Earlier text: THE NAME AND WORD OF GODTHE SWISS CONFERENCE.
By J. N. Andrews
Of the seventh annual Conference of Seventh-day Adventists which convened in Tramelan, Nov. 19–21, Eld. J. N. Andrews sends the following report:— The Lord met with us on this occasion, and we found his assistance in our business. Our brethren seemed disposed to make a strong united effort for the advancement of the cause of God. The prospect seems more favorable for the prosperity of the work in this country than at any former time. A full report was made of the finances of our publishing work; also a report was made of what has been accomplished by sending out our journal during the past year. These reports seemed to encourage the brethren very much, and they will do all in their power to render our mission self-supporting within a short time. I am encouraged to believe that this is possible. Our printing office occupies two small rooms in our dwelling-house, and we carry on all our work under our own roof. It would be more agreeable to separate the Office of Publication from the house in which we live, but it is less expensive to arrange things as we have them now. We have to take the white paper and the pages of type on a hand-cart the distance of half a mile or more to the press. But we are encouraged in our work by the certain evidence that the truth is taking hold of the people. Some in this city have become interested in the truth, and have almost decided to keep the Sabbath. We have now for eight months printed three thousand copies of our journal each month, instead of two thousand copies, as formerly. We have needed all of these to use in our work, in connection with the back numbers of our paper which we have on hand. Thus our paper visits five thousand families each month, and is read to a greater or less extent by about twenty-five thousand persons. Up to this date, we have had means to pay the postage on these papers without taking anything from the treasury at Battle Creek. The additional expense for printing the third thousand is simply for press work and white paper. The press work costs $2.40 and the white paper $7.60, in all $10 per month for the extra thousand; but this expense has all been paid by our Swiss friends. In my report to the General Conference, there is an error which I wish to correct. I said that we were expecting responses from twelve thousand persons to whom we had sent letters and papers. I should have said that twelve thousand papers had been sent out from which we have not yet received responses, but we send four papers and two letters to each person. I am encouraged to believe that God has heard prayer in my behalf. Some difficulties that were quite serious have never troubled me since the day of prayer, July 24. I have, however, continued to be troubled with feebleness and with difficulty in my lungs. The journey from Southampton to Bâle was very exhausting, and when I had partially recovered from this, the labor of the Conference brought me down again. I am now improving, and have many tokens of God's favor. The weather is mild and agreeable, which is a very great advantage to me in my present circumstances. There are so many indications that the Lord is at work among the people that I feel a strong assurance that he will regard the prayers that have been offered in my behalf, and permit me to live to labor in his cause. Smoking Among German Youth
It appears that the German Government has taken the matter of smoking seriously in hand, the practice being carried to so great an extent by the youth of that nation that it has been considered to have damaged their constitutions, and incapacitated them for the defense of their country. In certain towns of Germany, therefore, the police have been ordered to forbid all lads under sixteen years of age to smoke in the streets, and to punish the offense by fine and imprisonment. Moreover, a Belgian physician has ascertained, during a journey of observation and inquiry, made at the request of the Belgian Government, that the very general and excessive use of tobacco is the main cause of color blindness, an affection which has occasioned very considerable anxiety both in Belgium and Germany, from its influence upon railway and other accidents, and also from a military point of view. Saloons as an Offset to Intemperance
