ly Spirit, and the community of intelli- ductions of the world, nor with the philgence in their little circle, more than osophical investigations of natural scicompensated for lack of artificial train-ence. The two elements are as differing, such as Paul had, at the feet of Ga-ent as air and water. maliel; and though Paul counted all his attainments as dung and dross, that he might win Christ, his developed and trained faculties became efficient instruments for good. During minority, before the mind has matured to the period for the quickening of the spiritual faculties, young people should diligently improve their opportunities to acquire all useful knowledge possible; not as an end, but as a means for greater usefulness. The more one knows, the easier it is to increase in knowledge; but it is necessary, for our best interest, to exercise a care as to what kind of knowledge.-Mere knowledge is not grace, nor wisdom, intellectual culture; educated talent, when consecrated to the advancement of the Cause of Christ, is so much progress toward that eventful epoch when the Kingdoms of this world shall become the Kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ;" it is beautiful. But, mere learning, or any grace of simple intellectual culture can never be appropriate as a substitute for the graces and gifts of the spirit, which are ample to require the whole time and attention to gain and cultivate, after we have become alive in the resurrection element. For, when a soul is waked up to God, to feel the need of being born again, it will feel the need of crying to God as though there was no other soul on earth. It will have done with its own way and will, and cry to God, knowing that it must be delivered, or die. We can conceive intense prayer to be compatible with hand labor, but not with intellectual pursuits of the literary pro When a soul is born of the spirit, then commences a spiritual education which can be but little assisted by natural learning, none at all by mere worldly literature, and, if souls would progress in the new life thus begun, the spiritual education should be kept in the lead, in all life's motives, but, of course, with due regard to the duties and responsibilities of the temporal life. Society has suffered much pecuniarily, and not a little spiritually on account of persons whose calling was to do business, not keeping proper and correct book accounts of business transactious, hence, it is a necessary qualification to have a good knowledge of book-keeping; however, it is not needful, in a community, for every person to understand book-keeping; nor is it needful for every person to understand the science of astronomy, of electricity, of mineralogy, etc., etc. But, cach person should be qualified for positions appropriate to talents given, and duties assigned, while those branches of science, or philosophy, which prospectively, the individual cannot apply to life's duties and interests, may, with propriety, be neglected, and the time and life be employed in those pursuits which are needful to prepare for the Kingdom of God; those important to the well-being and happiness of the soul. Elder James Whittaker wisely said, "The way to labor for the Gospel is, to keep your minds exercised in laboring upon those things which belong to your peace, and not upon the things of the world, that are not in the line of your duty; for if you give your minds to labor upon such worldly things, they will become corrupt- and their dominion shall be from ocean ed." Again, I warn you Brethren, to ocean, and their kingdom and glory not to be overcome with the cares of shall endure forever. this world, lest your souls lose the power serviceable and necessary. The world of mankind will not gath er to the Christian fold to obtain that But, the earth has produced a few god like characters in the past; and, we believe the future will be prolitic of many, many more. The childhood of! the race has passed away from some advanced souls, and they have matured to the perfect dawn of the kingdom of ev erlasting righteousness, whose teachers, or light bearers, shall not be removed into a corner any more. And the judgment hath been given to the people of the saints of the Most High, who will break the oppressors' rod, and reprove, or argue with equity for all the meek of the carth; and the curse shall be lifted from the sinner who will mend his ways; Your Brother, Alonzo G. Hollister. EQUALITY OF THE SEXES. JAMES S. PRESCOTT. WHEN God made the sexes he made them equal, pure and innocent, and while they continued in that state they the human body, so is the equality of enjoyed paradise. As are the hands on the sexes in the spiritual order. There is a right hand and a left hand, the right hand is always first, the left hand is always second, and both hands are always ready to help each other in bearing one anothers burdens, and so fulfilling the law of Christ, in ministering to the wants of the body, which is the Church. Perhaps no one understood this law, better than St. Paul when he said, "these hands have ministered to my necessities." It is evident that St. Paul, when not engaged in preaching the gospel, labored with his hands. In case of the absence or inability of the right hand to perform its office, in the natural body, the left hand is always ready, in every emergency and under all circumstances to fill the place, and make up the lack. So is the body of Christ. Two of each sex are appointed in this