Earlier text: WINE, AND THE LORD'S SUPPERDECEIVING OUR CHILDREN.
By C. C. Fowler
Of necessity the mother, in nine instances out of ten, forms the character of her children. If a child cannot believe his mother, whom can he trust? Yet so few of us are perfectly truthful to our children in both "spirit" and "letter." Can any motive in deceiving—apparent necessity, convenience, or even a desire to increase pleasure or spare pain—compensate for the injury done a child by loss of perfect faith in his mother? He is sure to discover a deception sooner or later. How often a mother who would warmly resent an insinuation that she is untruthful will say, "There is no more candy for you, Jamie," quieting her conscience with the letter of the decree. Next day when Jamie sees more candy taken from the same box he remembers the "no more candy," but does not realize the force of "for you," and—a little faith in mamma is gone. Or, when baby has a forbidden treasure, mamma says, "Let me look at it, dear;" trustful baby allows mamma to "look," and the prize is placed safe out of reach. It is doubtful if that request will be so readily granted next time. A few days ago upon hearing her mother relate a startling fact, I saw an expression of doubt, instantly suppressed, pass over the mobile face of a bright girl friend. When opportunity offered, she said: "Do you know I would give anything I can think of if mamma had never told me there were fairies and a Santa Claus. Until I was a great girl I believed in those myths, against all ridicule and reason, solely upon faith in her assurances. I shall never forget the shock I received when she lightly told me that 'such ideas were for little girls,' and I was now old enough to 'know better.' I lost then what I can never regain—implicit belief in mamma's word. If she says anything surprising, that horrible doubt of its truth always flashes over me." A lovely mother, one whose life is bound up in her children, said to her eight-year-old daughter: "I would not be a little girl and not believe in elves and fairies for anything; it is one of the greatest delights of being a little girl. Of course there is a Santa Claus." Marjorie's trust was severely taxed last Christmas, but, though she cast troubled glances at mamma, the beautiful cable of perfect trust seemed able to bear the strain. It must snap some day. In most instances, as in this, the motive in such deceptions is purely kindness, the idea that to believe in these creations of fancy adds to a child's enjoyment of them. Even if this notion were true, would the pleasure gained pay for the deception practised?—C. C. Fowler, in Babyhood. HE CARETH.
By Family Circle
WHAT can it mean? Is it ought to Him
That the nights are long and the days are dim?
Can he be touched by the griefs I bear,
Which sadden the heart and whiten the hair?
Around His throne are eternal calms,
And strong glad music of happy psalms,
And bliss unruffled by any strife;
How can He care for my little life? When shadows hang o'er me the whole day long,
And my spirit is bowed with shame and wrong;
When I am not good, and the deeper shade
Of conscious sin makes my heart afraid,
And the busy world has too much to do
To stay in its course to help me through,
And I long for a Saviour—can it be
That the God of the universe cares for me? Oh, wonderful story of deathless love!
Each child is dear to that heart above.
He fights for me when I cannot fight,
He comforts me in the gloom of night;
He lifts the burden, for he is strong,
He stills the sigh and awakens the song;
The sorrows that bowed me down he bears,
And loves and pardons because he cares. Let all who are sad take heart again;
We are not alone in our hours of pain;
Our Father stoops from his throne above
To soothe and quiet us with his love.
He leaves us not when the storm is high
And we have safety, for he is nigh.
Can it be trouble which he doth share?
Oh, rest in peace, for the Lord does care. THE CORSET A CAUSE OF CONSUMPTION.
By Kate Lindsay, M. D.
