TIME OF TRouBLe.

VOL. 14, No. 42. Melbourne, Victoria, October 16, 1899. ONE PENNY.

text declares that then a time of trouble on the earth would be "distress of nations,
THE BIBLE ECHO. will come to the world such as it has with perplexity ; men's hearts failing them for
DEVOTED TO never seen since there was a nation. fear, and for looking after those things which
An Exposition of Bible Truth and Signs of the Times. Time of Trouble. We will now are coming on the earth."
study this period called the "time of Referring to this time, the Lord, speak-
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FOR TERMS SEE LAST PAGE trouble," and will begin by reading ing through the prophet, says, "Come, My
a few passages of Scripture. people, enter thou into thy chambers, and
THE TIME OF TROUBLE. shut thy doors about thee ;
hide thyself as it were for a
Causes—Formalism in the
Chore h—Restoration of little moment, until the in-
Papal Supremacy—Conflict dignation be overpast." Isa.
between Labour and Capi- 26: 2o. What a gracious in-
tal—National Strife. .
vitation from our Lord! He
" And at that time shall
Michael stand up, the great knows that a time of trouble
prince which standeth for the is coming, and has prepared
children of thy people; and a place of refugt . He gives
there shall be a time of trouble,
such as never was since there us warning, and invites us
was a nation even to that same to that refuge until the
time ; and at that time thy
people shall be delivered, every trouble "be overpast."
one that shall be found written This is our only apology for
in the book." Daniel 12:i.
calling attention t o this
THIS is a remarkable pas-
momentous question.
sage of Scripture. Please
Solomon says that the "pru-,
note the statements made'
dent man foreseeth the evil,
by the prophet: (1) "At that
and hideth himself."
time shall Michael stand
up, the great prince which T h e prophet Jeremiah
standeth for the children of says, "Alas! for that day is
thy people." (2) "And there great, so that none is like
shall be a time of trouble, it; it is even the time of
such as never was since Jacob's trouble ; but he
there was a nation even to shall be saved out of it."
that same time." (3) "And Jer. 3o : 7.
at that time thy people, John says, " Woe to the
shall be delivered, every one inhabiters of the earth and
that shall be found written of the sea ! For the devil
in the book." is come down unto you,
From these statements we having great wrath, because
have presented to us, first, he kno-weth that he hath but
the future establishment of a short time." Rev. 12 : 12.
Christ's kingdom; second, This shows that when time
TOUCHED BY HUMAN SORROW. has almost expired, the
the beginning of the time
" It is impossible for anyone to contemplate the present naval and military arrangements enemy will exert greater
of trouble; third, the deliv- without the gravest forebodings. Even if they do not end in war they will eventually end in
bankruptcy and ruin." power upon the earth than
erance of the people of God.
Standing up of Michael. "At that " And there shall be signs in the sun, and in ever before. For this reason God says,
time shall Michael stand up, the great the moon, and in the stars ; and upon the earth " Woe to the inhabiters of the earth."
distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and
prince which standeth for the children the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for In 2 Thess. 2 : 9 we read of the working
of thy people." Michael is the Lord fear, and for looking after those things which are
coming on the earth." Luke 21:25, 26. of Satan "with all power, and signs, and
Jesus Christ. Jude g; i Thess. 4 : z6; lying wonders." This will be just prior
John 5 : 25. The standing up of a king is These words were spoken by our Saviour
to the coming of Christ, and will bring
the beginning of his reign. Dan. 11: 2, 3. in answer to a question from the disciples.
the time of trouble upon the world.
The Lord Jesus has not yet begun His They asked, "Lord, what shall be the sign
This work is already begun. The agen-
reign on the throne of David. Luke I :32. of Thy coming, and of the end of the
cies are now active. The world stands
He is now in heaven working for the world?" Our Lord replied, stating that
face to face with a condition of things
redemption of a lost race. The time will there would be signs in the sun, and in
unparalleled in its history. This is known
come when His work as a priest will the moon, and in the stars, and upon the
close, and He will become a King. The earth. And He explained that the signs and felt most keenly by men who are in a
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position to take in a broad survey of the
present situation.
Bishop 'Newman says:—
" This is the most unsettled condition of the cleanse and save from sin. The Rev.
world since the crucifixion of Christ. . . . The W. A. Evans truthfully says :—
stability of government is no longer a fact.
Change is in the atmosphere. Statesmen are at
their wits' end. Philosophers speculate in vain."
Mr. Benjamin Kidd says:—
" To the thoughtful mind, the outlook at the
'close of the nineteenth century is profoundly
interesting. History can furnish no parallel to it.
The problems which loom across the threshold
of the new century surpass in magnitude any
that civilisation has hitherto had to encounter."
,This is the solemn truth, and it is• in
pArfect harmony with what God says
about this time.
Primary Cause. The primary cause of
all trouble is Satan. He is the author of
sin, and sin has brought every pang of
sorrow that has pierced the heart of man.
It has caused every shadow that has
ever darkened our pathway.
But Satan works through agencies, and
some of these we will now consider. One
is the formalism into which the professed
church of God has drifted. Another is
the bitter conflict that now exists between
capital and labour.
The third is the political situation, or
the war spirit rife among the nations of
the earth.
