Earlier text: A SUFFICIENT SAVIOURMISTAKING THE MISSION.
By S.
REV. CHAS. H. BRENT, of Boston, has been elected by the Episcopal Church to the office of Bishop of the Philippines, and has announced his acceptance of the office. That the new bishop is a convert to the idea of the union of secular and religious things, the interference of the clergy in the affairs of State, is plainly evident from his own declaration of what such an officer's duties would be in the Philippines. The following is his statement of the matter:— The bishop who goes to the Philippine Islands goes to stand for righteousness in civil life, to make civil service what it should be there, to promote Christian education, to further the interests of American civilization in that country, which is now our responsibility, and foster the true elements of our own civilization. It is no longer a question of imperialism or of anti-imperialism. We have our duty to perform. It is to give these people—for they are ours now—all that we are capable of giving them. It has been argued by some members of our church that because the Roman Catholic Church is established in that country we have no business there. Do not think that the bishop goes to the Philippines as the enemy of the Roman Catholic Church. He goes as the enemy of their enemies—of lust, extortion, dishonor, and oppression. If the last sentence of the quotation could be shown to be true, the “lust, extortion, dishonor and ‘oppression’” must all have been perpetrated by the Filipinos. But we had understood that those were the things from which the Filipinos have been struggling for release for centuries; that they were the ones who had suffered those things, suffered them at the hands of a religious despotism. It is difficult to understand how the bishop can go there as the enemy of that despotism’s enemies, and still be the friend and well-wisher of the Filipino. It was the oppression, extortion, and dishonor which the Filipinos suffered at the hands of the friars that finally resulted in the loss of the islands to Spain. The Church used the State for its own ends, for the enforcement of its own demands. The result was continued rebellion against the government, and its final expulsion; but the Church is still there—and so are its enemies. The bishop who goes there as the enemy of those enemies, goes as the friend of Rome, an apologist for all she has done in those islands, standing for those very principles that lost the islands to the Spanish crown. The bishop will “stand for righteousness in civil ‘life,’” and will seek “to make civil service what it ‘should be there.’” But how about the “great ‘commission’”? It seems to have been wholly buried under the glittering phraseology of a political religion. The “great commission” reads, “Go ye ‘into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every ‘creature.’” But we hear nothing of this among the platitudes of the bishop. It is “civil service” and “American civilization” that are to be the burden of the Episcopal mission to the Philippines, the very duties which the government has placed upon its accredited representatives there. Thus it is that our great religious bodies are laboring for a union of Church and State in this government—a union in fact and effect, if not in outward form. Gradually and almost imperceptibly the doctrine of the duty of the church to interfere in political affairs is gaining adherents and influence throughout the country. The great church body is being swept from its moorings on the rising tide of a political religion. “Civic ‘righteousness’ and ‘American civilization’” are usurping the place of the true Gospel in the great pulpits of the land, and every performance of a real religious duty is given a political turn by these misguided teachers. The truth of God is thus smitten in the house of its supposed friends. The kingdom of God, which Christ declared was “not of this ‘world’” is made to appear of this world wholly, with a bare tinge of religious sentiment. It is hardly supposable that a missionary who goes to a foreign people with such a commission in one hand and a deed of ownership in the other (as this official does, judging from his own declaration) will either fitly represent Christ, or win for Him the sincere worship of that purchased people. He who regards himself as the owner of any man is in no condition to preach to that man the Gospel of Christ. The bishop says, “They are ours now.” Who made them ours? Did the $20,000,000 which the United States paid Spain give into our possession the souls and bodies of the Filipinos? If so, the emancipation proclamation was in vain, and we have since the Spanish war enslaved more human beings than were liberated in 1864. Really, if this is the burden, the message, and the attitude of the new bishop to the Philippines, it were better that he should remain in America until he shall receive a spiritual eyesight, and be endowed with power from on high. S. CONDITION OF CHURCH AS STATED BY A PASTOR.
