Earlier text: In Due SeasonAmong the Churches.
By M. C. Israel
SINCE my last report I have visited churches and scattered brethren living in and near Salinas, Castroville, and Soledad, in Monterey County; Hollister and San Juan, in San Benito County. Eld. Healey was with me part of the time. A few meet at each of these places and hold Sabbath-school and social meeting. But the Sabbath-keepers in these two counties live so far from each other, only a small number can get together for Sabbath meetings. We met with them at each place and arranged where we could for Bible-readings to be held, to add to the interest and profit of their coming together. We also visited from house to house, with very few exceptions, all the Sabbath-keepers. At San Jose, where Eld. Healey has been laboring, forty or fifty meet together for worship. We organized a Tract and Missionary Society which ordered a club of the SIGNS to extend their efforts in doing missionary work. During the last three weeks I have visited the churches in Healdsburg and St. Helena. Within the last two years the church in Healdsburg has increased from a small number until now there is a membership of ninety-six. This is principally owing to the influence of the School; quite a number of the pupils have become converted and joined the church. Our people need have no fears in regard to the influence exerted in the College Home or in the School. A careful and prayerful effort is being constantly made for the best interests of the boarders and scholars. Physical exercise is interspersed with the mental in a way that is useful and instructive, leading to habits of industry in the household and in the daily duties of life. The advantages here are far superior to those of our public schools, and the moral and religious influence and discipline in the family at the College Hall is not second to the good influence in any of our homes. This is claiming considerable, but a week's visit at the place has convinced me that this is a fact. A large number of this family are laboring to get a fitting-up for the work of the Lord. I believe the Spirit of the Lord and angels are helping them, and it is a pity that hundreds are not getting the benefit of this special effort. Yet it is encouraging to know that such a goodly number are preparing to enter the great harvest-field. We would invite parents and guardians to attend the general meeting to be held at Healdsburg, from January 3 to 13, at which time they will have a chance to judge in regard to the desirableness of the school for their children. A Christmas Club.
By Editor
We clip from last December's St. Nicholas, the following account of the formation at Portland, Me., of a Children's Christmas Club, which gave last year a Christmas tree and dinner to six hundred poor children of that city:— A number of notes were written, asking two or more girls and boys from every Sunday-school in the city to meet at a certain house at five o'clock on the following Thursday afternoon. Come! They did not know what the call was for, save for a whisper about Christmas work; but they came; came in pairs, in trios, in quartets, and quintets—a whole squad from the Butler School; big boys with big hearts, wee tots only four years old from the kindergarten—one hundred children, ready for anything. Oh, I wish you could have been there at the forming of the club! A lady came forward to speak to them, and their voices were hushed in expectation. I can't tell you just what she said, but her words were beautiful. She spoke of their Christmas festivities every year, of their presents and their friends; then of unfortunate children who had fewer, some none. When she asked, "Does any one here want to do anything for these others?" the thought that they could do anything was new to almost all—to many of them even the wish was new; but like one great heart-throb came their answer:— "Yes! I! I! I! I want to do something!" "Children, what can you do?" A pause, and then one little voice cried:— That was the first offer, but it was followed by many another: "Give'em candy!" "Giv'em a turkey!" "Giv'em a coat!"—each beginning with that grand word, "Give." The result of that meeting was this:— To form a club which should last "forever;" to call it "The Children's Christmas Club;" to have for its motto: "Freely ye have received, freely give;" to place the membership fee at ten cents, so that no child should be prevented from joining because he was not "rich;" to make no distinction in regard to sect or nationality; to permit to join the club any girl or boy under eighteen years of age who accepted its principles, which were: To be ready at all times with kind words to assist children less fortunate than themselves; to make every year, in Christmas week, a festival of some kind for them; to save through the year toys, books, and games, instead of carelessly destroying them; to save and, whenever practicable, put in good repair all outgrown clothing; to beg nothing from any source, but to keep as the keystone of the club the word "Give;" to pay every year a tax of ten cents; and to make their first festival in the City Hall on Thursday, Dec. 28, 1882. Up with the birds in the early morning,
The dew-drop glows like a precious gem;
Beautiful tints in the skies are dawning,
But she's never a moment to look at them.
The men are wanting their breakfast early;
She must not linger, she must not wait,
For words that are sharp and looks that are surly,
Might pain her heart if she were late. Oh, glorious colors the clouds are turning,
If she would but look over hills and trees;
But here are the dishes, and here's the churning—
Those things always must yield to these.