THE corset, with its inflexible stays and hour-glass shape, grasps the expanding lungs in their lower part like an iron vise, and prevents their proper filling with air. The lungs are thus crowded up into the upper part of the chest, and pressed against the projecting edges of the first ribs, upon which they move to and fro with the act of breathing. The friction thus produced occasions a constant irritation of the upper portion of the lung, which induces a deposit of tuberculous matter, and the individual becomes a prey to that dread disease, consumption—a sacrifice to a practice as absurd as it is pernicious. The lower part of the chest being narrowed, thus preventing proper expansion of the lungs, the amount of air inhaled is insufficient to properly purify the blood by removing from it the poisonous carbonic acid which gives to impure blood its dark color, and is so fatal to the life of all animals. In consequence of this defective purification of the blood, the whole body suffers. None of the tissues are properly kept in repair. They are all poisoned. Particles of gross, carbonaceous matter are deposited in the skin, causing it to lose its healthy color and acquire a dead, leathery appearance, and a dusky hue. The delicate nerve tissues are poisoned, and the individual is tormented with "nerves," sleeplessness, and fits of melancholy. Continuous pressure upon these parts may cause such a degree of degeneration of the muscles of the chest as to seriously impair the breathing capacity. Unused muscles waste away, and when pressure is applied in addition, the wasting and degeneration become still more marked. This is exactly what happens with those who wear their clothing tight about the waist.—Kate Lindsay, M. D., in Good Health. OPPOSITION to railroad building has become so strong in China that the work has been stopped. The reasons for this action are thus stated by the Christian at Work:— The Imperial Government had been convinced by the conservatives and the Court astrologers that a great fire in the Imperial Palace was caused by the construction of the Tien-Tsin Railroad, and must be regarded as a warning that no more rails should be laid. The conservatives in order to secure their purpose, resorted to what has always been popular with so many sons of Adam for countless centuries—they took to lying, and declared that railroads had become so great a nuisance in Europe, that European nations were tearing them up, and that they hope to get rid of the rails so rejected by selling them in China. It is now learned that the conservatives not only have prevented the extension of the new railroad, but also have induced the authorities to order that the magnificent iron bridge across the Pei-ho, built by a French engineer, shall be demolished, on the pretense that it is in the way of the slow-moving Chinese freight boats. The construction of the Tien-Tsin Railroad was bitterly opposed on the ground that the trains would compete with freight wagons in the highway, as undoubtedly they would. So China dodges behind the great stone wall and virtually says to the rest of the world, You may move if you will, but we prefer to do as we have for thousands of years—stand still. And they are still standing. THE GERMS OF CONSUMPTION.
THE report of the pathologists of the board of health concerning the manner in which tuberculosis is transmitted from animals to man, and from one human being to another, deals with a subject to which the attention of sanitarians and physicians in all parts of the civilized world has recently been directed. We have frequently spoken of the remarkable discoveries made in the last few years by bacteriologists with respect to the minute organisms that are the cause, either directly or indirectly, of infectious diseases. Among the diseases that are transmitted by means of a characteristic bacillus or microbe is this dread malady, consumption, to which are due one-seventh of the recorded deaths in this city. The board's pathologists declare that tuberculosis is a "distinctly preventable disease," that it is not directly inherited, and that it is acquired by the direct transmission of the tubercle bacillus or germ from the sick to the healthy. It has been held by some that while a majority of cases are caused by a direct transmission of the microbes, entering the system with food or air, others are really inherited. The board's pathologists do not seem to admit that in any instance the malady is inherited, and this conclusion is in accordance with the recent tendency of research in this field. The introduction of the disease depends largely, however, upon the physical condition of those who are exposed to infection, and it should be noted that the children of tuberculous persons may be peculiarly susceptible to infection because of inherited physical weakness. It is pointed out that the mortality due to tuberculosis may be decreased by thorough disinfection and by measures taken to prevent the pollution of the air by the germs or bacilli. As it is well-known that the germs may be transmitted to human beings from tuberculous cows and beef cattle in meat and milk, it is shown that for the protection of the public there should be a most rigid official inspection of such animals. The Nation and the States are spending great sums of money every year in suppressing pleuro-pneumonia by condemning and killing all cattle that have this disease. This action is not taken for the preservation of the health of human beings. The measures for the suppression of tuberculosis in cows and beef cattle should not be less severe, for in this case the public health suffers, and the human death rate is increased by the prevalence of the disease among the animals.