Earlier text: WHERE IT LEADS TOAffections: Doves or Vampires
If the deepest and best affections which God has given us sometimes brood over the heart like doves of peace—they sometimes suck out our life-blood like vampires.—Mrs. Jameson. THE SALE OF PURE LIQUORS.
By Editor
THERE is hardly any phase of the temperance movement which we do not heartily wish Godspeed. If men will not be total abstainers, we are glad to have them agree to put some limits to their drinking. If they have no objection to milder liquors, we commend them for refusing rum and gin. We have even expressed an approval of the movement—as far as it goes—of our English brethren, who pledge themselves not to take anything intoxicating "between drinks." But there is one proposal recently made in public by professed friends of temperance, for which we have no word of commendation, and that is, to promote the sale of "pure liquors." We don't want any more pure liquor sold. There is altogether too much of it on the market now. And pure liquor is no improvement on adulterated liquor. With all the vile mixtures which have been manufactured to make drunkards, nothing has yet been found so bad as the original article imitated. Pure whisky makes a man just as drunk as strychnine whisky, and when he is drunk on the one liquor he is quite as likely to commit a crime, and is fully as great a fool, as if he were drunk on the other. Within the last ten days a great criminal has confessed that his crime was committed while he was drunk on cider; and it has turned out that a number of young criminals in another State were helped to their crimes by the use of beer. Pure liquor may, it is true, prolong a drunkard's life, and enable him to commit more crimes and to prove more of a curse to the world than if he drank the vilest adulterations of liquor known to "the trade;" but we don't think it will pay to organize a society to bring that thing about. The worst thing on the face of the earth for a man to drink at any time is pure liquor.—Christian at Work. A NEW PORK PARASITE.—A Berlin microscopist has recently discovered a new parasite in pork, which is described as “a small leech-like worm,” which has not been heretofore known. The worms are found crawling about among the muscular fibers, sometimes moving very actively. A German microscopical journal of recent date contains a full description of the worms, with illustrations. Notwithstanding, pork and beans still holds its place as a standard article of diet among the masses, and ham and sausage are in as great demand as ever. It is evident that the pork-loving world has become reconciled to a “diet of worms.” We prefer to eschew the scavenger; let those who will, chew him. TOBACCO DISEASE.—A WRITER in Boyce's Anvil testifies as follows respecting tobacco as a cause of disease: "For eleven years my right hand was sorely afflicted with a most loathsome disease. Its first appearance was shortly after my debut as a telegraph operator, and consisted of four or five very small, watery pimples. They increased in number, however, till they could hardly be counted, and each day became more and more troublesome. Instead of a thin, watery fluid, they began to exude thick, offensive matter, and the physicians called it an aggravated case of salt rheum. My hand and wrist became one mass of sores and scabs. I spent some $300 doctoring with physicians and patent medicines, yet nothing seemed to give much relief; but in three months after tobacco was stopped, the disease began to disappear, and to-day there is not a particle of it to be seen about me." The screen law in Massachusetts has been a severe blow to the traffic. One saloon-keeper in Cambridge asserted that the removal of the screens and blinds costs him $50 a week. Sin likes to hide itself. WHEN Charles Platt and Mary Dean were married, they had just three dollars in hand wherewith to begin life. Charles was clerk in a “general store” in a small inland town. Mary was a farmer’s daughter who had taught district school for a living. They were now both orphans, and having known each other for many years had grown into love, rather than fallen into it, and were of the same mind that it was better to be happy together, than unhappy apart. So Mary laid out her small savings in cheap furniture for two rooms, a few dishes, a good store of underclothes, two calico dresses and a merino; and Charles spent his on a stove, a clock, an ingrain carpet, a good bed for the bed-room, and a suit of Sunday clothes; this left them, as I said, three dollars; for Charles’ salary was only just increased to such small extent as made his marriage possible. In this little town of Durham, all the children in their early lives went to school together, and grew up friends as far as their natural traits permitted; but some of the wealthy manufacturers and professional men, when their sons and daughters grew older, sent them to the county town, or even farther, for better education and more polish than they could obtain at home. When Charles and Mary were married and came into church the first time one November day, they were nodded at and smiled to by many a kindly face, and more than one young girl of her own age ran her eyes over Mary’s bridal attire in a way not altogether pleasant to the bride; and she heard more than one whisper: “Nothing but a blue merino!” Mary was a sensible girl, it is true, but she was a girl still, and she