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1 -,', ". ~ '- -.:>.F;- "-. ~:~~r ~ f I '-.,,, (cor r. SEVENT,H-DAY BAPTIST WEEKLY, PUBLISHED BY THE i AMERICAN SABBATH TRACT SOCIETY, ALFRED CENTRE, N. Y Vol. XLVII. No 42. l FIFTH-DAY, ' OC T "Whol Numbr 2435 \ 15, Trms: 00 in Advanc. -UNDER ordinary circumstancs, Dr. Burch- "0 Lord, thou knowst that whn w bcam ing on Monday, Oct. 5th, was a stormy' on, but ardwouldhav did without attracting th attn- pastor of th }"irst-'- Church in t.his plac it that of th nxt day was pacific, and it is to b tion of all th nwspaprs of th land, though numbrd -- mmbrs, a mr handful of hopd that Nov. 5th will find t~ Prsbytry a th popl of th city of Nw York would hav popl; and whn thy srvant lft this church good dal coold off. It is quit intrsting to don him" honor at his funral as thy did.. in -- it had bcom a grat congrgation," finl a littl chang in th attitud of som Sldom dos a funral of a privat citizn call tc., for som minuts in th sam lin of histogthr mn. Som who, last summr, wr countd such an assmbly of mn as did his. tory of th First -- Church of -- during against Dr. Briggs, ar now found in th list of W hav just mt a prominnt citizn of Plain- th pastorat of th man who was prayiilg. W thos who oppos his trial. A chang of on vot fild, N. J., with whom Dr. Burchard was in- hav hard th sam man, praying in th pulpit would ti th ministrs, but a considrabl majority timat, who knw him intimatly and oftn r- of on of our churchs, pass in rviw th of ldrs ar against Dr. Briggs. Th civd visits from him. Th xcllnc of his livs of th dad with vry complimntary accusd mphatically dnis th first itm of charactr' and th bauty of his lif of, simpl rf~rncs to thm and complimnt th living his indictmnt, and if th qustion coms up Ohristian faith wr abov words. It paind in fin styl. On of our old ministrs would for discussion and rigid dfinition w imagin him much that a mr accidntal rmark,should giv th congrgation th complt Sabbath that such confusion will rign in th. Prsbytry hav brought him his notority. argumnt in his opning prayr. W hav, that it will b hard to tll what is orthodox; -IN popular opinion Dr. Bu!'chard is th hard- prayrs which lcturd th popl, or and as to th scond itm w hav yt to find man who dfatd Mr. Blain and lctd Mr. som particular ons in th congrgation, for that any two agr as to what Dr. Briggs mans Olvland, and that is about all th popl thir sins. by his doctrin of Progrssiv Sanctification. think about him-an opinion which mayor may - WHILE w writ ths words w s how It is difficult to find out just what h dos not b tru. But in th opinion of thos who asy it is to s th faults of othrs in this matknw man. him bst his was a good and usful lif, tl', and raliz how difficult it is to prform th -FuOM an articl by Principal Fairbai'rn, of and at on tim on of th gratst factors for duty of public prayr and rading th Scriptgood iii th lif of our gratst city. As a urs in public worship in such a way that po Mansfild (Congrgational) Collg, Oxford, on "Th Sminary Training for To-day," w clip prachr, at on tim, h was most popular, and pi will not b listnrs to th" opning xras a man h was gratly lovd by thos who ciss," but will b participants in th worship of th following, which w think on of th bst statmnts of th conditions and dmands of knw him bst. Th world thinks only of God. On of" th most srious vils connctd th tims with rgard to rligion that w hav "Rum, Romanism, and Rbllion," whn it with Protstant rligious lif is that which cnbars of him; thousands of popl who knw trs th whol intrst of th srvic in th sn: and honord and lovd him, think of a lif of prachr. Th popl do not go to church to grat usfulnss in influncing many to bcom worship God, but to har a prachr. Th discipls of Jsus Christ. Sinc writing on prachr dtrmins vrything and th srvic this topic w ar glad to s th protst of Dr. Doth,ing; and if th prachr happns to b th Hnry S. VanDyck in th Nw York Tribuu on you go to har it is wll, but if not you ar against this wrong don a good man's mmory, disappointd. Th prachr is tmptd to fl and to rad his tribut to th man. himslf a prformr and to prach and pray for -BUT as w rmmbr Dr. Burchard w can th ars of thos who ar prsnt to har him, not hlp fling that thr is a crtain justic not to worship. Th paramount function of a in this judgmnt that has ovrtakn him. Thr prachr is to prach, but th paramount duty wr faults in his styl of spaking and prach-of a prson in church is to worship God as wll ing of which his famous allitration is a good as to listn to a prachr. Much of th srvics xampl. Thr sind to b mor words than in Protstant churchs could not b bttr thoughts in som things w hard from his ~ips. plannd to df~at worship if thy wr plannd H was quit a mastr of words, but h opnd with _ that particular nd in viw. Th High no nw vistas of thought. That a man should, Church ida that maks th prachr a prist for a whil, b bst known for his faults is a sad for conducting a crtain srvic'is on xtrm, pnalty to pay for thm, but probably many and th thing w hav bn spaking of is th -" To QUES'l'ION it thoroughly is to do honor mn will tak warning from this. Somtims th othr. W bliv thr is possibl a right way to it as truth." That is thoroughly tru; but is most dangrous of all gifts for a young ministr btwn th two and that it ought to b th thr not a tndncy to b afraid of thorough is th ability to spak on any occasion bcaus spcial study of all th churchs to mak th and radical qustioning of rhgion? W har of an asy facility in th us of words. If th; Sabbath srvics srvics in which all th pogift this ag callcl on of infidlity, but w doubt of WOTds is joind with th gifts of study pi worship God, and do not simply listn to a vry much th truth of such a charactrization. and hard thinking it is a happy combination, ministr as h prays and rads and pr 1-t chs, An ag of skpticism it is, but an ag of dnial but natural fluncy tnds to indolnc, shallow- and a choir in th organ loft as it sings. If w of th, fundamntal principls of rligion w nss and, somtims, to intllctual and mor~l may b prmittd to chang a littl Lyman think it is not. Skpticism is th praisworthy dcay, unlss it is mad scondary to thought Abbott's paraphras of th bginning of a thing in all branchs of know ldg now -a-days. and substanc. Psalm, w would mak it rad lik this (to Buit If you go into a collg class-room th spirit of -THE Examinr has bn xplaining what th fashion of things in many churchs) : " Lt invstigation is th noticabl fatur of th it thinks tru prayr is, taking its txt from th th popl prais th, 0 God; ya, lt on man work. "Tak nothing for grantd," is th law; story of th ministr who instructd his con- in 'th pulpit and four prsons in th organ loft and finding out if a thing b wll-groundd in grgation so wll by his prayr that on of thm prais th.". " mct is th ordr of th day; and that is skpticism. said h prayd a bttr srmon than h prachd. -THE trial of Dr. Briggs is now st down for Th skpticism with rspct to rligion is "born Ministrs do not always stop with instructing th Novmbr mting of th Nw York Prsthir of scintific mthod" that our childrn and congrgations;. thy somtims furnish bytry. Th only two chargs brought against young popl ar brought up to in our schools. th harr of prayr with a good dal' of infor- him ar (1) taching that th Old and Nw Tstniation W honor th young man who dmands his as wll. So'rnwho rad-ths lins hav amnts ar not"th only infallibl rul of faith hard a notd ministr of Nw England (now and practic, and (2) taching what is calld Prodcasd) rasons of Darwin ; why should w not hand him th Bibl as frly and farlssly as w do pr~y 'in somthing lik this fashion: grssiv Sanctification aftr dath. Th mt- th last txt-book in Gology? To qustion th ~ Two tndncis mark living mind; fir&t, a mor radical inquiry into th roots and ssnc of rligion, and,. nxt, a mor comprhnsi v and constructiv application of its truths. On th on sid, mn qustion rligion mor than thy hav vr don, illvstigat its sourcs with a thoroughnss and an accuracy nvr bfor attaind, sarch into its maning and function with a jal OUB and vigilant skill born of scintific mthod, and, on th othr sid, thy sk mor from it than thy hav vr sought bfor. Thy ar not satisfid with it simply as a mans of saving souls or making mn happy in dath and pacful for trnity. rrhy rquir that its truths shall satisfy th rason, that its principls shall organiz a happir aud bttr ordrd socity. and that its profssors shall b as good citizns of th Stat as of th city of God. This joint dmand is th highst honor vr paid to rligion. To qustion it thoroughly is to do honor to it as truth; to rquir that it crat prfct mn and a prfct socity is to do honor to it as rligion. ',."

2 58,. ~ Bibl thoroughly 'is to do honor to it as th word of God. -BUT what is includd in popular languag undr th gnral nam of skpticism is rally' two things quit diffrnt in spirit and aim. On is dstructiv and only cars to dstroy, whil th aim of th othr is to find out th prmannt and trnal foundations of things for th purpos of building up upon thm. No on has any right to invstigat anything which lis within' th rang of human knowldg in any othr spirit than tbatof rvrnc for th Crator a.nu a dtrmination to do his will. Agassiz usd to say that "a physical fact is as sacrd as a moral principl;" and it is tru that on rprsnts th Crator as th othr dos, but h who dals lightly and flippantly with thical and rligious mattrs has no 'right to rciv mn's rspct. Ridicul may wll b turnd on th fals; thr is nothing dstroys it soonr. But th spirit of sking th truth no man should qunch; whrvr th sarch light may b turnd. w. C. T. BEHOLD THE MAN! P. C. WI'l'TER. "And Pilat saith unto thm, Bhold th man!" John 19:5. W cannot turn back th whls of tim and sit with th multitud who wr calld upon to bhold Jsus, as h was brought in, waring th crown of thorns and purpl rob; but w m~y xamin thr cords of his lif as givn by th a postls, and giv' our rason for bliving him to hav possssd th noblst attributs of prfct manhood. Jsus had bn brought to Pilat by th nvious Jws, chargd with bing a prson unfit to liv, and w prsum thy had brought all th tstimony wi.thin thir rach against him. Aftr a. patint haring Pilat xclaimd, "I find in him no fault at all." W hav furthr tstimony from th soldirs who wr prviously snt to arn-st him. Whn thy rturnd without him thy wr Rskd why thy had not brought him. Thy xclaimd, "Nvr man spak lik this man." W find this Jsus mrging from an obscur town,,n azarth, and whrvr h wnt grat multituds followd him. His work as an vanglist lastd only about thr yars; but nvr in th history of man has any othr mad such achivmnts. Th popl vrywhr acknowldgd his supriority by th titls by which thy addrssd him. Any othr than Jsus would hav bn filld with prid. H taught both by prcpt and xampl that tru manhood consists in rvrnc to God and kindnss to our fllow -m n. Hnc th goldn rul, and th summary of th law of God, "Thou shalt lov th Lord thy. God with all thy hart, and with all thy sou], and with all thy strngth, and with all thy mind; and thy nighbor as thyslf.': If w,xamin th history of mn w will find that ach prson.has som prominnt trait of charactr which givs him individuality. Abraham was faithful, Jacob was prvailing, Josph was virtuous, Moss was mk, Joshua was valiant, Job was patint, Elijah was bold, Isaiah was graphic, Jrmiah was tarful, Ptr was ari\.st, John was lovly,,and Paul was zalous. But in th lif of Jsus vry trait of charactr which is worthy in th human mind is complt and without a pr. Josphus sms to,hav flt this whn, writing of Jsus, h said, "If it b lawful to call hima man, th~n h bstows prais such as is uncommon for-a Jw to bstow." H was invulnra. bl whr othr mn would hav bn wak.,.. J [VOL. XLVII, No Th tmptr cam, to him in th wildrnss tion is confind to Roman Catholicism, and that aftr forty days of fasting, and found that h at last th tru citizns of th kingdom ar not THE S'ABBAfl'H' RECORDER..hungrd.--. But h could nqt turn him asid affctd" by it. Lt such sarch for any othr from his grat work of human ~dmptio. n to tha~ a pagan so:urc l9.~ th, Eastr fstival, th 9hrIst-mass, and th Sun-day as. now popular_ satisfy his hungr or to gain any worldly ad- Iz~d.among.C~ris~ians. Ths ar all. o~ Pagan vantag. His discipls could not l1ndrstand origin, ChrIstIanIzd, or na~~ ChrIstIan, by this, for rturning to him on on,occasion with th powrs of Roman CatholICIsm., and in no food prpard which thy prssd him to at othr sns ar thy Christian.., and,h rfraind, thy marvlld, thinking that On mor parabolic illustration must suffic Jsus compars himslf. to a housholdr going som on in 'thir absnc~ had supplid him. away to a far country, and committing his busi_ 'His 'answr astonishd thm, "It is my mat to nss to th car of his srvants to attnd to dur_ do my Mastr's will." ing his absnc. This brings us to th prsnt In calling mn to himslf h allurs no man tim. Jsus, th king of all who ar Isralits illdd, and who for that vry purpos was born to xpct. that by following him h will hav into th world, will soou;com again, th sam a lif of as;'but'says to all, "'If any man will "'Jsus, not as bfor, in humility to srv othrs' b my discipl lt him dny hi~slf, takrpp his but in powr and royal glory; coms not alon' cross, and follow m." Both fi~om his t,aching, but a grat host of angls with him. H will and from his lif a most savory and wholsom com to rckon with his srvants, and thir rward h will bringw ith him. H will com to influnc wnt constantly forth. Evn skptics dthron th princ of th powr of th air acknowldg th moral barings of his doctrins from th position h has so long bn prmittd to b corrct..pur watr cannot com~ from to occupy. And whn h coms, th Advrsary an impur fountain. W must conclud', thr- will b bound and for a thousand yars shall d- for, that in th lif of Jsus w hav a prfct civ th nations no mor. But till Jsus coms to rciv his own, and pattrn that win b saf to follow in all its assrt his authority, vil mn and sducrs shall ladings. wax wors and wors, dciving and bing d W hav thus far spokn only of th man- civd. Till thn a form of godlinss without hood of J SllS. H was also th Alpha and th powr to control th lif will continu as now, Omga; h that was and is and is to com,' to b popular; whil as in th bginning, so to th nd of this. dispnsation, thy that will liv th Lord Almighty. H is prfig~rd in proph- godly in Christ Jsus shall suffr prscution. cy as th ston cut out of th mountain witb- rl'ill h coms th kingdom is in apparnt disout hands, which is to fill th whol arth. In ordr. Th unity h prayd for as th portion th Nw Tstamnt h is th Lord from ha!~n, of his popl is not ralizd; it is on crying, and th kingdoms of this arth a,r to bcbm "Lo! hr," and anothr, "Lo! thr," and a constant strif for th chif sat and honord th kingdoms of our Lord Jsus Christ. N vr position. Many ar prophsying in his nam in th world's 'history has Christianity mad whom h knows not. mor rapid progrss than it is making to'-day. Th prsnt dispnsation of th kingdom is Jsus shall rign whr'r th sun on of lov, humility, and srvic. Jsus cam 'Dos his succssiv jqurnys run; as th manifstation of God's lov, and rquirs His kingdom sprad from shor to shor, th citizns of his kingdom to lov God 'Till moons shall wax and wan no mor, suprmly, and ach othr as thmslvs. In humility h, th King, rigns in this dispnsation only in th harts of his subjcts, and THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. through thir lov scurs thir obdinc, and REV. s. 1. LEE, il Outpost. thus thir citiznship is shown by thir loving Of th charactr of this kingdom Jsus gav obdinc, which distinguishs thm from thos who ar alins from th common-walth of Isral and th kingdom of God, but who ar mingling in th businss, social and family r~ lations of th prsnt lif with th childrn of many parabolic illustrations. Thus in on h tachs us that this kingdom is of such grat va lu that h sold all h had to purchas it. In ot hr words, to scur it, h gav up th glory which h had bfor th world was mad" and h, th Lawgivr, was mad subjct to law, that through obdinc to law h might mak th law honorabl in th sight of thos who ar undr law; and was mad subjct to dath, that through suffring th dath pnalty h might rdm from th curs of th law thos,who bcom citizns of th kingdom. In an othr h tachs that in th prsnt dispnsation th childrn of th kingdom ar constantly mingling in social intrcours and businss rlation with th childrn of th vil on. Lik th what and th tars, thy occupy th sam fild, but ar distiuct in thir charactr. And again, h tachs us that th missaris of Satan find a lodgmnt in th kingdom, lik birds in th branchs of a tr. And in th parabl of th lavn hid in thr masurs 01 mal, I think h tachs that paganism lik lavn not only prmatd th patriarchal and th lgal dispnsations, but th 'gospl dispnsation of th kingdom also. Whovr rads th history of th past, must confss that in th patria'rcbal ag i9,olatry was far mor common than th worship of th tru God, and that vn th dscndants of AbrQrham did not scap its influnc.. And aftr "God gav thm his law at Sinai, thy provd thmslvs a wickd and rbllious popl by rfusing to srv th God who cratd th havns and th arth, and choosing rathr to worship th sun and all th hosts of havn. 'Yt to thm wr givn th oracls of God, and th9ugh h oftn.chastisd thm for thir prvrsnss, h did not uttrly cast thm off, but snt to thm his only bgottn Son, that h might stand as\th rpairr of th brach and st up that which was cast do'yn. Many suppos that th lavn of paganism in th Christian dispns&- th kingdom. Th prsnt dispnsation of th kingdom is th on of gratst importanc to us, as it is th on in which th qustion of our rlation to it as citizns or alins is forvr dcidd. This is also th tim for th citizns to do srvic for th King which will scur a rward, or vn a crown whn th King coms in his glory, or failing to do for him ap. accptabl srvic will, in th nxt dispnsation, though rcognizd as citizns bcaus of thir birthright, suffr th loss of all ls. SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTIONS OF A SPIRITUAL, WORLD. Th gnral ida in rgard to scinc is, that. it has its bginning and nd in th ralm of th snss, dals only with snsibl phnomna and thir rlations with ach othr) and can know nothing and lad to nothing byond.., In th prsnt papr I propos to show that, notwithstanding all that is said about scinc as rsting on th snss and bing limitd in its scop to snsibl phnomna, it is :nvrthlss tru that:. I. All scinc involvs' and rsts upon a body of concptions purly insnsibl and immatrial.. IL Scinc rvals much and implis much mor as to th actual xistnc of a world of phnomna constantly around us, of which Ollr prsnt sns-facultis' giv no intimation or vidnc. III. Scinc discloss to us procsss'and powrs at work in th past, that may wll b xpctd to yild, in othr placs and priods, rsults surpassing th rach of our highst xisting concptions.. ' L It is asy to show that whatvr. givs