—New York Times. Progress means something better than perpetual overturn. It means the building up upon past and tried experience. It means going on from firmly established facts to new discoveries.—Selected. THE following explanation is given why the year 1900 will not be counted among leap years: The year is 365 days, five hours, and forty-nine minutes long; eleven minutes are taken every year to make the year 365¼ days long, and every fourth year we have an extra day. This was Julius Cæsar's arrangement. Where do these eleven minutes come from? They come from the future, and are paid by omitting leap year every hundred years. But if leap year is omitted regularly every hundredth year, in the course of 400 years it is found that the eleven minutes taken each year will not only have been paid back, but that a whole day will have been given up. So Pope Gregory XIII., who improved on Cæsar's calendar in 1582, decreed that every centurial year divisible by four should be a leap year after all. So we borrow eleven minutes each year, more than paying our borrowing back by omitting three leap years in three centurial years, and square matters by having a leap year in the fourth centurial year. Pope Gregory's arrangement is so exact, and the borrowing and paying back balance so closely, that we borrow more than we pay back to the extent of only one day in 3,866 years.—Selected. The Origin of Drunkenness
"LET us never forget that drunkenness has but one origin, and that is the so-called temperate drinking of intoxicating drinks." The more saliva secreted the more gastric juice secreted. Hence the better the digestion. The necessity of chewing the food well is thus apparent.—People's Health Journal. THIS is a question which interests many, for phosphates are used more largely as a medicine than anything else, unless it is whisky, because the idea prevails that they are good to build up nerves. Chemical phosphates can be absorbed only in very small quantities—only one grain in twenty-four hours. Out of a dose of twenty grains, only one grain would be of service. An extra spoonful of grits, or of graham mush, or an additional whole-wheat wafer, will do more good as to supplying needed phosphates than to take them in the form of medicine. There is no such thing as a specifically medicinal food. Food that is nourishing has its due proportion of phosphates. The trouble usually is in their assimilation; they require a specific action of the digestive fluids. If they cannot be absorbed into the system and used, they will be carried off as waste matter. What is wanted, then, is not more phosphates, but more ability to digest phosphates. The stomach may lack physical exercise. The Bible says that he that will not work shall not eat; and nature says the same thing; he that will not work, shall not digest. So the remedy often lies in taking an extra dose of exercise. Yet certain foods contain a larger amount of phosphates than others, such as all the whole grain preparations—wheat, barley, grits, and graham. Peas and beans, and all the legumes, contain more than the grains, because they contain more of the nitrogenous elements. Milk contains phosphates in large quantities.—Good Health. —Frederick Douglass has been appointed Consul-General to Hayti. —Maria Mitchel, the noted astronomer, died at Lynn, Mass., June 28. —The French Atlantic cable arrived at Fox Island, Nova Scotia, the 29th ult. —General Simon Cameron died at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on the 26th ult. —Fire at Bradford, Eng., destroyed factories to the extent of $250,000, June 23. —The British bark Equator from Buenos Ayres has been lost with all her crew. —Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes, wife of ex-President Hayes, died at Fremont, Ohio, June 24. —Twenty-five thousand people are still being fed daily at the city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. —The United States steamship Adams, at Honolulu, has been ordered to Samoa to take the place of the Alert and Nipsic. —The committee of the Chamber of Deputies, at Paris, has approved the bill for the relief of the Panama Canal Company. —An immense ice field on the Atlantic was reported by the steamship Hungaria, which recently arrived at Baltimore from Hamburg. —A daring attempt was recently made to blow up Harvard hospital with dynamite. Fortunately the plot was discovered before any damage was done. —A triple collision of freight cars occurred in Latrobe, Pa., on the morning of June 26. Thirty cars were wrecked and over twenty lives were lost. —William Walter Phelps, late Commissioner to the Samoan Conference at Berlin, has been appointed Minister to Germany by President Harrison. —At Kansas City, recently, a divorce suit was filed, put on trial, and a decree granted in the shortest time on record. The whole affair occupied only ten minutes. —The Governor of Michigan has signed the Local Option bill. This ensures practical prohibition in over one-half the counties of the State, so far at least as the provisions of the bill will admit. —A fire broke out in Johnstown, Pa., June 24, and swept away twenty-five buildings. Most of the houses destroyed had been more or less damaged by the flood, although many of them were filled with household goods which had been saved. —A gigantic cantilever railway bridge, costing $10,000,000, is to be built across the St. Lawrence River at Quebec. The total length of the bridge with its approaches will be over six miles, as the river is four and a half miles wide at this point. The top of the bridge will be 408 feet above high water level, and the largest ocean