The world is filled with the wine of beauty,
If she could but pause and drink it in;
But pleasure, she says, must wait for duty,
Neglected work is committed sin. The day grows hot, and her hands grow weary;
O for an hour to cool her head,
Out with the birds and winds so cheery!
But she must get dinner and bake her bread.
The busy men in the hay-field working,
If they saw her sitting with idle hand,
Would think her lazy and call it shirking,
And she never could make them understand. They do not know that the heart within her
Hungers for beauty and things sublime;
They only know that they want their dinner,
Plenty of it, and just "on time."
And after the sweeping and churning and baking,
And dinner dishes all put by,
She sits and sews, though her head is aching,
Till time for supper and "chores" draws nigh. Her boys at school must look like others,
She says, as she patches their frocks and hose;
For the world is quick to censure mothers
For the least neglect of their children's clothes.
Her husband comes from the field of labor;
He gives no praise to his weary wife;
She's done no more than has her neighbor;
'Tis the lot of all in country life. But after the strife and weary tussle
With life is done, and she lies at rest,
The nation's brain and heart and muscle—
Her sons and daughters—shall call her blest.
And I think the sweetest joy of heaven,
The rarest bliss of eternal life,
And the fairest crown of all will be given
Unto the way-worn faithful wife. —Selected. A HEAP of little bits of calico and linen lay just ahead of Phenie's broom. It was a very cunning new broom, and it swept as clean as new brooms always do. The sitting-room had to be swept a good many times in a day, for Miss Poor the dress-maker was there, snipping and making all the litter she could—so Phenie thought. But she liked to sweep it up very well indeed. "I'd pick those pieces out and save them for paper-rags," said Aunt Anna, coming in just at that minute. "There's such a little of 'em," said Phenie. "I don't believe it's a cent's worth. I want to sweep the veranda, too." So Phenie fidgeted for a minute with her new broom, and when she found Aunt Anna didn't say any more she left the bits of cotton in a corner of the wide brick hearth, and went out to sweep the veranda floor. And when she went in again the rags were all out of the way. All through the summer there were a good many bits of cloth and paper to pick up; but Phenie didn't touch them very often. There was always such a little, and she didn't like to any way. But in the fall a tin peddler drove up to the door in a shiny green cart, lettered with gold; and among other beautiful things he had some little tin pails, painted and lettered too. "O Auntie!" screamed Phenie, in the greatest delight, "can't I have one?" "Thirty cents, only," said the peddler. After one look at Aunt Anna's face, Phenie felt with a dreadful sinking of her heart, that he might as well have said thirty dollars. "I'll take rags," said the peddler, swinging one of the pails on his finger; "four cents a pound." Aunt Anna's eyes began to laugh. "Have you got any rags, Phenie?" she asked. "No'm," said Phenie, solemnly! "If you had only saved them, Phenie!" "But there was such a little," said Phenie. Aunt Anna laughed. Then she brought in from behind the shed door a bag stuffed full of rags. "Here they are, Phenie," she said. Phenie opened her eyes, and the peddler began to laugh. In a minute he had weighed the rags. "The pail's yours," he said, "and two cents over. Many a little makes a deal, little girl. Now, I'm coming round again next spring. Can't you save some rags for me?" "Yes sir," said Phenie, hugging her pail, with her two gingling coppers.—Temperance Banner. UNDER the present order of things, should the novelist go into the highways and resorts of the world to study reality, he will find many a daughter of the gods, divinely tall, and the most divinely fair, who, when her lips are opened, will dispel the charm of her presence and bring to mind the old fairy tale of the damsel from whose lips dropped toads and snakes at every word; who acknowledges no law of etiquette but her own whim; whose standard of regard to others is her own convenience; whose greatest virtue is indifference, and whose best charm is absence. It is true that at summer resorts there are charming and lovely girls, but their refined presence is completely overshadowed by the pushing, noisy vulgarity of the roystering girl of the period, the girl whose family is often excellent, whose advantage socially and educationally have been all that position and wealth could command, yet who remains to the end vulgar, selfish, and obtrusive.