Formalism in the Church. The Scrip-
tures tell us that in the last days formalism
in the church will constitute one of the
leading causes of the time of trouble.
This fact is clearly presented in Paul's
second letter to Timothy.
"This know also, that in the last days perilous
times shall come. For men shall be lovers of
their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud,
blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthank-
ful, unholy, without natural affection, truce-
breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce,
despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady,
high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers
of God ; having a form of godliness, but denying
the power thereof : from such turn away." 2 Tim.
3 ?- 5.
Who are they that will love themselves,
and are covetous, and manifest all these
attributes?—Those who have a form of
godliness, but do not have the power
thereof. That is one of the greatest
causes to-day of the trouble that is fast
approaching.
The gospel is the power of God unto
salvation to everyone that believeth.
Rom. 1:16, When the power of God
operates in a man's heart, he is made free
from the power of sin; and when free
from sin, he is at peace with God and man.
But where the power of God is not known
there is no peace, there is only trouble.
Therefore, when the church loses the
power of God to transform the character,
then we have a great organisation that
instead of standing as a bulwark against
evil and trouble, contributes to them.
What is needed in Christendom more
than anything else is genuine religion.
Consecration is a blessed thing, but
formalism is a curse.
The once devoted church of the Refor-
mation has fallen, and is drifting away
into the mists and fogs of formalism,
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worldliness and idolatry. It is being filled
by a mass of professing Christians who are
strangers to the power of the gospel to
" Evangelical Christianity, born anew in the
German Reformation, baptised under the hands
of the Puritans and Vesleys, has already so far
apostatised that another Reformation is needed
to fit the church for the work of the greater
century soon to dawn. The cold formalism of a
utilitarian religiousness, ornate with pomp and
ceremony, makes of the church of the present
day, to a very large degree, a valley of dry
bones, greater than that which Ezekiel saw, and
as sorely in need of a divine afflatus to give it
life."
This means that we must have a refor-
mation in our religion; we must have a
living God in our churches, to save us
from irretrievable ruin.
Restoration of Papal Supremacy. The
Romish Church occupies a prominent
place in both the prophecies of the Bible
and the history of the world. The proph-
ecies foretell, its rise, history, and des-
tiny. They clearly and repeatedly declare
that this Church—the Papacy—would be
a trouble-producing factor among men,
especially in the last days.
In tracing the history of the papal
church, the prophet saw 'it receive 'a
deadly wound, but this "deadly wound
was healed." Rev. 13 : 3. The deadly
wound was inflicted by France in 1798,
when that nation took Pope Pius VI.,
prisoner, and broke the supremacy of the
Church. The healing of the wound was
commenced in 1800, when a new pope
was elected and restored to the Church.
Since that time the Church has been
slowly, but artfully and surely, extending its
power over all the civilised 'nations of the
world.
This work of restoration will continue
until she will say, " I sit a queen, and am
no widow, and shall see no sorrow."
Rev. 18 : 7.
"All the world," says John, "won-
dered after .the beast," "and all that
dwell upon the earth shall worship him,
whose names are not written 'in the book
of life." Rev. 13 : 3, 8.
For a hundred years the Romish Church
has been working for her restoration to
supreme power over the churches and the
nations of the world. Her success gives
confidence of complete victory. Speaking
of the present perilous times the Catholic
Standard, of November 3, 1894, said :—
" What new order will arise?.Will humanity
be once more its own dupe? and will the old
evils appear again under new names to people the
world once more with false gods? Who knows?
What we do know is that a world is in its death
agony, and that we are entering upon the night
which must inevitably precede the dawn. In
this evolution, the Church, in the eyes of the
pope, has a mission to fill."
" This," says a Protestant writer, "is in
view of the times to come. What is she
looking for ?—A world in its death agony.
All nations uneasy, society racked, every-
thing going to pieces as it is. The Papacy
sees all that is going on, and expects it to
go - on until the finish ; and out of the
agony, and the tearing to piec9s that
comes with it, she expects to exalt herself
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once more to the supremacy over the
nations, as she did of old. Arid she is
going to do it ; the Scriptures point that
out."
The following orders from Pope Leo
XIII., in his encyclical of 1885, reveal the
subtle policy of the Church of Rome.
Leo says :—
" All Catholics must make themselves felt as
active elements in daily, political life in the coun-
tries where they live; they must penetrate wher-
ever possible in the administration of civil affairs:
must constantly exert the utmost vigilance and
energy to prevent the usage of liberty from going
beyond the limits fixed by God's law. All Catho-
lics should do all in their power to cause the
constitutions of the states and legislation to be
modelled to the principles of the true Church."
The " principles of the true Church" on
which the constitutions of the states are
to be " modelled," are presented to the
world in various official documents of the
Church. Pope Boniface VIII. said :—
" One sword must be under another, and the
temporal authority must be subject to the spiritual
power."
Cardinal Manning makes the Pope
say :—
" I acknowledge no civil power; I am the
subject of no prince; and I claim more than this.
I claim to be the supreme judge and director of
the consciences of men.",
In order to carry out these proud,
imperious claims, the Church must of
necessity cause trouble, and as she is to
regain her supremacy in the last day, it is
certain that she will be a prominent factor
in the approaching time of trouble.
Daniel says that he saw this power making
"war with the saints, and prevailed
against them, until the Ancient of days
[God] came." Dan. 7 : 21, 22.
