"Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth." 3 John 2.
Bible Hygiene.
In the records of God's providential dealings with the race, the Hebrews hold a high rank. These descendants of the worthy patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, were proud of the blood in their veins, and, in the days of Christ, are heard to say boastfully, "We have Abraham to our father."
Abraham was a truly grand character in his day. "I know him," says the great God, "that he will command his children and his household after him." Gen. 18:19. He is made the father of all the faithful. Rom. 4:11, 16. The reason his children were to be in number like the dust of the earth, Gen. 13:16, or, as the sand upon the sea-shore, chap. 22:17, or, as the stars of heaven, chap. 15:5; 26:4, is given thus: "Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws." Verse 5. The secret of his moral greatness lay in the fact that he was true to principle, and possessed unlimited faith in God, and in his providential dealings with the faithful.
There is much of thrilling interest in the sacred sketches of Isaac, of Jacob and his twelve sons, the slavery of Joseph, the elevation, the subsequent slavery of the Hebrews, and their miraculous deliverance. God designed to do great things for them; hence his prohibitions which restricted appetite, and provided for them the most healthful food.
During four hundred and thirty years of slavery in a heathen land, the habits of the Hebrews became more or less corrupted. And as their moral power became weak, in the same degree appetite and passion grew stronger. With an outstretched arm, God brought them from the land of servitude into the wilderness, where he purposed to reform them. Their wrong habits in Egypt had made them irritable, and had disqualified them to endure the pangs of thirst, or the gnawings of perverted appetite.
Their wrong habits were such that a change to the simple manna was a great one. But this change, God being judge what was best for them, was necessary to their physical, mental, and moral good. God well knew that unless they could control appetite, they could not be controlled by law; hence the test in restricting them to the manna. "Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from Heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no."
God designed to bring a whole nation near to himself, and give them opportunity to develop a perfect character before him. He tested them on appetite, as he did our first parents in Eden, and with about the same results. Had they stood the test, God would have taken them through the wilderness in the brief space of eleven days, and would have triumphantly planted the hosts of Israel whom he had borne on eagle's wings from Egypt to the land of promise.
But the Hebrews failed to endure God's test. Appetite dethroned reason, and reigned in childish murmurings and rebellion. And as a consequence of yielding to the clamors of corrupted appetite they wandered forty years in the wilderness, and strewed their carcasses all along the way, so that only two of the adults that left Egypt were permitted to reach the good land of promise. Let the sacred records be carefully searched, and see if the murmurings of the children of Israel, which are made very prominent in both the Old Testament and the New, may not be traced back in every case to restrictions, or to their fears, as to what they should eat and drink.
The waters of Marah were bitter, and a general cry of murmuring rang through the host of Israel, and reached the ear of Moses, "What shall we drink?" A certain tree cast into the waters made them sweet. This quieted their murmurings for the time. And the Lord "made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them, and said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians; for I am the Lord that healeth thee." The gracious God of the Hebrews regarded the health of his people as a matter of first importance. He promised them health if they would obey. Indeed, no fact appears more distinct upon the Sacred Record than that, in the great work of reforming them, and restoring them from wrong habits contracted in Egypt, God commenced with the appetite.
And the Lord does not propose to work miracles for the health of his people while they indulge in habits injurious to health. He designs to make them healthy and happy by restricting their diet, and thereby restoring natural appetite and mild temper. He was soon to take his people to the land of promise, a second Eden marred somewhat by the curse, and establish them there a healthy, holy people. But before doing this, he would reform them in their dietetic habits, by taking them back, step by step, as near as possible to the purity of his original purpose when he provided the simple fruits, grains, and vegetables, as the best food for man.
Thirty days after the departure from Egypt, the Hebrews were encamped in the Wilderness of Sin, and there the circumstances of their position tested their trembling faith. It was evident that the chances for food were against them, unless God should work a perpetual miracle. And the infidel question was murmured through the camp, "Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?" And the whole congregation murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying, "Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger." Ex. 16:3.
