“The body is dead, . . . but the spirit is life.” So said the apostle Paul, and his pregnant words may be applied to the principles of health. Take the divine life away from these principles, and they become dull, arbitrary rules, a veritable yoke of bondage, an instrument of death instead of the minister of life.
The life of the health principles is Christ. The true motive for building up the strength and beauty of the body, is that it may be the fit temple of the Holy Spirit. The glory of God should be the uppermost thought in the mind of every intelligent creature. Now the glory of God is His perfect character, of which His law, both natural and moral, is a revelation. Therefore the desire to glorify God impels one to seek to know and strictly obey the physical laws governing the health and well-being of the body.
Quibbling over small matters is one way to take the life out of these great principles. Prescribing for others precisely the same rules as you have adopted for yourself is another way of losing the life and attractiveness of true health reform. Remember that principles are living things. If they are to thrive they must have fit soil, and an abundant supply of the divine sunshine. Moreover, they must be allowed to grow and adapt themselves to the circumstances11just as any other living thing. As soon as you have put a limit to the size of a given tree, you have pronounced its death sentence, for a tree can not live without growing. Just so, when you precisely define a divine principle, it becomes in your hands a dead thing. You may embalm and adorn it so that it may appear beautiful to the eye, but the action is wanting. The saving power is not there, and the thing is practically worthless.
It is a very hard thing to live by rules, but it is a most easy and natural thing to live in accordance with divine living and life-giving principles. Health reform, while apparently pertaining specially to the physical organism, is essentially a spiritual matter. We put away fleshly lusts not only as health-destroying, but also because they war against the soul. In fact, rightly considered, the interests of body and soul are identical. Correct physical habits and a pure diet help to build up a pure body, which is the only fit instrument of a pure soul.
Because health principles are spiritual, we need the aid of the Spirit in order to properly comprehend them. On a casual examination many things may appear inconsistent, but prayerful, earnest, persevering study will reveal only beauty and harmony. That which Christians especially need to realize in these days, is the close connection between physical and spiritual things and the obligation resting upon all to glorify God in their body as well as in spirit.—M. Ellsworth Olsen.
A WEARY WORLD.
By Adele Gleason
[Adele Gleason, in S. S. Times.]
This is a weary world, quoth I,
A weary, weary world!
But the sparrow sings,
And the butterfly wings,
And the clover grows,
And the lily blows,—
All in this weary world.
This is a weary world, quoth I,
A weary, weary world!
But songs and stars
Pass prison bars;
And faith you'll meet,
And love you'll greet,—
All in this weary world.
Buffalo, N. Y.
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WHAT IF YOUR LOT IS HARD?
[Frank H. Sweet, in Home and Flowers.]
THAT submission to one's lot means that one should sit helplessly before sorrow and disappointment while weeks and months pass by, is a terrible misapprehension. Life should be growth. These trials come to us that we may conquer them, wrest power from them. To yield faint-heartedly is surely ignoble, for there is no life so barren, or hard, or sorrowful, that it does not hold some door to wider living, if we will but seek it.
Is it loneliness that closes about us and shuts joy from our days? Have we tried honestly and patiently to touch other lonely lives? Is it because we have no time for study that life seems so hard and barren? A friend of working girls advised them to learn a poem as they went to and from their work instead of simply reading street-car advertisements. A verse, a line of poetry, a single noble thought every day—who of us could not make time for this, if we would? And how rich a harvest one short year would give us! Is it poverty that is eating the gladness from our days? It is hard, but there are things within our reach that no gold could purchase for us—friendship, the power of an upright life, the joy of earth and sky. Dare we, with all we have within reach, bemoan our poverty?
CONCERNING TONGUES.
ALTHO it is the Chinese language which is spoken by the largest number of people on the face of the earth, it is in English that more than half of all existing newspapers are written. Against a population of nearly 400,000,000 which speak Chinese, English is spoken by about 200,000,000. Next comes German, with 85,000,000; then Russian, with 75,000,000. French and Spanish are each the native tongue of 41,000,000, Italian of 30,000,000, and Portuguese of only 13,000,000. In the United States newspapers appear printed in twenty-four different languages. The Italian tongue is, outside of Italy, mainly spoken in Egypt and America. The use of Spanish is decreasing, but it is still a very important language in commerce.—Westminster Gazette.
THE WRONG WAY TO WORK.
Suppose some cold morning you should go into a neighbor’s house and find him busy at work on his windows, scratching away, and should ask him what he was doing, and he should reply:—
“Why, I am trying to remove the frost; but as fast as I get it off one square it comes on another.”
