Earlier text: “WHO SHALL BE ABLE TO STAND?” REV. VI, 17—In England and Wales there are nearly a million of paupers. The number of parishes supporting them is 14,886. —We are in a fair way to become the naval armorers of the world. The Dunderberg has ceased to be an American institution; and workmen are now engaged in putting in fighting trim the ex-rebel ram Stonewall for the use of his Oriental majesty, the Emperor of Japan. It seems that the terms of sale not only bind our Government to put this naval craft in seaworthy condition, but to furnish her with better guns than she was equipped with when she fell into our hands; and an American naval officer is to navigate the vessel to the domains of the Tycoon. It is expected that the Stonewall will be ready to leave our shores about the middle of August. She will, no doubt, create an unprecedented excitement in the Oriental waters, and may cause the Emperor to make a bid for the Atlanta. —The Legislature of New York, at its last session, passed an act amendatory to the game law, making it a misdemeanor for any person who shall, except on his own premises, carry any gun or other fire arms, or any fishing rod, on the first day of the week. —The secular papers report that during the year ending September 30th, 1866, the State of New York appropriated some $50,000 for the support of denominational institutions. No less than nine-tenths of this sum were given to Roman Catholics. Comment on such a fact is superfluous. It is time that the candidates for the State Legislature should be more closely questioned on this point.—Methodist. —The diplomatic correspondence on the Luxemburg question has been published in England, and shows that war was fully as imminent between France and Prussia as reported at the time. In fact all the nations believed that peace was hopeless, and it was only by the persistent efforts of England, though Lord Stanley, minister for foreign affairs, that the conference assembled and peace was finally assured. Some of the English papers assert that Lord Stanley brought peace by guaranteeing the neutrality of Luxemburg, or in other words obligating England to take part in a war between France and Prussia if one should arise hereafter; and in parliament the other night, the opposition undertook to worry the minister for giving the guarantee. But they made sorry work of it, and Lord Stanley's excuse, the vastness of the interests at stake, is ample vindication for his course in England as well as everywhere else. It was in every sense the act of a first class statesman. Where a man of less breadth and courage would have hesitated, he acted promptly, and by thus becoming the instrument of procuring peace in Europe, he has done much toward restoring to England her prestige and influence in continental affairs, which had become weakened and almost dead through the blunders and timidity of a long line of second class men. The Coming Festival at Rome.—A special says there are already assembled in Rome 400 prelates and some thousand priests who have come from all parts of the world to celebrate the 1800th anniversary of St. Peter's martyrdom. Crowds are still coming. The bishops from the United States are lodged in different convents within the city. St. Peter's Church will be illuminated Sunday evening. Peru.—A revolution has been started in Peru by Castello. The number of his forces is unknown, but it was confidently believed that the troops from all parts of the republic were likely to join him. The government had sent large forces to meet him, and if the soldiers remained faithful, it is said there is nothing to fear. A Truth for Money-Makers to Think of.—Gerard Hallock, for many years editor of the New York Journal of Commerce, a wealthy and benevolent man, once said: “From my boyhood I have observed that every man grew covetous in proportion as he grew rich, if he did not keep giving.” The Situation of France, as summed up by Girardin, who continues florescent, is not highly promising. It has now been five months, according to him, since the Emperor, in a solemn document addressed to the country very encouraging words, promising liberal laws with regard to the press, at the same time that he should replace the discussion of the address by the right of interpellation. Four months have passed since the Corps Legislatif began its labors, and the resume is as follows: The address is to be no longer discussed; the right of interpellation is applied in a manner altogether illusory; the report on the press law is not made (not even Emile Ollivier's project having been considered); and the law on the right of reunion is less advanced even than the press law. Girardin thinks also that the treaty of London is worse than useless; and frantically asks his compatriots to “look at it in its antecedents and consequences.” The antecedents were bad enough, God knows; and the consequences—the dismantling of the finest fortress in the world, and an inevitable war next year, or perhaps even at the end of '67, are as ill-judged and foolish in his estimation as anything in the whole political history of Europe.