The case was an urgent one. Something must be done. The people must have food. And the necessity of his people was God's opportunity there to send them supplies from Heaven. It came in abundance, and lay round about the host. The God and Father of his people most certainly gave them food which was best adapted to their wants. Well, did he send down to them cattle, sheep, swine, lobsters, oysters, clams, eels, and the like, tea, coffee, and tobacco? This he could have done, and would have done, if these were necessary to life and health. But none of these were given. What, did the God of Israel provide as food for that vast host? The simple language of the Sacred Record gives the following interesting facts:—
"Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from Heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no." Ex. 16:4. God was about to repeat his law in the ears of all the people. Would they obey? Their appetites and passions were such that the matter was one of doubt. This, however, seems to be established in the Divine Mind, that unless they could control appetite, they could not be controlled by law. God proposes to prove their moral powers, and he does this by testing them in the matter of appetite.
From the description of the manna given in Num. 11:7, 8, one might safely conclude that it would be quite as disagreeable to morbid taste as graham bread. Its shape, color, taste, and the manner in which it was prepared for food, are thus given: "And the manna was as coriander seed, and the color thereof as the color of bdellium. And the people went about and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it; and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil."
It appears from the record that the people were not at first restricted to manna alone. In the morning they were to eat of the manna, and in the evening they were to eat of the flesh of the quails. Whether flesh was given them once a day at first, that the change of their habits might be more gradual, or because of their frenzied murmurings, may be a matter of debate. But at a later period they were restricted to manna alone, as the following statement of their frantic murmuring shows:—
"And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic. But now our soul is dried away. There is nothing at all beside this manna before our eyes." Num. 11:4-6. God gave them flesh—not because it was best for them—but to teach them that he best knew their real needs. As other means of instruction had failed, he let them have their own way this time to humble them and bring them to submission.
The leader of murmuring Israel was instructed to say to his people, "And ye shall eat flesh; for ye have wept in the ears of the Lord, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt; therefore the Lord will give you flesh, and ye shall eat. Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days, but even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils and it be loathsome unto you; because that ye have despised the Lord which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, why came we forth out of Egypt?" Chap. 11:18-20.
We are sometimes gravely informed by those knowing gentlemen who give their influence on the side of indulgence of morbid taste, that the appetite indicates that which is best adapted to the wants of the system. And tens of thousands are acting the glutton, and hastening to a premature, wretched end over this miserable untruth. How terribly false in the case of the Hebrews! On the same ground men may justify the drunkard, the opium inebriate, and the tobacco slave.
J. W.
News and Miscellany.
By Editor
EMIGRATION TO CALIFORNIA.
The tide of emigration to California seems to be increasing, rather than growing less. The recent cold winter East, and the cold snap of this spring, taken in contrast with the flattering reports of the mild climate of California, has doubtless much to do in inducing eastern people to leave their homes and settle in the newer country and milder climate of California. Reports of large wages and easily acquired fortunes doubtless influence many.
The S. F. Chronicle says: "From present indications it does not seem at all unreasonable to estimate that 150,000 persons will be added to the population of California before the close of the present year. Though it is yet early in the season, our numbers are being reinforced at the rate of 6,000 persons per month."
"The accommodation of the large increasing emigration is a matter of serious importance. Where to place them, and how best to provide for them, is worthy of consideration. Many of the new-comers are doubtless advised by persons who have visited the State as pioneers of the different localities from which they come, and have determined to what part of the State they will go; others will join relatives, friends or neighbors, with whom they have previously consulted; but there are large numbers who come without any definite idea as to where they will locate or in what occupation they will engage."
Many thus meet with great disappointment. The flattering reports of plenty of occupation with high wages for all who may choose to come to this coast, no matter what their calling or trade, or whether they have any at all, cause many to leave good opportunities and friends in the East, and without definite knowledge of the customs and opportunities of California, embark upon a venture, risking the consequences. Many are thus disappointed; and if they have money enough left will take the return train inside of a week. Numerous instances of this kind have fallen under our personal observation. Those who are obliged to earn money to pay their return fare, usually find employment and become contented, and when they have enough saved to return, have made up their minds to stay.
California, above many other sections of country, requires indomitable perseverance and a fixed purpose. More than this, persons seldom can jump into good positions without personal acquaintance, and a person-al knowledge, by the employer, of the capabilities of the employe, and his adaptability to the position to be filled. Every man is independent here, and stands or falls upon his own merits. California is a little world by itself, and a recommendation is usually as worthless as the paper upon which it is written.