steamers will be able to pass under it. —The Navy department has directed that on and after July 4, 1889, the national flag of the Navy shall consist of forty-two stars in honor of the new States. The flags of the War Department, however, will not be altered until the four new States have been formally admitted. —One of the most extensive quartz-bearing ledges ever discovered has been recently opened up in Alaska by the Alaska Mining and Milling Company. Although the ore is of a low grade, there are vast quantities in sight, and it is said to be the largest gold mine in the world. —Advices from the west of Africa confirm reports of the condition of Stanley, the explorer. It is stated that owing to the privations to which he has been exposed, his hair has turned snow white. His clothes are in rags and on account of being without shoes he is obliged to use skins to cover his feet. —The Standard Oil Company is at last to have a formidable rival. Negotiations are now in progress in Cincinnati, Ohio, looking to the consolidation of two immense corporations into one powerful oil company. The combined capital stock is $15,000,000, with the privilege of increasing it to $25,000,000. —Fifty persons were recently prostrated in Woodstock, Ont., from drinking so-called lemonade made from sugar of lead instead of tartaric acid. Fifteen of the victims were expected to die at last accounts. The druggist who made the fatal mistake has fled, and his building has been demolished by the outraged citizens. —A syndicate of leading English iron and steel men have purchased upwards of 60,000 acres of mineral land in Kentucky and Tennessee. A new town by the name of Middlesborough will be built in Kentucky, and immense steel and iron mills erected. Over $4,000,000 in cash has already been paid out, and $7,000,000 more is pledged for the new enterprise. —Medical men are extremely puzzled over the case of James B. Hill, who recently died in San Francisco from the effects of a broken neck. The spinal cord was entirely severed and three of the vertebrae badly fractured, yet he continued to live in a perfectly conscious state for a period of five weeks. The case is pronounced to be one of the strangest in the annals of surgery. —Dispatches from Shanghai are to the effect that Russia has occupied Deer Island, in the waters of Corea, as a coaling and naval point. A man-of-war has been stationed there, and nobody is allowed to land or leave without a permit from the Admiral. In the present condition of European affairs it is difficult to tell just how much such an action as this on the part of Russia may mean. It is possible that serious complications may arise. —David D. Houston, a prominent merchant of Middletown, N. Y., has commenced suit in the United States District Court of California for the recovery of a large amount of San Francisco property. A considerable portion of the city is embraced in the complaint, and over $300,000,000 are involved. It is said that several eminent lawyers have undertaken to carry the case through the United States courts, and speak very confidently of success in establishing the claim. HEATH.—Died at Denver, Colo., May 22, 1889, of consumption, Brother John R. Heath, aged 37 years. A few months before his death, he, with his family, went to Lemoore, Cal., hoping that the change would benefit him. He returned to Denver a few days before his death. He died upheld by a strong Christian faith. D. H. SOGGS. WEATHERFORD.—Died near Wilmer, Dallas Co., Texas, April 21, 1889, of measles and consumption, my wife, Mary Weatherford, aged 38 years and 3 months. She lived a consistent member of the Missionary Baptist Church for about fifteen years, until in 1881, when she began to receive the light of present truth by reading, which she accepted and sought to live out day by day. She was an affectionate wife and a loving mother, ever ready to minister by her gifts and offerings to the wants of the suffering and needy, as well as to the wants of the cause of her soon-coming Saviour. We shall greatly miss her co-operation and counsel in our little church and Sabbath-school, as well as in our home. We feel that our loss is heavy, but would not recall her to this world of sin, but rather strive to heed her parting exhortation to live holy lives and win eternal life. She leaves a husband, son, and two daughters to mourn their loss, besides a large circle of friends and acquaintances. We have laid her away for a little season, until the soon-coming reunion of all of God's people. Words of comfort were spoken by Brother O. Glass (S. D. A.), from Rev. 14:13. SAMUEL C. WEATHERFORD. MORRISS.—Died, near Plano, Texas, June 12, 1889, after a short illness, Lee C. Morriss, aged 19 years, 5 months and 17 days. Lee, with his parents, had but recently returned from California. He had been in Texas but a short time before he was taken sick. A few days before his death, in conversation with his mother, he was led to see the pardoning love of the Saviour. This he sought and found, as was testified to by those who heard his humble confessions and earnest exhortations. He expressed a desire to live only, however, that he might engage in the Master's work. Words of comfort by the writer from Job 14:10. W. S. HYATT. PRICE.—In Woodland, Cal., June 13, 1889, Martha J., wife of J. W. Price, aged 50 years and 28 days. Sister Price gave her heart to Jesus in early years, and during life endeavored to walk in the light. With her husband, she heard and accepted present truth at Winterset, Iowa, in 1870, during a tent-meeting held by Elder G. I. Butler and others. For many years she was an invalid, and her death was not unexpected. She leaves a husband, and son of 13 years. We feel that she has died the death of the righteous, and will soon be called forth from the grave, clothed with immortality. The last clause of Num. 23:10 was used as the basis of a short discourse. J. G. SMITH. (Review and Herald please copy.) HORSWILL.