Would you not say, “Why, man, let your windows alone and kindle a fire, and the frost will come off”?
And have you not seen people try to break off their bad habits one after another without avail?
Well, they are like the man who tried to scratch the frost from his windows.
Let the fire of love to God, kindled at the altar of prayer, burn in your heart, and the bad habits will soon melt away.—London S. S. Times.
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FIJI
By J. E. Fulton
Fiji has entered upon a new era commercially during the last few months. This far-off, isolated spot is now in touch with the great outside world by cable.
We have also received again the attention of the Canadian-Australian steamship line. This seems to bring great satisfaction to the business men. It is certainly a good thing for the colony to have such a good service. Personally we are glad for the re-establishment of the service here. It gives us a direct mail, and sometimes we have a day with some of our traveling missionaries, which is of mutual pleasure.
Meke at Bau, Fiji, Wesleyan Mission on the Hill.
Fiji has been agitated considerably during the past year over the matter of federation with New Zealand. Many of the natives, thinking such a change would be a benefit, were very much in favor of the movement. The discussion has been a very heated one, and has wrought some changes in our administration. From some late cables we gather that it is the decision of the British authorities that Fiji remain a Crown Colony.
At the time announced for the coronation of the king, Fiji was swarming with visitors from abroad, a large steamer having brought a number from New Zealand. Thousands of natives from all parts of the group were in Suva at the time, and the famous fire-walking feat was performed much to the wonder of the visitors. Many tried to account for this wonderful performance in this way and that, but no satisfactory solution of the matter has yet been found. They have performed twice of late. The heat of the pit was intense, and many standing by it found the fierce heat very unpleasant, yet the fire-walkers went over the rocks, heated to a white heat, without any harm coming to them.
The work of the Message is advancing in Fiji. A number of natives have commenced, since our last report, to observe the true Sabbath. There is an interest to hear the Word. Our little paper is doing a good work, and we hope to get a new book out in the language before long. We are in need of funds for this enterprise. Any of the readers of the SIGNS who would like to help us, please send in your donations. This is a needy field. Do not forget us.
Suva, Fiji.
J. E. FULTON.
QUESTIONS FOR YOU TO ANSWER.
WHAT have I done to help the missionary work?
How much have I prayed for the heathen and the missionaries?
Am I willing to go to any field?
Do I shrink from being a foreign missionary? or is there a glad “yes” in my soul to all God asks of me?
Have I let any human love or consideration come between me and my interest or call to foreign fields?
Am I just as willing to leave all, even the dearest idols, to go where God calls, as I am to preach to others what they must do to find saving grace?
Am I heeding the command, “Go ye into all the world,” as far as in me lies, by my prayers, money, influence, and presence?
Am I so deeply consecrated that I can say, regardless of loved ones, “Here am I, Lord, send me?”
Do I have a spirit of prayer for, and a deep interest in, the redemption of the heathen?
Do I deny myself of anything to help the missionary work?—Selected.
AN APPEAL FROM BARBADOS.
Do You Not Wish to Help?
THE following is from a private letter written to the editor by Pastor W. A. Sweany, our missionary in Barbados. It speaks for itself; and we would that it might speak to the heart of every soul who reads the true and pitiful story. Any one who would be pleased to aid Brother Sweany in caring for poor suffering humanity there can send the money to this paper, and whatever is received will be promptly forwarded; or to his address, King Street, Bridgetown, Barbados, W. I. When one or two cents a day will keep a soul from starving, who could not and would not contribute something to the suffering ones in Barbados? Brother Sweany writes:—
Corner of a Country Village, Barbados.
Conditions in Barbados just now are not the most enjoyable. Smallpox has been raging for more than two months, and has now become epidemic, there being over five hundred cases, with new ones developing daily at the rate of from ten to fifty cases per day. The mortality, however, is not very great—being about five per cent, I think. Hospital accommodations were entirely inadequate to cope with the sudden visitation, and so more than half the cases are still in their homes, where, of course, successful isolation and proper care are utterly impossible, owing to the awful density of the population, and the entire absence of proper appliances and facilities, or even the bare necessities of life. The huts of the masses (usually about 8x12 feet in size, and occupied by from six to a dozen persons) almost touch each other. On both sides of narrow lanes are alleys. These are but a few feet wide, and swarm with pigs, poultry, goats, etc.
At first the corpses of the smallpox victims were thrown into the sea, but that practise had to be abandoned . The people revolted against it, as funerals and weddings are among the most important events here. Among the masses, long lines of people on foot follow the hearse to the grave. The classes, of course, ride in carriages on such occasions.
