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SOCIAL VICES AND IMMORALITIES.

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WE quote the following eloquent words from the address delivered by the Bishop of Melbourne (Dr. Moorhouse) at the recent session of the Church of England Assembly in Melbourne: ---

Last year we formed a White Cross Union in this diocese, and I am glad to report that, although the progress of the society has not been what we could have hoped, yet wherever unions have been formed and worked, they have not been without a cheering measure of success. Some of our clergy have held back from this work, chiefly it would seem because of its delicacy and difficulty; but surely after we have read those awful exposures of the vice of London which have recently appeared in our newspapers, all such objections must be scattered to the winds. ... (Cheers.) ... Some of us perhaps may have regretted that such horrible revelations should have been made to all women and children who read the daily prints. But they have been so made. Young and old, men and women, know all about them. And to talk about the delicacy of the subject after that, is like talking about the danger of referring to infection, when thousands are known to be dying of a pestilence. ... (Cheers.) ... And that these revelations are substantially reliable I do not for an instant doubt. Their most damning disclosures are not a whit worse than those which have been made on her own authority, and on that of the Rev. Mr. Horsley, by one of the noblest and purest-hearted women in England. I will not shock you by going into details; it will be enough to say that they relate to the foul and unnatural corruption of children --- in some cases of mere babes. Where is our manhood, where is the righteous indignation which ought to sweep these scoundrelly defilers of children into prison, and shave their heads, and stamp upon them the brand of infamy, whether they be rich or poor, beggars or nobles? ... (Loud cheers.) ... Don't you know that there is no sign of a sinking civilisation and a perishing race so sure as the prevalence of foul and unnatural sensuality. Much vice of a natural kind there may be amongst a people, while reformation is yet possible. But wherever that vice takes monstrous and unnatural forms, there the mysterious hand may be seen, by those who have eyes, tracing the letters of doom on the walls of a nation's palaces. I must speak plainly on this matter. For it is the nature of these sins, when suffered to go unchecked, to create passions so vile and overbearing that at length, by the pure force of heredity, they become irresistible, driving a people on to doom, as the storm drives driftwood upon the rocks. It is vain to resist when resistance has become impossible. And mark this: All history shows --- not merely the story of the Canaanites, but all history --- that when nations have become so vile that their continued existence would poison the blood of the world, those nations are exterminated. Necessarily and righteously, I say. For since it is a God who rules this world, and not a devil, how should He allow the race which He has created in His own image to be destroyed by those who have made themselves so foul that they can-

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not [cannot] be purified? ... (Applause.) ... But surely, you will say, no such danger menaces the great race to which we belong. I hope not, indeed. But what is the meaning of all those warning voices which come to us across the sea. Mr. Moody is no alarmist. He is a shrewd man, with a keen eye and a large knowledge of the masses of England. And what did he say the other day in the presence of 5000 men in Liverpool? --- "You are altogether mistaken in supposing that it is intemperance which is the chief sin of England. What is eating into the heart of your noble country is the sin of impurity." Now I know where I stand, and I know the solemn responsibility which lies on me to tell the truth in this matter --- no more and no less; and speaking under the sense of that responsibility, I say that I have good reason for repeating Mr. Moody's warning here. Emphatically the greatest danger of our young men is not drunkenness, but impurity. ... (Cheers.) ... Our warmer sun, our lonely forests, the early age at which our young people earn considerable wages, even the secular tone of our thought, all contribute to this result. And the danger is not distant. It is upon us.

