CHARITABLE associations have long since discovered that indiscriminate giving creates chronic beggars, so inclined is the human heart to mendicancy. Perhaps we resent such an indictment, and really do live above it in financial matters. But there are things so precious and rare that money can not procure them.
There lived in a certain village a quiet, unassuming little woman, who had not a wide circle of acquaintances, and whose household duties fully occupied her heart and hands. But if one were in perplexity or distress of ever so delicate a nature, this little woman would be sure to listen sympathetically, and advise wisely. And the poor, troubled soul could leave her presence relieved and grateful, sure that his confidence would be respected. Some said that she was the dearest little woman in the world; others, that she was a perfect treasure; and still others, that they loved her dearly; and there the matter ended, unless perhaps for the unconscious self-congratulations of those who had voiced such generous sentiments concerning a friend.
There was a man of our acquaintance who never seemed to forget any one. Engaged himself in an enterprise which absorbed his whole soul, he ever found time to bestow an encouraging smile on the disheartened, a word of hearty good-cheer on the wavering, a few moments’ conversation on the lonely. He never announced himself as on a missionary7visit. Many times he did not quote a single text of Scripture. But who misunderstands the language of brotherly love? One heard people saying, “If I could do as much good by a few words, I would certainly do it,” and, “How I wish I had such a sympathetic heart!”
Good resolutions and wishes these! No doubt the Lord lets our lot be thrown in with such people on purpose to stimulate them. But little credit shall we ever receive if we stop short there. For he it is who says that his people shall lend to all nations, and not borrow. They shall be the head, and not the tail. “Freely ye have received, freely give.” He will not have us spiritual beggars, and has accordingly made the most generous and painstaking provision that we may succor the disconsolate, sore-hearted world all around us.
“O how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!” Here is the secret of—
“The heart at leisure from itselfTo soothe and sympathize.”
Takoma Park, D. C.
May I Attend the Theater?
By A. C. Dixon, D. D.
The stage has a history which is not to its credit. “Dramatic representation,” says D. Herrick Johnson, “had its origin, among the Greeks, with a troop of bacchanalians in nude and boisterous songs, interspersed with dances, conducted with a high degree of licentiousness in both language and action. Then came Thespis introducing tragedy. The stage is said to have been a cart, the chorus a troop of itinerant singers, and the actor a sort of mimic. Subsequently Æschylus appeared, who carried the Greek drama at once to nearly its highest perfection. He was followed by Sophocles, who introduced a third and even a fourth actor into his plays. Then came decline under Euripides, exhibiting degenerate taste and loose morality. The transition to comedy was easy, originating in the licentious sports of the villages, and popular in production as it was personal, abusive, and low. The comedies of Aristophanes are an illustration at once of the depravity of the poet and the libertinism of the spectators. His wit was coarse and vile, a mixture of buffoonery and positive filth.
“Theatrical exhibitions became popular amusements among the Romans just as they lost their stern love of virtue, yielded to luxury, and grew weak and effeminate. The European stage is no exception. This grew out of the ‘mysteries’ of the Middle Ages, a sort of sacred drama performed by monks, in which the devil also played a conspicuous part. This was the foundation of the modern British and American stage, which has arisen only to degenerate, until now many of its exhibitions outrival in licentiousness and filth the darkest days of the drama, even on the confession of its friends.
“In China theatrical entertainments are popular. But neither there nor in Japan are women allowed to perform. It is a wise question whether women were ever present in the ancient theater. It is undeniable that the actors were invariably men, and few in number, and yet these theatrical entertainments contributed to the downfall of the Grecian state. They had their origin in a corrupt state of morals, and they tended to deterioration.” . . .
The best Greek and Roman writers, such as Xenophon, Plato, Socrates, and Tacitus, denounced the theater of their times as antagonistic to good morals. Athens suppressed the theater by law. In Rome “gross exhibitions, licentious buffoonery, and female indecencies became the common rule of the play.” “The Roman theater,” says Dr. Schaff, “became more and more the nursery of vice, and deserved to be abhorred by all men of decent feeling and refinement.” Mr. Lecky declares that the “Moral” and “Mystery plays of the Middle Ages brought about the degradation of the church and all religion.” Of England, Macaulay writes, “From the time that the theaters were opened, they became the seminaries of vice,” and Sir Walter Scott says of the theater in his day: “It was abandoned to the vicious. The best portions of the house were set apart for the abandoned characters.”
