We pitched the tent here Aug. 25, and began meetings that evening with a good congregation, which has been increasing up to date. The best of attention is given to the word spoken. Have seldom seen a better interest, people coming several miles to attend our meetings. Four families have decided to obey the truth. We ask an interest in the prayers of God's people.
Sept. 6. R. F. BARTON. A. W. CONE.
A TEMPERANCE LECTURE.
The most thrilling and sadly suggestive temperance lecture is the sight of a once noble, talented man, left in ruins by strong drink. A Washington paper tells of a ragged beggar, well known in the streets of that city, who once held an important command in the army, having been promoted for personal bravery, from a cavalry lieutenant to nearly the highest rank in the military service. One night recently, when he had been too successful in begging liquor to satisfy his craving, and while lying helplessly drunk in the rear part of a Third street saloon, some men thought to play a joke on him by stealing his shirt, and proceeded to strip him. Underneath his shirt, and suspended by a string from his neck, was a small canvas bag, which the men opened, and found it contained his commission as brevet major-general, two congratulatory letters—one from General Grant, and one from President Lincoln; a photograph of a little girl, and a curl of hair—a "chestnut shadow," that doubtless one day crept over the brow of some loved one.
When these things were discovered, even the half-drunken men who found them felt a respect for the man's former greatness, and pity for his fallen condition, and quietly returned the bag and contents to where they found them, and placed the sleeper's clothes upon him. When a reporter tried to interview the man, and endeavor to learn something of his life in the past few years, he declined to communicate anything. He cried like a child when told how his right name and former position were ascertained, and with tears trickling down his cheeks, said: "For God's sake, sir, don't publish my degradation, or my name, at least, if you are determined to say something about it. It is enough that I know how low I have become. Will you promise that much? It will do no good, but will do my friends a great deal of harm, as, unfortunately, they think I died in South America, where I went at the close of the war." Intemperance and the game-table, he said, had wrought his ruin.—Mercury.
The Danger of Moderate Drinking
Rev. Dr. Newell, of New York says: "I knew of a father in this city who had eight sons. He said to them, 'Drink moderately, my sons, and it will be well with you; in immoderate drinking lies the danger.' The father lived a moderate drinker; but his sons became sots, and forty of his descendants have found drunkard's graves." Moderate drinkers, sweeten your next glass with that fact!
SLAVES.
THEY are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
THE SICK WIFE.
"WELL, Dr. Wynn, I hope you will soon have her cured up," said George Morley, as the doctor came from the sick wife's room.
"No, George—I am afraid"—and the doctor hesitated. "No, I do not think that I can cure her," he continued, and, cruel as it may seem, he noticed with pleasure the shock of pain which his words gave. "I might give her medicine for the next ten years, if she lives so long, but it would be useless. You must take the case in hand yourself. No one else can do her any good. You seem astonished, but I only wonder you do not know it yourself. I'll tell you just how it is.
Your wife grew up in the city, with brothers and sisters, and other relatives around her, and they made her life happy. There were birds, and pictures, and flowers, and books, to make the days pass pleasantly, and there were entertainments to attend whenever she wished to break the monotony of home life. You know how it is here in this isolated farm-house—but always being a farmer, you do not realize what a sad change it is to the poor girl. I do not believe you have bought a book, or a picture, since she came here. I miss even her papers and magazines. She has not a relative within hundreds of miles, and naturally misses the sympathy of her old friends. How can she help being discouraged? Three years of such life is enough to kill a woman with any heart at all."
"But, doctor, Laura thinks just as I do; that is, that we must be very saving until we get the farm paid for. When this is off my hands, I will build a new house and have all the fine things she used to have at home, but we never should get along in the world if we began that way."
"Much good a new house will do your wife, if you keep on in this way. 'Two by six' will be enough for her, long before you get ready to build it, unless you try to cure her yourself. What a pity you did not marry one of your neighbor's girls! They are used to farm life, and would be at home here, but of course you thought you must have some one a little different. But it would be just as sensible to set one of the florist's hot-house plants in your pasture, and expect it to repay you with an abundance of fragrant blooms, as to take such a girl from her home and expect her to thrive in yours!" and after that long speech, the doctor got into his buggy and took up the lines.
