—There is only one Catholic newspaper in the United States to every 300,000 Catholics.
JUNE 12, Eld. N. Wardner and wife, S. D. Baptists, sailed for Scotland as missionaries in the Sabbath cause.
—The sales of the Methodist book Concern, last year, at New York and Cincinnati, were $1,552,048.
—The only church in the country where preaching may be heard in Irish, is said to be at Elmira, Ill.
—The number of pilgrims who visited the tomb of Mahomet at Mecca this year is said to have been one hundred and sixty thousand.
—The Troy (N. Y.) board of Education has ordered that the Bible be excluded from the public schools, and all religious exercises discontinued.
—The Protestant Episcopal Convention of South Carolina, after a two days' discussion, refused, May 14, to admit to representation a respectable congregation of colored Episcopalians of Charleston, which has a white pastor.
—The rising generation of Quakers are fast forsaking the old fashioned plainness of dress, speech, and other Quaker peculiarities, and are uniting in modern revivals, putting on fine dress, &c. Their glory is departed.
—In Maryland two presbyters of the Episcopal Church lately introduced a collect asking pardon for the sins of the dead. Some are alarmed at this long stride toward Romanism; but the Bishop refuses to do anything about it.
—The German government, apprehending disturbances, has prohibited, without exception, public religious processions among Roman Catholics. Processions were to have been held at various places in honor of the pope's jubilee.
Dr. N. H. Barbour "proclaims that the Lord has come and raised the righteous, but has not been seen by the living as yet, but has commissioned him [Barbour] and his followers especially to preach the gospel, yet seven years, and to proclaim the hour of his judgment." When will these time-setting fanatics have done with their folly?
—Spiritualism is on the top wave of popularity in Russia just now, and several scientific professors have avowed their belief in it. Thus the way is rapidly being prepared for the fulfillment of Rev. 16:14: "They are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty."
—Father Boehm lives to his one hundredth birthday to tell us that he has been a Methodist traveling preacher for seventy-five years, that he has personally known every Methodist Bishop in America, that he was once a subject of George the Third, and that he remembers Washington's presidency. This venerable minister had his "centennial" in Jersey City on the 8th of June.
—The Papal delegate with his party lately visited the President and was received with high honor. On the journey to Washington the delegate and party had the exclusive use of the car of the President of the Pennsylvania railroad, through the kindness of the President, Mr. Thomas Scott. Thus the Catholics are coming to be highly honored in the United States.
—Cardinal Manning has prevailed upon the pope to allow English historians to search the private archives of the Vatican for historical information. Hitherto none but ecclesiastics have been allowed to have access to these precious manuscripts, Protestants being hardly able to see a single document they could name. The newly obtained privilege is expected to show some highly important results.
—Bishop Howe of the Episcopal Church gives figures showing that there has been in Pennsylvania a falling off in the number of candidates for holy orders by nearly one-half since 1871. There were 448 then, while in 1874 the names had decreased to 228. As to the reason of this difference, the Bishop could only speculate whether there was less self consecration now than formerly, or whether the world held out more inviting prospects in honorable callings. He urges the church to offer better material inducements for the ministry. Yes, that will bring them, for that is what they are after.
—A discovery of great interest to Egyptologists and antiquarians generally is reported from Port Said. A learned archæologist in that place has just found a monumental stone to Thotmes III., under whose reign the exodus of the Israelites is supposed to have taken place. The inscriptions which have already been deciphered contain more than four hundred geographical names, all recognizable, and for the most part belonging to Arabia, Nubia, and the coast of the Mediterranean.
—A German deputation of 600 lately visited the pope. In their address to him they said, "O most blessed father! never can any human machinations separate or tear us from the legitimate Roman Pontiff, for the reason that we well remember that truthful saying, 'Submission to the Roman Pontiff is absolutely necessary to the salvation of every creature.'" The pope in his reply said, "Yes, he [Jesus] will say to them all that he who is not in union with the pope does not gather, but throws the seed to the winds, and will never produce fruits, or, if he does, they will only be fruits of iniquity." So there is no salvation for any one out of the Roman church. D. M. C.
Away With Temptation.
HOW A MINISTER BECAME AN OSTLER.