The playhouses of England were suppressed by Cromwell. But has the theater improved? Is not the institution very much better now than it was then? Efforts have been made to reform it. Edwin Booth declared that he would have a moral theater in New York, but he failed to establish it on a paying basis. Henry Irving made the attempt in London, and as signally failed. Hannah More wrote moral plays, but the theatrical managers did not want them, because they would not pay. All who know the facts are compelled to admit that the theater is still bad. One need not go to one, to learn this. He has only to look at the bill-boards. Its bill of fare is for the most part moral filth. To be found standing before the average theatrical poster is a reflection on one’s purity of mind.
Modesty must turn away its face for self-protection. Now and then a pure play is placed before the public with great parade, and the preachers are invited to come and see. Then look out for more filth the following week! The pure play has been used as a sort of opiate for the consciences of the guardians of public morals. They are not expected to denounce what appears in the same building where they sat and enjoyed a moral play. The theatrical manager knows how to manage the public so as to fill his coffers.
The fact that the theater as an institution is still bad, is proved by the testimony of those who are most familiar with its workings. “None of my children,” said Macready the actor, “shall ever with my consent or on any pretense enter a theater or have any visiting connections with actors or actresses.” Edwin Booth said, “I never permit my own wife and daughter to witness a play without previously ascertaining its character.” This is an admission that the theater as an institution is bad, though some plays may be good. Mr. Dumas, the play writer, wrote to a friend: “You do not take your daughter to see my play. You are right. Let me say once for all, you must not take your daughter to the theater. It is not mainly the work that is immoral; it is the place.” Mr. Sothern, in a newspaper article over his own name, says: “I have known some of our best performers who have found it necessary first to attend and see a play before they would allow their wives and daughters to go. Why was this necessary?—Why, because they knew there was very little cleanness in those places; and who better than they should know?” John Gilbert, the veteran actor, wrote in the North American Review: “I believe the present condition of the drama both from a moral and artistic point of view to be a subject for regret. Many of the plays that have been adopted from the French are open to the severest criticism on the ground of immorality.” An actor, in passing a theater, said to a friend of Dr. Cuyler, “Behind those doors lies Sodom.” Edwin Forrest, hearing Rev. D. Brantley denounce the theater as an immoral institution, lingered long enough to assure the preacher that he agreed with what he said, only he would make it stronger.
Mr. William Winter, a dramatic critic, asserts that Christian ethics on the stage would be inappropriate. Mr. A. M. Palmer, the Nestor of the theater managers, says, in a Review article: “The chief themes of the theater are now, as they ever have been, the passions of men: ambition leading to murder; jealousy leading to murder; anger leading to murder; lust leading to madness.”—A. C. Dixon, D. D., in Western Recorder.
For “Finicky” Appetites
My children had “finicky” appetites, and it seemed impossible to provide a meal that would be acceptable to all.
Some of the things they disliked they had never tasted, so one day I said: “To-morrow Robert may order the dinner. He may be the host, and the rest of us will be his guests. Of course, as his guests it would be unpardonable for us to tell him we did not like his food. We must at least taste of everything. The one who is the most perfectly bred guest may give a dinner soon after. Of course, if there is any one who is boorish, that one will be denied the privilege of entertaining us.”
Well, the result of our series of dinners was that Alice discovered that cream really tasted very nice, and Paul found that eggs were not the abomination he had thought them. Moreover, their father meekly accepted French dressing, although thitherto he had never tasted olive-oil.—Harper’s Bazar.
Envy Reveals Inferiority
“He who envies another admits his own inferiority.”
His Glorious Appearing
By Mary Valliant Nowlin
MARY VALLIANT NOWLIN
He is coming, my Saviour, Redeemer;
He is coming, my Master and King,
And all I have hoped for and longed for
His glorious appearing will bring.
He is coming, the Conq'ror of conq'rors;
He is coming forever to reign,
To bring in eternal salvation
Over all of his righteous domain.
He is coming, my soul, to thy longing;
He is coming, my heart, to thy beat;
And ever my spirit is yearning
For that moment of moments most sweet,
When my eyes shall look up, and behold him
In the day of eternal release,
The day of his glory immortal,
When the earth shall be filled with his peace.
