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THE OLD INHERITANCE.
By Elder Henry C’. Blinn.

‘‘ HE holy bond of matrimony,” as it is sometimes called, brings for-

- ward a subject which has more or less direct influence upon every re-
ligious Order, and Well it might, as it is the foundation upon which the
order of the world stands. On the inspirational strength of the following

passage, as well as from the animal passions to which it strongly appeals,.

this has become a favorite text in the Christian church,—“And God blessed
them and said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.”

The first chapter of Genesis is very full and explicit in the commands Which
God gave to the several orders of his creative Work. All the vegetable and
animal creation are under the same common law. All are created male and
female and assigned to a special duty which should ultimately replenish the
earth. _

l\Ian, who is said to have been formed in the image of God, receives the
same law as does the animal. Nothing in this part of the sacred record
places him above the beasts of the field, in the Work of generation. The law
of reproduction becomes the law of God and receives from the Creator the
divine benediction “very good.”

We next find that Adam had a companion to assist him. The Bible says,
“God brought her to the man.” This forms the first marriage ceremony.
Admitting that the ceremony was performed by such high authority did not,
in the least, change the animal relations of the man and Woman, any more

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than it did that of the beasts of the field or the fishes of the sea, as they had
the same command to multiply. ‘

Under no consideration could this law be ignored, and the anticipated suc-
cess attend the creative work. This same direct interest followed the race
from generation to generation, and became so marked in its results that those
who maintained it were denominated the sons of God, and those who ignored
the law were called the sons of Belial. The sa1ne regard for the race was
manifested through all the Judges and Prophets, and culminated in the mys-
terious birth of Jesus.

In accepting the divine mission, Jesus is said to have sanctioned what God
had so carefully arranged in the garden of Eden, by his presence at the mar-
riage at Cana and by contributing to the enjoyment of the guests. He ac-
cepts the hospitality of Peter, who is a married man, and finally makes him
a bishop of the church, which agrees remarkably with the Apostle Paul, who
says that a bishop must be blameless, and the husband of onewife.

Jesus blesses the little children that come out to meet him, which may be
accepted as an evidence that he approved of the generative life. Bible read-
ers will readily find that the sacred volume has more advocates in favor of
generation than it has of a virgin order. That the meekest man, the wisest
man, the prophet, the high priest and even the man after God’s own heart,
were married, and more than this, someiof them were decidedly strong advo-
cates for polygamy.

Now with this Biblical and churchal education, ‘we need not wonder that
the Christians are so enthusiastic over what they call God’s great command.
The cause in which one enlists all his energies must necessarily absorb his
life. The man who has become a life member of the Generation Society who

‘ reads and writes about it and strongly advocates it in public and private,

might be expected to render a decision like this Rio gentleman :—“How re-
markable it is that whenever an enthusiast in religion gets new light and
adopts what he considers advanced views, he almost invariably begins to
tamper with_marriage. In this tampering he always betrays the charlatan
and sufficiently warns all who attempt to follow him, to beware of him.”

When this Rev. Mr. Worldly Wise Man had relieved himself of this de-
cision, he must have been relieved, but possibly may have forgotten that oth-
ers, as well as himself, could read the Bible, and at the same time l1ave the
divine right to understand it from their own religious standpoint.

It is very natural that the children of this world should think it right for
them to enter the marital relations. It belongs, as they do, to acivil institu-
tion, and to an order of life which becomes a matter of worldly interest. It
is the formingof a co-partnership for the mutual benefit of those who engage
in it. All the laws concerning the marriage covenant are under the control
of the civil government. This determines who may, and who may not be

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married; who may, and who may not be divorced, and attaches fines and
penalties to every deviation.

We do not dispute the point that those who get new light on the subject of
the Christ life invariably find themselves at variance with the advocates of
generation. And why not? Jesus says, “The children of this world, (not
his followers) marry and are given in marriage,” and this the much-married
Rev. Dr. calls tampering with the marriage relation. On this point “Let ev-
ery man be fully persuaded in his own mind.”

Jesus taught a new and living way. He received advanced ideas, because

i an enthusiast on the subject of the kingdom of God. As proper as the nat-

ural order of generation may have been for Adam and the Rev. and their fol-
lowers, it was not encouraged in the ministration of Jesus. Peter may have
been a married man, but that no more prevented him from becoming a disci-
ple, than because he was a fisherman.

Jesus said, “Except a man forsake all that he hath (and Peter had a wife)
he can not be my disciple.” St. Paul was another enthusiast who, like Je-
sus, advanced religious ideas, and he also began to tamper with the marriage
question, to the evident disgust of the Rev. Dr. St. Paul was an unmarried
man, as was Jesus, and he wrote to the churches, “I would that all men were
even as I.” Human nature is about the same now, as.in the days of the
apostles, and all ‘may easily learn,——“To be spiritually minded is life and
peace, but to be carnally minded is death.”

East Canterbury, N. H.

REVIEVVAL.
By Eldress Anna White.

IKE the fulness of the approaching harvest comes our little Harbinger

of peace and good-will for July. Each article teems with fruit of the
new life—a life hid with Christ in God——a life as beautiful as a rose in its
unfoldment, when sought aright—an eternal life, found in the acceptance of
eternal principles, and found in each lovely Zion home where the standard of
Virgin Purity rears aloft its snowy banner.

