THE island of Tahiti is not a country of rolling plains and extensive wheat fields and vineyards, but for the most part consists in rugged mountains, deep gorges, rushing streams, thickly wooded hillsides, and fertile valleys, that everywhere have the appearance of a well-watered garden. The Creator has granted to this beautiful island a rich soil, with plenty of rain and sunshine, which everywhere make the face of nature wear a crown of green, and give to this part of the old world a little of the Eden beauty. There is along the sea a fine level tract, which furnishes homes for most of the population and makes a very useful roadway around the greater part of the island.
Back from Papeete about eight miles there rises a cluster of lofty peaks, which, from their appearance, have acquired the name of the Diadem. As this is a place of historic note as well as of natural beauty, we determined to visit the region and see for ourselves some of the handiwork of the Creator, and also become better acquainted with the island and people in whom we are so deeply interested. Accordingly, the morning of July 10 found Elder Read and myself, with our wives, and four native children, en route for the interior of Tahiti. After going about two miles in a wagon, we came to the end of the wagon road, where we unhitched our puaa-horo-fenua, as they call a horse in this country. Two native women were sitting by the side of the road, with whom we conversed. One of these women had lost most of her fingers with leprosy and was gradually dropping to pieces with that dread disease. There are a great many of these miserable sufferers scattered all over the islands, and as no effort is made to prevent its spread, the disease is ever gaining its victims.
After packing our provisions and luggage on the horse, we all started on foot up the trail toward the mountain tops. The day was cool for Tahiti. As the sun was away north of the equator, ripening the wheat and watermelons of America, we enjoyed comparative comfort in our July outing. Our route lay up one of the beautiful cañons by the side of a sparkling stream. There were no birds chirping among the trees, as Tahiti has but few of the feathered beauties. As we made our way up the mountain trail, there was an ever changing panorama of tropical beauty unfolding before our wondering gaze. The dense thickets of the purau (hibiscus tiliaceus) in some places formed an almost impenetrable jungle by our side, while climbing over the tops of the trees were squash vines and the climbing barbadine, with their large fruit suspended below, while the leaves pressed upward in the struggle to keep on top. In some places the mountain fei, or upright banana, appeared in their beauty with their load of healthful fruit. Oranges especially do their best in the mountains, and in many places they hang in beauty and plenty upon the trees, or lie rotting on the ground.
After fording the stream in two places, and pressing on until we were hungry, we halted for breakfast. A fire was soon blazing and a bunch of fei picked and roasting upon the coals, while we all dried ourselves and made ready for the repast. After resting awhile and persuading the ladies to both ride the horse, we continued our journey, and, after a lively climb, we came to the top of a ridge, where a749scene met our view that was picturesque in the extreme.
At our feet lay a beautiful little valley, several hundred feet below, which was almost entirely surrounded by a wall of abrupt and lofty rock. Directly in front of us was a beautiful waterfall. From a lofty cliff on the opposite side of the valley the stream went whirling down till little was left but spray. Though not so terribly grand, nor accompanied with so deafening a roar, as some of the larger falls of Yosemite, yet there is a natural beauty in the surroundings of this cataract that far excels in loveliness the beautiful valley of the Sierra Nevadas.
As our trail lay around the side of a lofty mountain in full view of the fall and the majestic peaks beyond, we were filled with rapture and wonder by the beauty of the scene. On the brow of the mountain near where the dashing torrent bids adieu to the rocks above, is an old fort, to which we made our way. Though deserted and overgrown with weeds and rosebushes, the silent fortifications had a peculiar charm to us, and, as we walked about those deserted bulwarks, we thought of the days gone by, when the natives struggled to maintain their independence on that spot, and of the results of the downfall of that stronghold, and the subsequent history of the native people.
All around us nature lavishes in a profusion of thrifty foliage and beauty. Roses bloom in abundance, only to be admired by the passing visitor. Bananas grow to maturity and fall to the ground to enrich their own roots. The natives prefer to live in the lower valleys and only visit the mountains in quest of fruit. As the hours of day were fast passing, we filled a grain sack with fine sweet oranges, loaded them on our horse, and started home, with thankful hearts and cheerful faces, and a better knowledge of the isle on which we live. In due time we reached our home, at Hamuta. ELLIOTT C. CHAPMAN.
THE RED SEA PASSAGE.
By C. C. Foote
BY REV. C. C. FOOTE.
