-~ E not afraid to pray-to pray is right.

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1 ' \ -' ----,!, AB'B A SEVENTH-DAY BAPTIST WEEKLY, PUBLISHED BY THE A~IERICAN SABBATH TRACT SOCIETY, PLAINFIELD, N J VOLUME 51 No 15 APRIL 11, 1895 WHOLE No 26]6 CONTENTS EDITORIALS Paragraphs ~, ~ 226, 227 NEWS AND COMMEN TR Paragraphs ~ 227 CONTRIBUTED EDITORIALS Paragraphs ;; 227, 228 An Open Leer -228 Chrisianiy in Poliics 228, 229 EDUCATION Some Prominen Old Sudens of Milon College ~ 229 MISSIONS Paragraphs 230 From T J VanHorn : 230 From he Pulpi o he Poor House 230, 231 Teachers' Meeings 231 Obiuary' 231 Binders for RECORDERS 231 Memorial Services-Rev Joshua Clark 232, 233 Song of Praise-Poery,~ 233 CHILDREN'S P AGF Why JOilllY Didn' Smoke 233 In Memoriam-Lydia Rogers Noyes 233 YOUNG PEOPLE'S WORK Junior Work and Mehods ; 234, 235 The True Life 235 Our Mirror-Paragraphs 235 WOMAN'S WORK John G Paon 236 Mrs Sarah Ann Williams, Trac Sociey - Recei ps SABBATH-SenooL Lesson for April 20, 1895 Wachfulness HOME NEWS New York, New Jersey ~ Crompromise ~: : POPTTLARSClENCE ',I ParagraphB, ~ 238 New Mizpah Mi8sion ~ : 238 SPECIAL' NOTICEB ~ 238 ROBS and B~nny " 239 How K'!ie Was Found Ou, 239 Animals Tha Never Drink ~ 239 DEATHS ~ ~~ ~~~-~ :'~ ; LOCAL ~GENTB ~ ~ ~ BUS~EBB DIliJ;i:C'J10RY ~ ~ ~ PRAYER 03 -~ E no afraid o pray-o pray is righ ffi) ~ ~ ~ Pray if hou cans, wih hope; bu ever pray, Tho ugh hope be weak or sick wih long delay; Pray in he darkn,:ss, if here be no ligh * * * * * Pra~y o be perfec hough maerial leaven Forbid he spiri so on earh o be; Bu if for rany wish hou dares no pray, Then pray o God o cas ha wish away * * * * * So have I dreamed I-Oh, may he dream be rue 1- Th~ praying souls are purged from moral hue, And grow as pure as He o WhOlTI hey pray Prayer is he soul's sincere desire, Uered or unexpressed, The moion of a hidden fire Tha rembles in he breas HARTLEY COLERIDGE-Poems MO!iTfOMERY- T ha, is Prayer? o sad sae Of hurnan wrechedness; so weak is man, So ignoran, and blind, ha did no God Someimes wihhold in mercy wha we ask, We should be ruin'd a our own reques HANNAH MORE-Moses Lo I all life his ruh declares, Laborare es orare; And he whole earh rings wih pr&ers D M MUIJOCK-1"hiI'y Years ' $2'~OOi\'\'Ei\R, BAB COCK 'BU"lLDING PLAlNFlELDNJ ""': -"',' ' ~ '

2 ~,~ - " ' :, "'-' ',,0',, ;,~ ; I " 'I ; : < ' ~ '~, " ~ f >::,I, ',' ' Sabbah Recorder REV L E LIVERMORE, Edior REV L~ C RANPOLPH, Chicago, Iil, Conribuing Ed, CORRESPONDING EDITORS 'REVO~ UWHlT~ORD, D D, Weserly, RI, Mission~: i ;REVW~ C WHlTFORD,D,' D, Milon, WiB~, HiBol~ical :, - - -, Yo~ng People's Work MRs~ R T'EoGEHS, Waerville, Maine, Woman's Work ' J P MOSHER\ Plainfield" N, J, Business Manager IT is an evidence of weakness, and narrowness of mind o be unwilling o change your opinion Alw~ys be ready and willing o receive ligh, wihou su bbol'nness 01' prejudice THE sures way o si'enghen a sinful 'weakness,is o graify i I is no a sin o be emped o evil, bu when we yield o empaion we ransgl'e8s, and ",Sin is he ransgression of he law" SOMETIMES our disappoinn1ens and severes rials are our bes eachers God's children are always in his school while on his earh Promoion comes a, deah, ifwehaveprofied by our lessons in life, By reques we g'ladly 'reprin from he Evangel /1;nd S;'1bbab Oulook he excellen paper of :Mrs H M Maxson on" J nnior,\\-tork and Mehod" I will be profiablealld sug'gehive reading for all ONE of he mos common fauls and sources of domesic unhappiness is a churlish, faul- finding' habi In eiher paren, i is desruci ve of peace Is effee upon all he household is depressing Cross words are no colnpaible wih good governmen; he spiri of devoion, orany degtee of happiness Family alars ",- have been broken down by eross words,,he marriag'e covenan violaed, children discouraged and rendered churlish and disobedien How beauiful and helpful, on he oher hand, are pleasan smiles, happy, cheerful, loving words Wha peace and joy are wihin he,- reach of every one hrough he channels of kindness and chariy C THE S'ABBAT,H 'RECORDER [VoLLI " ' 1' ~, badmoi ve~ wih corresponding deeds soon follow Parens of~n~wonder'vhy;heir children urn ou so poorly They pugh no o be surprised when hey are, educaed jn h~ srees, and where h,e idle' and! dissolue resor Hasen and call~your-'children horne, alld keep hem away:yrom' such uinvhol~sonle and infecious ihfluences~, NOTHING conneced wih college life and collegeahlejcs has brough such universal disgrace as he b~ual way ill which h_e gallle of fooball has been conduced 'in many insances Insead of being a manly and healhful spor,i has been degraded ino lile less han a prize figh,vih all 'of 'is aendanli eyils'rhe g ~e-money and he being,',he crowds who eagerly rush in o,seehe cones, no very much unlike hose who would pack he amphiheare in Madrid or in :Mexico o winess a bull-figh, and he wild, unreasonable and brual sruggles of he conending paries have brough he sober and honorable par of nearly all he counry, o disapprove of such exhibiions and demand heir disconinuance 'fhe Faculy of Harvard College have decided ha heir sudens lllus wihdraw from such iner-collegiae coness The sudens have proesed, bu he Faculy I'emain firm and will be susained ill his acion by all righ-mindedciizeps They may lose some sudens, bu hey can afford ha loss much beer han he greaer one of he respec and cbnfidence of a paronizing public ~No15 - are-no even raising he quesion of,disbanding, bu are working~wih, ja ~ig:or' and en- _ husiasm no excelied~ by hose of a gener~ion ago Our corresponden is oo young,an,a vigorous a man,o indulge in such a pessimisic view of) he hings of he pr(\sen day_ He' ough o ake a rip o his naive own and, ~ee how hings are moving a he' Univ~rsiy in spie of all is discouragemens WE ofen mee wih wha seej!le! o us,as an asonishing d,egree of ignqrance of real Bible hisory and docrine among hose who ough o be beer informed, When a man as5umes o wrie commens on he Inernaional Lesson for he insrucion of he young he should no deliberaely misrepresen hefacs ~Por example, in he lesson on" The Resurrecion of Jesus," one of he commens in' he Chicago SBndurd, by Rev J W Wendell, under he heading" Poins in he Lesson," reads as fohows: '" And when he Sabbah was pas' I was pas forever Henceforhhe Lord's Day, a weekly remembran~e of his resurrecion" Now we ask every candid man, who Inay read his commen, is ha" poin" fairly made'? Was i he objec of ha saemen, "and when he Sabbah was pas," o' each ha he Sabbah was don~ away or changed? Does i mean any nlore han sinlply, when ha, day was g'one?, Was i,rue ha i mean " passed forever"? W as i rue ha " Henceforh he Lord's-day," (he wrier mean ing Sunday),' was observed as "a weekly re- IN he RIWUHER of March 21s, we published membrance of his resurrecion? I was no a comlllunicalon froln our occasional con-,rue There is no Scripural or hisorical evirib~or, W F Place, in which hedraws some dence o in-dicae ha i was The Sabbah comparisons beween he schools of o-day was no" pas forever" The disciples conand a few years ago I seemed o 'us hen, illued o observe i See weny years laer, and convicion deepeps by reflecion, ogeher' how i was, "passed forever" Acs 13: 14: wih some knowledge of he facs involyed, "And wen ino he synagogue on he Sa b ha, in fairness here should have b~en some, balh-day;" also 18: 4, "An~d he reasoned in exc~pions noed by our corresponden Some he synagogue every Sabbah "And ye he condiions which he lamened as being' among Sabbah was "passed forever," weny years he hings of he pas, are no 'wholly so, before his! I mus be a desperae 8~ai 1'here are schools of he presen day, and ino which men have fallen who for he sake even hose 'vih which our corresponden has of mainaining a los cause will resor o such been associaed, ha form marked exeepi delusive saernens SEVE,NTH-DAY Bapiss are frequenly lllee- o he criicism which seemed o him of such ,---- ing wih persons who are more or less!avora- universal applicaion VVHICR way is he beer, o believe or no bly disposed oward our views, and who From an iniinae acquainance wih our o believe? Does a firrn, confiding belief in would gladly read IIiore on he subjec of he Alfred Universiy during a period o fory he exisenc~ and providenial care of God for Sabbah If he nalnes of all such persons years, we are fully prepared o say ha our his creaures render a~man less companionawere sen o his office our lieraure could be corresponden is surely misaken in his esi- ble, less honorable and rusworhy? : Who is easily and cheaply placed in heir hands, and" mae, in his insance, a leas, and his fac he happier, he heliever, or he douber'! no doub Iuany would be hus won'o he ',a,c- leads us o hink ha here may be perhaps Even if here were no hereafer, graning ha eepance of he ruh Tha his,vork may many more marked excepions I is rue "deah ends all," since he who really believes be done more horoughly and' widely,,he ha he Academy has been supplaned 'by he ha here is a fuure sae of inex:pressible Trac Board has asked each Chrisian En- High School o ~ ~ea degree, and many happiness for he righeous, lives happier, deavor Sociey o appoin a cornmiee for schools ha fornlerly did good Acadeluic more useful and dies hopefully' and wilihou his purpose We' hope ha everyone will work mus adjus hemselves o he ne,,~ 01'- fear, is i no- beer o believe? Then why hearily suppor his effor 9 give wider cir- der of,hings and do he work ha he Public should he professed infidel ry, o desroy such eulaion o he ruh whif'h we believe and ad- Schools do no aim o do This adjusmen hopes? "Vherein is he4gain? H~ who is vocae "T' is aking,plaice, in some insances wih lnore happ'y in he delusion will be jus as well off if or less of fricion; bu, in ime, i will be done, liere is no hereafer, and infiniely beer off AGAIN we ask he quesion, Parens, where and well done here han,he douber Bu, hank God, here are your children nighs? Some people have As oo he saemen ha he "Debaing so- isno g'round for doubing Godqe Faher, cieies' hroughou he counry are dead, apd Jesus Chris he Son, and he Holy fjpiriconcollege liera,ry,socieies are ruosly dead" or siue such a glorionsfoundaion for he moribund," his does no quie agree wih our Chrisian's faih, and afford such posiive eviobservaion in soore insances Wh~le con- dencein his experience, h~iseemsa\lllossillrasing his decrease in ineres now' wih fulo admi he possibiliy of delusion, even a horror of bringing up heir children in large ci,ies, bu from gur observaion of he way hings are ofen done in small' villages here are many dangers of which UJl;U8pec,ing parens have no inimaion We baveofen noic~ boys oueveninga, rudelyandnoisiiy playing :in he, Rreesa 8, 9, and 'even 10 'o'clock, orcon~'egaingin sores and,shops : long afer hey should be in bed Had lan " gp ~andc'b lh~l>~~'al'~soonacquired';and '- ",hiry yea,rs argo," he criic proceeds o re-"for argumen's fake" Jesus Chris and he lae an inciden ha -occurred'a"williams ',,,"okof he Holy Spiriin he believer's, hear in he ea,rly sevenles~' Tha rrius have 'are~oreal)gibleandrej11h~n,any ulaerial been nearly "hiryye8jrs ago,"andh~lier~ hing~and:'experiences :" IknowharilY,Reary so:c!e,ie~\o~o~~iljv i~ IDanyo,l,()lu; s~4oo1sd~mer/li ve! 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3 'APRIL 11,l895~],~ 0 T:HESA B,J3AT'H '~E_CORD,ER / \ =-o'have a posiive opinio_dhan he skepic, be cause he knows more, He has had all he knowledge and experience of which he skepic can boas and added o ha he Chrisian's knowledge andexperierice which~ he' douber 'has never had How can one 'whois born " blind' or deaf ha"ve f:\,s compeen knowledge of color, form, and sound as hose who have no hese disabiliies? I would be as sensi- ble for 011e who was deaf from his birh" o dellyheexisenceof sound and of he swee srains of Inusic,'because he had never experiengedhem,' as i is for he skepic, /whose spiriual ey~s and ears are closed' io he "I~igh of Life," and o Ile heavenly harmonies, o deny he realiy of he Chrisian's presen enjoymen of he personal minisraions of he spiri, and he cerainy of he fuure blissful sae The, Chrisian can al ways s,~y, in he Janguage of one whom Jesus had blessed, "One hing I l{now, ha, whereas I was blind, now I see " We, herefore, repea, ha, evengranillg ha he Chrisian's hqpe is a delusion, he will hen be beer off han he skepic, because more useful and happier here; and hen if i is no a delqsion, "where shall he sinner and he ungodly appear?" "Good were i for ha, mal,l if he had never been born" -----_-- ---:::-::--- =~:---='= NEWS AND COMMENTS OSCAH WILD is in sigh again This ime in a libel sui againshe!1arquisofqueensbury, J~ondon - PROBABLY wha is calle~he "Blanke Ballo Dill" will be passed in he New Y ol'l~ laure soon legis THE nex regular llleeing of he Execuive Board of he All1erican Sabbah 'I'raeSociey will be held iii he Church parlors, Plainfield, April 14h, a 215 P M ENGLAND has a grievance wih China for he unlawful seizure and deenion of her seaulship "Pahan," and will probably make a demand for reparaion, MARTIAL law has been "called off" in he Sandwich Islands: Miniser Thurson has reurned o Honolulu, bu will receive his official noificaion of his recall DAVIDM STONE, formel' edior of he Journal of Commerce, and conneced wih ha, paper for fory-four years; died a his home in Brooklyn;N: Y, April2d, I'r i~, said ba in consequen~e of he opposiion ofheap A in Boson, o Edior Sephen O'Mara, of The Joui'nal, he has resigned O':Mara is a Roman Caholic AN exchange says ha' here are millions' of Chinese in he inerior of ha' grea empire who have no ye heard of he fac ha a war has been going on wih Japan ' THEUuban" revol: 'is enlarging, bu wih he exensive preparaions now made by" he spanish: governmen, o ~uppr~ss i here'is no llluch challce for Is long collinua~ce Two desrucive fires occurred recenly, one in ~1ilwaukee ohe arnoun of a million dollars worh ofpropel'y, and he' oher wiping ou a large pari of he old hisoric ciy of S Augusine, Fla 1 IT is proposed o holdanope!l air meeing on Boson Common some ime_ during he Chrisi~n Endeavor Convenion in Boson, JUly Fify housand, people in ha 'way could see and hear rrhere i~ grea excienlen in Manioba, Canada (a province jus norh of Minnesoa and Dakoa) Qver a recen decision in regard o he school quesion, by which Caholic schools are o be re-esablished, THE Philadelphia Press speaks ou emphaically agains he feeing or ipping cusom, especially in 0111' counry,i calls i an exoic ha has no righ here I inlplies inferioriy and should be rese:ned by every servan THERE is a sharp conroversy in scienific and llledical circles over he quesion of he adminisraion of he ani-oxin serum in diphheria Is value is quesioned by some and ardenly advocaed b'y ohers PEACE negoiaions beween China Japan are ill progress, aud, i is confidenly hoped, will erminae in a few days Chin a seems ready o 'gran any reasonable denland and so erminae her coninuous series of defeas ' - _- / are in he prim~ of life and able-bodied I coss he counry from $8,000,000, p $10,- 000,000 annually o m~inain hem; THE case of Debs, he sriking" magnae" of less han one year ago, has jus been argued in heunied SaesSuprem'eCourinChicago Aorney-General Olney represened he governmen, and C ' S Darrow' he Railway Union-leaders No decision ve announced I'" '", THE Callo1~c Mirror speaks very disrespecfully of Bislnark, and holds up o prominence his probable successor, a Caholic, Prince Hohenlohe When Hohenlohe earns he righ,o as much public noice and eseem as Bislnark has won, he oo may becorne he objec of ingr-aiude and foolish insul -,- ELEC'l'ION ook place in many Wesern Saes April2d, resuling in large Republican vicories In Chicago and elsewhere here "rer,e wild demonsraions and rejoicing's over he vicory A beer ime o r:~joice will be afer here has been ample esing of new adminisraions; Poliical corrupion and human selfishness have no hihero been found exclusively in anyone poliical pary _ _---"--'- CONTRIBUTED --'-"- --- _-----_- ' EDITORIALS _ - _- - -_- 13LES:;';BD are he speakers who have he firs chance in a Sabbah-school review CHRIST likened he kingdom of heaven o a marl'lag'e supper Bu snme of us ac as if i were a funeral GOOD hing's are conagious oo Slniles are caching, and one kind word may make and nlany people good naured GET more brighness and prolnpness and cheer i!1o he prayer-meeings Religion need never be a synonym for dullness A GOOD InaTJY men who are called infidels are no Some of hem are roubled abou IF lle income ax law shall no be declared acceping hf'ological heories commonly held unconsiuional by he Supreme Cour" i is by he church Ohers are bohered by he es,imaed ha in New York Sae alone here un-chrisian)ives of members of he church a1'e 75,000 persons who will have o pay he Their difficulies are r~al and here is nohing exra ax, ha is, so many whose income ex- o be gained by calling hard names Ge ceeds $3,500 HEALTH Officer Doy, of New York, is exremely cauious in guarding agains cholera The seamer Po!~gese Prince, which arrived las" week, was found o have had wo suspicious dea,hs, and was pronlply ordered back o quaranine hem o look a he gospel-no heories ngr' professors-bu he gospel in all is breadh Show hem some COll vered men and women and lead hern ou pas he sumbling blocks' ino a personal 'responsibiliy and a persona,l salvaion THE Bapis denolninaion has been 10Hing, GREAT delnonsraions in honor of 'P}'ince some of is prominen preachers by defecjon ;~ Bismarck were made hrqughou Gerlnany o' oher folds Philip Maxon's InigraioI) o: ~'-' 4- TE~lPORAIY armisice has been graned on,april 1s, he 80h anniversary of his he Congregaionaliss was noed so'me by Japan The cowardly' assaul ~pon birhpay; probablyiduch greaer e~husiusm monhs ago Mos recen of hese deparures Li-Hung-Chang has g-realy sofened he feeling of he Tapanese~ hrough sympahy by he majoriy of he Reiclisag New York Ciy pasoraa"a Associaion Hall and honor beca use of he aemped dishonor is ha of Rev Thomas Dixon, who resigns his " becapsehe proposed o lay aside all denomi:- THE Nicaragua Canal projec is reeeiving TH:mREhas been a call' issued for a conven- naional baggage'~ so ha he may "preach much aenion in governmenal and business ion of minisers of all denominaions o mee wih he whole hear" circles The Presiden has appoined an able in Virginia, someime his monh, o sudy We niigh no have aken occasion o refer, board,o invesigae' and repor' upon is -quesions rela,ing o he person, office and o hese fleeing evens-'such changes of' feasibiliy "" minisry of heiiolyspiri In his lis are climae and scenery being common in hese, \ 119 Mehodiss; 114:Bapiss, 30 Presbyer~ resless days- were'ino for cerain ungener-, THE,Faculy of Harvard sill hold o heir ians, 15 Luherans, 11 Episcopalians ous' commens her~on wh~ch came, o 0111' unfavo;rab~e acioiiconce~ningjne;r-conegiaer ' " ", ~' ' ',, eyes in He Bapis Union,hm 'organ of he,fooballi',howrash o overhrow he corner _XHE nuigber Qframps;in ourcpun~ry; in Bapis young-people's' sociey Evidenly, s-oiie ()~' our-grea insiu~oljs of learning}':"~ a 'r~cen lecur,e ~Y J J McCook,,in Boson, heed~orjind's,some of he,bees Ieaving>he The Independen " ": was'esimaed obe 46,000,,Mos of hese hive and,swarming along wih he queens, so ;--,, - ' - '' ' ~