“Why Not Think,” stops us at once from all other pursuits and we go to
thinking; as we think, we reason, and as we reason we act, as far as power
to do so in us lies. But, the reasoning must spring from pure motives based
upon the fundamental principles of truth, or we may be led away by carnal
reasonings, not having our thoughts sufficiently purified.

We are glad our dear Sister has favored us with her “Soliloquy.” How
many good thoughts are ofttimes kept concealed; by withholding them we
miss the opportunity of sowing the seed of the kingdom come. Let us enter
her garden, not merely to enjoy the sight and the fragrance of the flowers

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there growing, but for the purpose of securing rare plants for transference
and seeds for sowing, that we too may grow a garden, and in cultivating it,
we ourselves may become the flowers of earth and the glory of heaven.

“Unerring Principle” should be placed alongside of B. Fay Mill's article
“Between the Animal and the Angel,” in the July “Arena.”

The one claims absolute independence of every other one, while the other
claims naught but dependence and a following after lest by any means they
attain unto the resurrection of life. The one gives what is called the new

thought of the day, just what is needed to stir and awaken the masses, but

this thought, old of itself, does not tell you how to destroy a single atom of
the old life, that is left to be told by a simple Shaker. Elder Oliver has done
it. I repeat what he has said after an experience of fifty years in a life
which is continually growing brighter and newer as the years go by, that the
“happiest, purest and most harmonious organization that was ever on earth
is a Shaker Community.”

“The Mission of Disciples of Christ” is aptly and clearly depicted after the
same manner. The disciples were to provide for the journey that they might
learn dependence and trust in Divine guidance. “I have chosen you.” ‘ ‘Fol-
low thou me.”

“Cycles and Magnets” is an article as interesting as is the writer. There
is a ring of practical Christianity chiming through it. It brings us down to
the era which George Fox initiated, and carried still further by Mother Ann
Lee when she insisted upon the right of woman to her own body, which real-
ly insures all the other G0d-given rights and makes her the Comforter of
souls.

Last, but not least, we find “Grod’s Promises” concisely and interestingly
reviewed by our beloved Editor. We go back upon them without taking one
backward step. If not one jot or tittle of the law shall pass away until all
be fulfilled, then do we not need to stop and reflect, and find out our bearings ?

Elder F. W. Evans was a prophet in his day—was a follower of this
school-master Moses—a believer in his law as being God’s law. An article
from his pen is so in unison with the one referred to, and so in keeping with
the times that we are sure the readers of THE MANIFESTO will be interested
and find food for reflection in its perusal.

“They sang the Song of Moses, the servomt of God, and the Song of the-
Lamb in the -m07'nz'ng cmd (tgttin in the twilight how.” i

“We call ourselves Christians, and claim Jesus as our Savior. But Jesus
was a J ew—the son of David, of the tribe of Judah. There were two laws,
the law of God, which was pure and holy, being a reflex of the law of nature
on the animal plane, and the penal law, which was added because of the
transgression of the original and universal law of nature, by mankind. By
that law was the knowledge of sin and its punishment.

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The twelve tribes of Israel, Moses brought up out of the land of Egypt,
where they had been immersed in all the sins of Egypt, and were possessed
of all the diseases of the Egyptians, which those sins had created. The
property laws of Egypt had produced poverty and riches, as in Christendom
to-day. Capital and labor were as antagonistic then as now. Joseph, as
primeminister of Egypt, had used his spiritualistic power to speculate and
transfer all the property of the inhabitants of the land into the hands of
Pharaoh. The continuous violation of dietetic laws had made the Israelites
a band of invalids——patients ; a catalogue of their diseases and maladies was
fearful; and the sexual relations were in confusion, and had caused the first-
born in each household to be slain, while all the male children born to Israel
were doomed to destruction. The land was filled with mummies and dead
people waiting to be embalmed, and with sorrow and mourning.

Moses used his spiritualistic power to deliver Israel from the grasp of the
Egyptians, the greatest military power on the face of the earth. Then, by
the same power he fed the whole nation on manna—a vegetable productiou—
for forty years. This diet as food, and the pure water from the rock to drink
cured the people of the diseases of Egypt, of which the Israelites were sorely
afraid. In obedience, no one could say, I am sick! and neither were there
any poor. There were no rich or poor; no sickness or disease; no noxious,
destructive insects as are now over-running the kingdom of Antichrist-Chris-
tendom. In Canaan, all the people, male and female, were freeholders, veg-
etarians, and chaste, using marriage only for offspring, as George Fox taught
and Moses enjoined.

Jesus was without sin, when he abstained from marriage, from private
property, and from flesh-meat, or animal food. After confessing his sins to
John the Baptist, the Christ spirit came to him as guardian Spirit. The God
of Israel was a tutelary divinity, not deity. The Scriptures are not the word
of God, but a record of the religious experience, history and literature of the
Jews. And Jesus was no more the Christ than was Ann Lee; they were
both baptized with Christ spirits. The Christ heavens are above all heav-
ens, it is the heaven of heavens. God is not a trinity, but a dua1ity——a fa-
ther and mother. The natural world, with all that there is therein, shows
forth the true order of Deity—of the God-head.