"But, doctor, wait—don't go yet," said Mr. Morley, whose face expressed his puzzled mind. "I do not see how I could change things here, even if my life depended upon it."
"Nonsense, Morley! You can and will, I know. In the first place, be a lover as well as a husband, and work for her as if you enjoyed it as well as when she was Laura Bateman. Make a shutter for that south window, and put some shelves in it so that she can keep plants. Two or three evenings' work will do it, and such labor of love on your part will bring roses to Laura's pale cheeks again!"
"But plants, and pots, and seeds cost something, doctor, and I am a poor man, you know!"
"Well, I guess sickness 'costs something' too, as you are in a fair way to find out! My coming to-day will be five dollars, and that, expended for pots and plants, or papers, would be a mine of pleasure to your wife. I tell you, your wife is starving to death."
"Why, doctor, we have everything we need to eat! You just ought to see our cellar!"
"Fudge!" said the doctor; "that is just like a man. He is always groveling around in the cellar, and never thinks of getting any higher! Of course I know you have enough for the physical life, and if you were cattle you might thrive on your abundance, but what do you do for that finer sense of man, the spiritual life? How often, now, do you exchange social visits with your neighbors?"
"Why, not often, of course. Laura does not care to go without me, and I am always busy on the farm."
"And how often do you go to church or lectures?"
"Well, we used to go now and then, but we are so far from town that it does not seem to pay to hitch up and go so far."
"No! but I remember when a young man of your size didn't think it any hardship to do his chores early, and gallop off five or ten miles to walk with Laura Bateman down to prayer-meeting! Now, although she needs to go much more than she did then, it is too much trouble to hitch up the horses to take her anywhere! George, you are just getting selfish and lazy, and if you do not cure yourself, there is no hope for your wife. Of course it will cost something to keep her well, but it will cost more to have her sick. First, there'll be extra help in the house, then a doctor's bill of a hundred or so dollars a year, and then a coffin and funeral—"
"For heaven's sake, doctor, stop!" cried the long-suffering husband. "I'll try to do better in the future. You have told me the truth, and I am ashamed of myself. I'll show you a happy girl again, if I live!"
"That is right, my boy! Only love your wife enough, and the rest will be easy. Now I am going in to tell her about the lectures, and if she gets interested in them, see that you do, too, and take her to hear them. They will do her more good than anything in the drug store."
Dr. Wynn entered the sick woman's room with a smiling face. "I came back," he said, "to tell you that Prof. White, of Waynesville, is to give us five lectures next month, and you are to get well right away, so that you may be able to attend."
"Prof. White! Oh, how I should like to hear him!" said Laura, brightening up instantly. "He lectured for the lyceum at home, the winter before I came away. It would seem like old times to hear him again; but George has so much to do that I do not suppose we can go."
"Oh, pshaw, now," broke in the doctor, "if George cannot manage his work I'll come out and help him, for go you must! Just remember that, now, and act accordingly," laughed the doctor, as he drew his gloves on again. "And you are to stop at our house the first time you come to town, for I heard my wife say she had some fine geranium slips for anyone that wanted them."
"Thank you, doctor. I should like so much to have them if I had any place to keep them. I tried keeping plants when I first came here, but I had no good window for them, so I gave it up."
"Well, 'try, try again,' you know," said the doctor. "A shelf or two in this sunny south window would give them a good chance, and outside shutters would prevent the room's freezing, I guess. Try again, and make it more homelike here!"
The doctor spoke cheerily, but the pale lips quivered, and the tears came in spite of the invalid's effort to keep them back. "Nothing will ever be 'homelike here,'" was her thought, although it was unspoken.
"Now, Laura, you must cheer up. Better times are coming, and we will soon have you up again. I will come to-morrow to see how you are getting along, so good-bye!"
The doctor bowed himself out, but looking back, saw the homesick, sobbing wife, folded in her husband's arms. "They will be all right now," he said, as he gave Selim the lines for his homeward drive.
