The religion of the Bible elevates the receiver, mentally, morally, and physically. It not only enjoins inward purity, but the uniform teachings of the Scriptures are, that its Author also requires physical purity. Indeed, it is difficult to conceive how inward purity can dwell with outward neglect, and untidiness. What communion has purity with impurity, more than light has with darkness?
As one who reverenced and feared the God of the Bible was to approach him with becoming tokens of gratitude for past favors when in great distress, among other precepts to his household and all that were with him, was this, “Be ye clean, and change your garments.” Gen. 35:2.
When the hosts of Israel were gathered around the base of Mount Sinai, from whose quaking, burning height, God was to proclaim his immutable law, “the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to-day and to-morrow, and let them wash their clothes.”
Following this chosen people in their journeying through the wilderness, beholding them in their tabernacle and temple services, we observe order and physical purity in all their devotional exercises. And we cannot think the Unchangeable One regards with less delight and approbation, outward acts of respect and honor for him and the place of his worship, under this, than under the former, dispensation. It seems that the mind of every Christian health reformer will concur with this view, and that he will act with reference to the honor of God, and to the promotion of health and longevity.
“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.” 1 Cor. 3:16, 17.
A very close and sacred relation exists between God and his people, through the meritorious sufferings, and the purifying blood of his dear Son. How can those who defile themselves with the foul practice of tobacco-using think that they can enjoy this near connection with the God of purity? This practice is ruinous in point of means, ruinous with respect to health, and both filthy and disgusting. Tobacco smoke and tobacco spittle defile everything with which they come in contact.
We marvel not that a lady, on hearing that a man had invented a stove which consumed its own smoke, expressed a wish that he might devise some method whereby tobacco smokers can be run on the same economical principle. Then, if ministers could not talk of “smoking to the glory of God,” they, and their people, and all others who will consume the poisonous weed, certainly could enjoy (?) the fumes of the pipe and cigar all to themselves, to which from all the ranks of health reformers a voice would be heard saying, “Amen!”
But on this subject the light is shining. Hygienic principles are gaining ground; and those who adopt and vindicate them are increasing in numbers, and glorious victories are being achieved. Let reformers gird themselves with courage and strength. And let the church of God awake and put on her garments of beauty and purity and be of the number of whom it may be said in truth, “I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean; from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.”
Says the apostle, “Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.” 2 Cor. 7:1.
To be cleanly in person, in apparel, and in surroundings, is harmonious with the teachings of the Holy Bible. A neglect here, invites disease and death. Months since, typhoid fever came into a family bringing protracted sickness to several of its members, and finally death. Near to this country dwelling, which should have breathed the pure atmosphere of heaven every day and every hour, stood a pig-sty, nearer still was a most filthy, and terribly neglected outbuilding; and closer still, on the opposite side of the dwelling, was an offensive cess-pool. From all of these avenues of infection the effluvia of death poured in upon the inmates constantly.
In respect to the position of, and attention given to, out-buildings there is often a serious neglect. Their location is such that it is impossible for the inmates of the dwelling to escape the exhalations therefrom, by day or by night. With reference to these things important instruction may be gained by reference to Deut. 23:13, 14.
If God formerly would “turn away” from walking in the midst of his people on beholding in their camps “unclean things,” may he not turn away from them now for similar neglects? Let us rather solicit his presence, his divine favor, and approbation. To him who is “altogether lovely,” let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.” A. S. HUTCHINS.
The Cup of Devils.
By D. T. Taylor
DRINKING POISON.
Pure alcohol is a poison. All toxicologists, chemists, and physicians, rank it as such. Now, from one-twentieth to one-twelfth of each and every glass of malt liquor, from one-tenth to one-fifth of every glass of wine, and full one-half of every glass of whisky, brandy, rum, and gin, are pure alcohol, provided these are unadulterated. Hence, all alcoholic beverages are poisonous. In all such drinks alcohol is the main element of intoxication, and nothing but a poison will produce intoxication. You cannot get intoxicated on water, or milk, or any other non-poisonous substance. On the other hand, nearly all poisons will cause in animals and men some or all the features of drunkenness. He, then, who uses alcoholic beverages deliberately drinks poison. He who is thus intoxicated is poisoned just in the degree of his intoxication. The moderate drinker is moderately poisoned, and the drunkard is violently poisoned.