4 T'HE SABBATHRECOR'D'ER,, " i [VoLLI,' No15~' - ;'" I' :, ~ ' ~ :,; 'j, ':,: ', " :'')! 'I '~: " ';, '~r, ><', ' ' ';-:', - -' _-_,------' ::---,---~ --,,-,~ ~:~ ,---- he hasens o bea,in pans and hrow 1 dusc ~resis: a e~paion o dri~k whisky, an-d for in he following fashion:, he same reason-because I burns 'JIfe away "The heavens'will no fall, even if hese self- premaurely You beer be aliveignoralnus syled planes are hrown ou of heir orbis (comparaively" speaking),han, a d~ad Though Dr A m'ay go ino he 'Milky Way' scholar Be~er be a fooball pl~yer wih, of anoher denominaion hough Dr B may hair a la he wild nianofborneo, wih collar seek a 'wider field, hou~hdr C may have bone bro~en and yourself suffering he" flings he sar",dus of a 'broader' heology hrown andai'rows" of, he i'eligiou~ press han burn in his eyes, he denominaion, like he serene your I,ife candle so l~w over yo~lr book lh~ moon, will sail on"is, beauiful, peaceful and sonle sl~gh shock will snuff I ou There l~ unrammell~d way, alike unmindful of arid a, golden mean beween he ahlee of grea unaffeced by his, dropping;- of pigmy,wink~ biceps, small head, and heineliecjlal scholar lei's from ou he sky God reigns and he' hovering on he ineresing borders of nervous Bapis denominaion sill lives, nowih- prosraion sanding now and,hen, some Ininiser is Give he boys back on graduaion day wih snuffed ou by his ownself-imporance" unhnpaired COlnmon sense, bodies, well-kni I have nb desire o sand as he chalnpion and deve]opecl,80uiid and healhy souls allq of he ex:bapis clergymen under discussion; never' nlind if hey doll' know evej'j,ljing bu o an ousider i see~s neil{ei; '(,beaui- Theycan learn he res of i laer Le he ful" ' nor" peaceful" o speak of men whom wach word of our schools be an all iu'olll1d Bapiss once delighed o honor as" pignly educ/iioll winklers~' "snuffed ou by heir own selfhnporance" My Bapis broher edior, 'l\{os'l' Chrisian meh who hink and sudy don' The syle of lofy conernp in which have had o pass a sonle ime hrough a you cas your criici~nl is likely o be mis- period of doub when heir ideals and beliefs aken by disineresed readers for solnehing seelned o be slipping' away frolnhem They else did no know where 'o pu he new facs and While he Bapiss have a \varm place in heories which came o heir expanding millds Iny hear for heir moherly (or faherly) care Perhaps hey had o begiil a he boonl and kindness during hree years of, suden and build he srucure of heir beliefs over life for he valued hiends I have among'hem, again, and i ook ime o discover ha he and for he grand ideas for which hey have Teligion was,he- sam'e alhough heir, collcep~ sood; ye le me sugges ha, upon sricly ion-of i was broader and grander I know logical grounds, hey can scarcely criicise one young' Ulan who wen hrough college hese brehren who have dropped he" de- wih his siiuple enhusiasic faih unouched, nomillaional baggage" The denolllinaion bu when he enered sudy for his profession iself is in unsable equilibrium Eiher he he ineviable days of ransiion caine Sonle fornui ino which God 1110lded sacred insi- of our views o-day migh cause he preacher uions are imporan or hey are, no of an olden generaion o shake heir heads Bapiss believe ha hey are To be doubfully Ye i is he same g'ospel which l~ue o hc1, convicion, along wih he we preach, and I canno believe ha hey had Scripural forms of church governmen and a sronger or n10re unshaken or unshakable of bapism, hey mus observe he Scripural faih' in i han we have day of he Sabbah-in oher words, be Sevenh-day Bapiss If i does no Inaer 'rhere lies before me a kind leer fronl PresidenSarnuel Planz, of Lawrence Universiy wha day we observe as he Sabbah, hen i ma,ers no wha forins of bapisjll or of 'He will be rem em bered by old sudens of church governmen we use The same greased Milon as having been a prominen skepic racks upon which so nlany Bapiss slide when he lef college The sory of how he away from he elaiins of he Bible Sabbah came o a broader and grander Chrisian will fi he car in whiqh DixOll, Maxom and faih han ha of his earlier life would be indeed Ineresing if i could be given o he ohers rode ino Congregaionalism, Meh~ odism and Free-for-all-isnl The difference is,world Especially illei~esing o Ine were he ha he laer rode o he end of he roue closing words of his leer: " I have no confidence in he of repeaed "BLOOD poisoning, resuling from lack of saemen ha unbelief is nloral raher han exercise" This is he verdic of he wise men religious, and here is no such hing as an -in he case of Orle of he brighes and kind- hones skepic The problems' of religion are lies you~g 1nen I ever knew who was buried deep Men's houghs on many grea queslas week Some who read,hese lines may ions"are no seled some minds can reremeulberharry Howard, a lliember of he ceive ChIisianiyon some one's recolnmen Chicago Universiy Diviniy SchoO'I, he mos daion Ohers will never find peace unil brillian suden of his years in,he depar- hey hink hemselves ino he lig h I never men O'f Semiics As I I'emeinber his genial could have been convered in a revival meeways and his eviden promise of fuure use- ing, or in a,ny way un~ilmy head was cou-, fulness, my hear rises in ho revol a his vered firs" To rs~laed Sabbah keepers: J" AN OPEN LETTER Dear Breli ren _' 'While he Trac Boarn is making an effor'o secure a wider and more favorable reading of our lieraure, I feel co'nsrained o' speak a word o' you who' dwell apar fronl o-q,r c~urch privileges -" We have lnany" faihful Sabbah-keepers scaered over our land o whom uiuch credi is due for heirsaullchloyaly, and for whom,we render graiude o God wih QUr prayers' for he Spiri's spe~ialwachcare,tha yo'u are deprived of privileges, in your isolaio'n, ha you grealy long for calls forh Qur sympahy Bu we now ask you 'o consider if hei~e are no compensaions May no your loss of privilege'be made up for, in a neasure, by yo'ur increase of opporunjy for spreading, God's ruh'r As he w:eier can esify, he lone Sabbah-keeper has frequen occasion o explain his peculiar cueom of observing he Sevenh-day, and wih rare excepion o he conrary, he mees wih sympaheic hearing, and ofen wih approval on he par, of his Firs-day associaes No infrequenly he is asked for liel'aure which will more fully explain our views Thus wih excepional depriv~ions come excepional oppqruniies for spreading he Sabbah ruh vve believe ha hose of our people who arphus isolaed have no, as a rule, sufficienly lnagnified heir privileges vve know of seyeral churches which have grown ou of he fideliy and effors of single Sabbah-keeping fainilies I is our desire o help you o nlake he mos accou!l of your siuaion for he glory of God andhe'enlarsernen of his' kingdonl You, doubless, know of many who hink favorably of~he ruh, and you are consanly meeing ohers who may become ineresed could our lieraure be placed in heir hands 'Ve herefore, ask you o make a lis of he " names and addresses of all such persons and send o his office from ime o inle We do no wan names carelessly or indiscriminaely gahered; bu we do no care how long a lis you send, if you have reason o hink ha hey will kindly receive and read our lieraure We are puing up small pac~ages of racs, carefully seleced o se forh our views in a fair and favo'rable ligh A co:nsiderable, cos,o hee Sociey, is of course: aendan upon prining and mailing his maer, bu while your conribuions are always accepable, we now mos earnesly solici hese carefully seleced names, Believing' ha our isolaed brehren may l),us promoe grealy olir work of Sabbah reform, and praying he blessing of God upon ll;e word of his ruh ~hus sen forh, I am, in behalf of he Execuive Board of he American Sabbah Trae Sociey, Very ruly yours, F E PETERSON, (}Ol'~sec CHRISTIANITY IN POLITICS - " waseoflife Friends may alk of "Inyserious There are wo kinds 'of infideliy-moral And Anoher Religious Sudy ofa Bapis ~ own dispensaions of providence," bu, he words and inellecual The hones douber' can To he Edior of THE SABBATH RECORDER: of Dr Norhrup on a similar occasion echo in never be clubbed in~ a kingdo~ by harsh In he RECORDER of February 28h, was a memory: "slow suicide" One of he rising reamen 'rhe bes evidence of Chrisianipy reprin fro'ill he Forum of an aricle under men a he Universiy saig_o J;Jle sadly bu is a consecraed Chrisian Le us giv~ more he capion of a" Religious 'Sudy Qf a Bapreshmedly' one 'day:, "The pac~ is so' -rasp of hese evidences o he world The black- is own," from' fhe pen of he Rev William ha Qne' can scarcely achievedisincio'n wih-, es infideliy is he u41faihfulness which pro- Bayard Hale 'wih rejoinders by Revs Mr Quoverwork,liable o' resul in a breaking: fesses and does no dq 'I is he dry ro of Evans and Dahind, O'f,he "afo'resaid '" own" down Qf healh" he church o'-day: '" Creae wihin me'acleailmr Hale's sudy of, We'serly was rna,de, Young friendmi)}e, don'doi' Iknow you hear, 0 God, and renew a' righ spiri wihin 'amid he beauy and, quie" of ~NewEngland," a,re anxious o excel and empaions aremethen,shall I each ransgressors hy summer; when :Jiewaers arec'brigli,and ~'8rong;buresisheDl' jus 'as you would wayand8innersshallbeconveredujio,h~~',', ',' - he skies serene, andwhensum~er;visiors

5 \PRILll,18950] TH-E SABBATa RECORDER, on wo a year, a!ld ofen hree or fouro The and well-beln?, of communiy, ~~e guaranees Sae elecion comes in April and every own, 00f personal libery and equahy, he ~ro?cof grea or less deg-ree, has one Senaor a,nd lon of he wea~{, a,nd he rendering' of JusIce wo represenaives o ake care of heir in- uno allnlen? Ai 0 eress;and legislae for he good of he Sae "Ne as ~evenh-day Bap~ss are deeply I~ ,, "--, ~--r ; ,,-,,--_ -----_--- and excursions end o make life a dream- 'of son he beauies of Chrisianiy in poliics as j E due 'a i bliss and conen Wha Mr' Hale's" kods,k" ex:pounded and enforced by he Purians of --, ~--- would have revealed and his' facile pen de- Massachuses; and he did no like he syle; SOME PROMINENT OLD STUDENTS OF MILTON scribed, could he have been in Weserly duro:' so founded a comnlonwealh" where a man COLLEGE in~ 1Iese sofmy ~larch weeks when h~ re- should be free o hink ill religious maers as In he 111ilwqkee Seninel of Sunday, 'ligio=poliico empes has been raging around he pleased, and' ac as his conscience Inigh March 31s las,appea,i's an aricle,on" Many' he piv;oalpoinof"chdsianiyin P9liics,"_ dicaeo"le TIle sae he quesion pro and Able Graduaes" of he denonlinaional colleges of'visconsin~ 'l'he objec of he aricleiu' would be hard o forecas' Bu as he was-con for conside~ a,ion ' no presen, le anoher, skech he sory, and 1_S_hould a poliical pary be fonnedor sho"villgh~ imporance of hese insiuions, hen if possible poin amoral ' formulae in is plaforllls, and by is expo- is saed in he beginning as f61,ows: " I is Nex oa clam bakewihisming'ledseamynens, ha i J'es~ on a disjincively Chris- an aracive sudy o ake he field of public flavor of biv~lves, green corn, and blpe""fish, ianbasis, recognizing Chris and his docnoh!ngso deli~hs a Rhode Islander' as an r!nes ~s pla,!orm a~d rule of a?ion? 01', 0 many nlen of pronlinence, scaered here and and professional careers, and o learn how elecion So while mos of he Saes have 2 Should I be fonned on srlclyeconomlc here, received eiher he greaer par, or he only o~e a year, and S0111e like Connecicu, and moral consideraions, recognizing he wllole, of heir school raining in hese denominaional colleges 0 " 'l'he auhor is Col one in wo years, Rhode Island generally has highes in~ressof he S~e, he good order Nicholas SInih, edior of he Daily Co on wealh of Fonddu Lac, Wis He was formerly edior of '],'11e Gll,zee, published aj anesvilje, Rock couny, in ha Sae, and as such, he became well acquained wih many of he graduaes This year he Prohibiioniss have made eresed In his 111aero, ~abbah-keeperso In and oher old sl~dens of l\{ilon College heir figh airboa enirely inv\teserly TheS Be~eral Saes are suffering fi~e~ a~ld lin~ Abou he insiuions and some of is former nomina e d f' or sena, or an d one 0 f h e repre- prlaonluens on " accoun ' 0 of ChrisIanIy, 0 OJ suden,s, he,vries app"reciaiil!!'ly '-' as follows: o h f sen a Ives, J e pas ors 0 h e C ongrega ' Iona I - wha a leas bears fh S Is brand Ino he POh,I- is and Chrisian Churches Boh men of cal econolny? 0 e ~ a e d dol I 0 h If any poliical pary of any nalne, 01' a or 1 en an' eservlno' y popu ar III e COlll-, - 0 T M '0 0' OJ 1 ld f ' k any objec whaever, forms iself on or around InunlJ eeil1os" ere Ie or a wee OJ 0 0 I d I 1 I ' Ch 0 o b '11 so nearly every evening The nolninee foj' any prln~l'q_~ha,n a )e s 1 l rislanl y I" WI f o beconle In a-measure 1e III erpre er 0 Governor was presen, alnng a general over- 0", o h E' k f b d d' BIg d d ChrIs Ianly, and WIll III solne way endeavor ~ mlnen spea ers rom a roa a e 0 0 I 1 d h ' h en f orces h I d d 0 o enforce I by pohica aw, an u s \,'e 0 onle a en,an goo music' 0''1 an d h e presence on h,e, p I a f orm an d h e have he firs sep for,he union of Chureh crowded audience of Weserly's cleroy solid and Sa?o 0 0 Od bl d' h ~Ir EdIor, we are rnaln11 g' no plea agaills business 1nen, an no e women rna e ese o - 0 ' rnee o d -lngs a gran success w' h'l h :] prohibiloll of he liquor raffic as he ground 1 e e uoml-, '1' h hob' O f nan Issue, e pro ILIon 0 l 10 ffi for he forma,ion of a poliical pary here 18 Hluor ra (' 0 d 1 1 d 1 1 h l 'h' d are abundan reasons on ecollol1llc an rool'a was no neg ec e, arge y e 10Ug an ; Of h I do - --' ;;1-- III eres wn,s lreceu h I o O'rounds o form such a pary,] oug l o 0 I e proper re a loll" 0 f ( o 0 d ) Ch' be WIse and pruden The run1 shop IS he 0, as alii' cap Ion In lca es, rls 1ani y, I' ' an d P 01I 0O lcs 'rho IS was,rna d e h e ex 0 f deadly foe of he 0 Sae,\ ases Is I e- f ' h dd Th' 0 sources desroys IS Inanhood, corrups Is many 0 e a resses e occasion was o d do d d h O Th W C T U f h h o r yotlh~ genders VICe, crune an ISOI' er, an IS e pu or e POSI,n eo 1 f r d d d o o Of ObI h levies Is awfu ax 0 pover J an egl e a :loll, ques Ion 1 1 was no POSSI e 0 lull e e 0 h ld b 10 0 II Ifl 0 ' f h o 0 h f' and as such I can, and s ou e, po IICa y vllrjs Jan vo ers 0 e na Ion In e war are o,0 ho 1? Th E':ldO f h TXT warned agains, bu he quesion we raise III agalns e sa oon 0 e I JOI 0 e H, esreo'ard o ho IS or any 0 h er pal' YIS 0 H as I a el'~y Dally Sun, who IS no only a worlnng', ' Ch ' rls 0 o lan, b elng 0 a S a bb a h -sc his righ o arlogae o Iself and clann he suf- 00 uperln e11- I 0 h d 1 d en an d a d eaeon bl u a so some ho Ing' 0 f a po 10 frages of ChrIsIan voers on egroun la 1- O 0 ~' I o ' 0 i is disincively a ChrIsIan pary? s here,lclan, being an e~-replesenalve, and an ex- - h 0 h 1 d f k' d' no danger a In e zea an exci emen 0 senaor, and an ex-spea ei, an an ex-secred II mora I re f orm, h e 1 Ine h a nlar I h {S e provary o of Sae, as well o as an 0 exra g'oo fe ow, Ince 0 f h eh h d h S h II b b 0 e urc an,e a e s a e - rephed ha o ullie ChrIsIan 0 voers as 0 con- 0 scure d ) TI I f h Ch h' f Cl ' r 1e a ar 0 e ure 0 1rlS emplaed, was o unie hem In one poliical h' b II b f h 0 1 -h o 0 and ea 0" ox 0,e CIVI goverlllnen pary; and as Chrls1an voers differed abou d do h f "Be d Inany poliical quesions i was no possible are sepcara e an I}sOInc :h ere ore n,er o un o easar h e lings a are C aerar s, o unie 0,hem - Hl one pohlcal pary, f and 10 hereoland uno)"o G d l 1e' ho Ings h a ale ' G d' " 0 s, upon objeced o he formaion 0 a po IlCa M r, pary, upon a disincively Chrisian basis, YS'lI(' saying ha, Chrisianiy and polii(js were wo Is Youu SoUL INSURED?-A lile boy on his hings enirely disinc Chrisianiy was a faher's knee said: ' faih; poliics he science of goverumen, eco " Papa, is your soulinsured? " N M EdO low I l ' 'Why do you ask, my son?" ow 1'0 i 1 or, eavlng es er y 0 se e "BecaUl~e i: heard Uncle Frank say ha you her own maers, and separae from anyone had your house insured and your life insured, Sae or naional quesion of rnomenary in- bu he did no believe you had hough of eres: he quesion raised is an all impor- your soul, and he' was afraid you would an one I conc~rns he foundaions of our iose io Can' you ge i insured righ civil ~vernmen I has o do,vih our civil away?" I was all oo rue, and he faher \vas led and religious libery I is well ha in he o seek he divine-guaranee of his soul's well- Sae ha Roger Wil1iams founded and ino being ' and developmen he whose con~iuion proper relaion of-chrisianiy and poliics cenered as m,living, vial quesion ha here i should again be raised I is 8J quesion ha involves, he' proper relaion of Church and Sae,Wheher I, shall be one of union ands~bserviency;'or9findepenqencyo ~- R?g~rW-ill~~m8exp~riencedilhis ownnper- "Wha are hey going o call your new broher, Jack?"" Oh, I don',know-jack, I guess:i " " Bu ha's your n~meo" ' "Tha dosen'make anyc1ifferenceo I was Papa',sb~fore I~ha9 io Pa andma l~a ve a way ofmaldn~us boy~~se- JIP heir _-c9ld hings"--lillper's Young People, ', ' " One of he pioneer colleges of he Sue is ha a MilOll: which has a wide repuaion for he good work i has done Is hisory covers many years, and is alumni arebighly crediable o he insiuion Coming from is class r here have been many who have aained pl'ominencein business and professional life In he lis of graduaes are Pl;el"liden Alber Salisbury of he Sae Normal School a Whiewaer, he Hon JesseB Thayer, Ex-Sae Superinenden; Maj S S Rockwood, no\v Secreary o(he Board of Normal School Regens,; Presiden L D Harvey, of he Sae Normal School, Milwaukee; he Rev_ Samuel Planz, Presiden of Lawrence Universiy, who ook a five-year course amilod; helaeprol Lucius Heriage of l!e 'Visconsin Universiy; Prof A R Crandall, formerly of he Kenucky Universiy, and geologia of ha Sae; he Hon Geo I Peck, well known as anoraor, and now solicior general of he Sana Il'e l'ailway; Pl'Of C E: Crandall, member of he faculy of he Chicago Universiy; he Rev L A Plar D D, formerly edior of he SABBA'l'H HECOHDEI, aj]dnowtheolo~ical professor in he Alfred Universiy, N Y ; he HevA H Lewis, D n, edior of 'Tbe Evnllgel and Sa1JbalJ Oulook, Plainfield, N J ; Presiden A J Seele, of he La Mayne Normal School, Memphis, Tenn; Prof E S Bniley, M D, Ph D, member of he faculy of he Hahnemann Medical College Chicago; and Prof, 'V B Morgan, M D, Ph D, member of ~he faculy of he Homeopahic College S Louis 1'here are many ohers who have won disincion, who received mos of heir school educaion a Milon; and among hem are he HOll L n Caswell, P Akinson, for foureen years a member of Congress; 'Villiam H Wyman, Treasurer of he Unied Saes under Arhur, and who urned he mone'y; as couned over o his successor in 1885; Presiden A A Hobinson, of he Mexican' Cenral Hailway, Ciy of Mexico, formerly chief engineer of he Achison; he Hon Gilber L Laws, Ex-Secreary of Sae of Nebraska and member of Congress; and he Hon A J Hollnes, for several erms member of Congress from Iowa" " Afer menioning prominen old sudens of four oher sinlilar colleges of Wisconsin, Col Slnih closes his aricle wih he following words of commendaion for he work which hey all have performed: Bu he fac ha very many of he g'l'aduaes of hese colleges have become disinguished in heir callings, is no he bes argumen in favor of hese insiuions reaining whaever of a denominaional characer hey may possess I is an honor o a college, when is grad- uaes reach high saions of usefuless, and aain splendid manhood Bu he work which should no be overlooked, and which couns for very much in he raee of life, is -he graduaion of many hundreds of young men and women, who, perhaps, do no rise o eminence, bu join he grea army of indusrious, inelligen, well-n-do, a,nd useful ciizenship There are hundreds of his class of graduaes in 'Wisconsin o-day; and "he propriey of heir lives and he wholesomeness of heir influence, are' alike crediable o hem and o heir AlmaMaer A srong poin in favor of he mainaining of hese so- called denominaional colleges is, ha were i no forhe close relaion hey bear religious bodiels, hey would lose much of heir srengh, and of course he numbey: of sudens woul(l be 'maeria~ly lessened Such colleges draw very largely from homes whichcarino 'sffgrd o pay for educaion in he expensive jnsiuiolls; and for ~is hey comman(lhe' bes" wishes and he 'IQial ~up-::' por of he people --~' ' _--=-

