ONE of the greatest triumphs for an ambitious young man is to learn to be contented, to be satisfied with doing a good, honest day's work; to be contented to live humbly, if necessary, while his neighbors roll in wealth.—Success.
A WISE CHOICE.
A good minister, while sitting at the dinner table with his family, had these words said to him by his son, a lad of eleven years: “Father, I have been thinking if I could have one wish of mine, what I should choose.”
“To give you a better chance,” said the father, “I suppose the allowance be increased to three wishes, what would they be? Be careful, Charley.”
He made his choice thoughtfully; first, of a good character, second, of good health, and third, of a good education. His father suggested to him that fame, power, riches, and various other things were held in great esteem by mankind.
“I have thought of all that,” he said, “but if I have a good conscience, good health, and a good education, I shall be able to earn all the money that will be of any use to me, and everything will come along in its right place.” A wise decision, indeed, we think, for a lad of that age.—Selected.
EFFECT OF TOBACCO.
NICOTINE interferes with growth, and its effect in that regard is very measurable, says the World's Work. At Yale during the four years' course, the non-users of tobacco, although taller when they enter, gain 24 per cent more in height, and 26.7 per cent more in girth of chest, than do the habitual users. Dr. Hitchcock, of Amherst College, found even greater differences. The difference in the lung capacity is very striking in the two classes, and has been noticed by all observers. It shows the effect of tobacco on the respiration, nicotine being a potent depressor. As regards the effect of nicotine on the mental processes, it is more difficult to interpret the meaning of statistics. Out of the highest scholarship men at Yale, only five per cent use tobacco, while of the men who do not get appointments, 60 per cent use it. It is therefore certain that the use of tobacco is a direct hindrance to the performance of the best work, as well as being a menace to health and morals.
TOBACCO USERS PROVE TO BE POOR STUDENTS.
Dr. J. W. Seaver, for the past twenty-five years physical director of the Yale gymnasium, said the other day that he had observed that its high standing men at Yale do not smoke, and that the smokers of the college were of mediocre attainments, or low standing.
“This may be interpreted in two ways,” said Dr. Seaver. “Either the use of tobacco has reduced mental activity, or the kind of mind that permits its possessor to become addicted to a habit that is primarily offensive and deteriorating is the kind of mind that will be graded low in intellectual tests.”
“I have inquired of the men what return they get for the expenditure involved in smoking, and the almost universal reply is that they feel a social satisfaction from smoking. ‘It gives a fellow something to do when he is with others,’ or, ‘It is company for him when he is alone,’ is the almost universal reply.”
“A very rare reply is that smoking makes him feel better physically. It argues a rather poor mental equipment, and lack of ambition, if a man needs a pipe to keep him company.”
In discussing the physical side of the question as he had reckoned it from his charts, Dr. Seaver said that the gain in growth is in general 12 per cent greater among those who do not use tobacco, than among those who smoke. He said that it had been proved by laboratory experiments here that a dose of nicotine secured by smoking a fairly mild cigar reduces a man’s muscular power from 25 to 40 per cent.
He has noticed among Yale men that smoking inevitably lowers the standard of cleanliness, and begets a disregard for the rights of others that seems to have its root in selfish indulgence.—New York Sun.
SUICIDES CHOOSE MONDAYS.
A WELL-KNOWN sociologist, who has been compiling the data of suicide, finds that Monday is the favorite day for committing this act. Saturday is the day the fewest suicides take place. Monday is the day when the majority of people take up their troubles again after a day of feasting.
No doubt the heavy, indigestible Sunday dinner, combined with inactivity, is responsible for much of this. “Abundance of idleness, and fulness of bread,” make an unfortunate combination. The rest day, designed to be a blessing to mankind, has been made a day of feasting and gluttony, and, as a result, has become a curse to many.—Australasian Good Health.
STEEL ROADS FOR COUNTRY DISTRICTS.
At this time of the year, when the frost is coming out of the ground, and nearly all the roads in and around our country towns are long lines of mire, one can not help wondering, when considering the subject of our highways, why the government is not quicker to respond to the appeals for aid in their improvement, and why it does not push the adoption of a system of roads that will last for long periods with but slight expenditure for repairs.