3 Oct. 15, 1891.] ", ' TH'E SABBATH RECORDER. 7 uriity or stability to scinc, has its"sat and its origin in th ralms of th unsn. 2,Thr ar crtain prliminary concptions involvd and assumd in th proscution-of aiilnquiry into th facts of th,itrn;f world. ' First among th~~ is th blif in t~ constancy and univrsal4ty of what w trm th" laws of natur." This ida, xprssd in th gnral formula that lik causs unur lik conditions will, produc lik rsults, lis at th basis of allimintific rasoning, and is th grat safguard against a hoplss confusion of marvl and of chanc. Indd, w ~ay,go farthr, and say that not only not all scinc,' but all th practical lif of mankind is adjustd upon t.his blif. Yt this is not so much a mr infrnc from frqunt,obsrvation, as a ncssary ditum o~ our minqs; and w follow it farlssly and unct:l'asingly into' rgions far byond th. scop of xprinc and obsrvation, into limitlss dpths 'of tim and spac, "Th rign of law." This is th latst" and largst concption of nlodrn scinc; but th ida itslf is on of th most abstract and intllctual kind. Again, th ~hol dpartmnt of mathmatical scinc is on of pur abstract concption, a point, a lin, a plan, ar concptions not only idal, but unral and incapabl of ral xistnc at all; position without magnitud, lngth without bradth or thicknss, tc. Yt, waiving this argumnt vn, lt us follow th sam philosophr into his own domains; thr, too, w shall find him qually hlplss and inconsistnt. H will hav vry much to say about gravitation and inrtia, about th rsistanc and corrlation of forcs, about kintic and potntial nrgy, and th lik. All this is his stock in trad~, his,law and gospl, his bginning and nd of advancd scinc, and ach and vryon of thm is a thoroughly and absolutly insnsibl concption. But this is not all. Th scintist who urgs upon th world th us and training of th sns-prcptions as th alpha and omga of scinc, can go not a stp in his invstigation without discoursing of molculs and atoms; of bonds and valncs, of compound radicals and homologous sris, of atomic collisions anu cntrs of forc, of disas grms aud physiological units, and a host of othr things of similar charactrs, all of thm unsn and unflt by th bodily organs, and known or blivd in only through th mind. Truly th scintist, as much as th Christian, walks by faith and not by sight. H livs in an unsn world of laws and powrs and xistncs, of which thos untraind to scintific thought ar wholly unawar. And if w turn to th history of scintific invntion and discovry, w shall find that narly all grat achivmnts hav bn mad by mn undr th inspiration of idas as yt unsn and unralizd-in a word, by mn of faith. 2. Passing now to my scond main had, I dsir to show that, as bfor statd, scinc rvals much, and implis much mor as to th xistnc of a world of phnomna constantly around us, of which our prsnt sns-facultis giv no vidnc or intimation. Lt us tak as a singl illustration th, limitation of human facultis in th ralm of acoustics. W know that th snsation of sound is producd by undulations, as thy ar trmd, wavs or "progrssiv vibrations" passing through th air or othr mdia,' and striking on th fibrs of th auditory nrvs. Now, th human ar is affctd by vibrations rg,nging btwn crtain limits only-not lss than 16, nor mor than 30,000 pr scond. Vibrations abov or blow ths limits cannot giv us th snsation of sound, and as th limit of audation varis in diffrnt prsons, som can prciv sound clar ly w hn to othrs all is silnc. I t is quit possibl, thrfor, that som animals, ha v.ing a widr rang than ours, can har sounds which w cannot. Th vry air about us may b tming with halllujahs which w cannot har, only bcaus of th limitations of our snss. Th~ sns of light, too, is dmonstrably' similarly limitq. 3. Scinc shows us, finally, that if unsn' and unhard ralms of bings surround us. thy rprsnt advancd forms of dvlopmnt which must of ncssity b unintlligibl and problmatical to our powrs of thought. But it also shows that this would b in strict analogy with., th past history of all dvlopmnt, in which th, matrial world has takn on aspcts, and b~n filld with bings, succ~sivly highr in grad, of which, no hint or prdiction or undr-,standing could b gaind from thos blow. Ch'r stian Thought. MORAL RECOVERY.' Thr ar so many, who, at on priod or othr in thir livs, hav gon vry far astray from thir original innocnc,that it is most ncssary to countract th tndncy to dspair, 0 which th spirits of vil do thir utmost to fostr. To th soul which, having onc rrd, has now bn awaknd, thy whispr, thr is no hop for such asyou. You hav put your hand to th sign-maunal which givs you ovr to us,' and w collfidntly claim th bond. W hav put our mark upon you, and for th rst of your lif you ar oul's. Th accusing spirits ar idntical with th tmpt'ing spjrits, only thy hav droppd thir masks..,. And, bcaus thy would fain bcom also th clst1'oying spirits, thy do all thy can,to driv sinful souls, ithr, on'th on hand, to dspration and dfianc, or, on th otbr band, to that ovrwhlming mlancholy which most oftn taks th form of apathy, but which also nds somtims in madnss, and somtims in slf-inflictd dath. It is wll thn to rmmbr for our ncouragmnt, that many hav bgun "thir livs unworthily, and vn hav dply falln, who hav yt bn rcovrd; that many hav strayd into vil paths, and yt by th sovrignty of divin grac, hav rousd thmslvs to th rsolut and trmndous ffort of rcovry, and hav bcom shining saints of God.. I will not dwll upou th xampls which Scriptur give's us, bcaus thy will b familiar to all. It will suffic to mntion two cass of mn who wr savd by a timly rpntanc. Such a on was David. From th innocnt noblnss of his youth, h fll into th crims of a vulgar orintal dspot staind with lust and blood; anu h had to ndur th rtribution which shattrd into ruin th formr pac of his hom. Yt~ upon his uttr rpntanc, God gav him onc mor a clan hart., and rnwd a right spirit within him. H took not his, holy spirit from him. Sucb, too, in a diffrnt way, was Paul. H has told us, in.tons of anguish, that h was th last of th apostls, not mt' to b calld an apostl bcaus h prscutd th church of God. H confslfs that h was onc a prscutor and a blasphmr and injurious. H dscribs th dsprat moral struggls which agitatd for long yars his innr lif. Yt h won th final victory, and bcam th gratst of all th missionaris who hlpd to convrt th world to Christ. CARE OF THE EYES. Popl usually bgin to tak car of thir ys whn thy giv thm troubl or show in som way signs of waknss. This is lik locking th stabl door aftr th hors is gon. A simpl rul to follow in rading or writing is to sit in such a way that if a small ball wr projctd from th dirction of th light to th work it would fly from th y and would not rbound towards it. Th 'light should b so arrangd that it should not rcoil to th y; thrfor, in rading, writing, or in handwork, a prson should not fac th light, but th light should fall ovr th shouldrovr th lft on if th prson is right-handd, and ovr th right on if h is ngagd with his lft hand. If th ys bgin to pain during work it is a warning to stop at onc. Thr is no mor foolish habit than th common on of rading in th twilight or by any imprfct light. Th y is far too dlicat an organism to b trifld with in any such way. ' Th condition of th gnral halth has a grat dal to do with th y. It is, thrfor, dangrous for a prson in vry ill halth,.or, w hn rcovring from a long illnss, to us th ys as frly as whn in prfct halth. It is a mistak for a nar-sightd prson, or for on whos ys hav bcom worn with ag, to put off th us o~ gl88s~fji. All oc~lists ar agrd on this' point. Nglct to war glasss at th propr tim may prmanntly injur th ysight. In cas som,.forign particl gts in th ys it is usually 'undr, th uppr ylid. 'If th ys ar shut tight and a tardrop is allowd to pass around th ball, th obstruction will usually b washd out on th lowr lid, whr it may b asily rmovd~ Taking hold of th uppr lid at th cornrs, aftr th y is shut, and pulling down,,will start tars. Somtims, if this fails, a soft. fold of linn passd undr th ylid may b fficacious; but if th" spot is still irritatd it is bst to s a physician as soon as possibl, for it may b somthing that has passd into th y 60 closly that it may nd a surgon's instrumnt to rmov it, Lay a fold of linn wt with cold watr ovr th, y whil waiting for th physicil1,n. Th so-calld y-stons ar dangrous to us. A poultic should nvr b put; on th y xcpt undr a physician's dirction~ It is a common thing for ylids to bcom sor from cold, and mattr somtims gathrs upon thm. An application of warm ta or warm watr is as fficacious as anything to wash away ths, accumulations. Th ylids may thn b oild with a littl oliv oil, or pur glycrin, to prvnt th mattr from haruning upon thm. A good way to strngthn th ys is to wash thm in clar, cold watr, holding a littl watr in th hand and opning th y in it. Thr is no rmdy for ithr far or nar sightd ys xcpt th us of glasss.-j\l w Y 01 k Tribun. 4 AFTER THAT, WHAT? It is always wll in movmnts of thought to look out for lanuing placs. That is nithr a wis nor a saf thinkr who follows an alluring opinion rcklss as to whithr it may lad him. Thr is a violnt ffort j l1st HOW to gt thos who hav accptd th Biblo as God's Word to mn to combin with this th notion tbat it abounds in rrol's, and that th Humbr of thos discovrd by criticism,., highr" or lowr, is incrasing. But as th Scripturs ar givn us for practical rligious uss, som of us ar concrnd about t.h mod, succss, and valu of thir us, aftr what sms to us so unnatural and prilous a combination of hostil viws is ffctd. Thil' powr and fficacy "dth lost mn has hithrto bn in tbir absolut' truth and divina authority ovr conscinc, rason, fling, and will. Can w rly upon thir continuing to subdu and convrt sinnrs whn what has 'bn rvrnt.ly ascribd to thm is abandond for th conviction that thy ar wrong in much, and ar crtainly to b found wrong in mor? "Thus saith th Lord," "har th word of th Lord," bav bn phrass of singular incisiv and arrsting forc. What will thy amount to as agncis to arous and sav th soul, whn thy ar no mor insurd against mistak than th fallibl, mislading ips dix-it of man. Bhlsus 1'n zt1lo, falslls in omnibus, is an old rul which p.1n will nvr throwaway; and though a prcpt of th Bibl may b imagind to hav a moral powr of its own, though linkd with uutruths Oll othr mattrs, to th mass of mn it will hav non whatvr. Accptd mrly bcaur:; conecillc' or rason-judgd to b suprm as sourct's of divin truth abov th writtn word-gj" it authority is just th sam as not accpting it as God's command. Is it not tim to ask about th landing placs to which fr thinking is 'crowding us?-ch1'istian Scrtary. BE SHORT. Long visits, long storis, long ssays, kng xhortations, and long prayrs sldom profit thos who hav to do with thm. Lif is short. Tim is short. Momnts ar prcio~s. Larn to condns, abridg, and intnsify. W can bar things that ar dull if thy ar only short. W can ndur many an ach and ill, if it is, soon ovr; whilavn plasurs grow insipid and pain intollabl, if thy b protractd byond th limits of rason and convninc. Larn to b short. Lop off branchs; stick to th main fact in your cas. If you would pray, ask for what you would rciv, and b don with it; if you spak,,tll your mssag and hold your pac; boil down two words into on, and thr into two. Always larn to b short. j,

4 , (1f)() " ~lft...,,,,~..., 'J' / I-11~ SA B B A. 'r H ll., E (J 0 I-l., D E R. LVOL. XLVII, No. 42. :... ".' THEY,ARE NOT OUR ALLIES. By th courtsy of a frind two numbrs of th Washington S.,ntinl, a lading liquq!" or~ gan, hav com to our, hands. In th formr num br a writr attmpts to st asid th Sabbatic institution by Christian tstimony; and appars to think h provs from th' Scriptur that (1) " Jsus nvr njoind th obsrvanc of th Sabbath as a moral duty in any fo~m or on any day;" (2) "Jsus was himslf a'sabbath-brakr;" (3) "not only did Jsus violat th Sabbath himslf, h also ncouragd and vn commandd othrs to violat it." Paul's viws, h says, wr substantially thos of his Mastr, namly, that th Sabbath blongd to Jws alon, and :not to humanity. And h quots from th Rv. M. J. Savag to th fit that Nw'Tstamnt writrs mak no lulltion of Sabbath-kping as binding. W nd sca.rcly add that this writr sms to us ithr not to undrstand, or to misrprsnt th Scripturs. Th articl in th othr numbr of th Sntinl, an ditorial, brings strong and unanswrabl proof from Protstant Christian authoritis that on of th com promisfs btwn arly Christianity and Paganism, was., th adoption of thm old PIi~{H.U holiday of Sunday for th ClHistiau SabbH.tb," but t.his proof is not furni!::3hd with auy frindly spirit towaru th Christian, rligion. Th rading of ths articls. suggsts two thoughts: 1. Liquor slling, licl uor chinking, awl iufidl opposrs of Sunday-kping and of Christianity,,ar not our allis or ral hlprs of th caus rprsntd by us as Sabbath-kping Christians. 2. It bcoluas obsrvrs of th first day to xamin wll th fouiidation of thir blif, which is so xposd to th attack of thos who ar not only hostil to this rror, but to th truths associatd with it in thir faith and practic. Bold indd is th dclaration that "thus w s that it was pristly' xpdincy' ba-ckd by a murdrous dict instad of a divin dcr or an apostolic iujunction, that mad Sunday th Sabbath of th Christians." TRUTH, "A STO-NE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE." Christ is th m bodimn t of tru tho H says, "I am th way, th truth, and th lif." John 14: G. And again, "If y continu in my word thn ar y my discipls indd; and y shall know th truth and th truth shall mak you fr." John 8: 31, 32. Th apostls boldly prachd this truth of Christ that should mak mn fr, but it was" unto th Jws a stumbling block, and unto th Gr~k8 foolishnss." 'At first thought it sms strang that truth should b a stumbling-block to anyon; but Ptr tlls us that it is bcaus of disobdinc and unblif. Says h, "Whrfor also it is containd in th Scripturs, B~old, I lay in Zion a chif cornr-ston, lct, prcious; and h that blivth on him shall not b confoundd. Unto you, thrfor, which bliv, h is prcious; but unto thm which b disobdint,... a ston of stumbling and a rock of offns.", This Rock-Christ and his truth-was thrfor' a rock of offns on account' of thir unblif. Thy wr doubtlss xpcting th promisd Mssiah to com xrcising kingly, prrogativs with grat pomp and crmony, mingling only with thos who wr high in political rank, social standing and influn-c. ~ut hr is on claiming to b th Mssiah who hssociats with 'th poor and opprssd, making no display of gratnss or distinction. H has only a small band of followrs, and thy from th lowst rank -of socity,,h tachs that God fs no rspctr of prsons; 'that th rich and hjgh in rank should not b puffd up, but that thy should' ministr to th wants of th poor and ndy. Thy admird his wisdom and marvld at his wondrful works; but bcaus h was" unpopular," and bcaus h 'did not tach thos things which would b conduciv to thir own matrial intrsts, thy wr offndd at him. And vn aftr th wondrs connctd with his dath and rsurrction wr past, fulfilling with wondrful xactnss 'th prophcis rlating to th promisd Rdrnr, yt on account of thir arroganc and prid thy would not bliv on him. If his lif and tachings had only conformd to thir popujar idas and prsonal convni~q., how'gladly would thy;hav bcom his f~lowrs; but as it was, thy stumbld. ".T h 'G rks wr so wddd to thir fals systms of philosophy,,and so nvirond by thir wrtchd sophistry, that thir disquisitions wr basd wholly upon rationalism. Hnc to thm th gospl of Christ was foolishnss. But it was not only in th days of th apostls that truth was & slumbliug-bloc:k to som and foolishnss to oth,rs, but it has bn so from thos days to th prsnt tim. And to-day thr ar thousands of profssd follo'wrs of Christ who ar stumbling ovr som particular truth tanght in th gospl. Prhaps truth in rgard to baptism and th Sabbath is causing mor popl to stumbl to-day than any othr! How many thr ar who ar rady to follow Christ ill haptism providd it consists only in having a lit,tl watr pourd or sprinkld upon thm, w hih can b radily brw:lhd off with a handkr0hif without thir xprincing th last inconvninc!, How nlany thousands thr ar who would lik to mbrac God's holy Sabbath if it wr only mor popular, or did not intrfr with thir worldly intrsts in any way! How many thr ar who would lik to go to havn if thy could do so without xprincing any inconvninc or making any sacrific in this lif, if thy could only go "upon flowry bds of as!" 'Vhn mn priz th lov of God abov vrything ls thn truth is no mor a stumblingston, 'but a stpping-ston to a highr lif. During th past fw wks of my labor on this fild I hav bn particularly imprssd that th Sabbat.h truth is a ston of stumbling in this country. Srmons on th doctrin of th Sabboth hav un prachd and Sabbath litratur has bn circulatd till th popl ar quit wll informd concrning it; and many of thm frankly admit that th svnth day is th only Sabbath; yt bcaus it is unpopular, and thy ar afraid it would intrfr with thir tmporal affairs, thy will not acpt it, and it thus bcoms a ston of stumbing to thm in thir Christian walk. It is vry vidnt that both individuals and churchs ar rtrograding in this 'country bcaus thy, will not accpt God's Sabbath. Th Baptist donomination sms to b lss activ in this country than any othr, though uon of thm sm to b doing scarcly anything ithr to brmg sinnrs to Christ or to kp up an intrst among thmslvs. Many of thm, howvr, ar always rady to spak disparagingly against "th old Svnth-day Baptists." Just a fw days ago, whil w wr ~gagd in a vry intrsting mting at Ston Fort, on of th most' prominnt mmbrs of th Baptist "Church assaild m, saying, "Your popl ar doing mor harm than good, bcaus you ar causing so much Sunday ds- ' cration." I rplid th~ti would quit agr with hr thatw wr rsponsibl, ithr dirct_ ly or indirctly, for som of th "Sunday dscr~tion," brcaus w ar holding up th light of God's, tru~h in rgard to th tru Sabbath, and mn wn3! losing confidnc in Sunday as th Sabbath. Aftr a fw minuts discussion this arnst advocat q nit abruptly xclaimd, "Wll, I don't know much about it any way, for I nvr studid th qustion." It was vry vidnt to In that this profssd followr of Christ was, with a grat, many othrs, stumbling ovr what- sh knw to b truth. Now, in viw of this manifst rtrogrssion in th rligious condition of this, country, th qustion naturally ariss, Shall w continu to prah th Sabbath truth if it is a stumblingblock and a rock of offns to th popl, ca UEing thm to dtriorat rathr than amliorat rligiously? Did th apostls, bcaus thy saw th gospl of Christ was a stumbling-block to th Jws, cas to prach it to thm? No, but thy prachd it mor arnstly. So should w mor arnstly prach t.h truth in rgard to baptism apd th Sabbath, in connction with th rst of th gospl, to thos who ar now offndd at it Popl who ar rally anxious to stand on th solid foundation of truth and njoy th divin prsnc, ar not going to stand long upon a foundation that thy f~l giving way bnath thm. Alrady a raction is stting in,in this country. Prfljudic is giving way, and popl ar bcoming mor rady to har our viws. In th vicinity of Crab Orchard on Baptist church has gon to pics, and two mor ar vry narly in th sam condition. Som of thir mmbrs hav alrady mbracd th Sabbath and joind our church, whil othrs ar vry much concrnq, and ar invstigating. I hav larntl that on mor has bgun to kp th Sabbath rcntly, and is waiting for an opportunity to join our church. Thr is grat xcitmnt ill that community on th Sabbath qustion, and th popl ar vry anxious for Eld. Thrlkld and myslf to hold a sris of mtjngs thr. But Eld. Thrlkld has almost worn himslf out on th fild, and has crtainly don vry fficint work, and must hav som rst; and th tim for m to rturn to Alfrd Cntr to continu my studis has almost arrivd, so w annot go. Th popl of Ston Fort wr qually anxious for us to continu th mtings thr. I nvr saw a dpr intrst thr. ' Many of th Sunday popl wr vry dsirous that th mtings should b continud; but I had promisd to spnd som tim with th popl hr. I find that two months is a vry short tim in which to look up th intrsts at svral points. Th mtings cjosd at Ston. Fort with a srmon oii th Sabbath qustion, to which th congrgation gav prfct attntion for ovr an hour. On man told m that w ought to prach mor' on this q u~btion. An arnst,christian lady, who would nvr ~E;f()r har our viws, told m aftr th discours that -sh was almost a Svnth-day Baptist. N ow that Eld. Thrlkld will b obligd to rst awhil, I do hop that Eld.,Huffman, or Eld. C. A, Burdick, or both, can com to this fild for a fw months. Lt us pray that God may hlp UB to prsnt th whol truth of th gospl in such a way that it may bcom a rock "...t

