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Signs of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 2.

The Golden Rule
Earlier text: AN UNEXPECTED PRIZE

LABOR.

By Caroline F. Orne

[These lines, by Caroline F. Orne, were suggested by the simple incident of an industrious wood sawyer’s reply to a man who told him that his was a hard work: “Yes, it is hard, to be sure; but it is harder to do nothing,” was his answer.]
Ho, ye who at the anvil toil, And strike the sounding blow, Where, from the burning iron's breast, The sparks fly to and fro, While answering to the hammer's ring, And fire's intenser glow— Oh, while ye feel 'tis hard to toil And sweat the long day through, Remember, it is harder still To have no work to do!
Ho, ye who till the stubborn soil, Whose hard hands guide the plow, Who bend beneath the summer sun, With burning cheek and brow— Ye deem the curse still clings to earth From olden time till now; But, while ye feel 'tis hard to toil And labor all day through, Remember, it is harder still To have no work to do!
Ho, ye who plow the sea's blue field, Who ride the restless wave, Beneath whose gallant vessel's keel There lies a yawning grave, Around whose bark the wint'ry winds Like fiends of fury wave— Oh, while ye feel 'tis hard to toil And labor long hours through, Remember, it is harder still To have no work to do!
Ho, ye upon whose fevered cheeks The hectic glow is bright, Whose mental toil wears out the day, And half the weary night, Who labor for the souls of men, Champions of truth and right— Although ye feel your toil is hard, Even with this glorious view, Remember, it is harder still To have no work to do!
Ho, all who labor, all who strive! Ye wield a lofty power; Do with your might, do with your strength, Fill every golden hour. The glorious privilege to do Is man's most noble dower. Oh, to your birthright and yourselves, To your own souls be true! A weary, wretched life is theirs Who have no work to do.

Remembering Christ’s Sufferings

By Harneck

THE best defense against sin at any time is the remembrance of Christ’s sufferings.—Harneck.

God’s Care for Those Who Care for Him

By Leighton

If thou have a concern for the things that are God’s, he will also be careful of thee and thine.

FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

STEPS have been taken to erect a mission building in the city of Detroit, Mich.
On the 22d ult. fifteen persons were baptized at the Tabernacle in Battle Creek, Mich.
A STATE institute for Indiana has been appointed, to be held at Indianapolis, November 9-16.
ELDER J. F. HANSEN, who labors among the Scandinavian people of Chicago, reports the baptism of seven candidates.
IT has been decided to hold a Bible school at Kansas City, Mo., beginning January 9, 1894, and continuing twelve weeks.
THE school enterprise at Cleburne, Texas, is so far advanced that a school will be opened about January in a temporary building.
A NEW house of worship at Grandville, Mich., will be dedicated during a general meeting to be held there November 10-12.
IT is expected that Brethren Wm. Lenker and A. T. Strope will arrive at Madras, India, about the 12th inst., to commence the canvassing work.
ELDER J. H. MORRISON, of the California Conference Committee, occupied the chapel pulpit of Union College, at College View, Neb., October 21.
THE president and secretary of the Texas Sabbath School Association, Brother O. and Sister A. L. Glass, were formerly Bible workers in the California Conference.
SISTER HAVEN, who has canvassed about one-fourth of the city of Galveston, Texas, (working slowly on account of ill health), reports the sale of nearly five hundred books.
ELDER F. M. WILCOX, while en route from California to Battle Creek, Mich., stopped over at College View, Neb., and spoke in the college chapel Sabbath afternoon, the 28th ult.
AT Coshocton, Ohio, on the 15th ult., eleven persons were baptized and a church of fifteen members was organized. This result has followed the labors of Elder O. F. Guilford and Brother Albert Carey.
THE Arkansas Reporter of the 25th ult. says: "Everything is 'courage' in the field, despite the hard times. The workers that are putting in good time are doing well. The Lord is going before and opening up the way."
ELDER R. G. GARRETT reports a quite common experience in connection with his work at Utica, Daviess County, Ky. He was allowed the use of a schoolhouse until some began to obey the truth, and then the house was closed against him.
OLD friends as well as new ones will rejoice to hear that Elder G. I. Butler is once more able to take the field for the proclamation of the gospel message. He reports to the Review that he is laboring in Bowling Green, Fla., holding services six evenings in the week.
THE Texas Reporter says of the work in Parker County, conducted by Brethren J. A. Holbrook and J. L. Wood, that eleven were recently baptized, seventeen had signed the covenant, and others were interested. A later report states that ten more were awaiting baptism.
BROTHER JAMES JOHNSON, a Minnesota canvasser, writes to the Worker of that State as follows: "Many people will suffer in this country this winter. Renters are crowded to the wall; many of them have their crops taken right from the machine by mortgage, also horses and cattle." Notwithstanding this he says, "Delivering goes first rate, much better than I expected." Surely the Lord goes with his work.
ELDER H. R. JOHNSON is now acting president of Wisconsin Conference, in place of Elder R. A. Underwood, who recently resigned on account of ill health. Brother Johnson's address for Conference correspondence is 865 Fifth Street, Milwaukee, and his home address is Box 277, Neenah, Wis.
A LADY canvasser in a certain locality in Missouri writes to the Workers' Record: "Although the Methodist minister warned his flock not to take their books, I never had so little trouble to deliver." It seems that the Lord had appointed to defeat the counsel of this modern Ahithophel.
AT the recent Michigan Conference five churches were received,—one at Chippewa, with twenty-nine members; one at Leutz, with ten members; one at Benton Harbor, with sixty members; one at Albuna, with twenty-five members; and one at Kalamazoo, with twenty-four members.
ELDER O. C. GODSMARK, although not fully engaged in the work since leaving California two years ago, writes from Bedford, Mich.: "I baptized five of our Bedford Sabbath school scholars a short time ago. I have not been entirely idle during the past two years, if I have been silent." He is now so situated that he can enter the work more exclusively once more.
ELDER J. O. CORLISS and family arrived in Oakland from the East on the 30th ult. He has been taking part in the institute work begun by Elder W. A. Colcord in the church here. The latter was obliged to give way temporarily on account of a bad cold. On Sunday evening, the 5th inst., he addressed an audience of 600 people in a large public hall, on "The Dangers that Menace Our Country."
ELDER R. M. KILGORE, superintendent of General Conference District No. 2, writes to correct a statement in our "Field Notes" of the 22d ult., that Elder J. W. Collie had been elected president of the Florida Conference. He is a member of the Conference Executive Committee, and president of the Sabbath School Association; but Elder L. H. Crisler is president of the Conference. Thanks for the correction.

TEXAS, ATTENTION.

By O. and A. L. Glass

The officers of the Texas Sabbath School Association request us to publish the following:—
At the late camp meeting in Texas, O. Glass was chosen president of the Texas Sabbath School Association; A. Holbrook, vice president, and Mrs. A. L. Glass secretary. Any person desiring information in regard to the Sabbath school work in Texas, or having reports to forward, please address the same to Brother or Sister Glass, 308 South Harwood Street, Dallas, Texas.
Books, papers, and other publications, including the Sabbath School Worker, are to be ordered, as heretofore, through the secretary of the State tract society, Brother T. T. Stevenson, Oak Cliff, Texas, by the librarian of the home church, unless they are cash orders, which may be sent direct to the office of publication, thus saving time and trouble.
Complete directions for ordering the Sabbath School Worker and other Sabbath school supplies may be found on page 199 of the Worker for November, 1893.
O. AND A. L. GLASS.
October 24, 1893.

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Questions About Human Nature

By Alonzo T. Jones

BIBLE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS CONCERNING MAN. By Alonzo T. Jones. Bible Students' Library, No. 76. Pacific Press Pub. Co., Oakland, Cal. 16 pp.; 2 cents.

LESSON VIII.—SABBATH, NOVEMBER 25, 1893.

TEST OF FALSE TEACHERS.

Lesson Scripture, 1 John 4: 1-6.

  1. Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
  2. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God; every spirit which confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God;
  3. And every spirit which confesseth not Jesus is not of God; and this is the spirit of the antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it cometh; and now it is in the world already.
  4. Ye are of God, my little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.
  5. They are of the world; therefore speak they as of the world, and the world heareth them.
  6. We are of God; he that knoweth God heareth us; he who is not of God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT.

