Earlier text: Reports from the FieldWHY THEIR USE IS UNHEALTHFUL.
PHYSICAL EFFECTS—CONCLUDED.
Let us trace this work of destruction and desolation in the vital domain a little more minutely. 1. The savory beverage containing the poison is taken into the mouth hot. The great heat injures the teeth by so suddenly increasing their temperature, and thus induces early decay. It also works almost irreparable mischief with the delicate nerve of taste. Then it washes down the food, thus preventing proper mastication and the admixture of the saliva with the food, by this means creating two very serious impediments to digestion. By preventing sufficient mastication, the teeth are deprived of the requisite amount of exercise to maintain their healthy integrity, and decay soon begins, just as an unused arm withers. 2. The scalding potion passes down into the stomach, and there begins its work of mischief. At first it irritates and excites the delicate tissues of this organ by the excessive heat. This excitement is soon replaced by as great a debility and relaxation. It also renders the gastric juice inefficient by diluting it, and still further exhausts the stomach by rendering necessary the energetic action of its thousands of absorbents to remove the great mass of fluid which is interfering with the work of digestion which is to be performed. 3. Being thus received into the circulation, by the last process, the infusion of tea or coffee with its contained poison is hurried off to the liver, the kidneys, the lungs, the mucous membrane of the intestines, and, finally, to the skin. Each of these willing servants of the body sets energetically to work in its own way to get the intruder out as quickly as possible. But while so doing, the ordinary work of the body is necessarily neglected to a greater or less extent. The gross, acrid, irritating, biliary matters which the liver should remove are left to accumulate in the blood. The kidneys find it impossible to perform all the work laid upon them, and they fail to remove as much of the products of decomposition as is necessary to keep the blood pure. The mucous membrane also neglects its ordinary work to some extent; and, in trying to wash out the unwelcome and destructive theine, it pours out from the blood a large amount of its watery portion, thus still further thickening the already turbid current. The lungs are also doing extra work, while the skin, like the mucous membrane, is draining the blood of its fluid to purge it from the narcotic poison which it bears. Now, mark the result of all this morbid activity and disarrangement of the vital functions. The liver gets behind in its work, becomes congested, and finally torpid, inactive. The kidneys are overworked, and are liable to take on almost any form of disease to which they are subject. Diarrhea or obstinate constipation affects the bowels. The lungs lose their accustomed activity and gradually decrease in efficiency. The skin becomes clogged with the carbonaceous and biliary matters which abound in the blood, and which it finds itself unable to eliminate. This beautiful and flexible covering of the human body assumes a yellow, sickly, unwholesome appearance, and becomes of a leathery texture, so well known to physicians as the tea complexion, and which is one of the chief sources of revenue to the venders of patent lotions, “balms,” and cosmetics. But while all these devastations have been in progress, it must not be forgotten that the most delicate and sensitive tissues of the body, the nerves, have not been allowed to escape, but have suffered even more severely than the less delicately organized depurating organs. As soon as the tea or coffee was taken into the stomach, it was recognized by the nerves of that organ as a poison. These faithful sentinels immediately communicated this fact to one of the great nervous centers, whence the intelligence was generally distributed throughout the body, rousing every part of the nervous system, which in turn excited the various depurating or excreting organs to a great increase of action. This nervous irritation or excitement is followed by its inevitable consequence, depression. And, as the process is frequently repeated, the nerves become shattered, weakened, and uncertain in their action. Then come sick headache, nervousness, and every form of nervous disease. Furthermore, the blood being filled with gross, irritating impurities, every tissue of the body is bathed in a poisoned life-current, and is consequently contaminated, diseased. The blood is also impoverished, as well as poisoned; for the stomach has suffered with the rest, and has lost its power to properly digest the food, and suitably prepare it for assimilation. The physical condition of the body becomes that of universal disease. Such is the pernicious influence of tea and coffee upon the physical frame. RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.