There was the law, and the prophets, who prophesied of the coming of
the Messiah, and of a great work of God in the latter days. John the Bap-
tist preceded the Messiah, and prepared a goodly number of people in Ju-
dea, for the first Christian dispensation which was founded at the day of
Pentecost.’

Mt. Lebanon, N. Y.

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A CHRISTIAN life is a life hid with Christ in God, every power of mind and
body in the service of godliness.—J. 

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WANTEI).

By Jessie Evans.

OW much rushes into thought waves as we scan the wide sweep of

horizon inscribed by one brief word ! VVanted ! What is not wanted
in this wonderful, wide world of ours? Everything that presents‘ itself to
the human eye has its definite purpose, else it would not have found its way
into the vast creation of Grad. The great, unerring Law-giver has put into
operation so perfect a plan that somehow, somewhere, sometime every indi-
vidual life will fulfill its end in the divine mind, That we are so strangely
and sadly distanced from this desirable millennial condition, to-day, after a
human history covering a period of perhaps six thousand years, is part of the
inexplicable system of salvation toward which evolution is steadily though
slowly lessening the distance. Of theorizing on this broad, perhaps vague,
subject, the flesh wearies and the heart faints; yet faith firmly anchors the
mind to the assurance that in God’s good time, and in ways perhaps mysteri-
ous to the speculative mind of the skeptic all the glorious prophecies of the
ancients will be fulfilled.

But what of to-day? We have only the vital needs of one day to consider,
to meet, to supply. The eternal future will come to us one day at a time.
Grod’s wisdom has so mercifully adapted his stupendous laws to our littleness
that from morning till night is our only term of service. The Voice says to
us, “Go work to-(lay in my vineyarc,” and, by way of hushing the undue
anxiety so natural to the material mind, adds, “Take no thought for the
morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself,” while the
great Teacher instructs us to pray after this manner: “Give us this day our
daily bread.” In this one brief sentence, so deeply studded with faith in
God’s knowledge of our needs and his liberality toward our great necessities,
we seem to be drawn with our hungering and thirsting in sight of the green
pastures and the still waters of the divine landscape. Our needs lie open
ever to the gaze of the Infinite. “Your Father knoweth what things ye have
need of before ye ask him,” yet only by asking have we the promise of re-
ceiving.

The heart of the Christian Church seems burdened with the keen, deep-
seated tribulation foretold by the Savior in connection with the hundred-rfold
blessing. Never yet did an individual or corporate life rise in defence of
the unpopular principles of true Christian integrity without feeling the bitter-
ness of opposing forces. This conflict is not limited to one section or to one
denomination. Indeed whatever finds its way into the great arterial system
of religious thought in this day of quick transmission is felt for good or ill
more or less strongly in every church. The present burden is a universal one
and represents the vital need of our day. What is the trouble in the so-
called Christian Church? VVhat is expected of it? How can this be fulfilled?

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These are the burning questions that ‘face us from day to day with alarming
vividness.
I. Christ said, “By their fruits ye shall know them,” and the Apostle adds,

“The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, good-

ness, faith, meekness, temperance ; and in the light of this criterion we are
able to discern the presence or the absence of the spirit which characterized
the first true Christian Church. Read the second chapter of Acts, and mark
the baptismal work which resulted in the conversion of three thousand souls,
who “continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship,” then

turn to the church of these latter days whose corner-stone is imbedded i11 ’

those principles. Where is it? Why?

The truth leads the questioning, bitter though our replies may be, and
loath as we may be to utter them :—Have We not lowered the primitive
Christ standard to our human weakness instead of reaching up with our de-
ficiencies to its divine strength? Have we upheld the enforcers of our laws?
How easy to blunt the keen-edged truths of the gospel that they may fall
agreeably upon the ear of the natural man I When the divine message struck

a chord in opposition to the selfish will, were we “offended because of the .

word?” It is human to screen from its inevitable condemnation” the sin
that doth so easily beset,” but no divine benediction can follow Where the
name of Christ is upon the lip but the worship of self in the heart. Only the

‘simple mourn that the fruits of the spirit result not from sowing to the flesh,

and that grapes grow not from thorns.

Above our foolishness, God’s truth through the Apostle stands inexorable;
“Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones,
wood, hay, stubble; Every man’s work shall be made manifest; for the day
shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try ev-
ery man’s work of what sort it is. If any man’s work abide which he hath
built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man’s work shall be
burned, he shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved ; yet so as ‘by fire.”

VVithout doubt this is the day of the fire test. Upon the altar of the
church the shekinah of truth has never been extinguished, but by‘ the com-
pelling forces of our times our life work is put to the flame as never before.
Here we see the glory of the righteous who put only gold to the fire, their
virtue returns to them the more resplendent for the refining. Many of us,
however, stand and watch the smoke of our hay, wood and stubble. over
which we have invested so much careful planning in the vain hope of passing
it as the genuine sacrifice. But, thank God, we ourselves shall be saved, not
a faculty is injured by the crucial test. God’s mercy permits us a new-born
day, with the hope of life in its sunrise, and we may begin anew the work of
consecration, this time with the -sweet, sad experience of the past to nerve us
to holier sacrifice. This is a blessed day to those who are studying the signs

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of the times spiritually. VVhile it records the obituary of selfish hopes, man
made creeds, earthly fears, and human calculations, it heralds the birth of
clearer insight into gospel truth, broader conceptions of God’s dealings, and
a strengthening resolution to rise upon the “stepping-stones of our dead
selves to higher things.”