  1. Is every spirit to be believed?
  2. What point should be settled by investigation?
  3. For what reason?
  4. How can the Spirit of God be known?
  5. What spirit is not of God?
  6. What is such a spirit?
  7. What prediction had been made concerning it?
  8. Had the prediction been fulfilled?
  9. Who had "overcome them"?
  10. What had enabled them to do this?
  11. Of what are "they"?
  12. Of what do they speak?
  13. What heareth them?
  14. Of what are "we"?
  15. Who heareth "us"?
  16. Who "heareth not us"?
  17. What is determined by this means?

NOTE.

"THE connection of the visible with the invisible world, the ministration of angels of God, and the agency of evil spirits, are plainly revealed in the Scriptures, and inseparably interwoven with human history." "Evil spirits, in the beginning created sinless, were equal in nature, power, and glory with the holy beings that are now God's messengers. But, fallen through sin, they are leagued together for the dishonor of God and the destruction of men." Thus evil spirits work "in the children of disobedience" (Eph. 2: 2), who yield themselves as servants (Rom. 6: 16), in marvelous ways (Matt. 24: 24), and more and more as time advances (2 Tim. 3: 13), until fire is brought down from heaven (Rev. 13: 13), and, "as the crowning act in the great drama of deception, Satan himself will personate Christ." "The people of God are directed to the Scriptures as the safeguard against the influence of false teachers and the delusive power of spirits of darkness." Isa. 8: 20. "Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight. So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures." Error is not to be countenanced, although preached by an angel (Gal. 1: 8); neither, because we despise the messenger (Mark 6: 3), are we to reject truth (John 10: 37, 38). The incarnation is the "secret of piety" (1 Tim. 3: 16, Young's translation), the fellowship of which is to be made known to all (Eph. 3: 9), and that as a personal experience (Col. 1: 27). Christ was born of the Spirit (Luke 1: 35), and dwelt in the flesh (John 1: 14), and so he must dwell in our flesh (Eph. 3: 17), living in us (Gal. 2: 20), to give us victory (2 Cor. 2: 14) in the conflict with unseen powers (Eph. 6: 12). Anyone who presents any other hope of salvation is a deceiver and an antichrist. "Jesus fought all our battles during his life upon earth" (John 16: 33), and "we each have a battle to fight with a fallen foe." "The hand of the Infinite is stretched over the battlements of heaven to grasp your hand in its embrace. The mighty Helper is nigh to help the most erring, the most sinful and despairing." God and the world, the followers of Christ and the servants of Satan, "the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error," are in marked contrast. All are found in one of two classes (Matt. 12: 30), and the same person cannot be found in both (Matt. 6: 24).

International S. S. Lessons.

"So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading." —Neh. 8:8

LESSON IX.—SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1893.

THE CHRISTIAN HOME.

[NOTE.—The questions which follow are merely suggestive for the student on the leading points of the lesson; it is presumed that the thorough student will think of many more as he studies the subject. References, where verses alone are given, always refer to the lesson scripture printed above. All other references are given in book, chapter, and verse. The text printed is that of the Revised Version, not because it is especially preferred, but because it is not found in every family, as is the common version.]

Lesson Scripture, Col. 3: 12-25.

  1. Put on therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering:
  2. Forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye:
  3. And above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.
  4. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to the which also ye were called in one body; and be ye thankful.
  5. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto God.
  6. And whatsoever ye do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
  7. Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
  8. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
  9. Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing in the Lord.
  10. Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be discouraged.
  11. Servants, obey in all things them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord:
  12. Whatsoever ye do, work heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men;
  13. Knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance; ye serve the Lord Christ.
  14. For he that doeth wrong shall receive again for the wrong that he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.
Golden Text: "I will walk within my house with a perfect heart." Ps. 101: 2.

SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.