—Ann Eliza Young, formerly a Mormon, is now a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, at Lockport, N. Y. —One-fifth of the population of New Hampshire, and one-third of the voters, have signed the temperance pledge. —Mr. Moody intends to conduct revival meetings shortly in Washington and in Baltimore, giving three months to each city. —Mr. Spurgeon has sent out two evangelists from his “Pastors’ Training College” to make a tour through the United Kingdom. —It is said that the latest feature of Saratoga life is morning prayer-meetings, held under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A., and attended by large numbers daily. —It is reported that the Moody Tabernacle at Chicago is to be turned into stores after next September. Mr. Moody has been invited to hold a series of services in the building before the change and will probably accept, commencing about the 10th of September. —The receipts of the American Bible Society for July were $35,813; copies of the Scriptures issued 53,416. As usual, a considerable number of grants of books were made. The appropriations of money amounted to $2,231, and the number of books granted about 10,000. —It is said there are 35,000 Protestant girls in Roman Catholic schools, and the Romanists claim that one out of every ten of these girls is converted to their faith, and that three out of ten are taught to hate Protestantism. We have no doubt that two-thirds of the whole number are lost to the Protestant church. —The New York City Mission and Tract Society has thirty-five missionaries, with whom are associated hundreds of volunteer visitors, teachers and helpers. During last month this body of Christian workers in connection with the Society made 3,559 visits among the sick and needy, held 426 meetings, and aided 250 families. —The aggregate church debts of the several Evangelical denominations of Chicago is given as follows: Presbyterian, $256,898; Congregational, $214,115; Methodist Episcopal, $169,783; Baptist, $133,099; Lutheran, $108,200; Episcopal, $126,250; or a total of $1,008,345. Nothing to be very proud of, and a burden not easy to carry. —An exchange says: “The eight presiding elders of the State of New Jersey are now propounding in their Quarterly Conferences the following questions: Are any of our members engaged in the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors? Are any of them signing applications for tavern licenses? Are any of them renting their property for the sale of liquor? These questions are followed by urging the use of unfermented wine at the communion.” —The subject of Methodism in cities has prompted the Rev. John Atkinson, of Chicago, to collate some statistics in regard to the matter, which he gives in the Methodist Quarterly Review for July. Among his deductions are (1) That Methodism stands first as regards communicants in nine of the fourteen cities, the Presbyterians being first in New York, St. Louis, San Francisco and Buffalo, and the Baptists in Boston, while in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Chicago, Baltimore, Washington, New Orleans, Newark and Louisville the Methodists lead all other denominations. (2) In these fourteen cities the excess of Methodist communicants over Presbyterian is 25,303; and the two branches of the M. E. church (North and South) have 26,374 more communicants than the two branches (North and South) of the Presbyterian church. (3) The communicants of the Methodist Episcopal church (North) exceed in number the combined aggregate of communicants of the Presbyterian (North) and the Congregational churches in these fourteen cities. —The number of the Sioux who have migrated to the North-west is estimated at 4,200 souls, including 1,800 warriors. —The United States, within the last ten years, has sold $43,000,000 worth of arms and ammunition to Europe, and still the demand continues. —A train to Long Branch ran off the bridge at Oceanport, on Wednesday last, injuring over sixty persons, two of them very seriously. —The covered bridge spanning the Tuscarawas river just south of New Philadelphia, Ohio, was burned Aug. 25. It was a three-span double-track bridge, 325 feet long. The loss is thought to be about $40,000. —The Southern Pacific railroad bridge across Colorado river will be completed this month. The Company now have ties for 600 miles beyond deposited on the bank of the river, and the iron is on its way, some of it due. —Of 3,447 certificates of citizenship issued by County Clerk Reynolds in San Francisco last year, 1,502 were given to natives of Ireland, 343 to natives of Germany, 306 to natives of Prussia. During the year 1,407 declarations of intention were made. —It has been reported that Jay Gould, the Railroad King, has announced that he sees in the labor strikes the beginning of a social revolution which he hopes and believes is the beginning of the destruction of our Republic, and upon which will be erected an Empire. —The Spanish Government on Saturday deposited, through its minister at Washington, with the Secretary of State $30,000, being the interest on the invested amount of American claims upon the Spanish Government, and distribution will be made to claimants by the secretary of State. —A hurricane at Omaha, Aug. 24, blew down two spans of the Union Pacific Railroad bridge across the Missouri river. All telegraph lines in the vicinity are prostrated. The storm extended as far south as Kansas, cutting off communication via that route. The piers are left standing uninjured, but the rest of that part of the bridge is a total wreck. 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But when business is sent to be charged to State T. and M. societies, it should always be sent through the State secretary. “At this Office we charge the State society with everything ordered by the society, and credit it with all received from it. To avoid mistakes and losses of business by mail, the State secretary must do the same. This cannot possibly be done if business is sent direct to this Office by any other officer than the State secretary. We therefore request that all credit business be done through the State secretary. Notwithstanding the above, we receive letters every day from directors, district secretaries and business agents, sending business to be charged to the State society to which they belong. As a consequence we have State Society charged with items about which the State secretary knows nothing, and when we send out our monthly statements, it frequently takes weeks of correspondence before our books are made to agree. To avoid future trouble and confusion in accounts, all letters ordering business charged to any T. and M. society, not received through the State secretary, will be returned to the writer. It seldom takes more than a day longer to do business through the State secretary, than it would if sent directly to the Office; and this extra day is frequently made up in having the business done correctly the first time. We are often obliged to return letters to the writer for further explanation. J. E. W. S. Saltum; Denmark.