A Congregational pastor of Berkeley, Cal., G. B. Hatch, declares that the two chief infidelities of the church at the present time are evolution, about which the great majority know little or nothing, and a “mid-summer madness” of sociology, socialism, and kindred things, in which a lesser branch of Christian work is made the main thing, a “secondary branch of the tree of life” is “hewed into a god.” Of evolution Pastor Hatch says:— The church has been surrendering all along the line to evolution. Now, evolution is a hypothesis of science, and science has a perfect right to that hypothesis, to work with it, if possible. But the church has no business with that hypothesis either to deny it or to accept it, in so far as it is confined to the realm of science. As a scientific hypothesis the church knows very little about it, and not one man in ten could move ten feet ahead in an attempt to state it without falling down. As a scientific hypothesis the church has no more concern with evolution, and scarcely more acquaintance with it, than with the formula for determining the foundation of a ship.9But the hypothesis of evolution has been seized upon by those Athenians who are always open for something new, and has been made into a master key to unlock the mysteries of mind and spirit, as well as those of matter. The church has tumbled over its feet in its rapid haste to get to those Athenians, and to say, “O, I believe you. I am no old fogy. ‘I am up-to-date. Nothing slow or sleepy about ‘me.’” But in so doing the church has simply sold itself for a mess of pottage.—S. F. Call, October 3, 1901. And so he tells us that there are “empty pews, ‘low treasuries, scant public respect, an entire ‘ignoring of the church by multitudes and industrious ‘rotten-egging of it by other multitudes, very few ‘conversions, constant discussion with never a de- cision of the query, Why do not men, and espe- cially workmen, attend and support the church?” And it all demonstrates the truth of the apostle’s words in 2 Tim. 3:1-5. Surely we are in the last days, and perilous times are around us. Yet there is hope, and that lies in receiving with all the heart God’s message for to-day. Read it in Rev. 14:6-14. FIFTEEN HUNDRED A MINUTE.
By Y
GENERAL JOSEPH WHEELER, who figured so conspicuously in the recent Spanish-American war has taken up his residence in Philadelphia for the purpose of organizing a company to build an immense plant to manufacture the McLean rifle. A number of the leading capitalists are interested in the scheme, and it is proposed to capitalize the new company at $6,000,000. Mr. O. N. McLean, the inventor of the new rifle, in describing it says:— The gun, at each pressure of the trigger, fires five shots through a single barrel, ejecting the cartridges one by one, ejects the cartridge-holder, and reloads the weapon, all without any recoil. A speed of twenty-five shots a second, or 1,500 a minute, can be attained through a single barrel. Edwin S. Cramp, of ship-building fame, says, “The gun is revolutionary.” And General Wheeler affirms that with one regiment armed with the new gun he could whip three regiments using any other rifle. Government inspectors have tested and approved of the gun, and the new company are pushing forward their plans so as to be supplying them as soon as possible. Forty years ago this country was engaged in a civil war. The men who were called into action at the beginning of that combat carried to the battlefield old muzzle-loading guns that required great dexterity with the “prepared” ammunition to enable the soldier to fire his rifle two or three times a minute. Then came the breech-loading gun that was thought to be the climax; the Gatling gun and also the machine gun were invented. But these are now all left behind by this new McLean gun. What will be the terrible scenes of slaughter when these modern weapons of warfare are brought into action on the great battle-field of Armageddon! And how impressive is the fact that the nations are now being marshaled for that great conflict! Have you read the clear prophecies of God’s Word that make it unmistakably plain that this unparalleled activity in the lines of war is one of the sure evidences that the “great day of the Lord” is right at hand? Religious Persecution in Prussian Schools
Shocking accounts have been telegraphed from Prussian Poland of the wholesale flogging of Polish school children by Prussian teachers because the children have refused to learn the catechism and prayers in German. The flogging was so general that the parents of the children assembled around the school-houses and denounced the authorities and teachers. This resulted in the parents being committed to prison for terms ranging from two months to two years. In permitting this outrage, or in requiring it, Prussia is permitting herself to act upon the most illiberal and unchristian policy of the Dark Ages. It is a long remove from Christianity, even tho the religion sought to be inculcated be called by that name. The gospel of force has no part nor lot in the field of true Christianity. It is one of the wicked anomalies of a church-and-state religion. The Colombian rebels have captured Colon, or Aspinwall, and have threatened Panama. The government troops are now moving for the recapture of Colon, and some