Earlier text: The Doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul Subversive of the Truth.—No. 3.It was a Monday morning, and a rainy one at that. "Mother" was busy from the moment she sprang out of bed, at the first sound of the rising bell. Others besides children get out of bed "on the wrong side," as this mother can testify. She began by thinking over all that lay before her. It made her "feel like flying." Bridget would be cross, as it was rainy; there was a chance of company for lunch, so the parlor must be tidied, as well as the dining-room swept, dishes washed, lamps trimmed, beds made, and children started for school. Her hands grew hot as she buttered bread for luncheons, waited on those who had to start early, and tried to pacify the little ones and Bridget. "My dear, you're feverish," said her husband, as he held her hands a moment; "let the work go, and rest yourself; you'll find it pays." "Just like a man!" thought the mother. "Why, I haven't time for my prayers!" But she had resolved that she would read a few verses before ten o'clock each day; so, standing by her bureau, she opened to the eighth chapter of Matthew, and read these words: "And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose and ministered unto them." It seemed to that busy wife as if Jesus himself stood ready to heal her—to take the fever out of her hands, that she might minister wisely to her dear ones. The beds could wait until later in the day, the parlor might be a little disordered; but she must feel his touch! She knelt, and he whispered: "My strength [not yours] is sufficient." "As thy day so shall thy strength be." "My yoke is easy [this yoke you have been galled by is the world's yoke, the yoke of public opinion or housewifely ambition]; take my yoke upon you and learn of me: and ye shall find rest." The day was no brighter, the work had still to be done; but the fever had left her, and all the day she sang, "This God is our God, my Lord and my God." It is true that when the friends came to lunch, there had not been time to arrange the parlor, and no fancy dishes had been prepared for the table; but the hostess' heart was filled for them as members, with her, of Christ, and they went away hungering for such a realization of him as they saw she had. "Ah," said her husband, when he held her hands once more, "I see you took my advice, dear; the fever is quite gone." The wife hesitated—could she tell her secret? Was it not almost too sacred? Yet it was the secret of the Lord, not hers, and would glorify him. Later on, when the two sat together, she told who had cured her fever, and said, quietly, "I see that there is a more important ministry than the housekeeping, though I don't mean to neglect that." "Let us ask the Lord to keep hold of our hands," said her husband. "Mine grow feverish in eager money-making, as yours in too eager housekeeping." This is no fancy sketch. Dear mothers, busy, anxious housekeepers, let us go again and again to him, that he may touch our hands, lest they be feverish and so we cannot minister, in the highest sense, to those about us.—Christian at Work. EDUCATION in the first years of a child's life should not be a forcing process; it should be a directing, a leading, of the developing powers. Mrs. Jacobi truly says that the beginning of a child's education under the present system, in the majority of schools, is conducted as though literature were to be the pursuit of its lifetime. The primary motive of education is to develop all the faculties with which nature has endowed the child, and the education of the hands is as important as the education of the brain.—Sel. Say Unto Wisdom, Thou Art My Sister
"SAY unto wisdom, Thou art my sister." —Senator Sherman has been elected president of the Senate. —The elections in England have closed, and the Liberals find themselves in the minority. —Wm. H. Vanderbilt died in New York December 8. His estate is estimated at $200,000,000. —The guano deposits of the islands off Lower California are turning out to be very abundant. —The German Bundesrath has unanimously approved a bill to connect the Baltic with the North Sea. —The Remington works at Ilion, N. Y., have received an order from the Turkish Government for 200,000 rifles. —The steamer City of Bayou Sara was burned December 6, at New Madrid, Mo. The passengers escaped safely, but lost everything. —The Central Pacific is now using one hundred and forty barrels of petroleum daily on its steamers and in its shops. —In view of the increasing Japanese emigration to the Sandwich Islands, Japan is about to enter into an agreement with the Hawaiian Government for a postal service. —The constitutionality of the act authorizing the securing of 3,600 acres of land above the Harlem River for the new parks of New York City, has been affirmed by the Court of Appeals. —The limited express train of the New York Central makes the run of 980 miles between New York and Chicago in twenty-six hours. This is believed to be the fastest long-distance train in America. —Sixteen vessels were lost in the storm on the coast off Aspinwall, reported last week. It is not yet known how many lives have been lost; but all on board one vessel perished, and only two were saved from another. —M. Pasteur, the Frenchman who claims to have discovered a remedy for hydrophobia, has seventy-three cases under treatment, and all his patients are doing