MEMBERS of the congress of all American nations visiting in the "City of Brotherly Love" said to the gentleman who led them in worship at Girard College: "There is not a man of us who does not know that the greatest foe of liberty of our nations is Rome," not Rome of Victor Immanuel, but Rome of "his holiness." "The Pope and the Council" has been allowed to run out of print in its English edition, which is only one of the many symptoms of the blindness which has happened to English-speaking peoples. A Portuguese edition lies before me, translated and edited, with a notable introduction, by a foremost statesman of South America. "Of all emergent questions," he says, "none equals in reach, none exceeds in urgency, the religious. . . . No one ignores that the pontifical church is an organization universal, an ambition universal, a plan universal. . . . The evolutions of her tactics are reproducing themselves in America with the same strategy as in Europe. The features of the Papacy will be always identical with those of to-day, and each time more accented, because on the one hand its spirit, child of a gestation multisecular, incarnated in the most marvelously wise of all centralizations, and chained to the interests of an innumerable caste, can by no man be transformed; and on the other, the galvanic life of this institution, inwardly decomposed by the vices on which it feeds, has its secret in the reactionary audacity which constitutes its type. The Papacy goes its way; . . . it can perish more easily than go back."
Availing himself of the book of "Janus," "the most notable product and the most expressive symptom of Christian re-birth of the nineteenth century," "one of those rock books of perennial tempestivity which abide, transmitted from generation to generation," this writer contributes some solid material to the maturation of religious liberty in the South American States. He speaks, not from the religious, but from the political standpoint, when he says: "It may be seen there (in 'Janus') with noonday clearness how from that millennial superposition of vices, abuses, and crimes, . . . from a system of falsification, employed indefatigably upon the Holy Scriptures, upon canonical and patristic collections, upon acts of synods, the liturgy, and the imperial history, arose and was formed that idolatry of pontifical infallibility, which places the whole invincible abysm of the gospel between the Church of Rome and the11Christ. . . . The substantial character of the book ["The Pope and the Council"] is a rigorously historic demonstration of the intimate and exclusively political nature of the Papacy." It is demonstrated that Romanism is not religion but politics, and the most vicious, the most unscrupulous, and the most pestilent of all politics. Sketching rapidly the "incursions of the pontifical primacy in national churches, its usurpations in the bosom of States, and the repeated and peremptory denials of Catholicity to the infallibilist presumptions of the tiara," evidencing "the absolute identity between the idea of infallibility and that of omnipotence in the jurisdiction of heaven and in that of earth," proving "the incompatibility, philosophically and practically irreconcilable, between the syllabus—that abominable symbol of papolatry—and any modern constitution," he ventilates the religious question in all its relations, and indicates the natural and definite solution of the problem.
A FREE CHURCH IN A FREE STATE.
A State free from the dominion of the church and the church free from the Papacy is an aspiration of young South America. For three centuries she held her breath at the bidding of the pope, but her breast is heaving with the breath of the Almighty. It becomes articulate in the language of South American statesmen: "A curia Romana has been at all times a potency only nominally religious, and always intimately, essentially, and indefatigably political. Religion, moral authority, for long centuries has not been for the Papacy anything else than the occasion, the means, or the pretext for interference in the temporal administration of the State."
"The heresy of domination is the greatest of heresies against the cross, because it transforms into a word of discord for human societies the word of Him who, to bring them peace, instituted the universal city in the higher world."
"Rome has not renounced the principle that the pope is the lord over crowned heads, and has power to release subjects from their oaths of fidelity." "Gregory VII. left in his doctrines to Papal Rome a tradition which has not ceased until now to be the soul of the Roman Church." "If the holy see received from God the power to pronounce sentence in spiritual things, why not in temporal things also? The episcopate is as much superior to royalty as gold is superior to lead; well did Constantine know it when, among bishops, he took the last place."
"The prince (or in modern States the government, parliaments, and cabinets) who incurs in heresy loses all authority. Subjects can, and ought when they can, rebel against him. This theory is a point of faith admitted by all theologians worthy of note in Rome. . . . It is to be noted that Rome has not repudiated these principles. She has left them in reserve, because she lacks coercitive resources."
"Papal centralization, . . . the continual invasion of the temporal authority by the church, gave us Protestantism. The 'heresy' dominant in the sixteenth century was resistance to the abusive Roman unity. . . . A counterblast was needed. The Jesuits appeared. Instituted in a century full of vital energy, in a century of intellectual, political, and religious resurrection, they consubstantiated in themselves in an unheard-of degree all the principles hostile to these three vivifying forces of the world. Rome breathed her soul into the company. The order is not the evil genius of the Papacy, but its delectable offspring. A rule of evangelical wisdom, proverbial everywhere, teaches us to know the tree by its fruit. Wherever Jesuitism has taken root, no one can find any difference between its fruits and those of the soil where the Papacy reigns directly, absolutely, visibly."