On they rushed, 'mid hope and fear,
For an army's tread was near,
While the monarch's voice of cheer
Rang through parted flood.
Lords of Egypt, there's the slave;
Heed ye not the mountain wave;
Who's a God the wretch to save,
When I ask for blood.
Deeper grew the gloom of night;
Fearful grew the water's height;
But the gleamy pillar bright
Marked out Edom's coast;
Swiftly sped the exiled band,
Till the last had reached the strand.
Stretched the prophet then his hand
Toward the royal host.
Now for strength, and now for speed,
Now, King Pharaoh, is thy need;
Warrior, urge for once thy steed;
Israel hath not bowed.
Hark! The floods are coming! Fly!
Ah, see there; that awful eye
Looking at us! God! we die!
God is in the cloud.
From their axle dropp'd the wheels;
Steed beneath his rider reels;
Dark and wild the thunder peals
Through that ocean bed.
Backward rolled the mighty waves,
Gurgling to their ancient caves;
There they roar above the graves
Where sleep Egypt's dead.
—Christian Cynosure.
FIELD NOTES.
By Editor
THE church at Grandville, Mich., are erecting a new house of worship, which they expect soon to dedicate.
OUR periodicals of date 1893 will be used in missionary work if sent postpaid to Mrs. C. M. Davis, E. 325 Indiana Avenue, Spokane, Wash.
ABOUT 150 campers composed the recent local camp meeting at Cedar Falls, Iowa. Good local results are expected, as it is said "the outside interest was remarkable." Eleven were baptized.
THE Review states that Battle Creek College opened September 13 with an attendance of 350. Additional daily arrivals were numerous, and the prospect good for a full school the coming year.
BROTHER R. J. WHITE recently preached to the prisoners at Waupun, Wis., having an audience, including visitors, of about 600. He reports good attention and a profitable social meeting after the discourse.
OF the tent meetings held at Osage, Iowa, Brethren F. A. Washburn and B. E. Nicola report to the Bulletin that "seven have decided to keep all the commandments of God, and there seems to be a good prospect for more."
WE learn from the Enterprise that at College View, Neb., on the 9th ult., nineteen candidates were baptized. The same paper stated that Brother A. R. Henry had arrived there, and would immediately start work on the new church building.
A LETTER to this office from Brother C. N. Martin, who is laboring in Miles City, Custer County, Mont., says: "Interest in the tent meetings holds good; fifteen adults have decided to keep the Sabbath, and I hope soon to send an order for a club of SIGNS."
THE librarian of the tract society at Seattle, Wash., writes to the brethren and sisters in this wise: "Please do not let the papers go to waste. Such as you do not use yourselves just send to No. 11 Thomas Street, Seattle, to be used in ship missionary work and otherwise."
ELDER D. C. BABCOCK, president of West Virginia Conference, writes: "The work is very encouraging throughout the Conference. We cannot meet one call in ten to hold meetings." Brother Babcock's present address is Newark, Wirt County, W. Va., where our preparatory school is located.
THE recent camp meeting in the suburbs of Nashville, Tenn., was composed of about 130 campers. Elders J. N. Loughborough and R. M. Kilgore, of the General Conference Committee, were present, as also Elder A. O. Tait, of the Religious Liberty Association. Sixteen persons were baptized, and three others were accepted to be baptized on returning to their homes.
ELDER J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH has been re-elected President of Illinois Conference; Vice President, E. A. Merrell; Secretary and Treasurer, M. H. Loughborough. As we look over the list of laborers in Illinois we see quite a number that were once familiar on the Pacific Coast. The changes from place to place indicate a readiness to be sent anywhere.
PROFESSOR E. A. SUTHERLAND, of Walla Walla College, writes under date of September 14: "Our school opened the 6th inst. with eighty-eight students the first day, and an increasing attendance, until now we have about 100. The prospects are good for a large attendance, as many of the young men are out in the harvest fields. The Lord has been good to us in sending so many students when times are so hard. An old institution which has been running twenty years opened with less than sixty, and yet they were elated, as they consider it a finer prospect than they have ever had before. Surely we ought to take courage and rejoice."
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International S. S. Lessons.
"So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading." —Neh. 8:8
LESSON III.—SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1893.
JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH.
[NOTE.—The questions which follow are merely suggestive for the student on the leading points of the lesson; it is presumed that the thorough student will think of many more as he studies the subject. References, where verses alone are given, always refer to the lesson scripture printed above. All other references are given in book, chapter, and verse. The text printed is that of the Revised Version, not because it is especially preferred, but because it is not found in every family, as is the common version.]