—Paris Cor. Detroit Tribune, May 20. Free Religion in America. We learn from the Daily Missouri Republican that a Convention of radical religionists of all denominations was held in Boston, Mass., May 30, 1867. Spiritualists, Universalists, Unitarians, Quakers, Shakers, No-name religionists, believers and unbelievers, and Radical Reformers of every color and phase, sat in council. Their object is to establish a universal religion in the United States free from all the limits and boundaries of sects and creeds. The reporter closed by saying, “It is probable that from this initiatory movement, other meetings will come, and other plans be suggested, or these amended and perhaps executed.” —Fashion is an imperious mistress. Many fashionable ladies think it no hardship to have their dark locks bleached to a golden (?) hue. Not long ago a brown-haired beauty resolutely submitted to the process of having her head entirely shaved, and now contentedly sports a fashionable wig. Another young lady to whom beauty must have been a pearl of great price, with wonderful fortitude had all her own teeth—which were, to be sure, uneven and not so white as might be—extracted, that she might have a handsomer set put in her mouth. A short time since the papers recorded the death of a lady who had been accustomed to draw her corsets together by the aid of a rope, fastened to the ceiling of her room. One day she drew herself a little too close, and burst a blood-vessel. The death of such a foolish creature can be no great loss to the world; but it does seem hard that she should have sacrificed herself ignorantly. Could not somebody have told her that tight lacing was old style since gymnastics, skating, croquet, and similar athletic sports have come into vogue? 1. Use diligence, industry, integrity, and proper improvement of time to make farming pay. 2. Choose a farm with a soil either naturally dry or drained, not too level nor yet steep, well fenced in proper sized fields, not too large. 3. Good, snug buildings, with dry, if not clean yards and cellars, especially barn and stabling. 4. Economy in accumulating, saving, and properly using all manures and fertilizers possible, no matter how rich your land may be naturally. The N. Y. correspondent of the Springfield Republican, not presumed to be a “Millerite,” writes to that Journal, June 17, 1867, as follows:—Really a pleasant state of things is prevailing in our country at the present time. I question whether ever before crime held such high carnival. A morning paper without its suicide, or a cheerful murder or two, would be too tame to contemplate or read with any feeling akin to satisfaction. Suicides, seductions, murders, adulteries, burglaries,—these are the staple. Amusements may flag, merchants may fail, and manufactures be suspended, but we have the charming assurance that murder and all that sort of thing will go on as regularly as though the crimson wheels which regulate its recurrence moved by superior clock-work. The terrible epidemic is abroad, and how to stay it is a question which may well occupy the minds of those who aim to control the morals of the age. Whither are we drifting? and where is all this to end? It certainly is not pleasant to lay your head upon your pillow at night with the chances rather against a comfortable waking, or to walk the street, if business calls you out after nightfall, in anticipation of a bludgeon falling on your lovely head. The favorite amusement of going to Brooklyn—the city of churches, where sparrows and sky-larks cannot fly without danger of being spitted on spires—must be abandoned. One would rather refrain from taking the air at all than run the risk of receiving his quietus by the thud of the silent messenger which an air-gun dispatches. A friend was telling me that he never goes upon a lonely street of an evening without a feeling of dread—a footstep behind him causes him to start into a cold perspiration, and he always waits for the pedestrian to go before him, or crosses the street at once, so that his course resembles that of a ship backing and filling for a port which she cannot make direct. Watchmaking in the United States
