each runs about the same. Dwelling-houses, churches and business-blocks blown down, crops ruined, and people killed. A noticeable item in the reports of the 13th was the number of persons struck by lightning.
Religious Notes.
By Editor
—Florida is having twenty-six new Protestant Episcopal churches built.
—The American Sunday-school Union organized last year 2,252 new schools, with 10,376 teachers, and 82,749 scholars.
—All the Methodist bodies of New Zealand are agitating the question of uniting their forces and making one body. We cannot see what is to hinder.
—Four Jewish rabbis, graduates of the Hebrew Union College, were consecrated at Cincinnati, July 11. This is the first time the ceremony has ever been performed in this country.
—The Captain and Lieutenant of the Salvation Army at Bridgeport, Conn., have been arrested for disturbing the peace, fined, and bonded not to parade or hold meetings in the streets in future. An appeal has been taken.
—The salaries of the clergymen of the United States are about $6,000,000 a year. The dog-tax nets the Government about $16,000,000 a year, and the Commissioner of Agriculture says it costs $50,000,000 to feed them.
—The Russian Government proposes to appoint an Ambassador to the Vatican. The Pope has summoned the French Bishop to Rome for the purpose of consulting with him in regard to the condition of the Church in France.
—According to the St. Louis Christian Evangelist, in the State of New York there are 770,000 children who never attend Sunday-schools. Some of them may have Christian home-training, but most of them are growing up without God, and without hope in the world.
—Dr. Withrow, of Boston, said in a recent sermon: “There was a day when New England was reverent to the last degree, but to-day it doubts almost everything essential; it promises the sinner that if he is not saved here, he will be saved somewhere else, and so our churches are dying.”
—In the Episcopal Convention of the Diocese of Illinois, a resolution was introduced asking the General Convention to change the name of the church from “Protestant Episcopal” to “Holy Catholic.” So much opposition was manifested to the proposition that the resolution was withdrawn.
—An uncompleted Methodist church building, on account of insolvency, was sold under the hammer, and afterwards used as an ice house. The Christian Register, remarking on the singular use to which it was put, says: “Are they not often put to a similar use without the formality of a sale at auction?”
—Dr. Potter, of New York, says: “A religionist who manifests symptoms of being thoroughly in earnest, and who talks of salvation from sin and the penalties of sin, as though it were the supreme need of the soul, is regarded with a languid and half contemptuous curiosity as a man who must be out of his mind.”
—Judge Joseph P. Bradley, of the U. S. Supreme Court, has an article in the Evangelist, in which he considers “the year and day of Christ's crucifixion.” The conclusion from his careful investigation is that “Christ entered upon his thirtieth year in A. D. 26, and that his crucifixion took place on Friday, A. D. 30.”
—Dr. Blanchard writes in the Christian Cynosure about the great number of unconverted church members that exist in all denominations. He says: “They deny the inspiration of the Scriptures, they avow infidel sentiments, they are thoroughly wedded to the world, they live in sin, they are precisely like the children of the devil in their principles, their aims, their amusements, their conduct, and their conversation, and their fear is quieted, because they belong to the church.”
—The following from the San Francisco daily Alta is not bad for a secular paper: “A State Convention of Free-Thinkers is to meet in Rochester, N. Y., August 29, and the parties who are getting it up have served a notice on the Christian denominations to send a missionary, who will be given two hours on the platform to make a defense of religion against the attacks of infidelity. The coolness of this proposition seems to imply that its authors believe the fate of the Christian religion hangs on the proceedings of the Rochester Convention, and that they have generously resolved to give Christianity a chance to be heard before it is sentenced to death. Probably the churches will look at it differently and take no notice of the matter further than to inform the police of the intended assemblage.”
THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY; OR THE
GREAT CONTROVERSY BETWEEN
CHRIST AND SATAN.
BY MRS. E. G. WHITE.
THIS is a series of four volumes, covering the entire period from the creation and fall of man to his final redemption. Volume One is devoted to Old Testament history. It is not merely a narrative of the leading events in the lives of the patriarchs and prophets; but moral lessons are drawn therefrom, in such a way as to make the book practically useful to the men and women of to-day. Volume Two commences with the life and mission of John the Baptist, and considers the first advent of Christ, his life and mission, as manifested by his miracles and teachings, and the nature and necessity of his life-work. It closes with Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Volume Three takes up the subject at this point, and brings to view the most thrillingly interesting portion of Christ's earthly career—his betrayal, trial, crucifixion, and resurrection. It closes with a brief history of the early church, including the missionary labors of Peter and Paul. Volume Four (in press) contains a history of the church from that time to the end, closing with the coming of Christ, the resurrection of the dead, and the establishment of the everlasting kingdom of Christ on earth.
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OUR COUNTRY'S FUTURE FORETOLD.
By Uriah Smith
THE UNITED STATES IN PROPHECY.
By Eld. U. Smith.
This is a full exposition of a portion of prophecy which applies to our own Government, showing the position the United States holds in prophecy, and the part it has to act in the closing scenes of time.
THE SUNDAY MOVEMENT,
Which is now attracting such general attention, is thoroughly canvassed, and abundant testimony is given to prove that it is fast coming to be the ALL-IMPORTANT QUESTION in this country. Facts and statistics are largely presented, showing in the most conclusive manner that this Government is the one pointed out in the prophecy quoted.
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A MINE OF INFORMATION.
By John Nevins Andrews
HISTORY OF THE SABBATH AND FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK.
By Eld. J. N. Andrews.
The Bible record of the Sabbath; the secular history concerning it; the successive steps by which the change to the first day was made, and the work of restoration, are given in detail.
EVERY TEXT OF SCRIPTURE concerning the Sabbath is commented on at length; and the COMPLETE TESTIMONY OF THE FATHERS in regard to the Sabbath and first day is given. The comparative merits of the seventh and the first-day Sabbaths are fully shown. A copious Index enables the reader to find any text, or the statement of any historian.
Should be read by everybody. 528 pp. Price, $1.25.
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THE SEVENTH PART OF TIME.
By W. H. Littlejohn
A SERMON ON THE SABBATH QUESTION.
By W. H. Littlejohn.
This is a refutation of the theory that God sanctified simply a seventh part of time as the Sabbath, without fixing that time to any definite day.
The necessity for a
UNIFORM DAY OF REST,
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THE TRUTH FOUND.
By Ellet Joseph Waggoner
THE NATURE AND OBLIGATION OF THE SABBATH OF THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT.
By Eld. J. H. Waggoner.
The title of this little book sufficiently explains its character. It contains more Scriptural information in regard to the Sabbath than any other book of twice the size, and yet it is so simplified as to be easily comprehended. The author quotes the opinions of many learned men concerning the Sabbath, and their conflicting theories are strongly contrasted with the clear, straightforward teaching of the Bible.
64 pp. Price, 10 cents.
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THOUGHTS ON DANIEL, CRITICAL AND PRACTICAL.
By Uriah Smith
By Eld. U. Smith.
AN EXPOSITION OF THE BOOK OF DANIEL, VERSE BY VERSE.
We are now living in times plainly pointed out in this prophecy, and it is important to understand it; for Daniel himself says that in the time of the end, the wise shall understand; while, if we fail, we are equally guilty with the Jews, who knew not the time of their visitation (Luke 19:42-44), and shall meet a similar fate. 416 pp. Price, $1.25.
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By Joseph Harvey Waggoner
By Eld. J. H. Waggoner.
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