hard fighting has taken place along the Panama railway. It is reported that 150 men were killed in the battle on November 25. United States war-ships have landed marines, who are now in control of the railway to prevent either party interfering with its operation. This action of the United States is in accordance with the treaty between Colombia and the United States, and altho European powers look upon the act suspiciously, it is not expected that they will interfere. The Colombian gunboat in the harbor of Colon threatens to bombard the place in order to assist in its recapture; but it is not thought that the bombardment will take place on account of the large interests there. Governor Jenks, of Alabama, has issued a proclamation announcing the ratification of the new constitution of that State, and declaring that the new instrument shall become effective on Thanksgiving day, November 28. By this constitution the right of suffrage is restricted to those who can read and write, or who own 40 acres of land in the State, or who have served in the army or navy of the United States, the Confederate States, or the State of Alabama in any of the wars; also the lawful descendants of persons who have served in the army or navy. One of the articles provides that those who exercise the right of suffrage must possess good character and understand the duties and obligations of citizenship under a republican form of government. What purports to be a verbatim report of the findings of the Nicaragua Canal Commission, has been published in the daily press. According to this report, the Nicaragua route has been chosen by the commission. The total cost of the canal construction is placed at $189,864,062. The cost of the Panama route, including the price at which the Panama Canal Company holds its property, is $253,374,858. The Nicaragua route from sea to sea is 186.66 miles; while the Panama route is 49.09 miles long. The mining interests of the country have been stirred during the past week over the claims put forth by Professor Wynn, of Denver, Colorado, that he has invented a new process of extracting gold from ore far superior to any process ever before known. Tests have been made upon ore worked by other processes, and wonderful results are claimed. Some prominent men have become interested in the new process, which it is claimed will greatly add to the stock of the world's gold. A despatch from Constantinople states that never has the Turkish Government been in such financial straits as at the present time. The Ottoman Bank refuses to make any more advances to the government, and in many of the provinces the troops are unpaid. There is much discontent in the army, and this is regarded as a real danger. Under the present conditions should rebellion break out, we might reasonably expect each of the powers to rush in for its share of the dismembered nation. The Greek cabinet has resigned on account of the recent riots in Athens. The cause of the riots is a peculiar one. It has been proposed to translate the Bible into modern Greek. To this the adherents of the Greek Catholic Church are strenuously opposed. They have seized certain buildings and defied even the military authorities. Several lives have been lost in the conflicts between the opposing forces. The Pacific Commercial Cable Company, recently organized in New York to lay a cable from San Francisco to the Philippines, is reported to have awarded the contract for the first section, from San Francisco to Honolulu, to an English company. This company expects to have the cable working by the first of September, 1902, between the last named places. The cost is placed at nearly $3,000,000. Professor Virchow, a well-known scientist, now comes forward with the declaration that the Neanderthal skull, which was supposed to be the skull of the missing link, can not be accepted as the type of a race, but must be considered as abnormal. Those who were not intoxicated with the evolution theory came to that conclusion when the skull was first brought to public attention. The new railroad which is now being constructed through Uganda, East Africa, has awarded to the American Bridge Company of Philadelphia, a contract for 20 steel bridges, which will cost nearly $1,000,000. Several English and continental firms entered bids; but were underbid by the American firm both as to price and length of time for construction. The population of France continues to decrease, and the premier has appointed a commission to study the course to be taken in order to arrest the depopulation of the nation. One of the causes of the decrease is said to be the baby farms. It is claimed that 80 per cent of the children committed to these institutions die at an early age. It is reported that the British Government is seeking to negotiate a treaty with Nicaragua which will enable the British to retire from all claim of jurisdiction over the Mosquito Coast, leaving Nicaragua in full sovereignty there, with Nicaragua guaranteeing the proper treatment of the Indians, who are now under British protection. The British steamer Monmouth, from Cape Town, South Africa, arrived at Norfolk, Va., on November 19, and reports the existence of over 800 cases of bubonic plague in Cape Town and vicinity at the time the vessel left. The captain reports that 