Pacific Christian messenger., May 21, 1880, Page 7, Image 7

PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, FRIDAY, MAY>2I, 1880.
A Handful of Leaves.
tages of the primary schools.
—We have received from Mr. E. O.
Platt a short account of the Training
School for Indian Youth opened last
September at Carlisle Barracks, Pa.,
undir the auspices of the United
States Indian Bureau. The school
promises to be a success. It takes
Indian youth of both sexes, removes
them from the savage influences of
their homes, inducts them into civiliz-
habits, instructs them in the English
language, in the rudiments of learning
and in religion, and watches over their
morals. Among the pupils are repre­
sentatives of seventeen different tribes
and the spectacle of hereditary foes
working together in peace is a very
pleasant and encouraging one. This
school is not intended to take the
place of the Agency schools; but to
act as a support to them. Friends of
•the Indians will watch its progress
with interest.— Ex.
What to Read.
“ Sober by Act of Parliament."
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Literary Notices.
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We have just received from Clark^t
Cannon Farrar, D. D., in hjs recent
As many persons, so many opin­
Our water failed the other day. We
coufd see it running into the reservoir ions,” says the Latin proverbs. Can address entitled; “ Temperance and Maynard, publishers, New York, a copy of
“ Thompson’s Collegiate Algebra,” one of
on the hillside, and running over; but there be a Ten Commandments fer Legislation,” just published by the “ Thompson's Mathematical Series,” now
not a drop came through the pipes at reading whose obvious Universal sim­ National Temperance Society, refer­ being published by that well known house.
the kitchen or in the shrubbery. plicity and wisdom prove them by the ring to the cry so often made, that Clearness and brevity in the definitions
No water here but plenty over there. mere statement ? Not yet at all. At “ You cannot make people sober by and rules, simplicity in its illustrations,
conciseness and perspicuity in its analyses
What is the matter ? We took up present the qvestion, " What shall we act of Parliament,” says :
and demonstrations, the leading objects of
,
“ Gentlemen is it not true that you
section after section of the pipe and read ?” is almost as universal as the
the author, have been attained to a degree
examined it. In the sectiop nearest question, “ What did the Sirens sing?” cannot to an immense extent, make which will make’the book a valuable one
the.
reservoir we found a bunch of The utmost that can well be attempt- people sober by act of Paeliament. to those desiring a thorough practical
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leaves. They had got in through the ed is to set down a few hints about th'6 ; You can ; It has been done over vast knowledge of Algebra. Many of the
filter, somehow, and rolling together, present state of things in the tracts of America. It is being done in practically useless theories found in other
formed a ball large enough to fill the matter of reading—hints, if possible, wide areas of our colonies. It is done text-books on this subject are here omitted,
while those of more important an frequent
pipe and stop the flow of water. No­ not entirely useless to the scholar in hundreds of our English parishes application are care'fully wrought out.
thing but leaves that had fallen, sere and, if possible, of some service to the where the land-owner has the wisdom The print is laTge and clear, and the bind­
to shelter his people from crime and ing very neat and attractive.
and dead, from the trees ; where they average intelligent youth.
once shimmered in the sun and dallied
History is the backbone, natural pauperism by the simple rule which
T he G ardener ’ s M onthly , among other
with the breeze. Anyone seeing those science excepted. Unless historically, he, on his single authority, can make,
things for May, contains seasonable hints
leaves, as the wind tossed them, or as upon the basis of the utmost possible and make unquestioned, but which for flower, greenhouse and frhit garden­
they floated on the stream, might have historical knowledge, there can be no hundreds of poor Ulen and women and ing. Extensive editorial notes, numerous
have saW : “ Well, they arq worthless thorough acquaintances with theology poor children on his. estate can not communications and scraps and queries.
it is true, but they do no harm." Yet, philosophy, political economy, social make, however passionately they de­ Send for it. Price 82.10 |per year.
by drifting into the water-pipe,, they conditions and affairs—in short, with sire it, affd however deeply’it affects 814 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
I
—The following statistics of the did do harm.
