Earlier text: THE NEW TESTAMENT ON ENDLESS TORMENTTRUE CHRISTIAN STEWARDSHIP.
It is still a practical question in the Christian church, whether, after all, our Lord meant just what he said in declaring, “No man can serve two masters;” and again, “One is your Master, even Christ.” There are a great many Christians who, somehow, believe that they have no real Master; that they do not absolutely belong—body, mind, soul, property—to him whom they look to for salvation; or who somehow think that they belong partly to the Lord and partly to themselves. They are not ready to accept, in its literalness, the inspired assertion to the disciples of Jesus: “Ye are not your own;238 for ye are bought with a price.” Even when they are ready to admit that their souls belong to the Saviour, that in purely spiritual things they are subject to his authority, they are inclined to the idea that their time, or their talents, or their business interests, or, at all events, the money they have made, or which has been given to them, is their own—at least nine-tenths of it, in case they count a tithe of it as fairly belonging to the Lord. Unqualified Christian stewardship is by no means recognized generally in the church of Christ as absolutely indispensable to true Christian discipleship. Yet if there is one duty above another which the Lord Jesus insisted on as an essential requisite to the becoming his disciple, it is the duty of unconditional surrender of one’s self and one’s possessions to his service. When the young ruler came to Jesus, seeking the way of salvation, and saying that he had kept the whole moral law from his youth up, Jesus asked him if he was now ready to give up all his accumulation of “great possessions,” and trust himself for this life and for the next to the one Saviour of sinners. That was more than the young man was ready to do. Yet without a readiness to do just that, at the call of Jesus, no young man, nor older one, could ever be saved. It is not that the selling one’s goods, or the giving to the poor, has any essential merit in it, or aids in securing salvation. It is that one must be ready to sell, or to give, or to hold, whatever he has, or whatever he may hereafter acquire, just as the Saviour may direct. It is not the Christian giving, but it is the Christian readiness to give or not to give at the Saviour’s call, which evidences Christian discipleship. When one proposed to follow Jesus after he should have buried his father, “Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.” Jesus did not thereby intimate that leaving the dead unburied was meritorious; but he did teach that he must have the first place in the service of his disciples. “So, likewise,” he said again, “whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple;” that is, unless you are ready to forsake or to yield all your possessions when he demands it, you cannot be in his service; you are obviously unwilling to recognize him as your Master. “He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.” He who does not propose to be Christ’s in all things, cannot be Christ’s in anything. One may be an imperfect Christian, but he cannot be partly a Christian. He cannot be Christ’s in spiritual things, if he is not Christ’s in all things. He cannot have any treasure laid up in Heaven if he does not, while on earth, count himself Christ’s steward in the use of all the treasures committed to him here. “This is an hard saying; who can hear it?” The great thing in the use of one’s possessions is to do with them just as the Lord directs in the particular case, and for the time being; it is to hold them or to part with them at his call. And he who stands ready to do this shall not lack wisdom as to the Master’s will. But in a Christian’s exercise of his stewardship, he must be careful lest his refusal to give at a call of charity is prompted by a personal desire for accumulation, or by a wish to use his money for his selfish gratification, rather than by the conviction that his Master desires him to make that refusal.—S. S. Times. FIELDS are white, and hands are idle,
Death is laying thousands low;
Time is fleeting, Christ soon coming,
Men “are running to and fro.” Hearts are faint, and souls are yearning
For the blessings held in store;
Brother, sister, where’s the burden
That for thee thy Master bore? Oh! for thee there is a mission,
Noble, high, and truly grand;
“Live for others;” ’tis the watchword
Sound it far o’er all the land. Work, and claim thy own salvation,
Fear and tremble at His word;
Take the shield of faith forever,
All the armor on thee gird. Work, yea, work, and never falter,
Tho’ the sky “seem dark as night;”
God will fold his arms around thee,
Turn thy darkness into light. Bear the seed and sow it quickly,
Water well with tender tears;
“Paul may plant,” but God can only
Give the increase with the years. Courage, brother, sister; never
Backward look or slack thy hand;
Soon the glowing light of Heaven
Will enlighten all the land. Labor, then; for rest soon cometh,
Peace and love and holy joy;
Pleasures sweet that know no ending,
Home where nothing can annoy. VIGILANT MISSIONARY WORK.
