Do the young friends ask, How can I help the Sabbath-school? We answer,—
1. By your presence whenever you can attend.
2. By always having good lessons.
3. By encouraging others to attend the school. Use your influence as far as you can to encourage children and young friends of your associates to go to the Sabbath-school.
4. Aid it by contributing of your means to help in the purchase of books and maps for the school, etc.
Not long ago one of the Instructor family came more than twenty miles to attend meeting with us. I think I never heard so long a lesson better recited. He seldom can attend a meeting or Sabbath-school; but he gets the lessons weekly, and recites them at home.
In this way he shows his love for the Sabbath-school. And he gave further tangible proof of his love for the work by placing in the contribution box, on Sunday, thirteen cents which he had laid “by him in store” since having an opportunity to attend meeting. Who that cannot often attend meetings will do likewise? We hope many. A. S. HUTCHINS.
Reliance upon God.
By Jos. Clarke
There is no calling in human life which can be successfully pursued without reliance upon God, and especially is this grace needed in endeavoring to follow in the footsteps of Christ. The pathway of life may be bright before those whose trust is secure in God, however they may be humbled by misfortune, or may suffer from disease.
Nothing is more impossible than for the carnal heart to serve God acceptably; and many times he takes ways which seem strange to us, to change the current of our thoughts, and draw our affections from earth to Heaven: but we should ever remember that he is our kind Benefactor, as well as our Judge, and that the way he appoints is best for us. Our songs of joy may sometimes be turned to sorrow, but this sorrow eventually brings forth fruit more to be desired than all the treasures of earth. Death may enter the household, and the strong, the noble, and the promising one be cut down suddenly—in a moment; but it is when the heart is burdened with sorrow which no human aid can relieve, that we learn how precious is divine assistance. Trials and afflictions help us to unbar the door of our hearts, and invite the Comforter in, bringing joy and peace which the world can never afford, and teaching us patience, and humility, and tenderness of heart.
Jos. Clarke.
God Hears the Heart
God hears the heart, though without words; but he never hears words without the heart.
SPECIAL APPOINTMENTS
Appointments.
“And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” Matt. 10:7.
SPECIAL APPOINTMENTS.
LAKE CALHOUN, Minn., camp-meeting, June 21.
Dunlap, Iowa, camp-meeting, 28.
We hope to meet large congregations at these points.
J. AND E. G. WHITE.
WESTERN CAMP-MEETINGS.
Iowa, near Dunlap, June 26 to July 1.
Minnesota, Lake Calhoun, 18–24.
Salem, Oregon, June 25 to July 1.
CAMP-MEETING in the vicinity of Eaton Rapids, Mich., July 31 to August 4. This meeting is designed for the special benefit of the brethren in Monroe, Lenawee, Hillsdale, Jackson, Washtenaw, Clinton, Eaton, Ingham, Shiawassee, and Livingston counties. Eld. D. M. Canright will attend this meeting.
The above counties embrace Sections 1 and 5. We hope the ministers who have charge of these sections will do all they can to secure a general attendance, and try in every possible way to make the meeting a success.
We expect to hold three or four meetings of this kind this season, in different parts of the State. By so doing all can attend without going so great a distance from home. Brethren, do not fail to attend these meetings. Come prepared as far as possible to care for yourselves.
J. FARGO, Pres. Mich. Conf.
MICHIGAN STATE T. and M. Society quarterly meeting will convene Friday, Aug. 1, in connection with the camp-meeting to be held in the vicinity of Eaton Rapids. We expect an attendance of the directors and all missionary officers and workers, as far as possible. This change of time and place is made on account of the camp-meeting being located so near Potterville, the place suggested by the directors at the last quarterly meeting. We hope this change will be agreeable to all.
J. FARGO.
THE next quarterly meeting for the Port Allegany church will be held at Smethport, McKean county, Pa., first Sabbath and Sunday in July. This location was selected in order to accommodate all, as far as possible, the cars running directly to the place of meeting. Let there be a full representation from East Valley, Coryville, Texas, and Comes Creek. Brethren and sisters, make a special effort to come prepared to work for the Lord.
