Earlier text: PRACTICAL QUESTIONSWOODLAND HEALTH AND TEMPERANCE CLUB.
By J. G. Overshiner
Saturday evening, Dec. 18, the Woodland Health and Temperance Club held its last public meeting for this year in the Adventist church. The leader of the Club called the meeting to order, and gave out the song "For God and the Right," from "Temperance and Gospel Songs," which was sung by the congregation, and was followed by a fervent prayer by Eld. J. L. Wood. The Secretary being absent, the minutes of the last meeting, held Aug. 31, 1880, were read by the leader. Next followed that popular and stirring temperance piece entitled "Dare to be a Daniel," which was sung with spirit by the congregation. A short but impressive temperance discourse was then delivered by Eld. Wood, who took as the basis of his remarks Prov. 23:2: "Put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite." He spoke of the power that perverted appetite has over a great portion of mankind, not only for liquor and tobacco but also for other substances which have an injurious and often fatal effect upon those who indulge in their use. He also showed how filthy and disgusting persons become who indulge in such poisons, and also stated that tea was often prepared in such a way as to contain filthy and even poisonous substances. Many good points were made showing the value of temperance in all wholesome foods and beverages, and the destructive consequences of intemperance, but we have neither time nor space to mention them. After the discourse a beautiful piece entitled "Heaven's Pearls," from the temperance song book, was sung as a duet, making a pleasing feature of the evening's entertainment. Then temperance recitatives were given by two little boys who did credit to themselves, followed by the temperance song, "Little Drops," the last verse of which is, "Little drops of brandy,
Little drops of rye,
Make the mighty toper
And the rummy eye,"
Containing sober facts clothed in humorous language. The Constitution and By-laws of the club were then read and explained by Bro. Wm. Saunders, at the conclusion of which the leader called upon persons in the audience for general remarks, to which M. C. Winchester, of Knights Landing, responded by showing the alarming extent to which the evils of the liquor traffic had progressed in the State, but assured us that the temperance people of California were making progress in their efforts to eradicate those evils, and that in the near future California would fall into line with Iowa, Kansas and other States that had recently expressed at the ballot-box in favor of prohibition. Rev. E. M. Stuart also responded, and in his remarks stated that some newspapers in this State had become alarmed at the progress of the temperance cause, and feared that she would become as bad as Maine with her severe prohibitory laws, which the speaker hoped would soon be the case. He stated that he resided eighteen years in a large town in that State, during which time he never saw a saloon nor a place where liquor was advertised for sale, and only two or three drunken men. At the conclusion of the interesting remarks by these gentlemen, the solicitors obtained four signers to the Teetotal Pledge and two to the Anti-Whisky. One dollar was received for certificates, and 350 pages of temperance tracts were distributed among the audience. There are now 112 persons enrolled as members of the club, 64 of whom are full members, having signed the Teetotal Pledge. During this year four have broken their pledges. The next meeting was announced to take place on the 15th of next January. The closing piece, "Work," was sung and the audience dismissed with the benediction. The meeting was pronounced a success by many who were present, the chief regret expressed being in regard to the inclemency of the weather, which prevented a full attendance.