felt hot and uncomfortable. She would have liked a silk dress, but she could not buy one, and her mother’s earnest advice to her from the time she first earned a cent had been, “Don’t spend money you haven’t got, Mary, or you’ll buy trouble.” There were a good many other things that were hard to bear, sometimes they seemed the harder because the poverty was mutual. She could not go out evenings, for Charles was busy in the store. She had to give up her girlish frolics of nutting, rowing on the lake, berrying, and all such things, because she had her work to do; and she knew all the time that her husband needed air and exercise even more than she did. One afternoon in such a mood she picked up her sunbonnet, put her work into her apron, and ran out to see an old neighbor, a poor lame woman, whom she had known all her life, and whose greatest pleasure was to have people come in to see her, since she could never get out to see them. “I didn’t feel over and above chirk, Aunt Polly,” she said, “so I thought I’d run in and have a talk with you.” “Dear me!” said Aunt Polly, “I thought you looked as bright as a butter-cup, Mary; ain’t you well?” “What a thing to be thankful for!” said Aunt Polly, with a half-sigh. “But sometimes I get down-hearted, aunty; we’re so poor, and so shut up, somehow. I can’t get out evenings, for Charley can’t leave the store, and I hate to go away anywhere without him; and then I never do go anywhere since I was married, for there’s work to do at home every day.” “I suppose you’d be happier if Charles was to leave ye for good an’ all, then, and let you have liberty to go?” “O aunty!” Tears choked her voice as she answered this seemingly cruel question. “Mary,” Aunt Polly began again, with deep earnestness, “ef you’re a Christian woman, and want to live a Christian life, jest you stop right here, and don’t count your troubles no more, it’s them we had ought to look at: paid for with blood, not deservin’- His blood, who died that we might live.” Mary colored painfully. She had not thought of her troubles in this light, and being a sensible, true woman, she went home with a new resolution. Charles Platt was not a strong man, or a cheery one; his tendency was to be careful and troubled, and Mary saw now that she had hindered, not helped, him. She was young, honest, candid, and eager to do right; she made new resolves, and lived up to them. She let fresh air into her house, since she had scarcely more chance than Charles to go out and get it; she let the sunshine come in, too; and the little posy-bed by the front door was allowed her by the landlord, since the women who kept the milliner’s shop below had no time to use it. One neighbor and another gave her seeds and slips, and in winter her east window was gay with plants, and the south one gayer with her fresh face and bright smile. She was friends with everybody about her; for a kind word is like a caress, and she always had a friendly greeting, a kind inquiry, or a word of sympathy for all she met. Sometimes, of a holiday, she asked a few friends to come and spend the evening with her. She had the courage to offer them only a dish of apples, a basket of nuts, perhaps a bowl of popped corn, or, in sugar-time, a “sugaring off,” that entertainment peculiar to the country of maple-trees. But her welcome was so warm and genial, her hospitality so genuine and simple, and Charles was always so glad to see all who came, that it was one of the treats eagerly looked forward to by the young folks of Durham, and they were quite content with the even course of their quiet home life. By and by the rooms grew smaller, for a baby helped furnish them, but she was far more welcome than the guests, even. Mary had hands and heart full now, but strength came with its need. She missed most of all her weekly evening meetings, but she lived so near the church she could still hear the old sweet hymns float over, and on Sundays Charles took care of baby while she went to her Sunday-school class, and on alternate Sundays they went, one or the other, to church. Whatever Mary gave in charity was as the widow’s mite to her, for she was sorely pinched for the real needs of life. She could, and did, give away mended and faded garments; stockings she knit “between daylight and dark;” some food to the absolutely starving, some small delicacies to the sick poor; time to visit the lonely, the sad, and the ailing she also gave, for she could carry her baby along, and found over and over again that the bright unconscious face, the innocent smile, the unsympathetic calm and sweetness of the child, did really more good to sick or sufferer than her own words of feeling. Her life was so quiet, her opportunities so small, that it ran on like a hidden brook in a meadow, whose course you only trace by the greener and stronger grasses that conceal it. Yet there was not a sick or sad person who did not want to see Mary Platt, and her happy laugh did “good like a medicine,” wherever it was heard. After several years they were able to take a little house to themselves, and from its garden, solely Mary’s care, came the first strawberries, the freshest radishes, the crispest lettuce, not only to add to their own meals, but to share with the neighbors, and the one early apple-tree that shaded her kitchen door was a blessing to everybody who liked the fruit. “Give, and it shall be given unto you,” was abundantly realized; when, time