5 oct. 15, l8p!.] [. THE SABBA'l.'H REOOI~DER... of saftyupqn which. th popl shall d~light to stand, rathr than a ston of stumbling and a rock of offns. M. B. KELLY, JR. PULASKI Ill., Aug. 13, 1891.! WOMAN'::; WORK. [:/i THE Earl of Shaftsbury knw no powr of mony sav its powr to confr good. H blivd in munificnt donations as baving vastly mor good in thm than bqusts of qual valu in dollars and cnts. Is it not unwis to mak invidious compari Bons. btw~n hom and forign missions? Whil thr ar so many points of liknss and rlationship btwn th two, is it not tru that for on to assrt th gratr importanc of ithr abov th othr is to simply giv xprssion to prsonal lanings, and in point of fact. is to disallow th ruling of justic upon tb qustion?. Would not justic giv to ach its full sha,r of importanc as to qustion of nd? CONCLUSION. Your Scrtary fls dp rgrt that hr own work has bn so p oorly don, and in all dpart.mnts of it. Still, throughout th yar sh has grown mor solicitous for hrslf that sh b loyal to th obligations rsting upon hr, ana dsirous of ability' to mastr mor aggrssiv ffort, and likwis that our womn should bcom bttr acquaintd with what othr dnominational womn ar doing for church work in th hom and forign filds, that by tb knowldg of such' labors thy might hav a fullr undrstanding of th dsign of our own littl organization. It is knowldg that is lacking, not ability. Thr is latnt ability in grat abundanc amongst our womn, rady for growth whn brought to th ~nvigoration of t.h sunlight and frsh air of intllignt acquaintanc with practical work. Thr ar som misapprhnsions ainong us. Possibly som ngativs brifly put may b of srvic in claring ths away. It is not th dsir of th ladrs, nor of th frinds of our womn's organizd work, that it shall antagoniz th parnt boards of th dnomination.. It is not our. wish to work indpndntly of ithr of thm, nor to attain to a position of dictatorship.. It is not to incras machinry and that of th impractical sort. It is not to st up a lin of spcifics for mony and ffort. it is not to nglct th old and stady strams of church bnficnc. It is not to confus and irritat th trasurrs or othr officrs of ithr of our gnral boards. It is not to incras th currnt xpnss of dnominational work.. It js not to crat a mans of ltting th lft hand know what th right hand is doing in th mattr of contributions from womn for dnominational work. It is not from any ambition on th part of any woman among us-nothing of all this, nor of kindrd spirit; nor has it vr bn. W spak that w do know, and bliv, and fl. It is to. supplmnt th work of th church as it has bn by adding thrto thos mans which ar in bst accord with a woman's individual rsponsibility to th Grat Ha<l of th church, by whom, my dar brothr, sh has bn includd in an qual salvation with yourslf, and to whom sh ows a srvic of lov qual to your own. Organization is a hlpful factor for you, my brothr, in church and hom and businss lif, ntring vn into th ramifications of your own physical lif. God has st his sal of approbation upon organizd forc, and that by 'practioal dmonstration throughout his cratd univrs. Somthing dfinit, my brothr, is vry tim ljttr for you than th indfinit. Yon bliv this, and act upon it, ls you would b lawyr; mrchant., or somthing ls intrchangably during th months of th yar according to tho tmporary mood rsting upon you.. D.finitnss of purpos, of knowldg, of intrst, is just as ssntial to U8, your sihtrs, as to you, our brotbrs. Th spcial fund will draw mor from your pockt-book than any body's indfinit' wants. So win work hld by th hand 'of dfi-' nitnss of purpos and of plan b as good for us as for you, and in th nd th most hlpful to all of us. For th organic influnc upon any in th dbility of doubts and fe'ars and disliks, w stat SOll opportunitis, which, if you plas, you may capt.ion as rcommndations.,v wish to work i.n harmonious auxiliaryship to our dnomillatioll~11. boards, to wish lor a sufficint indpnrlnco to nabl us to,do what work w UIHlrtak by th hst ()f bus~n~ss Inthods, our board officrs ach to rciv th spcial work for which such officrs"ar ' ratd. \V" d~8it~ for th advantag of d.finituss in' plan and purpos that in th st,imats for th xpnss of th yars to com, that th Missionary Board shall continu to giv to us ach yar th support of Miss Susi Burdick in th ducational dpartmnt of th mission work at Shanghai; and also giv to us in kping th support of th llativ hlprs, now offring thmslvs to Dr. Swinny'S work; and furthrmor that it will giv to us th hlpful dfinitnss of th raising of som spcifid sum of mony for hom missions, said mony to b xpndd by th 1\1issionary Board as it may s fit. vv dsir for th sam good, undrlying rasons, including in all of this th nlargmnt of knowldg of th work, and intrst in it coming from prsonal contact with a spcifid obligation to it, t.hat our Tract Board will, out from its stilnat of xpnss for th coming yar, and likwis for th yars hraftr as thy shall com, apportion to us BOrn spcific mony raising, th disbui'sing of which shall b ntirly in thir hands; and that this mony raisd by us shall col!1 to th Tract Board through th Traslll;r of th Woman's Board, as also thos monys raisd for missionary purposs to b passd to thh Missionary Trasurr through th Womau's Trasurr. W dsir that our womn shall sk to rais spcifid sums so apportiond to 11S. Th rqust that our Trasurr b usd as an officr appointd for work, and not as a figur had, should licit th favor and not th criticism of both popl and trasurrs as it is basd upon sound businss judgmnt, and is prcisly that cours of action which vry man amongst us would rightfully dmand of organizd, officrd work conductd by thm. Th sillinss of snding mony out to Wisconsin.to b rturnd to Rhod Island or to Nw Jrsy would not long look silly if fundamntal principls wr to b takn into account, and a slight sarching th mattr would prov that thr ar ways of asy command which will radily ovrcom th objctions now raisd to th trasuryship of an ~uxiliary body. Onc lt th vital principls of organization lif b sttld; if thy ar not, t/h dtails will fall into rgimntal lin rady for call ~o th front, and that for ffctiv srvic und.r Christ th Captain of our salvation. W dsir that whnvr any work so thoroughly appropriat for us as that of th dispn-. sarynlargmnt shall aris that w shall b askd to do It; or if it coms first into th harts 9f th womn to do it, that as supplmnting all prvious obligations, that our work in such spcial ffort may b dmd as good and accptabl srvic. 'V dsir that just so soon as our womn ar rady to assum 'th rsponsibilitis of th advanc stp, that th mdical missionary work of our station in Shanghai may b transfrrd to us for support. W dsir that th qustion of woman's rsponsibility to th church through th most ffctiv mthod of dvlopiug it- organization for woman's work--shall bcom so allid to th8 conscinc of th chnrch that w shall at th arlist practicabl ~lay b mad a chart.rd bodv though still auxilia.ry, to rciv th advantags accruing to chartrd lif.. W do dsir that our womn shall bring thmslvs into a mor tacl1abl attitud towards God's will. concrning our Christian growt.h, rmmbring that if thr b first th willing mind, thr will follow by rational procbs incrasing knowldg, that knowldg will ~. ~, bgt intr~t, and intrst will bgt lov. "rhat,~l womn mny prov ourslvs to b moro faithful studnts in th training school of organization sryic, and attain to that standing or lov for pr~ct.ical work for th Mastr by mans of which w shall giv vn that which h dsirs-ourslvs-to him is th p;:ayr of many a woman in our numbr. In bhalf of tb Woman's Board, and approvd by thm, Aug. 10, 189l. M. F. BAILEY, Cor. Sc. MILTON, Wis. WOMAN'S BOARD. Rcipts in Sptmhr. By F. A. Wittr: Mrs. A. H. Coats. Hichburg, N. Y., Miss Burdick's salary $ 1 00 Mrs. H. M. S~ttHl, Richburg. N. Y., Miss Burdick's salary..,... " Mrs. Elln Irish, Nil, N. Y., Dispnsary Fund $ 6 75 By M.. F. Baily, Sc.: Mrs. W. 'y. KingE.bury, Missionary Socity $5, 'l'ract SOCIty $3, Board Expns Fund $ Mrs. T. D. ChriBman, Missionary Socity Mif'~ H;lth.Davis. Milton, Wi!;., Dispnsary.Fund... 5 O() Ladls AId SOCIty. Brookfild, N. Y., l\hssionary So<?i~ty $2 ~O,.'l'ract Soci!3ty $:! rio $ 5 (I() Th Anx!!mry MISSIOnary SOCIty of Minnsota, Missionary... Soclt.y, C. M MISSIOn Band, Dodg Cntr, Minn.. Missionary Socity E.&O.E, MILTpN, Wis., Oct. 1, $ NELl,IE G. INGHAM, TraS1l1 l _._ _--- _ ~ THE TABLES TURNED. 'Old Jacob Barkr, Oll of th arly lights of 'tv all strt, onc took offns at som action of his ~an~. A fw days aftr h prsntd $40,- 000 In bills-a much largr amount than th sam figurs rprsnt nowadays-and dmandd spci for thm. Th bank officials wr qual to th mrgncy, but thought to rvng. thmslvs for th scar Barkr had givn thm; so thy rolld out 40 kgs of $1,000 ach; th tllr xplaining that th kgs wr filld with fiv and tn cnt pics. Barkr saw th point and justifid bis rputation for sharpnss. 'H ordrd th whol forty kgs to b unhadd on th spot, took a carlss handful of COIn from ach kg, thn calmly said that h dsird to hav th rmaindr placd to his crdit. Th bank had to los his valuabl custom or tak this mony, so it chos th lattr; but th tdious count of th forty kgs' contnts consumd many a profitlss hour. IT is only hr and thr that a man could gt to havn if h had to prov by his wif that h had th old-fashiond Bibl kind of rligion. "A GOOD tr cannot bring forth vil fruit nithr can a corrupt tr bring forth good fruit.". ~ -, ~ i ".

6 , l' - ;'-, ; 662 THE'SABBATH REOORDER. [VOL. XLVII, No. 42, I ' I THE MILL"YARD CHURCH, LONDON, ENGLAND, AND THE SPOLIATION OF ITS PROPERTY. This Svnth-day Baptist Church had its origin in th controvrsy which aros in som parts of England lat in th si'xtnth cntury, ro'a1'dino' o th obligation and th prptuity of 0 th fourth commandmnt of th Dcalogu. Its first mmbrs wr, doubtlss, gathrd togthr and formd into a church by John Trask and his stimabl wif, about th' yar HU8.. As 'an arnst rvivalist prachr th formr taught, with othr Christian prcpts, th obsrvanc,of th ancint Sabbath; and as a consqunc h was subjctd to public insult on th pillory at Wstminstr, and scourgd thnc.. to th Flt prison, whr h wa~ confind for thr~ yars. Mrs. Trask lay fiftn yars in lvlaidn-lan and Gat-Hous prisons, in th lattr of which sh did, suffring this prscution for hr strict adhrnc to th Sabbath. D nring succding yars of th svntnth cntury, upon othrs blonging to this church wr also inflictd fins, imprisonmnt, confiscation of proprty, and vn martyrdom, on account of thir rligious opinions. Among ths was notably a pastor, John J ams, who was sizd whil praching, Oct. 19, 1661, in Bnll-stak Ally, Whitchapl, comcmitttd to Nwgat Prison, and was sntncd "to b "hangd, drawn, and q nartrd." H was accordino'ly xcutd, Nov. 2Gth following, at b Tyburn, north-ast cornr of Hyd Park; his quartrs wr affixd to th gats of th city, and his had was xposd first at th north nd of London Bridg, and aftrwards upon a pol opposit th passag to th mting-hous whr h was apprhndd. This church has bn favord, from its arlist history, witb th labors of mmbrs gratly distinguishd in th diffrnt profssions. Doctor Ptr Chambrlain, an minnt surgon, and th first physician to th royal family in th rign of thr sovrigns, was a ladr of th church in Abl controvrsial works on th Sabbath wr writtn by svral of its pastors, such as William Sllrs, in 1671 ;as Hnry Sourby, prior to 1710; and as Robrt Cornthwait, subsqunt to Dr: Josph Stnntt, a wll-known Svnth-day Baptist clrgyman of London, doubtlss prllchf:'j at tims nar 1720, to this congrgation. Tiw scholarly Danil Nobl ministrd hr for thirty yars. in th scond half of th last cntury. Nathanil Baily, th notd English lxicographr, whos dictionaris prbcud that of Dr. Samul Johnson, and wr issud in at last thirty-on ditions, was an influntial mmbr of th church for fifty-on yars. Rv. William Hnry Black, an accomplishd antiquary, whil pastor for thirty-two yars prior to his dath in 1872, prformd most important srvics to his govrnmnt. Th Rv. Dr. 'Villiam M. Jons, th prsnt incumbnt, has bn an activ missionary in Hayti and Palstin, is th ditor of a quartrly magazin ntitld th Sabbath ]JImo, rial and has filld, for a trm, th offic of Prsidnt of th London Baptist Board of Ministrs. D ndr th T~lration Act passd by Parliamnt in 1689, it bcam possibl for Protstant Dissntrs to own placs of public worship; and accordingly by 1693, a pic of land, calld" Mill Yard," in Goodman's Filds, in th astrn part of London, had bn purchasd for th church, and a chapl and othar tnmnts rctd on,th lalld. Ths accommodations wr obtaind chifly through th librality of a walthy mm- that any chapl to b built ought in th futurj br of th church by th nam of J ~sph Davis, to b srvd by a ministr in connction with thj who, for th bold advocacycof his rligious viws, gnral Baptist Community; and to b usd on was imprisond in Oxford Castl for twlv Sundays and othr tim~s so' far as th ministr yars just subsqunt to th martyrdom of his' and trusts may think fit for th purpos of pastor, John Jams. In th yar 1700, this inculcating th tnts and practics 9f that COlll-, proprty was convyd by a dd still valid and in munion, but without casing to. maintain th forc, "to trusts duly, appoint~d by th church, doctrins of th Sabbatarian Baptist Commu-. to b hld intrust, that "it should b, at all nity, for which th charity was originally tims thraftr, usd and,njoyd by a crtain foundd,'" H dirctd that th cas should h congrgation of. Dissntirlg Protstants that rfrrd- ba~k to th Chif Olrk 0' th Court kp and obsrv th Svnth-day Sabbath on to inquir w~at modifications Qught to b mad th day commonly calld Saturday, for a mt- in th prsnt schm for th managmnt of ilig-hous, or plac of thir mting ancl,assm- th proprty, in ordr to scur tli purpos bling thmslvs togthl: for rligious worship W;hlch is dfind abov; and h furthr ordrd as o'c'asion should rquir." Subsqunt to th that inquiry should b lnad whthr th sit at dath of Mr. Davis, in 1707, th church, by vir- Mildmay Park proposd by th trusts is a fit tu of his will, cam, aftr a ti~, into oosss~ and propr sit for th rction of a nw chapl sion of th principal part of his stat., which to carry out this purpos. has sinc srvu as an ndowmnt to mt, ' Rprsntations wr mad to this Justic in good part, by its annual incom, th ncs- that th church, in its work, had bn gratly sary xpnss incurrd in th maintnanc of hamprd in lattr yars by th location of its th church. For on hundrd and ninty-two chapl at J\'Iill Yard, and by its rpllant suryars th mmbrs of this body worshipd God roundings; that th nw sit at Mildmay promin th chapl and on th grounds providd by isd much bttr opportunitis for usfulnss, this charity of Mr.. Davis, sa~rdly hlu thus as and would b spcially convnint to th mrna trust,and wr nabld by his ndowmnt to 'brs of th church in attnding mtings; that scur th srvics of larnd, dvout, and th practic of th pastor in conducting rligious faithful prachrs of th gospl, who gratly srvics at othr tims than on th svnth day aidd ths mmbrs in upholding thir dis- of th wk would crtainly b continud; that tinctiv faith and practic. As to this n- th church undr th prsnt administration dowmnt, th church has always njoyd, and had incrasd in numbrs; and that th origdos still njoy, th unqustiond and undis- inal provisions of th~ charity, as wll as th inturbd right 'to shar vry largly in its avail. trsts of th church,. rquird that th ministr As to this trust rprsntd in th chapl and using th proprty and praching to th co'nth grounds, th church has bn co!l1plld, at grgation, s1:ould conscintiously advocat th grat xpns, to dfnd, by litigation, its right tnts'and practics of th Svnth'::aay Baptists, to this proprty, aftr holding it for at last a which ar, on th subjct 6f thf?sabbath, I radcntury and a quartr in absolut pac and 8- ically diffrnt from thos of th gnral Bapcurity. It is now in imminnt dangr of bing tist communion.. practically dprivd of any furthr us of th Mr. Justic Pirson did soon aftr h issud funds accruing from th sal of this proprt.y. th abov ordr, and th furthr considration Bfor passing to th nxt itm it is bst to no- of th cas was brought b' or Mr. Justic tic hr that, for ovr a hundrd yars, th North, who instructd th trusts to ask th trusts in charg of th chapl and grounds First-day Baptists of London to add 2,000, or wr mmbrs of th church, by whom thy wr whatvi othr sum might b ncssary, to th lctd in xact accordanc with th trms of funds arising from th sal of th Mill Yard th trust dd givn by Mr. Davis; and that in proprty, in ordr that a larg chapl might b 1823 th Court of Chancry of Grat Britain built, and thn usd by thm and by th Svassumd th powr to appoint in thir plac fiv nth-day Baptists. Thus anothr church would trusts of this proprty, non of whom wr acquir an intrst in this proprty, and mmbrs of th church, but all mmbrs of th woulddoubtl:;s b in condition finally to ab Church of England. This Board, possssing sorb it al1. 'Aftr du consultation with th slf-appointing powr wit.h th approval of th Mill Yard Church th trusts dclind to x Attorny-Gnral of th Kingdom, th church cut. this ordr of Justic North, on th ground has not sinc had any dirct voic in control- that th rights of th church and its futur prosling its chapl and grounds. prity would thus b sriously abridgd, and at In 1885 this whol proprty was purchasd last nullifid. But.thy wr inform~d.by this by th London, Tilbury, and South-nd Railway judg that if thy did not carry out his ~nstru~ Company for 5,500, and th mony was paid tions h would himslf tak th mattr Into his into th Court of Chancry. Thrupon th own hands.. H ~lso ordrd thm to fin~ som trusts of th proprty applid to th Chif way by which this proprty co~l~ b alinatd Clrk of this Court for prmission to build with. and transfrrd to anothr rbgious body; but this mony a nw chapl, and to purchas a min- thy rplid that, not. bing mmb~s of th istr's hous adjoining, upon grounds slctd church, thy wr forbiddn to do this by th by th church in J\'lildmay 1?ark, in th northrn trms of th trust dd. sction of London. To this prmission th So- Thrupon, th trusts prpard, undr th licitor to th Attorny-Gnral objctd; and dirction of th Solicitor to th Attorriy-Gnth cas was takn for adjudication to th ral, a communication addrssd to th S~cr Court of Chancry, and argud bfor Mr. taris of th Baptist Union, anothr London Justic Pirson in J,anuary and Fbruary, Baptist Association, rlativ to th ordr' of This officr appard at first favor- Justic North. Whn this communication was abl to th church; but thought, as h said, snt, th pastor of th church, th Rv. W m. that "th ambit of th charity" njoyd by M. Jons, waitd upon ths Scrtaris, and it "should b nlargd." H accordingly is- rspctfully> and arnstly ntratd thm to sud th following nigmatical ordr, which has dclin any participation in th control of th bn th frtil sourc of th inj urious and proprty of th church, sinc such a participaunjust tratmnt which th church has sinc tion would b contrary 'to th usags of Protxprincd: "Th Court bing of th opinion, stant Dissntrs. Thy' wr urgd to inform ---~ -' ' 1 \