At a late temperance convention in Boston it was suggested as an offset to intemperance that saloons might be opened where innocent games, smoking, and perhaps lager beer, might be tolerated. To this the Christian at Work aptly replies: " Well, that is turning the donkey round in the shafts, head to the cart, and then starting him up. We should make backward progress very fast. Many communities have tried this brilliant suggestion, and now would like to reverse their donkey. We can only explain such a suggestion on the supposition that the idea came to the speaker as a very weighty and profound idea, even 'a Boston notion,' and struck him so hard that it knocked the senses out of him." "Yes," said the Rev. John Pierpont, "You have a license, and that is your plea; I adjure you to keep it; lock it among your choicest jewels; guard it as the apple of your eye; and when you die and are laid out in your coffin, be sure that the precious document is placed between your clammy fingers, so that when you are called upon to confront your victims before God, you may be ready to file your plea of justification, and to boldly lay down your license on the bar of the Judge. Yes, my friend, keep it; you will then want your license signed by the county commissioners, and endorsed by the selectmen." Intoxicating Liquors and Crime
The Censer says that temperance men are called extravagant, when they estimate that three-fourths of the crimes of the country originate in intoxicating drinks. Here is a bolder statement from the high authority of an English judge! "The celebrated English judge, Coleridge, in a charge at the Oxford Assizes, said he never knew a case brought before him which was not, directly or indirectly, connected with intoxicating liquors." "I AM glad of a rainy day once in a while," said Mrs. Lake, "especially when I have some work I want to finish off as we have to-day, Lucia. There will be no one calling to-day, surely, so what is the use of your stopping to dress? Your husband is away for the week, and we can just take our ease in these morning dresses, and keep on with our sewing." "The boys will be at home at three o'clock," said her friend, taking down her wavy hair and proceeding to dress it in her accustomed graceful fashion. I will just remark that it was not done up in "bangs" or "frizzes" or snarls of any sort, but was arranged in rich, classic style, which gave her the appearance of the noble, beautiful matron she was. "Dressing for your boys!" exclaimed the other. "No wonder people talk of the extravagance of the times, when mothers make such a parade just to meet their school-boys at the tea table," and practical Cousin Eunice snipped off a thread in a very energetic manner. "It pays," said the mother quietly, as she took out a fresh pair of cuffs and slipped into them a pair of sleeve buttons Freddie had given her on her birthday. He had saved up his pennies to buy those garnet buttons, and he liked to see her wear them, as she did almost every afternoon, although she had prettier ones. Cousin Eunice could dress up very richly on occasions, but for the bosom of her family she had a set of "old gears," as William said, which if they were useful were not ornamental. The children did not admire mother as they might in those dresses, though she was quite a good looking woman in good clothes. "But, Lucia, you can't afford to put on that pretty cambric suit, which it took such a time to iron. What is the use of mussing it this rainy day!" "I am not going out in the rain, and the duller it is out of doors, the more cheerful I like to have it in the house. The boys always like this dress, and I like to see them pleased. Indeed, I think I care much more for the opinion of the folks under my own roof than I do for those away. I would rather be admired by my own boys than by an indifferent company in somebody's parlor. And, Eunice, I think all these little things help us to keep our hold on our boys when they grow older. When they are just passing out of childhood into youth, I feel that they need a mother almost as much as when in their cradles. Indeed, another might give the baby food and clothing; but boys at their later age need great mother-love and care to keep them from going wrong. Everything that draws them nearer to a mother, and makes them respect her more, is worth attention. My boys never think of a walk in the streets of an evening, but sometimes spend an hour at a friend's house, or ask a few boys here. Mother is always importuned to join in any games or plays and very often takes a hand with them. Oh, it would be dreadful to me to feel that my boys were slipping away from mother's influence, and I hope never to know it, even when my head is gray." It is such mothers who retain their hold of the children while life lasts, and who are mourned with heart-broken sincerity when they are removed. And the same guiding Hand reaches out still through the mists of time, and helps to shape the child's destiny for ever.