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1 - PUBLISHED BY THE!M.KRICA.I U~BITH TB1~T SOCIETY. "TH:B SEVENTH-DA.Y IS TBB sabbath oj TUB LORD THY OOD/. J>~.. VOL. XLIV.-NO ALFRED CENTRE. N. Y., FIFT.H-~A Y. FEBRUARY R GREEN & SON..1JEAI.JU18 IN GBHBRAi. HDmr.t_ I Drugs and PaiJJ.W. ~--,--.~-,New York CUl,. I BABCOOK & wn.cox CO. Patent Water-tube Steam Bonen : H. BAlICo.!K, Pres_ 30 ~, 8t -,.. POTTEl~ JR. & CO..". PRINTING PR1l8811B. c I 12 & 14 Spruce St. JR. H. W. FIsH. JOB. " TrrnOBft., Lllonardsvil, 1. I."..,..... WSTUONG HEATJUl, Lum ErioJU.ClOB, IIId. CONDENSER for Steam ~ea. ~TRONG IIEATERCo.. LeonaMm1Ie.lf. Y. r Pillinfil!ld, I fllt~abbat" ljet~~~~r: - wat its name implies but is so called be Berlin, N. Y.; Barzilla.. Randolp, of Pis Lewis Davis.was Treasurer from Novem eigty-tird year, two in teir eigtiet. causs it is newer tan ~te Old Palace, was cataway, N. J.; 8fd AbeIBurdic~, of Alfred,.ber, 1830, to NOlember, year, and te oter in is seventy tird. Tus" -Entered built by Frederick te Great one undred lis second class mail matter at te post- N. Y. ~. Aug. 1831, paid. to te General Missionary we are admoni~ed tat, ~ce at Alfred Centre, N. Y...and twenty five year!! ago. It is very large, At te General Ootiference eld at Be:r:lin, Board $10 00, Our "days are gli4ing swiftly by, and as many eiaborately adorned rooms, N. Y.,September, 11~i8; ~after"te adjourn. " S~pt. 1, 1833, at a meeting caued by te And" we. toug.. pilgrim strangers, Would not detain tem as tey fly, CONTENTS. te finest, te grand saloon, being ar- ment of Oonference,: te Board of Managers Board of officers to <lecide weter tc Soci Silence.-poetry... "... Tose ours of toil and danger. 1. Glimpses uf Europe.-No..l~... ~ ranged somewat in te fasion of a grot. met, and after prayer by Eid. Henry Olark, ety so.uld disband or not; carried by vote For o, we atand on Jordans strand, Sbilo and te General ~ssionary Society... 1 Our friends are passing over, Do We Need Revivals? to, aving ~ts low. ceiling, its pillars and proceeded to otganiie by electing.mattew tat it sould continue to be a society." And just before, te sining sore IlIB6ION8.. 2 walls completely covered wit bri1liant Stillman President of te Board; Amos R. Sept , paul to Joel Green, Treas. pro We may almost discover.". ~:~~:~b.:~~:::~::.:::;:::::::::::::::::::::::::: 22 sells of various kinds beautifully arranged Wells, Assistant; ana Abel Burdick, Olerk.. rem. of te General Missionary Society$10 06 Te Cinese and Cbrtst.amty " Well gird our loins, my bretren dear; Cina : Material Propess iu Syna in te form of dolpins, sea monsters and Elds. Henry Olark, Mattew Stillman, and Dr. George Tomlinso~ was Treasurer from Our eavenly ome discerning, 2 Abel Burdick were directed. to prepare a Novomber, to November, Our absent Lord as left us word, Jewis Missions oter fanciful desigt!s; minerals of endless Let every lamp be burning.".. ~:g~ar~[~~meiit::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::: ~ variety. and beauty,arranged in bands, constitution, and present te same at te Officers for te.ensuijlg year: MrCAJAH AYARS. S!BBATH REFOID!". Paragrap...:... squares, diamonds and rings; uge quartz next annu~l meeting;.and Amos R. Wells Eld. Jon Davis, President; Eld. Samuel SHILOH, N.. J., Jan. 24, Te sabat SacrIfice Sabbat Reform crystals, beautiful emeralds, carnelian, was appointed missi~di~ry to visit New Jer. Davis (is broter), Vice President; Enos F. 3 nucation. ores of copper, lead and silver, aga.te and sey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Oio." At Randolp, 2d Vice President; George Tom DO WE NEED. REVIVALS? Asa Gray... 3 Sc!o9ls in Sout America malacite, and oters equally fine. I wis te next annual meeqng of te Board, eld linson, M. D., Treasurer; David A. F. Ran Cl!pplllgS... 3 we could ave ad more time to examine at Brookfield, N. Y., Sept. 27, 1819, at te dolp, Secretary; Jon Brigt, Oorrespond- Wen we take into consideration te diltime of te GeneraI:Oonference, te Board ing Secretary, Rees Ayan, Jon Swinney, gree ~f excitement wic is often connected. T!MIERANCE. Te Plea of DrunkeDuess it, but te custodian urried us along. A Canker at te Vitals... How Not todo It... g At te Sans Souci we saw te famous unanimously adopted te constitution pro Oarles F. Rannolp, Assistants. wit revival meetings, wen we watc te Jon Wesley on Temperance Refo~m room tat l!rederick te Great ad fitted posed by te commit~ee.. Section. 4 reads: May. 1884, paid to te Cor. Bee., to aid te reaction wic follows tem, as our ears are KnlTORllLS. correspondence wit American Cris made to t. I by n t f G d. Editorial Paragraps up for Voltaire, te walls being a.1orned ResoZ1Ica, Tat we reepmmend to te Missionary. mg e earl g e ~ame 0 0 Carmina Sanctorum COlllrmlICATIONS wit pictures of monkeys, parrots, & c., Societies in te Association to report to tis Board. Sept. 1t~34~p~id Gen~;~l MiB~i~~ &~Iety.$lg ~~ profaned, and opr fellowmen slandered by annually. by teir repret1entativee, letters, or oter Aug. 80, put intq te ands of Jon te same lips wic ave been so loud in Te Kingdom wic e told Voltaire were to remind im Te Great WaH...;. 4 f I. W wise, te Bum tat may be depended upon from Swinney, to be appropriated to te Gen.. tem j and if not sent to Iis Board, tat it be,kept in "1 M s 8 t spealring te praises of God, tae quo estion ll!rs, Tacy Comns IS natura c aracteristlcs. e also saw.. Wy Stand ye Here all te Day Idle?" d d er.. IS IOnary oele y..... rea iness and subject to 18 or er.. Aug. 21, paid to te B. D. B. Mission sometime arises, Under wat circumstances, A Worduf CounseL... 5 t e cemetery were e buried te dogs e Te Sevent day Baptist Missionary Soci. ary Society...;... " and to wat extentare revivals useful? and not 1l0!lE B~::: N. Y...,... 5 loved, putting a stone over ea.c grave. f Aug paid to te S. D. B. Mission. ety of te Oounty 0.Oumberland, N. J., wall arybociety lfrequentlv we ear: it said tat tey do (JOND=~"k~S;~~I:.,.~:.~.::::::::::::::::::::::::.,::::.:::: g In one part of te grounds we a.d pointed organized N ovem ber, 1816, one year before.any May, paid \0 Cumberland County Bible more} arm t~n good~ Boon AND MAGAZINEs... 5 out to us te famous wind mill wic marks decided action was taken in relation to mis Dec.{~~~et~~id ;~ ~id i~ ;~ ;;~~dti~; ~f 500 But before we pass ourjudgmentuponany SERYONS AND EssAYS. te justice of te king wo would not expel Hermon...;... 6 its owner w~n e refused to sell. sions by ~e GeneralOonference, and ~ree Cristianity among te J~s question, it is necessary to take all te eliyears before te resol~tion was passed, quoted Donated four Bibles dence in te case and carefully weig it in an MLSCELLANEY. Talking in Teir Sleep.-Poetry In te_ Garrison Ourc, were te sol- Te Evangelist as a Discouragement..... from Sec. 4, above. PJlring tose tree years, Enoc.J. Davis was Treasurer from Nov. impartial balance. Tbe Biggest Pile in Te World..., diers attend service, we entered te tomb Value of Little Tings-Poetry from November; 1816, to November, 1819, Wile it is true tat tis falling aw.ayfroin A Poor Bargain were repose te ases of te great king. Too Late For Anyting , V". te main object of te Society at Silo was Dec paid to aid te promotion of te Oristian profession and ret.urning to te POPULAR SCIENOE...,...:,... 7 lewmg everyt lllg as astily as we could, buyingandsellingbibles,andpresentingtem. CristianityamongteJews... $2000 weak and beggarly elements of. te world CATALOGUE OF PmlLICATIONS, ETO we still found one day all too sort to see THll SAB:BATH-SCROOL te wol~ of Potsdam. to tose wo did not feel able to buy tem. "Marc 13, 1842, te Society ordered tat carries wit it a most terrible in:fiuenpe, IoURHAGE8 AND DEATlII! FromJuly, 1817,to D~cember, 1819, te Soci te funds on and and all tat is colle~ted wile we can but admit tat we often find 8Pl!CIAL NOTICES BUSINESS DIRECTORy... _ ~. 8 LEIPSIO. ety sold 24 Bibles ad donated 9; and, in be paid to Serman S. Griswold, to go into tose wo seem at. suc times to be moved Early te next morning we took te accordance wit te recommendation of te te ands of te General Missionary Society, rater by te tide of popular influence tan For te SABBATH RECORDER: SILENCE. train f.or Leipsic: Here we found ourselves Board in Sec. 4, paid to Amos R. Wells, mis, until furter orders from te Board." Te to attac te careful tougt wic belongs BY MRS. M. E. H. EVERETT. "But e answered er not a word." Matt. 15: 23. From Canaan a moter came, beseeci,ng.. Her eart wit deepest. woe and longing!!tirred" "Have pity on me. Lord, tou 80n of David t " But to er prayer e answered not _ word. 80 stand we, Lord, m: lifes dark places, crying Because of woes we cannot eal nol bear; And oft limes from ty eart of pity fallet. Only great silence on our burning prayer. Is it to prove our fait? art tou rebuking Our ceaseless worry wit ty waiting long? Altoug we vex ty cildren wit our clamor, Are we to plead importunate and strong?.. Or are we rater in new, deep abasement, To ask but crumbs of mercy for our sare, Relying on ty tenderness and justice, Not to leave anytrusting.to despair?.. 0, ig tou art abovp, our appreension, Yet to te lowliest tou: dost condescend, Teil, werefore, wen our eart cnes out en treating Fallet tis awfulbilence at te end?. _. GLIMPSES OF.EUROPE.-No. 1!. BY PROF. H. :M. :MAXSON. among strangers indeed, as no one at te sionary, June 25, 1819, *10, wile at Silo, Treasurer paid into te ands of S. S. Gris to, a~d sould always go wit, a professionol. station could speak a word of Englis. as e was on is touj; to New Jersey, Penn wold, frommarc 20, 1842 to October, 1842, religion, yet we sould not overlook te fact... Wen we arr~ved te porter anded us a sylvania, Virginia, and Oio. A sort sum- tao. tat in te lesson taugt by te Parable of tin tic:"et wit a numer on it, wic mys mary of tat missionary tcmr will be found on. Tis is te last payment made by te So~ te Sower e did not cease to sow broad9ast. _.. tified us a little, but we found. it tobs te 1 Dllll :e140" Vol. 1, Nora, O~.. t~ 8.eventkdayciety according to.te-treaaurl:lr~.;cij\iva......,well.: toug aome;--of.:.t&,~.:fe)l.::.amo.sg -... :,,;~ custom to assign acks by rotation,. and Baptist Memorial, a~tiarteriymagazinepub~ Tere. were expenses of.te Society, torns,.some by te wayside, and-iomeon::j tis ticket was te number of te one in lised in money paid olit not mentioned ere. About stony ground. but tat e continued fo sow,. ~ tended for us.. Our friend, wo went for a In connection wit te Oonference eld at tis time, 1842, te present General Mission knowing tat tere was good ground wic. ack before e understood it, finally ad Brookfield, N. Y., Sept. 23, 1819, te Mis-ary Society organized on a broader basis, and must and would receive some of te! precjotls.. to come ba.ck and get a ticket before e sionariboard, on te:27t of Sepj;ember, ap- wit a more extensive plan of operations in seed, and bring fqrt a bountiful arvest. could procure a carriag~. By means of a pointed Elds. Wm. ~atterlee, A. R. Wells, te.missionary work... In looking at te question" wat are te guide.book and a iittle German, we suc- and Wm. B. Maxson missionaries for te. Te. Oumberland Oounty.Sevent-day benefit~ to be derived from a genuine revival ceeded in reacing a restaurant were En- ensuing year. A. R. Wells report of tat.mis- ptist Missionary Soci~ty. at Silo ad of religion, we must not overlook te numerglis was I:Ipoken. After dinner we visited sion in 1819 and 1,.820 irhf be found on pages done a good work for its time.. It was formed ous ways in wic tis bouutiful artest te picture gallery, wic we fnund inter- 183 and 18t, Vol. I, No.4, of te Memorial. on te plan of eac member paying fifty cents crops out were gospel seed. reaces suc esting, toug it did not abound in master Te Silo Society under date. of Sept. 17, yearly as long as tey were members of te ground as is conducive to its expansion and pieces, and ad only one or two sculptures 1820, paid A. R. Wells, missionary, $10. I Soci ity.wlien te Society was organized growt. It is not confined to tose outside. of note (l orwaldsens). presume tis was qarried to te General some of te Moters II!. Israel became mem- of te curc, but is as often needed and felt We ten drove about te city, viewing Oonference, eld at Piscataway, N. J., Sept; bers and afterwards witdrew. Wy tey did by tose witiu. Living as we do, in a busy, te park, public buildings and te ouse 25, i820, bya del~gate. from te Silo so I am at a lobs to know, unless it was tken, bustling world, amid te excitements and were Sciller lived. A lack of knowledge Ourc.Eld. Jon Davis,Oaleb Seppard,as now" tey wanted an organization of teir allurements incident to suc a life, ow often of Englis on te part of te driver and of and. J ededia Dam were delegates from own. O, yes, te Silo Female Mite So do w~ become, unconsciously and almost un German on ours, rendeled te ride less en- Silo; tey were also delegates to te Mis- ciety wsl:! constltuted about tat time; I pre- avoidably, entangled wit tat wic de joya~le tan it migt ave been under oter sionary Board eld at. te same time, Sept.. sume tat will account for it; no difference, presses us iii. our religious life. We find ourcircumstances. In its buildings,,leipsic is 25, See Memorial, Vol. 1, No.4, pages so we all work for te same object, tat of selves. living on a low plane, from wic we...~. would gladly rise, but ave not te power to very fine, aving rows an(l. rows of very 181 and 182. At tis meeting Eld. Jon elpiug convert te world..10 s~. Te prayers wic we utter for freelarge, fine buildings, -_. and it seems to be a Davis, of Silo, w~ appointed on a mission Te time ad co~ wen tere sould be dom seem to ave lost teir power, and we. very active city. for tree monts, to "WoodbridJitetown, Fay- greater effort put fort for sending out mis can sing, H Wat precious ours we OnCS enette Co., Frenc Oreek, n~ar Meadviile,Pa., sionariesto preac te gospel, and tere be- joyed, ows,:,eet teir memory still," muc SHILOH AND THE G NERAL MISSIONARY SOCIEty. O k. al V" d d f f d t 1 more appropnately tan te worda: "Sweet" and Lost ree and;s em, lrgmll~. ing a aman or morl;) un s, ano er p an te moments, ric in blessing, wic befor& Te following is quoteld from te Treas- was adopted to raise te money by circu.lat- te cross Ispend.!. Littlefcixes ave entered. [Te following extracts from te records relating urers books of te Silo Society: ing a subscription, or some person going in and done serious injury wic we cannot to te Sevent day Baptist General Missionary SOC! Marc 21), 1821, paid to, l<!ld. Jon DaVis, mis- troug te Society to collect wat e repair. Troubles and feuds often arise be: ety and of te Cuinberlsnd County Society will.. s i onary... ~ ;... sow ow tis curc was Vientified. I < cou. ld Eld Gll lee tt genera 11 y a tt en ddt e 0 tweenindividuais, in families, in, communi- wit te early Jan. 1, 1822, paid to A, R. Wells, missionary, tat matter wile e was pastor at Slrilo. ties and in te curc, wlc often old well milisionary movements of our people. Se is still try- for use of inissip:q meaning souls down wit suc a grasp tat. ing to keep te reco,rd good.]. From Dee., 1819 \0 Nov , sold tree Bi Afterward te curc adopted te plan of tey cannot escape te bligltting power and bles and donated: $even. taxing te male members to r8i~e te funds e:ffectupon teir religious life. Not tat In te ycar of 1801 a proposition was sub Here ends te Treasurersip of De!}con for te Missionary and Tract Societies. Tat tey wis to turn teir back.upon te cauee mitted to te General MeE!ting of te curces, ten assembled a.t Hopkinton, R. I., to Davis. ceed but two or tree years, te curc ten and foot witout te power of releasing tem Oarles Davis, broter to Deacon Reuben see~ed to be too exacting, and did not suc- of Orist; but tey are almost bound and u~dertake a missionary work upon a larger selves. It is at suc times as tese tat we!icaletan ad been before contemplated. David Seppard was Treasurer fiom.nov., adopted te envelope system for raising money need te genuine revival spirit, wit its warm, 1822, to November,:-l824.. for te Missicmaryand Tract Societies, and melting and refining powers, so tat tese Te next annual meeting was eld at Hop. kinton,. R. I.. in Some of te curces reported.favorable, oters not so favorable,. to tepropoaition. Te missionary spirit ad taken old of I te people, and te subject wa~ being agitat~d from time to time. "But no decided action iu rejation to missions was taken till. 1817,wen it was resolved tat Conference. recommend to all te curces in our fellowsip (not already formed) to form temselves into societies in teir vicini tiei for.te promulgation and spread of te gospel ill its purity. And, it is also proposed elping tnepoor..te Jast tree or fo?i differences of feeling may be melted away, so M. ~at te scales of sslfisltn.ebs may so fall from years te curc expenses, t~e IBSlonary, all eyes tat.allcari see temselves just as Tract and poor funds ave Men raised by te tey are, and CIlon forgive as tey would.be envelope 8YSte~ to be collected m~ntly. - and tus open teway for te un-. Te evening after ~e first Sixt.day in eac by letting te power of te. gospel so mont,atte prayer and Qonference meeting, tat oters seeing its good effects may.. 11 f ~ O be led to glorify God.. a collectio~ is taken especla y or e ID:a We ten urge tat revivals are needed at times for te good of bot Oristians and. t~e ungodly. 0 It moves te.u,!-godly.a~dte... Slllner wen tey see Okrtsttans Willmgto.. see nd confess teirfaulta. A,nd.Orlstianl, wo may ave become deprebbed for various. " reasons, some of wic may be beyond teir ~ control, ar~ often aroused a~dquickened as tey ear te prayer of te u,neonverted oter. power could move. tem... tus a. great two.fqld. good is accomplielei.i~, Hence, we sould pray for andweloome genuine revival spirit~ but we sould. --=."~." it as free frutn excitement as.~ble, in resultsmi,t be pe~ml!l1en~: ". :-,