well. Several children from Newark, N. J., have been recently sent to him for treatment. —Florida is to have an extensive Scotch colony. The first division, of fifty families, has sailed from Glasgow; not less than a thousand families, in all, are expected. These immigrants own the land on which they are to settle, and are well supplied with money. —An Arizona prospector owes his life to the sagacity of his horse. He was taken sick, and lay in camp three days perfectly helpless, until finally the horse went to another camp several miles distant, and by his actions induced some one to bring assistance to his sick master. —Senator Edmunds proposes a bill to put the Mormons in chancery. It provides for the repeal of the act of the Legislature incorporating the church, and declares the property of the church forfeited to the United States, to be sold, and the proceeds used for the benefit of the public schools. —The steamer Conto was wrecked on Lake Michigan recently. The passengers and crew were all rescued, and were provided with food and other things necessary to their comfort; but a party of seven who attempted to reach the mainland have not been heard from since they left their companions. —Europe and British India consume about 150,000 gallons of handkerchief perfumes yearly. There is one great perfume distillery at Cannes, in France, which uses yearly 100,000 pounds of acacia flowers, 140,000 pounds of rare flower leaves, 32,000 pounds of Jassamine blossoms, 20,000 pounds of tuberose blossoms, and an immense quantity of other material. —Lieutenant Zalinski, aided by Captain Candy, has invented a dynamite gun which promises to prove very destructive. The cartridge carries one hundred pounds of dynamite. Whenever it strikes after its discharge, the shock jars the battery, the platinum wire becomes incandescent in the midst of the dynamite, and an enemy's man-of-war is destroyed instantly. —A Berlin journal has recently made an estimate of the size and cost of the armies of Europe. In the seventeen States of that continent, the armies, even on a peace footing, number 2,529,522 men. The total cost for these millions is estimated to be more than $950,000,000 per year. The total population of Europe is said to be a little more than 315,000,000. This would make the armies, in peace times, average three dollars per year to each person, young and old. —The powers of Europe have agreed to recognize the union of the Bulgarias, and a Demarcation Commission has been appointed to fix a line between the Bulgarian and Servian armies, beyond which neither shall pass, pending negotiations. It is believed that this arrangement insures an armistice of a month, and can hardly fail to result in securing terms of peace. But the announcement had hardly flashed across the wires, when there followed the news of a "long and bloody engagement" in which the Servians were victorious, having gained possession of the town of Veniki Isoor.767 —Cholera has become epidemic in Brittany, a province of France, and the mortality is fearful. —The recent storm along the northeastern coast of the Atlantic, was the most severe that has been known in the vicinity of New York in many years, and was accompanied by a phenomenally high tide. From all along the coast there come accounts of vessels wrecked and of the cruel sufferings of the seamen who escaped a watery grave. On land, houses were demolished, and miles of railroad track torn up and blown away. The iron piers and the bulkheads at Long Branch and Coney Island were badly injured; and it will require months of time and a large expenditure of money to repair the damage that was done in a few hours by this furious November gale. SIR ARTHUR WELLESLEY, the conqueror of Napoleon, was, it is said, once utterly routed and put to flight by a scolding farm-wife, whose sitting hens his horse had disturbed. "I would rather face a park of artillery than listen to her five minutes longer," he said. Madame de Staël, who was able to charm all the world by her brilliant conversation, had, we are told, a similar encounter with an angry Breton peasant, and retreated before the vehement abuse, utterly dismayed and silenced. "I could not use her weapons," was her excuse. "Never argue with an angry woman," said an old French writer, "or try to dam a foul flood. Stand aside and let them pass." The effect and quality of a scolding tongue were known ages ago. "Better to dwell in a corner of the house-top," said Solomon, "than with a brawling woman in a wide house;" and again, "Pleasant words are sweet to the soul." Young girls are apt to devote a great deal of anxious consideration and effort to the means of making themselves attractive and beloved. They study their looks, their gait; they strive eagerly to present to the world tasteful costumes, white hands, pretty feet, to sing well, to play with skill, to dance with grace, and all the while they too often drive away friends and admirers by silly chatter, slang, or ill-natured gossip. "I find it easy," said a well-known instructress of girls, "to train a young woman's mind, body, and hands. But her tongue usually defies me. If they would but learn to keep silence, something would be gained. But that is the most difficult lesson of all." "Never judge of a young woman," said a cynical student of human nature, "until you have heard her talk for an hour, apart from her mother, teacher, or any one of whom she stands in awe. The most stately Juno will relax into a paltry dribbler, a gossiping scandal-monger, even sometimes, if provoked, a shrew." Remember, girls, the old Arab proverb,—the word once spoken returns not until it has run through the earth. "The tongue can no man tame." Because, perhaps, it always will express the secret thoughts of the heart. But the heart can be tamed, and so brought into harmony with God and man that its spoken words shall be helpful and dear to both.