Nearly seven years ago, the office of road inquiries of the Department of Agriculture conducted experiments with steel rails on country roads, and made arrangements with a large steel works for the rolling of suitable rails for this purpose. At that time the 8-inch rails for a mile of steel roadway, weighing about 100 tons, could be purchased for about $3,500, and the price has not increased much since. A sample steel road two miles in length between Valentia and Grao, Spain, had then been in use for five years under exceedingly heavy traffic, and had shown splendid results; yet the United States did not, and has not as yet, profited by this experiment in an ordinarily unprogressive foreign country, and we have to-day no steel roads for commercial purposes, save the short section in Murray Street, New York City, laid about a year and a half ago. As for the foreign example mentioned, during the time it had been in use, the annual cost of maintaining the roadbed has been $380 against $5,470 yearly expended to keep the flint stone road which preceded it in repair. The average traffic over this road is 3,200 vehicles per day. This example of a steel road and its lasting qualities is not the only one abroad, but it is the most noteworthy.—Selected.
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Christian Heroism.
During the Boxer troubles in China, a woman teacher, named Liu Wen-lan, was captured with seventeen of the schoolgirls and others. “As they were being led to a place of execution she reminded them how the Master was persecuted, and killed, and afterward ascended into heaven; how the disciples, one after another, had met death because of their faith, and she continued, ‘Tho we are not worthy to die for Him, we are ready and willing to do so, and will depend upon His grace to save us.’” A young man, formerly a student at Peking University, whose faith had grown cold, was with them, and she exhorted him in English to repent and prepare for death. So angered were the Boxers by her zeal, that they threatened to kill her at once. At her desire, they waited long enough for her to testify to the people of her Christian faith, and then she said, after covering her head with her handkerchief, “It will soon be over.” Her fearless death nerved her companions for their coming trial.—Harlan P. Beach.
A Group of Tropic Island Palms.
A girl who had studied many years in the Bridgman school, was betrothed to Li Jui, oldest son of a noble evangelist. After the school disbanded, her father took her to her home in a village near T’ung-chou, and when danger became imminent, he started with her for the Eastern Mountains, the girl riding on a donkey, her father walking by her side. Before they had found a refuge a band of Boxers saw them, and knowing by the girl’s unbound feet that she was a Christian, they pursued her and dragged her from her donkey to a Boxer altar in a neighboring village. Here, surrounded by cruel foes, she was commanded to burn incense to the gods. “No,” she said, “I can not burn incense, for I believe in Jesus. I am not afraid, even tho you kill me, for my life is ‘hid with Christ in God.’” Hardly had she ceased speaking when she was cut down.—Luella Miner.
Another hero, Tou Lien Ming, was a student in Peking University. One of his teachers writes in her report, of the revival in the spring of 1900: “Of all the boys in Peking University, no one received greater blessing than Lien Ming. His face never lost the light that came into it at that time, and through the months that followed before school closed he was instant in season and out of season.”
Lien Ming was seized by Boxers at his home near Tsunhua, and taken to a temple, where he was required to burn incense and kotow. He refused with great firmness, and the cry arose, “He is an evil mao-tzu! He is an erh mao-tzu!”
“I am not an erh mao-tzu,” he said.
“What are you, then?”
The boy lifted his head and said, with slow impressiveness, “I am a Christian, a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ.” Then with glowing face he began to tell of the love of God.
“Kill him! kill him!” shrieked the mob; but some objected: “It is not fitting to kill him before the temple. Take him to the Kill-foreigner Street.” So they led him forth to the street which had just received its new and horrible name, and as he walked he still testified to his faith, and entreated them to listen to the voice of the true God. Their swords alone could silence his pleadings with his foes to be reconciled to God.—China’s Book of Martyrs.
The China Inland Mission has refused thirty-four thousand dollars Chinese indemnity for the murder of two of its missionaries on the ground that it would be “blood money.” The English Wesleyan Methodist Society next refused it for the same reason. What to do with it now the English Government does not know. The Protestant missionary societies have kept clean hands, and clean consciences in this matter.—World-wide Missions.