2 THE.ssions. considered beneat te men, and are never educated. Skeptics say tat.te American WQmen wo teac te Cinese are entusiasts, but it is tese noble women wo. are.. Go fa mto all te world; and preac te gospel ture.., 10 nery crea. going to. elevate te women" of Ciria. - Ten again it is said tat te Cinese are nrte Corresponding Secretary aving tem- a stationary natiqn, forty centuries Qld" porarily canged is place of residence, all com wile Amerioa, only one-fortiet:tj, as old" is munications not deslgn~d for te Treasurer sould ffltr aead of tem in everyting. Tis is be addressed, until furter notice, A. E. Main, true in some ways, but te Englis were Sisco, Putnam Co., FIll.. Regular quarterlyme.lt not so anxious to improve until te introingo of te Board are eld on te second Wednes- duotion of Oristianity;.te Anglo-SaxQnS day in December, Marc. June,and Septemb",r; and were not muc of a nation until te religion ample time sould be allowed for business matters of Jesus was,spread among tem. In te to reac te Board troug te Secretary. last fqrty years Cma as made wonderful strides fi)rward. Se as er railroads now a.nd er navy of ironclads, and te SOQner A PUYER. te people embrace Cristianity te SODner CIna will rival te United States. Te BY HAZEL. Emperor as pro.mised protectiqn to. all wo wis to teac and preac te gospel in is "Metinks it will be indeed an exceeding joy to realms, and wat a glorious ting it will ave ad even te smallest part in te blessed work be it te converted men go. ome from ere, of givlll,!! te gospel to te neediest of eart."- not wit, gqld and silver, not to say tat Mrs. E. E. Baldwin, in January Jilriend. tey ave been troubled wit corrupt PQliticians; but wit te religiqn of Crist; and Some little part. 0 Lord. give me/ Tou knowst I cannot sare ten wen,cina becomes a Cristian oountry er p,eople will rise up.and call America Te toils of laborers in far fields,, Tou dost not call me tere. blessed.. After a ymn ad been sung, Mr. Tong was asked to tell someting of is wqrk in But, Lord, I love tee, and ty work Of saving souls wo live In dlll"lmess, and know n~t te ligt Tat tou alone canst give. Standing witin tat blessed ligt, I fain would Bend some ray To sow to weary, wayworn earts Te pat to endless day. Sow me, 0 Lord. and elp me seize Eac opportunity, If tereby I may lead some soul To ligt, and peace, andtee. -Heaten Womens Friend. -_. ELD. RUTLEDGE, of Elk Oreek, MD., toug not now a missionary of te Board, writes: "I ave done more mission work in te last tree monts, and wit better succel!s, tan during any oter tree mqnts ijl te last two years; and am glad to inform vou tat tlle Sabbat questidn as come to. te frqnt, and conversiqns to. te Sabbat are of almost daily occurrence, all Qver te country. I ope aud pray for te peace and prosperity of te Lo.rds Zion.". _. THE CHINESE AND CHR8TlANITY. breaking up NewYork gambling dens. He related te story in brief, saying tat te Cinese pay a police,captain Qf a precient *200 a week to be let alune, and te police will do noting to arrest tem. A body of te converted Cinese ad formed wat was known as te anti-gambling body, and wit te aid Qf Antony Comstock ad broken up te dens several times, and were still at work. Tey ad te desire of teir countrymento gamble to oontend against, but te greatest indrance was te PQlice, wo. would aid te gamblers. Te Cinese sports ad offered to anyone wo WQuld assassinate im [Mr. Tong], but e sould continue is wqrk as long as e could.-providence Journal., CHINA. le present cdndition of te Cinese Empire cannot bnt excite te deepest intere8t. Religious and politioal fqrces of 8 migty sort are acting upon te gqvernment; te days of er isdlatio.n and exclusiveness are nearly en,.ded,!lond te. wedges ave already entered tat must ultimately open up ancient Cina. A new departure, fun of significance, aud Mr. Tong, a converted Cinaman, now -, full, we cannol; but tink, wit many bles ~tudying.in. Brooklyn, New York, for life sings to te Cinese people, as recently In te mlsslon:lly w~rk, recently addressed a been mad~ by te Imperial G~vernment.,a large audience In te Stewart Street ConservatIve and slow to move, It as, not Baptist Ourc, in Providence, R. 1. He witstanding,. tak~n a forward ste~ wic Pok for nearly alf an our uging remark_,wq;.-sonld, bail WIt -prof?und gr8tltud~ to sa... GDd. A decree as been Issued to te Ig ably ~ood EnglIs. He said tat te time officials of te Cinese Empire, callin~ teir was rapidly approacing wen te Cinese attention to te work oforistian mlssionwould be a converted nation. Forty years aries, and defining te,attitude wic in ago tere were not more tan six cdnverts future is to be taken towards teir in te wole empire of Cina, wile now and towards native oonverts to Cristianity. tere were ndt less tan 45,000 wo confess On te strengt of tis decree, te eads Qf J eaus Orist in te presence of teir coun- provinces and ig mandarins -ave issued trymen, and 150,000 attend service eac proclamations to t4e people, calling on,ij}em, week. Te wqrk is as firm as it is extensive, to live a.t peace wit Cristian missibnaries and if te increase is as rapid in te future and converts) and expla.ining tat te Crisas it as been in te past, tere is no doubt tian religion teaces men to do rigt,and about Cinas future. It is uman nature sould, terefore, be respected. for men to look for gain everywere, and Tese proclamations ave Qee:n publised. te Cinese come to tis country fqr tat in so many parts Qf Cina tat it seems reason. In Cma tis co.untry is called probable tat every viceroy in te ei6t~en Golden Eills, and it is co.mmonly said tat provinces as received- official and positive gqld and silver is 10Dse in te streets and is instructions on te subject.. strewn over te ills, and tat te, Ameri Four years ago te- Britis Minister at caus do not know te value of it. FQr tat Pekin, te late Sir Harry Parkes, wrote: reasdn te Cinese come ere to get some "At lengt it may wit positive trut be {)f te precious metals before te Americans said Oina is on te move, even Cina Oanfind out teir value. Most of te Cina- not witstand transforming Western forces." men wo. C0me ere are farmers SQns, wo TQ-day, wit even a fuller meaning, may -do not like to tqil in te fields, but prefer to. it be said, ~, Cina is on te move." seek teir fortune. Some of tem are suc Now surely is not te time fodndifference ~ssful and write ome for teir friends to or-deipair, but rater ~or dqwnrigt earnestcome ere, wile oters ave no luck and ness and daring enterprise. Cina as been wri~e back regretting tat tey ever came. opened in spite of erself, and been forced But GDd, plans for tem, and ~ey not Qnly into te great f~m!ly of nations. gater wealt ere, but receive someting Tey are spreadmg temselves Qver all te more preciqus tan gold and silver, te fa(,e of te globe, and te waye of emigraabundant blessing of God, and are taugt tion is to-day aotually to~cldg our own QW to find Crist.. Te 9u~stiQn now sores co.mes, Are te AmerlCans WIlling to take One tmg IS certain~ te CInese are gomg te responsibility God as given tem r to t!lke teir place among te. civilized n,a You.can work for te Master just as wellm tions of te ea~t~, not as a cyp~er, but as a PrOVidence as anywere, for te Cinese are real factqr; and It 18 fqr us to.. c~nblder weter not now your antipodes but your neigbo.rs, tat factqr sall be a CrIstIan or a. pagan and tose ere are more susceptible tan to oters. You may no.t always see te good done at once, for te Cinese are nat urally slow and conservative, believmg tat watever teir ancestors, did is rigt and proper,for tem. Te oief inducement for te Cinamen to. co. me to Sunday scqol is to learn te Englis language, fqr it aids tem in teir,bus.iness; but if tey are tdld te story of Crist again and agait;l, toug at first tey tink it, blaspemy, tey finally accept it and are oouverted. SDme ask wa~, gqod. it does to cqnvert Oinamen, for tey are gone in a day or two; but te converted Ob.ina~~n,gQ Qme, and are te best workers, tor temaatera cause. Tf;l Cinese know very littleabout wat is going.on in oter, countries. Tey cali teir country te _ G~eat,Middle Empire, and cqnsider all oter nations barbarians. and tink tat temselves oan do,better wqrk of all,~1i1ui. ence tey are surprised wlien tey to find you do everyting better do. Tere are plenty, of Oat, too many in fact, for te reason, for tis is tat it is -tion wjt all tdlss~oiis. spf,ead religion on aceount of.gatere.d in,. curces H\llJ,e;i.m8j[(e., considered t,e goos and t~e Cinese. Cris- ands, elevate te social ""litij~lf(~l,tlb:ejjiiil8le WOlmeJi." for t~ey ~e" coura~e, ana full,of ~iait in te ultimate triump Of te gospel;, most of us feel tat tere is someting wanting. We want more men; but tere isa iger,want. We need ~ore, perlec~ i:n~tods (if operation; but tere IS a ~eed m?re vital;tnd pressing still.. I fe~l 1!1 illy Inmost soul tat our pressing need IS a baptism of divine power; and I can add, from certain knowledge, tat most of our missionaries in Oina feel as I do.. Cina is ~ea~-terribly dead: Oar plans and orgamzatlons can, do but little for tat great people. Tey. n.eed life. Orist came to. give, life; an~ te all absorbing question wit me IS, How: is tis life to imparted to tis dead mass? ", Te secret of te suooess.of te apostles lay nqt so muo in wai~ tey did and said as in te presence ot Crist in tem a.d wit,tem, Tey saw wit te eyes of Orist, felt wit IS eart, and worked wit is energies. Tey were noting; Crist was everyting. Crist was living, breating, and tumping in teir personal lives. Teir entire nature being replete wit is life, teir spirits bated inis ligt, and teir souls kindled wit te fires of is love, tey moved in te midst of men ss.embodiments of sl1pernatnral PQWer. Tey spdke wit te demdt1/3tration of te Spirit; wen tey,came in oontact wit men, a inysterious energy went out of tem; and under teir vitalizing touc dead souls started Into life. Te Spirit ad taken old of te igest faqulties of teir nature, and was working wit tem.according to is will. itis is wat. missionaries must be if India, Oia, and Japan are ever to. be moved troug tem; tis IS wat we must all be if GQds will is ever to be accqmphsed in us and troug us. "-Te Missio!ary Herald....,. MATERIAL PROGRESS IN SUI!. increase in te number of ~ose wo app~ar commanded,8 vi~w of te veranda to devote temselves to agrlculturalpursults. tere Qegan to. sing a ymn in B a~~ Te.order of tings in ~erusalem, too, is "Seis singing someting tat we c:: ga I very different from wat It was only a few d.er,stand!" one of tem exclaimed d ~n. yeals-ago, and te cange te Holy City is and by te cards were dropped tey ~r y gradually u~~ergoing strikes every ~r&veler" into te room. Verse after ve~se was s~~rne wo as revisited te place after an Interval..still tey wanted mqre Sometime g, of eigt or ten seasons. Wole qnarters Englis ymn was asked fdr and transl B /n ave been rebuilt, sa.nitatidn is cared for, tat. gave one an QPpo.rtunity of prea~i~gg te streets are well ligted; clocks are placed CrIst to t~em: O, ow tey listenedl on many public buildings, and te gates are An entusiastic cqngregation like tat no longer closed at sundown, to te incon- ~ould gladden any preacers eart! Some venience of residents and te indranoe of time ~fter, wen te same zenana was visit. tradespeople. Te tanneries and slau~ter. ed, tn.e players were asked wat ad become ouses ave been removed to a distance, and Q.f teir cards, and tey replied: ~Dont men. outside te walls Qf te ancient enclosure a tlon tem to us again t It was all very well H new Jerusalem" is slqwly rising, tat at te to gamble wen we did not know any better; present rate of growt will in a few year.s but nqw we see,?ur foil:}" and we ave given quite oversadqw te old city, exceeding it t~e c~fds to. te little?ildren to. builji ouses bot in area and population. Suburbs are Wlt~, Ever.after tis tey used to come in springinp; up round abo.ut and extending, durmg t~ BIble lessqns, asking questions notably on te western side. And as Herr and speakmg out teir tougts like so many Scick, te government surveyor, estimates little cildren and seeking ard to I te number of dwellings to ave "probably, From Heate~ Womans Friend.. earn._ trebled" in five.and-twenty years, some idea. _ may be formed of te rate at wic Syria is making progress, - notwitstanding many. CHINA, wit er immense population of and serious disadvantagea.-spectator, in over one fift. of te race, is yielding, after Gospel tn All Lands. stubborn resistance, to te advances of JEWISH MISSIONS. A deeply interesting aooount of Rabino- Western e~terprise, if te report be true tat Americans are about to engage in tele. grap, telepone, and railway operations ~ere, wit~ te sanotio~ of te Emperor. Te mtroductlon of our rapid means of transit and wito, a Jewis lawyer in Sout Russia, oommunication into tat great inert mass of wo was converted to Crist troug read- umanity must quicken its tougts and acing te New Testament, and of te Jewis tivities immensely, and in time make Cina movement towards Cristianity wic e more receptive to te gospel tat as given as originated, is giv~,n, in!v~r~ and Wi8rJc te West its civilization. Secretary Olark of f(lr November 11. n. CrISIS says D r. tb A. B d d 1 S ".. d I e merican oar expresses t e COnvIO A 0 P. ap Ir, IS evi ent y approac Il!g. tion tat in tis vast" empire lies te great. Talm.udlsm, and te atte~pt to D!