II. What is expected of the true Christian Church? That it shall be
CHRISTIAN in the full sense of the word. Jesus said to Peter, in this con-
nection, “Upon this rock (revelation from the Father) I will build my church,
and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” The Apostle refers to the
“glorious church, no't having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing.” The
Church of Christ is expected to teach, as did Jesus, the answer to the uni-
versal question: “What shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?” Spiritu-
al life is an obtainable possession, more real than the tangible surroundings
of our earthly existence, and the creed of the church, if creed there be, should
be worded, the testimony outlined, the ceremony guided, the socials conduct-
ed, the minister emboldened, the community instructed, on lines bearing di-
rectly toward this power of God.

III. How can this be fulfilled? Only by a positive maintenance of the
Pentecostal standard. Human methods may vary, the principles of God are
“from everlasting to everlasting.” Plant the testimony of Christ in the soil
of honest hearts and its fruit-bearing is certain. Hide the leaven of true
Christianity in any community and its penetrating properties make them-
selves felt and known. But—“Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees which
is hypocrisy.”

Wanted—the Church that will meet this stirring call! VVanted——the min-
istry that will not reserve one jot or tittle of God’s searching truths!
Wanted—they who will “hear the word and receive it, and bring forth fruit,
some thirty-fold, some sixty, and some a11 hundred." “He that hath an ear,
let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.”

East Canterbury, N. H.
EXPERIENCE.
By Elder Abraham Perkins.

HE Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want. From my early years he

_ has made me “to lie down in green pastures,” and led me “beside the

still waters.” In such a degree as light and gospel travel have given growth
hath “my soul been restored,” and “in the path of righteousness” have I
been led. Yea, all the days of my life I have received the tender mercies of
the Lord, and for all these benefits my soul doth praise the Lo1'd, and with
all my powers it is my delight to serve Thee. Yet, having thy continual
blessing and care, thy hand giving me strength to walk in justification, how-
ever great my blessing, I realize my humanity, my inherited infirmities and
weaknesses, consciously or unconsciously cultivated, so clear has been my

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vision, that egotism is obliterated and positive knowledge has been both
evoked and impelled, evincing the truth, that the power of protection, spirit-
ual baptism, salvation of soul and peace of mind are gifts from above, not
begotten of humanity, but from within, and only as We sacrifice self for their
possession do We obtain these" gifts.

From personal experience, and the reading of my own book of life, I have
learned that the possession of the Spirit and progress in the paths of VVisdom
I have attained has been wrought by Spirit ‘influence, and as my mind ex-
panded and became capable of receiving increasing truths, they have not been
withheld, but kindly and graciously transmitted, thus gradually Working sal-
vation. Hence, the annihilation of self, and the breaking down of pride, ar-
rogance and worldly principles is the stern work to be done by our individual
efforts and labor, which alone are the means of victory.

In my soul, many, many times do I cry,—Who then is to be redeemed!
Who, 0 Lord, is to abide in thy tabernacle and dwell in thy holy hill? I)a—
vid, the psalmist, explicitly solves the problem :—“He that walketh upright-
ly and worketh righteousness , and speaketh truth in his heart: he that back-
biteth not with his tongue nor doeth evil to his neighbor, nor taketh up a re-
proach against his neighbor. He that doeth these things shall never be
moved.”—Psalms, xv.

East Canterbury, N. H.

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LOVE.
By E. B. Gillett.

LOVE, turns defeat to victory,

And keeps the colors flying;

And in the soldier’s heart re-lights

The embers almost dying. ,
Love turns the tide, and rifts the cloud,
And cheers the lonely sailor;

And fills the sails With merry gales,
And calms the stormy Weather.

Love warms the cold, and cools the heat,
And makes a blessing of defeat;

It turns the blackest night to day,

And leads us, in a wondrous way.

Olive Branch, Fla.

NOTHING can long delight him who delighteth not above all things in God.

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THE MANIFESTO.

AUGUST. 1899.

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NOTES ABOUT HOME.

Mt. Lebanon, N. Y.

June.
Average of Weather at Mt. Lebanon.
Thermometer. Rain.
1898. 68.33 5.265 in
1899. 69.84 3.375 ”
Highest Temp. during this mo. 90 above 0.
 H H H H  91
Number of rainy days ” ” 5
H 77  H H 97 9
7! $7  19 H 1’ 
July, 1899.

JUNE has been a month of moods. The
first half was very dry. There were fre-
quent indications of rain, but for more

THE MANIFESTO.

than three quarters of the month the rains
parted, a portion going north, and the re-
maining portion going south, leaving us
only the lightning, thunder and drought.
On Saturday, the 24th inst. we had a vari-
ety storm which seemingly shook the
heavens and the earth. Lightning and
thunder, rain and hail poured upon us in
torrents without respect for persons, and
apparently for property. We had 13/4
inches of rain in a short time, interblend-
ed with hail. The hail did no good and
not much harm. The lightning shot a
bolt into a locust tree injuring it severely.