all human life and progress and activ­ their social, moral and religious wel­
Messrs. I. K. Funk Si Co. issue an ad­
leading religious denominations of
There are people like those leaves. ity on earth; though of course the fare—namely, that there shall not be mirable series of works, well printed, in
Great Britain, are condensed from the
They seem to be negative in character routine’drudgery of business and in­ a single liquor shop on his estate. Not quarto size, with clear- leaded type, at a
Weekly lieview, London:
price almost ridiculously out of propor­
T he C hurch of E ngland .—Two nobodies in influence. They claim vestigations on physics do not require make people sober by act of Parlia­ tion to the quality of the books in the se­
archbishops, 28 bishops, 4 suffragan that, at any rate, they don’t do any it. Let the general rule., therefore, be ment !. Why, at this very moment, to ries, or the actual quantity of printed mat­
bishops, 30 deans, 74 archdeacons, 610 harm in the world. But we do not to have all your reading and all your their own immense benefit, you are ter. The best example is the latest issue,
rural deans, 23,000 clerjy of all classes. accede to that claim. They are always thinking upon the best and fullest making 30,000 poeple, among whom *** Knight’s History of Engjpnd,” in eight
The total number of churches is about drifting in the way. By their very body of historical knowledge that you are the very worst drunkards in volumes, stitched in card manila, at $2:40
for tie set. Of the work itself, which is
16,000. The gross income of the Es­ indifferenoe and inertia they ob­ can accquice. Read, to begin with, England, not only sober by act of rightly classed as a *' standard,” it is su­
tablished Church from all sources is, as struct the progress pf society. one good summary of universal histo­ Parliament, but absolute teetotalers I perfluous to speak, further than that it is
nearly as can be ascertained, £8,000,- The Christian who aims to be orna­ ry, and commit to memory a short by act of Parliament. Who are those? essentially “.popular ” in itself, and arms
chronology, at the rajq of one Why they are poor prisoners now in to give an insight into the conditioirof tie
000 per annum. The Church popula­ mental rather than useful, whose ideal
tion is estimated, on trustworthy data. of the Gospel is foliage and not fruit, or two facts and dates to a century; our prisons, not one of which from people at successive periods of English
history, and to trace the rise of popular
At about 13,000,000, and 6,000,000 who is self-complacent if no charge of read one good history of your own the day he enters prison is allowed to power. The high price at which this book
touch
a
drop
of
alcohol,
arid
who
in
­
gross
immortality
or
flagrant
unchar
­
country
(Hildreth
’
s
is
the
best
one),
church sittings are available for them.
has been issued has placed’it out of tie
__ A^In Ireland there are two archbish­ itableness .fan be brought against hip\. and one of your own Stare and town, consequence df this restriction are a reach of thousands, who, it is safe to aay, — —
ops, 10 bishops, 1238 benefices, and would be startled if he could see, as if such there be; then a good history class, in spite of all. ot^ier advantages, will gladly avail themselves of the .present
nearly 2000 clergy. .The estimated God sees, how he hinders the work of of England, then one of France, one of so completely the healthiest people; in i opportunity to place such a valuable work
' on their library shelves.' “ Knight’s Pop­
lumber of church-going population is ■ the church and the Spirit. He ought Germany, and so on, filling out the England that there is a lower rate of
ular History of "England,’’ for the first
mortality
among
prisoners
than
there
to
be
one
of
the
channels
through
senes
as
far
as
circumstances
permit.
under threequafters of a* million.
time bids fa r to be popular indeed.—
is
among
professional
men,
and
that
which
the
wate
of
life
reaches
the
Read the great books, if you can (it
—In Scotland there are seven bish­
Daily Globe, Boston, Mass.
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perishing. But, instead qf furnishing is not every one who can do it the as the death-rate stands highest of all
E ight H undred LL x AS or G ood R ead ­
ops, 212 churches, and 225 clergy.
that water, he stops its flowing. With first time he tries*) the great poets, among' publicans who sell alcohol, so ing .—It is now less than ten weeks since
—-Tn the British colonies, and de--
pendencies, and on mission stations, his withered leaves he fills up the pipe> historians, philosoplieta, even theolo­ it stands lowest of all among prison­ the first number of- Funk Sc Co.’s cheap
of “ Standard Series ” was. iwned. In thia
there at1« 63 bishops and about 2600 and he will find himself condemned in gians. ' Any one who has well read ers, who are absolutely deprived
brief time, to supply the demand, they
the great day for a crimnal and dead­ the masterpieces (to read well a mas­ every drop of it.— Ex.
clergy.
have printed eight hundred. miles of ¡mjier.
—The Free Church of England has ly inefficiency ’. It is easy to float, and terpiece is very nearly to deliberately
This would make a path, three fe^ wide,
“ I Never Take Medicine.”
drifting where the current draws is study it) has the principal material
40 churches and as many ministers.
of healthful reading matter, from New
T he E stab E ishf .D C hurch of S uot - pleasanter than breasting it. But the for *-well furnished .mind... The
During the short administration of York to Chicago, or a strip an inch wide
i . and .—19 Synods, 84 Presbyteries, log that drifts into the flume of the Bible, Homer, Virgil, Dante, Shak- President Taylor, a young man visited around the earth, with 4,000 miles to spare.