380 deaths had occurred up to the time his steamer sailed. The German Colonial Council, in session at Berlin on November 21, declared that while the emancipation of the children of slaves might be practicable in Togoland and the Cameroons, yet the time had not arrived when it would be practicable to declare them free in German East Africa. And this is the year 1901! Aguinaldo recently made a request that he be allowed to come to the United States and lay before the American people the wishes of the Filipinos. The Secretary of War has ordered that he be kept a prisoner in Manila. The electric railway company of New Egypt, N. J., has brought suit against a Bohemian truck farmer of that place for the theft of electricity, which the farmer is said to have stolen by tapping the company's feed wire. The purpose of the theft was the stimulation of the growth of vegetables in the Bohemian's truck garden. By a network of wires the electricity was distributed through the soil of the garden, and the result was a marvelous growth in whatever vegetables the farmer planted; but the trolley company was barely able to operate its cars at the slowest pace with the greatest amount of power it could produce. It was the great loss of power which led to the detection of the theft. The comments of the British press during the week upon the canal treaty and the isthmian canal project have been very favorable as a rule, some even going so far as to assert that England should now give a formal statement of its acceptance of the principles of the Monroe Doctrine. A mob of 400 union miners attacked a non-union mine at Prospect Hill, near Vincennes, Indiana, on November 19, severely injuring the foreman of the mine, members of his family, and others. The mine was operated on the co-operative plan, and the union proposes to unionize it. Captain Charles F. Brouard, who has just returned from Alaska after a five-years' exploring tour in the northwestern part of that territory, reports finding a bed of bituminous coal extending from Kotzebue Sound to the Arctic Ocean, a distance of 300 miles. France, in endeavoring to reduce her large deficit, has placed a tax on gardens, wardrobes, and furniture, and is now proposing to place a tax on pianos, and on books printed or offered for sale in Paris. All the leading publishers are strongly opposing the book tax. Anxiety is now felt for the safety of the expedition under Captain Svedrup, which left Norway on June 24, 1898, in the Fram, Nansen's vessel, to explore the Arctic regions. Nothing has been heard of this expedition since leaving Norway. Great damage is reported to have been done by the storm which visited Long Island and vicinity on November 23 and 24. In some places many buildings were blown down. A considerable number lost their lives in wrecks on the Sound. It is reported that arrangements are now being made for the consolidation of all the railroads which are now under the Harriman syndicate management. This will form another railway trust similar to the railway trust of the Northwest. The most difficult part of the railroad over the Andes Mountains has been completed, and a trial train, carrying foreign visitors, has been run over the road. This is the line which is working its way from the coast to Quito. The Island of Samar in the Philippines is now being closely patrolled by gunboats, and it is reported that as a result the food supplies of the armed Filipinos is cut off, and that their army is in a starving condition. A collision occurred on the Santa Fe railroad, near Franconia, A. T., on November 20, in which seven employees of the road lost their lives. None of the passengers were killed altho several were injured. Student riots in Madrid have continued for several days, with considerable destruction of property. On November 19 the students attacked the street railways and attempted to set the cars on fire. The Hardwick Bill, providing for the disfranchisement of the negro in the State of Georgia, was defeated in the Georgia Legislature on November 19 by a decisive vote. In Europe the topic of combination against America is not permitted to rest. Luigi Luzzatti, a former minister of Italy, has now come out strongly for such a combination. There have been found in one of the royal tombs of ancient Egypt, gold bracelets worn by the wife of King Zer, the date of whose reign is placed as far back as 4700 B. C. The W. C. T. U., at its convention in Fort Worth, Texas, on November 19, re-elected Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens, of Maine, president for the coming year. Governor Van Sant, of Minnesota, and the State attorney-general continue preparations for the fight against the great railway trust of the Northwest. Drugs amounting in value to $150,000 were destroyed in a fire which consumed a wholesale drug store in Los Angeles on November 21. Italy's new ambassador to the United States, Signor Emayor des Planches, was formally received at the White House on November 19. A French engineer predicts that alcohol will before many years take the place of both coal and petroleum as a fuel. The Venezuelan Minister of War has been arrested, accused of conspiracy against the government. Miss Helen M. Stone, the captured missionary, is still in the hands of the brigands. CHRISTIANITY AND PROFANITY.