()der~lJ~e est missionary problem of te immediate JudaIsm, and to reduce It to ratlonalistio" future" deism, ave bot failed and proved tem- selves to be witout vitality, and yet te THE great danger and anxiety for all Evidence of progress is seen on every aide. national oonsciousness as been roused, and Cristian ear~s to-day is, lest we may awake Te towns are incressing in size and popu- strengtened by te recent experiences of to te finised triump of tis glorious latinn, imports and exports are steadily ris te Anti Semitic movement." Mr. ScOn- work, in tis world or te ereafter, and ing, trade, is passing from te ands of berger writes: "Te Jews in Kiscineff find tat it as gone on by us, beyond us Eur9peans into tose, of te nllotive mer ave now accepted tile fact tat tere is and witout us; tat we nave no rigt t~ cants, and te fellain are beginning to in te midst of tem a Jewis.synagogue in jo.in in te sout of ti-iump, tat we can. invest money in cattle-rearing. In te wic one of teir bretren, of unblemised not rejo.ice tat any of te countless trong larger seaports te signs OI. material growt caracter and eminent gifts, proclaims every from te far lands was redeemed trpug are especially-striking.. Sabbat tat Jesus is te Messia promised any labor, or in answer to any prayer, of Beirut,for example, would ardly be known to teir faters, and te Sa.viour of te ours, apd by so muc we are debarred from for ~e.same place by travelers of te last world." Rev. A. Venetianer, of Ro.rbac, saring in our Redeemers joy, wen "e generation were tey to revisit it, no.w. It as says of tis Cristian synagogue: "Te sll see Gf te travail of is soul and sall quadrupled ijl extent aud po.pulation witm room was full; ere sat, tere st!)od, men be satisfied." Te victory is sure and near. te last fi~e-and-twenty years, aud is prac- closely crowded, a few of tem old, most of We can Bee te propecy fulfilling: "He tioally a new city, built partly in te West middle age, very many youts, and a few sall receive te eaten for is ineritancll, ern atylc, under te supervision of a Ger- soldiers in uniform. Among tem passed and te uttermost parts of te eart for is man arcitect. Te European quarter, as quietly about a little dark man offering and pdssession." Let-us arise ere te conquerit is called, is postively palatial.,it is well distributing Hebrew Testaments. :puring ing army marces by, ~iter to enlist in te paved, ligted} and-, incredible enoug- te reading" by Rabinowitc, frqm t~old ranks or to furnis supplies, to. fo.llow tem as a corps Qf. street scavengers. Tere is and New.resta.ments, first in Hebrew and wit our opes and prayers, ten sweet to water laid on, supplied by an Englis water- t~en in Ru~sian, "t~e earers st~od e~c us sall be te angelic ant~m, as tey sall works ; a :pa carriage service to wlt book In and silently. followld~ li~. sing, "Alleluia, for te kmgdom of tis TripDli,O..ne QfJeDl would.~_..blgna....oi..jll.t.elb-,.world-is-becorneo,te kingdom.0 our-..lord company ge~ce to andt~er, and IS 10Dks },ould, say,and of is Crist! ~-Rev. J. O. Fernald, in can furter boast a, successful paper mill, plainly, It IS so, do YGU ear? or nelg- Baptist Missionary Magazine costing upw.ard of 20,000, erected in 1883, bqrs WQuid touc wit teir elbows in order I and capable of supplying te wole of Syria to -draw attention to certain passages. I wit paper of first-class quality.,tougt all tese searc te Scriptures From a squalid an,d unsavqry Eastern diligently weter tese tings be so.", I> Rec81pt,~ port, witabout fifteeu or in January..~wenty tousand Te,Rev. E. H. Leitner, Gf Constantinople, residents, Beirut as g!70wn in a quarter of sayi!: "I counted 150 present wo were Received troug Womans Board a oentury to Ii. triving European entrepot, anging spell bound on te lips of Rabinoaving a popula.tion Gf over eigty tousand, witc; no. wonder, for te man and is work Curc, M. M $10 25 from te ladies of Waterford and tis in spite Qf te fact tat tere is no are born Qf te Spirit. TrQug all tere Sabbat scool, Berlin, N. Y arbor, and vessels ave to. ancor in te open rang te one ngte, Not I, but C~st in me. Second Alfn d Curc..., loadstead. Te sipping toucing-at Bierut Hundreds of tese Jews now believe in te Eli B. H~~r~:.. ~~~~~.~~~~~~. ~i.n.~.: $6 00 as grown, in te same five and twenty Messia. Sunday tey celebrate and keep Eli B. Ayers, Dodge Centre, Minn., years, from 100 vessels Gf 30,000 tons to Qly for te Lords sake. Saturday" te O. M..,... " nearly 400 steamers anjl 3,500 sailing vessels, Jewis Sabbat, is to tem a day for niis wit a tonnage,of 400,000 gross. sion work, as on ordinary working days te Eli B.l~e. ~~~~.~~.~~~:~~.. ~~~:: Mr. and Mrs: C. B. Rogers, Daytona, No. less marked is te progress made of Jews canno.t so. easily come to listen. RabinQ Fla., towards L. M. of Mrs. late years in and about Jaffa, te most witc imself writes, September 28, 1887: Mary A. Rogers souterly seaport of Syria. Te canges in " Just now,,during te, Jewis solemn Nortonville Cut:c tis ancie:{lt and interesting little town are feasts, many are CDme from a number of eminently striking. Te old wall tat different places to Kiscineff to ear, instead rdunded it, after te p~imitive Eastern fas Qf teir liturgies and dead prayers, te ion, as een pulled down; te moat filled wqrds of spirit and life of our Lord",wic up to admit of au exteusion of te I preac before all te congregation of available for building; and numbers of new Israel wit great quietness, no one making ouses ave been erected, many of imposing me afraid. From te oil:y of Warsaw tere style and size, to say no.ting of depqts and is come a wise and onorable man, wo is magazines. Nort and so.ut of te town is sent by twenty five JeWis men wo ave qui~e a series of suburbs, substantially built cgme to te fait of Crist troug Isaia by Arab immigrants from Upper Egypt, 53, wo desire to join our community. wo are settling in Syria and Palestine. Also from a town in te government Kiev And it isngted, too, tat te ouses ave tete is come a respectable man, desiling to glass ~indows, a t,ing uneard Qf twenty take upon is soulders te yoke Qf Messias years agp.,,,te co.untry ronnd about Jaffa gospel, wic is easyandligt, and preac it. is even more canged tan te port itself. afterwards to te.. multitude of is Jewis It is being co.nverted into quite an eartly bretren." / paradise, one.vast orange grove, region of In Siberia, and Hungary also, Jews are orcards and fruit-gardens. being brougt to Crist by isgdspel. Pro Haifa, te little port at te foot of Mount fessor Delitzc Bays: "Te and of God is Carmel, as rqused from its torpor, and in tis movement, of wic, strictly speakgone, in fqr building an.d rebnilding,-on a ing, e is te true Autor. "-. Friend of Bmall scme, of course,. It is so canged tat Missions. Herr Scick, te ~overnment surveyor of buildings, declares e did not reoognize t,e place wen e revi~ited it in ,Ores)lre,a., once,famo~s, b.itt w,ol1y desert ed for. centuries, is on te ig road to beoome olice again a center for trade. Tere is te nucleus of. a pew town rising, inabited -byj1;q~lem imm,igr",nts frqm Boznia and :t: erzegovina; a cnst?m~oubeis built, and a ne of steamers Will, call tere r~gularly. te large~ towij.s of te interior, te no~e of progre~s as been st~uck, at;ld all are in,~ li,tate of transition.. B,etleem: as beeln almqst entirely reo built, andimproved out of all knqwlerlge. Te streets were~ formerly impassable in winter; now" tey are paved and tolerably clean, passable at any ~ime. Te same may be ssid.oftiberias and Nazaret. Nablous-te:, ancient Secem were COlClnE!C-1 Josep was,become one vast SQap boiling t:, proquct is in,general Syria; and it ~~y,, of Pales- ])r(,«-/ == " Sabbat scool, towards L. M., of RUBsel J. Maxson N. Newton, Sec., Favett~ville. N. C Second Brookfield Curc... " $ 5 34 "". - Sabbat Ecool Edward E. Witfol,d Marta. J. Babcock... " , Wm. C. Wrtford.R. of C. M Mr. and M~s. B. W. Coon, Republic-, an CIty. Neb., C. M.,.... Mr. and Mra; Gileli ElllB, Dodge CeIl:- \,tre, Milln... ".... L. T. Rogers, Executor, MiltonJunc tion, intgrest on notes, Abel G. Burdick estate. for Ministerial Fund... $49 45 Principal of one note. in cas LIncklaen Sabbat scool, C. M Soutampton.Curc Te Ladies Evan~elical.SoCliety, AI fred Centre, N. Y., I: M Mrs. Content Potter, Alfred, N. Y First Brookfield Curc, G. F $ " "HoI. M "... Sabbat scool, G. F Farina Sabbat scool, G. F... $2849,.., " C. M Te Ladles Aid Society of Second Brookfield Curc to make L. M. Mrs. Eslie, L. Rogers Little Genesee Sabbat scool. G. F., $18 75 " " Primary- Class, S. M Y. P. S: C. E., of West Hallock, TIL, H. M.. ~. ". Te Womans Missionary Society, of, " Nort Loup, Neb. C. M.. DeRuyter Curc... ~ $ Balance December 31, " $49728 P m t J ay, en s In anuary $45000 == WE clip te- following iro~ a ber of te Oef!.tral N6W Jersey lised at P~ainfield, N. J.: Rev Dr. Lewis, of tis city, 1 M:ond~Y, to te Baptist Minis ence of New YQrk CIty, a pa.pe bat question as viewed fr~m til of te Sevent day Bap~Ist 01 d to ave been an admirable ~~ Lewis afterward allowerl tl to fire questions at im for twe lie WaB ready for te e!de,rgell prised te bretren by IS read: replies. THE SABBATH,BACRII(.-, Tere are some very pertinei cal questions for Stlvent,~ay 1 following ext!acts from Be )Ia.cfie, in "Te Sabbat Qf t, W",t is a consistent Cristi as to coo.se between money Sabbllt work, a~d rest on witqut it f CertaInly e on remunerativeemplo,ment, t~oll itself sould for a time, be end: te. piea Of is tempter admissil of cqnscience and before tetr te curc WQuld never av( orb and Orist would seem u de~anding tat we sould I tan ome, kindred, and life. ties H rejoiced tattey were ty to Buffer same fo.r is na! sake, tey :firmly opposed, Ii brated in tousands of spied( multitudes of teir disciples g and imprisonment, wy s( worldly prospects, uncertaiu im? Wy squld manufl cants and railway direct gain, triump oter im? SABBATH REFOR~

3 Womans Board of Waterford n~!~~, N:Y:.:~:.:. ~o~~.r: ~i ci, M:::::: Coon, Republic C, M,..,. Dodge Cen: labbat lje!orl1l.", JRenleDlber te Sabbat day, to keep it oly.!!i1 days salt tou labor, and do all ty work, but \110 sevent day is te Sabbat of te Lord ty God. " \ Wit~ watins~rumen,t tey propose.to strike. personal acqua~ntatice of leading at different forms of Sunday labor IS clearly Eur?vean botadlsts.. He maq.e imself also stated in te words, "Te ministers propose familll~r wit te type specimens in te older to petition Oongress to enact laws first to f:rbari~ a~~.cafre ~:k lully, eq~ipped for Te largest university is O:dord, iu Eng- ~espense wit carrying te mails and old- N:rt ~r:eri;:n lfi;ia, et~afi:~at~~l~~~ t~~ ~~~dajs.cou~ists of twenty. one colleges and mg post. offices open on te Sabbat." Tis is" Flora : being. completed in He WE clip te following from a recent number of te Central New Jersey Times, pub. plies tat after tis point is gained tey wi accepted a pro,fessersip of natural is. ps Exet~r Academy; by te late ~rancis E. be It observed, is te first move, wic im- never occupied te cair at Mic)ligan, but in "It is stated tj:!at te bequest made to Pil ".. t H d r 1 Parker wi11.amount to $110,000., lised at Plainfield, N. J. : ask for laws proibiting oter forms of so-,or c y m b ~drvar.. e ear t y years ~f is life 11 d S " m am rl gelltwere natura ly occupied wit Forty per cent of all te students at Wil Rev, Dr. Lewis, of t~is ci~y" presentedon, ca e,abbat.desecration, unbl te wole routin~ teacmg;, wit appliances wic Iiams Oollege are from New York, and Monday, to te Baptist MIn1sted Confer ground IS, covered. Is not te spectacle a would be reg~rded as ~tterly, ina~equate at twenty two per cent from M~ssacusetts. ence of New York City, a paper on te Sab, sorry one, wen a company of Protestant, t~e prese,nt time; bnt It was Il. sma1l begin. Te Trustee~ of Adelbert Oonege,~ Cleve. bat question as viewed from te stand point gospel ministers seek to stay wat tey can nmg, ~JC as led to te better,equipped larrd, 0., decided to refuse admission to of te Sevent day Baptist Curc. It is said to ave been an admirable presentation. tides of irreligion by appeals to civil law? BotamcbG~rden anha to t,e establ~8ment of women after te close of te present year. I. an, er anum. e contmued IS work as. Dr. Lewis afterward allower\ te clergymen t w?nld ardly be possible for te civil iu. an instructor til11872; but during tis time Jo~s Hopkins University publises seven to fire questions at im for twenty minutes; tonty to more completely disregard its own e found opp0rtunities for carrying on is, magazmes-?ne devoted to. matematics, He was ready for te emergency, and surprised te bretren by is ready and pointed ters tan to grant te request of tese rever. te pre~aratlo~ ot IS e~ucatlonal treatises, bi?logy, one to istori~al and political proper functions in respect to religioub -mat. work on-te. "Nort~"Americ,an Flora," for o~e to cemistry, ()D~ to,pilology, o~e, to rp.pes, - t d and for mcreasmg te popular interest in SCIence, and tree of local Interest.... en d pe t 1 f Ions i", an t ey could, ardly. get science: I n a. ddt" 1 lon to t 1S, e. devoted Te alumni of, Williams Oollege are en THE SABBATH SACRIFICE; a~t,er away ro~ teir dlvmely appomted mu~ time to te American Academy, in deavoring to raise a fund of $100,000 to, ~Isslon of p~ea~mg te Word of God, tan WIC e always too~te gr~atebt inte~est, erect a,memorial building at te college in Tere are some very pertinent and practi- In, tns petltionmg for uman laws to main. "To te public not Ii1e~ely ldterested ~n, te ~onor of Dr., Mark Hopkins, its former pres cal questions for Sevent day Baptists in te tam as a sacred institution tat wic as sclen,ce of botany!, especially to te rellglous Ident, wo died last snmmer.,.,pubc, Dr. Gray IS well known by is writ :-. following extracts from Rev. Wm. G. no aut orlty In te Word of God. To your ings on te relations of science and r A wealty JeWIs baron of England as ~IacfieJ in" Te Sabbat of te Lord: ", Bibles, o ye men of God I Accept and ~nd ~pon te Darw,i:nian teory. D~;~~~; donated 2,000,000 ster!ing, ~r $10,~00,000 Wat is a consistent Oristian to do if e reverently observe te Sabbat wic it m IS letters recently publised, refers to t? found,sc~ools for JeWIs c~ildren ld Rus as to coose between money wit con$tant gives you; teac te curc to reverence GraY t as n,e tf te tpree orffour wose judg. ~l:~t Tp~pI~~:st~~l:~~~;~ dd~~i~ogn t{o: pbr:~ee:t k d t t t W d d f fi "men on IS eory was 0 more value to Sabbat wor, an res on t e Sabbat a or an en orce, ~st upon religious im tan tatofte:world besides, including generation.. witout it? Certainly e ougt to refuse people te duty of observmg t S bb t G H remunerativeemployment,t,ougsubsistence,,",~ a a, WIt,ray, ooker, Lyell, and Huxley., Horace Davis, wo as been practical. itself, sould for a time, be endangered. Were Wit a Tus salt te Lord; ten you Darwm ad been i correspondence wit ly cosen President of te California. State te. plea of is tempter admissible in te court can talk to sinners about te sin of Sabbat D,r. Gray for years before te public,ation of U nivers~ty, as been a Representative in Con of conscience and before te tribunal of God breaking, wit appeals to a law infinite.ly ~~8 gbe~t b?off and ~ad ~een gate.rmg from gress twice from San Francisco. He is fifty te curc would never ave ad confess~ above anv wic Oongress can enact I~ 0 ;~Ica ::t8 t. earld f g upon IS ypot- years. old, a graduate of Harvard and a ors aud Crist would seem unreasonable in. -. etsis t ; ani rom G e }me 0 t e appearance of nepew of Bancroft, te istorian., d t t Id 1 ijd t a vo ume Dr. rliot was one of te earnest deman mg,s we s ou, ove Im m()re uea ton advocates of te tt1eory as a fair workin tan o~~, kindred, and life. If te apos-.(.. ypotesis. Many resid t f B t d g ties" rejoiced tat tey were counted wor-. " 11 r en so. os ~n an ty to Buffer same for is name" f f Ie Wisdom is te principal ting, terefore gel VICIDlty WI r~call te earnest ~IScussion be, 1.. or IS -1ft" d wit _11 t tt d> fore te AmerICan Academy In te years sa, t, ey fi rm Iy opposed ~ ~orslp, cel~. ~g!?m; an... y ge mg get un erstan and 1861, betweien Dr. Gra and Probrate~ In tousan~s?f,sp}endld, te~ples, If fessor Agassiz on tis great quesbon multi~ude~ of teir disciples gloried In bonds A A. G Dr. Gray was crowned wit di lo~as and :lud Impnsonment, wy ~ould we prefer S RAY. onor.e from all te principal uni~ersities of - " L«?Ok, not ~ou upon te wine wen it is red, wen It givet Its color in te cup, wen it movetb itself arigt.",~... At last it bitet like II serpent and stingetb like an adder." w.orl~ly Wrospebts, uncertam at te best, to Prof. ABa Gray died at is ome in te EUl"ope, and during,te past SUJ,llmer, wile Im, y s ~>uld m~nufacturers, mer B t G d C bd M traveling in England, received de rees from TilE PLE! OF DRUNKENNESS. c~nt8" and rallwa~ d?lrectors, greedy of 0 amc ar ens, am rl ge, ass., on teuniver~les of Oxford, CambgrIdge and t Monday evening, Jan. 30t. He ad been -- to - gam, rmmp O-ver 1m.,unconscious since Tursday, and elpless E~inburg. He leaves no cildren, but a T _ for more tan a mont. Widow, te daugter of, te -late eminent e London Observer, commenting upon I O 1 G L f B te sent~nce pronounced on Daniel Doerty SABBATIIREFORM. Dr. Gray was borll at Paris, N, Y., Nov. awyer, an es. ormg, 0 oston; and a te American wo sot and killed Graam; 18, He took te degree of M. D. at ost of friends in Cambridge and trougout pronounces it monstrous, and declares tat Under tis ead te Orist,;an Cynosure Fairfield Medical Scool, in 1831, but never t te country db will ~eeltat is deat as ex- t e JU d gmen t 0 f y T ustlce Stepen was biased publises a, report of a meeting of ministers, practiced medicine. After a sort time IngUls e a rig t and ceering ligt in by te opinion e as oft.!)n expressed tat spent i teacing some brances of natural te world of tougt, and as removed a d k, eld in te city of Oicago, not long since, istoryin a private scool in Utica, e was most S cerised and valued friend and com te tun gravity enness of Increases offenses, Instead a sentiment, of lessening says te as follows : induced, troug _ correspondence wit Dr. padlon.