By S. N. Haskell
THERE is no branch of the missionary work which, considering the talent brought into exercise, accomplishes more than the vigilant societies or committees. The amount of labor one can perform in this department, if the heart is imbued with the true missionary spirit, and the life devoted to the interests of the cause of Christ, is almost incredible. One brother with whom I am acquainted receives not far from one hundred and fifty copies of the Signs, of which one hundred and twelve are the twelve-page edition, making an aggregate of from five to six hundred papers per month, besides forty copies of Good Health; still he is praying that the Lord will open the way so that he can use more. He not only finds addresses for his own use, but he is able to supply others also; and this he does in addition to six days’ manual labor each week. He has more or less correspondence among all the civilized nations of the world. I am personally acquainted with some less than twenty who, in their past experience, have given evidence that they could properly manage as large a number of periodicals as this brother; and in every Seventh-day Adventist church in the land there are men and women who are now doing comparatively nothing, to whom nature has given as much ability to do this work as those above referred to possess, or even more. There are many families living alone, that, if they would take five or ten copies of this pioneer paper, and judiciously use them for missionary purposes, would receive as a reward joy and peace here and eternal happiness in the kingdom of God. The apostle asks the important question, “What is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing?” and then answers it, “Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? for ye are our glory and joy.” It was this hope of seeing souls saved in the kingdom of God which sustained the apostle in his arduous labors. The idea of divorcing faith from works in the Christian religion is an invention of the devil, designed not only to destroy souls, but to bring into his service talents which would otherwise help to advance God’s work upon the earth. “Faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.” Our Saviour in his life gave us an illustration of these works which are so important. Efforts to benefit humanity, to place the light of truth before those who sat in darkness, occupied his life. May God bless the efforts now being made to place the truth before those who sit in darkness, is my prayer. WISCONSIN T. AND M. INSTITUTE.
By B. L. Whitney
THIS Institute, which was held at Oakland, Wis., and closed on the evening of March 23, after a session of just one week, was both interesting and profitable. The attendance was larger than was anticipated, the class numbering between sixty and seventy, and an excellent interest was manifested in all the meetings. All the Wisconsin ministers except one were present, and a lively interest was manifested in our early ministers’ meeting, which was held each morning. The ministers of this Conference are fully in sympathy with the recommendations of the late General Conference respecting the relation of the minister to the tract society, and have taken hold in earnest to carry them out. Nearly $500 worth of books were taken from this meeting by the ministers, which will be sold in the interest of the society; and their labors between this time and camp-meeting will be in behalf of the society, in connection with their labors among the churches. Nearly $300 was pledged to the reserve fund, by those present, and over $100 to the general fund. All the brethren went from this meeting determined to take hold of this work anew, and to labor to carry out the instruction received. An active interest will be taken to secure a general attendance at the Institute which it is proposed to hold in the State the coming fall. Medford, Minn., March 26. A REMINDER.