7 .. " oct. 15, THE SABBA,TH REOORDER. 63 th 90urt that th Mill Yard Church is capabl of managing alon its own affairs, and has, according t() th practi'6:s of' all Baptist Socitis, th xclusiv right to do this. Th.scrtary of th~ Baptist Union, th Rv. Dr. Booth, smd inclinp. to accpt th viw of th R,v. Dr.} ons; for h said, "According to our own Baptist principls, w hav no right to intrfr with th affairs of anothr church. W ar iii~ dpndnt churchs." H thought that. a coun- I cil of his brthrn should b calld to considr th subjct, and that th pastor of th Mill Yard Cburch should b invitd to attnd. Th council was hld, but th Rv. Dr. Jons was -not invitd. Th Scrtary of th London Baptist Association, th Rv. F. A. Jons, thought that th intrf13rnc of th Attorny-Gnral in th disposition of th church proprty was th propr thing. To th communication of th trusts h mad an laborat rply, plain- -ly indicating a willingnss to accpt th prgp_ osition of Justic North. Whil affirming-that "th pr }~nt mmbrs of th church, with its pastor and othr officrs, should hav th absolut control of its own affairs," h maintaind that such a union btwn th church and othr Baptist bodis would not introduc anything "inconsistnt with its tnts." In bhalf of his Association h informd th Court that a small chapl would answr only for "th Sabbatarians," bcaus th -day on which thy hold thir srvics is, "of all th days of th wk, th last convnint, on account of th customs of th country, for public worship." H rprsntd that 2,500 is too much mony to b spnt for th" Sabbatarians" alon. (To b cantinud.) PABBATH l\eform. THERE is a movmnt among Rformd Jws in Grmany for th bttr obsrvanc of th Sabbath. Whatvr significanc thr may b in this, and th lik movmnt in this country, so far as th Sabbath of th Bibl is concrnd, w bliv it may b safly said to b on of th signs, which ar multiplying, that th rligious ladrs of th world, as wll as th civil ladrs, ar attaching an inrasing valu to th Sabbath ida; that mn ar bginning to s th blssing which a ral, rasonabl day of rst and worship has in it. W hartily bliv that whn th quilibrium btwn th past and prsnt coms mn will b bttr abl to s how th roots of all th good of th prsnt go back to and li 'in many good things of th past, and that grat good taks root back in th old Sabbath day. w. C. T. THE nam of W. H. Cossum is familiar to many of th radrs of th REOORDER, as th young man who, two yars ago, visitd som of Our churchs, spaking upon th studnt voluntr movmnt for forign missions. H is soon to ntr upon his work as a missionary in China, to which h was st apart by ordination two or thr wks ago, at his hom in Poughkpsi, N. Y. Spaking of this vnt, th,daily Eagl has this suggstiv paragraph: Thr wr svral intrsting discussions as a rsult of th qustions put to him. Rgnration, th authority of th Dca]ogu, and th doctrin of futur punishmnt, wr rathr warplly discussd. Mr. Cossurn dclard his blif that as a~ authoritativ cod th Dcalogu has lost its fo~c, addir:.g, " You'v got to gt rid of your Dcalogu bfor you can transfr your Sabbath to th first day of th wk." H was not disposd to - ~plit hairs, l1owvr;. and rstd upon' his ability to prach Christ. Th,ncssity of gtting rid of th Dcalogu in ordr to justify 'th prvalnt practjc of Sunday-kping has oft~n bn admittd by individuals in on way and anothr, but w do not rmmbr to hav sn it so forcd upon a rprsntativ bojy of ministrs bfor, and thy Baptists! Thr is no dodging th issu. That body 9fBaptist ministr~, by laying ordaining hands upon th young mali aftr that uttranc, practically said to him, "If you cannot kp th~ Dcalogu 'and,th Sund~y, lt th Dcalogu go." And thus both h and thy ar willing to mak void th law of God by thir traditions. W do not qustion th n~ir sincrity of th young man in th dc.laration of his willingnss to waiv hair-splitting discussions, and to rst upon lis a~ility to prach Christ; but w do most sriously doubt th qualificat,ion of any man to prach Christ in his fullnss who s- 'tms th law of God to b of suh a charactr that it lllay b st asid by any man who finds it inconvnint to oby a crtain on of its prcpts. Jsus dclard that h cam not to dstroy th law, but to fulfill (Matt. 5: 17,18); and Paul dclard (Rom. 3:31,) that w do not mak void,th law through faith, but that w stablish th law. Whovr, tht:'rfor, prachs Ohrist adquatly, must tach th law in its ntirty. HOW I WAS BROUGHT TO THE SABBATH. BY RK'. M. F. WHATLEY. Ovr thr yars ago I purposd in my mind to writ out how I was convrtd to th svnthday Sabbath, but affliction and bravmnt so ovrcom m thafi hav dlayd until now. Hoping that this may bnfit som othr strugglr for th truth, I snd it forth. Two littl incidnts in my child-lif had much to do with forming my aftr-lif. On was th first sntnc that I vr rad. It was: "No nlan may put off th law of God." This mad a dp imprssion on my mind that I nvr forgot, and from that day to this, I hav nvr doubtd thr is a God and that I was undr obligation to.rndr to him prfct obdinc. Th othr was whn I was advancd to my littl Nw York radr No.1, I rad, "In th bginning God cratd th havns and th arth in six days and rstd on th svnth." This all took plac bfor I was tn yars old. I thought as most childrn would b likly to think, that Sunday was th svnth day of th wk, and so continud to think until I was nar twnty yars old, whn I was informd that Sunday was not th svnth, but th first day. I could hardly bliv it, but bing convincd Sunday was th first, day of th wk, I was informd that Christ ros on th first day of th wk and that all Christianity had bn instructd to kp th first day of th wk instad of th svnth in honor of his rsurrction. Now I thought this was clarly taught in th Nw Tstamnt, that, crtainly good and pious Christians would not allow thmslvs to b dupd into disobying a positiv command of God, without good and sufficint rasons. So I wnt on, rlying ntirly on my rligious tachrs, bliving that thy would not prmit a misrprsntation of God's Word palmd upon th world. So I accptd it, though I had nvr sii anything in th Bibl authorizing th chang. Yt I blivd it must b thr somwhr. About twlv yars ago two small tracts cam to my addrss from som frindly hand calling my attntion to th, fact that Sunday was not th Sabbath, and that thr was no authority in th Bibl for calling it so. This I did not bliv. My first imprssion was to throw thm' asid and pay no attntion to thm. Now hr, my ca.rdinal principl stps in and assrts itslf. " No man may put off th law of God." N ow I thought if thr is,rio authority in th Bibl for th chang, thn th chang is wrong. If th Nw Tstamnt dos tach that th chang was mad by th auth9rity of Christ at his rsurrction, thn Sunday is th Sabbath and ths, tracts ar13 wrong.- - So I..!-\. rsolvd to t~st th truth by th Nw Tstamnt, not doubting that Sunday would b vindicatd. I fully intndd to do (as I thought) just what th Bibl taught, but I was not half so strong as I thought I was; for whn I had gon~ through th four gospls, I was prfctly bwildrd; for not a word was to b found indicating a chang, and th thirty-six hours in th grav and th Sunday morning rsurrction wr mr myths, gottn up mor for th purpos of dciving than to vindicat th truth. Now' my strong rsolution to do just what God had commandd to do, dwindld into a mr ~akling; f?r I sp~nt narly fiv yars in rad Ing th BIbl, history, commntaris, Bibl dictionary-in fact vrything that I could gt my hand on, trying to rad Sunday in, but to no purpos. Th nlor I rad, th mor I saw that Sunday was a myth, a mr cratur of tradition and paganism foistd on th church btwn. th scond and fourth cnturis, brougj1t ll:to th church by pagan philosophis, out of which cam th Catholic Church. Now what astonishd m is that th Catholic Church owns hr bantling, whil th Protstants floundr around in th csspools of tradition trying to rad in Sunday at th rsurrction, at th RE-d Sa, at th falling of th manna, Adam's first day was God's svnth, and Adam's svnth day was God's first, with a numbr of othr absurditis qually without foundation. If mv faith could hav bn WrEckd, ths mn would crtainly hav wrckd it, but I thank my God, I am all right yt. Th blssd old Bibl is not to blam for any of ths things, its taching is so plain that a wayfaring man, though a fool, nd not rr thrin. I hav mad no quotations, I could hav mau many, but thought thm uslss. Th whol forc of th argumnt turns on th on fact, Did God, Christ., 01' anyon authodzd to spak for thm, anywhr say that th svnth-llay Sabbath was don away and that th first day of th wk was to tak its plac? I could find nothing in th Bibl to warrant any such command, but on th othr hand history furnishd abundant tstimony how Sunday was brought into th church. I want all who rad this, and ar struggling to b fr from traditional rror to do as my wif did. Sh nvr spnt tim on commntary, Bibl dictionary or church history, but to hr Bibl; sh said, " Chrhtsaid, Follow m; now that is what I will do; if Christ kpt Sunday and tlls m to do it I will with all my hart, but if thr is nothing in th Nw Tstamnt authorizing, by command to chang th Sabbath from th svnth to th first day of th wk, thn it is without authority and I shall kp it no longr." IIi fwr months than I was yars, sh, with clarr faith, and a brightr hop, was nabld to throw off all tradition and to rly alon in th faith of God's dar Son. Sh collctd vry passag whr" Christ says Follow m, hr Sabbathkping was following Chrjst. Christ cam down from havn to do th Fathr's will, and that was hr will to do his. I saw that hr plan was much bttr than min. Sh missd all thos things so wll calculatd to mak on skptical. I now wish to show th supriority of this mthod of studying th Word of God. It brings us dirctly to his word, and his word only. If on of th commandmnts can b changd, altrd or amndd without giving any command for so doing, may thy not all hav bn changd. 'That thr is no law in th Nw Tstamnt authorizing th chang, I will giv on standard author. Buck,in his Bibl Dictionary, says, p. 537, Art. Sabbath: "It must b confssd that thr is no law in th Nw Tsta Innt concrning th first day." I could add a host of othrs qually'as good, but it is not ncssary. Wif and I wr thoroughly convincd that th Nw Tstamnt nowhr authorizd th kping of Sunday as a Sabbath and w abandond it. W knw that it would subjct us to som inconvnincs and a grat dal of unfrindly criticism, but to oby God was bttr than th favor of th world; for th favor of th world would soon pass away,but th favor of God would last forvr. Thr is a multitud '\ of xcuss givn for not kping th Sabbath but not on of thm finds a justifiabl rason in th Bibl, but thir sun's day finds grat favor with mn. May th Lord opn th ys of a11 honst.souls.-{)utpost. ' : ". ' '~

8 -! \..',... THE ' I\:ECOR,DER,. L. A PLATTS, D. D., EDITOB. REV W. C. TIT8WORTH, Sisco, Fla. CONTRIBI:'fING EDITOB. COBRESPONDING EDITORS. REV. A. E. MAIN, AAhaway; R. 1., Missions. MARY F. BAILEY, Milton, Wis., Woman's Work. T. R. WILLIAMS,n. D.,,Alfrd Cntr, N. Y., Sabbath School. " W.C. WHITFORD, D. D., Milton, Wis., History and Biography., REV. W. C. DALAND. Wstrly, R. I.. Young Popl's ' Work. JNO. P. MOSHER, Businss Managr, Alfrd Cntr, N. Y.., WORSHIP or 8rvica~which? Ah, that is bst To which H calls m, b it toil or rst,- To labor for Him in lif's busy stir, ' Or sk his ft, a silnt worshipr." WHILE planning for th work of th nxt yar, don't forgt that th Tract Socity and th Missionary Socity hav nd for funds to carry forward your work in thos dpartmnts, and thn continu to urg your chul;h to hold on to th fiv-cnt plan for raising mony. Th plan is a good on, and thr is still a supply of pldg cards and nvlops at this offic. Snd for thm. THE Rv. John H. J\IcNill, th pastor of th Rgnt Sq nar Church, London, has bn spnding som tim in this country. H is a Scotchman by birth, ducation, and arly ministrial xprinc. H has twic prachd in th pulpit of Dr. John Hall at Fifth Avnu and Fifty-fifth Strt, N. Y., and on Thursday last h spok to th studnts in th chapl of Union Thological Sminary. Avoiding all rfrnc to th sssion of Prsbytry thn in progrss in th city, and th absorbing topic of intrst in th sminary--th Briggs cas-h gav a most instructiv and inspiring addrf'ss on th subjct of praching. IN 1857 th Fulton Strt noon-day prayrmting in Nw York was opnd. It was intndd mainly for businss mn, was strictly unsctarian, has always bn kpt in th hands of businss mn, and from th start was a pronouncd sucss, iii attndanc, in prom ptnf~s, and in spiritual powr. For thirty-four yars it has bn a plac of rfug for many a trid and tmptd Ohristian, Rnd a hlp to many a struggling soul into th light of rdming lov. Rcntly a brif addrss was givn at th rooms by Killian Van Rnsslar, on of th arly supportrs. of th mting, rviwing th work which harl bn don by th mting sinc its founding. But who can tll how much it has don? WE ar glad t.o not, in anothr column, th call of our Scandinavian brthrn for a confrnc in Isanti county, Minnsota, nxt month. W hop it will b a larg mting, full of th. Holy Spirit and of powr. Ths brthrn, nd th bnfit of such prsonal contact with ach othr, and such a mting undr th ladrship of a fw brthrn who undrstand th spirit and plans of th Amrican brthrn and work will,do much to strngthn th bond btwn thm and us. If som of our Amrican brthrn should attnd th mting, vn if thy could not undrstand IIl:uch that is said, it would do much good. Th xchang of grtings and th xhibition of intrst in th fforts of th strangr brthrn would ncourag and hlp thm. IT must b concdd that th "Highr Criticism" has an important plac in th study of th Bibl. For.th.Bibl, ass b90k~ isjworth.y.', THE, SABBAT~,REOORDER. [VOL. XLVII, No. 42. of our study; but w, ar not yt prpard to hold our faith in th grand truths of th Bibl in abyanc, whil th "lj.ighr critics" wait thir plasur to tll us whthr or not w hav any Bibl. Tp do this w~ust assum that t.h '. findings of' th "highr critics,"w hatvr thy ar, ar infallibly corrct, which is ouit as, hard to do as to bliv,in th inspir~tioll ana divin origin of th Scripturs. Ata rcant mting for Bibl study it was claimd that w must do this until th principls of t~ "Highr Criticism," applid to th Bibl, should dcid in rgard "to vry :word, vry lttr, vry accnt of th Old Tstamnt," and 80 tll us how much of a Bibl w hav. Th words of on of th ladrs pf th msl,ill /:.., o' wr, " Until tllat tim w must gt along th bst way w can with th Bibl as it is." For th prhrilg grantd in ths words w ar indd most gratful. Manwhil, w may comfort our harts and strngthn our faith with 1;h rflction that "Hl Bibl as it is" is, aftr all, a prtty good book. ' - j - North Kilknny:.. Immdiatly aftr th xpos.' ur of th O'Sh~a divorc cas in Dcmbr, 1890, Mr. Hnnssy stood for North Kilknny dfating th',parnllit candidat by an ovr~ whlming majority. Th suddn~ dath of ths two mn, following so. soon af~r th tragic dath of poor Prsidnt Balmacda, of Chili and of th pompous Gnral Boulangr, of Franc, forcibly rminds us of th vanity of th struggl for fam, and tb unsatisfying natur of all victory or conqust whos xcllnc is not cntrd in th fadlss crowns of thtr. nal lif~ JUST hr w may b prmittd to apply to th Bibl a tst., which, if it b not a vry scin. tific on, is crtainly a vry practical on, and on which cannot b ignord in th tratmnt of this subjct,-, th tst of its fruits. In giving a standard for th just judgmnt of mn, our Lord said, " Y shall know thm by thir fruits. Do mn gathr graps of thorns, or figs of thistls?" Th law is applid with quar forc to doctrins. If our Bibl will not stand this A READER of th SABBATH RECOHDER wishs tst lt it b "hwn down and cast into th to know what is mant by th "Highr Criti- fir." But it has bn standing th tst for cnt. cism," about which so mnch is bing said. It uris. By its tachings crims of all sorts ar is that frm of critical inquiry which concrns, condmnd, and criminals ar convrtd into not primarily th subjct matt8r of a givn good, law-abiding citizns; mn lost in th writing, but its gnuinnss or authnticity. It mazs of sin and dath ar shown th way of inquirs not, "Vhat ar th tachings of th rightousnss and lif. According to its tach. book? but, Is th book what it claims to b, or ings and ladings, purity supplants vic, lov what it is claimd to b? Th discussions drivs ont hatrd, 'pac on arth and good will which wr had in litrary circls not long ago toward mn tak th plac of strif an9. carnag about th authorship of Shakspar's plays, in and bloodshd. In th light of its blssd inso far as thy wr critical studis, blongd to flunc th sorrowing find comforj, th~ hoplss, th c1ass of "Highr Criticism." So in biblial find hop, th dying ar born aloft 'on th studis, th Highr Criticism occupis itslf wings of faith, th living ar taught to liv, and with such qustions as th authorship, th gn- th gats of trnal rst ar opnd wid to th uinnss, th canonicity, tc., of th books of wary and th havy ladn. Hr litr fruits th Bibl; and ths qustions it undrtaks to Buh as nothing ls has vr" born, and shall answr from th intor.-:al vidncs of th books w b frightnd away from thm bc~us, for. thmslvs, such as thir litrary charactr, th soot.b, thr may b som doubt in th mind pculiar styl of th author, th idioms which of som" highr critic" about th xact authortim and plac and circumstanc would natur- ship of som obscur passag in Gnsis or th ally rq uirhim to us, tc. Th study of th book of Job? No. Lt Drs. Briggs, Evns, Bibl for th purpos of finding out what it Bhrnds, and all th rst, throw what light tachs, ithr for th sak of knowing what its' thy can upon th subtl qustions which may truths ar, or for thir moral or rligious bn- b raisd about th dar old Book; manwhil, fits, is no part of t.h "Highr Criticism." That thr is a world of work for th rst of us in is simply critical study of th word.' Th stu- using th Word of God to guid souls into th dnt of th "Highr Criticism" school taks ways of holinss, happinss and havn. Whil th book and asks, " Is tbis' th Bibl?" Th thy ar turning th light through thir microstudnt of th Bibl taks th book and asks, scops upon "vry word, vry lttr, and "What dos thib book tach m?" THE popl of Europ and Amrica wr astonishd last wk with th announcmnt of th suddn and unxpctd dath of J\ir. Parnll, th Irish agitator, and, at on tim, ladr of th HomB-rul party in Irland. In spit of his grat faults Mr. Parnll was a strong man and a patriot, and did as much a~, prhaps mor than, any othr of his countrymn to call th attntion of th world to th condition of his country, and to 'arous a public sntimnt in hr favor. It is to th crdit of all English spaking popls, that, whil in sympathy with th Irish' caus, which h so ardntly, advocatd, thy would not xcus his scandalous social dformity, and for this practically dthrond him from his position a8 ladr of his party. Having don his work in that placa it was doubtlss bst that h should b takn out of th conflict and his plac lft without disput to a bttr man, if not to an ablr ladr. Itisa littl rmarkabl that th vrvday which gav-to th world th nws of Mr. Parnll's dath should also announc th dath of Sir John Pop Hnnssy,M. P. for vry accnt of th Old Tstamnt," and th Nw Tstamnt, too, if thy wish to, lt us humblr folks giv ourslvs with rnwd dilignc to th study of its divin truths, that w may mor ffctually win mn to rightousnss and truth. ON th first day of this month th Lland Stanford Univrsity, at Palo Alto, Ca1., was formally opnd for th rcption of studnts. Up to that dat ovr four hundrd boys and ninty girls had bn admittd, whil ll9r than s thousand applications hav bn mad. Th founding of,this univrsity is th work of Snator Lland Stanford, and was bgun about svn yars ago. Mr. Stanford took up this work as a monumnt to th mmory of his only son, Lland Stanford, Jr~, whos dath was such a sorrow to him. " In founding th univrsity and ndowing it as fw institutions in this country ar ndovy-d, Snator Stanford has had in viw mainly th larg class of boys and girls who dsir to mak thir own way in lif th momnt thy com' out of school. Whil th highr ducation will not b ngl,ctd tb. ;'\"