To poison one's self is suicide. And so we prove the moderate drinker and the drunkard to be self-murderers, suicides. He who furnishes this poison for a sum of money becomes an accomplice with the suicide. Meanwhile he also aids him to the commission of vice and crime. Back of this lies bad law that allows the double guilt, and the government, State, or individual that by authority of corrupt law grants men license to traffic in such poisons becomes one in depth of guiltiness with the criminal-maker and his victim, the self-destroyer. If it be right to make and sell poisonous drinks, no license should be required; all may traffic in them freely. If wrong, no license should be granted, none should be permitted to deal in them. To make, to sell, to drink poisonous beverages, is to hug vice, crime, and murder. To license is to foster all these, and miseries unnumbered. Rum-selling is the peerless crime of the age, and every rum-hole is a nuisance, a devil's-trap, a murder-house.
“Toxicologists,” writes Col. J. G. Dudley, “divide poisons into three classes—irritants, narcotics, and narcotico-irritants. Alcohol belongs to the latter class. The first effect of alcohol is to excite, irritate, goad, or stimulate; the second to stupefy, narcotize, paralyze; the third effect is death, or perhaps a long train of half a hundred diseases.” Dr. James Edmunds, a distinguished physician of England, in a recent address at New York, said, “If a man takes a pint of brandy what do we see? It intoxicates, it poisons him. Intoxicant is a modification of the Latin intoxicum (poison). A man who is intoxicated is poisoned. Alcohol is a poison; we can kill a man by a single dose.” And he tells us that the effect of the poison may be acute or chronic, violent or slow, but whether in large or small doses alcohol is ever a poison. A few physicians regard this deadly fluid as possessing a force-giving, and food quality. Of this class is the late Professor Anstie of England, Dr. Edward Curtis, and Dr. W. A. Hammond, eminent in our country. But even the first-named held that all stimulants were poisons. The second writes, “In large quantities the excess of alcohol acts as a poison,” there being what he terms “a poison-line,” beyond which the drinker is carried to death, while the last-named declares that “pure alcohol is a violent poison,” and in a lately published address names twenty-five different and frightful diseases of the brain and nervous system that alcohol will cause.
But by far the majority of scientists pronounce alcohol a poison, and only a poison; hence to be used with rare caution as a medicine, but never as a common, daily beverage. Inspiration asserts it. Centuries ago, God said through inspired lips that the intoxicating cup contained a mocking, raging quality and bit as the serpent and adder bite, i. e., with deadly venom. Years since, the eminent English physician, Sir Astley Cooper, wrote, “Spirits and poisons are synonymous terms; I never suffer ardent spirits in my house, thinking them evil spirits.” Full thirty years ago Prof. A. Thompson said, “Ardent spirits can be justly regarded in no other point of view than either as a medicine or a poison.” As a medicine, he held it should seldom be prescribed, as it caused “cancer of the stomach, induration of the liver, epilepsy, tremens, chorea, mania, and death.” In 1857, Isaac V. Mullen, M. D., in a very able treatise asserted that “alcohol is fatal to animal life when swallowed in concentrated form, and is never ventured upon as a medicine in a pure state, from half an ounce to an ounce of the liquid causing death almost as instantaneously as carbonic acid.” In the same strain wrote Dr. Gillman in the (Boston) Surgical Journal, 1855, “Alcohol is a poison inimical to the human constitution.” Also, Dr. Murray, who affirmed, “Alcohol is a poison to our organization. It is never digested and converted into food.” To these we add the