p. 159 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 10. (3/10/1887)

A POPULAR DELUSION.

It is a popular delusion that dyspepsia is caused by eating indigestible food only. If this were so, and all the articles of diet enumerated as indigestible were placed on the index expurgatorius, I tremble to think what the poor dyspeptic would have left to live on. The first essential toward regaining health to be noted by a dyspeptic is to live regularly and abstain from all those foods that experience shows are injurious. Many persons who are supposed to have heart disease, an enlarged liver, or softening of the brain, are really hypochondriac dyspeptics. Oftentimes such persons have their worst fears realized by consulting some medical encyclopedia. I know of no more pitiable object than the young man or woman who "reads up" for the purpose of finding out from what complaint he or she is suffering.

When you are ill go at once to a physician instead of a book, and when he tells you you are suffering from an attack of dyspepsia, aid him in his work of repair by following his directions to the letter and remember his advice as to what you shall eat and drink. By doing this you will have little need to consult numerous books and make a note of the delightfully conflicting paragraphs in the household column of the daily papers in order to avoid a recurrence of the same complaint. Moderation is a good thing to observe, not only in what you eat, but as to when you eat. . . . The age, condition, and business of a man must also be considered.—New York Mail and Express.

Prohibition Party Vote Doubles

The Voice, of New York, which is the highest authority on prohibition matters, makes the total vote of the party last fall 323,061. Two years before the St. John vote was 151,223. The gain is more than 100 per cent.

The Saloon Leads to Pauperdom

THE saloon is a short cut to pauperdom.

SECULAR.

—The cholera is in Sicily.

—The Pope is said to approve of the Knights of Labor.

—A slight shock of earthquake was felt at Charleston, S. C., March 4.

—Father Beckx, general of the Order of Jesuits, died March 4, aged 92.

—A destructive fire occurred March 5 in New York. The estimated loss is $100,000.

—Slight earthquake shocks were felt in several villages on Long Island, March 2.

—Last week the snow-drifts were over the tops of the telegraph poles in parts of Minnesota.

—Cardinal Jacobini the Papal secretary, and the Pope’s confidential adviser, died February 28.

—The English Parliament has been asked to grant another £250,000 for the expenses of the navy.

—The natives of Zanzibar have risen, and have destroyed many trading-houses and British residences.

—The steamer W. H. Gardner plying between the Tombigbee River from Mobile, was burned March 1, and nineteen lives lost.

—An explosion of fire-damp occurred March 5 in a colliery at Quaregnon, four miles from Mons, Belgium; 120 men were killed.

—A severe shock of earthquake was felt March 2 at Reggio Dio Calabria, Italy. Two slight shocks were also felt at Diano Marino.

—A large Chinese junk was wrecked on the Soc-tang coast, China, January 13, and only six of the 600 persons on board were saved.

—A new torpedo-boat has been designed that is capable of firing torpedoes containing 200 pounds of dynamite or other high explosives.

—Six men were smothered in a snow-slide on the Canadian Pacific Railroad while operating with a snow-plow near Selkirk, Canada, February 27.

—Five British war vessels have been ordered to the North Pacific station, as the people are becoming alarmed at the unprotected position of that coast.

—Chief-Justice Morrison, of California, died March 2. The immediate cause of death was acute congestion of the liver, from which the deceased suffered only a few days.

—The Emperor William, in his speech at the opening of the Reichstag, said that he was very much gratified at the benevolent disposition the Pope has shown the empire.

—The Bulgarian rising at Rustchuk has been entirely suppressed. All the insurgent officers have been either captured and shot, or else killed or wounded in battle.

—At Cheapside, London, 296 square feet of land sold recently for $70,250; this is at the rate of $237.33 a foot, or $10,000,000 an acre. Not a very cheap side as land usually sells.

—Bradstreet’s reports that 99,300 men struck during January and February, 1887, against 57,800 in the same months in 1886. Of these 16,000 are still out, 23,523 were successful, and 50,777 failed.

—A new explosive, that possesses fifteen times greater destructive power than gunpowder, and that does not produce any smoke, has been invented under Government supervision in Russia.