  1. What are we exhorted to put on? Verse 12.
  2. How should we act toward others? Verse 13.
  3. How should we forgive?
  4. What crowning grace should be added? Verse 14.
  5. What is this love called?
  6. What should rule in the heart? Verse 15.
  7. How should the word of Christ dwell in us? Verse 16.
  8. What outward manifestation of this word will be seen in our lives?
  9. How should all of our works be wrought? Verse 17.
  10. What exhortation is given to wives? Verse 18.
  11. How are husbands exhorted? Verse 19.
  12. What should children do? Verse 20.
  13. What duty is enjoined upon fathers? Verse 21.
  14. How should servants render their service? Verse 22.
  15. What comprehensive exhortation does verse 23 contain?
  16. The knowledge of what truth should be borne in mind? Verse 24.
  17. What reason is given for this hope?
  18. What awaits the wrongdoer?
  19. How does God treat all his creatures?
  20. What is a good motto for all? Golden text.

Facts for the Times and National Sunday Law

FACTS FOR THE TIMES.—Containing historical extract, tracts, candid admissions from authors, ancient and modern. A Book for the Times. Revised 1893. A compilation of facts that are astounding, by students of biblical and historical research. 340 pages, wine-colored cloth binding. Price, 75 cts., postpaid. Pacific Press Pub. Co., Oakland, California.
THE NATIONAL SUNDAY LAW.—A pamphlet of 190 pages; price, 25 cents. It is the argument of Alonzo T. Jones before the United States Senate Committee on Education and Labor, together with the text of the Blair Sunday Bill introduced in the U. S. Senate. Address orders to your State Tract Society secretary or to Pacific Press Publishing Co., Oakland, Cal.

