Pacific Christian messenger., December 21, 1878, Page 2, Image 2

PACIFIC
CHRISTIAN
MESSENGER,
SATURDAY, DEC. 21,
1878.
eipline best known to such as they, our tastes are congenial, thought elicits
light of the upper'earth.”
The Sphiax.
Thus Mr. Alger has first a denial have they staggered up to their feet, thought, time passes rapid]y, and when
BY B. 11. BKDBftX.
He is carved out’of the natural rock,
and then an interpretation, and when and found out the least ]>ainful way the visit is ended we go about onr du­
j
If
we endeavor to picture ^td ourselves
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he fails in one he flies to the other, of carrying their burden, and going ties with a lighter heart, and we feel
the
appearance of the-plateau of the
It is a significant fact that the be­ he'exclaims, “ there is no mention of on in the lot appointed. They do not rested, cheered and invigorated. There
pyramids
befere any tombs were placed
lief in a literal resurrection of the body or flesh resurrection.” ,But we all bear the cross sweetly. Too many are reasons for every mental and mor­
j
upon
it,
we
can.have little difficulty ir^
dead lias been prominent both before claim and he admits the resurrection conquer, as far as the heroism goes, al emotion. We may not have the
the
task.
Many similar platforms
and since the apostles' days, and this of the dead is taught, and he has said but come out sharp, fretful, morbid, time nor the wish to study them, but
i
exist
all
along
the Nile in Lower Egypt,
teaching has, ittteems, set the matter and we agree that the spirit does not bearing their black burden with a we m4y apply to ourselves the lessons
j There is a broad expanse of black
s<< clearly before the world that there die. Now, if his interpretation is sort of defiance that challenges- ad­ learned from these things, good or bad,
l
alluvial soil, dotted with occasional
miration
;
or
shrinking
off"
into
the
which
happen
to
us.
should no longer be a doubt enter­ true, those must have been dead souls,
palms,
and green here and there with
If we have undergone such experi­
tained in regard to it. But we are else how could a resurrection of the by-ways of a reserve that shuts them
'
corn
or
clover. Beyond the reach of
not contending that popular belief dead be predicted of them ? Again, up in a “ woman’s prison ” for life. It ences, we ought at least to be willing
i
the
inundation
rises a wall of.stbne’,
alone .makes this or any other doc­ if his denial be accepted, there is no i< hard to say to a noble young to avoid infliction the same upon others
thirtyj
forty,
perhaps
fifty feet above
trine true; nor do we concede that need of any interpretation whatever; woman, whose spiritual atmosphere is If everybody would do this,1 what a
the
lower
level.
The
top is flat and
the vague And visionary ideas enter-' on the other hand, if his interpreta­ all the time exasperating, depressing, different world this would be.
,
covered
with
loose
sand,
which ’blows
For our share, therefore, to this end,4
tained by men in any age, destroys tion is true, then his impeachment of or strangely confusing her classes,
I
over
on
the
fields
below
at
every storm.
the truth pf any fact. The apostles the testimony is Without foundation, that she is becoming unfit to be the let us each cultivate in ouftelves that
-4 testimony is not responsible for this for he who rejects their testimony can guide of childhood; that even - her “-sixth sense”—that peculiar sensitive- i Behind is yet another- ridge of higher
rocks, and a third step may be still
ijor is its quality affected by the not rely upon it to- establish his heroism is worn so like a shining coat ness to the moods and-susceptibilities t
further.
But if we_follow the track of
of
brazen
mail,
that
it
dazzles
jtho
of.
others,
which
is
called
tact.
It
|
theory.
He
who
admits
their
testi
­
accurate or inaccurate reasoning of
the
first
Pharaoh,
who came up from
eyes
of
the
little
ones.
But
it
must
mony must not seek to make out his
should be spelled in capital letters if by~i
men or any age.