Watchmaking in the United States.—The following remarkable statements we clip from an article in the N. Y. Tribune of June 19. They show the marvelous progress already made in this country in the finer branches of industry. All these things tend to familiarize the world with American skill and genius, and give power and prestige to the American name. Thus they contribute though indirectly toward preparing our country to act its part in the great prophetic drama. The article commences thus: What is the time? American, decidedly. Ten years ago it was Swiss, or English, or French. Now, ask your nearest live, progressive, patriotic neighbor. The watch he pulls out in reply is labeled, not “Geneva,” nor “Liverpool,” nor “Versailles,” but “Waltham, Massachusetts.” Foreign watches are made by hand, no two exactly alike; each an individual; each subject to the nerves, caprice, idiosyncrasies of the maker. But our manufacturers began by making a watch like a steam-engine—solely by machinery, and with exact uniformity of parts. They have advanced steadily, learning, improving, perfecting, year by year. Their idea was purely American; their machines have all been invented, made, and run by Americans. All have originated with their own employees, just as the most ingenious improvements in California and Idaho quartz-mills spring from the working mechanics and miners. Indeed, the company are satisfied that the reason why we can make watches by machinery while no other nation can, lies in the average native ingenuity of the American mind. The nice minuteness of these machines is incredible. It is the crowning miracle of modern mechanism. The little scales in our national mints will weigh 1-5,000th part of an ounce of gold; but these automaton watch-makers are greater marvels. Here are instruments cutting threads, invisible to the naked eye, in screws of which 300,000 weigh only a pound! Here are exquisite sapphire knives, cutting metallic shavings of which 5,000 are required to make one inch in thickness! Here are microscopic diamond drills, boring into jewels, holes like a needle point! Here are inventions for measuring as well—machines which determine the 1-10,000th part of an inch, in pivot or jewel-hole, as easily and unerringly as the carpenter’s rule measures one foot on a stick of timber! The factory in Waltham is in a quiet enclosure of seventy acres, far from noise and dust. It is an immense structure, more than 300 feet long, with wings and cross-wings, inclosing great quadrangular courts. Its rooms are light and cheery, like parlors rather than the old close, foul, quarters of operatives. Three-quarters of a mile of work benches. Seven miles of steam, gas, and water pipes. Seven hundred and fifty employees under the ten-hour system. One-third are women. Hand-work implies variety. Machinery implies uniformity. It is mathematical, precise, like the operations of Nature. In a bushel of these most delicate pinions or wheels, for any given size of the American watch, each is exactly like all the rest. That is the theory. It proves strictly true with this qualification. In polishing an infinitesimal pivot, a tool may be slightly worn, or other cause imperceptible to the senses, may cause a microscopic variation in the cunning mechanism which your waistcoat pocket is to carry—a variation very shadowy, but still enough to make you just too late for the Washington train, or for paying your note at the Eighty-seventh National Bank. Therefore, each pivot is not only carefully fitted and adjusted in its place, but accurately measured by these miraculous machines, and a record made of its dimensions. So, when, in any part of the world, a pinion or jewel breaks, by sending the number of your watch to the manufacturers you receive through return mail a new wheel to replace the old, with absolute certainty that it will fit. And so with any piece. The American watch has some obvious advantages. It is American, from Alpha to Omega. It is cheaper at first cost than foreign competitors. It is simpler; it contains less than half as many pieces, and every new piece involves a new liability to break. It is easier of repair. Beside, the higher grades are warranted perpetually against all mishaps arising from any original defect or weakness. And it bids fair to be more durable. The business, which was bankrupt in 1857, has grown so rapidly that eight years later the Company manufactures 80,000 watches annually. It turns out a complete watch during every two-and-a-half minutes of the working day! The single factory in Massachusetts, under one roof, one supervision, produces more watches annually than all the watchmakers of old England combined! This tells the story. The laws of demand and supply are unfailing registers. Other watch factories are beginning to spring up, East and West; but the American Company of Waltham is the pioneer; and thus far practically, it has occupied the field alone. Its history marks the origin and growth of an important branch of our national manufactures. It not only proves that Americans alone can make watches by machinery; but watches which are cheaper, simpler, more durable, and keep better time, than the same foreign grades. It is American skilled industry, working by machinery and well paid, steadily displacing European skilled industry, working by hand, and ill paid. Most American watches are consumed at home, though orders begin to come in from Cuba and South America. But sooner or later we shall furnish pocket time-keepers for the world. It is Manifest Destiny. Publication Department.