By John G. Matteson
We have held meetings this week in S. Saltum, Alstrup, Bunken, and N. Saltum—all neighboring cities. We have held thirty-seven meetings in all since we came to this vicinity, and from six to seven hundred people have heard about the present truth. Most of them receive it with joy and are thankful for it. Many are awakened to a knowledge of their sins, and are concerned in regard to their salvation; but it takes time for them to overcome their old habits, and begin to walk in the footsteps of Jesus. Last Sunday the priest in Alstrup church spoke against false prophets before an audience of six; while our audiences during the week have numbered from one hundred to one hundred and fifty. The priest in Saltum also warned his people against attending meetings outside of the church; but Sunday afternoon about three hundred persons listened intently to our lecture on the life and death question. This lecture will be printed in the Advent Tidende. It was an answer to some points brought up against us by two school-teachers on behalf of the church. They had invited me to answer, but neither of them were present when the answer came. If the priest and the school-teachers had thought that they could prove from the word of God that our lectures or a part of them were not in harmony with the Scriptures, then they certainly would have done their duty, and would have come to enlighten the people in regard to this fact. The majority of our hearers would then, of course, stay away from our meetings. But if we do not teach the people anything but what clearly harmonizes with the Bible, nor anything but what they very much need to learn and lay to heart, then it is better that these teachers stay away, inasmuch as they only try to hinder the work of God. We have received four subscribers to the TIDENDE, and sold some tracts. The Lord mercifully strengthens us; and we will by his help continue to labor on in hope. The artificial Christian is one who has no internal spiritual life. As the weights of a clock move all the wheels, so artificial Christians are excited by things without them. They want an inward principle to do good freely. But the Spirit of God works a kind of natural freedom. A Brave Man Forgives Injuries
A BRAVE man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury; for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it. In compliance with the edict of the German government expelling religious orders from the empire before October of the present year, many are immigrating to this country. August 14, among the passengers of the steamer Maas, of the Netherlands—American Steam Navigation Company, arriving at Pavonia dock, New Jersey, were twenty-two Sisters of Charity from Keetsfield, Prussia, of whom the Tablet says: “They felt, as many others who have come from Prussia before them have felt on account of this edict, that it is hard to be expatriated; still, their experience is no new thing in political differences. The sisters fully realized this point and were sensibly coming to a country not yet affected by the ailments of age, where they could think and do as they pleased. Some of them went over to Brooklyn, but most of them were whirled off to Cleveland and Covington, Ohio, where they will find anxious friends awaiting their arrival. During the next two months quite a large emigration of the same order is expected.” Grangeville, Tent No. 2.
By J. L. Wood
Last week I stated that we thought we should take the tent down soon. But owing to the condition of things here we decided to keep it up another week. I think much can be accomplished by laboring from house to house with those who are interested. Five have signed the covenant and others are keeping the Sabbath, and quite a number of others are waiting till the camp-meeting. We have had strong prejudice to contend with here. Notwithstanding this, there are many warm friends of the truth. I think it best to remain until camp-meeting to look after the interests here.