J. G. OVERSHINER, Sec. pro tem. A CHRISTIAN BABOO’S IDEAS ON MODERATE DRINKING.
I WAS greatly shocked to learn that two intelligent Christian ladies of my acquaintance—one of them an eminently successful Bible reader, and the other occupying an influential official position—were in the habit of using ale and beer as a beverage. Involuntarily expressing my astonishment, and uttering protest, I found that both were prepared to defend the practice from a sanitary point of view, under sanction of a physician, while both referred to eminent ministers who indulge in wine as a promoter of digestion, and a tonic agent. While preparing from a scientific stand-point a statement of facts to embody in personal friendly notes to these ladies, the subject was one evening brought up in a social group of active Christian ladies, of which that eminent missionary, Miss H. G. Brittan, was the center. An intelligent, practical woman, who was in the habit of contributing largely to home mission work in its various branches, spoke, with much perplexity evident in her tone. "In city mission work, in the forlorn homes of Sunday-school and industrial-school scholars, and in nearly every branch of Christian work we take up," said the lady, "we find our efforts counteracted by the evils of strong drink. It does seem like treason in the camp for any of our sisters in work to tolerate it, much less defend its use by word and personal example. In all your 'perils by land and by sea,' Miss Brittan, your dangers in African jungles and adventures on 'India's coral strand,' be thankful you never had the insidious and powerful monster intemperance to fight!" "And have I not had the enemy to battle—and without your weapons too?" said Miss Brittan. "Don't you know what we missionaries have had to suffer on account of intemperance? 'Perils by sea,' encountered with a drunken captain and crew, are not as common now as during the years of my earlier voyages." And the speaker sketched vividly some of her experiences under such circumstances, when day after day the ship seemed likely to go to the bottom. "But," added our graphic story-teller, "it is in just the way that you are beaten back in your endeavors here for the masses, that we in other lands are met by the same evil," and here she told the following story, which is given, almost without exception, in her own language. "At the native orphanage belonging to the Scotch kirk in Calcutta, I found that the principal teacher that the children had was a catechist, one of the best native preachers, they told me, belonging to the Scotch kirk. He could preach exceedingly well, and had been a preacher and teacher for twelve years. His wife, Elizabeth, was one of my zenance teachers, a very nice little woman. They occupied rooms down-stairs on the same floor with the orphans. At this time I was taking charge of the school for some weeks during the superintendent's absence, she having gone for a rest. I had this catechist at the time as my teacher in the Bengali language. Once or twice when he came to me I thought he acted in a very silly manner, and I began to suspect him of drinking, but was almost angry with myself for the suspicion, as I had heard he was such a good man. One day, however he came to me in such a condition that there was no doubting the fact. I immediately ordered him to his room, and sending for his wife, I asked her how long her husband had been in the habit of drinking. She burst out crying, and said: 'Oh, for many years. But, O ma'am, he is so much better now; he is not bad nearly so often as he used to be.'" " 'Why, Elizabeth! does Dr. H. [the minister of the Scotch kirk] know this?'" " 'Oh, no, Ma'am Sahib—and, oh, don't you tell him! Miss H. [the lady superintendent whose place I was just filling for a short time] would never tell of him. Twice she has paid the money herself to get him out of prison, when the policemen have taken him up, so that Dr. H. should not know.'" " 'Well, Elizabeth,' I said, 'I will never do that. Do you know it is a dreadful and wicked thing for him, a teacher, a minister, a preacher of the gospel, to be a drunkard—for the children, the servants, and all those he preaches to, to know that he is a drunkard? Oh, it is dreadful! It will do so much harm to the cause of Christ.'" "The poor woman fell at my feet, and pleaded with me not to tell of him this time, for what would become of herself and her children if Dr. H. knew it and turned him out." "I waited till he was perfectly sober, and then sent for him. I wished to have a long and serious talk with him. I was astonished at the bravado he manifested. I tried to show him the great sinfulness of his conduct before God, but he resolutely denied that it was a great sin. It was a little fault, to be sure, it was a little fault, but he did not consider it a great sin at all, though he did not attempt to deny that he was often perfectly drunk, and that when he was so he was ready to kill