testimony of Sir Henry Thompson, at the head of his profession in England; Dr. H. O. Hitchcock, President of the Michigan State Board of Health; Dr. H. M. Romberg, of Berlin; Dr. J. H. Bennett, of Edinburgh; Dr. J. R. Nichols, editor of the Boston Journal of Chemistry; the editors of the Scientific American, Appleton's Encyclopædia, and a host of others. “It is a powerful and dangerous stimulant,” says Professor Sillman; “a brain poison,” writes Professor Youmans; “a dangerous poison,” says the chemist, Dr. Carpenter; “a corrosive poison,” testifies Dr. J. C. Peters; “a narcotico-acrid poison,” responds Dr. Alexander Peddie, of Edinburgh; “an irritant narcotic poison,” asserts Dr. D. G. Dodge, of Rouses Point, N. Y., who had the care of eight hundred drunkards in our State Asylum; “a poison,” echoes Dr. Joseph Parrish, who had charge of four hundred drunkards in Pennsylvania; “an universal poison,” wrote Dr. Kavanagh; “it is poisoning the blood of the generation,” exclaims Dr. J. G. Holland. Poison! poison! is everywhere the cry from the standpoint of the skilled physician who knows. “Alcohol,” wrote Dr. Monroe, of England, “is a powerful narcotic poison, and if a large dose be taken, no antidote is known!” And Dr. Elmer, of New York, repeats: “An irritant, narcotic poison, and when taken into the stomach in large doses, no antidote is known!” We may well read such warning words with alarm.
Dr. Forbes Winslow, a cultured physician to the English nobility, says: “Alcohol is not a necessary of life; it should be dealt with by the legislature as a poison. Every means should be had recourse to, to limit or restrict the sale of a poison, as you interfere with the indiscriminate sale of opium, prussic acid, or arsenic.” Boldly did this able medical gentleman stand up before the select committee on drunkenness, in the House of Commons, 1872, and exclaim, “I look upon alcohol as a poison.”
Physicians of every school in Clinton County, are these things so? And if alcoholic drinks are poisonous, are you telling the people of their destructive nature and using your powerful influence in behalf of abstinence and reform? Can you plead for “license” when you know the truth of what I herein affirm and conclusively prove? Of all men in the land you should be on the side of “prohibition” and God, and the rum-ridden people call on you to speak for the right. You are educated into a full knowledge of the “infernal stuff.” You are the people's medical advisers, and on you, gentlemen, rests a heavy responsibility in this war. Every true physician should, on principle, be an earnest temperance worker. The want of the age is MEN.—D. T. TAYLOR, in Plattsburgh Sentinel. Feb. 26, 1875.
Tea: A Satirical Note From the Tribune
Tea.
THE N. Y. Tribune says:—
Tea is a plant designed by the Creator specially for female senility. It is a great warmer of the stomach, a first-rate loosener of the tongue, and has done more for the diffusion of parole intelligence than any other plant that sprouts.
God's Open Heart Toward Those Rejected
When men close their hearts against you, God opens his to receive you.
Appointments: Quarterly Meetings and Church Services
Appointments.
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
** Services in Chicago, every Sabbath (seventh day), at 269 West Erie St. All Sabbath-keepers spending a Sabbath in Chicago are invited to attend.
Quarterly meeting of the T. and M. Society of Dist. No. 1, Mich., in connection with the quarterly meeting of the churches of Hillsdale and Ransom, at Hillsdale, April 10, 11, 1875. Come to the meeting, brethren, if possible; if not, please send in your reports in season. Will Bro. E. H. Root meet with us? S. D. Salisbury, Director.
Quarterly meeting of church in Chicago, April 10, 11; meetings to commence Thursday evening, the 8th. At Racine, April 13, evening. Meetings to continue over Sabbath and first-day. At Raymond, April 24, 25. O. A. Olsen.