- Clence. Ob server, w IC is contrary to common,a.t a meeting,of Protestant pastors i1l. tis Torrey, of New York, a professor of cemis sense., CIty on Monday te 28t ult". to consider try but more widely known as a botanist, to SCHOOLS IN SOUTH AMERICA. It.is,very easy to Bettle a question by suc ow to overcome te prevalent Sabbat des accept, in 1833, a position in is laboratory, autontatlve expression of opinion. It ecration, ReiV" Dr. O. E, Mandeville, wose and a little later tat of curator in telyce An American lady, Mrs. Bernard Wit.. seems to preclude all argument, and to leave able address at te Elgin Sabbat conven- um of Natural History. By Dr. Torreys man, as been describing, in Lend-a p.o room for debate. To Bay tat a sent~ulent tion was one of te features of tat meeting. sidel, e began a career of ceaseless botanical and, te scools of Bogota, te capital of IS contrary to common sens~ makes it necespresented several papers. Tey were voted activity., our namesa!te, te United States of Ooloni- gary for one wo entertains tat sentiment Te battle between man and te saloon r~gef, and it is likely to increase in.intensity till te snd comes, because te saloon is an unnatural. product in our civilization. Veterans In te contest of to day ave witnessed, alternately, success and failure in all te organized movements of temperance people. But tere will not be any permanent backw~rd steps in te temperance reform-all SIgns of te times point forward. ~ere seem to be but two spec~al and well aimed movements to reac te life of te saloon and destroy it---one by te Womens Oristian Temperance Union and te oter by te temperance political party. Strange. ly enoug te one uses moral and te oter proposes legal means; te one is composed wolly of women and te oter of men. Tey are intensely in earnest and moved by a powerful conviction tat te American system of saloons must and sall be over~ trown. Tese two organizations are using a8 teir weapons literature and te plat, form, te ballot and prayer to compass teir end. No better agency can be employed for te promotion of a just cause. Tat te atmospere of our towns and cities is sur carged wit temperance electricity is evident from te clasing of political forces ~nd te sensitive condition of society on te Issues of total abstinence and proibition. Temperance seems to be te only great Illoral problem tat looms above our social or political orizon. All else as assumed te qu~et of an esta~lis~d order of tings; and tis order of tmgs IS now being almost forbidden in te wild scramble for office power and patronage, but tougtful and good men, sould stop and consider tat a canker is eating at te very vitals of te government.-cautauquan.. _. HOW NOT TO DO IT~ One gallon of wisky costs about 3, and contams on te average, 65 ten,cent drinks. Now, if yon must drink wisky, buy a gal-, lon, and make your,!ife te bar keeper; ten, wenyou are dry, give er ten cents for a drink. Wen te wisky is gone, se will ave, after paying for it,.3 50 left, and every gallon tereafter will yield te same profit... Tis money se sould put away in te Savings Bank, so tat wen you ave,become an inebriate, unable to support yourself, and sl!nned and despised by every respected person, your wife may ave money enoug to keep you until your time comes to fill a drunkards grave. HOW TO DO ):T. Give up wisky and make your wife your treasurer. to be presented to te meeting of te Evan- His botanical publications were begun bia. Te city as now nearly one undred to sow tat e is not a. fool: and canges JOHN WESLEY ON TEMPERlNCE REFORM. gelical A.lliance at / Wasington last week wit a description of certain sedges and tousand inabitaa s; and, being over eigt t~ issue ~rom t~e.original question to some -- wit te recommendation tat tey be laid newly discovered, plants of nort western tousand feet above te level of te sea it tmg entirely different. In tis case, ow: W,. > before Congress by a committee from tat New, York. In 1835 appeared, "Nort enjoys a climate similar to wat te c1i~ate ever, JusticeS~epen, one of te ablest of. ~ may not Bell anj:tmg: wic tends to Alliance meeting. American Grasses and Sedges," and in te of New England would be if te year con. te Englis J udgea, needs no defense upon I!llP~Ir ealt1,l. Suc IS emmently all ~,at Te first paper said tat but for Sabbat- following year ",Te Elements of,botany." sisted of twelve Septembers. Te boys of te question of is sanity or is intellectual liquid,fire, comm~nly called drams or SplIltdesecration tere would,be no suc cliss as T1s last was more tan a mere compilation Bogota. go to scool at six in te morning, ability, and te question of weter drunk. uous l!quors., ~t IS true, tese may ave a anarcists in tis country. It called for ~ of te materials available at te time, and after a breakfast of a rou and a cup of coffee. en ness sould be eld to aggravate or miti- place In ~edl,cme; t,ey may be of use m union among te curc people to down te gave. a good account of wat was known of First, tey assemble in te scool capel gate te ~uilt of an offender may be fairly some bodily dl~orders (altougt.ere would demon of Sabbat desecration. Te pro- te principles of morpology, istology! or in te nearest paris curc, for te early considered an open one, in spite of te Lon- rarely be, occasion for tem,,!e,re It not for posed plan strikes at every form of labor vegetable pysiology, and of te:department ma~s service. Te religious ceremony last./! don Observers opinion of Justice St te unskillfulness of te practltioner); teren~w, indulged it on te Sabbat,day. Te in wic Mr. Gray was more! interested, about alf an our. Ten tey marc into. If a man is responsible for a crimfal e~~t fore suc as prepare and sell tem for tis llildlsters propose to petition Congress to en. botanical classification. Altoug te young ~te scool room! Tis first session continues e is Eqaully responsible for te successiv~ end only, may keep temselves clear; b.ut act,laws first t? dispense wit carrying te writer ventured to differ from te autor until ten oclock, wen tere is an inter- steps wic lesu.,up to tat act. It is true,!o ~r,e tey? Do you know ten suc dismalls and oldmg post offices open oli te ities of te day, e was appy in after years mission of an our for te second breakfast, tat te law takes cognizance ciefly of te tillers m Englaud? Ten excuse tese; but Sabbat. Te paper is addressed to te in finding tat tese expressions of is yout wic co;nsists of soup, generally bad, fried ultimate act, but at te sa.me time it is all wo sell.tem In te c?mmon way, to House of Representatives assembled, and needed but little cange. His" Botanical meat, boiled potatoes, fried plantains, fried ways te legitimate object of inquiry wat any ta~ will buy, are. prlb,oners ;seneral. says: "Te telegrap is now used to trans. Text Book" was publised in 1842; and eggs, and ri3, tick cocolate-not a suita were te,moving causes to tat act. wat Tey murde~ er majebt~ s subj~cts by ~it all important news, and terefore tere wit tis we may refer to te educational ble meal for a student. was te mental attitude of t ff d wmlebale; ne~ter does teir eye PIty nor. f " b k tt b 1 At b d 1 t b f ;, e,o en er spare; tey dnve tem to ell like seep.18 no a b so 1 u t e necessity or runnlllg mails on 00 s Wll en y 1m, w IC comprise a ong oar lng-bc 00 ere IS no con versa e ore t~ commission of. te, crime" an,d and wat IS teir gain? Is it not te blood te, Sabbat. Consequently te running of list: How Plants Grow!. {1858), "How tion at breakfast, but instead one of te wat was Its purpose. TIS bemg so, It IS of tese men? Wo, ten, would env.v teir malls on tat day is in violation of state Plants Beave" (1875), "Te Lessons" teacers reads aloud from te:" Lives of te surely t~e w~akest of, pleas for an offende! large estates and sumptuous palac:s? A laws.", : (1857), a new edition of," Te ElemeIltB" Saints." to?rge 1~ is owp. bealf tat e ad.vo;tn- curse is in te midst of tem: te curse of Te next paper is addressed to te direct- (1887), and te" Text Book," issued during At eleven te beli rings again, and scool tanly d!3vered Imself up to te dommation God cleaves to te stones, te timber, te ors of te railroads of te United States, and te past year, wic is Il revised edition of continues until dinner-time, wic is tree of t,e demtn ordrun)cenness, a~d tat te furniture of tem; te curso of God is in says: (; Te increased rate of speed of travel "Te Lessons." Besides tese we may oclock. Te boys now enjoy an interval demon, and not e, IS responsible for te teir gardens, teir walks, teir groves, II. and transportotlon..,to.. os compared wlt tat.. N mention" J U Te t Manual d St t of "(1848) te Botany f of te of two ours, during wic tey ave ".,teir unlawful.. "" ant.... fe tat burns to te netermost ell... ~3e~ in te ~ays of our faters, as ao mul- ort ern Dl e a es,0 w IC dinner, a meal tat differs from breakfast An OrIental apologue relates tat a djllln, Blood blood is ter I T f u d f f. tlpljed te facilities of despatcing business tere were five editions, also" Field, Forest, onl~ in b,eing a lit~le more profuse, and in or geni, on~ ~ot a m,ortal into is power, floor te roof are s~ained e i~ \i I~~, nd tat tere is no necessity of runningtrains snd Ga~den Botany" (1868). His." Man- endmg WIt cakes, Jelly and preserves. andgave Im IS coice weter e would cadst tou ~ e 0 tou w 00, an more tan six days in a week, and tat, ual" is probably te best knqwn, as it must At five oplock te merciless bell a.g~in, commit murder, or be ~uilty of l!dult~ry" or,toug,tou ait ~loted in r::: 1 of,:lor terefore, all work done on Sabbat, except ave been in te ands of every American summon~ ~e boys to te cool.room, were get drunk. Te unwise mortal, tmkmg linen and farest sum tuo { p e an, ~ of necessity and mercy, is in violation of our botanist since te time of its publication. tey remain u~tii seven, and ten go, ome, to coose te least of tpe tree evils, elected canst tou oe to djiverudlw:~y fi~ii~ of statela,!,s, so tat if a community of capital Te "Genera of Nort America" e began for good, makmg ten ot;1rs of scoolm all. to,getdrunk; but,\bays te legend, after e blood to te tird generati? NYt. f openly Ignores statute laws we need not be in 1848, but of tis but two volumes ave been Suc. a len~tened perlo~ of, confinement ~d got,drunk, e committed bot te oter tere is a God in eaven tb! f t SO, or surprised wen a community of laborers,fol. publis,ed, wic, even in teir unfinisgd w?~ld B,oon k~ll t,e boys, If tere were not CrImes...:, sall be rooted out lik re ore yname low teir example." r condition, ave been of great use to botan mitigating Circumstances. Muc of wat Te modern drunkard wo commits a bst destro.fed bod a:aa: t?se wom t~u A paper to te directors of telegrap lines ical teacers,. Te great work of is life is t~ey call stud:y is merely t~e mindless repeti. cri~e wile ;Itoxica~ed as. not te excuse sall perisli.wit tt!ee.-6ttt ~y memorial says: "Te electric forces now, utilized by te great" Synoptical Flora," wic ad ~ts tion of words In a loud v,olce, as tey walk wic te Onentalsmnel m1gt ave offered e eo e. Our telegraps ave brougt te people of beginning in Torrey and Grays" Flora" up ~:nd down in te room, oj; in a corridor -tat of being subject to te control of a te world into close proxim.ity, and tere~ forty years ago. As far as publised, it outside., -supernatural being. His coice is not ~ore tere is no more necessity for transact- consists of a volume of nine undred and Te boy is reg!l.rded as te best student among tree dilferent,offenses, but between lug business by telegrap on te Sabbat seventy.four pages on te gamopetalous wo stu~ies loudest, and terefore tose wo guilt and innocense,of any offense, and if e tan tere is for people to keep teir stores orders, bu~ tere are oter portions ave an ambition to stand well in te esti willfully and deliberately puts into is m.out open." wic ave been publised in te proceed- mat jon of teir teacers and teir friends te enemy wicstealsaway is brains, e Te last paper is addrebsed to te proprie- ings of te American Academy. It would walk up and down, souting teir lessons at bas no moral rigt, and soull ave no legal tors of te public press of te United Sta.tes~ be. impossible to enumerate te numeroul!i te top of teir voices.,> rigt, to plead one fault in mitigation of ~nd says tat" te Sabbat is te ditiding memoirs and papers wic ave come from Te post office of Bogota is in a building anoter.,i " ne ~e~ween OQ,ristianity and eatenism; is pen, many 01 wic ave been tributary wic was formerlv an,extensi,!e,curc, Modern science, wic runs largely to no t~at It 18 ttl bulwark tat sields our Oris- to te" Flora." Dr. Gray regarded as is wit a large monastery connected wit it, and menclature, as invented a name, if not te tlan ciyilization against anarcy, and tat most important minor work" Te Relations tis still retains its broad corridors and disea~e, wicp is d~ps,omania., Properly every mfluence tat tends to weaken te of te Japanese Flora to tose of Nort walks. Here may be seenanq eard num understood, dipsomania Iun unconquerable p~wer of te Sabbat over te public con- America," publised in Tis was berb of boys from an adjacent scool, strid ana wolly irresistible impulse for inton B,Clen~e e~da~gers te stability of our repue- based on te study of plants collected by ing up and down, roaring teir lessons, to cants;.but ~t as become common to call an l~ca~ InstItutions; tat te, business of pub. Wrigt, and e believed tis paper gave im te serious disturbance of te public. ordinary drunkard a dipsomaniac. Never 8In~ ~nd selling newspapers on te Sab- is repntation to a large extej;lt in Europe. Te teacers ave anoter resource against was a term more misapplied. Te ordinary bat IS In open violation of our state laws. In 1834, or }.Iossibly later, Dr. Gray reo te tedious lengt of te scool day.. As,drunkard is no more a dipsomaniac tan is! e, t~refore, respe~tfully request you to ceived an appointment I as botanist of te tey sit in telr seats of autority, tey te Q.sual pickpocket a kleptomaniac, or te discontldue te publication of newspapers Wilkes expedition, wic was expected to ear te lessons and smoke at te same time. m:.n wo set fire to a ouse in order to plun on te Sabbat." _ star~ for te Sout Sea Islands; but delay Even te boys occabiodl~lly indulge in der it and rob its inabitabts a pyromanaic. W, after delay~ and a cange in te plans of te t smoking during scool ours, toug, as a HI! is a drunkard because e wants to be a, e ave no,t deemed it necessary to print expedition, caused im to resign, and about rule, it is not permitted. Lady teacers drqnkard, and t3t is ~ll tere iei of it, and In tis connection extracts from te papers tis. time e rec~ived an aj?poi~tment to. te smoke continually?ut of Bc,?oL,"T~y", to dignify. iir vi,ce, wit a long n,a~~, an(j. ~o, re:erred to in te foregoing,report. Te cairot botanym te UmversiU of Mlc- are rarely seen WItout II Cigar m teir seejt to sield Im from,responslbllityforls fort1 drift of te, wole matter is sufficiently in- iga., ten jub~ establised. fie asked for a mouts," says Mrs. W~itman..,, crimi~al ao,t.b!>epind i~own evil conduct;, is years ago, ~~ accumu!ated ~ fortnne":by dicated in te words of te ayn08ur~. "Te y~ars ab~ence III; Europe, wic was granted Oar s~ools ave teir d~fects, but, upon ntter "an~ pd!ctilous no~n.ae., ~U8tlce from te TlCtlIDS.o~-~nnk, died a po,qr man pro d im, during wic year e not only made te wole, we, axe not, disposd to cange Stepen 18 rlgb,t. Drunkenness does, add to Jut wee}!:. ProIbitIon brou~t at" lilt,." po~e plan strikes ate!ery forin. oqabor,:aluable purcases, and c?llecl~ons.for te scool ~yste~s wit te United States 1)f te g~!it, of a:n off~nsej a~d ~e,law, ~ould just rekibution for yean om.pmtt now Indulged on, tne Sabbat;aay." library of te Jl8W univ~r8ity, but glpne~ te ColombIa..,so con81der it.-, San :Fr1.l~8C(1 Oromc18. fellow-men.-oyno8ure.