THERE is a consonance in sound, a rhyming, between the two words at the head of this article, but it indicates no association or harmony between the two things named. There is absolute antagonism between Christianity and profanity. If a man has the genuine first, he has not the second. If he has the second and receives the first, the second is bound to go. If a man has not enough Christianity to destroy his profanity, he has hardly a salvable quantity. And yet, according to the Salt Lake Tribune of October 5, among the prominent growing evils among the Latter-day Saints, as discussed in their seventy-second annual meeting, were profanity and the use of tobacco. In the Tribune's report we read:— President Smith referred to the evils among the Saints, including the breaking of the Sabbath day and the taking of the name of the Lord in vain, both of which he said were incompatible with the teachings of the Gospel. Another growing evil which President Smith said is becoming all too apparent is that of the use of tobacco among the youth. Apostle Cowley also took up and denounced the practice of profanity among the Saints, and said an authority of the church had recently said to him that there was more profanity on the streets of Salt Lake in a short time than in the cities of England in a long time. The apostle said, too, that he had spent nearly five years in the South, and during that time he seldom heard the name of God taken in vain; that while those people were probably worse in some respects, they would be an example for the Latter-day Saints to follow in their freedom from profanity. Others tell us that profanity is common. It is no wonder that membership increased under promise of temporal prosperity and lax discipline. Another speaker, “Apostle” Clawson, familiar with Mormonism in Salt Lake City,—called attention to the increasing use of tobacco among the Saints, and said it would appear from the actions of some of the elders that they think more of their cigarettes and of their chew of tobacco and of their filthy habits than they do of their families and of the priesthood of the Son of God. MAGNETISM AND ELECTRICITY.
By Frederick Griggs
MAGNETISM and electricity are two of the greatest forces in the universe, yet, like life, we do not know what they are. We can watch food through all the various changes, that it undergoes, physical and chemical, and follow it until it reaches the point where it becomes life, and there we are forced to stop. We can not find life or discover what it is. So in nature we can see all the physical and chemical changes which produce electricity; but here our search for knowledge must stop, for we can not tell what it is. There can be little doubt, however, that it is very closely related and is analogous to life. God certainly has some wise reasons for not revealing these secrets of life to man. They must be closely related to the tree of life, of which God deprived man when he fell. The difference between magnetism and electricity is not clearly understood, but that they are closely related is shown by the fact that a magnet will make a current of electricity, and electricity will produce a magnet. However, while we may not know what electricity and magnetism actually are, yet there are very many interesting and valuable studies which may be made of them. At any toy store or good bookstore a magnet may be purchased, costing from one cent upward according to the size. Magnets are of two shapes—the bar and the horseshoe. One of the poles or ends of the magnet will be marked + and is called positive. The other is marked — and is called negative. What magnetism is, I have said, is unknown; but this much is true that it is a manifestation of the power of God in which the power or force seems to organize itself in an object in such a way that at one end the force is exactly opposite in its workings from that of the other end. Not only so, but in each particle, or molecule, of the object the force is arranged in exactly the same way, as can be found by breaking the object. For instance, if the magnet be broken, it will be found that in each piece there is a positive and a negative end, and it makes no difference how small the pieces are either. So that if a magnet be broken into a thousand pieces, each piece in turn becomes a magnet. Why is this so? I can answer when you tell me what life is, and why it manifests itself as it does. The only reason that can be given is that God has chosen to manifest His power in this manner. The most striking feature or law of the magnet, perhaps, is that when two magnets are put together, the — and the + ends will attract and hold to each other, while the like ends will repel