By Mary M. Faulkner
BY MRS. MARY M. FAULKNER. Our probationary time is very precious, and each moment should be carefully improved, if we would be living Christians. “To-day the decision [for eternity] is in our hands, but soon it will have passed beyond our control.” Three precious months of 1880 are already gone. No doubt many of us purposed, at the beginning of the year, to make it the best of our lives. But how is it? Do we improve every opportunity for doing good? Are we not falling far behind our resolutions? Are we selfish? and is our love of ease so great that we account everything that might be done for the Master too great a sacrifice, not having before the mind the infinite price paid for our redemption? Let us all remember that we are not our own; for we are bought with a price. Our spiritual advancement is not marked by some great deed that we may do, but by the faithful performance of the every-day duties of life, that to us may seem small and unimportant. I desire to have a part with God’s people in their labors here, and a place with them in the glorious hereafter. Rest after the toil will be sweet. “’Tis sweet to work for Jesus;
There’s resting by-and-by.” —There are nearly 100,000 lepers in India. —It is proposed to lay two more Atlantic cables. —Typhoid fever and small-pox are prevalent in Paris. —In Scotland the Roman Catholics baptized 14,065 souls last year. —The prospects for a war between Russia and China are becoming more threatening. —A bill for an international exhibition in New York in 1883 has passed the Senate. —Two rivers of Spain, with their tributaries, have overflowed, inundating several towns. —The newly revised Maine liquor law prohibits the manufacture and sale of cider as a beverage. —Paris and its suburbs contain 123 Jesuit communities; the Jesuit colleges of France number 27. —The Chinese Vice-Consul at San Francisco is a regular attendant at the First Presbyterian Church. —Europe has 719 princes and princesses, each of whom has a more or less remote claim upon the crown. —The reduction of the national debt during the month of March will be between $13,000,000 and $14,000,000. —It has been discovered that the electric light has the property of greatly stimulating the growth of plants. —The memoirs of Louis Kossuth are to be published simultaneously in Hungarian, German, French, English, and Italian. —In the construction of the famous St. Gothard tunnel, 120 lives were lost and 400 men were injured by accidents. —Prince Bismarck has just celebrated his 65th birthday. His palace was flooded with offerings from all parts of Europe. —Nearly one-half of the towns in Connecticut (76) have voted against granting any license for the sale of intoxicating liquors. —Since 1866, the Spanish people have bought more copies of the Bible, in proportion to their population, than France or Italy. —The town of Branchville, S. C., was recently set on fire in two places, simultaneously. Many valuable buildings were destroyed. —The President and Secretary of State have determined upon a commission to revise the treaty relations between the United States and China. —The Armenian Library in Smyrna was established in 1769, and contains about 2,000 volumes. An appeal is now made for more English books. —There is a bill before the House of Representatives providing for a territorial organization for Alaska, which has a white population of only 250. —On the 25th of March, the Treasury Department purchased 445,000 ounces of silver for the Mints at Philadelphia, San Francisco, and New Orleans. —A Nihilist, the son of a priest, has been recently condemned to death. His execution will make the 19th in Russia, in less than two years, for political offenses. —In Japan several earthquakes occurred on the 22d of February. In Tokio and Yokohama several houses were badly injured or destroyed, but no lives were lost. —Fully 20 converts to Mormonism have gone from St. Lawrence Co., Ky., to Utah. Among them is a young and handsome married woman who left her husband behind. —On the 30th of March, 2,000 people from the various European countries landed at New York. The tide of immigration to this country has set in at an unprecedented rate. —A severe storm passed through portions of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas, March 27–29, doing considerable damage to property, and resulting in three or four deaths. —The English and Russians have come to an understanding by which the former is to leave Herat untouched, and the latter is to renounce the occupation of Merv. But neither nation withdraws its forces from Afghanistan. —On the 31st of March, a fire-damp explosion occurred in the colliery at Anderlues, Belgium. It is not known how many lives were lost. There were 150 persons in the pit at the time of the disaster; 20 corpses have been