Significant Items by F. A. Buzzell

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 9, 1872

Significant Items.

By F. A. Buzzell

RESPECTING THE LORD’S DAY.

“The Emperor of Germany has issued an order, prescribing that the general parades of the German armies, which have been held on the [Sunday] Sabbath-day, shall hereafter be held on Wednesday.”—American Messenger.

FREE-THINKERS AND INFIDELS IN CONCLAVE.

“At a meeting of Free-thinkers and Infidels, in New York, on Friday night, a resolution was passed to establish agencies throughout the country for the circulation of tracts, to provide for lecturers, and for the equipment of missionaries to propagate free-thinking ideas.”—Boston Journal.

“MOTHER SHIPTON’S PROPHECY.”

“A REMARKABLE PROPHECY.—The following, which is known as ‘Mother Shipton’s Prophecy,’ was first published in 1488, and republished in 1641. It will be noticed that all the events predicted in it have already come to pass.

“Carriages without horses shall go, And accidents fill the world with wo. Around the world thoughts shall fly In the twinkling of an eye. Water shall yet more wonders do; Now strange, and yet it shall be true. The world upside down shall be, And gold be found at root of tree. Through hills men shall ride, And no horse or ass be at his side. Under water men shall walk; Shall ride, sleep, shall talk. In the air men shall be seen, In white, in black, in green. Iron in the water shall float, As easy as a wooden boat. Gold shall be found, and found In a land that’s not now known. Fire and water shall wonders do; England shall at last admit a Jew.”

RUSSIA.

“Russia expects to receive next year, 30,000 muskets from Birmingham, 14,000 cavalry sabres from Sestrojesk, and 6000 rifles from Tula, besides ordnance for fifty batteries of eight guns each.”—Boston Journal.

$600.00 HANDKERCHIEFS.

“A number of the dry goods houses in New York have for sale, and sell too, ladies’ handkerchiefs, for from $300.00 to $600.00 apiece.”—N. Y. Independent.

And these handkerchiefs are taken from their gold and jeweled holders, and flaunted in church where the cushions and carpet are considered too good for soul-famished New York heathen to sit and walk upon; these handkerchiefs, in honor of a foreign duke, are waved over the heads of the starving and freezing. Truly “ye have the poor always with you,” and in a double sense, “but Me ye have not always.”

F. A. BUZZELL.