6 1 ',- [VO~: LI No 15~,," '!,," " " " -' l,,' " 'L,r: ",,'I, > ', ',~,",,! ; ' Missions,,, ' ,--- ~ THE revival meeing~ held wih he Firs, Weserly Church, Pos Road, R I, are being grealy blessed of he Lord The Holy Spiri is working in he church' and in he- -whole communiy wih mighy power " Spnle fory have sough he prayers of Chrisians, and he mos of hem have found Jesus precious, BroHuffman bapized- fbur las Sunday and,here are ohers 'ready We regre ha he mus soon reurn o his church a Salem, W Va,' when his field is so ripe for exended labor FROM THE PULPIT TO THE POOR HOUSE rich field for =he preacher, and rarely a rich Preached in 'Vv T Washingon S ;: Bapis field asks God for 'a preacher ~los preachh urc, h G reen b oro,' N C, D ec 23d _ '1'894 b ersspend heir lives on small and obscure, c J, Y fi ld h l' h d h Pas,or C A G Thomas ' J;' e s, w 'ere 111eIrde~penselsarlee~vdyan eir 'Psa 71:18, Now, also when lam old and Incomes sma an 'rregu ar y pal gray-headed 0 God, fo~ake me no, Men in' every vocaion of life can choose Isa 48:4, And even o your old age I aiil he; places of,labor They can, make money conand even o hoar hairs will I ca,rr,v you :,1 side~aions a basis, of acion Tl;le preacher 'have made, a:pd I will bear; 'even I "'ill carry, 'lnus go o he' field God poins o, regardless, and will deliver you, of compensaion,the preacher who will ac The ile of his sermon was suggeaed by a only on he money consideraion is considerlile book which I recenly read,the book ed by he churches and world as unwor,hy o was wrien by a Mehodis preacher and pic-,be he,pasorof'god's flock 'rhe grea' ma 'ured a very bier and' sorrowful condiion joriy of our pasors rdo 'no consider money, of he old Mehodis preachers, As I read in he nlaer of pasoraj bonnecions "'1 his lile book I said' o myself, "surely he could name numbers of men in Norh Carolina' broher has seen some of he old worn-ou who have declined larger salaries, ha hey,bapis preachers" To nlany of hese old migh remain and do Go,d's will amid he de~ Bno GEO W HILJ~S, of Aalla, Ala, hs;ls preachers he roadfrom he pulpi is o he nials of small places I 'have known men o', recenly visied he Rev E 1\1 ICelner, po)r house Norh Carolina Bapiss have remain in heir presen fields when hey migh of Edih, Tenn He wries ha he finds him negleced o care for heir \yorn,ou preachers have' goen hree ilnes nlore elsewhere, "sound ahd l~vel-headed," and sands high in and heir widows "Te have been sha1nefully (2) The' average preacher has more exnegligen of our "Miniser's Relief Board" penses, more demands, and le~s com pen saion, muniy The resul of his visi is he organi he eseem of he people all hrough he com "Vhen Bro D L Gore was Presiden of han mos of Ulen in oher vocaions The his Board he wroe o he "Recorder" ha preachers are expeced o live in he same zaion of a church named he Edih Sevenhday Bapis Church, of EcUh, Tenn, wih could find ha had really done anyhing for dress beer han his average member They Dr I>r'ichard was he only pasor whom he syle as people in beer circumsances and o Rev ~ NI ICelner,pasor, and E M Hun,,his Board Bro Manning, Secreary of he are expeced o paronize every business clerk A fnn accoun of he visi and he 01'- Board, wroe abou he same ime ha he house, o purchase fl'om every agen; o give had sen circulars o every preacher whose o every beggar, o enerain every iineran ganizaioll of he church will soon be given by name was in he lis given in he Convenion preacher, peddler and ranlp, and o lend a Bro Hills o he HECOHDEU minues, and only wo had replied He ap- dollar o every" ecclesiasical dead bea" in FROM T J, VANHORN, plied o he clerk of every Associaion for a he connnuniy Their com]?ensaion as, a DNII' Bro \VhiHord: copy of lninues, and only five replied Rarely rule is smalle~ han he majorhy of heir You knew of my projeced rip o Louisville is his subjec discussed in our Associaional members Mos of he men in he minisry I reached his ciy a sunse Friday On he meeings, and his year 22 Assodajons re- work for less han oher men of he same abil Sabbah, a 10 o'clock, I me four brehren pored nf>hing for his objec' Very rarely iy, aainmens, and aciviies And in ad- do we hear his subjec menioned in our diion o his hey are more ardily paid, and a he office of Dr Norrnan Cuing, 542 Eas church meeiilgs, or in he dailyconv'ersaions lose more of heir promised salary han any :Madison S Two hours 'vyere very pleasanly altio,ng our nlembers Never have I beard a oher class of men in he land The Norh spen in an informal way, conlparing views prayer offered in any of our churches for hese Carolina L'l1risi8JD Advoc8Je, published in his and geing acquained rrhis was he firs worn-ou heroes of he cross "Ve have been ciy, in is issue of Dec 12h 1894, has a long' Sabbah ever observed bv wo of hese breh- erinlinally neglecful in God's sigh aricle which shows ha he preachers of he J The" 'Miniser's Relief Board" is now one Wesern Norh Carolina Conference los las reno Several years ago Dr Cuing, independ- of he objecs of our Convenion,On moion Coriference year $17,000 This loss fell on en of any aid aside from he Bible and he of one of our deacons i now has a column in 125 preachers-a loss of $136 o each If we Holy Spiri" discovered he ruh in regard o he minues of Piednlon Associaion, and, could ge similar l"epors from our Bapis he Sabbah': He was a d~acon in he Bap- pledges were aken for i For his I am sin- churches, our Bapis preachers in many seccel'ely glad To conribue o his Board is a ions 'would reach ou he hand of financial is Church, bu did no delay o nlake a duy we owe o our aged and worn-ou breh- fellowship o hese Mehodis brehren The pracical use of his new-found ruh,bro ren, a duy we owe o ourselves as indi vidu&ls, wrier of said aricles says: "There canno be' "Y H Landrum caine froln he Mehodis a duy we owe o our churches and pasors, a found in any oher vocaion, perhaps no in Church and was bapized by he Adveniss duy we owe o our Qod all oher vocaions aken oge,her in Norlh several monhs ago There is a congrega- 1 Every man called of God o he minisry Carolina, so grea an anloun of money 111ees a condiion of affairs no found in any wihheld from nlen afer hey have done h~ir ion of people in he ciy known as Sevenh- oller vocaion of life I believe in an especial work faihfully, and wih a definie conrac day Adveniss, bu hey have no as ye call o he minisry I believe ha God calls as o salary "In fac, no class of men engaged been organized ino a church The reason of men o he minisry as he does no o any in oher employlnen would submi o such, his, as I undersand i, is he lack ofunanim- o,her vocaion ' of life No man ough o may I no say dishonesy, such disgraceful deiy in regard o he visions of Mrs 'Vhie sand as an ambassador of God unless he has faul, forhe claim iscancelledaconference?" divine auhoriy, for so doing Who would And does no he average Bapis 'church con A meeivg was appoined for,sunday nigh, sand in he cours of oher naions as am- sider likewise wh:en he pasor leaves he field? when I had he privilege of alking in an in- hassadors for he Unied Saes unless ap- (3) These men are he larges givers in our formal way o an inelligen lile company poined by,he ruling po'wer? Neiher ough denominaion The preacher is he leader of of en Anoher meeing 'vvasappoined for any man sand as he overseer of God's force he people, and ou of his povery he mus Monday nigh Preaching,vas expeced 011 unless appoined by him In my opinion I do lead he people who are )TIore able 'From a no believe any man ou~h o be a pasor un- parial lis of gifs a he lae Convenion his nigh, bu he company did no assem- less he feels" woe is me if I preach no'} My publi~hed in ho Norh Carolina Bapis, I ble unil a lae hour, and i was finally advice o every young man is 'keep ou of noice ha hiry preachers, gave- over hough bes o devoe he ime principall'y he minisry if you can" "Be sure your call $2,700 ou of $5,000 o Wake Fores en-, o he consideraion of he Expose of Faih of is of God before you ake your'firs sep" dowmen Ou of 17 donors of $100 each o he Sevenh-day Bapiss Preliminary seps Brehren, I would no go hrough wha some he Female Universiy 10 were preachers preachers have o endure for any maser, save These en preachers gave abou one-hird of were aken, for he organizaion of a church Chris, ardbu, for his gtace 110 man could he whole 'amoun given here o he :Female 'Anoher meeing was' a,ppoined for nex rrhe preacher is usually,looked upon as Universiy ~ So if he liss of givers a every Tuesday nigh; we hope o conlplee he 01'- everybody's servan, everybody's arge for Convenion and Associaion could be goen ganizaion The gteaes candor andfrank- criicism, everybody's vicim of abuse, and,' he preachers would be found among he firs ness has been shown in our conversaion wih 1ik~ a larnb led o he slaugher, he mus no rank These men have invesed largely in all open his mouh Ofenimes hose who open he denominaionalinsiuions andenerprisone anoher, and I am led o believe ha he heir monhs very wide o' praise him, will es of our Sae and land ' lile company which I hope o see organized never parheir lips o defend him from false- (4) When he preacher ar-rives a'he age of ino a church in his grea ciy will be mos hood and slander There are ruly very pe- 50 or 60 hey are no sough for as pasors, inelligen and loyal workers in advancing culiar rials, circunlsances and condiions bu 3,re unceremoniously la,id'on he shelf In he cause which is dear o us all surrounding he pasor which do no sur- some secions 50 years of age is he "dead round ohermen in oher vocaions ' line"" No oher profession I{DOWS a "dead I have no seen our Shepherdsville brehrei1, (1) God no only calls he preacher, bu,he line" his side of he grave The faul is no bu since my arrival here lase\iening, I was' chooses his field of labor God will direc he wih he preachers They are he' equa,is of saddened by he in el1ip;ence of' he deah of faihful preacher o his fieidof labor In he men in 'any pher professions The endency our aged broher, William J aines 1 have a formaion of pasoral relaions misakes are o-sneer a he old preachers is a-refiecion on walk of four miles before llle, andi - mus frequenly made, some people 'hink If so hecha,racer of our churches and aninsul o hey are no made by GqdMen and ~1!-qrches God :J"isarefiecion on our churches' when' " sop'j:ere ill' or<!ero reach he' neigbborhoqd 'make misakes, God never' Men'and"churches he, faihful servan of God,'\Yorn ou, )ri, P:is of 'our church by noon" make greamil3akesinnd"corisulingg,od service" becquiesl burqen~ohem 'Truly~be SHEPHERDSVILLE, Ky, March 27, 1895 ',inhi~,maerr\re~y does Godc}1oosea,old1?~~achers as,-yey sijnj:~~,~~,opovery,

7 , 1 ApruLil~ 1895] ' TH~ ~ ABB~ATH! REC 0 RD E H an? look bac~~~a;!"d ~nd see he pblpifrom hepasor~fcprea~h hey pray foi-, us Prom wh~ch hey came, and as hey,look forward h~lrhomesof povery,,heir prayers ouch,hepoor:house looms up like a errible specre God's hrone a:pd' showers of blessings fal] ' in he background ofhfe upon us They give? us "Tha our money II Wih his condiion of hings surround-canno buy They glye:'ijsfreasnresmore inghem, h{:y are unable o provide for old pi-iceless han gold Le usgivp o hem wha age, or he loved ones hey shall leave behind hey nood and ha which our money can buy Mos of our preachers die' in povery A few (4) 'Ye have a moral obligaion which we of he,m have a li]e, o leave loved ones In canno deny neiher reje'c When,: a man an old age of povery lieyare frequenly' for- wears himself ou in a service w}iich bv is goen by 'ungraeful sons and daughers very naure hasunfied hhn'for la,ying "'up a, and neglecful frie~dsa!ld brehren ' I know "Suppor, or f~r finding employmen in oher a daugher who hves In a fine house and vocaions, I IS he duy of hose who o'e he dresses in fine clohing, ye her old faher is be~efis of his labors o provide foi- hi~,vhen in povery, and bu for he help of his Board he IS desiue and helpless The Unied Saes would suffer These men have worked for meag- governmen does his SOUle of he Saes do er salaries in healh and had no he means i, Many of?ur?oinmercial corporaionsdo o keep up insurance Some keep up insur- Oher denomhlalons are ahead of us 011 his ance awhire, bu have had o drop i because line Our Virg'inia brehren have abou $2- he churches failed o mee hones obligaions 000 invesed for his work in heir boi'der~ Ohers burdened wih col1ege debs, or kep Dr J B Huson" of Richmond, Raid somein deb by sickness of families, have been able inle ago, "If I were abou o die and had bu only o live hrough he years of oil and de- one dohar in he world and wished o pu i nrals, and in old age hey are helpless and where I would do he mos good, I would give some,imes friendlesg,ha dollar o he :Milliser's, Relief Fund" III Under such condiions heprbacher \Ve are enjoying he fruis of heir labors le: has many forebodings concerning his old age us give uno hem he fruis of ours ' and his loved ones How sad he wail of he (5) The relaions w:hich we bear o hem Psalmis in verse 9, "Cas me no of Lin irne- appeals o us They ' are our fahers and ofold age, forsake me no when my srengh brohers The deats friend,t-have oii earh faileh," and as he hough grows on him, ismy old pasor, No only my broher, bu how ouching and sad he prayer of he ex, my faher in he gospel I would divide m v "Now also when lam old and grey-headed, 0 home wih him we're he helpless Spiriu~i:l Lord, forsake me no" Preachers are men, only kinship is he highes and greaes Some of men, very weak men, and in heir hours of dis, 'you bear hese close relaions o hese old rouragemen and suffering, hey look forward preachers Will you den v hem now? God o old age wih sadness And if i 'were no forbid Will you allow hem o suffer? I hefor he rich promises of God hey would some- lieve no Le us o-day, on he very hreshimes sink nigh uno despair Though friends o]d of ha day celebraed in ll1enloryofg6d's a1ld brehren forsake, ye he Lord says he grea gifs o us, send up a gif o he lvlinwill" even o hoar hairs carry, bear and de- iser's Relief Board Le us make his occa, liver" God does no send he raven, or rain sion one of g'iving raher han receiving al1d down m~nna as of old, bu in SOllle way or we shall be blessed indeed-frolll 1VOl'll C~~l' oher he Lord will provide for his prophes O/iIU]; Bapis and preachers and people =:c:::;c:~:-c:_ ':_"-:':"-::::C_:':::::,,':c:': -'-"'--,:::::,:'-:=-::_'::_:''C=-:~: IV TEACHERS' MEETINGS, The churches are he agens whom DERufl'ER, N Y God has chosen o carryon his work (1) God has hrown his burden on he Our Sabbah-school, acing-~on he advice churches Did I say" burden?" The care of of he las Conference, has beg'un a weekly hese poor preachers oug'h o be a blessed eachers' meeing, and wih some measure of privilege 'rhese old veerans of he cross are success We have welve eachers and SOlll far more helpless han he orphans Every of hese quie aged and ohers 01) heir farma, one has a gif for he orphans, bu hese old, soldiers have oulived heir usefulness This bu we hold he meeings from house o eondiion is he saddes of life These men house, and someimes in g'ood weaher go have worn hemselves' ou in he service of,he wih our eams o he counry Then, oo, churches No one else will ake care of hem we make i a Bible sudy and call i by ha n?w The churches mus, or proclaim heir name, giving' i a wide range, bu always b8- dlsgrac o he world One ofhemosouching &cenes in he life of Chris is ha narraed ginning and ending' wih he Chris and he by he" Beloved Disciple" As Jesus looked grea salvaion ou from he cross he saw his moher Did A firs i was hard o fix on a nigh, for no a hough of her fuure' cross his mind? here was so much going on and all were so Ah how would he cold and hearless world busy, bu we held righ o i and now we ge rea his moher? Did he no care for her d d h h h fuure? Lisen o he divine record: "when a g'oo aen ance, oug we ave seveneen Jesus herefore saw his moher, and he disci- socieies in DeRuyer and pleny of meeings pies sanding by, whom he loved, he said uno and socials and showswihounumber! Now his rnoher"woinan, behold, hy son! Then} wha we can do in his lile village can be saih he o he disciple, Behold, hy mqh~r! done even beer in Tnos of our churches And fr?id ha hour he disciple ook her And from he la~ CQnference Minues I find uno his own home" Was he moher of Jesus a burden o John? Neiher should bu few Sabbah-schools holding' any eac:b-- hese old preachers whom God has hrown ers' llleeing', and hese are so rare ha I upon he churches We should share' wih wan o give heir names and he names of hem he comfors which we have as John did heir noble superinendens: wih he moher of Jesus In he Easern only w:o,a,re repored, a (2) ;rhe~orkhese men havedoneappeals Berlin N Y A Lawrence Sup' and Shiloh o our graiude '"'' ' ' Graiude should express iself in acion ~ J, ~oy Corell, Sup No one repole,d Wha a work hese old lnenhavedone? Wha 1~, he Cenral ASSOCIaIon (Maybe,ha s has God wrough hrough hfm? Ah, you he reason hey locaed he Sabbah-school nor I arewor~yofhegifs,heyhave brough" Board here!) Only hree in he Wesern ~o us They did le pioneer work and we e~- Associaion Alfred, N Y EP Saunders; JOY he resuls Som~ of our,bes churches, 'M" : ' N' G" are monumens o heir memory The Hap- L!le G~nesee, ISS Mary E Bo,:ler, lie, is denominaion in his Sae bears esi- W BurdIck Only fiyerepored In he gtea ~onyobeir loyaly o 'he docrines as de- Norh-wes, Farina;, C- -H Wes; Milon, A hv;eredo he apos~les~ They should be I"he Whiford; Dodg~Cenre, E A~ Sanford; Walglory ()fh~ de~omlnalon worh Mrs Lillie Greene New Auburn A G "(3)Th~lrwisdom ~:r;dhelr prayers area ': N,' s' h-e PrIceless,gIf, o our work Tho~e who rea;}ized 010fo?-:_ onerepored In,he ou asern,ljepowerofprslyerknow:whaagif his' is' ASSOCIaIon; and only one In hesou~h-wes,~o'~f3~; "Theyex~rciaeifcir ua;~to-day while err, a: ;IIammond,La;, Emina IJanphear, Sup All honor o hese eleven Sabbahschools and heir heroic superipendens! Are here any ohers followi1}g he advice of Conferen-ce'? I~ UA hearfrom"hem hrouo'h h_ 0 he REcoHDER JJ R S' OBITUARY Grove De ",Vi Clarke was boi~n in Brook field, N Y;, ~Ia,y 1,1826 The eldes son of Isaac and OJTilla Clarke (dec,eased),in early manhood he was bapized by Eld WIn B: Maxson in~o he fellowship of he Firs Brookfield Church He was married, Feb 26,1853, o Lydia 1\1 Taylor, of!hode Island and,"vho preceded him o he beer' world, only a few weeks Boh having been in poor healh for several years, i was his expressed wish, during' her las days ha hey Illig'h "cross he river" ogeher, she replying, "Truly, you will no have long- o wai" Of heir four children only one is living',marine, general Inanager of he Tenn Line and Twine,,7' orks, wi,h whom hey Ii ved and were enderly cared for in heir las days Of his eigh brohers and sisers, four only remain :Mrs BlacklTIan and Mrs I{elnper in Chicago, :Mrs Blackman in Omaha, Neb, and Mrs Clarke in Emporia, I{ansas, where he aged moher of precious memory died only foureen monhs ago, and his only remaining SOIl was rejoiced in he happy privilege of spending wih her he'las few Illonhs of her life He spen he gteaer par of he las, eigheen monhs in raveling abou, hoping o regain his healh, visiing Chicago, Iowa, I{ansas, Ca1ifol'nia, Nebraska and ",Visconsin, and finally reu]'ned in J anua,ry o -his son's home in Tennessee He was no confined much o he house, and was able o wa]ka half Illile only five days before his deah, which occuri'ed March 21,1895 He was a man of srong' convicions, uprig'h and conscienious in all business dealings, faihful in his church relaions and all Chrisian duies He wih his wife were ruly an exelllplary couple, comnlanding in he hig-hes degree he respec and eseem of all whokllew hem Posses~ed of srong social qualiies, hey drew abou hem many warm friends in every place of residence Many years hey lived in Milon aild~ viciniy, Wisconsin, a few yean:; in Noronville, I{ansas, previous and laerly inrhode Island, spending one or wo years in Florida He was an arden admirer of he beauiful' in naure,' and during his ravels his leers conained very ineresjng' descripions of scenes in differen lands; he las was of he enchaning views froln he windows of his room in he Tennessee home Alhough a imbs durjng' he final sickness, boh endured Hiuch suffering, ye a he las hey were freed from pain and peacefully and genly breahed heir life away Unied many years in godly living, consanly growing in he Chrisian gtaces, hey now" sleep in Jesus," side by side, amid he'hf}auiful scenes which he ermed he lovlies of all Many relaives and fri~nds mourn heir deparure lvlay we srive o beasfaihful and as ready for he summons, when i shall come o each JJ, E' H BINDERS FOR RECORDERS We are prepared o send an excellen binder for he R~C~RDER by mail, pospaid, for $1 10 ThIS IS a wholesale price and herefore wihou much profi o,;he publishers, aifd is done o accommodae our parons who WIsh o preserve he RECORDER for reference '\Ye ~e~~--'~ 1!l~ke 1~ worheilou~ho our readers f,oi'ju~ify his oulay for laperma :nen preseryaion year by year: ' ' ~-~-=------'"--~- ", --'-- -'---;~~~'~ - ;, I, l' i, l ~ ' i j 1 ~ " 1! l:!