anybody, and had been put in the lock-up several times in consequence. I tried to show him kindly the evil of his course, but at length he got quite angry, and said he did not know why I talked to him so; that he only did what every other Christian did, that there was not a Padic Sahib [minister] in Calcutta but what did just the same, only I had not happened to see them when they had taken a little too much. I was shocked and indignant, and asked him how he dared say such a thing. He laughed a most scornful laugh, and said to me: 'Now I ask you, do you dare tell me that Dr. H., and Dr. S., and Dr. L., and Mr. N.,' and he went on enumerating all the English clergymen of the different denominations, 'do not each and every one of them drink wine and beer every day?'" "I winced and had to answer that I knew they all did. 'But,' I said, 'they only take a little; just what is needed, they think, for their health; they never get drunk.'" "He laughed again. 'I never,' he said, 'take anything like as much as they do; and is it my fault if it upsets me a little sooner than it does them? My head is not so strong as theirs. I can't bear as much as they do; and if I take a little glasses of wine, and it makes me behave a little foolish, you say it is a great sin, while because their heads are a little stronger, they may take five or six glasses, and yet it is no sin. Besides, how can you tell that they do not sometimes take a little too much and forget themselves, the same as I do? Of course they would not let you see them in that state; it was only by accident that you found it out about me.'" "I found it was useless to argue with him. He had, as he said, the example of all the clergymen and Christians in India for what he did." "A few nights afterward I spoke of this [not telling who the man was], when I was pleading the cause of temperance at our Bible meeting, where there were eighteen ministers and professing Christian men; I really believe all present were Christians; but instead of taking shame to themselves for such an example, they exclaimed at the impudence of the fellow! And when I quoted what St. Paul says—'If meat make my brother to offend I will eat no meat'—they told me I was ridiculous, and that it was really fanatical of me to think that we must give up that which was essential to their comfort for such a fellow as that." "And yet,' I said, 'many of you have given up home, and friends, and earthly comforts, to come out here to win these souls to Christ, and yet you will not give up your wine or beer for the sake of these souls! Is it not time we began to look at this thing for ourselves?'" The Drunken Catechist
By Mary E. Comstock
yet you are not willing to give up this one little thing for Christ.' "I saw I had no power; they all voted me a fanatic on that subject. Oh, how is Christ wounded in the house of his friends! "I felt it my duty to tell. Dr. H. of the Scotch kirk all about it. He was deeply grieved; he had always placed such confidence in the catechist. He decided to wait and see if my remonstrance had any effect, and desired me to report to him at once if I found the man in that state again, as then of course he must dismiss him, for a drunkard could be neither a preacher nor a teacher. "A few nights after, I was awakened between twelve and one by the most frightful screams and tumult, partly within and partly without the house. I threw on my dressing gown and slippers, and rushed down. There was our Christian Baboo, our catechist, furiously drunk—mad with intoxication—fighting with the servants. He had been out it seems to the servants' room dancing around with a large carving-knife. His wife, with her babe, had rushed for safety into the children's dormitory, and it was the shrieks of the frightened children and his efforts to break open the door that had aroused me. My heart sank within me, but as soon as the infuriated man saw me he marched off to the other end of the garden. I went down after him, followed by two or three of the servants (one I had sent to call a policeman, but as usual they preferred to keep out of harm's way, and it was not until all danger was over that one appeared). I went to our teacher and catechist. He was dancing around like a maniac, brandishing the knife, his eyes glaring furiously. I demanded that he should give me that knife. They are all afraid of an European no matter whether a lady or gentleman, when a tone of authority is used. I told him it was my knife, and asked him how he dare steal it. The servants stood at a little distance trembling with apprehension. They afterward said they were dreadfully afraid he would kill me. At the time I had not a bit of fear, though in just thinking it over afterward I was very much frightened. When I had spoken to him he lowered the knife. He was a tall man, over six feet high. Then he looked at me with a silly ridiculous leer, and demanded who I was. I spoke very angrily, told him not to make such a fool of