—A monster meeting of London Socialists was held, February 28, at St. Paul’s Cathedral, and after marching through the streets with bands of music and red flags, etc., they quietly dispersed.

—The chief quarantine officer for Canada has just returned from England, where he has made arrangements to have all remounts for the British army bred in the Northwest Territory. This will cause a large influx of English capital into Canada.

—On March 4 an attempt was made to burn up a railway ferry-boat in New York with an infernal machine made out of a soda-water bottle. The fire was extinguished and no damage was done.

—The silly attempt of Miss Van Zandt to marry the Anarchist Spies, which happily has been frustrated, has led to a resolution in the Illinois Legislature forbidding anyone in a county jail to marry.

—Two lighters filled with cotton and the steamer Lone Star were burned in New York, February 28, together with a pier. The cause of the fire is unknown. Total loss, $320,000. One man is reported missing.

—M. Pasteur’s efforts towards curing hydrophobia undoubtedly made some difference in the Paris death-roll last year—only three deaths were recorded from rabies in 1886, against twenty-one during the previous year.

—On February 27 a passenger train run on a burning bridge at The Needles, Arizona. The bridge giving way, three cars and the engine fell into the abyss, where they were burned. Three men killed and several injured.

—China has ceded to Germany Chusan, one of a group of islands off the eastern coast of China, opposite the estuary of Tsien-Tang-Kiang. Numerous towns and villages are on the island, the capital being Ting-Hai, near the south coast.

—The Ameer of Afghanistan is making strenuous efforts to raise a new army; all boys between the ages of ten and eighteen years are being drilled for military service, and all who have reached the age of eighteen are enrolled in the army. The Ameer has issued a circular to all his subjects telling them to prepare for a holy war.

—The Government of Queensland, Australia, is taking vigorous measures to guard itself against a rabbit-plague. A rabbit-proof fence of wire-netting will be erected along the boundary line between Queensland and New South Wales, with an extension of a hundred miles northward along the boundary of South Australia. For this purpose, 2,550 miles of fencing wire and 450 miles of wire-netting have already been purchased in England.

News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—Three thousand British churches use unfermented wine at the Lord's supper.

—The Russian Government, it is said, has refused to establish diplomatic relations with the Pope.

—The next General Conference of Protestant missionary societies will be held in London in 1888.

—About one-fourth of the five hundred Chinese now living in Philadelphia, Pa., attend Sunday-schools.

—There are in England about 3,000 Jewish converts to Christianity, 100 of whom are in the active ministry.

—Russia has a population of 87,105,089, of whom 61,941,200 are Greek Catholics and 8,300,000 Roman Catholics.

—Archbishop Croke, of Ireland, advocates the non-payment of taxes, with which he says the Government buys police bludgeons.

—The statement is made that in Galicia, Roumania, and Bessarabia whole families of Jews assemble in secret to read the New Testament.

—An Eastern paper says that of the 600,000 young men in Illinois "fully 500,000 are still outside of the membership of our evangelical churches."

—It is thought that there are now in the world not less than 12,000 Protestant mission schools. Eighty years ago there were not over seventy.

—A writer in the Christian Standard says: "From all Christian lands the same cry comes, The church is losing its influence over the working masses."

—The annual expenses of the Pope are said to be 8,000,000 lire (about $1,600,000); and his probable income for 1887 is estimated at about 7,000,000 lire.

—A petition on behalf of the Free Church of Scotland has been forwarded to Queen Victoria, praying that their missions in New Hebrides may be protected from French interference.

—One daily paper in Oakland and another in San Francisco have recently discontinued their Sunday editions. In the case of the Oakland journal it is stated that the discontinuance was at the request of "the clergy."

—It is stated that the Pope has summoned several French bishops to confer with him relative to the steps to be taken by "the church," in the event of fresh measures being taken against the Catholic clergy in France.

—In 1875 the savages of New Britain had, properly speaking, no language; but six years later, owing to the efforts of missionaries, there were forty-three boys who could read the Gospel of Mark in their own tongue as well as the missionaries.

—A letter to the Christian World (London, Eng.) from Paris, says: "Alas! it cannot be truly said that indifference, unbelief, and materialism are losing ground in Paris, and if faith is making progress, it is by advances so slight and so slow as to be almost imperceptible."

