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Signs of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 9.

General Articles
Earlier text: THE NUMBERING OF THE PEOPLE THE SECOND TIME

WOODLAND H. AND T. CLUB.

By John G. Overshiner

The Woodland Health and Temperance Club held its regular monthly meeting at the Adventist church on Saturday evening, Feb. 12. The programme was varied and interesting.
An essay by Mrs. J. W. Peek, select reading by Mrs. Gould, recitations by Misses Florence Grayson and Daisy Douglass were interesting features of the entertainment, while the choir enlivened the exercises with solos, quartettes, and anthems.
The lecturer of the evening, Judge Jas. Johnson of this place, delivered a short and instructive discourse. Among other things, he tried to impress upon the minds of all present the importance of union among the advocates of temperance. He said he did not wish to decry any of the various temperance organizations, but would rather encourage and assist them to advance in their noble work. He thought, however, that more good could be accomplished by united efforts than by working separately through different organizations.
At the conclusion of his remarks, the leader, Mr. Wm. Saunders, stated that he concurred with the remarks which had been made, and that one of the objects of the Health and Temperance Association was to give an opportunity to all interested in the temperance cause to work together harmoniously through the free public meetings of the Association.
The solicitors obtained three signers to the Teetotal Pledge, one to the Anti-Rum and Tobacco, and four to the Anti-Whisky Pledge, and distributed four hundred and eighty-one pages of temperance tracts. Total membership of the club, 130.
The opening prayer and the benediction was offered by Rev. E. M. Stuart. The exercises of the evening passed off pleasantly, and the members of the club feel encouraged with the progress it is making, and will endeavor to make it the banner club of the State.
JOHN G. OVERSHINER, Sec'y.

Drunkenness Increasing in Germany

Drunkenness is spreading so much in Germany that a new measure for its punishment and prevention is being prepared for presentation to the Imperial Parliament.

Custom Often Overrules Reason

By Rochester

Custom often overrules reason.—Rochester.

HOW YOU TAKE THEM.

By Arthur's Home Magazine

WHAT people call "worries," are very common. Often they come from mere trifles, but they are not the less "worries" for that. Little things sometimes vex and trouble us more than great things.
"I am so worried with the children," says one who is the mother of a large family; "I cannot get a quiet moment."
"Something happened to worry me this morning, and I have felt upset all day," says another.
"One thing or another is always coming to worry me," complains a third, taking a more general view, and setting himself down as more tried with worries than other people.
But, after all, worries depend very much on how we take them. What puts one person out for a whole day will hardly disturb another for a moment; and a lot in life that seems to one full of trouble and vexation, is found by another peaceful and happy.
"Ah! I know that very well," cries Mrs. Sharp: "but I can't take things so quietly. There is Mrs. Meek, now, next door; come what may, nothing ever seems to put her out: but I'm not one of that sort."
Well, Mrs. Sharp, is not that just what I said? Worries depend very much on the way we take them. You agree with me, you see. Mrs. Meek takes them one way, and you take them another. And you grant they do not trouble her so much as they do you. Is not her way the best?
"Yes, but I can't take things as she does. I'm not one of those quiet folks; and when worries come I must be worried."
Stop! not so fast. I am not so sure there is any must about it. Do you strive against being worried? When things turn out amiss, or the children are troublesome, or any one says something that vexes you, do you try not to be vexed, or worried, or put out? For that is what Mrs. Meek does.
Again, do you watch against worries? You know they are likely to come; do you prepare your mind for them, that you may meet them aright, and get the better of them? I am much mistaken if your neighbor Meek does not do this too.
Once more, do you pray? I know your neighbor does that.
Depend upon it, Mrs. Sharp, it is chiefly trying, and watching, and praying, that makes your neighbor so much less worried by things than you are. Perhaps she may be of a quieter disposition by nature; but she never would have been able to meet the troubles of life as she does without God's help, and that she gets by prayer. She strives, she watches, she prays, and God helps her. That is Mrs. Meek's way. Yet she is only a poor woman like you. And what she does you can do.

WHAT WE OWE TO POOR CHILDREN.

