mortal riches. Selfishness should be despis ed, fought and conquered. cant, first, showing that we shall not be idle after our earthly labors have Perform the duty of the moment, whatever closed; secondly, that probation does it may be; prepare for the future, by improvnot cease with our mortal existence.ing the present; prepare for death, by living The very titles, King, Priest, or Judge implies onerous duties, as the welfare of a kingdom ministering at the altar, to discern between right and wrong; so to decide wisely in all cases of equity. These duties bring care and burden, not a condition of ease. aright now. Truth and purity are sure to Let the daily service of your lives be an Those servants were examined and offering of "a sweet savor unto the Lord." having been found faithful in their stew-Let each moment tell for good. Life is none ardship they were rewarded accordingly. Thus it seems to be self evident that we are to work for souls after entering spirit life; for were there no sacrifice of what use is the office of Priest? So also of the offices of King and Judge. Should any say these promises are fulfilled in this life, we would ask where the twelve Apostles sat on "twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel?" This is what Christ declared they should do. They suffered cruel persecution until they yielded their lives in the hands of their enemies. They had no throne but the throne of martyrdom. Still we believe the promises will be verified, not only to the Apostles, but to every faithful soul. God grant we may merit the reward. Canterbury, N. H. Letter Box. Enfield, Conn., 1883. DEAR CHILDREN ;-It is time to turn over a new leaf in the volume of your lives. Let the page be free from blots. You cannot recall your past mistakes, but they may serve as warnings for the future. Profit by dear bought experience. Form good vows and keep them. You must deny self, to gain im too long for repentance. "As every grain of gold is valuable, so is each moment of time." How much time is lost! Wasted hours count up fast. Gather the fragments of precious time, and make of them something of moment that will benefit you. Gather the crumbs of happiness, to give brightness to your lives, and make the way more cheerful. Garner the fragments of spiritual food into your souls, to nourish, and strengthen, and beautify; let none be lost. Your Brother, Daniel Orcutt. WRITTEN FOR THE MANIFESTO. CHILDREN AND HOME CONVERSATION. CHILDREN hunger perpetually for new ideas. They will learn with pleasure from the lips of parents what they deem drudgery to learn from 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 privilege of listening to the conversation of intelligent people. Let them have many opportunities of learning in this way. Be kind to them and do not think it beneath you to answer their little questions for they proceed from an implanted faculty which every true man and woman should take a great delight in cherishing. AFFECTATION in any part of our carriage, is lighting up a candle to our defects, and never fails to make us noticed, either as wanting sense, or wanting sincerity. THE MANIFESTO. JANUARY, 1884. "HAIL! HAPPY NEW YEAR." 66 the happiness, more particularly, of our immediate friends and then in the good Providence of God gladden the hearts of all who know us. THIS simple term has a talismanic Readers of the Manifesto will apprecharm to the many thousands who in ciate this very much and make the intheir pilgrimage through this life accept coming new year one in which the anthe opening of a new year as something them of "Good news and glad tidings of more than ordinary significance. shall awaken a harmony in every heart. It is the breathing of a Happy New Our lives should be known by the good Year" to all, to the aged and no less to deeds that are made manifest rather the youth and little children. All alike than by the enumeration cf weeks and have the anticipation of happiness in months, and the introduction of a new some of its multiplied forms. It awak-year would then present to us a most ens a thought for brighter days, for pros- fortunate season when we may renew, perous days, for days in which right-effectually, our obligations to God, and cousness shall dwell permanently among to his people, and step forward into newmen, and in which a spirituality from ness of life that shall be an inspiration the abode of the pure in heart shall di- of love and good will to all with whom rect our minds and guard us on our we may meet. heavenward journey. Increasing wisdom in truth and rightThe worldly-wise man makes it a data eousness must follow the increase of from which to begin anew in the accu-Christ's government. mulation of perishable treasures, where moth and rust must forever dwell. He looks forward to the time when he can have dismissed the old year with all that it may have lost or gained, and anticipates in the new, greater fame in his relations toward the world, and a more abundant increase of gold and silver and precious stones. The testimony will then bear a close relationship to the spirit of Divine Light, which like the refiner's fire will consume everything except the pure gold. The anticipated New Year brings an inspiration of love and joy and even of beautiful visions. We see the heavens opened and the angels of God ascending and descending, we hear the reveThe religious mind also looks forward lations of great and good gifts and they with pleasure to the opening of a new betoken most emphatically the wonderful