A FEW years since a number of ladies and gentlemen were assembled in the elegantly furnished parlors of a wealthy man who resided near to one of the principal American colleges. The company had met to see Judge Fiddle, a member of Congress, whose son, was to be the valedictorian on the morrow, at the Commencement. By common consent, as the idol of his class, this position had been assigned to Leo. During the evening the conversation turned upon the subject of temperance. An advocate of total abstinence asked the Judge for his opinion, which he gave as follows:—
“I suppose my temperance friends will not consider me orthodox on that subject. I am utterly opposed to outside meddling with our domestic and family affairs, for I believe in every man tempering himself. Every person must be a law unto himself. I have the best of wines, and something stronger, too, on my sideboard. My children have always had free access thereto.”
The next day the Commencement exercises occurred. The son of the Judge did much better than his warmest friends had expected. Old and young were alike delighted with his eloquence. That evening the host and hostess of the Judge gave a large party in honor of the graduating class. The temperance friend of the Judge, who had discussed that question with him on the previous evening, congratulated the Judge on having raised such a son. To which the Judge had the bad taste to reply: “Yes, yes; I am proud of that boy; but, do you know, he was brought up with the bottle?” If that father could have known what was transpiring at that moment in his son’s room at the college, no such silly joke could or would have fallen from his lips.
After finishing his oratorical effort so creditably, Leo met by prior appointment, with a number of his young friends at his room. From beneath the bed he drew an old trunk, and from it he took out several bottles of wine and one of brandy. While his companions drank sparingly of the wine, he drank deeply of the stronger liquor. Before delivering his address he had taken several glasses to nerve him up for the day’s work. Consequently this second recourse to alcohol very soon produced its necessary effect; so that while the others were only merry, he became boisterous, and even delirious.
The doctor was sent for, and came, to find the youthful hero of the day afflicted with incipient delirium tremens. The struggles of the liquor-infuriated maniac were so fierce that the strength of three athletic companions was severely tasked to hold the victim in bed. The doctor at once administered opiates and enjoined secrecy. At length the patient slept, and the danger was over. When he became fully conscious, thirty hours thereafter, of his critical condition, in reply to the doctor’s inquiry how, when, and where he had acquired the taste for strong drink, for the doctor knew it was not recent, he said:—
“I began drinking wine when quite a child, from my father’s sideboard, which lost its power to exhilarate me sufficiently as I grew older, and I took to drinking brandy; but this is the first time it got ahead of me, and it shall be the last.”
The doctor was anxious to save the youth for many reasons, especially on account of his belief that an engagement existed between Leo and his own daughter. He therefore told Leo that his only salvation depended upon total abstinence—that he had never joined a temperance society, but would quietly unite with him in signing the pledge. Leo readily assented, and the old man of sixty and the young one of twenty organized a private association of their own. Both expected to keep it during life. The doctor did; but, alas! in the end Leo did not.
In consequence of Leo’s having experienced a change of heart, and joined the church a few months after graduating from college, his father abandoned the idea of making a lawyer of him, and sent him to the Princeton Theological Seminary. After having been licensed, and having preached acceptably for a year, he married the daughter of the physician already referred to, and, accepting a call, became the pastor of a large and wealthy congregation. No person ever saw a more handsome or devoted couple.
After some time a beautiful boy was born to them. The nurse asked for liquor to put into the young mother’s food. The young minister procured some liquor at a drug store. By accident the vial lost its cork and spilled its contents in his pocket. The fumes fired his brain. He tasted the alcoholic poison, then swallowed a glass of it. That night he led in his prayer-meeting. He was so unusually eloquent as to receive many congratulations thereupon. Thereafter he never went into the pulpit or into the desk of the lecture room without taking some alcoholic beverage. One evening, having taken too much, he fell upon the lecture room floor while attempting to sit down upon a chair
All saw that he was drunk. The hearts of his people were nearly broken. They loved him truly, and were devotedly attached to his amiable wife. He was prevailed upon to resign to save the disgrace of expulsion. He returned with his heart-broken wife and their unconscious babe to his father’s house. Soon after arriving he found the old sideboard, and became helplessly intoxicated. Then, for the first time, the eyes of the Judge were opened; but too late for poor Leo. His father and mother are now dead. His wife is earning her living by teaching school; but he, once so bright, once so eloquent, is now, or was quite recently, an ostler at a country wayside tavern.—Ex.
If I Had Leisure.
"If I had leisure, I would repair that weak place in my fence," said a farmer. He had none, however, and while drinking cider with a neighbor, the cows broke in and injured a prime piece of corn. He had leisure then to repair his fence, but it did not bring back his corn.