By Hezekiah Butterworth

THE world owes some of its richest treasures to those who were deemed unfortunate in youth, and who looked to others at that unsheltered period for pity, protection and help. Our country was discovered by Columbus. He was a hard-worked boy, and often knew the need of sufficient food. We owe our freedom of religion, which has made our institutions what they are, to Luther. The reformer once sung ballads in the street to procure the means of an education
Our advances in science started with Franklin; yet the inventor ate his penny roll in the city of Philadelphia when a lad, and knew what it was to feel all alone in the world. We owe the beginning of our cotton mills to Sir Richard Arkwright. He was the youngest of a poor family of thirteen children, and his father was a barber. The curse of slavery was removed from our land by the pen-stroke of Abraham Lincoln. He ate the bread of hardship in childhood, and went as poorly clad as the humblest child in the streets of any country village to-day. The President-elect of the United States was once a poor, hard-working, friendless boy. The great missionary of the century is Dr. Livingstone. He learned Latin from a book on his loom while at work, and he once said proudly on completing his education, "I never had a dollar that I did not earn." Professor Heyne, one of the greatest scholars that Germany or the world ever produced, was a penniless child. "Want," said he, "was the companion of my childhood. I well remember my mother's distress, when without food for her children. I have seen her on a Saturday evening weeping and wringing her hands as she returned home, having been unable to sell the goods that my father had made." A kind family helped him in his distress at school, and in so doing honored themselves and their country in a way of which they did not dream. Some forty years ago, there lived in one of the country towns of New York a slender little factory-girl. She speaks of her early recollections of "noise and filth, bleeding hands, sore feet and a very sad heart." She says, "I used often to rise at two o'clock in the morning, and do the washing for the family." She found friends. That girl was Emily Chubbuck Judson. He who protects, assists, educates friendless children, makes the best contribution to the future that human resource can find. He builds himself a monument, not in marble, but in influence. Lips will call him blessed when the moss is filling the letters of his cenotaph. He lives for ends that do not terminate in himself.—Hezekiah Butterworth, in Childhood's Appeal.

THE MINISTER'S WIFE.

The minister's wife ought to be selected by a committee of the church. She should be warranted never to have headache or neuralgia; she should have nerves of wire and sinews of iron; she should never be tired or sleepy, and should be everybody's cheerful drudge; she should be cheerful, intellectual, pious and domesticated; she should be able to keep her husband's house, darn his stockings, make his shirts, cook his dinner, light his fire, and copy his sermons; she should keep up the style of a lady on the wages of a day-laborer, and be always at leisure for "good works" and ready to receive morning calls; she should be Secretary to the Band of Hope, the Dorcas Society, and the Home Mission: she should conductBible classes and mother's meetings; should make clothing for the poor and gruel for the sick, and finally, she should be pleased with everybody and with everything, and never desire any reward beyond the satisfaction of having done her own duty and other people's too.—London Magazine.

The Home Circle.

LITTLE WORRIES.

Though many ills may hamper life When fortune turns capricious, The great but nerve us for the strife— The small ones make us vicious. Fierce griefs are soon outstripped by one Who through existence scurries; It's harder far a race to run With nimble "little worries."
A button bids your shirt good-bye When late for dinner dressing; You have a kite you cannot fly, And creditors are pressing. You run to catch—and lose—a train (That fatalest of hurries); Your newest hat encounters rain— Life's full of "little worries."
From day to day some silly things Upset you altogether; There's naught so soon convulsion brings As tickling with a feather. 'Gainst minor evils let him pray Who fortune's favor curries; For one that big misfortunes slay, Ten die of "little worries."

GRACE IN LITTLE THINGS.