—Arthur's Home Magazine. If our girls greet their brothers and sisters, and perhaps even their parents, boisterously, if instead of "Good-morning," they cry, "Halloo, papa! Halloo, mamma!" and call to playmates in the same rough manner, who will be surprised if this style follows them as they grow up and appear as young ladies? Referring to this very unladylike manner and mode of address, a gentleman writes that, passing two pretty, well-dressed, stylish young ladies in the public streets, he was surprised to hear the one greet the other, "Halloo, Sid!" and the other responded, "Halloo, Tude!" to her friend's greeting; and he remarks: "It was just what two lounging young men might have said, or stable-boys, for that matter. It might not have been so much out of the way for the latter, but I confess it sounded very odd and offensive in what I supposed to be two well-bred young ladies; as much as if I had heard two beautiful, well-dressed ladies begin to swear. It was so unnatural, so out of place. It may be the 'style' for young girls or ladies to greet each other with a 'Halloo,' but I can't like or get used to it. "These things may seem but a trifle, but they make all the difference between nice things and very common things. We usually prefer gentle, refined girls to those who are coarse and hoydenish. Girls may fall into this free and easy, unladylike habit through their brother's example; but sisters were given to refine and soften the coarser nature of their brothers. If they do not do this we shall no longer find in our sisters refined and refining companions, but the coarse ways and rough speech of young men in flounces. Is it not just as easy to imitate the graceful manner and refined speech of a lady as those of a rude uncultivated boy?" The same general rules for correct and pleasant behavior are safe for boys and girls, and ladies and gentlemen. A gentleman may entertain the highest respect for a lady, and be on the most friendly and intimate terms, but, if a true gentleman his respect will withhold him from carelessness or roughness in speech or action. And no lady who is truly refined will brook anything approaching a too familiar tone. It is, however, but just to acknowledge that a lady's manners will always fix metes and bounds of the liberty which may be offered. When boys and girls, young men and maidens, are allowed to fall into the absurdities of low, foolish, meaningless talk, it seems to dwarf them intellectually; they can find nothing of interest or importance to say, and therefore make up for sense by filling every sentence with needless exclamations, exaggerations, or misused adjectives. A MOTHER'S INFLUENCE.
By San Benito Advance
More than one of the great men of this nation have, in their ripe age, carefully put it on record that they owed the self-control and steadfast principle by which they rose to honor, directly to a mother's influence in the critical days of their youth. If any of us were asked what one thing chiefly saved him from waywardness and evil companionship, and has kept him to this day free from vice, I believe he would answer, "Under the grace of God, the reverence or the memory of a mother." Her appeal had power when all other influences failed. Her unspoken wish restrained us. Her purity and love made all that was base abhorrent. Her devotion was felt as a safeguard all along the walks of temptation. We would not wound or dishonor her. The mere remembrance of such a mother, though dead, has many a time been a man's life-long protection. And never till she dies do we know how powerfully her life has invested ours to shelter and purify it. It is a day of heart-searching to any man when he buries a true mother out of his sight. Then he sums up the blessing which he has received in her. And though he may be conscious that he discovers her worth only in part, he finds cause enough to wonder at the patience and faithfulness which23have been spent on him. It would be strange indeed if some contrite tears should not flow, as he recalls the haste, the ignorance, the willfulness, possibly the disrespect, with which that unwavering love has sometimes had to bear. There's many a man of us who would gladly redeem one hour of that lost part, that he might speak some words of tender sorrow for neglect irreparable, or of fuller gratitude for a loving sacrifice, never realized till it was taken from us forever. PRUNE thou thy words, the thoughts control
That o'er thee swell and throng;
They will condense within thy soul,
And change to purpose strong.
But he who lets his feelings run
In soft, luxurious flow,
Shrinks when hard service must be done,
And faints at every woe.
Faith's meanest deed more favor bears,
Where hearts and wills are weighed,
Than brightest transports, choicest prayers,
Which bloom their hour and fade. BIBLE READING WITH CHILDREN.