C. J. SAUNDERS, Church Clerk.
THE next quarterly meeting for the West Pike and Sunderlandville churches will be held at the latter place, the second Sabbath and first-day in July. This will accommodate those living at Sabinsville. If this meeting is well attended, it will have a favorable influence on our efforts at Potter Creek.
By request,
J. G. SAUNDERS.
THE friends at Parkville, Colon, Vicksburg, Leonidas, and all within a reasonable distance, are invited to meet in the tent at Mendon, Sabbath, June 21, at 11 o’clock A. M.
E. R. JONES.
M. B. MILLER.
FENTON, Genesee Co., Mich., June 28, 10:30 A. M.
Hope to see the brethren from Holly, Tyrone, Linden, and surrounding country, at this meeting.
H. M. KENYON.
DIST. No. 1, Kansas T. and M. Society, will hold its quarterly meeting at Bethany, Osborn Co., Kan., July 12 and 13. We will have a good supply of books at this meeting.
JAMES A. ASHBAUGH, Director.
For Publishers’ Department, see Supplement.
WHAT NEXT?
By John Harvey Kellogg
A new phase of evangelistic work is said to have appeared in England, under the direction of one Captain Booth, who calls his followers, “The Salvation Army,” and, according to The Christian Union of June 11, 1879, announces his services in the following extraordinary fashion:—
The salvation army! In the salvation temple. The following will appear under the command of Captain Booth with his “hallelujah fiddle. Happy Bill and glory Tom from Sheffield; Shaker Bill from Blackburn; and a converted soldier. A band of hallelujah lasses! The champion pigeon flyer, and the champion wrestler of Over Darwen, and Mrs. Wilson, the singing pilgrim, who will play and speak for God. Sunday, at 7, 11, 3, and 7. Week nights at 8. Come and hear! Save your soul! Song books at the door, 1d.
The meetings recently conducted under Captain Booth’s auspices at Gateshead and Newcastle are represented as having been scenes of the wildest and most frantic excitement. At a concluding “all-night prayer-meeting,” vociferous shouting, wild laughter, sobbing, and shrieking, with extraordinary bursts of singing, made up a din and confusion worthy of Pandemonium. The “penitents,” many of them, fainted away, both men and women; they foamed at the mouth, and flung themselves into convulsive attitudes or fell prostrate on the floor, and the describer of the scene says that when he came away, people “were swooning all over the place,” and he had “to step over a man in a fit in order to get to the door.” It is stated, by way of apology for these extravagances, that the “revival” has reduced the criminal arrests in a very appreciable degree. From a private letter we learn that Mrs. Booth (presumably the Captain’s wife), with the “hallelujah lasses,” threatens a visit to this country.
Amid such travesties of religion, is it any wonder that the true should be treated with neglect and scorn?
Any one who wishes can obtain copies of the Constitution and By-laws of the Health and Temperance Association by sending their address, with stamp, to the Association at this place, or to any of its officers.
J. H. KELLOGG, Pres. A. H. & T. A.
AN IMPORTANT RENDERING.
By W. H. Littlejohn
In the general crusade against the Lord’s Sabbath which is taking place at the present time, every resource is exhausted to dislodge the commandment which enforces it from its proper place in the moral law. A notable instance of the ruling propensity to accomplish this end is found in the use which is made of the following scripture:—“For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Rom. 13:9. The line of argument runs on this wise: The apostle, say they, is here alluding directly to the ten commandments, and as he fails to mention the fourth, such neglect on his part furnishes proof positive that he did not consider it as being of binding obligation.