after time, the delicate baby sickened and fought its way back to life again with a tenacity babies only possess, watchers were always ready to take the mother’s place at night, dainty food sent in, every kindness that country neighborhoods can show lavished upon her, for all her neighbors had some debt of kindness to pay. Then her cellar never was empty, for one would send her a barrel of apples, another a bushel of potatoes, and still another a few parsnips, a head or two of cabbage, a jug of cider vinegar. “I never saw such good people in my life,” she said once to Charles, with tears in her eyes; “they’re always doing something for us.” “Strange, ain’t it?” said Charles, smiling with a queer smile, but he said no more: he knew very well why they were so kind, but he would not tell Mary; he loved her with all his heart, but he was too shy to praise her, after the reticent New England fashion. So the days passed, carrying with them their little cares and little pleasures; and Charles and Mary found that if their life was not all sunshine, the sunshine which did come into it was all the sweeter because of the occasional shadow. The tastes of neither were expensive; they did not pine after luxuries which they could not afford, and were quite content with the even course of their quiet home life. After a while Charles fell ill of a fever, and the extra necessities of sickness brought them into debt; this was a real trouble to Mary; to have all going out and nothing coming in seemed hard to her; her husband was not dangerously ill, but it was four long months before he resumed his place in the store, and they were almost two hundred dollars in debt. But Mary’s cheerful faith and courage held up her husband in this strait. If she was troubled he never knew it; she took in what sewing she could get, sold her vegetables and fruit to the tavern-keeper, instead of giving them away, and mended the old clothes for themselves instead of the poor about them: for she knew well justice is better than generosity. Slowly, almost cent by cent, she laid up a few dollars, and applied them in these small sums to their debts. Charles came home one night in a desponding mood enough; he had been dunned by the village apothecary for his bill, and though he did not mean to tell Mary, she soon coaxed out of him the secret of his weary face and aching head; she heard his story silently, and then went to the drawer where her coin accumulated, and brought out with the little box a bundle of bills,—for she had exacted a receipt even for the smallest sum paid in,—and now out of dimes, quarters, five-cent pieces, here and there a dollar-bill, she counted out ten dollars, and running over what she had already paid on account, found they were but five dollars in debt when that ten should be paid. The druggist was a careless man, and, eager for money, had gone to Charles with a bill on which none of Mary’s payments had been entered. Here was a pleasant enough surprise for the cast-down man; to be sure there were still debts remaining, but there was an outlook of hope before him; and as he sat down that day to a meal of potatoes, corn-bread, greens, and a bit of salt beef so small it was but a relish merely for the vegetables, a literal “dinner of herbs,” the text came involuntarily to his lips, and he smiled as he looked over at Mary and little Nelly, and repeated the words of the wise man; for he had indeed the love and faith that made poverty sweeter than many a rich feast. Yet his naturally despondent nature gave way sometimes; he hated to see his wife working so hard, sparing so steadily, pinching in all her comforts, and one day the feeling found words, as he watched her thin fingers pulling in and out the little household dagger that has stabbed so many a life out with its countless thrusts. “How tired you look, Molly!” he said sadly. “I hate the sight of a needle in your hands; it seems as if you were sewing yourself instead of Mr. Peters’ shirts. Oh, if we were only rich!” “Don’t say that, Charley!” she answered, with a keen pain in her tone. “Don’t wish for money; aren’t we rich in ever so many things money don’t fetch? What a lot of friends we have got all round; what a nice little house and lovely garden; and Nelly, and each other, and”—here her voice fell with feeling and awe—“and treasure laid up where moth and rust don’t corrupt.” “I know it, dear; but sometimes, when you work so hard, I do wish I could give you some rest and pleasure.” “Why, I don’t want any!” she answered brightly. “I have enough. Do you suppose Squire Smith takes half the comfort in his beautiful house, all shut up and dark for fear of sun to fade and dust to tarnish, that we do in our sunny, fresh old house? Or do you believe he takes half the pleasure in spending his money we do in contriving and pinching and planning? Why, I’ve been as gay as a bobolink all day because, when this shirt is done, I shall have money to spare for a new tin tea-pot; and the debts are almost all paid, if it is after three years’ time. I’m happy every time I think of it. Why, Charley, I think we are the richest poor people that ever was!” “I think I am the richest poor man, any way!” he answered. “Loving favor rather than silver or gold.”—S. S. Times. DID we but view our daily path aright,
Work would seem pleasure and our duties light;
Our daily burden we should meekly take
With this sweet motive—for our Saviour's sake.
