Earlier text: Sunday Not the True Seventh DayTake Care of Your Stomach.
IN order to have strong, firm, healthy muscles, a vigorous intellect, and a body free from disease, one must have pure healthy blood; and to insure this, the stomach must have careful and kind attention. Overloading it, either by eating or drinking, is a prolific source of disease. By so doing, chymification is retarded, the contents of the stomach become acrid and sharp, and oftentimes aphthous patches are produced, and by the time the miserably digested food reaches the heart, it is in a poor condition to be sent throughout the system for its nourishment. As well expect a house built of poor, rotten timber to be strong and durable, as to expect the human fabric to be sound and healthy out of poorly digested food. It is an impossibility. We may live through such torture, and to a good old age, but there will always be something the matter. Either the head aches, or the stomach feels heavy, or there is general debility, or you are unnaturally peevish and irritable, or you have lost the power of concentrating thought, or some other ill that flesh, through ignorance, is afflicted with. Torturing the stomach with half-masticated food is another fruitful cause of unhealthy blood. The saliva when thoroughly mixed with the food by mastication exerts such an essential chemical influence upon it, and in fact is the only true solvent of certain portions of our diet, that we cannot, and be well, break this all important law of chewing our food fine. Our bodies are heterogeneous, nearly all the elements entering into their composition, and all essential to perfect development and sound health. When it is deprived of any one of these materials, it becomes weakened and unsound, just as much as any structure made by human hands, is comparatively worthless if made of imperfect timber. A man would appear insane to say that a good, strong, durable building could be made from poor materials, and yet thousands live every day as though they believed that the human fabric could be nourished and built strong and healthy out of poorly digested food. When we eat rapidly, we deprive our blood of certain essential elements; when we overload our stomachs, we send a vitiated fluid to our hearts to repair our bodies; when we habitually pour alcoholic drinks down our throat, we pervert the nutritive processes, prevent the hydro-carbonaceous products from being eliminated as freely as is compatible with health, and produce a fermentable condition of the blood. Our poor tortured stomach pleads with us by intense nausea, and oftentimes by throwing off its contents, and if we fail to heed this warning, our nerves begin to get weak and unstrung. . . . When we swallow our food whole, overload our stomachs, take cold, or break any law of nature whatever, she informs us almost immediately of our danger. If rapid eating, or overeating is indulged in, her language is at first a dull, uncomfortable feeling in the stomach, accompanied by a slight pain and depression of feelings. Not heeding this, the stomach continues to grow heavy like a fifty pound ball, the feelings sink into despondency, the liver becomes affected, the skin takes on a sole-leather hue, the features become distorted, the dispostion becomes wrangled and dyspepsia has completely routed health, and has us, soul and body in his destroying power. Nature warned, but we did not listen. She is peculiarly sensitive. Even the slightest cold that we take is not overlooked by her. Her language to us then is a dry, hot skin, headache, loss of appetite, etc.; she is trying to throw open her million of doors, or pores of the skin; if she succeeds we recover with but little inconvenience; if she fails to do this or to make us understand our condition, she continues to plead with us, by making us so ill that we are compelled, perhaps when too late, to heed her warnings. Happy the human being who pays attention to the language of nature; for every word she utters is a lesson turned to inestimable account. Health, happiness, life, is sacrificed every day owing to our obtuseness to her teachings. For the proof of these statements we have but to bring the cases of the temperate and the intemperate, the pernicious effects of the one and the beneficial results of the other. Nature is all truth, and whenever anything is wrong with the body, it is her language telling us that something is the matter, and that if we desire health, and not to "shuffle off our mortal coils" prematurely, we must obey.—New Jersey Mechanic. Occupation Versus Idleness
THERE are dozens suffering in health for want of occupation to one who is crippled by overwork. IDLENESS always envies industry. Religious News and Notes.