By Editor
The Publishing Association.
The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association was incorporated in Battle Creek, Mich., May 3, 1861. Its object is to issue “periodicals, books, tracts, documents, and other publications, calculated to impart instruction on Bible truth, especially the fulfillment of prophecy, the commandments of God, and the teachings of Jesus Christ.” Its capital stock is raised by shares at $10 each; and every shareholder is entitled to one vote in all the deliberations of the Association, for every share that he or she may hold. The Association has now a large and well-furnished Office of publication, established in Battle Creek, Mich., and employs two steam power presses in carrying on its business. A meeting of the stockholders is held each year, at which a board of trustees is elected to manage its business, and editors chosen to conduct its periodicals, till the ensuing meeting. All persons employed in the publishing department, are engaged at stipulated wages, and all profits accruing from the business, are strictly applied by the Association to the carrying out of the object of its formation, and to its charitable uses and purposes. All lovers of truth, who “keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus,” are still invited to take shares in the Association, and have a voice in all its deliberations. The Advent Review and Sabbath Herald
Is a large sixteen-page religious family paper, issued weekly by the S. D. A. Pub. Association, and devoted to an earnest investigation of all Bible questions. It is designed to be an exponent of momentous and solemn truths pertaining to the present time, some of which are set forth by no other periodical in the land. The fulfillment of prophecy, the second personal advent of the Saviour as an event now near at hand, immortality through Christ alone, a change of heart through the operation of the Holy Spirit, the observance of the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, the divinity and mediatorial work of Christ, and the development of a holy character by obedience to the perfect and holy law of God, as embodied in the decalogue, are among its special themes. And while it will endeavor to present impartially both sides of all important questions, it has a definite theory to teach, and hence will not devote its space to an indiscriminate and aimless mass of conflicting sentiments and views. Regular price, $3.00 per year, or $1.50 for a volume of 26 numbers. On trial for six months $1.00. No subscriptions taken for less than six months. To the worthy poor—free, by their reporting themselves and requesting its continuance, once in six months. The friends of the Review are invited to earnest and unceasing efforts to extend its circulation. Is a monthly sheet, published as above, and designed to be to the youth and children what the Review and Herald is to those of riper years. You who wish to see your children instructed in the great truths which so interest you, will here find a sheet in which these things are set forth in a plain and interesting manner, free from the popular fables and errors of the age. It should not only visit regularly every youth and child who professes to be a follower of Jesus, but should be taken and read in every Sabbath-keeping family. Don’t forget the children. See that they have the Instructor. Terms, 25 cts. per year in advance. This is the title of a monthly health journal, “devoted to an exposition of the laws of our being, and the application of those laws in the preservation of health and the treatment of disease.” It is an earnest advocate of the true philosophy of life, the only rational method of treating disease, and the best means of preserving health. Practical instructions will be given from month to month relative to water, air, light, food, sleep, rest, recreation, &c. Health, its recovery and preservation, is a subject of world-wide interest, whatever may be a person’s tenets in other respects; and to this the Reformer will be exclusively devoted. Edited by H. S. Lay, M. D., Managing Physician of the Health-Reform Institute. Terms $1.00 in advance for a volume of twelve numbers. Address Dr. H. S. Lay, Battle Creek, Mich. Is becoming a theme of wide-spread and absorbing interest. To those who wish to give the subject a thorough investigation, we recommend the History of the Sabbath. As a work setting forth a connected Bible view of the Sabbath question, its history since the47Christian era, and the different steps by which the human institution of the first day of the week has usurped the place of the Bible institution of the seventh day, it is unsurpassed by any publication extant. Between two and three hundred quotations from history are given, to each of which is appended a full reference to the authority from which it is taken. It is replete with facts and arguments which challenge denial or refutation. Other works on this subject, from the penny tract to the largest size pamphlet, will be found noticed in our book list. There is no other Bible subject upon which a more extensive misunderstanding exists, than upon the Sabbath question. Circulate the books, and spread abroad the light on this subject. The works upon this important subject to which we would call especial attention, are, The Prophecy of Daniel, The Sanctuary and 2300 Days, and The Three Messages of Rev. xiv. The first gives an exposition of the plain and thrilling prophecies of Daniel ii, vii, and viii, showing from the course of empire that the God of Heaven is about to set up his kingdom. The Sanctuary question is the great central subject of the plan of salvation, and yet there are but few, comparatively, who have any acquaintance with it. It gives a new interest to a great part of the Bible, leads to an intelligent view of the position and work of Christ as our great High Priest in Heaven, completely explains the past Advent movement, and shows clearly our position in prophecy and the world’s history. The three messages bring to view present duty, and future peril. All should read these books, and ponder well their teaching. Immortality through Christ alone.