For thy sake, dearest Lord, the constant round
Of common duties, oft so irksome found,
Would glow with love, and faith, and joy divine;
While the sweet consciousness that we are thine,
Would make us active workers, striving ever
By word and deed, thy name to glorify;
Seeking thine aid in every weak endeavor,
Knowing that thou canst all our need supply,
And resting on thy faithfulness and love,
Until we gain a perfect rest to come.
—Selected. -Carl Schurz is now editor of the New York Evening Post. -It is estimated that there are now 10,000 Americans in Rome. -Boston people have raised $1,400 for the widow of John Brown. -Petroleum wells have been discovered in Hungary and Bohemia. -Iron ships are to be built at Cleveland for service on the lakes. -The French troops in Tunis are suffering terribly from typhoid fever. -Foreign merchants are now allowed to settle in the ports of Eastern Siberia. -There are about 40,000 Spanish Jews in Constantinople, and 5,000 of other origin. -A severe drought in Trinidad, West Indies, has damaged the sugar crop immensely. -An elevator, with 50,000 bushels of wheat, was burned at Farebault, Minn., the 11th. -The population of Liverpool, according to the census returns, is 648,988, being an increase since 1871 of 92,083. -The number of grain sacks used in California during the year 1880, was 34,111,500; the number used in 1870, was 8,200,000. -The Erie County Savings Bank at Buffalo, N. Y., has been robbed of bonds amounting to $100,000, which were deposited in it. -It is estimated that the Jews of Southern Russia lost $65,000,000 by the destruction of their property during the late riots. -It has come to light that bribery is employed in the Senatorial contest at Albany, N. Y. One Assemblyman was offered $2,500 for his vote. -The receipts of customs at the port of New York in the month of May amounted to $11,600,398, against $10,139,786 for the same month last year. -According to President Green, of the Western Union Telegraph Company, the annual receipts for newspaper paper telegraphing amount to $1,000,000. -Brazil is experiencing a financial panic, which has been brought about mainly by an attempt made by the merchants and dealers to curtail the credit system. -The Pope has instructed the sacred college to take action at once against Archbishop Croke and those priests who have identified themselves with agrarianism. -A telegraph operator at Cedar Rapids, Ind., whose carelessness caused the collision on the C. & N. W. railroad, has been charged with murder by the coroner's jury. -The village of Ludington, Michigan, was visited with a most destructive conflagration the 11th inst., which nearly wiped out the business portion of the town. -An attempt was made, June 9, to blow up the Liverpool town hall. Two Irishmen, known to be Fenians, were arrested. They had a quantity of dynamite in their possession. -King John of Abyssinia, wants to enter into direct diplomatic and commercial relations with the Christian States, and demands from the Egyptian Government the cession of a port in the Mediterranean. -A collision occurred June 7, on the Peoria division of the Wabash railroad, near La Harpe, Ill., between two freight trains while running at full speed. Both engines and a number of cars were demolished. The loss will reach $50,000. -A Geneva dispatch says it is intended, if possible, to run trains on the railway through the St. Gothard tunnel by electricity, which is to be produced by the machines now employed in pumping air into the workings and for other purposes. -Wednesday night, June 8, a fire broke out in Quebec, and, owing to the inefficiency of the fire department, upwards of 600 houses, including a few of the finest buildings in the city, were destroyed. Several hundred families are homeless. -The great flood of the Mississippi valley has left something besides fertile deposits behind. Malarial diseases have set in, attacking both man and beast. Many cattle have died, and there is much sickness at Council Bluffs and other points. -The Court-martial has sentenced three others of the ring-leaders of the anti-Jewish riot at Kieff to twenty, ten, and six years penal servitude, respectively, and two to be exiled to Siberia, Three have been sentenced to short terms of imprisonment. -During a rain storm, June 8, a family living on Glenn's Run, near Wheeling, W. Va., were swept away in the night, the mother and five children being drowned, and the father carried on a log to one of the Sister Islands, where he was found in an insensible condition. -A letter from Russia, June 