recovered. —Parnell has returned to Ireland, and has entered heartily into the canvass for a new Parliament. At Enniscorthy, in Wexford, he was violently assailed by a mob, from which he was rescued by the police; but he was not permitted to speak. —Prof. Geo. F. Barker, of the University of Pennsylvania, in a scientific lecture in Philadelphia, indorsed the Edison electric light, which he has been carefully investigating. He says that until gas can be furnished for 60 cts. per 1,000 cubic feet, the electric light will be cheaper. —A strange case recently occurred in England. A woman was killed by being kept continuously drunk for two months and a half. The man who did this inhuman deed, sometimes persuading and sometimes forcing her to drink, has been tried and condemned for manslaughter. —The Czar permits Prince Alexander of Bulgaria to enlist 5,000 Russian subjects, for the purpose of enabling that principality to introduce certain desirable reforms into its charter. This is Russia’s method of pushing her designs for renewing the contest in the principalities, and falling upon the Turk. —Lord Derby, addressing English workingmen, said that an acre of good land was worth on an average £60, or about 3d. for every square yard. And added: “I wonder how many workingmen consider, when they drink 3d. worth of beer or spirits, that they are swallowing down a square yard of good agricultural land.” —The English Parliamentary elections are resulting in so many Liberal victories that the formation of a new Cabinet is now accepted as a foregone conclusion. But though Beaconsfield must retire from the Premiership, Gladstone will not succeed him. It is thought that Lord Hartington or Lord Granville will form the next Ministry. —A letter from St. Petersburg to the Manchester Guardian says: “General Melikoff’s appointment as virtual dictator, which seems to indicate a relentless determination on the part of the Czar, really means conciliation in the end. A compromise is being tried under the forms of no surrender. The palace problem of the hour really is, how to yield with dignity.” —The trouble in the piano trade in New York City, which began with a strike for higher wages among the employees at Steinway’s manufactory, has culminated in a general lockout in nearly all the factories in New York. Between 4,000 and 5,000 workmen are thus thrown out of employment, and they declare they will not go to work again until wages are increased in all the shops. —The total contributions for foreign missions in Great Britain and Ireland for 1878 was $5,359,740. Of this amount, which is $140,000 less than in 1877, upwards of $2,365,500 was raised by the Church of England, $824,500 by joint Anglican and Nonconformist societies, and $2,122,225 by Nonconformist societies. The Roman Catholics raised for the same purpose, $47,445. —President Hayes has recalled Mr. Seward, Minister to Pekin, on account of the punishment awarded to Chung How, Chinese Ambassador to Russia, for negotiating an unpopular treaty with that country, and for the comparative impunity with which the Chinese mob is permitted to attack Europeans. President James B. Angell, of Michigan University, has been nominated by the President to succeed Mr. Seward as Minister to China. —Ever since the German occupation of Alsace-Lorraine, at the close of the Franco-German war of 1870, a censorship has been maintained over French papers circulated in these provinces. The object of this policy was to prevent any reactionary movement, by suppressing printed appeals to the people against Germany. This censorship has now been removed; hence it may be inferred that the annexation is nearing that consolidation which must transform Alsace-Lorraine into a component part, in sentiment as well as in fact, of the German empire. —Commissioner Railton, who has charge of the branch of the “Salvation Army” operating in New York, has been refused permission to preach in the streets, as none but licensed ministers can lawfully claim this privilege. This army is the outgrowth of an unsectarian Christian mission commenced in London in 1865. The idea was to reach the worst classes of the poor, and to evangelize the non-church-going people of a higher social grade. This work has been very successful in England. —The tomb of Pius IX., at Rome, in the Church of San Lorenzo beyond the walls, is said to be almost covered with inscriptions in various languages, besides wreaths, flowers, and other memorial offerings. They were written by persons from many walks of life, by priests, as well as by laymen; by pontifical soldiers, and soldiers in the Italian army; by widows, orphans and representatives of monasteries, colleges, schools, and societies. A peculiarity of many of the inscriptions is that the former pontiff is not prayed for, but invoked, this being an outcome