J. L. WOOD. Northern California Camp-Meeting.
By J. D. Hager; Wm. Harmon; Joseph Dimick
THE camp-meeting for northern California will be held near Yountville, Napa county, on the Christian camp-ground, commencing September 13 and closing September 19. All tents should be pitched and the camp fully in readiness by the evening of the 12th. Labor upon the grounds will commence Sunday, September 9, and tents can be pitched any time between that and the evening of the 12th. We wish all our brethren and sisters to come in season to commence with the meeting and remain till the close. Come to the meeting in the name of the Lord, come praying. Bring your families and friends along. J. D. Hager,
Wm. Harmon,
Joseph Dimick,
California
Camp-meeting
Committee. Southern California Camp-Meeting.
By M. J. Church; W. R. Smith; R. F. Eagle
The camp-meeting for southern California will be held two and one-half miles north of Lemoore, Tulare county, September 26 to October 1. Lemoore is a town situated on a branch of the Central Pacific railroad, diverging from Goshen station, between Fresno and Tulare city. The distance from Goshen to Lemoore is twenty miles. Persons going by railroad, will change cars at Goshen. We hope to see a full attendance of all our people, within reach of the meeting, with their friends. All tents should be up in readiness to commence with an early morning meeting on the 26th, and all our people should remain until the closing morning meeting, October 1. Pray the Lord to make this camp-meeting a source of great good to southern California. M. J. CHURCH, California
W. R. SMITH, Camp-meeting
R. F. EAGLE, Camp-meeting Committee. California Conference.
By John Norton Loughborough; John Morrison; W. C. White
The annual session of the California State Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the Yountville camp-meeting, September 13–19. First session at 5 P. M. of the 13th. Each company of Sabbath-keepers should elect delegates immediately, and fill out the blank credentials which will be sent by the State secretary. Each church of twenty members or less is entitled to one delegate, and one delegate for every additional fifteen members over the first twenty. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH,
JOHN MORRISON,
W. C. WHITE, } Conf. Com. The Continuance of God’s Mercies
Expect the continuance of mercies from God; he is the strength of our life, the staff of our bread, the breath of our nostrils, and the length of our days. Camping Tent.
By John Norton Loughborough
The 50 ft. tent No. 3, will be pitched on the Yountville camp-ground as a free lodging tent. In this tent there will be abundance of lodging room for all the men who furnish their own blankets. J. N. L. Camp-Meeting Mail.
By John Norton Loughborough
We shall have a post-office on the Yountville camp-ground. All letters to those camping on the grounds should be addressed, Yountville, Napa Co., Cal. (camp-ground). J. N. L. Record Books.
By John Norton Loughborough
ALL S. S. treasurers, and all Tract and Missionary officers are requested to bring their business and account books to the Conference. Church clerks will also please bring their church record books. J. N. L. To S. B. Treasurers.
By John Norton Loughborough
As there will be no quarterly meeting in California till after the camp-meetings, the S. B. treasurers are requested to collect all S. B. dues up to Oct. 1, before camp-meeting. If possible, have your books all squared up before submitting them to the Conference Committee. Tent Fund.
By John Norton Loughborough
WHILE the S. S. treasurers are collecting their S. S. dues, will they please complete the collection of the ten per cent extra which was to be raised for the purchase of the two 50 ft. tents. Some of the churches have paid all their portion, others have not. Of the $500 paid for the tents about $270 have already been paid in. We have no doubt but our brethren will raise and pay the balance by camp-meeting time.
J. N. L. California Yearly Missionary Meeting.
By John Norton Loughborough; A. Loughborough
THE annual meeting of the California State Tract and Missionary Society will be held in connection with the Yountville camp-meeting, September 13-19. First session at 5 P. M. of the 14th. There will be an election of officers and directors, and the transaction of such other business as may come before the meeting. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, President. A. M. LOUGHBOROUGH, Secretary. CAMP-MEETINGS are located and appointed as follows:—
VERMONT, Morrisville, September 6–11
NEW YORK, Carthage, “ 11–17
MICHIGAN, Lansing, “ 18–24
CALIFORNIA, Yountville, “ 13–19
“ Tulare county, Sept. 26 to Oct. 1