News and Miscellany

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 6, 1872

News and Miscellany.

“Can ye not discern the signs of the times?”

The government of Guatemala has ordered the confiscation of all the property of the Jesuits, and Nicaragua has also entered a crusade against this class, now so unpopular in certain parts of the Old World, and has ordered the Jesuits to depart from her borders.

It was my custom in my youth (says a celebrated Persian writer) to rise from my sleep to watch, pray and read the Koran. One night, as I was thus engaged, my father, a man of practical virtue, awoke. “Behold,” said I to him, “thy children are lost in irreligious slumbers, while I alone wake to praise God.” “Son of my soul,” said he, “it were better for thee to be engaged in irreligious sleep than to awake to find fault with thy brethren.”