“The lizard family has many queer and remarkable habits; but none of these antics,” says a writer in the St. Louis Republic, “will compare with that known to the naturalist as ‘shooting the tail.’ All species of lizards are born cowards, but the effects of fear are not the same among the different members of the family. As an illustration I will say that there is one variety of the lizard family (the so-called ‘horned toad’) which, when excited, spurts a fine stream of blood from a duct situated just above the eye. Another variety, an inhabitant of Australia (naturally bluish-black in color), turns suddenly white and appears to be perfectly paralyzed the moment it finds itself confronted by real or imaginary danger.
“The most curious habit of all, however, and one which is possessed by a large per cent. of the entire lizard family, is that of voluntarily amputating the tail if suddenly surprised by one of its many enemies. The lizard’s habit of ridding itself of the caudal appendage under such circumstances reminds me that the lobster always drops or sheds its claws in the time of thunder-storms. In fact, anything that excites or irritates the lobster will cause a similar exhibition of this peculiar power. The lizard which amputates or purposely drops the tail when scared, does not become paralyzed, like his Australian brother, but hurries away as fast as the four legs will carry the tailless body. The amputated tail is left to the mercy of the enemy. It lies on the ground, floundering like a fish. This attracts the attention of the pursuer, which makes a meal of the amputated member, while the body is escaping to a place of safety.”
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MISSION NOTES FROM RAROTONGA.
By J. E. Caldwell
A FEW months ago I was talking with a veteran in our Civil War, in 1861-65, who had seen active service in several of the Gulf States. He said that on one occasion, near the close of the war, he was talking with the skipper of a flat-bottomed sloop on the gulf, off the coast of Louisiana. He asked the skipper if he would be willing to go to Cuba in his sailboat. The answer, given without hesitation, was, “Yes.” The soldier asked him, “Would you have gone in such a boat four years ago?” The reply came quite as promptly as before, “No.” Familiarity with the dangers of war for so long, had made him comparatively indifferent to all dangers.
We have a somewhat similar experience here, in Rarotonga, in relation to the dangers of persecution. At first we even shrank from the notoriety incident to our position as the recognized friends and helpers of those whom the native rulers were trying to intimidate and keep under their control, in both civil and spiritual matters. Threats of fines and imprisonment then gave us a great deal of anxiety, causing some loss of sleep. After a few months of suspense, and seeing many of our friends tried and imprisoned or fined without just cause, and contrary to the law, an increase of faith and familiarity with danger has combined to dissipate all our former dread, and to make us comparatively indifferent to repeated threats. We praise the Lord for this experience. The occasional threats are still heard from different quarters, active persecution is held somewhat in abeyance at the present time. It has been two or three months since the last fines were imposed, for not going to meeting on Sunday, in the case of those who attended religious worship on Sabbath. More than fifty convictions have been procured in this island for that crime (?) in the several native courts.
Two or three weeks ago I went into the “bush” on preparation day, to carry a message. I accidentally came across an old native woman, a near neighbor in the village, whom I had not seen for months. She was preparing food for the Sabbath in her native oven near her hut, to which she had retired from her good house in the village, having been fined for showing disrespect, in words which were not pleasant for the court to hear, for those who brought about the persecutions. She told me all about her experience, and declared her fidelity to the Bible and the law of God, even in the face of persecution. I need not say she was delighted to receive my call, and to have me bow down and unite with her in prayer. Tears of joy were in her eyes for the sympathy she received, which had been withheld by her pastor.
Excavating a Reservoir on Government Works, India.
Not infrequently have such cases come to my notice, quite in contrast to the general rule; for since the pioneer missionaries have led in disregarding the law of Jehovah by attempting to lead the people away from the Sabbath commandment, nearly every evil tendency in their church-members has gained the ascendency. Before there was drunkenness enough on the island; but it was chiefly among young fellows who made no profession of religion, or among confirmed drunkards. Now it is not uncommon to see church-members, and even deacons, and judges of native courts, all of whom are leaders in the church, drinking liquor or “bush beer.” One of the native pastors has been known to drink freely of late. All these things are the natural result of dishonoring the law of God on the part of those who should have been champions of the truth.
It has been charged that those natives who refused to change their day of worship to please the leaders in their rebellion against God’s law, were not moved by conscientious scruples, but were pandering to a love of notoriety and superstitious sentiment. Any one who could have stood by during my interview with this old native servant of Christ, would know in his own soul that such a charge was false, in her case at least. Tho the natives do not generally possess highly sensitive spiritual natures, some of them are as conscientious and true to the light they have received, as are Christians in more favored countries.
Women Breaking Stone on Government Relief Works, India.