To parties intending a removal to California, we would therefore recommend :—
1. That they have a fixed purpose, and an object in coming to this coast.
2. That they put themselves in communication with some friend here upon whose judgment they can rely, and have some prospect in view before coming.
3. If the mind is fully made up to come to California, come with a fixed determination to succeed, and expect discouragements at first. We know men of education who are now commanding good salaries, who had to commence work at the plow, and have worked up. Farmers must remember that seasons are altogether different here than in the East, and that they will have to learn their trade over again here. The planting season is in the winter, and the idle time comes between spring and harvest.
FLOODED RAILROAD.
The recent warm weather has so rapidly melted the snow on the mountains overlooking the Bitter Creek Valley, that the streams are swollen to enormous size. Ten miles of the Union Pacific Railroad is reported swept away, and the flood still rising. Dispatches to the S. F. Chronicle of April 17th, report: "The water in Butte Creek is still rising and is considerably higher to-day than yesterday. There are three bridges gone and large portions of track washed out in different places. From all we can hear to-day it would not appear probable that any train can pass over the road for a week yet, and even that will depend upon the weather. If the weather continues warm and the snow melts, the difficulty in this place will be increased, besides endangering the road at many other points. The wires are down east of Green River this morning. On account of the flood and the want of means of conveyance, it is difficult to get at the breaks which are at the washouts."
It is reported from Omaha that 2,000 delayed passengers are being fed at the expense of the Union Pacific Railroad Company.
COLD SNAP IN THE EAST AND SOUTH.
CHICAGO, April 17.—The extraordinary cold snap continues here, and reports from all parts of the West and Southeast show it to be general. The fruit crop has doubtless suffered very seriously, and in many localities it is reported entirely killed. The thermometer here last night marked zero, and to-day snow has been falling all day.
TORONTO, April 16.—Kingstown and Port Colborne harbors are again blocked with ice. Five inches of snow has fallen at Seaforth since last night, and it is still snowing and freezing.
MEMPHIS, April 17.—There was a heavy frost last night, killing vegetables and seriously damaging if not killing fruit.
NASHVILLE (Tenn.), April 17.—A heavy west and northwest wind has prevailed here the last 36 hours, extending as far south as Montgomery, Ala. This morning ice was an eighth of an inch thick at Corinth, Miss. All exposed vegetation was frozen here this morning. It is believed that all the fruit, cotton, and wheat in this and adjoining States are seriously injured, if not entirely killed.
THE WAR CLOUD IN EUROPE.
NEW YORK, April 12.—A special to the Herald by cable from Paris says that a war is again threatened, involving Russia, Italy, Austria, Germany, and France. Bismarck is the promoter of this war and the Papacy is the pretext. Many signs indicate that the illustrious Chancellor's intellect, long the wonder and admiration of the world, has become enfeebled, and in his fractiousness, he is even seeking battle with the gigantic shadows of a sick brain.
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 14.—A terrible slaughter of Christians has just been reported from Roumelia. The Turks in large numbers made an attack upon a portion of the town occupied by the Christians, and a desperate encounter resulted. Two hundred and seventy Christians, many of them women and children, were massacred. There is great excitement among the Europeans over the outrage.
THE INDIANS.
April 6, 2000 Indians revolted from the Cheyenne Agency, and are on the war path. They were pursued by 60 cavalry under Captain Rafferty, and three companies under General Neill. A meeting took place in which 16 of the troops were killed and wounded. The Indians escaped in the night.
CHICAGO, April 17.—Kansas City advices state that 800 Cheyenne warriors crossed the track of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Thursday night, fifteen miles east of Akin. They were going north, passing through the State of Kansas, and a company of troops was sent from Fort Dodge in pursuit. The Indian trail was followed about twenty miles, when it became evident that the Indians had separated and scattered over the prairies. They are undoubtedly on the war path, and bloody work may be expected.
FIRES.
NEW YORK, April 11.—A disastrous fire, involving the total loss of about $300,000, occurred in the building 57 and 59 Worth street to-day.