9 .. ".,y'./'... " Oct. 15, 1891.] TH'E.. SABBATH-RECORDER. ) B, B I - d, t y, n d B. ē 5 d o y s t is Iy ~h y s d ls \ gratst attntion will b givn to thos spcial 5. Do you bliv' that th ~acla rcordd in allottd him for th task, Dr. Briggs will b abl studis that will nabl pupils to do somthing Scriptur ar du to an xtraordinary xr~ of divin to put what h dos bliv into such straight, for'thir own sul>por.t as soon as thy ar grad- nrgy, ithr dirctly or indirctly through holy mn? plain English that it shall not man on thing Ans.-Ys. uatd. For this purpos th schools in mchan- 6. a-do you hold what is commonly known as th to on st of radrs and dirctly th opposit ic arts, in manual ti'ainings, and in all th sci- doctrin of a futur probation?- b-do you bliv in thing to anothr st. A champion ofa.school ncs, will b mad th most prfct in th coun- purgatory? Ans.-No (to both).. of criticism which claims to itslf th right to try. ~h cplictioris alrady scurd in botany, 7. Do you bliv that th issus of this lif ar final, sit in judgmnt upon writings as old as litramin.ralogy, and gology, a"'.. a mong th most. and opportunity that a man of salvation? who dis impnitnt Ans.-Ys. will hav no furthr t UT t If d. 1 b l' d h b 1 'f3,an common y lv to av n valuabl in th world; and.in othr scincs col- 8. Is your thory of prog'rssiv sanctification such as... writtl:(by inspiration.of God,' ought to b abl lctions and appar~tus will b qually prfct will prmit you to say that you bliv tha~ to writ in his mothr ton.g u so that th av~ag in tim. With a faculty thoroughly in arnst, dis in th faith,h ntrs th middl stat rgnratd, scholar could b rasonably crtain that h g'ood""f"sults ought to b accomplishd in orig- justifid and'sinlss? Ans.-Ys. knows what h is rading. And thn lt us inal work." Th nqowmnts ar munific~nt, At a m~ting of th Nw York Prsbytry, of hop that Dr. Briggs, having vindicatd his and buildings, apparatus, and gnral appoint- which Dr. Briggs is a mmbr,.and whos smi-?rthod~y or shown hils hrsy by his own clarmnta, ar as narly complt as mony and aunual sssion was hld last wk, t~-' Commit- cut statmnts of what h blivs, will b prhuman skill can mak thm. It is an ffort to t of Proscution, by prvious appointmnt, mittd to go his way, without furthr ado, whatstrik out in a lin of ducational work which prsntd th following chargs and spcifica- vr that way may b. If a man honstly difshall' combin all th highst and bst faturs tiollb to which Dr. Briggs is xpctd to rply frs from his brthrn, w can s no good raof a litrary institution with th most practical on Wdnsda.y, Novmbr 4th, nxt: son why h should b blamd for it; and most a.pplication of a highr ducat.ion to th illdus- Charg I--Th Prsbytrian Church in th Unitd crtainly w can s no good rason for COilltrial arts, rminding on of th movmnt which Stats oj Amrica chargs th Rvrnd Charls A. plaint on his part if h is askd to stp down culminatd in th founding of Cornll, at Itha- BrIggs, D. D., bing a ministr of th Prsbytrian and out of a position in which h is mad to ap- N Church and a mmbr of th Prsbytry of Nw York, ca,. Y., som twnty yars. ago. With all th with taching doctrins which conflict Irrconcilably par to propagat and dfnd viws which h succss which may com to such institutions, with, and ar contrary to th cardinal doctrin taught in dos not hold. W hav no ~ympathy, on th and thy dsrv much, thr is room for th th Holy Scripturs and containd in th standards of on hand, with hrsy-hunting, nor, on th othsmall collgs which mt th wants of larg th Prsbytrian Church, that th scripturs of th Old r, with th cry of prscution, on th part of classs of studnts, which could nvr b mt and Nw r.rstamnts ar thonly infallibl rul of faith thos who hav dpartd from th faith and who and practic. k d but for thir humbl and most praisworthy ar as to go whr thir dpartur lads Ths hurtful rrors, striking at th vitals of rligion, fforts. and contrary to th rgulations and 'practic of th Prs- t.hm. Lt Dr. Briggs tll us, thn, what h bytrian Church, wr promulgatd in an inauguraj ad- dos bliv, and lt that sttl th controvarsy. THE BRIGGS CASE. drss which Dr. Briggs dlivrd at th Union Thological Sminary in th city of Nw York, January 20, 1891, This is du to th pac of th church, and to th prosprity of th caus of Christ; is not an It may b of intrst to our radrs just now on th occasion of his induction into th Edward Rob- unrasonabl thing to ask, and ~ught not to b to rvi~.w vry brifly this cas. inson Chair of Biblical Thology, which addrss has, difficult to prform. Som tim last yar, th Union Thological with Dr. Briggs's approval, bn publishd and xtn- Sminary, in which Dr. Briggs was a profssor, sivly circulatd and rpublishd in a scond dition with a prfac and appndix. SQUARE ISSUES. chos to transfr him to th profssorship of Spcification I.-Dr. Briggs dclars that" thr ar Biblical Thology. In January, 1891, at his historically thr grat fountains of divin authorityinauguration, Dr. Briggs dlivrd an addrss th Bibl, th Church, and th Rason "-thus making which was criticizd in various quartrs as con- th Church and th Rason ach to b an indpndnt taining sntimnts contrary to th Bibl and to and sufficint fountain of divin authority. th standards of th Prsbytrian Church. At SpCIfication 2.-Dr. Briggs affirms that, in th cas th. f th G 1 A bl of som~, th Holy Scripturs ar not sufficint to giv mting 0 nra ssm y in May, that knowldg of God and his will which is ncssary th colnmitt on sminaris dclind to con- unto salvation, vn though thy striv nvr so hard; firm Dr. Briggs's appointmnt, until som and that such prsons, stting asid th suprm auproprly constitutd authority should dcid thority of th word of God, can obtain th saving th qustion of his soundnss concrning which knowldg of him through th church. so much was bing said. This, undr th ruls Spcification 3.-Dr. Briggs affirms that som (such which mak all sminary appointmnts subjct as Jams Martinau, who dnis th doctrins of th Holy Trinity, th Incarnation, th Atonmnt, th Rsto th approval of th Gnral Assmbly, would urrction of th Body, th prsonality of th Holy Ghost, prvnt Dr. Briggs from going on with th work who rjcts th miracls of th Bibl and dnis th of th profssorship until th agitating qus- truth of th gospl narrativs, as wll as most of th tions wr sttld. But th trusts of th thology of th pistls), to whom th Holy Scriptur sminary dcidd, by a strong majority, that h is not sufficint to giv that knowldg of God and of his will which is ncssary unto salvation, may turn should b rtaind, th pla bing mad that from th suprm authority of th word of God and find his appointmnt was only a transfrnc to that knowldg of him through th Rason. anothr chair and not a nw appointmnt and, Spcification 4:-Dr. Briggs assrts that th tmprathrfor, not subjct to th Assmbly'S rul. mnt and nvironmnts of mn dtrmin which of th. In th mantim th sminary dirctors sub- thr ways of accss to God thy may pursu. Spcification 5.-Dr. Briggs maks statmnts in rmittd to Dr. Briggs a sris of ight qustions gard to th Holy Scripturs which cannot b rconcild which b answrd to th ntir satisfaction of with th doctrin of th tru and full inspiration of th di~ctors. Th qustio~s and answrs ar thos Scripturs and th "\Vord of God writtn." as follows.: Spcification G.-Dr. Briggs assrts that Moss is not th author of th Pntatuch, and that Isaiah is not th 1. a-do you considr th Bibl, th Church and author of half th book which bars his nam. th Rason as co-ordinat - sourcs of authority?. Ans.- Spcification 7.--Dr. Briggs tachs that prdictiv No. b-,-do you bliv th Scripturs of th Old and prophcy has bn rvrsd by history, and that much Nw Tstamnts to b th only infallibl rul of faith of it has not, and nvr can b, fulfilld. and practic? Ans.~ Ys.. Charg 2.-Th PrE'sbytrian Church in th Unitd 2. WhEm you us th trms "th Rason," do you Stats of Amrica chargs th Rv. Charls A. Briggs, includ th conscinc and th rligious fling? Ans. D. D., bing a ministr of th Prsbytrian Church, and -Ys. a mmbr of th Prsbytry of Nw York, with taching ~ 3. Would. you accpt th following as a satisfactory a doctrin of th charactr, stat and sanctification of dfinition of inspiration: "Inspiration is such a divin blivrs aftr dath, which irrconcilably conflicts with, dirction as to scur an infallibl rcord of God's rv- and is contrary to, th Holy Scripturs and th standards. lations in rspct to both faith and doctrin"? Ans.- of th Prsbytrian Church. Ys.. 4. Do you bliv th Bibl inrrant in all mattrs This scond charg is followd with copious concrning faith and practic~, and in vrything in which xtracts from th in,augural addrss, and from it is a rvlation from God as a vhicl of divin truth and th introduction and appndix to th sam tha.t thr ar no rrors which distu,rb its infa.llibilityinwhich appard in a latr dition of th adths mattrs, or in its rcords of th historic vnts' Rnd institutions with which thy. ar insparably connctd? wans.-ys. drss. It is to b hopd that' In th four wks 205 W. MADISON ST., CHICAGO, Ill., Oct. 5, Dar Ed1:t01~.;-Did W. C. T. put it candidly and squarly whn h wrot in th RECOHDEH of Oct. 1st, as follows, in rgard to th substitut tmpranc rsolution: "Put th rsolution bfor any candid prson and h will say that th Svnth-day Baptists put thmslvs on rcord as dclaring that th drinking of liquof of any kind, and in any amonnt, and in a.ny circumstancs, is a sin?" If h had put in his dclaration, "th us of intoxicating liquors as a bvrag, ithr in modration or xcss, is a sin," thr would b quit a diffrnc in his dclaration, and it w~uld b mor candid and squar. "Lt's hav squar issus and squar fights ovr thm." I did not, and do not, lik th circumlocutiv "moral vil" for th word "sin," though I votd for th substitut rsolution, and think th Confrnc did itslf honor in. adopting it. Will W. C. T. b so kind as to answr squarly ths two qustions: 1. Is drunknnss a sin? 2. If h answrs in th affirmativ, will h tll us whrin it is a sin? o. u. w. GEMS FROM DR. MACLAREN'S SERMONS. Thr is only on thing that promiss lss than it prforms and which can satisfy a man's soul; and that is claving' to God. Go to him, lt nothing draw you away from him. Lt us hold by him in lov, thought, obdinc; 4tnd th lis that tmpt us to our dstruction will hav no powr ovr us, and w shall possss joys that nithr pall nor nd, nor lav bhind thm a bittrnss upon th lips. "Evn in laughtr th hart is sorrowful, and th nd of that mirth is havinss." Bttr what Christ offrs in th cup which h drank off, whrof, though th tast may b bittr at first, what rmains is his own joy, 'prptual and full. Trasury.

10 ...,...~..,.- '/'~'. 666' THE SABBATH REO ORDER. [VOL. XLVII, No. 42 ',-,. ',.". -,.,".. " j, OUNq 'PtOPLE'p WORK. - STRIVING. Thr is no rst withou,t th toil, Th patint, strong ~davor; 'Tis h Wh0 wins divids th spoil, Th coward taks it nvr. W cannot all th prizs tak; W cannot all b thriving; W can our vil slvs forsak W always can b striving. To dar is bttr than to doli bt, For doubt is always griving; 'Tis faith that finds th riddls out, rrh priz is for bliving. To do is bttr than to dram,; Lif has n'ough of slprs; To b is httr ithan to sm Th sowrs ar th raprs.. -:ficnry Burton. CHRI8TIAN Endavor is our watchword. Thr can b no ndavor without conscious striving. H who is an arnst ndavorr must b such bcaus of ffort put forth with intnt. THIS must b also "for Christ and th Church." Th church is th body of Christ; of this w ar mmbrs. If w srv Christ, th had, w must b unswrvingly loyal to th church, his body. Indiffrnc to th church cannot xist in th hart of on who truly ndavors. Th church is mor than what it sms to b. Its claitns ar such that thy must b rgardd vn whn thos influncs which ordinarily nforc thos claims ar rmovd. Whthr th pastor is such as you dsir him to b. or not, b loyal to th church. Whthr th mmbrs ar all as you think thy ought to b or not, b tru to th church. Lt all b movd by this fling, and your arnst striving will, with God's blssing, accomplish good in his kingdom and for his glory. "GO fir.ound THE WORLD." It is with a fling of anxity, almost of drad, yt with slf-confidnt boldnss born of th consciousnss of possssing th truth, that a young man of ordinary snsitivnss, holding advrs viws to thos about him, taks his plac almost alon in on of th largst sminaris of our land, composd of larnd profssors and talntd young mn. At last such wr th flings that I had, whn, two yars ago, I ntrd upon my cours for th ministry. I hav had no particula~ occasion for my far, as I hav bn lft ntirly unmolstd, sav that on man, with a long nos and an ndlss tongu, tird m almost to dath with his long disquisitions about Canright and th Sabbath, as I chancd to mt him on th trains or in going to and from classs. H was so fond of talking himslf that h nvr gav m a chanc to an8wr him; but it was unimportant, as thr was nothing to answr,-h nvr gtting to his point bfo;r I had to xcus myslf for want of tim, or w cam to th nd of our journy. I finally bought Canright's book to appas th fllow, but as h lft th sminary soon aftr I hav not sinc bn curious about its contnts. I lt Canright rst; for,1 think I must know about all thr is in th book anyhow., But this is only incidntal to my mntion of anothr xprinc, qually unimportant, sav that I wish to us it to introduc th subjct. which hads this p,apr. About six months. aftr our arrival my chum was askd to fill a vacancy in a church choir. It chancd that a young lady, th daughtr of th Profssor of Homiltics, was also on of th singrs.. At on of th mtings for practic sh said to my.. frind that hr fathr had a cur for his Sabba- tion mad in a sdous mannr. I bad hard it tarianism, which sh would t~l him if.h prom~ mad many tinis; but always'"-by thos who isdnot to tak offnc. Th promis was wr trying to dodg tll qustion of kping givn,and sh rvald to him th scrt (?) of th Sabbath. Thy said that as a last rsort, his cur, which, as hr fathr said, was to tak as a subtrfug, and knw'thy wr quibbling. a trip. around th, worl9,-bing carful, of But hr it was fairly askd for an honst purcours, to'go th right way! Th vry, bst of pos. How should, I answr it? Forsom popl, vn in th prsnc of rfind':,company, rason I, did not mntion th Intrnational lin; will, in an unguardd momnt; stoop to slang.. that lin is a man-mad concrn, and I do not. And so it pl. ovd hr. H -(my chum) said:, bliv th Sabbath nds any man-mad props. "Ob, it's that chstnut!" I wondr what tu W bad quit a talk ovr th qustion, during Profssor thought whn sh told him, as of which I said som. profound things which afcours sh did! fordd partial rlif to my mind if not any grat Th Scripturs spak of answring a fool nlightnmnt to his; which I a~ afraid thy according to his folly, which, I suppos, may did not. I thought I would, snd him somman to giv an vasiv or light answr to an.thing on th qustion whn I found it, which I insincr qus'ti~n. And although this objc- shall do; but 1. hav not yt found anything to tion to Sabbath obsrvanc may b mad by ~nd.. wis hads who know bttr, and w may an- I wish, Mr. Editor, that you would ask som swr thm in, a spirit which plainly says to on to writ somthing on this subjct, or that thm that w know that thy know bttr, yt som on would voluntr to giv a good, short, this sam qustion may b askd in sincrity, clar, satisfactory answr to what I find to ~b a and whn so askd should b answrd in a lik common objction. I hav somtims thought' spirit. I could do it myslf, and thn again I hav I wll rmmbr th first tim I had this ob- thought that I could not. Just now th lattr jction brought to my attntion. I was thn opinio~ prvails with m. If my mind changs considring th S&bbath qustion with a viw, o~ this mattr, I will tak advantag of it and to mbracing th svnth day of th wk as giv you th bnfit. th Sabbath. On of our ministrs loand m But in. th mantim som on may know a srmon which h had writtn on on of th just th thing to say. If so, may w not hav phass of th qustion. Toward th clos of it? And lt it not b dry or filld with" xth srmon h mntiond th fact that th world gtics," but full of light and lif-somthing is rounl, and hnc th wk could not b that w young popl can undrstand. P. idntical in tim at any two or mor points of longitud. It smd to m suprfluous for him to mntion th objction, lt alon to answr it. I do not oftn rly on "intuitions," unlss thy ar of undoubtd crdibility, yt hr I smd to know intuitivly that this was a foolish objction. But I did not skip ovr th answr as givn in th srmon; th ldr had takn th pains to writ it, and I was curious to know what sort of an answr would b givn. But th answr was a littl disappointing. it lft a doubt in my mind that was not thr bfor. Th answr was somthing lik this, though I do not rmmbr th xact words : Somwhr in th Pacific Ocan, far from ithr continnt and convnint for all, without troubl on our part and with unanimity of consnt, thr has bn fixd by intrnational law an imaginary line}, a crtain mriuian, in crossing, which th samn and all on boarl mak a corrction of a day, according to whthr thy ar losing tim going with th sun or gaining tim by sailing in th opposit dirction. Such was th answr as I rmmbr it. But what has intrnational law to do with it? And what if that lin ran through our town instad of an uninhabitd ocan? And. thn this "common consnt" talk sounds so ill uch lik th "common consnt" argumnt for Sunday that th association is un plasan t. A short tim ago I was talking with a young man, an arnst workr in on of our promising churchs, upon this v.ry subjct. W had a long distanc to go togthr; it was in th night, and w wr driving. H askd m how I would answr that objction about th world's bing round. If th world wr flat or cubical, h would b all straight on th~ qustion.. For his own part h knw thr wr no valid grounds for objction hr, but othrs askd him th sam qustion, and h could not answr it to th satisfaction of him~lf or anyon ls, and it bothrd him. I confss I was takn unprpard; I had, in truth, nvr xp~ctd to b calld upon to answr th qustion. sriously. I had nvr bfor hard th objc- ORIGIN OF A FAMOUS HYMN. Probably on of th most univrsally popular hymns vr composd is Charls Wsly's hymn- " Jsus, lovr of my soul, L~t m to thy bosom fly," tc. Th origin of this hymn, as rcntly publishd in on of th Richmond paprs, is 110t corrct. Th statmnt is thr mad that th words wr suggstd by a littl bird sking rfug from a' hawk by flying into th study of Charls Wsly and lighting in his bosom. On th contrary, this hymn was writtn by Wsly in a spring hous, whr h had takn rfug from a mob. H, with his brothr John 'Vsly and Richard Pilmor, wr holding on of thir vning mtings on th common' (for thn Mthodism had no churchs), whn a mob attackd thm, and thy had to fl for thir livs. Thy at last found tmporary shltr from th stons with which thy wr pltd bhind a hdg. Aftr tying thr for som tim, w ar told, th darknss dpnd upon thm, and thy found thir way to a dsrtd spring hous, whr thy washd thir facs, brushd th dirt from thir cloths, and flt at last a momnt's scurity from th missils which had pltd thm. It was th storm of firc prscution that assaild him, not th flight of a hawk aftr a sparrow, that 'suggstd th immortal hymn. War told that Charls Wsly had with him a pic of lad hammrd out into a pncil, with which h wrot th hymn., Th flight of th mob and th cooling watrs of th stram hlpd to form this hymn, no on would doubt. It was th "tmpst" of wrath and indignation which assaild him that suggstd th hymn. How wondrously did th writr that night of flight from a mob to a protcting shltrpn th words which' hav hlpd thousands to fly to th bosom of Jsus!-Rv. Dr. E. M., Ptrson in Manchstr Ladr. THE dvil will nvr b lonsom as. long as thr ar popl in th church who xpct to gt to havn without it costing thm a cnt of mony.