He is coming — the King of all kingdoms,
The Lord of all lords — in his power.
The earth is now groaning in travail,
For deliverance waiting that hour.
Then, then shall the desert place blossom,
And its flowers will have never a thorn;
The rose and the myrtle shall flourish,
And the earth will break forth into song.
He is coming — the King in his beauty —
His majesty all shall behold —
Soon coming, whose glorious appearing
All seers and prophets have told.
And my soul like the hart is now panting
As he thirsts for the waters at noon —
But O, my Beloved is coming,
And I shall be satisfied soon!
Takoma Park, D. C.
Cuba
By E. W. SNYDER
E. W. SNYDER
The workers of our field were much encouraged the past winter by the visits of Elder U. Bender and Prof. F. Griggs in January and of Prof. E. A. Sutherland and Mrs. E. C. Gray in February, the latter being of the Madison (Tenn.) school. The counsel and assistance of these in planning for the establishment of our school work in Cuba will certainly result in benefit to the cause in this needy field.
In company with the first two mentioned, a visit was made to the San Claudio school, where Brother S. H. Carnahan and wife have been laboring the past year. The burden on them has been quite heavy, and the sacrifices great, owing to the fact that in order to be self-supporting, Sister Carnahan has had to resort to private teaching in Cabañas, a town seven miles from the school. It was quite evident that if the facilities of the school could be enlarged so as to enable them to take in Cuban students from the neighborhood, as well as a few boarding students, they would thus be enabled to derive a support with what might be raised from the school farm.
The disposition of the brethren to recommend that some help be given them to provide a school building in order to enlarge their work, as above indicated, was an encouragement to all.
TEAMING IN CUBA
For more than two years we had been corresponding with Professor Sutherland concerning his making a visit to Cuba in the interests of self-supporting school work. Something of the benefits of this work have been realized from the efforts of Brother Guy Holmes, located at Minas; of Brother C. D. Kinsman, near Nuevitas; and of Brother J. E. Anderson and wife, at Las Tunas, Oriente province.
On our trip to eastern Cuba, in company with Professor Sutherland and Mrs. Gray, these workers were visited, and plans were laid to make their work more efficient. At Minas quite an interest on the part of the Cubans to hear the message was found, and before leaving, three were baptized, and four received into church fellowship. This interest was awakened by Brother Holmes's periodical work. He now has the assistance of a Cuban brother, who is very zealous also in the missionary work for his people. At this place and in the immediate vicinity there are eight or ten Sabbath-keepers, but at the time Brother Holmes went there, no one but himself and family were keeping the Sabbath. What the Lord has done through Brother Holmes we believe that he would do in many other places in Cuba if consecrated workers were found to enter the openings.
At Las Tunas we found Brother and Sister Anderson of good courage in their work. Although they have been there but eight months, Sister Anderson has acquired a fair use of the Spanish, being able to teach in that tongue. She has ten pupils in her school, which, with her private teaching in English, keeps her quite busy.
The experiment at Las Tunas is of considerable interest to us, as its success would give assurance to others who may desire to enter some of the many Cuban towns and cities in a similar manner.
Of these cities there are fourteen of more than ten thousand population, and thirty of more than five thousand. In view of the following conditions it is evident that the time is ripe for quite a number of private schools to be established in Cuba. First, the public schools as a rule are inferior and inefficient in the work they undertake to do; second, American teachers are popular with the Cubans, and have a good reputation; third, owing to the increasing commercial relations with the United States, and the consequent increased demand for teachers of the English language, English teaching can be made a good source of revenue in self-supporting work.
However, it is evident that in order not to have the work overburden the teacher, as well as for other reasons, there should be more attention given to agriculture, as the latter will always be an important factor in self-supporting work in Cuba. In order to consider what mold should be given to this work, Professor Sutherland called a meeting, at the home of Brother Holmes, on February 15. There were nine present at this meeting; and after the discussion in which all participated, it seemed to be the consensus of opinion that a site near one of the principal cities should be chosen with the object of establishing a central training-school for workers who may come to this field from the north. It was thought that the school site should afford sufficient land for all agricultural purposes, while its proximity to the city would give ample territory to the workers for personal labor among the people, and thus a command of the colloquial Spanish would be obtained. As a good Spanish teacher will be connected with the school, a thorough grammatical knowledge of the language will also be given.