—Youth's Companion. PRAYER.—Prayer must be not only with submission, but with discretion. It may be said with some degree of confidence that the most believing petitioners are at the same time the most discreet regarding the things for which they ask. Said Miss Adele M. Fielde, at a woman's meeting in Chicago, concerning a wonderfully blessed prayer-circle in China: "We got so that we considered a long while and very carefully before we decided to permit certain things to be prayed for." As Christians grow more devout and trustful, they doubtless begin to show more and more judgment in the objects of their prayers. They ask less for those things which they ought not to have.—Standard. Watching for the Lord’s Coming
ALL our watching must have reference to the coming of the Lord. In all things we must be diligent and faithful, to the end that we may not be ashamed before him at his appearing. How soon shall all our opportunities for serving and glorifying God terminate? How soon shall we appear before the judgment-seat of Christ to receive according to the deeds done in the body? 'Let us therefore not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober.'—Sel. Guarding Children’s Self-Consciousness
NEVER talk of a child's peculiarities before it; never let it hear its beauty or ugliness spoken of. The greatest charm of childhood is its forgetfulness of itself. —A convention of believers in the faith-cure was recently held in Pittsburgh, Pa. —There are 15,000 people living in polygamy in Utah and the bordering Territories. —The Virginia Presbyterian Synod has indorsed the theory of evolution, as being in harmony with the Scriptures. —English colporters in Persia find that Bibles in the Persian language are well received. Even the Mohammedans welcome them. —Forty-four lady physicians have gone to Asia as Protestant missionaries during the last fifteen years; and their medical skill has opened the way for effective preaching of the gospel. —A gentleman of Leeds, England, who has done much to promote missions in Africa, has offered $25,000 to the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions if it will promptly found a new mission to the Wamasai and Wakuafe tribes in Central Africa. If his offer is accepted, he will open a road from the Zanzibar coast to Victoria Nyanzi. —The new opera, the Mikado, has been performed in several churches in Western New York, with results that have caused some uneasiness. An essential part of the play is a comic wedding; and its introduction into the churches has led to several mock Japanese marriages, which it is feared may prove not to be "mock" marriages after all. —A man has just been received into a Brussels hospital whose foot has been hurt by excessive walking; and he turns out to be a professional pilgrim, that is, one who goes on pilgrimages to shrines for devout Roman Catholics who wish to go themselves, but are too busy and can afford to hire substitutes. The Congregationalist thinks that the pilgrimage business is "looking up." —It is said that in Ecuador there is a church for every one hundred and fifty inhabitants, and ten per cent. of the population are priests, monks, or nuns. Two hundred and seventy-two days are observed either as feast or fast days, one-fourth of all the property belongs to the church, and the priests control the Government in all its branches. Following these statements, it is easy to believe that seventy-five per cent. of the people can neither read nor write. —There are more than forty thousand Bohemians in Chicago, who are intensely infidel in their sentiments. Several Bohemian papers are printed, and in one of the ablest the most blasphemous representations of the Bible are published weekly. During the year two free-thinking churches have been formed. They have a clannish feeling, a conviction that they have not been received as a welcome addition to the population, that makes missionary work among them very difficult. —Bishop Ireland recently said of the decrees passed at the Plenary Council held in Baltimore a year ago, which have just been returned from Rome with the pope's sanction and amendments: "The purport of these decrees is that the Sunday laws must be observed by Catholics. They also insist that Catholics shall desist from the liquor traffic. The great restrictions are placed upon the drinking of liquor; and even its use at church fairs and picnics, or any celebration except that in which the church is directly concerned, is forbidden." Some of the leading religious journals welcome this new ally for the temperance and Sunday movement. They seem to forget, or to entirely ignore, the past record of that church. But has the leopard changed his spots? If any believe this, let them read the pope's encyclical, which has just been published. They will find that he there affirms the very principles that guided the church in the Dark Ages. How to Select a Boy.