—Chicago Times. A BAD daughter seldom makes a good wife. If a girl is ill-tempered at home, snarls at her parents, snaps at her brothers and sisters, and shirks her ordinary duties, the chances are ten to one that when she gets a home of her own she will make it wretched. There are girls who fancy themselves so far superior to their parents that the mere privilege of enjoying their society in the house ought to be all the old people ought to have the assurance to ask. While their mothers are busy with domestic duties they sit in the easiest chairs, or lie on the softest sofas, feeding on cheap and trashy novels, and cherish the notion that they are very literary individuals. The household drudgery is too coarse for such fine ladies as they. The business of their parents is to provide them with nice clothes, and to be content with admiring their handsome appearance in the intervals of labor. Girls of this sort are generally very anxious to be married, that they may escape the disagreeables of a home where they are held, more or less, under subjection; therefore are smiling enough to eligible bachelors, quickly smoothing down the ugly frowns which alone they give to the members of their own families. A caller who doesn't have a chance of seeing how they behave as daughters, may be excused for fancying them lovely and lovable beings; but one who does see it is foolish to commit himself by offering marriage to a girl of this sort. She is not fit to be the wife of a worthy man. If she will not assist her mother in the domestic labors, and badgers the servants, is she not liable to be equally slothful and ill-tempered when she marries? If she now thinks herself too fine to work, is it safe to expect that her views as to that matter will radically change if she becomes a wife? A PEASANT was one day driving some geese to a neighboring town, where he hoped to sell them. He had a long stick in his hand, and, to say the truth, he did not treat his flock of geese with much consideration. I do not blame him, however; he was anxious to get to the market in time to make a profit, and not only geese but men must expect to suffer if they hinder gain. The geese, however, did not look on the matter in this light, and, happening to meet a traveler walking along the road, they poured forth their complaints against the peasant who was driving them. "Where can you find geese more unhappy than we are? See how this peasant is hurrying on this way and that, and driving us just as though we were only common geese. Ignorant fellow that he is, he never thinks how he is bound to honor and respect us; for we are the distinguished descendants of those very geese to whom Rome once owed its salvation, so that a festival was established in their honor." "But for what do you expect to be distinguished yourselves?" asked the traveler. "Yes, I know; I have read all about it. What I want to know is what good have you yourselves done?" "Why, our ancestors saved Rome." "Yes, yes; but what have you done of the kind?" "Of what good are you, then? Do leave your ancestors at peace. They were honored for their deeds; but you, my friends, are only fit for roasting."—Selected. An old man and a young man were riding in a stage-coach. The old man was grave but sprightly, short of stature, spare, with a smooth forehead, fresh complexion, and a bright and piercing eye. The young man swore a great deal; until once when they stopped to change horses, the old man said to him, "I perceive by the registry books, that you and I are going to travel together a long distance in this coach. I have a favor to ask of you. I am getting to be an old man; and if I should so far forget myself as to swear, you will oblige me if you will caution me about it." The young man instantly apologized, and there was no more swearing heard from him during that journey. The old man was John Wesley. —A Chinese restaurant has been opened in Paris. —Gen. Anson G. McCook has been chosen Secretary of the U. S. Senate. —Mrs. Doody, of Galena, Ill., has recently celebrated her 113th birth-day. —Reports from London say that the importation of frozen meat is overdone. —J. H. Billings & Co., cotton merchants of New York, have failed for $400,000. —Five stock-thieves have been disposed of by Dakota vigilantes in the last ten days. —The town of Riverside, this State, will charge $75 a month license for liquor-selling after Jan. 1. —Congressman Cox proposes to abolish the $20,000 office of Shipping Commissioner at New York. —The November fires on the Pacific Coast cost the insurance companies $243,000. The fire at Dixon, Cal., alone, amounted to $103,600. —Rubinstein, the Russian pianist, has been offered $125,000 to give 150 concerts in the United States. —Parnell was honored with a banquet in Dublin, last week, and a present of £30,000 as a national tribute. —Senator Miller of California has been honored with the Chairmanship of the Committee on Foreign Relations. —Articles of incorporation of the Oakland Glass Works have been filed with the clerk of Alameda County. —A vein of coal six feet thick has been discovered in Los Angeles County, four miles from the Anaheim Railroad. —Seventy men from the Paterson, N. J., locomotive works, have gone to Liverpool to work at iron shipbuilding. —The Government of Egypt is preparing to send 10,000 fresh troops to Darfour, and 10,000 more to Khartoum. —A woman in Cleveland, O., has been awarded $2,000 on account of a cough contracted in a newly-plastered hotel. —Twenty-three ostriches arrived at New Orleans, on the 11th inst., from Cape Town, Africa, on route to the San Diego farm. —Over 1,000 bills were introduced in the Congressional House of Representatives on Monday and Tuesday of last week. —After