In addition to the language study, instruction will be given in methods of labor among the Cubans, which will include practical house-to-house work with periodicals and Bible work.
Agriculture will be made prominent, especially that relating to the cultivation of the native products. After passing a year in the central school, it is planned that a teacher will be prepared to go out and establish an individual school, to be conducted on the same plan as the central school.9
In view of the fact that at present there are those who are planning to come this way to take up this kind of work, it seemed advisable that Brother Sutherland and Mrs. Gray should come and look over the field, in order to become personally acquainted with its needs.
In conclusion, we are glad to say that the interest in Havana and its vicinity continues good. At our last quarterly meeting, held in January, four were baptized, and the tithes and offerings for the last quarter of 1909 indicated an increase of seventy per cent over those of the previous quarter.
Apartado.
Among the Tamils, South India
By J. S. JAMES
J. S. JAMES
We had some very encouraging developments here in November and December.
We had been expecting a division among the Sabbath-keeping sect ever since we began operations. Shortly after the dedication of our bungalow, about one hundred thirty men, women, and children separated themselves from the old church, and came to us. In doing this, they immediately left off all their old ceremonies, both Jewish and heathen, and began to conform to what we were desirous of teaching them. Of course, this meant that they would be denied every privilege they once enjoyed in connection with the old church, such as marriage ceremonies, funeral rites, and a ground to be buried in, school, etc. I began at once to make provision for these things. The next day after they joined us, their children were expelled from the school. The leaders thought to intimidate them: as we had no school, they would be compelled to bring their children back, and that would give an opportunity to discipline them for leaving their church.
THE SCHOOL AND SCHOOL HOUSE AMONG THE TAMILS
Seeing the seriousness of the situation, I immediately rented a small shop building, hired two teachers, and began a school. It has now grown to a membership of sixty-eight, being about equally divided among boys and girls. The pupils, who come from three different castes, mingle freely with one another. Some are the children of heathen in the surrounding villages, but most of them belong to the Tamils who have joined us.
MISS SHRYOCK, WITH WOMEN AND CHILDREN
When I speak of these people joining us, I do not mean that they were taken into the church as Seventh-day Adventists. They have a great deal to learn before they reach the standard of Western ideals. Doubtless many of them will never reach the standard we hold at home for church-membership. With them, learning the truth will not simply combine itself to a period of probationary instruction; it will require a long effort of patient, faithful teaching, combined all the way with much charity and consideration. It will not cover simply the theological part of their training, but must touch almost every detail of their lives, socially, commercially, morally, domestically. We must bring to them a Christian civilization, a thing already accomplished for those who teach the truth in Western lands.
Now that a separation has been made, and we have a definite company of people for whom to labor, we are beginning to teach them the truth in a more systematic way. I have organized a Bible class of some of the brightest young men who are desiring to be trained for some part in our work. Some of these have families, and will require some means of support while being trained. I expect to hold the class every evening for five nights in the week, and shall endeavor to follow a line of instruction that will serve to eradicate from their minds some false ideas, and at the same time ground them in present truth.
One great drawback is their lack of education. None of them has so much as a common-school education. Many can scarcely read or write. It is pitiful to see grown men and women waking up at this period in life and struggling to learn to read and write. They evidently know that they have been kept in darkness all their lives. But their great need is our opportunity, and we should make every effort to bring light and hope to these poor souls.
I never felt more drawn to a people in my life. When I came here two years ago, I put everything into the balances to gain a foothold for the message, counting my own life and the lives of my family of little worth. To-day we are beginning to see some of the results, and we feel confident that much more is to follow. In the meantime, we hope for strength and life to labor on. We have laid broader plans for the future than we have covered in the past.
Our eyes still look upon the fields and the unreaped harvest. The last thought in our minds is to become discouraged and turn back. We have cast ourselves into this sea of humanity to save whom we can. It can not be done with unsoiled hands and tidy garments. We must go where they are, and follow the example of the Master in reaching them. If we would save people from the flames, we must expect some burns and scars, and perhaps lose our own lives in the attempt.
Nazareth, Tinnevilli.