General quarterly meeting of the Iowa and Nebraska T. & M. Society, at Marion, Iowa, April 10 and 11, 1875. Let each director see that his district is properly represented in this meeting. Meeting to commence Friday evening. H. Nicola, Pres.
No providence preventing, I will hold meetings with churches as follows:—
Curtis' Corners, R. I., Apr. 3, 4, 1875.
Green Hill, “ “ 10, 11, “
Lafayette, “ “ 17, 18, “
The above meetings will commence on Friday evening. We hope to meet all the friends of truth in each vicinity. Let all make an effort to be there through the meeting. P. C. Rodman.
There will be meetings of the Indiana T. & M. Society as follows:—
Mechanicsburgh, Henry Co., April 3, 4.
Bunkerhill, Miami Co., “ 10, 11.
North Liberty, St. Joseph Co., “ 17, 18.
We hope to see all the members at these meetings in their several districts, that a full report may be given at North Liberty. Dear brethren and sisters, let us do the Lord’s work promptly. James Harvey, Pres.
Second quarterly meeting of the La Bette Co., Kansas, church, and also the T. & M. Society of Dist. No. 10, April 10 and 11, 1875, at the Stover school-house. Bro. J. H. Rogers is expected. The brethren and friends at or near Sherman City are especially invited. Andrew J. Stover, Director.
Quarterly meeting of the Iowa and Nebraska T. & M. Society, Dist. No. 2, in connection with the general quarterly meeting of the Iowa and Nebraska T. & M. Society at Marion, Iowa, April 11, 1875. Send your reports to D. D. Stevens, Marion, Iowa. J. T. Mitchell, Director.
Hook’s Point, Hamilton Co., Iowa, April 10 and 11. Also near Fonda, Pocahontas Co., Iowa, April 15-18, 1875, at 7 P.M. R. M. Kilgore.
General meeting of S. D. Adventists at La Fayette, R. I., April 17, 18, 1875. Hope all will attend. Clark L. Sweet.
Quarterly meeting of the S. D. A. church near Martinsville, first Sabbath and Sunday in April. Preaching may be expected; also preaching at the school-house in Greenup the last Sabbath and Sunday in March. G. H. Bliss.
Quarterly meeting of Dist. No. 3, Iowa and Nebraska T. & M. Society, at Pilot-Grove, Washington Co., Iowa, April 3, 4. Hope all those concerned will be present with their reports. Will Bro. Nicola meet with us? Meeting to commence with the Sabbath. J. W. Adams, Director.
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S. D. A. Educational Society.
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Book Fund.
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Michigan T. & M. Society.
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Cash Received on Account.
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Swiss Mission.
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Mo. & Kan. Sufferers.
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Camp-Meetings Appointments and Planning for 1875
By James White
Camp-Meetings.
We have purposed to visit all parts of the American field possible during 1875. We hope to attend all the camp-meetings, closing up the season at the California encampment, and the North Pacific Mission.
And it is time to arrange appointments, as to time and place, and to have the attention of our people called to proper help. We are making a mistake in securing one set of men, year after year, to go the rounds of all our camp-meetings, and especially in having these men do all the preaching at the camp-meetings, and thus, shutting off other good gifts. Our younger ministers must be pressed forward to do a part of the preaching. And, probably, as the number of our camp-meetings increases, we shall have to have two at the same time in adjoining States. In that case we could spend two days at each meeting, and get around by the first of October to the California camp-meeting.
Iowa should hold her meeting as early as possible. Missouri and Kansas must follow. Minnesota in July. And the meetings in Michigan, one week each, should come in the last of July or very first of August, and others in New York and New England follow, one or more each week.
We shall expect to hear from Conference Committees and ministers on this subject in season. JAMES WHITE.
HOW SHALL THE PAPER BE SUSTAINED?
By James White
Five thousand copies, at $2.00 for a volume of fifty numbers, will meet all the expenses of publishing. And this estimate is considerably lower than the price of any other paper of the kind published on the Pacific Coast. This would make the Signs to our Missionary Societies at $4.00 per hundred copies.