day. This is the law governing the equality of the sexes, in the spiritual Order, and there can be no other, because it emanated from God, making the government a Theocracy. North Union, Ohio. VIRTUE brings its own reward of peace and satisfaction to the mind. — II. H. [Contributed by G. B. Avery.] THE SUBSTANCE OF CHRIST'S PREACHING. THEODORE F. MUNGER. [poor; "THE Spirit of the Lord is upon me. To set at liberty them that are bruised, To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord." planned to secure it by a gradually unfolding system of laws, educational in their spirit, and capable of wide expansion in right directions? Nothing of this he sees, but only some incongruities of numbers and a cosmogony apparently not scientific. It is the peculiarity of Christ's preaching that he pierces at once to the center of this great delivering system, and plants his ministry upon it. He takes its heart, its inmost meaning and intent, and makes them universal. He draws them to the front, leaving behind the outworn frame-work of laws and ordinances, and lays them directly before the eyes of the people. "This is the meaning of your law, this is the secret of your nation, namely, deliverance, freedom." Luke, iv. 18, 19. *** Without doubt we have here the key note to his entire teaching. This was his gospel from first to last, whatever he may have said of an apparently different tenor on special occasions. It is a derogation and an absurdity to suppose, as is sometimes asserted, that Christ, finding this kind of teaching did not answer, changed his tone to a woe. We cannot conceive a better Gospel nor a It may be reasonably supposed that Christ did profounder social order than this. It accords not feel his way along, but that he understood with the largest views of humanity, whether himself and his work from the first, and it be scientific, historic, or religious. Science struck at once to the heart of his business. and history and religion tell a like story of This appears still more plainly as we realize deliverance, emergence from the lower into that here at the outset, he brings out the the higher, struggle toward the better, delivwhole divine meaning of the Jewish economy.erance from evils, and so a passing on into It is understood that great numbers of persons are still reading that purblind mass of crudities known as the Mistakes of Moses. Does the author of that book know what the Jewish system means when you get down to the soul of it? Does he tell you that its key note is mercy, and that its method and aim is simply that of deliverance and freedom from the actual ills of life? Does he tell you that it is a system shot through and through with great redeeming and liberating forces? Does he tell you that it takes a nation of slaves, ignorant, barbaric, besotted in mind and degenerate in body, and by a shrewdly adapted system of laws lifts it steadily and persistent-tives, "--but men may be in bondage under ly, and bears it on to ever bettering condi. masters or circumstances, and also under tions, and always toward freedom? righteousness and peace. Christ supplements and crowns this order of nature and providence by his Gospel. "I have come to save you in full, body and spirit, to make you free indeed by a spiritual freedom; I have come to declare that this deliverance, which is the secret of your national history, is to become universal, the law of all nations, and the privilege of all men." Here is a gospel indeed! The peculiar feature of this quotation from Isaiah, which Christ makes his own, is its doubleness. "The poor, "--but men are poor in condition and in spicit. "The cap their own sin. "The blind, "--but men may Does he tell you that from first to last, from center to circumference, it was a system of deliverance from bondage, from disease, from ignorance, from anarchy, from superstition, from degrading customs, from desBoth, but chietpotism, from barbarism, from Oriental vices | ly the moral, for he always struck through and philosophies, from injustice and oppres- the external forms of evil to the moral root sion, from individual and national sin and from which it springs, and of whose condifault? Does he tell you that thus the nation tion it is the general exponent. And he alwas organized in the interest of freedom,ways passed on to the spiritual and to which He He was no reexternal betterment points. former, playing about the outward forms of evil, hunger, poverty, disease, oppression, giving ease and relief for the moment. does indeed deal with these, but he puts under his work a moral foundation, and crowns it with a spiritual consummation. Dealing with these, he was all the while inserting the spiritual principle which he calls faith. Unless he can do this, he is nearly inIf you different whether he works or not. cannot heal a man's spirit, it is a small thing to heal his body. If you cannot make a man rich in his heart and thought, it is a slight At the same matter to relieve his poverty. time, Christ will not separate the two, for they are the two sides of one evil thing. Poverty, disease and misery mostly spring out of moral evil. They are not the limitations of the finite nature, but the fangs of the serpent of sin. 199 THE limpid stream rolls on "NOT MY WILL." ELMIRA HILLSGROVE. Nor my will, my Father, but thy will be done, To refer evil, physical or moral, to developThe imment, betrays clumsy observation. perfection of development is a phrase the parts of which