THERE is an old story of a certain minister, who, in arranging his toilet for his afternoon parochial calls, found a button gone from his shirt-collar, and all at once the good man's patience left him. He fretted and scolded and said undignified and unkind things, until the tired wife burst into tears and escaped to her room. The hours of the afternoon wore away, during which the parson called upon Brother Jones, who was all bowed down with rheumatism, and found him patient, and even cheerful; upon young Brother Hall, wasting away with consumption; upon good old grandmother Smith, in her poor, miserable hovel of a home, and found her singing one of the good old hymns, as happy as a bird; upon young Mrs. Brown, who had a few weeks before buried her only child, and found her trustful and serene in the views of God's love which had come to her through her affliction. The minister went home filled with what he had seen, and when evening came, and he was seated in his easy chair, and his good wife near him busy with her needle, he could not help saying, "What a wonderful thing grace is! How much it will do! There is nothing beyond its power! Wonderful! Wonderful! It can do all things." Then the little wife said,—
"Yes, it is wonderful indeed; but there is one thing that the grace of God does not seem to have power to do."
"Ah, what can that be?" said the husband.
"Why, it does not seem to have power to control a minister's temper when his shirt-button is gone."
That was a new version of the doctrine of grace to the parson, but it was such a version as many another religious man needs to remember.
There is many a man who can stand up before a multitude and "confess Christ;" who can be most meek when insulted in some public place; who can rub his hands and bless God for the power of religion, but who is too weak to keep his temper at home. The value of art is in the fineness of the work—the perfection of music is in the little accuracies. So the beauty and power of our religion are seen when we manifest grace in little things. As it takes greater skill to engrave the Lord's prayer upon a five-cent-piece than upon a broad steel plate, so it takes more grace to live a good Christian at home than in public.
—Golden Rule.

AIR AND SUNLIGHT

It is a great mistake to keep the sitting-room, or the parlor, or any other room in the house, darkened. Be careful that no article of furniture is put in a room that will not stand sunlight, for every room in a dwelling should have the windows so arranged that some time during the day a flood of sunlight will force itself into the apartment. The importance of admitting the light of the sun freely to all parts of our dwellings cannot be too highly estimated. Indeed, perfect health is nearly as much dependent on pure sunlight as it is on pure air. Sunlight should never be excluded except when so bright as to be uncomfortable to the eyes. And walks should be in bright sunlight, so that the eyes are protected by veil or parasol when inconveniently intense.
A sun bath is of more importance in preserving a healthful condition of the body than is generally understood. A sun bath costs nothing, and that is a misfortune, for people are deluded with the idea that those things only can be good or useful which cost money. But remember that pure water, fresh air, and sunlit homes kept free from dampness, will secure you from many heavy bills of the doctors, and give you health and vigor which no money can procure. It is a well-established fact that the people who live much in the sun are usually stronger and more healthy than those whose occupations deprive them of sunlight. And certainly there is nothing strange in the result, since the same law applies with equal force to nearly every animate thing in nature. It is quite easy to arrange an isolated dwelling so that every room may be flooded with sunlight some time in the day, and it is possible that many town houses could be so built as to admit more light than they now receive; and as for country homes, where there is plenty of air and sunlight all around, there is no excuse for not enjoying it to the full. It is a sin not to do so.—Christian at Work.

SPEAK KINDLY.

A young lady had gone out walking. She forgot to take her purse with her, and had no money in her pocket. Presently she met a little girl with a basket on her arm.
"Please, Miss, will you buy something from my basket?" said the little girl, showing a variety of book-marks, watch-cases, needle-books, etc.
"I'm sorry I can't buy anything to-day," said the young lady. "I haven't any money with me. Your things look very pretty." She stopped a moment and spoke a few kind words to the little girl; and then as she passed she said again: "I'm sorry I can't buy anything from you to-day."
"Oh, Miss!" said the little girl, "you've done me just as much good as if you had. Most persons that I meet say, 'Get away with you!' but you have spoken kindly and gently to me, and I feel a heap better."
That was "considering the poor." How little does it cost to do that! Let us learn to speak kindly and gently to the poor and the suffering. If we have nothing else to give, let us at least give them our sympathy.
"Speak gently, kindly, to the poor, Let no harsh words be heard; They have enough they must endure, Without an unkind word. "Speak gently; for 'tis like the Lord, Whose accents, meek and mild, Bespoke him as the Son of God, The gracious, holy child."

ITEMS OF NEWS.