Being therefore justified by faith, let us have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
Through whom also we have had our access by faith into this grace wherein we stand; and let us rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
And not only so, but let us also rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
And patience, probation; and probation, hope:
And hope putteth not to shame; because the love of God hath been shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Ghost which was given unto us.
For while we were yet weak, in due season Christ died for the ungodly.
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; for peradventure for the good man someone would even dare to die.
But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from the wrath of God through him.
For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life;
And not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
Golden Text: "While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Rom. 5:8.
SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.
By what are we justified? Verse 1.
What comes to us in consequence? Note 1.
Into what do we have access? Verse 2. Through whom?
In what hope may we rejoice?
In what may we rejoice or glory besides? Verse 3.
What does tribulation produce?
What is wrought by patience?
What results from probation or experience? Verse 4.
To what does hope not put us? Why? Verse 5.
Through what does the love of God come?
How may his Spirit be obtained? Note 2.
Who died for us? Verse 6.
In what condition were we when Christ died? Verse 6.
For what kind of men might some dare to die? Verse 7.
For what kind of men did Christ die? Verse 8.
In so doing what does he commend to us?
From what may we be saved through Christ? Verse 9.
What did he do for us while we were enemies? Verse 10.
Being reconciled, what will the life of Christ do for us?
How should we feel in view of God's great love? Verse 11.
How long do we have to wait for the reconciliation?
NOTES.
1. Peace.—Note that peace is a condition instead of an emotion or a feeling. By nature man's heart is at enmity with God (Rom. 8:7), but God is not at enmity with man. He loves man, and gave his Son to die for man while man was at enmity with him (Rom. 5:8), and the death of Christ reconciled us to God (verse 10). Christ is therefore "our peace" (Eph. 2:14), and therefore all who accept of Christ by faith—not feeling—have peace. Just as soon as we lay down the arms of our rebellion, yield our will, and take God's will, which is manifest in Christ, there is no more enmity, all is peace. In that peace we may indeed rejoice. Feeling may wax and wane, but as long as we are submitted to God, there is peace.
2. The Love of God.—It is the duty of everyone to love God with all his soul, mind, and strength (Matt. 22:37); but of himself man has no power to love but self (Rom. 8:7; 2 Tim. 3:2). God, who is rich in mercy, never enjoins duty without giving power to do the duty, and so, that man might love, God gives his Spirit of love to everyone who asks, seeks, and knocks (Luke 11:9, 10); and God is more willing to give this Spirit to those who thus desire it than is an earthly parent to minister to his child needed blessings (verses 11-13). If we are "reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life," his Spirit, the Spirit of love. Rom. 5:10, 5.
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;
And he is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
And hereby know we that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;
But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily hath the love of God been perfected. Hereby know we that we are in him;
He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked.
Beloved, no new commandment write I unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which ye heard.
Again, a new commandment write I unto you, which thing is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shineth.
How are the readers of the epistle addressed?
For what purpose are these things written?
What provision has been made for one who falls into sin?
What is the name and character of the advocate?
What relation does he sustain to sin?
For whom?
By what evidence may we be assured that we really know God?
What charge is made against those professing to know him in whom this proof is lacking?
In whom is the love of God perfected?
Of what is this the proof?
What should be the daily walk of the Christian?
Is this a new conception of the Christian life?
How old is it?
How long since it has been made known?
Although old, is it still new?
In whom is it true?
For what reason?
NOTES.
1. VERSES 1-3.—Christ came to save, not in sin, but from sin. Matt. 1: 21. He redeems from all iniquity (Titus 2: 14), and delivers from the power of evil (Col. 1: 13); but God remembers our weakness (Ps. 103: 13, 14), and has adapted his plan of salvation to the weakest one. "The Christian will feel the promptings of sin, but he will maintain a constant warfare against it. Here is where Christ's help is needed. Human weakness becomes united to divine strength."