Mr. Morley was thoroughly aroused, and set about "curing" his wife at once. When his evening work was done, he washed and brushed up, and instead of sitting down with his paper, sat by his wife and talked of the past, the present, and the future. They talked over many little plans for making the home pleasant, that had long laid dormant in Laura's mind, for there was little encouragement to tell them to the man who was always "too busy to attend to it now." He found that it was not time nor money that was needed, so much as a willing hand and heart. The window-shelves were talked over and planned, a needful ventilator settled at last, and the lectures decided upon. Hope sprang up at the touch of loving fingers tenderly stroking her brown hair again, and when the doctor came next day he found his patient in the rocking chair, watching her husband put up the nicely made walnut shelves. He had a wide shelf for the lower part of the window, and two narrow ones to go higher up, and was laughing and chatting as if it were no great hardship to do something to please his wife, although he knew that in consequence of his day spent in "fooling around," as neighbor Stubs called it, he might have to get a load of wood or corn, on a stormy day. He remembered that there had been many a rainy day when he could have done it as well as not if he had wished to. The doctor brought a thrifty little rose-geranium. "Mrs. Wynn said it would cheer you up," he said, as he placed it in the thin, toil-stained hands, that eagerly received it.
"Thanks for her kindness," said Laura. "George is so good! Isn't he fixing my window nicely? Tell Mrs. Wynn not to give all her slips away, for I am going after some myself, soon. George says we cannot afford to miss those lectures, anyway. I am so glad you spoke of them. I shall be so happy to be going somewhere, again." There was no need for the doctor to leave medicine, although he put up a few powders "for the looks of it."
"Ten dollars thrown away," said Mr. Morley to himself when he paid the bill, "or it would have been, rather, if the doctor had not talked to me like a father. Why can't a man have a little sense of his own, I wonder?"
As he went on with his work, he thought of Laura's words to the doctor. "George is so good!" "So good," he soliloquized, "when I've driven all the pleasantness out of her life with my foolish plea of economy, that was not economy at all! 'So good,' when I have failed to cherish her ever since I brought her to this place, that must seem like a desert to her, compared with her old home! 'So good!' Well, I'll try to deserve the name in the future."
And he did deserve it. He discovered that he could do the chores, now, in time for church or lecture, as well as when he was courting Laura, four years ago. Prof. White's lectures well repaid him for all they cost him, and one night they took him home with them, and Mrs. Morley enjoyed the visit as she had not enjoyed a visit for many a day. The plants were not admired by Mrs. Morley alone, for they had a refining influence on her husband also, but he ever declared that the sweetest flowers he knew of, were the pink roses in Laura's cheeks, and a fading leaf on the house plants ever reminded him of the gloomy days when the roses faded from the dear face that might have been hidden from him forever.
As they grew old together the husband learned how a woman might be starving, even when there was a surplus "in the cellar." And giving her the pure and unselfish love, that pertains more to the spiritual than to the physical life, he found it returned to himself in blessings "an hundred fold."—Western Rural.
The Home Circle.
WANTED, A MINISTER'S WIFE.
WANTED, a perfect lady,
Delicate, gentle, refined,
With every beauty of person
And every endowment of mind;
Fitted by early culture
To move in a fashionable life.
Please notice our advertisement:
"Wanted, a minister's wife."
Wanted, a thoroughbred worker,
Who well to her household looks,
(Shall we see our money wasted
By extravagant, stupid cooks?)
Who cuts the daily expenses
With economy as sharp as a knife,
And washes and scrubs in the kitchen.
"Wanted, a minister's wife."
A very domestic person,
To "callers" she must not be "out;"
It has such a bad appearance
For her to be gadding about;
Only to visit the parish
Every year of her life,
And attend the funerals and weddings.
"Wanted, a minister's wife."
To conduct the ladies' meeting,
The sewing-circle attend;
And when we work for the needy,
Her ready assistance to lend;
To clothe the destitute children
Where sorrow and want are rife;
To hunt up Sunday-school scholars.
"Wanted, a minister's wife."
Careful to entertain strangers,
Traveling agents, and "such;"
Of this kind of "angel visits"
The leaders have had so much
As to prove a perfect nuisance,
And "hope these plagues of their life
Can soon be sent to their parson's."