  • During December, 16 steamers and 203 sailing vessels were lost.
  • A number of English coal mines are being worked under the ocean.
  • The Governor of Massachusetts appoints April 7 for a day of fasting and prayer.
  • A bill has passed the Senate, providing for a branch dead letter office on the Pacific coast.
  • The 27th the heaviest storm and blockade of the season was reported from Chicago and Milwaukee.
  • Indians are on the war path in Chihuahua, Mexico, having already killed several women and children.
  • The University of Michigan has at present in actual attendance 1,517 students—thus far its largest number.
  • About 3500 persons are engaged in the oyster trade at New York, and the sales this winter will amount to $4,500,000.
  • The Porte has ordered thirty million cartridges from the United States, to be delivered in the next three months.
  • It is reported that one-fourth of the public schools of New Hampshire have an average attendance of fewer than seven pupils.
  • The loss of stock in Oregon east of the Cascades, from the severity of the winter, is estimated at not less than 30 per cent.
  • Jesse R. Grant, his wife and mother-in-law, sailed for Europe the 26th, with the intention of establishing a mining exchange.
  • After balloting thirty-five times, the Pennsylvania Legislature has just succeeded in electing John F. Mitchell U. S. Senator.
  • George W. Cawood, of Tamora, Australia, has perfected an invention for securing the complete isolation of the mariner's compass.
  • It is stated that the amount of money invested by the Land League is considerable over $250,000, principally in American securities.
  • The Catholic orphanage at Hyde Park, Scranton, Penn., was burned last Sunday night, and seventeen children perished in the flames.
  • A severe engagement took place the 27th between the Boers and Gen. Colley's force, in which the latter were repulsed with great slaughter.
  • The Sunday excise law is being more rigidly enforced in New York city than usual. Feb. 27, arrests were made in nearly all the precincts.
  • A special session of Congress will doubtless be called for March 4, at which time the successors of the present cabinet officers will be appointed.
  • Senator Carpenter, of Wisconsin, died the 25th at Washington, where the funeral services were held. It is rumored that his body is to be cremated.
  • Dr. Holmes has invented a book-rest to be attached to the person, not requiring the use of hands at all, and serviceable either in walking or sitting.
  • The marriage of Prince William, the oldest son of the Crown Prince of Germany, and Princess Augusta, took place in the chapel of the royal castle at Berlin, last Sunday.
  • The English revisers of the New Testament held their closing session November 12. The company has sat altogether 407 days, and the average attendance has been sixteen.
  • The N. Y. Tribune says: "Saturday night's whisky makes a big score in the police reports this morning. No less than ten persons were stabbed in this city during a recent Saturday night and Sunday."
  • Two young girls in Providence, R. I., have been sent to the Reform School for eight years for smoking cigars in the street. Why are not all the men and boys who smoke sent there too? Why not?
  • The petition to pardon the Mussel Slough settlers has been presented to the President, but he wishes the opinion of Judges Hoffman and Sawyer, and District Attorney Latimer, before deciding the case.
  • Like most law schools, the law department of the University of Michigan has moot-courts, officered by the students. The post of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is now filled by Miss Leonora Taylor.
  • The Central Railroad has subscribed a quarter of a million dollars toward the amount required by the act of Congress before any legal action can be taken toward preparing for the world's fair in 1883.
  • The number of Presbyterians in the world is put by the book of the General Presbyterian Council at about 3,000,000 communicants, with some 12,000,000 adherents in the various Presbyterian bodies.
  • Cigarettes to the number of 408,000,000 were made in this country during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, and yielded a revenue of $715,000. "This access of revenue," calmly remarks a contemporary, "is perhaps the only excuse for the use of cigarettes, which are mostly abominable compounds."
  • A dispatch from Lisbon, states that thirty-six successive shocks of earthquake occurred at St. Michaels in the Azores, Feb. 23. One church and two hundred houses have fallen, and several persons have been killed.
  • Greece has issued a royal decree calling out the reserves. Portions of the army are being dispatched to the northern frontier. The ambassadors of the powers at Constantinople have advised the Porte, and also Greece, not to do anything which would interfere with a peaceful settlement of the question.
  • The president of the Chicago Saloon-keepers' Association has replied to the Woman's Temperance Union's challenge to debate, that he is not authorized to make any arrangements for that purpose; but he has referred the matter to the State Association, which alone has authority to consent to the debate proposed.
  • The great opposition with which the Sunday-school work was met in Germany has been overcome, and the work is now being pushed with increased energy. Mr. William Bauer, of Grisen, who once strongly opposed the work, has just written a pamphlet urging the usefulness of the Sunday-school upon all Prussian clergymen.
  • A number of Chicago physicians claim that the disease known as "winter cholera," which has been alarmingly prevalent in that city during the winter, is traceable to the use of butterine, a compound which does not require the high temperature which is necessary in refining lard, and therefore germs of the disease pass through the process without being killed.
  • It may be interesting to note that Dakota is three times as large as all New England. Twenty-eight Connecticuts spread over it would leave unoccupied space. The Black Hills opened four years ago, now have 25,000 white people. Within the past year 1,500 miles of railroad have been projected and 900 finished, and nearly 100,000 people have come into the Territory in the last twelve months.
  • A Chicago paper tries to console its readers with the thought that if Dr. Crosby's plan for grog-shops—one for every thousand citizens—should be adopted, Chicago would have but five hundred such shops, and sarcastically adds, "We would as soon think of modifying the law as to mad dogs so as to require the police to shoot only one in five and let the rest bite all the dogs, children, and men they can find."
  • It is stated upon good authority that eighty thousand acres of land have been secured by the Turkish Government in Palestine, between Jerusalem and Joppa, for a colony of Jews. It is proposed to open up a settlement for the persecuted Israelites in Europe, and efforts are making in England and in this country to raise funds for the project. It is safe to say, however, that the plan is not likely to flourish, save on paper.
  • A few weeks since we noticed the fact that Jamaica rum was being made from old boots and shoes. Here are more full particulars as given in the Advance: "Among the curiosities developed by the census-takers in New York is the fact that old boots and shoes, which were formerly considered worthless, are now carefully gathered and utilized in some novel ways. Those not completely worn out are patched, greased and sold, while mates in tolerably good condition may be found by careful selection. Shoes not worth repairing are cut up and used for patching others, and the refuse is converted into Jamaica rum by being boiled in pure spirits and allowed to stand for a few weeks, the product far surpassing the Jamaica rum made with essences, burnt sugar and spirits."
  • The Superior Council of Public Instruction in France has just given an important judgment. When the Jesuit colleges were shut up, the friends of the Jesuits formed what were called "Civil Societies," for the purpose of re-opening the schools. This was a manoeuvre to elude the March Decrees. Among the schools closed was the Jesuit College of St. Marie at Toulouse, and a few weeks later this establishment was re-opened under the direction of a M. Villars. The Academic Council of the town, learning that M. Villars had merely lent his name, and that the college was as much a Jesuit establishment as ever, ordered it to be closed. It was against this decision that M. Villars appealed to the Superior Council, which has confirmed it. This sentence, which is final, has caused a great sensation in the clerical world.