We design that the paper shall contain reading matter better in point of variety and interesting news of the progress of the cause than what our tracts contain. The Signs is just what our friends should circulate everywhere in connection with their efforts to obtain subscribers. Quantities can be sent to any bona fide subscriber, post-paid, at the new, low rates of postage. We will therefore send the Signs by mail, post-paid, for $4.00 per hundred copies. Nos. 17, 18, 19, are excellent.
No pains will be spared to make the Signs just such a paper as our friends will take pleasure in circulating everywhere. We shall very soon increase the edition to 5,000 copies. We shall encourage its circulation from the Pacific to the Atlantic, and everywhere that the English language is read. We return to our first plan, and now call on our Eastern friends for donations, from one dollar to one hundred, to aid in publishing the Signs, and to purchase presses, types, &c., complete, to furnish the new office building. Some of our Conferences pledged liberally last summer for this object; and by reason of bad management, confusion has been created. We now call on all to help us with free-will offerings. We press none, but invite all to act of their free-will in the fear of God. Brethren in the ministry in all the Eastern States are requested to act as agents for the Signs. They will please send subscribers and money. Let all who read our paper with pleasure and profit judge of their duty to help sustain it. They can pay the subscription price, or donate more largely.
We appeal to personal friends to assist us just now. We have undertaken a great enterprise, and ask co-operation. We are now publishing on our own individual responsibility. And the California publishing house will be built this spring. The receipts from week to week are too small to save us from walking much of the way by faith.
It is true that sufficient has been subscribed in California to purchase the site and to put up the building. But it is a fact that many who liberally pledged means are in debt, and are paying high rates of interest. These willing friends must not be pressed. In time they will all come up nobly to the work. We shall go right forward publishing and building. And we shall expect co-operation of personal Eastern friends, and shall be happy to reciprocate their liberalities by attending their annual encampments, and in rendering all other assistance in our power. J. W.
To the Friends of the Cause.
By Trustees
THE receipts of the Publishing Association have been so light from several important sources for a time past and demands upon its treasury so heavy, that we find ourselves short of ready means to meet present obligations. We ask our friends to make a special effort to relieve the present embarrassment as follows:—
1. Will the Tract Societies make an effort to forward at once to the Office what is due from them.
2. Will those who are owing the Association for books square up their accounts, so far as they can.
3. Will all our subscribers look to their subscriptions on our periodicals, and pay up.
4. The time is past to which all pledges on the school extended, and they have all become due. But a large proportion of them are still unpaid on which the Association has advanced considerable money. Will those who have pledges unpaid make a special effort to meet them at this time.
The aggregate due from the sources named is amply sufficient to meet all present wants, and if the friends will act in this matter at once, as above indicated, they will have the satisfaction of not only discharging a just obligation resting upon them, but of doing the Association a special favor. TRUSTEES.
Price of the Coming Reign of Terror Pamphlet
Some are inquiring the price of the pamphlet on the “Coming Reign of Terror” from which we published articles in Nos. 6 and 7 present volume of the REVIEW. The author, W. N. Pile, Springfield, Mass., by whom they are for sale, informs us that he sells them at the following rates: Single copy, post paid, 7 cts., 5 copies, do., 30 c. 10, copies, do., 50 c. 100 copies, by express, $3.50.
The path of the late tornado in Georgia, was from 200 to 600 yards wide. The damage done by this besom of destruction to both life and property is simply appalling. Oaks that had withstood the storms of a century were snapped in twain, and carried by the force of the hurricane three-quarters of a mile. Substantially built dwellings went down before the blast as a toy house before the breath of a child. It is impossible to describe the wreck.
Third Class Mail Matter.
THE following to postmasters will be instructive also to the general public:
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 6, 1875.
