ONE reason why there are so many the victims of this habit is because there are so many ministers of religion who smoke and chew. They smoke until they get the bronchitis, and the dear people have to pay their expenses to Europe. They smoke until the nervous system breaks down. They smoke themselves to death. I could name three eminent clergymen who died of cancer in the mouth; and in every case the physician said it was tobacco. There has been many a clergyman whose tombstone was all covered up with eulogy, which ought to have had the honest epitaph: "Killed by Too Much Cavendish." Some of them smoke until the room is blue, and their spirits are blue, and the world is blue, and everything is blue. Time was when God passed by such sins; but it becomes now the duty of the American clergy who indulge in this narcotic to repent.
How can a man preach temperance to the people when he is himself indulging in an appetite like that? I have seen a cuspidor in a pulpit, where the minister should drop his quid before he gets up to read, "Blessed are the pure in heart," and to read about "rolling sin as a sweet morsel under the tongue," and in Leviticus to read about the unclean animals that chew the cud. I have known presbyteries and general assemblies and general synods where there was a room set apart for the ministers to smoke. Oh, it is a sorry spectacle, a consecrated man, a holy man of God, looking around for something which you take to be looking for a larger field of usefulness. He is not looking for that at all. He is only looking for some place where he can discharge a mouthful of tobacco juice.
I am glad the Methodist Church of the United States in nearly all of their conferences have passed resolutions against this habit; and it is time we had an anti-tobacco reform in the Presbyterian Church and the Episcopal Church and the Baptist Church and the Congregational Church. About sixty years ago, a young man graduated from Andover Theological Seminary into the ministry. He went straight to the front. He had an eloquence and personal magnetism before which nothing could stand; but he was soon thrown into the insane asylum for twenty years; and the doctor said it was tobacco that sent him there. According to the custom then in vogue, he was allowed a small portion of tobacco every day. After he had been there nearly twenty years, walking the floor one day, he had a sudden return of reason, and he realized what was the matter. He threw the plug of tobacco through the iron gates, and said: "What brought me here? What keeps me here? Why am I here? Tobacco! Tobacco! O God, help! Help, and I'll never use it again." He was restored. He was brought forth. For ten years more he successfully preached the gospel of Jesus Christ.
There are ministers of religion to-day indulging in narcotics, dying by inches; and they do not know what is the matter with them. I might, in a word, give my own experience. It took ten cigars to make a sermon. I got very nervous. One day I awakened to the outrage I was inflicting upon myself. I was about to change settlements, and a generous wholesale tobacconist in Philadelphia said if I would only come to Philadelphia he would all the rest of my life provide me with cigars free of charge. I said to myself: If, in these war times, when cigars are so costly and my salary is small, I smoke more than I ought to, what would I do if I had gratuitous and illimited supply? And then and there, twenty-four years ago, I quit once and forever. It made a new man of me; and though I have since then done as much hard work as any one, I think I have had the best health God ever blessed a man with. A minister of religion cannot afford to smoke. Put into my hand the moneys wasted in tobacco in Brooklyn, and I will support three orphan asylums as grand and as beautiful as those already established. Put into my hand the moneys wasted in tobacco in the United States of America, and I will clothe, feed, and shelter all the suffering poor on this continent. The American church gives $1,000,000 a year for the evangelization of the heathen, and American Christians spend $5,000,000 in tobacco.
News and Notes.
By Editor
—Bees stung a cow to death at Haywards, Cal., recently.
—The coming crop of oranges in Florida is estimated at 1,000,000 boxes.
—Small-pox in virulent form is reported to have broken out at Fort Davis, Texas.
—The use of the German language has been made obligatory in the German Parliament.
—The average longevity of newspapers in France is said to be the same as that of man.
—By the explosion of fire-damp in a mine near Saarbruck, Germany, recently eighteen miners were killed.
—At Salt Lake, June 26, the grand jury presented nine indictments for polygamy and unlawful cohabitation.
—The Chinese are in quandary, as some of the torpedoes submerged near some of the ports have gone adrift.
—The American steamer, City of Tokio, has stranded near Yokohama, Japan, and is a total wreck. Loss, about 1,500,000.
—Mrs. Carl Myers, of Mohawk, N. Y., has invented a flying-machine upon which she has recently obtained letters patent.
—It is said that a rudimentary toy illustrating the principles of the modern telephone has been used in China for the past 2,000 years.
—In Persia, no Christian is permitted to enter the public baths; but in Turkey they can visit the baths but not bathe with the followers of the prophet.
—A valuable mine of gold has been found in Shasta Co., Cal. A seventy-dollar chunk was taken out of the rock, and a panful of the rock contained fully $2,000.
—Among the so-called “insanities,” bad spelling is now classed by an Eastern writer. If the kinds of insanity are extended much farther we shall all be “insane.”