Industrial War. The Scriptures teach
that in the last days the world will be
riotous with industrial war. A graphic,
picture is presented by the apostle James.
He says :—
" Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for
your miseries that shall come upon you. Your
riches are Corrupted, and your garments are
moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered ;
and the rust of them shall be a witness against
you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye
have heaped treasures together for the last days.
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have
reaped down your fields, which is of you kept
back by fraud, crieth ; and the cries of them which
have reaped are entered into the ears of the
Lord of ,Sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure
in the earth, and been wanton ; ye have
nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter."
James 5 :1-5.
By analysing this scripture we find that
in the last days men will be heaping
together great riches ; that they- will do
this by depriving the labourers of their
just dues ; and that in this oppression of
the poor an enmity will be aroused in
their hearts that will cause them to rise
up and destroy the rich.
This conflict between the rich and the
poor is also forcibly presented in the
prophecy of Habakkuk. See chapters i :
13-17, and 2 : 3-1 2. In chapter 2 : 5 we
read : " Yea also, because he transgresseth
by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth
at home, who enlargeth his desire as
hell, and is as death, and cannot be
satisfied." This represents the rich man
as having a greed like death and the
grave. What a forcible figure ? Think of
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how death has been pursuing the human
family. Millions upon millions have been
cut down by that fell destroyer. He is
never satisfied, and he is still gathering his
subjects with insatiable greed. And in
the last days men will have the same
covetousness, the same greed for riches
that death has for life, and that the grave
has for men.
We have reached the time and con-
dition described by the foregoing scrip-
tures. Dr. Talmage says:—
" The greatest war the world has ever seen is
between capital and labour. . . . It is a war of derbilt made L'6,006,000; Jay Gould, L.3,000,obo ;
centuries; it is a war of the five continents; it is Russell Sage, .2.,000,000; Sidney Dillon, 2,000,-
a war hemispheric."
The Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, of Lon- four others from twenty thousand to eighty thou-
don, says :—
" The terrible struggles between capital and , pounds."
labour, with the appalling prospects of world-
embracing organisations on both sides, are the
darkest aspects of an irresistible tendency."
Rabbi Adler says:—
" Never in the world's history has there been
greater need to preach the duties of wealth, and
the rights of poverty. In no previous age has
the chasms been so deep which divide the rich
and the poor."
Geo. S. McNeill says:—
" The labourer and the capitalist are living in
war relations; and the sooner this fact is acknowl-
edged the better for the adjustment of diffi-
culties."
Mr. Powderly says :—
" This fight is but the rumbling of the coming
revolution."
Before his death Cardinal Manning
said:—
" The condition of the wage-earning people of
every European country, is a grave danger to
every European State."
The f011owing statements show that the
rich are heaping up riches just as the
Scriptures say they will in the last days.
President Lincoln, looking to the future,
said:—
" A time is coming which alarms and unnerves
me, when all the wealth will be in the hands of a
few. I have more anxiety for my country now
than during the war."
Mr. Gladstone once said :—
"Thgre are gentlemen before me who have
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witnessed a greater accumulation of wealth
within the period of their lives, than has been
seen in all preceding times since the days of
Julius Csar."
The Rev. H. W. Bowman says:—
" Such colossal fortunes, such hoarding of
treasures, such combinations of wealth—with
such rapid increase of poverty—was never wit-
nessed before. Our age alone fits the prophetic
mould."
The following shows the incomes of a
few millionaires in New York City, in one
year :--
" The profits of Wall Street, the past year
(1879), were enormous. It is estimated that Van-
000; James R. Keene, E1,600,000 ; and three or
sand pounds each; making a grand total for ten
or twelve estates of about sixteen million
Has the world ever seen anything like
this in all its previous history?—Never!
And that is just what the Bible says men
Chicago Riot, 1894.
will do in the last days—heap together
treasures. Is not the making of six
million pounds by one man in one year,
heaping up riches ? That was in New
York City, and at the same time there
were people starving in that city for the
want of bread. "These facts," says one,
"apply in greater or less degree to the con-
dition of every civilised country of the
world. They are the facts which to-day are
rocking the nations, as they have not
been rocked for a thousand years, in the
lap of war."
National Strife. Speaking of our time
the prophet. said, "The nations were
angry ! Rev. II:18. The war-cloud is one
of the darkest in the heavens to-day.
Lord Wolseley says:—
" Those who study the map of Europe at the
present moment, and the condition of things in
Europe, must feel that there is hanging over us a
war-cloud greater than any that has hung over
Europe before. It means that when it bursts,
and burst it will, as surely as the sun will rise
to-morrow, it means, not as in former days a
contest between two highly-trained armies, but a
war of extinction; of devastation, between great
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nations whose populations are armed and trained
to fight."
Signor Crispi of Italy says, " We are
marching toward the unknown." Yes,
that is true unless we read the future in
the light of God's sacred word. If we
read it from that standpoint, we know
what the future is.
General Nelson A.- Miles says:—
" There never was a time in the history of the
world when so much ingenuity, wealth, and skill,
were employed in the invention and construction
of the appliances of war."