himself, but to give me my knife instantly. He looked at me very impudently for a moment, then suddenly, with an attempt at the most graceful politeness, handed me the knife, which I instantly gave to one of the servants to lock away safe. The Baboo then began what you might call a wild Indian dance, whooping and yelling, like the veriest savage. We were a long way off from any European dwelling, and there was no one I could sent for. I waited quietly until his savage dance was over. It seemed as though it would never stop, but as soon as he paused for an instant I went right up to him and caught hold of his arm, and in the most authoritative tone I could command, ordered him immediately to his room. Again he looked at me with a half-daring half-subdued manner, and shouted: 'Who are you?' "'One whom it would be better for you to obey, instantly,' I said, and urged him toward his room, the servants following close after me. "We at length got him into his room, and after we had well barred and bolted him in, a policeman made his appearance. "Think of such a spectacle as that witnessed by those heathen servants and the children whom we were trying to train to be Christians. And this man a professed Christian teacher, a catechist, one who insisted that he did nothing more than every Christian man or minister did, but that the effect was simply different in degree; that he did not take as much as they did, only his head was not quite so strong as theirs, and that very likely outward effects were marked with them occasionally only that there were no witnesses. "English Christians, so far as my observation has extended, universally feel that they must drink. There was one true, noble man, Mr. Robert Sest Monief, all honor to him, who had the courage to bear the scoffs and jeers of those who called him a fanatic, because he believed it a sin to set such an example to those poor natives. I am thankful to say that few, very few, if any of our American missionaries ever touch a drop of wine in that land except as medicine. "I was invited," said Miss Brittan, in conclusion, "just three months before I last left Calcutta11 to a little dinner party. There were seven gentlemen present; six of them were either English clergyman or missionaries, and at each person's side were set five glasses. The largest one was used for beer or claret: the others for port, sherry, champagne and masasihino, and every glass was used by each person present except myself; and when it was seen that I took nothing but water, a clergyman said to me, with a supercilious smile: 'O, that is one of your American absurdities. I should have thought you would have gotten over it by this time!' "This is the moderate drinking indulged in by professing Christians that these poor heathen witness, for there were eight or ten servants around the table. I wish that advocates of moderate drinking could have witnessed its influence as an example as I did that night in its effects upon that poor, wretched preacher of the gospel. The result was he had to be degraded from his office as a preacher, he lost his place as a teacher, and soon died an awful death of delirium tremens; while the head of that church, the minister who had to degrade him from his office, and whose example he pleaded as an excuse, still continues his moderate drinking. The Hindoos, you know, had a proverb before the mutiny, that 'If every Englishman should leave India there would be nothing to show they had ever been there but piles of empty bottles.'" After the conclusion of Miss Brittan's recital there was a pause in the circle, which was composed of Christian workers in different departments of labor. The silence was broken by the thoughtful, emphatic inquiry from one of the number: "Isn't the real battle for foreign missions as well as home mission work to be fought by the two great Christian nations, America and England, right at their own thresholds in crushing out this evil of intemperance?"—Mary E. Comstock, in Arthur's Home Magazine. If some great angel spake to me to-night
In awful language of the unknown land,
Bidding me choose from treasure infinite,
From goodly gifts and glories in his hand,
The thing I coveted, what should I take?
Fame's wreath of bays? the fickle world's esteem?
Nay, greenest bays may wave on brows that ache,
And world's applauding passeth as a dream. Should I choose Love to fill mine empty heart
With soft strong sweetness, as in days of old?
Nay; for Love's rapture hath an after-smart,
And on Love's rose the thorns are manifold.
Should I choose Life with long-succeeding years?
Nay; earth's long life is longer time for tears. I would choose Work, and never-failing power
To work without weak hindrance by the way,
Without recurrence of the weary hour
When tired tyrant Nature holds its sway
Over the busy brain and toiling hand.
Ah! if an angel came to me to-night,
Speaking in language of the unknown land,
So would I choose from treasure infinite.