"Wanted, a minister's wife."
A perfect pattern of prudence
To all others, spending less,
But never disgracing the parish
By looking shabby in dress.
Playing the organ on Sunday
Would aid our laudable strife
To save the society's money.
"Wanted, a minister's wife."
— The Primitive Methodist.
ITEMS OF NEWS.
-Mrs. President Lincoln is in France.
-The Rinderpest has appeared again in Poland.
-Smoking is to be prohibited among West Point cadets.
-Work on the Brooklyn Bridge will continue through the winter.
-Professor Tyndall has spent the summer rambling among the Alps.
-The Chileans continue to devastate the northern provinces of Peru.
-Sixteen hundred immigrants landed in New York last Wednesday.
-The widow of Commodore Vanderbilt has an income of $1,000 a week.
-Labor strikers are creating riots in Russia, and alarming the government.
-Reports of death and poverty fill the Russian press from all parts of the interior.
-Great destitution has been caused in Northwestern Kansas, from drought.
-The German Government has ordered the expulsion of the French Jesuits who emigrated to Alsace-Lorraine.
-Six hundred hands in the stove works at Albany, N. Y., are thrown out of employment by the strike of 237 moulders.
-During the last three and a half months, Memphis has laid down over twenty miles of sewerage pipes, and twenty miles of subsoil drain pipes.
-Cyrus W. Field has accepted an invitation to dine with a number of prominent citizens of New York before departing for a tour around the world.
-The Mexican House of Representatives has declared General Gonzales to be President-elect. He will enter on its term of office December 1.
-The governor of the Fiji Islands and suite, who a short time since arrived from Europe, left New York for San Francisco, Friday last, en route for Australia.
-The citizens of Ouray held a meeting to-day, and resolved that if the Government did not take steps to get rid of the Utes they would take the matter in their own hands.
-James M. Stewart, postmaster of the House of Representatives, died in Alexandria, Va., last Thursday. He served in the Mexican war and the Confederate army.
-Before returning to California, President Hayes will examine the Columbia river bar. It is said that he favors improving the river and bar for more extensive commerce.
-A telegram from Breslau reports that an accident occurred the 6th in a mine near Kattowitz. Fifty-four workmen were overwhelmed. It is feared that fifty were suffocated.
-A collision on the Pennsylvania R. R., near Pittsburg on the night of the 9th, has resulted in the death of twenty persons, besides many more who were dangerously hurt.
-Nine hundred persons are thrown out of employment in Greenock, Scotland, by the burning of the woolen mills there last Thursday. The mills were the largest in Scotland.
-The five hundredth anniversary of the translation of the New Testament into English by Wyckliffe, was celebrated a short time since in Trenton, N. J., and elsewhere, by appropriate services.
-The semi-annual Mormon Conference convened in Salt Lake, the 6th. Cannon, our six wived delegate to Congress, delivered an address, in which he defied hell and the United States Government to put down Mormonism.
-The synod of the Russian church is sending a Greek priest with 5000 roubles to purchase a site for a church in San Francisco. Others, it is said, will follow with more money, a choir, and all the accessories of a full-fledged Russian Greek church.
-Miss Josephine Taylor, daughter of John Taylor, head of the Mormon church, has fled from her home and cannot be found. It is said that she has been out of her mind during the past year, through the efforts of her father to force her into polygamy.
-A New York Herald special portrays a most serious state of affairs in Ireland. A general strike against rents is threatened, the Land Leaguers and the Fenians have coalesced, and enmity is increasing between Catholic and Protestant, and between North and South.
-A deputation of landlords called on the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland recently to urge upon him the necessity of taking measures for the protection of life and property. The barracks in several towns in the west of Ireland have been ordered to be repaired for a full complement of troops.
-Frankfort on the Main, with a population of 100,000, is reputed to be the richest city of its size in the world. It is asserted that there are 100 Frankforters worth from $4,000,000 to $5,000,000 each, and 250 who are worth $1,000,000 and upward. The city is one of the great banking centers of the globe. Its aggregate banking capital is estimated at $200,000,000, more than one-fourth of which the Rothschilds, whose original and parent house is there, own and control.