By Mrs. M. E. Sangster
I OFTEN hear mothers asking how they can interest their children in Bible reading. In the first place, they must themselves have a strong and vital interest in the pages of God's word, or they cannot inspire others with the same. In the next, they must take time, stately and often, for the purpose of studying it. And, in the third, they must pray always for the divine illumination in their children's hearts and their own. Every household has its predominant sentiment or characteristic. Walk through a city street. There is little individuality about the outsides of the houses, but enter, and as soon as the home admits you to its heart you shall discover that no two are precisely similar in aims, in spirit, and in atmosphere. Here fashion reigns, and dress is exalted to a place of great importance. There, music, art, or culture are objects of supreme desire. Philanthropic efforts enlist parents and children in this circle; and the resolution to become rich taxes every energy in that. Be sure of one thing. Whatever is largest in the eyes of father or mother will be largest in the eyes of the boys and girls. It is in vain to preach one gospel to them, if they behold another practiced. At an early age every child should have his own Bible, with his name inscribed therein, given as necessary to his furnishing for life. We do not think enough about this. Each little one has its own shoes and hat, its own school-books, its own toys. But in some houses the Bibles lie about promiscuously, belonging to nobody in particular; or perhaps one worn and brown, may be seen neglected on the table of the living room. Or worse, one or two elegant Bibles, in handsome bindings and gold clasps, repose on the parlor book-rack, kept as old china and lace are kept, for purposes of ornament. Every member of every family should have his special Bible, and should have his times for reading it, as certainly provided for and taken into the family calculations as the hours for daily food. In my own experience, I have never found it difficult to induce children to read the Bible. Sometimes in the morning after breakfast, or at night beside the lamp, I have begun to read aloud for my pleasure rather than that of the listeners, some sweet passage from the Scriptures. And very soon little arms would come stealing around my neck, bright eyes would scan the verses, and perhaps some pleading voice would say, presently, "Wait a moment, please. Let me get my Bible and read with you." I am sure that if the ordinary care which is spent on a child's secular education, as a matter of course and of obligation, were spent on its religious indoctrination, the next generation would be better equipped to resist temptation, and more strongly armed to meet the trials of life. We cannot be too vigilant in the early years. We cannot begin too soon. While we are looking at the golden-haired darlings as too young to be taught of God, the enemy is sowing tares in the virgin soil. We should preempt it in the name of our Lord Jesus.—Mrs. M. E. Sangster. HAVE A PLAN IN LIFE.
By Joseph W. Pickett
I SOMETIMES ask boys and girls, What are you going to do when you grow up? I find they have plans. Some expect to be teachers; some, good farmers and house-keepers; some, mechanics and merchants; some, ministers, physicians, or lawyers. I saw a boy the other day who said he was going to be a stage-driver. I think it is a good thing to have plans. A boy or girl that has no plan will not do much in the world. I am glad to see you plan to have good lessons, to be good in school, to be always kind, never to tell a lie or swear, to be good to everybody, to study and read at home, and never miss a day at Sabbath-school. Some children and some men never have plans; they float about idly all their lives, like a vessel on the ocean that is not going anywhere. I have often thought what one plan did for me. I forget how it happened; but I made a plan, when a boy, never to sit down at home without a book or paper in my hand. I found a History of the United States, which I read through, and then a History of Greece and of Rome. It was pretty dry sometimes; and I worked so hard on the dear old farm that I could hardly hold my head up. But my plan helped me through; and I learned about this country and all the countries in the world, which is a great help to me now. How well I remember the table in the loved home, that was brought out every night with the light on it, around which we children used to read and study! Plan to read those books which will do you the most good. I suppose some of you are making plans to go to school and to college some time. I like that. I never knew how to enjoy my home fully till I came home in vacation; and I never liked work so well as after studying hard at school. Now I want you to make one more plan that will help you more than all the rest. I want you to plan to be Christians. I made this plan when a boy, and I am happy that I have lived to carry it out.