4 .. lured Centre,!, Y., Fm-day, Feb. 16,1888. UV; L. A. PLATTS, D, D., Editor. nv. E. P. SAUNDERS, Business Manager. RBV. A. E. MAIN. D. D., Sisco, Fla., MissIOnary Bdltor. A COMMITTEE of experts, including te State Engineer, as recently decided tat te stone ceiling in te Assembly Oamberat Albany, in tis state, is in imminent danger or falling, aud tat it mus.t be taken down and rebuilt. Te Assembly is, terefore, looking for some oter and safer place i wic to old its sessions. It is estimated tat it will require all tile time from now until next fall to put te camber ID usable condition. Te Assembly is now olding its sessions in wat is known as te Assembly Parlors. Mr. Fryer is connected wit. ~e edpcational move~entsof!e ~mpire and te noble stand wic e as taken upon s~c moral questions as te use of alcoolic drinks, opium and tobacco; and ow Mrs. Fryer is finding abundance of work as Secretary of te Sangai Branc of te Worlds W., 0.: T. U., be~tdes te multiplied oppodunities of wic te letter speaks: " I am glad to tell you we are au in usual ealt, and ver1( ousy. Tele seems no end to te work wic keeps coming to us" for bot foreigners and natives.. I will send you some pamplets wic will give you a very small idea of wat we are doing. My us bands ig position among te Qinese (tird degree) admits me to te omes of all te ig officials around UB. "Eac mont I am becoming better and better acquainted wit te ladies wo know no Qter foreign lady except myself. I am tankful for tis great privilege of visiting tem, but feel It a great, responsibility also. O, tat I may: win some of tem, to iger, better living I I am teacing knitting and crotceting to, somld.of tem and tey are deligted to ave sometin,g to do besides teir fine embroidery. Every lady, owever grand, is sup posed to make er own tiny embroidered spes. Tis afternoon I ave been to visit Lady Nie, wo lives across te way, and HERE is a sentence from te pen of Dr. tere saw some of te finest tea pots, drink Albert Barnes, wic is wqrty of careful iug cups, curtain loopers, was-basins, fruit reading. It sould be remembered ta~,dr. picks, key cains and many oter t4ings, I Barnes was a man of careful, judicial abits ave ever seen. All were in solid silver, and of mind, and tat tese words were written ad been made to order for te Viceroys before tere was any general s,gitation of tis family at Nank.in. Ladl/ Nie is sister of subject, wen te terms "proibition" and te Marquis Tsing, former minil:lter to,eng " ig license" as party sibbolets were as land for nine yeard, and uiece of te Viceroy. yet uncoined.- "A law wic assumes tat Se is intelligent ad sweet, an only wife, it, ting is wrong, and yet tolerates it; wic and seems very appy in er family wit attempts to ceck and regulate it, witout er four little sons and one daugter. Se utterly proibiting it; wic aims to derive is a devout Buddist, and fasts several days a revenue from it for te purpose of govern in ea!l mont, but is beginning, little by ment; wic makes tat wic is morally little, to ask me wat ioreigners believe in wrong legal, is one of tose tings in u, regard to spiritual tings. In several of te man affairs wit wic te trone of God officials families tere are two or tree wi ves,. can ave no fellowsip." Tese are not te and in suc cases, some or.all of tem are words of a partisan fanatic. Tey are words unappy and wretced. Most of tem of eternal trut. drown teir sorrow and jealousies to a large extent by stupefying temselves wit tobacco and opium, so tere is little ope of PREJUDICE against te Sabbat doctrine doing anyting for tem. sometimes leads people to adopt str.ange and Mr. Davis people are all we~l. We went unscriptural metods of proceedure. Tere. is before us, at tis moment, te case of tree persons-a man and is wife and teir son, wo, comparatively recently, embraced te Sabbat. Te varentil ad been leading members of a Baptist curc for over forty years, and teir son ad been, for twelve years, te efficient clerk of te same curc. Tese tree worty Oristian people were recently excommunicated from teir curc, witont aving any opportunity to be eard in teir own defense, for no oter reason tan tat tey were conscientiously trying to keep te commaildmente of God. Has it ten.. come to pass tat te Baptist curc, wose motto is "te Bible and te Bible only BS our rule of fait and practice," cannot old in its fellowsip tose wo, for a good c~nscience, try to obey its precepts? It would seem so; and tat to get rid of tese consci entious, members te curc adopts te un just proceeding of inflicting its severest penalties witout even te form of a trial! Te young man writes to a friend tat, since tey ave embraced te Sabbat trut, all ptssible pains are taken to ignore or cover up te question. Even te ministers Beem afraid to mention te subject, lest tey sould be asked to give a Biblic~l reason f~r teir practice of Sunday-keeping. It would be a good ting to turn on te ligt in tat community wit some Bible-readings on te subject. to see teir "Oristmas tree" te oter day wen te <ijd.e pr~bents were distributed to te brigt eyes and smiling faces ta.t watc~ed eagerly for tem. Te Pair of new boys make a,fine addition to te mission.", " ave,belin :tnore ~r lesstisfactory according.will not grow old ~nd stale before. tey afe pii-tailed m~n and boys, and tiny. booted to _te taste of tose wo ave made use of sufficiently familiar, to. te congregation to women and girl,s, ten,80 strange in pictures, teir compilations, and te uses to wic be sung" wit te spirit and wit te un- but wo av;e SIDOO becqme as familiar, and tey, were devoted.,in several instances te derstandmg." WateversaH elp to bring m~ny of tem M dear, as were my eal!y effort to insert all te.old standard ymns us suc a collection, and to prepare our friends. a~d tunes. andaleo. te many. new earts to receive and use it wortily, may, On coming t9 Oina. it was no small dis. pieces wic are. being rapidly multiplied, be welcomed as an evangelizing agency ~ppointment. to learn tat te Great Wall as, resulte)d in a book so larg-e as to be bearing on its face d. ivine cr,edentials. 1 t d IS near y, a ousan miles distant fro" eavy Bnd awkw~rd to andle, and, from S d "l ang ai, ~ tat comparatively few people t e lack of sufficient indexin~,burdensome tlljonlmnnicaii.oni2; even ere ad ad an opportunity of Visit. to te. minister or leader in making is se t6 ~. ing it. A.cco_ rdingly, it was no small pleaslire lections. "Te smaller books, for te most d THE KINGDOM. an surprlbe to ave te privllege,a little more part, ave been abridged editions of tese tan two.years ago, of a- trip to te nort of larger works, a.nd ave borne te evidence BY J. B. FURROW. Oina wit my usband, and terewit of tis abridgement in a general fragmentary im to visit tat stupendous monument of caracter. In spite of tese defects, tese O.tline of Bible reading presented at tbe Sevent by-gone uman toil and skill. We spent ymn and tune bo k d to rd day Baptist curc at Garwin, lows, at te reg o s ave one m9c wa ular Sabbat l!ervice, te greater part of a day upon te Wall rev~lutionizing aud refor.ming te service of itself, and I tere wrote in my journal wat praise in our curces. One of te latest, Te subject wic I am to present, "Wen was afterwards81it tq te RECORDER. Tis and, i olir judgment, one ot te very best, was te kingdom of God set up P" is too large was not don.e, owever, until after as muc of tese musical productions is Oarmina and my advantages are too limited -to make information as possible a~ been gained from Sanctorwm, or Hymns and Songs of Praise, te subject as clear as I wis; but I ave se- tose wo ad several times visited te place edited by te reverend,doctors Hitccock, lected sever8.l.passages of Scripture wic to temselves, and ad taken more exact meas. Eddy and Soaff. Te book is convenient my mind seem snfficient. I tink Jesns urements tan we ad bsen able to do. in, size and compreensive in its table of used te term" Kingdom of eaven," " King - W, esaw t e Great Wall at wat is known Gontents, containing 146 ymns, 452 tunes, dom of God," to denote wat we sometimes N k f as t e aj} ow Pass, about fifty miles ~evond 43 cants, 21 doxologies, an"arrangement 0 call te dispensation of grace, and te eav- P k H. e mg. avmg left oilr mule carts at te te Psalms and oter.poetical portions of enly state. Tat dispensation began wen. entrance to tis Pass, in te little town of te Scriptures for responsive readings, wit Jesus came into te world. It will continne N k an ow; we proceeded from t!j.ence te reo complete indices, etc. To tese excellences until our eartly condition is canged for. fif. maididg teen ~iles wit mule-litter and te book-maker as. added some good work te eavenly. Ten te kmgdom, begun d k on eys over one of te most rugged and in, te line of is art, and so gil-en us, in ere, will be carried on in its fullness and. d WID mg pat ways imaginable, and in some every way, a good book. complete-ness forever. Jon te Bapti8~ em- places between mountains of solid rock Tis.wole matter of general con grega- pasized is exortations wit te statement wose sides. nearly touced togeter over. tional SlDgIDg ieone teimportance of wic tat te" Kigdom of eaven is at and" ead. It was just at nigtfall wen we it would be diffioult to overestimate. Te (Mat. 3 : 2), wic was not true, if tat emerged from te labyrints of te Pass and service of song appears to ave been one of kingdom is still someting entirely future. fonnd oursel~es witin one of te gateways, te oldest and most universal forms of pub Wen Jesus began preacing, e empabizod and under one of te towers of te Great lic worsip; and tis would seem to suggest is utterances wit te same startling an- Wall itself.. H~re tere wall only time for a tat it is ta~ form of worsip truest to nat- nonncement," Te Kingdom of eaven is at moments pause before going on a mile or ure,. te one best a9apted ~o express te and." Mat. 4: 11. Jesus instructed is disci. more to te nearest town beyond, were was souls adoration of its divine Llrd, te prop- pies to gj and preac, saying, "TeK;ingdom found a resting place for te nigt in one of er veicle for te expression of te spirit of eaven is at and," Mat. 10 : 1. All tis.tose bll.re, dreary, dirty inns, for wic of praise, wic is te proper spirit of all was done nearly 1900 years ago, and was in- nort Oina is noted. After a asty break Jeovas woosipers. We believe in te tended to be a motive to repentance, to te fast from our well supplied lunc basket, curc organ wit its masterful vqicings of men of tat time. Hq,w could it be suc, and a roiling np of te blankets wic ad te grand armonies of te universe; we if te kingdom is still in te future? But served for beds, we set out early on te next believe in te cu,rc coij" wit its skillful if we understand it to be te reign of grace, bo- morning to retrace our steps up to te Great renderings of tose antems of praise gun wit te ministry of Jesus, into te bles Wall, wio we ad only seen inte gloamwic, in some form, ave given wings to sings of wic any man migt enter, tr&ug ing on te day before. It was all gilded and te spirit of worsip in te earts of Gods repentance and fait, ten it is proper to glorified by te morning sun, and never pe<?ple. SInce te days pf Moses, and David, use te language of J obn and of Jesus as a sall I forget te first impression tat it and Isaia. Te organ and te coir may motive to repentance to e.very succeeding made upon ~ my mind. Every stone and do muc, in te opening services of te generation. " Repent ye, for te kingdom brick seemed to stand out from it as a me. curc, toward.calming te troubled spirit of eaven is at and." Wit tis under- morial of te past, and as a link back to te and }luttingit in a worsipful attitude for te standing, te petition in te Lords pra, er, uman toils and privations of more tan entire service, wile as leaders and elps in ",Ty kingdom come," is always in order, 2,000 years ago I Tose were sublime moments te ge~eral praise serv,~ ot, t.e.con2relga,j.bm,d,_ib.8. petition.. tat.. 8Jl... ~ -may->b& we mounted te.somewat dlis}iidated tion, tei--are Indispensable; but te true brongt into loving, loy,til, obedient Bub steps leadiqg upio its top, and walked tere. conception and use of te service of song is mission to te will of Orist-a most com- on for nearly a mile. Te air was clear and not reaced until te wole congregation, preensive, and appropriate prayer. Wit rarified, and te skies te deepest azure I THE carity tat "tinket "I no :evil" wit eart and VOIce, joil!; in it. In all non- tis interpretation agrees Pauls definition, ad ever seen. Not a ouse, nor ut, nor is one of te finest, and peraps one o~ ritualistic, curces it is about te only ser "For te kingdom "Of God is not meat or uman abitation of any kind was near. te rarest, Oristian virtues. If all Oris- vice in wic all may audibly jo~n, and for drink; but rigteousness, and peace and joy Tere Was noting to break te stillness tians could look upon every act of doubtful tis reason it sould be 11l0re generally en- in te Holy Gost." Rom. 14 : 1 1. Jesus, save te footfalls of our men and teir mules purport in suc a way as to give te actor couraged and cultivated tan it is. reply to te Parisees (Luke 17: 20,21), and donkeys in te Pass below. In mountte benefit of te doubt, and if every good Bu~ in order tat tisserv\ge may be truly sows beyond controversy tat te kingdom ing up te parts of te Wall were it goes deed could ave credit for te purest of mo-. a service of,)praise; tat it may be genuinely of God was sometij}g ten present in te over te steep illsides, we would now and tives, wat a power it would. give t}le a part of te worsip of te sanctuary, it is world. ten ear te faint tinkling of bells, and sit curc over te earts of sinning men necessary tat t~ ymns selected sould be Oter passages of Scripture on tis ve~y down to rest and watc te long droves of to bring tem to Oristl Here is.an worsipful, bieatfug te spirit of praise, interesting subject you c~n find by in~ans of seep or camels as tey entered te Pli8S on example of tat malice wic" beca.use and tese mllbt be wedded to tunes wic a good refeience Bible. A kingdom requires teir journey from teir native Mongolian of its own depravity, tinks, only some breat te same spii:it; for te tune speaks a king-jesus is king. A kingdom requires plains. Tey were to be driven over te idden, sinister motive can account for. to te cultured ear as te ymn speaks to 8ubjects- loyal Oristian earts Bre sub. very patways we ad wit so muc difficul. any act of carity wic it cannot appreci.- te pious eart. Te sentimental jingles jects. A kingdom implies laws from te ty and pleasure traversed on te day before, ate. In a certain oity, a young mecanic of and te popular catc tunes to wic tey king to is subjects-is word is ou,r law: A,!lnd on -toteir destination, te great me. excellent caracter, by te mere,t c~nce, are set, wic in 80 many instances are given kingdom as a territory in wic te sub- tropolis of Oina. Here and tere I gatfound at is boarding place a poor, elljless, to te public" will please for a time, but jects live, over wic te king rules. His ered la tiny purple or red wall.flower, and and friendless woman. Out of te pure~t tey can never inspire and uplift te worsip. kingdom is in te wole eart werever picked up some small bleaced snail sells, sympatliy for er distress e paid for rooms er, as it is tee province of te standard loyal loving souls are.. Jesus kingdom. is an wic are still treasured as souvenirs of for er for a mont, an.d gave er.a tem- Oristian ymns and tunes to do. We do everlasting kingdom. Tat wic our ~u.",-, tat brigt October day. On we pressed porary supply of food until more permanent not, of course, pass indiscriminate judg- as begun in te earts snd lives ~f tose our way toward te igest peak. in sigt. and satisfactory arrangements could be ment upon all modern, popjlar," gospel wo love im ere, e will carryon in per" Over its. very summit tis great serpent.like made for er. In a,few ~ays te, young Jiymns," so called; but te fact ta collec fection in te world to come, in wic all structure bent its form only to descend on man founl. is simple act ofkindness served tions of tese succeed and supersede eac earts will be completely and sweetly sub- te oter side into a deep gully, and ten up to te public, trpng ~everal of.. te oter in rapid succession, is, evidence tat dned to im. rise again over anoter and anoter peak local plipers, strongly seasone~,wit te tey Cannot fill te place in te worsip of until in te far-off distance it looked like a senslltional intimation tat te most impure te sanctua,ry tat te ser,vice of song de- THE GRE!.T WALL.. mere dark line laid over tem. Ail around and unoly motiveswere te prompters of mands. Werl, terefore;,te learning and t~ scenery,w8s wild and grand. From te is apparently caritable del:ld. A more piety of 8uc.men as t.e late President BY MRS. LIZZIE NELSON FRYER. tower on te summit were we rested, as c~uel trust tan tat it would be difficult Hitc.cock, of Union Seminary, and Doctors we looked eiter to te east, nort or sout, to conceive of; and yet,. in some form or Scaff and,eddy are supplemented by te we could see sc.ores of cone like peaks wit oter,!ire we not all O\!us too fond of tink- musica,llearning and taste of men skilled in deep, sarp ravines between tem. It would ing tat pride, or selfisnessiil. some of its te art and science of mus~c, in te produc- seem tat te!e could ave been no obstacle many Yarieties,. is at te bottom of muc tion of a ymn and tune book lor te use of too great for tose builders to overcome. tat passes for virtue in. oter~? Suppose public worsip; ~ serti~e is. rendered to te In all te miles before ns not one instance tat, instead of tis,. we all try, III every ourc Wic it would oe difficult to esti conld be seen were tey ever varied in teir possible place, a liberal application of.,tat mate. course because of te eigt of,te ills or sweet "carity tat tinket DO ~Vll." te almost perpendicular depts of te Our own earts, and lives, will be many fo.1d gullies between tem. On tey persued purer and Bweeter, and te world will be teir almost impossible tmk, and to day, te better for it... after te lapse of more tan two tousand years, te Great Wall stands as a monument of wat persenance could do. To us in our day it seems a)so to stane. as te most stupendous monument of folly ev~r tougt \pfi <lr-,! out by uman brains and executed by uman auds. To me it surpassed all preconceived idem of its greatness,. and I could easily.. ow it could be c911ed one of "woiiders of te world.".. Te gre~t Dr. Jonson is said to ate re :a1inoild\,ltdit; trnarke,c1 tat it would be an boilor for any to say is greddfat~r II1s n t Wall. To be tus I)ri~rUelle<l; Gres f pid tranling caunot be days o. ::t let it be wispered,, bonar, brougt ome tree of Its to. ave k troug te N an k ow P au, br: c s t 800n to be forgotten by tldg d te no csrge of t,em. T wo f 0 a d on te back of one of our f tene, as ile te tird was packed keys, w d culty in t~e., alreta Py d nt, to be given 0 resl e One IS m at Alfred, If we are ever luuseu.._ g to get It tere.. enou t Te Great Wall were we s~w 1, f te best parts known, IS to tirty feet Ig, about ~ne 0.. t...,onl:17.1 a at te base, and fifteen or Wl e. lk t 11 It is built I e a er wa s!~p;wo tick walls wit eart or b tween tem. Te lower part In e. fi I {If uge clocks of granite, rm y t r wile te superstructure gee, k f laid in mortar. Tese brlc s are 0, blue color, snd are generally ~:en inceslong, by eigt in ~idt.or more in tickness. 0 n te fiide it is a few feet iger tan on d as embrasures ou te top, an. 1 It smoot on te Oms si;;.e.... ~s large, square bricks, tus formi~g lent road on te top. Were, ~t steepit,is built in terraces, and Itsp is laid in steps, so tat i~s proporl preserved ~n 11., wonderful mannel and tere at i.nte~vllols, doubtless de on te slope of te ground, are towj eiter against or upon te Wall. seemed as we walked troug t11 large roofless rooms wit oles for,on teir four sides. Near tese ~ow were sometimes long, dark fligts J!teps leading down to an openin~ Wall on te Oina side. Here iu trouble te Oinese soldiers could.and down and increase or dimini numbers witout te knowledge -enemy. Were we saw it te Wall very good state of preservation, a iger and wider tan in many J important from a milit?ory point Indeed in some parts of its long ( fifteen undred miles, it is said to te appearance of only an. immense stones. We Q!lme upon a slab 0 were cut some caracters wic my copied. Tey" referred to te _ repl te Wall in. tat place, foor u more years ago. Tere ave always been many co :as to wy tis Wall was built, a <seeing it, to me its construction. mqre useless tan before. Surely j :lew countries in all te world tb~ mas So torouglt separated as se 1J from te countries to te nort. - 1 te few openings tat se erself vlded, tere never could ave been sion in tis part of te Empire, rocky peaks must ever remain 1.ulIlan footsteps. Tere are so~e Po~ it to aye been col}btructed,in clully settle. te boundary lines (Jina and te couptries to t {)ters again believe it Wlloll built t te vanity:of one of te cruel,est tyrannical emperors t,6t ever disgj!trone of Oi,.na. It ifsaid tat a ~ntage of ~e a.ble ~odied meld in pire were employed for. a long years in.its construction. Te exacted from tem, and peraps it <tinder te pressure of task-mabter.supposed te pyramids of Egypt W SlUNGlUI. {JiDa, January, 188B,