"Cast your eyes on the states of the church before the fall of the temporal power—sad evidence of the sterilized virtues of the theocracy. There the observer encounters the most authentic and instructive example of the absorption of the individual conscience by absolutism exercised in the name of heaven. The social state, wherever their principles have been filtered in during generations, was never anything but the lowest."
"There is Paraguay—Paraguay, the prime work of the Jesuits, their boast, the miracle of their beneficent propaganda, the mysterious land of blessing, with which they deluded, in Europe, even sincere and illustrious men like Chateaubriand! Even to this day they describe that as a paradise. 'Paraguay,' says Padre Sabin, 'presented marvels similar to those of the first Christian centuries.' 'In a few years,' says another Jesuit, praising his own order; 'the most savage tribes formed, under their influence, model societies, such as philosophy could never create in the bosom of civilized peoples, the most perfect reproduction of Eden which it has been possible to obtain from our fallen nature.' 'These marvels,' he adds, 'the Catholic apostolate created in the past century in Paraguay, and can yet renew them.' Says the Brazilian author: 'Yet five years of war, in which our armies (the allied forces of Brazil, Argentine, and Uruguay) penetrated the interior of that country, enabled us to judge of the Edenic state idealized and desired by Jesuitism.'"
"Everyone knows what we found there,—a nation of creatures debased below slavery, without law, without rights, without tribunals, without government, without morality, social or domestic, without family, without instruction, without industry, without commerce,—a tribe of fanatics poor to penury, savage even to ferocity. This is Jesuitic Catholicism, which Roman Catholicism boasts of as the most perfect image of heaven on earth, as an ideal superior to all civilized peoples. . . . Behold the prosperity which our Catholic party (political) reserves for their fellow-countrymen."
I have quoted largely from the book, "O Papa e O Concilio," by the eminent writer and patriotic Brazilian senator, Ruy Barboza, that the readers of the Missionary Review of the World may see, not through the eyes of a missionary, but of an enlightened South American statesman, what Papacy has done and is expected to do in this region of the world.—Missionary Review.
"IF I WERE A BOY."
By John Heyl Vincent
If I were a boy I should keep my own secrets, except as I revealed them to my father and mother for the sake of securing their advice; I should never speak a word to anyone who might be worried by it, and speak kind words of others, even of enemies, in their absence. I should put no unclean thoughts, pictures, sights, or stories in my memory and imagination, and no foul words on my tongue, give no smiles, but give the rather black frowns and prompt and fierce reproof, to any comrade who dared, in my presence, to utter a filthy speech. I should want to say, as the pure-minded and noble Dr. George H. Whitney, president of Hackettstown (N. J.) College, can say: "I have never pronounced a word which I ought not to speak in the presence of the purest woman in the world."
I should treat my little folks kindly, and not tease them, show respect to servants, be tender toward the unfortunate—and all this I should strive to do for the sake of being a comfort to people, a joy to my parents, a help to the next century, and in the seventh decade of it should hope to be a wise and cheerful old man, who learned, when he was a boy, to govern himself, to be firm in right willing, and to keep up the terraces in God's garden on the hillside. —Dr. J. H. Vincent.
Study With All Your Soul
WHATEVER I do, study ought to be engaged in with all my soul; for I will be eminent in something.—Longfellow.
THE AIR WE BREATHE.
By Mrs. M. G. Call
BY MRS. M. G. CALL.
WE have two as healthy children as may be found in a day's travel. There are so many pale, delicate children, I have wondered if my experience in one point might not be helpful to younger mothers. Though gray-haired women were fully convinced that our little ones would not survive my "careless" treatment, our ten-year-old daughter has never had but one regular visit from a physician, and our sturdy boy of twelve knows almost nothing of medicine or sickness.
Do not fancy me a model mother; I am as the average, but I have tried to use the spark of common sense God gave me for their benefit.
No wonder so many children wake up cross, where they are left to take their nap in a room where all is bustle and noise, with no protection from flies, and covered so closely they are nearly suffocated. We read that the brain does not rest in the light, but it never occurs to us to apply our knowledge for the comfort of our weary darlings, by regulating the shade, but leave their faces turned toward a bright window.