Were the pages equally distributed, every
1639 ministers and licentiates, and mill, and into the buckets of the wa­ speare, Milton, Goethe,’Burns, Words­ Washington to sell cholera medicine.
family in America would have been sup-
about 1530 churches itnd preaching ter-wheel, may do a great deal of worth, Hugo, Sophocles, Artistophanes Thmkiog itJKnidd aid him yi hia bu» I plied already with three
ibe
harm. -And so may the Hriflwobd in Molier’e, Herodotus, Thucydides, Livy,
"
Stindard
Series
”
books.
Thia-
looks
as
stations.
siuess, he called at the White House
U nited P resbyterian C hurch .— churches. The worst of all foes is an Sallust, Caesar, Tacitus' Plutarch, while a public reception was being if the “ Dime Novel ” was being crowded
30 presbyteries, 544 churches, 583 unfaithful and treacherous friend.— Gibbon, Hallam, Plato, Aristotle, Ba­ held, to present the President with a out.
X
No. 23 of the Standard Series : Rowland
ministers, and a membership in Scot­ D r . C. E. B abb , in Herald and Pres­ con, Locke, Kant, Hamilton, Spencer
bottle of medicine.
Hill,
His
Life,
Anecdotes
and
Pulpit
Say
­
land, England, and Ireland of 175,066. byter.
—the “epoch making ’’ names, as the
He hatf rehearsed a little speech ings. By Rev. Vernon J. Charlesworth,
T he F ree C hurch of S cotland .—
Germans well call them ; one who with which to preface the presenta­ with introduction by Charles H. Spurgeon.
Have Patience.
14 Synods, 73 Presbyteries, 991 con­
knows even moderately well the chief tion. But when he found himself face Price‘15 cents. This is the first American,
gregations. 1026 ministers.
John Calvin has said, “ I have not works of those men is already liberal­ to face for the first time with a live reprint of this interesting book. The book
T he P resbyterian C hurch of so great a struggle with my vices, ly educated, and boys and girls can President, his nerves were too much has proved very popular in England, hav­
ing run through number of editions. I.
E ngland .—10 Presbyteries, 365 min­ great and numerous as they are, as I enj°y_ them all, unless, perhaps, it
disturbed for him to speak it. He, K. Funk Si. Co. 10 and 12 Dey St. New
isters, 599 congregations, 79,633 fami­ have with my impatience.” The Al­ be the final list of the philosophers. therefore, mumbled a few words, more Yoik.
lies, 8600 Sabbath school teachers, and exander is strong within us. To con­ To understand-such works as these is amusing than elegant, about the med­
Ru< kin ’ s “ L etters to W orkmen .” an »
72,280 scholars.
quer obstacles and difficulties without to understand human life in a broad, icine being “ a dead shot,” and pulled
T
ennyson
' s “ I dyls of the K ino .”—Nos.
T he R om am C atholics in G rjiat and even curb passions within, isycomprehensive way, as one under­
out the bottle—only to hear the Pres­ 20, 21 and 22 of the “ Standard Series,” a
B ritain .—There 21 archbishops and Easier than to “ rule the spirit ” and stands the main slopes and great
ident say, in a tone loudmmough to be aeries with which I. K. Funk Si Co., seek
bishops, 2211 priests, 1436 churches bridle the tongee. With what pains river-valleys of a country by mount­
to crowd out from the homes of the masses
heard through the room,—
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and public chapels. It is estimated and patience men study the art of ing its highest peaks and looking
the “Dime Novel” class of literature.
“ I thank you; but I never take Noe. 20 and 21, price 15 cents each, (osnal
.that the number of Roman Catholics speaking Saxon and French and Ger­ looking abroad from them.
medicine, cholera or no cholera.”
price $2.00); are Ruskin's famous "Letters
in Great Britain is 2,000,000. In Ire­ man, an<J even classics, that they
Read periodicals. Not idly and
The young man almost fainted from to Workmen—Fors Clavigera," written
land there are 5 archbishops, 26 bish­ may give the most delicateulight and wastefully, but so as to keep up with
mortification. But in less than ten during the years of communistic excite­
ops, 3186. priests, and upwards of 4,- shade to thought. But the divine art the truth of the present as well as to
days Gen, Taylor died of cholera, ment, ’71 and '72.
<100,000 of adherents.