This year we have taken 74 bu. of aspar-
agus from the bed. 33% bu. of strawber-
ries have been gathered from ten rows.
Cherry picking at-present engages the at-
tention. Grass, a light crop, for want of a
suitable amount of rain. What has grown
is being harvested. The new State Road
is receiving its coating of gravel.

The health of our Community is gener-
ally good. A few of us are somewhat
drooping. Our Ministry leave on July 5,
for Watervliet.

Calvin 0. Reed.

North Family.

July, 1899.

HAYING, hoeing and cherry picking
about cover our activities this month.
With regard to the first, owing to the na-
ture of our soil, we have not suffered
much from drought and expect as soon as
the present reverse of droughty weather
lets us, to get in a very fair crop both in
quantity and quality.

It is during this month that a garden
usually begins to look like a garden. We
have suffered but little from the lack of
rain, and assisted by our friends things
keep growing along nicely. These friends
are very willing to help, and one or the
other draws the cultivator along: in fact
they are horses.

Sour cherries, as usual, have been very
abundant and we have picked a good many
bushels for sale, but of sweet ones we
have had only enough for very limited

THE MANIFES T0.

home use.
plenty.

Brother Daniel Offord, ever busy where
pipes are concerned, has been putting a
new iron aqueduct into our saw-mill, the
old one, in use many years being leaky.
While pouring some lead into a hole in a
stone in which he intended to fasten a
bolt, the boiling liquid sputtered up into
his face and splashed the glasses he was
Wearing. Some water had got into the
hole unknown to him. To say that We
are thankful that he was wearing those
glasses is putting it rather feebly. As it
is, he was somewhat burnt, but what the
consequences would have been if he had
not had his spectacles on is something we
would rather not think about. Sufficient
unto this particular day, most certainly,
was the good thereof.

Frederic Jlclfeclmnie.
South Family.
July, 1899.

INDEPENDENCE DAY has come and
gone, yet we are as independent and de-
pendent as before. The ever-glorious
Fourth proved a fair day. The elements
conspired to perfect perfect weather.
Fully appreciating the unseen efforts, a
party from here, in company with our
nearest neighbors, the Second family, cel-
ebrated the Fourth at Queechy Lake, in
the town of Canaan.

It is a beautiful, pacific lake, formed by
nature and surrounded by pretty groves,
with pretty cottages and a pavilion Where
ramblers can hide should a tempest and a
storm arise. At 12 o’clock we were seat-
ed to a rich repast of the fruits of the or-
chard and garden. Reading, singing with
speech-making and mirth generally ruled
the dining hall of the rustic flag-draped
shelter. Boat rowing and racing formed
a merry feature of the day. Elder Ernest
Pick with his kodak took snap shots as
we sailed away.

Sunday afternoon, the 9th inst., Eldress
Anna, Sister Sarah and the writer enjoyed
an interesting conference with Elder Hen-
ry C. Blinn and inmates of the Oflice at
the West Pittsfield Society. We were

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soulfully glad to meet our dear editor and
pleasingly surprised to find him able to
entertain us from his boundless source of
useful knowledge. We trust another sum-
mer Will find him located among the Berk-
shire hills enjoying frequent drives to our
sunny hill-side home.

By invitation of Eldress Caroline we at-
tended a musical reception given by the
junior members of the family, and the
sweet singing by the seven happy song-
sters added new joy to the afternoon’s
pleasure. We will long remember the
singers. Returning to the Office we found
our generous hostess, Sr. Martha Johnson,
and her ready helpers had prepared a
sumptuous feast of the good things of
earth for our especial benefit, and we did
it justice.

Elder Ira Lawson is a splendid host,
possessing a host of goodness, making

‘life sunny for all who come within the ra-

dius of his liberal hospitality.

The fair days find us on the mountain-
top searching for the blueberries. It is
gay employment, for the ledges are blue
witli the luscious fruit.

Genevieve DeG'raw.

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Alfred, Me.

. July, 1899.

IT has been some time since Alfred has
been represented in Home Notes, but we
are still a little band of earnest workers in
the Master’s vineyard.

July has brought the much-needed rain,
but we hope to have more before long.

It is the driest season known in this town
by the oldest inhabitants. In consequence
of the drought we shall have very little
fruit.

The Brethren are busy haying. There
will not be more than two thirds as large
a crop as last year. The family garden is
looking well, notwithstanding the lack of
rain, thanks to Brother Frank Butler who
has tended it faithfully.

The Sisters’ workshop has been receiv-
ing a new coat of paint on the inside, and
this improves its appearance very much.

124 THE JIIANIFES TO.

A few weeks since we enjoyed a pleas-
ant visit with Elder George Clark and the
Sisters from Conn. We wish these visits
were of more frequent occurrence.

On the 4th inst. the young people of our
village enjoyed a picnic in the woods, and
although a heavy thunder storm in the af-
ternoon sent all within doors after a
thorough drenching, yet the sun came out
once more and we spread tables out of
doors and prepared supper which was a
pleasant ending of the day.