season, to the beginning of a new year days that are to come. The whole in which will be found renewed demon- world are in marching order and we see strations of God's goodness to man. them moving on toward the beautiful In our preparation let us arrange a new Kingdom of God. In this inimitable order of resolutions which shall govern future when the ransomed of the Lord our conduct, and in this make our sys- shall return to Zion; in these millennitem of self-denial of greater practical al days when the knowledge of the benefit, so that while it affords a Happy Lord shall cover the land as the waters New Year and a better result to our-cover the sea, when the swords shall be selves, it may at the same time enhance beaten into plough-shares and the spears into pruning hooks, are the days when righteousness shall dwell among men. Indeed, and 1884 belongs to this glorious future. The days and weeks and months will move along with unerring precision, and as faithful workers for this wonderful day of God's grace, let us accept the baptism of the Holy Spirit and become the messengers of a gospel truth that shall save the world from sin. THOSE Who write for the Manifesto should not forward the Mss. till they have affixed their full name. If desired, the name can be with held when the article is published. Sanitary, [From The Herald of Health.] HOW TO PRESERVE THE EYESIGHT. THE editor of the Huntsville, Ala., Democrat, who has passed his three score years without the use of eye-glasses, and can still, with his natural eyes, read fine print, wishes to give other people nearing the sere and yellow leaf the benefit of his ocular experience. Therefore, he tells them that in 1865 he found his eyesight failing, indicated by dark specks flitting over the page and a hazy appearance of the letters when he was reading. Remembering to have heard his mother say that ex President John Quincy Adams (who lived to about 80 years) had preserved his eyesight and read without glasses by pressing the out A HINDOO has been preaching in Boston Mass. in a Unitarian church, and we trust that the church members have been made better by his presence. He does not profess to be a christian and may not see the necessity for such a change. He says "We believe in the grand doctrine that God in his spiritual glory has come down to earth, and that now access between him and us is direct. That glorious doctrine of true Chris-er and inner corners of the eye together, the tianity has been obscured and dimmed by men who lack the appreciation of the teachings of their own scriptures, but the time has come when the claims of the Holy Spirit shall be vindicated. If the spirit of God is a living presence, if he is a consuming fire, if he is a ready counselor, if he is one to whom every appeal may be made in a moment of perplexity and so: row, we are bound to tell the world what the responses of that Spirit are. This catholic spirit and clear view as seen by the distant light of a hindoo mind, would compare favorably with the greater light of a Christian dispensation. St. Paul has said, “As many as are led by the spirit of God, they are the sons of God," and no doubt this influence may be felt in India as well as in the United States. editor tried the experiment. After retiring to his bed at night, he has, ever since the fall of 1875, before going to sleep, pressed gently together the outer and inner corner of each eye between the thumb and fore-finger of the of the hand corresponding to the right and left eye, applying equal, simultaneous presshas put the middle finger on his fore-head ure to both eyes. Or, using but one hand, he above his nose and pressed together the corners of one between the thumb and forefinger, and the corners of the other eye between the third and fourth fingers, striving to give equal pressure to both eyes. The philosophy of the experiment is explained in this way: As people pass the middle age, there is said to be (and we believe it) a tendency of the balls of the eye to lose their convexity-in common parlance, to flatten. The habitual pressure of the outer and inner corners of the eyes together prevents flattening, and thereby preserves the original normal convexity of the eyes, and thereby the original power of seeing. Near-sighted persons are exceptions to the rule. Their near-sightedness (as we un derstand) is caused by too great convexity of ens the circulation of the blood, and facilithe eye. Oftentimes, as they advance in tates the proper performance of all the years, their eyes flatten; that is, lose their healthy functions of the body. The food original convexity, and become more nearly eaten with pleasant companions is less likely like the good eyes of young people, and they to disagree with the dyspeptic than that eaten can see better without glasses, and lay them in solitude. Some dyspeptic persons have aside. often remarked, that when dining with friends and agreeable acquaintances, whose panionship cheered them, they might eat freely, without subsequent harm, of substances which were sure to occasion distress when eaten at home alone. Not a few have no com Whether our philosophical explanation is right or wrong, this one thing we know, that whereas we, over seventeen years ago, were losing our original power of seeing, now, by the manipulation of our eyes as above explained, we can see clearly without the use of ticed that when feeling despondent or feeble glasses, we can read small print almost, if while alone at home, the arrival of pleasant not quite, as