Earlier text: THREE-WEEKS' VOYAGEGATHERED FROM LEADING MISSIONARY JOURNALS.
THE American Presbyterians have 34 missionaries and 170 native laborers in Syria, with 19 churches and 1,500 members. THE first recorded donation (£100) for missionary purposes, by an English Protestant, was made by Sir Walter Raleigh, in 1588. THE Church Missionary Society has decided that for the future, all unmarried missionaries sent out by it, must serve for a term (ordinarily three years), before they can marry. This is not with the intention of encouraging celibacy, but is to be considered a probationary period. Fifty-nine new missionaries engaged in work under this society, during the past year. THE story is told of Fred Arnot, that when he was a small lad he heard David Livingstone address a meeting. Said the speaker, "The smallest boy here can resolve to go to Africa." Looking around and seeing that he was the smallest boy present, the young fellow thought, "That means me," and he made the resolve. How it has been carried out, those who are keeping themselves posted on current missionary news will know. 'THERE'S a tiptop book, Ellis, you can take to read if you want to. I've just read it, and it's a splendid story.' 'Then I should like to read it. I don't very often get a chance at a new book. But I think books are the best of anything, and when I'm a man I mean to have stacks of them. Mother and I read together, and then we talk over what we've been reading about; so it's twice as good as if I read it alone.' 'Is that the way you do?' 'Of course it is. Why shouldn't I? Mother and I are all the family there is left, and we do everything we can together. I tell you, my mother is the best company I ever had. She is as good as she can be. She goes singing around the house, making a fellow feel rich no matter what he has for dinner.' 'No, and it wouldn't make any difference if she was; she'd be my mother all the same.' 'To be sure she would. But if you take this book, you must keep it out of her sight and read it on the sly.' 'Because she won't like it. My mother'd make a great fuss if she knew I read such a book.' 'Then what do you read it for? What is the matter with the book? You said it was splendid.' 'So it is, but your mother would not think so.' 'Then it is not so, for I tell you my mother knows. I will not read anything on the sly. I do not do business that way, and I advise you not to. My mother knows best.' 'If you think so, I do not suppose it is any use to try to make you think different.' 'No, sir, it is not; and I advise you to do as your mother wants you to. You have a bad book, or you would not talk about it as you do, and you had better burn it up.' So one boy was loyal to his mother and to his own higher nature; but two others were found who could be more easily influenced. They read the book, though, and talked of the exciting scenes described in it, and were thus prepared for further reading of the same kind. Lessons were neglected, and occasionally there was a day's truancy from school. The evil did not stop there. Absolute falsehoods followed fast upon deception; and then a petty theft was committed in the village. It was charged at once to the three boys who were constantly together and who were known to be habitual readers of highly sensational books and papers. They were suspected of reading even worse books, and all this told against them. For their parents' sake they were saved the disgrace of a public trial. Upon acknowledgment of their guilt and promise of amendment, the prosecution against them was withdrawn and every effort was made to reclaim them from their evil ways. But the die was cast. Vile books had done their work of pollution. These boys grew up reckless, dissipated men, with low tastes and gross manners, while the boy who trusted his mother was honorable and honored. Don't do anything on the sly, for be sure your sin will find you out. Don't look at a picture you would not be willing to show to mother. The boys tried in our courts for the commission of crimes, are those who have read bad books; the boys who are serving out sentences in houses of correction and State prisons, are those who have read bad books. Don't read them. Don't trust yourself to read one. Evil communications corrupt good manners, and evil words upon a printed page corrupt both soul and body. Do not read them.—National Presbyterian. THE BURMESE BIBLE.