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Contents of This Paper

By Editor

OUR readers will notice that in this paper Eld. J. N. Loughborough, our esteemed missionary to England, commences a series of articles on the no-devil theory, a doctrine, we are sorry to say, which is commonly held in that country, and is coming to be quite too extensively adopted in our own land. The articles show for themselves that great care has been taken in their preparation, and we bespeak for them a careful reading.
It will also be noticed that the articles on Old Testament history have been resumed on the first page. These, as also the articles from Mrs. White in the Sabbath-school department this week, and that also from our valuable premium book, the “Life of Christ,” cannot fail to interest and benefit all who read them.

The Revised New Testament

By Editor

For the last few months the forth-coming revised New Testament has been the subject of press comment all over the land. While little or nothing was known of the real work of the committee, we preferred silence to conjectures. But now that actual specimens from the "advance proofs" are furnished by apparently good authority, we take pleasure in presenting, on page four, some of the changes, without note or comment, leaving the reader to judge for himself of the merits of the work. That it should be so revised as to exactly harmonize with the creeds of all denominations would be an impossibility, and whether it will make the truth of the Bible shine clearer, remains yet to be seen when the entire book appears next May.

Woodhull and Claflin’s New Journal

THE two sisters once famous in America as the publishers of Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly, have now started the Woodhull and Claflin's Journal in London. Victoria C. Woodhull, at one time President of the Spiritualists in the United States, and champion of all kinds of free-loveism, is now playing martyr and endeavoring to unburden her character of the loathing that had naturally attached to it on account of her notorious life in this country. She attaches all the blame to her then husband, Col. Blood, and Stephen Pearl Andrews, who she asserts conducted the paper and accredited articles to her that they had themselves written. She claims that her doctrine now is, and always has been, "God's love free to all." Those who have heard her lectures in the United States will hardly remember them in that light.

HEALDSBURG AND SANTA ROSA.