What will the Lord Jesus Christ think, then, of you and me, if, with ruin staring us in the face, we fold our hands and keep silence, talking in a cowardly unreal way about difficulties, delicacies, and I know not what, instead of rushing in between the living and the dead, that the plague may be stayed. ... (Applause.) ... I would not have you say one word which can minister to prurient tastes. I would not have you do one act which can shock the divine modesty of youth. Oh! watch and cherish with the most jealous care that divinely implanted guard of purity in your children. But is there anything, I ask you, in the establishment and working of White Cross unions which can stain the white purity of the most innocent? Do we not keep a wise reticence? Do we not respect the holy reserve of the uncontaminated? Is not our work of that quiet and unobtrusive kind which thrusts no one into prominence? We take a pledge from the young man that he will treat all women with respect, that he will frown down all obscene conversation, that he will never defile his eyes with foul pictures or literature, that like a knight and a hero he will defend the weak and ignorant, at personal risk if need be, from the attacks of villains formidable for their craft or their wealth. ... (Applause.) ... We say keep your heart pure that you may be strong. We say strike for the weak, shield the helpless, tread down insolent villainy, and do all this because you are a Christian ... [hidden by a paper fold] ... [be a disciple?] of Him who lived to succour and heal, who died to rescue the lost and uplift the fallen. Can you find me a grander life-task than that for any man upon earth? Can you ever think that anyone could be made worse for being solemnly devoted to it? Why, then, does anyone hesitate? If you want, still, secondary motives (though it irks me to come down to such), then ought it not to encourage you to know how this work is growing in England? Working men are taking it up enthusiastically. They see that it is specially a working man's question, for it is from amongst the daughters of the working classes that the victims of this monstrous modern lust are mostly stolen. Nor are the generous students at our universities behind their humbler brethren in devotion to this cause. The protection of the weak appeals to their manhood. The strength of purity is found to beckon them with a commanding gesture, which they cannot resist. "At Oxford," we hear, "the Purity Asociation has grown from 200 to 500. At Cambridge, large and enthusiastic audiences of young men are addressed by such men as Canon Westcott. At Edinburgh a powerful White Cross movement is being set on foot among the students, the medical students taking very prominently the lead, and the highest men ... [obscured by paper fold] ... [with?] H[...]y [Humility?] are giving it their sanction. Trinity College, Dublin, has also formed an association on the same basis as Oxford and Cambridge, the students themselves taking the initiative, and Glasgow and Aberdeen have both taken up the white cross." Thank God for all this. It shows that the blood of the mass of our people is still pure, and it presages, I venture to say, the growth of a public opinion, which will be so awful in its indignation, that the vice which would turn England into a Sodom, will, ere long, be driven back in terror, and chained down to the black abyss from which it came. ... (Applause.) ... And, my friends, you that are working in this great cause in Victoria, do not let yourselves be discouraged by the slow and noiseless growth of your society. From its very nature your work must be an unobtrusive one. It is too radical to be noisy. It lies too deep to be represented by statistics. The secretary of a temperance society can easily report how many men have written their names on a piece of paper, but who can say how many young besides those enrolling themselves in your ranks have been brought to register a silent vow before God that they will themselves try to be pure, and to throw the shield of their manly respect and defence over the purity of their sisters. What a poor beggarly account would a paper of statistics have given of the mightiest moral revolution ever wrought upon this earth! The Son of God had become man, had suffered and died, and He had made some score or two of humble disciples. Yes; but for all that, the seed had been sown that should one day develop into a mighty tree, capable of covering all the nations with its protecting shade. The work of a purity society is like that of the kingdom of God. It has such an inwardness, it reaches down so near to the very deepest springs of action, that it can only strike root in quiet and darkness. But for that very reason, as soon as it once begins to show upon the surface, all the fields will be found green and bursting life --- the promise and pledge of golden harvests. ... (Applause.) ... One word to another class upon this subject, and I have done. Why do men hesitate to join this crusade, because they are conscious of wrong-doing in their past, or even of the rebellious stirring of evil impulse in the present? I think these are the very men who should be most heartily with us. They need the support of such a movement as this, and they know their need. Are they not ashamed of such sensual selfishness? Do they not hate the sin? Have they not the best evidence in themselves of the awful ravage it can make in heart and life? Men and brethren, do we hesitate to set forth the lofty ideal of the Christian life because we know that we ourselves are so far from having realised it? And should we then any more hesitate to proclaim the need of purity because we feel ourselves to be less inwardly pure than we long to be? Fight the evil within you by all means (the purer the heart the mightier the blow), but spare not to join the battle on the broad field of life, because the inward victory is not yet fully won. Not in the cloister, but in the press of men; not in the lonely strife, but in the embattled ranks of the soldiers of God, are strength and redemption most surely won. ... (Cheers.) ... I have always felt that prevention is better than cure in the case of such awful moral diseases as that about which I have been speaking. But still where the disease exists it is surely our bounden duty to endeavour to find a cure for it. You know as well as I do that the[re]