11 Oct. 15, 1891.] ;r'he"sabbatn R.ECORDE~. 667 t't0ucation. CRITICISM OF THE AMERICAN SYSTEM OF EDU CATION. Th following ar th nots of criticism of our ducational systm mad by a distinguishd ducator in -Br-' lin, wl1-kno,,'u' on this sid of th Atlantic. H has had unusual opportunitis for, forming a judgmnt, and whil his criticisms may sm to us somwhat svr, w must admit that thy hav much foundation. Thy wr mad in rspons to a rqust of Prsidnt Harpr, and w rproduc thm hr rgrtting that w cannot also rproduc th commnts and illustrations mad on ach point.-ed. Sc. THE STUDENT. Thos who com to Brlin ar, as a clac:;s, suprior. Yt many of thm giv vidnc that srious mistaks hav bn mad m thir ducation. 1. Thy hav not bn taught th valu and th purpos of thir studis. Hnc thy hav pursud thm in a prfunctory, mchanical way, bcaus rquird by th cours and ncssary to pass th xamination and scur a dgr. Th studis hav not bn rational, hav not bn pursud wisly and hav lackd inspiration. 2. r.rhy hav larnd many things, but hav not bcom studnts. Som plac or profssion has bn th inspiration, not a lov of study or a passion for truth. Thy hav not cultivatd th spirit of th studnt, and hav not bcom lif-long invstigators. Thy imagin thir ducation finishd, whn it has, in rality, not bgun. 3. Thy mistak th accumulation of larnd matrial for mntal powr. As th Grmans say of such prsons: " Si wissn vil, abr si konnn nichts." (Thy hav much knowldg, but undrstand nothing.) Thy thmslvs hav not bn ducatd, but thir minds hav bn mad a stor-hous. Thy hav xrcisd' thir mmoris, but thy hav not bcom scholars and thinkrs. 4. Thy lack mthod. This is gnral and its ffcts ar lamntabl. Studnts from our bst institutions do not know how to study; hnc thy wast tim and ffort. Thy hav not larnd how to handl a subjct; thir work is hap-hazard, not systmatic, cumulativ and progrssiv. Thy ar doomd to drudgry whr thy might b mastrs. 5. Htrognity is apt to tak th' plac of thoroughnss. Instad of bing profound and xact, thir idas ar gnral and confusd. Thy ar quick and rady, but not pntrativ. Thir thinking lacks vidnc of svr disciplin. 6. Thy do not undrstand th ag and its pculiar rquirmnts; hnc thy do not apprciat th 'spcial adaptation of th scholar to th tims. Oftn thr is a lack of comprhnsiv viws rspcting th subjcts thy hav studid. Concit, of cours, is found. Frquntly thy ar ignor~nt of th litratur in thir favorit studis, no doubt du to th lack of good libraris during thir cours. Many do not know how to us a library. CRITICISMS OF PROFESSORS. Many of thm ar not spcialists in thir spcial dpartmnts. Thy hav nithr lov nor pculiar adaptation for thir sphrs. Thy rquir too littl of thmslvs and of thir studnts. Thy ar not progrssiv, do not kp up with th rsarchs in thir dpartmnts. Thir work is routin. Thir viws ar too local. Mor spcific: 1. Thy may tach, but thy do not train. Thy lack th vry lmnt which has mad th Jsuits so fficint. Thy communicat knowldg, but forgt that th studnt can only b ducatd by what h dos for himslf, not what othrs do for him. Thy want to hlp th studnt, but fail to hlp him to hlp himslf. Thy. do not considr that mn ar not ducatd by othrs, but that thy always ducat thmslvs. Hnc thy do not throw tha studnt on his own rsourcs, do not mak him do nough for himslf. Thy want to promot intllctual growth by xtrnal additions, whras it always consists in innr dvlopmnt. Th mind is tratd as a mchanism rathr than as an organism. ' 2. Thy tach what othrs hav taught, but do not tach 'th studnt to think for himslf. Thy dal with abstractions rathr than with living thought and fruitful idas. 3. Thy nglct th 'flings, which dtrmin all valus. A on-sidd intllct,ualism is th rsult, w.hich is svrd from th hart with its tasts, its impulss, and its inspiratiolis. 4.' Thy ignor th will-th thical lmnt in du- cation. Thy laborat subjcts, but fail to dvlop th will and to ducat mn. Hnc th intllctual pur,pos as a lif-calling is lacking in th studnt. Thr is 'a' sad lack of pdagogical and philosophical principls on th part of ducators. Many ar too dogmatic, and forgt that thy xist for th 'studnts, not th studnts for thm. Thy ar mor carful about systms of thought than about th frdom, th spontanity, th lif, and th growth of th studnt. CRITICISM OF OUR INSTITu'rIONS. Our whol ducational systm lacks unity of purpos,. It cannot, in fact, b calld it systm, for it lacks organism. It is disintgratio~, contrarity, confusion, rathr than systm. Our ducation nds rforming and systmatizing. Most of our collgs ar only acadmis, and should b tratd as prparatory schools, instad 'of profssing to finish mn. With thir limitd mans and fw mn thy attmpt too much. Thy profss to do much of th work now don in th Grman gymnasium and univrsity, and in lss than half th tim,' and must, of cours, fail. In many instancs mor strss is laid on xtrnalitis, such as buildings, than on thorough scholarly work. Many,of thm ar run in narrow dnominational groovs. Thir tachrs ar chosn from thir graduats; hnc traditional mthods prvail. Infficint tachrs ar appointd, and it is difficult to gt rid of thm. Whr th chif aim is training for dnominational purposs w cannot xpct a libral ducation in th bst sns. An ducationallilchm is adoptd to which all studnts,must adapt thmslvs, whil th individuality, th prsonal pculiarity of th studnt is ignord. Dtails ar difficult, bcaus th vry foundation is wrong. Fals principls vitiat th whol. Not so much is r~!orm ndd as al. ntirly nw bgmning. I find that many Amrican studnts aftr spnding som tim in univrsitis. rgard our institutions as lamntably intlicint. Som spak with bittrnss of thir cours in Amrica. Instad of building on what thy hav larnd, thy dclar that now thy ar obligd to unlarn what thy hav larnd. Thr is much to b 'said about th mthod of taching in th spcial dpartmnts-but thr is too much. Our thological sminaris ar no bttr than our collgs. Som of th most arnst of thir studnts dclar that thy ar uttrly unfit to mt th dmands of th tims. T.EMPERANCE. -THE national convntion of brwrs dclar for high licns. -OAI_IFORNIA has on plac whr liquor is rtaild for vry svnty-fiv of th population. -THE Brothrhood of Locomotiv Enginrs xplld narly four hundrd mmbrs th past yar for intoxication. -THREE hundrd and svnty-fiv railway corporations in this country forbid th us of intoxicants by thir mploys. -ENGLISH puprs stat that th Amrican lady dlgats mad th most ffctiv spchs at th grat tmpranc mtings in London. -A MASSACHUSETTS papr spok of a saloon-kpr as bing intrstd in a "gravyard" husinssjand an action for libl with damags at $5,000 has bn bgun against it by ~h man. -THE total mmbrship of th Catholic Total Abstinnc Union of th Unitd Stats IS somthing ovr 53,000. Th socitis of Nw York, Chicago, Baltimor and Washington ar not auxiliary to th Union. -A RECENT advrtismnt in th Drry (Irland) Signal, rads: "Wantd: A man and his wif as car-takrs for a gntlman's country hops. On must b sobr." Was it too much to xpct both to b? -A DISCHARGED soldir at Omaha, Nb., rcntly drw $800 for his fiv yars' stvics in th army, and bought, a tickt for 'Philadlphia, intnding to start East in th aftrnoon, whn h fll into th hands of a hotl runnr, who inducd him'to drink and visit som low divs. At th nd of thr days th x-soldir turnd up dad brok. It was aftrward ascrtaind that th victim had a wif and fiv childrn in Philadlphia, and that h had savd his ntir fiv yars' wags for th pur;;. pos of stablishing himslf in som businss., -THE caus of prohibi~ion is making grat hadway in Swdn. Alrady many parishs or communitis n,joy abs<?lut prohibition. Total abstinnc socitis ar numrous and strong. Clrgymn tak an activ intr- st in th work; altogthr th outlook for prohibition, is 6ncouraging. At a rcnt parliamntary lction, six candidats of th prohibition party wr lct~. Th caus of tmpranc has long rcivd official rcognition and support. Last yar, twnty-fiv thousand crowns wr appropriatd toward this caus. Of this appropriation a crtain sum is st apart as pri~s for th bst ssays on th bat mthod of daling with th traffic. Th rmaindr of th mony is to b mployd in printing and distributing th ss'ays. -A GENTLl<iMAN travling in Essx calld at, th hous of a frind, whn h mt with a young ministr who was just going to prach in th nighborhood. r.rh lady of th hous offrd him a glass of spirits bfor h~.ntrd upon his work, which h accptd. An ldr1y ~an who was prsnt, thus addrssd him:-" My young frind, lt m offr you a word of advic rspcting th us of liquors. rr'hr was a tim whn I was as accptabl a prachr as you may now b; but by too frquntly accptin~ of th wll-dsignd favors of my frinds, I con tractd a habit of drinking, so that now I nvr go to bd sobr if I can gt liquor. 1 am, indd, just,as misrabl as a cratur can b on this sid of. hll!" About two yars aftr this, th travlr had occasion to call again at th sam hous, and mad inquiry concrning th unhappy old man, whn h was informd that h had bn som tim dad. It was statd, that, towards th clos of his lif, h had not drunk to th sam xcss as formrly; but it was only bcaus h could not obtain spirituous liquors. 'POPULAR PCI.ENCE. OHARACTERISTICS OE PLANETs.-Mrcury is th narst to th sun. Vnus is almost th sam si~ as th arth and rotats on hr axis in narly th sam numbr of hours. Mars is smallr than th arth, has two moons and is most lik it as rgards possibilitis of habitationj watr and land ar qually dividd on Mars, and th pols of th plant ar icbound. Jupitr, th giant plant, is 1,230 tims as larg as th arth and has four moons. Saturn has a gorgous systm of rings which compltly surround it, and in this rspct is unlik any othr plant. Uranus is svnty-four tims as larg as th arth and has four moons. Nptun has on moon, is 105 tims as larg as th arth and is th furthst plant from th sun yt discovrd. Two CYLINDERS IN ONE.-A nw dpartur in compounding locomotivs, which is almost as radical as th ida of compounding itslf was, has bn put into practical and succssful opration by F. W. Johnston, suprintndnt of motiv powr of th Mxican Cntral Railway. Coal costs about 811 pr ton on th Mxican Ontral, and Mr. Johnston undrtook to rduc. ful, consumption by th introduction of a compound systm of his own, in which th high-prssur cylindr is ncircld by th low-prssur cylindr. Th high-prssur cylindr is 14 inchs in diamtr, and th low-prssur cylindr has a diamtr of 30g~i inchs, which is qual to a cylindr 24}4 inchs in diamtr. Th strok is 24 inchs, and th two rods of th low-prssur piston ar coupld with th singl high-prssur rod to on crosshad. 'In a comptitiv tst of 12 trips with a singl ngin, th compound locomotiv showd conomy in ful of about 25 pr cnt, which mans a grat dal on a road whr th ful account is th largst itm of oprating xpnss, bing 22 pr cnt of th total.-scintific Arnrican. THE MOON'S SHAPE.-Rfrring to th fact that th photographs of th moon, takn at full, giv thap body an gg-shapd apparanc, with th small nd pointing toward th arth, a rcnt writr argus that this gos to prov that plant's non-globular shap, as was indd to b xpctd. According to this writr's rasoning, mattr at th surfac of th moon is actd upon by two important forcs-th law of gravity would arrang th mattr in a glob around th cntr, th moon alon, considrd, and th' attraction of th arth, bing always xrtd in th sam dirction rlativ to th mo(;m's cntr, would constantly draw all fluid or plastic mattr to th sid nxt th arth; th sun shms not lss than 325 hours conscutivly on any givn point on th moon's surfac, and it is not probabl that watr on th surfac would rmain frozn undr such continud sunshin, so that doubtlss th fluid part of th moon's surfac, obying th constantly acting forc that gnrats th tids on th arth, hav long sinc gathrd thmslvs togthr on that sid of th moon narst th arth. This ida, it is claimd, is not inconsistnt with anything dv~opd by th.shadow of th,moon in clipss, nor with any known fact.-amrican Analy~t I,,

12 668 "THE SABBAT,H RECORDER. " ',l [VOL. ~ VII, No ,",.< 'c"";' my commandmnts." In mmory. "Kpth thm~" pchool. Obsrvs thm in hart and lif.;~b~dl~nc is,th tst of lov. "Lovd of my Fathr." T\p.IS mtimacy and prptual fllowship with Godbrl~s pculiar blssing from abov. Such will INTERNATIONAL LESSONS, obsrv~t pial m(anifstations of Christ's glory and lov for thm. v. 22. ' "Judas." FOURTH QUARTER. Iscariot had gon out, and 'this must h~v bn Lbbus Oct. 3. Christ Raising Lazarus... ;... John 11: or Thaddus., Matt. 10: 3./1: "How is it,'" tc. Looki~g Oct. 10. Christ Fortlling his Dath.... John 12: f th' d' t t bl' h f thl k' d th D'. 1,..., t J h or Imm Ia c.. as lng lsclp AS s a IS mnt 0 anar y mg om, ~ n. '".. O t 17 W h Oct. 2'.' Christ Comforting his discipls... John 14:.1-3; 15:P-- thy supposd th mamfstatlons rfrrd to would b Oct. 31. Christ th tru Vin... John 15:'1-16. visibl to all instad of bing only spiritually discrnd. Nov. 7. Th yv~rk of th Hol~ Sp~r1t:... ~... John 16: v. 23. Jsus sms not to dirctly answr but mphasiz, Nov. 14. C~st s Prayr for his. DIsCIpls... John 17: what h had alady said in vrs 21. Som addition is Nov. 21. ChrISt Btrayd... John 18: Nov. 28. Christ bfor Pilat John HI: mad to it by way of a promis of th manifstation of Dc. 5. Christ Crucifid... J... John 19: th Fathr, and th abod of both Fathr and Son with Dc. 12. Christ Risn... John 20:'1-18. th faithful ons. v. 24.' In a ngativ forin th Dc. 19. Th Bisn Christ and His,Discipls... John 21: grat principl is again st.atd; lov and obdip'c ar Dc. 26. Rviw. insprabl. His words procd qually from th Fathr. ' v.2g. "Ths things." Just spokn, which may LESSON IV.-CHRISr.r 'COMFORTING HIS DIS- ];lav bn all thy could rciv at that momnt. Mor CIPLES. would b said hraftr. v. 26. "Snd in my nam." In his bhalf, for th accomplishmnt of a yt mor For Sabbath-day, Oct. 24, complt work. " H shall tach." Concrning Christ's words and works. "All things." N~dful for spiritual SORIPTURE LESSON.-John 14: 1-3, wll-bing. "Bring to rmmbranc." This is vidncd in th writings of th gospls and pistls aftrward. INTRODUCTION.-Aftr our last lsson Jsus institutd Th Spirit. nlightns th mind and sals th truth upon our harts. v. 27. "Pac I lav." Though his bodily th" Lord's Suppr;" an ordinanc to b 'prptuatd in prsnc may b gon, thy shall hav th pac which th church. Christ is now soon to b smittn and his coms in viwing him by faith. "My pac." Which h shp scattrd. H has fortold his dath and spdy himslf njoys. It" passth all undrstanding." "Not as ruturn to th. Fathr, and a cloud of. sorrow cast its th world givth." Not a mr wish for pac, as th shadow ovr thm. Thy will soon s him on whom customary parting salutation which th world givs, but thir ho-ps dpnd, spit upon, abusd, torturd, and th Jsus givs pac which ariss from a sns of sins forgivn and th abiding prsnc of God. Rciv this vrdict of a mock trial, from which h will mak no appal, will snd him to th crul, shamful cross. Thr pac and "b not afraid.)' thy will bhold him pircd and blding and in agony, and will s him yild up th ghost. That thy may b prpard for this. and that troubld and dying saints in W ASHINGl'ON LETTER. all futur ags may hav comfort, ys, that th dividd church and doubting masss may b at last ld to unity,of faith, h uttrs th words of this and th followmg thr chaptrs. Jsus now invits us into th" Holy of Holis "to rciv" th rvlation of his inmost hart." EXPLANATORY NOTES.-V. 1. "Troubld." By th trachry of Judas, th fortold dnial by Ptr, th mahcious acts of his 'nmis, th knowldg that h was to b takn from thm, and othr unknown vnts. What human hart can stand all this without th comfort of th Spirit?., Y bliv in God." Your confidnc in th on tru God is unshakn, thrfor rmain tru in your faith :u m, whom you hav calld Lord and Mastr. v. 2. "My Fathr's hous." Th plac whnc h cam and to which h will soon rturn. "Mansions." Parmannt dwlling placs. A hom for all who will com. "Prpar a plac for you." Not for himslf but for his discipls. H cam to sav. His prparation is by th atoning dath and by his prsnt offic and work as Intrcssor. Also by prparing our harts for th plac. v.3. "And if I go." Or sinc I go. "I will com again." At his scond apparing. At thf\ rsurrction. Thn only will his popl rciv th fullst joys of a compltd rdmption. v. 15. "If y lov m." As you profss. "Kp my commandmnts." Which? Nin, or all of thm? Th gospl prcpts?,th only practical way to xprss lov for on who has authority to lay down laws for his popl is to chrfully obsrv thm. "Why call y m Lord, Lord, and do not th things which I say?" How about th fourth commandmnt? v.16., I... Fathr... Comfortr:' Notic th mntion of th thr" Prsons of th Trinity" in this vrs. On only and tru God, yt diffrnt manifstations. Th Comfortr or Holy Spirit always xisting, should soon com to thm with gratr fullnss and grac., "Abid... forvr." Christ in his offic was to rturn to havn, th Spirit to abid.with us. v. 17.,. Spirit of truth." H communicats th truth of God. Th Spirit of rvlation. Eph. 1: 17. "\Vhom th world." U nrgnrat.." Cannot rciv." Bcaus not cognizant of his oprations. "But y." Bing spiritually minctd. "Know him." Undrstand from whnc com conviction, rpntanc, faith and lov. "Dwllth in you." Thus giving th knowldg of Christ. v. 18. "Will not lav you." Bravd, or as orphans. H had rcntly calld thm" littl childrn." "Will com to you." In th Spirit of truth. Thy shall not b dprivd of his grac. v.19. "A littl whil." Within a day; "Sth m no!dor." Aftr th crucifixion and burial th world saw him not. "Y s m." During th forty days,and by-faith always. "Y shall liv also.'" Y 'hav trnal lif impartd and that bcaus y bliv in m, th "rsurrction and th lif." v. 20. "At that day." Whn th Spirit powrfully coms. Thy will rapidly larn what now thy ar so slow in comprhnding. Th rlation of Christ to th Fathr, his divilllty, th rlation God sustains to thm all will b known." v.21. "Hath (From our Rgnlar Oorrspondnt.) WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 7, Th opning of th Ecumnical Confrnc in this city to-day is rgardd as on of th most important and far-raching vnts that hav takn plac in th history of th Mthodist Church on th Wstrn Hmisphr. All branchs of th Mthodist Church, with a singl xcption, ar rprsntd at th Confrnc. Th singl xcption is th Evanglical Association, which, according to th apportionmnt of dlgats mad by a joint committ prsidd ovr by Bishop Foss, would hav had nin <11- ga.ts. Ths it askd to b xcusd from snding, on th ground that its Gnral Confrnc would b in sssion at th sam tim as th Ecumnical Confrnc. Fars ar xprssd hr that th intrnal difficultis of th Association may hav had somthing to do with its not bing rprsntd at th grat gathring of th followrs of John Wsly. Th Confrnc, which is composd of 200 forign and 300 Amrican dlgats, was formally calld to ordr this morning in th Mtro bing iss~d undr th suprvision of th local,-church authoritis. It is plasant to chronicl th fact