We extend love and well wishes to all
our Brethren and Sisters, far and near.
Our prayer is that peace and prosperity
may bless every Zion home.

Era ZW. Libbey.

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Shakers, N. Y.

July, 1899.

OUR attention was especially attracted
to the article in the July MANIFESTO by
Brother Joseph A. Wilson, and we were
reminded of the saying of Emerson, “Be-
ware, when the great God lets loose a
thinker.” Something of importance must
then take place; but whether it will be for
the weal or woe of the individual thinker
or human society at large will depend up-
on the source from whence is derived the
thoughts that find expression in words
and acts.

VVhile it is true that there are some that
have not the mental energy to expend in
extensive thought, the majority of human
life in our American Republic thinks
enough, but the difficulty at present is to
get them to train their thoughts in the
direction from which will emanate results
beneficial to themselves in the advancing

of their ideal life, and as a result its outer.

manifestation, to a higher plane conse-
quently benefiting humanity.

VVe are temperately optimistic and what-
ever strengthens our hope in the ultimate
destiny of human life brings a pleasure
that the external things of life can not
take away; and to meet an individual
thinker who draws from that fountain of
spiritual energy the thoughts that take

form and expression as they come from
the crucible of their life is of incalculable
benefit to one who is reaching outwith all
the energies of his soul for the best that
is attainable.

The drought that has prevailed in the
eastern part of our country was felt here
in diminishing the hay crop and the small
fruits. Strawberries especially felt it;
some fields in this section on the uplands
were not worth picking. To read of the
devastation by flood in some sections of
the west, we can not help questioning Why
are these forces so unevenly distributed‘?
We have many things to be thankful for,
and out of all this apparent confusion the
Almighty arm will evolve harmony. In
this hope we will place our trust, Working
for a higher and more advanced life,

Hamilton ‘DeGraw.

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Union Village, Ohio.
July, 1899.

I FEEL a sincere sympathy for our dear
Eastern friends on account of the severe
drought afliicting them. We suffered out
west here, two consecutive years of very
severe drought, and doubtless it is more
distressing in a mountainous and hilly
region than on level lands, but we hope
rain will come in time to save and mature
the crops. Where are we to look for a
living but from the earth and sky?

Our year, so far, has been peculiarly
seasonable, and the crops have ripened up
in excellent condition, of which the small
grain has mostly been cut and waiting the
thresher, to complete the harvest.

Some sickness among us, but I am not
disposed to dwell upon it, as I think we
should arise, and triumph over all physi-
cal ills as Jesus Christ did, and sooner or
later we shall surely reach perfection.
The good Lord has it in store for us as
soon as we are ready for it, but a further
sacrifice of our animal appetites will have
to supervene first, but—
“The glorious day is dawning,
The day of full release,

Even now it is the morning,
Of saving life and peace.

THE JIIANIFES T0.

The train is swiftly nearing,
The headlights gleam afar,

Of a sweet Evangel cheering,-
Death’s prisons to unbar.”

The revival of Christ’s spiritual power
in healing all known diseases of body or
soul is not very far distant, and the
door will hardly shut between that glori-
ous time and the Millennium, so long
looked and yearned for.

We shall have a few apples; our small
fruits are remarkably plentiful this year.
Corn never looked better in this neighbor-
hood and potatoes are very plentiful.
Pears and plums very scarce this year ;—
the failure of the plums mostly owing to
to the ravages of the Curculio. Last year
we had a very good crop which was all
destroyed by this pest of the plum tree.
We sprayed the whole orchard three
times over last year but it did not make
the Curculio one less, so we did not try
it this year. Say! good eastern friends,—
what will destroy the Curculio? If there
is any such destructive agent, please let
us hear of it in a Home Note.

0. C. Hampton.

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East Canterbury, N. H.

A July, 1899.

OUR beloved friends who sojourned at
our mountain home between the 21st and
27th ult. left us richer for the blessing
they imparted. Eldress Ellen Green rep-
resented our sister society at Harvard,
Mass., while Elder George W. Clark and
Sisters Angeline Brown, Mariette Esty
and Alice Braisted were from Enfield,
Conn. Such happy seasons give us a
glimpse of the “hundred-fold” relation
whice is destined to supplant the narrow-
ness of kinship. Will angel visits ever be
other than “few and far between?”

In this section, at least, the drought is
at an end. After two months of dryness
the tears of the skies fell steadily for two
days, as if touched by the parched Wist-
fulness of the under world. The repent-
ance was eagerly accepted by the forgiv-
ing earth, and the cooling drops sank

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gratefully to their work. Haying is in
progress and an average yield reported
for this season.

Our ancient Church, which has survived
one hundred and seven summers, is now
receiving a much-needed coat of paint.
Did it hear the Governor’s call for “Old
Home Week,” and is it preparing the gala
dress for the occasion? However. this may
be, such old settlers will not be away from
home on the appointed date, and the
thoughtful painters will also be there in
person as well as in grateful memory.

The day School closed for the summer
holidays on the 12th inst. after a term of
ten weeks. The closing exercises gave
proof that good effects follow good causes.