While the practise prevailed of throwing smallpox corpses into the sea, the business of the fishermen (a large class) was ruined, as the people would not eat the fish, fearing they had devoured the dead bodies. This brought much additional suffering on the already poverty stricken masses.
Of course all other ports and colonies are closed against us, and commerce is almost entirely cut off. This is perhaps the greatest cause of suffering, as it cuts off our supplies, and raises prices, besides throwing out of employment thousands of persons—stevedores, lightermen, boatmen, cartmen, etc.—who are wholly dependent on the commerce of the port for a livelihood. Even in ordinary times, the masses here are enveloped in such poverty as people in your land of plenty never dream of; but in a time like this conditions are simply appalling. Relief measures, on a large scale, will soon have to be instituted by the government, if this epidemic continues. It is necessary already for us to assist many of our own dear people who are destitute, with absolutely no means of obtaining a livelihood. If we only had a small portion of the fulness and plenty of many of our well-to-do people in the States, we could accomplish an untold amount of good here. And could our brethren but get a glimpse of the awful poverty which we see, or hear some of the piteous appeals that continually sound in our ears, they would freely give, to palliate the sufferings of their fellow men. We are doing all in our power, but our means and efforts are only a drop in the bucket compared with the needs. A little goes a long way here. The people are used to getting along on very little. Wages for laborers are only 10 to 20 cents a day in ordinary times, and work is not steady even at that rate, nor plentiful enough for all. A penny a day will keep a man from starvation now. Sugar raising is the chief industry here, but the price has gone far below the cost of production. Because of this, ruin stares the planters in the face, and has already overtaken many of them. Imperial grants and loans serve to keep the plantations in operation for the present, but unless prices advance, which is not at all likely, they must soon be abandoned, and then the real crisis will have been reached. The last and only means of livelihood will be gone, and what will the masses do?
When the smallpox broke out, the people hid their sick, and opposed removal to the hospital, mobbing the sanitary officers in the performance of their duties. They also repudiated vaccination. However, these things are now changing. The government, pastors, school-teachers, newspapers, and intelligent people generally engaged in a crusade of education, and now the people no longer conceal their sick nor oppose their removal, and thousands are daily baring their arms to vaccination, which has been made free to them by the government. Lack of lymph hindered vaccination for some weeks, and lack of facilities, and jealousy and dissension among officials, still greatly hinders the proper management of the disease. None of our people have yet been attacked, and we are trusting in God still to shield us. We are doing all in our power to co-operate with Him, by carefulness in living, vaccination, etc.
We are of good courage, and our work is onward, despite these forbidding conditions. Many are deeply interested in the message, and some are yielding obedience to it from time to time. We are glad we are here, for the needs of humanity both spiritually and temporally, could not be greater than here, and we want to be where we are most needed.
Yours in fellowship of service,
W. A. SWEANY.
The Plain, Straight Path
“AFTER all, the right thing to do is always easier than the wrong thing to do; it is only the wrong thing to do that is truly tortuous and hard. The plain, straight path goes the best.”
CONDITIONS IN MOROCCO.
A MISSION worker in Morocco, writing to the Pentecost Herald, gives the following dark picture of the conditions which he finds in that benighted country:—
We have witnessed some awful sights since coming to this land. In their gatherings for heathen worship, I have seen hundreds of people dancing to a tune played on native instruments, which sounded as if the music was written in hell and composed by some demon.
While the people danced men took hatchets and chopped their heads open, until the blood streamed down all over their clothes. Men, women, and children would then come running with bread and soak up the blood and eat the bread.
At another feast they brought into the ring where they were dancing, a lamb; and this was torn, limb from limb, by the devotees, even the insides of the lamb were torn out and all was eaten raw by the people. They looked as if they all were truly devil-possessed. They ate the raw meat of the lamb until nothing but the skin was left.
A Cabin in Barbados. "Be It Ever So Humble, There Is No Place Like Home."
With such sights as these our hearts are pierced through; we turn away weeping and praying that God may open their blind eyes and let the Gospel shine in on their hearts.
We trust the time will soon come when this land shall have a Gospel messenger in every village. There are many places where no messenger from God has ever reached the people. O, that God would stir up more of the young people in America to become soul-winners for Jesus among the heathen!
FRUITFUL MADAGASCAR.