that Rv. Dr. T. S. Hamlin, Prsidnt Harrison's pastor, dlivrd an abl srmon last Sunday against th opning of th World's Fair on Sunday. H taks issu with th gntlman whos opinion I quotd last wk as follows: "In th discussion ill th rligious prss and on, th platform it is prsumd that th managrs of this Exposition want th doors opnd on Sunday, and that thy intnd so to do. In othr words it is takn for grantd that th mmbrs, of thboard ar antagonistic to our Amrican traditions. This is unfair. Ths mn ought to b givn crdit for rflcting fairly and honstly th wishs of th popl; whos will should control in th dcision." Th spakr calld at- tntion to th fact that th Cntnnial Ei.posi- tion at.philadlphia was a grat succss although it was not opn'on Sunday.. H contndd that th argumnt usd about opning th gats,on Sunday to giv th workingmn a chanc to vimt th Exposition was a fallacious on, as all mployrs would allow thm to visit it during th wk. But hr is th most significant statmnt mad by Dr. Hamlin: "I hav hard it statd by a gntlman who vouchd for its truthfulnss that th brwrs of Chicago offrd to subscrib half a million dollars to th guarant fund conditiond upon th Exposition bing opnd on Sunday. It is a significant and pitiful fact that not on of you rg~rd this statmnt as incrdibl. It is prcisly in lin with things th mn ngagd in th manufactur and sal of liquor ar constantly doing." Th annual mting of two loal organizations-th District of Columbia Woman's Christian Tmpranc Union, and th Young Mn's Christian Association-whicIi ar making thmslvs important factors in th struggl for th moral rformation of th National Capital, wr hld this wk. Good showings wr mad by both of thm for th yar's work just closd, although th mmbrs of nithr ar ntirly satisfid with what has bn actually accomplishd, and it is wll that thy ar not, for with satisfaction would hav com lthargy and stagnation, whras what is ndd is incrasd nrgy and a dtrmination to mak this yar's work bttr than that of last yar, and this, both associations giv vidnc of having to an unusua.l dgr. Mrs. Harrison has rturnd to th Whit Hous which has at last bn vacuatd by th forc of paintrs, frscors and dcorators who hav had possssion of it for svral months, and th old hous is for th first tim in many yars as clan and bright as a nw pin from cllar to attic. This wk thr has bn an unusual numbr of visitors, as th Washington popl ar all crowding it to xamin and pass thir criticisms upon th, nw dcorations in th grn room, th dining room, and th ciling politan church. Whn th first Ecumnical Confrnc w~s hld' in London, tn yars ago, th Lord Mayor of that city ntrtaind th dlgats at his rsidnc by tndring thm a rcption. On of Washington's x-mayor's-mr. ovr th main lobby. Th criticism is mostly Matthw G. Emory-now a prominnt and favorabl, but not ntirly so. C. A. S. walthy businss man and for many yars a mmbr of th Mthodist Church, has tndrd MR. SPURGEON AND THE GOSPEL. th dlgats a rcption which will b hld this. '.,. vning and thos.of th dlgats who wr Mr. Spurgon ha~, ~n on of. ~IS publ~shd,. srmons, th following charactrlstlcally pointd fortunat.nough to hav attndd th~ first con- and pungnt paragraph: B wis; that is, bfrnc will b abl to mak a comparison of th liv th gospl as it coms' from God. You hospitality xtndd by th chif official of will not b wis to doubt it; but you will b royal England's principal city with that of. a ~is to bliv it, fo.r ~t i;8 tru f!'nd sur. Th~s privat citizn of th capital of this r ublic. IS an ag of doubt; It IS In th au. No ~an 18. ~. now-a-days thought to hav~, any sns If h T~ dlgats ar al~ bing handsomly" ntr- dos not doubt vn th bst-stablishd truths; talnd hr, th forignrs from a gnral fund and yt I do not think that it taks any grat and th Amricans at privat xpns. This quantity of brain to ba doubtr. With a vry 'Confrnc has no lgislativ functions,_ its sol strong ffort I ~ight manag, to doubt-~~ objct bing to promot fllowship. Thr doubt my ~a.th~r sword (I hav nv~r don 1,. '., ~r mark you!); to doubt my. brothr's faithfulnss;. to b two sssions dally, ~cpt Sunday,. during, to doubt my wif's lov to m. By such fforts th two wks, bginning to-da.y, and ad~ission I should doubt myslf into an abyss of misry, to th public is to b by tickt only, th tickts and.should bcom a glorious fool. To turn tl.u

13 "Oct. 15,_ rl.'he SABBATH RECORDER,..669 ;,.l,., powr of doubting upon spiritual ralitis would Brothr and Sistr Davis, with thir- spirit of intns nor b drownd, nor b burnd, hor shall thy b vn mor fatal; for that would tak away intrst and dvotion to th~ work cannot fail of grat fall into th hands of thir wickd nomis, nor my hop byond th grav and plung m in good. Shall w not alc pray for, th succss of this b poisond, nor shall thy b ovrpowrd, in dspair. Doubt is stril;' it producs nothing ;'-work, and as ths frinds com to us giv to thm any battl. B~ing rad ovr any cw oman in' it dstroys, but it cannot crat. I. hav long th hand and word of ncouragmnt? labor sh shall b dlivrd, and whn th cllild bn a blivr, and I find that my joys all com' Thursday vning, Oct. 8th. a bright and bautiful is born, placs th prayr on-thir right sid, to m by. th road of bliving, and non of vning. thr was a gathring at th hom of th pas- and h or sh shall nvr b troubld with misthm by th wrtchd lan of doubting. Ihav tor. mad up of th frinds of th 1st Wstrly Church. fortun, and if you' s a prson ill fits, plac blivd this Bibl to b God's Word; and af- Th v~ning was passd in social COnvrs an~b~~"~,]ancl,, Jhis on thir right,fhd and h or sh s11:all ris tl' all th dstructiv criticismswhicht ha.v 'partakmg of th rfrshmnts,p.rpar~danaf~rll1sh ld '11p and thank you. And thy that writ this hard, I still bliv it. I h~v blivd Christ. by th.gusts. All sn;td to h~ve:lan ~Joyabl tim. Th prayr from hous to hous shall b bl s d b )gathrmg o~ ths frl~d8 Wltl} tl~ir words of chr...,.~ y to b my Sa.viour; and aftr all th doubts Qf and good-wishs rspctmg our futur work ()nth nw th Lord, and h or sh. that laughs at this prayhis dity and a.tonmnt latly vntd and in- 'fild to which w ar going, was indd ncouraging to r shall hav four yars punishmnt,,and thy vntd, I still bliv it--ay, and bliv it non us. yv rm.mbr ~ith t.ndrnss th ~lany p~asant that war this prayr about thm shall hav th lss. I hav blivd God 'to b my Fathr, OC?~SlOnS njjyd.with this popl, both m. a somal ~~d thr days' warning bfor thir dath "_'.and though I hav sn his' Fathrhood draggd spiritual way, durmg th four yars and a littl mor m St d l. which w hav labord among thm. It is our dsir an ar(. in th mir, I still bliv it. I bliv havn that whil th rlations, which hav in many ways bn to b my hom; dspit th insinuations of so plasant and so much njoyd, must now b svrd, IT PAYS. Satan, I still bliv h. I hav nvr yt gaind th futur shall b brightnd with th mmoris of th halth, J'oy, comfort, holi. nss, through doubting,' past, and that God's blssings shall attnd, and abid with thm in th futur. l~or this w wish and pray. nay, I hav nvr gaind a pic of brad or a MR. AND MRS. E. A. WITTER. drop of watr through doubting. So many ar Illinois. doing th doubting, and doing it vry compltly, that I nd not troubl myslf to assist thm, but,may quitly go on bliving and njoying th swt rsults of faith. Our xprinc provs that it is wisdom to bliv th Lord. H is God that cannot li. Why should w doubt Him'~ " Nw York. j'tewp. ALFRED CEN'l'RE.-Th autumn wathr has bn rmarkably fin. Oats, buckwhat and corn hav bn xcllnt crops and hav bn scurd in good condition. Rcll t rains hav filld cistrns and rfrshd th fall pssturs.=--- At th monthly mting of th Y. P. S. C. E. for Oct. Dr. Platts spok on "Our young popl and th Confrnc,"mphasizing th importanc of som gnral movmnt among th young popl of th dnomination in th work of th Amrican Sabbath rrract Socity.cc= On th vning of Oct.10tn, Prof. F. S. Plac, gav th trm lctur bfor th Ailghanian Lycum on "' Birds." 'rh Orophilian, th AthruBan and th Altrid18n Lycums wr, by invitation, prsnt, filling th larg lctur room of Mmorial Hall. All wr dlightd as wll as instructd by th lctur.,--,--c Th fall trm (tn wks) is now half out. This trm will clos on Tusday, Nov. 10th, and th scond trm of th yar will bgin on ~Wdnsday, Nov. 11th. s. R. s. ALFERD.-Eld. L. U. Rogrs, from th Cntr, continus to supply th pulpit of this church with grat accptanc. H also is suprintndnt of th Sabbathschool which follows immdiatly aftr th prachmg srvic.= Mr. John Hamilton has a hrd of two Jrsy and two grad Jrsy cows, from which, btwn March 1st and Octobr 1st, svn months, h mad 1,024 Ibs of buttr, bsids slling 530 quarts of milk. H calls that a good rcord. R. s. Rhod Island.,. FIRST AND SECOND WESTERLy.-Sabbath-day, Spt. 23d, a young lady, Miss Mary Saundrs, who has bn vry fbl in halth for about thr yars, but who. sms to b bttr now, mad a statmnt to th Scond Wstrly Church of hr Christian xprianc, and askd for mmbrship thrin aftr baptism. r.rh rqust was grantd and aftr th praching srvic w rpaird to th rivr, whil Mary followd th Lord 'in this blssd ordinanc. Thus anothr was addd to that host who hav Eparatd thmslvs unto th Lord, thus again w wr rjoicd in th privilg of gathring at th watr's sid. Mary has long bn a blivr in and a lovr of hr Saviour. Thr ar othrs who ar looking towards this stp and w hop thy will talm it soon. God is blssing us as w srv him and how swt is his srvic. Brothr D. H. Davis occupid th pulpits of th 1st and 2d Wstrly churchs, Sabbath day,.oct. 3d, spaking to th popl of th work as carrid on in our ShanghaI MiSSIOn. Brothr Davis gav.a vry clar portrayal of th work in th diffrnt dpartmnts and th ways in whichthy wr abl to ap;roach th popl with "Th Jsus Rligion." Sistr Davis was prsnt and although not fling wll, joind with Bro. Davis in singing som. \ of th gospl songs in th Chins languag. Th spaking,singing, and rading wr all njoyd, and w fl that th srvic could not but mak that far away mission mor ral to all and hlp giv to ach a dpr intrst in th work throf. W should thmk that for th }M!opl of our churchs to com into contact with CHICAGo.-W spnt Sabbath, Oct.. 3d, with our popl in Chicago. Th attndanc at th mission school was small that Sabbath, it bing th first in th Hbr'w nw yar, which is vry strictly obsrvd in Hbrw familis. r.rh attndanc of our popl at th church srvic was vry good. Aftr an xcllnt and rfrshing covnant mting, and a fiftn minuts' srmon, th Lord's Suppr was administrd. It was a sason of grat spiritual njoymnt to th church, and a sourc of strngth and ncouragmnt to all from th manifst prsnc and powr of th Holy Spirit. Th vning aftr th Sabbath Mr. and Mrs. Ordway gav a rcption in honor of brthrn Randolph and Ptrson, who ar supplying with praching our church in Chicago, and ar studnts in th Baptist Thological Sminary at Morgan Park. A gnral invitation was xtndd to our popl in Chicago anll its suburbs. Thr wr thirty-fiv prsons prsnt, and if all who wr invitd could hav com it would hav bn a much largr gathring. Th vning was vry plasantly spnt in making nw acquaintancs, in social convrsation, in music and song. Aftr an lgant collation of substantials and fruit, wit and humor mingld with solid sug~ gstions and thought, ao.d xprssions of plasur flowd in post-prandial spch~, th host lading and his gusts not slow in following. Whn th rcption brok up ach said to th othr," What a plasant and njoyabl vning w hav had togthr!" Th~t rcption will go far in ncouraging and strngthning th young brthrn in thir work, th thological and mdical studnts who wr pr~nt and strangrs in th city, in uniting th church in Christian work, in cmnting th brthrn and sistrs in Christian 10\' and fllowship, and in giving nduring strngth and growing powr to th church. Would it not b a sourc of strngth, growth, and tru plasur, if in som of our larg and, strong churchs, thos who can should follow th good xampl of th host and hostss of this occasion. o. u. w. Wisconsin. MIL'l'oN.-Th sason has bn unusually favorabl for farmrs; crops ar fin and hav bn scurd in good con<;iition.o: c.= l.'h school yar has opnd with a good attndanc and xcllnt work is bing don.'-=-' Mr. Ezra Crandall, whos halth has not bn good for,?omtim, startd with his wif, on Monday for California, intnding to spnd th wintr if vrything is favorabl. x. SUPERSTITIOUS. Th following is snt to us by a corrspondnt now in Kansas, who scurd th spcimn of modrn Romish litratur from a ypung Catholic to whom it had bn snt by a soliitous sistr, living almost undr th shadow of th grat cathdral in Nw York City. It fitly illustrats th suprstition and smi-idolatry which th pristhood sm anxious to fostr, vn in ths days of boastd intllignc. Th pra.yr and th dissrtation upon its advantags ar printd upon th sam sht, and prsnt claims that ar not only rprhnsibl, but amazing for brazn audacity and dfianc of th taching of Christ and th Scripturs. It pays to war a smiling fac And laugh our troubls down; lilor all our littl trials wait Our laughtr or our frown. Bnath th magic of a smil Our doubts will fad away, As mlts th frost in arly spring Bnat_h th sunny ray. It pays to mak a worthy caus, By hlping it, our own; r.ro giv th currnt of our livs A tru and nobl ton. It pays to comfort bavy h~arts, Opprssd with dull dspair, And lav in sorrow darknd livs On glam of brightnss thr. It pays to giv a hlping hand To agr, arnst youth; To not, with all thir waywardnss, Thir courag and thir truth. To striv, with sympathy and lov, r.rhir confidnc to win; I t pays to opn wid th hart And" lt th sunshin in." A NUT FOR OUR HIGHER CRITICS. W har a grat dal about dstructiv criticism. About th tim whn I was a young man, living in Grmany, thr appard a book -som. of you, prhaps, might hav mt with it -a Grman book, aftrward translatd into English. It was calld "Di Brnstin-Hx" (" Th Ambr-Witch )." It was ditd and bad an introduction by a clrgyman of th island of Rugn. H rlatd how, som tim aftr h was appointd to his cur in th island of Rugn, in a chst in his sacristy h found a numbr of old documnts. Most of thm wr simply parish rgistrs, bills, rgistrs of marriags and daths, and othr things rlating to th parish; but amongst thm all was a roll. It was writtn in old Grman, and provd to b th narrativ, by on of his prdcssors,of th trial of a woman for witchcraft in th island of Rugn. H dciphrd and publishd it, and snt it forth into th world. It cast a grat dal of intrsting light upon things that wr going forward, and viws that wr hld in what might b calld th sub-rformation priod, a short tim aftr Luthr and his contmporaris had passd away. Th Grman rviws took it up. Thy wr gratly dlightd with th book. It was just at th tim that Strauss and his fllow-critics wr digging away at th foundations of th Nw Tstamnt, and proving to thir own satisfaction and to th satisfaction of a grat many othr popl, that thr was intrnal vidnc, from th Grk of th Nw Tstamnt writrs, that thos books could not hav bn writtn at th priod at which thy profssd to hav bn writtn. Wll, this book was widly rad and much praisd by th rviws and th critics of Gr- THE POPE'S PUAYEH. many. Thy had it in thir hands and undr " 0, Adorabl Saviour, dying on th 'cross for thir ys for about twjv months; and whn my sins; 0, Holy Cross of Christ, I bliv in t~y ~ad xprssd thir dlight at.it, ai?-d th th. 0, Holy Christ, guid m in all good.light It ca.st upon th post;-rformatlon timstruth, and sav m from an unprovidd dath. upon th Idas an? th hf of that day-th Crucifid Jsus of Nazarth, giv grac to put clrgyman of th Island of B:ugn wrot. to th th wickd nmy from. m, now and at th G~~ma~ nwsp~i?rs and rviws, and said: hour of my dath, and forvr, Amn, Swt RlIabl CrItICS you ar of th Gr~k of th Saviour" N w Tsta~nt books! Th book you hav. bn rading and praising is th production of ADVANTAGES OF THIS PHAYEH. my own brain in my own study in th last fiv " This prayr was foundd in th yar 1035 yars. You wr not abl to discovr th dor 1036, and was snt from th Pop to th Em- cption and to dtct th forgry in your own pror Charls I., bfor going to battl, for saf- languag. You may b dismissd as critics of ty, and thy that TPpPo.t this pra.yl", or ha.v it th Grk of th books of th Nw Tstamnt! " about thm, shall 'l'w'v1" di a suddn dath, -Rv. F. Ashton Binns. 1

