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New Israel.

A new Hebrew sect has Just sprung up
at Odessa, says the Tribune" called
New Israel. The members reject the ex-
plantations by rabbis of Babylon and
Jerusalem of the Laws of Moses. They
only admit as holy the Pentateuch Of
Moses in its literal sense. They recognize
as the first working day of the week
Monday, and not wishing to oppose
Christian opinion, celebrate the Sabbath
on Sunday: Resting upon verse of the
Bible in which Moses acknowledges the
right Of future generations to alter relig-
ious ceremonies according to the spirit of
the the times, the New Israel suppresses
the ceremony of Circumcision of children,
which they consider dangerous tor feeble
or weak infants instead of this, on the
eighth day after the birth of the child
short prayer is read, by which the little
child is received in the bosom of the New
Israel. The new sect also suppresses the
obligation for the Hebrew Talmudists to
write the Pentateuch on parchment, and
they recognize as good the printing in
vellum books with the old Hebrew let
ters, " Jehovah, elohei Israel" Jehovah,
God of Israeli. Every member of the
sect has right to kill birds and animals.
and to feed on the flesh of animals killed
by Christians. All the historical and re-
ligious Hebrew feasts are celebrated, ex-
cepting those added by the Talmudists.
The half teasts are also celebrated. The
members are forbidden to exercise the
profession of money lenders and usurers.
All efforts are to be made to induce the
Russian Government to acknowledge the
legality of the sect and to get some i'm
munities for it. From the day of the
legalization of the sect, for whole year,
the members will bind themselves to give
to their newborn infants the name of
Alexander or Alexandra, in honor of the
Emperor. The Government will be
asked to grant all the rights of citizen
ship to the members of the new sect, and
to allow marriages between the New Is
raeites and Christians. The New Israel
ties, to show their independence from
the Talmudists, will ask the permission
OF the Government to wear special sign
to distinguish them from the other He
brews.-Ch2istia1 Union.
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Christianity in Madagascar.

The Rev. j. Sibree, Jr., who for more
than sixteen years has labored in NADIA
gascar under the patronage of the Lon
don Missionary Society, bears this testi-
mony to the wonderful power of the
Scriptures in that country: 1.-The Bible
is purifying society it is raising the tone
of morality and social life; it is shaming
out immortality, polygamy, and divorce !;
it is sanctifying family life, and making
marriage more and more a sacred thing !;
it is putting down cruel customs and laws !;
and it is ameliorating war. Some six
years ago the central government felt it
to be necessary to send an army to put
down an instruction; but before the
army went away, the Prime Minister
called the officers together, and said Now
you are going to fight with the Queen s
enemies but remember they are the
carried on war in former times but re-
member you are Christians now, and the
cruelties of heather times are not to be
done again. Well that army went
away, and one division of it was able to
pacify the country, without taking a
single life. The native chief was invited
to the tent of the commander, and here
he was shown a New Testament. The
commander said This is Book from
which we Christians learn what is right,
and according to this Book, we never put
to death or punish the upright, as we of
ten did while still heather; but the guilty
must be punished-for this is the Word
of God and the law of the Queen The
following day there was another inter
view; terms of peace were agreed upon
beautiful copy of the New Testament
was given to the native chief, and the
commander said to him If ever we make
war upon you without just cause, or kill
or punish the guiltless, show us this
Book; then, indeed, we shall be self-con-
demned. And so when that army was
about to return, most favorable impress
sion was left upon those heather, and
they said, I'VE see that this religion you
Hovas have is not weakening of your
strength, so that you cannot fight, but
it is a showing of mercy. That was a
valuable testimony to the reality of the
change which the study of the Word of
God had worked upon many of these Hova
people. The heather saw that it was
more than mere words, talk, or preaching,
and that the Gospel had produced very
real and unmistakable change in their
conduct and their lives. That military
expedition really became missionary
expedition to some of the most unenlight-
ened tribes, and opened up the way for
the advance of the Gospel"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-05-10
An Advertising Story.