By Little Helpers
THE Bible was translated into the Burmese language by Dr. Judson. It takes many years of study and labor to translate the whole of the Scriptures into any language, and it was twenty years after Mr. Judson reached Burmah before he finished this work. By this time he so well understood the hard Burmese tongue, so well knew all the shades of meaning, that I believe this Burmese Bible is one of the best and most faithful translations of God's word that ever was made. Just before Mr. and Mrs. Judson went to live in "the golden city," he had finished the New Testament. A part of it had been printed, but the larger part was only in writing. On the 8th of June, 1824, early in the war between England and Burmah, Mr. Judson was taken from his home in Ava, and thrust into prison. Mrs. Judson then took this precious manuscript, and, with her silver and a few things of value, buried it in the earth under the house. But it could not long stay there, for it was the rainy season, and the dampness would soon cause it to mold. It could not be returned to the house, for, if found by the Burmans, it would be destroyed. When Mr. and Mrs. Judson, three days later, met at the door of his prison, and were permitted to speak a few words to each other, one of the first questions asked by Mr. Judson was, "Where is the New Testament manuscript?" When told, he said he would try to take care of it. So Mrs. Judson put the treasure inside of a roll of cotton, carefully sewed it up, then put on a cover, and Mr. Judson used it for a pillow. It looked so poor and hard that not even the keeper, who wanted almost everything, coveted it. When the missionary had been a prisoner seven months, suddenly a change came. The little bamboo room, which Mrs. Judson had been allowed to have made for her husband in the prison-yard, was torn down, the pillow and mats were scattered, and Mr. Judson, with the other white prisoners, hurried into the inner prison. Two more pairs of fetters were put upon their ankles,—they already had three pairs,—and there fastened to a bamboo pole, more than a hundred men expected to be killed before the morning. Mr. Judson afterward said that, even during this terrible night, he thought of his pillow, and wondered if its precious contents would ever fall into the hands of his wife; and he even thought how he might have better translated some passages of the divine word. The keeper, to whose share the pillow fell, gladly exchanged it for a good one brought by Mrs. Judson, with, perhaps, some wonder that the white man should prefer the poorer to the better one. Later in the season, when Mr. Judson was hurried away to Oung-pen-la, he, in common with the other prisoners, was robbed of nearly all his clothing, and allowed to take nothing with him. One of the jailers untied the mat which was used as a cover to the precious pillow, and threw into the yard what he thought was worthless cotton. A few hours later, Moung Ing, one of the native Christians, in looking about found the roll, and took it home with him as a relic of the prisoners. Months after, the manuscript was found within the cotton and not at all hurt. Soon after the close of the war the New Testament was printed and given to the Burmans; and, in 1834, the whole of the Bible was in the language of the country. The day it was finished, Dr. Judson knelt down with the last leaf in his hand, and asked God to use it in "filling all Burmah with songs of praise to our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ." If a lamp wick is trimmed by shears, cutting it across just below the charred part, one end will almost certainly be left higher than the other. In such a case the wick cannot be turned up enough to give much light, because the higher end of it will begin to smoke before the remainder of it gives out one-quarter of the light which it should. If the wick is cut straight across, the flame will be irregular. This kind of a flame is caused by inequalities of combustion at the sides and ends of the wick. To cut a wick exactly square across is almost impossible, even if it were best; and a flame with a low center and a tall, flaring, smoky horn on each end is a bad flame. It is bad for the lamp chimneys and for the eyes. No lamp which has such a flame is properly trimmed. If one tries to avoid the horned flame by rounding off the ends of the wick, an imperfect flame will result. This flame may not crack chimneys, but it will give out but little light. It shows an honest attempt to trim the lamp properly, but an605unsuccessful one. To secure a good flame, the lamp trimmer should be instructed to turn the wick up until about one-eighth of an inch projects above the brass sheath. Next, let him take off the charred portion. Let this be done with the forefinger and thumb. Cutting with shears, besides the mischiefs already set forth, will take off more than is necessary. Rubbing off the charred portion with the back of a knife or a blunt edge of any kind, will generally leave fibres which will cause an uneven light. With the finger and thumb just enough can be taken off, and taken off smoothly. All that will not easily break off is good, sound wick, no matter how black it may be. To cut a wick down to the very white every time it is trimmed, results in a waste of one-half of it. After pinching off the burned portion of the wick, take just as little off the corners of it as a sharp pair of shears will take hold of and cut. There is always more danger that too much will be taken off than too little. But if just the right quantity is removed, and the cuts on the two corners are made at the same angle, the lamps will give out a broad, white flame. To trim a new wick, turn the wick down until the loose and unraveled end projects from the brass sheath, and light it before the oil fills it. It will quickly burn down to the sheath, leaving a straight edge, and can then be trimmed as directed above. The end can as well be burned down to the sheath before the wick is put into the oil.—The Analyst. The Home Circle.
By Grace S. Brown
"Come ye yourselves apart, and rest awhile."
O THOU who feel'st life's journey long,
And fain would'st, with a listless song,
The time beguile,
Leave thou the world, its gain, its loss,
Come sit beneath the Saviour's cross,
And rest awhile.
O thou poor, weary, anxious one,
Toiling from morn till set of sun.
Nor yet one smile
To soothe that dull and aching heart,
Oh, come now from yourself apart,
And rest awhile.