--Henry Kiddle, superintendent of public schools in New York city, has embraced Spiritualism. --The Lutheran Deaconesses Institution at Pittsburg, Pa., has received a legacy of $100,000. --The total issues of the American Bible Society during sixty-three years amount to 36,052,169 copies. --The governors of Queen Anne's bounty have just distributed $114,000 in aid of one hundred poor benefices. --The Reformed Presbyterians of Scotland cordially receive the proposal of the Established Church for union. --A Mystic (Conn.) clergyman received only four dollars and a half salary last year. It is thought he worked overtime for the four dollars. --Out of the thirty-nine graduates from Union Seminary, three go as missionaries to Mexico, one to Africa, two to India, and one to China. --Three hundred eastern excursionists bound for the Yosemite Sunday-school, arrived in Salt Lake the morning of June 1, to remain over Sunday. --The Methodist Women's Missionary Society collected last year upward of $80,000 for foreign missions. It enters upon its eleventh year of usefulness. --At the Sunday evening, June 1, revival temperance meeting held by Francis Murphy in S. F., the M. E. Church was crowded to its utmost capacity. Rev. Mr. Snow of Boston, addressed the meeting for a few moments; also Drs. Cox and Pierson spoke briefly, after which Mr. Murphy delivered one of his characteristic addresses. --A lady missionary teacher of Utah said at the Saratoga Assembly, last week, that the degradation of Mormon women there is as great as that of women in China. --There were thirty-three deaths among the ministry of the Southern Presbyterian Church last year. It is stated that those received into the ministry are less than half as many. --Count Andrew de la Ville, of Rome, states that the errors and absurdities of Catholic dogma had become offensive to his morals. He has withdrawn from the Church of Rome and become a Methodist. --It is estimated that 160,000,000 copies of the Scriptures have been printed and circulated in the present century. The American Bible Society has printed 35,000,000 of this number, and the British and Foreign Society 82,000,000. --The bill designed to relieve the Seventh Day Baptists from the operation of Sunday laws, which has been pending in the Pennsylvania Legislature, has failed in the senate. A majority voted for it; but it did not receive a two-thirds vote. --Eight new cardinals have been appointed. Among them is Dr. John Henry Newman, of England. He said in replying to the consistorial messenger who officially announced to him his new rank, that he would hereafter, as he had in the past, resist with all his powers the spirit of liberalism in religion. --The Presbytery of Cork overtures the Irish Presbyterian Assembly to the effect that, "as the use of instrumental music is warranted by the Scriptures," the Assembly shall so deal with the question as to "prevent continued interference with the scriptural liberty of congregations in the service of praise." --Bishop Russell, of Ningpo, China, confirmed last year 113 persons, making exactly 300 in six years. All have been Chinese save sixteen. He ordained three natives to priests' orders. The Bishop refers to an awakening in the Cu Kyi district, and says there are not wanting signs that a change favorable to Christianity is taking place in the minds of the people generally. --All of the Presbyterian churches in the country, of every phase of belief, have recently been represented in four general assemblies. The original body met at Saratoga, N. Y. A branch, differing from the original body in no point of doctrine, but in politics, met at Louisville, Ky. The "Associate Reformed" branch had their twenty-first general assembly at New Wilmington, Pa. Of this body the New York Tribune says: "We doubt, indeed, whether many of the church could define to-day the ancient boundaries over which their forefathers fought so fiercely; the chief differences apparent now between the Presbyterian and his seceding brother is that the latter persists in regarding hymns as mere anthems to Satan, and observes the Sabbath with an almost Hebrew strictness. A law-suit involving a large amount of church property, which depended on the right of members of a kindred and still smaller Scotch Presbyterian organization to sing Wesley's and Moody's hymns, instead of David's Psalms, if they chose, has been going on for years in the Philadelphia courts, and was decided last week in favor of the modern hymn-book and liberty." The Cumberland Presbyterians met at Memphis. This branch left the main body seventy years