That advertising has attained the rank
OF high art" in America is incon-
trovertibly proved by the following story
which we reproduce, under all iInagin-
airy reserves, from the columns of
New York contemporary. Some time
ago 1t pleased the Emperor of China to
despatch special Embassy to America
and Europe, consisting of twenty-five
mandarins, under the command of his
lilustrlous kinsman, Prince Chang. To
this Embassy became introduced plausi-
bic stranger who, in the absence of the
chief interpreter, took advantage of celes-
tai courtesy being long resident in China
and yersed in all the leading idioms Of
the Western world, as well as in that of
the Flowery Land. AS soon as the Mis-
sion arrived in Washington, this person
we are told, acting for the MANAGER of
the Anglo Franco hinese-American Tea
Company, succeeded in persuading the
mandarlns that they would do well TO
learn by heart two sentences in the Eng
l!sh language, for use at official recep
uons. These sentences were" The hest
tea is that imported by the Anglo Franco
Chinese American Tea COMPANY and
1t is the only tea which does not bro
duce sleeplessness;" but the internreter
was to assure the members Of the En-
b&ssy that the true Specification of the
words in question was as follows" We
thank you humbly for the honor Won
have done US, and May YOU live and
flourish for unnumbered ages to come =
That evening the mandarins learnt their
lesson, and at noon on the following dav
the Embassy was received at the White
House by President Arthur. who adj
dressed their Excellencies in a brief but
courteous speech of welcome Bowling
profoundly, Prince Chang replied "The
best tea is that imported by the Anglo
Franco Chinese-American Tea Company
wherreupon the assistant ENJOYS, smiting
the floor Of the Presidents drawinp-roor0o
with their foreheads exclaimed in res
Pectful chorus IL is the only tea which
does not produce sleeplessness I" This is
SAID to be true story. We hope it is,
for it certainly deserves to be as veraci-
Gus as it is funny Daily TszeqrapI-
English paper.)
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Sweet-minded Women.

So great is the influence of sweet
minded woman on those around her that
it is almost boundless. 1t is to her that
friends come in seasons of sorrow and
sickness for help and comfort; one sooth-
ing touch Of her kindly hand works
wonders in the feverish child a. few
words let fall from her lips in the ear of
a sorrowing sister do much to raise the
load of grief that is bowling its victim
down to the dust in anguish. The hus-
band comes home worn out with the pres
sure of business, and feeling irritable with
the world In general but when he enters
the cosy sltting-room, and sees the blaze of
the. bright fire, and meets his wife s smil
ing face, he succumbs in a moment to the
soothing influences which act as the balm
Of Gilead to his wounded spirits, that are
wearied with combating with the stern
realities of life. The rough school bow
flies in a rage from the taunts of his com
Panlons to find aOlace in his mothers
smile; the little one, full of grief with its
own large trouble finds a haven of rest
on It's mothers breast and so one might
60 on with instance after instance of the
influence that a sweet minded woman has
IN the social life with which she is con-
neeoted. Beauty is an insignificant power
when compared with hers-Anon.
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Prehistoric Mining in Michigan

All the more important mines are
situated on the ancient workings of a
prehistoric race. They seem to have
been ignorant of the fact that copper
could be melted, for they left behind
them the fragments too small to use and
the masses too heavy to lift. Every day
they subjected it to temperature nearly
high enough, without making discovery
which would have lifted them out of the
Stone Age into the Bronze Age, and per-
haps have enabled them to survive the
struggle in which they persisted. They
must have been numerous, and have
reached the point Of development where
they were capable of organizing in
dustry. In Isle Royale, near the Mining
Mine, their pits, excavated to depth Of
from ten to twenty feet in the solid rock
cover an area of from three to four bun-
dred feet wide and more than mile and
a half in length. The labor expended
here cannot have been much short Of
that involved in building Pyramid.
Isle Royale Is ten miles from the nearest
land, and is incapable Of producing food
80 that all supplies except fish must have
been brought from some distant point
Their excavations could of course, never
90 below the point at which water would
accumulate. Their hammers, frequently
to the number of several thousand are
found in heaps where they were evil
IDENTIFY placed at the end Of the season.
AS no graves or evidence Of habitations
are found, we can hardly doubt that the
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The Opium Traffic.