Memphis
to
find
a
suitable {dace for
Mr. Alger asserts that “ The doc­ case by saying they were’ the dupes often be said. And were the secrets that means its importance in all the '
his
tomb,
threading
his way by the
trine of a bodily resurrection * * * of Jewish and Persian superstition. of all hearts in the school houTe laid intricate duties of social life might be I
side
of
the
Nile,
through
the netw ork
emerges on our attention in the He must stand by his denial on one bare, it would be seen that one of the expreJfeed It is a most serviceable
of
canals,
toward
a
hollow
in the long
Zoroastain dhth'of Persia." (Hist. hand, or his interpretation on the most frequent causes of failure, es­ and necessary quality. It is inborn in
line
of
low
cliff
’
s,
the
first
object
which
Future Life, page 490). On the next other, for it is unfair and hypocritical pecially in our young women teach­ some; utterly wanting in others, but
would
meet
his
eye,
standing
up
by it-
ers, is the failhre to bear the cross can be acquired by all. By its aid we
page he argues tha,t as the! Jews to claim both.
If any one has pen in hand' to ob­ aright in the sight of the children.
can smooth over many of the rough j self out of the sand-drift, half-way on
mingled with Persians, “ They em-
But, now and then, one is enabled, places in life ; and if we keep it, with | the slope between the lower and the
bibed and adopted the Persian faith ject to our position, we warn him how
modified somewhat by the dogmas of that he shall not carry water on both like our new school-mistress, to trans­ its quick and nice preceptions always higher platforms, would be agreat mass
their own," <kc. Therefore he con­ shoulders and avoid, the issue by form her cross from a black horror, in use, we shall not be likely to do any­ or column of rock some sixty orseventy
cludes that this doctrine originated shifting from the position of the ex­ appalling and hateful to the eyes of thing which will hurt the feelings of feet in height, and backed by a low-
and came forth in the inventive ima­ pounder to that of the Deist, and the little ones, to a flower-wreathec those with whom we associate.— Intel­ ridge running for a couple of hundred
feet toward the face of the hill. Such
gination, speculations of Jews and vice versa ; nor that he shall as inter­ branch W the tree of life. Then, ligencer.
isolated rocks are common rn Egypt.
when
her
sharp
sorrow,
or
grinding
Persians. That “ Christianity ran its preter oppose the degenerated ideas
Here
and
Beyond.
One
of them stands to tho Pyramid of
career through the apostolic age as a of any age or person, neither physical anxiety, only makes her more gentle
Dashoor
jifit as the Sphinx stands to
more liberal Jewish sect, most natural change of the body ; but the real point and forbearing and sympathetic,—
As often, happens in our day, a the Pyramid of Chephren. A similar
was it that infant Christianity should is simply, What says the Scriptures ? more tender in shielding them from
family becomes divided, a part of it rock probably forms the core of the
retain all the silent dogmas of Juda- To deny them in part or in whole the rasping of premature trial, and
staying in Germany or England, and mysterious Tomb of Sneferoo, at. May­
ism except those of exclusive national does not meet the question, nor does more faithful in doing her work for
a part of it having come over here. doom. The rock may have already
formalism, in the throwing off of- Mr, Alger s theory of-souls—which mind, heart, and soul,—she brings
Now on some day an immigrant ship appeared to bear the semblance of a
which the mission of Christianity we agree never dies—ascending from into the presence of her little • king­
sets sail for America. Notice the two human face. But it could not be over­
partly consisted, among the Jewish the supposed vault of sheol or any dom a queenly power, by which all
ends of the voyage. On the European looked. The first rays of the morning
dogmas retained by early Christiani­ other place to the upper earth, satis­ hearts are won, and lives are moulded
sido the broken remnant of the house­ sun would strike it, ami the Sphinx,
ty was that of a bodily resurrection.’ factorily fill the requirement of the as willing clay in the hands of the
hold, that is left behind, gathers on it is all but certain, must have been
Here is an unwarranted assump­ language of the Holy Spirit, although artist.-— Ex.
the pier. They have shaken hands, rough-hewn by the earliest occupiers
tion. The Persians as likely obtained it is fully up to the theory -advocated
Some
People.
they have kissed good by, they have of the tombs of the ancient empire. It
their ideas from the people of GOil as by figurative spirit apparition resur­
said -the last words, the tears fall has more than once been suggested,,
otherwise. It is quite a common mis­ rectionist.