TO THE POSTMASTER AT ______,
Sir: You are hereby instructed that under the provisions of the act approved March 3, 1875, entitled, “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876, and for other purposes,” the postage to be hereafter charged on all mailable matter of the third class referred to in section 133 of the act entitled, “An act to revise, consolidate, and amend the statutes relating to the Post Office Department,” approved June 8, 1872, shall be at the rate of one cent for each ounce or fraction thereof, instead of one cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof, as heretofore provided by law.
(Signed) J. W. MARSHALL.
The 133 section reads as follows:—
That mailable matter of the third class shall embrace all pamphlets, occasional publications, transient newspapers, magazines, hand-bills, posters, unsealed circulars, proof-sheets, corrected proof-sheets, maps, prints, engravings, blanks, flexible patterns, samples of merchandise not exceeding twelve ounces in weight, sample-cards, photographic paper, letter envelopes and wrappers, cards, plain and ornamental paper, photographic representatives of different kinds of types, seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots, scions, and other matter which may be declared mailable by law, and all other articles not above the weight prescribed by law, which are not, from their form and nature, liable to destroy, deface, or otherwise injure, the contents of the mail bag or the person of any one engaged in the postal service. All liquids, poisons, glass, explosive materials, and obscene books shall be excluded from the mails.
Request for Tent-Meeting Invitations in Wisconsin
By D. Downer
Request.
ANY persons living in towns or thickly settled farming counties in Wis. who would like to have a tent-meeting held in their neighborhood the coming season, will please correspond with me at Galesville, Trempealeau Co., Wis. Let me know the population of your town, how many different churches there are, the number of meeting-houses near, the nationality of the people, and if our faith has ever been preached there, and if so, by whom, address, D. DOWNER.
S. THURSTON
By S. Thurston
THE boy noticed in REVIEW of Jan. 1, has found a home. I take this way to answer all those that have written to me concerning him.
S. THURSTON
Francis Kernan and the Catholic Senate Seat
The election of Francis Kernan as United States Senator from New York, is probably the first instance of the elevation of a Roman Catholic to that body. The fact has no special ecclesiastical significance, for Mr. Kernan is not so much of a churchman as a politician, and it is as a Democrat, not as a Romanist, that he has been raised to this position. Still, his presence there will fan the enthusiasm and excite the political aspirations of the Roman Catholic masses. The Christian people of the United States might well take a hint from a paragraph in the Boston Pilot of a few weeks since:— “Just wait a few years longer, till we send half a dozen priests to the House, and a couple of Catholic Bishops to the Senate—and see then what is thought of ‘clergymen’ in Congress. Perhaps we’ll pick out Jesuit priests, too!”
One Hundred Dollars Each.
WE here give the names of those east of the plains who have paid one hundred dollars each, to purchase a power press, engine, and printing material for the Pacific Coast. Others will be added as fast as paid.
James White . . . . $100 Thos. Bickle . . . . 100
Hiram Hunter . . . . 100 A. A. Bradford . . . . 100
M. Wood . . . . 100 M. J. Bartholf & wife 100
S. A. McPherson . . . 100 James Harvey . . . . 100
D. R. Palmer . . . . 100 J. H. Bennett . . . . 100
C. W. Comings . . . . 100 Ellen G. White . . . . 100
N. G. Raymond . . . . 100 Betsey Landon . . . . 100
R. M. Pierce . . . . 100 P. W. Baker . . . . 100
B. M. Berry . . . . 100 P. S. Marshall . . . . 100
E. H. Root . . . . 100 Wm. Harper . . . . 100
L. McCoy . . . . 100 Amy Dart . . . . 100
Jacob Shively . . . . 100 Isaac Zirkle . . . . 100
J P Henderson . . . . 100 A W Maynard . . . . 100
T S Harris . . . . 100 Sidney Hart . . . . 100
James Raddabaugh 100 Dexter Daniels . . . . 100
Geo Leighton & wife 100 Daniel H Gould . . . . 100
Albert Belden . . . . 100 Mary A. Hare . . . . 100