rather than attract. Not only may many of the objects on the earth be made into magnets, but the earth itself has been discovered to be one huge magnet with the negative pole at the north and the positive at the south. These magnetic poles of the earth do not correspond exactly with the geographical poles or ends of the axis of the earth. The north magnetic or negative pole is north and east of Boothia Bay. As a result of this the magnetic needle of the compass does not in most places point directly north. Accordingly surveyors are obliged to make an allowance for this variation of the compass from the lines running direct from the north to the south axis of the earth. East of a line running through Wilmington, N. C., Charlottesville, Va., and Pittsburg, Pa., the needle turns from the true north toward the west. West of it, it turns toward the east. This variation can be seen by any one traveling north or south on a town or section line road. Every few miles the road will jog on an east and west road for a few rods. With a good magnet and a piece of steel—a knitting-needle for instance—any child can make a compass. Rub the needle in one direction over the ends of the magnet until it becomes charged with magnetism, or is magnetized. It may be determined when it is magnetized by the fact that it will lift pins, needles, or anything of steel that is not too heavy. Then thrust it through a cork so that the needle will balance. Support this with a silk thread attached to the cork in a place where it will not be disturbed by air currents, and you have a compass. Now when the needle is suspended, it will be noted that it assumes a north and south position; and when turned from this position, will always return. Find and mark, before magnetizing the needle, the exact point at which it balances. When placed in the cork after being magnetized, it will be found that one end tips downward. This variation from the horizontal position gradually increases as one goes northward, until it comes to a vertical position at a point near Boothia Bay—the north magnetic pole. This is the negative pole of the earth, but it is the positive pole of the needle that is attracted to it for the reasons of which I have spoken. Another interesting experiment along the line of electricity may be suggested. Procure some piths such as may be found in an elder or corn stalk, and thoroughly dry them. Make two small balls about the size of a pea, and suspend them about an inch apart by fine silk threads eight or ten inches long. Fasten the upper end to a wooden support by means of a drop of sealing-wax. Now rub a stick of sealing-wax briskly on the sleeve or a piece of dry flannel for a few moments, and then bring the wax near the balls. The wax will affect the balls. Notice the distance at which it influences them. What happens after they have clung a short time to the wax? After they have left the wax, rub it again and then bring it near the balls. Now it repels them where before it attracted them. Why? The answer has already been given. Now rub a glass rod or tube, and bring it near to the balls. How do they act? Alternate the wax and the glass, and draw conclusions from the results. Now rub a gutta-percha comb or penholder. Do the balls behave as they do with the sealing-wax? Experiment with the glass, the wax, and the comb, and bits of paper or cotton. Bring them near the magnetic needle. Do they attract or repel either end? Rubbing the glass and wax is producing electricity by friction. When the pith balls flew to them, they remained until they were charged. Then because of the law that like repels like, they fell away from the rod or wax. The silk thread prevents the electricity from escaping into the air very rapidly if the air is dry. The electricity received from the wax is called negative. And that from the glass positive. Rub both the glass and the wax, and bring them close to one of the pith balls on opposite sides, and notice the results. Why does the ball do as it does? There is no end of interesting experiments which can be performed with magnetism, and with far less trouble than is usually considered necessary in performing such experiments; but the experiments are not to be performed simply because they are interesting, but rather because they manifest to us a new phase of God's power. I can not conceive of one's studying magnetism and electricity, and not having a reverential feeling awakened as he thus beholds the presence of the power of God. It is this continual presence that keeps the universe in existence: “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, it is high, I can not attain unto it.” FREDERICK GRIGGS. THE POWER IN A POUND OF COAL.