14 I 670 THE SABBA TH R ECORDER..ri [VoL. XLVII, No. 42~, :'.' whistl, that mad hr jump a littl, though sh lpc LLANV, was xpcting it.. Whil sh was standing thr, a lady opnd ======-=--==========,=, ======, on of th car windows, and, looking out, bck- HOW DOROTHY HELPED. ond to hr. ',. Do you know whthr thr is any plac BY DORCAS. whr I can gt any appls or' gingr nuts, or "If you was only a boy now!" anything for my littl' boy?" "If I only was," Dorothy sighd sadly. " "N, thr isn't." Dorothy answrd. "I "But you ain't, and so thr's no us'think- am s<?rr~, an~;i _~ould.ha}f brought somthing Ing about it. Th \ hous'll hav to go for I. for him If I li"ad kiiown.~'-, can't lift a fir1gr to sav it, and no mor can ' "That's vry.~ kind in you," said th lady,,you, nithr. If you wr only a boy, you could 'smiling at th ltrnst littl fac, and Dorothy's hav bn arning many a dollar ~by this tim; willingnss to ~ obliging. "It would b a good but girls is sort of worthlss stock, mak th bst businss-fur SOIn on to hav somthing to sll of thm you can. I ain't saying that you ar hr, I should tbink.". ' mor uslss than th most of thm," th com- ~h put down tb window again, and Dorothy plaining fathr addd, ralizing that patint lit- wnt on hr way, but thr was an ida in th ti Dorothy did a woman's work about th brown thatchd had that had just found a hous, and had waitd on him and nursd him plac thr. Why should not sh hav a littl as but fw womn could hav had patinc and baskt of th shining rd appls that grw on strngth to do, sinc'his long attack of in flam- th tr bhind th hous; and som littl papr matory rhumatism..bags of gingr nuts, and prhaps popcorn?. "You do all you can, I know. It ain't your Dorothy gav a littl hop and a skip and a f 1 h t' b'f jump at th thought. Sh had bn on th cars au t t a you can t arn a cnt, ut 1 you was onc with hr fathr, and had lookd wistfully only a boy now!". ' at th ~mpting baskt that th,train boy carrid Dorothy had hard that plaint many and along th aisl, and sh knw sh could fix just many a tim bfor, and had always flt rathr as tmpting a looking baskt. Whn sh wnt culpabl, as if sh might hav bn a boy just hom full of hr schm, sh found hr fathr as wll as not, if sh had not bn inconsidrat rady to admit that prhaps this was a way in nough to b a girl. Sh would hav bn glad which sh could mak a littl mony, if sh was nough to b a boy, and just now sh wishd a girl, and'h was quit WIlling for hr to mak mor than vr that sh could transform hr- th littl ncssary outlay to hav th crisp, dslf by som procss into an mbryo lord of licious gingr nuts, and th snowy popcorn in cratioq. bags all rady to sll. Th baskt was rady by "Hard tims" wr th usual thing at th train tim nxt day, and fairly quivring with littl brown hous at th foot of th hill, but xcitmnt, Dorothy wnt to mt it. Sh just now things wr in a wors plight than passd along from window to window holding usual. Dorothy did not know xactly what a up hr baskt, and ithr th bright agr fac, mortgag was, but sh rgardd it as bing in- glowing with th wind and xcitmnt,or th good sparabl from a hom as its roofs or its walls. things in th baskt ~r mor inviting than It was on of th first things sh vr rm m- th passngrs had sn bfor that day, for brd haring popl talk about, and whnvr thr was no lack of customrs, and whn sh any trat or luxury had bn spokn of, it al- ran gaily homward th baskt was mpty, and ways had to b givn up at last, bowv,r rluct- hr littl bag was full of silvr dims and antly, bcaus of th mortgag. Whn sh was nickls. a vry littl girl, indd, sh had a dim fancy To b sur, thr was not so vry much in th that it was a vry hungry monstr, that had to baskt, and som popl might not hav thought b fd all th tim, or it would gobbl up thir thr was a fortun in th lathr bag, but it littl brown hous for a lunch som day. Sh was th first mony Dorothy had arnd, and it knw bttr tbn.n that now, but still sh knw it, smd mor than all th walth of th Indis was as ~nsatiabl as th monstr of hr childish to hr. On dollar and thirty-four cnts! Why, Imagining, and it assurdly did mak lif a if sh could fd that hungry mortgag at that vry hard, chrlss struggl for th littl family rat vry day, th littl brown hous would of two. not b gobbld up aftr all. It was narly all Now it smd as if th mortagag was going profit, 'for sh had raisd th popcorn hrslf, to mak a mal of th,hom at last, in spit of and th littl rd appl-tr had born unusally th yars of hard work to sav it. Th fathr wll that yar, and sh could fill many a baskt had bn takn ill arly in th summr with in- from th barrls in th cllar. flammatory rhumatism, and though lat fall," Wll, you couldn't hav don much bttr had com, h was only just abl to sit in his big if you bad bn a boy," said hr fathr. arm chair and worry and frt all day. It w~s "Could I hav don any bttr?" askd Dorhard for him, poor man, but nobody vr knw othy, imploringly. This WRS a suprm momnt how hard it was for patint littl Dorothy, in hr lif. If hr fathr would only admit that who had all th nursing addd to hr othr sh was as good as a boy, hr cup of happinss cars, and, bsids, th clos confinmnt to th would ovrflow. hous, and th work which was rally byond "No, I will say for you that you couldn't hr strngth, had to listn to th continual la- hav," said hr fathr magnanimously. "In mnt that sh was not a boy, so that sh could fact, if you had bn a boy, you might not hav arn mony nough to sav th hous. As thought of it in th first plac, and thn again, stadily as any woman sh wnt about th hous, if you was a boy, you couldn't hav mad th doing th daily work, and whn at last vry- gingr nuts." thing was. in scrupulous ordr, and an old nighbor had droppd in to hav a pip with Thr was a stady markt for th littl busihr.fathr, sh lookd wistfully out of doors, nss woman, and as hr appls wr polishd whr a bright Novmbr sun was glorifying to th highst dgr of shininss, and hr popvn th mllow stubbl in th corn filds, and corn was of th snowist, and th gingr 'nuts vnturd to ask if sh could not go out for a lit- prfction, hr wars wr always in dmand. ti whil. ' Th mortgag was satisfid, and th littl brown hous was saf, not only for that tim, but for "Oh, ys, I suppos I can gt along without always, for as th months wnt by and still Doryou," hr fathr answrd rluctantly. "Girls othy prosprd, sh formd th ambitious plan always want to b gadding, so I am usd to gt- of possssing that mortgag hrslf., Sh did ting along without you. Don't b gon long pay it all off at last. It was a long task, but though.," Dorothy' had larnd patinc long ago. ' " No," promisd Dorothy, and in a fw mo- Sh was vry happy whn th day cam that mnts sh was trudging along th road, njoy- mad th littl brown hous thir own, but I ing th frsh air. which was a trat to hr, aftr think th knst part of hr satisfaction cam hr long confinmnt to th hous with only an whn hr fathr said: "Wll, rally, Dorothy, occasional outing. Sh had to cross th railroad you air vry bit as good as a boy, and a good track, and in th distanc sh h3ard th whistl dal bttr than most of thm."-ex. of th xprss, which always stoppd hr for watr. Dorothy pausd to watch it com thun- ' dring along. Sh likd to s it com gliding,. THE school of xprinc is not a fr school along th shining rails, and stop With a noisy W hav to pay our own tuition. SPECIAL NOTICES." -.~ A GENERAL mting of th Scandinavian Svnth. day Baptists of Minnsota and Wisconsin, will b hld with th church In Isanti County, Minnsota, commnc_ ing Nov. '6th,and' continuing ovr Sa)7bath and Sunday. All Sabbath-kprs, and othrs wishing to com, ar cordially invitd. For particulars addrss _ John Larson, Athns, Isanti Co., Minn. W- THE Quartrly Mting of.th Otslic, Lincklan, DRuytr, Ouyl~r, arid Scott churchs will b hld with th Otslic Church th last Sabbath (31st) of Octobr. Rv. H. B. Lwis is xpctd to prach 1 h opning srmon, o'n Sabbath morning. L. R. S. ~WILLIAM C. WHITFORD, Trasurr of th Gnral Confrnc and of th Young Popl's Committ, rqusts that rmittancs b snt.to him at 41 East 69th Strt, Nw York City.., ~ YEARLY ~EETING OF,THE SEVENTH-DAY BAPTJS1' CHURCHES OF SOUTHERN ILLINC)Is.-Th nxt Yarly Mting of th Svnth-day Baptist Chucrhs of Southrn Illinois will commnc with th Bthl (formrly Crab Orchard) Church, on Sixt4-day bfor th fourth Sabbath in Octobr, 1891, at 10 o'clock, A. M. PROGRAMME: Introductory Srmon, A. E. Main; C. A. Burdick, altrnat. ' Essays: 1. What is th scriptural doctrin of th atonmnt? C. W. Thrlkld. 2. What ar th dutis of th offic of Dacon according to Scriptur.? Howll Lwis. 3. What is th distinction btwn th Old and th Nw Tstamnts? Robrt Lwis. Exgsis: Galatians 3: F. F. Johnson. C. A. BURDICK, S'y. ~THE nxt Smi-annual Mting of th churchs of Minnsota will b hld with th church at Nw Auburn, bginning on Sixth-day bfor th third Sabbath in Octobr, at 2 O'clock, P. M. Eld. A. G. Crofoot was appointd to prach th Introductory Srmon, Eld. W. H. Ernst altrnat.,mrs. L. G. Briggs, Hnry Ernst, Jr., and Andrw North, Jr., wr appointd ssayists. R. H. BABCOCK, Cor. Sc. ~COUNClL REPORTS.-Copis of th minuts and ro ports of th Svnth-day Baptist Council, hld in Chicago, Oct. 2Z-29, 1890, bound in fin cloth~ can b had, postag fr, by snding 75 cts. to this, offic. Thy ar on sal no whr ls. No Svnth-day Baptist ministr's library is complt without it. A copy should b in vry hom. Addrss John P. Moshr, Ag't, Alfrd Cntr, N. Y. ur JONES' CHART OF THE WEEK can b ordrd from this offic. Fin cloth mountd on rollrs, pric $1 25. Evry studnt of th Sabbath qustion-and all of our popl should b that-ought to hav on of ths charts within rach. It is th most complt answr to th thory that any day of th svn may b rgardd as th Sabbath, providd popl ar agrd in doing so, and all that class of thoris yt mad. Th uniform tstimony of th languags is that on particular day, arid that th svnth-th last day of th wk-' is th Sabbath. Snd or th chart.. urthe Chicago Svnth-day Baptist Church holds rgular Sabbath srvics in th lctur room of th Mthodist Church Block, cornr of Clark and Washington Strts at 2.45 P. M., Sabbath-school following th srvic. Th Mission Sabbath-school mts at 1.30 P. M. at Col. Clark's Pacific Gardn Mission. Strangrs ar always wlcom, and brthrn from a distanc ar cordially invitd to mt with us. Pastor's addrsss: L. C. Randolph and F. E. Ptrson, Morgan Park, Ill. ~THE Nw York Svnth-day. Baptist Church, holds rgular Sabbath srvics in th Boy's Prayr-mting Room, on th 4th floor, nar th lvator, Y. M. C. A. Building, cornr ~th Avnu and 23d St.;, ntranc on 23d St. Mting for Bibl study at A. M., followd,by th rgular praching srvics. Strangrs ar cordially wlcomd, and any frinds in th city ovr th Sabbath ar spcially invitd to attnd th srvic. Pastor's addrss, Rv. J. G. Burdick, 245 Wst 4th strt, btwn Charls and Wst 10th strts, Nw York. WANTED. A MIDDLE-AGED woman, as hous-kpr. Sabbath. kpr prfrrd. 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16 , ' ) 672 '". 1 H E SABB.. A".rH RECORDER.,< '.', CONTENTS. h actd as scort to Gnral Lafaytt. Mr. Parkr still rtains possssion of all his Paragraphs... ' Bhold th Man! Th Kingdom of Havn~ Scintific Concptions of a Spiritual World facultis. < Moral Rcovry; Car~ of th Eys; Aftr That, A mtipg of Ministrs summond by Wh&tJ B Short th Ministr of Com~mrc, was hld at MISSIONs:-Thyar not our Allis; '.rruth, a Vinna, Oct. 9th, to,discuss th cours Stumbling-block and a Rock of Offns WOMAN'SWORl{:-,Paragraphs; Conclusion; R- propr to b takn by Aust~,ia,at th CociptB lumbian Fair at Chicago. Aftr a gnral Th Tabls Turnd... '... 6tH intrchang of viws it was, a~nouncd HISTORIOAL AND BIOGRAPIDOAL:- Th Mill Yard Church, London, England, and th Spo- that th Stat would contribut 15,000 liationof its Proprty... ~ fl. t 'd th A t'il h'b't th SABBATH REFORM: _ Paragraphs; How I was. orins 0 al us ritn ~x 1 1. ~r.., '. Brought to th Sabbath... titi3 All thos prsnt concurrd In th opldion EDITORIALs:-Paragraphs;iTh Briggs,Cas... ti6! that th grant wils suffiqint, and agrd!5quar Issus; Gms from Dr. Maclarn's Sr-.. mons to th formation of a govrnmnt commis-. YOUNG PEOPLE'S WORK: - ;:;triving - Potry; sion to arrang for a propr and crditabl Paragraphs' Go Around th World' Origin of.. a Fam0us Hymn....' ,rprsntatlOn of AustrIa and Hungary at EDUOATION...,.... 6ti7 th Fair. TEMPERANOE POPULAR SoniNoE BABBATH':'SOHooL:-Lsson Washington Lttr; Mr. Spurgon and th Gospl HOME NEws:-Alfrd Cntr, N. Y.~ Alfrd, N. Y.; First and Scond Wstrly, R, 1.; Chicago, Ill.; Milton, Wis..._ Suprstitiousi It Pays-Potry: A Nut for our Highr CritICism,...,... ' MISOELLANEOUS:-How Dorothy Hlpd SPEOIAL NOTIOES BUSINESS DIREOTORY CATALOGUE OF PuBLIOATIONS..., 671 CONDENSED NEWS DEATHS ~====================~ It is rumord that disturbancs hav brokn out in Rio Janiro. Hnry M. Stanly and. wif, accompanid by Mrs. Tnnant, th mothr of Mrs. Stanly, hav startd on a tour of Australia. Jams Stb, agd ight yars, did at Elizabth, N. J., Oct. 11th, from hydrophobia. Th boy was bittn about two wks ago by a mastiff. Th rctor of th Panthon rcntly wrot to th Undr Hom Scrtary of th Italian govrnmnt, dclaring that if 'frsh dmonstrations wr mad at that plac th cclsiatics would rais a protst bfor th whol world, and would prhaf.s \ rconscrat th Panthon. Th Scrtary rplid that, in viw of th grat irritation at prsnt flt by th popl of Roin, any attmpt'to prvnt thir ntry into th plac would probably caus xcsss which would aftrward b rgrttd. Aftr furthr ngotiations th Pop has dcidd to rconscrat th Panthon, but th crmony will b prform~ in th quitst mannr possibl. DIED. SHORT obituary notics ar insrtd fr of charg Notics xcding twnty lins will b chargd at th rat of tn cnts pr lin for ach lin in xcss of twnty. WHIPP E.-In Hornllsvill, N. Y., Spt. 110, 1891, ~cil Hnnth, only son of 1!'. W. and Jnntt Whippl, and grandson of M. A. Grn, formrly Railroad T ckt Agnt in Alfrd, agd 1 yar, 4 months and 7 days. Funral srvic was hld at th hom in Hornllsvill, Oct. 1st. and th rmains wr brought to Alfr.mt~ry or mtrmn. J. s. _Charls Strwart Parnll, th notd d C f' t Irish ladr and Hom-rul agitator, did at his hom in Brighton on Tusday, Oct. 6th. His dath was suddn and unlookd for. Th national lagu of Grat Britain has issud a manifsto stating t~at its mmbrs shoull:. lct a nw prsidnt and xcutiv, and inviting branchs in Grat Britain to tak immdiat stps to this nd. Th famin in th Volga Vally has causd widspr,ad sicknss among th starving inhabit.ants of that district. Thousands of pasants ar alrady prostratd by typhus fvr. Th Alpin Club is building a hut for signal purposs on th pak of Mont Rosa, at an altitud of narly 15,000 ft. Th hut has th highst sit of any building in th world. Th Qun of Italy has subscribd a larg sum toward its rction. Th Frnch Budgt Committ has adoptd th govrnmnt proposal to abandon th railway tax of 10 pr cnt. This, it was stimatd,would hav yildd about 41,000,000 francs a yar. In rturn, th railway companis rduc fright rats on fast trains to th xtnt of 42,000,000 francs. King Kalakakau, Scrtary Windom, Bradlaugh" Missonir, Admiral Portr, Gnral Shrman, Gnral Johnson, Von Moltk, Sir John Macdonald, Hannibal Hamlin, P. T. Barnum, Laurnc Barrtt, Kinglak, Lossing and Bancroft, Jams Russll Lowll, Balmacda, Boulangr, William Hnry Smith and Parnll---all ths distinguishd mn hav passd'away in A. A. Parkr clbrat'd his 100th birthday at Fitzwilliam, N. H., Oct. 8th. H graduatd from th Univrsity of Vrmont in 1813, and is said to b oldst living collg graduat in Amrica. H practicd law for yars, was intimat with Danil Wbstr, and has srvd il,l th Lgislatur mor trms than any othr mmbr. As a colonl on th govrnor's staff in 1&;l) EVANK.-In Providpnc, H. I. Oct. 2, ]891, Mrs. Clara r.r. Clark Evans, wif of Bnjqmin F. Evans, and daughtr of Grov D. and Lydia M. (~lark, in th 32d yar of hr ag Sistr Evans gav hr hart to God in hpr 12th yar, and was baptizd by Rv. D. E Maxson and unitd with th Svnth-day Baptist Church of Milton, Wis.,Sh graduatd from Milton Collg in 1880, and has spnt th gratr part of hr tim sinc in taching, aud has bn vri succssfnl. Sh was marrid to Mr. Evans th 25th of last Jnn, and now th Mastr has claimd hr as his own. As a Christian sh did not say so much as many, but hr lif was on of faithful srvic. Sh was brought to Ashaway for intrmnt, and th larg attndanc at hr funral and th many bautiful flowrs on hr coffin, att~std th rgard in which sh was hld in th community. Th rlativs hav th sympathy of all th popl hr. G. J. C. BABOOOK.-Hrmon Babcock was born in Brookfild, Madison Co,N. Y., April H. 1838, and did at Milton, Wis., Oct. 2, 1891, of paralysis. H cam with his parnts to Albion, Wis., whn about tn yars of ag. Whil a young man h xprincd a chang of hart and unitd witb th Albion Svnth-day Baptist Church. Soon aftr, h marrid Miss Charlott A. Odll, and movd to Utiba, Wis., moving his mmbrship to that chnrch, whr it rmaind to th tim of his dath. H movd to Milton but a fw days prvions to his dath, xpcting to mak that p ac his futur hom, but dath has calld him to his trnal hom, Mrs. Babcock rmains to await hr Lord's call to join him thr. By this, and lik vnts, w ar all taught that.. 'rhr is but a stp btwn m and dath." 1 Sam. 20: 3. G. W. H. WHENEVER th dvil wants to prform a pic of xtraordinary mannss h puts on his Sunday cloths and assums a vry solmn look.. A LITTLE book tlhng all about th patnt businss is issud by C. A. Snow & Co., Attornys and Solicitors of Amrican and Forign Patnts,708 and 710 Eighth St., Washington, D. C. Prsons dsiring to do patnt businss in any way would do wll to writ for a copy. FOR SALE. Th Btaiulard Hous adjoining Milton Collg grounds. For particulars addr E. P. Clark. Milton. Will. Highst of all III LaVning Powr.-U., S. Gov't Rport, Aug. 17, ',~ &kins Powdr ARSOI VI ELY PURE CANCERS AND TUMORS ar quickly and safly curd, and with vry littl pain, by Rv. A. W. Coon, Cancr Doctor, Alfrd Cntr, l't,. Y. Satisfaction guarantd. Circulars and Tstimonials fr whn calld for. DELICIOUS M,lNCE PIES EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR. E SUCH CONDENSED at all Pur Fbod Expositions for Suprior QuaWy. Clc(mlins:;. tmd COUVH. uicllc to ljousl.;prs..no AlcntlD\ic Llqu'JrR Each Packag contains matrial!or two larg pv.i.. If your grocr dos not kp th NonSucb brand sr1l1 ~uc. for fulj siz packag by mail, prpaid. rvlei='hell&,scul SVRACUS~ N v C ORTICELLl Wash Embroidry Silk. Unf ing Dys. This i.s t st way to buy your Wash Silk. Th spool kps th silk clan, prvnts shop-war, and savs your tim. This is also th bst siz for most kinds of fancy work. Buyrs should look for th siz EE and th brand" CorticlW' on on nd of th spool j on th othr th words "Wash Silk - Fast Color" should appar. "Flornc Hom Ndlwork" for 1891 is now rady. It tachs bowtomakfrom Corticlli or Flornc Silk Crochtd Slipprs, Scarfs (3 nw styls), Blts, Badd Bags, Macrm Lac, tc.; 96 pags, fully illustratd. This book will b maild fr on rcipt of 6c. Mntion yar. NONOTUCK SILK CO. Flornc, Mass. $3 50 PERDAY ALL WINTER lln b mn,l" arv bvam' '!IIcrg"lic p,;r<on scl1lng" CHAM PION PASTE STOVE POLISH." No brllllh r-, quircil. No hurd lubor. No ~Iu"t or dirt. A,lWltYR rady for III_C. An articl "vry housck"'!pcr WIll uuy. 216,000 packa~.. s sold in Philadlphia. Exclu~IVC a,gcnc,v rur on or mor!! counti~ g\\"cn comptnt prson. WrIt tq c!ay nclosing stall1p for particulars. You will nvr rgrt it. Addrss, CILUI PIOS Cll., 46 N. Fourth St., Philadlphia, PIi, ~ST D NO VACATIONS. SHORTHAND AND Et{GLISH,SCHOOL Fir-Proof Building; No. 451 Main St" Buffalo, N. V, FFERS to Young and Middl-agd Mn and OWomn th bst chanc to gt a succssful start in Businss Lif.,!'his old rliabl school givs a thorough and complt BUSINESS EDUCA TION, or a practical training i,n SHORTHAND, TYPEWRITING and UORRESPONDENCE, which prpars young popl in a short tim for good paying positions-usually lading to advancmntand stady mploymnt. This Collg has bn narly FOR'l'Y YEA RS undr th sam man ~gtlmnt, i!'l wlt known, and has a high standing In th busmss world. Many of its graduats ar snt dirctly to good pot:>itions with lading businpl3s firms. IT WILL PA Y to go to THE BEST. Writ tor 40 pag ILLUSTRATED PROSPECTUS, maild!r. Addrss us ubov. GRATEFUL--COMFORTING. COCOA: BREAKFAST. "By a thorough knowldg of th natural laws which govrn th oprations of digstion and nutrition, and by a carful application of th fin proprtis of wll-slct~d Cocoa, Mr. Epps has providd our brakfast tabls with a dlicat1y flavord bvrag which may sav us many havy doct.ors' bills. It is by th judicions ns of such articls of dit, that a constitution may b gradually built np until strong nough to rsist vry tndncy to disas. Hundrds of snbtl maladis ar floating around us. rady to attack whrvr thr is a wak point. W may_ scap many a fatal shaft by kpin g ourslvs wll fortifid with pur blood and a proprly nourishd fram.-" Civil Srvic Gaztt." Mad simply with boiling watr or milk. Sold only in half pound tins by Grocrs, lablld thus:. JAMES Epps & Co., Homopathic Chmists, London, England. MINUTF.~ 'VA~TED. To complt a st, th minuts of Gnral Confrnc for 1807, 1810, and for which fifty cnts ach will b paid. GEO. H. BABCOCK. PT..AINFTF:LD, N... J., Jun 10, AG E NTS snd for How I Mad... Hous and Lot ill On yar. Our copyrightd mthods fr to all dsiring a Hom, or businss chang-. $75 to $roo Monthly. Tachrs and Ladis find big pay for spar hours. TREASURY PUR CHA~lNG AGENCY. 27 4th Av.. 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