TITUSVILLE (Pa.), April 11.—A fire at Millerstown, Pa., this morning, broke out in Bluestone's confectionery store, which in two hours destroyed forty buildings. The losses will not be less than $100,000.
CARLIN, April 11.—The hotel in this place caught fire at three o'clock this afternoon and burned to the ground together with a small dwelling-house in the rear of the hotel. Loss $5000.
Beecher's Theology.
By Editor
The popular religion of the day is essentially worldly and human; its theology is sentimental and sensational. It appeals to the emotions, and is almost entirely destitute of reverence. The ideal Saviour of the professors of such religion is one with whom they can be on terms of personal familiarity, and whom they love because he teaches them their own dignity, or, in other words, they love him because he is so nearly like themselves, and ministers to their good feeling and self-complacency.
For some time H. W. Beecher has been the leader, the very high priest of this class and of their theology; a theology which arouses the same feelings by the sermon and by the novel. His novels contain the substance of his religion, and his sermons contain the sympathetic shallowness of the novel. While he has been admired and almost idolized as the model preacher of the age, he has done more than any other man of this generation to inspire a love for light reading and to flood the churches with literary trash. It is a sufficient index to the superficial spirit of the popular religion that it exalts such men to the position of religious reformers. But we did not commence this so much to give our own views as to quote the following words from the N. Y. Sun. A better presentation of the case could not be made:—
"When the Eagle, therefore, says further that Mr. Beecher 'has exercised a wider influence upon the religious thought of our times than any other minister of the age,' and that 'he has been largely influential in modifying the Protestant beliefs of Christendom,' it makes a preposterous claim for the Plymouth pastor. Mr. Beecher could not, except by indirection, influence the general belief, because he has had no clear and determined belief of his own. The characteristic of his preaching is its sentimentality. Religion to him is good feeling; love to God, or Christ, as he would specifically urge, is an emotion that bears a close relation to the love of one human being for another, only perhaps higher and finer—its spiritual projection, in fact. Such preaching may attract great congregations, but it does not modify the beliefs of Christendom and it never will for it does not appeal to belief or establish belief, but only stimulates the feelings which, as we all know, may be stirred to the furthest depths without beneficial effect on moral character. The fruit of such preaching as Mr Beecher's is in truth ephemeral; and the minister who makes it his only resource may expect his influence to be substantially gone when his voice is extinct. Not so with men like Athanasius, or John Calvin, or John Wesley; these formulate creeds and religious methods, and plant them deep in human thought and character. The only religious achievement of Mr. Beecher really has been Plymouth Church, which will crumble to pieces when he disappears, for it is founded on a man and not on any great principle."
J. H. W.
The Saving Name.
MRS. ANNIE WITTENMEYER, of Philadelphia, in an address delivered in Cleveland, Ohio, related the following anecdote as recorded in the "Evangelical Messenger."
In 1863, immediately after the fall of Vicksburg, she visited the hospitals in Helena, Arkansas. Going into a large ward one day, filled with sick and wounded soldiers, she saw in the remotest corner of the room a very sick man. She noticed him the more because he looked towards her, and there was upon his face such a look of agony and despair as she had never seen on any human face before, and wished never to see again. The surgeon, who had stepped in with her, referring to this man, said, "He is almost gone, poor fellow; he'll not live long." Mrs. Wittenmeyer, whose heart was deeply touched, went directly to the sick man. Approaching him, she said, very tenderly:
"You seem to be very sick, my friend."
"My friend!" he returned, "I have no friend. I am here dying among strangers, and nobody cares whether I live or die." Mrs. Wittenmeyer entreated him not to say that, and assured him that he had many friends in the North. She was about to say, she would be his friend, but remembering how empty such a profession of friendship would be on the part of a stranger, she directed him to another saying:
"There is a Friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Can you make Jesus your friend in this dark hour?" On hearing the name of Jesus he cried aloud, "Oh, would that Jesus were my Friend! but I am a great sinner."
"But," responded Mrs. Wittenmeyer, "Jesus is the sinner's Friend."
"Oh, lady," said he, "you don't know what a great and wretched sinner I am, or you would not think that Jesus could save me."