A POUND of coal can produce power sufficient to pull a large express train a distance of one-sixth of a mile, going at the rate of 50 miles an hour, writes an expert locomotive engineer, who is quoted in The Coal Trade Bulletin. He continues as follows: “You would be surprised at the wonderful amount of work which the energy from this small quantity of coal can do. For the purpose of explaining, take, for instance, a pound of what might be called average coal, containing about 10,000 heat units. This would be somewhat smaller in size than a man’s fist. If this pound of coal could be burned completely and entirely under water,11and all of its heat should go into the water, at a temperature of 62°. 5 pounds of water could be raised to the height of 1 foot. If this pound of coal could be completely burned in water 1 foot deep, with a temperature of 64°, and all the heat from this coal be imparted to the water, this water would become 16° hotter, thus being suitable for a comfortable bath. If adapted to mechanical work, the 10,000 heat units in the one pound of coal would be equivalent to 236 horse-power. The 236 horse-power of potential energy contained in the pound of coal is enough to haul a train of eight cars for a period of one-fifth of a minute, or a distance of one-sixth of a mile, going at the rate of 50 miles an hour. It has also been found to be able to draw a cable train, including the grip-car and trailer, for a distance of two miles at the rate of nine miles an hour. It would also be of sufficient power to pull an electric car, well filled with passengers, for two miles and a half, at a rate of ten miles an hour. If the power in this pound of coal is compared with the work of a strong man used to hard labor, it would be found that there is more than sufficient power in the pound of coal to do in one minute the day’s work, of eight hours, of five strong men. This is accounted for in this way: The work of a strong man, used to hard work, is estimated as being equal to one-tenth of a horse-power. The eight hours he works is equivalent to 480 minutes. Naturally, while working, a man makes a number of stops, either to rest or change the monotony of his position. These stops, then, would, without difficulty, take up one-tenth of the man’s time. Thus, this would reduce the time of actual work down to 432 minutes. This time, at one-tenth of the horse-power, makes the total of his day’s labor amount to 43.2 horse-power. At this rate it is shown that it would take 2,600 strong men, working constantly, to do jointly the same amount of work in one minute as can be done by the single pound of coal. Another line of work in which the superiority of a pound of coal is shown beside the labor of man is that of sawing wood. A man may consider himself a swift sawyer, if he makes sixty strokes a minute, each stroke of the blade having progressed 5 feet a minute; but a circular saw, driven by machinery, may be put through seventy times that distance and saw seventy times as much wood. Still, this little pound of coal has the power to keep in operation 180 such saws.” “LOVE NOT THE WORLD.”
By John Wm. Stein
“Love not the world,” it is passing away;
Love not its pleasures, they last but to-day;
Love not its riches, they take wings and fly;
Love not its honors, they wither and die;
Love not its loves, they will inconstant prove;
Love not its friendships, they fly like the dove;
Love not its fashions, they lead you astray:
“Love not the world,” it is passing away. Love not its nations, they fight and they kill;
Love not its power, its pomp, its good will;
Love not its vain institutions, tho fair;
Love not its god, tho “the prince of the air;”
Love not its lusts, they enfeeble and kill;
Love not its crowns, they are all hollow still;
Love not its scepters nor thrones; they decay;
“Love not the world,” it is passing away. Love thou God’s kingdom, His righteousness seek,
Be thou like Jesus each day in the week;
Seek thou His wisdom, His knowledge, His truth;
They will impart to thee vigor and youth.
“The life that now is,” “that which is to come,”
True friendship and love, true riches and home,
They will exalt thee and bless thee for aye.