8 RECORDER, _ J _, _ :~,_, '~,, [VoL'LI,'No15,, ', ',-: : i'-:, ': " ", ~",,- " ' l,,': '1' - -!:-',! :",',' ' ',, ~ ", " 'r,-'" cesses and riumphs of heir earhly career,_- MEMORIAL SERVICES PAPER' BY MISS E S SAUNDERS ', ' J/', ' " nowciosed forever They were each born In Memory of Rev Joshua Clark, in he Second Brookfield ;- '/ Church I is my pleasan ask o speak of he pas- srangers o affluence, having lile byinher-, orae of he Rev Joshua Clarl~e wih his iance save brave, hones, and kindly hears The following address by Rev H B Lewis was deliv- -- J, 'd' h 'h 'f church 'l"hough shroude WI, e miss 0 ThI's' a',ribue" however, beina ered roinforced and exemporaneo~sly, and aferwards wrien, by M Y reques, for publicaion, ~vih he oher, papers pre- he many inervening years, sill here shines ',expajidedasiwas by a living and abiding sened brighly hrough, he radian 8miIe and he "faih'in he gospel of Chris" proved o, each a I have,been invied o paricipae in hese warm,h~nd-clasp wih which he greeed alike boon of priceless value, and by is, aid~hey,,memorial services,becanse of my being born he young and! he old, beoiiel!i~g his kirrd wen forh o heir 'chosen life work fearlessiy,, in he same own (Brookfield) aud so nearly hear and neverfailingineresin hose around faihfully, and rusingly, 'working ou all is ahe same hne, Elder-- Clarke being l'year him These -rais soon won for him many deails, and in he end achieving a grand and arid 15 days younger b;an myself, and having and' faihful' friends, bu his life was no "all ;unarnishedvicory, Wih he passing away been so largely conne,ced wih' him in he- sunshine We have all learned ~ha occasional of such lives here comeso us a feeling ha a, work' of he gospel nlinisry our earlier clouds across, our horizon are necessary for, loss has been susained ha, is beyond repair years were spen separaely, his family moving' us o fully appre?iae he splendors of an un- -a ligh exinguished ha will involve 'in o Adams and Wason, Inine o Sco and cl9uded day HIS pasorae began In 1850 darkness and obscuriy all is laesurround Verona In 1842 we' me a Leonardsville, On Marc~ 30h his opening sermo~_ was given ings Bu as a evening we gaze wih rapure NY, where he was invied o preach on from Romans]: 16-"ForI am no ashamed 'qpon "some brigh paricular sar," unil i Sabbah-day by voe of he congregaion, he of he gospel of Chris, for i is he power of sinks below he horizon and is los o our pasor being absen Broher Clarke gave us God uno salva~ion o every one ha believ- vision, we urn our eyes insincively and a sirring sermori, alhough no quie 20 eh" He began his labors comparaively behold oher orbs ha have arisen o comyears old, exhibiing ha family characer- young in years, poor in his world's riches, plee and resore he apparen loss in nigh's isic of independence and self-rei,iance, which, 'bu srong in faih and '\yih a grea capaciy galaxy, so ober laborers appear and ake in laer years, gave him such a coinlnand of for work, which ere Ion? was fel ~o only by he places in life's vin~yard so recenly made he siuaion as o enable him o fearlessly his own people bu In' he neigborhoods vacan, and hus, houq-h he workmen faler, ~ declare he ruhs of he gospel, wheher Inen around The 'firs revival meeings were and in he end disappeal~,alogeher, he work accep or rejec is eachings I was my held in he Old Nol'h Chur~h How lllany goes seadily on In' giving my inlpressions privilege o be associaed wih hiin, more or now remember Is arched w~ndo,:s and, ~o of he life and labors of him whose loss is so less in laer years, in our work, frequenly young eyes, lofy colulnns, Is high pulpi, fresh in our minds o-day, I canno do beer meeing him a our annual gaherings, where wih he deacon's pew underneah; i~fron~ of han menion a few passing incidens con,ve found him o be he same bold, fearlessad- his he box sove; beyond and on eiher SIde neced herewih which came under my observocae of he ruhs of he Bible, making him,he sraigoh back pews From he pulpi vaion I was my privileg'e o be presen a a hero for he righ He was regarded as a came he ferven, soul-sirring- words of he he old church in IJeonar9-sville a one of his srong man, and frequenly occupied he pasor and h,isnever-failing earnes prayer early aemps a preajchlng he gospel, and chair as presiding officer of hese bodies "He for he wanderers; from he pew beneah, he alhough a half cenury has since elapsed, was a grea reformer, giving close aenion imporunae peiions of our revered Deacon here were poins in ha service which are o he- curren movemens of he day This Spencer; in he pews, he lisening people, sill held in -remeinbrance The pasor in was especially rue of him in he emperance srong men and women, who sayed up he charge, whom I believe o have been he Rev~ cause He was a Prohibiionis ou and ou, handsand he hear of heir pasor Of be John Green, afer he opening~'requesed he and fei i his duy o so preach he gospel number who a bis ime found he glorious audience o join him ill"a few momens of ha men should undersand ha emperanc~ Ligh I know no, neiher hose of he many silen prayer in behalf of he young broher was among he fruis of he spiri, which revivals,vhich followed, for one fearfully wih him in he desk, following which he Chrisians are o bear; and in advocaing is sormy day a kind neighbor's dwelling van- youh addressed he audience, his opening reclaims, be did no hesiae o say ha we ished in smoke, and wih i he old church rec- mark being," Le your prayers sill ascend ough o 'Voe i as "oe]] as o make any oher ords The pasor, he deacons, and nearly all he holy hill of Zion, for from hence alone effor for h~ removal of he curse of inem- of he srong men and women have been comeh our srengh" The effor was very perance, as he so ably se forh in he las gahered horne, one of?em bu a few 'w~eks much of a succe~s, and, as I now remember, sermon he, speaker,heard him preach a he since, and he old church IS among he hings was in many ways characerisic of his ser Cen,ral Associaion, a DeRuyer, in June, ha 'were Perhaps no beer indicaion of mons in afer life On one occasion, during 1891 He was presiden of he l\hniserial he grea eseem in ~Yhich he wa~ held by all his pasorae wih his people, I call~d wih Conference of he Wesern Associaion while I he people could be given han his many calls him on he Hon Gerri Smih, a his homein was a member of ha body, for nearly hree o speak he words of sympahy, and by open Peerboro, soon aferhe had publicly emyears, always being ready and able o give graves" Ashes o ashes;" and he chime of braced he Sal,Jbah, as augh in he fourh good advice and sound argumens for he happy bells ofen sunlmoned him o fesive comnlandmen Afer an inroducion and encouragemen of ohers of less experience halls o say, "WhaGod hah joined ogeher he usual ~iviliies,vere passed, Mr Clarke ex His sound judgmen and paie:nce were ad- le no man pu asunder" His openly ex- pressed, in simple language, his grea graimirably manifes in a couneil, consising of pressed disapproval of wha he hough ude ha anoher and so able an advocae himself, Lawyer Henry L Jones (since Elder) would be obsacles o he advancemen of had come o he rescue of he rnorallaw in is and myself, called by he Richburg- Church o Chris's kingdom, may no always bave won enirey, adding ha doubless he change -ReIe some very co III plicaed and rying differ- for him he love of he wrong-doers, bu idid had brough wih i many inconveniences in ences exising here, in which he was found o heirh<?nes~ respec' His farewell sermon -he conduc of his vas business 'Mr Smih be a wise counselor and able defender of he wasgivenonfeb1~, 1858,from2dCor13 :11 replied," O,'yes, bu he blessing ha comes righ, and courage o mainain he same -" Finally, br~bren, farewell" Everfe'arless, from a willing obedience far ouweighs all " How are he mighyfallen, and he weapons earnes and faihful,',' on he ol\er side" he obsacles and losses_ inciden o he change" of war perished" True, he mighy ones of has doubless ~e many, and will mee many,he hen gave us he reason of his belief,holdour denominaion are falling, 12 in he las more, Who fer~enly hank God ha JQ~hua ing ha each precep of he Dec8,logue,emwo years and a half, bu he weapons of our Clarke lived and labored " Blessedal'e hey bodied a m'oral and cardinal principle, which warfare, he sword of he Spiri, he Bible, has who sow beside all waers" admied of no 'change or modificaion, bu no perished An earnes appeal is made o, growing ou 'of, be necessi ies of he human PAPER BY MR C WHI'PFORD his Church o be ready o make an offering of race was co-exisen herewih He also spoke heir sons or daughers, if need be, o fill up, I mos cheerfully add o he esimonies of he pleasure he had in he acquainance of he depleed ranks of noble, earnes, conse-already before usha~jn early life I became Sevenh-day Bapiss, menioning Dr Fahne-, craedwol'kers hus aken from us Have we acquained wihandco:1,jne<;i among my warm sock, of Philadelphia; and Pasors Maxson, faihfully complied wih he e~hings of personal friends CharlesMLewis? Darwin E' Bailey,H ull and ohers of our own S~eThe " Chris, in Luke lq: 2-" The harves ruly is Maxson and Joshua Clarke Wih an iner- inerview was pleasan hroughou, and a i~, grea, bu he lab<;>rers are few; pray ye, es growing ou of liis fri~ndshi p and possibly close he placed Mr Clarke~s name<?n, his lis herefore,helbrd of he harves ha he aouch of local pride, I have wo;:ched, wih ofcoitespondens;whereidouble~s,relll,ain~d would s~nd forh 'laborers ino his ~har: almoshe soliciude of a brqher, he onward during/he life Q he "ATeaj:phi1a:Qhi-Qpi~1i ves" progress : of' each,and noed he varied,suc- Upon -oh~l"occasions ~ 'have see;lhim'wl1e:re,

9 ApRILll, 1895 ~] j ---,-~ _ povery, sicknes&, and mourning prevailed, Ghilden' spage~ and I feel jusified in saying ha in whaever relaioj1 of life henlingled wih his fe!lowmen, a well deflnedand earnes purpose never desered him of sriving o relieve, elevae, and 'encourage in he way of wen~doing, and as a means o his end he, cominended' 'he gospel 'of Chris o all ThelessonofPasorCla,rke's: life appears b' mea,wo-fold one; firs, as'a monumen e> seh-help or self,reliance; and, second, as an' exhibiion of he efficiency of good, ad vice arid su hsanial aid rendered he young a he righ ime and wih, ri~h :moives Our subjec ofen spoke of ile grea deb _ of graiude he o\'ved he lae Deacon Collins Miller for wise counsel and personal favors in his early manhood, and he ouching manner in which he acknowledged hese obligaions a he funeral of his benefacor, is doubless well remeinbered by many presen, Of he group of Chrisian 'workers I have named, i Inay be ruhfully said: They oiled long and manfully; heir sowing rnay"of have been wih ears, bu he harves,vas joyous and heir sheaves abundan ,---- " _--:--" f--- WHY JOHNNY DIDN'T SMOKE 'I:' W ewere walking up and down he iong plaform of he'railwav saion a New IJondon one brigh spring" morning, 'enjoying he fresh breeze h~ blew inrfrom he sound while we waied for he Vermon Ceriral rain o ake"us ono he norhward ' There were oher srollers besides ourselves, alld we par,icularly noiced a handsollle, dainy young ahlee for his scrupulous nea-' ness, his quie demeanor, and his firln, erec carriage ', Presenly he was accosed by a half-dozen jolly young fellows," who were surprised 'and delighed a meeing him here They plied hirrl wih hasy, cordial, boyish quesions; "Where have you been?" "Wha have YOU been doing?" "How' are you geing on '?" hen if I am no' poorer will' keep i up as long as llive' ~o I began saving my cigar dimes I had o go o church o pu hem in he box, of course, and in ha way I became ineresed " in he religion I heai:d preached, and concluded ha I needed i as much as anyone So, boys, I am a Chrisian and a church member, and Tfeel as if I hadbeengelingonquie alile/'- ' "I like your speaking- ou and elling 'us abou i," said he jollies young fellow' of henl all "I gives me faih o believe ha you have go hold of somehing worh having! " " All aboard for he Norh," shoued Conducor Doane 'And he nex minue we,,yere Inoving rapidly away, leaving he group sill alking -ilfl's Annie A Preson, in On ward IN MEMORIAM Lydia Rogers Noyes, daugher of Sanford We dropped down on a seee-near by, and :Mai,ha V Noyes, was born Sep 1, 1804~ amused a, he merry lively cha PresenIv and died a her home near Nianic, R T~; some one offered our ahlee a cig'ar, ~1al'ch26,,1895,'inhe 91s year of her a!!"e,,; 'l'hank you, no," he said, firmly and quie- LJ ly " I have given up smoking" And hen Ocober 11,1829, she was Inarl'ied o Dr he added, laughing a lile and showing- a se Joseph D I(eny6n, who, afer nearly 50 years of very whie, even eeh: '" 'fhe fac is, when of happily wedded lives, died June 29, 187~ I reached holile here, seemed o be no place I 4 for me o smoke, and I was under he necessi- n 18 1, a he age of 37, ~1rs I{enyon, oy of giving up he habi" g-eherwih her husband a,nd adaugher, pub- A SONG OF PRAISE "How was ha, John?" licly professed Chris and joined he FirsSev- BY MAllY COHBET1' '"W e II,you see, I was g I a d enoug h o ge enh-day Bapis Church, of Hopkinon, R o I hank God for he sunshine h' d f I' h As i ripples down he rees, orne agai~, an a er supper wen In 0 e I; and his was her spiriual home a he As i urns he we, brown meadow library and lay down on he sofa in fron of I d I d b Ino golden glory-seas ;_ he open fire, and lighing' a cig'ar prepared llne S 1e passe on 0 more exa e mem er- And I hank him ha my hear-dephs, for a smoke Prey soon ma canle in No ship in he church riurnphan, "he horne of Like he earh, bough someimes cold, h h d' d h I l'l he soul " Can draw in bis "blessed sunshine" Iny own mo er, s e Ie w en was ale And is warmh and power hold' hing; bu his one, ever since iny faher For 56 of he (H; years since her n)arriage And I hank him for he music married her, has lnade a pre,y and pleasan his house was her honle; and hree daugh- Of he swollen, rembling lins home for me As she walked along heard Tba are leaping o he vaijeys he sof rusle of her dress, and hen I heard ers, wo sons, four gtand~children, a si sier, From a hundred wak'ning hills; her sniff, sniff, and presenly she said: 'I and wo brohers survive he beloved moher, For he bird-noes and he flowers; fancied I smelled smoke' I held up my cigar, g'randrnohei~, and siser "When shall I lay For be breeze ha floas above; '-' For he blessed, full awak'ning and confessed I had been snloking a lije, off my armor by, and dwell wih Chris a home? " Of my sleeping faih an~ love and on, for SaIne ime f h h d '" 0, is ha so?" she sa id,' genlv 'Well, -par oa ymn s e use 0 sing,-were I could hide my face in weeping J I I] d Tha I ever dared o doub, Johnny, I don' know as i is surprising, bu among: ler a es spo {en wor s Ever cried o him for blessings please do no le me see you smoking on he We hink of her as a Chrisian woman; by Which he knowsi'ni bes'wihou; sree or when we are ou anvwhere I don' d' d h f G d db Ij'or my hear, now hrobbing upward, hink I could bear ha' And I said: 'CeJ'- 1 VIne grace a aug er 0 o an eu' 0 o~~~ ~:a~ri~~~lf:7 ~~d~s ~~~~::ce ainly no, rna; you can depend on TIle' Bu he" Inany mansions'" She was a reader" I hrew my cigar in he fire, having los my suden, and lover of he Scripures; and, in enjoyluen of i somehow, alhough she did leisure momens used o say, "I can hink of Ye we know wihin hem lie no scold 'nohing beer o do han o read he Bible" As he earh yearns oward he sun Lo! he broken fields wai passive, 8jf: o c;! ~r:fi~!