By Christian Union
A GENTLEMAN advertised for a boy, and nearly fifty applicants presented themselves to him. Out of the whole number he selected one and dismissed the rest. “I should like to know,” said a friend, “on what ground you selected that boy, who had not a single recommendation.” “You are mistaken,” said the gentleman; “he has a great many. He wiped his feet when he came in, and closed the door after him, showing that he was careful. He gave his seat instantly to the lame old man, showing that he was thoughtful. He took off his cap when he came in, and answered my questions promptly, showing that he was gentlemanly. He picked up the book which I had purposely laid on the floor and replaced it upon the table; and he waited quietly for his turn, instead of pushing and crowding, showing that he was honorable and orderly. When I talked to him, I noticed that his clothes were brushed, his hair in order; when he wrote his name, I noticed that his finger-nails were clean. Don’t you call those things letters of recommendation? I do; and I would give more for what I can tell about a boy by using my eyes ten minutes than for all the letters he can bring me.” Little things show character, and frequently determine a boy’s whole career. It is the boy who does the kind, polite, and thoughtful acts unconsciously that wins his way to employment and success. And success does not mean wealth or fame. True success means the development of a character that is worthy of example—a character that is honest to every duty, faithful to every trust, and that is unselfish enough to find time for kindly acts that are not forced, but the simple expression of a warm and generous principle. True success is fidelity to every relation in life.—Christian Union. Obituary.
By Olive B. Oaks
RUSSELL.—Died of consumption, November 26 1885, at her home in Alpine, Morrow County, Or. Louisa Melvina Russell, youngest daughter of Wm. and Anna Russell, aged eighteen years and four months. At the age of eleven, with her parents and two brothers, she embraced the present truth under the labors of Elder Van Horn. Ever since that time she has been keeping the commandments of God, and leading an exemplary Christian life. At different times she expressed a desire to live to see the Saviour come, and to be a comfort to her parents in their declining years. But it was her great ambition to get an education that would prepare her to work in the cause of God, which she loved so much. A father, mother, one brother, and two sisters mourn their loss; but they sorrow not as those having no hope. OLIVE B. OAKS. THOUGHTS ON REVELATION, CRITICAL AND PRACTICAL.