The tenacity with which the British
Government clings to the opium monop-
oily seems to be in no wise lessened by
the very strong public opinion aroused
against It, the last Indian budget de-
cllnes to abandon the traffic, and the In
dian secretary even takes the pains to
combat the views of the opposition. The
United States by its recent treaty with
China is pledged to permit no American
citizen to trade in opium with that coun-
try, and Brazil has inserted similar
clause in her treaty; but England is as
obdurate as ever to the claims of Justice
and humanity. At recent meeting held
In Exeter Hall, London, some startling
statistics as to the use Of opium in China
were given by missionaries residents in
that country. So rapidly has the habit
extended that fully one per cent Of the
entire population Of the empire has be-
come hopelessly enslaved, while in the
cities the proportion Of confirmed smok-
ers reaches, in some instances, from fifty
to sixty per cent. The habit is not con
fined to the lower classes alone, but takes
its victims from ali ranks, and is fast in
creasing among the literati and man
darins. The testimony Of the missiona-
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Let Jesus In.

Behold, stand at the door and knock. "
a little boy, hearing his father read that
passage aloud, rushed away from the win
dow where he was playing, and looking
with wondering and eager eyes into his
parents face, said, feelingly, dBut, father,
did they let him IMP Friends, you have
heard the knock in some powerful SER
mon, some faithful warning or when
your cheeks ran down with tears and
your very heart strings were breaking as
they lowered the little coffin with your
dear babe into that cold grave. But did
you let him in? Perhaps you say,
fam would, but cannot" A minister
once knocked at the door of poor, aged,
and lone woman, but he received no an
swer Louder, and louder still he
knocked At length, as he kept his ear
close to the door, he heard feeble voice,
saying, Who is there ?" 1t is 1, the
minister" was the reply. "Ah, sir, +"
said the woman, Il am lying very i'll,
and cannot rise to let you in but if you
would come in, just lift the latch and
open the door for yourself The good
man cheerfully complied, and went in to
comfort the dying sufferer with the con-
ISOLATION of the Gospel. Now, my hear
ers, you say you cannot open the door
yourselves. l well believe you. But
there is remedy for your hel plessness ;
ask the Lord Jesus to open the door for
himself and come in And he surely
will. Believest thou this? Some of you
who once heard the knock of Christ, hear
it not now. Well do I remember being
startled and kept awake by the boom Of
the cannon when | went to the Crimea.
After time, however, 1 grew accustomed
to it, and could sleep amidst the roar of
the artillery. So it is with many. Jesus
knocks at your door in vain. His knock
ing does not trouble you now as once it
did. In vain he pleads with you, telling
you that his locks are wet with the dews
of night. He is out in the cold, dark, wet
night but you care not. He is threaten
ing to depart and leave you to perish
but you are too drowsy to listen or to
care. Tonight He may go away forever.
The last knock will be given. This may
be the last one. What then oh! what
then ?-DaI1acG1l MatheSon.
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The Social Feeling in Europe

The London correspondent of Bir-
mingham paper writes:
Mob-law is beginning to assert its
power with the same marvellous self
confidence it exhibited Just before the
breaking out of the great French Revo-
luton but, unlike the French arts
tocracy, who danced so gaily on the vol
cano ready to burst forth, we sit sulkily
at the mouth of the crater, watching the
rising of the lava-food, and silently de-
vising the means of turning it into an
other channel, as the impossibility of sup
pressing it altogether becomes more and
more evident with each day. Before
the end OF the century every country in
Europe will have to go through fiery
ordeal, said German writer to me the
other day. Yours will be the last sub
mltted to the test because not only the
character of your Government, but that
OF the people, will help to retard the
struggle. Nevertheless, it is unavoida-
Bile, and must come in its own good time,
the same as all the Others"
AS this gentleman is writer of some
renown, and has been deputed from Ber-
lin to examine into the actual state of
the social feeling existent in the different
European countries, his opinion is worth
recording, The war now openly declared
by those who are destitute of the neces-
sarles of life against those who enjoy
Injuries" those who possess nothing
against those who possess al, - according
to the wording of the French profession
OF faith which is being propagated at this
moments beginning to be proclaimed
even here; and it needs but to follow
the police reports, and read the accounts
given of the associations and organized
gangs of thieves and burglars, to be
FULLY convinced Of its gradual approach
amongst ourselves.
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ries is that it degrades and brutalizes all
who use 1t, and that it presents one.of
the greatest obstacles to Christian work.
The Chinese Government is strongly OPP
posed to the traffic, and would prohibit
it but for England Efforts are made to
discourage the use of opium by pro-
hibiting smokers from holding office, and
in other ways. A heather people pro-
test against an iniquitous traffic forced
upon them by Christian nation for the
mere sake of increasing its public reve-
nue.-ZnteriOr.
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Recent Publications.