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36. The Signs of the Times 3 "
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51. Is Man Immortal? 1 "
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86. Justification, Regeneration, Sanctification 2 "
90. The Bible Doctrine of the Trinity 2 "
93. Christian Science—Is It Science? Is It Christian? 15 "
95. From Sabbath to Sunday 1 "
97. The Sun of Righteousness 10 "
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100. Seducing Spirits 1 "
101. The Rest that Remains for the People of God 1 "
103. Should Christians be Members of Secret Societies? 3 "
104. Justification by Faith, by Mrs. E. G. White 2 "
105. The Way to Christ, by Mrs. E. G. White 2 "
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110. Appeal to Methodists 1 "
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113. The Christian Sabbath 4 "
114. The Identical Seventh Day 2 "
115. Waymarks to the Holy City 2 "
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—The Irondale Rolling Mills, at Anderson, Ind., were burned on the 1st inst. Loss, $150,000.
—An English gardener living near Tacoma, Wash., is said to have succeeded in cultivating the licorice plant.
—The Canadians and the Australians are agitating the project of uniting the two colonies by a Pacific cable line.
—The Butte, Mont., city council has declined to confirm the appointment of a colored man on the police force.
—The extra session of Congress, which was convened in August to take action on the silver question, adjourned on the 2d inst.
—In Congress the House Committee on Territories has reported favorably on the bill for the admission of Utah to the Union of States.
—A. Lusk & Co., San Francisco fruit packers, take all the highest awards at the World's Fair, in all the competitive departments in their line.
—Political matters are somewhat mixed in Denver, Colo. At the local election to be held this week there are eleven tickets in the field.
—In Portland, Oregon, on the 1st inst., an electric street car plunged through an open drawbridge into the river and sank. Eight persons were drowned.
—All the printers in the book and job printing establishments of Albany, N. Y., including the State printing office, have struck for a reduction in hours.
—At Marseilles, France, a great strike of street car employes is in progress. On the 5th inst. several cars were burned, and considerable track was torn up.
—Cholera continues to spread in the Crimea. It is said that twelve doctors, twenty-four field surgeons, and thirty sisters are detailed to look after patients.
—The McCreary Bill, extending for six months the time in which Chinese residents may have the privilege of registering, has passed both Houses of Congress.
—It is reported that dire distress prevails among the foreigners and laboring classes in Rio Janeiro on account of the suspension of business caused by the revolution.
—Owing to the usual misunderstanding, a malady now epidemic in railroad circles, two freight trains collided near Salvia, Nevada, on the 5th inst., and six men were killed.
—A fleet of eighteen British war ships has been gathered at Gibraltar, in anticipation, it is said, of the combined movement of the ships of Russia, France, and Spain toward Tangier.
—A daring highway robbery was committed in the main street of South Riverside, Cal., on the night of the 2d inst., when a citizen was severely beaten by footpads and robbed of his watch and chain.
—The steamship City of Alexandria, from Havana to New York, was burned on the 2d inst., and thirty-five lives were lost. The disaster occurred when the vessel was only twenty-five miles out from Havana.
—A dispatch from Kazan, in the eastern part of Siberia, tells of a great conflagration resulting from an explosion in a benzine oil warehouse. In addition to a great destruction of property, there were many lives lost.
—Now that the law requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase a stated amount of silver bullion each month has been repealed, Senator Stewart, of Nevada, has introduced a bill for the free coinage of silver.
—A bill has passed Congress, and been signed by the President, suspending during the present year the statute requiring $100 worth of work annually on unpatented mining claims. An exception is made of South Dakota.
—A cold wave and a fall of half an inch of snow were reported from most parts of Minnesota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin on the 1st inst. The cold wave extended throughout the Northwest, but the snow was not so general.
—An attempt to introduce the Faribault system in the Thirty-fourth Ward public schools of Pittsburg, Pa., by the election of four nuns as teachers, is meeting with strong opposition from the members of patriotic organizations.
—A Pittsburg dispatch says the police are having no end of trouble with cranks, who threaten to take human life. Three are locked up, and five more, who have been writing threatening letters, are being sought by the authorities.
—It is reported that a powder magazine of the Brazilian revolutionists recently exploded, doing considerable damage to some of the shipping in the harbor of Rio Janeiro, among the casualties being the death of four English naval officers.
—In New York City, on the 2d inst., a boiler explosion in a street car stable caused the death of six persons and the serious injury of eight others. A dozen horses were also killed, and the buildings were damaged to the extent of $10,000.
—On the night of the 3d inst. three negro men and a woman were hanged to a tree near Lynchburg, Tenn., because it is said they were concerned in a number of barn burnings that had occurred in the vicinity. They were all connected with one family.
—The government of Brazil has purchased five new vessels in New York, which have been fitted out as warriors to cope with the rebel navy at Rio Janeiro. These are all armed in the latest and most approved manner, and to the fleet is added an English torpedo boat.
—The space originally designed for exhibitors at the San Francisco Fair is already far short of supplying the demand. It is now proposed to put the county exhibits on newly ceded ground. The British residents of the Pacific Coast are agitating the matter of a British auxiliary.
—A London dispatch says that the representatives of the miners and mine owners have again failed to agree, and the great strike will be continued. The result will be great suffering, not only among the miner's families, but among the poor of the large cities, on account of the high price of coal.
—The Japanese residents of Corea, numbering about 7,000, are becoming alarmed because of the encroachments of the Chinese upon their trade. The trade in shirtings, which was originally a Japanese monopoly, has fallen entirely into the hands of the Chinamen, and the curio trade is said to be fast following.
—The Hankow correspondent of the Shanghai Mercury says: "I hear that one of the leading Russian firms is exporting a good quantity of tea plants and appliances, with the intention of starting a plantation in the mountains of Southeast Russia. A batch of Chinese laborers is also said to be going to Russia under contract with the same firm."
—A train on the Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad was held up at Oliphant, Ark., on the night of the 2d inst., by seven masked men, who went through the cars and robbed all the passengers of their valuables. The conductor, in attempting to resist the robbers, was killed. Two of the robbers were afterward captured, with considerable plunder.
—The Costa Rica Government has surrendered to the United States a New York embezzler named Weeks, although there is no extradition treaty between the two governments. The only prominent official who opposed the extradition was the Minister of Finance, who has resigned, and will make the incident a political issue in the next presidential election, himself becoming a candidate.
—A gentleman who resides in Auckland, N. Z., but is interested in South African mines, was in San Francisco last week, and to a press reporter he expressed great hopes of the African gold mines. He says: "For the labor and the money invested, South Africa is to-day yielding a better return in gold than California or Australia ever gave. The gold of South Africa is practically inexhaustible."
—Frank Jugler, the saloon keeper of Cherokee, Iowa, who dynamited the house of Elder R. L. Patterson, of that place, December 19, 1891, has been convicted of attempted murder. Jugler is a saloon keeper whom Patterson prosecuted, and whose beer had been seized and stored under the prosecutor's house. On the night before the beer was to be destroyed, Jugler exploded a bomb under the house, wrecking it.
—On the 31st ult. the South African Matabeles, to the number of about 5,000, attacked the British forces, but were repulsed with great loss. Report says they left 500 dead on the field, carrying with them hundreds of wounded, many of whom were afterward found dead. The British loss was 2 killed and 6 wounded. They waited until the savages were close upon them, en masse, and then opened fire with rifles and rapid-fire guns.
—Rev. Doc Taylor, a "Moonshiner" convicted of murder, was hanged at Wise Court House, Virginia, on the 27th ult. He preached his own funeral sermon, principally in vindication of Spiritualism. He was dressed in white linen, in which he said he would rise from the dead three days after his execution and appear to the moonshiners (illicit liquor distillers) and other mountaineers. But the officers shut off his resurrection in three days by deferring his burial.
—At Santander, Spain, on the 3d inst., a ship load of dynamite was exploded, causing great disaster. The wharves, shipping, and neighboring buildings were torn to fragments, and the whole city was terribly shaken. Fire immediately followed the wreck, and the people were for some time so dazed with the shock of the explosion that they were powerless to cope with the fire. The latest report was that the known dead numbered over 300, and the number of injured and missing was enormous.
—Of the 155 national banks suspended between January 1 and September of this year, 77 have resumed business. During the same time 560 State and private banks suspended, of which 72 have resumed. Of the latter classes of suspensions, 498 were located west of the Ohio River. It is worthy of notice that national bank notes are not impaired by the failure of the particular bank whose name they bear. Stockholders, depositors, and the government may lose by the failure, but the notes of issue, being guaranteed by the government, are not affected.