Everyone knows, or should know, that the purity of the blood depends upon the amount of oxygen in the air we breathe. If someone should convince us that oxygen was poison, and outdoor air our worst enemy, many mothers would not find it necessary to change their treatment of their children. We fasten windows so that they may not be opened, and breathe over and over again the exhausted air of our homes. If the baby ventures toward an open door, we snatch him away as if there were pestilence in every breeze. Sunlight and pure air are free to most of us, but we choose to shut the sun from our rooms for fear of fading the carpets, and we are morally certain that an open window would make us catch our death.
My observation tells me that the children who are kept indoors constantly, whose sleeping room is seldom, if ever, properly aired, and whose mothers are in a constant worry lest they should "catch cold," are the very ones who suffer most.
In our severe climate it is difficult to secure perfect ventilation and keep warm at the same time, but our sleeping room windows may be thrown open every morning, and an ingenious mother can find a way to let in a little oxygen even on cold nights, without risk to her family. Warm clothing, cool sleeping rooms that have been well aired and sunned, wholesome food, and outdoor exercise in all seasons—to these, we believe, our children are indebted for their nearly perfect health.
Much has been written upon this subject. We read it all, and still toss restlessly, unable to sleep in close rooms, with a kerosene lamp burning somewhere to help use up the little oxygen that steals under our doors. We wonder what new medicine we had better try now. The children throw off the clothes and nearly tumble out of bed, and we cannot guess the cause of our long, weary nights. Open the windows, and doors too if necessary, and let in a good sweep of God's pure air; put out your light, and draw long, refreshing breaths, and the next thing you know it will be morning.
A shawl or sheet may be arranged as a screen if necessary. A double window hung on a hinge opening outward is very convenient in winter.—The Voice.
THE MOMENTS PASS.
By Mahlon M. De Levis
THE moments pass, the hours fly,
The days and months go quickly by,
The years roll on with lightning speed—
How rapidly they all succeed!
My life is passing like a dream
In joy's warm glow and pleasure's gleam,
And soon the winter shall appear,
With sorrow's shade and tempests drear.
Bright pleasures of my childhood hours
Pass like the summer's gentle showers,
And age, like winter's chilling blast,
With hurrying steps will soon be past.
Let me each moment's space improve
In deeds of kindness and of love,
That, when life's joys and sorrows cease,
I may repose in perfect peace.
—Mahlon M. De Levis.
Medical Missionary and Book Notices
By Editor
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Peshawar, India, Sept. 9, 1893.
Editor Signs of the Times—Dear Sir: May I be permitted to appeal through your columns for the soldiers, both in barracks and hospital, in this large garrison, for literature in the way of anti-infidel, temperance, and other tracts, and good wholesome stories. I addressed a similar appeal to the Christian, an English journal, and have had a very kind response. But the supply does not exceed the requirement, and if some liberal Christian gentlemen or ladies would address me an occasional package it13would be helping a good work, and surely they will not fail of their reward. My visits among the soldiers are apart from my regular work, but I love it, and it is working for the Master, and in that lies the joy of it all. Yours in His service,
Arch'd Brooks,
Head Master C. M. S. High School.
FIELD NOTES.
By Editor
ELDER MATTHEW LARSON reports nine converts at Pringhar, Iowa.
A HOUSE of worship has been purchased for the use of the church at Burlington, N. J.
ELDER R. A. UNDERWOOD has been obliged to resign his position as president of Wisconsin Conference on account of ill health.
AT Pendleton, Ore., the Reaper reports a good interest, thirty-one having accepted the faith, and others being deeply interested.
AT Boise, Idaho, where Elder W. W. Stewart recently began labor, four had presented themselves for baptism at date of last report.
ON recommendation of the General Conference Committee, Elder F. M. Roberts changes his field of labor from Virginia to Indiana.
ELDER E. W. WEBSTER, who recently engaged in labor at Spartanburg, S. C., reports that five adults are now keeping the Sabbath of the Lord.
A CAMP meeting will be held in or near Melbourne, Australia, from December 29 to January 9, 1894, preceded by a workers' meeting of one week.
BY authorization of the General Conference Committee, the Tennessee River Conference has been enlarged to include the States of Tennessee and Kentucky.
IN connection with the last quarterly meeting services at Spokane, Wash., fourteen souls were baptized by Elder G. W. Davis. Three had been baptized a short time before.
IN connection with the last quarterly meeting at Los Angeles, Cal., Elder E. E. Andross baptized five candidates, and Elder F. M. Wilcox baptized a like number at San Diego.
AT the October quarterly meeting at Jamaica, Vt., ten young persons were baptized and sixteen were taken into the church. So writes Brother C. Hale to the Union Record.
THE church at Ford's Store, Md., dedicated their new house of worship on the 5th inst. The week following (the present week) seven of the members are to stand trial for having labored on Sunday.