~he~~~n~~l~~~;~ndpower '' Prey soo?, my f~her carrie in, and he She was cheerful and hopeful, looked on he And heir dephs, renewed and quickened, said, direcly: Ma ~ells me,vou have learned br'i' crh sl de' o' f,hi'no's' and urih cheeri'no' UTor -ds Wai he sower's spring-ime care; o smoke, my boy Well, I suppose I ough b M ',H' 0 n Wha so'er he plans wihin hem o be surprised ha you didn' learn sooner, and londly deed~, InlnIsered o he JOY and Ino harves:sheaves o bear bu don' le me see you smoking around he peace of her family, and of all o whom she '1"hus my soul-i feel wibin i house' And I said: 'Cerainly no, sir!' and could" lend a hand" She \val:! Inos cordial A new sense of power hrill; was glad he had aken i so pleasanly Ye a hy dear fee, 0 Faher " Before he evening was half over Illy Uncle Would I lay i, calm and sill; Le i be hy garden-plan i Tom, who is my faher's parner in business, Jus as hou woulds have i bear; srolled over for a lile cha, and as he ook Noble frui or humble foliage, a sea and looked -me over in a way he has, as Lile, Faher, do I care - if he was aking an accoun of sock, rna said, Thou has seen how ofen, Faher, in her sof voice: 'Johnny has a new acconlli he seasons ha are pas I' h ' h H hid I have offered hee he reaping P IS men SInce e wen away e as earne From he seeds ha I have cas;- o smo1}e' Selfish hopes and aims, up springing,,' Dear me! is ha so?' exclahned Uncle From a roo of selfishness, Tom '\Vell, why boys will persis in burning Over which he desolaion Of hy winer came o bless up heir hard earning's is a mysery o me; bu you won' le me see you smoking abou Ye behold I he hear I bring hee he facory, I hope I shouldn' en]' oy seeing Is sill young; no hopeless years Have is early srengh exhaused, I has fel no bier ears; ', my nephew and bookkeeper and prospecive parner abou he works wih a pipe or a For hy chasenings, mos genly ciga~ in his mouh' Hah hy loving hand ou-deal-,,'lt 'h II b d' h Thoug'h by wi:nerwinds have swep me ' LOU S a ne:ver e paine ]n a way, Ye my life no chill has fel sir,' I said And I ook my cigars ou of my Therefore, wih a consecraif)n~ pocke and hrew hem all over behind he By no selfish hopes debarred; back log afer he firs one, and I have llever Wih a pea ce as deep as evening's' smoked since " When her moonless skies are sarred: "Uncle Tom is a, grea go-o-meeing nlan Wih a 'love all saisfying 0 h 'I d 'l b' d Do 1 bring my song of praise; ne evening e as {e me o go WI 1 Illl, an And I hank hee for he sunshine as I had no excuse o offer I wen There was Of hese early brigh'ning days a collecion, and Uncle Tom said o me :':' I used o use obacco and beer, bu since I lef No ONE has success unil he has he abound- i off I hfve pu, w~amoney I ~ave in ha, i1!g:life ',Thisis mad~up of he many-fold ac- Way ino he Lord's work, and i gives me ~lvly of ~nergy, eiihusi~smandgl~dness I 'dm<?rekj?l~asurehan I e~ergo from sm~ke or IS o spring o mee, hedaywiha,hrllla rin ' being alive I js ogo forh,o'meelie "'lwill do haoo,sir,'i said 'I willfol-, morning inaj1ecsacyof joy,~lilianwh'iinglowsq exc~llen an example fora y~ar, and - in her greeings; a:nd one \vas made o feel ha her welcoming \vords came from a warm, hear She was in sympahy wih children and child-life ~1:osforunae would i be if all of us could possess, down o old age, enough of he spiri of healhy, < bappy youh-ime, o_ draw ou oward ourselves he children's love and confidence Mrs I{enyon was a Illoherly moher SOlneinles here are lower anhnals; someimes, sad o say,here are human paren,s ha do no moher heir offspring Blessed arehose children who are rplymohered by her who, bore hem; and blessed, oo, shall such moherf:1 be One crowning glory of womanhood is homemaking power Wives and mohers may render public service ~n many a useful way ; bu he public iself will be a housand imes he loser, if his is done o he neglec of our homes, for hese are he palladium of o'ur Repubiic Our depared friend seemed o me o po~sess he gif of home-iuking; and mayis iifluences'be so hallowed, srong, andabidinga,sodrawall he l()ved ones upward oward heheayenly home' ',, :, ARTHUl E, MA,IN '! 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10 J ~- T,H E 'S ABBA TH-';R E COR D-'ER,~ '" [VOL 141 No~15 ~,' ',', ", ' ' I " - : "/," :', ::,' "-:",','p,', '', -" 1 -,', :1 :;" '# \' " :~,:, "! "!/ ;~; YoungPeople'swork will do well in one placewi!l no work a allin friends, he songs and gifs o he Bible and anoher~ When, as i young housekeeper, I ohers They read he Bible ex and,hen _ waned o learn o, makejusas good' biscui ell he sory'in heir own words, and some JUr~IOR ~ORK ~ND METHODS: as I had seen on my Inoher's able, L~~,sked very- swee sories we have 'had Even if more BY MHS H, M (MAXS()N, IJLAINIi'lELD, N J <;>ne who had been many years in he bllsiness, han one gives he sanle sory, i is differen [We prinhefo!lowingpaper, no onlyfor is Ilracical jus how rrluch shorening I should use o a as he differen child ells i value o Junior Endeavor workers, bufor issuggesive:- quar of'''flour, and received his -answer, In asking' for Bible'verses i is well o give - ness o Sabbah-school, -and day-school eachers, o" Pu ina lile" and if YO",u"" find h a l,s nu '", " ' mohers, and o all,\rho in any 'way have o do wih he sonle key word", like love, ohey, remember, and raining of children-ed]' ei'lough, you can use niol'enex ime" So if he like, by which o find he ex: A one vou find one mehod does no, work, ",ell, ry 1 PrAvious o a dozen 'or fifeen ;years ag'o, ee' I k d f' l,11 lng as e or verses con alnlng some church work was lef almos enirely in he anoher name or ile of Chris One lile searcher hands of he old~: people Then came he When you have called he boys and girlso- old me she had Jound,over wo hljndred fornlaion of he Chrisian Endeavor Sociey, g'eber, be very sure firs lla you explain,v~rses beginnhjg' wih he iniials of heir and for lnany years i was a quesion ha clearly o, llem he meaning of he pledge na,ines make a variey The blackboard is vexed he minds of he g'ood people, 'wheher wldch hey are aking', and, so far as possible, very helpful in fixing a hough If you are or no i was wise o allow he Joulig'er ones he consiuion I have' found ia good an aris" so much he beer, oherw~se a so much freedom of hough and acion as a plan o begin wih he ltiohers~ and ge heir Aory or a simple blackboard exercise will sociey of heir OWll would en~il Gradually co-operaion, and insis on hei~' feeling a per- i:mpress he ruh he young people gained in \Visdonl, srengh,sonal, re~ponsibiliy,in he maer "rhe,make your'lessonspracical, bu don' feel and power, ill even before hey gahered in pledge card 'reads, "I ail1 willing ha my ha you mus always draw a moral Ihink Cleveland las Slllnmer, fory housand srong, child should ake his pledge, and will do all I we older ones have ofen sylnpahized in ~piri i was conceded lla hey had a place in he can o help him keep i" SOlneimes boh wih he -lile girl who once said o me, "A church world and a work o do llere paren,s sign i; if so, so much he beer; bu m~ral demoralizes a sory for me" Tell your As soon as hey,yer~ firmly esablished asa if one sig ns i, you feel sure of suppor In sory so simply ha he children win see for sociey, hey realized ha hey could do be- SOlne places, he formaion of he l\foher's hem:;elves he ruh you wan o each I er work if heir members had some kind of Chrisian Endeavor Sociey has proved vel's mus be" Line upon line, and precep upon raining before coming o hem TheJ unior helpfu~ precep" "reach hem over and over he real Sociey was he ougrowh of his need The ' TeachyourchildrellhaChrisianEndeavor meaning of he pledge Keep i ever before hope of he Chrisian Endeavor Socie,y JO- is no merely aending church and Sabbah- yourself as wen as he children I will do 'you day is in he Jllnior,,"ork-,he hope of any school, bu i rneans everyday work, in school, good "I will srive o do whaever I hink church work is in a proper raining of is a honle, as well as a church Every -wide~ he would like o have me do," and ha firs children This work is of he ultios ilnpor- awake leader will see insal}ces wllere her clause, "Trusing in he Lord Jesus Chris ance H a b ' 'd 'f I] I children can 11e11) iu all hese places I have a for Rreng~h" I,s an oplnlons 0 a ( er peop e are fixed, and i is alnlos useless o aelup a rneeing of he Juniors a home,and ask You win noice ha all he subjecs menchangein life-long beliefs and pracices, bu heill o hink how hey can help here One iol1ed require previous preparaion 1'he childhood is he ime for characer forming, says by obe,ying promply, by doing li,le subjec is always annonnced he "veek before, and he greaes care should be used in his hinh~ hem-fully, anoher by aking care of and I expec hem o remember i and ell me raining he b )y, or eneraining he lile brohel', wha i is In shor, I wan,hem o live in i We have, maiiy of us, seen in he foress a and on during he week, as archiecs say abou he huge boulder clef in wain and hrollgh he Speak of he school-life, cie some falnilial' plans for a house Arrange your work as far aperure a fun-sized ree gt'owing "Then did insance of a scbool d~fficul~y, and ask wha ahead as possible, and hink of i as much as he cleaving of ha rock begin? When he hey, as Juniors, ough o do Some socieies you can; be filled wih i,sauraed wih i, ree was full-grown? Oh no; when i was have adoped he plan of sending o,he and hen you will cerainlyhavesome Inessage Snlan, a n1ere sapling, ullablehen o do much eachers a lis of is rnembers: asking ha in for your cbildren ha will be of value 'of iself; bu i made a beg'inning, and by,he case of disobedience be eacher shall appeal Pu yourself in he child's place, look a life ime i was grown, he obsacle ceased o o he delinquen, hrough bis Endeavor hrough "r his eyes, a religion from his sandexis pledge I have never seen his,ried, bu can poin e old,er ones, I have corne o,hink, I is no as hough we had a clear fiejd in conceive ha, under sonle circumsances, i have of ourselves puj:iluch ha is hard' and which o labor Evil influences are a work rllig'h Le very beneficial difficul o undersand ino relig'ion, and / as,yell as good, and we nlus pu in he g'ood1'he sring ing of Bible pearls' i:; anoher really ransforrrled and deformed he simple seed while we can, for children growllpsofas, plan One 'week askhenl o have verses be- ruhs ha Chris augh Le alone he ha if we wai ill we hink hey may be old ginuirlg wih A; anoher ime, B; and so on difficulies of he Bible, hey will find heln elloug"h, our opporuniy is loe, and worse hrough he alphabe If you have any very soon enough, and each he plain ruhs and han los young children, you may find i wise o pro- he saving power of Chris ~Ylnpahize wih A Junior Endeavor Sociey ough o be a vide verses for hem o leajrn, bu as soon as he lime ones, visi he sick, look up delinraining schoolfor heupbuilding of Chrisian possible ha,ve'henl find heul for henlselves quens, visi and alk v,tih he mohers, i characer and work as well as a preparaory The "fopic Cards, issued by he Unied will help hem and you school for he Senior Sociey A quesion Sociey, are helpful, as well as he Junior Encourage he children o give plans and was asked a a recen Chrisian Endeavor Golden Rule Every superinenden should suggesions'ab~u he sociey Tell hem you Convenion, "How shall we keep our boys in have boh, and as far as possible have herll caullo always follow hem, bu are glad o Sabbah-school, afer' hey are fifeen years of in he hands of he children The Topic have bem_ They will /have an added ineres age?", The answer was, "Ge hern ino he Cards conain daily readings on he subjec in he work, and feel ha i belongs o hem Junior Sociey They will, go from ha ino for he week, while he Golden Rule has a-i heard wo children alking,he oher day, he Senior Sociey, and hen hey Will no wan shor exposiion of he lesso,!! and addiional when one Raid," you can' go o he :Mission o leave he Sabbah-school" exs I find, however, he Topic Cards are Band, "you are a boy" "No," came he quick In our own denominaion i has been a no always suied o our needs, a case of noj"reply, "bu I ani a Junior and ha is jus as quesion, ever since I can remember" how o enough shorening, so I arrange my own good" ", ;-hdld our young men,if his js a soluion of opicslnuch,of he ilne Begin your meeings promply and ry o he problem, as I hink i is very largely, I is our plan o have Missionary and -Tem- close hem promply I is a good plan when should no every Sevenh~day Bapis Church perance meeings alernaely he firi week in you find you mus run over he ime, o, sae have a 'Junior Sociey? Train h,e children ~ he monh We have aken up wih ag-ea he"siu~ion and ask wha you shall do I : up as Sevenh-day Bapiss; dqn': wai ill deal of ineres he China field, and he chil- will venllre o say ha in,alnlos every case, hey are old enough o wan o be somehing dren feel ha hey have alinos a personal hey will wan o go on else, and hen ry o make hem Sevenh-d,ay acquainance wih our missionaries here and Love your children and lllake qemfeel i Bapiss, ~lhough I don', objec o ha if heir work A smile of pleasure aiwaysbreaks Recenly a lile one, w-ho had -been ou sick you have done yourduy in he oher lines over he faces of he' boys' and girls when I for someime <?amebapko1!e'soci(}y!;,iialf As o he mehods of work, ~hese areas announce ha hey may 'ell Bible,sories,!~_yuphealsle"shesawme;and]ifingup:her varied as he socieies,~emsel ves,and wha We h8iye had Bible-childrp,n, Bible-:women, and lile face, ~wreahed in,smiles, ue1yignorijig ",~ '" '- ", -, ' -

11 APRILli,1895] TH E"-~SA BBATH RECORDER 235 ' ~~ - -~-----'r r he fac ha he ohers were ready o sing, We have raised over five dollars in ha way blessed he world, and whose blessed memory shecl;lled ou, "~Irs Maxson,' I've come" inless han a year " we pold so sacred, whoseinfluencecanno be She knew I was glad o see her, and she was Th~n we have he birh-day box, ino which measured In our own' beloved' Zion, how _ glad o see me -",~ he children pu as many pennies as hey' are rnany have laid down he oils of a noble life, " When God makes a lile hing, years old' Some solici 'fom fahers 'and wihin he las few monhs; bu life's harves ' The faires and complees, mohers on~heirpirhdays, which makes a was rich and golqen He makes i lile, don' you know 'r dl dd'', :For lile hings are sweees goo Y'J I IOn o he sum Surely, only he rue life is woi~h living; " I isa good plan o encourage he children one ~ha reaches ou afer,ohers; whose ' " Lile birds, lile flo wers, " ' ', I ", ' Lilediamonds, lile pearls; 0 earn w la money,hey bring' Some of highes aim is God's glory; whose nourish- Bu he sweees hings on earh mine earn i by selling papers, helping moher, men is gahered fronl he source of all life- Are lile boys and girls" w h l I e one b oy rene d l' lls b' lcyc I e I anern, o Ch ris, he Bread of Life In, naure, how In some socieies he Juniors' hold ',lile have money of his own' Someimes hey are quickly each lile plan would wiher and die prayer-meeings aside from heir regular asked o give a enh 'Ofwlia - -hey earn for he wan of air, sunligh, 'moisure and nleeings, having some special objec for AgaiIi,a penny or a nickel is g'iv3n hem, o proper food oinduceisgl'owhand mauriy~ which o pray, as he Sabbah-school or he see how much hey will increase i; buying In like manner our spiriual life Inus,be sus Sabbah service Teach hem o pray by five cens' worh 'of Inolasses and selling he aiued by he" all saisfying porion'" having a simple form, as "Dear 'Faher, 1 candy map,e from i; nuiking' and selling' ~ ihou his, howwe would fail of reaching hank hee," or "Hea\renly Paher, give us," sweeping-caps, holders, and, h~ like he objec for which we were creaed; how he while oher forins will naurally sugges Here are a few hins, andyou could probably divine plan, enrused o us, would fail of exhemselves,o Y,Oll sugges~ many more Bu g'ive your children ecuioli Bu wih God's swee sunlighwihin Bu you ask wha can Juniors do ouside ~omehing o do, and be sure you have some- our hears, life may always be beauiful; and, he meeings Ask any Inoher of a wide hing new once ina,vlrie-jryou wan o hold as he years pass by, inle nlay cha,nge,he awake boy and she 'would say i, would ake hem " golden locks and laugher of childhood's less ime o ell wha he couldn' do, so you 'rhe secre of success in any ldrid of! work is happy spring o ag'e, wih is honored years mus be ever on he aler o give haln sorne- o pu a gl'~a deal of yourself ino i, and and ripened sheaves, bu even hen, our hears hing o do ha will amoun o somehing paricularly is his rue of Junior work We \~'ill no have grown old, for he life hus sup- Jlo~QJ{s~'~anq-papers can be colleced and sen mus aemp grea hings, and expec gl'ea plied is eernal, as Chris is eernal o he hospials, clohing gahered and used' hings We mus have an enhusiasrll ha D E LIVEHl\lOHI~ for he needy, oys saved and pu ino Chris- will never enqure defea Feel your respousi ,,-::---'- _ ,-,,-, 'c-,=,-c:-:-:-:--=-=_ lnas boxes for he poor, flowers aken o he biliiw I is no ligh Inaer o know ha in 0 U R' M I RR 0 R old people and he sick of heir own sociey, many cases you are g'i vinghe firs ideas of -, , or sen hrough a flower mission o he ciy Chrisian living', ha your words are guiding' THE New :Milon (WVa) Soeiey repors' All hese hings can be done, hough hey he young hears and lives, Wha would you he following' officers'eleced a heir las elecshould be under he care of he superinend- have he resul? I{eep in 111il1d your noble ion: S A Ford, Presiden; Wesley Lowher, eu In our sociey we have been making work, and remember i is for eerniy-tlje Vice-Presiden; L H Davis, Secreary; Dacy scrap-books The books are nlade of manilla EYll,ngei [Lnd Sabbal1 Olllook Lowher, Treasurer; and Roy Randolph, Corpaper or cambric, and while all he Juniors , ----:- responding' Secreary This Sociey has been help in collecing he picures, he pasing is THE TR UE LIFE org'anized wo :years, and now has a melnbel'- done by he Scrap-book Commiee of hree Anoher dreary \\Tiner: is nearly pas; soon ship of foureen I have hem mee a my house where I cl1n we will expec he reurn of he ever-welcome personally oversee he work Las :year we spring ime, wih is warmh and beauy, is 'l"he regular nlissionary meeing' arranged sen away hireen scrap-books and shall birds and blossoms, when he busy season by he Inissionary' comnlieeof he :Milon send as many or Inore his year In some will bring'_ o lllany new labors, and many sociey, was held March 23d Prof Edwin places a member of he l\ilissionaryco111miee plans will be laid for he coming season's Shaw, he leader, divided he mission work of he Senior Sociey is chairman of he Scrap- operaions,hoping o receive, in he coming ino hree classes-churches, ens, and evanbook Commiee, and has enire charg'e of i auulnn, he reward for hones oil gelical Under he firs class, a leer was A posiion on he Scrap-book Commiee is I is un~"easonable o expec a glad, joyful read from Rev S R Wheeler, giving an acvery much desired, and hey will cheerfully harves, wihou JjarnesJ labor, and anxious coun and descripion of he church building give up heir Sunday lllornings o i once or care, as he days g'o by a Boulder Rev G W Hills responded o ens Rev Hills' work inalabamaisdone wice a monh, as occasion