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FOR THE WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 6.

RELIGIOUS.

—Rev. E. F. Dinsmore, pastor of the Haywards (Cal.) Congregational Church, has applied for admission to the Unitarian ministry.
—The ladies of San Francisco and Oakland, in the main church representatives, are moving by petition and otherwise to induce newspaper men to purify the press.
—It is said that in Brazil there is but one missionary to every 175,000 persons. It would be interesting to know how many of even these few are teaching the people to obey the gospel.
—Bishop Anser, of the German Catholic Mission in South Shantung, has been honored by the emperor of China with the decoration of the light blue button, because of his services in preserving concord between native Christians and non-Christians.
—Rev. Campbell Coyle, of this city, says in the Occident regarding California, "The Sabbath is very little regarded, and until it is Christianity will remain nominal." The converse of this proposition is nearer the truth. So long as Christianity remains nominal, the Sabbath will be little regarded.
—The month of November is consecrated by the Catholic Church to the "Holy Souls in Purgatory." Of this consecration the Catholic News says the church "requires us to believe that there is a state of suffering, after this life, in which souls are detained for a time in order to be purified and rendered fit for heaven."
—The Times of this city is authority for the statement that there is in Oakland an increasing demand for oriental sacred books. "The Koran in cheap form is one of the best-selling books, and a volume of extracts from Buddha is extremely popular. The sale of the Zend Avesta is restricted because it cannot be obtained in cheap form. The purchasers of these works are not only clergymen, but laymen, and there seems to be an intense curiosity to compare the sacred books of other religions with the Bible."
—Seventeen Protestant ministers and University professors of Columbus, Ohio, have united in signing a letter denouncing as fraudulent and unwarranted the many alarming statements and warnings against the Catholics now being scattered broadcast by the American Protective Association. The apologists are quite confident that there can be no danger from Catholic influence in this country while that people number only about one-seventh of the population. There would be ground for this assurance were it not for the fact that Protestants themselves are persistently, though perhaps unwittingly, doing the work of Catholics for them, in their endeavors to dominate the government by church influence. So long as the peculiar work of the Catholics is being done in the country, it matters little by whom it is done.
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