Thou child of pleasure, bright and gay,
Happy and thoughtless day by day,
Thou, too, need'st rest;
Lest in thy joy and selfish pride,
Thou should'st forget the One who died
To make thee blest.
And thou, e'en though thy life hath been
One long and unrepented sin,
So dark, so vile;
Though all the world oppress and hate,
He calls thee now, ere 'tis too late,
To rest awhile.
—Grace S. Brown. FALLING HAIR.
By Christian Advocate
THE hair, like the nails, is very much affected by the various conditions of the physical frame. One of the first indications of falling vigor is the dryness of the hair, its falling off, or its turning gray. It is said that washing the head with sage tea will prevent its falling; some recommend water with a little ammonia in it; a diet of coarse food, of bread made of the whole grain, and of the great variety of mushes, is said to improve the color of the hair. Iron and sulphur, which give the hair its color, iron predominating in black hair, and sulphur in red and chestnut, are found in the husk of the grain, the part rejected by those who eat only fine flour. Unventilated hats and head-gear, which is heavy as well as warm, are apt to make the hair fall. Italian, Greek, and Spanish women, who never wear hats and are much in the open air, have an abundant and luxuriant growth of this much-prized ornament of woman. But we warn our readers against all patent nostrums that pretend to restore or stimulate the growth of the hair. They contain Spanish flies, or bismuth, or lead, which are poisons—the minerals producing paralysis and sometimes death, and the cantharides raising minute blisters or irritating the surface, and ultimately doing more harm than good. SAYING HIS "A B C" TO GOD.
THE bells were ringing for church, while the little shepherd boy was obliged to keep watch over the sheep. But in his heart there grew up a longing to pray to God, as they were doing in church. He had, however, never been taught any prayer, and kneeling down, he began with closed eyes and folded hands, saying the alphabet, "A B C," and on to the end. "What are you doing, my little man?" said a gentleman passing on the other side of the hedge. "Please, sir, I was praying," replied the boy. "But why were you saying your letters?" "Why," said the little fellow, "I didn't know any prayer, only I felt I wanted God to take care of me and help me to take care of the sheep. So I thought if I said all I knew he would put it together and spell all I wanted." "Bless your heart, my little man? He will. When the heart speaks right, the lips can't say wrong," wisely answered his questioner.—Sel. A MAN who climbed to the top of Pike's Peak one July day found the signal service officer melting snow for his water supply, his only resource. The officer said: "Sometimes I stand at the window with my telescope. The wind without is keen and cutting as a knife. I can see the houses of Colorado Springs, twenty miles away, the visitors sitting in their shirt sleeves sipping iced drinks to keep cool, and ladies walking about in white summer robes. I lower the glass; the summer scene is gone. Green trees, animal life, men and women fade away like creatures in a dream, and I am the only living thing in a world of eternal ice and snow and silence."
—Northwest Tribune. Health and Temperance.
By John Ellis, M. D.
EVILS OF IMPROPER EATING.
DISREGARDING the legitimate use for which he should eat and drink—that is, that he shall eat and drink to build up a healthy body, or to live—man has perverted this department of his being, or has come to live to eat and drink for pleasure rather than for health, and to make the attainment of such gratifications one of the chief objects of his life; and not satisfied with plain, wholesome, nourishing food, he seeks out those substances which stimulate his perverted passions. As a result, gluttony and drunkenness cover the land, and degrade man, the noblest work of God, beneath the brute; for he sacrifices, to gratify his unhallowed cravings, his freedom, and becomes an abject slave to his appetite; his rationality, and becomes a fool; and even his instincts, and thereby sinks himself beneath the brute, at least for the time being. A large share of the diseases, which the physician is called to treat, have their origin in the perversion of the appetites by which man's body is nourished and sustained. We see then, that directly or indirectly, diseases are but an effect of the evils in the heart of man; and these evils are a perversion of God-given faculties and appetite; not always with the individual suffering, for diseases are sometimes transmitted from parents to offspring; and a tendency to diseases similar to those which have afflicted parents, is generally transmitted to their offspring. The child has thus to suffer physical consequences which result from the evils of his parents. So the child inherits a tendency to the predominant spiritual evils of his parents; but this inheritance is not his fault, and he only becomes evil when he voluntarily does evil, or that which he knows to be wrong himself. If the hereditary inclination to do evil is so strong that the child or man cannot avoid acting it out, or doing evil, and therefore he is not in freedom to do or not to do, he is either insane or a fool, and not responsible for his acts.—John Ellis, M. D. Drunkenness Is Crime