7, states that about thirty army officers, including the Colonel of the Imperial Guard, were arrested during the month of May. Among the naval officers arrested, is a relative of Procurer-General Mouravieff, who conducted the prosecution of Rousakoff, and other Nihilists executed for complicity in the murder of the Czar. -According to the latest dispatches from Constantinople, the plague has broken out with renewed violence at Neojeff, in Mesopotamia. The physician of the Sanitary Commission reports that during the week ending May 2, fifty-six persons died daily out of a population of about 6,000. -A steam-tug, drawing 10,000 tons of grain, equal to 33,000 bushels of wheat, equal to 1000 car-loads, has just made the trip from St Louis to New Orleans in five and a half days. The freight and insurance were less than one-third as great as they would have been by rail to the Atlantic sea-board. -Considerable change is being made in the Faculty of the State University. President Le Conte has resigned his office, and the chairs of Physics, Mathematics, and Chemistry, were declared vacant, by the regents. It was voted to discontinue the offices of Instruction in Spanish and Hebrew. -A dispatch from Scio, June 11, says: "A renewed shock of earthquake occurred on this island to-day, and overthrew a minaret and several partly-ruined houses. Two men were injured." A shock of earthquake also occurred, on the 9th, in the valley of the upper Rhone, and extended to Geneva, Switzerland. -The German Consul at New York is alleged to have written to a Prussian newspaper a letter, in which he represented the business of this country to be in a deplorable condition. Germany is much exercised over the immense emigration of her people to this country; and this is, doubtless, one of the means taken to check it. -A break was discovered in section ten of the Erie Canal, two miles west of Albany, N. Y., on the morning of the 11th inst., caused by a defective culvert. Forty feet of the canal were soon torn away, and the water flooded all the adjacent section of the country, carrying away fences, bridges, and working destruction in general. The damage is estimated at $30,000. -Thursday, June 9, Kansas was visited by a terrible storm of wind and hail. The town of Americus, near Emporia, was almost totally destroyed. Two churches were torn to pieces, and nearly every house was damaged. In Emporia many houses, including the State Normal School building, were seriously injured. Great damage was done to crops in the surrounding country. -A Mr. Walruff, of Lawrence, will make a test case before the United States Supreme Court, as to the power of Kansas to make his valuable brewer's property worthless to him by a law preventing him from manufacturing what it formerly encouraged and sanctioned. The Brewers' Association of Chicago has promised him aid to the amount of $75,000, if so much is necessary. -There are now eight thousand miles of underground telegraph wire in use in Germany. They have cost nothing for repairs, although in use for five years. The method of employing them consists in inclosing seven or more separately insulated conductors with a coil of moist hemp surrounded by a complete sheath of iron wire, which again is covered by a layer of hemp yarn impregnated with a protecting compound. -A terrific hail and wind-storm passed over the city of Deadwood, D. T., June 6, doing great damage. Hail-stones the size of a hen's egg fell for over two hours. Hundreds of trees on the hillside were uprooted, and were hurled, in some instances, a distance of over five hundred feet. The telegraph poles were torn up for a distance of nearly a mile. One person was killed, and several severely injured. The whirlwind separated before it reached the thickly settled part of town, otherwise the destruction would have been terrible. -The Executive Committee of the Nihilists have informed the Czar that his doom is certain. A plot to kill the Czar was recently discovered, and all the conspirators were arrested. The Czar's palace at Gatchina is a perfect arsenal. Cordons of trusty Cossacks surround the whole district, and the palace itself is guarded night and day by the police and picked officers of the line. All visitors, except the high officers of State, are searched, and at night there is a password and countersign, not only for the precincts of the palace, but for all the roads approaching it. There is an old tradition that in 1881 the dynasty will be overthrown, and the Czar, being superstitious, is much disturbed in consequence. STIMME DER WAHRHEIT.
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MINNESOTA, Minneapolis, June 23-28
NORTH PACIFIC, Cornelius, June 21-28
DAKOTA, June 30 to July 5 PROF. SWING has solved the problem of a "pocket Bible with large print." It is not likely, however, that the good old lady who wished for one would be satisfied with the article which the Professor recommends. His idea is to "set the Bible free from the weights which impede its progress," by "throwing away such portions as have no practical, every-day value." If all the "liberal minded" were permitted to act as a committee in such revision, we doubt not but that a vest-pocket edition of the Scriptures, with the largest print, might be obtained. To be sure there would be a great diversity of opinion as to what part of the Scriptures is of practical, every-day importance, but there can be no doubt as to what the "weights" are which "impede the progress" of the Bible. What hinders the progress of the Bible more than the ten commandments? Greater men than the poor colored preacher have found that they have a "dampening effect on the congregation." They say that to them they are a "yoke of bondage." Take these away, together with the teachings of Christ and the apostles in relation thereto, and how popular the Bible would become. It would be almost as "progressive" as the people of this generation. Then all the prophecies, the writings of Moses, David, etc., could be removed as having no practical, every-day importance, and if any portion were left it would be nothing more than the "essence" of which the Professor speaks. But people already do this in effect, and "make void the law" of God, even as they did in the time of David and Christ. "Nevertheless, the foundation of the Lord standeth sure." THE New Orleans Independent (Methodist) has been investigating with a view to discover the great cause of the present low condition of the Christian church, and has come to the conclusion that it is persistent indolence and indifference on the part of the majority of the membership. It says: "The majority of professors seem surprised that you expect any work from them. . . . As for visiting the sick, feeding the poor, gathering the destitute children, or speaking to the unsaved, they never try it—never make a single personal effort to do good from one year's end to another. It is surprising what easy Christians smart business men make. . . . A community of Christian farmers who know how to improve stock and make a farm pay, and who keep their own houses neat and trim, will let the house of God become shabby and the church die out, because as farmers they work, but as Christians they do not work. . . . The curse of the church to-day is a lazy membership." MEXICAN PROGRESS AND CATHOLICISM.
REV. S. P. CRAVER, Methodist missionary in Guanajuato, Mexico, writes to the Chicago Christian Advocate that American enterprise and the various lines of railway and telegraph springing into existence in that country have "filled the people with bright hopes of rapid progress, work, and wages"; and that the common topics of conversation and newspaper comment, instead of being, as a few years ago, of revolutionary programmes and guerrilla depredations, are of railway concessions and surveys, mining reports, and increasing commercial relations. "The very air seems filled with the spirit of change, peace, and progress." The Catholic priests, he says, are not pleased with this change, in which they read their approaching ruin, and in sheer desperation they have inaugurated an anti-Protestant crusade in Morelia, Queretaro, Guadalajara, and other places, resulting in bloodshed. In Salamanca, Guanajuato, the Protestants were greatly threatened, but the timely action of the authorities prevented any overt acts. "The American Minister is moving in the matter and we feel quite sure that the crusade will be short-lived. The inevitable influence of the great enterprises now begun and being carried rapidly forward will be to liberate Mexico's ignorant millions from their superstitious subjection to an unprincipled and corrupt priesthood." Thanksgiving and Thanks-Living
By Henry
Thanksgiving is good, thanks-living is better.—Henry. Swimming Against the Stream
By Anon.
He needs strong arms who would swim against the stream.—Anon. APPOINTMENT.
By J. M. Loveland
The quarterly meeting for Dist. No. 2, will be held at Lemoore, July 9, 10. A general attendance is desired. All librarians in the district are specially requested to be present. J. M. LOVELAND, Director. CALIFORNIA CHURCH OFFICERS.
By J. D. Rice
I HAVE received reports for the quarter ending April 1, from the following churches: Petaluma, Grass Valley, Freshwater, Woodland, Middletown, St. Helena, Red Bluff, Napa, Santa Rosa, Chico, Lone Oak, and La Fayette. Have received only the s. B. treasurer's report from Vacaville and Healdsburg, and only the "church quarterly" from San Pasqual. Will those officers who have not reported please send them in at once? The Gen. Conf. Secretary is waiting for my report: Some may have sent them and they have failed to reach me, in which case send me word and I will immediately forward other blanks. We are anxious to have complete reports. J. D. RICE, Cal. Conf. Sec.