—Joseph W. Pickett. —It will take $600 to pay Oakland's vaccination bill for the past five months. —There are in the two insane asylums, at Napa and Stockton, Cal., 1,955 patients. —Walla Walla Indians are endeavoring to compete with chinamen in cutting wood. —The price of a seat in the New York Stock Exchange has advanced to $30,000. —A man long suspected of selling whisky to Indians has been at last detected in Nevada City. —A woman in Pomeroy, W. T., one night recently, completely routed a cougar with a broom. —A Dublin dispatch says gun-makers are doing an enormous business, especially in revolvers. —Last week a grizzly bear killed thirty fat hogs belonging to one man in Waldo Hills, Oregon. —Vallejo calkers are indignant because San Francisco calkers are employed in the Navy Yard. —A lot of counterfeit silver dollars have been found in the water at the foot of Florida street, Vallejo. —Russia has ordered 10,000 soldiers withdrawn from the Chinese frontier to operate against Turkman. —The Baptists in Brooklyn, N. Y., contemplate building a church which is intended to rival Spurgeon's famous Tabernacle in London. —It is said that when the Land League arose in Ireland, Fenianism in a great measure collapsed, the Fenians taking up with the new movement. —Notwithstanding the Prussian tirade against the Jews, an Israelite has been elected President of the Municipal Council of Berlin, by a large majority. —A petition to the Governor and Legislature is being numerously signed at Downey, Los Angeles county, praying the enactment of a local option law. —Gen. John F. Miller, of San Francisco, has been nominated by the Republican caucus for United States Senator from California, to succeed Hon. Newton Booth. —The United States frigate Wabash, while at Gluckstadt, Germany, recently lost over 200 out of 500 men by desertion, owing to the tyranny and abuse of the officers. —Senator Sharon, his daughter, new son-in-law, and party, went from San Francisco to New York in a special car, for which they were taxed $1,620—about 50 cents per mile. —The Chino ranch, San Bernardino county, has been sold to Richard Gird, an Arizona millionaire, for $225,000. He proposes to stock it with fine cattle. The ranch covers 35,000 acres. —On the 8th inst., a four-year old child of Mr. John Robertson, in Santa Clara county, was burned to death by her clothing taking fire from a spark, while playing in a field where stubble was burning. —A Fort Buford special says: The braggart Sioux who were so insolent lately, are now abject beggars before the advancing columns of troops, and cry for peace, annuity, and provisions. They are fast surrendering. —It is quite generally understood that Senator Blaine will be Secretary of State under the Garfield administration, and knowing ones are quite certain that D. O. Mills, of California, will be Secretary of the Interior. —The Pacific, speaking of Gen. Howard's appointment to the command of West Point, says: "While Howard is in charge, every cadet will have a fair show and his just dues, no matter what his color or previous condition." —Counterfeit silver dollars dated 1879 are in circulation in this State. They are lighter than the genuine coin. Spurious $5 and $20 pieces have recently been put in circulation in Sacramento, together with bogus ten-cent pieces of the year 1877. —A bill introduced in the House by Representative Townsend, of Illinois, proposes as follows: "When any officer has served fifty years as a commissioned officer, or is seventy years old, he may be retired from active service at the discretion of the President." —The A. O. U. W., of California, is waking up to the necessity of clearing the rolls of liquor-drinking members, as a matter of self-preservation. They drop off so fast that temperance men don't like to carry such shaky risks, as every death calls for $2,000. —The London publishers paid Lord Beaconsfield $60,000 for the manuscript of "Endymion," and the price of the English edition is thirty-one shillings. There being no international copyright, an American has issued the work in the shape of a dime novel, and sells it for ten cents. The critics say it is dear at that. —The exodus of negroes from the south is revived. Efforts are making to divert them towards New Mexico or other western Territories. Gen. Conway says they are bound to leave the Southern States. —There are over 7,000 Americans studying in the German schools and universities. The American Consul at Wartenburg estimates that $4,500,000 are thus annually expended by Americans in Germany. —About 7,500 miles of railway track were laid in the United States in 1880. These figures are greater by 54 per cent than in 1879. The total mileage in the country now is about 94,000. A large portion of the year's increase is west of the Mississippi river. —Mr. Farley has introduced a bill in the U. S. Senate, providing for the