In regard to our work among the natives, there is much to be said of an encouraging character. Pastor E. H. Gates, superintendent of the Polynesian mission field, came to visit us a month ago, arriving early in August. He has now gone on to Tahiti. During his stay on this island he did much to encourage and assist us. His labors were much appreciated by the native friends, to whom he spoke several times through an interpreter. On Sunday, August 26, he baptized eight precious native souls, and on Sabbath, September 1, he buried in baptism, in the likeness of the Lord’s burial, ten more natives, who had given good evidence of repentance and faith. The experience of some of these was exceptionally bright. We now have a company of twenty baptized natives, besides the members of the mission families. Brother Gates organized them into a church before he went away. To God be all the praise.
Let none of our friends at home be anxious for our personal safety on account of a report of a native uprising against the whites on Rarotonga, which has been going the rounds of the American newspapers. There is no truth in it. There has been no armed uprising, and will be none. It is true, however, that the natives, almost to a man, opposed the innovation when the authorities, headed by the L. M. S., sought to carry them over in a body to Sunday-keeping. One member of the native Parliament favored the change from the first, but his character is seen at once when it is known that, though a leader in the church, he may often be seen drunk on Sundays after the church services. The judge who convicted most of the natives for not going to meeting on Sunday, is often seen on the streets disabled from drinking too freely. These facts show what kind of moral support the Sunday cause has in this part of the world.
The line of separation is now being drawn13between those who serve God and those who serve Him not, preparatory to the great day of our God. So I believe.
Sept. 9, 1900. J. E. CALDWELL.
THERE'S A MISSION WORK FOR ALL.
By T. R. Williamson
There's a mission work for all
Near each door.
Come and labor, great and small,
Rich and poor.
In the city's bustling street,
In the country homes so neat,
There's a message to repeat
O'er and o'er.
Give your dollars, give your prayers,
Every one.
Enter alleys, clamber stairs,
Quickly run.
Thru the winter, thru the spring,
When the summer bird-notes ring,
Tell them of the coming King,
God's dear Son.
Many folks in other lands
Never heard
Of this message true and grand
From God's Word;
'Twill be glorious news to them
That the Christ of Bethlehem
Comes with starry diadem,
Christ the Lord.
Labor on with hope and trust
Till the end,
Till the shining angel host
Shall descend.
God will guide you night and day,
Be your strength, your help, your stay,
Bless your labor every way;
He's your Friend.
Oakland, Cal. T. R. WILLIAMSON.
WORDS FROM INDIA.
A LETTER from Pastor W. A. Spicer, editor of the Oriental Watchman, Calcutta, dated Nov. 8, 1900, gives the following items of interest to those who have donated to our India fund:—
“Dear Brother Wilcox: I have received word from the foreign board (dated September 23) that another remittance of $700 from your SIGNS fund is being sent on to us. It will doubtless come to hand presently. I have already sent some amounts to those who have taken children. As near as I can learn, missions generally have been supplied quite liberally with funds for present needs. By waiting a little and watching, I will be able to place the closing contributions to the best advantage. Your readers have contributed liberally, and it is unnecessary for us who happen to be here to try to express thanks for money sent to the needy, but only thanks for being allowed to disburse it.
“Again thanking the SIGNS for the missionary interest in the foreign work, of which India has had abundant evidence. Your brother, W. A. Spicer.”
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From a personal letter we quote a few sentences for the encouragement of those who are members of small Sabbath-schools: “Our school is composed of just our own family, which consists of parents and two children. Part of the time a third child meets with us. We have lived isolated from others of like faith for nearly a quarter of a century; but we have kept up our school for many years, and we expect to keep it up as long as there are enough of us together. You may be sure that Satan has not let us carry on our school unmolested, but our courage is good.” If God can give this family such a precious experience in faithfully holding up the truth in their vicinity, will He not as willingly bless other families who do the same?—Iowa Bulletin.
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“THE well-fed American,” says Mr. Henry Briggs, who was a trader in China for twenty years, “can have no idea of the utterly bare life of the Chinese rice-picker. It is, at the best, perpetual semi-starvation. In years when the crop is short, these men grow into the likeness of skeletons. Infant female children are smothered as a religious duty, to save them from the pangs of death by famine. Yet, in the midst of this hardship and want, they are brave and cheerful, and kind and considerate neighbors, helping and nursing each other with tenderness.”
Mr. Briggs says that one autumn, in a year of famine, he went with two English travelers to shoot ducks in the vast rice-swamps. They lost their way, and after wandering for hours, met a Chinese of the lowest class, who conducted them, after two hours of hard plowing thru the mud of the swamps, back to their starting-place. The man was thin and weak, and was pale with exhaustion when he turned to go home. Hence it was a liberal handful of money which they offered him in payment—more than he could earn by two years of labor; for wages in China are almost incredibly low.