requires I found flow hings in naure furnish illusraions one boy had p;iven up a chesinningexcursion fol' nloral principles or somehing o each us nearly exclusively in ens, as i is so difficul laely, and old me he hough i was much how o reaeh desired resuls! Childhood and o obain a church, as churci1esin ha counbeer, and when I asked him why, said, "Be- youh have been ermed life's spring-ilne ry are used only by people of he saine decause we are doing somehing o make ohers To he lovers of naure, he spring-iine llominaionlnviaiollsfor holding meeings happy who could have' lile happiness of brings joy and pleasure,so youh is full of joy in ens are so readily given, ha could he rehemselves" Don' you call ha a rue mis- and happiness; bu before each lies a life work, spond o all, his ime would be occupied fo), sionary spiri? ',,' whaever ha may be Are we laying plans Inore han wo years E B Saunders wroe 'h b h h d of he evangelisic work recenly done in New The envelope library has been very success- f or use f u I f ness, h WI f rig opes an an ICI;"? D - l' h York These meeings are well aended, and fully carried on his year wih us, Ino a palons or e u ure 0 we re~ Ize' ow 1 '1 I b a deeper ineres in Inissions is manifesed manilla envelope he cliild pus six sories cu many habis formed, no\-" are I {e y o e car- each inle from -papers or magazines and which he has ried hrough life? been ineresed in reading, wries he iles on The seed placed in h~ soil in spring How many of our Socieies of Chrisian he ouside "rih his iniials in he corner, and mus produce is kind in he harves; so in Endeavor have a Good Lieraure Cominiies he whole wih a nhjrrow ribbon, or If he youh lay he foundaion principles upon miee? The Trac Board, his week, sends canno ge ha a fancy cord ILone of' our which our characers will Y es How rue i is ou a reques o all our Socieies, asking henl members is sick an envelope is sen o him I ha our characers deermine our conduc, o se a" live colnmiee" a work, geing had one sen o me when I was home wih a and he possibiliies of success or fa,ilul'e are he narnes of persons who may become inersevere cold recenly, and I assure you I appre- according o he choice of principles, and he -esed in h~ Sabbah quesion,,ha lieraure' ciaed i A Chrismas inle wha we have use made of he,ime for developlnell ' nlay be sen o hem fr'om his office We lef will be sen o somehospial They have No one can expec a glad, golden harves rus ha every Chrisian Endeavor Sociey filled fify envelopes in a few weeks, and H,re \vihoufaihfulness in he deails ha go o will give his leer an immediae and careful now asking for more ' make up he whole' I is wrien, "anclle us consideraion, and akehe necessary seps o How sha;ll\we ra,isemoneyis usually agrave no be weary hi well-doi'ng, for in due season we ca~ry ou he excellen suggesions herein quesion I commenced by asking each one shall reap if wefaill no" How ofen has conained Incase no Chris,ian Endeavor o bring a penny ~ he consecraion meeing, he quesion been asked, "Islifewqrhliving?" Sociey exiss in your church, will no he bufndingha some will bring hem,eyery The answer may be deermined by hekilld of pasoran9- young people, by muual consul Wee]{,V\l'e~IWl:yshavea'~onribuion aken life' We know of l,ives ha were no worh aion, appoin a special ccjmmiee o do he,up,buhey undersand ha:i isvolunb:ry~' living; ~:qd~ ~gain, how m~ny lives ha,;"eworksuggesed above? ', " '- " - "\'"-, -', ','- -"' " - -,

12 ~ ~-\", iof ;:',, " ; '" ', '-~,,'< :"" ' ': " ':;' ',' 'J )," [VelLo LI No _,~~~~~~-~~--~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ W : ; Wk Alhough driven from he immediae field enough o spare a second calf o sell,o buy oman s o of labor, he was o "iiness wha he" Lord SallY;'Ann her gold beads, for he firs w~s o joh-n-g~- PATON~~ can do when he opens he hears of Chrisians 'be disposed ofhodgehsomle forbsusaln~wd- nbo Whas o 'York for him 'Every day on ha long older Thus ~ a e pans een al y e BY MRS G W ROSEBUSH d b d' C ' J ourney hrough Ausralia and Grea BriaIn, gran mo er own In onnec ICU I wibh o call he aenion of our people, he sponaneouseonribuionsof every Chris-" The bes laid plans of mice and men "especially OUI~ young people, o he new ian heal' were po-pred ino his lap Nowhere Gang of agle~" ' "Young People's Ediion of he Life and have I ever read lielike Noonesingleperson Bu his ODe worked well as we are fanliliar, Works of John G Paon," pubfshed bya E did he ask for money ; he sirnply()ldhis wih he sring of beads' she used o wea:r, and Armsrong & Son,' of New York Ciy, and in sory, ha was enough, and SOine days as o which she poined when'elling me heir he briefes manner possible give you a shor many'as sixy leers conaining money we;re hisory~ S~le als? remembered he firs!ried ouline ofhe'work received as he-'resul also he Sunday school ca:keshe--ever--saw, and once ~man sa~d o My wish and prayer is ha i maygiveyou, children were mos li~ei'ai wih heir pennies her," Sis, if!ou will urn ~he g,i:in~sone for as i has me, a beer insigh ino he inner In 1866 he was able o reurn on his o\vn' me I will bring you an apple An apple, life and Ruffering~ of he missionar~, Rnd a missionary ship He was accompaniecl by wha is ha?" bu, as she a~reed he brough Inore ear:nf:s desirelofh,~]p onvi\!~,rd lnh every his second wife, and rnade his second landing i o her nex day To hechildrenfiof o-da y, way possible he wor {: 0 preac nng e gos- h' I d f A familiar wih he orange, banana, g, musca " 'on e IS an 0 nrllwa " pel o every creaure ' gtape, and pine-apple, how srange o see a, John G, Paon was born in Dunfries, Sco- This noble, courageous man has recenly child in Cenral New York old enoug'h o urn '1 land, May 24, 1824 His earlies recol ec;; finished anoher our hrough Grea Bri,ain,' a grindsone who had never seell, an apple ions wen back o he daily pleadings of his Ausralia and AinerlCa, reurning again o Of conrse rees had o be chopped down and fahel' in his close, fronl h 1 hir field of labor h h w ence 19 canle Every Sabbah-school library shoulrl own a burned o clear he land, and wih e ga - "wihhe reflecion of he divine Presence," copy of his book Nex o Foser's "His ered ashes hey se up' a leach, obained lye in he eonsciousness ' of which he lived Lierory of,he Bible," I know of no beer bland boiled i down ino poash, which hey 00 { ej~ally, he vvalkedwih God, and he influence for children o read; i,s language is so sinl- sold for rnoneio pay for seed grain of ha Chrisly life gave o he world a' man, pie, ye so swee, while he Inarks of a soul Reared in his prinliive 'way, how ineresbrave as he braves soldier, ye wih a hear ing o noe how she kep pace wih he imes, enirely Chris's adorns every page childlike in fai,h and love now energeic, ho'w srong in mind and body, A he early age of welve he gives hinlself MRS SARAH ANN WllLlAMS,,* wha a ower of srengh she became, In o he Lord's work, and spendr all his spare Mrs Sarah Ann 'Villiams, who for so long early life she was bapized and unied wih hours in he sudy of Lain and GI;eek Soon has been he firs on our lis of meinbers, de- he "Preson Church, reaining her Inemberhe is a suden a he Norinal Academy in pared his life Jan 17, 1895, in her nineieh ship here ill her lllarriage, Oc 23, 1828, Glasg'o'w, and a, he saine imeis rac dis- year To us, who have known ]ler so long as wih I-liul Williams, of Sangerfield, when she ribuor and disric visior; hen a ciy mis- "Aun Sarah," i seems srange o go back unied wih he Second Brookfield Church, sionary o whom he Lord gives' grea power o he ime of her bir h, wpe:q o, Ehan and whose pasor, a ha ime was Eld Eli S in winning souls,\viness he growing mis- Sally Rogers, in he year 1805, Oc 27h, was Bailey Few are he names ha sand on sion church and -he lives redeerned from born a baby girl The nex year her paren,s he regiser of one church for nearly seven,y srong drink sared fronl iiheir hoine a Monville, Conn, years as faihful laborers, ready o do heir The~ comes he call o ener he foreign o ry heir forunes in a hen new counry, par of work and give liberally qf heir field He does no hesiae, houg'h deeply Preson, NY Their conveyance for he four- ITIOney To her was given wo daughers, conscious of his unworhiness o be he em- een days' journey was a prairie schooner and one son by adopion, who died when he bassador of such a mesrage o heahen lands wih wo span of horses, and while on he came o rnanbood Her husband dying Sep Nosmall sacrifice mus i have been o sundel' way occurred her firs birhday Rogers Sree 22, 1851, she lived wih her son-in-law, E G hose ies now growing sronger each day, of o-day was hen 'bu a pa,h hroug'h he Curiss, for several years, bu since his bu he inward lig'h 'was srong, and hough woods, and his urnou,vas he firs of he daugher's deah has kep house for he mos friends used every argllmeno dissuade him, kind o raverse his highway They reached par in rooms of her oher daugher's horne, wi,h he bl~ssing of his Chrisian parens, he he bouse of a relaive afer dark, and found Mrs Susan Fich sailed on he 16h of April, 1857, for he New hem husking corn in he living room, bu In he church service and he Sabbah Hebrides lslands He was now hiry-hree heir welcome \vas as heary 'as if he com- school she was a familiar figure, and a he years of age, and was accompanied by his pany had nurnbered less han seven, and prayer-meeing, when younger members found young,,;ife and he Hev Joseph Copeland, his heir sleeping aparmens had been en or excuse, ill ill healh prevened An acive college chum and friend more They finished he husking, swep up ltieinber of,he Women's Aid -Sociey, and I \vill be impossible in so shor a review o he floor, a~d afer supper broughinfrorll he afer she was no able o aend he meeings, give an'y adequae idea or wha his mansuf- wagon he linen bed-icks filled wih sraw, and anxious o know wha was being' done and o fered afer his selemen on he ~sland of laid hem upon he floors and Inade upheir help by having work brough o her o do 'ranna, Nov 5,1858 Bu lile rnore han a beds, while he boys slep wih heir cousins To he sick she gave much' of her ine in year goes by when he lays his young wife and in he lof In he moi'ning hey wen up former years~ and for he needy she was ever new-born babe o res' No friena save God wih a fire shovel o shovel off he snow from' ready o nlend and o lend Of a life so help- o comfor; no neighbors save he heahen he bovs' bed before hey go up, and her fnl how grea he good and how broad and cannibals of Tanna His life was in danger grandf~her said o his daugher, 'l I wish, far-reaching is influence The busy hands Day afer day and nigh afer nigh he lived -Sally" you were back in COIlI\ecicu" Bu are a res, and we miss her familiar figure, bu by God's presence His faihful Abraham he husband was a ship carpener, and her bu many rise lip and call her blessed _alone sood by him "rl~e very las nigh was faher had come wih hem o help build a E L R spen in a chesnu ree, howling savages all honse Being he las of Ocober he snow T~ACTSQCIETY abou him, and ye he says, "Never in my did no say lon~, and in a few days' ime Receips ill M&rcil 1895 'sorrow did my Lord draw nearer o me; he house of logs was buil, and hough hey GENERAL FUND alone, and ye no alone If i be o glorify could pull he bushes in hroug'h he chinks Chu~:ch, ~~~~I~~~ldl~~~:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::~'::::::::; $1~g~ illy God, I will no grudge o spend IIlany beween he logs, and a firs had no door Shiloh: N J :! 45 '-J Plainfield N J 4751 nighs alone in such a ree" save a blanke, and heir able a board laid 'NN:,o~, ~i~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 2~ ~~ A las he was ' dri'ven from he island, desi- upon saw-horses, he mo her said i was one, Leonardsville, N y 615 Chicago, Ill U e save for he clo,he's on hl's back The of he ha ptlies days of her life P P : 6 50 ' Sabbah-school, Plainfield, N'"T : 9 07, 'h ll' f ' h"h If M h' -'1 ne horse was disposed of for Mrs Naban Roger~, Preson, N Y ; 1000 mission h011se WI a I'S urnl ure, IS a - ea,nw 1 e, 0 C H rrhrellceld, Memphis, TenI1 A ~ W h ' h h f h ifer and wih a crock of Dr SE Ayers, Philadelphia, Pa 3 00 ranslaed books, a were gon~ as IS ay, ano er or a e ' D N Newon, 1"ayeevllJe, N C : 50 labor all 'lonv' alo n? No T a housand I"m' es, no! buer "brough froln ho, me hey' looked for-dr H W Sillman, Edgeron, WJs ~, Edwin G Carpener, AHhawny, R L 500 for he seed was planed ha was o yield _ward, I suppose, ~o heime when hey could WOOlan'~ Execuive Boai d ~ ; rich-fruiage for he Lord make more, and dl ~heir dairy would be large PUDLISHING HOUSE $2i083, Received fromj P Moabel", Agen, '$62, $IOjj 66 : : $ *Readbefo:re bee~a~gehe!bsociell of AUred, N~ Y,by * Read a he Women's' Missionary Aid Sociey' a E &OE Mrs G W Rosebu8h~andrequesed-~ forpublicaion in Brookfield, and,!equesedforpublicaion iiibe RE": '' T,F HUBBARD, Treaeurer he Woman's Deparmen Qf he SABBATH RECORDER~ -: CORDER~ 'PLAINFJELD~ J,Aprlll 1895

13 !, 'ApRIL11, 1895] ' 1' TH E S ABS AT'H ore CO RiD ER ' ~37 Sabbah 'Se,hool News of he school The repors showed, wha we have all fel, ha he inerer had seadily j _-- increased during he year There have been I NTERNA ~~~~DA;u!-R~~~~NS 1895 ALli RED-WihusN~a~~~~wasan excepionai hiry addiions and a ne gain of hireen April 6 The Triumphal Enry Mark il: 1-11 IneID bel's he average' aendance being nine Apri113 The Wicked Husbandmen Mark 12: 1-12 Inonh As he old saying is, "I caine in like, : ' - Apri120 WATCHFULNESS ; Ma24: yone Eleven of he scholars have joined J April 21 l'helord ssupper, MarkI4:12-26 ~1amb~andwen ou like a lion" Thisyel:'Lr -,'' May 4 The Agony In Gehsemane : Mark 14: 8~2 he church by bapism, Several eachers May 11 Jesull Before he High Prles : Mark 14: i enered as a lamb, and wen ou dio MM' aa~'~ Jesus Before Pllae ;;:Mal'k I-If), " " from ollei &choo]s in he ciy have been regu J'" Jesus on he CroBs ;: Mark 15:22':'37 While many of hose,vho have for years," ' ' - June 1 'i'he Resurrecion of Jesus Mark 16: 1-8 'lar aeiida:ns, using' he pasor;s class in ob; ~~~: rii: ~~[era~~ ~gee~::~~i:d ::::::::::::::::~'::::::::::;~J~!he~i:I~~: known of a place hy he name of Alfred Cepre'aining i SOl' of noril)al' raining for heir June 22 The Saviour's Paring Words Luke 24: we are more han glad o infol'lll you ha own work LESSON IIV-WATCHFULNESS his is a hing of hepasl for we now live in 'rhe school, like he church, believes in sys~ Alfred only Thename of our pos office was For Sabbah-day April 20, 1895 emaic giving', and by his InehodseelI1S o changed some: ~ime ag'o, and of our village find i a pleasure insead of fl' burden o give LESSON TExT-Ma 24: 4,2-51 recenly The offerings on he firs Sabbah in each GOLDEN TEX1'-Take ye heed wach and pray-mark 13: 33 ~ ca own meeing i was voed o raise h A man ar' f or h e ll1iss10nal'y ~,r" S' oele y, on h e INTRODUCTORY ' money and macadamize he road from Alfred second 'for he Trac'Sociey, he hird for he o he saio:q, a disance of wo miles This Chris was leaving he emple wih he disciples As educaion of Chinese children and he fourh will be of grea helpo hese places, for wha " hey:wj~re admiring he splendor of he emple and he alernaing beween he de Boodsclulppel' and sabiliy of is foundaion, he akes he opporuniy o is be,er han good roads, especially hose C ell he'm ha all his would be swep away in he de- leading o' an inland 'own? 