We call the special attention of the reader to the subjects of the nature of man, his condition in death, and the destiny of the wicked. More than ordinary importance attaches to these subjects, at the present time. We would confidently recommend to all a thorough reading of the work by H. H. Dobney entitled, Future Punishment, as advertised in our book list. The reader will find it a work exhaustive in its investigations, and remarkable for its candor, and the strength and clearness of its reasoning. Which? Mortal or Immortal? is a lower-priced and more-condensed work on the same subjects. While “The End of the Wicked,” and the one, two and three cent tracts may be found sufficient to awaken interest with those who would not commence with larger works. For the convenience of those who may wish to purchase books for general circulation, we have put up assorted packages of tracts in two sizes, which we will send post-paid at 50c., and $1.00, respectively. 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Three witnesses should state that the testator declared this to be his last will and testament, and that they signed it at his request, and in his presence and in the presence of each other. An exchange gives the following amusing account of the way a farmer was taught how cheaply he could take the paper. The lesson is worth consideration. “‘You have hens at home of course. Well I will send you my paper for one year for the products of a single hen for one season, and the proceeds. It seems trifling, preposterous, to imagine the products of a single hen will pay a subscription; perhaps it wont pay, but I make the offer.’ “‘Done,’ exclaimed farmer B., ‘I agree to it;’ and appealed to me as a witness of the affair. “‘The farmer went off apparently much elated with his conquest; the editor went on his way rejoicing.’ “‘Time rolled on; the world revolved on its axis, and the sun moved in its orbit as it formerly did; the farmer received his paper regularly, and regaled himself with the information from it, and said he was surprised at the progress of himself and family in general information. “Some time in the month of September, I happened to be up again in the office, when who should enter but our friend, farmer B. “‘How do you do, Mr. B?’ said the editor extending his hand, his countenance lit up with a bland smile. “‘Take a chair and be seated; fine weather we have.’ “‘Yes sir, quite fine indeed,’ he answered; and then a short silence ensued, during which our friend B. hitched his chair backward and forward, twirled his thumbs abstractly, and spit profusely. Starting up quickly, he said, addressing the editor, ‘I have brought you the proceeds of that hen.’ “It was amusing to see the peculiar expression of the editor, as he followed the farmer down to the wagon. I could hardly keep my risibles down. “When at the wagon the farmer commenced handing over to the editor the products, amounting to eighteen pullets, worth twelve and a half cents each, and a number of dozen of eggs; making in the aggregate, at the least calculation, one dollar and fifty cents more than the price of the paper. “‘No need,’ said he, ‘of men not taking a family newspaper, and paying for it too. I don’t miss this from my roost, yet I have paid for a year’s subscription and over.’ “‘But,’ said the editor, ‘I will pay you for what is over the subscription; I did not intend this as a means of profit, but rather to convince you. I will pay— “‘Not a bit of it, sir; a bargain is a bargain, and I am already paid, sir—doubly paid, sir. And whenever a neighbor makes the complaint I did, I will relate to him the hen story. Good day.’” —Independent.