"If I had leisure," said a wheelwright last winter, "I would alter my stove-pipe, for I know it is not safe." But he did not find time, and when his shop caught fire and burned down, he found leisure to build another.
"If I had leisure," said a mechanic, "I should have my work done in season." The man thinks his time has been all occupied, but he was not at work till after sunrise; he quit work at five o'clock, smoked a cigar after dinner, and spent two hours on the street talking nonsense with an idler.
"If I had leisure," said a merchant, "I would pay more attention to accounts." The chance is, my friend, if you had leisure, you would probably pay less attention to the matter than you do now. The thing lacking with hundreds of farmers who till the soil is, not more leisure, but more resolution—the spirit to do—to do now. If the farmer who sees the fence in a poor condition would only act at once, how much might be saved. It would prevent breech-y cattle creating quarrels among neighbors, that in many cases terminate in lawsuits, which take nearly all they are both worth to pay the lawyers.—Annual of Phrenology and Physiognomy for 1875.
It Is in Vain to Please All
It is in vain to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one-half the world.
News and Miscellany.
The number of youths under seventeen years old, in Oakland, shows an increase of over one thousand in the last year.
A special from Paris says the Memorial Diplomatique newspaper announces that the Turkish students in Paris have been ordered to leave. The money hitherto devoted to the education of these youths will establish institutions at Constantinople, offering equal advantages to those of Paris.
FEMALE JOURNALISTS.—It is stated that there are fifty-seven women actually editing newspapers in this country. The female reporters, general writers, etc., engaged on the press are numbered by hundreds. Four women are now editing and publishing papers in California—one in Stockton, one in Santa Barbara, one in Mendocino county, and one in Folsom.
A dispatch of June 8 reports that an insurrection has been broken out against the Turks in Herzegovina. The women, children, and old men have been sent to Dalmatia for safety. Turkish troops are marching against the insurgents, Austria has sents two battalions of infantry to Mekorrch on the frontier of Herzegovina.
MORE FLOODS IN FRANCE.—The rivers Touque and Orbiquet overflowed their banks July 8 inundating the town of Lisioux and environs. In consequence of the heavy and continual rains, floods are feared in the valleys of the Seine, Marno, and Soane. Subscriptions for the sufferers are being taken at various points. A meeting was held last week to start one in San Francisco.
A STRANGE STORY.—There is a young colored woman in Oskaloosa (Kan.) who has a strange history, if the story told by herself and friends be true. She is called Maggie Adams, and is about seventeen years of age. Until recently she had lived with a family named Allen in the south part of the county, who came from Missouri to Kansas. During all the years since the war she has been in a state of slavery, receiving nothing for her work, being compelled to do washing, etc., for various families, allowed no books or opportunities for learning, and kept in ignorance of the fact that she was no longer a slave. She was kept so jealously guarded that she knew nothing whatever of the abolition of slavery, and was only enlightened and her release procured by a young colored man who somehow learned of the facts and went to work to have her set at liberty.—Leavenworth (Kan.) Times.
ERUPTIONS IN ICELAND.—A report from London under date of June 12, gives the following account of recent violent subterranean phenomena in Iceland:
It seems that the outbreak began on Christmas and has continued ever since with scarce any interruption. For seven weeks before Christmas the inhabitants were terrified by subterranean noises like thunder, which extended through nearly two-thirds of the island. Early in January followed earthquakes in all directions, and at last an old extinct volcano near Vatraykud, opened, and for four weeks continued to eject immense quantities of liquid fire, lava, ashes, and muddy fluid mass at boiling heat. The village, and some smaller hamlets and farms within a radius of twenty miles, were destroyed, and over a thousand people had to flee for their lives.
After four weeks this volcano ceased, but at that moment an extinct volcano, nearly a hundred miles away, near Myvatu, sent its burning mass upon the peaceful inhabitants around. This eruption lasted for several weeks. Early in March there seemed to be a general upheaval of the earth in the whole central portion of the island; new mounds as it were, arose to the surface, some to a hight of several hundred feet and over a thousand feet in diameter at the base, amid tremendous shocks of thundering beneath. They split open at the top and vomit forth their burning contents upon the surface around them, covering a distance of two hundred miles. The world renowned Geysers have dried up since the terrible eruption began, and instead of water these mysterious funnels emit immense quantities of hot smoke and ashes, which, during the night, rising several thousand feet into the air, appear like gigantic columns of fire visible for hundreds of miles. It is said that no historic record of any volcanic eruption anywhere in the world compares with this, either in territory over which it extends, the number of newly opened craters, or the time of its duration. The Copenhagen government has issued an appeal for aid to the sufferers.