-The Presbyterians are alarmed over the marked decrease in the number of members received on profession of faith. There has been a steady decline since 1876. In that year there were 48,240 reported as so received; in 1877 the number was 43,068; in 1878 it decreased to 32,477; in 1879 to 29,196; and in 1880 to 26,838.
-The writing table which Queen Victoria commanded to be made out of the timbers of the Arctic vessel Resolute, has been finished, and will soon be presented to the United States, as a memorial of the courtesy and loving-kindness which dictated the offer of the Resolute. The table will form part of the White House permanent furniture.
-The Times, in an editorial, says: "Wherever Mr. Parnell and his fellow-agitators go they leave the country in flames behind them. Deeds of violence are committed which they have not suggested in express terms, but which are in full accordance with the spirit of their harangues, and which they scarcely even pretend to disapprove afterward."
-The opposition which Baptist ministers met in Russia at first has given away to such an extent that they are now permitted to solemnize marriages. The Russians seem to take readily to the Baptists, as they are immersionists by education and the practice of the Greek church, and consequently have nothing to learn or unlearn on this particular point.
-President Hayes and party, while in Walla Walla, W. T., enjoyed a novel sight. Several hundred Umatilla Indians, in paint and feathers, appeared before the house where he was stopping, and after he had been introduced to the braves, commenced a war dance, which lasted an hour. The party declared it to be the most novel and interesting feature of their trip.
-In Southern Russia the fearful Siberian plague, commonly known as the "black death," has broken out in a village near Odessa. The ignorant peasantry are much opposed to the use of disinfectants. The nuns even told the people that all persons would be excommunicated who allowed sulphur to be burnt in their houses. In one village the peasants went so far as to prepare a funeral pile on which they proposed to burn a Sister of Charity who was engaged in some sanitary work. The Sister was only saved by the prompt interference of the police.
-The Escurial is the palace of the kings of Spain, one of the largest and most magnificent in the world. It was begun by Philip II. in the year 1562, and the first cost of its erection was 6,000 ducats. It forms a vast square of polished stone, paved with marble. It may give some notion of the surprising grandeur of this palace to say that according to the computation of Francisco de los Santes, it would take more than four days to go through all the rooms and apartments, the length of the way being reckoned thirty-three Spanish leagues, which is above one hundred and twenty English miles. There are fourteen thousand doors and eleven thousand windows belonging to the edifice.
-The Alta, Oct. 10, contains the following: "The old Egyptian kings and masons of ancient times, who ordered or constructed the obelisks and the pyramids, and who left the signs of their craft upon the foundation stones, ought to awake from the dust of their tumuli and be present at such an occasion as that at the Park in New York City, yesterday. The corner-stone of the foundation was laid with Masonic honors and ceremonies, the Brethren in full regalia. So far the movements in reference to the obelisk, its removal, voyage, arrival, and transportation from the ship, have been fortunate, and when it shall have been placed in its assigned position, it will form one of the most interesting objects in that beautiful park."
-The temperance people of the country are uniting in a testimonial to Mrs. President Hayes for the noble stand she has taken for total abstinence while hostess of the White House. This testimonial will consist of a life-size portrait of Mrs. Hayes, to be painted by one of our best artists, and, when finished, will be placed in the White House. The picture will be engraved, and to every person who contributes five dollars and sends it to Miss Esther Pugh, 54 Bible House, New York City, an engraving will be sent. What remains after the cost of the pictures is paid will serve as a nucleus of a fund to be named in honor of Mrs. Hayes, the interest of which will be used in procuring and circulating TOTAL ABSTINENCE LITERATURE.
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THE WORK IN SWEDEN AND NORWAY.
It is now about four years since a mission in Norway was opened, since which time the work has been steadily progressing. Eld. J. G. Matteson, who has had charge of the work there, gives a very cheering report of a recent visit to several of the churches in Sweden. He says that at Grythytted “forty-seven have united in fellowship to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. This is the first S. D. Adventist church organized in Sweden; among this number of Sabbath-keepers are several persons of public influence. There are four more believers who keep the Sabbath, and several others who have fully decided to commence in October,—that is, at moving time, when they can be released from their present obligations.