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are low and miserable quarters in our great city which are a disgrace to our civilisation --- which are the seats of moral pestilence --- the centres of deadly contagion. We rejoice to think that Christian men and women, like the members of the Salvation Army, have penetrated those jungles of vice, and are labouring there for Christ with a courage and devotion truly admirable. ... (Applause.) ... But does their faithfulness absolve us from our share of the duty? Are there not too many of those children of sin and misery who once belonged to our churches, and who would be more readily reached and more certainly delivered by our methods than by any other? Do they not look to us for help? And does not our heart tell us that they ought not to look in vain? Is it possible, indeed, that we can be disciples of the AllPitiful Saviour, if, seeing them lie in their blood, we leave them to the care of an[y] chance Samaritan, while we coldly pass [by] on the other side?"

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The Brisbane Women's Christian

Temperance Union

INVITE your earnest attention to the following extracts, showing from the most reliable sources what is the TRUE COMMUNION WINE: ---

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A NEW York correspondent says: --- The statement made concerning the wine used at the last supper of the Saviour with his disciples, which is given below, has been substantiated by one of the leading rabbis of New York. The advocates of temperance who are Church members can, with this knowledge, help to abolish the temptations of the communion table. The editor of a religious journal who witnessed the celebration of the Jewish Passover in that city, at the close of the services said to the rabbi, "May I ask with what kind of wine you have celebrated the Passover this evening?" The answer was given: ---

"With a non-intoxicating wine. Jews never use fermented wine in their synagogue services, and must not use it on the Passover, either for synagogue or home purposes. Fermented liquor of any kind comes under the category of 'leaven,' which is proscribed in so many well known places in the Old Testament. The wine which is used by the Jews during the week of Passover is supplied to the community by those licensed by the chief rabbi's board, and by those only. Each bottle is sealed in the presence of a representative of the ecclesiastical authorities. The bottle standing yonder on the sideboard, from which the wine used to-night was taken was thus sealed. I may also mention that poor Jews, who cannot afford to buy this wine, make an unfermented wine of their own, which is nothing else but an infusion of Valencia or Muscatel raisins. I have read the passage in Matthew in which the Paschal Supper is described. There can be no doubt whatever, that the wine used upon that occasion was unfermented. Jesus, as an observant Jew, would not only not have drunk fermented wine on the Passover, but would not have celebrated the Passover in any house from which everything fermented had not been removed. I may mention that the wine I use in the service at the synagogue is an infusion of raisins. You will allow me, perhaps, to express my surprise that Christians, who profess to be followers of Jesus of Nazareth, can take what He could not possibly have taken as a Jew --- intoxicating wine --- at so sacred a service as the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper."

Also from the Temperance Bible Commentary by Dr. F. R. Fees and Dr. Dawson Burns: ---

"In spite of the sophism of many celebrated doctors, the Jews of the Synagogue do conform very extensively to the Mosaic injunction to celebrate the Passover without fermented drinks."

Speaking no doubt from his own observation, the Rev. C. F. Frey, a converted Jew, and author of several Hebrew works, has said, "Nor dare they (the Jews) drink any liquor made from grain, nor any that has passed through the process of fermentation." Of course this is during Passover.

The learned Rabbi Manasseh ben Israel, in his Vindiceae Judaeorum (Amsterdam, 1656) says of the Passover, "Here at this feast, every confection, (= matzoth) ought to be so pure as not to admit of any ferment, or anything that will readily fermentate."

Judge Noah, a leading Jew of New York, informed Mr. Delevan that the use of wine prepared from steeped raisins was general among American Jews. Mr. A. C. Isaacs, a teacher of the Jews, among whom he had lived twenty-six years before his conversion, stated, "All the Jews with whom I have ever been acquainted, use unintoxicating wine at the Passover --- a wine made in the country expressly for the occasion, and generally by themselves."

The late Professor Moses Stuart, in the Biblotheca Sacra (vol. 1), remarks: --- "I cannot doubt that Rhamats, in its widest sense, was excluded from the Jewish Passover when the Lord's Supper was first instituted, for I am not able to find evidence to make me doubt the custom among the Jews of excluding fermented wine as well as fermented mead is older than the Christian era. That this custom is very ancient --- that it is even now almost universal --- I take to be facts that cannot be fairly controverted."