—Sir Charles Dilke, of the new English Ministry, announces that he proposes to devise a plan for the establishment of State Governments in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.
—The depopulation of France has been receiving considerable attention of late. M. Levant proposes that parents having more than two children be exempted from taxation.
—Parnell has succeeded in getting his candidate, Dr. Walsh, appointed archbishop of Dublin. This appointment has caused almost unbounded joy among the nationalists.
—As a result of the recent explosion of the powder mill at Luca, Italy, very few of the employees escaped death. Up to June 24, twelve bodies were recovered from the ruins.
—A posse of officers and citizens on the border of Indian Territory and Texas recently gave chase to a large gang of horse thieves and succeeded in capturing and hanging fifteen of the gang.
—Before Gladstone retired from office, he raised Sir Nathan Rothschild to the dignity of a peer. The Jews are much elated in having a representative of their race in the House of Lords.
—Mrs. Emily C. Jump, who six years ago was the leading soprano in Mapleson’s Italian Opera Company, was committed to jail by a New York City police court for being a common drunkard.
—Rebecca Samuels, in Barnesville, S. C., who is but twelve years old, has been convicted of the murder of a six-week’s old infant she was nursing. This is the second child she has killed in two years.
—Charles A. Buddensick, the builder, whose row of buildings in New York fell in a heap and killed many people, April 25, has been justly sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of $500.
—An Italian ship has been sheathed with glass to take the place of copper sheathings. The advantages claimed for glass over copper are its insensibility to oxidation and its exemption from incrustation.
—The British House of Commons has voted 6,000 pounds sterling (about $30,000) a year to Princess Beatrice while she lives. This makes about $4,298,145 that Great Britain now pays each year for the support of the royal family. That looks like a very expensive luxury to the people, but probably they enjoy it, and there can be no shadow of doubt that royalty enjoys it hugely.
—Balfour, chief secretary of Ireland, who has been permitted by the present premier, Salisbury, to speak for him, in a recent speech, said: “He [Salisbury] desires to see Ireland governed by equal laws with England.”
—The German Government has discharged all women who were employed in its postal, telegraph, and railway service, and much suffering has ensued. The motive alleged is that women are unfit for such public service.”
—A Syrian, who claims to have passed three months at the residence of the Mahdi after the fall of Khartoum, says that General Gordon was wounded, but that he has recovered and is held by the Mahdi as a prisoner.
—The Chronicle (S. F.) of June 27, says: “Whales are quite numerous off this port, and their spouting is plainly visible from Point Lobos, on a clear day. On Thursday last, several very large ones were bold enough to come inside the heads.”
—A gentleman who remonstrated with the conductor on an Alabama train for expelling a colored clergyman and his wife from the train when they had paid full fare, was threatened with a revolver and finally beaten nearly to death.
—The San Francisco Chronicle, of June 23, gives a sketch, taken from the New York Sun, showing that the eucalyptus, the large tree of Australia, far exceeds in height our largest tree, the sequoia, some of the first being about 500 feet high.
—It is said of the cholera in Spain that, “while Madrid politicians are upsetting the ministers and squabbling over King Alfonso’s wish to visit Murcia, loyal Spaniards are dying like flies, in the plague-stricken plains between Alicante and Castillon.”
—June 22, a silk-reeling school was formally opened, at No. 21 Montgomery Avenue, San Francisco. The instruction is free for an eight weeks’ course. All who prove to be adepts by the end of the term will be employed by the State Board of Silk Culture.
—The police of San Francisco recently gave chase to a couple of house thieves and succeeded in capturing one, but the other escaped to a room where they afterwards found eight ex-convicts, some of whom were smoking opium. The police took charge of the gang.
—June 22, Thomas Knott jumped from the middle of the Newport and Cincinnati Railroad bridge to the water, 105 feet below. He was unhurt and commenced immediately to swim for shore. He says he did not do it with intent to commit suicide, but from a sudden impulse.
—A circular issued by the Law and Order League of Portland, Me., where the Grand Army hold an encampment, has created considerable opposition from members of the Grand Army. The circular was to the effect that all liquors consigned to members of the Grand Army would be seized.
—The cholera scourge is working fearful havoc in parts of Spain. Already about 4,200 deaths have been reported, and the mortality is said to be about four out of every nine attacked. It has commenced so early that we may expect some parts of the country will be nearly depopulated by the plague before the summer passes.
—The Maxwell-Preller murder case of St. Louis, is exciting a good deal of comment. It seems that Preller’s life was insured for a large sum of money in an English life insurance company, which sum the company refuses to pay until a thorough examination is had to determine whether or not the body found in the St. Louis coffin was a fraud.