“Sabbath afternoon we celebrated the ordinances of the Lord’s house, and felt that it was good to be there on account of the presence of the Comforter. When the sun was going down, three dear souls were buried with Christ by baptism in the clear waters of a beautiful lake. Thus closed this memorable day, in which, probably for the first time, the four great memorials of the Father and the Son were celebrated in Sweden at one place on the same day.
“Sunday we held two meetings in a grove; these were attended by two hundred attentive hearers. We organized also systematic benevolence, amounting to $20.10 per quarter.”
He also reports three evening meetings held at Amot, where he baptized one candidate, making eight who are there keeping the Sabbath and meet for worship on that day.
After returning home to Christiana, he baptized seven more willing souls. “Up to this time,” he says, “we have baptized and received into the church in Christiana one hundred and eleven persons. Of those, four have died, four have gone to America, and four have been excluded. The present membership is ninety-nine.”
At the time of writing the above, Elder Matteson intended to start at once for America, to attend the General Conference which has just closed in Battle Creek, Mich.
DAY OF FASTING AND PRAYER.
In view of the important time in which we live, the nearness to the Judgment, and the amount of work which should be accomplished in our own State, the feebleness of some of our ministers, and the inability of ourselves, without God, to accomplish anything, also realizing, from the blessings received at our late camp-meeting, God's willingness to help us when we do what we can, we appoint Sabbath, Oct. 23, as a day of fasting and prayer. The object before us should be 1st. That we individually may be enabled to so act our part in this work that God can hear our prayer and bless our efforts. 2d. That God will strengthen and fit up our ministers, who are physically weak, that they may be able to enter the field, and 3d. That God may pour out his Spirit in a special manner on our ministry, and other laborers in the harvest field, and also give success to the publishing interest in our midst.
We suggest that this day be spent by ministers and people, in humbling ourselves before God, in confessing our sins, and in prayer for God's blessing. We recommend that Daniel 9:3–23 be read at this time, and his course be followed.
This is God's work in which we are engaged, and he is more willing to give his Holy Spirit to them that ask him than parents are to give good gifts unto their children. Therefore, it is our sins and coldness which separate us from God, and prevent his working mightily for us in behalf of his precious truth.
In returning to him, we recommend faithfulness on our part, as required in Malachi 3:7, 8, and the performance of duties which we may have thought to be trivial in the past, such as joining the missionary society, and doing some little service for the Lord. This should not be simply a theoretical move, but a turning of the heart to God. We need God to go before us, and give us this year a harvest of souls, and for his own name's sake he will do this.
S. N. HASKELL,
M. C. ISRAEL,
JOHN MORRISON,
} Cal. Conf. Com.
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WHAT A LOTTERY PRIZE DID.
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ABOUT six years ago, a young merchant in New Orleans, whose business was fairly successful, was tempted to buy a lottery ticket. He drew a prize of $20,000.
Money so easily acquired was spent gaily and freely. Habits of lavish expenditure and disregard of business were soon acquired, and in four years Mr. C— found himself a poor man. Instead of going to work he devoted all the money he could raise to the purchase of lottery tickets.
A few months ago, he paid his last penny for three shares in a mammoth lottery scheme. When the day of drawing came they proved to be blanks. He went home without a word to his garret, and the next day was found dead with a bullet through his brain.
Few of our readers have any idea of the extent to which this species of legalized gambling is carried in this country.
THE Boston Watchman (Baptist) expresses the fear that a general collapse of Christian faith is impending. It says, "That general credence of Christianity which has been customary for Protestant nations, has been subjected to such constant and tremendous erosion by floods of modern skepticism, that its fall is imminent. Infidelity has made fearful havoc among the mass of our civilized fellow-men. This is not yet so evident as we fear it may be in a few years. In the decaying tooth the external wall of enamel hides for a time the ravage of caries within, and the gloss of civilization will hide the decay of public faith for the season. But the time of collapse must come."