THE General Conference Bible School, being a special course in Bible study, now in session in Battle Creek, Mich., numbers 200 students, besides 130 in the Sanitarium medical missionary and special classes.
ELDER DAN. T. JONES will start for Mexico the present month to look out a location for opening the work in that field. And Sister Ora Osborne is expected to go to that field in December to engage in missionary work.
ELDER F. M. WILCOX left Oakland for Battle Creek, Mich., on the 23d ult. He goes to take the position of secretary of the Foreign Mission Board, made vacant by the removal of Brother W. A. Spicer to London.
UNDER the labors of Elder W. B. Hill and Brother J. F. Pogue, at Pine City, Minn., twenty-four have signed the covenant and fifteen have been baptized. A meeting house has been so far completed that meetings are held in it.
AT Mt. Williams, Va., a new house of worship has been inclosed and so far completed that meetings are held in it. Elder F. M. Roberts had the work in charge. He reports the baptism of four candidates there and two at Winchester.
ELDER W. A. COLCORD arrived in Oakland from Battle Creek, Mich., on the 27th ult. He will sail for Australia on the 16th inst., in the meantime holding an institute in the church here for instruction in religious liberty principles and work.
ELDER J. O. CORLISS, who is preparing to go to the Australian field, at the call of the Foreign Mission Board, formally severed his connection with the church at Washington, D. C., October 11. He made a short visit to his aged mother at Bath, Me.
THE Board of Foreign Missions recommend that Brother W. M. Crothers, of Missouri, go to New Zealand to act as canvassing agent. Also that Brother W. G. Kneeland be invited to go to British Guiana, South America, to engage in missionary work. It is also designed to send a ministerial laborer to the West Indies this fall.
ELDER E. E. FRANKE reports, with reference to the work in Jersey City, N. J., that the "Sabbath school starts out with about seventy-five members," and that the people are moving in the matter of building a house of worship. Writing to the Union Record, he says:—
We meet fanaticism in all its different phases in this city. One church here is a complete counterfeit of Seventh-day Adventism with just enough truth to deceive. They pretend to keep the Sabbath, remaining in their homes on that day, devoting it to physical rest, refusing even to attend meeting. They hold their meeting on Sunday, claiming that the "beast" is the world, and "the mark" worldliness. They have three pastors; one is a lady who has, or pretends to have, visions. She was formerly a Spiritualist medium, and shuts herself away when she wishes to have a vision. Satan always works in darkness. Their churches are called "Tabernacles of the Testimony," and the ground on which they are built "Mount Zion." They have a large following, many being wealthy. Spiritualism is also at work here. Sunday night lectures are given on "Religious Spiritualism," "Spirits in Open Gaslight," etc.
THE LANGUAGE OF PREACHING.
By Dr. Lathan
IN making the offer of the gospel to the world there are two extremes. The one is to use the slang of the uncultivated multitude, and the other is to use the technical language of theological schools. In both these classes there are men of world-wide fame. Notwithstanding this, both modes are to be avoided.
The language of the Bible, especially the language of the New Testament, should be our mode in this matter. There is not a single sentence of slang in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, neither are there any metaphysical discussions. In the use of slang in the pulpit there is a seeming want of reverence for the place and business in hand; and in the use of technical words and expressions, in an ordinary sermon, there is at least the appearance of an effort to make a display of human learning. It is an evidence, however, of a want of Bible knowledge.
As a general rule, the man who has a thorough knowledge of a subject can speak to the edification of others in plain, simple words. Drs. Archibald Alexander and Gardiner Spring were learned men, yet a schoolboy never has to read a sentence twice which either of them wrote in order to understand what he meant. The pulpit has a powerful effect upon the masses in the use of language. If the preacher uses slang, his hearers will either be disgusted or fall into the use of slang. If the preacher uses metaphysical expressions, his hearers will either not be edified, or follow their preacher in the use of words and phrases to which they can attach no intelligent meaning.
LET THE PREACHERS GO TO THE UNCONVERTED.
By Editor
The following was part of an article written by Brother Joseph Clarke in 1858. Is it not applicable now?
Let us who are the children of the light not be outdone by the world. Let us learn wisdom by every means. Let us go right to God with our troubles and trials, and he will help us. Are we cold and lukewarm? let us cry mightily to God, then shall our light break forth speedily. What is the use of our crying out, Oh, if Brother Cornell, or Brother White, or Brother Waggoner, or Brother Loughborough, or Brother Holt, or some other preacher would come and preach to us, then how we would rise, surely!