Preaching the Bible.
Very many people find fault with our method of preaching because we read so much Scripture in our discourses. Nothing seems to them like preaching but taking a sentence for a text and talking far from it, telling anecdotes, &c. This style of harangue, for it is not worthy to be called by the name of sermon, is more popular in America than in the old countries. The following is from an account of a discourse by Dr. Parker, of London:—
“The sermon was one of a series of Sunday evening discourses, in which he was expounding the book of Nehemiah. The expository style being so much more commonly used in Great Britain than by American preachers, this seemed a peculiarly favorable time to study it at its best. Especially were we glad to hear him in it, as Dr. Parker himself spoke with much enthusiasm of the necessity of feeding the people with ‘great masses of Scripture,’ and with some contempt of the opposite method of taking a mere pinch of Scripture words with which to flavor a very copious dilution of human speculation. Solid Gospel meat seemed to him much better than the poor water-gruel some ministers offer, on whose surface a text may float which has no vital connection with it.”
That is an excellent picture of the modern essay style, which is called sermonizing. “A mere pinch of scripture words with which to flavor a very copious dilution of human speculation.” And frequently popular ministers will talk on some passing event, or some political movement, quoting a text of Scripture so that it may be called preaching, the text, however, having no possible relation to the matter of discourse. When Paul preached he “reasoned out of the Scriptures.” Perhaps we have not done ourselves and our cause justice in styling our discourses “Bible Lectures.” They are generally expository sermons, and people should be led to look upon them in that light. There is something in a name, and we should recognize it. As long as we call an expository discourse a lecture, we are fastening on the minds of the people the idea that an essay with a “mere pinch of scripture” to preface it is real preaching. Let us lead the people to respect, as a sermon, an argument or discourse which brings out and enforces Bible truth. J. H. W.
Making the Best of It.
It is said that Cæsar once prepared a feast for his nobles and friends, but the day upon which it was appointed was so stormy that nothing could be done. He was disappointed and angry, and commanded his friends to take their bows and shoot their arrows towards heaven in defiance of Jupiter, their chief god, because he had brought this rainy weather. The Roman nobles obeyed, but the arrows shooting up into the sky fell short of the throne of Jupiter, and returning wounded those who shot them forth.
This little story is a good representation of the foolishness of murmuring and complaining about what we cannot help. When things do not go to suit us, and we are disappointed in our plans, it only makes ourselves and all around us unhappy for us to sit down and grumble about it. The arrows we shoot forth come back upon our own heads. It is much pleasanter for us to try to make the best of everything.
As a little girl was eating her dinner the golden rays of the sun fell upon her spoon. She put the spoon to her mouth, exclaiming, "Oh, ma, I've swallowed a whole spoonful of sunshine." So some people seem to have sunshine in their natures, ready to let it shine forth when any trouble or disappointment darkens those around them. There are few disappointments over which we cannot let the sunshine of cheerfulness fall, so that there will be a bright side. —Sel.
Grasshoppers by Measure.
By Uriah Smith
As we write these lines from the Minnesota camp-ground, in Eagle Lake, Blue Earth Co., June 27, 1875, the advance guard of the grasshopper army in this State is within five miles of us; and we learn some facts concerning them which are worthy of record. With true northern enterprise this county took measures to rid itself of this scourge, by placing a bounty upon the slaughtered remains of these pests. It was first fixed at 5 cents a quart, or $1.60 a bushel. Under this offer they were brought in in such quantities that the bounty was reduced to $1 per bushel, and the next day was taken off entirely, the treasury becoming exhausted by the demands upon it.
The result of this short war upon the insects shows more forcibly than any mere words could do it, the extent of the calamity now threatening this part of the country. The amount paid out in bounties reached the enormous sum of $28,000.00, and the amount of grasshoppers killed falls but little short of eighteen thousand bushels!
The Mankato paper from which we gather these facts, concludes its account as follows:—
“The amount of grasshoppers killed in this county for which a bounty has been paid, cannot fall much short of 18,000 bushels. The number of hoppers in a bushel at different stages of growth have been variously estimated at from 160,000 to 320,000. Striking an average of 200,000 per bushel, the number killed in our ten day’s war would amount to 3,600,000,000—an army large enough, when fully grown, to ravage whole counties. The living still outnumber the dead, and they are doing great damage to the wheat in Judson, Cambria, part of Butternut Valley, Lincoln, Garden City, and other small localities.”