"There are those who have known the pardoning love of Christ, and who really desire to be children of God, yet they realize that their character is imperfect, their life faulty, and they are ready to doubt whether their hearts have been renewed by the Holy Spirit. To such I would say, Do not draw back in despair. We shall often have to bow down and weep at the feet of Jesus because of our shortcomings and mistakes; but we are not to be discouraged. Even if we are overcome by the enemy, we are not cast off, not forsaken and rejected of God. No; Christ is at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Said the beloved John, 'These things write I unto you that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.' And do not forget the words of Christ, 'The Father himself loveth you.' He desires to restore you to himself, to see his own purity and holiness reflected in you. And if you but yield yourself to him, he that hath begun a good work in you will carry it forward to the day of Jesus Christ. Pray more fervently, believe more fully. As we come to distrust our own power, let us trust the power of our Redeemer, and we shall praise him who is the health of our countenance."
We have each a case pending in the court of heaven, but we have an advocate there watchful of our interest. Heb. 7: 25. "He asks for his people not only pardon and justification, full and complete, but a share in his glory, and a seat upon his throne."
"The law was there within the veil, but it was concealed under the golden mercy seat, and its voice was hushed by the blood of the atonement. The propitiation, or mercy seat, was there, and on it sat the glory of God, whose anger had been turned away by the voice of the blood."—Rodgers.
"Obedience—the service and allegiance of love—is the true sign of discipleship," but "it is faith, and faith only, that makes us partakers of the grace of Christ, which enables us to render obedience."
2. VERSES 4-6.—"Though John in his epistles dwells so fully upon love, yet he does not hesitate to reveal the true character of that class who claim to be sanctified while living in transgression of the law of God." "God is love, and his law is love," and so "the love of God hath been perfected," or fully wrought out, in the one whose life is in harmony with his word. We are called to holiness (1 Thess. 4: 7), which is agreement with God, and "the command, 'Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect,' would never have been given if every provision had not been made whereby we could obey the requirement,—be as perfect in our sphere as God is in his."
"It is not Christ walking upon the sea, but his ordinary walk, that we are called upon to imitate."—Luther. Love to God (Deut. 6: 5) and love to man (Lev. 19: 18) was not a "new commandment" in fact, but to many it was "a new commandment" in experience.
3. WORD THOUGHTS.—That ye may not sin (v. 1), that is, what John wrote is not a mere injunction not to sin, but if received, the word will keep from sin. He wrote that they might forsake sin.—Advocate (paraclete), the word from which "Comforter" comes in John 14: 16. Christ is the first Comforter, the Holy Spirit is the one called "another Comforter," who abides with us in Christ's absence.—The Righteous, the only righteous one in contradistinction to all others who sin.—Propitiation (v. 2), expiation, the one who shows mercy. Christ manifested God's mercy and goodness toward us.—If we keep his commandments.—Obedience does not make love; it is the test of love; it is the fruit of love. "Keep," as a habit; not spasmodically. Guard them as a precious treasure.—Old—New.—The principle of love is as old as God, and the first commandment and all the commandments given of God are love; but to the heart yielded to Christ and partaking of his Spirit the commandment is new, even as the man is a new creature. He sees in every precept of God not an accuser to bring him to punishment, but a blessed witness of the righteousness of Christ upon him.
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—The Cambria Iron Works at Johnstown, Pa., closed down last week, leaving 5,000 men out of employment.
—It is stated on what appears to be good authority that Bismarck and Emperor William have buried the hatchet.
—News came to Victoria, B. C., by steamer, on the 24th inst., that the Russian steamer Alphonse Zeeveeke had been burned off the Siberian Coast, and sixty lives lost.
—The Canadian Chinese restriction act, passed in 1886, is about to be tested in the Supreme Court. High officers in the government have admitted that the law is unconstitutional.
—By a collision of trains at Kingsbury, Ind., on the 22d ult., twelve persons were killed and about a score injured. The accident was caused by the mistake of a trainman in opening a switch.
—The Haitian war ship Alexandre was foundered off Cape Tiburon, on the southwest coast of Haiti, September 6, and all of the eighty persons on board, excepting one sailor, were drowned.
—Six Federal officers—commissioners and deputy marshals—have been indicted by the Federal Grand Jury at Birmingham, Ala., for various phases of corrupt practice in their respective offices.
—President Cleveland has nominated Attorney Wm. B. Hornblower, of New York, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, in place of Justice Blatchford, recently deceased.
—A dispatch from Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, dated September 21, says: "The revolution is spreading; the government was defeated in a battle at Tucuama, and anarchy prevails there."
—The Union Pacific Railroad employees have voted not to submit to a reduction of wages. On the Nebraska division the men voted to make a loan to the company of 10 per cent of their salaries until January 1.