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THE Philadelphia Press says: "Now that the social season is fairly begun, careless hosts with neglected lists are as usual sending out invitations for dinners and dances to men and women long in the grave. A gentleman whose wife has been dead for more than a year, received two cards for teas and one for a dance for her last week. A lady who lost her husband recently was asked to accompany him to two or three entertainments. . . . All these mistakes, with the pain they bring to the living, would be avoided if hosts who are anxious only to crowd their houses on festive occasions, would interest themselves in their acquaintances sufficiently to make a note of the fact when death carries any of them away." This is a good comment on what are called "social entertainments." The fact that the fashionable people are accustomed to send out invitations on much the same plan that a business firm sends out its circulars, and with as little personal interest in those to whom they are sent, must be highly gratifying to the guests. But then since the main object of those who attend is simply to fill their stomachs at somebody else's expense, it is doubtless just as well. Tastes differ, but we do not envy them their "good times." THE American Sentinel, which has been promised so long, will be issued promptly on time, January, 1886, according to note published last September. Sample copies were sent to the General Conference, and were received with great favor. The following from the prospectus of the Sentinel, will give the reader a better idea of what it is to be, than he can get without reading the paper itself:— "The AMERICAN SENTINEL, an eight-page monthly journal, devoted to the defense of American institutions, the preservation of the United States Constitution as it is, so far as regards religion or religious tests, and the maintenance of human rights, both civil and religious. It will ever be uncompromisingly opposed to anything tending toward a union of Church and State, either in name or in fact. Single copy, per year, 50 cents; to foreign countries, 2s. Address, AMERICAN SENTINEL, 1059 Castro St., Oakland, Cal." IN the San Francisco Chronicle of December 9, we find the following:— "A suit to test their right to observe the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath, has recently been brought by the Adventists of Arkansas. Within two years this sect has greatly increased in the State, but last winter the Legislature repealed the clause which gave the Adventists the right to choose their Sunday. The action was evidently taken specially to worry these people, and they have resented it by bringing a test case before the Supreme Court. If the Court sustains the act of the Legislature, it will show that Arkansas is about 100 years behind its neighbors in religious toleration." The Chronicle is usually very exact, but in regard to this matter it has evidently been misinformed. We appreciate the spirit of good will which seems to pervade the paragraph, but wish to correct the errors, for others may have fallen into the same. 1. No suit has been brought by the Adventists of Arkansas. 2. No one has contested the right of Adventists to observe the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath. 3. The trouble is not caused by the fact that "the Legislature repealed the clause which gave Adventists the right to choose their Sunday." The Adventists have no special liking for any Sunday; but the trouble is that the people want to compel Adventists to keep every Sunday. The facts of the case are simply these:— Up to last spring the laws of Arkansas gave people who conscientiously observe the seventh day, the liberty to work upon the remaining days of the week, Sunday included, which they have both a divine and a natural right to do. Six months ago the clause granting this just right was repealed, and as the law now stands, whoever conscientiously observes the seventh day of the week, according to the commandment of God, may be compelled to rest on the first day of the week, in accordance with the unjust requirements of men. As the Chronicle says, "the action was evidently taken specially to worry these people;" and the evidence of this fact is that Adventists, and scarcely any others, have been prosecuted for the violation of this unjust law. If the law were simply unjust, it might be endured; but it directly contravenes the fourth precept of the decalogue, and consequently cannot be obeyed by those who regard the laws of God as superior to the opposing laws of men. Having been prosecuted and convicted, the Adventists have taken the case to the Supreme Court to see whether the highest authority in the State will countenance persecution for conscience' sake. This, in brief, is the whole of the matter; while it is evident that the action taken by the Arkansas Courts is a specimen of the civilization of the Dark Ages, we cannot admit that Arkansas is behind its neighbors. The State of Pennsylvania has persistently refused to allow Sabbath-keepers to enjoy their God-given rights, and it was only three years ago that some of the most respectable people in California tried to commit this State to the same line of action. More than this, an influential party, which is rapidly adding to its numbers, is earnestly endeavoring to have the entire United States pass laws similar to the one by which Adventists in Arkansas are now being oppressed. This volume contains the earliest writings of Mrs. White, first printed in 1851. It contains an account of her early religious experience, and a brief account of the wonderful dealings of God with her. Apart from its intrinsic value, it will be of interest as showing the harmony between the earliest writings of the Seventh-day Adventists and those published at a later date. Its publication is very timely. In paper covers, with Supplement, 25 cents. Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. The Second Coming of a Literal Christ
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ON account of press of business at the General Conference, the editor was obliged to close the article entitled "The Second Coming of a Literal Christ," more abruptly than he designed. It is the first of a series that will contain much valuable instruction.