By John Ruskin
DRUNKENNESS is not only the cause of crime, but it is crime; and if any encourage drunkenness for the sake of the profit derived from the sale of drink, they are guilty of a form of moral assassination as criminal as any that has ever been practiced by the braves of any country or of any age.—Ruskin. Sanitary Effects of Soft-Coal Smoke
THE belief that smoke from soft coal may have beneficial sanitary effects is gaining ground. It is claimed that the sulphur in the coal, when burned, becomes sulphurous acid gas, a well-known disinfectant. Further, that creosote and its allied products are thrown off with the fumes of bituminous coal, and that an atmosphere charged with carbolic acid must be freer from germs of disease than an apparently purer air.—Public Opinion. A Useful Cleansing Mixture
A good cleansing mixture may be made with two ounces of liquid ammonia, two ounces bar soap finely shaved, and two teaspoonfuls powdered saltpeter. Put these ingredients into a large, open-mouthed bottle, and add one and one-half pints of warm water. It will be ready for use in two or three days. It is well adapted for washing delicate-colored articles, also to add to the water for shampooing the head. Mixed with water and sprayed upon plants, it will kill any insects infesting them, and also act as a fertilizer. Liquor’s Innocent Victims
By Editor
THE following item from the Metropolitan Sun, of Austin, Texas, is a sad but forcible answer to the assertion so often made that liquor hurts only those who drink it:— "On the 7th of August a drunken white man in Waco, shooting at another white man, killed little Rosa Roberts, a dear, bright girl of ten years, and daughter of our good brother, B. W. Roberts, presiding elder in the Central Texas Conference. "What a calamity to the family, their dear daughter passing along the street, molesting no one, is suddenly shot down, and after four days of agony, dies." THE GREAT MAJORITY BENEFITED.
By Iowa State Register
SUPPOSING a man can get a glass of whisky in Des Moines, if he works like a burglar to get it, what of it? For every man who knows where to get it, there are 5,000 young men who don't know. For every man who sneaks like a thief through some blind alley or into some barn to get a drink, there are 5,000 who walk the street like honest men and are never tempted by the sight of an open saloon. For every man who drops a dime or a dollar in a hole-in-the-wall, there are 5,000 workingmen whose weekly wages now go to buy food and clothing and the comforts of life for their families, and not a cent into the tills of saloon keepers.—Iowa State Register. —The new fortifications of Paris have cost $750,000,000. —China has just negotiated a loan in Hamburg of $40,000,000. —M. Stevanoff, president of the Bulgarian Sobranje, died the 15th inst. —September 16 was the seventy-ninth anniversary of Mexican independence. —The Boutin sugar refinery near Bordeaux, France, was burned the 15th inst., at a loss of $250,000. —It is reported that twenty-five thousand families in Montenegro are threatened with famine. —Louisville, Ky., had an $800,000 fire the night of the 15th inst. Six firemen were killed by falling walls. —An overissue of fraudulent bonds of 1880, amounting to nearly $1,000,000, has been discovered in Louisiana. —A riot recently occurred on Navassa Island, in the Caribbean Sea, in which a number of Americans were killed. —The safe of the Iron Exchange Bank at Hurley, Wis., was blown open the night of the 20th inst., and $44,500 stolen. —Recent dispatches from Auckland state that King Malietoa has been quietly restored to power in Samoa once more. —Tsui Kuo Yin, the new Chinese Minister to the United States, arrived in San Francisco from Hongkong the 18th inst. —Recent prairie and field fires in San Mateo County, Cal., have done heavy damage. Two towns narrowly escaped destruction. —In target practice with smokeless powder, Italian military authorities say double the usual number of hits have been made. —Two young ladies were killed by lightning while sitting in a class in Sunday-school near Columbia City, Ind., the 15th inst. —A colored barber of Lima, O., is said to have fallen heir to a fortune of $5,000,000 worth of real estate in Logansport, Ind. —The late Professor Elias Loomis of Massachusetts bequeathed the bulk of his estate, amounting to about $300,000, to Yale College. —The Shah of Persia has taken a fancy to Mrs. John W. Mackay, the wife of the millionaire, and offers to purchase her, it is said. —The extensive oil refineries of Leonard and Ellis at Shadyside, N. J., were totally destroyed by fire on the 21st inst., at a loss of $500,000. —It is reported that no less than two hundred people have been killed by the brigands of Macedonia within the past two months. —The State constitutional convention of Wyoming provides that each voter shall be able to read before exercising the privilege of the ballot. —A terrible famine prevails throughout the Tigre State of Abyssinia. Bands of starving peasants are ravaging the country around Sokota. —The Spanish government intends to lay a cable between the Canary Islands