What it costs to keep up this terrible
preparation for war is thus presented by
the Melbourne Age, September 29, 1896:—
" The figures which the armed peace of Europe
supplies are indeed appalling. In Austria, in 1895,
the annual cost of the Army and Navy was, in
round figures, 18 millions sterling; in France, 37
millions; in Germany, 27 millions; in Great Bri-
tain, 36 millions ; in Italy, 13 millions, and in Rus-
sia, 5z millions. This enormous outlay brings with
it grinding taxation, fearful poverty, the crippling
of useful industries, and a general disturbance of
finance, as for instance when gold, is locked up to
prepare for possible war."
Sir John Lubbok
makes the following
statement :—
"I t is impossible f o r
anyone to contemplate the
present naval and military
arrangements without the
gravest forebodings. Even
if they do not end in war,
they will eventually end in
bankruptcy and ruin.
The principal countries of
Europe are running deeper
and de e p e r into debt.
In fact, we never now have
any real peace; we live
practically in a state of war.
One third of our national
income is spent in prepar-
ing for future wars;
another third in paying
for past ones ; and only
one-third is left for the
government of the country.
Our interests at stake are
so enormous, and the in-
terests of nations so inter-
woven that every war now,
is, in fact, a civil war."
This is truly an
appalling state of
affairs. One third, of
our income as a nation
is spent in preparing for future wars;
another third to pay off the debts of past
wars; and only the one remaining third
is left to carry on the government.
Words cannot fully express the mean-
ing of all these things.. Everything is
preparing for the end. The religious world
is drifting to the place where it cannot
stay the terrible tide of evil, The com-
mercial world has drifted into a place where
there is an irrepressible conflict between
the rich and the poor; and the nations
have reached that condition which is
almost unbearable, and, as Lord Salisbury
says, many feel that they would rather
rush into a destructive war than to go on
in the present ,state of things. Signor
Crispi says, "We are marching toward
the unknown." Thus, " men's hearts are
failing them for fear, and for looking after
those things which are coming on the
earth." We are standing face to face with
solemn realities. They are not a long
way in the future, but are already upon
us. Our God is soon coming. This
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world's cruel history will soon close. The
people of God will soon be gathered home.
Shall we be among them?
A. G. DANIELLS.
"REDEMPTION DRAWETH NIGH."
LIFT your head with faith, the morrow
Dawneth brighter than to-day,
Angel hands will lift the shadows,
Chase the gatheripg gloom away.
Art thou lonely, sad, and weary,
Watching through the silent night ?
Dry thy tears ; the orient glistens
Like a thread of silver light.
What though wars and earth's commotions
Cause men's hearts to fail with fear ?
God your Father, rules the nations,
Christ will for His saints appear.
Lift your heads, the day is breaking,
• Soon the morning will appear ;
Signs proclaim the Lord is coming ;
Lift your heads ; the day draws near,—Anota.
PEACE PROSPECTS.
THE Peace Conference has
come and gone without
apparently adding one star
to lighten the darkened pros-
pect that rises before the
nations. In fact the failure
in this respect has but made
the gloom more deep and
intense.
When the proposal r e -
specting the Peace Confer-
ence first flashed across the
wires, thousands were in-
spired by the prospect of
what might be accomplished
by the deliberations of such
an august assemblage. But
now the dream has gone, and
even while we write, the
wires are throbbing with
their war-messages between
England and the Transvaal.
In our picture the artist
has about sketched the
situation as it is. Men have
multiplied weapons of war
and vessels of war until the
angel of peace is beset, both
before and behind, with instruments of
death. The broken olive branch of peace
lies upon the earth, ready to be trampled
under the feet of contending armies. The
whirlwinds of national strife are only being
held in check by the unseen Hand until
God's work is done. This will soon be
accomplished, and then the war-tempest,
that has been gathering for years, will be
loosened to do its work of destruction.
Satan is behind all human strife, and the
wickedness of selfish ambition with which
he has inspired the hearts of men is
responsible for all the scenes of slaughter
that have darkened human history. The
warrior, with his garment rolled in blood,
is not a necessary factor in God's plan.
Christ was the Prince of Peace. He
forbade the use of the sword, but thou-
sands of Christians have since then
taken up Peter's rusty weapon in a
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vain effort to have it do God's work.
It is this spirit of selfishness that has
led the nations to gather their armies and
prepare for battle, as it is to-day. If
God were to look down upon the earth,
instead of beholding the Eden home that
He placed there' in the beginning, He
would see a battle-camp where men were
trained for the work of slaughter. He
would see the nations taxing their every
energy to prepare for the dreaded crisis
—" the time of trouble"—so near at hand.
God has pointed out that in the last
days there would be a cry of, "Peace,
peace ! " But side by side with that He
places the warning of "sudden destruc-
tion." i Thess. 5 : 3. He plans to bring
His people through that destruction with
"Power was Given to Take Peace from the Earth."
a miraculous hand, but it will be necessary
that the people who are thus to be delivered
shall learn to trust implicitly in the
Almighty hand.
Let no dreams of false peace lead the
soul away from the God who alone can
give peace.
THE SINFULNESS OF SIN.
" Sin, that it might appear sin, working death
in me by that which is good ; that sin by the
commandment might become exceeding sinful."
Rom.-7: 13.
THE true nature of sin is revealed by
contrast with good ; but that which paints
its nature in truest colours is its fruits.