payment of $5,777 to the holders of coupons of 36 specified California Indian war bonds, issued in 1852, the Congressional appropriation for which has lapsed into the Treasury. —Preparations for the coming census of 1881 in London are being actively pushed. It is anticipated that the returns will reveal a striking increase in the population of the metropolis, which cannot now be far short of 4,000,000. The census will be taken simultaneously in every district of the United Kingdom on the same day. —Representative Page is notified by the Post-office Department that the office at Alameda, Cal., owing to the growth of its business, will shortly be placed on the list of Presidential offices, and he is requested to recommend some one for nomination to the Senate. The present incumbent holds office under the appointment of the Postmaster-General. —A preparatory expedition, composed of engineers and skilled mechanics, have left Havre for Panama direct, to commence a survey and operations upon the ship canal immediately. A large number of mechanics and laborers, a quantity of machinery, and a large supply of provisions, have been ordered in New York and New Orleans, for immediate shipment to the scene of operations. —Gov. Fremont's recent annual message thus pictures Arizona's progress: "When I last had the honor to meet the Legislature, Arizona was the most remote and secluded of the Territories. Now one transcontinental road, shortly to be followed by another, connects her with the whole system of the Eastern railroads and the Pacific, and is about to connect her directly with the rich trade of Mexico." —A high military commissioner to Ireland reports that, if her Majesty's Government at once takes strict measures for the repression of lawlessness, a peaceful solution of the present difficulties, and the cessation of outrages and disturbances may be looked for with confidence. People well acquainted with the intentions of the Land League, state that a rising was never intended, at least not at present. —The Central Pacific Railroad Company, has made application to become a bonded carrier, under the Aldrich bill, and as soon as the bond is approved, there will be means for sending right along to the East all goods liable to duty from foreign ports via San Francisco, without the old routine of appraisalment and collection at the port of first arrival, which was often a great inconvenience to importers. —There are 629 savings-banks in the United States with $819,106,973 deposits and about $56,000,000 surplus, nearly one-half of which is loaned on real estate. As the capital stock of all the national banks in the country is only 457 1-2 millions, it will be seen that the real "money power" is the two million depositors in the savings-banks of the country, three-fourths of whom are workingmen and men of small means. —The United States Government paid Russia seven million dollars for the Territory of Alaska. It has received from the Alaska Commercial Company, alone, since August, 1870, as taxes, $3,134,838.99, or nearly one-half the cost of the purchase of the entire Territory. The franchise has ten years yet to run. This company, by the time its lease expires, will have paid, in taxes, more than the original cost of the purchase by the Government. —The moccasins, necklace and other barbarous personal property of Don't-Know-How, a member of the Yanktoneas tribe of Sioux, have been received by Secretary Schurz by mail as an intimation that the Indians have no further use for them. The gift is accompanied by a letter, setting forth that two years ago the writer having earned $25 by working, became a trader in a small way at his Agency. He is now worth $2000 to $2500, made in trade, and signs his name D. K. Howe, instead of his former evidently inappropriate title. —Mrs. Valeria G. Stone, of Malden, Mass., has made her name memorable by contributing the vast sum of $852,500 to educational and missionary purposes. Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Amherst, Wellesley, and Hamilton Colleges have received $285,000; Andover and Chicago Seminaries, $200,000; the American Missionary Association $150,000 for institutions in the South. In addition to all this Mrs. Stone has distributed some $600,000 among relatives and friends, lifting many of them from want to comfort. She has also given $100,000 to struggling churches and students. Such a use of wealth must yield her a pleasure as rare as the act itself. Who will go and do likewise, that they may experience a similar pleasure in seeing their means used in the cause of God during their lifetime? RELIGIOUS PUBLICATIONS,