Our beloved Elder Benjamin H. Smith,
while passing into one of the fruit gardens
near home, was the subject of a severe
apoplectic stroke at about 11.15 a. In. on
the 15th inst. He had experienced a less
severe attack while in the city of Concord
one week previous. He was at once ten-
derly removed to the Infirmary, where
until 3 a. m. on the 20th he lay uncon-
scious. He rapidly neared the “streets of
gold” and met the dear ones there. By a
devoted Christian life of sixty years, his
passport was sure, yet the suddenness of
the illness gave us no time for the tender
farewells which love would prefer.

Jessie Evans.

TRUST.
By Fidella Estavbrook.

G01) is with thee, why then falter,
Is His arm not strong to bear,

I Does He not in every burden

Claim as His, the greater share?
Can we ever doubt His promise

Who has ever been our friend,
Who through countless ages calleth
“I am with thee to the end.”

Every little bird that twitters
And each tiny fragrant flower,
Proofs are giving of His goodness,

Emblems of His endless power,

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Even sunbeams sparkling brightly
Messages of love now bring,
Every voice of nature singeth
“God is seen in everything.”

Then we’ll trust Him, trust Him ever,
Through the day or darksome night

Knowing that the way He guideth
Leadeth ever to the light.

Souls who Wait on Him in stillness,
Simply trusting day by day,

Doing just the things He biddeth,——
Following where He points the way,

Find a rest in gladly bearing
Just whatever He may send,
For His promise never faileth—
He our Comforter, our Friend.
When we’ re moulded to His likeness
Then shall we be satisfied,
From all selfishness and sinning,
By His spirit purified.

VVe shall count the pain and struggle,
Blessings free, in mercy given,
Stepping-stones from earth,s dark shadows
To the firm, blest shores of heaven,
And we’ll thank the loving Father
For each fear or heavy sorrow,
Knowing that its fruit is gladsome
On‘ the bright eternal morrow.

Stars that twinkle in their brightness
In the fields of heaven, so blue.

Only can be seen when darkness
Veils all other lights from view.

So sometimes our seeming pleasures,
If removed, leave freer sight,

For the truths of God’s great lessons
In his promises so bright.

Then just trust him, daily, hourly,
Trust him fully, never fear,

List the echo sounds still nearer,

“I am with thee, do not fear.”

Greater blessing ne’er was given,
Than this presence at our side,

We can travel ever safely,
Hand in hand with Christ, our guide.

Though the cross seems hard and heavy,
Hear him saying “Follow Me.”

He himself has borne the burden
Up the heights of Calvary.

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Yea, he knows—Oh blessed solace,
All our Weakness, doubt and strife,

And looks down in love and pity
On each sincere, humble life.

Then forever praise and trust him,
Leaving all things to his will,
He is faithful, failing never,
His true promise to fulfill.
Listen, he repeats it sweetly,
“I am thy Father, Savior, Friend,
I’ll not leave thee, nor forsake thee,

I’ll be with thee to the end.”
West 1’itfs_/ield, Jvlass.

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THE MELLOWING OF CHARACTER.
By James 1}u(:Icha7n.

IT takes time to ripen character. You
can not force it any more than you can
force the ripening of an apple. There
must be a season of growth, and then a
season of mellowing,—first the soft spring
and summer sun and dews and rain, then
the dry autumn heat and the nights of
frost.

It is life, and life only, that ripens
character; and it takes all of life to do it,
too,—-the bitter and the sweet, the hard
and the easy. Let us not be afraid, then
to live, however intensely! The moral
coward—the man who is afraid of life,
afraid of its depths and its heights, its
valleys of humiliation and its peaks of
vision, its significant experiences of what-
ever kind—is incapable of developing
character. All these are the ripening ex-
periences of the soul. We must expect
them, as the apple expects the noonday
blaze and the midnight frost. It is childish
to shrink from the intensities of life. Why
do we live, if not to meet 1ife’s require-
ments and bear its fruits?

It is always a sad thing to see a soul
yielding and breaking under the stress of
life; a soul that complains perpetually be-
cause it is afflicted; a soul that groans
night and day beneath its burden; a soul
that holds up despairing hands to God,
and cries out that it is forspent and
crusht to earth, and can strive no more.

T] {E MANIFES T0.

Souls are not made of such stuff as this.
Souls are made to endure. Life’s stress
and strain are not to break them, but to
strengthen them. There is not one of us
who can not endure the discipline of life,
no matter how hard, if he understands
what it is for and seeks the divine aid in
bearing it. It is simply because we so
often misinterpret the meaning of trial
that we are so weak to bear it. Looked
upon as mere, aimless torment, of course
there is no grace in suffering. No wonder
we sink beneath the burden- if we fail to
see the hand that placed it, and feel only,
as we think, the grievous, purposeless
weight crushing us to earth. Everything
depends upon the why/,—the Why of pain,
the why of struggle, the why of weeping.
If we could see, day by day, the mellow-
ing process going on in our souls, how
differently we should feel about these in-
tense experiences of life! But so many
of us seem to have no conception of the
real meaning of life. These vital expe-
riences that are meant to cut our souls so
clear and fine, like the delicate tools of
the sculptor, are to us but sharp misfort-
une. We would fain escape them; they
hurt 11s, and We hate them. Ah! what a
sad misinterpretation of the will and pur-
pose of our heavenly Father! We say he
is hurting us, and that is all the meaning
We get out of the marvellous process of
soul refining.