“Love not the world,” it is passing away. Battle Creek, Mich. —John Wm. Stein. WHEN the Lord of all made grain to have starch in it, He made also for man, the eater, a digester for starch. In the mouth it lies; and only when chewing has made those buccal glands give forth the saliva that deals with that starch can it be ready for the human stomach. But what do you do? You make it in pap. You call it cereal food, and you shower it with sugar and cover it with cream, and then put it down into the stomach. To eat a bit of bread with each mouthful would mean some secretion of those so-needed glands. But no. Down it goes, and deprived of what it most must have. Then it rebels. There is gas, and ever more gas, acid dyspepsia, all the diseases that mean your millions of pills and bottles. Why am I a physician but to know this? And that is but part. That acid eats enamel. The teeth depart from you. Best dentists in the world in this America. O, yes! But, then, suppose there need be no dentists at all? Do I need dentists? Not I. But if I had been filled with cereal, and never a chew, then certainly I would need them all, says Helen Campbell in Boston Cooking School Magazine. Now what shall be done? For the child’s sake, I say, Parch your grains and grind or chew whole as you will, only chew! A wise man talked with me one day of the great Carlyle,—his power and the wonder of his work, his temper of the devil, and always a howl to all to be silent, he alone to speak. What did he eat? I say. Chiefly oatmeal, he says. And then I know. I have watched in a Scotch kitchen how they do. Their porridge is poison, gas-breeder, and temper-of-the-devil breeder. But they make antidote in their oat cake. That is to chew, and with thirty-two teeth, and no less. The teeth of Norwegian, of Swede and Finn,—of all people who make hard breads and chew,—are teeth indeed, and abide in the head that owns them. But Americans who drop them, gayly it would seem, have dentist and doctor and drug shop at every corner!—The Clinic. IT lies very much with the wives to make it easy for their husbands to show their tenderness. A woman should have a clean face to start with. A little extra scrubbing with soap and water before the husband comes home at night would not be amiss in some cases that I have observed, and it might bring some roses to the cheeks. A bow in the hair, a clean frill around the neck, perhaps a flower in the dress, has the desired effect. I tell the women that men's affections will sometimes wander because their wives are untidy and slatternly, their hair unkempt, their appearance unattractive. All women are not equally pretty; but it is not prettiness that holds a man's affection, but sweetness, neatness, nattiness, and these are possible to all women. A woman makes a profound mistake who frets and pouts and puts herself into a bad temper that she may be petted into a good one. It is a bad policy. A man will be tempted to coax her back once or twice, but he loses his respect for her each time. It really alienates him in his deepest nature and brings division between them. She is no longer his equal, one with him in spirit, heart, and life, but his toy and plaything. After awhile he will live in perpetual fear that one of these fits of caprice may be coming on, will hide anything likely to induce them, and so begins a course of insincerity which is the grave of love. No; when a woman perceives the expression of tenderness waning, let her keep her secret. Like Enid, she must possess herself in patience, never less but more sensitive to every spoken and unspoken wish; light, gentle, sympathetic, patient, expressing her tenderness by those little arts that women learn without going to school, and the love will emerge from its winter and sow the soul again with flowerets. But let men be more thoughtful and tender. When they feel most put out and irritated, either with or without cause, it would be well to force themselves to bridge the yawning chasm with a caress. Kiss and be friends, they used to say when we were children. Let us be careful to maintain the outward forms and the inner spirit will not be far away. We should not be less courteous to our wives than to our friends. A wife's feelings are more susceptible. To leave the house for our daily work, or to return to it after hours of absence without some recognition, is a mistake, and worse. Let us not forget the fret and worry, the perpetual burden of the children at home, the scheming and planning, the daily provision of dinner, the letting out of frocks for growing children, the darning and patching of boys' clothes, and tidying and cleaning and washing; and, if there are servants, the even greater anxiety involved in managing these. No woman would do for pay what thousands are doing for love. They ask no other wage than tenderness, which is the expression of a true and honest affection. And a woman can tell in an instant if it is that or a mere subterfuge for fidelity.—The Watchman.