Sin bears its mark and carries its blight-
ing curse everywhere. It brings sorrow
and suffering with it. It inflicts its bitter-
ness upon all. But it is in its deadly
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character that its enormity becomes
apparent.
The laws require that deadly poisons
shall be appropriately labelled that all
may take warning. But the most deadly
thing in this world'is sin. There is not a
poison in the laboratory of science or
nature so fatal as the venom of sin. "The
wages of sin is death." And this does not
refer to what we call great sins ; but the
smallest degree, or particle, is absolutely
fatal, and no power can neutralise the
effect. Even the gospel does not undertake
to avert the inevitable consequence. " The
soul than sinneth, it shall die," is unalter-
ably written. And it is in this lamentable
fact that the exceeding awful and virulent
character of sin is made manifest. Like
a cruel murderer, sin stabs
its victim, and every thrust is
fatal. Like the leprosy, the
smallest taint means death.
Sin lures its victims to
death, and then accuses
them before the law. Some
will say , that it is the law
that executes the sinner.
But to this insinuation the
apostle gives a most emphatic
denial. To be sure the holy
law is the instrument by
which death is inflicted, but
the law was ordained to life.
The law of the land is that
murderers shall be hanged.
Now, if it be the law that
hangs men, then why are not
all men hanged?—Because
all are not murderers. Just
so ; then it is the sin of murder,
not the law, that hangs the
murderer.
The gospel mitigates the
awful condition of the sinner,
by permitting him to die
voluntarily into the death of
Jesus. He may choose to be
crucified with Him. -Falling
upon the Stone, he may
become broken and contrite,
and reckon himself dead indeed unto sin.
And to him who really and truly reckons
himself dead to sin, God will supply the
fact. But a voluntary death is not pain-
less. There is the suffering. But we are
exhorted : " Forasmuch, then, as Christ
hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm your-
selves likewise with the, same mind : for
he that hath suffered in the flesh hath
ceased from sin." Another apostle most
beautifully says :—
"I am crucified with Christ : nevertheless I
live ; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me : and the
life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the
faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave
Himself for me."
It is sin that creates the dire necessity
for death. Sin is its own exterminator.
In the gospel, provision is made for sepa-
rating the sin from the sinner, destroying
sin and saving the soul. But this involves
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self-denial, humiliation, crucifixion, death,
and a new life by faith in Christ.
Without the gospel, sin works its own
destruction and the everlasting ruin of
all who cling to it. Under the gospel, sin
must perish upon the cross ; but the
quickening power of the Holy Spirit that
raised up Christ from the dead begets a
new and spiritual life, and with resur-
rection power energises every spiritual
faculty.
Sin cannot dwell with God. Sin sepa-
rates God from His children. Separation
from God is certain death.
G. C. T.
4 home and health.
A LOVING WORD.
,ONLY a loving word,
Which costs us nothing to say ;
And yet in the web of a tangled life,
It shines like a summer ray.
Only a loving word,
But it made a weak heart strong ;
And helped a tempted soul to choose
The right instead of wrong.
Only a loving word ;
But it brightened a gloomy life,
And whispered its peace to the very soul
That walked through scenes of strife.
Only a loving word';
But it made the angels smile ;
And what is it worth ?—Perhaps we'll know,
After a little while.
—Lilian Gray.
HOME CONVERSATION.
,CHILDREN hunger perpetually for pew
ideas. They will learn with pleasure from the
lips of parents what they deem it' drudgery
to study in books; and even if they have
the misfortune to be deprived of many
educational advantages, they will grow up
intelligent if they enjoy in childhood the privi- ,
lege of listening daily to the conversation of
intelligent people. We sometimes see parents
who are the life of every company which
they enter, dull, silent, and uninteresting at
home amongst their children. If they have
not mental activity and mental stores for both,
let them first use what they have for their
own households.
A silent house is a dull place for young
people, a place from which they will escape
if they can. How much useful information,
on the other hand, is often given in pleasant
family conversation, and what unconscious
but excellent mental training in lively social
intercourse. Cultivate to the utmost all the
graces of home conversation.—Selected.
HELPING THE NEEDY.
THE Helping Hand Mission of Latrobe St.,
Melbourne, is an organised effort to find the
lost pearls that are buried in the rubbish of
this great city.
The cry of the poor and the needy ascends
to the throne, and reaches the ear of the
Lord of hosts. It goes further even than
that, for it touches the heart of the Eternal.
In, response to that appeal, He places in the
hands of His people the means whereby dis-
tress may be relieved, and they may become
co-workers with. God. Every man, woman,
THE BIBLE ECHO
br child that has a margin of this world's
goods is oneof God's poor-stewards, account-
able to Him for its use. The means God
has entrusted to us should be used to assist,
and, in this way, to find the pearls that Jesus
died to save.
Perhaps some of our friends who are not
able to give, but who realise our need of
funds, and desire to help us to help others,
would like to know how they may do it.
Here is one way. Send to the Superintendent
of the Mission for a collecting card, and
go to your friends and neighbours ; tell them
about the work that is being done ; show
them the Helping Hand of July, or read to
them the weekly reports in the ECHO, and
get them to make a donation. Then, when
the card is full, send it in and get another.