Experiences in Ecuador
By Wm. W. Wheeler
WM. W. WHEELER
Our home has been turned into a sort of hospital for persons from the United States who have come here as a last resort to be cured of tuberculosis. Besides these, we have been taking care of other sick ones. The first who came was a woman from California. She was with us seven weeks, confined to her bed all except the first four or five days. She never had made any profession of religion, but at the first was able to study, and before she died, seemed to rejoice in all she learned of the “everlasting gospel.” We believe she sleeps in Jesus. Her brother was with us, sick, for two or three weeks afterward. Another remained with us one week, and then started back to his home in Georgia. The next day another patient came. He is rallying some, but evidently his months are not many. Thus far I have been kept from attending the union conference in Argentina.
These and some others have come to Ecuador as the result of reading an article in a United States magazine to the effect that Quito is the “consumptive’s paradise,” a sure and certain, permanent cure within a year’s time, though there may be only a portion of one lung left. It seems a little strange that such a word should be sent out, for it rains much more in Quito than in this place [Ambato]. This we consider by far the better climate, but this is not nearly so beneficial as many dry parts of the United States. Many of the natives here die of10consumption. I am told that it is one of the most common diseases of the coast, and that of the many who have come to the interior with it, only two have been known to recover. The people are fearful of it. They will not have a person sick with tuberculosis in the house, if it is possible to get rid of him. Americans coming here with it are refused admittance to the hotels, or are turned out into the street in about two days, or as soon as their condition of health is learned. Just imagine yourself here, able to walk but a few steps, neither you nor your companion able to speak a word of the language, denied entrance to a hotel, and having to sit on the curbstone until some one is found who can speak in your tongue. This was the experience of the first patient who came to us. The man with us now was just about to be forcibly put out of the second hotel in which he had tried to stay, when word was brought to us. We could but say, “Bring him here”—just a little of the “Do as you would be done by.”
If those who think of coming here could realize before they start, some of the many inconveniences of this country, compared with the many conveniences of the home land, they would certainly not come here to regain lost health. As far as we ourselves are concerned, we are as happy and healthy here as we ever were anywhere. And then we have learned some valuable lessons here that we could not well have taken in the United States.
The language is coming little by little. I am happy to see that the more I get, the faster I can add to it on all sides. Bible reading is one of the fastest ways of fixing the language in the mind. I believe that in all the Spanish classes in our schools, the Bible should be made one of the class books almost from the first day.
We feel slight earthquake shocks every few weeks. From our garden we see the volcano Cotopaxi, often snow-covered, sending forth almost constantly a column of smoke. Another snow-capped volcano is seen on the other side. Two more snow-capped mountains are in sight from a hill behind the house. But it was not to view the beauties or the terrors of nature that we came. Who else will come and help warm the cold hearts with the fires of the love of Christ? I certainly hope that the Lord will have some one ready soon, who may be sent to assist us in this needy mission field.
Ambato.
Wanted, a Worker
God never goes to the lazy or the idle when he needs men for his service. When God wants a worker, he calls a worker. When he has work to be done, he goes to those who are already at work. When God wants a great servant, he calls a busy man. Scripture and history attest this truth.
Moses was busy with his flocks at Horeb.
Gideon was busy thrashing wheat by the wine-press.
Saul was busy searching for his father's lost beasts.
David was busy caring for his father's sheep.
Elisha was busy plowing with twelve yoke of oxen.
Nehemiah was busy bearing the king's wine-cup.
Amos was busy following the flock.
Peter and Andrew were busy casting a net into the sea.
James and John were busy mending their nets.
Matthew was busy collecting customs.
Saul was busy persecuting the friends of Jesus.
William Carey was busy mending and making shoes.—Selected.
The British Union Conference
By W. J. FITZGERALD
W. J. FITZGERALD
No general report has appeared in the REVIEW for the British Union Conference since the General Conference session held about nine months ago. The delegates all returned from the General Conference with renewed courage, and the news which they brought comforted and stirred with enthusiasm their fellow workers and our churches generally. Since that time we have all been seeking with renewed earnestness to press forward.