s-,n1rs N THE LIFE OF CHRIST By the Rev.
A M. Fairbairn, d. D., Principal of Airedale
College Bradford, and author of Studies in
the Philosophy of Religion and History"
New York D. Appleton & Co. 1882
These Studies" we are told in the brief Pre-
face were originally prepared as series of
Sunday Evening dlscourses. while the author
was minister in Aberdeen. They are, how
ever, in depth of thought and literary finish, far
above what we might expect from series of
popular discourses. They are "studies" in the
full sense Of the term displaying range of
knowledge, philosophical insight, with bril-
liant power of expression, that imply years of
reflection and the most careful preparation.
Among the topics discussed in the eighteen lee
lures or chapters, are The Historical Conditions,
The Growth and Education of Jesus The
Temptation of Christ Galilee, Judaa, Samaria,
Jesus and the Jews, Gethsemane, The Betrayer,
the Cruc6xion, the Resurrection etc. 1t is a
work which rises decidedly above the more ia
miiar and commonplace treatment which this
subject usually receives. Every lecture is an
original and profound analysis, which leaves
the reader with deeper sense of the wonderful
significance and meaning of the events present
ed In the Gospel narratives.
One of the noticeable features of the age is
the increasing attention given to the study of
the life and person of Christ. AT the very mo
ment when those opposed to Christianity seem
TO be almost exultant, the world turns with
deeper interest to the figure of Christ, until his
name is re-echeed from the most distant parts
Of the earth.
We have not been able to discover in this
volume of Mr.. Fairbanks the Objectionable
treatment of the subject of the atonement re-
ferred to by the Presbyterian Review in its no
tce of the work.
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tents:

tents:
The Modern Pulpit-The Duty of Resembling
God, by the late Rev. David Thomas B.
Practical Homiletics-The Book of Amos bv
Rev j Telford B. A.. The Derelict, bv Rev
a. Thomson, D. D.. Regard for the Church bv
rev Joseph A. Seiss, D. D.. The PRAYERS Of
TThrist; mo. Id, by Rev. B. Wilkinson, f. G. S..
Inc Inc Church Year-Ihe Children in the Temple
Palm Sunday, by Rev. w. F. Adenev. M. A
intensified Sorrow, Good Friday; Christ
crossing Kedron The Crown of Thorns. by Rev.
W. Adeney, M. A. Gloryine in the Gross
by Rev John F. Ewing, NJ. a Risen with
Christ, Easter Sunday, by Rev. w f. Adenev,
M. a. Amounting Of Christ, by Rev. Alexander
Watt, M; Al The Power Of Christs Resurrec
ton, by Rev Patton ]. Gloag. d. D.
Reaney. y A'0'' VI o
A Clerical SympOsium-The Scripture Doc
trne OF the Atonement (No. I'D, by Rev. Alex.
snder Mackennal, M A., ETC., etc., etc.
Published by Anson D. F. Randolph & Co.
New York.
TIE British QUARTERLY REVIEW for April
Contents
Mohammedanism and the Ottoman Turks
The Influence of the Italian Renaissance on the
Elizabethan Stage Lucretius. Tyndall. Picton
Martineau-Some Theories Of Matter and Its
relation to Life Astronomical Explanations oil
the Force Of Inertia OF the Imitation of Christ;
me Sculptures Of Pergamon in the Berlin
Museum The Union with England Of Scotland
en-. ana Ireland Democracy in France in 1882
Inc Inc Imperial Elections in Germany Contem-
PoIary Literature.
s,I leonard Scott Publishing Co., Al Barclay
street. New York
htAEDoLPH MACON MONTHLY for April. Semi
centennial Edition. S. NJ. Garland editor
. Donn N. Mccormick, r. f. Lee Holmes. as
1JGcates. j. p. Savage manager. Ashland
va published by ]. B. Savage
CATALOGUE Of Washington and Lee Univer.
ggity Lexington, Virginia, for the year ending
May 9Th. ''A 'NO'ns
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The HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE extend
ing from the earliest Saxon TRANSACTIONS to
the present Anglo American Revision; with
special reference to the Protestant Religion
and the English Language. By Blackford
Condit: ovo, PIP. 469. A. S. Barnes & Co.,
New York and Chicago. 1882.
The author tells us that this volume had its
origin in the desire to trace the influence of the
Bible on the English language, and this carried
the writer back to the earliest Saxon and Eng
lish translations. He discovers in the course of
this examination that the Angle Saxon language
has played an important part in the struggle be-
tween Professionalism and Romanism-the as
cendancy of the Latin tongue meaning practi-
cally the ascendancy of Rome, not only in Ian
guage and literature, but in religion and poll
tics.
In carrying out his purpose the author begins
with the metrical paraphrase of Cadmon and
Guthlacs Psalter, and traces the history of the
English translation of the Bible through Bede,
King Alfred, Eadfrid, Elfric, Wycllfe, Tyn-
dali, Coverdale, Matthewe's Bible, Cromwell's
Bible, the Genevan Bible, &C., down to the late
Revision. 1t will at once be seen that it is a
most interesting field of study.
The last chapter of the work is devoted to re-
visions and translations since A. D. 1911, and
we have notices of Turner's Translation-Har.
woods New Testament-Lowth's Translation OF
Isaiah-Dr. Geddes' Translatons-Geo Camp
bells -Four Gospels Wakefeld-Dr. Newcome--
Scarlett-B ellamy-Alexander Campbell
American Bible Society INSTRUMENTATION
Bible Union Revision, &C., &c.
The work is handsomely gotten up.
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ancient miners lived south of the great
lakes, and made yearly journeyings with
fleets of canoes to the copper mines. The
aggregate amount of the metal which
they carried off must have been very
great, and it has, l believe, been gener-
ally thought that the copper implements
of the ancient Mexicans came from this
cource
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TIE LIQUOR TRAFFIC AND CRIME leaves
from the Diary of an Old LAWYER. Bv A,
B.. Richardson, Esq, Member Of the Penn.
sylyania Bar. Abridged Edition. Regular
edition, IN bound book form, sent POSTPAID
on receipt of 70 cents. Chicago The Revo
luton Temperance Publishing House, las
Madison Street
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CIRCULAR OF INFORMATION Of the Bureau of
Education No. 1882. The Inception, Or
ganization, and Management Of Training Schools
for Nurses. Washington: Government Print
ing Office 1882
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TIE DIARY OF MINISTER'S WIFE By Almedia
M. Brown. Complete edition, limo 544
pages handsomely bound in cloth. Price,
$l.5o }. S: Ogilvie & Co., Publishers, 81
Rose Street, New York.
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Let the work Of God be written in the
heart, and that which is written there
will remain.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-10-11
Gable CLICKS.

Liverpool, 10.-Roberts, Williams &
Co tim Der merchants and saw mill pro-
prietors. win 20 into Liquidation. Lila.
bilities, Else, Geo.
Berlin, TO- William, youngest son OF
Bismarck, is raised to the rank of gov
eminent councillor.
London, 10.-The Cesarewitch stakes
at Newmarket was won By "Osrrie
Roy" "Chippendael, second; "City
Arab" third. Keene's Romeo" and
Rsdwall's "Warden" finished last.
The North Staffordshire coal mine
owners have aeeeded to the application
of the miners for an advance Of 10 per
cent. in wages Twenty thousand men
are affected by the decision.
Berlin, 10.-The central committee of
national liberals resolved not to peruse
the address to the electors. Their pros
poets Rre favorable in the western, but
ess encouraging in the eastern pro-
1inces.
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FELEGRAPHIC NEWS
Expected Visitor.

New York, 10.-A 1vices from Cairo,
Egypt, states that friend of Arab
Psshs, Abdul Kerim Pasha, FL Kahar,
next March will visit America, to make
requisite preliminaries for the emigration
Of Arsbi's followers to this country
This gentleman is perhaps the most
educated gentleman 10 the east, having
translated the New Testament into
Arabic, and written in French The best
book thst has ever appeared against
polygamy. He is owner Of the prgttiest
little palace on the Nile at Cairo, moves
in the best European society aud is On
friendly terms with the King Of Bel
GUM, the Prince Of Wales and other
noted personages FOR a number of years.
He has been professor Of Greek and vice
president of the Cairo University, in
which town he is as we'll knWn for his
thoroughbred Arab horses as for his
learning.