A Norwegian missionary who has labored many years in Madagascar has the following to say of the work there, in a report to the Chronicle of the London Missionary Society:—
Never since we began our work in Madagascar has our labor had such glad result as now. The people flock to hear the message of God as they never did before; it is not only on Sundays that they gather in the churches, but once or many times in the week; there are even places where they meet every day for worship in the churches, generally in the morning from six to seven, which is the best time for the Malagasy, before they begin their day's work. It is very encouraging to see the churches, so early in the morning, often almost filled with attentive worshipers. Our pastors are out almost daily at such meetings, often at two places every morning; and by the time they have breakfasted and rested a little, they have to go out again to candidates' classes, to visiting the sick, or to the schools. A pastor said to me one day, “A little while ago we were so glad when we had three or four candidates for baptism in each church; now it looks as tho all would become Christians, if we only had enough teachers competent to instruct them.”
MOVEMENT TOWARD CHRISTIANITY IN WEST CHINA.
By Spencer Lewis
[Rev. Spencer Lewis, in Gospel in All Lands.]
A WONDERFUL movement toward Christianity seems to have begun throughout the bounds of this Mission. On my tour of the stations in June and early in July there was an increase of inquirers at some points, but nothing of a marked character, except at two places, where in one case from 70 to 80 names, and in the other 34 names of inquirers were handed in on the day of my visit.
Tudor Street, Barbados.
But the tide has been rising marvelously ever since, and where there have been only a handful of believers there are now hundreds. Our preachers have more than they can do. Six boys from our boarding school are out for their four weeks’ summer vacation, helping at different points, but this is only a temporary relief.
The people who are flocking to us are of a higher average degree of intelligence than heretofore.
Probably nine-tenths of the men can read, and they are nearly all men. There has been a phenomenal demand for the Scriptures. I have sold more Scriptures in the last five weeks than for twenty years. It is a wonderful opportunity for preaching the Gospel, and I am impatient for the return of our brethren who are at home.
OUR WORK AND WORKERS.
THE brethren at Denison, Texas, have lately erected a “nice little house of worship,” says the Record.
ON the 4th inst., five members were added to the English church in Minneapolis, Minn., two of whom were baptized that day in Lake Harriet.
AN intermediate school was opened at Bozeman, Mont., September 15, under the supervision of Brother Claude Conard. A church-school is also held there.
A NEW church building was recently dedicated at Livingston, Mont., free of all incumbrance. Brethren W. B. White, president of the Conference, and J. C. Foster conducted a two days’ meeting in connection with the dedicatory service.
BROTHER JOHN F. JONES reports the visible results of meetings held at Oxford, Md. Six persons have covenanted to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, and all acknowledge the obligation to return to the Lord the tithe of their income. A Sabbath-school has been organized, and all are of good courage in the Lord.
REPORTING to the Gleaner, Brother K. C. Russell says: “Sunday, the 28th ult., we held another baptismal service in Boston, where six other souls were buried with Christ in baptism. This service was made especially impressive because among the candidates there were representatives of three generations. Certainly we have reached the time when the hearts of the parents are being turned toward their children and the hearts of the children toward their parents.”
UNION COLLEGE, at College View, near Lincoln, Neb., is reported as unusually prosperous this year. The present enrollment, says President L. A. Hoopes, is 250 in all departments. In the Reporter he says, “There is an excellent spirit in the school. All seem to have come for the one purpose, and that is to prepare for usefulness in the Master’s vineyard.” The attendance, especially of young men, will be materially increased as the autumn work on the farms is closed up.
We are again called upon to note the death of an experienced laborer in the cause of God. Brother G. W. Colcord, minister and teacher, died at Hygiene, Col., on the 4th inst., after a short illness. He will be remembered as a laborer on the Pacific Coast some years ago. Later he founded the Graysville Academy, at Graysville, Tenn., which is now known as the Southern Training School. His son, Prof. I. C. Colcord, is now in Hawaii, engaged in school work, and Brother W. A. Colcord, who is at present connected with the Mission Board office in Battle Creek, Mich., is a nephew of deceased.
A LETTER from Brother James A. Morrow, of Georgetown, Demerara, South America, notes a baptism in that place in which ten candidates went forward in the ordinance. Twelve, all the fruit of labor during the summer, were added to the church. The interest also gave promise of further additions.
BROTHER J. H. PAINTER writes from Lynchburg, Va.: “I am holding meetings here. We have purchased the Baptist church on Park Avenue. Twenty-five have accepted the truth, and more are interested. The Lord is blessing us here. Services on Sabbath at 2 P.M. and 3 P.M. Also on Sunday at 11 A.M. and 8 P.M.”
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