To their astonishment, he refused to accept any reward whatever. The reason he gave was that Confucius had ordered his followers to show kindness to their brother-men. “We are so poor,” he said, “that the chance rarely comes to us to obey him. No such chance as this has ever before come to me. I will not lose it.”
“Nor was this a solitary case,” says Mr. Briggs. “It is the habitual temper of the people.” Such incidents as this lend weight to the statement so often made by those most familiar with China, that continued seizure of territory by foreigners and the interference with domestic laws and customs, have roused the Chinese to a fury quite at variance with their usual temper.—Selected.
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“FORWARD MOVEMENTS OF THE LAST HALF CENTURY.” By Arthur T. Pierson, D.D. 12mo, cloth, 439 pp. Price, $1.50. New York and London: Funk & Wagnalls Co. The readers of the Missionary Review who have read some of the stirring thoughts of Dr. Pierson, embodied in this book, will gladly welcome it, not alone for these thoughts in a more permanent form, but for many others which the volume contains. It is not only a book to read, it will be a valuable book of reference. Many Christian workers do not know what the Oxford movement and the Keswick teaching mean. They are told in this book. Dr. Pierson notes the encouraging things in this century of spiritual apathy, the longing on the part of many for personal holiness, the “Revival of the Prayer Spirit,” “The Prayer Basis of Mission Work,” “The Pentecostal Movement,” “Woman’s Work at Home and Abroad,” “Ramabai and the Women of India,” “Organizations of Christian Young People,” “The Problem of City Evangelization,” “The Stimulation of Missionary Zeal,” “Systematic Christian Work among Soldiers,” and “The Growth of Belief in ‘Divine Blessing,’” and many other things, in the thirty-one chapters of which this interesting compendium is composed.
“MENTAL INDEX OF THE BIBLE,” by Rev. S. C. Thompson. Were we to recommend this book, it would be as a memory system rather than a mental index of the Bible. It is designed to furnish an ever-ready mental classification of the Scriptures to those who are not fully conversant with the contents of the Bible, and especially the location of texts by chapter and verse. There are a few simple rules and directions, and the law of association of ideas is applied throughout, a key word or sentence standing for every subject and chapter, and a majority of the verses of the Bible. But in order for it to be of practical benefit, it must be studied, and we are sure the same amount of effort placed upon the Scriptures themselves as would be placed upon the 280 pages of peculiar sentences of the book to memorize them, would fix in mind the contents of every book and the subject matter of every chapter of the Bible, together with a fair idea of the further details of verse and text locations. To those, however, who need something of this kind for the purpose named, it is doubtless the best that can be had. 300 pages, cloth, 12mo. Price, $1.50. Funk & Wagnalls Co., New York and London.
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“A BOOK OF VERSE,” by Floyd D. Raze. On the title-page is the legend, “A Book of Verse, Both Bad and Worse.” But many of the little poems are not half bad by any means. 108 pages, 5x7 inches. The Editor Publishing Company, Cincinnati.
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Reformed Spelling.—The Signs of the Times
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believes in reform. Because of this it has in past years adopted some of the spellings advocated by advanced philologists and adopted by a number of what may be called standard publications. Many journals and publications have adopted the spelling of “vail” for “veil,” and “mama” for “mamma,” “mold” for “mould,” “program” for “programme,” “coquet” for “coquette,” “gazet” for “gazette,” etc. The National Educational Association advocates the adoption of the reform spelling in the following words: catalog, pedagog, demagog, prolog, decalog, altho, tho, thoro, thorofare, thru, thruout. “Pedagog,” “decalog,” etc., are perfectly consistent with “catalog,” now generally used. “Tho” and “altho” have for two years been used by this paper, the Independent, the Homiletic Review, the Missionary Review, and others. And now is it not consistent to drop from “thorough” the “ugh” when “thoro” truly spells the thought? “Thorofare” logically follows. The same is true of “through.” Why retain “ogh” when t-h-r-u spells the word so plainly? We know that certain humorists depend on bad spelling to make their humor effective, and such sometimes spell “through” t-h-r-u. But that is no reason why we should reject a good thing. The new spelling saves time. In the new way, the eleven words quoted above use fewer letters by twenty-eight than the old way, and the words are plainer. One frequently hears those of limited educational advantages confound “though,” and “through,” and “thorough;” why not make it easier by “tho,” and “thru,” and “thoro”? There are other spelling reforms as consistent as these, but we do not wish to bear too heavily upon the traditions of our fathers.