'l:'here are hun- he general 'benev'olen funds, onrlbuions srucion of he ciy This roused heir anxious curiosi- d d f f f h d re s ho d o local and oher chariies, and o he Sae 0 ons 0 reig care over IS roa and couny SundaIy:school work, are made y~ When hey were wih him on he Moun, hey asked every wee I \: f rom h e T err a C k d 0 a,vor s an from he ~eneral bene volen fund No funds he ime and manner of he coming caasrophe He,~ ells hem all hey were prepared o comprehend, and an hepheese Company: raised by he weekly conribuions are used ha would be necessary for heir safey concerning he Since March 25h, our mail g'oes and comes for he suppor o he sc}lool, he church makevens ha would consummae he visible heocracy, hree imes a day, excep Sabbah and Sun- ing a yearly appropriaion for his purpose and he l'udgmen of he world, he former pre-figuring d ay, d' lrec d f h, d f Thus, as a school, we are being aug'h he 0 an rom e cal's, 'Ins ea 0 pleasure of giving o ohers and no o our he laer EXPLANATORY sopping o be overhauled a,h~ saion selves, and every week we join in praising God "Wach herefore" B~ nving in a "waked-up" con- This gives us an earlier Inail for his precious privilege and in asking his I" TY diion A condiion necessary o be The Professor of Elocul'on and Physical_ blessin~ upon our bo'ifs \ _ lev~rs ' Anow no _ LJ wha hour" We are no o know he ime ha God 01'- Culure wih some of he sudens, gave an This nleeing marked he close of he elevdains, bu hejorells he manner "Your Lord doh enerainmen, consising of a Farce and a enh year of service of our faihful and efficien come" Comes o give each his reward "Bu know Th h b superinenden, D E 'l'isworh, and he Chronohanaqleron ey ave een very unanimous voe by wb ieh he was re-eleced his" Tha is, he is going o ell hem in wha follows enough, so hey may be prepared "Tha if he good highly praised Prof Hill is a good insrucor, was' boh hearv and enhusiasic Oher man of he house had known in wha wach he hief and makes a success of whaever he unuer- officers chosen,,'ere as followl:l: Assisan would'come" I is assumed ha he knew he hief,\-vas akes In he hio'hes sense of appreciaion,,superinendens, IIenry M ~Iaxson and WIn coming' "He would have wached" Ough o have l e s dens are 0 graeful o he person who M SIllman; SecrearJ:, Asa F ~andolph; been awake, hen he wol1ld have known hellolji' "Suf- 1 u Treasurer, Arhur J SpIcer; LIbrarIans, Sydfereu his house o be broken up" Permied his house has so lnudly given hem his deparnlel1; ney R Tisworh and Rolland N Tomlinson; o be dug hrough I was in his own powero preven and, from pas experience, we can say ha Org'anis, Ressie E Tisworh' or permi "Therefore be y,e also ready~' You have he sudens are much beer able o carryon J D SPIC}i~U seen he resul of negligence herefore live in a prepared heir school 'work for having his healh- APRIL 5, 1895 aiude, fo'r he Son of man comeh jus as suddenly giving exercise All he sudens would regre COMPROMISE "Son of man" Chris as Judge See John 5: very much o be deprived of i "Who is a faihful and wise servan?" Faihful o his All compromise is sin No one ever makes maser, wise in his own ineress; beneficen, using his On he 28h insan we lisened o an inerpower as a rus for oherr; prl1den, in waching for his esing and helpful lecure, by lion George anyhing by i I is demoralizing in all is Lord's coming; reward, blessed and a greaer sphere for H Uer, of Weserly, R 1 His lecure was usefulness "ThaevilServan/' A pracical disbeliel'er especially o he young, urging horoughness in his Lord; YI'al}ical, in using his pow~r o oppress; H dl'll d drunkai'd, in graifying his beasly naure; reward, sep- in every line of work e VIVI y I usrae araed from he good and placed wih he ormened, a he power of he- Inasses, over he iildividual, errible and final condemnaion showing how he responsibiliy and blamewas PRACTICAL TEACHINGS shoved from one o anoher This was he LEADING THOUGHTs-Concerningha grea and noable second lecure given by he 4,lumni lecure day of which Chris here spoke, wo facs only he fore- course ells-he cerainy and suddenness of is coming The On Sabbah evening, March 6h, five candiuncerainy of he hour of judgmen was no inended o daes were bapized, and unied wih he arouse he curiosiy of his disciples, bu o arouse he church; four of hem were children conscience o vigilance and faihfulness Insead of he,regular prayer and conference "I is he fundamenallaw of wachfulness'o be al- services on he las Sabbah eve of he monh, ways waching" Wachfulness is o consis in faihf~1 he evening was given o mission work, and iloing Men given over o worl,dliness, become heedless, of here were hree very inspiring papers preeven he approach of deah, or he cerainy of a'judg- sened-he firs on Mr Van De Suer's work men o come,rrh~ servan of Chris holds everyhing in India; one on missions in general, and Miss in rus for his Lord, and uses ime, alens, meansi'and Susie Burdick's work in China; and one on lifeiself for his glory, and receives a reward of honor he life of Mrs Carpener, who was one of our and rus Bu he who wases he opporuniies of life firs missionaries o China A collecion was in selfishness and drunkenness and rio, awais a hope- aken a he close, for mission work, and five less doom dollars were- received - ADDED THOUGH'l's~ome veeran in he Lord's army The,Chrisian Endeavor held a Povery who has long fough bravely and 'successfully' for his Social a he parsonage on Tuesday evening, capain, suddenly falls and all men marvel a his fall 26h ul The ladies and genlemen were There was some weak poin in his "breas plae" The fined for wearing exravagap and fasbiondevil saw i and smoe him here~ Thus i was wih able aire An a,ppropriae supper was Noah, and Abraham, and Moses, and David and Peer, served The receirs were abou eigh dollars and a hos of eminen,sains since Every Chrisian N- M MiHs, of Welon, Iowa, a broher of man however holy,has one or more weak poins in his Rev O S Mills, has removed o Alfred o characer, and over hese i behoves him o keep especial,avail himself of he advanages of sudy in guard-price - he Universiy for sever~l-years, Q Iis au h~ same' o,saan wheher we go down o 'New Jersey hell as gross' carnal sinners, or as elaed'self-righeous sains 'Se a wach,herefore,all-round"your hear; PJIAINFJELD- One of he pleasanes incino on one side only,bu on alliforyqu canm~ver be dens in he hisory of our Sab,bah-school sure ~:>nw1iich side empaiodwill assail-frenchf,,agains;ppblic enemies we,,-forify our coas _agains was is annual meeing, held on heeyening of privae :enemies we 'bar ourdbors, and isball We no March 31s' No one said "DO,'" and all,agairi:shisdayprejvlreoursolils? I is favor enough ',, ha~helordhas'givenubwarning-iadams' ": soomedwilling o bearheir share iff he work /, ' endencies and rninolls in all is effecs I made a compromise wih evil in coninuing a Sunday-school anniversary exhibiion afer I beranle superinenden, and every year i srikes me in he face,and has annoyed me beyond nleasure, and hur my influence, unil finally i drove nle ou of he Sunday-school and he aciviies of he church and filled me wih confusion The only way o live is "beyond all compromise" The church has been, is now, making a comprolnise wih he liquor raffic, and i is cosing housands of lives of our' own flesh and blood, and millions upon milliens of dollars ha should be given o God for he evangelizaion of he world, bu is urned by he church ino he service of Saan f( I' he demoralizaion of he race by his meanes of all compromises Compromising ruins Always has, always will, and his sad compromise win bring aboll revoluion, and revoluion will bring deah Wrong always wins in compromise Be separae; come ou,; be rue and firm The irne of compromise is pas If,he Holy Ghos is ven he righ of way in his maer he will make shor work of i: He will inspire he people of God and hey will arise, and by heir God-given powers will conquer his evil and say and sop his errible curse in he land Don' inker wih i-don' resric i -don' compromise wih i Kill i~ in he name of he Lord, and by he power' of he Holy Ghos Dear Church of Chris, cease your idolarous compromise Take hola on God rrhe people win leave 'youo yourself, and "Iphabod" win he wrien on your walls unless you do They dejnand, proecion a your hands, and hey demand i~ in he nad?e of he Lord Jesus Chris Be WIse; hearken; heed; and no )ongerbe inaffinjy wih~:he adversary by his worse han infernal,\"~compromise~the'!(inlismessenge~,,~'

14 ,', 1,, I ; ':, '~ _:', " 'j, ": " ',' ' '" " ",, " " ~,, ' ;-, " '" L : -,," he norh, and lays nearly seven hundred fee have fallen off ~o ha here is no~more han lower han he Medierranean Sea The Dead half en:ough o pay he ren, an<1: he ren is ~IoHE han one hundi~ed years ago i was,sea is abou fory-five miles long,' and en only a par of he necessary e~pense in conknown ha our amosphere was compos~d of miles wide a is greaes brea?h I is o~e ducing he mission We are in need of funds oxygen, nirogen, and hydrogen i,n various' housand hree hundreda~d eigh fee~eep~n and will be gtaeful for whaever aid may be quaniies, InA pril, Eigheen hundred and he norhern par, bu quie shallow In he 'given SECRETARY,niney hree,lord Rayleigh, whileexperi-; souhern, be1ngonly froln,welve? fifeen ',PLAINFIEIJD, N: J mening wih nirogen rna,de he discovei'y of fee deep Is shores ~re crused WIh sal~, ~COP-I-E-S-:-\'O-F-C-O-N-FE-R-E-N""':'C-E-'--M-IN-U":'-TES a new eleinen differingin qualiy-and densiy, sulpher, bium~n, pumi<:e sone and volca~~c ' We have a his office copies of Conference and he proved by he specrum, ha i was IS?lay e The h specific graviy ' of k he waer b 26 2 ; c Minues as far back as 1872, hough no comneiher nirogen llor ox'ygen~ boh having gt a er, an any wa er,nown,', eing,, been removed from he air and'his new ele- ~rea~rhl1n he waers of he grea Sal Lake plee ses from 1872 o 1882 From 1882 o ', Inen, was lef A paper wa~ prepared and read In Uah The Sea has no oule ' Scienific '1894" a few complee ses can be had Any, before he Briish Associaion for he advance- observe~'s say ha~ he' waer evaporaes person desiring odd nunlbers or complee ses l11en of science, in Augus oflas year Wha!aser ~an I flo~s In, and herefore he level can havei,hem a cos of posage ( six cens), his new elemen may consis of and wha IS lowering I will venure o differ wilh his or binding and posage ($1 25 per volume of may be HE] qualiies, we are anxi~us o have heory and sugges ha,h~remusexis~some five or less issues each), This offer will be revealed oher cause han eyaporalon 'rhere ]S fall- 'yihdrawn before he 1s of May Order a ing ino he sea (which only covers abou,once if you d~sire any of hese Minues, ENCKE'S come as se forh by asronomers four hundred and ffj square Iniles) he aver T WANTED! 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WANTED!!!,is shorening he ime on is circui, and consequenly acceleraing i~ speed, and will wih daily by he Jordan, hen here are four,or 1890 and 1891 '1'he publishers are anxious,age quaniy of six millions of ons of waer Back numbers of he SABBATH OUTLOOK for in fifeen hundred yearsfall ino he sun and five quie large mounain srealns from "he o obain con:p~ee ses for he years named forever disa ppear, as was he case,"'ih Bicla's mounains round abou J erusaleln," besides Anyone sending us wo ses, shall have one, bound, in reurn Single copies of he num-' I is one of he shor period and small colnes, inllumerable rivules and springs I 'would bel' for Apri11890, especially waned Please reurning every hree years and a half, and is hardly seeln possible o evaporae all his look,over your files,--and garres, and see if amoun a leas in his laiude As he bo you can help us 'o be seen only hrough a elescope I be ~Olne~ peculiary ineresing because i is coninually shorening is circui by winding spirally owards is final desrucion in he sun Nearly seveny years ago Encke himself deeced he shorening of he ime of his come's reurn and he cause of is acceleraion of, speed as a problerll \vhich as ye has no been solved, hough i is conjecured ha on is roue solnewhel'e i Inees a large co'ncourse of small1l1eeots, which while passing hrough would produce ha resul This come now has had he 1110s careful aenion for a leas hiry years Von Aser, of S Peersburg, and he asronolner Buckland, have given heir close aenion o his come even up o he year 1894 :From 1819 onwardsforhe 'space of nearly fory years, each revoluion, uniformly became abou wo hours and a half shorer han he preceding one In 1860 is speed began o diminish and coninued unil 1871, when is speed was only abou wo-hirds of ha formerlly Ever since 1871 each revoluion bas been shorening abou an hour and fify miuues, so ha now is periodical reurn is over wo days less han i was in 1819 and i is drawn nearer he sun by over wo hundred housand miles The come family as a w hole possesses he nl()s wonderful I)heno1l1ena of any and everyhing seen in he heavens, some,have heads and no ails, and ohers ails wihou heads, and ohers neiher head nor ail; some go slow, and ohers fas; some reurn ofen, and ohers a imes very remoe, and, now and hen one from somewhere comes and salues us~ moves around our sun, akes a look a our planes and depars, so far as we know, never o visi us again Srange family hese comes IT is abou one hundr~d and five miles in a sraigh line from he scource of he River Jordan o where i empies ino he Dead Sea, and in his disance i falls hr~e housand fee From he Sea of Galilee o he pead Sea' is only sixy DJiles, y he Jordan l]y is windings and urnings is nearly wo hundred The Se~ of' Galilee, or Tiberias, or Lake' of, Gennesare ~so noed in ~ible hjsory hrough which he Jordan passes is a lile over welve 'miles long and abou,8evenwide, in he wides pl~, andis of pear shape,he bfoad:"enda om of he, sea in he norhern par is nearly one lnile lower han he Alanic Ocean, and Special- Noices formed of rock conaining' fissures, Inay no ---~ AL~-p-;;'~ons co~libuing fu~-ds f~;-i~n;';"~h;~ large quaniiea leak hrough and find is pahreadingrooms for seamen will, please noice ha way hrough suberranean passages ino,he Mrs~ w L Russell is he Treasurer Please address her g'rea fires beneah and be convered ino ~ _~lainfield N~ ~~,,, sealll, hus aiding in furnishing he, remend- ~AN exra ediion of he Alfred Sun is o be published ous power indicaed by Ena a,nd Vesuvius, in May by he Ladies of Alfred, for he benefi 'of Alfred and shown by he errible convulsions of he Universiy The price of he Exra is en cens Send h your subscripions and wrie for adverising raes o ear known as earhq uakes? The sea belongs AIJ1<'RED SUN EXTRA, o he Sulan who has laely pu on wo sail- ALFRED, N' Y ing boas one for freigh ~nd he oherf9,r", "",~~IT is no~",si~--monh;-sinc-; las Conference, and passengers A few years more and i will be here are'ye hiry-seven churches which have no paid, navigaed by he cheapes and greaes of all heir appor~ion~en for Conference expenses, The reaspovvers on earh, elecriciy I has been, SU2'- urer IS walmg for money " gesed, and cerainly is pracical, o le ino ALFRED, N Y, Feb 20, 1895 he River Jordan he 'waers of he Medierranean sufficien o fill up he Dead Sea, and overflow he Plains of Sodomand Gomorrah, and very much more of he surroundino b couny, hus creaing an inland sea for he benefi of he Eas in he line of corrnnerce H NEW MIZPAH MISSION Monhly repor of work done a he New Mizpah Mission beginning February 17h, ending :March '-' WILLIAM C WHITFORD ~THE Chicago Sevenh-day Bapis Church holds 'regular Sabbah services in he lecure room of he Mehodis Church Block, corne'r of Clark and Washingon Srees, a 230P M, Sabbah-school a 330 P M Srangers are always welcome, and brehren from a disance are cordially invied o mee wih us Pasor's address,,l C' Randolph, 6124 \Vharon Ave ~THE Sabbah-keepers in Uica, N Y, will mee he las Sabbah in Sepember and in each monh following for public -Worship, a 2 P M, a he residence of Dr S C Maxson, 22 Gran S Sabbah-keepers in he ciy and adjacen villages, and ohers are mos cordially invied o aend Number seamen presen, evenings 266 ~THE Sevenh-day Ba,pis Church of Hornellsville, " " a f ernoons NY~ ~ ' ',, holds regular services in he lecure room of he l lsi orr presen ' 39 Ships visied : 19 Bapis church, corner of Church and Genesee srees, a Sick visied P M Sabbah-schooUollpwing preaching service Hospials vi~ied 8, A general inviaion is exended o all, and especi~lly o Leaders : 5 Sabbah-keepers remaining in he ciy over he Sabbah Helpers ; 48 Joined Y P S C E 6, GEORGE SHAW, Pasor ,---' ' " he Mizpah Circle King's Sons and daugh- l' a&'the Firs Sevenh-day Bapis Church of New, k ers, 'I 3 York Ciy holds regular Sabbah services in he Boys' B, en he pledge ' B bl I es given away ' '4 Prayer-meeing Room,on he 4h :Oo<,>r, near he eleva- DONATIONS or, Y M C A 'Building; corner 4h Avenue and 23d ' During he las monh we have received: S; enran~e on, 23d,S Meeing for Bible sudy a " I"''lowers from Mrs Kenyon 1030 A M, followed by he regular preaching services Bundle of papers from Mrs Robers Srangers B,re cordially welcomed, and any friends in he Two boles of ink from Safford ciy over he Sabbah are especially inviedo aend Magazines from Porum, he service 'Pasor's address, Rev J G Burdick, New Cenury!Dagazines from he publibhers, Mizpah, 86 Barrow S Hospi8:1 and Newspaper Sociey magazines airthe Sabbah-school Board of he Sevenh-day Papers from Almira Sillman, Yfebser, Mass Bapis General Conference hrough is Secreary re-, " "MissRicharoson ' quess he Vice-PreBiden for he Nbrh-Wesem Associa- Silver Cross Magazine ion, H D Clarke, o arrange for,ihsiuesin said ASBo- Papers from l\irsbeime eiaion'during he presen Conference year, Will he Sab-,"nible Gallery" from he publishers bah-bchools of he N orh-wesernasbociaionac upm Incidenal expenses since lab repor 6 45 his maer, and hrough heir' Superinendens, or 8ecre- During he firs six monhs of' 1ieMi~pa,h',ari~scominunicae"\Vih' RevHD~ Clarke, Dodge'r!E!ne_ar $120 83' we,re re_c"e, ived, which ",paid,''he",,re,minn, in rega,rdoi~ewhen'heywould '~ke "such' Y" an, Insiue,"Two, or', more8ch()ols',neareachoher ren: The receips of ~hel~,s, six' IDonhs 'mighunieinuchapfofiable cod:f~nion, '