................................................................... Mrs. FULLWOOD,

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ARTISTIC FLOWER ALBUMS.

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EVERYONE is familiar with and admires the variously tinted grounds of Christmas cards, especially those where the design is a flower or a group of flowers. When, a few years back, these cards were first taken up by artists, and, instead of the crude things that everybody remembers in childish days, we were presented with something truly artistic, such as a few beautifully drawn and coloured autumn leaves on a black ground, what perfection we seemed to have arrived at! And, indeed, greatly as in many ways of the art of card designing has advanced since that first dawn of a new era, and beautiful in tone as many of the more recent ones, there is no newer style or tint which for such a subject as autumn leaves can surpass the original black ground. We propose, having drawn attention to this artistic fact, to make a few suggestions as to the books in which we arrange collections of dried flowers, leaves &c.

Those who are fond of nature without understanding of botany thoroughly, will, during summer holidays in the country, have accumulated quite a number of dried flowers and ferns, pretty leaves, bits of moss and grass, all kinds of odds and ends from Nature's wild garden, such as would puzzle a systematic botanist how and in what possible way to class them, but which to the happily ignorant collector are fragments of beauty rescued from oblivion, or sweet records of some delightfully passed day.

When we settle down to quiet winter evenings, unless we are authors or artists, and scribble and paint in alternation with reading and working, our usual evening employments are apt to become somewhat monotonous, and the turning out of that varied lot of summer treasures and their arrangement in a book forms a pleasant change of occupation. Not being botanists, we are free to place our specimens according to our own fancy, and may combine them in any way we choose, putting flowers and leaves belonging to the most divergent "classes" in proximity only to be found in nature; and what pretty groups we can make! But now as to backgrounds: Books for this purpose are commonly made with pages all of one colour, generally white; but this is a mistake, the book we should choose would be one made of many tints, but more especially black. A book for this use should have quite a preponderance of black pages, as so many of the specimens look far more effective on that ground than on any other. There should also be pages of gray, drab, cream, &c., and some should be white, for such delicate tracery leaves as feather moss or tiny ferns are shown to greater advantage on white than on anything darker. All leaves from trees should have a dark ground --- black is the best, so also it is for many flowers, especially white or very lightly coloured ones; but some look well, perhaps best, on gray or drab. The arrangement we must leave to the collector's taste, and anyone who has that eye for beauty sufficient to gather up and preserve the common things of the fields and hedges will need no instructions in groupin them artistically afterwards.

The only gum which should be used for sticking down the specimens is gum tragacanth --- commonly known as gum dragon, since this preparation, even although brushed on carelessly, will, when dry, leave no trace behind, as does gum arabic. You can prepare it yourself very simply:--- Place a small piece of the dry gum in a wide-mouthed bottle, and pour cold water upon it; after a few hours you will find the gum to have increased to an enormous size, and to have absorbed all the water; now add hot water, and it will dissolve to the consistency that you require. This, well-stoppered, will keep some days; but it is best to make only a small quantity at a time, as it is apt to go bad. It is best in a book of flowers to use only the right-hand page for the specimens, and each left-hand page --- which will be its opposite --- for the name of the flower or any little memento you may like to record of where and when it was gathered. This will add much to the interest of the book, at least to its owner.

If, pressed for room, you have to use every page for your specimens, cut to fit, and neatly gum, a sheet of tissue paper between each page, to prevent rubbing. --- SKUG, in the Queen.

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THE Journal de Pharmacie d'Anvers recommends pyrophosphate of soda for the removal of ink stains. This salt does not injure vegetable fibre, and yields colourless compounds with the ferric oxide of the ink. It is best to first apply tallow to the ink spot, then wash in a solution of pyrophosphate until both tallow and ink have disappeared.

A GENTLEMAN who had taken the right of shooting over a moor in Ayrshire at a high rent bagged only two brace the first day. After counting the price, he grumblingly remarked to the tenant of the moor that the birds had cost him two guineas the brace. The tenant very innocently replied: "Aweel, sir, ye may be thankfu' ye hae gotten sae few o' them; they're far too dear."

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