PALMS FROM HEATHENDOM.
By T. E. White
[A letter from Rev. T. E. White, of Salinas, Porto Rico, to the Herald of Gospel Liberty.]
Not long ago I was rambling on a high hill or mountainside. There were great gullies and huge boulders, so much so that to walk around them and over them made it tiresome and difficult. And right there upon that craggy mountainside, hundreds of palm trees had rooted and lifted themselves to such a height and with such uniformity and beauty, that I had to stop and gaze and ask that some truth might be taught me. With one single exception they are just like the palm trees on the seashore, having that same roundness and smoothness, being smaller at the bottom and gradually growing larger until the long, wide-spreading branches are reached. These mountain palms have a tougher fiber—that is the difference,—and this is explained when it is considered that the air they receive is cooler and that they have grown up out of a soil where many difficulties existed.
But notwithstanding the cool air, the rocks, the uneven and seemingly grudging soil, they were beautiful palm trees, and could be classed with those that grew by the seashore. They told me many beautiful things. They began life as palm trees and were unwilling to change. Each year they cast their roots still deeper into the earth and lifted their branches still higher toward the skies. This made their bodies so long, so smooth, and so straight. They were an example of humility, and at the same time they were exalted far above every other tree on the mountain. All the storms and cyclones sweeping from the Caribbean Sea that had beaten against them had not caused them to yield.
Then I took myself to thinking of the many ministers in the Christian Church battling against creeds, against hundreds of sins in city, town, and country, and doing all this, many of them, upon small salaries; of our missionaries in Japan, so far away from home and loved ones, striving against Buddhism, Shintoism, and rank, cold materialism; of myself and three others, striving against Romanism and Spiritualism, and sins and vices not a few; and of every struggling soul who wishes to grow beautiful for God and useful for His service. I wished that everybody might see the royal palm tree on the mountainside, and learn its lessons; that all might know Jesus, His words and His love, and be planted in Him, sinking deeper into His love and truth day by day, and rising higher and higher in the glorious hope of His coming. This would make every life sweet, beautiful, and straight. It is the palm tree’s nature to grow straight, and so it is with man when he is planted in Christ.
The enemies of missionaries may continue to hurl their unjust criticism against the missionary and his converts; they may slightingly speak of their hearts as barren soil and say that they fall at every wave of doubt or persecution, but when the jewels of earth shall be gathered, thousands who have accepted Christ in heathen lands and have grown stronger because of a multitude of difficulties will come forth “clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands.” “And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”
THE PROGRESS OF THE ENEMY.
WERE it not for the glaring evidence everywhere in sight, the wonderful missionary zeal and success of the adversary of souls would be utterly incredible. His subtle cunning and intense energy are manifest in every land, not only in propagating error but in pulling down truth. But when we reflect that there is One stronger and wiser and more resourceful than he, it must be that the masses who profess the name of Christ do not appreciate the power at their command for overcoming the common enemy. Christ has all power in heaven and in earth (Matt. 28:18-20), and this power is promised to those who go forth in His name. It must be, therefore, that there is so little reliance on this promise, too much confidence in the flesh to cope successfully with this wily foe against whom, without the power of Christ, the disciple and even the ordained missionary can not prevail.
The sturdy resistance of heathenism, and the growing apostasy of professed Christians at home and abroad, stand out as a warning to all who have professed allegiance to the almighty King. The writings of the enemy in some foreign lands—mere samples of what may be found in all—are set forth by Rev. Edward A. Wicher, a pastor of Kobe, Japan, in the Missionary Review. We subjoin some extracts:—
There has been one great deficiency in the missionary enterprises of the evangelical churches, especially of the American evangelical churches operating in Asia—they have utterly neglected to provide for the spiritual needs of the large English-speaking communities which have sprung up in the ports. These communities apparently are not embraced within the sphere of operation of any missionary society. They are beyond the scope of the home mission boards, because they are not in a Christian country, and they are beyond the scope of the foreign mission boards, because they are not heathen. Yet there they are—numbering tens of thousands of people of our own kindred, who speak our own language. Neglected in a religious way they are rapidly becoming de-Christianized and denationalized. It is more than time that the home churches should seek to understand the conditions of religious life in the East and consider what ought to be done.