Contact with other minds has often
down and the throat chokes up, and that two Sphinxes sat by the Pyramids
a stranger and powerful influence upon
take now for some men to find a
The Cross in the School-Room. our feelings and actions. We have all the heart is heavy as lead, while the like the two Memnons in the plain of
society or nation with some vague
ship—swings off and *-is -gradually
distorted idea of a subject of which
We were talking with a group of felt this, and can readily call to mind lessened to a speck on the horizon. Thebes, and that onlybine remains.
there are traces in the Bible, and young ladies, the other day, about a people of our acquaintance’ in whose But on the American side there is But it is improbable that two rocks to
claim that this is the only authority new teacher, just brought to their society we always feel awkward and glad expectation and impatient wait­ be carved were on the same slope. If
for the doctrine as it appears in the school from a neighboring state. They constrained, with whom we can neither ing. As the vessel heaves in sight a second Sphinx ever existed, he may
have been wholly built up, a circum­
Bible. Now is, not the converse of had fallen in love with her, at first, feel easy nor be natural.
there is a shout, and it hardly reaches stance which would help to account
It does not follow that we dislike
such conclusions the more natural and evidently in a very genuine way.
the wharf before the expectant ones
reasonable ? Is it not evident,, as Especially they were charmed by a them ; on the contrary, we may feel are over the side clasping in long for his total disappearance. In Char­
shown to. some extent, in our first wonderful interest she manifested in such an interest in them, and a certain waiting arms their friends in blessed lotte Bronte’s preface to her sister’s
paper, that the idea of separate in­ them,—the bringing her womanhood sort of admiration for them, that we re-union, What say you, ought not novel. “ Wuthering Height,” she
speaks of her creation of the character
telligent existence of spirits could not into line with their girlhood, the wonder why it is that we should ap­ those left
behind to subtract from j of Helttnjield in words which with
be an invention of man; end is the indefinable something which publishes pear to such disadvantage in their so­ the gross
amount of their sorrow ■ slight change describe the maker of
idea of the resurrection of the dead as clearly as if it had been written on ciety.
something of the gladness of those ! the Sphinx. 1 His work was “ hewn in
more likely or possible ?
Though they be bright and witty,
the school house, that the mistress is
who in the new country greet their a wild workshop, with simple tools
2. Is not Mr. Alger’s assertion dis­ not only concerned that the pupil still we can not relish their jokes. We
arrival ? I know a family divided, out of simple materials.” He found
crediting to the apostles and implying shall learn her lesson, but shall as­ ' can, perhaps, find no manifest objec-
half is on earth and half iq heaven. the block of sandstone in the solitarv
that the Lord is not th? author of a similate knowledge, develop power, ¡ tion to word or manner, yet we quiver
The white-sailed boat, whose oarsman desert, and “ gazing . thereon, he saw
perfect system ; but of simply organ­ and be more a woniar. for the life in i with pain as we list to the gay jest,
none can see, pushes off for another how from the crag might,be elicited a
| which so declicately flays us alive; and
izing a “ more liberal Jewish sect,” school.
voyage. A fair-haired boy is passen­ head, savage, swart, sinister: a form
which has simply perpetuated the
The following day we happened to to the soft words of lavish, fulsome ger now. Cruel and hard it seems.
molded with at least one element of
“ silent dogmas ” of Jewish and Per­ get on the track of the private history compliment which, like the scorpion
Could not the children stay ? Why grandeur—power. He wrought with
sian tradition ? Now if they are the of this new school-mistress. • Six carries a sting in its tail.
is sorrow added to sorrow ? The a rude chisel, and from no model but
dupes of all this and did no more in months ago she was in a position
There are those, our confessed in­
lome shadowed before ; why this ad­ the vision of his meditations. With
this matter why not go a step further where a proposition to take a^school feriors in many respects, but whoexcite
ditional gloom ? So strange and mys­ time and labor the crag took human
and say the whof? thing is a legend at *600 a year would not Jiave been in us a strange, nervous timidity, an
terious are the ways of God. This is
shape, and there it stands, colossal,
of Jewish and Persian superstition ? looked at. Another sort of life dear uncertain confidence in our own powers,
the earth-side view. But on the dark and frowning, half-statue, half­
We protest against such assumption to the heart and enticing to the im­ and a difficulty in asserting our inde­
other shore the father stands waiting rock; in the former sense, terrible
and tampering with divine testimony. agination of the average young lady, pende nee of thought or action; which
for the time to go by when the rest goblin-like; in the latter, almolt
Mr. Alger knows and admits on was almost in her hands. But one is both annoying and inexplicable. shall be gathered in the new home.