—Died at Coos City, Oregon, May 27, 1889, Eliza Horswill, aged 65 years, 3 months, and 18 days. She embraced Christianity after reaching maturity, and joined the Baptist Church. She lead an exemplary Christian life for over forty years. The Saviour was ever dear to her, and when she accepted the enlightening truths of the Third Angel's Message, he became doubly precious to her soul. She embraced the Sabbath last December while confined to a bed of sickness. She had been helpless for about a year, and when life's brittle thread was broken and she sank to rest, it was with the bright hope of again waking to immortal life and beauty on the resurrection morn. She leaves an aged husband to mourn his loss, but his trust is in the Lord, and he looks beyond the shifting scenes of this life to a reception into an eternity with God. A few remarks on the funeral occasion by the writer, from James 4:14. L. A. REED. CRAWFORD.—Henry C. Crawford was born in Chicago, Sept. 7, 1841, and died at Elroy, Wis., May 7, 1889, aged 47 years and 8 months. Brother Crawford was left an orphan at the age of seven years. At the outbreak of the civil war, he enlisted in the 126th Regiment, Illinois Volunteers, and served three years. Soon after enlisting, while lying on a bed of sickness at Chicago, he enlisted under the banner of the cross. After returning home, he united with the M. E. Church. In the year 1884, he removed his family to Elroy, Wis. During the summer of 1884 he first became interested in the Third Angel's Message, while attending a series of tent-meetings in Elroy, conducted by Elder Jordon. He with his family accepted the truth, and united with the Elroy church. During the past winter his mind has been almost wholly absorbed on these subjects, and he has written many letters, and conversed with many not of our faith, and was often heard speaking in terms of gratitude that this light ever came to him. He was a kind husband and father, and his family deeply mourn his loss. He leaves a wife and nine children. We laid him away to rest, until the Life-giver comes to reclaim his own. Funeral discourse by Elder T. B. Snow, from Job 14:10-14. MRS. H. C. CRAWFORD. GIBBS.—Died, at St. Helena, Cal., June 19, 1889, Maria A. Gibbs, wife of Dr. J. S. Gibbs. The deceased was born in the town of Groton, N. Y., Febuary 3, 1853, and was therefore thirty-six years, four months and sixteen days of age. She became a member of the Baptist Church of East Lansing, N. Y., at the early age of fourteen. She was married to Dr. J. S. Gibbs, May 1, 1878, uniting after her marriage with the Baptist Church of Groton, of which her husband was then a member. She continued a devoted Baptist till July, 1888, when she accepted the truths held by us as a people. As she expressed it to a friend, "I have accepted of all the truth with all my heart." These truths she observed till her death. In 1887 the deceased came to California, hoping that her health, which had always been feeble from inherited and incurable disease,—tuberculosis,—would improve; but in this she was disappointed. For the last year of her life she was confined to her bed, being a great sufferer much of the time. She was loved by those who knew her, having a kind word for rich and poor alike. But her sufferings are ended and she sleeps in peace. A husband, father, mother, brother, and sister are left to mourn her loss; but they sorrow not without hope. She expressed a firm confidence in Christ her Saviour till the last. Remarks by the writer from John 14:6. M. C. W. (Review and Herald please copy.) —The Presbyterians have raised a fund of $616,000 for disabled ministers. —Sixty-seven students are studying for the priesthood in the American Catholic College at Rome. —It is reported from Rome that Archbishop Corrigan of New York is soon to be made a cardinal. —For every dollar given to convert the heathen in the United States, eighteen dollars are spent in amusement. —It is stated that over 43,000,000 copies of Moody and Sankey's gospel hymn books have been issued in this country and in England. —The Salvation Army in London, Eng., was attacked and dispersed by the police on the 26th ult., while marching along the streets. —According to the last statistics the United Presbyterian Church in the United States had a total membership of 101,858. Its ministers number 753, of whom 243 are without charges. The total contributions of the denomination last year, for all purposes, amounted to about $1,110,853. —The Missionary Herald says that “missionaries throughout the world are finding that one of the most effective ways of reaching the people for whom they labor, is to seek the conversion of the children. Men and women who have grown old in paganism are not easily moved from their superstitions. The young form the most hopeful class.” We do not mean that a National Sunday Law is now ready, but that a treatise under this name, prepared by Alonzo T. Jones, is now ready for circulation. This pamphlet contains the arguments in behalf of the rights of American citizens, and in opposition to the Blair Sunday-Rest Bill, which Mr. Jones presented before the Senate Committee on Education and Labor, December 13, 1888. Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts has pronounced the report as published "MIGHTY INTERESTING READING,"
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The Inestimable Gift.