This, be it remembered, is in one county alone. Bro. Grant, the President of this Conference, states that on his journey to this place he passed through twenty-five or thirty miles of territory, where the grasshoppers were so numerous that it would be impossible to step without crushing a greater or less number of them, and in all the higher and drier portions they had collected three or four deep, devouring every green thing. And if a small portion of territory can present such facts and figures, what would be the result if all the other portions of this State were taken into the account, and all other States where this scourge is now felt? Is it not time for the people to begin to cry unto the Lord to stay in mercy the progress of this evil? U. S.
The Promises of God.
The promises derive preciousness from the root and principle from which they spring. They are so many beams of Christ, the Son of righteousness, and impart a light which discovers his excellency. They are the crystal streams of that river of life which proceedeth out of the throne of God and of the Lamb (Rev. 22:1), whose waters in time of drouth never fail, but with their overflowing plenty satisfy the thirsty, with their cooling virtue allay the heat of the wearied, and with their sweetness cheer and revive the drooping and dejected spirits.
They are precious objects of "precious" faith, as the apostle styles it (2 Pet. 1:1). True it is, that the quickening influence and virtue of the promises reach every grace of the Spirit. By them hope is kept alive in its expectation of good, patience is supported under difficulties, holiness is perfected, love is inflamed, and a blessed fear of God is preserved. But yet all this is not done by the immediate intercourse which these graces have with the promises; but by the intervention of faith, which first feeds upon them as the manna of the gospel, and then communicates the sweetness and virtue that it receives from them in a suitable manner to every other grace. As the root first sucks the juice and sap from the earth, of which it makes a concoction, and then sends forth a digested nourishment to the several branches and fruit that hangs upon the tree; so doth the radical grace of faith distribute to other graces that strength and life which it is partaker of from Christ and his promises. As we have nothing from God but we receive by and through Christ; so no grace is partaker of any virtue and influence from Christ but by the intervention of faith.—Sel.
The One Cherished Sin.
OFTEN from my window, on the seashore, I have observed a little boat at anchor. Day after day, month after month, it is seen at the same spot. The tides ebb and flow, yet it scarcely moves. While many a gallant vessel spreads its sails, and, catching the favoring breeze, has reached the haven, this little ark moves not from its accustomed spot. True it is that when the tide rises it rises; and when it ebbs again, it sinks; but advances not. Why is this? It is fastened to the earth by one slender rope. There is the secret. A cord scarcely visible, enchains it, and will not let it go. Now stationary Christian, see here your state, the state of thousands. Sabbaths come and go, but leave them as before. Ordinances come and go; ministers come and go; means, privileges, sermons, move them not—yes, they move them; a slight elevation by Sabbath tide, and again they sink; but no onward, Heavenward movement. They are as remote as ever from the haven of rest; this Sabbath as the last, this year as the past. Some one sin enslaves, enchains the soul, and will not let it go. If it be so, make one desperate effort in the strength of God. Take the Bible as your chart, and Christ as your pilot, to steer you safely amid the dangerous rocks, and pray for the Spirit of all grace to fill your every sail and waft you onward over the ocean of life, to the haven of everlasting life.—Ex.
Prayer Unanswered.
The Rev. Mr. Kilpin passed a very profane man, and having failed to rebuke him, he awaited him in the morning at the same place. When he approached him, Mr. Kilpin said, "Good morning, my friend; you are the person I have been waiting for." "O, sir," said the man, "you are mistaken, I think." "I do not know you; but I saw you last night when you were going home from work, and I have been waiting some time to see you." "O, sir, you are mistaken; it could not be me; I never saw you in my life, that I know of." "Well, my friend," said Mr. Kilpin, "I heard you pray last night." "Sir, now I know that you are mistaken; I never prayed in my life." "O," said Mr. Kilpin, "If God had answered your prayer last night, you would not have been here this morning. I heard you pray that God would blast your eyes, and damn your soul." The man turned pale, and trembling said, "O sir, do you call that prayer? I did, I did." "Well, then, my errand this morning is to request you, from this day, to pray as fervently for your salvation as you have done for damnation; and may God in mercy hear your prayer." The man from that time became an attendant on Mr. Kilpin's ministry, and it ended in his early conversion to God.—Sel.
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