15 , APRIL 11, 1895] ~--"-- ROSS AND BENNY,' Ross cam'e runnuig Ino he, ho~se,cr~ing a~', he op of his VOIce', "Wha is he maer wjh my hleboy?" asked his moher _", Benny Jones sruck me-wih -- a sone, so he didj Boo! hoo!,huo!" answered Ross, he ea~s " " sreaming down his cheeks " "Tha was,oo bad," said his mamma " He sruck you righ on he head, oo, didn' he?," "Ye-eshedid", "And raised',quie! a lump,'" mamma added "I know i mus hur' you Benny Jones mus be a bad boy Wha made him srike you, Ross? " "Tell me, Ross, why,he sruck you," urged his mamma Ross eoninue51 o cry, bu did no answer his ime Sheadded again, bu Ross only cried louder As he -did no' answer, she added: "Wha did you do o Benny? " "Boo hoo Noh-nohing" "Tell me he ruh, Ross; you know i is wrongo ell a sory" I was seven minues before Ross could be induced o speak, bu a lengh he conrived o so b and wail ogeher: " 1-1:-sruck-hiIn wih-a-a -lile sone" """Tho hrew he firs sone?" Again Ross 'so b bed A las he-said, "1-1 did" "And so he sruck you because you made hhn angry by firs sriking him?" said Ross's III oher Ye ~Ol;l c~me ino he house and old me only a par of he ruh You were going o pu an he blame upon Benny Jones, when you were really more o blame han he was Do you hink ha was righ? " By his inle Ross's conscience was aroused, a,nd he fel ha he had done wrong His ears,,,,ere dried, however, and a firm, boyish look came o his brown eyes "No, i wasn' righ, mamma," he said "I did wo wrongs Firs of all I sruck Benny, and hen I pu all he blarrie on him" Then his moher said, "Remember hereafer when you ell wha ohers have done o you, you mus also ell wha,',you have done o ohers"-epwoi'11 Herald HOW KATIE WAS' FOUND OUT, Grandpa came- slowly down he back sairway ino he kichen, -where Kaie sa eaing an apple, and rying o look as if sbe had never done any mischief in all her lie He came direcly oward her, and siing down in hisrocking ch~ir, drew her up o him and paed her hair lovingly, whilehe looked raher seriously ino her blue eyes "This morning," he said," a lile girl wen upo my room, where her moher had forbidden her o go, climbed up a he foo, of my bed, holding on by he all head poss, and: walked all he way up o he head; hen she reached upo my wach and ook i off he nail, and sii:pg down "on my pillow100ked a,he wach '3;8 :long' as she wished Having d o:ne:ha;~he'walked,caref~lly,down;ohejoo ofhebed"and jumpedpff;liinkingnanobody, "s~w~her~~',> ',<,,,',/, :~-- \ T-HE SA,BBAT HREC OR n'e R \: ' "Who didseeme?" said Kaie, ical~ardens 52 years wihou leing ou he guily secre " drink~ng so much as a drop of "Please ge me he Bible, my waer Somers, Williams, Chrisdea,r, and 1 will ell you" 'ian and ohers doub wheher,kaie sood quiely by while wild rabbis ever drink, bu Rev her grandpapuonhisspecacles, J' G Wood quesionshecorrec ~nd slowly urned over he leav~s,---ness of,heir supposiiotis CreaIllhefound wha he waned ures which never drink are "Re!;d ha, my dear" hough o absorb' moisure Bu Ka,ie, could 'only s"pell ou froin heir own issues qr froln he words, and so" i, ook her he surrounding amosphe e some ime o mak~ i ou Afer --' ;:-'-' ~ :~ wo or hree rials she succeeded SAID HER I RAYERS-A ladyiil inreadingdisincly,'''thou' God Washingon haswo liledanghseesme" el's!lbou 5aI}d loyears oldre- Then grandpa alked very'seri- specively, and I has been he~uouslywih her ooou he sin of yof he e!der o se~ ha he disobedience and he guil of cov:- y?unger said ~er prayers every ering a sin, and Kaip was very nigh A~cordlng "ip he Pos" penien, and resolved hen and one 1110rnlng no lon~ ago h~ here o be a beer girl She lo-year-:old approached ~lei looked a grandpa wih grea moher In eviden perurbaion awe', and announced ha she didn' "God) old hini,"'she said o k~lo~v wha wo~ld become of Anherself "0, how di'eadful, o TIle If she c?ninued o addr~8s have God 109k righ a me, aud ~he Throne In he way she did hen ell graudpa, all alone in his rhe par~ was naur~lly all x rooln, wha I did! How good IOUS ~nd l~quli e~ "\\ ha h: grandpa mus be o h~ve, God young la dy \\las d<:nng ha causalk wih him Seems o nle hised her P~o?S me~lalons o b,~ face shi1;les jus like Moses' when h~s criicl~ed: Oh, 1!lam~a, he caine down froid he Inoun" said he disiessed clnld, she "Did you ake off your shoes, runs on so w~en she says ~er grandpa? " prayers Sh~ Jus says anyhing "My shoes? 'Vha for, my ha ~onles-in her head Now, dear'l vvha do' you mean? " ~as ~lgh afer she had, said~ "When God alked wih you No'w ~ lay Ine, down o sleep, upsairs, and old you I walked on your bed, did you ake off your shoes like Moses?" and pi ayed fol you and papa Hnd all of us and g-randlna and AUn riny, and everybody, she said, " d l'l I " 'd And please, dear Lord, ake,my ear I e glr, sal good care of yourself, because if gran9pa, WIh raher ~ queer ex- anyhing should happen o you pression on his face, God do~s we'd all go o pieces'" no nowadays alk o his chil- '----'---- -~-----c:-,,=_=--=c:-::::"_-:c:_:_,- -- dren faceo'iace, bu he leads'and direcs hem jus as ruly as he did in he iineofmoses I hink he led lne o go o my rooln his morning, and o see on my sof feaher bed he deep foo-prins ha you lef here; and hen seeing'my pillow, ha your moher had smoohed so carefully, all umbled and wrinkled, and observing, as 1 did, your lile misake in hanging my wach wih is face o he wall, I could no help knowing wha you had done" "Now, grandpa's face was very serious, There is one verse in God's word, Iny lile l{aie, ha i, would be well for lile girls and boys-and grown up'nlen and women, oo-o remember, "Be sure your sins will find you ou" And I don' hink I(aie ever forgo i-zion Wachman ANIMALS THAT NEVER DRINK Blanchard, ip his book on Abyssinia, says ha n~" her he Doreas nor he,benne gazelles were ever known o reso o h e springs, creeks or ri vers for he purpose of drinking Throughou Africa he expression, "Ad dryas Sahara or an 'old gazelle," is very common Darwin, in his " V oya,ge of a Nauralis," says ha unless he wild llamas of Paagonia drink sal waer, "hey, mus no drink a all" All wriers on naural hisory subjecs are agreed,on he poin ha he larges and mos' lnere~ing branch of he sloh family never drink~ Haynie says, " They ; are one~ branch of he peculiar',animals which never drink wbjer "C~ B,Taran, o~page 58, volume 9,' "American N;o~s and QueNes, "'men'ions a p~rro:' which-1lved in"helo~donzdolog-,,-' ' DEATHS SHORT obiuary noices are insered free of charge Noices exceeding weny lines wlll be charged a he rae of en cens 1)1'1' line foreach line in excess of weny LlvEnMoRE-In Alfred,N Y, Mnrch' 28, ]8!)5, of pn,ralysls, l\lannln Livermore, in he 85h year of his age Broher Livermore was he sixh child in a family of en cllllrlren, eigh sons anrl wo daughers, born o, and reared by, Samuel and Hannah Basse~ Livermore,'I'he family seled in' Independence in 1823, wllere many of heir descendans sill reside Of his large family~of children only hree remain 'I'he oldes of hese is Edmund LiYermore, fnher of he Edior of h~ SADDATII UECORDER, now living a Alfred, in he 89h year of his'age; he nex is Deacon Wm S Livermore, of Independence, in he 87h year of his age ;'and he las is Mrs Barbara Kingsley, he younges of he family, living near Wiscoy, N Y, Marwin Livl'rmorewas convered in manhoo,d and uni~d wih he church in Independence from which he never moved his sanding In 1853 he married Miss Emeline Smih, daugh~r of Ashabel and Marha WhipJan' Smih of Alfred, who suryhrefl him Two children, a sona-nd a daugher, were born o hem 'I'he son was accidenally killed while in be employ of he 'Erie Railroad Company, welve years ago, and he daugher, he wife of Geo, Sherman, remains having helped o care for her faher in his infirmiies, and comforing her moher In her bereavemen The funeral was aended by alargeconcourse of people a he Second Alfred church, on Sabbah af,ernoon, March 30h, conduced by he wrier Isa 13: 12 L A P MAXSON-A I eonardsvme, N Y, April 1, 1895, Mrs Sara H Clarke Maxson, aged 88 years: She was born March 8, U!07, and was he seyenh cllild of welve which were born o Jacob B Clllrl(e and Mary Wells Clarke She was born in Hopkinon, R I, where in early life she became u Chrisiun, probably uniing wih he old Hopkinon Church IJi 1828 she was married o Russell Maxsoll, who died June, 1889 Soon afer heir marriage hey reldove<l o Preson, Chenungo Cu, and abou 28 years ago moved o Leonardsville She was u member of he Preson Chul'ch- AGE~~S, 'AGENTSI, AGENTS\ uliliiie:~~rijly[iiht or MOHI'~ ASD ~Yws OFNEWl'OKI(,Ll(4'E HZ, Dele 4J ped,ands Hy_-wih inrodue&ioll I lj1i ~ lie" L'Ilman Abbo~, TOVf!rfOWB 'W'h paholl flmnor fac and sory, ~lenilldl1' ' 'l1lullraed wih "''; 0 eu~rb engravlnn1ii from ash liglll plaoogj",ph9 o:rcallfll :Mlnllen lay" God ~d, " EveJ1'o one laughe and erlel over j~andagenure lelllng I bycaoiio sand, JuOmore:Agena "anced,menandwomen ' uoo O a;liionh made Send fo' Tenna o Agenla, " and choiee'ipeclimena of hebeauafui-cldgra,inga;' "AddreM,/",",--- 'I1Lo' H~N" ', - ~O,JII'&""ce ' '--' ',- ',' 'ILU&~ which Ihlnkfs almos or quie exinc -!Iuvlng been an Invalid over hiry years, She-1VM-~~~J:l~~ sldered he frailes of he children, bu was he IUH o depar She leaves one son and hree daughers 'Services conduced by he wrier Tex Luke 2: 29 M8 SIONNER-In Buffulo, N Y, March 27, 1895, Vera msie Skinner, daugher of Clarence and Carrie Camp Sklmier, ag;ed 7 years and 8 monhh: ' ' Funeral Sabbuh-duy; n10 o'dock_ Inerr c],ill Moun HO]leCem~ery u A c " HLIKE~-ln Buffalo, N Y, March 24,,1895, 'Alinn:- ~mke, of pneumonia, Iged 24 yearh, 2 1ll0nhH, Iud 28d,uys In ISSn Miss Slike was hnlllzed und received, ino he'memberhhip of he Firs ~eneree Church, where she remained a faihful meulber unn she exchanged he earhly church for he brigh compuny,of lh~ redeemed In henveu She wah a loyal follower of he Saviour srong in faih, and loved he Snbhllh rull ~he wus Hccrenry of a SIl,bbnh-Hehool reeenly organize!} by he lile bund of Sevenh-dny Baphl! in Buffnlo nemahuv nken o Bradford, Pa for inermen CRANDAIL-A Weserly, I I, April 1, 18!)>>' MrH Mary S Crundull, wife of MI' John P CI'andalI, in he 43d year of her age Mrs; Crandall :wus horn in W~Herly, Sep 26, ]852, and WlS he daugher of Charlel'! L Pendleon She ne, el uni~ell wih any church bu WILH a sincere IlelieveI"in Jesus ah her Saviour Funeral Hervlces were held a her lae llome In WeHerly April a, 1895, conduced by he pasor of he Paw l'uul'k HeYcnh-day napis Church lnerm 'n ill IUvel: ll~nd Cemeery w C D KI~NYON-Neur Nianic, R 1, Mrs Lydia HogerH ", NOYI~K widow of he lae Dr Joseph D Kenyon, horn Rcpl'lIl her' 1, 180J, died Mlrch 26, 189r,; A E M GRIl)J,Ey-In Perryville, P,a Mureh 29, 189», MrH Sylvenh Lanphere Gridley, wife of GileH H Gridll'Y, In he (ioh year of her age :Mrs Gridley was he younges daugher of Silas and Cynhia Saerlee Lanphere, and a descendan of I~ld Willhm Saerlee December ao, 18!i!), she WIlH married o Mr Gridley, who, wih W(} Hons horn o hem, mourns her loss During a revival meeing, in Alfl'ed, conduced by l';lders Nuhan V Hnd Varnum Hull,,she was cony 'red, and unied b~' bapism wih he Firs Alfred Chul'l'h 'l'hollgh much o[ he ime since a Ilonrl'Hi<1en, she mainained her fellowship wih hlh ehurch by H godly walk and h\' frequen corre Hpondencl>' wih he chllrch Hhe found grea comfor in her Blhle, of wh!eh she wus I COIlHUll render, ulili mnuy of il'! choiee pasbuges are mn;rked hy her hand l;he has no h~en in good healh for a long ime, and flnally yielded o IL complicaion of diheases which haffled mediclll skill The body WILS brough o Alfred ani funernl services were held in he Second Alfred church, Mm'ch 31H A'rmoll b~' I A Plas from nev 21: 4 L, A P CI,ARKE-In Elizabehon, Tenn, March 21, 18!)>>, of ashma Ilnd dropsy, Grove D Clarke, in he 68h year of his age * ~ ,-- _ _ Deafness Canno Be Cured by local applicaions as hey canno reach he filseused porion of he ear There is ouly one way o cure deafness,anll ha is by consiuional remedies Deafness is caused by an inflamed condiion of he mucous lining of he Eusachian Tube When his ube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfec hearing, and when I is enirely closed, deafness is he resul, and unlers he inflammaion can be aken ou and his ube resored o is normal condiion, hearing will be desroyed forever; nine cases ou of en are caused by caarrh, which is nohing bu an inflamed condiion of he mucous surfaces We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (cnused by caarrh) ha canno be cured by Hall's Caarrh Cure SQnd for circulars ; free F,J CHENEY & CO, Toledo, O ljev""sold by Druggiss, 75 c Laughing Babies are loved by everybody '1'hose raised on he Gall' Borden Eagle Brand Condensed Milk ar' comparaiv~ly free from sickness Infa,n Healb is a "aluable pamphle for mohers Seud your address for a copy o Ile N~w York Condensed Milk Company, New York CAN I OBTAIN A PATENT 1I'or Pl'Omp auswerand an hones oplno!!" wrie o MUlliN &; CO~ wbo have bad nearlym,,ears experience In he paen busine88 'Communlcalons sricly conflenlal A Handbook of Informaiouconoemiog I-a en and bow o boo alo hem sen free AIBO a caalokue of mecjiadleal and sclenlfo books sen free Paens aken brougb :Munn Co reaelf lpecial noice n be Sclenl8c "'mel'lcnn, ~ bqs-a~ brolgbwdel, before he pubmc WIHou cos 3 o lie' Invenor' This splendid PII~r 181Ued weekly el_anlylliulraed bas by far be larges clrculalon of any IClenifcwOl'k In he ' world a year SamJ!le C9pee eeq~, BQlldi~ Edloo,-~onhlJ',I2JiO,ear 810lrle 4!Opl~"3,oena ' J!ivel'J"numberoonalDlI beauiful plaelhlu ~lo~ andpbo98nn"'i'of, new' boul8l,wlll'pi~ enablllllbullder8 alhowhe 'JaeI,deeIRIIlmd 8eOQI'e oonrac&;,addreaa ; KUNS, a,co N YOl~ a81baoal)w'ay -:

16 '' >,, I',f' ;,' ~," ~ j," ",, "1-,""" ", ','! - THE SABBATH H le,order_ APRIL 1~, 1895,] I ~=J~~~~'~~~~~~~~~~~~--~~-~-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LOCAL AGENTS WW COON, D D S, Thisvolumeisanearnesandablepresenalon 'he rock wj1ence I was hewn and The following Agens an auhorized o receive DENTIST of, he Sabbah queslon, argumenaively and ",II amouns ln are desl/ned for he Publishing,, hisorically The cldlion of his work Is nearly 'he pi whence I was dug,' Some House, and pass receips fin he same Office Hours-9 A M o 12 M; 1 q 4 P M Weserly, R I-J Perl'y Clarke T-'-"--'-:-'---' ,,- --,---, exhaused; bu1'~ hns been revised and enlarged of you know how he c)lrse of in- Ashaway, R I-Rev G J Crandall HE ALFRED SUN, '- by he auhor, lfud is pubushed In hree volumes, Rockvllle, R I-A S Babcock ' Published a Alfred,Allegany Couny, N~ya8'f~ilows: " '--- emperance overshadowed my Hopkinon R I-Rev L F Handolph Devoed o Universiy and local news Terms, Ci"::-":~ -:~';,,~ '---:--- -," _ HopeYalley, R I-A S Babcock $1 00 per year -' - VOL I-BIBLICAL 'reachings CONCERNING THE youh, Tha I niigh -escape, I Mysic Conn' Rev 0 D Sile' rillau Address SUN PUDJ,ISHING, ASIiiOClATION 'SABBATH AND THE SUNDAY Secolld Ediion ' Noank: Conn:=A j" Poer ' ~-_-=~::- -:--, Revised, Bound In fiiemusll~, 144 pages 'Price: fledfroill inyrearly surroundings,, Waerford; Conn";-A J Poer U' N Y 60 cens i" ' I;' \:: I I I "d b d, New Yor-k-Ciy, N Y-Rey J G Burdlcl, ICa,' {' 1 or wjia am am In e e, un- - Be Ii N Y ERG , VOL II-kCRlTICALHJSTORY OJi'THE SABBATH- Ad~~~ Cenic, 'N~ y_r~~~ A B Prenke DR S C MAXSON, ' - - AND THE SUNDAy IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURcn del' Gfid, o :-my ern pe"ance vow III N Y B F ~lll Assised by Dr D Eynon, Eye and Enronly I>rl~e, In musllu, $1 25 Tweny-five per cen wv e, - '" luan OfH '''J'' G S dl I and mv adh'el'ell-'ce o I', Call fol' I 0 Greenway, N Y-J F seson ce l:;~u ene see ree scqun o c ergyme n 58a pages' u Wes Edmeson, N Y-Iev~- Marin Sindall, - VOL 1I1-A CRITICAl, HISTORY 01" SUNDAY LEO-', 'w_ha you wan o ea, and if his' Brookfield, N Y-Dr H C Brown New York Ciy ISLATION, FROMA D 321 TO 188f 12 mo, cloh, DeRuyer, N Y;'-B G Sillman _, - Price ~1 25 Published by D \Pl')leon & Co h I 'd ' ' h 11 b Lillcklaen Cenre, N Y-Rev 0 S Mills, PO'!"l'ER PRIN'!'ING'PHESS CO New Y;rk ', " ole can provi e 1,1 S a e Sco, N Y-B I Barber _ f h', ' b d LeonardsvUJe, N Y-Edwin WhlfoJ'i:l POT,TER BUILDING SABBATH COMMENTARY A Scrlpul'l1lexegeslsof or conllng; U WInes an Alfred, N Y-A A Shaw C I' P Id au he passages In he Bible ha relae or are l' ho bl Alfred Saion N Y,-Rev H P Bur(liek AIARI,ER OTTER,_ res en supposed o relae, In any wy, o he Sabbah Iqll0rS C8,Ilno come 0 IS a e ' d d N Y S G ' H,V Fum, Vice Presiil'n D I 1 R J BTl I n epeu once, _ Crandall J M '1' '1' ocr De; - 3y ev amos ailey Il I:l Com- W' I'h illjt consen, be' cause I wi'11 IN Y R' A PI ' ITSWORTH, reasurer fill I hi h h h Sco, _ ev A ace D E '!ITSWORTII, Secreary menllry s u pace w c as hi ero been IUchburg, N Y-Rev B E Fisk lef vacan in he lieraure of hesabbl1h d' h h f h Lile Genesee, N Y-E R Crandnll -- ', --- quesion 5x7 Inches; 216 pp; fine muslin bind- no sprea In epa 0 ano el' Nile, N Y-J BWhlford leenardsville, N Y Ing Pl'~ce 60 cens' h f h hid" Shiloh,N J-Rev I L Corell e snare roin w IC escape, Marlboro, N J-Rev J-C Bow(m THE O'1'SEGO FURNACEco- 'l'houghts SUGOESTED BY THE PERSUAL OF GIL- Th 'h h d New Marke; N J-C '1' Rogerl:l }'ILI,AN AND OTHER AUTHORS ON THE SABBATH ree rousllh!' c eel's s owe, Wnrm Air Furnaces' " By he lae Hey Tllos H Brown Second, DUI Plainfield, 1 elle n, N N J J-r -c T D ~ogers ISpicer Saniary Heaing a specialy Ediion, Fine Cloh, 125pp ali ' ceqs Paper,64, h e b rave sena or h a men a d - Snlemvllle, Pa-Mrs Geo B ICngal'i;c, A W DAGUETT, Pres H D BABCOCK, V Pres 10 cens 'I h h Salem W Va-Preson F Hnndolph I A CUANDALL, Sec & '!'reas G C ROOFJRS, Mgr 'l'hls book Is a careful review of he argumens mire 1e lnan w 0, as he cour- ~~::a?~kv:':j~~' DLS~!~VIS in fnvor of Sunday, and, especially of he work of age of his conviciolls New Milon, W Va-Franklin F Iandolph Plainfield, N J James Gilfillan, of Scoland, which has, been - He afel'ward fille' d' he office of Shingle House, Pa-Rev G P Kellyon > widelyclrculaedamongheciergymellofaruerica Hebron, Pa-Mrs Geo W Sillman "AMgmCAN SAllBA'1'H THAC'1' SOCIE'1'Y Wes Hallock Ill-Niles S Burdick a Hil:lory of he Sevenh-day Bupiss; I view S Tackson Cenre, Ohlo-J H Babcock EXECUTIVE BOA~D SI~VENTH-DAY BAPTIST HAND BOOK Conaining Vice-Presiden of he Unied Chicago, IlL~L C landolph C POTTER, Pres, T F HUBBARD, 'l'reas of heir Church Poliy; heir Missionary Educa- aes-' -Exc118,l1/le, Farina, Ill-E F Unndolph A L '!'I'l'SWORTH, Sec, HEV F E l'gti<mson, ional and Publlshlnglneress, and of Sablmh Milon, Wis-Paul M Green Plainfield, N J Cor Sec, Dunellen, N J Reform 64 pp Bound in paper, 15 cons! 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