But let us see how far their premises are properly taken, and their conclusions safely drawn. Is it true that Paul is here referring to the decalogue? We reply that it is to a certain extent. The context will prove just how far the ten commandments were passing in review before him. In verse eight he declares that we should “owe no man anything, but to love one another; for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.” But what law is here referred to? As already seen, it is agreed on all hands that it is the ten commandment law. Is it, then, true that in loving another we fulfill all the requirements of the decalogue? The answer must be in the negative; for Christ teaches that this law requires not only love to man, but also love to God. How, then, shall we reconcile the statements of Paul and Christ? We reply that it is very easily done if we have no pet theory which is to be allowed to stand in the way of such reconciliation. Christ was speaking of the whole law, embracing as it did the first four commandments which enforced our duty to God, and the last six which taught our duty to our fellow-men. Paul on the other hand is giving special attention to that portion of the law embraced in the last six precepts, which regulate our conduct toward others. While endeavoring to enforce the obligation to love another, he emphasizes that duty by quoting a portion of those commandments which are found in the six that are given on purpose to instruct us as to how we should relate ourselves to our fellow-men. By examination we shall discover that he mentions five of them so clearly that there can be no mistake as to the ones to which he alludes. The commandment which he omits altogether is the fifth. Summing up, he says: “If there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” That is, to be brief, all of the remaining commandments relating to this subject, as well as those I have already quoted, are embodied in the expression, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,” not meaning by any means to declare that our duty to God is fulfilled when we love our fellow-men, or that by so doing we are released from our obligation to observe the first four commandments; but simply that love answers the requirements of the five mentioned by him, and others which bear upon the question of our responsibility to our fellow-men.
Any other view would be suicidal; for if the passage claimed perpetuates the obligation of the commandments mentioned therein simply, it not only disposes of the fourth, but also of the first, second, and third, as these also are not referred to, thereby exonerating us altogether from the duty of worshiping God, avoiding idolatry, profanity, etc.
Here, then, we leave the matter. If our opponents, in order to get rid of the Lord’s Sabbath, are ready to sacrifice all those sacred precepts which show our relation to Him, then the extreme desperation of their case has become so manifest as to work a cure for all the injury which it would be possible for them to do.
In conclusion, we offer the following rendering of the passage as given in Conybeare and Howson, Life and Epistles of St. Paul: “For the law which says, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet (and whatsoever other commandment there be), is all contained in this one saying, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Love works no ill to his neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.”
It is not claimed on the one hand that the foregoing translation is exactly literal; and, on the other hand, it is disclaimed that it is a mere paraphrase. The author sets it forth as a free translation, which is better calculated to convey to the mind of the English reader a correct idea of the meaning of the great apostle than would be a word for word translation of what he has written.
The name of Dean Howson, now a member of the Board of Bible Revision of Great Britain, will have sufficient weight with the scholars of the present day to secure for the translation which he has thus offered their respectful consideration. That translation presents this advantage over the one in our common version; viz., in substituting the words “whatever other commandment there be” for the words “if there be any other commandment,” all difficulty in regard to the seeming uncertainty on the part of the apostle as to whether there were other commandments is removed, and it becomes apparent that he used the form of expression under consideration simply for the sake of brevity.
W. H. LITTLEJOHN.
THE CARE OF TENTS.
By GEO. D. BALLOU.
Much has been said at various times about the care of our tents. A suggestion based on our experience last summer may not be out of place.
During the entire season we had a stove in our small family tent, which was a new one, and nearly every morning we had a fire sufficient to quite thoroughly dry the tent inside. This tent mildewed but very slightly. The large tent, which was also new, mildewed quite badly in places during the first nine weeks, after which we put two stoves into it to warm it for evening services. We thought we could see that the mildew was arrested to some extent by this.
All have noticed that early in the morning their tents are covered inside with fine particles of moisture; and it has also been observed that tents begin to mildew where the heat of the sun strikes early in the morning. And it is a fact that the mildew begins on the inside of the cloth.
Now our theory in regard to the matter is, that if a tent could be thoroughly dried inside before the heat of the sun strikes it, there would be no such thing as mildew. It is not probable that this can be entirely accomplished; but by the use of a good stove in a tent, it can be done to such a degree that the mildew will be prevented for a much longer time than it now is.
GEO. D. BALLOU.
OAKLAND CHURCH.