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pretation, " " 1 " ..... 3.50
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NEW YORK. The Teachers' Outlook
By Editor
Published by the Teachers' Publishing Company, Des Moines, Iowa. A monthly magazine for teachers and pupils that proposes to supplement other school journals rather than to occupy the same field. It will seek to provide an OUTLOOK upon affairs of life and facts in science and nature which illustrate and test theories; to stimulate thought and give the teacher's mind a fresh source of inspiration. A review of current events, civil and industrial problems, inventors, discoveries, etc., will be an important feature of the magazine, and a complete review of current literature will also be given by competent critics. ANOTHER AND VERY IMPORTANT FEATURE of the magazine will be that all teachers and students are invited to join its circle of writers, out of which it proposes to draw its corps of future contributors. On this point it has some original plans of mutual helpfulness to carry out. WANTED, ESPECIALLY—Writers of short, realistic stories and articles on natural history and social science from the Pacific Coast on terms given in OUTLOOK. Sample copies 20c; none free. IN its issue of June 6, the New York Voice (prohibition) does the justice to say that "the Seventh-day Adventists have been unjustly classed as opponents of prohibition." LET no one omit reading the article "The Hamburg Mission," by L. R. Conradi, on page 409 of this paper. Of course all feel a special interest in this mission just now for the reason that the Sabbath-school donations for this quarter are to be devoted to it. OWING to want of space the last of the series of articles on "The Land of the Czars" is crowded out. Our readers may expect it next week, and we hope that none at that time will fail to peruse it, and to consider from the heart how they would like the same laws enacted and enforced in our own land. WE have before noticed the proposed visit of Rev. W. F. Crafts, field secretary of the American Sabbath Union, so called, to this State. It is now definitely announced that he is to be here from August 3 to 28, during which time two conventions in the interests of Sunday observance are to be held, one in San Francisco, and one in Los Angeles. In anticipation of this visit, the ministers are making quite a stir, and every pastor in the State has been requested to preach upon the question of Sunday observance, on either the 14th or 21st of July. It is evident that every effort is being made to turn public opinion in California in favor of Sunday laws both State and National. In view of this, it behooves the friends of religious liberty to inquire what they can do to get the truth before the people who are likely to be deceived and misled by the sophistries of these National Reformers. WE learn from the China Mail that the matter of Sunday observance is still being agitated by ministers in Hong Kong. One of the most recent steps in the matter is a protest of Rev. W. Jennings, a minister of the Church of England, against the prize meeting of the Hong Kong volunteers being held on Sunday. It seems, however, that the governor does not share the views of Mr. Jennings, and has refused to interfere in the matter. WE have received most encouraging reports from our brethren who are engaged in tent work in different parts of the State. Brethren Hollister, Caldwell, and McKibbin write from Wheatland that their meetings have opened with very good prospect of success. There seems to be a good degree of interest to hear the truth. Brethren Scott and Courter send a similar report from San Jacinto, while Brother Hickox writes that "the Lord is blessing in the work in Sacramento, both in the hearing and presentation of his precious truth." Some souls are already obeying, and others are interested. We hope to be able to publish fuller reports in a short time. FOR some months past the Pope has been manifesting a very unusual interest in the abolition of the slave trade in Africa. This has excited comment, for the reason that the Papacy has never before been noted for its opposition to trade in flesh and blood. In fact, the church has in the past not scrupled to fill its coffers from this same traffic. Indeed, as remarked recently by a correspondent of the Western Christian Advocate, had Pius IX. had his way, "Where now are [in the South] seven millions of freemen there would be seven millions of slaves," and, "if the Pope's benediction had not missed fire, the slave auctioneer would still be crying slaves in the marts of Richmond and New Orleans." This new attitude is, however, explained by the statement that the raising of five hundred recruits for the ostensible purpose of suppressing the slave trade, is simply a pretext for the restoration of the Pontifical Zouaves.