Chief among the influences which operate towards the disintegration of the Christian character of13foreigners in the East, is the constant and unvarying action of heathenism, which has no Ten Commandments, and, in some places, nothing to correspond with them. There are gods many and lords many, intended for all purposes, even to protecting the thief from detection in his crime, none of them expressing any high moral aspiration: there is no Sabbath, and even commercial morality is still in a rudimentary state; and the feelings of repulsion with which the Christian conscience regards the sin of adultery are incomprehensible to the heathen mind. Divorce is common, and may be procured practically at the will of the husband. The wife is at the mercy of the husband. Under these circumstances it is not surprising that the Japanese woman should prefer living with the foreign man on any terms whatsoever to having a husband of her own race, and should even feel herself honored by being chosen as the object of the attentions of the foreign man.
COME WITH YOUR PRAISES.
By Llewellyn A. Morrison
BY LLEWELLYN A. MORRISON.
Come with your praises, ye children of men;
Sing like the wood-birds in grotto and glen;
Tell of the bounties your Father doth share;
Carol His infinite mercy and care.
Counsel your souls to be loyal and true—
All that is good He has purchased for you.
He hath no lack who relies on the Lord;
There is no want 'neath the sheltering word.
Why do ye come with your sorrows, ye saints,—
Bearing a heart-load of pain and complaints,
Wailing before Him, your faith in the dust?
What hath He done to imperil your trust?
Why do ye bear all the burdens of time?
Life is for freedom and fetters a crime;
Effort is duty's divinest employ;
Labor a glory, and service a joy.
Come with your praises for all He hath done!
Sing for the sonship and liberty won!
Ye shall come home to the kingdom, above,
Victors because of your praise and His love.
Toronto, Ont.
Medical Mission Opportunities in Baghdad
Dr. P. W. BRIGSTOCKE, of the English Church Medical Mission at Baghdad, Turkish Arabia, while taking greatly-needed rest out of the city, writes: “I am now camping on the banks of the Tigris, some distance south of Baghdad, but even here hardly a day passes without some one applying for treatment, and I have had several unfortunate deputations from Baghdad, begging me to see a case in consultation, or perform some operation, which I must refuse, as to give in would mean an end of all rest. [But that is just what it meant to Jesus when the crowd followed Him to the “desert place,” where He and His disciples went to “rest a while.” See Mark 6: 30-56.] All this has greatly impressed me with the responsibility which lies upon us, and of the magnificent openings before us for extending the good influence of the Medical Mission. It seems to me that there are unmistakable signs of the yielding of the hitherto fast-barred gates of the ‘cradle of Islam,’ if they are not even now ready to open if admission were sought for.”—Selected.
OUR WORK AND WORKERS.
A camp-meeting for Western Kansas has been appointed for June 9–18, at Oakley, Logan County.
The baptism of four candidates at Dayton, Ohio, by Brother J. O. Miller, is reported in the Welcome Visitor.
The annual camp-meeting of the Western Washington Conference will be held at South Tacoma, May 19–29.
The addition of four new members to the church in Amery, Wis., is noted in the Reporter by Brother A. C. McMoody.
The new building of the German church at Bazine, Kansas, was dedicated in connection with meetings held May 7 and 8.
The annual meeting of the Minnesota Conference will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Stillwater, May 27 to June 5.
A new house of worship was dedicated at New London, Wis., April 17, during the progress of a general meeting at that place.
At Pelham, Texas, three persons are keeping the Sabbath of the Lord through the labors of Brother Q. V. Shaw, a book canvasser.
The Utah Conference will have three tents in the field this season—one in the Bear River country, one in Sanpete Valley, and one in Sevier County.
The secretary of Upper Columbia Conference reports the organization of a church of nineteen members at Ontario, Idaho, by Brother J. M. Willoughby.
We are requested to announce that the address of Elder M. S. Babcock, formerly 2200 Chestnut Avenue, Newport News, Va., has been changed to Roanoke, Va.