—The rate war between the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe Railroad Companies has come to a sudden termination, and the old round-trip fare of $80 between California general points and Chicago is to be restored October 1.
—Advices from Hanford, Cal., say that very few Chinamen are now employed in the vineyards. Much complaint is being made by the whites about low wages, as the vineyards are paying only $1.00 a day and board for grape pickers.
—A snowstorm swept over the northern part of England last week, followed by a spell of unusually warm weather. Dispatches from Italy say that the Apennine Mountains are covered with snow, and an unusually hard winter is expected.
—John G. Wooley, one of Mr. Moody's coadjutors, and a man fully trusted by the W. C. T. U., has proved a defaulter to the amount of about $14,000 of funds raised for Rest Island Retreat, a proposed institute for inebriates, about forty miles below St. Paul, Minn.
—The statement that Abraham Lincoln was a Spiritualist and had a medium living in the White House with him has gained such wide publicity that ex-Minister Robert T. Lincoln has taken the trouble to deny it. He says there is not an iota of truth in the story.
—In New York City, September 20, about 3,000 Italians paraded the streets in celebration of the twenty-third anniversary of the unification of Italy. Mayor Gilroy declined to raise the Italian flag on the City Hall, whereat there was great indignation on the part of the paraders.
—The recent train robbery in Michigan and a still later event at Centralia, Ill., indicate that railroad hands have gone into the business. It would naturally be supposed that they have superior advantages for the work, but it appears that they are hardly as successful as some others.
—A riot between Irish and Italian laborers, numbering about 400, occurred in Brooklyn, N. Y., on Sunday, the 24th inst., in which a large number were seriously injured. Twenty of the principals were arrested. If such a scene should occur in California, it would be laid to the fact that we have no State Sunday law.
—A brutal murder of six persons was committed on a farm nine miles from Washington, Ind., September 19. The family consisted of Denson Wrattan, his mother, wife, and three children. Mr. Wrattan was ill with typhoid fever, unable to sit up. It is supposed the murder was committed in hope of finding money in the house.
—A press dispatch dated South Bend, Wash., September 23, says: "Black bears are exceedingly numerous in Pacific County this year. An unusually large number have been killed, but there are enough remaining to create havoc in the young orchards. On the Rose ranch a fine lot of young trees were destroyed by bears last night."
—General Barnes, of the Executive Committee of the San Francisco Midwinter Fair, being asked what would be the probable effect of an extensively signed petition in favor of Sunday closing, replied that the committee had their hands so full with the matter of getting the Fair opened, that they had not time to consider the question of closing it.
—The trouble that has long existed between union and non-union sailors in San Francisco took a serious turn early in the morning of the 24th inst., when an attempt to blow up a non-union boarding house with dynamite resulted in the death of two men and the fatal wounding of three others; in addition to these, John Curtin, Jr., son of the proprietor of the house, was severely injured.
—The van of the army of unemployed men from Colorado and other points eastward has made its appearance in California. At Mojave, on the 21st inst., 150 of them took possession of a Southern Pacific freight train for San Francisco, and 75 more boarded a Los Angeles train. The trainmen were powerless to drive them off. It was also announced that 300 more were soon to arrive on the Atlantic and Pacific.
—A San Francisco supervisor proposes to reduce the wages of mechanics and laborers employed by the city and use the saving in the employment of more men. For instance, it is proposed to reduce the pay of carpenters from $3.50 to $2.50, for the benefit of their fellow workmen out of employment. On this proposition the Examiner comments in this way: "How would it do to propose that a capitalist with an income of $350,000 a year should give $100,000 of it to the unemployed? The proportional sacrifice would be the same as that involved in the deduction of a dollar from the daily wages of a man earning $3.50 a day, and the actual sacrifice a good deal less."
—Two students of the Northern Indiana Normal School, at Valparaiso, attempted to rob the safe of the institution one night last week, but were frightened away by the screams of the two young lady secretaries. As they ran away, they were pursued by a crowd, and as they fired back at their pursuers, they were themselves shot down. One was instantly killed, and the other was wounded and captured.
—Johnson Sides, a Piute Indian and leader of about 150 men and women, who came over from Nevada to pick hops in California, complains bitterly of the Chinese and Japanese, who have run down the wages to such a small scale. He says the Indians spend all their money here, and ought to have a better show. "If Chinaman and Jap get born here, register here, live here, all right. But now it no fair to Indian."