The fall purpose of the letters yon will___ _____
of science—holding the tongue under learn the truth of the |>ast. More caused by his dwn Indiscretion in eat­
T he C onor eg ationai . tsts .—Con­
find
described by the author in the first
and
more,
wise
and
good
thoughts
are
neglect or insult, being calm under
ing 3
part of letter xiii. They are full of quaint
gregational ministers in England, 1983,
published
in
these
temporary
forms.
every pressure of adversity—this sure­
On a warm Fourth of July the cor­ Ruskinian advice to all sorts of workmen.
in Wales, 490, in the < 'hannel Islands
ly is greater. Patience measures the Any one who has access to a good ner-stone of the. Washington monu­ The assault on communistic ideas is vigo­
6, The total number connected with
character; it perfects it. “But let number of them, and can acquire some ment was laid.' President Taylor par­ rous, altogether the standpoint is monarch­
the body in round numbers, 1,250,000.
patience have her perfect work, that faculty of selection, may choose say ticipated in the ceremony, and drank ical. The placing of these books in the
T he B aptists .—Churches in Great
hands of the masses is timely.
ye may be perfect and entire, want­ one article each out of six—or twenty freely of ice-water.
Britain and Ireiand, 8451 ; ministers
Of Ruakin, says Charlotte Bronte : “Mr.
ing nothing.” Yet what do we see in —magazines and jiapers, that will j On his return to the White House Ruskin seems to me one of the few genuine
1879, many of whom are engaged in
the large-measure of cases ? Men liv­ keep him abreast of the progress of he complained of feeling hungry,’ and writers, as distinguished from bookmaker*
secular business. Members of church­
ing as if passion were strength. They the age. A splendid feeling it is; like ate freely of cherries, washing them of this age. * * He write* like a con­
es, 276,348.
secrated priest of the Abstract and the
groan and tug away as if there were the swimmer's delight of ridingforward down with iced ihilk.
Ideal.”
T he W esleyan M ethodist .—Cir­
no God at the helm. They hurry on great waves in ¡the sea. You. see
At dinner, against the "remonstrance
Says Eraser’s Magazine : “ Unqueationa- .
cuits in Great Britain and Ireland 347; and battle, rushing hither and thither all the ktogdoms of the world; and
ministers and probationers, 2136, local as if fire in the glow could make ev­ General Sutler— who hates the news­ of a physician, who was present, he bly one of the moat remarkable men of '
this—may we not say of any t—age, i* Mr.
preachers, 14,800 ; members, 403,099 ; erything peaceful and fruitful. But papers—would say, shown them by again partook heartily of cherries. In Ruakin. He is, if you like, not seldom
an
hour
’
s
timd
he
was
attacked
by
chapels and ether preaching places, who has found fussing, fuming and the devil too. But it is.not so. Much
dogmatic, self-contradictory, conceited,
6757i_Jp foreign missions, members fretting, elements of strength ? What of the kindest and wisest thought of cholera-morbus and died with.n four arrogant and absurd ; but he is a great .and
wonderful writer.”
(including those on probation), 95,914; character have they provided ? What the day brightens newspapers columns days.— Ex.
Tke ^Westminister llerieic, warmly corm­
ministers and probationers, 431.
plans have they perfected ? Impatience and and magazine pages. The im­
THE
APOSTOLIC
TIMES.
mending Ruskiu’s writing* for their earc-
M ethodist N ew C onnexion —11 never made anything better in this portant thing is to avoid being limited
estnees, says : “ Even ^or eloquently ad­
districts, 674- ministers, 1098 local world.— Christian Weekly.
to one journal; to see as many as THE APOSTOLIC TIMES (J. B. vocated with the honcstwonviction that it
Briney, Editor,) will bo sent to NEW is truth, is better than truth coldly believ-
preachers, 25,760 members, 426 chap­
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possible, and to learn to choose what nubacribers
from now till January 1, 1881,
els, 76,126 scholars; in foreign mis­
—It requires no little learning to be oer- is valuable and to skip the rest.— for ONE DOLLAR. Any one sending a ed and languidly proclaimed.”
No. .22, Standard Serie*, is Tennyaon'a
clnb often will be entitled to a copy free 1
sions, 6 missionariec, and 1203 mem­ rect, no little study to be simple, and a Christian Union.
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Specimen oopiea sent free. Addreks B. H. “Idyl* of the King.” Price 20 cent*.
great command of language to bo plain.
bers.
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A F avorable N otorioty .-The good re-
These Idyl* are Tennyson’s masterpieces.
U nited M ethodist F ree C hurch . It io your nneduoated, or at boot, your Jrotation o( "llrotoHK llrondnal Troches,” Cozine, Laxingtbn, Kentucky.
The only tecret of th* cheapness i* the"
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—368 ministers, 3236 local preachers, half-educated men who confound their au­ or the relief of Coughs, Colds and Throat
-Forty-five countie* in Kentucky have large size of the editions published. I. K.
dience with great puffings of vanity.— 0. Diaeaaer has given them a favorable noto­
65,137 church memljers, 1242 chapels.
no local newspaper.
riety.
Funk A Co., 10 A 12 Dey St, New York.
Tiffany. ,
—Covenant.
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