of a belief prevalent among Italian Catholics that Pius IX. has entered into Heaven, and is now in the position of an intercessor. —There are in Great Britain eight societies laboring for the conversion of the Jews, and on the continent of Europe a dozen more. These societies have incomes amounting altogether to about $500,000, and employ now, probably, about 250 agents, Christian and Christianized Jews. The oldest and most prominent British society is the London Society for the Propagation of Christianity among the Jews, which occupies 34 stations, embracing the principal Jewish centers in Europe and all around the Mediterranean Sea, and in Abyssinia employs 36 agents, and enjoys an income of about $200,000. “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.” Rev. 14:13. CARPENTER.—Died of paralysis, at St. Charles, Mich., March 20, 1880, Cephas Carpenter, aged 73 years. Services by the writer. H. S. GUILFORD. MULHOLLEN.—Died of scrofulous consumption, Dec. 28, 1879, at Burnside, Wis., Mrs. Beckie A. Mulhollen, aged 29 years, 6 months, and 18 days. Sister M. embraced present truth in 1874, and since that time has lived a consistent Christian life. Her last days were marked with great patience; she was perfectly resigned to the will of Heaven. She exhorted those present to be faithful, and meet her in Heaven. We sorrow not as those without hope. Funeral sermon by Eld. D. Downer. T. B. Snow. GREER.—Died of diphtheria, in Fremont, Neb., Feb. 17, 1880, Willie H. Greer, aged 7 years, 8 months, and 9 days; also Feb. 18, of the same disease, Tommy H. Greer, aged 5 years, 8 months, and 15 days. My little boys loved the Sabbath-school, and loved to talk about Jesus; and morning and evening they always joined in the devotions at family worship. I felt as though I could not give them up, but how glad I am that I ever tried to teach them the way of life. We laid them both in one grave to sleep until the Lifegiver shall come. A few appropriate remarks were made by J. R. Whitham. SALLIE H. GREER. DICKEY.—Died in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, March 2, 1880, after an illness of nearly four months, our esteemed brother, Benjamin Dickey. He suffered much, yet bore all with Christian resignation. His mind was clear to the last, and he expressed, in his dying hour, his hope of having a part in the first resurrection. Bro. Dickey was born near Frankfort, Ky., March 23, 1799; hence he was nearly 81 years of age at the time of his death. He came to Iowa in 1839, and united with the Seventh-day Adventists in 1863, in whose fellowship he remained until his death. Funeral discourse from Rev. 14:13. C. A. WASHBURN. RASMUSSEN.—Died at Gowen, Mich., March 20, 1880, Anna Rasmussen, aged 50 years, 11 months, and 23 days. She embraced the present truth about ten years ago, and has been an invalid during the greater portion of this time. Her sufferings caused occasional clouds of discouragement, yet her last days were filled with submission and hope. By the death of his wife, Bro. Rasmussen is left alone in the world; but he is comforted by the assurance that he shall meet his loved ones in the resurrection morning. Discourse by the writer from Ps. 116:15, a text chosen by the deceased. D. A. WELLMAN. SUTHERLAND.—Fell asleep in Jesus, Jan. 31, 1880, in Belvidere, Ill., our beloved brother, Ammi Sutherland. Bro. S. was connected with the Baptist church until one year ago last fall, when he embraced present truth under the labors of Eld. R. F. Andrews. He was very firm in whatever he undertook. Being a man of considerable influence, he of course met with much opposition, but under it he seemed to grow stronger. He attended prayer-meeting only two evenings before he died, and his mind seemed to rest particularly upon the resurrection. He was taken with paralysis in the morning, and expired about 2 P. M. He leaves a wife and two children to mourn his loss. Funeral services by the writer; text, Eccl. 9:10. C. H. BLISS. STEEN.—Fell asleep, near Washington, Iowa, March 24, 1880, in the sixty-sixth year of her age, our dear sister, Elizabeth Kilgore Steen. She embraced the truth about twelve years ago, and her pure Christian life has since been such as to show that she knew that her Redeemer lived. Many afflictions have fallen upon her, but through them all she has maintained her integrity. 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1.40 |
12.33 |
Kalamazoo. |
1.15 |
2.37 |
1.38 |
3.02 |
| 11.30 |
7.40 |
11.13 |
9.25 |
Michigan City. |
4.30 |
5.00 |
4.55 |
5.55 |
| 9.10 |
5.15 |
9.00 |
7.00 |
De.. Chicago ..Ar |
6.50 |
7.40 |
7.30 |
8.30 |
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Day Express and Mail daily, except Sunday. Pacific and Atlantic Express daily. Night and Evening Express daily, except Saturday and Sunday. H. C. WENTWORTH, Gen. Pass. Agent.