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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 21, 1874

Significant Items.

By F. A. Buzzell

—A JAPAN paper discourages the sending of more youthful Japanese to the United States to be educated, on account of the evil associations with which they come in contact.—Boston Journal.

RUSH FOR WORKS OF FICTION.

—Of the call for books at the Boston Public Library, the Boston Times is informed that “the works of fiction are most largely called for, and the rush for a newly issued novel is something terrible.”

—A dispatch from Rome conveys the intelligence that when Pio Nono recently asked some U. S. Naval Officers how he would be received in America, the reply was that the people of America would regard his taking up his residence in this country as a great honor.—Boston Journal.

—It is surprising how vice and iniquities of every kind are coming to be rated as purity, so that some of the greatest are to-day defended in the name of Christianity.—Ex. from Sermon of Dr. Miner.

—This, unfortunately, is an age of blasphemy to a great extent. When men pass along the streets of the city they hear the youth, scarce able to talk, uttering oaths that would shock the stoutest in other times.—Ex. from a Catholic Sermon.

—A mercantile friend of ours tells us that a customer of his thus criticized, the other day, one of our national mottoes: “You see they've got it on the five-cent pieces, ‘In God we trust.’ Now think of a great nation like ours putting a lie on its currency! If they had said, ‘The god we trust,’ they'd have hit it. It's the only God nine out of ten of 'em know.”—Index.

—Interests, rents, and profits—the enginery of trade—have piled the world's wealth in idle heaps, and a few possess it, while the mass of the people are pinched to live.—South Boston Bee.

Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.—Bible.

RELIGION THE LIVING QUESTION.

—Here, in America, we are growing stronger day by day in men of Irish blood who thoroughly appreciate their position. In their relations to the State and to society, the question of nationality is a dead letter; the only living question is one of religion.—Boston Pilot.

—The execution of a wild beast in human form in New Hampshire (Evans of Northwood) is but the beginning of a work that awaits its accomplishment. The public is kept in a constant state of apprehension over the murders that are occurring almost daily.—Boston Times.

—“Days of Religious Ease and Respectability,” the critic of the Chicago Pulpit styles the present, from a religious standpoint.

—“Preach the word,” says Paul to Timothy, and the charge is more needed to-day than then, but little heeded.

PROOF: Rev. James Freeman Clarke preached a sermon, yesterday, on “What Shall Make Boston a Truly Great City.”—Boston Herald, June 15.

“The school children of distant States would read of historic buildings and places of Boston, &c., &c. The city would be advertised, &c. Paul says something to Timothy about teachers being heaped together and somebody's having itching ears, about sound doctrine not being endured, &c. 2 Tim. 4.”

—The murder mania of New England appears just at the present time to be raging worse than in any other part of the country. . . . In and around Boston Capitol, crimes are being perpetrated with a frequency that is almost appalling; and they are the worse because the authors are running loose without any particular fear of discovery and punishment. It is quite evident that something must be done at once to dam this current of human passions and restrain a multitude of yet uncommitted murders, by making a score or so of prompt examples.—Boston Times.

F. A. BUZZELL.