We are informed by Sister A. R. Spencer that there are now three Sabbath-keeping families in Mansfield, Tioga County, Pa., and they have organized a Sabbath-school.
As fruit of meetings held at Minneapolis, Kansas, by Brother A. R. Ogden, eight persons have accepted the faith, and the interest was increasing at the time the report was made.
In the Workers’ Bulletin, Brother L. F. Starr notes the organization of a church of twenty-one members near the Little Sioux River, in Iowa. The people live in the country, but take the name of Orson church.
The Southwestern Union Record contains a good report from Fairfield, Texas, to the effect that twelve days’ labor there by Brethren Thomas Defreeze and J. H. Hollis resulted in the decision of fifteen persons to keep the Sabbath of the Lord.
The West Michigan Herald announces the organization of a new church of thirty members at Rothbury. Brother W. C. Hebner had been holding meetings there for about six weeks in the town hall. A house of worship is also being built.
Reporting to the Mission Board from Bermuda Islands, Brother J. A. Morrow notes the baptism of four candidates. They were members of a consignment of Boer prisoners sent to the islands by the British Government during the South African War.
Brother Baharian, who had been in a Constantinople prison for several months, waiting to hear what would be done to him because he persisted in preaching the truth, has at last been liberated. He has been sent to Aintab, nominally free, but it is written in his passport that he “dare not return to Constantinople.”
At the recent session of the Upper Columbia Conference, the following officers were elected: President, A. J. Breed; vice-president, F. D. Starr; secretary, J. L. Kay; treasurer, T. L. Copeland; superintendent educational department, J. M. Willoughby; missionary secretary and treasurer, T. L. Copeland; state canvassing agent, T. G. Johnson.
Our German brethren and friends will be pleased to learn that the Christlicher Hausfreund, heretofore published monthly, is now issued weekly. It is an able exponent of Bible truth, and especially of the glad tidings of the soon coming kingdom of our Lord. Subscription price: In the United States, $1.25; to foreign countries, $1.50. Address, College View, Neb.
The Family Bible Teacher is a series of twenty-eight Bible lessons designed for house-to-house missionary work. A lesson is left with a family to be taken up at a later date, when another lesson will be left. This set was originally issued by some brethren in Cincinnati, Ohio, but has been purchased by the Southern Publishing Company, Nashville, Tenn. Price, 10 cents per set, post-paid.
Writing from Rome, Italy, Brother Chas. T. Everson says: “Ten have thus far decided to keep the Sabbath as a result of our work in Rome, and others are coming steadily to the meetings. Among the number who have so decided is an ex-canon of the Church of Rome. He has his degree of doctor of theology from the leading Jesuit College of Rome.”
The Danger to Young Men.
When the young man, fresh from his pure home in Great Britain, or America, first arrives in the East and sees the materialism, the hollow pretense, and the moral rottenness of much of its life, he is naturally horrified. But it is the saddest of all sights to watch the change that gradually comes over him as his enthusiasm gives place to cynicism, and his youth to the knowledge which ends in death. Could the newcomer be isolated until his orientation is complete, until he knows his way about in his new surroundings, and has gathered some reserve of moral strength, the terrible tragedy might be averted. No sooner is he arrived than he is taken in hand by some accomplished man of the world, possibly his own superior in office, and instructed in the way he must go in order to prove himself an acceptable member in the gilded company. The first steps in vice are made as easy as they could be made. Everything irregular is concealed, if there be any need for concealment. The young man can lead a double life without his most intimate friend knowing anything of the shady side. Later he may feel that self-restraint is superfluous, and rather prides himself upon his freedom from moral restraint. He looks upon his acts as the marks of his distinction as a man of the world. He will soon smile loftily at the innocence of the next arrival, and scoff at the narrowness of the religion of his old, simple-hearted parents in the home land. Conscience has now lost the power of distinguishing the true from the false, and the pure from the impure. Later he may come to realize something of the value of the purity he has thrown away; but then it will be too late to recover it. His life may end, as the life of many of the East has ended, in a cynical despair, or in a suicide’s grave.