a suspension of four months, work on the Oregon Pacific Railroad has been resumed; 300 Chinamen are at work. —Las Vegas, N. M., is excited over the striking of rich pay-dirt while excavating for the foundation of a new Court House. —The Italian Steamship Company have refused the application of the French Government for steamers for the Tonquin service. —Some boys in Stockton, Cal., attempted to wreck a train because the conductor persisted in driving them off the car platforms. —The Pacific Coast Congressional delegation have telegraphed their indorsement of the project for a world's fair in San Francisco, in 1887. —The Yellowstone branch of the Union Pacific Railroad has been surveyed. It connects with the main line at Edson Station, Wy. T. —A lively war is going on between the rival district telegraph companies of San Francisco; it has advanced as far as wire-cutting and box-breaking. —A grand reception to have been given at the residence of General Sherman, at St. Louis, was headed off by the smallpox attacking one of his servants. —The U. S. Supreme Court has decided in favor of Jefferson Davis, the case of the contested will of Mrs. Dorsey, who bequeathed to him a large property. —Edison's electric has been successfully tried for a head-light to a locomotive. It renders the track distinctly visible to the engineers for a third of a mile. —All the coal mines on the Monongahela River, above Pittsburg, have closed on account of depression in the trade. About 6,000 employees are out of employment. —A Melbourne paper states that a member of the Salvation Army there has confessed to the murder of an actor who died sometime ago, it was supposed from inebriety. —Mormon women are circulating subscription papers in Utah to raise means for employing ten first-class lawyers to thwart the efforts being made to overthrow Mormonism. —Percy Jacobus, the embezzling Secretary of Eureka Consolidated Mining Company, has been imprisoned in San Francisco, on sixteen charges, covering the amount of $50,000. —At a Tumwater, W. T., town election last week the women did their first voting under the new law granting them the right of suffrage. Their ticket was successful. —A Paris correspondent coolly suggests that "the time has come for the neutral powers to dispel the illusions of the Chinese and urge upon China the necessity for conciliation." —Bismarck is receiving petitions from different German cities asking the removal of restrictions on American pork. They fear retaliation on German productions in this country. —There is a demand for American interpreters of the Chinese language in San Francisco, as the Chinese interpreters are wholly unreliable where the interests of their countrymen are involved. —Another Egyptian army has been annihilated by the "False Prophet." The loss is 680 men. A holy war is being proclaimed in Upper Egypt; and there is great excitement in the adjoining countries. —Major-General Hancock arrived in San Francisco on Wednesday of last week, and was enthusiastically received. It is expected he will be made Lieutenant-General of the army by the present Congress. —The Crown Prince of Germany will visit the Vatican. It is said the Emperor wishes to have domestic peace restored to the empire before he dies. This is but the beginning of victories for the pope. —It is thought that the Mayor of New Laredo, Mexico, is involved in the recent train robbery on the Mexican National Railroad. He has seriously obstructed the process of making arrests of guilty parties. —A hurricane in the province of Alicante, Spain, on the 13th inst., uprooted 400 olive trees. Simultaneously at Dema, an immense sea wave demolished the quays, inundated the town, and wrecked fourteen vessels. —The new Peruvian Minister, just arrived at Washington, says his country would now be prosperous, despite the results of the war, were it not drained by the Chilean indemnity, which amounts to $300,000 monthly. —A sailboat containing seven decomposed bodies drifted ashore at Sebes Island, near Toronto, last week. The bodies are believed to be the remains of Captain Quick and sons, who left two weeks previously for a trip around the island. —At Caldera, a seaport of Chile, 8,500 sacks of saltpeter became ignited last week, destroying a great portion of the railway coal deposit. The saltpeter ran along the railway track to the sea, burning the sleepers, fence, machine-shops, etc. —It is now thought that the tariff question will be the leading issue in the Presidential campaign next year, the Democratic party in Congress, having asserted its position by the election of a free-trader (Mr. Carlisle of Kentucky) to the Speakership. —Representative Sumner of California, who has introduced a postal telegraph bill, says he has investigated the subject, and finds that it costs the telegraph companies on an average one mill and a half per word to send and deliver a message. All the rest is clear profit. —A number of capitalists have just purchased 800 acres of land in Pickens County, Ga., for the purpose of quarrying marble. This promises to be one of the most important of the new industries of Georgia. There is said to be a mountain of marble on the premises mentioned. —The