No, no, let these messengers go with the message to the millions who have not heard a lisp of it, to the benighted millions over whom the seven last plagues impend. Yes, go, go, and we, the churches who have a flood of light, will walk in the light. We have more light now than we use. Go, ye messengers of mercy, to the cities and villages of our land, while the church in the light bears its own burdens. To the church belongs the duty of sustaining a spirit of devotion. Yes, let the church encourage and inspirit its messengers, and bear them on. Let the church nourish its own young, strengthen the feeble, comfort its mourners, in short, bear its own burdens.
TRUST IN THE LORD.
By J. M. Bennett
BY J. M. BENNETT.
In peace and in gladness,
In billows of sorrow,
In joy or in sadness,
On life's ocean wave,
Stand firm in the right,
Though the change of to-morrow
Is gleaming with sunshine,
Or as dark as the grave.
Remember the hairs of
Your head are all numbered;
Your thoughts in the balance
Of justice are weighed;
There is nothing that's wakened
From where it has slumbered
That has not received
From the Master its aid.
Why grieve o'er past trials?
All wrongs will be righted
By the Father that notes
E'en the frail sparrow's fall.
At the sound of his voice
The just are delighted;
They receive their reward
At the last trumpet call.
They hail their great King,
Their Saviour and Master;
He breaks all their bonds
Of death, sin, and strife;
He frees them from death,
Brought by Adam's disaster;
He clothes them with robes
Of his immortal life.
—Selected.
AN IMPORTANT NEW BOOK ENTITLED
By Editor
"CHRISTIAN EDUCATION."
THIS book contains 256 pages, and is the most complete and comprehensive work on the subject of Christian education that has ever been published. It is composed entirely of articles from the pen of Mrs. E. G. White, which, at considerable labor and research, have been brought together and arranged in a convenient form for reference, a carefully prepared index being added. Much of the material in this book has already appeared in print, but it also contains very valuable matter never before published.
Starting from the period of infancy, it points out the most successful way of preparing the mind of the child for the work of succeeding years, and the duty of the parent toward the child until its education may safely be committed to others; it tells at what age the child ought to be placed in school, the number of hours per day during which it should be confined to study, the nature and kind of studies which are most important for the child to pursue, and dwells on the importance of proper home surroundings and influences, and the considerations which should govern in the selection of homes and associates for the young. It points out the true idea of the marriage relation, and the duty of the parent in regard thereto. It also speaks of recreation, and proper reading for young people, and the principles which should control in these things. All of these questions are answered in the most specific manner, and, generally speaking, no detail in the education and training of children and youth is omitted.
The purpose of the book is not so much to induce parents to place their children in any particular school, as it is to prepare the parents to properly meet the responsibilities resting upon them. No one, however, can fail to be impressed with the fact that it is becoming more and more evident that the education of our children and youth cannot with safety be intrusted to those not in harmony with the great truths for this time.
Any system of education which is not based upon, and carried forward in accordance with, the principles laid down in this work, must necessarily fail of attaining the best results.
We believe that our people will hail this book with delight, bringing together as it does in one convenient volume the important things Sister White has said on this subject. One is much more impressed with the importance of Christian principles in education when he has the privilege of reading connectedly what the writer of this book has said on the subject, than when he reads it in short articles or paragraphs here and there. And, taking into account the valuable new matter that it contains, it makes a book that no family can afford to be without. Get it, and read it, and induce all others that can, to do likewise.
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BAPTISM: Its Significance, Its Nature, and the Necessity for It. By E. J. Waggoner. Bible Students' Library, No. 79. Pacific Press Pub. Co., Oakland, Cal. 16 pp.; 2 cents.
The Law of God as Changed by the Papacy
Is the title of a large Chart just issued, which shows in a striking manner the blasphemous pretentions of the Papal power. The testimony of the Best Catholic Authorities is given, and shows, by quoting their own words, that Sunday is a child of the Catholic Church. These quotations, together with admissions from standard Catholic works, are arranged in parallel columns on either side of this Chart, while the center column contains the Ten Commandments as taught by the Catholic Church. The whole forms a collection of extracts of incalculable value for every Bible student.
The Charts are three by four feet in size, and are printed on heavy map cloth in bold type, easily read across the largest room.
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CHRIST AND THE SABBATH: Or Christ in the Old Testament and the Sabbath in the New, by Elder James White. Paper covers, fifty-six pages, sent post-paid for ten cents.
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Biblical Questions About Human Nature
By Alonzo T. Jones
BIBLE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS CONCERNING MAN. By Alonzo T. Jones. Bible Students' Library, No. 76 Pacific Press Pub. Co., Oakland, Cal. 16 pp.; 2 cents.