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Diphtheria (new edition illustrated), price 30 cents.—Healthful Cookery, 25 cents.—Proper Diet for Man, 15 cents. Address, PACIFIC PRESS, Oakland, Cal. LAST Sabbath was the regular day for the district quarterly meeting. The Sabbath-school in the morning was fully attended; in fact, most of the church seem to have come to regard the Sabbath-school as an important part of the church service, and are as regular in attending it as the meeting following. More than this, they often bring with them those outside of our faith. Of the one hundred and eighty-seven in attendance last Sabbath, more than twenty-five were children of outsiders. A few of these have been in attendance some time, and seem much interested. Following the Sabbath-school, a social meeting was enjoyed in which the principal topic discussed was the missionary work. The importance of engaging in this was urged not only as a means of getting the truth before others, but of keeping our own souls alive. Like most of our churches, Oakland did not expect the assistance of a minister; but just at the close of the meeting Elder Rice came in, having been sent for to administer baptism to two waiting candidates. One of these was a sister from Arizona, who had embraced the truth from reading. She had been spending a few weeks here to learn more of our people, when she was suddenly called to return home. It not being thought advisable to go to the lake, the First Baptist Church kindly granted us the use of their baptistry. As this dear sister goes to her distant home, our prayers go up to God for his blessing to rest upon her and make her strong in the truth. The Moral Condition of Modern Babylon
An exchange gives the following interesting statistics: “England maintains a detective and statistical bureau known as Scotland Yard, and from that source we learn that London contains 6,000 policemen, 10,000 professional gamblers, 50,000 known criminals, 60,000 street arabs, 100,000 abandoned women; 140,000 habitual drunkards, and 300,000 parochial dependents; a total of 666,000 paupers, a number nearly equal to the white population of California. One-sixth of the population of London exists by charity, sufferance and crime. In addition to this appalling picture, the same authority informs us that London contains 500,000 habitual frequenters of dram-shops. About the same number attend church, and a million of grown-up persons never enter a place of worship. The great city has a population greater than all Scotland, twice the number of Denmark, and three times as many as the Kingdom of Greece; yet her church worshipers number but half a million; 166,000 less than her pauper and criminal horde. But the Bishop of London draws his fifty thousand pounds per annum all the same, and millions are collected there to convert the unhappy heathen in foreign countries. Such is the moral condition of the modern Babylon.” Mormonism Receives a Severe Blow
MORMONISM has received a severe blow. The Governor of Utah has given the certificate of election as Delegate to Congress to Allen G. Campbell, Gentile candidate, notwithstanding the fact that Apostle Cannon, the Mormon candidate, had a majority of votes. It turns out that Cannon, although having been many years in Congress, has never been naturalized; and as he now lives in polygamy, contrary to United States law, he cannot become naturalized. Of course the Mormons are indignant, and the Gentiles jubilant, in Utah. Cannon will contest the matter before Congress. Mr. Campbell, upon being asked his views as to the best means of uprooting the iniquitous Mormon practices, replied: “First, those of the Mormons living in polygamy should be disfranchised, and with them the women who are now voting without their papers—a common practice. Another step might be to put the Territory under martial law, or rule it with a commission, until the naturalized and law-abiding citizens of both sexes could vote, which, I reckon, would soon use up polygamy.” It is to be hoped that the general Government will soon be able to adopt some means of establishing its authority in Utah, and abolishing the Mormon abomination. Disestablishment of the National Church
SHALL the national church be disestablished ? is a political question of growing importance in England; and as concessions are made to non-conformists they become encouraged and more determined to throw off the great burden altogether. Prof. Scott, of the Lancashire Independent College, defines the position of the non-conformists as one of "dissent from any church established by act of Parliament, whose constitution is fixed or altered at the will of a mere legislative assembly. They know nothing, nor does the New Testament, of a church which embraces all the inhabitants of a country, but only a church of those who love Jesus Christ in sincerity and truth, and profess their love to him." To the inconsistency of Christianity by act of Parliament (after the manner of Pagan Rome's "conversion" under Constantine), is added the enormous expense of the national church, entailing a heavy burden of taxation. The salary of the Bishop of London, alone, is £60,000 a year—five times the salary of the President of the United States.