5 t say is grendfater "ad soen te Plsn t ;rail, To be tus privileged in tes~ Grell f rapid traveling caunot -be called an dsys 0. but let it be wispered, owever, tat anor, brougt ome tree 0 ft 1 S Immense to ave.. k troug te N ankow Pass, IS some brig 8. ot soon to be forgotten by tose w 0 tillg n d te carge of tem. Two of tese were ba d on te back of one of our poor don ias tene wile te tird was pac k e d WI -t d ffi 1- kev 8, it in te already overcrow d e d I-tt I ere ~neyis to be given to President Allen for te muse um at Alfred, if we are ever fortunate Oug to get it tere. ed Te Great Wall were we saw I t, W IC IS. ~ne of te best parts known, is from twenty totirty feet ig, about twenty-five feet wide at te base. and fifteen or more at.te t op. It is built like oter walls of Oms, f two tick walls wit eart or rocks tilled ~ between tem. Te lower part is made I~ uge --tracks of granite, firmly put to~ ;eter, wile te 8uper8~ructure is of brick I id in mortar. Tese bricks are of a grey.a blue color, and are gener8.lly about fifo ~een inces long, by eigt iu widt and four or more in tickness. On te Mongolian side it is a few feet iger tan on te oter, and as embrasures on te top, wile it is smoot on te Cina sue. It is paved wit large, square bricks, tus forming an excellent road on te top, Were it mounts a steep it is built in terraces, and its pavement is laid in steps, so tat its proportions are preserved in a wonderfnl manner. Here and tere at intervflis, doubtless depending on te slope of te ground, are towers built eiter againa t or upon te Wall. Tese seemed as we walked troug tem like large roofless rooms wit oles for windows on teir four sides. Near tese ~owerb tere were sometimes long, dark fligts of stone steps leading down to an opening in te Wall on te Cina side. Here in times of trouble te Cinese soldierb could pass up and down and increase or diminis teir numbers witout te knowledge of te enemy. Were we saw it te Wall was in a very good state of preservation, and it is iger and wider tan in many partb less important from a military point of view. Indeed in some parts of its long course of ufteen undred miles, it is said to present te appearance of only an" imme~se eap of atones. We came upon a slab on wic were cut some caracterb wic my usband eopied. Tey referred to te repairing of te Wall in tat place, four, undred <or, Wen in ealt se wab qn,.ite active in te curc and society, was very familiar wit. er Bible, aud ad been,an efficient teacer in te Sabbat-scool for many years. Se seemed to ave a very quick per ception and correct and compreensive understanding of Bible truts. Se was te moter of eigt cildren, all but one of wom survive to mourn teir loss and, so far as se followed Crist, to follow er. Tey will take pleasure in remembering er as one of te most devoted, moters. Teir nameb are as follows: Mrs. Lois Green.. man; Mrs. Mary Snyder, deceased; Walter Oollins; Daniel Oollins, M. D.; Rudolp 001- lins; Frank Oollins; }4rs. Alice Jonson, and Wm. OollinB. A step,moter survives te deceased, " Aunt Debora," as we familiarly call er, te widow of Elder Daniel Babcock. Te remains of Sister Oollins were brougt to te residence of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Greenman, at Milton Junction, Wis., te son inlaw and daugter, were appropriate funeral services were eld, in te presence of a large company of relatives and friends, on Sabbat afternoon, te 4t inst., conducted by President Witford and te pastor of, te Milton Ourc, and were interred in our bea\ltiful village cemetery. Precious is te memory of a Oristian moter. E. M. D. MILTON: Wis.. Feb, " WHY STAND.YE HERE ALL THE DAY IDLE!," Does tis question apply to most Oristians of to day? "Wy, no," one says, " tere never wasso muc said. or written of Orist, ab now." Just so~ No doubt tese idlers talked most of te time in te market, but tat was ot going Into te vineyard, and engaging in ard work for te master! "But," you say, "tey went wen aaked." Yes, and in tis ready WIlling ness lay teir reward. But as e not asked you to leave off your talking, and waiting, by te way, and go directly into te work of "dividing te meat in due season?" and as e not promised te full pay-" blessed is tat servant, wom wen e comet, e sall find ao doing." Te day is far Bpent, and we, professing to ave truts absolutely necessary for te Balvation,of te curc, are lagging along, knowing tat te " tie~ " will come, and te "snare" win be laid, and tat -te" our of temptation" drawet near, wile we are still lagging, instead of pruning te,vines. wit an explan~tion of tese truts, tat te sunsine may come mare years ago. in, and rlpen up te vineyard for te Mas- Tere ave always been many conjectures ters use. ~s to wy tis Wall was built, and since Rere is a warning for te curc; a seeing it, to me its construction as seemed tief does not come to te ovel, but to te more useless tan before. Surely tere are mansion, to gater precious tings. Te "lew countries in all te world tat nature snare is not laid for lizzards~ but for larger as so torougly separated as se as Oina and better game. Men are tried by temptafrom te countries to te nort. Except in tlon wo ave. some inclination not to give te few openings tat se erself as pro- way, instead of tose wo ave no purpose vlded, tere never could ave been an iuva- to e:lcel. Now tis proving time is drawing sion in tis part of te Empire. Tose upon us. If two tousand years ago we rocky peaks must ever remain a barrier to were entering upon te" end of te days," uman footsteps. Tere are sollle wo sup- wen only four tousand years ad expired, pose it to ave been constructed in order to matematically speaking, must we not be fully settle te bou~dary lin:es between near te terminus to,day? And if just over Cina and te countrieb to te nort. it tere is a snare laid to trip up unwary i Dters again. believe it wab built " to gratify feet, t ey w l-t ld -II 0 exp am 1 to t e wor WI e va~lty.of one of te cruel.es.t ana most save te most souls, for, "in vain,~s a _snare tyranlllcal emperors tat ever disgraced ta laid in sigt of any bird." Te message is trone of Cina. It is.said tat_ a large per-. to te curc, because "judgment sall ~~ntage of te able bodled men III te Em first begfn at te ouse of God" and if se plre w~re employed for. a long period of is not watcing aud prayin; lest Be be years In its construction. T~. labor was caugt in tis snare; wat sall we ope for exacted from tem, and peraps l} was built te ungodlyp under te pressure of tabk-masters, as it is Te, comforts of body and te refine-.supposed t e pyraml d s f E t - d ~, 0 gyp were raise. ments of taste are not made uppermost wit SIUNGILI.I, Cina January 1888 " -,,. one wo ab a great work to perform. Te - Saviour did not tis way: and is is servant, te curc, above er Master P If Oristians knew tat tree years from now teir MRS. TACY COLLINS. ~Irs. T.A.CY A. COLLINS, widow of Doctor omes would be places to be fearful in, to Benjamin F. Oollins, was born in Alfred, tremble in for "looking after te tings Allegany Co., N. Y., on te 30t of Nnvem tat are coming upon te eart," would ber, 1823, and died February 2; 1888,at t~e tbey be content to livedelicatelyp or would ~ome of er daugter, Mrs. Alice ~onbon, tey" stir temselves up" to lay old on ld.8t. Peter, Minn., were se went frqm someting tat would abide? Some men AlJlton, Wis., in Marc, 1887.,Se ad Buf put all teir meanb into saloons, and, ten fered for nearly a year from paralysis, wit a set tl!obles free, trusting confidently in Satan complication of oter bodily disorders, and to ;give tem, reward. How mally Oriswen deat came-it was to relieve er from tians are doing one-alf tib, to save mens great 8uffelingB and to transport er Bpirit, souls-trusting confidently,in o.rist, not to we trust, to er ome in P~iadise. f~il pecuniarily or Bpiritually? Te saloon- ~e was te daugter of Elder.Daniel and keeper walks erect and talkb erelct; but as te LO.IS Babcock, wo were te parentb of,eleven Oristian s,ufficient,confidence in ib God to cildren, only tree of wom are now ~iving: ~ub inbpire im? Doubting and fearin~ Mrs. Lucy Vincent, Mrs. LoiB Maxson auddoeb not give te carriage of calm confidence Mrs, Hanna Hamilton. Sister Oollins inade ~nd Btrengt~ PerapB wen tere is a :tofe~ailln of religion wen Be WaB abontlarge salary beind it tere is tis, carriage, lrteen years of age, was married to Doctor but ten,. wat ib it,better tan tbe conft Col\i~8 in 1840, wo died in 1864; Be came dence of te 8aloon-keeper-confidence In to t~18 Western couiitry in 1842, settled in dollars and cents; but wo is willing to take AI~lOn, Wis. and in.1854 moved to Milton, te Lord," as IB banker, and go into is Wlc~ was er ome until Witin a snort time vineyard, and wo~k 88, te businebs man previous to ar deoease. Sbe ~aa.. memtjer works, trusting e will do as, e as agreed ilf te cfc at Milton at,te, time ~?fer I t4:i,do; H give im w~oete~ is. li.t?~ " - Ie_, Added to tis want of restful confidence, is even doubt. Are we still be,ind Enoc of four tousand years ago~ :wo believed tat "God is a rewarder of tem tat diligently seek im? " He looked after, te seeking, and truste } God for te rewarding, and e ad not eard im say tat e "cared for even Bparrows," and was ~~ more tender tan eartly parents," and" knowet tat we ave need of teso tings." Must we go back four tousand years for fait, or go on up into, tat fait wic ;" overcomet te world~" Oristians, like Peter, are day by day sinking beneat te waves, instead of building up a bulwark of strengt against Satan; and yet we are told to H take te kingdom," to" judge te-world, even angels," "to overcome te, nations, even as Orist received of te Fater," "to overcome our enemies by te word tat proceedet put of our mout;" in sort, we are to be te -"battle axe" of te Lord. Are we so? It is te laying old of te promises tat is to give te H divine life" to do tese tings, and yet we do not believe te promises as we sould. But fait comet by {laring; ten were is our tite-money to establis and maintain te preacing of te Word by wic tese promises could be so pre~nted as to bring fait to te earers, and ten printed and sent broadcast to bring fait to te readers? Wo of us, like te disciples of old, are will ing to give ali" our "migt, mind and strengt" to "dividing tis meat in due aeason,",to pray, study, "write and talk togeter, going out and coming in, in te Btrengt of union, gleaning and pruning for te Master.,MRS. N. A. BRIGHTMAN CO~AGE GROVE AVE., Cicago, lll.. -- A WORD OF COUNSEL. its, you may go fort to te grand and glorious work of winning te world to OriBt; Out of gratitude to my former pastor and spiritual friend, Geo. E. Tomlinson" for. te encouragement received by letters from is and, as also out of a love for all tose wo Yould engage in te most precioub work of te; ministry, I would seek to encourage you by tese words: In all te experiences wic may be yours; in all te struggles arid doubts troug wic you may pass;. keep your earts soft t~ward God, ta~ tey -may be susceptible to te influenceb of ib Divine Spirit. And as te beautiful flower, springing up by your patway; lifts its open face toward eaven tat it may be refresed by te falling dew and gentle sower, so keep your spirits open toward God; tat tey may be refresed wit, te inbreatings of is divine mind. Te work to wic you ~eel called is indeed 8 great work, and it is a glorious work also, a work wic, toug bringing to te laborer muc of privation and self,sacrifioing toil, neverteless, brings te ricest of rewards. Te more fully you are able to trow your wo~ aoul into te work, witout tougt of reward or grieving for imperfections in your own self or failure in te work) te less of doubting will tere Qe, and te more sweet will be te service. Remember, "te arvest truly is great, but te laborers are few," and press on to gater some seaves of te golden arvest. Wising for your success,,and pr~ying tat te blesbings of God may attend you in te work of preparation, and go wit you into your various fields \of labor, I remain Your friend, E. A. WITTER. NIANTIC. R. I., Feb. 2, New York. BERLIN. Our Sabbat scool eld its annual concert, followed by an oyster supper, on Dec. 27t. Te net proceeds to te scool amounted to tirty-two dollarb and seventeen cents. Nearly te same officers were cosen by te scool at our annual election as served during te past year. Our Superintendent.. - IS Tos. E. Greenman. Te singing in our curc is being muc improved by te corister, Artur E. K. Greene, w~9. is a~ energeti,c, young man, arid takes old cif to work wit marked interest. It as been oped by some of te members tat an extra effor! would be made tis winter for a revival of religion in our,midst, but no suc effort as yet been made. We ope te time is not far distant wen we sall bl) revived. If eac one of us could but reo alize te necessity of working wile it is yet day, we are sure te work would make better ad vancements. Let us remember, tat,. "Te nigt comet wen no man can w~rk.",.g. Rode Island. FIRST WESTERLY.. Wilcox & Wite Organ to te one sending te second great- est number. For ftill pa.rtlculars addre!ls Te work at te First Westerly O~urc, familiarly known as te" Post Road Ourc," is growing in interest. Te congregation at te Wednesday eveuing meetings is steadily increasing, and at te last meeting tree persons took a. stand for Jesus, making a Btart in te Oristian life. We ope te good work ab but just begun, for tere are many unconverted ones ere wo ougt to be brougt into te fold.!. A Oicago.s,took company is being formed to remove Libby P"riBon to tat CIty, to stock it wit war relics and open it as.. museum. - David W. Judd died at New York, Feb ruary 6t, of pneumonia. He was taken il about te middle of last week. JIe was man~ : ager of te Orange W. Judd 00., and WlIoIIa member of te Quarantine Board. Foreign; Sir Mioael Hicks-Beac will pr9b.a.bly re~ enter te Britis Oabinet as PreBident of te Board of Trade. Several sacks co~taining dynamite ave een discovered idden in a field near Press,; burg, Hungary. Many arrests ave been made in Soutern Russia, owing to te discovery of an extensive agrarian movement, Te Morning Post, Daily News and Daily TeZegrap, of London, all interpret PrincQ Bismarks speec in te Reicstag as areas surance of peace. London imports during te,mont of Jan uary increased 3,700;000 all qompared wit te same, mont last year, and te exports increased 770,000. ~. It is again reported from San Remo tat te Orown Prince e::q>eriences difficulty in breating. Te doctors avo resolved to resort to traceology immediately, as furter delay migt result in suffocation., Te Temps, commenting on te European situation, says tat two duties\re Imposed upon France: firbt, to arrange er domestic affairs and adopt te budget, Becond to preserve absolute libr-rtyof actioll wit.pertect coolness. Books and Magazines. SCOTCH RrrE MASONRY, illllstrated. by a Sovereign Grand,Commander, 38 degrees. 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Te January fir:o~::~~ te United States aggregated $16,040,000 against $11,500,000 BY REV. FRANK S. CHILD. in 1887., 16140, OLOTIL 75 CENTS. Mrs. Oliver Wendell Holmes died ~t er residence on Beacon Street, Boston, Feb. A book of comfort and goo(! cbeer for te weary, 6t, in te si,xty.nint year "of er age. burdened and depreseeti",itrong and elpful, bring- At, a meeting of railr?ad men el~ recent ing tranquility to t~ tt9ubled, and quickenidg t.e ly at Oommissioner Finks office 10 New discouraged into te very mood and power ot nc- York, It,was resolved to return to te old tory: ", " system of export tariff rates on Monday, "God bless tis earty, wolesome, ceery book.,, 20t -William Elliot Gritlls, D. D., February.,.. i find it a better medicine tan tat wic te It is reported tat te ~ugar trust ~ is- doctor brougt me. "-Prof. Edward Nort, L. H. 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6 e and e ssid, If Go out into te, igways and ~trmonij edge,8 and compel tem to come in, tat my ouse may be filled." Tat was te parable A SERMON. uttered just before e commllnced teacing te multitude. Tell wen e comes,out to BY REV. CLAYTON A. BURDICK. tem, t~ first ting e say~ to tem is, av- "Or watir;ng, goidg to make waragamst anoter ing in mind te various excuses offered for king sittet iwt down first, and consultet weter not coming to te feast, U If any man come e b6 able wit ten tousand to meet im tat come.t to me, and ate not is fater and moter agail!st im wit twenty tousand? Or else, wile te oter is yet ~ great way off, e sendet an em aud wife and cildren and bretren and sisbassage, and disiret conditions of peace."-luke ters, yea, and is own life also, e cannot be 14: 31,32. d. 1 " Tere is a peculiar plfase exibited in te my ISOIP e. affairs of te nations of Europe at te pres- Queer words, you tink, wen you remement time. Te people of wat, may be ber e told is followers to love one anoter termed te great powers of te eart are on as e ad loved tem I But te word ate tiptoe of expectation. One day tey seem to ere is used in te same sense tat a similar be on te verge of a great war, and te air expression is used in Mattew, wic is seems carged wit te electricity of national translated, "Lovet is fater and moter imimollity; treatening murmurs of distant more tan me, is not worty of me." And tunder may be eard presaging a storm of ten te Lord somewat explains tis and destruction tat would outrival te terrible te next verse, by carrying te idea tat one sweep of te tornado, or te power of te ad better stop and consider ow e really cyclone. America knows from experience feels, and ow e tinks e will be able to wat war means, Se knows its orrors and old out, if e once attempts to build upon evils, and se looks upon te by-plays of te foundation tat is offered in Crist. He treatenings going on in Europe wit anxi- says terefore in tis explanation: "Or wat ety and concern. Se se~s Russi,a and France kin~ going to make war against anoter king on te one and, Austria and Germany on sittet not down first, and consultet wbette oter, sjonding lpo~ing at eac oter.wit er e be able wit ten tousand to meet Im a seemingly never.endmg atred depicted tat comet against im wit twenty tou upon teir face~j and only waiting for te sand. Or else wile te oter is yet a great signal to rus at eac oter wit all way off, e sendet an embassage and desiret te ferocity of wars deadly lust. For a wile, conditions of peace," I say, tis is te way it seems to be, Prices We au of us understand tat of tose wo fluctuate, trade becomes dull, and every ting ave once acccepted of te Lord as teir betokens te darkness of contest. Saviour, tat many do not continue unto te But after a little, te clqud passes away, end, but go backward again in te realm of te skies clear of all appearance of a tempest. sin and disunion from God, from wic te Te distant tunders eease teir dismal ec- mercy and love of Jeova seemed to a-ve oes, and t~ sun of peace seds its beams in snatced tem. It is sometimes sad to. us, joy upou te nations. So often do tese it is always so, wen we see suc an instance clouds come, tat to us, at tis distance, tey as tis, and yet it as always been te case appear to bespeak a great deal of bombast and tat some, aye, ofttimes many, ave gone bluff. Eiter it is tat, or else no one of te back from following te Lord, wo ave bepoweb,acting in tis way as sufficient cour- foretime been earliest and seemingly zealous, age to st~ike te firat blow, tat would surely in favor of te one wom tey ad professed pllmge,all Europe into strife, and, peraps, to serve. And we. ask te question, Wy is wa.