—The people of France have become so enthusiastic in their preparations to honor the visit of the Russian fleet that the czar deems it advisable to discourage the ovation. It is said that the belligerent propensities of the French people are at war heat, and they are anxious for a conflict with either Germany or England. Complications in African interests are said to give pretext for calling England to account.
—Coney Island, N. Y., is Democratic. The proposition to enforce the law against prize fighting in a coming "great event" is met by the statement that a certain interested party "has 2,000 votes in his pocket, and if there is any effort made by the present authorities to stop the fight, Coney Island will surely go Republican." Thus we have the sentiment of the "two great political parties" in that particular corner of this "Christian nation."
—The San Francisco Examiner (Democratic) charges that President Cleveland, in his attitude of hesitancy to execute the Chinese Registration Law, is being "bullied mainly by the churches." While the President is about the last man anyone would suppose could be "bullied," there is no doubt of the disposition of a large element in the churches to coerce any or all departments of the government, and the fact is becoming more and more apparent.
—At Roanoke, Va., on the 20th ult., a mob bent on lynching a negro who was in jail on a charge of attempting to murder a white woman, was fired upon by the militia and police. When the crowd had been dispersed, it was found that nine men were dead, and about twenty wounded. That night the prisoner was taken from the custody of the police and hanged, and afterward his body was burned. Indignation against the mayor and captain of the military company ran so high that they left the city.
—It is said that the Pan-Slavic idea is being again agitated in a quiet way as never before, and is destined to add a troublesome feature to the perplexities of European politics. Pan-Slavism means Slavic rule from the Arctic Ocean to the Hellespont, embracing Eastern Austria, the Balkan States and provinces, Greece, and Turkey in Europe, with Russia as the head of the vast confederation. It is thought that a war, with the Triple Alliance against Russia and France, would develop this idea to a surprising extent.
—A great sensation was created in Vienna last week by the discovery of the secret meeting place of Anarchists who have lately been flooding the city with threatening pamphlets and placards. Among the various articles found were a printing press, piles of paper, a large supply of type, and stacks of Anarchist pamphlets ready for distribution. In the cellar were found cases filled with revolvers, and a large chest full of bombs ready for loading, and with all the necessary explosive charges close at hand. It is thought that this is only one of a number of such places in the city.
News and Notes.
By Editor
FOR THE WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 25.
RELIGIOUS.
—A World's Congress of Christians opposed to Secret Societies will be held in the Fine Arts Building of the Columbian Exposition at Chicago, October 5.
—Cardinal Gibbons laid the corner stone of the new St. Cyprian's Church at Washington, D. C., on the 24th inst., the celebration being attended with great display.
—The Methodists of Iowa are extensively repudiating the Republican party because of the anti-prohibition and local option planks of the platform adopted by the recent State convention.
—A Berlin dispatch says: "Dr. Buchwald, of Leipsic, has discovered among forgotten manuscripts in the university at Jena, Martin Luther's political essay against the theological faculty of the University of Louvain, Belgium, which manuscript was supposed to have been lost."
—While some prominent Catholics are advocating temperance reform, the principle is not by any means general in that church. For instance, the secretary of the Irish Catholic Benevolent Union, which held a convention in Pittsburg a few weeks ago, was deposed from his office because he had become an active Prohibitionist. He had been an efficient officer for twenty-one years.
—Circulars are being sent out from Steubenville, Ohio, in explanation of "The Young People's Christian Political Union," an organization designed to secure a pledged membership giving its votes and influence only for the political party that makes the prohibition of the liquor traffic its dominant issue, educational qualification the test of suffrage, and moral issues the first place in the platform.
—A New Haven, Conn., dispatch of the 24th inst. says: "A Zulu fraud, who has been operating in the West, was arrested in Zion M. E. Church tonight while delivering a sermon, and placed in jail on a charge of swindling. The information on which he was taken into custody was received from the Milwaukee police, the man having secured a considerable sum of money in that city on false pretences and had then taken a somewhat hasty departure."
—The pastor of the Howard Street Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, who recently went on a four days' spree and tour of the "dives," in company with a young Berkeley student, leaving his Sunday night appointment unprovided for, has resumed his pulpit, the congregation having declined to accept his resignation. He has the temerity to make such a comparison as the following, and his people evidently accept it: "Jesus consorted with publicans and sinners; his holy mission was to save them that were lost. Jesus went into the dives. He saw Mary Magdalen and spoke to her in words of love and hope."