—An extraordinary case of mistaken identity occurred in Paris, last month. A body at the morgue was identified by four children, two sons and two daughters, as their father. The children, after signing the papers of identification, went home, to find when he had been last seen, and behold, to their great surprise he was there, alive and well.
—Dr. Max Busch has just won a prize of 40,000 francs for discovering the following test for ascertaining whether a person is really dead: Hold the hand of the supposed dead person up to a strong light and if a scarlet tinge is observed between the fingers, the blood still circulates and the person is alive; but if the scarlet tinge does not appear, life is extinct.
—It is proposed to send forth an International Commission that will undertake the thorough examination of the Great Pyramid of Egypt. The Khedive has given permission to make all needed excavations that will not injure the pyramid, and also to preserve and carry away a portion of whatever relics may be discovered. Twenty thousand dollars has already been offered to the Commission.
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THE HONOR DUE TO GOD.
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BY ELD. E. J. WAGGONER.
This is a candid examination of the question as to what the Lord expects from his children as an acceptable manifestation of gratitude for his gifts and care. It treats the important subject of tithes and offerings in a new and interesting way. Its arguments are clear and concise. It is a plain and faithful presentation of the truth of God's word on the important subject. An idea of the scope of the work may be obtained from the following brief synopsis:—
CHAPTER I.
Man's Duty to Love God Supremely.—God's Pleasure Man's Profit.—Love is Active, not Passive.—Two Ways of Honoring God—with Our Time and Our Substance.—Tithing Rests on Same Foundation as Sabbath.—The Right of Property; Everything is the Lord's.—Tithing Not Peculiar to Jewish Dispensation.
CHAPTER II.
First Instance of Payment of Tithes.—What the Tithe Is.—Jacob's Vow.
CHAPTER III.
From What is the Tithe to be Paid?—When Shall It Be Laid Aside?—Redeeming the Tithe.—Object of the Tithe.—Nehemiah's Example.—Offerings; Various Kinds in Old Dispensation.—David's Example.—Christian Obligation.
CHAPTER IV.
Difference Between Tithes and Offerings.—Offerings to be Given Willingly.—Modern Methods of Raising Money for Church Support Contrasted with Ancient.—Tithe Must Be Paid Continuously.—Church Expenses; How Raised in Ancient Times.—Support of the Poor; Bible Plan.—A Second Tithe.
CHAPTER V.
Who Should Pay Tithes.—Who should Make Offerings.—The Promise of God.
CHAPTER VI.
Parable of Rich Man; Luke 12:15-21.—"Rich Toward God."—Parable of the Unjust Steward.—Children of this World Wiser than Children of Light.—Why God Requires Men to Give of Their Means.
CHAPTER VII.
Systematic Giving.—Impossible to Discharge Our Obligations Without a Plan in Giving.—Purposing in the Heart.—How to Make Duty a Pleasure.—Giving One of the Christian Graces.
CHAPTER VIII.
An Objection; Tithing Not Mentioned by the Apostles.—The Reason Why.—Not One-tenth Merely, but All Belongs to God.—"Sell That Ye Have, and Give Alms."—When Does this Command Apply?
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The Congregational Club.
By Editor
SEVERAL times we have noticed the sayings of the Congregational Ministers' Club of San Francisco. The following on the Millennium and the Advent we take from the report of a club meeting in the San Francisco Chronicle:—
"Rev. Charles Savage of Berkeley presided at the meeting of the Congregational Club yesterday, at which Rev. Mr. Tobey read a paper on the "Second Coming of Christ," reviewing an article on that subject recently published in an English magazine. Christians generally, he remarked, believed in the personal second coming of Christ. The great point of difference was whether that coming was to be before or after the millennium. He agreed with the author of the article reviewed that Christ would come in person before the millennium; when, no one could say, but all should watch therefor. He did not think the world was ever to be converted by the preaching of the gospel. At the rate of progress made at present that would take ten millions of years, or more.
"In the general discussion which followed, none of the speakers supported the premillennial view. Rev. Mr. Dexter thought the second coming of Christ was spiritual, not personal, and Rev. Mr. Pond declared he had no faith in the second coming of Christ, and no desire for it.
"Rev. Dr. Beckwith remarked that the Irvingites, apostolic brethren and others who made the premillennial advent doctrine prominent in their preaching, had their Christian influence paralyzed thereby."
"Rev. Mr. Tobey observed in reply that he did not make a hobby of the doctrine, but believed it and occasionally preached it."
The Scriptures abundantly prove that Christ will come again; but if his coming is not personal it is because, as the minister in Chicago well said, they have no personal Saviour. To such, Jesus is mythical.