~~ forever some of te nations 80 con- tis so? Wy is" it, tat, after men and fi~nt in teir powers and resources now, and women ave once taken te easy yoke of ". would be likely to make great canges in te J eaus upon tem, tey sould go back to, map of te world. It is indeed a great re- te burdens of Satan, to be lased again wit sponsibility tat reats upon tem, and we do te scorpion wip of remorse, ana. pierced / ndt blame tem tat tey are so backward wit te dagger of a guilty conscience? about beginning tis strife among tem- Tere seems to me to be but one explanation, selves. and it is tat of our text; tey ave not set Tere &s lately been one of tese war~ down and consulted wit ~emselves, ave clouds.anging over,te nations of Europe, not counted te cos I; of teir, actions, or else and it as suggested to my mind te text mayap tey ad not started at all in te tat I ave taken to day. I ave tougt way of trut and life. We know, moreover, tat peraps te kings were consulting as to tat tere are times wen persons are:! Been to teir strengt, weter one side, would be be carried away by te sentiment of a mo able to cope wit te oter; or tat anew, ment. Persons of certain natures, of emotey were sending embassies of peace, desir- tionaltemperaments.appearofttimestoaccept iug to find out te terms terefor. Peraps of te Lord by aving im presented to tem waiting for a little time to perfect arrange~ but just a little. We do not blame tem for ments for war; and, tis being te case, I tat, but tey say to accept im, before tey tougt tat I migt make wat maybe stop to investigate and find out ifteyare suretermed a war sermon, aving ad te idea ly willing, after all, to follow te way tat e brougt up, as I ave said, by te peculiar would lead tem. We find tis te case wit condition of affairs in te natiuns across te tose wo come out for Crist in time of great revivals, wen tey may ave been moved to te step by te force of example and contrary to teir own expectations. Tey may ave been affected by te subtle magnetism tat may be felt at suc times, wic may be termed entusiasm, and tey are carried away wit it, and wen it dies out tey tink tey ate lost teir religion. Suc acceptance aa tis is not in accord wit te will of te Lord at all. He intimates in te text tat it is always best to stop a mo ment and Qo.nsider weter we are going to do tis in a full purpose of eart, or just on te impulse of te moment; weter we are going to strive to old out against,everyting and as long as ffe live. Or aj,e we ready to fau back again into te old ways of sin as soon as temptations come and fears assail us?,as soon as te first cloud of doubt comes over te sunsine of feeling tat envelops us, are we ten going to failp Some tink tat in order to a correct acceptance of Jesus, tey must ave just suc fe~lings, just as muc entusiasm. But I do know tat we are so taugt by te Word of God. Te only feelings tat we are called upon for are feelings of belief, and ofrepentance, and of love, none of wic are very noisy. You will find te follower of te Lord tat olds out is one wo as counted well te cost, taken te Lords side of te story and Satans; and ten decjded between te two; and one wo as tus meditated, as te Lord ere seems to indicate is is will for us to do,. is quite ~pt to remain on te side tat e ten deliber. te beauties of te Lord and Saviour, wo over again; as dode so muc,for poor, losi; mankind. fougt and won, ow muc stronger we are.tat is wat you need to tell, and tat only." tan before. Alid yet we do not tink, tis i8 80. We do Wb~t are te tings, in fact, tat te tink tat is te reason wy so many wo Oristian as to figt against tat te world are converted by suc preao~rs as tell only does not, you ask? Wy, te tings of te tis side of te case so often seem so little world itself. I do not tink tat we are canged f~om te ways of. sin tat once tey called upon to give up anyting tat is rigt; eld to. Tey practice tesame wickedness I know we are not. By te tings of te tat te, used to, and do not seem ~o ave world r mean tose tat allure fromtrut caugt old. (If te idea of a newbut, or and onesty, tose tat are te offsj?ring, of" tat tings are demanded of tem dffferent Bin-vicious appetites,and abitss,jdolatry in from tose tey once followed. Tey ave any and every ting. Tese tings of pleas. only alf te trut, ave only decided on ure tat allure and tempt to wat we know Ji1Ji~t.tllan!l. TALKING IN THEIR SLEEP... You tink I am dead " Te apple tree said,, "Because I ave never a leaf to sow_ Because I Btoop,, And my brances droop And te dull gray moss over me grows, But Im al5 ve in trunk and soot, Te bud of next Mav I fold away- ButI pity,te witered grass at my root." " You-tink I am dead " Te quick grass said, "Because I ave parted wit stem and blad, alf of te question. We tink te trut is wrong-te~e are our enemies tat makp, But under te ground e sould be told~ and ten leave te earer to battle againbt us and te welfare of our I am safe and sound Wit te snows tick blanket over me laid decide between tat and error. souls. But we must carryon a conflict be- Im alive and ready to soot,. S!:.oot te spring of te year We ave Crists example, and tat IS te yond tis. We see te bare face of evil in Come dancing ereonly one tat we a~e of a trut commanded te world about us; we see is gleaming eyes But I pity te ll.ower witout branc or rool," to follow, for presenting te cloudy side of and enticing actions; we see im springing "You tink I am dead" te scene. Not tat it is darker "tan te is net over many and many of our fellows A soft voice said, brigt side is brigt. For te glory and wom we love; we Bee im snatcing tem,. Because not a branc or root I own I never ave died,, comfort of following te Lord is a undred from tis way and from tat to become, is But close I ide lold greater tan te pleasures of tis life. slaves, to entice oters, and degra.de and In a plumy seed tat te wind as sown Patient I wait"t~roug te long winter ours. And yet we cannot say tat we do not ave ruin temselves. We see. tem.1aden wit You Will see me again- battles to figt arid ard foes to overcome, te burdens e as imposed upon tem,griev. I sall laug at you, ten Out of te eyes of a undred flowers I " as we go forward" in te Cristian, journey. ous burdens indeed, tat tey would gladly -Edit M. Tomas, in Western R8I1Yriler, Wen one said to Jesus in te olden days, rid temselves of, and yet tey seem to ave "Master I will ~lo11ow tee witersoever lost te power to do so. As we love umantou goest," te Lord stud to im, "Te ity, and desire to see it made n,obler rater THE EV~NGELIST AS A DISCOURAGEIlIE~T. foxes ave olgs; and te birds of te air tan destroyed, desire to see it bettered ratave nests; but te Son of man at not er tan made woise; so do we desire to do We do not mean tat e intends to be so, Were to lay, is ead." Was not tat te somet mg t 0 re l leve t em an d k eep 0 t era nor tat A e IS I BO to te pastor l wom e aa,, sists. sac ass, evange lsts mean to do dark side of te picture? Ho told is disci: from te same road of bondage to te evil good, and we believe tat.a8 a class tey pies also tat tey sould ave trials and affiic-,one. And tus it IS tat we are led into a a(lcomps good. Tat some of tem ti()lls, sould be put in prison and scourged. conflict against tese tings and arc con- are frauds is no reflection. upoln te rfit, I t t t I d t strained,to strike as great blows as we can any more t an an occasion a ypccrite say en a we ave IS examp e, espi e, among ministers is a refiection npon\all w a t men may say, t a t WI 11 no t on I y ekcuse against teir continuance and te work preaoers of t}l,e ~ gospel. B ut, te pas ors us weln we present te coriflict~ wit wic tat toy do. So it is tat tey figt against wo secure te a~d of evangelists are few, we ave to meet ere in te world, but it also us, and place te cross of persecution and and we ave tougt] we could see am~ng makes it our duty so to do. Terefore I say calumny and te scourge of an evil tongue some of t9se not tus favored a little dimi.. f upon us. I tink, my friends, you can nution of ardor and ope, as,tey study te we must ave battles. Tere is a. strife or facts. Let us see. Te evangelist some. us. It must not be expected tat we can go easily understand ow it is tat we ave op- times gets a crowd; but it is not, as a rule, troug tis pilgrimage WItout te same. positions to meet. And yet ask.any one because of superior gifts of logic, oratory, Satan is our enemy in trut, altoug some wo as met suc, and see if e does not say or grace., He is, ~nferjqr. i~. cau respects, men would claim im as a friend. He as tepleasures of trut are greater tan tose quite as often as e IS superlor In all respects, of sin, tose of love better tan tose of to te pastors wom e assists, and to oter levied is legions. Wit pride and pomp sin pastors about im. Wy I8 crowd? flings is banners in te air and comes to ate, tose of rigteousness better tan Partly because it as come to be quietly as. take us prisoners; lust and vice, selfisness tose of vice. sumeo, tat, wen te evangelist comes, and pride, ate and mammon are is gen- Sit down ten and consult wit yourself; someting will be done; wic is only anotber way of saying tat until e comes erais, and tey are knowing ones. Teyare look te question over. Are YOIl willing to not muc will be done; and tis is denres!. acquainted wit every avenue of approac, to sacrifice your 130ul for your fles? Your iug. Ten te evangelist says tings wic te uman soul; tey know te weakness future of eternity for te present -fleeting te pastor would not be,allowed to ~ay, and of te defenses tat we may ave; tey moment? Your peace or mind for te does tings wic would subject te pastor will lead teir followers to just tat point twinges of tonsciencu? Or are you willing to sarp rebuke; but te evangelist is ap,.. plauded; and te pastor asks, Wy ~~e were tey will be most sure of success to figt te battle for te JOY of VIctor} p, tese tings so? and is depressed III spmt in teir vile in..ts. O, my fliends, it You ave -your cn6iee, but~you -must "cose as e ponders te matter. Sometimes te is not at all easy to walk te way of life, up- one way or te oter. Yet it is disearten- evangelist is a jester, and te people roar rigt before God and our fellows. Tere is ing to see ow,many tere are wo give un wit.laugt~r. He!Ias a stock of sermons... and IllustratIOns wic e repeats over and an ambus laid for us ere, and one tere; quickly to te enemy. WIle yet ~ great ove!; e as expedient,s wic e employs in ere a snare as been placed, tere a pitfall. way off tey send an embassay to Im de- te same way; e tells stories of is. amaz, Tese conflicts decide for us our future. siring conditions of peace.- We know wat ing success at oter places, for, bemg an Te great.battle-grouni is in our own earts; tose conditions are tey are atsolute sur. evangelist, e visits many places. Te~ t f.. t 1. ; q t ere e orces are m array agams eacu render, snd tousands are givmg up to t ese tings" t draw," and te pastors, because n t d bide for monts and f ddt.... ey.. re pas ors, an a oter; t ere 0 ttimes t ey con ten an s rive demands, It IS sad to tmk t at It IS so, years ave none of tese expedients for for mapy years for te mastery. I doubt not and yet it is very pla.in to be seen. Any securing crowds.. Seeing te multitudes, if :we could look into eac eart ere to day, one gazing out upon te world can see ow some of te influential people of te cnrc~ - "8 to dawsoif.... our minister were only like tis man! and te scene of suc conflicts. Some of tem, WIt te en~my. ~mbassles are. g~lllg back tey are con-vinced tat a stranger. mnst doubtless, are all plouged up, and scarred, and fort WIt articles of Bubmlsslon. Yet, come before muc can be accomp8edj and defaced by dint of tliese contending emo- I ope none wo are before me belong to and tus many of te people wo r~liy to tions tat ave swept over tem in swift and tis class. te elp of te evangelist leave ~ejr own we would find everyone of tem ad been many tere are wo are searcing for peace s~y,.. ee ow IS D?an.r.,, Ii f. t minister to toil alone, or, in despair, not to compact arrays, strugg ng or proprle ors Ip To-day is te last day of te, year. Its toil at all.. of tat on wic tey are battling. Unless. f t, gel cances, its moments 0: opportunity or. We do not write now to erl I?ISe evan te we give up to Satan, tris contest is renewed labor will soon ave passed away forever. IStS" but to call te attention of. r Is off and on as long as we live. Our greatest Wat does te record sow tat we ave curces to an evil,!ic tese specia ~ enemy is ourself and te viciolls nature wit ". are not wolly responsible for. Te curc as done ld, tat time? Have tese conflicts, are at fault. Tere is ardly a curc wic we are possessed. Tings outside may tat I,ave spoken of, been fougt and won? were a revival is not possible, if te people turn in and elp, but tis is wat we ave to Or ave we ignobly surrendered to te ene- will ral1y tote support of teir own mid figlit first. Its a CIvil conflict tat we find. my and entered into a treaty of peace wit ister, as tey would to an itinerant 8tr~ng!r We look around us in te world, we see tose......, 11 calling imself, an evangelist. To cnp e wom we cal1 friends, and tere are tose Im:.,T~IS IS a question wose agnswder WI te effortlof te pastor by doubt and ~IB be ei~er JOY or. sorrow for us. 0 grant courage,nent is ~urc suioide; and ~o!d wom we call enemies; tese last are tose tat It may be. J?Y. But w.atever,te an- sist t~t no revival?an be a~ u~~il tos~ Wo strive against us and our welfare; tey swer may be, It IS already given and cann:ot professional evangelist comes IS, In m Be scorn aud sneer at our efforts, criticize and now be altered; it as gone on lasting records. cases, to postpone te revival forever.- condemn -everyting we do; tey speak evil Te future, owever, is before. us, Te lected. of us to tose wo do not know us, and give ours of te co~ing year we. may improve. -_. tem a bad view of our caracter. Tey Do not give up te conflict, you wo ave THE BIGGEST PILE IN THE WORLD. strive to injure us in every way conceivable begun it. You are weak, to be sure" and of in te affairs of life. Yet owever muc we ". t. yourselves cannot conquer. Yet God is for. ie United -States Treasury to,day Isa ~~ may fear or dislike tem, as a usrial tmg, you; and troug im you can obtain a. great bank in metallic money and money Dle~mo; our worst enemy is ourself. Tere ave been victory. Have no tou:rt. of ssking for Probably it astegreatestoardofprecl~: many battles fougt among te cildren of conditions of peace, but go forward toward metals, ooined and uncoined, anywere on J men, many tat ave been before te walls te prize.tat awaits te true Oristian Bolface of te eart-and tis is not all gater T!18 of migty cities, tose tat ave long defied dler. in One place. On te 1st of July te re 00 urer of te United States ad $278,000,0 d te cunning and power of teir adversaries. in gold,. 85,000,000 being in barb, an Tere was great Babylon tat stood te test And you wo ave not yet decided, to t,ake, Is tad l.215,000,000 of silver, of w 10 es t of of siege from Cyru"S so long. Nineve, also, up te armor of te Lord, let te opening *4, was uncoined. Te amoun 0 tat it took sup power-to overtrow. Tyre, year see you do so. I wil~ not deny t!lt treasury notes on and was less tan $3, before wose gate,s Alexander of Macedon tere are perils.and ard strife, but it is 000,000. Te 8ecret~ry of te Treakn~ knooked,, for tirteen years ere e could gain d e~ t t 0 d e I ay. J t f t Lord asbeen a,le, by carrymg gold barb, to e OlD e army 0 e,.. of cas taken from te " bl f down te amount. admittance;, It took great men to take a and beneat t e cross,,t.e em em? our monetary circulation to te lower limit. n. city, and yet, we are taugt by te Word of ope, marc forward agamst te evil an9- It is amazing wen we tink of te 000 God tat e tat subduet is own soul is wrong tat you see about you. It is IIfY etary condition of tis coun~ry fort~l/~: greater tan e tat taket a city. Tat of ope tat ~very one of you may grasp te ago, wen te. sup~ly of bot met ey as, f.:l ld t f J k very small tirty years ago, wen mon I itself sows wat a great conflict must be sword 0 trut anl1. Wle 1 or esus sa e. d ld kn b tween Penney,,, 11.- HIS. t d d 1 goo as go was un own e octo fougt before one can come off victor Qver "Lay teo y pm so gui e an counse, us vania and Oalifornia and twenty years "t:i, is own, soul. Tings outside move t l in- f or ls name k ssa e. wen east o! " te Rocky... JILOun.- t aillb not te I ward forces to be sure. Tey arojlse te SI 1 ver piece, was Vl~l. bi e, an., d gold. was wic d- t d ell$ t. to d center of a vast dally speculation, In is ~mon ta w. :~l m us rene we con- THE American Home Missionary Society treasury notes passed current. at fift~ cen fllet, even af~er 1t seems, tb~t we must 8:e as aided in planting 3;427 curces,. ~d on te dollar or less. It IS adl8zida~n~ in Im forever-tmgs ta~ exclte.1,600 mini~~r~ are ~«?1V undercommsislod, vje~?~ ~~e,past,-. ta~ to.ds our nil our ~lfisne88, to frenzy and lqakes te. battle, 135 preaclng In foreign Iallguages..,.( treilory 18 a Yilt. bonlo~ bad. k, plei~~tto, WllerE!Ye1~J flow, " T astures grow: greener still,"-,., ep,",.. And te drops of rain, Astey: fall on te plain, Wen parcid by te summer eat, Refres te sweet flowers, Wic droop in te \towers, And adg teir eads at our feet. Toug te drops!ue small, yet taking tem all,., Eac ~De doing au tat It can To fulfill JlJe d~~igd Of its Maker dlvine, Wat lessons tey J1;ive unto man 1 May- we etri ve to f~lfm All I!! rigteous will.. Wo formed t~.~ole eart by is Creator dl vme 1 We would ever be tine, And serve tee, our God and our Lol. -J.B.l "Don,t put yoni fingers,~n t.ed: and dont pick at te cake, said :& er~;dont take an apple witi?u~, IE a tree belodging to ~ny one e.lse., ROyWAB a -good---ttle boy In moe but e took no pains to correc~ lj tis abit of picking up.pnd. pll~ small way. And as a.bad 1:abIt, i many oter bad ti!lgs-and g too-grows very fast, It was not l(l e would take an orange or alf a dl aroonl from a dis waiting for desbe a marble or a pencil belonging t~ a~ {lam.e in is way, e ~ould sp 1 pocket if e w~ quite Bure t~ would see im.. His mo,ter sometl to know of is ugly tricks, and, im of te sm 14nd meanness of ta: ting belonging to a~ter~." H Will you go dow.n town and get lin wool for me, Roy?" asked gral (loming into te room. "Yes, ma~," said Roy.., Tats one of te tings your ~o " Baid mamma, as lie. took up ~oar and te bit of paper on w moter wrote te errand, altoll aisted e could remember it wit~ tng. ",, "Two ounces lk 1 e samp 1" e, sail at te store. " Yes, tats, r Roy laid down te money. ~, It five cents. an ounce." Te man put te wool in a I wic e, soved toward. Roy, turned to wait on anoter customf looking ~t, te, marl