do not go together. In a true and orderly development, every part and point are perfect. A half grown animal is never blind because it is half grown, nor paralyzed because it is young, nor sick because it is immature. In the natural order, evils come in when the development has been reached, and its energies have ceased to act in full force. But those who contend that physical and moral evils are the necessary attendant of what they call imperfect devel-Leading some soul to seek Thee, thy mercy to share. opment, reverse the very process from which And may I ne'er question the means Thou wilt take, they argue, placing them at the outset where The chains of oppression and darkness to break; they are never found in any other order. But wrestle till error before truth succumb Plainly we cannot reason from one to the oth- And whisper in spirit, thy will, Lord, be done. Canterbury, N. II. er; plainly there is a disturbing element in human development, for which no analogy can be found in the physical and animal processes. Human ills are not the sole products of ignorance, nor the chance features of human progress, but the fruit of selfishness,And so not an order but a perversion. Christ sets himself as the deliverer from each, the origin and the result, the sin at the root, and the misery which is its fruitage. Therefore let no man think that there is any gospel of deliverance or helpfulness for him, except as it is grounded in the cure of whatever evil there may be in him,-evil habits, or selfish aims, or a worldly spirit. THE GOLDEN RULE. AGNES E. NEWTON. WHATSOEVER ye would that men should do un'o you, even so do ye also unto them," are words that will outlive the growth of ages, and burn as beacon lights, guiding the tempest tossed mariner to shores of Christian excellence; portraying the divine wisdom of the dles of brush. We planted three forts on great Teacher; by the observance of which the pupils of the school of Christ are distinguished. This rule applies to all classes, grades and ages of individuals upon whom the light of Christian intelligence has dawned. Its influence is powerful for good; by its adoption peace and harmony are preserved among equals, teachers and pupils, parents and children, all being thoughtfully considerate of each other's good. How satisfactory the result. No code of Chesterfield is requisite to give grace and beauty to the manners of the truly Christian man or woman, in whose lives this rule has been adopted as an abiding element. They are prepared for every phase and emergency of life found in the Christian's pathway. What an improvement upon the Mosaic law of justice," An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth." The spirit of retaliation can find no place in the heart of a Christian. Love that "endureth all things," the great criterion by which the heirs of the New Kingdom are known, is an outgrowth of obedience to the golden rule, which if universally adopted would prove the greatest panacea the world has ever known. Canterbury, N. II. ISSACHAR BATES.-NO. 2. BY H. C. BLINN. IN 1776 Issachar was in the company commanded by Captain Bunker. They marched to Dorchester, and at this time were anxious to get Lord Howe out of Boston. the hill that night, and at day-break we left the hill that the British might fire at it. The next night we went again and in the morning left only a guard. The third night we went and kept the hill, and the next day which was Saturday they did their best with their cannon from every battery, firing all night and killing only four men. He says they did not fear the landing of the British as the Americans had seventy barrels filled with sand, which would have broken their ranks if rolled down the hill. "On the Sabbath all these war vessels left the place and on the next day the American troops marched into Boston to take pos session of what had been left by the enemy. A few horses nearly starved, and some cannon spiked. The Churches had been used for stables and in which to train their light horses. We then marched to New York, where we had another view of Gen. Howe; with his fleet and red-coats on Staten Island.'. The British through much bloodshed captured Long Island. It was now thought impossible to defend and hold the city of New York and Gen. Washington ordered the removal of all the continental stores to Kings ton. During some two weeks, every night, these stores were silently conveyed to a place of safety. The transportation of fifty cords of wood which remained in the upper part of the city was not considered advisable, but was ordered to be given to the poor who lived in that vicinity. The zeal of appropri ation at this time was commendable and in fifteen minutes the wood had passed into as many divisions as there were poor people to accept it. Issachar now belonged to the brigade commanded by Gen. Fellows. This was stationed in the Barracks three miles above the city. In the latter part of August he accompanied these guards, as fifer, to the city and expected to return in about twenty four hours. For two days they had no food and no one came to relieve them. On the third morn"On one Wednesday night in March at ing eight British ships were under sail, three about ten o'clock we took up our march over moved up the North River and five up the Dorchester Neck with one hundred and fifty East River. The three ships that sailed up carts loaded with frames of forts, and bun-the North river each sent a broad-side as |