Portugal papers complain because their Crown Prince visited England and was not honored with either banquet or ball. The London Times replies that he came out of season, and it could not be expected that all English society custom would be remodeled on his account. —The Government of Egypt professes to discountenance slavery; but the bulk of its army operating against El Mahdi in Soudan are purchased slaves, who are reluctantly fighting against their free brethren, and against their fanatical faith. No wonder they are defeated on every hand. —Seven marauders rode into Bisbee Camp, A. T., on the 8th inst., and robbed a store of $1,200. Two men were killed in the store, and a man and woman attracted to their own doors by their noise, were shot and mortally wounded. The marauders are supposed to be the Deming train-robbers. —Chas. McLaughlin, the well-known capitalist and railroad contractor, was shot and killed in his office in San Francisco, Dec. 13, by Jerome B. Cox. The affair grew out of prolonged litigation, Cox having been a subcontractor under McLaughlin in the construction of the Western Pacific Railroad. —The New York Bar Association has adopted a resolution expressing the wish that Judges of the Court of Appeals should appear in silken robes on the bench; and has also appointed a committee for the prosecution of disreputable lawyers. The last-mentioned act should be imitated in other cities. —Sometimes the executors of Lynch-law justice make mistakes. As an acknowledgment of this fact, several white citizens of De Soto Parish, La., have just been arrested for the murder of Judson Scott, at Kingston, in July, 1881, a crime for which a negro who had been arrested on suspicion was taken from jail and hanged a few days after its commission. —The Louisiana sugar-growers have begun a war in Congress on the Hawaiian Treaty. It is claimed that free importation from the islands, owing to a monopoly of the business, has tended to increase rather than diminish the price of the article. The freight tariff on sugar from the East and South has shut off competition with the islands, on the Pacific Coast. —Henry G. Milligan, book-keeper for Dr. Merritt of this city, who lost six or seven thousand dollars of his employer's money in stock-gambling, has been released. The Dr. was induced to withhold complaint against him by the influence of his pastor and his brethren in the church and various societies. It is claimed for him that "he is too good a man for San Quentin." Perhaps so; "the world is growing better." —The Louisiana Lottery scheme is getting to be a power in the land. Its profits are immense, and it has influence enough to silence officers and go unmolested. The advertised prizes are but a small per cent. of the money received, and most of these go to "cappers" of the concern. It is said to be largely patronized at Washington, notwithstanding the efforts of the Postmaster General against its use of the mails. —Dr. Platt, American consular representative at Chee Foo, China, who has just returned to this country, expresses alarm on account of the report that a Chinese mob has destroyed a Christian chapel in Canton. He says the feeling is very bitter, and a mob might massacre the whole foreign population at any time, and he entertains fears of the worst in the event of war with France. Our Restriction Law is not understood by the people, and officials look upon it as a breach of faith. —Leo XIII. says there is no place where he is more pope than in America. —A Waldensian Church was formally opened in the city of Rome, on the 2d inst. —It is expected that the new revision of the Old Testament will be published next spring. —The Chief of Police of Grand Rapids, Mich., has forbidden the Salvation Army to parade the streets. —A large number of Ohio clergymen have formed a divorce reform league, with Rt. Rev. G. T. Bedell of Cleveland as President. —A memorial church in honor of Daniel O'Connell, is to be erected in County Kerry, Ireland. The pope has promised donations. —Philadelphia has a Sunday Breakfast Association, which gathers in the outcasts every Sunday morning, warms them up with a hearty breakfast, and then talks the gospel to them. —The committee appointed for the revision of Luther's German translation of the Bible has finished the first portion of its task, and has decided to publish a provisional revised version. —Elder Coons, a Mormon missionary just returned to Salt Lake, reports being rotten-egged in Indiana and pelted with stones in Illinois, yet in the face of this treatment he enjoyed his work. —The "Major" of the local squad of the Salvation Army in this city refuses to allow sleeping mariners in his barracks. An offender of this class was forcibly ejected a few evenings ago, to the tune of "All Hail to the Lamb." —It took the Christian missionaries in Japan thirteen years after the first convert was baptized to get a church organized, and then it had but nine members. That was twelve years ago, and now there are over 5,000 Christians in the empire. —The Congregational Society of the South recently adopted a resolution advocating equality among Christians of all races in religious communion, and strongly condemning the present system of separate churches for white and black Christians. —Rev. Dr. Wilson, of Kingston, Ont., has been dismissed from the curacy of St. George's Cathedral for attending a meeting of the Salvation Army. A division of the church will likely follow, as personally the Dr. is very popular with his congregation. —Nearly $25,000,000 have been invested in the search for gold in India, and not $2,500 have been realized after three years' labor. The money invested in missionary labor there, which some short-sighted business men pronounce a waste, has brought substantial and permanent returns. Missions pay, if mines do not.