Still another way in which you may help
us is by collecting rags and old clothing, and
sending them, carriage prepaid, to the Mis-
sion. Rags are of almost as great service to
us as cash-. They give employment to needy
men, and that means food and shelter for
some whom otherwise we could not assist.
Be assured, dear friends, of this,—that
when the Lord of the harvest gathers in-His
sheaves, every one who has helped to water,
sow, or reap, will be remembered. And that
day hasteth greatly. It is even at the doors.
If any man would work for the Lord, this is
the time for service, elven to-day.
MISSION EVANGELIST.
RAPID MANUFACTURE.
THE story 'is told that in 1811, Sir John
Throgmorton, a Berkshire baronet, made the
assertion that at eight o'clock on a particular
evening he would sit down to dinner in a
well-woven, well-dyed, well-made suit, the
wool of which had, formed the fleece on
sheep's backs at five o'clock that morning.
The feat was 'considered impossible. On
June 28 the test was made, and successfully
accomplished, with an hour and three-
quarters to spare, the suit being ready at a
quarter past six.
May 18, 1898, Mr. Thomas Kitson, of
Stroudsburg, U.S.A., attempted a similar feat.
The sheep were shorn at half-past six in the
morning, the fleece was passed through
eighteen processes of manufacture, and came
out finished cloth in three hours and thirty-
fbur minutes.
The cloth passed into the hands of six
tailors, and in two hours and a half, the suit,
complete in every particular, was ready for
Mr. Kitson.
The whole process, from the time that the
wool was on the sheep's backs, until the suit
was ready for the man's back, occupied six
hours and four minutes ; less than half the
time it took to' make the suit for Sir John
Throgmorton in Wellspring.
A PRICKLY PREACHER.
" SISTER, I can't get this sum right. Won't
you help me ? " asked little Nellie, coming
into the room with her slate.
" You must be dreadfully stupid not, to un-
derstand such a simple thing as that," Marian
answered, as she took the slate impatiently
341
out of the child's hand. " Now, if I have to
stop and fuss with your old arithmetic, I
shan't have any time to practice."
" Never mind," said Nellie meekly, start-
ing to go.
" Oh, you needn't go away ! I suppose I
can spare the time somehow."
And very clearly, though in a disagreeable
manner, Marian explained the puzzling ex-
ample, so Nellie found out where her mistake
had been.
" Marian !" called her mother from the
kitchen, " I am afraid Tom forgot to stop at
the grocer's and order the peaches. Did you
remind him again before he went ? "
" No'm ; I thought he ought to remember
for once without being reminded all the time,"
Marian answered pettishly. " I suppose I
have got to go and order them."
" You need not, if you are busy," her
mother answered. " I can manage to wait
for them, until this afternoon, when Tom
comes home."
" No, that is not worth while ; I'll go."
And Marian put on her hat, and executed the
errand.
It was a warm morning, and when MarTm an
returned from her walk, she went out on the
porch where it was cool. A green, prickly
chestnut burr had dropped from the tree in
front of the house, and grandfather pushed
it meditatively about with his cane, saying :—
" It's too bad that anything with as good a
heart as a chestnut burr should have such a
prickly, sharp covering, is'nt it ? "
" Yes, I'd rather go without the chestnut
than hurt my hands opening such a prickly
burr," answered Marian, fanning herself with
her broad-brimmed hat.
" Yet it's only the outside that is sharp,"
said grandfather, musingly. " It has a velvet
lining to its prickly exterior, and there are
no sweeter nuts anywhere than the brown,
polished beauties which nestle in their soft
hiding-place. That chestnut burr makes me
think of some one I know."
" Whom ? " asked Marian with interest.
" A young friend of mine, who has the
kindest heart possible. She is always ready
to do a kindness for any one, and she never
refuses to grant a favour ; but she always is
so ungracious about' her kind deeds, and says
so many sharp, irritable things, that one is
tempted to forget the warm heart underneath,
and remember only the prickly burr. If she
would only do her kind deeds in a kindly
way, they would be doubly appreciated."
Marian blushed.
" I suppose you mean me, grandfather,"
she said, after a little pause. " I did'nt think
it mattered much if I do grumble a little, so
long as I always do what I am asked."
" It makes people feel sometimes as if it
was hardly worth while to get their fingers
pricked for the sake of the nut," grandfather
answered. " Let this prickly preacher preach
you a sermon, dear ; and learn to do good
deeds kindly."—M. E. Kenney, in the Presby-
terian.
HOME life should be heaven-life in minia-
ture. God designs that this life shall be a
school leading up to the life beyond. The
home should be the truest ideal of life on
earth. But this can only be when Christ is
in the home-life, and in all relating to the
home.
 342
A MODERN CAMP-MEETING.
Worshipping under Canvas—A Costly Temple
—In the Catacombs—Resting Awhile.
IN his worship Adam first bowed amid the
flowers and fragrant groves of Paradise. No
temple walls were needed to indicate the place
of the mysterious Presence, for God was seen
and known.
Centuries passed, and God finally directed
Moses to build a tabernacle, that there might
be a known dwelling-place for Jehovah. This
tabernacle was composed of consecrated gifts
and constructed by consecrated hands.
When completed, the Divine presence over-
shadowed it, and made the place of His feet
glorious.