The year 1909 produced sufficient in the British field to encourage our hearts. Two hundred sixty-two new members were added to our churches. The gain in tithes over the year 1908 was $1,187, the total amount of tithe being $26,265. A good degree of liberality was shown toward missions, the total offerings amounting to $5,125, this being an increase of $1,568 over the previous year. About $2,000 was contributed toward the union conference building fund, while over $70,000 worth of literature was sold in the field. The health food factory enjoyed a prosperous year—by far the best in its history. The Caterham Sanitarium also experienced the most successful year since it was opened. It was possible to make important improvements there, the same being paid for out of the earnings of the institution. The sanitarium in Leicester enjoyed a greater degree of prosperity than ever before. A shortage of water at the Rostrevor (Ireland) Sanitarium rendered the work more difficult and less profitable.
We would make special mention of the training-college. Its work has been conducted again in the old mansion on the estate. A new house of about twelve rooms has served as a dormitory for the young men. The school year, which opened last September, found the facilities of the institution taxed to their limit. The work of the school has been moving encouragingly, and the close of each session finds a fair number of students prepared to enter the field, to remain. Thus our force is constantly being increased. Some who received training in the school went out to Africa and India last year.
All were encouraged at the opening of the present school year to see the new college in process of erection. At the present time, nearly three fourths of the labor has been done. A few more months will suffice to complete it, and the time of the dedication has already been appointed. That ceremony will take place in connection with the union conference session, which will convene July 28. Those who have seen the building are pleased with the exterior appearance. We think we shall be as well satisfied with the interior when all is finished. It will provide facilities for about one hundred students. The chapel will have a seating capacity of about two hundred twenty-five.
The faculty and students are looking forward to the next school year with much happy anticipation. The new building will doubtless prove a great boon to our educational department in Great Britain. We are expecting 1910 to be productive in all lines in the British field. For this we shall earnestly labor.
THE thorns which sin hath brought to curse and blight
The Master takes and makes a hedge therewith,
That when thou turn aside to left or right,
Their piercing may to thee a warning give.
The bleeding heart that wounded cries in pain,
The stricken soul that grieves to be forgiven,
Have not in sorrow called to God in vain;
Their grief an earnest is of hope from heaven.
O Saviour, pierced and bleeding on the tree!
Why shouldst thou, Man of sorrows, suffer so?
“Thy sin and curse are nailed to Calvary,—
All thine iniquity, thy grief, and woe.”
Then sorrow not as those in grim despair,
For grief hath lost for thee its deadly sting;
But mourn thy sin hath nailed thy Saviour there—
The Lamb of God, a sinless offering.
Nor crucify afresh the Son of God
By any conscious word or act of wrong:
Keep in the middle of the path he trod,
Singing forevermore redemption’s song.
Portland, Ore.
Thoughtlessness Excuses No Wrongdoing
“THOUGHTLESSNESS is never an excuse for wrong-doing. Our hasty actions disclose as does nothing else our habitual feelings.”
An Exalted People
“An Exalted People.” — Under this title, Elder Uriah Smith, so long editor of this paper, wrote in the REVIEW of Aug. 6, 1857:—
We have enough thus to elevate our minds. The storm of wrath before us, the events of the judgment, our great salvation, and final condition are described to us in strains as lofty and sublime as language can embody, or the mind of man conceive. Read the following: “I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: . . . the judgment was set, and the books were opened.” Dan. 7: 9, 10.
Can any one let his mind go forward to the scenes so awfully grand as this, and be occupied at the same time with small thoughts, and perplexed with trifles? And is there nothing calculated to eclipse all minor considerations in the thoughts of the great white throne, and One sitting thereon before whose face the heavens and the earth flee away; of that promiscuous and universal prayer which the great and proud and mighty of earth shall soon raise, to be hid from the presence of the wrathful Lamb; of the melting of the elements with fervent heat, and the springing therefrom of a new earth, the abode of righteousness; of the taking of the kingdom under the whole heaven by the saints; of their entering upon an eternal respite from all their toil and sorrow, and shining as the stars of the firmament of heaven forever and ever?
There are no themes more ennobling and elevating upon which the mind can dwell. . . . Look aloft! Our citizenship is in heaven. Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God. “Heirs of immortal crowns divine.” It is meet that for joy we should sing. The truest honor, the highest privileges that can attend this mortal state are conferred upon us.
“Why do they then appear so mean? And why so much despised? Because of their rich robes unseen The world is not apprised.”