and Porto Rico, thus connecting Spain with Porto Rico and Cuba. —W. B. Webb, the former Territorial secretary of Montana, was arrested at Helena the 17th inst. for embezzlement of public funds while in office. —The English and Italian governments declare the slave traffic to be piracy, and have pledged themselves to use their utmost efforts to suppress it. —A London journal states that shirts of chain armor, which cost about £100, are now worn by more than one distinguished person on the Continent. —An express train ran into a freight at Tioga Junction, Pa., September 15, killing some three or four persons and wounding fifteen or twenty more. —The Spanish government is much distressed at the steady increase of emigration of able-bodied peasants and the working classes, to South America. —It is proposed to introduce the cultivation of the sugar beet on a large scale in Pennsylvania. Probably the experiment will be tried in Berks County. —The thousands of negroes who have removed from the Carolinas to the valley of the Mississippi are to be followed by a colony of 400 families of poor whites. —A yacht from Detroit, Mich., bound for Cleveland, O., with nine persons aboard, foundered during a storm on Lake Erie the night of the 17th inst. All on board were lost. —Secretary Tracy has decided to have the two new 3,000-ton cruisers built at the Government Navy Yards, as none of the bids received for their construction came within the limit. —A Mormon emigrant train containing 160 passengers went through a bridge near Lynchburg, Va., totally wrecking two cars, but, strange to say, doing no serious injury to the occupants. —A woman and her two-year-old child were burned to death and two other children terribly injured by the explosion of a coal-oil lamp in San Francisco the night of the 16th inst. —Miss Sallie Bull of Alaska was appointed to a position in the Department of the Interior on the 17th inst. This is the first appointment to the department service on record from Alaska. —Mrs. Eva Hamilton, a prominent lady in New York society, who stabbed her domestic servant at Atlantic City, N. J., recently, was sentenced to two years in the State prison at Trenton, the 19th inst. —Jessie Wentworth Payson, chief author of the Payson, Dunton & Scribner copy books, died at Hyde Park, Mass., the 17th inst., aged 74 years. She was known as one of the greatest artistic penmen of the world. —The Boston Peace Jubilee with cannon and anvil chorus, under the management of P. S. Gilmore, will be reproduced in San Francisco the 11th of November, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Jubilee at Boston in 1869. —On account of the burning of a bridge on the Central Pacific near the summit of the Rockies, recently, hundreds of passengers and tons of mail matter were delayed on either side of a gorge in the mountains for several days. —The Tonga steamer Wainui, recently landed at Auckland with the crew of the British ship Garston, which foundered in the mid-Pacific ocean recently. The shipwrecked sailors were twenty-two days in an open boat without food or water. —A justice of the peace at Norwalk, Conn., recently sentenced a little boy only six years of age to the State reformatory for fifteen years, for quarrelling with another child on the street. An appeal has been entered against the ridiculous sentence. —It is now stated that notwithstanding the paucity of the United States exhibit at Paris, our country will come out in the matter of awards much better than any of the foreign nations, on account of the superiority of American design and workmanship. —Secretary Noble has directed that the lands in Colorado and New Mexico, upon which are located the prehistoric ruins and mounds of the "cliff-dwellers," shall be withdrawn from settlement until the historical value of these ruins can be ascertained. —A desperate conflict is reported as having taken place in Mexico, near the Rio Grande, recently, in which four hundred natives engaged in a bloody fight with Mexican officers and soldiers, over the collection of enormous taxes. The soldiers were compelled to retire. —The American National Colored Baptist Convention, just closed in Indianapolis, passed a resolution asking President Harrison to recommend to Congress the passage of a bill appropriating $100,000,000 to enable the colored people to leave the South and colonize in the Western States. —Several thousand tons of rock slid from the promontory known as Cape Diamond, in Quebec, Ont., the 19th inst., falling three hundred feet into the street below, crushing several buildings, and burying over fifty people in the ruins. Up to the date of this writing, twenty-eight dead and eighteen injured victims have been taken out. —Neagle, who killed Judge Terry recently for his attack on Chief Justice Field, was acquitted at San Francisco the 15th inst. by Judge Sawyer of the United States Court. The State of California has declared its intention of filing an appeal, on account of the trial of Neagle being taken out of its jurisdiction by the Federal Court. —The official trial of the new cruiser Baltimore, took place the 14th inst. The development of 10,000 horse-power, which is 1,000 horse-power above the contract, will entitle the builders