Later still, God gave directions to David`
and Solomon concerning the erection of a
temple. Willing workers went to the mount-
ains and prepared timber, and to the quarries
to prepare stones for this sacred edifice.
These were brought, and the temple walls
rose silently, without sound of either hammer
or chisel, under direction of the divine Archi-
tect. That building was
reared at the cost of over
one million pounds, indi-
cating that no earthly
dwelling can be suffi-
ciently grand for the King
of heaven.
In addition to all the
facilities thus afforded for
worship, Israel went out
every year to spend a
number of days worship-
ping under the leafy
boughs of their forest
tabernacles. Here they
rejoiced before God while
the " boughs of goodly
trees" served as their only
covering from the day's
warm sunlight, and the
star glories of the night.
During the Dark Ages
the Christians were forced
to meet in caves and dens of the earth. Here,
hidden, away from the gaze and power of
their persecutors, they would worship in the
darkness the God of light.
In the days of John Wesley and his asso-
ciate reformers, the city parks, streets, and
fields were often selected as places for hold-
ing meetings. God was in the reformers'
message, and thousands who never entered
the churches heard the truth of God at some
of these way-side gatherings.
In still later years other methods have
been tried. The camp-meeting plan has been
largely adopted both in England and America.
Dating back one hundred years to August
1799, the first camp-meeting was held by
two Presbyterian evangelists—the McGee
brothers—at a place known as the " Muddy
. River," near Russellville, Kentucky, U.S.A.
This meeting was the outcome of a revival
that brought the people in such numbers that
the building could not contain them. So the
plan of camping out and holding protracted
meetings was devised.
In the course of a century this plan has
proved to be one of the, most successful
methods for evangelistic work, and it is
pow largely employed by many religious
THE BIBLE ECHO October 16, 5899
denominations. Large canvas tents, capable span the gully might be on fire. It was yet
of seating several thousands, are used for dark, but she knew that it was near the hour
meeting purposes, while smaller tents afford when the early morning train, the fast
accommodation for families who may desire express, would arrive, and if the bridge had
to attend during all the time of the meeting. burned, the cars would be precipitated into
At one such meeting recently held at Owasso, the gully with their passengers.
U.S.A., there were 300 family tents engaged,
Springing from her bed, and without wait-
and over 3,500 people camping on the ground.
ing to change her night-robe for a dress, she
During the past few years meetings of this
hurried out of the house, and saw the wooden
character have been held in the colonies, and portions of the bridge were in flames. Then
cheering success has attended these gather- she ran for the track, intent on saving the
ings. We give in this cut a photo taken of
train, which she knew was nearly due.
a meeting held in Melbourne one year ago.
She soon heard the distant rumble of the
Over two thousand people frequently gathered
oncoming cars. Picking up one of the blazing
in the large calico tabernacle at the time of
brands that had fallen from the burning
meeting.
bridge, the woman ran down the railroad
Arrangements have been made to hold a
track as if her life depended upon the speed
camp-meeting at Toowoomba, Queensland,
from October 13 to 26. We trust this will she made.
prove a blessed time to those who have the Engineer Smith had his engine running at
privilege of thus meeting to seek the Lord. high speed. Suddenly a light waved back-
In these gatherings the time is largely spent ward and forward on the track ahead. As
in public services, Bible study, and private quickly as possible he began to slow down
devotion. Meetings begin early in the morn- the engine. The fireman thrust his head out
ing, and continue all day till 8.3o at night. of the cab, and exclaimed : " It looks like a
ghost ! "
Then the engineer saw
that the signal was being
waved by the spectral-
appearing figure of a
woman. A moment
later, when the figure
stepped from the track to
allow the engine to slide
slowly by, the engineer
knew it was not a wraith,
for Mrs. Sullivan, almost
exhausted with the race
she had made, was
excitedly calling to him
that the trestles ahead
were on fire.
The engineer brought
his train to a stop. Its,
sudden slowing aroused
the sleeping passengers,
and soon they learned
A CAMP-MEETING SCENE. the cause of it, and were
Then all is silent till the morning again. hurrying off the train to thank their deliverer ;
Christ led His disciples apart into a desert but Mrs. Sullivan had• hastened home to
place to " rest awhile." It would be well if dress.—New Voice.
God's people could still step aside from the
devouring worries of life to rest awhile in
QUITE LIKE HANDS.
His presence.
IT is really wonderful what a Hindoo can
do with his feet. The native Indian shoe-
IN GOD'S SIGHT. maker does not use his last, but holds the
unfinished shoe with his feet, while his hands
is'nt the world-praised nothings that are best in our
Father's sight, are busy shaping it. The carpenter secures
Nor the wreaths of fading laurel, that garnish fame's with his great toe the board he is cutting,
dizzy height; and the woodturner handles his tools as well
But the pitying love and kindness, the work of the with his toes as with his fingers.
warm caress,
The beautiful hope and patience and self-forgetfulness.
This use of the feet to assist the hands in
their work is not, however, merely the result
The trifle in secret given, the prayer in the quiet night,
And the little unnoticed nothings are good in our of practice. It is chiefly- due to the fact that
Father's sight. the Hindoo foot is quite different from ours.
—Selected. The ankle of the Hindoo and the articulation
of the back of the foot 'allow a great deal of
SAVED THE MORNING EXPRESS. lateral motion.