But well I know the blessed gift I crave,
The tireless strength for never-ending task,
Is not for this life. But beyond the grave
It may be I shall find the thing I ask;
For I believe there is a better land,
Where will and work and strength go hand in hand. -There were 99 deaths in San Francisco last week. -There are twenty-three branches of the Irish land-league in California. -The population of Berlin, Prussia, is 1,118,630, having doubled since 1860. -The California Legislature convened on the 3d inst., for a session of sixty days. -The National Temperance Society has called a convention for June 21, at Saratoga. -The king of Belgium is said to have subscribed for $2,000,000 worth of Panama canal stock. -At a recent heathen festival in India, the offerings to the idol were valued at $1,000,000. -A dearth of coal in Nebraska, where the weather is severely cold, has caused much suffering. -The 260th anniversary of the landing of the May Flower was celebrated at Plymouth, Dec. 21. -The persecution of Christians in Macedonia, continues with severity. Large numbers are exiled to Asia and Africa. -The London Times says: "The finances of the United States may excite the envy, not only of England, but of Europe." -There is to be a "Congress" (not a "Conference," as some papers have it), of all branches of Methodism in London, next September. -San Francisco reports 16 rainy days in December, and a rainfall of 12.33 inches. The highest temperature was 61°, and the lowest, 42°. -There are 230,000 Jews in the United States, and California has 18,500 of them—a greater ratio to population than any State in the Union. -Sarah Bernhardt, the famous and infamous French actress, played twenty-four nights in Booth’s theater, New York, and the receipts were $98,000. -The State Horticultural Society is considering the matter of destroying noxious insects, and the Legislature will be memorialized on the subject. -Congressman Page has introduced a joint-resolution, to make the anniversary of the discovery of America, by Columbus, a national holiday. -The average production of the mines of the United States during the last seven years has been $40,000,000 in gold and $38,750,000 in silver per annum. -The Esquon ranch, Butte county, containing 16,000 acres, has been purchased by Leland Stanford for $350,000. It is to be used for a stock farm. -The N. Y. Tribune says of Mrs. Southworth’s forty-two novels, that, "put up in a dry goods box, they would make a fine present to a gentleman of leisure." -"Mark Twain," author and humorist, is said to be losing his reason. He is subject to strange illusions; sometimes he imagines he is an editor, sometimes a church deacon, and recently he was found standing on a box, fancying himself an Egyptian obelisk. -The extraordinary calls for English troops in Ireland and Africa, have necessitated calling out the militia, for the first time since the Crimean war. -In Berlin, Dec. 19, a meeting of 2,000 persons passed resolutions in favor of suppressing the liberty of the Jews, and to buy nothing from Jewish shops or firms. -The Supreme Court of California has decided that a railroad company is not responsible for goods accidentally destroyed by fire while deposited in its warehouse. -The total issues of the American Baptist Publication Society, for the past year, were equal to 364,635,000 pages—nearly a million of pages per day, Sundays and all. -The British Columbians are getting very indignant at their treatment by the Dominion government, and the Victoria Colonist boldly talks independence or annexation to the United States. -The Parker Memorial Chapel, Boston, which cost $110,000, is to be sold to a leading Spiritualist for $15,000. The reason assigned is the rapid multiplication of Unitarian churches in that city. -The Supreme Court of California holds that, if parties will engage in betting, they must rely upon the honor of their adversaries, and not look to the courts for relief in the event of its breach. -On Monday morning after Christmas, 168 persons were arraigned in the San Francisco Police Court for drunkenness. And this number includes only those who exposed their condition on the streets. -A Dublin correspondent says that the revolver has superceded the spade as an agricultural implement in Ireland. Tenants, who are willing to pay rent, are afraid to do so for fear of their neighbors. -Unusual cold weather, during the past week, is reported from the Eastern and Southern States. As far south as Florida the orange trees were badly injured by frost. During the same period, unusually warm rains have visited California. -Riotous conduct at the most prominent public universities, is becoming so common as to be merely paragraphed by the newspapers as something to be expected as a matter of course. There was recently an affray at the University of Pennsylvania, in which thirty policemen took part, and were defeated. -The virgin soil of America this year has produced 500,000,000 bushels of grain,—the largest yield that America has ever produced. Of this amount fully 300,000,000 will be required for home consumption, and 200,000,000 will go abroad. -In September, October and three weeks of November there were over one thousand cases of diphtheria in New York City, with the large proportion of four hundred and thirty-one