to a premium of $100,000, while in point of speed, her attainment of over twenty knots an hour makes this vessel the fleetest man-of-war in the world. —There are now in France only about one hundred and thirty McAll missions; about one-third of them in Paris and two-thirds in the provinces; and yet they secured a total attendance of nearly 1,200,000 persons at the gospel preaching service alone in the last twelve months. —Dr. A. T. Pierson thinks that the world could be evangelized—not converted, but have the gospel preached—in eleven years. He says: "If Ahasuerus could send a decree through 127 provinces (2,000 by 1,200 miles) in less than nine months, surely we can cover thirteen times the space in eleven years. —The largest building for Sunday-school purposes in Brooklyn will be the new edifice connected with the Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church. Its cost will be $80,000. Included in the accommodations of the building will be reception rooms and rooms for committee meetings, which will hold about twelve hundred persons. —The Protestant Episcopal diocese of Indiana presents the following statistics: Clergy, 34; lay readers licensed, 34; parishes, 39; organized missions, 13; churches and chapels, 56; families, 1,824; communicants, 5,554; Sunday-school teachers, 234; scholars, 2,797; value of property—churches, $539,560; rectories, $66,000; total, $605,560. Total of offerings, $75,426.33. —The Canadian Missionary Mackay, on the Chinese island of Formosa, is very strongly advocating the training of native preachers for the work among their countrymen. One of his reasons is an economical one; an American, even if he lives like a native, will cost $1,000, whilst a genuine native will live on $100. Still, the training of a native ministry must be done by foreigners. —The Jewish Times and Observer says that "the existence of a colony of Jews in China has been long since established, but their isolation leaves us in general ignorance of their history, their government, their habits or customs." It is stated, however, that Rev. Dr. Glover, of Cambridge, Mass., who has made the Jews of China a special study, is endeavoring to learn something more definite concerning them. —A year or two ago the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity of New York City imported a pastor from England, and for so doing was fined $1,000. During the present month a number of foreign professors for the new Roman Catholic University at Washington, D. C., will arrive in this country. Protestants are anxiously watching to see, whether the law will be impartially enforced in their cases. —Lieutenant Wood of the U. S. navy, who has recently returned from the China station where he had served for several years, has made the statement that he believes "that there is not a Chinese convert of sound mind within the extent of China." He unhesitatingly pronounces Christian missions a failure. The Lieutenant's statement has provoked a great deal of sharp criticism from both Protestants and Catholics, the latter being especially caustic. —According to the Christian at Work, thirty-four missionary societies are at work in Africa, and all its 200,000,000 souls are practically within the reach of Christian missions. Thirty-three societies have begun work in China, and all its 350,000,000 souls may be visited with the message of the gospel. More than fifty societies have entered India, and the light is dawning upon its 250,000,000. Turkey and Persia and Japan are filling with mission churches and mission schools. Practically the whole world is open to the gospel. SALISBURY.—Died in Battle Creek, Mich., August 16, 1889, of cholera infantum, Clara Irene, daughter of W. D. and Belle F. Salisbury, aged 1 year, 11 months, and 8 days. She was a bright child, more than ordinarily winsome, and the blow fell heavily; but the afflicted parents sorrow not as those that have no hope. Remarks at the funeral from Job 1: 21.
W. C. GAGE. CHILDEARS.—Died at Emporia, Kan., July 28, 1889, of nervous typhoid fever, after an illness of only eight days, Nellie, youngest daughter of Abram and Sara Childears, aged 15 years and 4 months. Nellie was a member of our Sabbath-school, and was loved and esteemed by all who knew her; and through her example in patience and obedience in the faithful performance of what her hands found to do, she will live in the memory of those with whom she mingled. She was laid to rest in Lena Valley, Greenwood County. The funeral was attended by a large number of relatives and friends. The services were held in the M. E. church. Text: 1 Thess. 4: 18.
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By Editor
The above is the title of an important new pamphlet which we have just issued. The object of the work is "to defend the faith of Seventh-day Adventists on the single point of the change of the Sabbath, and who is responsible for that change." All the evidence is from those who favored the observance of Sunday. Here will be found a strong array of testimony against the idea that there is any Scriptural authority for Sunday keeping, and all this evidence is given by those who Believe in the Observance of Sunday.
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