By William Miller Healey

In the past two weeks I have held a few meetings in Healdsburg, as circumstances and weather would permit. Last Sabbath and Sunday we spent in Santa Rosa, preaching five times. We received three new members to the church, one of them taking her stand at this meeting who had never before heard a sermon upon our faith. Two were baptized and others desired to be, but illness prevented. Next Sabbath and Sunday we expect to meet with the church at Petaluma.
W. M. HEALEY.
Healdsburg, Feb. 27, 1881.

Seeking Conversion Earnestly

By Christian Advocate

No person ever sought the conversion of his soul languidly and found a genuine Christian hope.—Christian Advocate.

PULPIT AND PRESS.

THE most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good. They cannot be chips in the porridge, they must flavor it one way or another. I know very well if I were not always at work I should be sure either to worry myself or others, for my brains will not imitate the dormouse, and take a long sleep. To have nothing to do would kill some of us outright. Active-minded idlers are a curse to any community. Lazy members of churches, if they have restless dispositions, become critical hearers, grumblers, gossips, heretics, or schismatics. They find pleasure in giving pain. It is fine to see a sluggard lean over a rail and find fault with those who are hard at work in their shirt-sleeves; on a very hot day it is pleasant to sit in a boat and find fault with the two fellows who are rowing so hard that they drip with sweat. Now, you with fault-finding tongues, use your mouths for a better purpose, and we shall be less troubled by you. Spare energy soon runs wild if it be not yoked to the gospel plough. Vines which bear little fruit go all to wood, and many of the branches run over the wall.—C. H. Spurgeon.
A good many people spend all their life hunting for the place in this world which they were intended to fill. They never settle down to anything with any sort of restful or contented feeling. What they are doing now is not by any means the work that is suited to their abilities. They have a sunny ideal of a very noble life which they would like to reach, in which their powers would find free scope, and were they could make a very bright record. But in their present position they cannot do much of anything, and there is little use to try. Their life is a humdrum and prosy routine, and they can accomplish nothing really worthy and beautiful. So they go on discontented with their own lot and sighing for another; and while they sigh the years glide away, and soon they will come to the end, to find that they have missed every opportunity of doing anything worthy of a being in the passage to eternity. The truth is, one's vocation is never some far-of possibility. It is always the simple round of duties that the passing hour brings. No day is commonplace if we only had eyes to see its splendor. There is no duty that comes to our hand but brings to us the possibility of kingly service.—Sunday School Times.
The Reverend Josiah Dwight was the minister of Woodstock, Connecticut, about the year 1700. He was not old, it is true, but he must have caught the ways of the old ministers. The "sensational" pulpit of our own time could hardly surpass him in the drollery of its expressions. "If unconverted men ever got to Heaven," he said, "they would feel as uneasy as a shad up the crotch of a white-oak." Some of his ministerial associates took offense at his eccentricities, and called on a visit of admonition to the offending clergyman.
"Mr. Dwight received these reproofs with great meekness, frankly acknowledged his faults, and promised amendment, but, in prayer at parting, after returning thanks for the brotherly visit and admonition, ‘hoped that they might so hitch their horses on earth that they should never kick in the stables of everlasting salvation.’"—O. W. Holmes, in North American.
THE elasticity of the term "Unitarian," especially in the direction of Liberalism, is well understood, and according to the Examiner and Chronicle, has recently been tested in Massachusetts. "A dispute in the Unitarian church at Leicester has given rise to the question whether a Unitarian is or is not a Christian. The trouble was this: The minister, S. B. Weston, preached a series of discourses on the Bible, Christ, and Unitarianism, in which he held that Unitarians who discard the supernaturalism of the Bible and historical Christianity have no right to call themselves Christians, and declared himself to be non-Christian. In this the people sustained him. But the society has its support from a fund, the conditions of which are that the minister shall ‘faithfully preach those broad and generous views of God which are known by the name of Unitarian.’ The trustees refused to pay any more money to one who was not a Christian. To settle the matter, a committee of referees, composed of the most prominent ministers and laymen of the denomination, was chosen to determine whether Unitarianism was Christian. They decided for Christianity and against Mr. Weston, who must now fall a step lower into the rank of the Free Religionists. But in what pitiable plight is that ‘church’ which has to call a council to declare whether or not it is Christian."
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