page 492 of his book, that “ in the morning in August she woke up to There are others, and those whom we And perhaps he says, “ There are two; beautiful.” But the concluding lines
New Testament itself there are many find her castle in the air changed to a look up to and respect, and who know cannot Bhe spare me one ?” And of Currer Bell’s wonderful picture do
seeming references to this doctrine, fog-bank, rapidly dissolving under infinitely more than we do, who do while there is weeping here, there is not apply to the Sphinx ; though its
cukuing JI is.-
gray,”
.With them tow
—W that for
after ■ the- -tbe hot- sw» of t
reairty; -afwi •her- mAuLua oppiMM
the joy of meeting ajpnn *<ip there.
moorldhd
moss
clothes
it
;
no " heath
thoughts
are
free
and
untrammeled,
apostles it was not called in question self utterly dependent on her daily
The boat shall hardly sera]» its keel
blooming
bells
and
balmy
fragrance
our
language
is
fluent,
and
we
appear
at all. On page 495 hé says, “ Every labor for h<y daily bread. Then this
on the golden marge of the immortal
grows
faithfully
close
to
the
giant’s
at
our
best.
text in the New Testament finds its providential call appeared, and she is,
land when the boy shall leap out in
foot
;
”
an
Arab
sits
astride
on
her
ear,
With some people we can never seem
full satisfactory explanation without to-day, the spiritual mother of a
his undying beauty into the arms of
and
offers
to
chop
a
large
piece
out
of
implying this dogma at all.. In the group of girls who look up to and to find anything to talk about, and the his father. Oh! this earth-side is
the
eyeball
for
you
for
half
a
franc,
or
first place it is implied throughout love her for what she is to them, all time seems very long which w? may only a small part of life. Let us
the New Testament that the soul does unconscious of the motive power be­ be obliged to spend in their company. offset the events and happenings of a small piece for a piaster.— Domestic
,
not perish with the body •
•
• hind the soul-screen of her ..lofty Especially so if we must tender them this by. .what these earthly things Monthly.
our hospitality. When they stay, and
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. ■— v ” -
The New Testament authors, in com- reserve.
mean in the spiritual country.— Ex.
A D elicious D esert .—Sift togeth­
mon with their countrymen,supposed
That is the secret oCher success; stay after we hav£ exhausted all com­
er
1 quart*of Hour, and 2 teaspoon­
mon
topicsjwe
secretly
wonder,during
the souls of the departed to be gather­ and that is the secret Uibtive power
Good temper is the philosophy of
fuls
of baking powder and a little salt,
the
long
pauses
which
ensue,
why
ed together and tarrying in what the in thousands of school-rooms, all over
heart, a gem of the treasury within, rub .in about 2 tablespoons of shortn-
they
do
not
improve
so
good
an
op.
church ft-fled the intermediate state the laud. Times of revolution are al­
whose rays are reflected on all out­ ing, mix with cold water; role out and
* * awaiting the advent of Messiah ways times of affliction, anxiety, and portunity to take their leave. But we
ward circumstances.
spread on jelly ; roll up and lay it in
to release them. Now we submit peril for the best young women of a try to be polite and smile, though
"
A
girl
who
can
put
on
a
square,
with
such
effort
that
we
know
it
must
a
cloth or basin, placé in the steamer,
that every requirement of the doc­ nation. There are multitudes of the
patch,
may
not
be
so
accomplished
as
look
forced
and
ghastly.
When
at
and steam one hour and a quarter.
trine of the resurrection of the dead, noblest and loveliest girls in America,
as stated or hinted at in the New to-day, who bear a cross so black and last the final word is said, we sink into one who can work a green worsted Sauce for the same. J cup butter, t
Testament, is fully met by the simple heavy that, When it was first cast on a seat to rest, quiet worn out with the dog on a yellow ground, but she is of cup sugar. 1 spoon com starch ; thin
ascension of this congregation of their tender shoulders they fell to the strain. With others, however, we far more real value in the com­ with boiling'water, flavor with lemon
or vanilla.— Ex.
aouls from the vault of sheol to the earth in despair. Only after a dis- never lack for subjects of conversation, munity,”
The Resurrection of the Dead.
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