But the statement of "Rev. Mr. Pond" that he has no desire for the coming of Christ, places him in a bad light according to Paul's letter to Timothy. He says the crown of righteousness is laid up for all them that "love his appearing." And he also says that Christ will come "unto salvation" to them who look for him. Heb. 9:28. The "religion of the period," the "advanced church thought," is that which says, "My Lord delayeth his coming," and scoffingly asks, "Where is the promise of his coming?" We are not surprised to see this phase of religion come to the front; it has been "advertised" by Christ and his apostles.
But they who are acquainted with the efforts of those who really believe that "the coming of the Lord draweth nigh," and who have the present truth to proclaim, will be surprised at the statement of Dr. Beckwith that "Christian influence" is paralyzed thereby. But then it depends upon what is called Christian influence. We well remember the remark of one reputed to be "an earnest Christian worker," who regretted that we had held meetings in the place, as they had proved so injurious to religion; the church festivals were not nearly so well attended since those meetings began! Everybody said that more attention was paid to the Bible than before. But the Bible is a secondary matter in these times of "advanced Christian thought;" the interest in the festival is the measure of godliness. "Lord, how long?"
The Sailors' Home in San Francisco.
If any one more than another needs the protection of the law, and the care of the benevolent, it is "Jack on shore." Often subjected to tyranny and cruelty on the seas, he is open to the worst abuses in port, partly because he comes suddenly into possession of money which he does not know how to use; partly because he feels nearly wild over his suddenly acquired freedom; and partly because there are combined against him a set of sharks as greedy and as void of conscience as any he ever saw on the ocean. The "Home" in San Francisco is a good institution; but of course the enemies of the sailor will be the enemy of any means devised for his protection, and have made efforts to injure the institution. The following extracts from the Call reports will give an idea of the case:—
"The Health and Police Committee of the Supervisors, last evening, resumed the investigation into the management of the Sailors' Home. Captain Ludwich testified that the sailor landlords, who bore the home no good will, were constantly circulating adverse reports; but Swannak had never used vulgar language to the men, that a change of management would not be beneficial. Captain George Naughton, the shipping agent, stated that the Sailors' Home had never received blood money. The sailors there got the benefit in increased wages. The sailors from the home were a better class of men, and often received better wages on this account. John Fjerm, clerk of the home, stated that the sailors were never drunk when they shipped. Sometimes they drank before going aboard the ship. Captain Soule explained the purposes of the Ladies' Seamen's Friend Society, in procuring the passage of the bill through Congress, allowing the old Marine Hospital to be used for a sailors' home, and he described briefly some of the excellent results accomplished under its management. The committee took the matter under advisement. . . . W. C. Burnett eloquently defended the management and strongly insisted that it should be conducted as at present. Nearly all the supervisors expressed the opinion that the charges of the Sailors' Union were not sustained, and it was decided to report accordingly."
Editorial Notes
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THE last note written by Elder Haskell to the editor of the SIGNS, said: "This move to establish a mission in Australia is none too soon." So we think. It is a great work, and should receive the warm support of the people.
IN compliance with the resolution of the stockholders, at the last annual meeting, we hoped to issue the first number of the American Sentinel by July 1, 1885. But a heavy press of business prevented. It will probably be delayed till Sept. 1.
QUERY. Is there going to be a general effort made this year by the officers of all the Conferences to bring the people up to the duty of paying their tithes? If not, why not? Our cause cannot prosper as it should, because the churches will not be strong as they should be, until this is done.
ACCORDING to announcement, the Pacific Health Journal and Temperance Advocate is out for June, and mailed. Since it was printed we have procured some excellent cuts representing the "Rural Health Retreat" at Crystal Springs, St. Helena, Cal. With this addition to the advertisement, we shall print a large edition of the first number for wide circulation. Will the friends aid us in this effort?
NO PAPER will be issued from this office next week. No. 27 of the SIGNS will be dated July 16. This is not a "vacation" to us. But it will give us opportunity to do some other work which is pressing us sorely, and thus we shall be better prepared for future work on the paper. Very important historical subjects will soon be given in the SIGNS. This volume has already contained many papers which every reader ought to preserve.
DURING the month of June, the College year closed throughout the country, and Baccalaureate sermons were in order. The best one that we have seen, and indeed one of the best that we have ever seen, was delivered by President Ellis of Pacific University, Oregon, entitled "Duty." It is a masterly presentation. We give a portion of it in our second page article this week. We ask for it more than a simple reading. It will repay a diligent and thorough study. Those who wish the sermon in full can get it by sending for the weekly Oregonian of June 5, Portland, Oregon.
Eastward Bound.
By William C. White
MONDAY, July 13, I expect to leave Oakland, for the East. After spending a week in Battle Creek, Mich., and a few days in South Lancaster, Mass., I expect to visit our mission printing houses in England, Switzerland, and Norway. My address till July 27, will be Battle Creek, Mich.
W. C. WHITE.
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