—Christian at Work. —Dr. Maxson, writing to the Sabbath Recorder from New York, says: "I have been invited to read a paper before the post-graduate class of the Union Theological Seminary, setting forth the history and doctrines of the Seventh-day Baptists. Dr. Hitchcock's clean sweep of Sunday out of the first three centuries of church history is stirring us up." —The first convert in Japan was baptized in 1866, and his conversion cost $60,000. Some would call that a high price; but think a moment. At that rate, the money spent for alcoholic drinks in the United States would produce over 11,000 Japanese Christians every year; besides, if spent in that way, it would save the lives and energy of the 60,000 Americans who annually fill drunkards' graves. And the consequent prosperity of the nation, happiness of families, and salvation of souls would be beyond present computation. —Professor Swing, of Chicago, the other Sunday, wanted to tell his young people to be happy, rejoice, and get as much efflorescence from the wine of life as possible, so he took his text from Ecclesiastes 11:9. "Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth." And the Professor carefully left off, "but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment." This using texts by way of accommodation, just as you would put a pretty motto on a vase, is becoming monotonous.—Christian at Work. Question—Note It!
By Editor
WHAT does the little yellow label on your paper say? If it says “Jan. 3, ’84,” then your time is expired. If you want the first number of the next volume renew your subscription immediately. Many subscriptions expire about this time. Please look to it at once. Sunday-Law Conflict.
By Editor
AN article in the Christian Statesman gives the result of interviews with the managers of a number of important railroad lines, on the subject of the cessation of railroad traffic on Sunday. If the information thus given is reliable, then the influence of the "Amendment" movement is having a powerful effect even upon these corporations. We have thought that nothing but the amendment of the National Constitution would possibly move the leading railroad lines to respect Sunday as a day of rest; but if they can be prevailed upon to act in the matter it will greatly strengthen the hands of those who are laboring for this "great reform." Be that as it may, the movement is growing in power, and soon will be seen that in which we have long believed on the strength of the prophecy of Rev. 13. Progress of Spiritualism.
By Editor
ON this subject we clip the following from the Banner of Light, Boston. And what it says of Boston is true of other places, on both sides of the Atlantic. "The cause of Modern Spiritualism is progressing rapidly everywhere, notwithstanding the slurs of the secular and the innuendoes of the denominational press. Mediums are being developed all over the country; public meetings are increasing in various sections, and the people generally are becoming more and more alive to the importance of a fuller knowledge of the Hereafter than has been vouchsafed them in the past. People generally would be astonished were they to know how many private mediums there are in this city alone, not enumerating the public ones. These mouthpieces of the angels are in the families of the opulent as well as in the humble residences of the poor. Thus "the bread of life" is freely given to the hungering multitude in lieu of the husks that are offered by old theology." Sabbath Sentinel.
By Editor
THIS is the title of a neatly-printed sheet of four pages, published in Battle Creek, Mich., monthly. The object of the paper, as its name indicates, is to act as a sentinel over the encroachments of "the venerable day of the sun" upon the rights of "the Sabbath of the Lord." Taking its stand upon the fact that "religious liberty in this country is now threatened," it will labor to expose the fallacy of the plea which is now so strenuously made, that Christianity can be advanced by an act of Congress. It will strive to enlighten the public in regard to the difference between the Sabbath law and Sunday laws, and the consequences which are certain to follow when Sunday laws are elevated above the Sabbath law of the Bible. Many people are being deceived as to the nature of the movement which is now being made to change the form of our Government by a "Religious Amendment to the Constitution." The Sentinel will be specially devoted to giving light on this subject. Price, 30 cents a year; in clubs of ten copies and upward, 20 cents each.