ago, because the General Presbytery in Kentucky insisted upon the ordination of partially educated ministers, and also diverged from the doctrine of election. The business between the four assemblies has related more to the personal affairs of each church than to national interest. —A $200,000 fire recently occurred at the Dalles, Oregon. —Russia is about to add a number of swift cruisers to her fleet. —Arizona is receiving a large number of emigrants from Texas. —The Longfellow Copper Mine, Clifton, Arizona, yielded $3,000,000 last year. —Preparations for the Mexican International Exposition are in rapid progress. —A fire has recently occurred in Buffalo, resulting in considerable loss of property. —The Warner Silver bill with its amendments has passed the House by about 20 majority. —Two prisoners confined in Kern County jail for murder, were lynched May 28, by a masked mob. —A committee of nine has been appointed by Congress to give the subject of temperance special attention. —The President has nominated J. W. Craycroft of West Virginia to be United States Attorney for Idaho. —A correspondent at Berlin reports that Germany and France are co-operating heartily on the Greek question. —Another Chinese laden vessel has just arrived at Astoria, Oregon, making five shiploads in less than a week. —United States troops are stationed on the Indian Territory lines, to prevent emigrants from settling in the Territory. —A dispatch from Berlin states that negotiations are proceeding there for a commercial treaty with Japan on the model of the Japanese treaty with the United States. —The British India Steam Navigation Company's steamer, Ava, was sunk May 26, in a collision with another vessel, and sixty-five of her crew and four passengers drowned. —A dispatch from Simla, May 30, says that the treaty of peace between Great Britain and Afghanistan was ratified to-day, and a salute of thirty-one guns was fired in honor of the event. —May 31, the first passenger train of the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad reached the Kenosha Summit, 10,140 feet above the sea level. The highest yet reached by any railroad in North America. —A dispatch, lately from Athens, announces an engagement between Turkish troops and insurgents at Perlasia, Thessaly. The Turks lost 450 killed and wounded, and the insurgents 70, including their leaders. —Twenty-seven children have suddenly died near Island Pond, Vt., as the result of drinking from a brook into which were thrown carcasses of animals, poisoned by eating potato tops, upon which had been sprinkled Paris green. —An expedition by the American Colonization Society will leave New York on June 14, when the bark Monrovia will sail direct for Liberia. The Society has applications from 500,000 persons for passage and homes in the Liberian Republic. —Bismarck's note inviting the cities of Hamburg and Bremen to surrender their privileges as free ports, and to associate themselves with the Imperial fiscal system, is couched in such terms as to leave no choice between submission and the certainty of compulsion. —The Daily News says that the Chinese Envoys have been favorably received by the king of Spain. Negotiations for a treaty relative to the importation of coolies has been effected. According to the treaty, Chinamen in Spanish colonies will enjoy the same treatment as that of citizens of the most favored nations. The commercial relations of Spain and China will be placed on a similar footing. —The eruption of Mount Etna increases in force. The quantity of ashes thrown out is somewhat less, but the volume of vapor has greatly increased in density. The night of May 28, brilliant balls of fire were thrown to a great height and burst aloft like rockets, emitting a fiery shower. A stream of lava is flowing apparently in the direction of Randazzo, but the exact line has not yet been verified, and loud reports like the rolling of artillery were heard. From later accounts, craters have formed on two slopes of Mount Etna, and a double eruption is proceeding. —A terrible rain and wind storm passed over northern Kansas and Southern Nebraska last week. The town of Irving was nearly destroyed. Many persons were killed and wounded. At this point, the storm took the character of a cyclone, and leveled everything before it. It passed into Missouri, struck the earth four miles from Lee's Summit, and tore a furrow through the country about 100 yards wide and ten miles long. The storm was said to be extremely violent in Ottawa County. Fifteen dead bodies were brought in from two square miles of territory. Obituary.