Is it not time for Zion to awake out of sleep? Is it not time for the people to arouse, when the enemy is not only making terrible inroads upon her ranks, but is strengthening the citadels of error on every hand? What are the people of God doing with the power that He has placed at their hands, that they should be obliged to acknowledge their weakness and the greater progress of the adversary? “Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion.” Then “when the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.”
Alaska
Alaska.—The Moravian, in noting the mission work of the Moravian Church in Alaska, incidentally says that “Alaska is fast becoming as splendid a field for home mission work as it now is for foreign mission work. It is an enormously rich country. The world is just beginning to realize the value of Alaska’s limitless, but undeveloped resources. Unfavorable climatic conditions can not keep the fortune-hunters out of that land of gold. [What a grand thing it would be if that could be said of more gold-hunters.] The revenues even now being derived from the industries in that cold country run up into the millions annually. The white population is increasing at a remarkable rate. The government is fully aware of the importance of Alaska. Liberal appropriations are made for educational purposes, for transportation facilities, and for mail service. Washington has already heard of the scheme of making a state out of the territory of Alaska. It very likely will become a state some time. The church that wishes to be strongly entrenched in the future state, had better begin its work now. Now is the time for church extension in Alaska. Earnest activity and self-sacrificing labor and persistent prayer for God’s blessing are bound to bring a rich reward.”
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CAMP-GROUND NOTICE.
By G. W. Mills; A. L. Lingle
All persons coming to the camp-meeting at Oakland, Cal., should bring their baggage checks with them to the camp ground and hand them to our baggage-man there. Reduced rates for transfer to and from the grounds have been secured from one express company only.
Those coming by way of San Francisco should re-check their baggage on their ten-cent ferry ticket across the bay to Sixteenth St. Station, Oakland. Baggage will be transferred from all local stations in Oakland.
To reach Bushrod Park, on Sixty-third St., take any electric car, and transfer to the Telegraph Ave. cars, on Broadway.
Camp-meeting Com., G. W. MILLS, A. L. LINGLE.
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING.
By T. J. Evans; E. E. Parlin
The seventh Annual Meeting of the California Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association, for the purpose of electing four or more members of the board of directors, and such other business as may properly come before the meeting, will be held at Sanitarium, Napa County, Cal., Wednesday, June 15, 1904, at the hour of 12 o’clock M.
California Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association.
T. J. EVANS, President.
E. E. PARLIN, Secretary.
TEACHERS’ SUMMER SCHOOL.
By A. S. Kellogg
At a meeting of the California Conference Committee, held April 14, 1904, it was arranged that a teachers’ summer school be held at St. Helena, Cal., beginning Wednesday, June 15, at 9 A.M.
The following committee on attendance and general arrangements was appointed: A. S. Kellogg, M. E. Cady, J. S. Osborne, C. L. Taylor, and M. H. Brown. This committee held a meeting at Healdsburg, April 25, and partly completed its work as follows:—
Instructors.
Prof. E. D. Sharpe: Methods of teaching the common branches, such as arithmetic, grammar, etc., according to Christian education.
Miss S. E. Peck: Industrial education in the church school.
Mrs. Alma McKibbin: Bible and methods of Bible teaching.
Prof. W. E. Howell: Language and methods of teaching same.
Prof. M. E. Cady, Pacific Union Conference educational secretary, is expected to be present during the entire time of the school, to give instruction in various branches and to aid in the organization of the church-school work. Other instructors will be arranged for and selected at a later date.
The following committee on program was selected: Prof. M. E. Cady, Miss Katie Hale, Prof. E. D. Sharpe.
Committee on arrangements and location: L. M. Bowen, Miss S. E. Peck, and C. L. Taylor.
All teachers attending the summer school will receive the following financial aid from the conference: Tent, railroad fare from Oakland to St. Helena, and allowance of $2.00 per week for board.
The managers of the St. Helena Sanitarium will arrange to board the teachers at a rate not exceeding the above amount. The school will be held in a choice location in the woods, where all nature will be blooming and shedding forth its fragrance to add to the many benefits to be derived from such a school. It is expected that all who attend will provide themselves with a bed and such equipments as they may deem necessary.
All teachers expecting to attend the school should make application to J. S. Osborne, secretary of the committee.