"You don't know," she answered, "what a great Saviour we have, or you would not doubt. He is able to save to the uttermost. He can save you."
"It is too late! It is too late! too late!" he cried, with such deep agony of soul, that the brave young men lying upon their cots covered their faces with their bedclothes and wept like children. Mrs. Wittenmeyer urged that it was not too late, and commenced telling him of the thief on the cross; but she stopped her, saying:
"Oh! I know about the thief on the cross; but, lady, I am a thousand times worse than the thief on the cross."
She answered, "If you were ten thousand times worse, Jesus could save you, for he can save to the uttermost."
This assurance gave hope, and he exclaimed, "Pray for me!" She knelt by his bed-side, and while he cried, "God be merciful to me a sinner," she pleaded the precious promises of the gospel. And while he prayed and she pleaded, the mighty power of God's saving grace came down upon his soul, driving away, in a moment, every sign of agony and distress, and filling his heart with joy—joy unspeakable and full of glory. The lady remarked that if she had been an infidel up to that time, it seemed to her that she should have been convicted of the truth of Christianity in that presence. It was such a wonderful display of God's power to save. The man was healed soul and body. Three days from that time she found him on the shady side of the house, reading the Testament which she had given him the day previous. Seeing her, he said: "Oh, I am so happy this morning! I have a furlough, and I am going home. How glad my Christian mother will be to hear and see that I have found salvation."
"Young man," said she, "wherever you go, remember, that you were snatched as a brand from the burning."
"I can never forget that," he answered. "My disease and despair were crushing me down. And I am sure that I should have died, if salvation had not come just then. But when you mentioned the name of Jesus, I knew that you were a Christian, and that you would help me if you could." Oh, what power there is in the name of Jesus, and in an earnest sympathetic appeal to the unsaved!
Woodland, Cal.
By James White
Though weakened by a severe cold I have had excellent freedom in speaking since my return to this place, and the interest of those specially interested seems to increase. I have appointments out over next first-day, when my labor will close here. During the week I shall visit all I possibly can, and so leave the work in as good condition as possible. J. H. W.
STUDY OF THE SCRIPTURES.
A silver egg was once prepared as a present to a Saxon queen. Open the silver by a secret spring and there was found a yolk of gold. Find the spring of gold, and it flew open and disclosed a beautiful bird. Press the wings of the bird and in its breast was found a crown, jewelled and radiant. And even within the crown, upheld by a spring like the rest, was a ring of diamonds which fitted the finger of the princess herself.
Oh, how many a promise there is within a promise in the Scriptures, the silver around the gold, the gold around the jewels; yet, how few of God’s children ever find their way far enough among the springs to discover the crown of his rejoicing or the ring of his covenant of peace.
TRUE HONESTY
At a slave-market in one of the Southern States, in the days of those monstrosities, a smart, active colored boy was put up for sale. A kind master who pitied his condition, not wishing him to have a cruel owner, went up to him, and said:—
"If I buy you, will you be honest?"
The boy with a look that baffled description, replied:—
"I will be honest, whether you buy me or not."
How many would, like the colored boy, be honest whether circumstances were favorable or not?
"I cannot be poor," said Bernard, "so long as God is rich, for all his riches are mine."
Appointments
By John Norton Loughborough
PETALUMA, Sabbath and First-day, April 24, and 25, at 11 A. M. of each day. J. N. Loughborough.
WOODLAND, Sabbath and First-day, May 1 and 2. J. N. Loughborough.
OAKLAND, Sabbath morning, April 24. James White.
Evening following First-day April 25. Mrs. E. G. White.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sabbath morning, April 24. Mrs. E. G. White.
Evening following First-day April 25. James White.
Quarterly Meetings
I APPOINT to meet with the Brethren and Sisters of district No. 6, in Quarterly Meeting at Red Banks schoolhouse, Tehama Co., Sabbath and First-day, May 8, and 9. This meeting will be the Quarterly Meeting for the second and third quarters of this Conference year.
Other Quarterly Meeting appointments will be given next week.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.
Business Department.
By Editor
"Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully," (margin, negligently). Jer. 48 : 10.
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Books! Books!! Books!!!
By Editor
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