—W. S. Caine, M. P., asserts that the most conspicuous sign of the civilizing influence of the English Government in Egypt is "an enormous number of grog-shops and brothels." There are no less than four hundred grog-shops in Cairo, most of which bear English signs.

—"Without the approval and consent of the bishop," is the saving clause in a recent order from Bishop Curtis, of Wilmington, Del., forbidding, in his diocese, the holding of "balls given with the intention of raising money for religious purposes, or the holding of picnics, fairs, excursions, or entertainments of any kind for the benefit of anything religious or charitable."

—"The Good Works of False Faiths," and "Are the Heathen Our Inferiors?" are subjects treated by Mrs. Gail Hamilton and Mr. Joseph Hewes, in a late number of the North American Review, and in reference to them the Christian World remarks: "The very titles of such articles give a clue to the tendency of the writers; and it is one that will probably manifest itself more and more as time goes on."

—Because of the loose views which have become common in certain portions of the Christian church, the Presbytery of New York has recently felt called upon to "emphasize the declaration of the Confession of Faith, 'the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, are the word of God,' that the Old Testament in Hebrew and the New Testament in Greek are immediately inspired of God, and that there is a consent of all their parts."

—If that erratic and sensational preacher, Sam Jones, has a mission from the Lord, it must be to preach in the popular churches truths which a time-serving ministry neglects, and which the people would not otherwise hear. There are comparatively few pulpits of which the following of his utterances is not true: "Mark what I tell you—and I say it for the ears of the preachers, I say it for the ears of every preacher in America—we have got some scientific preachers, some philosophical preachers, and I tell you there is many a pulpit in America to-day that you may go into, and it will be like Mary at the sepulcher, and you can say, They have taken the Lord and his word away, and we know not where they have carried them."

Appointments.

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SAN FRANCISCO.—House of worship, 914 Laguna Street, between McAllester and Tyler. Sabbath-school every Sabbath at 9:45, and preaching at 11 A. M.; also preaching every Sunday evening at 7:30. Sabbath-school classes in the English, German, and Scandinavian languages. Prayer and missionary meeting every Wednesday evening at 7:15. Mission reading-rooms at the church.

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LABBERTON'S HISTORICAL ATLAS.

QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD, Nov. 22, 1886.

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	No. Ques.		No. Ques.
Daniel 2	93	The Law of God, No. 4	32
Daniel 7	93	" " " 5	31
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Daniel 9	94	Romans 6:14	23
The Sanctuary	179	Romans 10:4	17
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" " 2	31	Romans 3:20	10
" " 3	28	Tithing	99

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	No. Ques.		No. Ques.
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" " 3	42	1 Peter 3:18-20	10
Colossians 2:14-17	19	Luke 16:19-31	37
Psalms 118:24	13	Living Souls	14
Penalty of Transgression	10	Nature of Man	18
Sanctification	43	Punishment of the Wicked	70
Second Coming of Christ	64	Work of the Spirit, No. 1	47
The Resurrection	59	" " 2	51
Immortality	18	Church Membership	61
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A Sign of the Times

By Editor

Two weeks ago, in a note with the heading, "A Sign of the Times," we quoted an indorsement of Catholicism, by the late Dr. Hodge, of Princeton. In the Independent of February 17, 1887, we find the following editorial utterance, which confirms our statement that Protestantism is fast turning Catholic. It is this:—

"Our readers well know that we have our eyes open to see the good in the Roman Catholic Church, and that we welcome it as an ally against atheism in religion, and socialism in the State. The religion of Catholicism is that of the Bible, and considerable more; but it is a religion of God and the Bible."

After such an utterance, the statement that there is no fear that Catholicism will become a controlling factor in this country, is only an evidence of the blindness of the writer. If Protestants accept and welcome the Catholic Church as an ally, they may rest assured that they will have the controlling influence; for Rome never enters into an alliance as second to any other power. In this country, the power that controls may not be called Catholic, but whatever the name, the thing will be the same. Protestantism which has repudiated the principles of the Reformation will be no better than Catholicism.

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