Bravery, moral bravery, courage under
the stress of life,—hoW sorely we all need
it! Our childishness clings to us too long
with its shrinking from all that is hard
and unpleasant; its petulance, its short-
sightedness, its complaining. VVhen we
become men and women, are we not to
put away childish things? Let us try to
understand, let us try to bear, let us try
to co-operate! Note the sweetness and
richness and beauty of those characters
that have always resigned themselves
cheerfully and trustingly to God’s will,
and have gone on mellowing and perfect-
ing in holiness unto the end. Such souls
afford some adequate explanation of
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child of God. They are revelations of
ourselves to ourselves: for the image in-
to whose likeness they have grown is a
possible ideal to every one of us.———Fr0m
the Clwistian Register.

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MY ENEMY-
By Eliza ('al2'crt Hall.

I have an enemy. And shall he be

A useless thorn to vex and worry me?

A dominant discord in life’s perfect strain,
M arring my dreams, turning my joy to pain,
Molding my life to his malicious whim?
Shall he be lord of me, or I of him?

A bitter stream may turn the mill wheel round
A thorny tree may burn to heat and light;
And out of shameful wrong may spring the
flower
Of perfect right.

So from my enemy I may demand
A priceless tribute of perpetual good;
And lead him captive at my chariot wheels,
In royal mood.

Because my enemy hath cunning ears,
That listen hourly for my idle speech,
My words shall flow in wise and measured way
Beyond his carping reach.

Because my enemy has eyes that watch
With sleepless malice while I come and go,
My (lays shall own no act I would not wish
The world to know. ‘

‘Because my enemy doth hourly wield
Some subtle snare to trip me every day,
My feet shall never for one moment leave

The straight and narrow Way.

Because my enemy doth hate me sore,

I fix my gaze beyond him and above,

And lift, as shield to all his fiery darts,
A heart of love.

And of my enemy I thus shall make

A beacon light, to light me to my goal-

A faithful guardian of my house of life— ‘

A spur and whip to urge my laggard soul;
And though our strife may never have an end
I yet might call this enemy, my friend.—The

Independent.

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THE primal duties shine aloft like stars;
the charities that soothe and heal and
bless are scattered at the feet of man like
flowers.

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From the Bible Class.

THE KIND SHEPHERD.
By Hattie Crook. ‘

IN the Bible we are given the story of
the lost sheep, where it strayed away
from the fold, and when the master went
out to feed his flock he found one miss-
ing. Then he left the ninety and nine
and searched and called, until he found
it, and then he took it home with him.

This shows us that Jesus was kind to
everybody even to dumb animals. The
lesson to be derived from it to me is, that
the kind shepherd looking for his one
lost sheep amid night and storm, is a sign
that God will not lose his care and ten-
derness for us when we wander away
from Him.

In our thoughts and ways we often
wander away from this good spirit and
like the sheep we stray from the fold of
Christ, When the Christ spirit calls us
we often do not hear, and if we do it is
only to wander deeper and deeper into
the jungles of sin and selfishness.

We at last want the comfort and rest
found only in this heavenly fold, but
where shall We find our rest and comfort?
None but the good Shepherd who has
searched our hearts for the first repent-
ant thought can at last lead us home.

East Canterbury, N. H.

THE ABUTILON.

By Jvfartha J. Anderson.

HAIL queen of the bells, the fairy bells,
Whose bloom gives such delight,

Thro’ the summer days and wintry haze‘,
And the close veiled hours of night.

Thy chalices deep are filled with gold
And crown each towering stem,

Where emerald leaves rich tracery weaves
Around thy diadem.

Thy clustering buds each day increase,
And blossoms fair unroll,

THE MANJFES TO.

Then withering fall to earth’s dark pall
Robbed of the flower-soul.

011, the blushing rose and lily white
May all our senses please,

Their odorous breath they yield in death
To the passing summer breeze.

Not so with the bright Abutilon,
When its flowers lose their hue,

At their base is seen in the calyx green
Clear drops of honey dew.

Oh, lesson new for my heart to learn,
’Tis the secret of God’s grace,
Some sweet surprise life underlies
Though we fill the humblest place.
]V[t. Lebanon, N. Y.

IF YOU WANT TO BE LOVED,

DoN"r contradict people even if you’re
sure you are right.

Don’t be inquisitive about the affairs of
even your most intimate friend.

Don’t underrate anything because you
don’t possess it.

Don’t believe that everybody else in
the World is happier than you.

Don’t repeat gossip, even if it does in-
terest a crowd.

Don’t go untidy on the plea that every-
body knows you.

Don’t express a positive opinion unless
you perfectly understand what you are
talking about.

Don’t get in the habit of vulgarizing
life by making light of the sentiment of
it.

Don’t scoff at anybody's religious belief.

Don‘t try to be anything else but a
gentleman or a gentlewoman——and that
means one who has consideration for the
whole world and whose life is governed
by the Golden Rule. “Do unto others as
you would be done by.”—Ladies’ Home
Journal.

flieaatha.

Elder Benjamin H. Smith, at East Can-

terbury, N. H. July 20, 1899. Age 70
years 4 mo. and 10 days.

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