7 " You tink I am dead " Te quick grass said use I ave parted wit ~tem and b~ But under te ground e! I am safe and sound lt te snows tick blanket over me laid alive and ready to soot _. Soot te spring of te year. Come dancing ere- _" t I PIty te flower witout branc oj root. " r. "You tink I am dead.. A soft voice said. ", cause not a branc or root I own. I never ave dip-d,. But c10ee I ide ~ plumy ~ed tat te wind as sown,. tient I walt t~oug te long winter ours. You WIll see me again- I sall laug at you. ten r t of te eyes of a undred flowerll., -Edit lll Tormu, in Western.&cordero ". I E~NGELIST AS A. DI8COURA.GIIENT. "Toug little I bring," Said te tiny sprmg, As it burst from te migty ill, "TIs pleasant to know, Werever I flow, Te pastures grow greener still/ And te drops of rain, As tey fall on te plain, Wen parced by te Bummer eat, Refres te sweet flowers Wic droop in te bowtlrs, And ang teir eads at our feet. Toug te drops are small, Yet taking tem all. Eac ~ne doing all tat it can To fuljill te design Of its Maker divine, Wat lessods tey give unto man I May we strive to fulfill All is rigteous will,.. Wo formed te wole eart by is wordl Creator dt vine I We would ever be tine, And serve tee, our God and our Lord. -J. R. Robinson. A POOR BARGAIN. "Dont put your fingers in te dis, dear, and dont pick at te cake," said Roys mot er"dont take an apple witout leave from a tree belonging to anyone else." Roy was a good little boy in most tings, but e took no pains to correct imself of tis abit of picking up ~nd pilfering in a small way. And as a bad 1:abit, like a great many oter bad tings-and good ones too-grows very fast, it was not long before e would take an orange or alf a dozen macaroons from a dis waiting for dessert; and if a marble or a pencil belonging to anoter boy came in is way, e would slip it into is pocket if e was quite sure tat nobody would see im. His moter sometimes came to know of is ugly tricks, and talked to im of te sm l\nd meanness of taking any ting belonging to an,oter. "Will you go dofn town and get some Berlin wool for me, Roy?" asked grandmoter, coming into te room. "Yes, maam," said Roy.,e Tats one of te tings your ands can do," said mamma, as e took up te alf dollar and te bit of paper on wic grandmoter wrole te errand, altoug e in sisted e could remember it witout writing., "Two ounces like sample," said te man at te store. "Yes, tats rigt," as Roy laid down te money. ~Its twentyfive cents an ounce." Te man put te wool in a paper bag, wic e soved toward Roy, and ten turned to wait on anoter customer. looking at, te marbles. wic is life before. Tere were co[]niqies. \J.. l...,. and potteries and brandies and -crystals and agates, and if tere is anv oter kind of marbles, it was tere too. Tey were all colors of te rainbow, plain and streaked and saded and spotted. He felt almost like buying some of tem. But e ad been for ~eeks 8aving up is alf dollar t<) buy a fismg rod, wic e could not do witout; for e was going ome wit grandmoter, and ~ey always fised tere. He :legan to tink It was very unfair tat Mr. Pike, te store keeper, sould ave so many marbles and e 80 few. He took one out to look at. W~at a beauty it was wit its red and wite strtpes, wit a delicate twist of blue inside! Ris paper-bag of wool lay near,as e gave te marble a soft roll on te counter. Te paper ad become unfolded and te marble rolled toward it. Wit anoter little touc it ac~ually rolled in-all of itself! -Roy was su:e It was none of is doing. He glanced quickly to see if Mr. Pike was looking; but no, e was still busy wit somebody else. Ter~ were suc lots of marbles. Roy aaid, ~o Imself: "Wat arm could it do to let It stay i1: te bag, as it would roll tere? Just one, wen Mr. Pike ad so many." He ad never taken anyting f!-,om a store be ~re, and is fingers-te fingers, alas! wic IS moter tougt good. for so muc petter work.-trembled as e- began folding up te opentng bag. f} "Let me see," said Mr: Pike, turning sudd.enly towards im. "I wonder if I got te ligt Weigt on te wool P ~ It was two ounces, wasnt it r " "Ye e8, air," stammered Roy. HiS face turned red, and e felt ot down to is {eet, as ~Ir. Pike took te bag from,is and.." Wy, I a.ve made a mistake?" said Mr. Pike, putting it on te scales. ",Sure as w t ok rid, Ive given you four ounces, I must a e some out." _. "O, no I said Roy, m great frigt, taklug old of te bag. How could e bear to see tat marble f~und tere? In a moment it flased upon i m ta.t by paying for te extra two ouncet, e Could prevent it. -. "1-1 believe grandmoter would just as ef ave four ounces," e said. He took is own alf. dollar aud o:flered it to Mr. Pike.. "Tatll be an rigt," said. Mr. Pike drop PlDg Roys alf-dollar in is cange drawer. f: poor naugty little boy set is lips tigty. oget~er as,e went out ot te store; car ryldg IS paper bag. His alf-dollar was l~ni and wit it is fising rod-te beau- 1 U bamboo rod wit wic e ad expecte~ to astonis all te little coun try boys, IV 0 ad noting buteaplings cut in te :t?t ds. He took out te marble and looked t 1 as e- walkad ome. It was a finer one n an on, of Jon~y Pringes, tere was o a~ut tat; Dut e ad paid for it, and ka~w it, wort:.. U\J"V.llve cents. bear, to look at it. He carried -te wool to grandmoter and ten went and id te crystal in an old box of rubbis standing in te fart. est corner of te toqi.ouse.., * * * * "Hi, tere!" called a. voice to Roy, a fe~ days afterward. Roy was walking along te street, avmg just taken a sorrowlullook at te winuow inside of wic were te fising. rods, and Bettledupon te one e would ave bougt, if e could ave bougt any. It was Mr. Pike wo called; and Roy went toward im wit ceeks again turning red, and wondering as e ad wondered te un~ dredt time, if Mr. Pike knew., Heres your alf-dollar," said Mr. Pike. " Did you tink I meant to make you pay it for one marble P" Roy ung is ead and eld back is ands. "Take it," insisted Mr. PIke, grasping te small ;and and putting te coin into it. H But let me tell you, my little man," e added i)1 a more serious tone, "youd better face rigt about in tis matter of being sneaky and deceitful. Youve got a long life aead of you, and if you go trougli it paying away trut and onor and mal1liness for every trifle you want, it will be a muc worse bargain tan paying fifty cent~ for a marble." " Ill remember, sir, and tank you," said Roy, in a very umble tone. " Ill run and bring back te marule." "No," said Mr. Pi~e. "You can keep it.". "But I ate te very Blgt of it," said Roy. Never mmd tat. Put it among your oter marbles, and play wit it. Dont trade it nor give it away, but let it always remind you to stand by fair and onest dealings as long as yon live."., It was,a good lesson for Roy; and I ope e profited by it, --. dont you?-golden Days. TOO LITTLE FOR ANYTHING. "Im too little to be in te missionary siety. Im too little to be in te Siety of Cristian Endeavor. Im too little.for e-very ting, I gue s." Aunt Lucy was sitting on te piazza as Jessie slipped out of te parlor window, and se eard te sorrowful words and called te little girl to er. " Wat is te matter, pet?" se aaked. " Sister Isabel and te big girls are aving teir missionary meeting in tere," said Jessie, pointing into, te parlor. "Tey. said I migt listen to tem, but tat I couldnt be one of tem, cause Im so little. Im too little for anyting, Aunt Lucy." " Too little? I guess not," sai<! Aunt Lucy wit a very loving kiss on te face. "I ti of te l,ittle, e not any tem away. He took tem in -is arms and talked wit tem. Te Bible doe!! not tell us wat e said to tem, but I am sure e never told any of tem tat tey were too little to do kind tings for eac oter for te love of im." "I wis some olie ad. written down, te tings, so we little ones could know, Aunt ~ucy.. c, Te tings wic are written down ara meant for all is disciples, little or big, dear, and tere are plenty of tings for everyone of us to do. I ave read lately of some cildren wo formed temselves into a band wic tey called te Little Helpers. Te only ting te members ad to do was to see to it tat tey let no day pass witout doing some little kindness-someting to make somebody appier.", "Tats just wat Id like, Aunt Lucy," said Jessie, wit a. wonderful brigtening of er face. "Only, tere aint any siety like tat for me to belong to." "You migt be te first one in suc a society, and get te little girls to join it." "Well, I will," said Jessie. "But wat if I souldnt find anybody to be kind to, every day, Aunt Lucy?" "You will be sure to, deary, if you keep on te lookout. Try it, and come to me tomorrow evening and tell me wat you ave done." Te sild was just sinking beind te ill as Jessie spied Aunt Lucy on te piazza, and ran to make lfer report. "Well, ave you seen anyone to pe kindtor" asked Aunt Lucy, smiling at er glow-- ing face. - "O, plenty, Aunt Lucy. Wy, tey began te very first ting in te morning. I was out getting a bouquet to put by mammas breakfast-plate wen nurse and little Harry looked out of te window, and nurse said to Harry:" Wa~ _ sall I do now at all tat yeve dropped your belt buckle, and 1 canjt be lavin te ba.by to go ~nd find it? I wanted peticularly to go down to te "-~~_J bed, but I stopped and unted under buses till I found te buckle.,,. " A very good beginning, Jessie.", H Te breakfast bell_rang before I could get te pansies. But I knew mamma wouldnt mind if se knew wy I didnt get tem. 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8 Dec. 11. Herod and Jobnlte Baptist. Vatt. 14: Jan_ I. Te Multitude Fed. Matt. 14: 111-:11 Jail. 14. Jesus walking on te sea. Matt. 14: fj2-36..jail. 21. Jesns and te MHIcted. :Matt. 15: JILl!. 28. Peter Confessing Crist. Matt. 16; :reb. 4. Te TranfigUratlon. Matt. 17: I-IS, Jlleb. 11. Jesns and te Little Ones_ Matt. 18: lieb. 18. A Lesson on Forgrveness. Matt. 18: 21-35: Feb. iii. Te Rle YOUD& Ruler. Matt 19: 1626, KlIC8. Crlsts Last:Jonrney to Jerusalem, Matt. 00: )[a.rc10. Crlst ED.tering JCIU8alem. Matt. 21 : llarc:17. Te Son Rejected; Matt. 21: :ll.-46. ~lk, Review Service. - LESSON IX.-THE RIOH YOUNG RULER BY BBV. THOMAS R. willialls, D. D. Ftw ~.~g, Feb. 25,1888. ftlde, g~ and sell tat tou eist, ana gifj6 to te potji, alllz tllou salt al)6 tlea3u,{,e in li&11)6n; ama come and!ozlofij m8. Te young man, in is earnest inquiry. was prepared in is mind to be in,strncted e~licitly and to appreend t!l explicit instruction. He evi dently desired to be perfect, but e was now in. formed tat tat attamment could be made only by witdrawing bis affections from is great rices and turning is regard towards te poor, and even follow~ng te umble Jesus of Nazaret. Tis requirement was very distinct and positive. It de manded ~ :entirerev~1.ution of te young. mans teory.. ot.rigt(ou~es8,a~d of is practical life. His rices and ill<i:e1f rlg~onjlnesscounted not. ing in te purcase of eternal life; Humility, ser vice for te lo~ly. and following Jesus iii bis wole maaner and spirit of life, was te,~nly way to attaln un~ wat e ad desired, tc eternal life_ "..".. V. 22. But wen em YOUll, man TItaril tat Baying. e went away 8OI"I0fIJjul: fo1 lisliad flieat pobu Bions.:: Tat requfrement contemplated a kind of work for wic e was not prepared; it was doillg someting for oters, and not all for self. Ten, again, e ad accumulated great ricee;isaffections were set upon tese treasures; now, te tougt tat tese must be given away was very ard for : im to accept. Te idea of J esue is not to strip l\im of is eartly treasures, only as it was nece88ary in 8cRIlTURE LESSON.-MAlTIIKW 19 : order to turn te wole current of is affections and 16. And beold, one came and said unto im. Good Mas-!if. tar wat gl)od ting sall I do tat l may ave eternal lifer eart e. He never could ave re8l spiritual treaa 17: And e l!ii.id unto im. Wy oallest tou ine.j{9od? ures in eaven so long as is a1fectioni. wue set ten unone good but one. tm is, GOd; ntlf tou Wilt en ter Into life, keep te commandments. upon e&rtiy rices. Tis condi.tiod f~t te iger 18. Hesait unto im, Wic? Jesus said, Tdu salt do lif b t 1 to t f nomulder, Tolfsalt not colii.mlt adultery, Tou salt not e roug t a grea strugge e,e.art 0 t e steal; Tou salt.not bear fa.ljje witness,,young man, and yet it was so plain and just tat 19. Hollar ty fder and ty moter, and Tou salt love e could not turn lt mde. t!jynellrbbor as t1l7self., 00. T~ young man sait nnto im, All tese tings ave I V. 23. Ten Baza, kept from my yont Je8ti8unto Aia d,iljljilfllea. Veriltl up,:,wat lack I yet r or " 21. Jesus said unto 1m, If tou wilt be perf~~jjo and I Bay unto you, Tat /J rtc man.,au atrdly enter sell tat tou ast, and lrlve to ta poor. and tou t ave treasure In eaven-; and oome and follow me. into te kingdom of eaf)/!fi. Te case of te young 22. away Bnt sorrowful: wen te for yonng e ad man great eard possessions. tbat saying, e went man presented a very striking example of te power 23. Ten said Jesns unto Is disciples, Verily I. say unto of eartly rices over te affections of te uman you, Tat a.lic man sall ardly enter Into te kingdom of eart. It is muc easier for te camal mind to take eayen And again I say unto you, \t iii trong te eye of a needle. easier for a came to go Id f tat b d dl d b tbail for...a ric man to enter 0 0 W lc may e seen an an e y our Into te kingdom of GOd.. pysical 8en8~ tan to take old of tat wic is 25. Wen lil disciples eard it, tey, were exceedingly amazed, saying Wo ten can be saved? seen only by te eye of fait. Hence it is exceed 26. But Jesus beeld tem and said unto tem, Wit men. I dffi It f -"". d. tis Is impossible, but wit God au tings are possible. lug y 1 cu or one w ose... ctlons an energr~.. ave been absorbed for a series of years ill acquiring eartly treamres to place teir supreme affections GOLDENTEXT.-Ye caddot lierve God add mammod., Matt. 6: 26. upon treasnres tat are divine and eternal. T~,-Marc, A. D. 30, several monts aftljr te 1&st lesson. : PuCE.-Probably in Perea, beyond Jordan.. PALLBL ACCOUl!ITS-Mark 10: 17-27, Luke 18: BUlLE READ.NGS. Sunday.-Te ric young ruler. Matt. 19: Honday.":"Te new life: Jon. 3: Tuud/lll.-"Vanity of ricq.",_ tuke 12: Wedneiday.-Treasure ill ~""; M.att. 6: li.uTsday.-Unjust ricea. ~alneb 5: 1-9. JllriiJa1J.-A ric man Baved. "Luke 19: &bbat.-te way to eternal life. 1 Jon 5: 1-i2. V. ~24.: And again I say unto you, it is e~ier fo1 a camel to go troug elltj eye of a needlg, tan. for /J ric man to enter into te kingdom Of God. By tis comparison Jesus almost affirms te impossibility of one wos!) aifectiodsare Eet ujlon eartly rices en tering into te kingdom of eaven. Te figure of comparison is tat of a camel laden WIt mercandise attempting to pass troug a very small and narrow gate; it is simply impossible, e must first be unlad!ln at least, and ten it will still be difficult to pass. So of te ric men pf tis world, tey must be unladen of eartly treasures, or at least of teir affections for tem. V. 25.;: WMn is dr8ciples eard it, tey WMe 8Z (Juai7lglyamazed, saying, Wko ellen can be Batl6d1 Tis incident of te young mans Inquiry and te d. C. B. At Marlboro, N. J.i;lJan. 17, 1888, SYLVIA. MOR TO~, infant ~augter:of Uz and Mary Ayars.. J. C. B.. " Near Marlboro, Nti_. Jan. 31, WALTER, Infant son of Eliasoa~ Bara Bacon. J. c. B. At i~ residence, n~~,niantic,r. I., Feb. 3,1888. of old age, Mr. Bo~,BUBDICK, in te.82d year of is age. Mr. B~k.was te fater of Edw~rd P. Burdick. formerly:~pf Alfred, and wo W8S bllried in te Alfred centetery. Te funeral services were eld at te late ~Idence. Te wrlterspake from Rom. 6: 5." E. A. W..?- In Asaway, R. I.,,Tan. 16,1888, ot consumption, MARY MATILDA. wi.~, of Jonatan Larkin. Se was & daugter of w.~ Stillman, Jr., and Carltltte Camplin, and granddaugter of Ds. Wm. Btill man.. Mre. Larl.in WM born in Btlllmanvllle, R. I. Jan ~Se il\lme out in re$glon during te" Scott "-t-~;ibti:~!t~~fif~~jitjt~~ :jf~:i:i.~i&,~~it~~~to~~~~tf~~ffiil~~:;~~:j~:et~ll ~~;fr-:m~ ~~df;;, teacings in Galilee~ He was ten really on is way seen it so strong a ligt; well migt tey, from te Mount of Transfiguration to Jenisalem, be astonised and Mk temselves te question, wo were e was to be offered up, "te just for te ten can be Baved, if te condition be imperative? unjust." During tis journey, wic occupied sev- V. 26. But J6fJf.tS beeld tmm, and./lta unto t6m, Wa men tis is rmposbible, but witl God an eral weeks, e performed many wonderful miracles, an account of wic may be found in Luke 9: 51 to tings arep088ible. In uman strengt and wisdod1 18: 17, and also in Jon 7: 2 to 11: 54. From t&e alone, tere is no possibility of salvation even in te accvunts it seems tat e spent several monts in te most favorable circumstances, and muc lebs wen neigborood of J(;rusalem, and visited te city two ie uman eart js wedded to eartly treasures. or tbree times during tis period. Tere was a But wit God tere is power to Bave eve.n te weak growing and intense interest in is teacings and est cild m te world. But te conditions of te parabl B. Wic e was tellcing in te province of salvation are imperative.,tat cild must wit,- Perea across tbe:jordan, e was suddenly called to draw its affections, or ave tem witdlawn, from Betany to rai8e Lazarus. At no. time in is min- te treasures of tis world, add te eart must be istryad e:been approaced by more -serious in- given to God wit true affection and ceerful obe quirers. It was during tis time tat te incident dience. Tus wit God it is possible and easy to occurred wic forms our lesson Of to-day. save to te uttermost. Tis lesson brings out te EXPLANATORY NOTES. real candition for te attainment of eternal life. It also brings out mans dependence ~pon God for elp to make tis attainment., In Alfred, N. Y.. Feb. 8,1888, by Rev. JaB. Sum merbel1, Mr. SIMEON B. SMITH, of Wellevill!l, and M.rL MARy V. SMITH, of Scio. At te residence of te brides moter, ttt Seymour Street. Syracuse, N. Y., Feb. 2, 1888,. by ReV. Wm. A. Rice, GEORGE BAILEY TITSWORTH, of Plainfield, N. J., andfannmluella. VANHOESEN. val;il7.and joined te Pawcatuck Sevent day aptist.ckurc of Westerly, Nov. 20, 1841, retaining er members.ip wit te same until deat, alto,!g most_of er life.118s been spent in Asaway. For four pr five years se as been under te sadow of te, disease of wic se died. Two yeats since se weni five ot six mont"lle in Flor ida,in learo of eal\b.; since ",icli time se as gradually declined. ; $Ile leave!, a usband, two SODa, tree broters~ad,two sisters. besides many oter relatives,and fti$.ds. Having great vitality, ee tenacloualyclung~ life luit~1 ~e day before er da.t, wen ae sai(tlle was willing and ready to go,,~ :. I < -, I. L. O.. f,. At isresidence in te tcwd of Oarlestown, R. I., Feb. 2, Mr. WiLLUlI Yo-. In te 80t year of is age. Mi. Y<n:lt buried l,swue some six years ag<:i. since w:iq t~e e a. been living wit a som Te funeral seivi.c.es were eld at te bouse Feb. 6t, and were a\ten4@d by,.large concourse of fnene s. Te writer $~ke from,job 5: 26...".. E.A.. w. \..IUI.U.:, Feb. 8, 1888, of tuber HCtWJ;8DE., son of Lester J. ann Q&lU..;I~gr!I;O years. I. L. c.,i~~yi.~fl:8re818bc ;Mrs. MAx BIUI,UBSTS TO TR!CT SOCIETY. Te generous purp()10 of some persons to aid in te work of tis Soolei;y, by gifts of money or oter property, after teir deat, is sometimes defeated by some tecnical detect in te instrument by wic te gift is,intendecuailbe m~de. It is necessary for tis purpose tat bot1l te Society and te property, if oter tan cas. sall be accurately described. 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