By James White
The interest that is taken in the church at Oakland, Cal., by our churches and brethren in all parts of the country, is commendable. We advanced a sum sufficient to meet the first payment, in the hope of receiving it from the liberal donors, and we had also loaned the church $1,000 without interest, due May 1, 1879. In this we should not be disappointed. As we have voluntarily taken this matter in our own hands, taking all the risks, giving and advancing means liberally, all donations, excepting those from the Pacific Coast, should be forwarded to Eld. James White, Battle Creek, Mich., and not to Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal. J. W.
WHEELING INTO LINE.
By R. F. COTTRELL
“With changing seasons men's opinions change.”
When the movement for the religious amendment of our national Constitution was inaugurated, the Examiner and Chronicle, the leading Baptist journal of our country, under the title, “Short Method of Conversion,” alluding to this movement, said:—
“We have wondered at the magical effects ascribed to the sacraments according to high church theology. But turning a nation of atheists to Christians by a few strokes of the pen, by a vote in Congress, and ratifying votes in three-fourths of the State Legislatures, is equally miraculous and incomprehensible.
“This agitation for a national religion, officially professed, has for its logical outcome, persecution—that, and nothing more nor less. It is a movement backward to the era of Constantine; as far below the spirituality of the New Testament as it is below the freedom of Republican America.”
Recently an article appears in the same paper, under the heading, “The Day of Rest.” After making an effort to justify the change of the day, in the ordinary manner, the writer giving unmistakable signs of a consciousness of its weakness, he concludes as follows:—
“By these and other considerations, therefore, we are justified in holding that the spirit of the fourth commandment, with all its divine sanctions and sacred privileges, applies in full force to the Christian day of rest. To preserve it from profanation, to maintain its inestimable privileges, to secure to all the sanitary, moral, family, and civic, benefits of which M. Proudhon wrote, as well as the undisturbed enjoyment of religious service on that day, is a duty which Christians owe at once to their country and their God. And in this work governments should aid, within their sphere, in the interest of public morals and the general well-being of society.”
Thus we can see that the movement for the “religious amendment” is gathering strength. The word of God will be fulfilled—the image of the beast will surely be made, and life will be given to it, with ability to speak. Brethren, let us be prepared for the “logical outcome.”
R. F. COTTRELL.
IOWA CAMP-MEETING.
By JOHN F. HANSON
The time for the Dunlap, Iowa, camp-meeting will soon arrive. Many of our Scandinavian brethren live within one or two days' drive of this meeting, and we shall expect to see them there. We know that they will be anxious to see Bro. and Sr. White, and hear their testimony. Some of them have never had this privilege, and may not enjoy another. Other able speakers will attend the meeting. We can have preaching in the Scandinavian languages if necessary. Brethren, we all need the encouragement and strength to be derived from attending this meeting.
JOHN F. HANSON.
WANTED
By CHAS. L. BOYD.
A TENT fund in Nebraska. Who will help create it? Two tents are now in the field; a third needs a new top in order to be ready for service. We propose to borrow money and start the tent. The elders and librarians of every church are requested to introduce the matter at their next business quarterly meeting. Make your pledges payable the first of October; send a copy to your district secretary, which he will record in his record book, and forward a copy to the State secretary.
CHAS. L. BOYD.
The Nations Angry
John, in Rev. 11:18, speaks of a time when the nations should be angry. This seems to have been emphatically true of them since the great revolution of 1848. And the nations have not only been angry with each other, but there has been anger between different parties and classes in the same nation, more particularly between labor and capital, the high and the low, the rulers and the ruled. As evidence of this, note the fact that there have been thirty-eight attempts on the lives of royal personages and rulers in Europe, since 1848, or within the last thirty years.
The Improved Gatling Gun
The Gatling gun has recently been so “improved” that over one thousand shots can be fired from it per minute. The British have several of them in use in their war against the Zulus in Africa. As the result it is said that after the battle the natives are found in groups of from 14 to 30; and in the battle of Gingilovo, 473 dead Zulus were found within a radius of 500 yards. To moralize over such a statement would be unnecessary.
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