well as in our youth, while men acquaintances, or a visit to friends, would at and women many years our juniors, some of once make them cheerful and cause them to them our near blood relatives, who have not feel like new creatures. If short seasons of resorted to our mode of improving the eye-cheerfulness will do so much for improving sight, are compelled to use glasses. Believ- the condition of a person's health, it is easily ing it our duty to mankind to do them all the conceivable that habitual cheerfulness would good we can, we overcome our native modesty be a potent means of maintaining a constant about writing of ourself by the consideration state of healthfulness and physical enjoythat we may benefit others by relating our own experience. The reason why both eyes should be subjected to the equal simultaneous pressure is, that to see clearly, both eyes should behold objects at the same focal distance, and this cannot be if the two eyes have not the same convexity. If the two eyes should see objects at different distances, the object would present different images on the two retina of the eyes, and produce a confusion of images, and, of course, impair distinct vision. Instances occur of persons who have a natural infirmity of the eyes with different foci-one eye seeing at one focal distance, the other seeing at another focal distance. In such cases oculists provide eye-glasses of different foci, so accommodated as to correct the natural defect and make both eyes see alike. [From the Phrenological Journal.] THE INFLUENCE OF CHEERFULNESS ON HEALTH. HENRY REYNOLDS, M. D. ment. It may be urged, however, that good health promotes cheerfulness, and, consequently, instead of cheerfulness being the cause of good health, it may be the consequence. It is true, that good health is conducive to cheerfulness, yet there may be good health without cheerfulness. The two, however, have been designed by nature to be intimately associated. Every healthy child is generally cheerful and happy. So universally is this the rule, that many are disposed to regard childhood as the most enjoyable period of human existence, and regret that they are no more to experience the pleasant joys of youth. The child, however, has its troubles and sorrows, but is more cheerful than those of a "larger growth" simply because it sooner forgets its griefs and gives itself to the enjoyment of the pleasant things of its existence. The child is really a better philosopher than the man, and, consequently, finds more enjoyment in life, thus preserving its cheerfulness. Some persons are notably more cheerful CHEERFULNESs exerts an important influ- than others. For those who are naturally ence upon the health as well as contributing cheerful, it seems easy for them to maintain much to the happiness of mankind. The their cheerfulness; but, how are the naturalcheerful man, woman, or child is more likely ly gloomy to put on cheerfulness? Will to be healthy than the gloomy one. Cheer- cheerfulness come at the bidding? The defulness promotes digestion of the food, quick-spondent can not become cheerful by willing JAMES G. RUSSELL. it. The proper conditions must be complied Lines written upon the occasion of the demise of our good with, and cheerfulness comes as its result. and worthy Sister Mary Ann Emerson. Nov. 26th., 1883. Well directed efforts promote the attainment of cheerfulness. The mind must resolutely put aside corroding cares, keep aloof from worry, and take a hopeful view of the future. The mind may be active and devoted to the business of life, and yet so hold itself that life shall be full of cheerfulness. The cheerful mind is more likely to succeed in life than the gloomy one. Cheerfulness strengthens the power of mind as well as the body, and the cheerful mind is better able to cope with the difficulties of life than the gloomy mind is. The man who is busily engaged in business does not need to shut out cheerfulness from his life in order to succeed; on the contrary, by so doing he is less likely to succeed. By persistent effort every one may attain to a fair degree of cheerfulness. Well-directed efforts are almost sure to be crowned with success. Every one who will, may be cheerful. Cheerfulness is one of the good things of life and is well worth possessing. Ralph Waldo Emerson well said: "The best part of health is a fine disposition." It is more essential than talent, even in works of talent. Nothing will supply the want of sunshine to peaches; and to make knowledge valuable, you must have the wisdom of cheerfulness. Whenever you are sincerely pleased, you are nourished. The joy of the spirit indicates its strength. All healthy things are sweettempered. Genius works in sport, and goodness smiles to the last; and, for that reason, whoever sees the law which distributes things, does not despond, but is animated to great desires and endeavors. He who desponds, betrays that he has not seen it. As we advance in years and in knowledge from youth upwards, instead of becoming less cheerful, as is frequently the case, we should become more cheerful. Cheerfulness not only best promotes health, but it also facilitates success in all of our undertakings, besides contributing to the enjoyment of life. THE desire to be loved is human nature in its purity. It is the first impulse of the opening heart, and it lives and breathes in the bosom of all until the hour of death. O HAPPY Soul! most nobly hast thou done It needs no eulogy to bring to view No wonder that the sadden'd tear-drop starts. |