deaths. In one week there were one hundred and fifty cases. -In the proposed new criminal code which will shortly be debated in the Spanish Chambers, there is a provision for punishing dissent from the Roman Church with imprisonment. This looks toward a resurrection of the persecution which Protestantism formerly received in Spain. -An artful way of concealing small-pox cases, was recently discovered in San Francisco. One Chinaman died of consumption, and another of small-pox. Two certificates were procured from different physicians as to the cause of death of the consumptive, one of which was used to get a permit to bury the small-pox victim in the cemetery. -From the Newspaper Annual for 1880, we learn that there are published in the United States 10,100 papers and magazines, of all classes. Of these, the Western States, with Ohio and extending to the Pacific coast, have 4,855, almost one-half of the whole number. The Southern States have 1,730; New England, 818; and the remainder belong to the Middle States. -The London Economist estimates that the immigrants coming to this country during the current year bring with them $35,000,000 in specie, while the average value to the United States of each person in adding to the productive resources of the country is $940, so that the number landing this year constitute an "actual or potential addition to the wealth of the country" of $100,000,000. -The acquittal of Schroder, the slayer of Dr. Le Fevre, in Oakland, continues to excite popular indignation. The Times says it is in order "to prove that Cain was a victim of transitory mania," and that if he were to be tried before an Alameda county jury, he would certainly be acquitted. It is unfortunate for the patriarchs of old, that there were no physicians among them who could explain the peculiar nature of this mania." -A New York paper states that "Italy has 29,500,000 acres of uncultivated lands. 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OUR new health books are selling rapidly. Experienced book agents know that the people are ready to buy books of practical value, and a trial is convincing a large number that there is nothing more needed, or better received than such works as Dr. Kellogg’s treatise on Diphtheria, his complete work on Digestion and Dyspepsia, and the Home Hand Book of Domestic Hygiene and Rational Medicine. We have over twenty agents regularly employed. W. C. W. TO TEMPERANCE WORKERS.
By James Edson White
FROM a large library of temperance literature I have selected two books which I regard as the best for the present time, to furnish the kind of direct and pointed information needed by temperance speakers and those who wish to make their home club interesting. They are:— Alcohol, Its Nature and Effects, by Story. Muslin, 392 pages, 90 cts. Bible Wines; or the Laws of Fermentation and Wines of the Ancients, by Patton. Paper, 140 pages, 30 cts. Sent post-paid on receipt of price. Address, J. E. WHITE,
Battle Creek, Mich. Vick's Floral Guide for 1881
By Editor
Vick's Floral Guide for 1881 is before us, and we can unhesitatingly say that it is the most beautiful and instructive journal of the kind published. It contains one hundred and twenty pages, and six hundred illustrations, printed on the best calendered paper, with descriptions of the best flowers and vegetables, and directions for growing. Any one who sends ten cents to James Vick, Rochester, N. Y., will receive more than an equivalent for his money in the fine colored plate which accompanies the book, to say nothing of the book itself. Moody and the Ten Commandments
By Editor
MR. MOODY preached a sermon New Year's eve at the Howard-street Presbyterian church, San Francisco, in which he took strong grounds in behalf of the ten commandments. His text was, "Tekel" (thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting), and he told his hearers that this law was the balance in which they would be weighed. He put the commandments into one scale, and asked them to step into the other. He then went over the commandments one by one, showing wherein the people were found wanting. Of the fourth commandment he said, "This is not a command for one place or one time, but for all places and times. No man is obliged to work on the Sabbath in order to support his family; his duty is to obey God, and then to trust God." He said nothing about any change of day, for the very good reason, we suppose, that there is nothing in the commandment or the whole Scriptures about it. It is indeed encouraging to hear this acknowledged leading evangelist vindicating the law of God, and we hope that his words upon this subject will have due weight with the people, and not be made wanting through prejudice or indifference. "‘Tis a point I long to know,
Oft it causes anxious thought;
Do I love the Lord or no,
Am I his, or am I not ?"
—Popular Hymn. A full solution of the above problem may be found in the first epistle of John 3 : 10-24. A FEW weeks ago in a report of the New York camp-meeting, it was stated that C. C. Lewis with others was ordained. This was a mistake; it should have been M. C. Wilcox. INFORMATION WANTED.
By Editor
ANY person knowing the address of Mrs. Sarah Tietge, will confer a favor by sending the same to Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal.