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Keep the Heart Pure.

WHEN the heart is right with God—calm, sweet, peaceful, heavenly—everything goes right. In this happy, joyful composed frame of mind, business men, printers, mechanics, husbandmen, doctors, lawyers, minister, editors, all, great and small, can accomplish tenfold more, walking in wisdom’s ways, God-fearing, strengthened with might in the inner man. A man rich in faith, full of the holy Spirit, is a giant—he rises above the world, its temptation, trials, conflicts. He does everything in the spirit of meekness and love. Some holy men spend hours in the morning feasting on angel’s food. They drink deeply at the living fountain. Then, when they go forth in the battle-field, Satan trembles before them! God smiles graciously on their labors, on things secular and divine, all the day gloriously! Get your souls on fire, richly imbued with the spirit of benevolence, built on the solid Rock! “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.”

Faith as the Foundation of Great Achievement

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principalities, nor changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been men of faith.

Obituary Notices.

“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.”

Died, at the residence of Mr. G. P. Brookings, Silver Creek, Burt Co., Neb., Nov. 17, 1873, Herbert Page, infant son of H. A. and J. H. Whittaker. Discourse by Eld. I. C. Jones, Baptist, from the 19th chapter of Job.

H. A. Whittaker.

Died, in Westbury, Oct. 23, 1873, of typhoid fever, John D. Claxton, son of John and Catharine Claxton, aged twenty-seven years.

Died, near Rochester, Minn., after an illness of sixteen days, of inflammation of the lungs, Charles Witherill, formerly from Vermont, aged eighty-one years, nine months, and one day.

He has always been considered a man of the strictest honesty and uprightness; and having had for some years past, an opportunity to investigate the truth, he has manifested a growing love for it during that time, observing carefully the Sabbath and other duties such as Christians only observe. Discourse from Rev. 14: 13, by the writer.

Stephen Pierce.

Died, at Wolcott, Vt., Oct. 20, 1873, of typhoid fever, our son-in-law, Orange Bailey, aged forty-nine years. He was among the first in Vermont who embraced the Bible Sabbath, of which he was a consistent observer until his death. His end was peace. We expect to meet him, if faithful, among the redeemed upon Mount Zion. He leaves a wife and six children to mourn their heavy loss. May they be prepared to meet him among the just.

Reuben Loveland.

Died, at Johnson, Vt., Oct. 17, 1873, our adopted daughter, Hattie L., after a severe sickness of eleven days of typhoid pneumonia, aged five years and three months. She was a lovely child; but prayers and tears could not stay the monster death. We laid her away with the full assurance that, if we overcome, we shall meet her among the blest. Appropriate remarks by Bro. A. Stone.

Reuben Loveland.

Belinda Loveland.

Died, in Lancaster, N. Y., Dec. 14, 1873, of heart disease and dropsy, our beloved mother, Malvina A. Eggleston, aged sixty-three years.

She embraced the doctrine of the third angel’s message about fifteen years ago; and it was her consolation through weary months of suffering. She expressed a willingness and desire to sleep in the grave. We have reason to believe she will be remembered in the first resurrection. She leaves a husband and six children to mourn their loss. Rev. J. M. Ballou (Presbyterian) made some comforting remarks from Heb. 12:5: “My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him.”

“Unconscious now in peaceful sleep, From all her cares at rest, While friends around are called to weep, She is divinely blest. “Away from Satan’s tempting snare, Her faith’s no longer tried; In Jesus she is sleeping there; For in bright hope she died.”

Lera E. Orton.

Shibboleth—A Criticism.

By M. B. Lichtenstein

“Then said they unto him, Say, Shibboleth; and he said, Sibboleth.”

THESE words are found in Judges 12:6. When the Ephraimites wanted to cross the passage of Jordan, the Gileadites required them to pronounce the word Shibboleth before them. This was to test their nationality. If they could say, Shibboleth, they were Gileadites; if Sibboleth, they were Ephraimites.

The query arises in the minds of the Bible-reader, why the Ephraimites could not sound the sh as well as the Gileadites, but always had to sound s instead.

Gilead was the grandson of Manasseh. Manasseh and Ephraim were the sons of Joseph; Manasseh, the elder, and Ephraim, the younger. The language used in Egypt at that time was undoubtedly the old Egyptian language, which is the root of the Coptic. The Coptic language is a cognate of the Greek as the Chaldaic is of the Hebrew. Hence we can easily conclude that the language spoken in Egypt at that time was similar to the old Greek. And now we come to the cause of the distinction between Shibboleth and Sibboleth.

Prof. Crosby, in the History of Greek Orthography, in his grammar states that “the letter sampi, which answers to the English sh, fell into disuse.” Hence the sound of sh was lost. This might have taken place between the childhood of Manasseh and the childhood of Ephraim. While it was in use during the childhood of the elder, it might have been out of use during the childhood of the younger; hence Manasseh retained the sh, while Ephraim lost it.

M. B. Lichtenstein.

Battle Creek, Mich.

Business Department.

Not slothful in Business. Rom. 12:11.

The Post Office address of Eld. A. C. Bourdeau is now Burke, Caledonia Co., Vt.

The Post Office address of Eld. D. T. Bourdeau and wife is Sheridan, La Salle Co., Ill.

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Olivet College Catalogue for 1873

We have received the catalogue of Olivet College, Olivet, Mich., for the year 1873. The Faculty is composed of fourteen professors and instructors. Total number of students for the year, 293. The next term commences Jan. 2, 1874.

The New Press.

By Uriah Smith

The new cylinder press for this Office has been received, and is now in running order. The Advent Tidende and the Health Reformer have been worked off upon it. It does its work smoothly and well, and gives every promise of being an efficient and durable press. The weight is 14,675 pounds, or nearly 7½ tons; size of the bed, 33 by 46 inches. It was manufactured by Messrs. Cottrell and Babcock (Seventh-day Baptists), Westerly, R. I., and is one of their first-class presses, worth at their catalogue figures, $3,400. As, in the service of our Association, it is to be used for religious purposes, and perhaps because it is to be used to promulgate views upon the law of God, which S. D. Baptists and S. D. Adventists alone hold in common, they made a very generous discount on the price to this Office.

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Who Was Pagninus?

Pagninus’ version of Isa. 65 : 20, given at the close of Bro. Butler’s article week before last, is so often referred to, that it will be of interest to the reader to learn more about this commentator. The “Companion to the Bible” gives the following sketch of him:—

“Sanctes Pagninus. A learned Dominican; born at Lucca, 1466; died 1536. He was eminently skilled in the Hebrew, Chaldee, and Arabic languages. At the instance of Leo X., he undertook a new version of the Bible into Latin, from the originals, which was highly commended by the Jewish rabbins, but which Father Simon, with his usual severity, censures as harsh, too servile, obscure, and full of solecisms. He also published a Hebrew Thesaurus, much used by Buxtorf in his Lexicon, a Hebrew Grammar, and an Introduction to Sacred Literature. Koenig; Lempriere.”

True Missionary for January.

By Geo. I. Butler

EVERY true worker in this cause will want this number of The True Missionary; and those certainly will who are not inclined to work as much as they should. The first class will want it, because the spirit of the articles written by Bro. and sister White, and Brn. Haskell, Smith, Andrews, and others, will be meat in due season, which will gladden their hearts and strengthen their hands. The second class will need it, that they may be imbued with the true spirit of the work. Some are dying spiritually from inaction. They need to go to work for God. By so doing, they will gain strength. The articles from Bro. and sister White alone are worth more than the price of the monthly for one year; while the articles of Eld. Haskell will be just what all the members of the Tract and Missionary Society need to properly instruct them to labor to the best advantage. Send in your names brethren, for The True Missionary. You will suffer a loss if you do not. Price, only fifty cents per year. Send in and get the first number, to be issued this week. All our brethren and sisters should subscribe. Geo. I. Butler.

Battle Creek, Mich., Dec. 28, 1872.

German Newspapers Published in the United States

The fact that there are 256 German newspapers published in the United States gives some idea of the number of the educated German residents.

Appointments: Meetings in Wisconsin and Minnesota, January 1874

Appointments.

And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand

* Services in Chicago, every Sabbath (seventh day), at 269 West Erie St. All Sabbath-keepers spending a Sabbath in Chicago, are invited to attend.

Providence permitting, I will hold meetings as follows:—

Johnstown Center, Wis., Jan. 3, 4, 1874. Maiden Rock, “ ” 10, 11, “

We hope to have at the first meeting a general attendance of all the friends of the cause for many miles around. I did expect to hold other meetings in different parts of the Conference, but circumstances are such that I shall not be able to at present. This will answer as a quarterly meeting for the churches of Oakland, Little Prairie, and Johnstown Center.

I hope to meet with Bro. Lee at the Maiden Rock meeting, as the principal reason of my visiting the Minnesota Conference, of which the Maiden Rock church is a part, is to see him and visit the field of his labors among the Swedes. We are becoming greatly interested in the progress of the work among this people, and wish to become better acquainted with it. We also hope to see Bro. Rosie there, and all the friends of the cause in the surrounding country. Geo. I. Butler.

Chicago Lake, Minn., Jan. 17, 18, 1874, where Bro. Lee may appoint. We hope to become acquainted with many of our Swedish brethren at this meeting. Can there not be a general attendance from Isanti Co., at this time? Geo. I. Butler.

Corvis, Sabbath, Jan. 3, 1874. John Matteson.

Belvoir, Kansas, Jan. 8, 1874. Big Springs, “ ” 9, “ Smith Sharp.

A general quarterly meeting at South Norridgewock, Me., commencing Friday evening, Jan. 9, 1874, and holding over Sabbath and first-day. We hope to see all the friends of the cause at this meeting. Bro. S. N. Haskell is expected to attend. J. B. Goodrich, Pres.

Quarterly Meetings in Minnesota.

Otranto, Stewartsville, Medford, Jan. 10, 11, 1874. “ 17, 18, “ “ 24, 25, “ Harrison Grant.

The T. and M. Society, Dist. No. 1, Minnesota, will hold a quarterly meeting at Medford, Jan. 24, 25, 1874, in connection with the general quarterly meeting. We expect all the librarians will have their reports ready for this meeting. Harrison Grant.

The T. and M. Society of Dist. No. 3, Minnesota, will hold a quarterly meeting at Hutchison, Jan. 17, 18, 1874. We hope that every member in this district will be prompt, so that the librarians can report at this meeting. Harrison Grant, Pres.

General quarterly meeting of the T. & M. Society of Minnesota, at Medford, Jan. 24, 25, 1874. Let each district in this Conference be in readiness, and report what has been done. Let all attend this meeting, who can come. Harrison Grant, Pres.

Quarterly meeting of the T. and M. Society for Dist. No. 5, will be held at Liberty Pole, Wis., January 24 and 25. Eli Osborn, Director.

Physical Education.

Perhaps not the least advantage which is derived from muscular, active exercise, as opposed to passive exercise—by which we refer to a ride in a carriage, or a sail in a vessel, in which latter case the abdominal muscles are the only ones actively exercised—is cleanliness. We mention this as it has been little insisted on by the advocates of gymnastic training. It belongs rather, perhaps, to a treatise on medicinal than on athletic gymnastics; but the two are at the present day, as we have said, happily incorporated. A microscope will show the millions of drains with which the skin is perforated, for the sake of voiding effete matter. This effete matter can only be thrown off by perspiration, produced by exercise. If it is not thrown off, it is absorbed into the system, and diseases, particularly consumption, and premature death are the result. The result is produced by the canals of the skin becoming clogged, which not only prevents the refuse matter from coming out, but also prevents oxygen, which is essential to life, from coming in. We do not breathe with the lungs only, consuming carbon and other matter, and renewing the blood with oxygen as it passes through them. The skin also is a respiratory organ; some animals have no lungs, and breathe entirely with the skin; others, with a portion of the skin modified into gills, or rudimentary lungs. In animals of a higher grade, though the lungs are the instruments principally devoted to this function, the skin retains it still to such an extent that to interfere with its pores is highly dangerous; but to arrest their operation, fatal. The breathing of the skin may be easily proved by the simple experiment of placing the hand in a basin of cold water, when it will be soon covered by minute bubbles of carbonic acid. But a more complete and scientific proof is afforded by inserting it in a vessel of oxygen, when the gas will, after a short interval of time, be replaced by carbonic acid. “We all know,” says Dr. Brereton, “from daily experience, the intimate sympathy which exists between the skin and lungs, and when we are walking fast, how much more easily we get along after having broken out into a perspiration; if we are riding, our horse freshens up under the same condition.” In these homely words, he is indirectly proving the chief sanitary characteristic of medicinal gymnastics.

We have most of us heard of the story of the unfortunate child who, to add solemnity and symbolic happiness to the inauguration of Leo X. as pope of Rome, was gilded over at Florence, to represent the Golden Age. The career of that child so conditioned was brilliant, but brief. It, of course, died in a few hours. One of the reasons of the greater danger of extensive burns or scalds compared with others smaller, though deeper, is the fact that the former exclude a greater surface of skin from the oxygen of the air. M. Fourcault, a distinguished French physiologist, whose admiration of science appears to have led him to care little for the infliction of torture on other animals than himself, sacrificed a great number of Guinea pigs, rabbits, and cats, by varnishing over the whole of their skin, contemplating with satisfaction the invariable result—death—as a demonstrative proof that the skin breathes. One word more. It has been imagined that gymnastic exercise is exclusively profitable to the young. It is not so; it is of advantage, of great advantage likewise to the old. Young persons—we include, of course, women, and wish that calisthenics, which we suppose to be a species of female gymnastics, were more systematized and popular—need little exhortation to exercise, since, by nature, motion is their chief desire; but they stand in need of advice and moderation, since, as they do everything immoderately, so they are accustomed to take too much exercise, and of an improper character, a course of proceeding not without danger. On the contrary, with older men, the increasing weight of the body, and the loss of the so-called “animal spirits,” induces the desire of repose, and they need an increase of exercise beyond that which inclination enjoins on them. Thus they are brought within the province of the gymnastic code.—Cornhill Magazine

Licensed Rum-Shops and the Army Behind Them

According to the report of the Revenue Commissioner, E. S. Young, there are one hundred and fifty thousand licensed rum-shops in the country. If we average the employees in these, including the owners, and add to them the landlords and others peculiarly interested in the traffic, we will, at the very least, have an army of half a million of men engaged in carrying on and endeavoring to extend this terrible business.