By B. A. Stephens
DIED, of brain fever, in Reno, Nevada, May 24, 1879, Opal, daughter of W. E. and E. Hand; aged 15 months lacking two days. A discourse was given upon the resurrection from Jer. 31:16, at the funeral, by B. A. STEPHENS. Missionary Work on the Pacific Coast
By Stephen N. Haskell
WE do not expect our stay upon this coast to be very long and we are anxious to accomplish as much as possible while we remain here. The advantages of the mail are as good here as anywhere in the country; hence, there is nothing to stand in the way of our V. M. Societies or their work. There is no reason why they may not be equal to, if not excel, any of those east of the Rocky Mountains. Every church should have a V. M. Society; and where individuals are living alone, they should feel it a privilege to take, at least, a small club of the Signs, of not less than eight copies, and with these papers labor to enlighten others. There are advantages which this coast possesses over other portions of the country. San Francisco is a shipping port from which vessels sail to all parts of the world; this gives an opportunity to send the rays of light in the form of publications, everywhere. These opportunities should be improved, and such steps be taken that will best advance the cause of truth. Every regular line of ships should be visited, and where proper, furnished with our publications; also steamers that are out for days upon the water, should be furnished with libraries of our standard works. Ships that go to distant ports, where there are reading rooms, should be supplied with a carefully selected package of our publications, to be left at these reading rooms. We have already ordered $50 from the Gen. T. and M. Society towards a $1000 fund for this purpose. It is our duty to sow the seed in the morning, and in the evening withhold not our hand, realizing that it is God's work; and there are thousands of conscientious, God-fearing men and women, who would rejoice in the truth, and be saved in the kingdom of God. Soon the working time will be over and past. Therefore we should seize upon every opportunity to spread the truth, and make the most of the present moments. We are pleased to see the interest manifested in the missionary work on this coast. After returning from the Oregon camp-meeting at Salem, we design to hold a general meeting of two or more days in Sonoma, Napa and Yolo counties, before the California camp-meetings. We shall spare no pains to make these meetings profitable; yet, unless God meet with us, they will fail of accomplishing any permanent good. We request that these meetings be made a special subject of prayer, that the Lord may impart largely of his Holy Spirit. The wants of the cause upon this coast and elsewhere, will be laid before our brethren and sisters at these meetings; and we shall be prepared to do any business that may be desired, with the PACIFIC PRESS Office or the Review and Herald Office. The week following the second California camp-meeting, we propose to meet with our friends in Nevada where Brother Stephens may arrange. Religious Fanaticism.
By Editor
A PAPER of the “Liberal League” stamp gives a lengthy account of the horrible Pocasset murder, under the head of Religious Fanaticism, and says:-- “It is the same fanaticism toward which any religion, be it Christian, Mohamedan, Jewish or Pagan, naturally and certainly tends.” What a difference the stand-point of the observer makes in the view of things. This liberal decision is as good, both in logic and liberality, as that of some who profess to be Christians. Ignorance, or Prejudice?
By Editor
A WRITER in the Brethren at Work says:-- "If the people of the United States elect a man to the Presidency, and will not afterward suffer him to transgress the laws at pleasure, nor make laws to suit himself contrary to the constitution, they are insubordinate." This was intended to be vastly ironical; but any man who knows no better than to represent any President of the United States as trying "to make laws to suit himself contrary to the Constitution," should not dive very deep into figures of speech. The President has as much to do with framing laws as the Sheriff of a county. Nevada State T. and M. Society.
At a meeting of the T. and M. members at St. Clair, Nevada, May 11, 1879, it was voted to adopt the Constitution as recommended by the General T. and M. Society. Brethren J. W. Bond, Jackson Ferguson, and Wm. Harmon were appointed nominating committee. The following named persons were suggested by the committee to act as officers of the Nevada State T. and M. Society for the following year: President, Elder B. A. Stephens; Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. May Stephens. On motion, the report of the committee was accepted, and the above named officers elected. The State was divided into two districts, for missionary work, as follows: All that portion of the State of Nevada west of a line passing north and south through the town of Wadsworth, Washoe Co., was to be district No. 1, and that portion east of that line to be district No. 2; Wadsworth to be included in No. 2. W. E. Fricke was chosen director of district No. 1, and Wm. Harmon of district No. 2. On motion, the President was permitted to use all tracts necessary for the work in Carson, at the expense of the State T. and M. Society. Carried. Some remarks were made about the necessity of all missionary accounts with the SIGNS Office being transacted through the proper State officers, so as to prevent confusion. B. A. STEPHENS, Chairman.
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