In pointing out these peculiarities one nat-
MRS. NELLIE SULLIVAN lives at Pontiac, urally, thinks _that a human being using both
Ill., near the Chicago and Alton railway. hands and feet must resemble a monkey.
The other night, when she was alone in the But the Hindoo foot is not like that of an
house, she awoke and saw a fire on the ape or monkey, for the great toe is not
railroad at a gully near her home. opposed to the other toes like a thumb, as is
It occurred to her that the trestles which the case with that animal.=-Cassels' journal,
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You will pass this way but once. Are
you improving the opportunities given to
sow the seeds, kind words and actions, as
you go ?
"THE greatest deception of the age is
that which leads Christians to look through
the gateway of politics for the coming of
the kingdom of Christ."
For Conscience' Sake. A blind young
man was recently expelled from the Blind
Asylum in Hobart, Tasmania, because he
desired to observe the Sabbath according
to the commandment which says, "The
seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy
God." Sectarianism has always been a
cruel thing, and it does not seem to get
any more Christ-like as the ages go by.
Human religion nailed Christ to the cross,
and kindled fires for the martyrs ; God's
religion makes the sun to rise on the evil
and on the good, and sends rain alike on
the just and on the unjust.
Mistaken. In the latter part of the
13th century, the monks of Ireland, hav-
ing learned the secret of distillation from
the Moors, began to manufacture corn-
wine. This beverage they called Usque-
baugh, meaning, ." The water of life." This
word was shortened to Usque, and finally
took the form of the name Whisky. In-
stead, however, of it proving to be the
water of life, it has proved to be the water
of death. And as the years go by, its work
of death widens and increases. , An army
of over 6o,000 die without hope every year
under the power of this supposed " water
of life." Everything from which alcohol
is to be obtained must first die, so that
instead of tending to life, alcohol is at
once the product and instrument of death.
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and suppressed masses in the large cities of civilisation
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A Costly Habit. A recent number of
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of the United Kingdom consume annually
107,957 tons of tea. This would yield an
infusion of about 1,934,000,000 gallons,
at an annual cost of '18,000,000. This
is certainly a tremendous expenditure for
what at best is only a costly habit. Tea
drinking benefits no one, but on the other
hand injures thousands. The inspiration
of the tea-cup is caused by poisonous
properties—theine and tannin—that can
never, in any way, add strength to the
system. Like nicotine and alcohol, the
theine creates an appetite for itself that
finally becomes a dominant craving of the
system, and one, too, that food will not
satisfy. If the money spent on this harm-
ful luxury were devoted to the cause of
God, both the mind and religion of God's
people would be clearer.
A Destructive Cyclone. Late files from
America give a heart-rending description
of a cyclone that passed over New Rich-
mond, a town of 2,30o inhabitants, on
June 12. In less than one minute the
city was left a mass of ruins. Some zoo per-
sons were killed, and i,000 injured. After
the storm, fires broke out, and many of
those who were pinned down by the debris,
and might otherwise have been saved, per-
ished in the flames. A reporter leaned over
an ambulance where a man suffering from a
broken leg and internal injuries was
lying. Inquiring his name, the man re-
plied, " Hawkins, Sir; but it don't make
much difference now ;' my wife, my two
daughters, and my son, were all killed in
the same place. They are all gone." So
it might be said of the city itself; nothing
was left but a weird scene of destruction.
Yet men desire to make this world their
home ! This work of ruin is not the opera-
tion of God, but the work of Satan.
There is yet a worse' destruction coming,
and God warns His people in view of the
danger—" Arise ye, and depart ; for this
is not your rest ; because it is polluted,
it shall destroy you, even with a sore
destruction." Micah 2 : To.
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of God that event brings the end of sorrow,
the end of weeping, and the end of pain.
That will be the climax of the centuries;
on this side the darkness, the mildew and
death ; on the other side immortality and
the eternal harmonies. Since the days of
Adam, God has been preparing a people
for this most tremendous of all events. In
speaking to His disciples, Christ said they
were blessed because their eyes had seen
Him and heard His revelation. But they
only beheld the Man of Sorrows. Thrice
blessed the eyes that shall at last see Him
" as He ,is,"—The King in His beauty.
Child of sorrow, take the " blessed hope."
God has measured human weeping, and
the end is near. Will you be ready for
the joy beyond ?
Have You Read It ? The leading article
in this number, dealing with the "time
of trouble," presents a number of ques-
tions that demand thoughtful attention.
You may, pass them by, but the deepest
thinkers of our age are wrestling with
them. The " time of trouble" does not
relate to mere personal difficulties, these
come into every life, but it refers to the
" distress of nations spoken of by `Christ
in His prophecy of the end. The basis
of national peace was never so threatened
as it is to-day. Revolution, hidden in the
social and national unrest, prepares its
garment of whirlwind and tournado. The
world's millionaires grasp their treasures,
and work to augment their fortunes, but
it is too late for the child of God to be
building hopes or palaces in this world.
The corning of Christ draws near, and in
the anticipation of that greatest of all
events, the Lord would wean the affec-
tions of His people from the things of this
world. Those who will not live for God
must at that time drink from the cup of
trouble, y but God's people are to be
delivered. Be sure you read the article
beginning on the first page. Read it
thoughtfully and prayerfully.
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